A more indepth weekend update

Well I can't sleep (shocker) so I decided to update. Saturday as I said I was really pumped for going out, but unfortunately it didn't work out as well as planned. My one friend traveled down to stay with me to go out and celebrate another friend's bday, but the friend staying with me (of course) got the GI virus and started looking progressively more like death throughout the evening. We wound up leaving around midnight, then she got sick in the middle of the night in my bathroom. I swear, this freakin GI plague is following me around. First it hit my one office (where it still is today) then my other office, then my own apt! I started feeling weird around 4pm today and got weird/uneasy stomach pain, so I skipped dinner and seem to be doing okay now. I guess we'll see what happens. Ay yi yi.

Sunday was my first time watching the Ravens game at a bar downtown...I liked that experience. The bar I went to wasn't too crowded and food was pretty good (I got chicken 'bites' and cheese fries....healthy).

So I have only two days left and still haven't committed to plans for NYE. I have three options but refuse to commit. I am a horrible last minute person, but for some reason I don't really like NYE. I get super duper reflective and sappy this time of year. Ah well. I promise funniness soon when I get over sappiness.

RAVENS IN THE PLAYOFFS

This post has no other significance (and needs no other) than to say THE RAVENS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS :)! I'm sooooooooooooooooo proud of them!

That is all :).

Death of a Christmas Tree

Today, we gather together to mourn the loss of the midget Christmas tree. He was a good tree, the runt of his litter yet withstood years of ridicule and feleing less superior when next to normal sized trees. Had a good spirit about him. He was tragically found this morning in this state... Police have ruled his death as a homicide by electrecution. Poor Christmas Tree.

In other news, I'm going out dancing tonight and cannot even explain how much I need to go out. I haven't been out in a month and mannnn, I need a drink. The holidays does that to you....even us rare drinkers. Ha.

Christmas Reflection

Hi all...well Christmas rushed by, as usual, and here's my reflection.

The days before Christmas were spent doing fragrance modeling (I'm one of those girls in the mall that hands out cards at the fragrance counter) and let me tell you, nothing makes you hate people more than working retail around Christmas time. People are so needy, and don't realize that you do NOT work for the store and do NOTknow about everything, you just work for the fragrance line that hired you. My favorite kinda people to work with are the men who are so clueless...they come in, ask me what fragrance is the "hottest", of course I lie and say mine then they just buy it on the spot. Uhhh, don't you think I have a bias? Hehe, their ignorance is my bliss. I wish everyone could be like that, but unfortunately most people rush in last minute with all these demands and give you a huge attitude when yout ell them all the good stuff has sold out. Come on now people, it's not rocket science!

Christmas morning my sis and I went to my parents house, as usual, to open gifts. Santa surprised me with a GPS this year which is AWESOME because I usually can't find my way out of a paper bag. What are the GPS coordinates for 'paper bag' anyway? I also got Christina Aguilera's new perfume which smells pretty sweet and some clothes. After this we got ready and went to my Aunt's house for dinner. Dinner was nice but man, there are so many freakin kids on that side of the family. We had a massive baby boom and as a result it was so loud in the house. I found myself yearning to be married and just celebrate a quiet Christmas with my spouse and our 1-2 kids...wow, Im getting old to have these kinda thoughts!

Today I slept til 12 (whoops) and dragged my butt into the office for a few hours since I can't afford to take the whole day off. It's boring, but I have no plans for right now anyway so I may as well just chill here and get paid for it. Haha. I actually thought today that if they were to fire me I wouldnt even be upset because I totally deserve it. Infact, I'd only miss the money. Bad but true.

Merry Christmas!

Well it's Christmas (already)! and being the good Christian girl that I am, I decided to post a nice blog with Christmas images to celebrate this joyous occasion. The following were my personal favorites:

...and....

Yet again, going to hell.

MERRY CHRISTMAS :)!!!

I will update soon (definitely tonight or tomorrow, I promise)!

I bet Jessica Simpson hates Baltimore

This weekend was pretty good...not great, not bad. Friday night I worked, then started feeling a bit icky (bad aches and weird stomach grumblings/nausea) then worked Saturday early and was going to go out Sat night but decided to stay home since I was still feeling quite off. I'm glad I did that because I was able to get a good night's sleep to feel better Sunday morning. I also got to watch the FANTASTIC Ravens vs. Cowboys game, wow...what an inspiration. It was the closing game of the Texas stadium and the Ravens basically knocked Tony Romo's balls off and handed them to him on a silver platter :). Sunday we had early Christmas with my Dads side of the fam...we do white elephant and I wound up with a gift card to Omaha Steaks...mmmm. I was perusing the website tonight and getting quite excited over what I can order. (www.omahasteaks.com...I can't figure out how to make a link work on this thing). I'm leaning toward the chicken and cheese bites (see appetizers). YUM. That is what I call a tart of awesomeness. After that I volunteered to wrap gifts for kids for 2 hours (aww, yes, I am that good of a person) and then I worked at my holiday job (in sales) for like 3.5 hours. I hate sales work, but I like the paycheck and only do it a few days a year.

The highlight of today's white elephant was creepy/stoned/drunk elmo that was given to my 2 year old cousin as a gift. The following video shows what Elmo Live is supposed to do. . Elmo was supposed to sit down, but instead he would just fall over and say "uh o". He was definitely on something. Now, while I appreciate Sesame Street's attempt to portray a crack-addicted child in Elmo, at least let the poor thing be able to sit down.

Yesterday (sings Beatles song)

Yesterday was probably one of the best days I've had all year. Yea, that's a big title to give away but yesterday most definitely deserves it. I had off work, got all my holiday shopping done, got a great haircut (and therefore no longer look like the bumble) and met a really cool guy at Walgreens in the toy aisle...now if things were to actually work out between us our story would dominate "the best way you met someone" category. Of course I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but yea they're already up...damn being a hopeless romantic. Gets ya every time.

Yesterday I was also exposed to this video, , which I have watched four times already and it cracks me up every single time. Real life is the best source of humor, I swear.

Today I'm at work trying to avoid the GI plague that is STILL going around the building, oy. Then I have to work my second holiday job and go to a holiday shindig which should be fun. Tomorrow I may be working again but am definitely traveling and going out for the night with friends. Also exciting. I hope/plan to make this weekend a celebration of the end of my first semester of grad school...whoop!

O I believe, in yesterday...

Abominable Life Updates

Well today I had off but I did the professionally responsible thing (for once) by going and having a meeting with an organization I would LOVE to work for. Basically, I'm going to get a good foot in the door by volunteering to develop an entire campaign for them...I'm really excited and yes, I am acknowledging how nerdy that makes me. Hopefully it pays off, but it will be good experience none the less.

In another life update, I realized today that my hair has gotten out-of-control long, like crazy abominable snowman long.

I like the length but it's so thick that I really need to get it tamed down before xmas. I don't know where to get my mane trimmed...any suggestions? I've never gotten what I would consider a great haircut, so I'm skeptical.

Happy 90th

Time for a sappy post

Some of us (the very lucky ones) have a special person in our lives who changes us in ways that we can never explain and who teaches us more than we could ever comprehend until we are much older and it hits us that "wow, that person was always right." That person for me was my Memaw, which anyone whose been around me for more then 5 minutes has heard me mention. We lost her 2 years ago this February, but she's still very much here with me and with the family (she's nosey like that).

Basically, she was the best person I've ever known and we really connected. She was also funny as crap which I like to think I inherited from her :). I started the tradition of remembering her birthday somehow last year so I wanted to make sure to do that again, which is today when she would have been 90.

If I write about you it means I REALLY care about you, and well I've written several poems and stories about Memaw. The one I wrote in 2004 ended with these two lines...

My life will be lived-
To make you proud

I still hope to do that today.

Blew off work

Well this morning I woke up and realized that I hadn't blown off a day of work in a longggg time so I decided to give myself the day off to sleep in. I'm really glad I did because my boss wound up calling me from her house- she caught the GI bug and so did another coworker in my office. I just kinda acted like I had it too to sound legit for missing work (hopefully I didnt jinx myself!) but it made me uber glad I didn't enter what seems to be the manifestation of germs (aka my office). I'm hoping it will be over by the time I go back Friday...I really don't want to catch it!

Today I actually was a little productive...bought some birthday cards for 4 people (damn all of you having a birthday within 3 weeks of each other) at Hallmark but while I was there there was an older gentleman who was sitting down and saying he was nauseous...the Hallmark peeps actually called Paramedics for him. I really hope he's okay, but my selfish thought of the day was "arg, I cant escape germs!" (worrying if he had something contagious). Then I got stamps so I can actually send out my holiday cards (hopefully will do that tomorrow, we shall see) and veggies so I can make veggies and dip for the office potluck tomorrow. Shall be tre fun, for sure.

Now I should go since I have my first final in 3 minutes...wish me luck! My other final is online, the prof hasnt posted it yet but really should considering it is finals week...then I have a presentation and my last class tomorrow night. Can't believe I'm already almost 1/4 done Grad School!

They didn't really win

I couldn't comment on today's football game earlier because, well, I needed time to recoop. Basically, Baltimore had the game stolen by a moron ref and a bogus call for what was not a touchdown but for some reason was ruled one (even though anyone and everyone could see it wasn't). I really hope we'll still make the playoffs, and have our chance at beating them as we should have today. Life's just not fair sometimes.

Awkward Holiday Gatherings

Tis the season for awkward holiday parties...you know, the ones you have at the office with the people you usually don't have to talk to for more then a "hey, how are you?" I had this situation on Friday afternoon. I was talking to people I actually don't mind talking to, but then my coworkers started making fun of this one girl who was there and wearing a quite awkward outfit...a 3/4 length sleeve black shirt under a printed strapless dress with a chunky black necklace...looked more awkward than it sounds. For the purpose of this blog I'll call her "GIC" (Girl in Crisis). Well right after their bashing (I'm tellin ya, girls are brutal) GIC walked towards where we are and decided to strike up a conversation with me. I tried my hardest to maintain professionalism and actually listen to her but mannn the heinous necklace/dress under shirt combo was getting to me. I don't think GIC could tell though since she said her department is expanding and I should work there....but man, I can only imagine how much better my blog would be if I saw what this chick wears on a daily basis...

TGIF

Needed to apologize to my blog for neglecting it this week...I've been feeling tre overwhelmed by everything I have to do last minute (since I procrastinated all semester) for grad school. The rest of the week was okay...Tuesday had the funeral, Wednesday finished and sent in my 20 page paper which sucks (hopefully not as bad as I think it does), last night went to a Comedy Show which was pretty cool then today back at work. It's lovely because there's a GI disease going around the office so I'm incredibly paranoid...

Also realized due to the craziness of my life I have neglected to incorporate any funniness into my latest entries. I saw an article that the new Barbie is stirring up controversy

and I have to disagree that she's too much...I say that she's not enough. Where are the track marks from her drug usage? Where are her blood shot eyes? Growing up near a city I believe these things are prevalent for any little girl to become familiar with. Maybe this is why I didn't get into the toy business. The one positive thing I will say about the new Barbie is that she really looks like a Tranny, so I'm glad Mattel has become more liberal and is promoting alternative lifestyles.

Birthday on a Monday...blah!

Well today is my birthday, and I'm very bitter that I have to work (normally I would take off but since I work two part-time jobs, no paid time off...bah!). I did get a nice surprise visit last night then I've gotten a few calls/texts since then which is cool. Of course people are hitting up Facebook too, as always. My fam and I were going to go to dinner but since my Great Uncle passed away we actually have his viewing tonight, then we're just going to have cake afterward. Kinda sucks to have a viewing to go to on my bday...but such is life.

Since I'm now 25, I find that this is a good time to reflect back on the first quarter of my life. I've realized that in the past 24 years I have dislocated a knee, broken two bones, had three very near-death experiences, had my most embarrasing moment published in a magazine, graduated college/started grad school, worked literally about 20 jobs (I'm not exaggerating), loved, lost, and won. It's been a very interesting 24 years so far. I plan on making the next 24 all that much better.

Holiday craziness

Well a bunch of my galfriends came down last night and lifted my spirits during what has become our Annual Holidays/Birthdays bash. I planned it out and was quite proud of myself for this year's theme/activity (Project Runway). First, we all exchanged our infamous gag gifts ($5 limit and if you get something wearable, you have to wear it out in public). I wound up wearing a long blonde wig, leopard print gloves, earrings and a big leopard print belt. For the activity, we were all going to go to Good Will (wanted to incorporate giving back into our activity because I'm just that good) but they closed early so we hit up Walmart...I looked all kinds of awesome walking in there with my wig. We definitely got some attention and a lot of people asking us what the occasion was. We were all in teams of two, had a $10 limit and 15 minutes to pick out attire to work with. Of course my team picked out more leopard print, hideous underwear, and snazzy sparkly tights. Then we all came back and I threw in the Project Runway twist that everyone had to incorporate a bunch of really weird materials (ie: candy, yarn, a red bow, etc) into their outfit then one person would model and the other would announce. I wound up modeling a leopard print top with my gloves and the sparkly tights with the underwear over them. Yowza. Luckily for me I can rewear allll the leopard stuff for Honfest so I'm totally pumped for that. Here is a cropped picture of part of my ensemble...



Anywhoo I loved that we all had a great time, there was 8 of us total. I'm so lucky to have friends that are crazy like me and can let loose and enjoy each other's company <3.

A Long December

Just an update that my Great Uncle passed away this morning..I'm relieved for him but it will be stressful. Viewing probably Monday and service on Tuesday. December, you suck so far. He was a cool dude who really brought out the Irish part of my heritage...always had sayings and songs, etc. This was his favorite...

"May those who love us love us. For those who don't love us, may god turn their hearts. If he can't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we know them by their limping."

One of dem dayz

So this morning started out with my laptop contracting a lovely virus which made it impossible for me to get any school work done as planned. Instead I spent two hours at IT and they still didnt solve the problem so I left my laptop there and didn't even pick it up until 8pm. Thank goodness it works now and I am typing to you from it.

While that was going on I also found out that my Great Uncle is in the hospital and not doing well at all...he is an extremely awesome human being and I just hate what he's going through because he sure as hell doesn't deserve it. Life isn't fair. Also I find out one of my friends is going to the hospital due to constant chest pain (which I'm glad he's getting checked out, but I'm still worried as hell). Then I get the news that my friends old roomie from college's fiance passed away at 23...so scary. It was just a very weird and depressing day. My nerves are shot.

What do I do when dealing with this information? I lash out toward someone that didn't deserve it (which is typical for me). This is why I should not get close to people and should accept my fate as the lonely crazy old cat woman. I hope to have a more chipper update when I'm in a better mood...right now I'm just feeling all kinds of crummy.

I guess one positive thing to say is that I really like Britney Spears' new CD. It's quite catchy and fun and I've already spent many hours head bobbin along to the songs. Don't hate.