shiver me timbers.

it was a Long weekend and i have plenty to blog about. but alas, i'm mighty busy at work today and you'll all have to wait til wednesday to get the full scoop..
but here's a preview:


here arrrrrrrrrr some more.

and one more thing:
http://www.jasondearborn.com/newexcuse/images/fedexpirate.mov

stuff on my cat

i was browsing blogs, when a link i found brought me to this site:

stuff_on_my_cat

i haven't laughed that hard in a while.. and it's all INNOCENT fun.. .

Appalachian State University: School of Distinction

Sometimes I'm really proud to be graduate of the fine Appalachian State University. My heart swells to think that i put forth four years of hard to work for my Bachelor of Science Degree. But pride is a sin. And here's why:

What_the_hell_were_they_thinking?

skidamarinkydinkydink

i'm soooooooooooo excited about this weekend. i can't wait. i can't talk too much about it either.. for fear of ruining it.. but here's a little hint:



it's really going to rock. i have to work the rest of this week, but i'm going to (try) not to complain. no matter what, i'm going to have FUN this weekend. and i'm going to watch football, and drink and be merry, because that's what will rock my world.

although, i have to admit i'm a little nervous.. this party will be the one yeariversary since last year's halloween party where i got really close to crazy over foliage. if you don't know what i mean, click here. but it's alright. i'll just avoid him like the plague or something. no need to pine over him this year :). (pine.. get it... hahahahha) i'm a dork. but anyways.

haha i got b to tell me his grande plan for a costume.. he doesn't suspect a thing... but i'm going to be good and not tell anyone.. because i'm cool like that. but it does make me laugh to think that i found out his big "secret" costume. mine so kicks his's ass.. (is that proper grammar?) oh well who cares i rule.

do you think it's bad that the last TWO nights (monday and tuesday) i have arrived home partially drunk? on weeknights? i'm such a lush..

50 things about me (because 100 is a bit much)

1. i was born in florida
2. my family and i moved to n.c. when i was 6 years old
3. i went to 4 different elementary schools:
-Palmetto Elementary in Palmetto, Florida
-Aycock Elementary in Kannapolis, NC
-Bostian Elementary in Rowan County, NC
-Landis Elementary in Landis, NC
4. i have 2 older brothers, 3 nieces, a step mother, step father, and several step siblings
5. i have a b.s. degree from appstate
6. i detest seafood (if it comes out of the water, ew.) i once accidentally ate a piece of calamari thinking it was a stray onion ring when i was working at the channel marker restaurant in atlantic beach, nc.
7. i like pirates, especially blackbeard, and especially johnny depp.
8. i also detest mushrooms and olives, and i would throw up multitudes upon multitudes of disgusting putrid chunks if i ever ingested ranch dressing.
9. i like stars. i have a star necklace that i ALWAYS wear (except when i accidentally leave it in boone, or lose it for six months in my mom's driveway). i also have a star tattoo on my inner left forearm.
10. i could watch pirates of the caribbean about 800 times without getting sick of it. i even watched it with the commentary. that's how freakin good it is.
11. i have 2 jobs, and i complain about them a lot.
12. i suck at serving tables.
13. i wish i had a kitty, but i have a roommate instead.
14. ever since i was 9 years old and saw milo & otis (the movie) i have wanted a pug. and i will have one.
15. i totaled my first car 11 days after i got my liscence. it looked a lot like this one.
16. it took me 3 tries to get my liscence.
17. my first job was at Cox's Seafood... bussing tables.
18. i was once tom petty for halloween.
19. when i was 10, my mom, dad, bros, cousin, grandparents, and me took two trucks and two campers and drove all the way to california and back over a month one summer.
20. i have been to 44 u.s. states, not including louisiana, kansas, north dakota, washington, hawaii, and alaska
21. when i was in 8th grade, i was in a pirate acting group called "the pirate troupe" which was run by my favorite teacher ever, mr. pope. my pirate name was "scarlett hatcher" and i carried a dulled hatchet.
22. i met my first love the day after graduating from high school.
23. i had my first (and only!) heartbreak in february my freshman year of college.
24. my first concert was aerosmith
25. my biggest concert was woodstock 99
26. my favorite concert was beck in 1996, and bloodhound gang in 1998
27. my favorite movies are Pirates of the Caribbean (duh) and Alive (1992).
28. my favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird, all Harry Potter books, and Alive (1973)
29. i had my first boyfriend in 6th grade and dated him again in 8th grade.
30. i recieved my first kiss at age 13 (8th grade) behind the dumpsters at Corriher Lipe Middle School from Chris Smith.
31. i have recently developed a love for photography. (tee hee.. developed)
32. i love puns.
33. i have 2 best friends, carmen, and b.
34. i met b in 10th grade, when i used to be in love with him :).
35. i met carmen when i was in 9th grade, when she used to be in love with my brother.
36. the craziest place i have ever been was in traffic in Los Angeles. but then again, i bet a lot of people can say that.
37. the most beautiful thing i can ever remember seeing is the view from the airplane when flying over this beautiful country of ours.
38. i once got so drunk i woke up in the bathroom with no pants on, hugging the toilet, with "edible body paint" all over me...
39. i don't drink jack daniel's anymore.
40. the most famous person i have ever met is vanilla ice.
41. i once saw paris hilton and nicole ritchie walking down the street.
42. i LOVE celebrity gossip... that's the girl in me.
43. i can't wait to see the rest of the world... if i could go anywhere, it'd be everywhere...
44. my biggest fear is that i will never be a mother.
45. i shall name my first born son Luke. and daughter Belle.
46. i <3 star wars
47. i have more than once waited for hours to see a good movie at a midnight premiere (i.e. star wars episodes 2 and 3)
48. i am always tired, and value sleep above life.
49. if i could go back in time and talk to anybody? blackbeard.
50. there is no 50.

new link

i've added a new link! it's the link to the Ph**p Dance Academy, Sattertrunk's brand new dance studio, in Newton NC. they added a page for my pictures, because i take all the pics for them.. anyways check it out:
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Transformers.. Robots in Disguise

I have discovered a fun sight where you can transform your face into all kinds of stuff. you can make yourself look a different race, or see what you'd look like as an old lady:



i really like this one:




but this one is definitely best:




Here is the link: clickme.

be as cool as me.

survived another weekend... barely.

want to know how this one went?
well, it started just like every other weekend,
friday night at the brush was busy busy busy, but not as busy as the last, and people generally sucked pretty big balls on friday. all night i only made like 50 bucks in tips. usually on fridays i make at least 70. what the hell.
then off to the poker table with C, S, brian the dj/cook, and monica, my new homey:



i lost pretty quickly, and decided to stay out instead of wasting another five bucks. went to sleep at like 2.30 on the couch.. and was doing fine.. until about 5.30 when for some reason, i woke up with the "awfulest" headache ever.
now i know what your thinking, "shouldn't have drank so much"
but HA! i didn't drink that much! i had like 2 glasses of arbor mist and ONE beer. i wasn't even tipsy. how could i have been drunk? i don't know what happened. i just know this headache kept me awake for a long time before i made myself throw up. then finally fell back asleep.

had to get up at 9.30 on sat. morning so's i could meet katie at 10.30 at the COG. would have made it too, but i still had the headache, so i had to stop at target on the way. was in line and just about to FINALLY cash out, when my sunglasses decided to break again. i knew that i was going to be outside a majority of the day, so i had to leave the line and go grab the first pair of sunglasses that looked halfway decent. they were marked 20 bucks. 20!! but i was in a hurry so i figured what the hell, but luckily they only rang up for 5 dollars. i don't know why, i don't want to know, i'm just feelin lucky.
sunglasses:


so then me and katie made it to boone and to the mellow mushroom, where we shared a pie and embibed in scrumptious pumpkin beer. it was my first pumpkin beer experience, and i liked it. so did the yellow jacket that flew into katie's beer and drank a good amount before we could find a fork to fish him out of there.

alisa, who we met on flickr, was kind enough to buy us tickets for the game. she is really cool and we had fun hanging out, the three of us:

Photo taken by katiebug


the game was pretty fun, mainly because we had minibottles and cameras. it was an anticlimactic game if ever i saw one. we beat the crap out of georgia southern:



and then i took katie back to her car, which was parked at the bowling center where i used to work, the boonebowling center. so i talked to them for about an hour and a half. strangely enough, athen actually talked to me. athen hasn't spoken more than two words to me since last summer when i broke his poor little heart. but i mean come on, i told him it was gonna happen. i told him. but anyways he was actually friendly to me this time around. i guess that's good. i was friendly to him too, i always am. but i hope it doesn't give him the wrong idea. damn.

anywho then i picked up nick and took him over to appsouth, or cracksouth as i affectionately call it, my old apartment complex. he went to hang out with some old friends, while i went to see chris, elisabeth, nate, and amie. things were going well, stories were being told, laughs were being shared. then chris, being the fun guy he is, decides to play a little game called, "who gets the everclear?".
this game is played by pouring 6 shot glasses full of liquor. one was a brown liquor, and the other five were different clear liquors. one being everclear. chris was the only one who knew what was what. there were only five of us, so potentially no one would have to get the everclear.
i was first into the kitchen, and went for the pretty blue hustler shot glass that i got for chris in hollywood. mistake. i took it. like a man. before it even got past my tongue i knew i had the everclear. but i took it. because i don't back down.. the next thoughts to go through my mind:
"am i gonna throw up?"
"i'm gonna be sick"
"jesus i'm gonna die"
"my mouth tastes like burn"
"i can't move my eyebrows"

now chris yells out "let's play a new game, it's called 'allison got the everclear'". i seriously couldn't move for like 10 minutes. aye aye aye. but i'm strong, and i didn't get sick. i had to wait a while before i could drive me and nick over to his apartment, but i did it. of course driving drunk in boone is like riding a bike. you never forget how.

i eventually got to sleep around 3 am. then had to get up at 8.30 to take nick to work, and then to drive back down the mountain to work at the brush.

which sucked, but it isn't worth telling the story.

stopped by the canadian's crib for a few minutes to catch up and try to convince him to come bowling... to no avail. he goes to sleep at like 9 pm...

at five i met C & S at the Green Room to take pics of Robbie, the Maitre D for their Katrina Benefit Show, who also played Lumier in Hickory Community Theater's Beauty & the Beast:


then C, S, me and Brian the dj/cook played spades. me and carmen were on a team and we lost hard core. like 500 points down. oh well. and brian, yeah, he PISSED ME OFF. there is a big difference between jokingly gloating, and PISSING ME OFF.. but that's ok, i have the upper hand. i know for a fact that brian the dj/cook has the hots for me superbad. but he will NEVER. NEVER. NEVER. touch me. :) that's mean isn't it. oh well.

at least Tampa Bay won, and my fantasy football team kicked my boss' fantasy football team's ass. i won by at least fifty points. hell yes.

sigh.. .another weekend gone by... i hope the next one is less eventful, i'm worn out..

yarr it's gettin to be that time of day.

from the poor man comes the gankstah to pirate translator:


Gangstah...................... Pirate
fo'ties .................................... bottles o' rum
bling bling ........................... booty
Yo! ....................................... Avast!
Homey ................................ Matey
Bee-atch ............................. Scurvey dog
Pop a cap in yo ass ............ Make you walk the plank
Word .................................. Arrrrrrrrr
Beat down ......................... Keel haul
Wack MC ......................... Land lubber
Playah ............................... Swashbuckler
Mack Daddy ..................... Cap'n
Jacking .............................. Plundering
Rap .................................... Sea Shanties
The joint ........................... The brig
Crew .................................. Crew


i'm so excited...
i'm going to the ASU game tomorrow!! yay!!
football beer boone football beer boone football beer boone :)

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let's see...
Friday night: went to b.w.w. (buffalo wild wings) with carmen, sattercrunk, brian the dj/cook, cookboy adrian, and brittany and jessica. there i ran into an old asu geomate, matt. we talked for a minute and he bought me a beer, strictly based on the fact that i was wearing one of my few "booby shirts". but don't worry, he's happily married and lives in s.c.. then brian the dj/cook, cookboy adrian, carmen, sattercrunk and i went back to the phaups residence and played some cards. i was a liiiiiiiittle bit drunk. i had one of those drunken text message fights with dustin, who i probably won't ever talk to again. i was a little mean, but i feel like i had to be. i believe some of my exact words were "i ain't no hollaback girl".

moving on. next day i worked, what a surfuckinprise. and again the next day. sunday night i was going to play cards with carmen, satterfield, and the canadian, but the canadian's phone died before he could tell us which apartment number he lived in ( i was supposed to go pick him up, even though i had never even met him before). oh well. but carmen and the canadian came into dinner on monday night at the brush. he has absolutely no canadian accent. what a shame.
well i had 4 tables that whole night so i made a whopping twelve bucks. woo.

last night i had a grand total of six tables. i was on the phone with carmen while i was doing my money to turn in. i realized that i had lost like 20 bucks. this was no good. i was seriously getting pissed off thinking i had given someone a twenty when i meant to give them a one. i mean, i should have made like 35 bucks instead of the 14 that i had left over after counting. this put me in a FOUL mood.

but then when i went to turn my money in, the manager counted everything and said "you owe me $7.xx". WHA? i thought i owed $25.xx. somehow i had managed to completely add wrong on my shit. so i did make like 35 and i hadn't lost any money. SWEET. no more talking on the phone while i do my money.

i also forgot to clock out last night, but that's what phones are for.

tomorrow is my solitary night off this week, since i'm going to boone on saturday. i'm still not sure what i'm doing.
but i know i can't freaking wait for saturday. i'm gonna have so much fun.
boone, beer, football, and mellow mushroom. who could ask for anything more?

yippy skippy!

last night i went to see the Corpse Bride. It was ok... not the best, but pretty good.
but the highlight was the very first trailer i saw, a full length trailer for harry potter and the goblet of fire... yay. i was all on the edge of my seat, and happy as a kid at disney land. i even shuddered at the end from sheer excitement. i wasn't this excited about the last three. of course, that was before i read any of the books. man, they're amazing.




tonight: possibly spades bd with carmen and sattercrunk.

another day another "dios mio"

Weekend:
friday night: the brush (blah).. hung out with cookboy adrian and drank beer. got lost trying to find liquor party.
saturday: slept til 230. work at 330: nothing going on. absolutely. went home and to sleep at midnight.

sunday: worked til 430. bd at 6 at tap room. that sucked a lot. spades, i lost. but hey, the bucs won.

monday at the brush:


tuesday at the brush:


. *sigh* i know this blog is a lot of rambling goobledigop. but it's all i can give for now.

what cha gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside your trunk?

hehe that song cracks me up for no good reason. and like katie, now i'm gonna get that song stuck in your head.

last night at the brush was awesome. and when i say awesome, what i mean is, IT SUCKED GIANT BALLS. haha. well it started out with my first table, who had to wait FIVE minutes for their coffee to brew, got pissed off and left. five minutes. coffee. brew. OH MY GOD. what is wrong with old people in this town? my grandma would have waited 3 hours if it meant she got FRESH coffee. i suppose i could have served them the coffee that was leftover from 10 am that morning, but it being 6 o clock at night, i didn't figure it would taste too yummy. frickin evil brush bullshit. haha. that's a great new term i just made up. then, things were getting a wee bit better, my next table rocked, mostly because they stayed to wait for their drinks :). plus, they were a really nice couple from maryland furniture shopping, and they tipped me 10 bucks. hells yea. but then i spilled diet pepsi right down the front of my light grey shirt. blah. so i had to get another shirt from the manager. and yep, i have to return it after i wash it. of course, two seconds after i changed, i magically got honey mustard on me. from where? who knows. i swear i came nowhere near a container of honey mustard. it just sought me out.

but that wasn't a big deal. last night was cleaning night, since our inspection is coming soon. so as i'm scrubbing the glass rack, i'm moving trays of glasses around, and one tray of glasses magically falls off the shelf. this tray had about 30 glasses in it. my first thought: fuck. luckily, only six of them broke. also, all of the servers were standing there, and quickly helped me clean up without any managers knowing the difference. i stealthily (is that a word?) took the dustpan of broken glass all the way out to the dumpster to hide it.

immediately after this, a man in a white shirt walked into the restaurant and straight back to the kitchen. so of course the assumption is "Oh my god, it's the health inspector!" shit. of course, our kitchen is one of the cleanest i've been in, so i wasn't concerned, and we hurriedly cleaned up the wait station while he was in the back.

but then a few minutes later, we realized it was just some sort of repair man. shew.

after a few more non interesting tables, my night finally ended and i left at 5 til 10. earlier than usual... that was nice. plus, i got to work with carmen, always a plus.

friday will be better. friday will rock. i will have a good night on friday.

tonight is my night off. i could be going to boone with carmen and sattercrunk. but instead, i plan on sitting on my ass all night in front of the t.v. because i can.. i don't want to do anything or go anywhere. just sit there and watch the o.c. and e.r. and not worry about a damn thing. yea.




What you gon’ do with all that junk?All that junk inside your trunk?
I’m a get, get, get, get, you drunk, Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps. (Check it out)

it's like.. whoa.

so. you ever have one of those months where all you really want is a nap? but you just have to keep going to work. even when you get off work. then you have to go to work again. this week i have only 2 nights off, thursday, and sunday night. and i could spend this time being social and hanging out with friends. carmen offered for me to go to boone with her thursday night. but you know what i'm gonna do? NOTHIN. that's right. nothing. i'm gonna sit at home and wacth t.v. that's all i really want to do. clean my room and some laundry, but no more than that. because that's what i will enjoy more than anything else. and on sunday? my plan is to go see the corpse bride. seeing as it's been out for 5 days now, and it's a johnny movie, i should have seen it already. but what can i say? work. i know, i know, i am fully aware that it was my choice to get a second job, and that i don't have to do it. but i like a challenge sometimes. plus, instead of "breaking even" all the time, now i am able to save a little. i've already saved up 300 bucks. my goal is 5 grand. of course, i'm about to spend that 300 on a new computer, b's advice. but hey, i'm getting better at serving, therefore my tips are getting better. i'll have 5 g's in no time.

oh, and i've decided to give up poker for a while. i'm sick of losing money and feeling sorry for my lacking poker skillz.

what a pretty day it is outside. ah hickory. you know what i could really use? a full body massage. i've never had one. i think i would enjoy it. yea. by a nice swedish boy...........

:)

old "school"

my friend liz found this awesome picture of us (the asu geography club, circa 2004 ish) on the internet today.


go here to see it live: http://www.tour.appstate.edu/clubs.html

digital digital get down

so here's a big surprise: the brush is starting to seriously blow. haha. friday two people were fired, including my favorite flirt buddy at the brush.. but now he's gone so the brush is boring as shit. saturday another server was fired. so of course i was asked to work all day on sunday. on football day. this seriously blows. as if that wasn't enough, today (tuesday) my first day off in forever, the manager called to ask if i could come in tonight and work, since they now only had 2 people to work. Crikey. i told her i would think about it and call her back. but honestly, i already feel like dying. so that's gonna be a no.
well, one good thing is that dustin (who has decided to wait until january to go to the army (YAY!!!)) is possibly coming back to work at sagebrush. at least that would be great cause i'd actually get to see the boy once in a blue moon. woohoo!
i'm ready to go back to sleep now. i'm already getting burnt out on the brush.. is that bad?
fuck it.

totally sucks

dustin left TODAY. * sigh *
and he told me that when he gets out of bootcamp & infantry school (in JANUARY!!) that he will immediately be moving to Tennessee to go to school.. Boo on that. who needs school? that's ridiculous. oh well.. i guess one day i'll be ok :). he'll come back and visit, i know he will..



farewell dustin!! don't kill too many people over there.

visions of the future?

so last night i had a strange, yet awesome dream.. Ben Roethlisberger was my boyfriend. Except, he had Tom Brady's pretty head. and he was all mine... and we went to a Beck concert where barely anyone was there, so i got to talk to Beck. and my boyfriend Ben/Tom got all drunk. he was hot. tom's head on ben's body... yikes.

must be football season.



imagine a much less crude photoshopping job. :)

i love this picture.

and i don't care how many times you've seen it (because i've posted it everywhere, i'm so happy i made it)... so here it is again!!!

yes, i took that on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Cone Mountain, near Blowing Rock NC

pretty damn good weekend

well what can i say, i live a pretty lucky life.. granted, i have to work 2 jobs to stay afloat, but hey, i have great friends, and i'm happy with my life.. friday night was pretty awesome.. work kinda sucked a little cause one of my tables stiffed me on a tip. but that happens. some people just suck for no reason whatsoever.

doesn't matter cause after work i went to play poker with carmen and sattercrunk, brian, and dustin. i lost of course, but this due to the fact that i didn't want to be up all night and at a certain point i just gave up and decided to go all in with a king and seven. i would have won too, since another seven came up, but then a six came up (on the river of course) which made carmen's pocket six's a nice 3 of a kind. whore. at least she gave me five dolla back. that rocked. and then i went home...... and eventually went to sleep.

saturday i got 2 wow cards at work because i fucking rock.. wow cards are given to employees at the brush who show extra enthusiasm and are awesome.. yep. and then after work i went to el paso with daniel and katie and drank a big ass beer.

which led to a kick ass day on sunday, when katie, daniel, and i drove up to boone for the day. we went hiking on the parkway, took some pictures. then to howard's knob to see the lovely boone from up high. and to mellow mushroom again, where i had the greatest sandwich in the world AGAIN. except they fucked up and put mushrooms on it the first time. ew. so i told them i was allergic and they made me a new one. kick ass.

beer, and good times always happen with the bugs. went back down the mountain after picking up some free milkshakes from arby's (i have connections). and to the bug house for MORE BEER!

good times. and then monday it was back to the grind.. partly anyways.. the brush...
which was fine until i got FIVE tables at the same time. I am new. this is a lot for a girl to handle when she is new.. i even messed up and forgot to put in an appetizer order until after i'd already put in their food order. the manager had to give it to them for free. but apparently i impressed tim, since i stayed calm or something, because he gave ANOTHER wow card. i kick ass.
finished the fifth harry potter book and am 1/3 of the way through the sixth. she better publish the seventh one in the next week or i'm gonna be PISSED. ha.

umm....

ok i'll get it out of the way, hickory is going to run out of gas.. i'm not just saying that...they really are. but you know what, i'm not gonna panic. i filled up last night. it'll last me about a week if i don't go anywhere. i'm not gonna panic. i'm not gonna let it get me down. even if we do run out, we'll have more in a week. and if we don't? i guess i won't be going to work... nobody else will be there either, so no harm no foul. i'm not afraid of paying high gas prices.. nothing to be done about that..
i donated 20 bucks to the american red cross this morning... i know it's not much, but i figure if a whole lot of people donate 20 bucks, that's at least something.

in other news: NORTH CAROLINA IS GETTING A LOTTERY!!! this makes allison muy happy as i'm tired of having to wait for oppurtunities to go to south carolina to get a powerball ticket. they have taken a lot of my money. i know that the lottery is really a waste of time, and i won't win. but hey, it contributes to the public education system, doesn't it? so ha! all yall skeptics out there who won't be gettin any of my winnings. ha!

first thing i'm gonna buy with my winnings? EDUCATION. (pay off my student loans). therefore, this lottery is a great thing. Easley is the shit. i don't care what anyone says.


random picture for the day:

holy crap for crap

i couldn't think of anything else for a title, so there you go.. katie said it was my turn to blog, so i'm blogging..
sagebrush is going well so far... i'm meeting a lot of new people, and getting better aquainted with some people. tomorrow (tuesday, 30th of August) is my last day of training then i actually get to start making tips. YAY. i guess i like it so far, even though it's hot, and i don't move as fast as i used to. plus, covering up my tattoo sucks. but i don't care. can't wait to make some cash, because i just found out that next october (2006) i may be going to the Cayman Islands for Dress like a pirate week! all i have to pay for is the plane ticket.. and food of course. that's gonna friggin rock....

but on friday night i found out some sad news.. dustin is leaving for the army on sept. 14th.
*sigh* that'll probably be the last i ever see or hear of him.... since apparently when he comes back, he's moving to tennessee. go army and all, but damn. i'll miss you, you ass.



in other news, saturday was pretty cool because i went to BOONE with katie and daniel and had the best sandwich in the world at Mellow Mushroom, the philly steak and cheese with sprouts. It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good. and i hadn't had one since i lived in boone. i miss that place! it was also really cool to reminisce with katie and daniel about good times in the highlands.

sunday was cool as well, since i got to hang out with b and eric during the day. and at around 730 carmen called me to the tap room, where Satterfield was tapping the night away to a jazz band. that was AWESOME. he is so good, he could win So you think you can dance.

so anyways.. one bit of bad news, but the rest of the weekend was pretty cool.. we'll see how this sagebrush thing works out...

part time job....

so i've been casually looking for a part time job for a couple months now.. and by casually, i mean i filled out 1 application at the bowling alley a month and a half ago. i actually wanted to work there, but i didn't call them bugging them or anything. that's not my style. so after a while i gave up on them calling me back. "whatever, i have a day job, so i'm ok" is what i told myself.

then last week i started out the week with $123.00 in my bank account. this is not good considering i still had a week to go before payday and one of my written checks had not been cashed yet. so i freaked out and did something stupid. i finally gave into carmen's beggings and told her i would get a job with her at sagebrush. she's been working at sagebrush forever now, and has constantly told me i should get a job with her. i laughed at her and made fun off all sagebrushers. they are bad, gossipy, high school dramaesque people. "i'm above that" is what i told myself. i really didn't want to work there. but last week i got desperate. so i figured what the hell. i mean, hey, carmen and satterfield work there, so it can't be all bad. i hate the food, so i won't get fat eating all the time. tim, lavere and brian, who i would consider friends, all work there, so at least i'd be among friends. plus, who knows, maybe i'll make some tips. i've never had a job as a server before. maybe it'll be fun.

so anyways i go in there on sunday, after carmen had already hyped me up to her bosses, and fill out an application. talked to two managers, patty and eric. they both like me for some reason (thanks carmen). and then tuesday i went back for my final interview. so of course i got the job. i mean, come on, look at me. i'm an employer's dream (shhh). i go in for training starting on sunday. carmen will be my trainer, which rocks, since she's the best server they've got. unfortunately, i have to cover up my tattoo with a bandaid. but hey, at least i'll be makin some extra cash.

so things are looking up.
but then.

today at like 3:30 i got a phone call. from the bowling alley. asking if i was still interested in the job.

aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i told her i reeeeeaaaaaally wish she had called a week ago. damn it.

testing.. testing...

just wanted to see if this would work...



this is my adorabley adorable yet completely incorrigable neice madelyn.

sweet swedish mullet

watch this video (at home or when your boss isn't looking).
it's disturbing..
http://www.gunthernet.com/

i happened upon it while surfing my new group on flickr:
mullet_hunters_rock.

six feet under

rarely would i ever describe a t.v. show as art.. but this weeks episode of six feet under was art. i watched it last night at carmen's.. we both cried the whole time... everything was just so REAL.. and beautiful.. after watching this, now we're both considering having "green" funerals. that's where they don't embalm you and they bury in a biodegradable shroud in a national park somewhere.. it was really cool.. i think the women on this show all deserve emmy's. the girl who plays claire has never really impressed me before, but this show she reallly brought it all to the table.. SO good. i'm so sad that there's only like 2 episodes left.. what am i gonna watch now?

fry master of the 29th birthday.

so today is my california dreamboat's 29th bday. sean, a.k.a. the fry master of all that is meat, lives in santa barbara, CA. we dated for 5 months and lived together for 3 months. then he decided boone was too fuckin cold for him, so he moved away to california. he has a friend who had moved out there, and santa barbara is like 70 degrees all year round, so he decided it was the perfect place for him. nevermind the fact that i LOVED him. nevermind the fact that i had let him live with me rent free.. i fed him and took care of him.. blah blah blah... anyways.. we didn't actually break up, it was just kinda obvious. but last year i went to santa barbara to see him for his bday. it was a great closure. sure, he was a big loser pothead who worked at mickey d's 3rd shift. but we had fun. and he was sweet. and he gave it up all the time. but now, he's gone. and this is all the birthday message he gets this year. (by the way he doesn't have internet).
so happy bday fry master.

turns out i missed my blog.

ok so i guess my weekend was pretty uneventful. .
friday night i went to longhorn with the rents, had a mack daddy ass ny strip, med rare with asparagus.. mmmm..... then went with my brother to tremont to see his friend eddy's band. the drummer happenned to be a guy i went to high school with, scott jenkins. i told him he needed to eat a hamburger cause he looked like he was a crackhead. i don't think he liked that too much. i can't help i don't like skinny boys. while i was there, a guy came up to me and said, "hey, is your name allison?" i was like, yea.. (looking at him... trying to figure out who the hell this guy is).
he said "do you know who i am?"
my mind was racing, who is this? i thought, is this that guy i made out with months ago at the cowboy mouth concert? i take off his hat, brown hair. nope.
"i don't know!" i say.
"you and michelle used to go to my church!!"
oh yeah!! jonathan mills! michelle (who was my bf from 7th through 11th grade) had a crush on him and so we used to go to church and annoy him into being our friend. i lived with michelle for a while in 10th grade and we actually went twice a week. which was weird for me since i've always been agnostic. oh well.. it didn't ruin me too much.
then my bro and i went to a party at his friend nick's house. i used to have a MAJOR crush on nick, back in ninth grade when he moved here from michigan.. and i didn't know his name. my brother knew this. so he told me one day that he found out his name which was josh leaves. so i was all "I love josh leaves" blah blah blah. then i called him josh once in the hall. he looked at me with a very bewildered look. his name wasn't josh. it was nick. what a dick i have for a brother. so anyways. we're cool now, and he's one of my brother's best friends. and friday night they told me they were gonna start a band called Josh Leaves. great. fantastic. i'm ecstatic to hear that 8 years later they're still pickin on me for that. assholes. but i also ran into my friend elizabeth at the party, who i havn't seen in like 3 years. that was cool, except she's a dirty vegetarian now. but i still love her.
saturday was uneventful.. watchin babies, wishin i had one ( but not really). eatin steak.. mmm.. steak .. ran into more people i know in the grocery store...
sunday i went to the pool all day with elora and madelyn and my mom.. of course elora went too deep and went under the water and i had to jump in and pull her out. i swear i love that child like she was my own.. but she's so damn hardheaded... babies.

haven't heard form the boy....

i'm in a much better mood today...

mostly because of this:


(my new phone, as of yesterday)

and also because of this:


(used for text messaging). (it's a finger)

phone

by the way my phone died. in case anyone out there has tried to call me or whatever. i'm getting a new one tonight.

this is the end

i am formally ending my blog now. this is the last one. i have enjoyed having a blog, but now this blog is no longer able to offer me the one thing that blogs are supposed to be able to offer, freedom. freedom to write whatever i want about whatever i want, how i'm feeling and such, without having to worry about pissing anyone off. i know i only have one, maybe two readers. but one of my possible readers is someone who i have something to say about, and since i'd rather them not read about it (i'd rather tell them straight to their face how i really fuckin feel about them right now), i'm just not going to write about it. i'd like to, but i don't want to take any chances. i'd like to write about how incredibly pissed off i am at this person for doing what they've been doing, but i can't. if i don't get the oppurtunity to tell them to their face, then i may write about it. eventually. but not here.

thanks for the few months of outlet that you've provided, but now it's time to say goodbye.

i want my $5.50 back.

= Worst Movie EVER!!!!!!!!!!

guess what i did saturday night!

i thought it was going to be really gay and stupid, but i actually had a lot of fun... two times in the hot spot with the host and the one from charlotte (second from left, standing).. he was HOT!!!!
the girl i'm sitting on is april, one of my girls from raliegh..

we dressed like "hoochie mamas", supposedly. i hate that term, but we had fun none the less.

i'm never gettin in the ocean again. ever.

good morning starshine, the earth says hello

i love this movie. everything about it. especially the colors.


go see it. don't be all "but he's not gene wilder, and i'm an f'ing hippy who refuses to ever try anything new because i'm an asshole". seriously. go see it.

i had chocolate cake on friday, and i was trying to get my coworker to eat some of it, so i described it by saying, "if willy wonka was to throw up in my mouth, this is what it would taste like."

cool weekend.

i had an awesome weekend, so i feel like sharing.

friday: charlie and the chocolate factory with katie.
AWESOME movie. johnny is outstanding!!
the chocolate was beautiful, the colors were beautiful!
i loved it!!
then to kohl's to try and find katie's slingblade-esque appstate friend. no good, he was off.
then to tap room, for beers with andrea. i thought i saw trey at the bar, so katie called him, no good, he was in asheville drunk. but he told katie that we were welcome to go to his apartment and hang out and drink his beer.. he even told katie that he left a key on the porch .. hehe...
so we decided we should pull a prank and go to his apartment and take a bunch of pictures inside with some random object from my car, and then leave it in some obscure place in his apartment. we figured since he was drunk, he wouldn't remember telling us to go to his apartment.. then we were gonna have random people email the pictures to him.. heheh..
BRILLIANT!! but then we got to his house and couldn't find the damn key!! oh well. it WAS a great idea...
so then i went over to carmen's for Poker. put in five dollars and almost immediately lost it.. dustin got upset over some unsavory advice on satterfield's part.. so then he went out and we went to the WAHO. good food, retarded waitress.. i really don't care about your dogs lady.. if i did, i would ask.
so then we went back and hung out for a little bit........................not much else ;)

hehe..
got home at 3 am!!

saturday:
got up at 8 am! and andrea, katie, cathy, and i headed for carowinds and had an awesome time!! see pictures in my flickr.. of course right before we left that morning, i stepped on a piece of glass, so all day long i'm having to be careful walking.. and i got sunburnt all to hell, and SOOOOOOO bloody tired. but hey, it was worth it! definitely had fun.. we rode SOOOOO many rides... the new BORG Assimilator ride kicks so much ass. you lay down and go upside down. the hour long wait was completely worth it..
but then we rode some water rides, which were super cool.. definitely the best way to end the day..
stopped at shoney's on the way home. and saw cathy's super cute dog.. bought a lotto ticket in south carolina, so i can get out of debt :)
the plan was for me to then go to a party in charlotte, to see some friends i hadn't seen in years.. but by the time i took a shower, i was so bloody tired and in so much pain (foot and burn) that all i could do was go to sleep.. *sigh* i suck.

sunday:
here's the crazy part. well not really, i don't consider it crazy but some might..
i went to charlotte to meet. .... a boy!! yes, i met a boy, a boy that i've been talking to on the internet for a while.. i know, "the internet" is decieving, i could get abducted, it never works out.. all that shit, but i don't care. i had fun, and he is really nice..
he took me to this parking deck (haha, don't judge) in charlotte, the 7th street station. it's really cool, you walk around outside and there are these panels that you push on and it plays sounds.. it's so awesome... there is even a riddle posted outside and we SOLVED it.! yay! when you solve the riddle, it plays you a song and lights up all pretty! it was so oooooooo cool. i would love to post pics of it, but my stupid camera wouldn't work. that's what i get for leaving my good one at home. oh well. then we went to eat, had some good conversation and pizza, and beer. then we went to the movies to see war of the worlds.. which is a weird movie.. it's REALLY good until the end, when you're just like.. "wait a minute. that doesn't make any sense. none at all"... oh well.
so anyways i had a really good time.. and i hugged him good night.. cause it was a proper date..
had fun..
got home at 11 and went immediately to sleep after a good long weekend..
now, if only i could go back to sleep.

drivin sure is fun when your prescription ain't quite right.

so i go to the eye doctor today.. and they give me some contacts.. i can tell right away that something isn't quite right. he does the eye exam and everything.. and then he tells me that they're a little off, so they'll have to order some more. i figured then they would tell me to go ahead and take out the ones i have in, since they're not right. but no, he tells me to go ahead and wear these if i want, since they're still better than no corrective lenses.
let me just say now, these are OFF. my perception is wrong, and looking at this computer screen requires work.. i may have to switch back to my glasses until the goodn's come in, cause this is freaky.. well, ten more days... i hope the next pair fits better.

fastest mullet in france

best mullet i've seen in weeks.. although yesterday i definitely saw a skullet while GPSn.

Riley as a puppy

Riley as a puppy
Originally uploaded by laserone.

oh my god this dog is so friggin cute.. i want a pug so bad.. i can't wait til i have my own house and my own pug.

you swept me away

ok, so everyone in the hick-o-ry area knows all of this but so what.. it's been raining all day and everyone's all talking about the hurricane comin through NC.. well up here in Catawba County we definitely got to see it. i went to the gym for lunch, and it was all rainy and shit, but not bad. then, as i was walking on the treadmill, i noticed the rain start to get heavier, and heavier.. and the sky get darker and darker... then one of the Yployees went to one of the tvs and turned up the volume (which NEVER happens) .. so i turned off my ipod and listened: tornado warning in effect for catawba county, nc til 1:30 pm. Great. for those of you who don't remember weather class in 7th grade, warning means that there has actually been a sighting of a funnel cloud. so then they made all of us leave the workout room and go into the spinner room and sit there for like 20 minutes. being the genius that i am, i noticed the big radio in the room and found a local station, so we could listen to the weather report. "well, from our cameras on the water tower in lenoir, we can see the funnel cloud moving over northwest catawba county (hickory). it appears to be moving through downtown (where the Y is) and now up towards NE hickory (where my house is)... " etc. etc. etc. that's friggin crazy.. luckily, it did very minimal damage to hickory, at least the parts i saw coming back in from lunch. when the finally let us leave, the little creek that runs past the Y was definitely breaching the normal banks and over the little footbridge..
argh!! my house is going to blow away!

whoopty doo.

i love the fourth of july. it makes me sooo happy. it's like one big firework all day long.. the loud noises and the colors just make me feel cozy for some reason..



i also love the mountains.. especially boone. i think if i were to choose one place to live forever, it'd be boone. every time i go back to visit, all i can think about is how awesome it was to live in such a beautiful place.



i love my best friend, B. he's got a way of always being there for me..



these are just a few things that make me happy.. i have many loves.. what makes you really happy?

uh oh, i'm gonna be broke............. more broke

holy shit, look what i bought!! myprecious

don't judge! i'm only paying 9 bucks a month for it.. ok i'll probably pay more than that a month.. i'll try and pay it off quickly.. but it's so pretty and i like taking pics a lot, so maybe one day with this, i'll actually be good at it.. i hope.

um meme?

ok according to katie, i'm supposed to be listing five things that i miss from my childhood.. this is gonna be difficult.. i mean, i miss being a kid, but i like who i am now a lot better than the dork i was back then.. but i'll give it my best shot.

a. my grandma's field peas and salmon patties..
yes, salmon patties. i was born in bradenton, florida and lived there til the age of six. it was cool because that's where my dad's entire family was. my grandparents house was just a short drive away. we'd go there every sunday after church (well, after they got out of church). my grandma was and may still be a great cook. her best meal, and my all time favorite of hers, is field peas (hand picked from their garden), and salmon patties, hand squished. yes, believe it or not, i used to eat seafood. it is the only seafood in my whole life that i have ever enjoyed. i couldn't wait for that supper.. of course she would spend hours in the kitchen making lunch, with other things to go with it, biscuits, fried okra, etc. the smell would radiate through the whole house and outside into the yard where my brothers and i would be chasing frogs, armadillos, and rabbits. that smell still haunts me when i think about it.. so good... and then FINALLY supper would be on the table. but of course, before we could eat, we had to pray.. this would usually consist of a regular prayer, and then a 20 MINUTE reading out of some bible handbook, and then a few passages from the actual bible. it always seemed to take FOREVER. and then finally, we got to sink our teeth into the salty, yummy goodness.
of course, now my grandma rarely cooks. she and grandpa live in georgia, and she is too busy taking care of a house, and a sick grandpa to be able to cook big meals. plus, there's no one really to cook for anymore.. seems like everyone has moved away.
i'm not sure i'd be able to enjoy the salmon patties anymore anyways.. i haven't eaten seafood in years.
that one was kinda long i guess..

b. the creek
when we lived on billy st. in kannapolis, down at the end, where the road dead ends into the woods, there was the entrance to a trail. at the end of this trail was a creek.. a pretty little creek. and at the creek was a cabin. although it wasn't deserted, i NEVER saw a human at this cabin, and never saw a car, in fact i don't even know how a car would get to it. it was nice though, with a little bridge, a rock wall, and a picnic table. this was a favorite place to go for all of us neighborhood kids. anytime we wanted to escape our parents or siblings, or to have imaginary soap operas, me and my best friend marissa would go down to the creek. my eighth grade birthday party (the first one with BOYS) happened mostly here. we played spin the bottle and i got my first french kiss from rory miller (who unfortunately passed away a few years ago).
but this wasn't the end of the creek's coolness. there was another trail, from the creek, that led to a deserted skeet shooting range.. there were several buildings, all delapitated, perfect for kids and wasps. most of the buildings were blue and for some reason they were really small, but they were so cool. one year the mostly absent owners of this farm had a haunted hayride trail through the range for halloween. when it was over, my brother and me and all of our friends had and even greater time, due to the fact that they just left all of the props laying around the area..

now the beginning of the trail to the creek is closed off. the owner of the house at the end must have gotten tired of all the kids cutting through his yard. but one day, i swear i'm gonna go back there and see what it looks like now.

c. the wizard of oz as performed by a and a suggs
when we were wee lads and lasses, my brother alan and i would watch the wizard of oz over and over and OVER again.. we knew every word. we would act out the scenes, using our cats, my parents, and occassionally my oldest brother scott, as other characters. i, of course, was always dorothy.. and alan was usually the lion. my cat mayonnaise was toto. my mom even bought me a plaid dress similar to dorothy's. we had so much fun...

d. family vacations.
my family was hardcore into road trips. we went on road trips all the time. when we lived in florida we would take weekend trips up to north carolina to see the mountains and the "snow" during the summer months (yes, summer, it's 900 degrees in florida during the summer). when we moved up here, we would take day trips to the mountains, since it was only a 2 hour drive from k-town. at the grand old age of 9, my family, including my mom, dad, two brothers, and nana (other grandma) went to new england. we took a two week trip driving all the way up to maine and back.. we saw new york, maryland, rhode island, boston and everything in between. i'd say my favorite part was the whale watching in cape cod. another cool part, which i didn't appreciate at the time, was that we got to see the twin towers and go inside. there is actually a picture of my bros and i inside looking out from the top floor of one of the towers.

when i was 11, we took a month long trip across country, all the way to california and back. my family, my cousin alicia, and my grandma and grandpa. a van, a truck, and two campers. it was awesome.. got sick in vegas, saw seals in cali, saw yellowstone, yosemite, mesa verde, grand canyon, devil's tower, mt. rushmore, and EVERYTHING in between. i have been to 44 u.s. states because of these two road trips alone.
these weren't the only ones, just the best. we also went on a cruise to mexico, and other various vacations.. i miss that..

e. let's see.. i guess this last one should be the most important.. um... i miss... naps!
naps!! the most important and stupendous thing ever invented. i was never one of those kids who fought to stay awake in kindergarden at naptime.. i always warmly welcomed my favorite part of the day. the soft towel and pillow, the dark room, the back of my eyelids... this tradition carried on to the afternoons all through elementary school, and yes, even in middle school my mother would often come home to find me asleep watching animaniacs and tiny toon adventures. those rocked. in high school, i had to get a stupid job, so the naps had to end. every once in a while i'd be able to catch one.. who am i kidding, i napped everyday, during class!! especially when we'd watch a video, i'd be out like that.. . but then of course in college, i had a job too. but in college, you can't sleep during class, or you're fucked. i tried a couple times my freshman year, but it never worked. my naptimes officially stopped for good.
now i have a regular daytime job.. and my nights free. i could take naps if i wanted. of course i want to.. but now if i take a nap in the afternoon, i can't fall asleep at night.. which totally blows. so... no more naptimes for ally.

wow, that was a LOT of rambling.. sorry..

let's try this

i just wanted to test to see if this would work.. awesome.. Whoever can guess whose feet these are wins a prize! i'll give you a hint, he's a famous man, famous for singing. put your guesses in comments.. what prize is there to be won? well, you'll see. ;)

general title

you know, i'm starting to really like spades. me and dustin came back last night to beat carmen and satterfield.. we came back from behind with a BEAUTIFUL nil from me and a BEAUTIFUL cover from dustin. it was awesome. and then six feet under creeped me out.. and then my best friend called to tell me that the power supply i FINALLY got around to ordering for my broken ass computer, well they sent the wrong model number!!!! arrejroisejgokjokgh!!! but it's ok.. because we won at spades.. and today when i got to the office i got a pleasant message from one of my myspace boys.

this past weekend.

heeeheee... wouldn't you like to know?


(This was me Sunday morning ;) )

:)

van wilder.......... genius?

"you shouldn't worry so much about life, you'll never make it out alive. Write that down."

haha funny stuff

ok, so you all know by now how big of a star wars geek i am.. but i'm not as bad as this dude.. hey, at least he's funny:
http://www.andy-hawley.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/piemansstarwarssite.htm

Now, if you're too lazy or scared to actually visit this site, here's a funny excerpt:

"Lines From Star Wars That Can Be Improved If you Substitute the Word Pants

1 A tremor in the pants. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master.
2 You are unwise to lower your pants.
3 We’ve got to be able to get some reading on the pants up or down.
4 She must have hidden the plans in her pants. Send a detachment sown to retrieve them. See to it personally commander.
5 These pants may not look much, kid, but they’ve got it where it counts.
6. I find your lack of pants disturbing.
7 These pants contain the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it.
8 Han will have those pants down. We’ve got to give him more time.
9 General Veers, prepare your pants for a surface assault.
10 I used to bulls eye wamp rats in my pants back home.
11 Tk-421… Why aren’t you in your pants?
12 Lock the door, and hope they don’t have pants.
13 Governor Tarkin. I recognised your foul pants when I was brought aboard.
14 You look strong enough to pull the pants off a Gondar.
15 Luke… Help me take these… pants off.
16 Great, Chewie, great. Always thinking with your pants.
17 That blast came from those pants. That things operational.
18 Don’t worry. Chewie and I have got into pants more heavily guarded than this.
19 Maybe you’d like it better back in your pants your highness.
20 Your pants betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for your Sister!
21 Jabba doesn’t have time for smugglers who drop there pants at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser.
22 yeah, well short pants are better than no pants at all, Chewie.
23 Attention. This is Lando Calrissean. The empire have taken control of my pants, I advise everyone to leave before more troops arrive
24 I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.
25 You came in those pants? You’re braver than I thought."


ahhhhhhhhhhh i love being a huge freakin dork.. oh and i'm thinking of building a darth vader dummy for the backseat of my car, any suggestions?

last night..

i'll let eric convey my emotion for last night.


oh well.. life goes on.




by the way, if you want eric to convey your emotion, or if you'd just like to see some funny shit, go here:
http://www.emotioneric.com/
he's awesome.

crawdads game

guess what? i'm going to the crawdad's game tonight! hah! and i'm going with a boy! a boy from boone! ok he's an old friend.. a bowler. and i don't guess it's a date. but who knows. boys can be hard to read once in a while.. but only rarely. and this one is rare enough to where i have no idea what he's thinking. he calls me up out of the blue on friday, even though i hadn't talked to him in months, and suggests dinner or whatever. then we talked about baseball and how much fun it is. then he asked me when the next home game was, and i told him tuesday (today).. so he suggested that we go to this game.. i'm excited, we'll see what happens. either way, life will go on.

water balloons and beer.

dustin
Originally uploaded by allygirl520.

Here's how friday night went.
Started out fun, Andrea and I went to the gym, then grilled some yummy chicken and watched the greatest movie ever (POTCTCOTBP). Then it was time to head over to carmen's.. where Carmen, Satterfield, Brandon and Dustin were waiting, notice how dry Dustin looks.

Then it was time for Beer!

after mass consumption of alcohol by most parties, brandon and satterfield decided to go downstairs for a minute. carmen, dustin and i went out on the balcony, where dustin decided it would be a good idea to throw water balloons on them when they came out to smoke... only problem is, we had no balloons.. after a disappointed sigh by all, i came up with a BRILLIANT! idea.. why not use condoms? i knew where there were four in the desk drawer. damn, i'm smart. i ran to get them, we filled them up, only there was a small problem.. it was more fun to sling the water filled condoms around at each other, then to hold on to them waiting for the boys to come outside... so..

yep, that's a condom balloon. first, dustin and carmen had a duel:

why yes, carmen's "balloon" isn't a balloon at all, it's a cucumber that is well protected.

then, dustin turned to me.. and he got me, for some reason i don't have a pic. he got me with a "balloon", and then with several glasses of water.. i did not like this. so i chased him down in the parking lot, and smacked him in the neck with my "balloon"

soon after, carmen and satterfield went to bed... and the rest of the story is.. well, wouldn't you like to know? let's just say, i feel much better now.

all i can say is..

there were water balloons, sort of. the pictures are fantastic... i'll be sure to blog them as soon as is humanly possible... what a splendid night ;)
thanks... you know who you are.

Favorite Poem, just for the hell of it.

"Daffodils" (1804)

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).


Isn't that just so lovely you want to go outside and hug the grass? Yea, me too...

This blog is NOT about spades.

ok, i lied. it is. totally about monday night spades. Here's the skinny: Carmen and Dustin (OMG DUSTIN!! HOLY CRAP) against Satterfield and Me. First of all let me just say, Carmen gets the luckiest damn hands of spades that i have EVER seen. That said, the first game they beat us like 550 to 20! it sucked. Really. i contemplated throwing up all over the place for revenge, but i guess since satterfield lives there too, and he was on my team, that wouldn't work. So the only other thing to do was to play again. i had to be talked into it, since it was already 10:15. But i gave in.. (those three have a way of talking me into stuff). So then, it was on..
The second went a lot better. in fact, we were winning the whole game.. but then, i got the craziest, most F'ed up hand i've ever seen in my life! 3 Aces, and NO SPADES! "what the hell am I gonna do with this?", I said to myself. But then i did the only thing i could do, I dropped those aces faster than the Sisqo kid. (Insert Magnificent 7 music here) BAM! ACE! BAM! ACE! BAM! ACE! and it was all good. of course, it wasn't like a game changing hand or anything. we still had a couple more hands to go, but damn, it made me feel good to play them without getting cut!

The point is, we won. we put carmen and especially Dustin in their place. why especially dustin? because he was wearing a carolina blue shirt, and trying to play it off like it was "Sky blue". dork! haha! i have pictures.. but they're still in my camera. eventually i will post them on my flickr.. until then, be patient young paduan.

1 month 1 day til carowinds! yay!

discombobulated

isn't that a great word (discombobulated) ?

I played SPADES thursday night with someone other than Dustin!!! we cheated on you!! hahahah!!! what are you gonna do? and i'm writing it in my blog!!!

honestly, he wasn't too good either.. i'd rather play spades with you dustin.. even though you suck at it, he sucked even worse. bad. i lost two games in 1.5 hours. bad.


Well my weekend turned out good anyways.. donated blood on thursday, didn't almost pass out!!

friday me and b went to see the KILLERS!! i got autographs!!! for pics go to my flickr.
too much fun to talk about.. i am SO bloody tired though from all the drivin and swimin and drivin and minigolfin and drivin and drinkin and drivin. (not necessarily in that order).

well at least i'm back in hickory and happy.. but i'll be gone AGAIn next weekend to hang out with my mom. . if any of my back home friends wanna see me this weekend, just gimme a call. otherwise, suckit.

almost forgot

HEY! guess what today is!! i know you know. and if you don't know, you're a dork.. well i guess technically if you DO know, you're a dork.. ok ok, do you want me to just tell you? it's the most important day of the year! Johnny Depp's Birthday!!
Happy 43rd birthday johnny!! i'll drink to you!
everyone raise a glass!
and stick out your ass!
A toast to us all tonight!
now blow off the foam!
there's no going home!
So drink to your heart's delight!

2 funny quotes

Last night my old roomate nick came to visit me. He has nose issues (it's always runnin). and he went to get a tissue. when he reached them, out came a sneeze.. i quickly tried to be funny and said "EW!"... his reply?
"What'd you think was gonna come out, flowers & puppies?" ok it made me laugh.

and then we were watching the Simpsons. Moe went to call a stripper for Principal Skinner's bachelor party.. he opened up a phone book and turned to a page with a giant add that said:
U - SAVE STRIPPERS
if we send your daughter, it's free!

-hahahahahaha!

all is well

YAY! guess what!! you'll never guess!! keep guessing!! oh, so close!!! ok ok i'll just tell you, B found my camera!!! yay!!! right where i told him it would be, in the floorboard of his car. i wouldn't have had to stress about it the last few days if he had just done a thorough job of looking the first time! but anywhoo.. sometime next week i will have some marvelous pics of the pool party/cookout from last weekend and some extra pictures from the cowboy mouth show. life is good. although, monday night i did lose at spades.. but i feel i was off my game.. i'll be playing again tomorrow night with that boy as my partner.. hope we can kick some ass, or there'll be hell to pay. i'll kick him! or i'll kick carmen and satterfield! either way. i wouldn't really kick any of em.. i'm just smack talkin.. i can tell you're getting antsy! chill out!! jeez!!

oh and today at five i get to hang out with NICK!! my old roomie!! yay!!! i need to find a picture of him to put up in my flickr! grrrrrr

work.work.work.

check it to wreck it let's begin

another awesome weekend.. i really do have a pretty awesome life. i thank my friends for that.. Friday night: Cowboy Mouth show with Katie & Daniel and made a bunch of new friends! saw my old T.A. too, met a new boy (gave him my phone number ;) ) got home drunk and UBER late. (for pictures check out katie's blog and flickr, i'll eventually put some up that i copied from katie, but for now, look at hers)

Saturday: Got up at 9! so tired and hungover, but drove to durham anyways to see b and all them (that dm crowd). had a shitton of fun at the pool party, playing volleyball, grillin hamburgers, light saber battles, learning to play DDR, drinking more, and being with friends, including one old friend i havn't seen in a while. Had a fantastical time.. (will post pictures on my flickr after i clear up the mess from sunday night (read below))

Sunday: pretty cool, got a PHONE CALL from the boy I met friday night (didn't say much, but hey, he called!). Went to see Madagascar with B! and went to On the Border for a yummy build-your-own burrito.. ah good stuff! plus, hanging out with b is always fun.. but then came the crappy part of the weekend: i lost my camera!! i spent all day saturday taking a bunch of fun pictures of my friends, but now i can't find my camera.. i think it could be in B's car, but he's too lazy to look... if it isn't then it's either a: in b's house, b: at on the border (called there, no one has seen it yet), or c: at the movie theater (am going to call there as a last resort) but i'm pretty sure i took it out of my purse before we went into the theater, which means it's prolly in B's car.. if he hasn't located it by friday, i'll have to look there myself..

but if i don't find it, i'll get over it.. it was a free camera anyways.. and well, i'm not a sad enough person to really get upset over it..

plus, my weekend was just too good to worry about these trivial things.. :)

settings.

i have changed my settings so that now anyone can comment on my blogs.. so if said boy wants to defend himself, (thanks for the suggestion katie) he can. although i doubt he will be checking back in, but we'll see...

i'm going to see cowboy mouth friday night with katie and daniel! yay!

resolution

what a week for resolutions..
sunday with the ex-boyfriend.. and then
monday, with that boy.. you know who you are.

well apparently i talked shit about him earlier in this blog.. who am i kidding, i did.. there is no apparently about it... anyways, he saw it, and was like "if you're gonna talk spades shit about me in your blog.. then blah blah blah" i'm paraphrasing of course..
well anyways i was like "you know, from my perspective, you played me"
and then he explained the truth, which i won't go into too much detail about, for the sake of the boy's privacy, but let's just say, it was good enough..
so now i don't hate him anymore, i may even let him play spades with me again. ok, ok i already did.. twice.. on the internet (yahoo spades). and we won both games! cheated like hell, but won. it feels good to talk these things out. i feel a lot better now and don't feel like i was "played" anymore.. at least he admitted to being an asshole.. it's always good to admit when you're being a bitch or an asshole.. i may have been slightly bitchy to him too.. but i believe i had good cause..

anywho the finished product is two friends who weren't my "friends" before Sunday. YAY

my week off

Wow. I've had the greatest week off..
Friday was fun-kick ass cookout with the coworkers, cocktail party, and even got to see carmen.

Saturday was fun2- saw star wars again with corey and beth, drove to raliegh to see maksim and momji, then to naveen & ambers for a birthday party for maksim, with brad, cynthia, and kelly as well, then back to durham to hang out with b and maksim. i gave maksim his SUPER cool lightsaber that changes color.

Sunday i just hung out all day with maksim and b watching movies and gettin drunk! WOOHOO! it was maksim's bday.

Monday was more movies and then to lunch with b before heading to the beach . YAY beach.. straight to morehead city (hehe) to see my old roomies, jennifer and florian (i love those guys).. and then to harker's island to my new great roomie's family's beach house.

Tuesday kicked ass cause i got to see my old co-workers at the IMS (chapel hill's institute for marine science). went to the beach too, but it was cold... then to the channel marker with jen and florian and megan to see my old CM coworkers and then Nathan (HOT) and Jay (sort of Hot) showed up.. i had like 12 beers and too much fun...

which gave me a mad hangover the next day, which sucked cause i was on a boat for 9 hours.. 9! but that rocked anyways cause i got to help and be there when the archaeologists brought up some artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge. See my Flickr for pics. then i went to see star wars again (3rd time) because i am that much of a geek

thursday i headed to wilmington to see Liz Penley and Mark Bratcher, my fellow GIS techs and college drinkin buddies. we went to mellow mushroom (not as good as boone's by any stretch of the imagination) and there was this CRAPPY band playing.. so then we went and walked around downtown. went into this cool bar and were about to order drinks when.... the same band from mellow mushroom showed up! we got out of there in a hurry.. and went somewhere else to drink..

friday i went to the beach again.. which was much better... nice and sandy, warm, and free parking! go fort fisher! then back inland :( but i did stop in durham to see b and maksim again for dinner. i love those two, can ya tell? then to my brother's house in kannapolis to watch team america world police.. is there anything more disturbing and funny than marionettes having hard core sex? i don't think so.

saturday was marginal.. got my oil changed, cost me 45 bucks cause salisbury blows. but hung out with eric the mexican so it was all good.. saw my brother and emma and elora (my two lovely neices). then home... but here's the craziest part of my whole week.... i was on the internet on aim... and i saw my ex-boyfriend's screen name on line. i have seen him on there many times but have not had the shimmys to talk to him.. i havn't talked to him in 3 years.. hurt too bad... but i was in a good mood saturday night... and well, i just got up the nerve and imed him... it was so cool, he was so cool. we had a 2 hour conversation and he invited me to lunch with him the next day.. i couldn't believe how cool he was being and how great of a conversation we had.

then sunday i met him for lunch at waffle house.... don't laugh, it's tradition. it's where he took me on our first date because we both worked second shift all the time.. it was cool though.. after a 2 hour lunch and conversation he invited me to see his new house, and i bit. i followed him to his house and we had 3 more hours of conversation and hanging out.. playing with his dog and sittin on a rock.. it was so weird and yet so NOt weird.. i really had a great time. i hope i get to hang out with him again soon, but i'm not holding my breath.. i did see him for 5 hours and i'm really glad i got to be friends with him again.. i'm just so surprised that it went so well.. he even apologized (sort of) for being such an asshole to me before..
it felt really good.

but... after 5 hours i left because i just had too. i couldn't be there too long. i didn't want it to get to be weird. so then i went to eat with mark.. and played a five hour game of spades and lost but it's ok.. i can't help my partner lost 300 points with 3 busted nils!! dah!!! oh well i still love mark i guess :) . but anywho

that was my awesome week off.. i couldn't have beat it if i tried.

star wars

i am sooooooooo tired. and so sick.. but you know what? it was worth it. george lucas is a friggin genius. now i feel complete and whole inside. now i can die happy.. hehe..
in the words of Abe Lincoln on april 6, 1865 (four days before he died):

"Thank God I lived to see this day." -upon seeing Richmond fall to the Union

-How ironic is that?

oh my god

9 hours to go...!!!

put me out of my misery

ok so now i have this RAgin cold. katie swears i didn't get it from her. but i refuse to believe that. being outside all day yesterday didn't help... allergies on top of cold = sick allison. what really sucks is that star wars opens tonight, and i've got a ticket, but i know i'm gonna be coughin through the whole thing... pooey.

boys

i think i'm just gonna give up on boys. i mean i like em and all, but they suck. does anyone out there play spades? i need a new spades partner. my old one is startin really piss me off. he doesn't know how to cover a nil, he doesn't know how to bust a nil.. "i didn't think you'd go nil with only two clubs, one being a 10!!" well, i didn't think you'd try to cover my nil by laying a nine instead of the KING you had in your hand!
see, the thing is i really could care less, i play spades to have fun.
i can't help it when my partner gets pissed off.
anyways.
congrats to carmen and satterpunk for kickin our asses for the third time in a row!
i hate you guys.
no i don't.

funny stuff

http://ibs.howstuffworks.com/ibs/cin/lightsaber6.htm

i made a map yo

i made a map yo
Originally uploaded by allygirl520.

i make maps for a living.. i'm so lucky. here's a cool one that i made for carmen, showing catawba county, nc, where i live. the green near the center is hickory.
please, i know you're jealous of my mad skills and all, but don't go hatin. go appreciatin. cause a jedi's gotta do what a jedi's gotta do.

slllleeeeeeeeeeeeep

wanna know how much sleep i got this weekend? about 8 hours. all weekend. and then last night i was all "i'm gonna go to bed at ten and get plenty of sleep."
didn't happen. i was "so tired that i couldn't even sleep" (soul asylum). so now i've been up since like yesterday at 8 am.. i think i could legally kill somebody and claim insanity due to lack of sleep. so watch out.

brilliant?

"if you don't move, nobody will see you"-Dustin Hill, 5-5-05

such a simple phrase that wasn't meant to be so deep, but philosophically, that's just awesome..

Allison the Pirate!

Allison the Pirate!
Originally uploaded by Katie Bug.

i had a great time at cinco de mayo at el paso's.. me and katie and andrea and daniel and trey and carmen and satterfield and dustin... .happinness... to see the pics go to my flickr and then to katie's from my friends list.

:)

Plans for this weekend:
cinco de mayo thursday
small gathering at carmens friday night.. drinking...
saturday morning to my dad's for his birthday
saturday night to boone for drinking
sunday morning CHRIS is graduating! yay!
then home.. to SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

can't wait.

wow

What a great birthday weekend i had. Friday night i drove to durham where me and 7 of my friends went to see the premiere of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pretty good Special Effects, ok movie. Then i drank. Then Saturday we went to Adventure Landing in Raliegh where I kicked everyone's Ass at Lazer Tag, cheated at putt-putt and lost horribly at go karts. I was never any good at go karts. Then we went to Macaroni Grill for dinner (i'm going there every year on my bday from now on), where a hot guy sang happy birthday in italian to me, and i drank. Then we went bowling and i drank. then we went to b's house and i drank and we had an awesome water balloon fight. Thanks to B, Eric, Maksim, Naveen, Amber, Sam, Cynthia, Colin, April, Mike and Jody for a kick ass birthday.
The following people are awesome for calling me on my bday: Andrea, Katie (sweet song ;)), Carmen, Satterfield, and Dustin, Sean (the Fry Master of all that is meat), My mom, Mark Taylor, and Chrisexy.

you guys rock.

Tonight: SPADES!!!!!!

fun stuff

last night i went to my first minor league baseball game!
the hickory crawdads, and they rocked. we won with a home run in the bottom of the ninth. yay!

and then i beat carmen and satterfield at spades with dustin ( ;) ). it was the first time i beat them in like 4 years. i got 3 nils because i rock.

in other news, BLOW BICE was arrested for cocaine possesion a few years ago. . just makes you think. you never really know what kind of PUNK you are voting for these days. good thing i would've rather ripped out my own eyeballs with a fork than vote for that neanderthal.

ha!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/29/tv.american.idol.ap/index.html

my bday

Saturday is my 23rd Birthday!!!

The plan is to go to king's dominion with my peeps in the raleigh durham croud. but it looks like rain, so who knows what we'll end up doing.. erf.

So far, from my aunt, i got a really cool silver bracelet.
from my brother alan i got two wookie action figures
and from my mom i got a kick ass darth vader voice changer!

sweet.
i am such a geek. but oh well.

bullness

well, i have officially stopped watching idol for the season, no need to anymore. i hope vonzell wins, but now i really don't care. i'm not punking out, i just honestly don't feel obligated to watch anymore since last night. oh well! time to move on with life.

Anwar <3

Anwar
Originally uploaded by allygirl520.

I'm so sad.. i loved Anwar.. I hate to see him go.. sure, his song choices were often boring, but he was still better than scott, anthony, and especially Blow Bice. Anwar was the first person I picked out during the audition phase which i wanted to go all the way. who can forget those awesome tan with pinstripe pants and that kickass hat he was wearing the first time we saw him? i did all i could. i voted. and voted. and voted. and voted for him.. I want to cry, but since i'm at work and it would look weird, and actually be weird, i won't.

So, I'll say this,
Farewell Anwar, May you have the most successful idol cast-off album in history.

*tear*

ummmmm

well, i have to admit, i was sad to see nadia go, but ecstatic to finally see blow in the bottom two.. although after seeing his reaction to being in the bottom three, i kinda don't hate him as much.. it was kind of funny and i realized how much of redneck he is.. and then earlier he had said something about something being "all gravy".. which is one of my favorite sayings..
don't get me wrong, i still think his singing blows and he looks like a neanderthal, but i don't hate him quite as much now.
Constantine rocks!

american idol again

ok here's my review for all of you hanging on the edge of your seat waiting..

Nadia: ok.. she's good but that song was boring.

Blow Bice: EJROIEWJRO my ears were bleeding after he ruined one of my favorite songs with his incessant whining. "bye bye baby i'm a caveman.. and i can not sing a note" (hehe i crack myself up) come on, you have to admit it suckedd, even if you are part of the "Bice Squad"

Anwar: wonderful.. what a great voice. i hope HE wins.

Anthony: for the first time in a long time, he actually sang well. i'm happy for him.

Vonzell: beautiful. i even took the time to vote for her last night along with Anwar and Constantine.

Scott: Shew.. not good. ok during the chorus. .the rest though... *shudder* i felt sorry for Hall & Oates who were in the audience. they said it was great, but come on, they pretty much had to. you know what they were really thinking: Shew!.... *shudder*

Carrie: ok i admit, i missed it.. so i can't review her. . but i'm sure she did good.

Constantine: when he first said what he was singing, my first thought was "please don't butcher my favorite song".. i LOVE that song. who doesn't? and then when he so wonderfully bellowed out the first line... i breathed a sigh of relief.. WONDERFUL.. he almost mimicked Freddy Mercury exactly.. It was goose bumpy good. i'm so happy he did so great.

there you have it.. tell me what you think.

i'll write more tomorrow after the results show.

UN American Idol

After watching American Idol last night I have only one thing to say: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?!?!?!?!?!?!? The three people who sang the worst were safe last night!! Blow Bice and Anthony didn't even get into the bottom three, and they were absolutely TERRIBLE! I was at least happy to see Scott in the bottom two, after his disturbingly ear-wrenching version of "The Impossible Dream" (Cervantes would be rolling in his grave). But then, instead of letting the asshole go, you let Nikko go. Granted, Nikko isn't the greatest singer, but he's a HELL of lot better than 9th place in that competition. How could anyone with two (hell, even one) ear possibly think that Blow Bice, Anthony, or Scott were better than Nikko..? It's just wrong. WRONG I TELL YOU! I'm almost done venting here.. just let me say one more thing. If any one of those three wins, I swear I am never watching that show again, and I'm going to boycott it. If i have to, I will storm the AI studios and demand that the creators shut it down for being an atrocity! We shouldn't let America's preteens decide on music anymore.. it's just ... it's gonna be bad.

Oh and one more thing. Just so you know, I voted. I voted for the best. I won't say who, *cough! COughnstantine! Cough!* but I did vote.

i hate bo bice

fag bice
Originally uploaded by allygirl520.

here you go "bice squad" .. a picture depicting Blow Bice in his natural state as a cave man.

BLOW bice

ok ok, don't anybody get offended now, but .. I HATE BO BICE!! seriously, i don't see why he keeps getting votes. he can't sing. not at all. sure he has "stage presence", but so does britney spears. and news flash, she can't sing.. also, he looks like a cave man.!!!! a neanderthal. straight outta the ice age.. just slap some dirt on his HUGE forehead and give him an animal skin dress, and there you go, cave man. BLEH!!! now i'm not saying that Constantine can sing any better, but at least he's sorta hot. here's how this whole thing should go: Bo next, then anthony, scott, niko, and well, then i don't know.. i love anwar, but he's been a tad boring lately..
anyways just to wrap it all up .. bo blows.

TIRED.......... AGAIN

had an interesting weekend. drove 3 hours to get to durham to see "b" and maksim. went to walmart to buy hairclippers at midnight and discovered the "midnight madness" release of the star wars toys. so i bought five figures (anakin, padme, obiwan, darth vader, and yoda), a cereal box with vader on it, and a DARTH TATER. i'm so happy! .... then on sat. we drove 4 hours to get to kings dominion with closed 30 minutes after we got there due to rain. yay. but they did give us free tickets to come back, which is likely to happen on my birthday, the 30th.. we'll see. so we went to a civil war museum in richmond which was kinda cool.. i saw 150 year old blood on this surgeon's kit. and then they had a boardwalk with quotes on it and one was from april 4, 1865, by abe lincoln: "thank god i lived to see this day" (refering to the seize of richmond and the end of the war). this quote is from 6 days before he died.. cool eh?. then i did nothing but sleep, watch friends, and sleep for the rest of the weekend. kick ass.

Everyone is Entitled To My Opinion

Everyone is Entitled To My Opinion

canadians are funny with their floppy heads and beady eyes.

time.

WHY ISN'T IT FIVE OCLOCK YET?

IT'S ONLY THREE?

THIS IS SO UPSETTING...

IF IT WAS FIVE I COULD GO..
not that i don't like work.. cause i do.. but at five i get to drive 3 hours to durham so we can go to kings dominion tomorrow. yay... plus, i'm going stir crazy.. GRRRRRRR

i gave blood

OK so yesterday around 2 pm i get an email at work that says "we need blood, give us blood", well maybe that's paraphrased but anyways so i decide, "hey, i need to donate, i'm type O positive and i've never done it before, why not?"so i decide to go give blood.

i get there and they're all so nice to me cause i'm a first time donor, they're funny and stuff and i go through with it... but then..
i sit down afterwards to eat my cookie which i had been dyin for since i saw one sitting on the table in front of the chair where i gave blood... i take one bite of it, and then start feelin kinda hot... and then kinda dizzy... and then i realized i couldn't move, i was just hunched over the table with a bad feelin.. well then like three people 'rushed' over to me and started askin me if i was ok, i said "a little hot, a little dizzy" so they pulled me up and put me in a special chair, started fanning me off, gave me an icepack, took a wet papertowel to mop the sweat off my face, and even held up my drink (sunkist (the devil)) with a bendy straw for me to drink!
it was crazY!
i thought i was gonna pass out! but i started feeling better once i was leaning back.
all the old people were like, "hey, it happens every once in a while, even to people that have been donating all their life, don't let this stop you from donating again... come back in 56 days, you'll do fine next time... oh it's only because you went to the gym today.. next time you'll have to eat right before you come in... blah....blah...blah"
hmmm... we'll see if i ever decide to be a good person again.