ribbit!!

well, i didn't die from having too much fun. but i did have a pretty good weekend. friday night i went up to boone *just because*. it was beautiful.. til it started raining :P. then when i got back in town big pete called me from o'charlie's where he was having a little too much fun, so i went and picked him up. hehehe.

saturday was the big day. got to meet big pete's entire family.. all at once! scary! actually they were all really cool. his mom reminds me a lot of my mom, only less perverted. his sister reminds me a lot of myself when i was 21. and it turns out i actually used to work with his brother a LONG time ago at Park Place on campus. so that was pretty cool. they were nice, and he has a big sweet boxer doggie that gave me super sweet doggie kisses!

then we went to the shroom, (mellow mushroom). it was.. eh.. not as good as the one in boone. but it's all good. bele chere was pretty gorgeous. there were SO many people there. i took a LOT of mullet pictures. did a lot of walking around. we ran into so many of big pete's friends. then we saw train. train is a band that i would never really buy their CD because i know i wouldn't listen to it.. but they are GREAT live. i mean really good. i would have taken pictures and/or video but my camera's battery died. they ended the show with Drops of Jupiter, which is a song that got me through some MAJOR heartbreak in college. then they came back for an encore and sang 'Dream On'. it was freaking awesome. they sounded just like Led Zeppelin. REally good show. but of course by the end, i was so tired i could barely stand up!

yay for all of that!

sunday afternoon i worked at the brush, but it was all good because when i got home, adam was on the way!

NO, i didn't get the hot tub fixed. he would have been able to if only the lowes and/or home depot would have had the damn part we needed! at least, we think that's what we need! so i have to order a part, and when it comes in, i have to install it myself. unfortunately adam can't come back and install it since he's moving to columbia, sc. tomorrow.

it's all good though. it was really nice to see him. we went to backstreets for dinner and sat and talked and reminisced about the good old days for at least 2 hours. then i discovered that he is a fellow fan of the AVETT brothers! (who are definitely my favorite band) so i let him rip all my CD's! they're playing live at the verizon wireless pavilion on august 27th. i'm definitely going. wonder if i can get anyone else to go too...

anywho. so i've had a pretty darn good weekend! looking forward to this one too, even though i don't actually have any plans other than the brush on saturday and sunday! woo!

ha!

i'm not sure why anyone would choose to make fun of my dear johnny, but damn, this is funny nonetheless..

i survived.

so.. i survived my surgery. yep. mom and i went to the hospital at 6 friggin a.m. on monday. at about 7 a.m. they wheeled me upstairs toward the "operating room". i was out in the hall when the anethesiologist gave me the good stuff. i remember him telling me his two favorite words were "really" and "wow" because when people wake up they and find out they're done, they always say "really? wow". and you know what? i was knocked out while still in the hall. i woke up to a nurse telling me, "you're done sweety" and i said, "really? wow". hehehe. that was it. i don't remember a damn thing. it's pretty cool being unconscious. i should have surgery more often. two times in 4 months is really not enough. i will say this though, the cramps suck. they gave me some prescription motrin, but the vikadin my mom gave me works a whole lot better. and damn i miss hickory. i've only been gone for like 40 hours, but it feels like a week. i miss my cat, i miss my house, i miss my jobs, i miss my friends, and i certainly miss big pete. *sigh* but carmen's coming to get me tomorrow. actually techinically she's coming later today. so that's good.

i talked to my ex-beau adam today, and he's coming to hickory definitely this sunday. to fix my hottub!! he was supposed to come up a few weeks ago, but he ended up being too busy. punk. but he's definitely coming this time. he has to. he's moving to columbia, s.c. in less than two weeks! it's his last chance! plus, he'll be on his way home from his momma's (who lives in va). so it's practically on the way. i wonder if i should tell him about big pete. i mean, it's not like anything will happen with adam. we're beyond all that. happily friends. but still, i wonder if he would be quite so willing to fix my hot tub if he knew i was smitten with another boy. as smitten as i used to be for him... hmm... maybe it'd be best if i didn't tell him. i mean, he's moving to s.c. to go to law school in less than two weeks. what he doesn't know won't hurt him :).

anywho.
i think i'm going to go back to work thursday. i'm going stir crazy.

pugs + bowling.

in case you don't know it already, pugs and bowling are two of my favorite things on the planet. here's yet another reason to love both.

PUG BOWLING

looming.

next week is seriously creeping up on me. next week, on monday, i have to have the biopsy surgery thing. seems like every single female i talk to has had to have this same procedure. still doesn't make it any better. they also all tell me i'll be fine after 2 days. i'm still taking off the whole week. all i want is a chance to do nothing for a few days. that's all.

i know you're probably all tired of hearing me gush over big pete, but darn it i like that boy.
-i like the fact that we've made plans to go to belleshare (or however you spell it) in asheville on the 29th. this day i may or may not be meeting his entire family. all at once. *scarey*
-i like the fact that he created a flickr account so he could comment on one of my pictures, and that all the pictures he posted on his account are insanely ridiculous pictures of himself. adorable.
-i like the fact that he ended his first comment on my flickr with a "MUAH", which is the spelling of a kiss.
-i like the fact that my friends all seem to like him a lot.

last night, at sagebrush, keri kept saying "your girlfriend" this, and "your boyfriend" that when he and i were around each other. he didn't correct her by saying anything like "not girlfriend" or "not boyfriend". so i guess that means we're official or whatever :)


p.s. i want some of these shoes:

who's gonna buy me a pair?

i'm trying..

i'm trying to think of something INteresting to post about.. other than my same old weekend post. i DID have a great weekend and DID do a lot of fun things.. but these things are a lot more fun if you were there and you remember them.

i got new contacts. i'm wearing a pair of trials that i put in for the first time today. i'm thinking these are no bueno. they are off. why is it so hard to get my damn prescription right? my eyes CAN'T be that fucked up. really.

saturday night one of my durham/raliegh friends, mike, was looking through the pictures of my camera and saw a picture of big pete. he said he looked familiar. so i told him big pete grew up in canton, and i told him his name. craziness: mike knows big pete. mike went to his high school for ONE year. they even wrestled together. it's a damn small world. damn small. very soon today i will be posting pictures from the pool party/cookout and pictures of meatwad playing with bertha (carmen's dog). check em out.

:)

sgt. pepper's no longer lonely hearts club

so i've been "seeing" big pete for like 3 months now! that's crazy! last week i was a little drunk and i told him that when he isn't around and someone asked about him i call him my boyfriend. he didn't say anything. he still doesn't call me his girlfriend. this is all so confusing. i feel like i'm back in high school or something. maybe it's time to have "the talk". but then we've already had "the talk" like a month ago and he said he didn't really know what he wanted... so i don't know. i told him i wouldn't push him. so we'll see. i'm being patient. and honestly, i'm not known for my patience. i'm a taurus darn it.

last week when i discovered that he and i are both scheduled off for tonight, i told him it was his turn to cook for me. the other night (tuesday) at the brush we were trying to decide what he should cook for me. then he suggested we just go out to eat. works for me.. but we never decided where. yesterday katie suggested everyone go to sgt. peppers for dinner tonight. so i've decided that's where me and big pete should go. it'll give everyone else a chance to meet him. i'm looking forward to it. i really really like him and want everyone else to see how we are awesome together. plus, i like being out in public with him so other hoes can be jealous of my capture. is that weird? nah...

i haven't exactly told him where we're going tonight.. or that he'd be meeting my friends.. but he'll be okay :)


*sigh*


oh, and congrats to heath and michelle on the engagement!

a good time was had by all

well i've just had an action packed awesome weekend. now i'm so tired i can't hold my head up!

highlights:
-friday night i went to see the newest awesomest movie ever, pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest. this movie was totally worth the wait and the hype. is it possible to go wrong with johnny? and pirates? and the coolest part was i got to go to a midnight showing with people i know. (when the first one came out i went by myself to the 9 pm show :( ) i went with Josh and Bradley from the brush, and carmen and big pete. yay!

-saturday i got up and met katie, daniel, andrea, dave p, and the marshalls and daniel's brother and friends and we all went tubing down the green river. what a good time! three hours floating down the river drinking beer! and it was katie's birthday so we had an especially awesome time! happy birthday katie!!!

-after tubing we all went home and then out to el paso for more beer! and yummy mexican food!

-then i went over to carmen's to dry my sheets and quilt since meatwad peed on my bed saturday morning :(

-but it's all good because then i went over to big pete's for poker! it was a big game with carmen, brian the dj/cook, jared (big pete) and justin his roomie, josh and bradley and bradley's friends (brush people). i went out rather quickly, but then so did everyone else. the game ended around 2:30 which was good because i was T.I.R.E.D.! of course, i didn't go to sleep til around 3:30 but that's nothing i want to discuss here :)

-sunday was rather uneventul..


now i'm having trouble keeping my head from bobbing..

by the way, have i said it already? johnny depp is HOT.

still hot even covered in kraken snot

johnny depp. need i say more? i went to see POTC earlier tonight. can i just say i was in NO way disappointed? wonderful. just wonderful. and the ending? holy shit! i did not see that coming.

mmmm bop!

i used to have a crush on taylor hanson. yea, one of the mmmbop kids. he was cute when i was 15 darn it! now, he has a mullet. not just a mullet, but a FEmullet. *sigh* my mistake.

things.

friday at work was just plain awful. it was dead most of the night and the tables i did have were campers. for example i had one table of four that came in at 6pm. they paid at 7.15pm. they left at 9pm. i only had a three table section. people, DON'T do this when you go to restaurants. you are in the way. your server can not make any more money until you leave. assholes. then things were normal as far as i was getting things closed down.. but then at 10.30pm a group of 15 came in. i had to take them since i was closing. can i just say that these people were NOT normal. there was something incredibly wrong with each of them.. i don't know why.. i wish i wish they hadn't come in and made a HUGE mess and acted like idiots.

big pete had left at 11 since he was in the kitchen. because he had to get up early, it was pretty much understood that i wouldn't be spending time with him that night. i had had a rough night, i was tired and dirty and instead of leaving at the usual 11.15 pm on friday night, i was STILL sweeping at 12am. i was sweeping, and it was only me and the manager, who was in the back. when you're sweeping, you've got nothing to do but think. so i was thinking about the bad night, the bad week, and the fact that i was looking at going home and sitting by myself on a friday night. i was seriously on the verge of crying.

then my pocket vibrated! a text message! from big pete! he invited me over to stay with him, even though he had to be at his brother's house at 7.30 am the next morning. he invited me over just to sleep next to him. he is so perplexingly sweet. everytime i get to thinking i might be disappointed by this boy, he surprises me.

"results"

i told my ex-beau adam about what was going on with me and this is how he responded:
"younger women are at a pretty low risk for advanced cervical cancers. Growths, if they are abnormal, are often just a pre-cancerous dysplasia (no, i had to look it up) that can be removed easily. If the growth has become cancerous its unlikely to have spread far and can also be removed easily. Cancers in red-headed classy broads are almost unheard of. The wearing of an eye patch and going "yarrr" has been shown to be highly effective in the prevention of cancers of the cervix and of the parrot."

rather than type out AGAIN what my "results" were i'll just copy and paste from my response to him:
"wow it is so sweet of you to look all of that stuff up for me. the pre-cancerous dysplasia is pretty much what i have. HPV between levels II and III. i have to go in for a cone biopsy on july 24th. i get a week off of both jobs though! they said something about the bad cells are like right on the edge of what they took out with the leap test and they just want to make sure there aren't any more any further in. my mother had a cone biopsy in '75 which is why she had to have 3 cessarian sections. i don't know how to spell cessarian but i think that's right. anywho surgeries have improved since then so i might not have to have c-sections.. but i don't think i would mind if i had too. but i have a looooooong time before i ever have to worry about that one. "

yea.. so i'm not worried.

carmen got a new car and it is the hotness.

tonight i work with big pete! yay!

bad mood for 2 reasons.

1) i cooked dinner last night for big pete. despite accidentally poring the first batch of noodles down the drain, the food was spectacular. it was the best chicken parmesan i've ever made. yep. things were going great. he was kissy and sweet. and then his brother called. and convinced him to come out to ham's (which is in walking distance of my house). guess who wasn't invited. i cleaned up a little (i had cooked at his house) then i went home. to sit on my couch. alone. i even hinted that i wanted to go. i would have loved to have met his brother.. but then.. his brother doesn't even know about me. nor do his parents.

2) the doctor's office called me yesterday with some "test results". and by "test results" i mean not actually tell me test results but tell me i need to go into the office to talk to the doctor about the supposed "test results" and what they mean. now my mom is taking tomorrow off to go with me to the doctor when i discuss the "test results" that they wouldn't tell me.

taurus

this online quiz totally impressed me. it guessed me right.

weekend, etc.

well i'd say i had a pretty good weekend this time around. friday night was a no-brush night since i had called in sick the night before. apparently being a female occasionally DOES pay off. so i celebrated not brushing it up by hanging out at el paso, the best mexican restaurant this side of texas, with a bunch of whoopacog co-workers. beer is a necessary evil i do believe. dos equis just has some sort of power over me. eventually i sobered up and left to go to walmart where i bought a few things i don't need and eventually managed to get out of there and go home. talked to big pete for an hour on the phone and fell asleep around 1 am. then my body decided i needed to wake up at 10 am. stupid internal sleep clock. ah well. saturday i was back at the brush serving up a big steaming pile of bad service :). but at least i worked all night with big pete. i got finished around 10:30 pm but i waited around the brush until 12 am for big pete to get finished cleaning the kitchen! we were going to go out drinking or whatever. but by the time we got to his house (where he was going to change) we decided it would be more fun to just sit around and watch a movie. we watched eurotrip. this is an exceptionally funny movie. the best part of course, was that i was able to cuddle through the whole thing.

then sunday josh, carmen, big pete, and i went to the crawdad's game where the 'dads got their asses handed to them. sad stuff. we lost 12-2. in baseball that's just plain awful. anywho.. tomorrow night i am cooking for big pete. scarey! next thing you know my mom will need to meet him.. my dad has already requested it.. yikes! i only hope i don't screw up the recipe or something..

anyways..
my california ex-boyfriend has been calling me EVERYDAY lately. i haven't talked to him in months, but i finally did on thursday. now he has been calling every. single. night. and usually it's around 1 am. when i'm asleep. he's lived in cali for 2.5 years now and STILL doesn't get the 3 hour time difference thing!! aaah!! it's not that i don't want to talk to him, because i love talking to him, but he always talks for like 2 hours and won't let me hang up. and he talks about trying to get me to move out there. and how he still loves me. and he thinks about me a lot. and how i should "stop seeing this jared guy" and be with him. oy.
no thanks.
i like big pete too much for all of that.

one last thing, check out this awesome website/video of matt, the dancing guy (no, not THAT dancing guy). this is amazing and i SO want to do this one day.

ick

i have had NO energy the last couple of weeks. I get enough sleep for the most part. Some people would say i get too much sleep. that's a load of squash if you ask me. i like the fact that i'm only working at the brush 3 days a week. i've got plenty of time to do whatever i need to do.. the only problem is finding the energy to do it. maybe it's because i've stopped drinking my morning coffee. but i doubt it. the coffee seemed to stop having an effect on me anyways. i cut back on soda. one a day at most. mostly a lot of water now. maybe it's the diet. i bought nutrisystem food. it's pretty decent food for diet food.

i'm thinking what i need to do is get up in the morning and go to the gym. but damn, that doesn't sound appealing. i'd have to get up at like, 6:30. ew. i promised myself a long time ago that i'd never have a job where i had to get up earlier than 7. yea, i know that sounds stupid. but i think sleep is the most important thing in life. more important than boys. did i really just say that? weird.

this weekend: tonight i may or may not be going to a crawdad's game, depending on how i feel after visiting the doctor. tomorrow i work both jobs. saturday i work again *surprise*. but sunday, big pete, carmen, josh and i are going to the crawdad's game on a double date. ;0 i'm excited about this. tuesday i may or may not be cooking big pete dinner. he better watch out. if he's not careful, i might just be falling for him. wonder if it would freak him out if i told him that....

hmm.. taking things slow is difficult when i think about him about 300 times a day.

redhead.

so that's what's wrong with me..

uninspired.

well it was another long and fun weekend (Mostly) but now i'm soooooooooooooooo tired and worn out. i would have to say my weekend started thursday with the carowinds trip with katie! that was awesome. the best part was when katie told me they served BEER at carowinds. after i drank 2 beers, we rode the BORG assimilator. that couldn't have been more fun.. especially doing the 'superman' upsidedown.. good stuff! that ride really does rock. after leaving carowinds, we headed back to hickory to catch the rest of the crawdad's game with a whole bunch of COG people. thirsty thursdays really are the best. then for even MORE fun we all headed to ham's afterwards.

friday was a long day of working two jobs, but it ended well with jared (big pete), me and B (who drove in from durham) going to O'charlie's and then back to my place. good times :).

sunday B and i went to a wedding in jamestown, nc at this castle place. that was pretty fun. i really like going to weddings with B. we always have fun dancing the night away. as soon as the photographer puts the pictures on the internet, i'll show you some pictures of us dancing. the most awesome part was my dress. we went to jcpenney that day (last minute, thanks to brad) to buy him a pair of dress pants. while we there i figured i'd look around, and i found this awesome dress, for $30.00! woohoo! i LOVE it. makes me feel purty! had so much fun wearing it to the wedding, that when we got back to hickory at 11:00 i made brad go to Splassh, a nightclub in hickory, so we could go dancing. that may not have been the best idea as i was the worst dancer there. i never said i was good! but it's also hard to do that kind of dancing in a dress. note to self: next time i want to go hiphop dancing, wear some f'ing jeans already!

ah well! then yesterday i worked a double! that sucked. except i made decent money. AND i got to hang out all day with big pete. we even ate lunch together on our little break :) awe. starting to really dig this one.. ok i already did really dig him. but now i'm starting to reaaaaaaaaaaaaally dig him.

me at the wedding:

dear brush patrons...

To all the potential patrons of the brush, a list of dos and don'ts:

1. DO make reservations to come in after your daughter's high school graduation with 30 of your closest friends at 10:00 p.m. when you know the restaurant closes at 11:00, but be sure to only ACTUALLY bring 19 people who straggle in one at a time until 10:30 when you are finally ready to order.

2. DON'T simply take your drink that the bartender has made for you. DO complain many times to your server that it tastes like water and needs more alcohol.

3. DO order about 17 DIFFERENT items so that the kitchen has to dirty every single dish that they've already had washed once that night.

4. DON'T watch your kids to make sure they aren't running all over the restaurant acting like assholes. After all, the servers are also getting paid to babysit.

5. DO spill a drink.

6. DO smoke in the non-smoking section since "no one else is around, ya'll"

7. DON'T clean up your wrapping paper and card envelopes from your gifts.

8. DEFINITELY DON'T tip your server more than the standard 15%.

9. DO jokingly tell your server you wanted to go to IHOP while giving her your exact 15%.

10. DO wait until 11:45 (45 minutes after restaurant closes) to leave.

11. DO call in an hour later to ask if someone has found the car title and $400.00 you misplaced.

12. DO show up at the restaurant at 8 am the next morning to dig through our dumpster after you've already made three cooks dig through it the night before looking for the car title and $400.00 you misplaced. And then DO claim that you found a TOGO box with the car title sitting on top of the dumpster with NO $400.00 in it.

13. DO call the regional brush manager that day and tell him you want Allison, the other waitress that was helping her, AND the hostess who helped clean up all fired for stealing your $400.00.

14. DON'T listen when the regional manager tells you there's no way in hell he'll be firing us because you lost your $400.00.

Roads...

Where we're going, we don't need Roads.

big ben's helmet found!

someone found Ben Roethlisberger's helmet!

roethlisberger + motorcycle - helmet = sad allison

no word yet on whether or not he'll be able to play next year, but Big Ben had a 7 hour surgery yesterday to repair a broken jaw and nose. he also lost teeth? he'll still be beautiful to me. i'll still marry his busted up face and give him 25 kids. i bet they had to put steel plates in his head. maybe that will make him more badass on the field. how can anyone ride a motorcycle without a helmet? stupid! i'm never going to ride one again, i'll tell you that much. when you start out like this:


and end up like this:


that's just not cool. oh roethlisbaby, why can't you just play by the rules, you rebel!? i guess it's because he's 24. being 24 myself, i know and understand the need to hold on that youth. i just hope he'll grow up now.

OH NO!! not roethlisberger!

According to this article, Ben Roethlisberger was in a bad motorcycle accident today and is the hospital! It says he'll be okay, but what if this is the end of his NFL days? No more Roethlisbrady dreams? I.. I.. love him... :( *sigh* I hope he'll be okay.

good stuff

i got the soundtrack to dirty dancing in the mail the other day. i can't stop listening to it. especially the "don't you feel like crying" song. it's the one that's playing in the movie when baby and johnny are dancing alone in his cabin. man... good song. and good movie. my mother and i watched it yesterday with elora. she's five so we figured it was about time to introduce her to one of the best movies ever made. is it weird that i got emotional just looking at the pictures from the movie in the cd booklet?

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrghghghghg!!!

yesterday i was GPS'n and some kid walks by with his bicycle. he asked if there was some kind of construction going on (i wear an orange vest while GPS'n). I told him what i was doing, and he said "oh okay, i thought you were in high school and was wondering why a high school girl would be doing construction". then i told him no, that i was a liiiiiiiitle older than high school.

then i thought about what he would have thought if i had told him my age. i'm 24. he would have thought, 'hey, that's 10 years older than me'. then i thought about the fact that it has been 10 years since i started high school. eugh.
getting old sucks. ;(

carmen and i looked through ALL of my photo albums from high school and college last night. i have about 20 of them. the memories! i need to scan some of the better ones.. but who's got time really? oh, and of course we came across a lot of ex-boyfriend pics. but for the first time in a long time, i didn't long for those days. i didn't think 'awe... wish i could be with xxxx again.' know why? because i thought of big pete. he makes me uber-happy these days. he even invited me to go see him last night.


alright anyways who knows what today is?!?!?!


it's JOHNNY's Birthday!!
Happy Birthday Johnny Depp! (he's 43)




























i have a black and white poster of the second picture.. does that make me weird? it's not like i have it up anywhere... i just have it in storage.. :)

come on, admit it, he's the most beautiful man on the planet..
anywho here's the toast!

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!

there we go! celebration time!

28 days til POTC2!!

*666* The Omen

Last night Carmen, Brian the dj/cook and I went to see The Omen. Yep, that's right, on 6/6/06. It was the 9:40 showing that ended right before midnight. I read some reviews that said they didn't like it because it was too much like the original, which is funny because most remakes get bad reviews for being nothing like the originals. Since I've never seen the original, I didn't have any problems. This was actually a pretty decent scary movie! We got some of the LAST tickets for the show so Brian didn't get to sit with us girls, but he was right behind us.

Very seldom does a movie actually make me scared. There were 3 times during this movie that I literally jumped out of my seat and involuntarily screamed out "JESUS!". Why? I'm not religious, so I don't understand why that is what I screamed. Ah, well. Carmen said my screaming scared her more than the movie. I don't know why these things scared me. Overall, for making me jump, I liked it. I won't be buying the DVD or anything, but I wasn't disappointed.

I was so afraid I was going to have nightmares last night. Luckily, since I've stopped drinking caffiene after 5 p.m., I fall asleep really easily and I sleep like a log. No nightmares for me!

Happy June 7th!

Guess what Friday is!!!
Oh, and 30 more days til POTC2!!



Oh and for those of you paying attention, yes, I have been using capitalization in this post. Don't get used to it.

tee hee!!

*insert girly happy giggle now*

"everytime we touch, i get this feeling"

edit: ok i did have a really cute video of Meatwad playing.. but it was too big and made my blog look all funky so i took it down.. i think this is the link.. but if not, i'll have to fix it when i get home since my youtube is blocked at my office. damn the beaver man!

please ignore the obnoxious giggle near the end.. i never realized before that that's what i sound like. ech. no more giggling for me.. i think..

not in a funk anymore. had too good of a weekend for that. nothing really special happened over the weekend, it was just good. i've decided that snuggly/gigglyness is my new favorite activity. yea. snuggly/gigglyness.

so has anyone heard this song "everytime we touch" by cascada? it's this techno-y poppy song i keep hearing places.. and now.. i'm addicted to it. i could.not.stop. singing it last night. i even downloaded it on itunes. it's so not my normal type of song. but i LIKE it! maybe it'll be my new theme song.. well, maybe i shouldn't go that far! we'll just say i like it very much!

hehehe

tacos rule.

ah ha!

i need to get my own, don't ya think? taking up donations :)

howdy ho!

ah.. so i've been non-blogging for a few days. my long memorial day weekend consisted of a few things:
-working at the brush
-beer at el paso before working at the brush
-beer at o'charlie's after working at the brush

-working at the brush
-poker at my new crib
-spending time with big pete, who i am desperately trying not to like too much, but it's hard. i found him on myspace too! but his pictures are old and they don't do him justice. to see it yourself, go to my myspace (link to the left) and go the comments section. he's the one who says my page is really weird. :)

-working at sagebrush
-driving to durham
-cooking out some yum-diddily-umptious hotdogs on the grill
-swimming in jeans and t-shirt after 3 red stripes
-getting into an all-out wrestling match with b and eric the mexican over a lifesaver floatation device
-falling asleep with contacts in, therefore having to PEEL them from my eyeballs when i woke up after an hour

-waking up monday to b cooking me bacon and eggs and toast! oh my!
-going to put contacts in and realizing i missed with the right one and it was half shriveled up due to being half out of it's little solution cup.
-resoaking contact to see if it would come back to life
-checking contact an hour later to find it replenished, but with a big tear
-driving home from durham with no contacts in! scary.

took meatwad to the vet yesterday and they gave him a bunch of shots and drew some blood and made him cry.. i've never heard a cat make the noises he was making. it scared me... so bad..
i love my kitty! tonight we're heading over to the bugs so meatwad can meet maggie and buddha!

he's my cherry pie

arrrrrrrr

so, i'm browsing around on the internet, looking for info about Pirate Week in the cayman's, (which i'm going to this year), when i came across this picture:

source.

now, i know to most people, this just looks like your average, everyday pirate statue (the one on the right!). but to me, this pirate looks awfully familiar:


it's the exact same pirate that b and i saw in the Mutiny Bay MiniGolf in myrtle beach, s.c. wtf? i am compelled to wonder, is this in fact, the same pirate? it looks the same, but it could possibly just be a copy. if it is the same, how did it end up in south carolina from the cayman islands? weird!

i must find out the truth!

american idol

here's what i have to say about the american idol finale:

yay prince!

that's it.

wow...

this video made me like nirvana again.

here's what i'll be wearing...

... to my wedding!

last night

so i had a great time last night!

i went to pick up big pete around 7 pm last night. he has a car, but we just decided i'd pick him up. it makes more sense since we were eating on his side of town. we went to da vinci's for dinner and had yummy yummy italiano food. i love that place. it was nice. we laughed and talked and had a generally nice time. we even spent a good ten minutes making weird things out of our cloth napkins. i made a chicken. it was sexy.

then we went to the movie theater. we got there a little early, so we played in the arcade for a minute:



then we went into the theater. the da vinci code is a pretty decent movie. having never read the book, i had no expectations, and nothing to compare it to. i think that helps. i've heard a lot of people were disappointed because it's "not as good as the book". but since i haven't read it, i thought it was pretty darn cool. of course, it's not like i really paid that much attention through the WHOLE movie. ;) just most of it :)

then i took him home and we talked and smooched a little til it was 1.00 am and i freaked out cause i had to go home. i'm like cinderella. i turn into a pumpkin when i don't have enough sleep.

that's all the deets your gonna get here.

i work with him tonight, so we'll see what happens!

so i had another great weekend..

another good weekend! Friday night was the annual Whoopdecog puttputt tourney, with yours truly coming in last again! i rock! but i had a ton of fun trying! i actually got better the later it got! ah well! then the bugs, andrea, and stephen came back to my place to play with meatwad:





















my place is SO the new party pad.

then saturday me and andrea went to blowing rock to the green park inn for laurie's (my coworker's) wedding reception! it was a great time. daniel and katie and marshall and ron and big j and little j and all sorts of people were there! we were there til about 10 when we decided it would be a good idea to ride to canyon's. not so much. they told us we weren't allowed to drink. just because i fell out of my seat (after john and ron pushed me)!! bah! so then we went to boone saloon. and had a wonderful time. we took WAY too many pictures, but it's all good. thankfully i didn't take my camera to the bars. but katie did! here's her pictures.




















sunday was kind of boring. worked... then did pretty much nothing except go over Carmen's to hang out with her for a while.


but anyways ..... TONIGHT'S the BIG NIGHT! my first official date with Big Pete (this is Jared's chosen nickname, thanks sam!)

i'm so so so excited. we're going to see the da vinci code. my guess is that since i haven't read the book, i won't be able to follow the movie. like i care! all i want to pay attention to is Big Pete. hehehe.

i'll blog you all about it tomorrow. :)

rowr!

i can't wait til next friday! i love the x-men movies! now i'm not a comic book nerd or anything. i don't like the comic books or the trading cards, but these movies are just plain great. especially the second one. if the third one is half as good as the second one, it'll still be great. i love them because a: they're the only action movies that keep my attention. b: mutation is cool. c: i always wanted to be a superhero.

plus, hugh jackman looks devine in that tight leather jumpsuit :)

hey yall

so sorry i haven't blogged much this week. but, well, i haven't really had the much i deem as blog worthy. after the accident saturday night, i have been busy dealing with all that stuff. people keep telling me i should sue and get a bunch of money for "injuries". but i'm not really injured. i was a tiiiiiny bit sore on sunday. i'm a greedy person just like the next, but i feel that the offer of $300.00 for pain and suffering is just good enough for me. i may not believe in much but i do believe in karma. and i'll be damned if i'm going to take another hit below the belt just because i wanted more. i'm already getting 300 bucks more than i had. so there.

other than that the only thing going on is the latest squeeze. his name is jared, but he needs a nickname. you know i like the nicknames.

here's a list of potential bloglike nicknames:
fryguy jared
jazzy jared
jay-rod
hottie-too-trottie (hehehehehe)
brushy jared.
i'm also open to suggestions.

either way, i am so in like with this guy. i've been hesitant to write about this one, mostly because i actually like him and god forbid he googled and found this blog. but also because, well, do you remember dr. boone? (scroll down to sunday)
i was so so in like with him and then things turned sour for pretty much no reason.

i really don't want that to happen again. to be fair though, i think there may have been another reason things didn't work out with dr. boone. i'm not saying this to be vindictive, but i honestly think he might be gay. he definitely has the tendencies and some of the qualities. he's just a little in the closet. and i've accepted that. i just wish he would.

ah well. got a date monday night with the squeeze (jared) so we'll see how things go! i'm so nervous! but happy! there's just something about smooching in the walk-in cooler that makes me giggle like a school girl.

my new favorite phrase is "torso lightbright"

best star wars parody all year.

a crunch in the night

after a long saturday at the brush, i left work intending on getting a lot of sleep before a long sunday at the brush. my friend samantha (sam) asked for a lift home. i obliged since she's so nice to me. i was in the left lane on Mcdonald parkway, driving along minding my own business when out of nowhere comes this red honda. the road was wet as it was sprinkling. i slammed on the brakes, and so did he. i thought, 'we're not gonna hit, we're not gonna hit, we're not gonna hit'. we hit. the crunch is a killer. it's one of those noises you never forget. i remember that first crunch 11 days after i got my liscence when i totaled my first car. and that crunch a year later when i rear ended someone in my mustang. that crunch that's so loud you want to cry.

we immediately pulled over to the side, thinking it best to get out of the way on such a busy road. it was 11:30 at night, but it was still pretty busy. i couldn't stop cursing and yelling.. and shaking. my passenger called the police, she had had her phone in hand. for a minute i thought the red honda was going to drive away, but they didn't.

i was going 45. i would estimate they were going about 35. i expected my car to be crunched all to hell. i expected to be missing a headlight, and there to be a big fold in my hood. but i couldn't look. i couldn't. i was too scared to see my baby, the black pearl, all busted up. when the policemen, EMS, and firemen showed up i was really scared.

a minute after sam called the cops, she realized she had bumped her head on my seat. then she started to hurt. The EMS people checked her out and said she should go to the hospital. a fireman was asking me questions. i asked him one, "so how bad is it?" He walked around for a minutes, inspecting, checking the front and both sides. then, he came back and said "minimal at most". Really? Really?

Turns out it was only a scratch. very very very minor. but the way we hit and as hard as we hit, it should have been crunched. it should have been awful. my airbags should have deployed and both me and sam should be in awful pain. but somehow, that wasn't the case.

since it was the other car's fault, they got a ticket. since my car was driveable, having only sustained a scratch and a misalignment, i drove sam to the hospital myself, saving an EMS fee, even though the other car's insurance would pay for it. since we were both wearing our seatbelts, we were relatively okay. she had bad whiplash, and on sunday my back hurt a little. we left the scene at 12:15.

when we got to the hospital we didn't have to wait TOO long. the doctors did x-rays, and all that good stuff for sam. i waited til about 1:30, when my manager at sagebrush, angie, showed up to relieve me and told me to go home. she is a very caring woman. she stayed there to wait for sam. when sam was in the hospital getting cancer treatments a few months ago, she stayed with her then, too.

i got home at 1:30 am. i immediately went to bed, but obviously, couldn't sleep. it had been a long night, and with the next day promising to be the busiest day of the year at the brush (mother's day) i was anticipating awfulness.

i was right.

more mario!

i love this stuff!!

yea baby

my favorite geico commercial!

comicalness

Caption this!

Courtesy of D*Listed.

wow!

so american idol last night was awesome!
look at chris's face, upon hearing the news:



the video is even better:


what a cocky bastard! he was so sure he was safe! sucks for him, and for NC, but i was very bored with him anyways. go elliott! all the way!



in other news...

time for another good idea bad idea.

good idea: going out for drinks with a few friends.

bad idea: going out for drinks with a few friends at buffalo wild wings on a wednesday night until midnight when you have to be at work at 8.15.

good idea: getting your kiss on with a boy who's cute, smart, and funny.

bad idea: getting your kiss on with a boy who's cute, smart, and funny until 3 am when you have to be at work at 8.15.

i'm tired. but it's a good tired.

update

as far as american idol goes, for katie's sake, i think katharine will be going home tonight. elliott had his best night ever. chris was boring (again) and taylor was alright. we'll see how it goes.

i finally got a good night's sleep last night. why? because i kicked out meatwad. i love the little bugger but he refuses to let me sleep. cats are nocturnal. and even if i play with him all night until bedtime, he's just not tired. you try sleeping with a 0ne pound meatwad pouncing your head all night. i tried moving him off the bed, but he jumps right back up. i figured, maybe if i just keep putting him down, he'll eventually learn. but after 20 times, i gave up. so last night i moved his litterbox and food downstairs, along with his toys and the kitty bed he doesn't sleep in. it was lonely without him, but i know he was fine downstairs. and it wasn't that lonely since i was asleep about .02 seconds after i laid down last night. yes, it was a good sleep, but it was only 8 hours. i need about 15 more. oh, and i kept hearing a weird beeping in my dream this morning. in my slumber, i thought it was a fire alarm. then, my dream self told me it was a weird alarm that goes off once a year to honor some lady who died. i have weird dreams. turns out it was a text message. it had been beeping every 1 minute since 1 am, but i only heard it around 7.30 am because i was THAT asleep. the phone is right next to my bed!

anywho the message was from Jared (i sort of refer to him in the first paragraph here, but just know he's 23, works at sagebrush, is cute and i call him "shaggy") and it said "Just wanted to say Hi"

well isn't that sweet. i guess after i was bitchy to him every time i saw him for the past two weeks, he finally got the hint that i was pissed he never called me. the other night at work, i made him show me his hands. i inspected the fingers, and then i observed, "hey, what do you know? your fingers AREN'T broken."


had an awesome weekend. cinco de mayo was great, just like last year. went bowling and offically sucked. got so trashed i convinced stephen to try and beat me in a ketchup eating contest. i won. then saturday was the first day back at the brush. sucked. satuday night, lisbiz, chris, and nate came to see me! more drinking! and i found out that chris has officially been single for a month now. time to get back to the pursuit! ha! yea right. anyways this weekend, i'm sleeping all weekend no matter what. dammit.

cinco de mayo:


katie bug's cinco pics.

For those of you who like it rough...

Allison -- [noun]: A new position involving a machete 'How will you be defined in the sexual dictionary?' at QuizUniverse.com

a few random things, because i'm random

could katie's birthday come any sooner!!!! gooosh!!! july 7th will be an awesome day. not only is it katie's, stephen's, and beck's birthdays, but it's also the day that Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest comes out! 64 More days!!

here's the longer, leaked trailor (may not last).

next, American Idol, Paris is gone. did i call it or what? next will either be elliott ( :( ) or kat, even though these are the two best. oh well. at least the ford commercial they had last night ended kind of funny with a pimps and hoes theme:






hahaha taylor's shoulder pads crack me up.



i didn't watch Lost last night. but i sure wish i had:





apparently, Sawyer (pant! drool! swoon!) got freaky with some girl. honestly i've only watched this show a handful of times. i always mean to. but i never understand a damn thing that's going on. if they would just show sawyer (pant! drool! swoon!) and jack (rowr!) shirtless the whole time, that would make me remember to watch every week. *sigh* i'm a simple creature.

also:
i'm not the only crazy person to name my kitty kitty after meatwad:
so did this guy.

oh and if you still haven't figured out what the hell a meatwad is, here is a picture:







here's a meatwad explanation.

if you still don't understand.. then i'm terribly sorry. it's a cartoon character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force (a cartoon) on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Good stuff. got me through college.

that is all. for now.

california here we come

not really, but i LOVED last week's OC .. which i finally watched last night.

anywho, i got another crazy email from my california dreamboat. but it's short and sweet. it made me laugh though because he's just, so.... darn.. cute! too bad.. too bad.

"Hey Lovely
Miss you. E-Me.
Forever Yours ( Ohhhhhh He went there !! )
Seany Depp"


teehee! seany depp. hahaha.

baby love

me and meatwad, May 2nd, 2006.


I took him to the vet this morning and they said he was a perfectly healthy baby boy, other than his cold that he picked up at the shelter. they gave me antibiotics for him. this should clear up the wheeezy/snorty/sneezy noises he constantly makes. poor thing. last night he figured out how to climb up into my bed. then he decided it was play time. on my head. little booger. as a result i got about 3 hours of sleep last night. and when i did fall asleep, i rolled over on top of him twice. nothing wakes you up like a "roew! hiss!" from your five week old kitten. poor thing. :)

american idol sucked last night. it has gotten boring. i'm still loving elliott and taylor somewhat. chris was so boring i got up to use the potty while he was on. kat was ok .. the second song was definitely better. paris .. i missed the prince song, which i had wanted to see because i love me some prince. but i heard it wasn't great. and i saw her mary j. blige "performance". bleh!
paris will go home tonight. yep. that is all.

i'm in love.

last night i met the boy of my dreams. i knew the moment i saw him that he would love me, and i would love him, forever and always, for the rest of our lives.

instant love.

my birthday weekend.

well my birthday weekend was pretty kick ass i'd say. friday night i was joined by b-rad, carmen, brian the dj/cook and ace. we didn't do much, other than play drunken scrabble and watch movies, but i still had a blast. saturday eric the mexican came up from the grove, and we went to outback, then a bunch of COG people and black sam cash were all kind enough to help me skelebrate the big 2-4. i had a great time saturday! i guess the drinks probably helped, though. i had 4 honey brown beers, 3 pina coladas, 2 incredible hulks, 1 whiskey sour, 1 shot of hennessey and 1 shot of soco. and i didn't throw up :) that's probably the most important thing of all.
the coolest i think also was the fact that most of the time we hung out in my new bedroom! i'll be putting up a few of my own pics very soon. i got some great birthday presents too..

now i have a huge problem though. the panthers/bucs game in charlotte is monday, november 13th. this falls right in the middle of pirate week in the caymans. hmm... what to do what to do what to do.

happy burfday to me.

happy burfday to me.
i'm twentyfreakinfour now.
soooo old feeling. bleh.
but it's almost may. and may is when i have a whole nother year til my next burfday.
oh well, at least i had a kick ass party!
thanks to katie, andrea, daniel, stephen, laurie, sam, eric and brian for a kickass birthday:


check out katie's pics from the night.

for those of you who LOVED Zach Morris

i bring you, Saved by the Bell, the Rehab Years.

moved :)

last night i moved everything officially from andrea's house to my condo. i have officially moved. last night was my first night in my new crib! it was great! of course, i didn't really sleep because i had a MILLION things going on in my head. for instance: where am i going to put this box of crap? where the hell is that dvd? i can't wait to put my mattress pads on this mattress.

i have 4 mattress pads, layered as so: feather, wrap around, feather, on top. two feather mattress pads make for a great sleep. mmmm.... i want to go back to sleep right now. but instead, i'm going to get ready for the PARTAY!! booyah.


oh.. and.. shhh.. don't tell anyone this, but... wednesday night i will be back to sagebrush. i know, i know, i suck. but what can ya do? i'm broke. buying a place is expensive.

rutless.com strikes again.

hell yea! Rutless.com has been linked by a big UK fun website. now we're really going to be famous. and they talk about the task that I assigned!! whee! this is awesome.

funjunkie.co.uk

kellie's gone!

yay!!! kellie's gone!! if it's at all possible to make more of an ass out of yourself AFTER you've been voted off, she totally pulled it off. ha! no more fake people in the top five. now.. who should win? i don't know. i like everyone Soooo much. i've never not hated anyone in the top five. last year it was Bo. i guess if i was really going to pull for someone, it'd be elliott. he is adorable. sure, he has messed up teeth, which is normally a good reason for me to NEVER want to like them. but come on! he's like a little toy or something. i just want to give him a big hug. Ace & TJ were comparing him to mr. tumnus, the fawn from the chronicles of narnia. i can see that.

but honestly, i'll be pretty much happy with anyone winning right now. .. except maybe paris... i don't know why.... we'll see what happens. i need to start voting!


moving day again!!!! party tomorrow night!!

i've been kind of obsessed with mario lately..

and stephen sent me this link today.

you know you've had a good weekend when...

you get emailed a picture like this:



I had a long and entertaining weekend. friday night's recital went great. i kick ass on the soundboard. friday night i had a dream that i almost died. i probably would have died in the dream, but the emotion of it all woke me up. then the hail really woke me up at 4 am. strange. saturday me and the soon-to-be-ex roomie got up and went furniture shopping! i got a new bed!!



then we went to the beer festival in downtown hickory. we volunteered, so we got to drink all day, for free. all we had to do was watch the gates. everyone else had to pay 30 bucks. we didn't!! then it started raining, which is how we ended up in the bus stop with the cops. that was awesome. they were really cool cops. i maintained though. i think throughout the day i had about 20 beers. of course, they were small, mini beers so really i had like 6. but that's enough to get me trashed. then to el paso for more beer! then to home depot to buy paint (still very drunk) and blockbuster, where the hiccups attacked me!! but andrea kept me from looking toooo drunk. i think..

what an awesome day that was. then sunday i was supposed to be selling my washing machine to some chick. so i drove all the way out to my storage room and waited for like half an hour and she didn't show up! this morning i got a message saying she couldn't make it. blah blah blah! i need to sell that shit. i didn't let it get me down though, cause then andrea, brian, ace, carmen, and me all painted my condo. it looks hot! and it only took like 4 hours to get three rooms done. so now all i have left to do is move in! sweet!!!

four days to move! and then friday and saturday it's party time.

I feel so special!!

Each day, hundreds, maybe thousands of photos are uploaded to Flickr. And each day, the 500 most interesting are put on a special list of interestingness. In september, my butterfly picture made number 187 or something. Yesterday I checked and my lawnmover picture was number 2 for April 16th!!! If that isn't enough, now it's number 1. That is freaking amazing. And since my lawnmower pic is so interesting, my butterfly picture was bumped up to. to number 1. hahhahaa.

Calender view of Lawnmower (the 16th)

Day view

Calender view of Butterfly

Day view

Bo er... Blow Bice

I told you he was a caveman.

And look, he's doing commercials now too!!

Elliott all the way!

Who you Gonna Call?

Ghostbusters!!!!

well..........

ok first things first, i was impressed by EVERYONE's American Idol performances last night (except kellie). it was definitely the best show all season (except kellie). i really loved everyone after the show (except kellie). Chris was awesome. Katharine was absolutely superb. everyone else was great (except kellie). i wish this was the bottom three: Kellie Paris and well, i guess ace because he still can't sing. but this is who will really be in the bottom three: ace, elliote and katharine. and this is only because america sucks at voting. i voted last night. oh yea i did. but i don't think it'll make any difference.

i also hung out with an old friend last night. someone i haven't seen for a while. don't worry, nothing "happened". we just hung out, and i showed him the condo and we talked for a long time. it was nice. :)

yea.

blogging for the sake of blogging

last night i had a conversation with my ex (the good one) on aim. our conversations are always so weird and we usually end up mentioning things like poo or shotput or some other off the wall thing. last night he told me that all of the paint he was using to paint the floor of his wood shop had made him high and he swore a buzzard spoke to him. "what'd it say?" i asked. "vhpit" .. "is that really a word?" then he called me a buzzard repressor. like i said, our coversations are never normal. in august, he's moving to campbell university. it's near goldsboro, nc. it is at least a 4 hour drive from hickory. this is too far. waaaaaaaay to far. i mean, i'm all gung ho him getting a law degree, cause that's amazing. but it's ssooooo far away. by the time he graduates in 3 years, he'll have probably found some chickadee to marry and will move somewhere else far away. this would make me muy sad. but maybe instead he'll just move back to the area and open up his own law firm! then when i get charged with homicide for killing some asshole who never called me back, he can be my defense attorney!! woohoo! he's pretty smart, i bet he could get me out of it.


um. in other news, my 28 year old brother is dating the 17 year old best friend of my step sister. now that's just weird. my family used to be normal.. well.. comparitively. even when he was a crackhead, he was normal compared to this. how does a 28 year old father of a 2 year old end up dating a 17 year old high school student. that's just ickey. i guess it's due to lack of options. this is Ashe County we're talking about. speaking from first hand experience (retard joe, i will tell you about him sometime) dating anyone from ashe county is like pronouncing "hey, i'm a backwoods country bumpkin. you're not my sister, but i'll date you anyways. i may not have all my teeth, but i do have a pickup truck with an extra big cab!"

*shudder*

oh, and he also did the thing where he had both of their names put in writing in the truck's back window.

i don't know how my brother scott ended up so different from my brother Alan and me. and my mom.. and my dad for that matter. oh well.

the easter holiday was fun none-the-less, except when elora decided to act up:

please, click on it and view the large size.

killer queen

so i went home for lunch and watched last night's american idol. i know i should have watched it last night. but i was having fun ;), more fun than i would have had sitting on the couch by myself. so bite me.

let me preface this by saying I LOVE QUEEN. i definitely had to put in a Queen CD when i got in my car to come back from lunch. last week when they announced they would be performing Queen songs, i got VERY excited. VERY. BUT.....

ok. Bucky? Just officially ruined one of my faves, "fat bottom girls". i don't understand why he's still on the show. he's Awful.

Ace. you know what? for the first time in weeks, he ROcked! i really really enjoyed his performance. and fuck those judges if they didn't. i'm sorry but i loved his version of "we will rock you". his clothes were really.. um.. off.. but he sounded great. wish i could have voted. (but still, i had fun last night, so it's ok i didn't vote)

kellie. she has lost all appeal to me. "bohemian rhapsody" is a hard song to sing. i feel like she picked it because she wants to take over the whole damn competition and she's an evil, conniving little skank. but that's just my personal opinion. and what the fuck was up with her bangs? ew.

chris. i love him, but he was B-O-R-I-N-G last night. sure, he has a good voice, but it did nothing to make the song interesting. it was so boring that now, an hour later, i don't even remember what song it was. the song is boring when queen sings it, but a karaoke version makes it worse.

katharine. well.. i don't know. i liked it but i didn't. this song is a reallllly tough one.. but i think it was better than if she would have sang the other one she wanted to sing. can't remember what that was though..

elliot. "somebody to love" is definitely on my absolute loved songs from Queen. Freddie Mercury's voice made you FEel his emotions when he sang this song. Elliot tried. of course, i was a little disappointed when he said he had never even heard the song before. but i'll give him this, he made it his own. it wasn't great, but i still like him a lot. a lot. i hope it's enough for him to stay another week.

paris. eh, it was alright. definitely my favorite of her performances lately. that is all.

taylor. i left taylor for last because i just want to say one thing: Wow!! okay, i finally reallly really liked him. this is the only time i've ever clapped out loud for him while sitting at home. he definitely rocked it. i was hoping somebody would sing this song ("crazy little thing called love"). it was definitely the perfect song for him. if i had voted last night, i might have voted a couple times for him. him and ace.

but alas, i did not vote, and therefore i shouldn't really be saying anything. but i think i have a pretty damn good excuse. of course, i'm not going to tell you what that excuse is. :)

i wish someone had sang "killer queen" as it is the favorite Queen song of mine. but oh well. i would have like to see .. hmm... well no one could really sing this song like Freddie, so i guess i'm glad no one tried.

my prediction as to who will be going home tonight: well, i WISH it would be Bucky. but i'm stumped here. according to past weeks it could be katharine.. or ace. but i hope not.

ooooh!!!

i wish i wish i wish that this was a real movie:
Titanic 2

my weekend.

well all in all i'd say i had a pretty damn good weekend.
friday night me and the soon-to-be-ex roomie took down some mo' wallpaper. we got one and a half walls down from my bedroom.. but i've got a LONG way to go. good thing i have a three day weekend this weekend!!
then at about 12 B showed up from durham! and since he finally broke up with his skank ho of girlfriend who was cheating on him, we decided it would be a good idea to drink a LOT of rum:


only thing is.. i had a little too much. hey, what better way to break in my new condo then by throwing up there? at least i made it outside. and i don't mean to be gross, but coconut rum doesn't taste all that bad the second time around.

then saturday we headed to asheville to see b's friend, ms baranski. she was showing her senior project for UNCA, which was a photography showing in the library. it was really cool. i'd never been to asheville before. very cute town. it's like a BIG boone. with more hippies. i still like boone better though.

and then it was 5 oclock and we didn't have anything to do the rest of the night..
well.. we're in asheville.. we've got all night.. b's got a lot of money to blow from his tax refund... .hey!! let's go to cherokee and go gambling!!
yea!!
so we ended up in cherokee. i only spent $16.00 since i took out 60 bucks but won back $44. i'm timid when it comes to gambling. especially since it's all slot machines and video poker. B, however, is not shy. he spent $200. but he won back $100:

yep, that's triple sevens.
lucky bastard.

well anywho we got home to hickory around 2 am. b had to be up at 8 to drive to durham to be at work at 11. sucks for him. but we had a great time. i miss him.

then sunday, i did nothing.. oh.. except go on a "date" with louis aka rick moranis. yikes. i hate to be cynical, but i'm starting to doubt my skillz. maybe it's because he was from morganton.. hehe. but not every boy from morganton is a dork.
*sigh* glad that's over.
man, i'm ready to go back to sleep.

countdown to my bday: 20 days
countdown to POTC2: 88 days
countdown to esplosion: about 2 hours.

take me out to the memories...

wow i had an awesome time at the game last night. sure, we lost. and sure, the beer was funk nasty. but that didn't change a thing!! a good time was had by all. the hooters girls were there, to keep the boys from getting bored. and me and katie and andrea were there to keep each other occupied. i got a free tshirt!! i saw plenty of mullets and even got a picture of one!! i saw a saturn sky for the first time in person!! they even drove it around the field. it was so beautiful! i can't wait to get one!
but the best part about the whole night was the fireworks. anyone that really knows me knows i LOVE fireworks. they are the reason why the 4th of july is one of my favorite holidays. nothing makes me happier than staring at the sky and seeing bursts of light in beautiful patterns dotted all over. i know it's cheesy but i get all misty eyed watching fireworks. the best fireworks i ever saw were at disney world.
but the best fireworks i ever sat through were on july 4th 2000. yep, i got nostalgic last night thinking about a boy. THE boy, to be more specific. that fourth of july was wonderful. he was a volunteer firefighter, so he had to be at the fireworks show at the Piedmont Bollweevil's (now Kannapolis Intimidator's) Stadium. That means he brought me along. we sat up on top of his truck and watched the whole show from the roof. it had rained earlier, so there weren't many people there. honestly i don't even remember if the fireworks were great in the sky, but sitting on his truck leaning into his arms was the best fireworks i've ever had. again, i know that sounds incredibly cheesy, but i really did love that boy. and damnit, being at another baseball stadium watching fireworks really made me remember that moment. *sigh*.

anyways.. here are all the pictures from the game.

well

well i heard that mandisa is a gay basher. if that's true, than i'm glad she went home. if it's not true, then something is seriously messed up. how the hell was elliot in the bottom 2? i need to get off my lazy ass and vote next week i guess. but not for ace. i've given up on him. he's pretty but he's no american idol. and i'm still perplexed as to how bucky is still in it..

and kellie. she's just.. annoyingly fake. that's what i think.

ha.

in other news i got my dishwasher fixed today AND i found out that i have a working garbage disposal!!

Baseball tonight!! 1 dollar beers!! pretty boys to look at!! does it get ANY better? i don't think so.
:)

ai

last night's american idol was INFINITELy better than last week's 90's mess. i am not a country music fan and i didn't know half the songs, but they were still WAY better than last week. ace did better, but still not great. everyone impressed me really, but again, Elliot impressed me the most. if my phone had not died, i would have voted for him.

chris was okay.. but not great. taylor was blah. kellie was kellie. katharine was interesting.. paris was good. mandisa was good. bucky was bucky.. ok i missed bucky because i forgot and had it on another channel. he really is that boring. did i miss anyone?

ah well.

and my brand new dishwasher at the condo isn't draining.. something es no bueno. i gotta call the people today!

holy crap.

coolest dog ever.
and it's not even a pug.

it's going to be a good week.

how do i know?

-last night i went to get rid of the wasps that have nested in my back patio, and they were all gone, making the nest real easy to get rid of.

-last night the florida gators won their basketball game, and i was the only one out of 67 people that picked them to win, so i won $153.00. i don't even like basketball, i just picked florida because that's where i'm from. :)

-last night B called and said instead of me driving out there this weekend and risk hurting my toesy, he's going to come out here friday night!! yay!!

could my week BE any better?

oh yea, i've also got a date for sunday night. but this is not so much good as scarey..

wallpaper

man i'm tirrrred. friday was awesome, since i finally closed on my condo!!! it's all mine!!! i'm a homeowner now. my. own. place. i will be moving in within a couple of weeks. all my peeps with trucks are going to *LOVE* me after this :). so far i have spent approximately $600.00 on stuff for the pad, not including paint. paint will come later. first i have to tear down oodles of ugly wallpaper. and let me just say, there are OODles. it took 5 people all day saturday to get 3/4 of the way done with one room. one room. but me and sam went back on sunday and finished it up in a couple of hours. we figured out the easiest way to do it. i won't bore you with the details though.
i still have to unpaper my bedroom, the bathrooms and the kitchen. i think i will definitely wait on the bathrooms and kitchen though. they will be a pain!

and just in case you wanted to know how much fun we had:

sam, about to stab me with the scraper because he has been forced to do this shit.
thanks sam.. and also brian the dj/cook, and carmen and sattercrunk.



good times.


today i am not allowed to use my cell phone. according to rutless i am not allowed to use my cell phone until 7 pm. if you know my digits you should call and listen the recording i left.
hehehe. i am having a fun day so far. i'm tired.

guess what!!

as of today at 5 pm, i am officially a homeowner!!!

i got bored and played around with this picture of satterfield. you like?

american idol

last night no one impressed me. elliot and paris and kathryn were okay. but nobody made me want to vote. so i didn't. oh, and what the HELL was kathryn wearing? ew.

but the worst part of the whole night was chris. sorry. but i fucking HATE creed so much that i wanted to rip off my ears while he was singing. it would have still been a bad performance compared to usual even if he hadn't sang creed.

drops of jupiter has always been one of my favorite songs and ace butchered it. at least that scar is hot.

i predict lisa will be the one to go home tonight. we'll see.

can you tell it left a bad taste in my mouth?

rubyjester2

rubyjester2
Originally uploaded by campheatwole.

CUTEST. PUG. EVER.

random weekend stuff

here's a few random things i did over the weekend...

*ate yummy jamaican food at the jamaican me crazy restaurant with daniel, katie, and daniel's mom. she's cool. oh, and i'm well aware that the name of the place is actually "island style restaurant", but "jamaican me crazy" sounds way cooler.

*went to an Arbonne skincare party. i'm just not as girly as i should be sometimes. they are really nice products. wish i had a rich husband. and i learned that mineral oil is terrible for your skin.

*went to Walgreen's in hickory for my Rutless.com assignment. Feminine products are fun when made fun of. i'm a little concerned that seth, who assigned me this one, will also be assigning my next task.

*played asshole for the first time since college with three random college student friends of Ace the Corvetter. (I just gave my friend Ace this nickname, so as not to be confused with Ace Young, the American Idol) had fun getting drunk.. and then getting sick :P for the first time in a year.

*almost lost my fourth little piggy to gauze. rewrapped my toe friday night while drunk. this task involves wrapping my pinky toe (which is kind of a dead limb right now) and my fourth little piggy together. i wrapped it a little too tight and woke up with my foot pounding... that shit hurts. had to loosen it up before i could feel my foot again.

*did NOT go out with the two people who i was really looking forward to going out with who i hadn't seen in a LONG time who had promised to come see me this weekend :( chris and elisabeth couldn't make it. :( they're still invited to my party.

*went to O'Charlie's saturday night to party a little with some brushers. while there, i saw Asshole Adrian blatantly going home with a little slutbag whore that just started. this wouldn't be a problem, but for the past month he has been commited to my good friend lindsey. i'm going to get my paycheck from the brush tonight where i will be sure to tell her about this. she'll probably jump on me for being a gossip hound. but she needs to know.

*talked to ex beau adam for an hour. :)

blah

countdown to POTC 2 : 102 days
countdown to birthday party: 33 days
countdown to homeownership: 4 days

love from 3000 miles away

"Dearest Allison Joy,

thank you for reaching out to me. yes i am alive and my phone my phone is down. ive chosen a job here that pays less than mcdonalds. the recieving job for all the books is really easy but it pays less than i was making in boone. i went from 13.5o on my friend's couch to 7.25 in the new house. soooooooo i have had to make some changes. i stopped smoking. for a while. ill smoke again but it wont be the same. something has changed. i miss you a lot. sometimes i see my ex and she tells me i should get back together with you. she doesnt know a thing about you but my friends do. and they say so too. do you think that maybe some day you may want to come out here to americas riskiest experiment? you know now that you are a real estate mogul and all, or do you live in florida with your new boyfriend, what's floridiot? well i gotta go i just e-mailed my dad for 4 hours. no editing either, very good e-mail for me. i don't know if its gonna go right by him or if he'll get it. i think he will. i may forward them to you seee what you think. no editing. 1st thought best thought. let me know. i miss our connection. it did hurt talking to you though, but its good. i miss you. i need to sleep. i'll dream of us. snow, the way you smelled, the way you woke up. my mom's house.
im sleeping. all my love for you
Sean "


shit.

"look at that pickle"

can i just say, kellie pickler is Adorable! last night she was just ravishing singing patsy cline. i kinda hope she wins. i'm now officially addicted to this season's American idol.
i saw every performance last night... except chris's. damn it. and i heard it was really good. but i was on my way from sagebrush (eating) to carmen's. damn it. that sucks. here's my analysis of everyone:

mandisa: wonderful.

bucky: how the HELL did he get this far.. and did they fix some of his teeth?? i know i'm not imagining things.. i mean, they aren't all fixed but i KNOW his front teeth weren't that straight before. it's an american idol conspiracy.

lisa: BORING. not as good as she used to be. she may be going home tonight.

paris: pretty good. loved the dress.

kevin: the best i've ever seen him perform. but i still don't like him. eat a frickin hamburger!!! gah!!

taylor: i still don't see what the appeal is with him. if he makes it to the top 5 i will seriously ponder the sanity of the country.

kathryn: AWESOME. she is such a great singer. the best in the competition as far as i'm concerned, and her personality is finally coming out here.

kellie: so cute! i'm starting to really like her. i'd vote for her too, but i like boys more :)

elliot: not his best, but i still like him for some reason.

chris: the highlight at the end that i saw was pretty damn good. wish i could have caught the whole thing.

ace: . hmm. i was intensely disappointed in his performance.. yet again. the falsetto at the end was good... but that can't win the competition. they finally did something with his hair, but a hairband would have been better. don't get me wrong, i still voted for him.. but geez, pick a better song next week, damn!!


well anywho. that's my peanut for the day. :P


oh and:


on sunday night i ran over my right foot with one of my crutches. it hurt. i jokingly said to andrea "i think i just broke my toe!!"
today as i was getting ready to bathe (which is fun trying not to get left foot wet, by the way) i noticed this bruise. yay. one surgically enhanced left pinky toe, one broken right middle toe resulting from surgically enhanced left pinky toe. :)

oot and aboot

hehehe aboot.
well folks, i made it alive. my toe surgery went pretty smoothly. they gave me two valiums to start out with, so i was feeling no pain in the Operating Room, although i could feel them scraping my bone. that is a WEIRD feeling.. *shudder***


anywhoo. then i was on crutches all weekend.. at least while i was awake. mostly i spent all weekend asleep. my mommy took care of me.. while i was there we also celebrated my niece madelyn's 2nd birthday. i'm getting old!! my youngest niece is 2 already!! i need to pop one out soon if he is to be close with his cousins.. or.. nah.. i really don't think so.



anywho. no plans for this week other than sleeping a lot. chris and elisabeth, my homies from days of boone, may be coming to visit me friday! we'll see!!

and after having not spoken to each other for about a month, i got a random friendly message from dustin.. hmm..

oh and sunday night i talked to the ex for about an hour on the phone!! he said he was sorry he didn't get to see me this weekend.. well what he actually said was "i would have liked to have seen ya darn it". :) *sigh*

top o the mornin to ye

happy st. patrick's day yall.
i'm having my toe cut open :(

rutless

a few more things. first, i'd like to say, i'm sooooooooooo happy because wednesday night will be my last at the brush for at least a MONTH. but i promised them i'd come back, at least for a little while, because they're giving me a nice microwave. so maybe i'll work there again one day...

i played poker saturday night and actually WON! believe it or not! then last night (sunday) at the brush i made 80 dollars! i had to work my ass off, but i did it!

lastly, i'm joining Rutless.com, for stephen, my coworker. i can't explain what it is, you just have to read it for yourself. start at the bottom and read up. i'm going to really really try to keep up with this for stephen. he seems to really want me to be a part of it, so i don't want to let down a friend. plus, i'll be the only girl (just like at work) which make me feel special! like kerri kenney! if you don't know who that is, click here and learn why i am the way i am.

woohoo!

as soon as i wake up, today will be a good day..

Thank God

ace of hearts

hehehe i'm so girlie.. but seriously that ace guy made me SWOON last night. swoon. i was literally thinking of licking the tv screen.. but it was carmen's tv, and satterfield and brian the dj/cook walked in as i was just about to move closer. i did pronounce my undying love for him. sure, he doesn't have the best voice on the show, but he still has a great voice. plus, when you look like that, and you have a decent voice, you're gonna get all the punani you can handle. i mean LOOK:


hello, i'm panting here.

you know how i love those buttchins. he was asked which previous idol contestant he most identified with. his answer? Constantine :). i don't care what anyone says i loved constantine. and i maintain that bo bice is a caveman. there.

and chris was good last night too. not as good as the week before, but good. bucky looks rough. the scarey thing is that there are two of them. his twin has even worse teeth than him... *shudder*

the guy that can't hear, he's not pretty, but he has a really nice voice. i think i may actually pull for him on the off chance that ace and chris are taken out (which won't happen). ok ok enough american idol talk.



last night i went to buffalo wild wings with carmen and we had a LOT of fun. we ran into our old neighbor, crazy dave, and we sang karaoke. i sang "sweet child o' mine". carmen sang "what i got". i was awful. although, i did do my patented axl dance, so i had fun. and some nasty old man said i was pretty. gee thanks. but crazy dave was fun. he was so sloshed, i bet he won't even remember seeing us. we used to fear him.. living next door to him was like living next door to a time bomb. but he was cool last night, again, cause he was sloshed. i think he may have even been drunkenly flirting with me. too bad he's such a nutjob.

pickle

my subject lines never make much sense, do they?

i had a great time in florida, but there is just WAY too much to blog about. elora is beautiful but an intense brat. but after having spent a week with her at her worst, and not bursting into tears at any point (unlike the time i babysat her as a 2 year old), i think i can handle a kid pretty well. my patience didn't really run out on her at all. if anything, i was sad because she can be really mean when she wants to be. a 5 year old that can make you feel bad about yourself is just dangerous. i will make a good mom one day. but not anytime soon, sorry mom.

oh and seeing my grandpa was actually really good. he wasn't near as bad as everyone said he would be. apparently some new medicine he's taking is really helping him out. i mean sure he was a lot slower and quieter and sadder than i remember him, but he seemed to know who we were the whole time we were around. so that's good. that's the best way i could have hoped for possibly the last time i get to see him.

that's enough about the vaca. here are the pictures.


the house stuff is going great right now. the home inspector found a few things wrong with it. most were minor things like doors that wouldn't latch, but there were two big things. first, the dishwasher was rusty and wouldn't drain. also, the upstairs bathroom used to have a leaky tub (which has since been replaced) and the floor has a weak spot from the water seapage. these are bad. but i found out monday that the owner has agreed to fix EVERYTHING, including putting in a new dishwasher. that's so awesome.

my step dad doesn't seem to think that the pugs will be mating anytime soon, so it looks like it'll be a while before i get a puppy. so, katie, i'm thinking when i move in, i will maybe be cool and adopt a kitty from the shelter. yea, i know i could just take lucifer, my kitty at my mom's house, but i wouldn't want to seperate him from his fellow feline friends. plus, at 10 years old, he still occasionally pees in the house. but then again, he also somehow taught himself to pee in the toilet...

anywho that's what's up. no new guy news. i don't talk to dustin anymore, it's just easier that way. i saw ryan (the last blind date) at the gym the other night and talked to him. and i haven't really talked to the ex other than the occasional myspace message.

tonight: american idol boys. i think ace is beautiful, but maybe he doesn't have a great enough voice to get him all the way. i'm starting to lean towards chris. partly because he's from NC, and partly because he's just so darn cool. i mean, marrying a woman and adopting her kids before you're even 30 and loving them like your own? that's just sweet. plus, he has a cool voice.

ah well.