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.