My first Cheers and Jeers!!! (here)

I think it's finally time for some CHEERS AND JEERS!!!
For those of you new to Taylor's world of blogging allow me to bring you up to speed... every week or so I make a list of recent cheers and jeers, often crowning a cheers of the week and jeers of the week, followed with runners up.

Now... on with the show!

WINNERS!
Cheers of the week goes to.... BEN! Without Ben there is no way my party would have come together the way it did. From decorating to running to WalMart to just helping with... everything!! I appreciate it SO much!!

Jeers of the week goes to... THE PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY WERE COMING AND DIDN'T COME!! I was really disappointed in the people who backed out at the last second including the one I talked to just a few hours before the party started and said they were coming... lame

RUNNERS UP!
Cheers to all who came to the party. I had a great time and it seemed like everyone else did too!
Cheers to my food... it was pretty rockin'
Jeers to my roommates for being complete ass wipes in general
Cheers to rainy weather that made me feel not guilty about coming home from work and crawling right into bed.
Jeers to the lady who set her dog on fire after tieing him up... there is no excuse or explaination for that type of cruelty.
Jeers to the BoSox for losing it last night.
Cheers and Jeers to whoever brought Krispy Kremes to work this morning. It tasted great, but made me feel mucho guilty.
Cheers to seeing my family in just a little over a month.
Jeers to being too poor to see them more often.

Well, that's this week's version. Look for me next week, same bat time, same bat place!

mmmmwha!

I throw one hell of a party

So last night was my awesome Halloween party. Despite the fact that SEVERAL people who said they were going to come (not "oh I might show up" a full on "yeah I'll be there") didn't, those who were there had a good time. There was a brief moment pre-party when I started acting crazy like my mother throwing a party, but I stopped it, thank god because that's one part of my mother I don't need to inherit. She gets so stressed out about her party that she can't calm down and actually enjoy the party once it starts.

I had all the food/cooking finished before noon and then just had everything else to do, including carving my jacko-kitty

I of course got all sorts of cool lighting equipment to make my house look awesome.

I also had a strobe and blacklight in the landing between the first floor and the basement. I also had a smoke machine which first tripped the breaker and then set off all the smoke alarms in the house despite having taken the batteries out of them....

My house looked so awesome, even from the outside, that we had kids coming to the door to look inside. Ben let some in to look around, but when a little girl came to my front door with a ZIPLOCK BAGGIE and said "trick or treat" I had to put the cabash on that shit. I told her the grownups were having a party, this is not trick or treat night. I'm sorry, but when I'm drinking beers, the last thing I want is little kids running around my house thinking they can get some free candy outta me.

We really did have a good time. Ben helped me set up all day (I don't know what I would have done if he wasn't there!!) Courtney and Matt were the first to arrive and then Steph came after she got off work. Susan and Keith finished out the group a little later. It wasn't a big party, but it was fun and I made some great food. The cupcakes were a HUGE hit and Courtney couldn't stop eating the pretzle hershey kiss things I made! (I finished them off this morning for breakfast). Thanks to everyone for coming and having a good time.

Costume breakdown (becuase, duh, it's a Halloween party!)
I was an 80's glam cat complete with fingerless gloves, leg warmers, and ginormous hair.
Ben was the ice cream man that you wouldn't let your kids get ice cream from!
Courtney and Matt were Peter and Louis Griffin from Family Guy
Steph was... someone who just got off work from the post office
Susan and Keith were a 1920's Flapper/Gangster couple (very hot)

Well, here are some more pictures, but I need to get ready to head to the bar to watch game 7 of the Red Sox/Tampa Bay series since TBS doesn't come in with bunny ears. Until next time... GO SOX!!!

SPIDER CAT, SPIDER CAT.....

And another one bites the dust hey hey...

So that's 9 employees that have quit OS in the 9 months I've been there. Averaging one a month, way to go! Shouldn't someone, somewhere, in upper-management land be asking some questions?? Like, why are people who have been there for 20+ years leaving all of a sudden?? Why does a company of just 18 employees turn over completely in just over a year? I know that answer!!! Geez, seriously, why isn't anyone curious or puzzled by why we keep bringing in new employees but our business isn't growing?? Who knows, Maybe that person quit too....

Riddle me this... my computer automatically spell checks everything I type no matter where I type it which is pretty cool. However, when I write in this blog it suddenly doesn't understand contractions... If I'm in a word document or an email, it doesn't yell about contractions at all... strange things are happening.

So it's official... well, several things:

~The RED SOX are going to the division finals~

~I'm registered to vote in Colorado~

~I have a COLORADO license now! (my first one outside of PA)~

~Free pitchers of beer aren't always the blessing they seem~

~Mashed potatoes from the KFC are always good, no matter what~

Hockey season officially starts this week!! Horray!! I'm pretty sure I'm going to get to go to the Av's opener but it's not official yet. Pre-season basketball starts this week so I'm pretty amped at seeing Rocky (the Nugget's mascot) back for more fun filled antics! Oh yeah, and the basketball game or whatever...


I was talking to my mom and dad tonight and was bitching about my job. I think mom finally gets it that it's not just me that hates it there once I told her my boss just quit. Mom says "why don't you just quit?" Don't get me wrong, I love my mom to death, but she doesn't quite understand what it's like now a days only making 18k a year... It doesn't seem to go very far after rent, car, gas, groceries... you know, the things you need on a daily basis. I told her that wouldn't be a very smart idea, she agreed but encouraged me to keep looking... don't worry Ma, I'm looking every single day... every fucking day. It's like a bad habit.

Hey, maybe now that I'm back to blogging I'll bring back weekly cheers and jeers... that'll be fun!! Maybe next time... I'm due for some much needed sleep!

Until next time my friends...