HELLO!... LO...Lo...Lo...lo...lo........

Yes!! I am here!! I know it's been a while since I blogged but with the holidays and new years... give a girl a break! Let's break it down and get dirty!

Work update:
My direct boss quit, like 3 months ago. However, they threw some money (i assume) at him and he agreed to stay through the holidays until an indefinite time. Yesterday he came in and said that it was his last day... well, in his defense, the holidays ARE over... They named Sir Cranky as the new Production manager leaving Giggles to fend for herself in the Rental department... wow. I'm sure firing me is next in line. I hope to make it to my one year mark there which will occur in just less than 3 week's time. For those of you who know me, I'm a bit of a job jumper. I've had more jobs than I can remember but you know, I'm always trying to do better!! (Look where that's put me now...)

Friends:
Well, I still have some so that's a start. McMean and I have been been keeping up on things as uaual and I got to talk to one of my dear dear ship friends, Wendy last night for over an hour... that made my day. I went over to Steph's last night to hang out since my SHITTY ROOMMATES had ANOTHER kegger. Thanks for letting me know at 10am boys... way to plan ahead. What ass holes. I've been here 6 months, 3 more to go. If I could break my lease you can bet your sweet ass I would be outta here so fast it would make their druggy brains spin... what's left of them. I walked in this morning at 10:30ish and there was apparently a drunk people obstacle course set up. Couch pillows, shoes, clothing, cups, bags, plates, a table(?!?!) stewn around the room such that it would be fun to watch drunk people try to get to a seat. Not so fun when I come in the front door sober. Oh and a note to the 4 people passed out in the living room... I am SO not sorry I woke your drunk asses up as I came in... Who's house?? Kitty's house!

wow... that section wasn't really all about friends was it...? Oh well!

New Year's:
So I know that this is the one you guys want to hear about... Well went down to Susan and Keith's to pregame. It was a lot of fun and Jasmine was there so it was nice to see her again too. Another one of Susan's friends came with her boyfriend who, swear to god, looks just like Montel Williams. After drinking pretty much everything in their house we jumped on the light rail and headed down town. Ben and I went to meet up with Sarah and her brother at Scruffy Murphy's and rang in the new year there. Might I say, I am fully convinced now that Dick Clark will never die... why you may ask. Not becuase he hasn't died yet, and not becuase it looks like he hasn't aged since the stone age, NO... did anyone else notice that Dick Clark TOTALLY looked like a vampire on TV this year??? Fangs and all! I even tried to photograph the tv and it didn't come out!! Total Vampire move there Dick Clark...
After that we went over to regroup with Susan et all. After waiting in the potty line for about 20 minutes (which included watching Susan almost get into a fight with some hos who were also in line) we continued to drink our fair share of alchohol. Last call comes and we decide to hit up Lure for a last minute drink since Ben knows all the bartenders there. This is where the night gets a liiiiiitttttle fuzzy. That last drink knocked us both on our asses. I remember peeing in the small tree grove on SPEER(!!!) and that's the last thing I remember. At some point we got a cab got home and went to bed. Odd thing though... obviously I took my dress off... but in the morning it was still zippered, the bow around it was still tied, and it was right side out... how did I get it off?? No clue. Ahhh, the mysteries of the world.

Rose Bowl:
Don't even get me fucking started.

I hope everyone had a great new year's, I know I did. I didn't fall, puke, or die. All in all... that's a good score by me.

Until next time everyone... here's a video of a deaf retarded cat...




Yes, she really is deaf and really is retarded... she belongs to my parents and her name is Tink. My dad named her, don't you judge me!

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.....

You know what that sound is??

It's your future... and it's empty....

That's how I feel today, well, I guess it's leftover from yesterday. While I sit in my bedroom listening to my roommates play Halo as loud as possible, I am reminded that my life, as it stands now, is completely and utterly pathetic. Not only am I not going anywhere (figuratively speaking) I'm not respected by anyone. Not anyone. Not my boss, not my coworkers, not my friends or family. I am a receptionist. I spent thousands of dollars and 5 years of my life to earn 2 degrees for what? To answer phones and sell people lamps and gel in a warehouse office. Lame lame lame lame lame. The only enviable part of my life is that I get free tickets to major sporting events through work. Yeah, but is it worth it? Is my life so awful that I have to supplement it by going to as many free events as possible?? Yup, sure is.

I'm so frustrated lately with the people around me. Here's a list of things I wish, based off of my recent bad experiences with the human race:
I wish:
~people would take responsibility for their mistakes
~those same people would take moves to correct the mistakes
~managers would talk to their employees about issues, not to other people. This isn't fucking high school
~people would clean up after themselves, ask when they want to use other people's things, and put them back where they got them.
~that people would RESPECT other people's point of view not belittle or corner them because of it.
~people were seen for the ass kissing liars they are.

If you are reading this, you probably don't have anything to do with any of these. Most of this refers to work or roommates.

My roommates threw a kegger last night and trust me when I say I didn't want to have anything to do with that. I stayed at Steph's and we drank some wine, watched a movie and just chilled out. I was in heaven in a quite house with a comfy bed to sleep in, knowing I wasn't going to have to deal with roommates or loud music or any of the other bull shit that comes with going home. Thanks Steph!! You're a lifesaver.

I DID get to go to the Av's home opener on Thursday night. It was awesome!! Even though they lost it was still a great game. We really thought it was going to go into overtime but alas it did not and we went home losers. I bought an awesome jersey that was on sale and I wore it all night! Maybe I'll have the chance to get some players to sign it this season or something.

I went to JoAnn Fabrics today to try and find some shit to make my Halloween costume. I guess I don't know what I want to be yet. I pretty much just wondered around for an hour and a half. I bought a few patterns I liked (they were on sale for .99!) so I have some options. I did buy some yarn to knit a new scarf. I like knitting, it'll keep my busy when the weather is shitty, like it is this weekend.

Being broke sucks.
Hating your job sucks.
Feeling stuck sucks.
My roommates suck.


PS- I'm having a Halloween party next Saturday night so if you are around, come on over!

Back to blogging...

So Amy has a blog now outside of Myspace. I had a xanga back in the day, then she got one which we both stopped using. Then Amy started blogging on myspace, but I didn't like doing that so I didn't. Well now she got a real blog so now I need to jump on this bandwagon... I mean really, Amy is so cool, how could I NOT copy her every move?? I love you, please don't hurt me...

I'm kinda hung over today, about to take a nap actually. Steph and I went to the last pre-season Av's game last night. They lost a horrible loss to the Blackhawks 3-7 but it was fun and there were 2 really good fights. Let's face it, the only reason anyone watches hockey is for the fights. After the game Steph had to go home because she had to work in the morning, but I, being the night owl that I am, and being that it was only 9:30pm went to Old Chicago's for some beers. I had a good time hanging out with the other Old C crew who I am getting to know since I tend to frequent the Grant St. location pretty often. Had 3 beers, watched the end of the BoSox game and then went to head home. Let me tell ya, those 3 beers must have been magic becuase I NEVER feel drunk after just 3 beers but let me just say I probably shouldn't have driven home last night. Oh well, noone got hurt (except my liver) and all is well.

Got up and went to the bike aution this morning with Ben. It was pretty fun and Ben bought 2 bikes. I wanted this cool black and pink bike with flames but it sold for over $200.... I can't even pay my bills, and a $200 bike wasn't going to fix that so off it went to someone else.

Alright, well here's to keeping the blog spirit going! Chao!