Chaellyboo 3.0

Well I think I took a long enough hiatus. Alot has been happening in my life...some may not be all that interesting, but it's still news in my life. Unfortunately when I get down to blogging about it, I can't translate it to the keyboard. I swear I come to blogger.com 3 maybe 4 times a week with every damn intention to blog, and I end up turning right back around and indulging in other dirty pleasures (ie. Pink is the New Blog).

Everytime I've tried then failed at this blog thing, I seriously contemplated deleting the whole fucking thing. The only thing was that I couldn't do it. I'm emotionally attached to this thing. It's been something that I've been able to be consistant with (minus the last 2 months...)and I can't say that about alot in my life.

So I'm giving it another go for it. I figure I have my work, my dog, the fact that I'm mad most of the time, and all the other shit in my life to keep this blog full of new and interesting posts. I'm hoping for more pictures and some more pazazz in my writing. I also fully understand that I'm gonna have to make the blog community rounds again...as I've had serious issues with doing that as well. Please don't think I've forgotten about you guys. You're always my favorites!

Where the hell you been

What the fuck Michaela? Where have you been? Well I've been busy! Well not really... I do work alot, so that will be my excuse. I doubt that anyone has taken notice of my 2 month leave of absence, which I'm totally okay with. Nothing alittle voodoo can't fix.

So I'm at a friends house right now, so I can't really concentrate and make a real post, but I'm gonna leave you with some tips from a professional:

Watch: Thank You For Smoking

~This is my new favorite movie. Aaron Eckhart is just awesome in it. The first five minutes are what hooked me, but I guarentee it is a good one.

Read: Little Beauties

~ I acutally haven't finished it, but I love the concept. A woman with OCD, a pregnant teenager swearing to give her unborn child up for adoption, and the teenagers unborn fetus all narrate the book.

Listen: The mixed CD I just made!
1. The Only One by Evanescence
2. Nowhere Warm by Kate Havnevik
3. All I need by Mat Kearney
4. Quicksand by Sleeping at Last
5. Walking With A Ghost by Tegan and Sarah
6. Thrown It All Away by Brandi Carlile
7. Lullaby by Dixie Chicks
8. Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol
9. Everything Changes by Staind

I'll make a real post soon!

9-11 and more

I feel like I have nothing to blog about lately. My mind is not retaining anything that happens in my life. My life hasn't been boring or nonexistant, it's just that I'm having serious issues with trying to recall anything. For the most part I have just been working and hanging out with friends. One thing I do want to mention is...

This week does mark the 5th year anniversary of Sept. 11. It is a day that I will always remember where I was, what I was doing, and how I was feeling. When I was younger I remember talking to my mom about how I had learned about the assassination of JFK in school and her recalling where she was when that happened. It always boggeled my mind that 30 some years later and she still remembers what she was wearing when that happened. She always told me that something was bound to happen in my lifetime that would linger in the dark corners of my memory until the day I passed. For me it is 9-11. I was in 10th grade that year. I was in my 2nd period English class being taught by my favorite teacher, Mrs. Kelly. I was in the middle row 3rd desk back when a teacher from across the hall ran into our room and without any hesitation turned on our t.v.. I was so distracted by the building on the screen that was up in flames that I didn't bother to read the scrolling information at the bottom of the screen. My initial reaction was that the building in downtown Omaha was up in flames. And the moment I saw the second plane crash into the second building, I realized that this was not in Omaha, and that this was no ordinary, run of the mill fire. I felt a chill down my spine when I realized that someone did it intentionally. Over 3000 people perished on that one single day.

I will never forget that day. ever.
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I'm happy to announce that I'm finally doing more with my social life. I even let loose and saw a movie at the Old Dundee Theatre...We saw Little Miss Sunshine, and holy boats it was good! Definately something I would recommend. I also finally watched the first Lord Of The Rings. It took several nights to watch the whole thing, only because I watched it at night while in bed, and I kept falling asleep. The thing with me and my bed is when we come into contact, the bed always wins. It doesn't even have to sweet talk me, or lure me in with cheap chocolate, I'm always out in 13-14 minutes no matter how many energy drinks I consume. Anyways, I finished it on Wednesday and now I can barely wait to watch the second and third.

So I've been watching Project Runway like a dirty whore and I've decided that it is time to learn how to sew. It's something I've always been amazed by...the fact that you can take a yard of fabric and make it into something of use, is beyond amazing to me. I'd love to try and make myself a dress one of these days...so long as it doesn't come out looking like a moo-moo from the clearance rack at the local department store.

When I have to reference moo-moo's in my blog, I know that means I need to lose weight....I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'!

Do thoughts like these send people to hell?

I think there is someone at work fabricating information about his cancer....I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin!

Powerball brings out the crazies

I don’t think I’ve ever been so relieved to have had someone other than me win the $200 million jackpot. Don’t get me wrong, it would be amazing if I had been the winner, but holy fuck it sucks at work when it gets above $150 mil. People start to turn into savage beasts! Plus everyones supersticious ways become more and more evident. I have a regular that comes into the store and gets a quick pick lotto ticket. He checks it over and decides if he likes the “position” of the numbers then if everything is good for him, he’ll get another ticket, only this time with his choice of “position” for the numbers. All I ever want to say is, “just take a ticket and move along or I’ll position my foot up your ass!”.

Trying

I'm really trying to get back in the mind set to lose weight. I've just completely let myself go in the last year...or two. I've let it take a backseat to alot of things in my life, and the truth is that I'm happier when I have something so real and serious to focus on. Everything in my life is healthier when I'm in good health...or trying to get into good health. I'm a more organized person and most importantly I'm much more active.

I'm not one of those people that loves their body for what it is, I'm just not. I don't consider myself insecure, but that doesn't mean that I have to enjoy being fat. I feel like my whole personality suffers for my shame. So I'm gonna try to go back on my diet. I think I'm close enough to the right mindset to do it for real this time.

About 4 years ago I lost nearly 80 lbs. (granted I wasn't as heavy from the start as I am now) but it was probably the best feeling I've ever had. I felt like I had something to be proud of. I was active and felt good about myself. I want that back. When I try to picture my future, I never see it with me being extremely heavy. My diet blog is back up and running, and I hope I can keep it updated because I think that might help me stay motivated.

We'll see if this is the real deal or not!

Well last night was memorable...We had some company over for drinks and a barbecue and well it was crazy to say the least. For anyone that really knows me they know that I'm not a heavy drinker...I drink a beer or a margarita every now and then. So minus the 2002 New Years Eve champaigne incident and the sleep over that included beer, whiskey, tequila, and vodka...I think it is safe to say that I'm no lush. WELL, last night was a bit different. I didn't even think I drank all that much at first, but when you take into consideration that I slammed down 2 generous sized margaritas, then tried...TRIED to do a shot of vodka...it came right back up! Maybe alittle stayed down there, but not much. Then I had a wine cooler mixed with margarita...which was gross, but lovely to my tipsy taste buds. I tried to drink Red Bull and vodka but due to the earlier incident with vomit, it just wasn't meant to be! Then I had a mudslide, which I didn't even like, but they made me chug it...blahh

Anyways, I ended up jumping into the pool with all my clothes on...several times! I know at some point I started crying. And my friend Keegan might have seen me half naked...Good news is that I had fun and I don't have a hangover!

Angry no more

I hit a new low in my mood swings. I realized that I was finding off the wall reasons to be mad a people in my life. I would get pissed off for silly reasons all for the sake of being angry. Some days I feel like it's easier to be mad than to be happy. Being content and at peace was just too easy. When I'm angry I know that my brain is keeping busy and therefore keeps my mind off of other depressing thoughts. Is it bad to say that waking up every morning with a smile on my face and a twinkle in my heart is just too much effort most days? Is it strange that I've been told that my idle face (which is when I am at my most relaxed) is a frightful glare, that people don't dare mess with?

I'm happy to say that as of today I am not mad at anyone! Well I'm always alittle ticked off at Paris Hilton...Seriously! She hits a parked car and gets a tickle on the hand...I rear-end someone that slammed on their brakes at the worst time, and I get ticketed, my insurance goes up, my 1986 Mercury Piece Of Shit is all messed up and my mother has something to use against me for years to come... Fair? I think not!

Anywho....yes it is true, I'm not mad at any of the important people in my life, and it feels good. I feel like I can take a deep breath without wanting to scream expletives on the exhale. I must say that for a good couple of weeks I was even worried about myself. More in the sense of my state of mind and attitude. I was someone that you wanted to stay away from, mostly because you wouldn't put it past me to throw something dense and jagged in your general direction.


Michaela

I Can't Do It

It just hit me. I don't want to leave blogger! I love blogger. Blogger has always been good to me. I met some of my favorite bloggies on Blogger! Blogger I'm home for good!

Deer Lord!

Yes, I live in Nebraska. No, I don't live on a farm around lots of animals! I pride myself on the fact that I live in Omaha, a very suburbanized city that keeps getting bigger and bigger. I say this because last night my friend Keegan and I hit a deer! You always hear about it happening on the interstate, and we have signs posted on the sides of any roads that lay up against a large body of wooded acreage, but when it happens to you, the shock of it all is no less.

We were on our merry ole way down a street that gets quite a bit of traffic during the day time hours, though at night it's pretty deserted. Keegan and I had just been rockin' our tiny tushes out to Techno Friday on the local rock station, when we headed on to the road that inhabits possibly the worlds dumbest animal. So Keeg's and I are switching stations and giggling at one anothers failed attempt to boogie. When out of the corner of my right eye I see an animals head highlighted by headlights, and within 5 seconds of that moment we were both screaming. I give huge props to Keegan because he didn't swerve all that much. I have been told by many somewhat credible sources that if you ever 'find' yourself the victim of a brainless creature crossing the road, if at all possible DO NOT swerve to avoid hitting it. My first thought is the reason for this rule is because deer are apparently so dumb they kind of deserve to get hit, therefore kind of deserving to die…I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'! The true reason for it is so that you don't risk involving other cars for the sake of one deer.

Just so we're all clear, I'm fine, Keegan is fine, his car is…well, dented but otherwise okay. At the end of this big mishap we have an endearing (or endeering) story to tell for years to come…Or until we hit a talking/dancing/mind-reading cow while going 60mph, cuz then the deer story will be completely over-shadowed.

The Impossible

I did it! I made a wordpress blog. Well I really just transferred everything here over to there. One thing that's really bothering me is the fact that I cannot get the links to my buddies blogs on there. Anyone that has a a wordpress site please let me in on the big secret.

http://imichaela.wordpress.com/

I would love it if you all could stop by sometime and let me know what you think.

The Down Side

...to working evenings 6 days a week, is that I miss almost every single show that I enjoy. I say almost because I am able to watch Grey's Anatomy on Sundays, and looks like ABC is taking yet ANOTHER thing from my heart! DAMN YOU CORPORATE NETWORKS!! Yeah so if you haven't heard yet, they're planing to move it to Wednesday or Thursday...I can't remember which one they said, because at the time I was so overcome with emotion that I was getting sick to my stomach.

I think I'm ready to step this blog up a notch. I'm talking new title, new look, new writing ideas, maybe even a new address. We'll see how many of those ideas actually pan out. It just seems like lately this site has been a notepad only for my nonexistant personal life. I have creative ideas in my head, sure they're probably alittle dusty from sitting up there for so long, but creativity shouldn't have an expiration date on it.

Believe it or not, I'm growing up and I would really like this blog to grow with me. I think it has great potential from both a creative standpoint and a theraputic one. We'll see where I go from here.

Toodles

Who Doesn't Like An Old Fashioned Grill Out?

Tonight is gonna be A-mazing! My good friend Keegan is coming over for a grill out. Lydia will be here, her Marty might be coming, and a night of fun is promised. It'll be just like the good ole days. The only person that will be missing from this ordeal is my momma. She might have to work late late tonight...:(

I haven't had a bratwurst in ages!

I'm probably alittle too excited about this, but I don't CARE!!

20 is not much different than 19...

So I turned 20 on Sunday..Yay me! It was a nice calm day, not a whole lot going on. My sister got me a very very special gift...an iPod Shuffle and oh my sweet relish I'm in love with it! She got me a couple of other cute little things which were the cherries to top off the iPod. I told my mom not to get anything because we're really trying to conserve money right now, and if I had gotten anything I know that I would have constantly been thinking about which bills could have been paid in exchange for it.

To really make the day special, my dad called me and talked to me for a few minutes. He asked how life was and how the dog was doing. After a few minutes he said he had to go and that I should keep in touch with him...click! Not one mention of my birthday...AT ALL! It just figures that he would completely forget about my birthday. I still have not let him in on the big secret that was my birthday. I figure that when his birthday rolls around in July and he calls expecting presents...my gift to him will be a tour through the hall of shameful fathers that forget their childrens birthdays!

Not much else exciting going on around here. Just work and not a whole lot of play. As is usual in my extremely boring life...

Toodles!

You Can Do It

I helped out at another store tonight, and it was sooooo slow. The store is closing in a month due to poor sales and now I understand why. I feel sorry for the employees there, because they are shit out of luck. The company is not even offering other positions within the company...yet they feel that the staff should stay until d-day so that the company isn't stuck in a ruck. Now that is corporate bullshit at its best!

It's a funny thing not looking forward to the next day. I mean this not in a depressing way, even though it probably comes out that way. I just haven't been looking forward to the future lately. I've always daydreamed about where I see myself 10-15 years from now, and I always thought that those daydreams would transform into my goals, but lately I haven't dreamt about those "goals-in-training"... Maybe that's Gods way of telling me to stop daydreaming and start doing.

I need to find some friends...fast!

Well at least I'm not ill anymore

So I've been cured from the plague for about a week now and I'm living life up. It was really touch and go there for a while. I seriously thought that my stuffy nose was gonna be the death of me...

Did I ever mention that I'm a cry baby about being sick? Well that would actually be putting it lightly. My immune system is much like a bullet proof vest...Not much can get through that sucker! So you would understand a great deal when I admit that I get a little distraught over the pain of just a simple cold.

My older sister Lydia is graduating college tomorrow from Northwest Missouri State, and I couldn't be any more proud of her. She has worked her ass off to be there and I can't wait to watch her walk up there. She already got a job and everything! We butt heads every once in a while, but I love her very much and I take pride in the fact that she is MY sister.

Big changes are happening at the place of employement. My manager is leaving and one of my co-workers (who just happens to be her lesbian lover) is going with her. They've come to be great friends, and I don't want them to go because we have such a fun time at work that it almost doesn't feel like work. Plus the new manager is a real bitch and I don't want to be nice to her...But I will because unfortunately it's in my nature to give everyone a chance (it's one of my personal flaws).

I'll leave you with one fact: Strawberry Gatorade and cherry nibs go quite well together dispite what you may think about two polar opposite artificial flavors. Just something to keep in mind!

Peace

Stop Running!

That is how I feel about my damn nose! I'm sick as a dog today and I'm gonna be a big baby about it.

Everyone has something in common...

Since I've been working a ton of hours, I've picked up on something that I find to be really cool. One person comes in and buys a $1.29 pop with 2 $1 bills. I give them their change, and they're on their merry way. Then, the next customer in line, who doesn't know a darn thing about the customer that was just in front of them, buys 3 lottery tickets with a $5 bill. Their change is $2, so they end up getting the last customers money.

Sometimes when I'm having a bad or maybe just boring day at work, I get really into this, and I imagine where those 2 bills will be in a day, a week, or even a month. I'll keep doing it until I confuse myself to the point of insanity!

Then I start to wonder who has touched my money before? Has Tom Cruise ever come into contact with my dollar before? Or maybe a convicted felon doing 15 in San Quentin... All very very possible.

If only paper money could talk, huh?

Happy Easter

I hope everyone is having a great day. Spend time with family and eat more candy than your tummy can hold!

Things That I Swear Really Happened to Me at Work:

I finally got switched to the evenings and just as things are looking up for me, I get stuck with an old man that refuses to wear deodorant....and if I'm up to date with my foul odors, I'd say he doesn't bother to wipe his ass either!

I ran over a silver fork and it got lodged into my tire! In the employee parking area...When I told my coworkers about it, my former assistant manager says in response, "That's what happened to the fork I brought for my dinner last night!

I had to argue with a group of 12 year olds on why I wouldn't sell them a carton of eggs and a 6 pack of toilet paper...

A door to door mormon came in and told me I had a beautiful ora...my first thought was 'Yeah, well you ain't getting any of THIS ora!'

Spring-aling-ading!

Today is a day that I've been waiting for...A beautiful Spring day. Not too cold and not too hot/humid, just perfect. This past winter things were pretty rough in our household and there were many times that we regreted buying this house. But today is the kind of day that makes me rethink those kind of thoughts. It's a day where the tulips and trees are blossoming and the birds are making God-awful churping sounds that make your realize that Spring is here!

This is bound to piss me off!

When customers belittle me by literally throwing their money or credit card on to the counter as if to say "I want to pay but I don't want your blue collar coodies to rub off onto me".


Needless to say, today was interesting at work...

Kind of figured...

So I was just looking at my sisters myspace and was reading some of her recent posts. One was some sort of tag that people do. One section of it is list your 5 favorite things. Her's is: music, propel fitness water, my mother, my dog, and bed.

I'm not sure what is more disturbing, the fact that I didn't make the cut or that propel fitness water did and I didn't...

This is an unpleasant revelation

So yesterday my mom brought home a bag filled with new products that her store is going to start selling. Among the items was a new energy drink in a brown and silver can. I made a comment to her about how unappealing an energy drink with brown on the label was and she said that the whole energy drink revolution was disgusting! I knew she never liked the taste of the popular energy drinks on the market, but what she said to me last night had life altering consequences that will forever haunt me. She told me that one of the ingredients in some of them is something called taurin (sp?). Well does ANYONE know what that is? It comes from bulls testicals!!! This is breaking news in the life of Michaela! A very important fact that SHOULD be on the front of the can in bold letters so everyone is clear on the fact that they're sipping on bull testical juice! BLAGH!



On a completely different topic....Has everyone in the blogging community changed their templates? I really need to speed up with the times!

Peace out!

I'm alive...I think

It's been awhile, has it not?

I'm sorry for the extended leave, it's just that work got very overwhelming the last few weeks, and I've been pulling some hours there that have left me barely sane. Because of that I didn't really want there to be documented evidence of my crazy sleep-deprived thoughts...

But I'm back and hopefully completey restored to the good ole Michaela. I can barely wait to visit everyones blogs and see what the hell has been going on since my subatical from blogging. I've thought of all of you very often, but like I said, I rarely even checked my email in the last few weeks let alone surf my co-bloggers homes.

I'm getting my hair done today so I figure I might wait to make my full post after it's done so I can post a picture of the new me!!

Loves all over!!!

Go Foxy, It's Your Birthday...Not for Real Real, Just For Play Play!

My mother and I have gotten into a very strange ritual on Sunday mornings. I for one will not admit that we bond over it, soley on the grounds of incriminating myself. When I wake up in the morning, I walk into my mothers room to find her watching the Food Network, usually I walk in just when she's putting in her own critique of what the random chef is doing. We'll fix coffee and lay in her bed and watch TV for a few hours. And because it's my mother that has the loaded remote control in her right hand, we end up watching the Food Network for most of that time. There are 3 female chefs that make my blood boil, and they are; Paula Dean, Ina Garten (aka Barefoot Contessa) and Giada De Laurentiis (aka La blah blah blah blah). They have fairly interesting ideas for food, but it's their personalities that bug the crap out of me. So me and my mom spend about 2 hours mocking and joking everything they do!

I know, I know I'm pathetic, but there are few joys in my life, and this is one of them so leave me be!!

I worked a 10 hour shift yesterday and OMG am I sore. It really didn't hit me until like 9 hours into the shift that I was pulling a big load... Of course it's always the day that you're tired and in pain that you get the most interesting customers. Our gas station attracts alot of teenagers and by attracts I mean plays home to teenage loitering bastards! Now I'm pretty laid back when it comes to the rules, but the little fuckers are really asking for it when they are loud and littering and basically making my job harder. Also leave it to the rich snobby kids of West Omaha to deal illicit substances in the front of our parking lot. (That new pimped out Lexus sedan is mighty purdy, but it still doesn't make you invisible numb nuts!)

Whoa I'm grumpy today....lol

For your viewing pleasure!

Here I am working it to Beyonce's Check On It...I am truly a work of art!

And here we have a random shot of a colorful bench in Omaha

Have a happy Monday..cuz I know I won't!

Whoa

DAMMIT! I had a plan people! The plan was to blog more often and mingle more in the blogosphere...So much for that! The lack of motivation in me is quite amazing, if there were an olympic sport for it, I'd be all over that shit! Sadly, the olympics are reserved for interesting if not edge-of-your-seat sports...like Curling!

Let's not focus on all the bad (because I don't want to and it's my blog so BAHAHA!).

Most recently I noticed that Old Navy is selling green leprochaun (sp?) hats and decided that it was absolutely necessary to buy one and wear it on the carride home. It was great! Who knew Old Navy would support the Leprochauns?!?!?!

I'm gonna leave for now, but may post again later tonight...then again I might make my next post in 17 days...Who knows? I can no longer make promises. I'm bad!

Recruiting New Bloggers!

So it snowed here in Omaha for the first time in about 3 months. I guess I'd be a sonofabitch to complain about it since I do *technically* live in the midwest and we *technically* get all 4 seasons (ie. replace the word 'technically' with the word 'fucking' and we're good to go!). Not to mention Punxatony Phil saw his shadow, so I guess if all else failed, I should have figured the snow would come sooner or later. I don't really buy into that Groundhogs Day crap, because as one of my coworkers so brilliantly puts it...It's a small furry animal predicting the weather for 2 months, so I wouldn't worry about it!

Got paid yesterday...and to celebrate I went and paid 4 bills! Woohoo!

Crystal made a comment over on her blog of amazingness a few days ago that really struck a cord with me, only because I'd been secretly thinking similar things...What the F is up with blogger(s)? Is it just me...and Crystal apparently or are people not around as often? Not as much commenting, not as much posting (I am guilty of this crime), and just overall lonesomeness to the blogging community. Now I mention this knowing full well that I am equally to blame, I've gotten overwhelmed with work lately and with school starting I can't help but put sleep above blogging. Normal people can handle a 45 hour/week job and school and life...then there's me, who can barely handle driving, let alone anything else without the stress meter in my left pocket exploding.

Random Thought For a Snowy Omaha Day:

*On my way home from work late Wednesday I noticed after about two minutes into it that I was driving alongside the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile! It was crazy! I started screaming at the top of my lungs and a single tear (might) have pierced the surface of my face...I reached for my camera, but couldn't get it to turn on, nearly driving into a bus stop. I didn't get a picture of it, so you'll never know if that was a real story or a bunch of rubbish....hehehehe

Better Late Than Never

Okay so Beth tagged me a few days ago and I had completely forgotten about it until I noticed it over at Ms. Adventures... So here we go!

4 jobs i've had:
* A&W cashier
* Tuxedo rental shop
* Pier One product stocker
* Bridal Shop (for one whole friggin' day!)

4 places i've lived:
* Omaha, NE
* Omaha, NE
* Omaha, NE
*Omaha, NE

4 movies i could watch over and over:
* Zoolander
* garden state
* Dirty Dancing
* 10 Things I Hate About You

4 tv shows i watch (currently on air)
* lost
* Gilmore Girls
* Friends (DVD's BABY!)
* Law and Order (CI and/or SVU)

4 places i've been on vacation:
* South Dakota
* Kansas City
* Chicago, Il.
* Louisville, Ky

4 websites i visit daily:
* gmail.com
* dooce.com
* superficial.com
* blogger

4 of my favorite foods:
* veitnamese
* soup
*italian
* hamburgers

4 places i'd rather be right now:
* at a spa getting my feet rubbed
* shopping with an unlimited credit card
*sleeping
* NYC

4 bloggers i am tagging:
*Steph
*Lydia
*Fritz
*Crystal

No More Hiatus

With the exception of a few teeny tiny posts, I've been absent for a few weeks now. Most of it is because of the rediculous amount of hours I've been pulling at my job which causes me to want to spend the majority of my little free time with my mom. I am hoping that with the bump in the road at my job out of the way, I'll have alittle more free time to spend doing things that I really want to buckle down and concentrate on. Those things include school, exercise, and blogging (in NO particular order, of course)!

Since I've noticed that a few good bloggers have borrowed the 'what should be trademarked' Random Thought, I feel that it is only necessary to reprise my role and bring you more...

Random Thoughts for your Saturday afternooon.

~It is never good when you start refering to your post-accident vehicle not as a car with a dent on it, but rather a dent with a car on it.

~My mom purchased some Wolfgang Puck knives this week, and OH MY Goodness are they worth every penny she put on "stretch pay". I'm sure if I tried, they'd cut through pop cans...I'm also sure that if I tried that, my mom would try to cut thru one of my fingers.

~My father just recently purchased a computer and discovered the phenomenon that is 'emailing'. Along with it he's found his inner gangsta dialect...He now sends me emails where he leaves the last one or two letters off of random words.

~My dog is on the verge of growling 'Momma'. It's quite impressive!

Some cool pictures I took with my camera:

I rock the fruggle train....

I'm so amazing...I found shawls at Target for $2.30! I seriously think I'm in love with myself.

Missing

I'm not sure where I've been the last week or so. My body is just in a very blah state lately. Go figure I notice it only when I realize my lack of visits to my favorite blogs...Maybe I'm just exhausted. I don't feel like I have much humor or interesting tidbits inside my head lately. I'm fun and sassy at work and the very few times I socialize, but other than that, I'm just....blah.

So what IS going thru my noggin' lately?

Should I or shouldn't I buy Oscar more Iam's dog food after the headlines in the news about the poisoned bags of food that killed 37 dogs??

Exactly how many hours before I have to be back at work?

What have I not changed about my daily routine that is leading me back to feeling this way on certain days?

Long or short hair?

My tummy hurts!


Bye

Coming to a theatre near you...

Before I say good night, I thought I'd let you all end your Sunday night with this in mind about me. Tomorrow morning I get to have a camera shoved up my 'baby maker' (as coined by steph) to see if I have cyst's on my ovaries.... Sweet dreams!

Stylin' Times

Just so you know Crystal, this is MY sexy look...

My pirate name is:

Mad Dog Rackham

Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Random Thoughts

I had a man come into work a few weeks ago and buy extra large condoms and beer. His wife was 8 months pregnant...

My dog seriously has a ritual that he must do before every bite he takes of his food. It's strikingly similar to what I imagine an Indian campfire dance looks like.

My next door neighboor is your typical crazy cat lady. That said, she's a very lovely old lady.

If I was given a nickel for everytime I had a customer make a dumbass 'clever' (so they think) comment about me selling them the winning lottery ticket, I could laugh at them to their face...because I'd be the fucking millionaire!

I just remembered today that when I was little I loved the animated movie The Land Before Time. What a great movie, so sad and funny all in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Even though you can kind of guess how that whole thing goes down...I mean come on, it's kind of obvious, right?

I just witnessed the most amazing sale at Old Navy. I found printed tanks for $1.50, shawls for $2.50, and jeans for $19...I'm feeling very cocky about my bargain shopping skills right now.

I don't like the whole 'myspace.com' idea...If you ask me it's a popularity contest and that's enough shit right there to put me on medication.

My mom would have me knocked off by a professional if I dyed my hair any darker (by darker I bretty much mean black).

I'm considering dying my hair darker next time around.

Did you know that there is a website dedicated to fake facts about Chuck Noris? This is just fucking brilliant!

I'm getting sleepy

I must go have words with my pillows.

HAPPY 100th!!!!

This is my official 100th post on my blog! Break out the damn bubbly and make a toast to the woman of the hour...ME!

I figured since I haven't done them in a while and because it's a special occassion we'll have...yes that's right, Random Thought time!

-As fair warning: if you're around me while I'm eating my diet food...do not refer to the smell as 'dog shit' because I WILL kick your ass over such a comment.
-Just so we're all clear about this....People who drive Lexus' are in NO way superior to the rest of us drivers. So to the lady that cut in front of us at Best Buy then took the spot we were literally pulling into...suck my Mercury Lynx's exhaust pipe!
-Pears keep for a VERY long time in the refrigerator.
-Tom Selick is hot for a 61 year old.
-Letting small children into the Chipotle establishment really does ruin the heavenly burrito atmosphere...anyone else wanna start a petition?

Dolled Up and Ready to Partay!

I'm so impressed with myself right now...(What else is new, ay?) I colored AND cut my hair all by my lonesome! And I think it looks pretty damn good if I don't say so myself.

Check me out biotches:

I'll post more later!

Self Portrait Tuesday #2

For those that don't know, the theme this month is personal history...

This was something that I quickly thought up, only because we're not quite settled into our new home completely, so the brass baby shoes were already in the corner of the living room. Quite a bit of a size difference, huh? 18 years and still growing strong.

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See ya, wouldn't want to be ya...or would I?

Daze

I'm currently drowning my sorrows in peppermint ice cream...Why? Well my work schedule has officially been bumped up to 'royally sucking ass'! I now work a double shift on Tuesday's and only have one day off a week, and it's a fucking weekday...what's the point? Oh well, I guess it could be worse, right?

Nothing much to report from Camp Chaellyboo, just working, sleeping, preparing for school to start up again, rinse, then repeat...Now that the holidays have come and gone, I'm in that winter blah state again. Maybe it really is the weather in Nebraska...only it's actually been quite lovely lately. Perhaps it's just me?..?

Time to clean out picture storage!

This is...something. I believe that I was bumped into while taking a photo of someone or something, and this is what happened...Strangest part? I like it!

This was Oscar during the peak of our wrestling match earlier today...I kicked his ass (not literally) 5-3. Took 45 minutes too! The little mut just threw his puppy gloves off and laid down...he then proceeded to lick his nether-regions...Bet you have a lovely image in your head of that.

Danger is my name when I'm behind the wheel....given my current driving record, I can no longer say that in a teasing manor...Sonofabitch!

This is classic Oscar. When he dies in 2036 I'm gonna have this photo traditionally painted on a huge massive canvas and placed on top of my fireplace. This is the Oscar I love...an unbalanced yet perfect mix of cuteness, confusion, sarcasm, innocence, and the unadulterated need for violence all in one look.

Chipotle Must Mean Heaven...

Because OHMYGOD it is delicious! I went there for the first time on Wednesday night and was only able to consume half of the fajita. For anyone that knows me, it is quite a challenge to get me full quickly. Chipotle has won that battle because I ended up throwing away nearly half of it! I know I know, I'm very ashamed of myself as well.

I had a pretty good day at work, I enjoyed the girls that were on shift with me for 5 hours, however one of them (which happens to be my assistant manager) is a real bitch by nature! Luckily I found that out when I started and I've since been able to work around it. For those of you who don't know what I do for my job, I work at a gas station. I work early mornings 4 days a week and cook the deli food. I inform you of this fact as a way of setting you up for the story I am about to tell...

Fridays are considered 'Fish Friday's' for deli and that means I have to put out a shit load of beer batter jumbo shrimp, no other kinds of fish, just the nostril pearcing scented shrimp that sells like hot cakes. It didn't help matters any with the fact that we were out of shrimp last Friday because of a very sizable error made in the merchandise order for our store.This made for alot of angry shrimp eaters. There is one lady in particular that comes in every Friday just for 2 orders of Shrimp...She's a sweet older woman who works at the grocery store across the street but still shops at a gas station. There were a total of 3 orders left in the warmer before she went to grab her consistant 2. Guess what that bitch did...She grabbed a handful from the 3rd order and distributed them to her 2 orders! In the words of Stephanie Tanner..."HOW RUDE!" Not only is she scamming us to get more product, but we had to end up tossing that 3rd order because God only knows where that hand has been...

I really don't like people that get on my nerves...

Here are a few photo's to make your Thursday complete!

Chaellyboo 2.0

I'm back and better than ever! Well, maybe not better than ever, but comfortably fine. I'll tell ya, not blogging for the better part of 2 weeks is much like I imagine not brushing your teeth is for 2 weeks....horribly uncomfortable. I'm putting that one in my 'Analogy Wall of Fame'...I love it!

My Christmas went very well indeed. My sister was a doll and got me lots of nice stuff, even though she shouldn't have! We love her for that..and much more. I also got a digital camera!! AHH I KNOW! If only someone had caught my look of shock on my face the moment I opened it up, it was classic.

Nothing else real exciting happened over the holidays for me. I worked quite a few extra hours at work because of holiday pay.

This was a little something I made for some of you, I know it's late but as they say..."better late than never"! Sorry that it's so damn blurry, but I don't have a working scanner and this is the best my darn camera can muster up!

There's one person I forgot and to that I say..I'm soo sorry, but I don't know what you look like! The only thing I thought to draw was Harry Potter, but decided not to because I thought you may not even know that I meant you!

Here's to a great 2006!

Self Portrait Tuesday...erm Wednesday

This is my first time with SPT, hopefully not the last though!

Happy New Year!

I hope you all partied it up but still stayed safe!

Can't wait to get down to some serious blogging again...

SMOOCH!