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.

Check other SPT contributers here.




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!