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.