On being broke

This whole not having a job thing really sucks ass. I'm bored. I'm broke. And for me, being broke is the worst part of it. If I would have had money right now, I wouldn't be sitting here. I'd be down in Grand Rapids (at this very moment) visiting Jess and we'd be at The Intersection seeing Sister Hazel and I'd be getting another autographed CD. But no, instead I'm stuck at another boring night at home because I have no money and can't even afford a night out here in Bay City. Heck, I went to buy a storage drawer at WalMart last night when I was there with my mom and she asked me how I could afford it, and how I was getting money (was I selling my body on the street?). Really, this is getting really old. I've got bills to pay. This is going to be the first month that I won't be able to completely pay off my Old Navy credit card. Hell, if I don't get a job soon, I'm not going to be able to pay my bills in August. Of course this is also the 2nd month that I haven't got my Verizon bill in the mail when I usually get it either. And I need a new cell phone before I go back to school, mine's so erratic when it comes to holding a charge and now with no antenna, getting a signal in Big Rapids will be even harder. This sucks!

How to make a Princess

How to make a Princess

Ingredients: 5 parts success 1 part brilliance 5 parts leadership

Method: Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add curiosity to taste! Do not overindulge!

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New look

So, my room is redecorated and rearranged. The walls look awesome (my handprint is even hidden in one part of the wall. The new furniture arrangement looks kick ass. And the drapery is getting there. Mom just needs to do a little bit more sewing tomorrow and all will be good. I think that my room looks much more adult now but still has a touch of fun in it. Perfect combination

Innuendo on the walls

I find this highly amusing. As many of you know, I'm painting my room. That means I get to pick out paint colors. So tonight we went to Home Depot and I found out what I needed for the faux finish that I wanted on the walls and then I looked at colors. I knew that I wanted purples. Well, the one purple that I picked out for the base coat is called "Innuendo" I think that color just called to me. The other color is called berry something. Name isn't as easy to remember as innuendo.

Oh and some of the customers at Home Depot tonight reminded me of why certain people shouldn't be allowed to breed

Foxworthy on Michigan

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pelston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Michigan

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Michigander WHEN:

1. "Vacation" means going up north past US75 for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Indiana
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

Why is even the good news bad news?

So I just got back from the dentist. Just a routine cleaning, no biggie. Well when Dr Ankoviak came back to look over my teeth I told him that back in April I'd felt pressure on the lower right that felt like a tooth coming in. He looked around in my mouth, looked at the xrays and then told me that he had good and bad news. The good news was that I was right, it was a tooth coming in. The bad news, it's my wisdom teeth coming in and there's not enough room in my mouth for them. Joy. Now I get to make an appointment to get even more teeth yanked out of my head

Unlucky

So yesterday for Father's Day we went to the casino because Dad wanted to go. I should have taken my aunt's offer to go sailing. I gave the Indians $60. Damn slots weren't giving me anything at all to work with or to have fun playing, they just sucked my money right in. Well, I guess that my good luck had to end there eventually. I'll make it up next time that I go. Once I get some money...

What the hell is wrong with customer service nowadays?

Seriously. I was at Target with my mom today and I had on a shirt that I had gotten for my birthday that says Gemini across it. It's a cute shirt and I like it. As we check out the cashier sees my shirt and proceeds to tell me that I have issues because I'm a gemini. And then goes on and talks about her boyfriend problems. Um HELLO!!! I don't give a rat's ass. Whatever happened to "Hi how are you today? Did you find everything that you needed?"

And why did I need to take an 80 question test to apply to work at Taco Bell? And is it bad of me to think that working at a place like Taco Bell is beneath me when there's not much else out there?

Peppers anyone?

So today I was at the fruit market with Grandma M since she still can't drive and I took her to get the plants for her garden. We hadn't planted ours yet either because we were waiting on a part for the rotatiller. Dad finally fixed that today. Well, while we were there everything was very picked over so I called dad and asked what he wanted for the garden. He told me 6 tomato plants and 2 things each of jalapeno and green peppers. I didn't know that he just wanted 2 jalapeno and 2 green pepper plants, I got 2 of the little containers containing 4 plants each of each type of pepper. So yeah, instead of having the 4 pepper plants that he wanted (which wouldn't have happened anways since you had to buy the peppers in sets of 4) we have 8 jalapeno and 8 green pepper plants. Peppers anyone?

Kids today

Credit to this post belongs to Sham

When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But....
Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can't help but look aroud and notice the youth of today. You've got it so fuckin' easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves! And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter--with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the fuckin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the begining and fuck it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jackoff to the lingere section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy shit like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed! And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... ...D'ya hear what the fuck I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.

You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!

Obituaries, Cars, and Jobs

Yesterday I went to Saginaw to see Grandma P. and to take her a plant that she liked outside our house, so being the good granddaughter that I am, I went and bought her a black eyed susan vine and a creeper for it and went over and planted it for her. I also got lucky enough to get to help my uncle Tom and Tom Harvey from down the street clean out the gutters on her house. Boy do I have great timing. Anyways a little while later grandma and I were sitting on her front porch (which has a roof over it) while it rained and the papergirl's dad brought the paper. What's the first thing that Grandma reads? The obits. She said to me "Let's see who died today" and was just so pedestrian (see def. 3 of the adjective) about it. Now grandma is getting older, so it's understanding that she wants to see if any of her friends may have passed on, but when she goes to the funeral of the cashier's mother from Kroger's, that's stretching it a little. Methinks that grandma needs to get a new hobby. At least she's still going strong for her age, thank god. It's going to be tough on me when she goes. I thank God for every time that I get to spend time with her, just even doing simple things like sitting on her couch and watching Days of Our Lives with her, or sitting on the swing with her in our front yard as she sips a beer after making all that potato salad. I'm glad that she does all the volunteering that she does because I know that it's because she's so active that that's why she's doing so well. In fact, she's craving a casino trip if we go on Sunday for Father's day

Last night we went over to Grandma M.'s to return a roaster that we borrowed for the graduation party. Grandma sent her car in to George's Auto Shop on Monday for a tune up. ATTENTION! If you are ever in Bay City and need car repairs, do NOT go to George's. The mechanic told grandma that her 87 caddy needed $1700 worth of work. She couldn't afford that and my dad is working on her car as we speak and it appears that the problem was a piece of missing tubing that he picked up for free at autozone. Damn mechanics.

Speaking of cars, the form to register my car for parking next year on campus just came in the mail. They want $85 for a parking permit. And I'm only going to be there for one semester. Bastards. My freshmen year it cost me $40 for my parking permit.

Dang, now I really do need to get a job. I knew how much the parking permit was going to be for this year, but I wasn't ready to get the form in the mail. That makes it so much more real. That and the antenna busted off my cell phone yesterday and verizon wanted $15 to replace the antenna on a phone that's 2 years old and that's has been acting very wonky when I go to charge it. But mom and I got into another arguement about my unemployed status last night and she said that I'm not allowed to buy anything new until I get a job. Um, excuse me mom, but I'm 21 years old. I know there's that whole "under my roof, under my rules" thing, but I'm a responsible adult, throw me a fricking bone here. I know that I need a job, it's just a little hard to find one when you're a college student home for the summer in a state that is in a job crisis and unemployed adults are taking anything that they can find

I survived

Well, the graduation party is over. I wasn't this tired after mine, but then again, I didn't do nearly as much for mine as I did for Ryan's. It was nice seeing all the family and friends again, even though the one person that we really expected to show up and really wanted to see, didn't make it to the party. Looking back on the day now though, it was so funny to see everyone running down the street as we had a tornado warning, had one touch down in Bay County, and we were watching rotations form in the sky above us. It was pretty cool. That kinda broke up the party for a while, but some people came back, others didn't. It was nice though because there were times on Saturday and yesterday that I just walked around the yard holding my grandma's hand and enjoying that time with her. I'm just glad that it's all over though because now I can go back to being a lazy college student and keep trying to find a job

And then the rains came

I'd give a cookie to whoever could tell me where that title came from and finish the line, but I think that too many of you know me well enough to figure that out.

Ahh it rained a wonderful rain today. Perfect for taking a nap to make up for the sleep that I didn't get last night. That felt so good, the temperature dropped about 25 degrees and it just felt heavenly.

Mom is driving me nucking futs. I know that they did this for my graduation party, but I don't remember her being quite this anal about everything. I will survive. I just wish that they'd make my brother do something, but no, he's gone out every night this week and then I get more stuff to do. I don't mind really, but she's just so nuts about everything!!! I'll survive, I just have to get out of here for a bit. Somehow

It's 3am, do you know where your Princess is?

It's fricking 3am and I'm still awake. I don't believe it, but it's too hot and humid for me to get comfortable enough to fall asleep. I was doing ok until it started raining and then I had to close my window and lose the little bit of fresh air that I was getting. Yuck. I'm sick of this hot humid weather already. I hate Michigan

Complete Exhaustion

I think I now know what complete exhaustion feels like. Mom's been running me ragged trying to get stuff done for the grad party which is a week from today. I did ALL of our planting this year. I lost count of how many flats of flowers that I've planted. Probably somewhere around 6 flats or so since Monday night. I'm covered in bug bites and barely feel like moving. I felt ready to fall asleep at 5pm. I've planted, weeded, mulched, bought more plants, fertilized with miracle grow. My knees are ready to revolt, I've been down on them so much. I'm sunburnt, sore, cranky and itchy. And if my mother buys one more flower or planter for me to plant, I will not be held responsible for my reaction. I need to get the hell out of here for a while. But first I need to get the energy and not be woken up by sparrows feeding outside my window at 5:30am. Ugh

Watched the D Day program at 8 tonight. Picked out my cousin a few times. If you watched he was the tall Airborne fighter that was holding his gun left handed (that's the only way that we picked him out because he's a lefty). It was pretty cool

Quick Plug

To anyone interested. Sunday night at 8pm EST, my cousin is going to be on the History Channel as part of the 101st Airborne reinactment group doing a reinactment of D Day. He'll be the tallest and skinniest person there. And if you've seen any commercials for it, it's his foot that stomps down and raises all the dust. If you're reading this, watch it!

Phew

What a crazy last 36 hours.

Grandma called yesterday at about 10am. She'd tripped over the cat and thought that she may have broken her arm. She wanted to know if we still had the sling from when my brother broke his wrist. I found it for her and threw some clothes on and headed to her house to take her the sling. Helped her get used to that and had a cup of coffee and headed home to shower and go back to her house to take her to her dentist appointment. Got home, showered and all that jazz. Went and grabbed lunch from Big Apple Bagels and laughed at all the cars that were pulled over for not wearing seatbelts where there were big traffic signs saying that it was a safety belt enforcement zone and there was like 4 sherriff's deputies and a state trooper out ticketing people. Got back over to grandma's and ate my lunch and then took her over to the dentist for an appointment that she'd had for 2 months. Unfortunately for grandma, they couldn't do the procedure because they didn't have the results over her allergy test *rolls eyes* So then we went and got ice cream and went back to her house. I stayed and visited for a little longer and then headed home.

So today I took her to see the orthopedic surgeon. Nothing was broken, thank God. Which is amazing because she landed right on that arm. I'm just glad that everything is all right

According to the Magical Name Acronym Generator, I'm...

A	Accurate
M	Magical
A	Awkward
N	Natural
D	Delightful
A	Ambitious
K	Kind
A	Amazing
Y	Yum
M	Mushy
U	Unreal
S	Silly
S	Slow
E	Energetic
L	Luxurious
L	Lively

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Livin la vida Princess

So last night at about 8:50, I decided that I was going to go see Shrek 2. It was playing at 9:15 so no biggie. It would have been better had it been in the theater that's in my back yard, but getting to Hampton isn't that bad, it's a 10 minute drive but there's a risk of it taking longer (just like most trips in Bay City) because I had to cross a bridge, but all was well, I got there in 10 minutes and thus had 5 minutes to get my ticket and popcorn. It was interesting. I was the only person in the theater. So I did what they won't let you do when there's other people there, I sat back and kicked my feet up on the chair in front of me. That movie was hilarious. I can't wait to get it when it comes out on DVD. And I want an orange tiger stripe kitty that I can name Puss in Boots.

My abs hate me right now. I did my 8 minute ab video yesterday and they hurt like a bitch right now. But, no pain, no gain.

And I guess that I should get around to my begging of various doctor's offices for work. But I think I know where I'm going to go first and that doctor really likes me, he used to pay me $10/hour to babysit his two very well behaved girls