Second Annual.......

I don't think words can describe the night many of us had last night. Since moving out on my own, I had my second annual Halloween Party. Now, I don't have ALL my the photos developed and frankly I think that this may be a good thing, but I thought I would share a few photos from the night and the morning with all of you. Now, ELVIS did make an appearance last night and as you can see from the above picture, he was VERY popular w/ the ladies and the Karaoke machine;)
Jason Vorhees was also at the party. Now, he was the most frightening guest, however, for a serial hatchet killer he was pretty well behaved. He did scare a few people though lurking around the front porch but for the most part he drank and made friends with less frightening guests.
Smile!!! This picture was taken very very early in the night. How cute are these girls in the kitchen?
Is that John or is that Slim Shady? It is very very hard to tell. And if you didn't notice John even died his hair to make his costume THAT much more authentic. (What is Michelle doing in this picture by the way?)
Eve and Michelle smiling for the camera. Eve was calling all her friends to tell them what a rocking party she was at!! ;)
SUP?! That be Jacyn and Mac! Chilling hardcore. Mac didn't dress up for this occasion, however, Jacyn was rocking it a Fergi from the Black Eyed Peas.
"It's late, we are drunk and we don't feel like smiling and more"
Sarah won the costume contest this year, even though Todd was a close second. She was the pimp of ALL pimps. She was sporting a purple velvet outfit with a purple boa. She had a pimp cane, a gold tooth and PLENTY of bling bling!!

The next few picture are of the morning after....da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaa........................

"Sooooooo hung over baby!!!"

"TODD WAKE UP!! It's like at least 7:00AM"

"Umm....I honestly don't remember anything after 10:30PM. You said I did what?!?!?"

"Yes, Mary...I said SMILE!! It's not THAT early!!"

AND...because I embarrassed everyone else by putting their pictures in this blog...here is one of me the morning after.......There will be a few more pictures of the party perhaps in a future blog, I haven't gotten all my pictures developed yet. I was a pirate, the SWAT team made an appearance (thanks Angela and Joel for stopping by), there was a cowgirl, and also an 80's chick!! I had a great time at the party and I want to thank everyone who stopped by for making it a great second annual event.

My Favorite Waitress at China Jade

Once in a while, when I feel like cheating on my so-called "diet" I will hit up a local Chinese food hot spot called China Jade. Now, there are many waiter/waitress possibilities, however, I usually end up getting this one waitress every time I go there, no question. She is probably one of the rudeness, hardest to understand people in the world and usually it is quite entertaining to have her wait on you. However, last night, with a few friends, we had quite the experience.

Now, we sat down at the restaurant, planning to pig out and also get a few drinks. Now, I usually get carded where ever I go, which is usually not a problem at all. And in the past few months, yes, I have been carded at Walmart while purchasing a rated R movie and also carded trying to get into see "The 40 Year Old Virgin". I did make it into PG 13 ok lately, so at least that is improving:)~

Anyway, I ordered my drink first and handed the waitress my ID. (Mind you I am going to be renewing my license for my 26 birthday next month). The waitress looked the ID for a good 30 seconds and then said, "This picture of you? You look 19!" I attempted to explain to her that yes it is me and yes I am old enough to drink. THEN, she accused me of taking the ID of my sister! She then told me that I looked 19 again, placed the card on the table and reluctantly wrote the order on her slip. She looked at the other two IDs, and as she was walking away, mumbled how we looked 19 and that we should be really careful and not to do anything crazy. UMMM..ok!

Then through the entire meal she treated us as if we were 10 years old. Checking on us every 5 minutes and probably making sure that we weren't going to get crazy or something! So we finished eating and sat at the table drinking our drinks for a good 30 minutes. The waitress was getting more and more annoyed. When we were done, we paid the bill and began to leave. She ran over to the table and began to count the money before we even walked away. WHO DOES THAT!!!

Anyway, I will be back and I will most likely have this same waitress but I thought that I should share this unique experience with you all!

Cell phone problem solved!

Well...after having NO service ALL day today...I had had it! I had three voicemails that I could not retrieve and I hung up on numerous people numerous time attempting to have a full conversation. I called up my friend Sarah and I dragged her ass to Verizon. I went to one store and he told me that I had to go to the Verizon store on RT 144. So I filled my gas tank up, grabbed a coffee and off I went.

We entered the store and were greeted by a well groomed lad in a blue shirt. I told him my story and he proceeded to try to call some number that would reset my settings. After discovering that he was not going to get ANY service what-so-ever on my phone..he told me to go the service center and that I was number 3 on the waiting list.

We waited in the store for 15-20 minutes and finally my name was called. We were greeted by a little computer dork named Eric. I explained that to him my problem and thinking it was a quick fix removed my battery and was about to send me on my way. I got excited a little too soon....after I walked half a step, there was no signal once again!

He took out a box and and started to program a new phone for me. The programming took quite a while! Sarah and I chatted with Eric for about 45min. We learned quite a bit about this boy. He has just moved here from CO and he is 26 years old. He was in the army for 6 years. He was a really cool guy. After all my contacts were put back into my phone (of course my games, ring tones and photos are not there:() I thanked him a ton and we were off.

In the car, Sarah and I were talking about whether we should have asked for his number and asked him if he wanted to chill or something. But not soon after that, I received a TEXT message from the cell phone master himself. He basically texted to give us his name, and also his phone number..hehe. So needless to say, I texted him back and said hi and thanks and also asked if might want to chill sometime. To make a long story short he texted back and said being new to the area he would love to hang out with new people!

So not only did I come home with a new phone, but a potential friend. I will blog more about this if we ever do chill with this boy. I just wonder what he is like when he is not behind a computer...hehehehe.

Food and Shopping

It is funny how both food and shopping can do wonders if you are in a bad, sad or depressed mood. I think that I was in just a bad enough mood this weekend to, go broke and gain about 100000 lbs.

I don't know exactly what put me in this mood. I am guess it is either the fact that it had been raining for the past week and a half, the fact that I could not stop eating this weekend, the fact that the ceiling to my kitchen completely leaked (like a lot) while showering this morning, or whether it could be that I was bailed on for plans. Well..whatever caused this mood also caused me to eat and to shop!

I seriously don't want to go into any detail for fear that many will have heart attacks hearing about the grotesque details, however, just so you know food and shopping really do bring a smile to my face;)

Attracting the hotties...

I took yesterday off from work to spend some time with my family. We all decided to take a trip to Foxwoods for the day. People at Foxwoods always intrigue me. There are so many different kinds of people that spend their time there. The are the single men, usually young, that put on their best clothes and take their seat at the tables and spend the entire/day night hitting on the waitress or the dealer, there are the young woman, who are wearing as little clothes as possible just to get that extra dollar or two for gambling from those men at the tables, there are the couples that spend the day together usually the guy sitting at the slot, while the girl is hovering over telling him how to spend their money, of course there are families, the people with infants and small children will always mystify me, and there are the old men and woman that get dropped off of a bus for the ENTIRE day and either have millions to spend and take up at least 5 slot machines, or they have 2 dollars to spend, spend it all in the first 10 minutes and then stalk other people.

I was the lucky person to be the stalkee of at least 2 of these old woman. When we first arrived I went up to the both where you get a member card. I was telling the person across the desk that I lost my card. The old woman next to me starts to tell me how easy it is to lose cards in the slots, how she has done it a million times, how she has gotten a new card too, and how now she has one of those clips so that she can clip it to herself so she will not lose it.

Later on I was sitting a slot by myself. I was very happy with my slot machine selection. There was no one sitting next to me! Then I felt a presence behind me. There was this little old woman cheering me on! Now, I honestly don't need a cheerleader for something like pressing a button on a slot, if I was running a marathon maybe, but NOT a slot machine. So, I continue to lose my $20 while this woman is trying to coax three 7's to pop up on my machine. THEN, she touched me!! She was patting my shoulder as I was at least winning some points on the machine. I slightly moved forward thinking that this would help. A little after that her friend came over to her. I was relieved because I thought they were going to leave. BUT NO, her friend said, "Stay right here. Don't move. I will be back in a while". .......Shit....now the woman was sitting next to me telling me her life story. She was telling me about the history of slot machines, about her son in law....etc, etc.......

Now, talk about an awkward situation. How do you get out of this pickle? A lonely, old woman is talking my ear off and all I want to do is run away. Well..Eventually my money ran out. The woman continued to talk and talk. Finally she asked me why I didn't put more money in the slot...I explained to her that I didn't have any money and that I was going to look for my father. Well...great...my dad just sat next to me....damnit....he was my out!!! So I causally got up and began wondering around....I actually felt bad...but hello, I just could NOT deal.

Well...needless to say I did not win big that day and I also didn't meet any hot studs. But I did meet some really hot grandma's;)

Back to the cell phone thing....

I have funny superstition with my cell phone. It is actually more pathetic than funny. But nonetheless it is something that I have done since I purchased the darn thing senior year of college

I have everyone that I would ever need to call located in my cell phone and if for some reason that person is taken out of the cell phone I literally have no way of contacting them. When I first meet someone I will not automatically place them in my cell phone as a contact. I feel that they have to earn this location. If I am dating someone, this person may actually never make it into my cell phone. Even after a few dates this person may still be a number on a scrap piece of paper in my top drawer. I feel that to be placed into my cell phone this person will have to be someone that I will call like forever or until they have done something to lose their spot in my phone. I also don't want to jinx anything by placing someone in my cell phone. For some reason I feel that if they go in my phone too early, they may never call or things my not work out. Weird, I know.

But I do the complete opposite if I lose touch with someone or if someone really ticks me off. Say for example,I have not spoken to someone in quite a while and I have done everything in my power to keep in touch with this person and they never call back...Well..They will be removed from my phone. Also if someone really pisses me off...Even if they have earned their space in my phone, I feel that as ultimate punishment they will be removed from my phone. For some reason, this makes me feel so much better knowing that I will not be the one to pick up the phone and call. Last night someone told me they were going to call me and like most times they ended up totally not calling at all. I was so annoyed that I removed them from my phone! I immediately felt like an ass. THEN I told this person that I removed his number and he was totally bummed or annoyed or something. Needless to say, he is back in my phone. This can also backfire somewhat fierce if that person emails you and tells you to call them..And you CAN'T and you have make up some lame excuse that your phone numbers got mysteriously erased and you need them to give you their phone number again!

So cold!!

O.K. I told myself a hundred times that with the high gas prices I would not be turning my heat on until like mid January;) However, as I was sitting my house earlier, in like 10 layers of clothing, under a down blanket...I decided that I would turn it on even for a just a few minutes. To be honest, I am not even sure the heat is working. My hands are frozen just typing this message and my nose feels like it could be chipped off...and is that my breathe I see????

But on a positive note, cold weather does bring thoughts of fall and I absolutely love this season. I have started to decorate the house in honor of Halloween and have started to burn my fall candles-yay! This season always brings back good and bad memories and I love the feelings that it brings back. I love the smell of apple cider, seeing pumpkins on sale and people getting ready for trick-o-treat!

I do hope do a few things this fall that I never get to do. I want to go apple picking, I would love to visit a corn maze, I want to have my second annual Halloween Party, I definitely need to figure things out with my current relationships, I would really like to lose some weight, and I actually might consider purchasing a snow blower for this winter because I totally remember what it was like to be out in that driveway every single morning at 5am...blah!

Sometimes you are just like WTF...

I have been thinking a lot today about someone from my past who I thought could have made a good friend. We hadn't seen each other in a while and a few months back decided to meet up. It was sooo awkward and I tried to make it bit more comfortable by being my goofy self. He however, continued to make me feel horrible for not keeping in touch with him, and making me feel guilty for not wanting to go out with him when we were hanging out.

It is so hard to be on the otherside of things sometimes. I didn't have feelings for this person and they continued to push the issue. He tried so hard and even made me a CD with a love song on it. I honestly did break his heart, but not intentionally. I thought he was a good guy however, I chose another person at the time to be with. Eventually as time went on he got a girlfriend and I was living the single life. I thought that he was happy and we even met up a few times. It then went a almost a year until I last saw him a month or so ago. After we got together he wrote me an email and he made me feel horrible. Basically telling me that I am the reason that we haven't kept in touch. Whatever!! I wrote him back and told me him what a moron he was being (OK I didn't use that exact word..but I wanted to).

He works with my mother and since this email he has not spoken to her either. My mother actually mentioned something to me the other day about this person not speaking to her anymore. My mother said that she asked him if he didn't like her anymore. I told my mother it was my fault!! lol

I have a few things this person has given me laying around the house. While cleaning today, I was trying to figure out what to do with them. I have no ill feelings towards this person, but do I get rid of these things because he thinks I am the devil???? I will let you know what I decide to do!

What is up?

What is up with the Burger King commercials with that scary King that shows up at the creepiest places (windows, doors, the woods!)?? Honestly they are quite scary and I feel that because of them I will never to near a Burger King. I do think, however, that I will have a nightmare someday with that creepy king in it. And I have only been watching T.V. for about 45 minutes and I have seen that commercial 3 times...yikes!! Who thought of that commercial anyway...I mean really...they must have been smoking something hardcore...ANYWAY, I need to be getting to bed. It is Saturday night and I am tired!! NIGHT:)

I don't get it...

I honestly don't understand it. Every time that I am in a rush it seems like everyone around me is slow as hell!! But then, every time that I want to take my time everyone around me is in a hurry! Sometimes I think that it is my imagination, but then other times..I am like..no honestly...these people are doing this to piss me off. For instance, say you are on your way to work and you are running late....you will most definitely be placed behind the slowest dumbass on the road..or placed directly behind a school bus who stops at like every house on your route and then stops one house before your turn off for like ever! Finally after like 5 minutes of sitting behind this stop sign...a little boy runs out of the house hand-in-hand with his mother and she places him in the bus, kisses him a million times, checks his book bag for his hw and finally places him on the bus. Or...you are going to work and you are like 5 minutes early so you stop at Dunkin Donuts to get a coffee. You hop into the drive through and you are placed behind a van of a million people who are each ordering a uniquely made coffee and specialty ordered breakfast sandwich. You are now stuck behind this van and unable to get out of line and you are now..LATE for work...Honestly, I just don't get it!! And for some odd reason you feel that yelling at these people/cars from the inside of your car will help move this situation along. What is the person infront of you thinking? I mean.. why can they take their time? I mean....don't they have to be somewhere too? Don't they CARE aout me?!!! But then again..someday..I will be that person that is holding up the line or who is the recipient of some intense road rage.....

Here it is...

Ok..my 17th blog entry....I mean...what should I write?? So much pressure to keep everyone updated on my thoughts and feelings and I like have nothing!! Well..this week was one of the longest weeks of my life! Work sucked... as usual...(if you would like to know about a normal day in my life...please refer my blog entry from September 19th). My work outs were completely weak...which resulted in a very small weight loss this week..which consequently effects the fate of my treadmill (long story...but if I don't lose 30 lbs by January there is a good possibility that the treadmill will be in a better place). My motivation this week was very low...both at home and at work and I can't really figure out why...all I know is that I need to step my game up for next week.

Well..the weekend is finally here and I am wicked glad that it is a long weekend. I have a lot of nothing planned which is always good. I am going to take a small trip up to Loon mountain on Sunday, which sounded like a good idea before I knew about the on coming torrential downpours. I also plan on getting a Dunkin Donuts breakfast sandwich tomorrow morning (which is 15 points) so I will be starving the remainder of the day... so I will be the one w/ the celery stick!!

So basically...as you can probably tell..I am just writing this blog to write a blog...Many people have commented on my lack of blogging lately and others have commented that this may be the "end" of my blog! Well..I just wanted to let you all know that I am here...and I am ready to continue my blogging:)

Just thinking....

Sometimes I catch myself thinking about the past. About what I have done wrong and what I should have done. Today I found myself thinking about relationships. I think that a lot of the thoughts were because of a conversation that I had this weekend about relationships, and a lot of the thoughts were about feelings that I miss. I don't go into every relationship with the need to get married and have kids, but I feel that as time goes on the relationship should get more serious, not more distant. Like, I let things bother me...some for good reasons and some because I just feel that I should be selfish sometimes. Like, I really feel that if you are dating someone, their parents should at least know that you exist, or you have met more than one of their friends. I also feel that if you give a gift with a lot of meaning or thought..that they should at least reciprocate. I mean, I am not looking for expensive things here, I am talking a card or flowers........

I mean, I have dated a few people and I have never once received a flower from someone I was dating. I mean, I don't want this to come off selfish at all..it is just something that I was thinking about today. I actually went on two dates with a guy about 2 years ago. This guy actually sent me a dozen roses for my birthday....needless to say....he never picked up his phone afterwards, not even for me to thank him...but honestly...I will remember that bday for ever because of that gesture.. He was the first and only person to give me flowers....odd...I know...

I was also thinking about soul mates....I honestly believe that everyone has a soul mate. I am not sure that everyone belongs with that one person..but I definitely believe that each person has an intense connection with one person. I think this can be very frustrating at times...at least for me. No matter what this one person does to me...I will aways forgive them...no matter how horrible. I honestly don't know what kind of person they are trying to find in this fucked up world...but it is obviously not me....Perhaps someday they will realize that what they are searching for is right there.....

Anyway...Enough of this mooshy stuff...I think I have thought too much about love/relationships today. I promise another happier blog later:)

The Smallest Woman in the World

So...thinking that it was good idea, I took my annual spin around the Topsfield Fair. A couple of my sister's friends were there as well. We walked around for a while, enjoy the sites, looking at the games, avoiding creepy people, drooling over the food, until one of her friends goes..."dude...we should totally go look at the smallest woman in the world. It is only 50 cents!" Becoming very curious and realizing that this is probably going to be so dumb it will be funny, I decided to run over and check it out. It turned out the adults were $1.00 but still to be entertained for a couple minutes, a $1.00 was totally worth it. We all had our predictions. My sister thought it might be a picture, I was picturing a hologram of some sort, while others were picturing something just ridiculous. We all gave the man our money an ran to the back of the tiny house that was set up for "the little woman" to sit in. We were all laughing and talking and running to the back of the house. Then...we all stopped!

There in this tiny house was a little black woman, REAL mind you, just sitting there watching T.V. She had a little chair set up and some photos on the wall. We all felt like complete asses!

She started to tell us that she is from Africa and that she has children and that they are all normal sized. I honestly was not listening because I could not have felt like more of an asshole. I mean really, who would have guessed that they had a real person behind this house. Needless to say, I mumbled thank you to her....some of us threw some money into the pan she had on the ground and we left.

I don't think anyone spoke for a good 2 minutes. Almost at the same time we all said how bad we felt and I think a few almost shed a tear....I honestly could not stop laughing. Not at this woman, but at the completely awkward situation that we just put ourselves in. I mean, really...think about it..it is FUNNY. Anyway, we all convinced ourselves that she put herself in this situation and chooses to do so, so it is in no way our fault what-so-ever. Anyway....we continued on our journey throughout the fair...I think we stayed clear from any genetic anomalies for the remainder of the evening.