Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Winding Down

Whoa. I just cracked open a cool, crisp Dr Pepper to quench my thirst and my brutal strength bent the tab. I should really lay off the 'roids.

Um right. Anyway. Good news! School year is winding down. WOOOOOOOT! WOOOOOT! Saturday is my last week at the store down here. Then a little time off to study, do some shit, then back to the store at home. My last day as of right now for school is May 19th. But that could change, and I hope it does. I wanna blow this pop stand earlier. And also because A-bag's graduation is May 18 so I'd have to drag my ass up to Point then back to Whitewater. Blach.

So I uh, don't really have anything to blog about. I've been living a fairly boring life, which is nothing new but this week has been exceptionally boring.

Except of course the fact the Brewers are playing the Cubs. And they won last night, thank ya. And they better the next two games.

Right. Let's see...um oh! I'm being reviewed at work! I shouldn't have told that one lady I didn't give a rip about how we didn't carry her brand of cereal. It didn't fly over well at all. Ok so I'm lying. It's almost my anniversary of working at that pit of despair so I guess they review you. News to me. Never happened at the big C. But if it means I get a fat ol' raise then review me. And you know, a fat raise with Chairman Bob will probably be a 10 cent bump.

Le sigh. Money is money I guess. I'm thinking about just not making any and living a my life as a hobo. Or marrying a rich dude. Spend my days laying by the pool on a chaise lounge, with a glass of brandy in one hand and a small annoying dog in the other. Oh and a cigarette in a Cruella De Ville type holder. and talk like FDR in the Upper East Side accent of affluence. I could pull off that lifestyle.

Cruella De Ville, Cruella De Ville, if she doesn't scare you no evil thing will!

PS holy cold buckets batman! What the hell? It was snowing yesterday! Seriously?! Ok, it was flurries but still. Burskey worsky!

Don't know why I made that into a PS. On that note, I'm just gonna stop with what little dignity this post can retain.

Keep on keeping on!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

For the love of Mike make it STOP!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


MAKE THE MADNESS STOP! NOW!

When I woke up this morning I had 250 emails in my school account. 247 were junk. Went to class, came back checked my email only like 1 junk. Then ate, watched some tube, checked my email and there were 450 junk emails. four fuckin' hundred and fifty! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! and they ARE STILL COMING! I've deleted my deleted file three times today. Once after I deleted the 250 and 450 and whatever else was in there so that was like 1000 emails. Then a little while later, 70. And now it's up to like 130. this is ridiculous! I emailed the help desk and you wanna hear what they had to say? (ps 10 new ones in the time of typing this)

"We do understand your frustration as this is a common problem across campus. We are currently working on a server upgrade which will allow students using OWA (web email) to manage their junk mail. We hope to have it implemented this spring, summer at the latest."

....Seriously?! That's the help I'm paying for?! SERIOUSLY?! (7 new emails)

I am livid! I want help! Give me help! What did I do to deserve this! I feel like I cannot leave my computer for fear that when I come back my email is gonna be chocked with fucking spam! I think I'm gonna have to go over there and lay down the law. Or send another angry email.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

2 new emails. 19 in the time I've wrote this.

Make that 21.

GAH!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Gross!

The Brewers traded Gabe Gross today after he scored the game winning run in extra innings.

Ouch.

Poor fella. Sure I've been damning him because he hasn't been to hot but today he did good and then blam-o! Off to Tampa Bay you go for a minor league pitching prospect. Things just move so fast in baseball! It is such a sport for commitment-phobs.

Thanks to extra innings I go to watch part of the game today which is always fantastic in my book. And extra fantastic today because Counsell was playing so I got to see more then just a pinch hit. But SERIOUSLY! why is it every single fooooooking time he starts a game I can't watch it? Is this karma or something? Aye yi yi.

Sorry but another Brewers aside...

Last year as a team (and by team I mean a vast majority of players...I'm lookin' at you Rickie Weeks and Turnbow!) they wore rally pants , then they shaved their heads and now this year so far it's about facial hair. And some of the guys look really, really bad with a mustache. I mean like porn star 'stache bad or creepy child molester bad. I'm sorry Carlos Villanueva...your 'stache makes it look like you should be the star in a really, really, really bad adult film. And Corey Hart, you look like you'd be violating your parole by getting within a 100 feet of a child. Corey Hart doesn't look creepy if he goes with the full beard as seen earlier this year, it's the just mustache look that does not suit him. Then again I think no man with blond hair should grow facial hair of any sort. For one it doesn't really show up that well unless they grow a ton and then I just find most times it makes the person look like a goon.

...I wonder what it's like to have a mustache. I should ask my mom. Ohhhhhhhhh SNAP! Kidding! Kidding! My mother isn't one of those ladies!

Then again if I could, or if I did have the capability of growing one I'd fall into the category of creepster by my own rules. Aside from the fact that I'm a girl and having a 'stache would be weird regardless of color.

It's just interesting how some guys can rock both the facial hair and none. Then some guys should never go a day without shaving and then some guys only look good when they got hair on their face. The wonders of the world never cease. I guess it's sorta of the equivalent of hair length on women. Except it takes months to grow your hair out and a dude like a week to get a goatee. Unless you're my brother and then you need a month to even get a five o'clock shadow. That doesn't warrant an Ohhhh SNAP! Because it's the cold hard truth.

I don't think I've thought this hard about facial hair since Apollo Ohno brought the soul-sole patch to the mainstream. And Howie Mandel's was thought provoking when he was on Leno or Conan and said how at some waxing place in Hollywood had a wax called the Howie Mandel. Oh how you know you've made it when they name one of those after you.

That was a lot of hair talk.

Monday, April 21, 2008

That's just the reality of it all

I am slightly disappointed to hear the Discovery Channel did some crafty edits on the Deadliest Catch.

From what I read in the season opener, you know the episode right? Of course you do. When the Wizard sprung a leak, the huge ass wave they showed crashing into the boat and making it off kilter apparently wasn't the wave that made the boat leak. But I guess there was a huge mofo wave that did hit the boat, the camera just didn't get it. But still! They were semi fabricating drama! Those bastards! The only reality shows I'll watch are those on Discovery because I can count on them to be real! Alright so I may watch the Hills once in a while...but anyway for shame Discovery! For SHAME!

Meh. I'll still watch it. Wasn't a huge snafoo. snafu? snafu.

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

I have to go to the computer lab to make my magazine cover. Yippie! not. I don't wanna go! I should just get InDesign on my computer. It's pretty pimp actually. Can do all sorts of neat-o shit on it. But I'm just a smidge cheap. Just a little bit. Just get the Adobe Suite, then I'd be set.

I'm also a little disappointed I slept through the earthquake! Blast! But I'm used to the ceiling shaking thanks to Tubby so I could've very well woke up in a fog, damned Tubby for being loud and then went back to sleep. Some how negating the fact my room might've been moving and grooving. I don't know. I'm sure I didn't flinch. Which I'd think would be difficult to do while sleeping.

....right.

Brewers are 11-7 just so you know. One game out of first place I believe...maybe it's 1.5 Season is still early. Standings don't matter now unless they're like, 10 games back then well, that's a hole to climb out of. Again, slightly disappointed because two days this week Craig Counsell was in the starting lineup and both days I couldn't watch the game. Sigh. The season's young.

Ok must go. Byyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Ha, boom baby!

What does OxyClean and OrangeClean have in common?

They were both made by the maker of KABOOM!

The reason for my oh so witty riddle? An explosion on campus today. Yeah. No lie. No one got seriously hurt, only one person had minor injuries. A boiler exploded in the power plant. It happened on the other side of campus, by Esker dinning hall which is on the north north-east side. I live off of campus on the West Side and I heard it. Didn't know what it was, didn't think much of it at all until my roomie called saying she saw on the news there was an explosion on campus. Want to hear my not so eye witness account? OK!

I was sitting at the counter, it was around noon, cooking me some lunch. My couscous was cooking, my chicken nuking and I was just sitting there minding my own biz-nas when I heard a noise. It sounded like something hitting a dumpster, you know that dull sort of sound. Didn't think anything about it because there is a dumpster in the parking lot and it is hella windy today. Few minutes later I hear cop cars. Didn't think anything of it they go by all the time. Then my roomie calls, tells me. Then it all falls into place. The noise, then the cops. It must've been one hell of a blast for me to hear it. It wasn't like it was deafening or anything but it was loud enough to get my attention. You know you hear things all the time day in day out and don't think about it like cars, garbage trucks, shit like that. White noise pretty much. This got my attention. Just sort of looked up and thought, wonder what that was, then went back to my stuff. Then heard the cops, looked up again and thought, hmm wonder what's going on, then went back to my stuff.

A fairly exciting day. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt of course. I kind of wanted to go walk over there and see but figured I probably shouldn't.

http://www.royalpurplenews.com/ is the campus newspaper. It has pictures on it but the site is ridiculously slow. I'm betting madison.com or jsonline will have something soon enough.

Ok. I'm outtie like a belly button.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Can you smell that?

It smells like spring! Spring is here! I can sense it and scent it! I SMELL YOU SPRING!

What is the smell of spring? Why to me it's the smell of earth and water. Dirt and melting snow. It just is a wonderful smell! The smell of dirt and earth means things will soon be budding, coming back from it's wintery basement. Smell good! Next will come the smell of summer! The hot air mixed with the smell of alfalfa...or so I'm told it's alfalfa according to my mother. It's some farm plant...and no not cow poo. Cow poo can be smelled at almost any time. And summer also has the smell of water but it's more the smell of rain. Oh I love the smell of rain! I'm just a big scent person I guess. My nose is super sensitive. Got a lot of ole factories. You know those scent receptors? but I'm guessing ole factories isn't what they're really called.

Anyway. I smell spring and you better not go away. I have my nose on you! I'm like a scent hound! Also another sign of spring? the Chinook blowing. Though I don't think the wind today was very chinook-y. Once that warm bitch starts up then it'll be nice. But in the summer the warm wind isn't called the Chinook...what's it called? Meh. I don't know. Hot air blowing in from the Gulf?

But you know the summer wind is my fickle friend who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end. He came blown' in from accross the sea, lingered there, touched your hair and walked with me.

Then of course it's a marvelous night for a moondance, a fabtabulous night to make romance beneath the cover of October skies---wait. No! My friend the summer wind would have nothing to do with a moondance beneath October skies.

....lyrics from song...messed up to my liking... :)

I do love Michael Buble. Captain Smith and Pocahontas! Had a very mad affair, when her daddy tried to kill him, she said daddy don't you dare he gives me fever!

Ok sorry.

I was just on cnn.com and saw a headline that made me laugh. Not because the situation is funny but because it just seems...I don't know. it was something like "Grain prices raise 125%, hungry people riot" It was just the hungry people part that got me. It just seems...I don't know. In my head I flash to some dude with a really low voice reading the headline super slow and I guess that's what adds to the humor some. Starving children in Ethiopia is not funny, now Malawi on the other hand, hil-ar-i-ous!

right o good chaps. Must go watch Dirty Jobs and go rustle up some grub.

Word to your brothers....if you got them.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Beat the Mets, Beat the Mets

Whew! My boys of summer have been giving me some minor heart attacks these past few days. But all is well, they've got their shit together after a three game slide to beat the Mets the past two games. They go to St. Louis Tuesday and the Cardinals are doing pretty good so fingers crossed...

But let me not bore you with that.

How big of a panzy is Chewbacca? The first three Star Wars or I guess really they'd be the last three in regards to the timeline, anyway. The Star Wars have been on and well, I've been watching them. Always flipping between that and something else but back to the point. Chewie is such a panzy! Sure he can blast the Storm Troppers with the best of them but when it comes down to it, he is a wuss. Or a giant teddy bear as Lauren put it. Jabada Hut! Yes! Um anway, back to my rantings on Star Wars. Chewie's a wuss and C3PO acts like a stereotypical gay man. Emphasis on the word stereotypical.

Also what the hell? Yoda isn't in the first one? Puh. That was the only reason I kept watching the first one....and now I've kept up because I don't remember what the hell happened. heheh oh Jabada. You're so damn funny. I love all his people. The one that looks like his hair is a snaking turd, the little dude that laughs hysterically, and well Jaba looks like a load himself. (Return of the Jedi is on right now...oh and Tubby upstairs just got home...great)

You know, Star Wars is much like Harry Potter. What with the dark side and all. Except Voldemort isn't Harry's father.

I could expand on my theories of Star Wars but I won't. At least right now.

So I googled Chewbacca to get the proper spelling since I highly doubt blogger would know it. (I was gonna go with one C) and there are people writing Star War books? Is that how the hype has stayed alive so long, well before those three new/old ones came out. Apparently Chewbacca was killed off in a book to save Han Solo's son Anakin from getting caught when two planets were going to collide or some shit. And Anakin? That's Darth Vader's name.

Wow. I cannot believe I am talking about Star Wars. Holy buckets.

I need to some how redeem myself. Mmm yea I don't know how to right now so I'm just gonna stop.

Tata

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Oh what a Knight

I got called cavalier today.

A professor told me he preserves me to have a cavalier attitude. He said it seems that I don't care. He notices it when he watches me work...which I find sounds slightly creepy.

But huh.

Cavalier eh? Had to google the definition for, you know, reaffirmation that I got the context right.

1.Showing arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive: a cavalier attitude toward the suffering of others.
2.Carefree and nonchalant; jaunty.

Well I wouldn't say I fit the first description but perhaps the second. But I don't know...a little weird.

Anyway...hable con mi madre a hoy y señora decir yo (and I ran out of spanish) should go ahead and plan the trip down to St. Louis in July. yes! That'll mean two vacations out of state this summer. I mean really...that hasn't happened...ever. I've been stuck in a rut of not going anywhere for quite some time. Now I'll finally be able to stop bitching! The first is in June going to DC via Tennessee, then good ol' MO.

I shoulda stuck with Spanish. Damn spanish three kicked my ass though back in high school...mainly because the teacher was a real peice of work.

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaah hace frío y llueve. Yo necisito comprar leche. yikes. my spanish vocabulary rivals a fifth graders.

shit son. why is it I have terrible luck with umbrellas? I'm the person who will be walking and the woosh! my umbrella turns inside out. It can be embarrassing!

alright. I really haven't any more to say. I shall go do something. I think lay in bed. That sounds like a warm idea.

Peace and hair grease.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Could you take my picture? Cuz I won't remember...

Picture time holmes. I'm having a debate as to if I should post the public links to my facebook albums...hmmm... it isn't like I'm participating in an Tom Foolery...hmm...nothing incrimidating...hmmm. Dunno, that's a ton of pictures. I know....a slide show!

(rat bastard didn't work...just look at the link!)


Um so I hope that worked...uh anyways...



look at this picture!


Holla! Oh yah! Ashley made me wait a week until she put that online...the dirty whore. Take a wild guess who it is. Yeah, you're most likely right.

Ok I gotta do homework. Booo.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Opening Day! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Opening Day in Milwaukee was amazing.

Plain and simple it was phenomenal!

It was glorious! It was ecstasy in activity form! It was like nothing else!

We got to Miller Park about about 10 AM, got parked and got to drinking. The game started at 1:20 and we sat in the parking lot until 1230-ish then made our way in and due to the throngs of people we missed the first few batters but that was alright cuz we got there in time to see Billy Hall jack one. Wooooooooooo!

My throat hurt from all the yelling.

Only downside to the day was waiting in long lines at the port-a-potty in the parking lot and that Craig Counsell didn't play. Other then that, AMAZING!

Now the other katie and I are looking into road tripping to St Louis at the end of July to see the Brewers play the Cardinals. It's about a 7 hour drive from Madison, katie is looking at hotels on hotwire and I'm looking at ticket prices. 48 dollars a person for 2 games. not bad. and she found a hotel for about 105 a person for three nights so shit, I don't know how we can't go. Sure gas might be expensive but we are planning on taking the cheap route when it comes to food, you know like buy stuff at a grocery store and nuke it in a microwave, so that'd be the only real bitch, the gas. Other then that, hell yeah! And if we go to a game on the road our chances of being on TV quadruple.

We're gonna come up with some cleaver signs to hold up, you know, be that person. It will be awesome.

Alright I'm hungry for some supper. Maybe I'll post some pictures from the day later. We'll see.
Adios amigos!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Drain-Whoa

Drain-o is simply amazing! I have never been more blown away by a cleaning product. So my shower has been pretty backed up for oh, about a month or two and today I finally, FINALLY! Bought me some Drain-o. And wow. I mean, really. That shit is powerful. Ok so I haven't showered in it since I've used it but just from running the water it seems to be amazingly clean!

Yes it is sad I'm excited over having a unplugged drain. It was getting annoying standing in six inches of water every time I showered.

Brewers won again today! Yay! Take that Chicago! TAKE IT! The announcers on FSN Wisconsin, you know Brain and Bill, kept talking about it being the I-94 series and how Chicago is 90 miles from Milwaukee, Wrigley Field is Miller Park South, all that jazz. Then it hit me. The perfect analogy: Cub fans are to Milwaukee as Cubans are to Miami.

Why is it so incredibly perfect(In my unbiased opinion of course)? You see, Cub fans infest Miller Park whenever the Cubs are in town. I wouldn't go as far to say Cubans infest Miami, but it's no secret they go there in hoards. Miami is 90 miles from Cuba. Milwaukee is 90 miles from Chicago. Do you see where I'm going with this? Good.

Now you might say, well why isn't Milwaukee Cuba while Chicago Miami? A couple of reasons. 1) Simple Geography. Who is to the north? Milwaukee and Miami. 2) Look at the names! You can't spell Cuba without Cub nor Miami or Milwaukee without an M. It's that simple. 3) I have never been to Chicago or Cuba so they go together like peas and carrots. Ok so I haven't been to Miami either...technicality. I've been to Orlando. When I was six. Ok so number 3 isn't a good one. 4) I'd rather go to Miami then Cuba, travel restrictions be damned.

Mmmhm. Enough with this don't ya think? yes.

So I was cookin' me some fish a little while ago and I dropped my fork in the oven and for 10 seconds I didn't know what to do. I just stared at it as the hot air was blowing on my face. Then it hit me, use the tongs to get it back. I don't think I've ever done that before, drop something in the oven. And it wasn't like I was using the fork to poke the fish or something. I think I just knocked it off the counter while opening the oven and oops, right on the burner.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck.

I have work to do so I shouldn't be telling silly stories about forking. cha!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

I need to get my stalk on

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!

Totally went to the Brewer game on Saturday, totally was like two feet from Mr Counsell, totally got his autograph and totally did not say a single word or make eye contact with him. hehehehe.

I did while the line was winding down but once I got to the table, nope. Took the little cards they had there semi-pre autographed and went on my merry little way. I did then take pictures while sitting in the stands not too far away very creepy like but that was about it. The man in front of us in line, us being Ashley and myself. My mommy and daddy were there too but didn't wait in line, they instead started to drink at 1030 in the morning which isn't unusual for our family. Anyhoo, the man. I think his name was Jimmy. He was older, I'm guessing 50-60, had a bubbling personality and would talk to us about anything. And he talked to us the whole time in line which was about 45 minutes. Anyways, Jimmy is what I'd classify as a mild stalker. He's the dude that waits outside after the games trying to get autographs while the players are going to their cars. He hops fences to get them. Me? Not so much. I do my stalking in a controlled, acceptable, environment. Such as the Brewers on deck where the players are sitting there expecting people to come up to them. Ashely took a total paparazzi picture of Ozzie Chavez, stuck the camera right in his face. Well it wasn't right there but still very paparazzi. My mission was to get a Counsell autograph and I got a Counsell autograph. Also a Brian Shouse one since he was at the same table. Wanna see it? I know you do, later.

Whew! The game was pretty sweet, though we left during the seventh inning. (Not my idea, obviously) Got some good pictures, got in the baseball mood, got vamped for Friday.

Dissappointed I didn't get to see JJ or Prince. Saw Ben Sheets, Jeff Suppan, Mike Cameron, Eric Gange (who is already on my list after almost blowing the game yesterday. Seriously! One game in the season!) Bill Hall, Corey Hart, well obviously Craig Counsell and Brian Shouse while milling about the stadium.

For pictures from the game take a looksy

And a quick picture of the picture wall I have created from the pictures. ...I said pictures about two too many times....(Psst! Remember what pisses me off? Good...good. Blogger and putting pictures on it! Ooooooooh it makes me angry!



Yay!
The whole shabang.


Oh look what my new camera can do! Just pick up one color! How pimp is that?!

Ok ok. Enough with this. Outside the Brewers game my Spring Break was what most cultures would classify as uneventful. Relaxing, yet utterly boring at times. Spent way to much money. But that's ok. Didn't cut my hair like I said I might nor did I color it. My mother had a kinipshit almost when I said I wanted to change the color.

mmmmmmmmk. I'm outtie. (Brewers @ Cubs tomorrow 1:20 Central time..watch it. But if they, being the Brewers, start to suck because you're watching and you generally don't, turn the TV off and back away slowly. A thank ya)