Okay so for a more indepth update about my birthday festivities..
I'll begin with Friday..
We went over to Rich and Sara's to help Rich put up the pool and we had a cook-out. But it started storming so we just hung out there for awhile. Plus, we were told that Sheridan lost power so we didnt feel like coming home. Then we went to the Brickyard to watch Jimmie DJ.. and that was gay because he was drunk and making a fool out of himself. But that is Jimmie for you.. When we got home about midnight, we still didnt have power.
It finally came back on Saturday morning at like 7. The majority of Saturday was boring until Sara got out of work. Because then Rich, Sara, Mike and I went bowling. Which was a ton of fun. We totally got free drinks and free bowling. Because Rich said he was going to start a tab, and the lady never took his card.. So we said fuck it, we're out of here. And I got some pretty kick ass bowling shoes. Then we finally made our way to the Beer tent in Carson. Made a few drunken phone calls. Got free drinks at the beer tent too. And I actually danced, and Mike let us take pictures of him. So finally after all this time, we finally have a picture of the 2 of us.. but they are crappy ones because I was drunk and looked like hell from the rain.. Anyway, then we went to a party at some guy named Rex's house because it was his birthday too. That was fun for awhile, until I threw up and then we came home.
Even though I was puking drunk, Mike took really good care of me. Which I was very thankful for.
Yesterday was a pretty good day. Had another cook-out over to Rich and Sara's.
I got a really cute outfit from Aeropostale from Mike's daughter. And a pair of blue and green plaid bermuda's from Mike.
My birthday was one of the best ones I have had yet.
Free bowling.
Free Drinks.
Free bowling shoes.
I was trashed.
And my boyfriend took very good care of me.
After the whole postal scandal, I'm not sure what's going to happen in the next two months. The only thing I know is that I won't have to work with that group of people after August, and I doubt I will ever work with them again.
I can't believe the shit I go through to make $7.50 an hour.
I went to a baby shower this afternoon for the girlfriend of my parents' friends' son. It was long, but it made me very worried at myself. My body or my mind, I'm not sure which at this point, is telling me that it's time to have a baby; but my logical mind says "ohhh, no way, not yet."
And that's a good thing. I want to be prepared to have a child, even though you'll all tell me "you'll never be prepared," I mean that I want to be fairly financially secure, working in a good job, be settled in a semi-permanent apartment or house, and, of course, be married (eventhough I'm pratically already married).
I don't know...just seeing how happy she was made me want that. I want to be a mother someday...I don't even care if it's my biological child or not. I just want to be a mother.
...but, again, when I and Rueben are ready...even though I doubt he'll ever be ready.
oh, by the way, I almost passed out the other day because the temperature behind the service desk was at least 82 degrees. Hot.
I have to work again today. I had to leave work three hours early yesterday because I almost passed out. It's so warm behind the service desk because they haven't turned on the air yet and there is an overhang so there is very little air circulation.
Anyway, I'm taking a thermometer to work with me today to see just how warm it really gets. I swear it was around 90 up there yesterday (and humid)...and we have one small fan. We'll see. I can't work in conditions like that...
Played a super long game of monopoly last night with Rueben, Gunny, and Zach. It was pretty alright.
This is the first day of my "weekend"...the two consecutive days that I get to myself before I have to go back to hell.
Now I remember why I hate her so much...I'm helping someone at the service desk, they need a lane open, so they call and say: Michelle needs to open on lane whatever, so, then, even if I'm still helping someone, they go and tell people to start putting their stuff at that lane, even though I"m not there yet. And....about half of the time, they have to wait about five minutes because I"m still dealing with that customer at the service desk, and then when I finally get to the lane after dealing with some fucker at the desk, the people at the lane are all nasty to me because they thought they'd get through fast and they had to wait five minutes.
That, and people from rockford are really stuck up and bitchy.
It must be nice to have thousands of dollars in credit card debt and live in a huge house that you owe more on that it's worth, and still treat people like shit because you want to feel good about yourself.
The Story
We always knew that my great (great?) uncle was on the Titanic. My grandmother (and my mother) always told us about how he survived by dressing up as a woman and sneaking on a lifeboat. Not honorable but hey, he was third class, he wouldn't have survived anyway. And that sums up my grandmother's side of the family.
Anyway. Back when the Ellis Island website first became searchable and the manifest of the Titanic was not searchable, my mom spent a week searching for him. She found him on the Carpathia as one of the survivors. She couldn't find him at Ellis Island but when she finally figured out that someone dated all the papers three months ahead, she found him there.
But he was never on the official list of Titanic survivors. She searched and searched and looked and looked. She told me about how she started looking for him as a little girl but could never find him.
Well Titanic was on last night and I thought, hey, let's just try to look for him. And I went on Encyclopedia Titanica and looked at every page. No Philip Zennie on the lifeboats, no Philip Zennie in third, second or first class. I called my mom and told her that Titanic had inspired me to find him and we looked together. I got really excited because the site had biographies for every survivor. But we still couldn't find him. I sorted the survivors by age.
working, my life is my work, my life's work, i hate where i work...it doesn't make a difference except to the pockets of people i'll never meet that cut my hours and short me help for their bottom line.
so be it, capitalist system.
i watched part of the libertarian debate last night. mike gravel was there. he doesn't fit in with the libertarians at all. he's one of the best leftist political minds and activists that our country has had in the past fifty years and he's forced to run for the libertarian nomination under a platform that he doesn't fully accept nor stand for only because he doesn't fit in anywhere else. i don't fit in anywhere, too.
This weekend has been more eventful than I thought it was going to be.
Today I went to see AJ and Chelsea at AJ's tractor pull.
That was fun.
Tonight Mike and I are going over to Rich and Sara's to grill some food and hang out..
Maybe I will fulfill my weekend goal of getting drunk.
Who knows.
More than likely Mike will find some reason for me not to drink.
Friday I did some good will shopping with Shannon and her daughter Kyah.
That was fun..
I really hope that nothing goes wrong the rest of the weekend..
This is why we can't have nice things
GTA IV has gotten to that point of no return that all GTA games eventually reach: Rachel can't beat this goddamn mission and therefore will never get any farther in this game ever. Many controllers were slammed around and curses were shouted. Then I looked at gamefaqs and it just said shoot the guys. I CANNOT SHOOT THEM, I AM DEAD. BUT THANK YOU, STUPID WALKTHROUGH MAN.
So I am watching Titanic. I hate this movie. Ugh. Time to change the channel. Okay, I guess I will watch Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict. Oh, Lifetime. Why do you make me watch these terrible, terrible movies?
My dad is going to be here in a little while on his motorcycle.
He is coming up for the Car show, and we are going to eat elephant ears together.
I am really excited to spend time with my dad, my boyfriend and my boyfriends daughter!
It's going to be a great weekend!!
Trapped in the Closet
Now I know this is OFN (and I'm behind by two years) but did you know that there are now TWENTY-TWO CHAPTERS of Trapped in the Closet?
And that you can watch all of them online at (for some crazy reason) ifc.com?
And did you know that if you get confused, there's a character map?
I didn't know. And my life was forever changed.
I was watching from chapter 11 on but decided to start all over again because it was just so good the first five times.
Sorry, guys. I was just happy this said I wasn't from Michigan. Eat that, stupid friends!
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
