Sometimes no news is good news

I had finally met some of the facebook people I had been talking to for a year and one of them works for Walmart with my friend Mikey. She told me, without my asking, that she knows who my ex husband is. Great, a lot of people seem to know him. She also said that she know who his wife is and that his wife knows me. Alright.

He married Jennifer Goodyear. She was the high school hooker. That girl had sex with anyone and everyone in high school. She was a grade lower and was always "pregnant" and always "miscarrying." I don't know if this is true, but word in the halls was that she would drink and smoke till she miscarried but I know (now in my infinite wisdom) that most women who don't know they are pregnant tend to still drink and smoke without any real consequence.

We knew each other but we never ran in the same crowds. We weren't civil but we weren't rude. It was more along the lines of just ignoring each other because we had nothing to say to one another. What my friend told me is that she has been facebook stalking me through one of my friends. She suggested that Jenni was using Jennie (her new sister-in-law) but when I looked on FB, they aren't even friends. As far as I could tell, Travis wasn't either but he isn't on my friend's list so I have no access to his friend's list. Tom Sr. and Kim are. What I did find is that Chrystina is friends with her on FB. They both live in Crestview. I haven't talked to Chrys in a while and we never had a falling out. She doesn't seem to be "that way" but it seems to be the only thing that makes sense. Before I blocked Jenni, and deleted Chrys, I was able to see her Jenni's initial page to see that Jennie wasn't on the friend's list.

Word on the street is since she is (now was) stalking me, she knew when I was coming to town and made references to my friend, and possibly other people in Walmart, that her and Tom need to hurry up and file for custody. ::Shakes head::

The other word on the street is Tom married her after three weeks. If that is correct, he just pulled the same thing he did with me. They were dating one week, engaged the next and married the next. What I don't get is Tom is a smart guy! He knows better than that! He really is a brilliant man. He's a great guy, a decent friend, a great father (he just wasn't a good lover or husband for me) but he is not by any means stupid. This was an idiotic move. All I can think of is that he thought she was pregnant. I think supposedly she said she was when my friend announced her pregnancy but is now saying they are trying. Once again, I don't know what Tom is thinking....trying to knock up the brand new wife like he did with me? Did he not learn anything?

So while this is all hilarious, it really isn't. He's been threatening for years to try for custody but I'll be damned if  this is the reason why he tries. Having a step-mom is all cool, but she is not going to be my son's mother.

An extra day

I looked at the schedule at work this morning to see that what we were hoping for was actually going to happen. I was still getting my Monday and Wednesday off, but I got all my days off except for Friday. That wasn't a big deal because it was a single shift that I had to have picked up. It means that all day on Monday would be spent packing and cleaning. We are going to get the trailer and start packing things up. It would be spent picking up the house and cleaning for while we are gone (and taking out the trash). It would be spent doing the things that we need to do before this trip. Rather than leave at 5am on Thursday, we are leaving 7am on Wednesday. It means one extra day in Florida with our friends and family. One extra day to try to get the rest of the loose ends taken care of. I'm so excited!

Crunch time!

It's getting to be crunch time for this trip back to Florida. It just seems as though so many things are going to be happening when I am there. We are renting a U-Haul trailer to bring furniture with me so we can get it in a storage unit. We are going to be going to this retirement party, and I'm still not exactly sure what day or time it is.  Everything needs to work around that since that is the main reason we are going to Florida. I have to stop by my parents house to drop off gifts on Gabriel's bed as a surprise when he gets home. I seriously went bookoo overboard and bought him a ton of stuff. Those things alone will take up time.

On top of that, I am hoping to meet everyone in two groups. One group is the facebook people I have been talking with. Brandon, Azrael (Jennie), Candace (who will be out of town), Star, Ron but I am not positive with the last two. Who knows if they are civil and talking to one another and who knows with their schedule. Maybe I can meet Dawn. I've met Brandon back in high school but I haven't seen him since so technically I haven't met any of these people. I'm hoping to meet at Chris C.'s restaurant, Joey Tomatoe's, for a dinner so I can meet that guy too. The second group will hopefully consist of the people who worked for Sonic that I still talk to: Mikey, Dennis, Cory, Melissa and Kayla. I don't get to talk to Kayla as much but still. We talk from time to time. Maybe I can meet Melissa's husband and Cory's new unofficial boyfriend, Michael.

Daylan is probably going to spend a night with Brendan drinking and playing video games. I want to see Brendan but I have no intention of watching them play video games all night, so I will probably meet up with Rob. It would be great to see Nessa, but her and I have not spoke since October because of a fight. She knows Rob and I still talk, and we really started talking again yesterday, but I want to see her too. I am just not sure how that will turn out.

I am hoping that since I won't be in Florida for my birthday that I can have pictures with friends as my birthday gifts. I am so homesick and I miss my friends there, even the ones I haven't met face to face yet, so I want pictures with them (in abundance) to be my birthday gifts.

Somehow in the midst of everything else, I am trying my damnedest to get people together. They have known I have been coming to town but I am not sure about when everyone can meet. Mikey and Dennis said they are free on Saturday so if the retirement party falls on that day, I will have to see about seeing them at a different time that day. I mean come on now, I can't go without seeing my friends on this trip. I have already said I just won't sleep. I can sleep on the way back to Texas. I can sleep on the way to Texas so I can be up all night with everyone if that is the only way to meet with people. I know everyone can't bow down to my schedule but something has to give. I already can't see my son because he is going out of town with his dad so I want to see everyone else. Maybe it will make me feel better.

Things you shouldn't hear....

Yesterday afternoon, Daylan was playing Fable 3 online. I guess he "met" a person on the game and they decided to run around together and help each other. I'm not quite sure what Daylan needed help for, maybe he was helping the kid? Anyway! I am on the couch printing coupons when I hear "I haven't had a wife or kids in a long time." Yeah, it made me stop my search for a moment and look up at him. "I had the Henry the 8th award because I married six woman and killed five of them." "Dude, your wife wanted to play patty cake with me. It's not my fault."

Needless to say, I knew it was a game but it still shocked me enough to where I looked up from my screen as he looks up from his. He explained that this guy is getting upset at him because he is flirting with the guy's game wife. This isn't another player who is pretending to be his wife; this is a person the game created. He said that if you are online and doing the live games, if one player has sex with their game wife, other people in the room who are online are obligated to join. Keep in mind, there are achievements for how many wives you have, how many kids you have, how many STDs you have had etc. Because this guy was getting "butt hurt" over the fact that Daylan was macking on his game wife, Daylan said "I think I am going to kill his wife, just to piss him off."

Ok, what game thinks it is ok to get STDs on a game? LOL Why is this an achievement to get as many wives as you can? Oh you can have achievements for divorce too. Man oh man.  Had I not known this was a game, I probably would have started throwing things at him. I mean shoot an unsuspecting woman would think that the guy she is with is a serial killer and a serial cheater. I knew it was a game but still.

Geez.What a lucky girl I am. ::shakes head:: You can't help but laugh.

My non-grocery stock pile as of May 19th 2011

Laundry 

Disposable razors,which are cheaper than refills.

You can see what goes on sale and what has coupons. Obviously Daylan's stuff is cheaper.

Once again, guess what goes on sale and what I have coupons for. Daylan shouldn't smell for a long time.

My smelly- good stuff that I just started. With all the wild animals outside the house, as well as inside, my house smells. Skunk is NOT a good smell.

In shower hair care. I'm not sure if I will continue with this category since I am wanting to try the Wen Haircare Line. Head and Shoulders will probably stay.

Yeah, I think I am good for a while and I still have more Tampax Pearl tampons LOL

Now I just need to stock up on Neosporin.

Cleaning products

The bottom shelf after I pushed more towels into a corner and organized.

The top portion with the detergents.

Now all I need to do is get the following items: more toilet paper, more paper towels, neosporin, more deodorant and body wash for me, more air fresheners and smelly-good stuff for the house. 

If only I could get a grocery stock pile going but 1) I can't seem to get my hands on coupons I would use and 2) I don't have a whole lot of space. Grocery coupons that are released are for items that neither Daylan nor myself would ever eat. Here comes the next challenge.

Tricked

This morning as I was putting on my make-up, Daylan came up to me and asked me what I thought about going to Houston the following day. I asked him  how far away it was and it said it was seven hours. I did inquire if this was going to be a day trip and he just shrugged and said that we wouldn't be able to stay long but yeah. Of course I got excited about this and said yes. He said ok and walked away. I finished putting my makeup on. A few minutes later, he emerged from our bedroom and said "Well, since you already agreed to it, I think I should tell you that Dad will be coming with us." "Wait, what?!? Your dad is coming with us on our day trip? Why the hell is that happening?!?"

"We are following Kaydee to Houston and then Dad will be riding with us back home...."

Fuck. He already told everyone that I was going and his sister already wants me to be in the car with her, while she is awake, since she has had more than enough of her father. I can't back out now. I should have known this was too good to be true.

I told him that he owes me. When we are coming back from Florida at the end of the month, we will make a detour into New Orleans for a few hours. He owes me that much for tricking me. He said he had no intention of tricking me and thought I understood. I've been working all weekend. I completely forgot his sister was due to leave tomorrow.  Why would I think that I would have to spend the day, in a car, making sure his sister got to Houston? I thought that maybe he wanted to go and explore with me. LOL.

I am bringing two movies, a book and headphones so I can drown his father out. I hate him so I am hoping to not hear his voice while he is in the car with us for seven hours. Oh yeah. I will make the best out of this trip. I will start to read The Power by Rhonda Brynes and I will bring The Sea Prince and the Fire Child as well as My Best Friend's Wedding. I should be set for seven hours.

Oh he owes me! Punk.

Good morning world!

I truly think that the show Manswers is a funny show. I was using it as background noise when I heard this on the show. "$80 spray bought online from a university in FL that makes a man "cuddle" for an hour due to the chemical reaction it creates in the male brain". OK, first off, I know men typically don't cuddle. Usually Daylan doesn't because I make him way too hot. Lately I've understood. My house gets insanely hot in Texas. It may not be as hot outside as it is inside. I don't understand quite how that works but my house will be colder in the winter as well. The two rooms that seem to be the worst are the bathroom and my bedroom. Even if we have the A/C on, the bedroom is a slow cooker. There was an evening when I had the air on in the bedroom but it was still reading 95 degrees at 11pm. I don't want Daylan cuddling with me when it's that hot in my house with the A/C and the fan going. Screw cuddle spray. Really any man that isn't willing to cuddle from time to time after getting some nooky needs his balls kicked back in his gut. I'm not spending $80 on a spray that you have to spray three times in each nostril. How do you plan on doing it? Tying him down and forcing him? Doing it at gunpoint? Yeah, that will bring the romance on to cuddle.

Daylan got fed up with my using his phone so we finally went to T-Mobile to add me to his plan. For months, before I stopped using my previous phone, we were going back and forth on who would be added to who's line. My service at Verizon was better, but my phone sucked and I had to pay more. His plan was cheaper but there wasn't a 4G tower by the lake so service was iffy. We finally both had enough and decided to go ahead and add me to his plan. We were originally just going to wait till both our contracts ended (at the same time) and do it then. It would have been around the same that we were hoping to get married so it seemed like the natural plan. Get married, share last names, share cell phone plans. We just rushed that plan instead.

So right now I have a Motorola Cliq 2.

Let's see how well I am going to like this phone. It is a smart phone and it is an android rather than a windows mobile phone. It's skinnier than my last phone because it's a regular battery (instead of an extended  battery) but the guy said that won't freeze up on me. It has a 5MP camera so the camera won't suck like my last phone. I should also be able to look stuff up on the internet. My last phone would only let me do facebook. I have 14 days to play around with it and see if this is the phone for me. So far the buttons look cool, but feel weird but we will see. I only wanted three features on my phone, the rest wouldn't mean anything to me. I wanted an actual keyboard (check), a good camera (so far check) and I wanted a chat-style text like you get with yahoo messenger. So far this doesn't have that last feature (while my previous phone did). It's chat looks like the iPhone chat, which I find annoying, but maybe I can change that feature within the phone? I'll have to read the book and fiddle with it to see. I did change the text limit from 200 to 999 so maybe this will help. I hate deleting texts. I like to go back and re-read things, especially if I am proving a point. I typically tend to like everything and if I don't, I just settle. This is a $400 phone so it better be good. I'm just hoping I will use all the features. I didn't have a need for all the fancy crap on my last phone but it seems as though there are more things I could use on this, such as the sticky note feature, and whatnot. It doesn't seem like this is a business phone. Lets keep our fingers crossed with this phone.

Kaydee possibly staying with us for a week. Apparently her dad and step mom have been annoying her. Surprise surprise. I say this for two reasons: 1) Kaydee is quick to get upset and to yell about something 2) Kathy truly is annoying. I'm not saying either are horrible things, but I figured the two wouldn't mesh well if combined for too long. Kaydee is much, MUCH more tolerable when her husband is around. I never saw her this tolerable when she was dating Robert, another Sonic manager that Daylan was living with. Jon just brings out so many good qualities in her that for some reason she tries to hide from the general public. Kathy is way too peppy, way too gossipy, way too quick to judge and way too OCD. Kaydee has been upset because Kathy has taken it upon herself to parent a child that isn't hers how she sees fit by giving him a PB&J sandwich at 11pm, to a three year old, when the mother has literally been driving all day long. Not to mention that a three year old isn't going to be a compulsive neat freak. He is going to be a three year old with slightly messy hands. Let us not forget that the other child, who is 9 months old, is still teething. He hasn't got the rest of his teeth so he is in the stage where everything goes in his mouth. Kathy's grandson is the same age and she has had two kids of her own. Has she forgotten this? They've got into a few arguments already about stuff Kathy wants to not end up in Ayden's mouth, but Kaydee can't watch the child every second. And Caleb is a toddler. He isn't going to be watching where his hands go. He is a polite as can be, but he is still a child. More than likely, Kaydee and the boys will be staying with us for a week so that means I have to clear out Gabriel's bedroom. Caleb will sleep in the same bed, but I'm not positive where the bassinet will go. I believe it will all still fit, it's just that room is really small.

I would like to have this happen because Kaydee and I have had a rough past and I want to get along with her. She has been making efforts, because Daylan asked her to, and I'd really like the company in the house. I'm not in the house often, right now, but it still would be nice to be able to come home and have someone to talk to, especially when Daylan is glued to his XBOX. Besides, for a week, I wouldn't have to rely so heavily on Daylan taking me to work. He has to leave work a lot, or drop me off really early so that it can fit with both of our schedules. I'm sure we will both get annoyed with each other, but I wouldn't want to wish her staying with her dad and step-mom on anyone....considering I really dislike both of them (especially Daylan's dad).

"Being wealthy isn't about money; it's about having options. Try everything. If you don't like something, it's because you tried it. Not because you dismissed it."-Chris Rock. How amazing is this quote?

The paper we got on Sunday really wasn't worth much. I assumed more coupon inserts would be inside but there wasn't. I still cut a few out, but I definitely wouldn't have bought one from a stand if I had to. To top it off, Walgreen's doesn't have a good sale. That part is ok. My stock pile is to the point where I am ok with it. I don't really have a lot of room in this particular closet for it so really I only need a few items to even everything out. I need more body wash for me, more deodorant for me (Daylan is fine), more band-aides/neosporin and I need to get plug in air fresheners for the bathroom and kitchen. I'm still working on getting stuff for free. I'm still averaging at 50% off, 70% if I am lucky, but I am working on it. I would have a higher savings if my stores would let me triple coupons. Shoot, my grocery bill would be so much smaller if Albertson's let me double coupons! Walgreen's will let me double coupons, but it is rare that a store coupon comes to match items I have.

Before I end this blog, I will briefly mention my upcoming trip back home to Florida. Daylan and I will be home for two days on Memorial Day weekend. Daylan's step-dad is retiring from the Air Force and so we will be attending. We also really want to see people back at home. I'm homesick. I miss my friends and I really, really, really miss my son. Daylan can only get four days off from work, so two days are going to be spent driving and then we will only have two days there. Everything will be rushed but I am hoping to get everything accomplished. I want to see my friends in two groups. Group one will be the old Sonic crew (that we still talk to), which would include: Mikey, Dennis, Cory, Melissa and Kayla. Group two is the friends I've made in Florida since leaving that I'm surprised I never talked to before: Brandon, Azrael (Jennie), Candace and Star. I am also hoping to spend some quality time with Gabriel, but it seems that he will be out of town with her paternal grandparents to visit his great grandmother. Dammit all to hell! I am also hoping to get my license thing straightened out while still attending the retirement party, which is pretty much mandatory. I love Kenny, Daylan's step-dad, so I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Anyway, time to get ready for work. Another double! Last Tuesday, I made $134 so let's hope this day is just as good, especially considering that my doubles over the weekend were NOT as fruitful as it should have been considering I was running my ass off all weekend. Ah, at least I had a day off yesterday and another one tomorow.

On the prowl...

I'm looking into getting my son some more toys. He has a chest of stuff here, but with the current situation going on, I am looking into buying more for him. Part of me thinks that if I can buy enough stuff he likes, that he will forgive me for being here. Now that I have a job, I could get him out here, but I want to go ahead and just go back to FL. There are other things that need to be taken care of there.

He isn't old enough to be "bought" and he would still love me regardless. He isn't at the age to really know what forgiveness is, but I wonder if I lost that sparkle to him. Either way, I want to go and get stuff for him since I have money to do so. Of course I want to be frugal about it. There is no need on spending a ton on one item that he will just discard later. What can I say? Used or coupons are the way to go.

I believe a trip to Walmart may be in order soon. We don't have a real toy store here, but maybe Walmart or Target will have some cool stuff on sale for him. Besides, shopping for him is more fun for me than shopping for myself. I'm still just as picky but I'm more lenient. I just don't want Gabriel having a ton of electronic stuff or violent toys. I know a lot are "violent" but there are certain toys that I find are better, like foam swords, super-soakers or the bow with the suction cup arrows.

I did buy him some new books, that were used, so help him with reading. I'll probably post pictures later.

Mother's Day

When Daylan's, sister, Kaydee, was over the other night with her kids, it made me realize how much I miss having a baby around and how lucky I am that Gabriel isn't in the needy 3year old stage anymore. He is five. I haven't seen him in a few months since his father is being insistent that he doesn't leave the state. Now that I have a job out here, I could get Gabriel but there are loose ends I need to take care of in Florida so I am just going to move back.

The exact date is still in the air but I'm hoping for the middle of summer.

It is going to be busy today at work and I can only hope that I will be in excellent sections to make up for the debaucher that was work last night. We were busy. Really busy. Either my tables complained about everything under the sun, they camped out in my tables or they just plain didn't feel like spending more money on a thing called tips. I'm hoping that this will not be the case today. With all the little babies I will be seeing today, it's making me wonder if now is the time to take my IUD out and try to have kids with Daylan.

Of course I know that now isn't a good time. We aren't financially set up for that and we still have yet to save up for the wedding. He doesn't want to have kids right now anyway. He really wants kids,  but not at this moment. Most days I agree; now isn't a good time to bring another baby into this world. I just miss having a small baby around. I know it means a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of crying, a lot of diaper changes, a lot of time doing it by myself but knowing what I know now, and being almost 28 instead of 21, I think this will be much easier this time around.

Besides, I make some beautiful and amazing chitlins ;).

It's time to distract myself and get ready for work. All I have to do is put on my work shirt since it is already ironed. Tonight I get to go through the Sunday paper to see what kind of beautiful coupons I get this week. Surely there will be more baby stuff in it. I really don't need to buy anything for a while, especially since the shopping trip I had on Wednesday cost more than I was expecting, but if there is an out-of-this-world deal, then I suppose I will oblige. It all just depends. There are some more things I need to stock up on such as: body wash for me, deodorant for me, Neosporin and more Fabreze. Most of the deodorant and body wash is Daylan's. If I can get those items in this week's trip, then I can definitely stop for a few weeks.

No amount of coffee could make me feel better when being woke up in this manner.

When I was 21 years old, I use to answer texts from people who would wake me up at 2am. I use to be able to sleep for four hours, after drinking, and still be cool to go to work the next day. Shoot, I even didn't mind people coming in and out of wherever I was living at all hours of the night as long as they weren't being loud. Man how things change.

It seems as though no one allows me to sleep here. If it isn't Daylan constantly waking me up, it is someone who feels the need to bother him in the middle of the night, which turns out to bother me more than it does him. Daylan will wake me up at 4am wanting sex and I slap him away because I don't want to be woke up. It always takes me a long time to fall back asleep. If it isn't sex, then he wakes me up by rubbing my hip or my leg. It wouldn't bother me as much but the constant movement keeps me awake. When he stops, I start to doze off but then he starts up again which wakes me up again. I finally have to literally throw his hand off my body so I can go back to sleep. It never fails that I am tossing and turning afterwards because I can't sleep again. I usually go in the living room and see if I can fall asleep watching tv on the couch.

This is the other scenario. Daylan will be playing on his game console. If he is playing campaign, on his own, he is silent. I won't hear a thing. If he is playing Black Ops online, then I hear him cussing from the living room. We only have one door inside this house and that is to the bathroom so sound travels quite easily in this small house. He says words and phrases that I do not wish to repeat because it is that disgusting. He forgets that his voice travels so even talking normally, or laughing, will keep me from falling asleep. This usually happens till 2 or 3am.

On rare occasions, his phone will blow up. This was the case last night, and it almost resulted in his phone being on the bottom of the lake behind my house. One of his friends finally finished training as a manager (the same friend who plays games with him online almost every night. Marcus is Daylan's secret boyfriend; neither will admit it) and was on his first solo closing shift. He called at midnight, 12:30 am and then at 12:45 am. Each call woke me up. Finally Daylan got up to go to the store. Either he left at 1am or he left at 1:30 am but he wasn't polite enough to close the door silently so I woke up. Around 3am he started getting text messages from another manager. I got up and grabbed the phone. I walked my not-so-happy-ass to the back and proceeded to unlock the door. He grabbed my wrist before I could walk outside to chuck his phone into the lake. I told him if this shit ever happened again that his phone wouldn't be so lucky. He does still have a spare phone. He would just need a new sim card and would have to get all his phone numbers back again.

Yeah the drive to take me to work this morning was not a happy drive for him....or his phone.

How is it that Daylan fails to realize that all this really bothers me? He may work more hours than me, on the clock, but I spend more time in the restaurant than he does. He really only works 5-10 hours more than me a week (10 hours if he is really lucky), but I spend about 10-15 more hours at the restaurant than he does. I'm inside that place close to 60 hours a week between breaks, getting there early due to his meetings or waiting for rides home. I don't exactly get a whole lot of time to sleep because it takes me so long to wind down when I get home.

So why does he think that I want to be woke up, or not be able to sleep at all because of his gaming habits, whenever he feels the need to get frisky or when he starts getting calls from work? He needs to just start turning his phone off at night.

The things we take for granted...

I can't imagine life without the things we have now. Most would not know what to do without a cell phone. I, on the other hand, have been without my own phone for about four months and have been fine with it. I've also done without a dish washer. I do want one...badly. There are other things that we have that I just can't see ourselves going without. Here is my list:

A washing machine and a dryer
Cars
Computers
TVs/DVDs
Electricity (light bulbs)
Alarm clocks
Printers/printing press

I thought of this as I turned the tv off. I had just finished watching The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Once I turned the tv off, the living room was black. I couldn't see a thing. My eyes hadn't adjusted to the darkness so rather than sit and wait for the acclimation to occur, I felt around the room like a blind person. Once I found a light, I realized just how long we would be without it. I also realized how far light can go. I simply walked down the hallway to put something on the ironing board and realized I didn't need to feel my way to that point; I simply walked at midnight. The sun wasn't out and yet I was able to move around freely without injuring myself.

We would be lost without the modern conveniences we have now. Yes, we would learn to adapt. If none of these things were invented, we wouldn't miss it. We'd still use candles to get from room to room. We'd still wash our clothes by hand and hang them on lines. We would sew our clothes by hand. We would write letters to keep in touch with people. We'd be using a horse and carriage. Life would be filled with just as many tasks, but with more time to do them.

It just seems as though light is at the heart of it all. If we hadn't discovered fire, then discovered candles and then discovered light bulbs, life wouldn't be the same. Light give us freedom and takes our fears away. It helps us to extend our day and not live our lives on time that isn't given to us. We can go from room to room within our house, at midnight, without injuring ourselves. What a blessing that is. My toes and knees are thanking mankind for finding those amazing things.

Dear Coffee

Dear coffee,

I tend to neglect you because I never really need you. You always tend to make me feel worse than I did before you came along. I often get jittery because the caffeine makes my blood sugar crash even if I had breakfast. Why this happens is a mystery. I often don't like the bathroom to smell like you because my urine is now scented with coffee bean goodness.

However I need you more than I have a while. My finance decided that he wanted to stay up with his friends and play Call of Duty Black Ops till well after two in the morning. It doesn't help that I cleaned the house last night. I stopped shortly after midnight with vacuuming. I just couldn't do anymore. All I have left is minor organization in the bedroom, the stove, the dishes in the sink and then it will be on to ironing the mountain of clothes that has accumulated in the living room for me to do. It wouldn't have been so bad if the fiancée didn't decide to talk loudly and laugh from the living room. It made trying to sleep impossible. While I give him credit that he wasn't yelling, it still didn't help my situation.

So, coffee, in order to get the pep in my step to make it through this double, I will need your assistance. I would just enjoy you from the comfort of my home, but I don't have any filters. You will have to be a secret; you'll be in a cup and hidden behind a squirrel at work.

You and I can have our secret affair in private. I'll get in trouble if the managers saw us together while I am at work.

Waiting impatiently for our meeting,
Cass

iTunes Questionaire

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions.

Pick Your Artist:

Michael Jackson

Are you male or female:

Girlfriend

Describe yourself:

P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)

How do you feel about yourself:

Describe where you currently live:

Earth Song

If you could go anywhere you wanted to go:

Stranger In Moscow

Your favorite form of transportation:

 Speed Demon

Your best friends are:

Dirty Diana

What's the weather like:

Favorite time of day:

If your life were a TV show, what would it be called:

Someone In The Dark (From E.T. Storybook)

What is life to you:

It's Like Falling In Love

What is the best advice you have to give:

Heal The World

If you could change your name, what would it be:

Billy Jean 

Your favorite food is:

Tabloid Junkie

Thought for the Day:

Wanna Be Startin' Something

I would like to die:

Dangerous

My soul's present condition:

Smooth Criminal

The faults I can bear:

They Don't Really Care About Us

My motto: 

Keep The Faith

Your favorite color is:

Blood On The Dance Floor

Carino's Restaurant Review

Daylan and I wanted to try a new place to eat for our date. I didn't want to go to my job because I already spend enough time in that restaurant. I'm typically there for twelve hours a day so the last thing I wanted was to go in on my day off.

Anyway, to keep this short, Carino's is the Italian food chain, similar to Olive Garden. When we got there, it was around 9. No one was at the host stand. A male waiter saw us and didn't do anything. It's not like we are hard to miss. I was wearing high heels so I was six feet tall, if not taller. He didn't come to the door until someone else came to pick up their cell phone. Finally he grabbed the host, who had no clue where to sit us. When he sat us, he sat us at a dirty table. Well, I say "dirty" loosely. It still had water on the table from where a glass had been sitting there. It also took a while for our waitress to come and greet us.

Our waitress wasn't rude but she wasn't polite. She was in between. I get that it was 9 but don't make it that obvious that you don't want to be there anymore. When she brought out our calimari appetizer, she didn't bring out any side plate or offer any to us. She almost banged Daylan's soda to the table, but she was more careful with my glass of wine.

Even if the service from our waitress was exemplurary, the food wasn't. I ordered the spicy shrimp and chicken pasta. I don't remember what Daylan ordered. The tomatoes in my dish tasted sour, like it had gone bad. I love tomatoes. With the tomatoes taken out, the rest of my dish wasn't any better. It was just bland. The pasta and sauce tasted like it was just in a butter sauce. The shrimp was the only good part. Daylan's dish was overpowered by ground pepper. His dish had no flavor as well. Even the chicken and ham wasn't all that great. The chicken had no flavor and the pork had entirely too much salt in it. For someone who eats everything, Daylan didn't even eat 1/3 of his dish. I didn't either.

We didn't yell at the waitress. She doesn't get paid enough to deal with that. We didn't want to talk to the manager because we didn't want food for free because it probably wouldn't have been any better than the dishes we already had. We just didn't want to be there anymore. The bill was $52 for a glass of wine, a sprite, one appetizer and two pasta dishes....and it wasn't even worth it. Our drinks were the only good thing about the meal. We still tipped the girl $6, which was barely over 10%, but her service was....mediocre and the food was horrible. The fastest thing to happen was she gave us our bill and cashed us out.

Needless to say, I am going to try and fix our dishes by seasoning them myself. I don't want to just throw food away. We just won't be eating there again. Ever.