The Clock Just Wont Tick

Ever have those days where you are doomed to the never ending, clock watching, eye rubbing, just wishing the day was over, kind of days? Yeah, so basically that's the kind of day I'm having.
For fear of the people who may actually read this, I suggest you stop while you can. This is going to be rather boring.
I started my day off with an alarm clock beeping, spastic, as if it were going to fall off of the shelf in which it had declared its home some three weeks ago. Not only do I absolutely hate waking up to that very unpleasant, heart stopping noise, but I hate waking up to it three times in a row. All of in which are my own fault, I should of just gotten up the first time and beat the hell out of it with a damn baseball bat, or just turned it off and not gone back to bed. I do prefer to wake up to the sound of music in the morning, though we can't have everything, now can we?
I get dressed and head off to work. Which, thank you for this, I didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn to get to work because work for me, this morning, was only 10 minutes away! Where as, if I were leaving from Snellville, I'd have to leave my house by 6:10. I get to work and I'm early. I'm technically not required to be at work until 7am, but I keep getting here around 6:50ish and waiting for the one we call "Keebler" to come and train me on her usual day. Keebler, also known as Angie or the omniscient one, is about to have a little elf named Noah. She's due on November 19th and will be leaving Toyota on maternity leave until mid February. So, with her leaving, naturally everyone is going crazy because there will not be anyone to run the fort! Hence her nickname, Keebler, the keeper of the trees. I, however, have come in to replace her until she can come back to work. She is my Dad (the King's) assistant, as well as everyone else's question answerer. For such a small little women (she's all of four feet, eleven inches tall, with the baby about 130 pounds) I've got some pretty big shoes to fill.
So, with that, I bet you are wondering what the hell I am doing blogging while at work. To answer that, our damn computer system has crashed, yet again. You would think that with the size of this company we could actually get a computer system that was worth a damn. Apparently, during my three month leave, the decided to update the computer system and make everything much more faster. "It will be the fastest computer system yet! You'll be able to fly through daily computer required tasks!" Yeah, right! I was trying to punch PO's or purchase orders, this afternoon and it took me almost 10 minutes longer to punch them than before with the old system. They didn't make the damn computer system faster! They made it slower. I keep thinking of that damn bellsouth commercial, "S-L-O-W - - D-I-A-L- - U-P!" Damn that commercial, it drives me crazy! That and the damn hurricane knocked out SET, or South EasternToyota, which is like the motherboard for Toyota. Everything is broke here!

So anyway, I'm sitting here, waiting for my dad to get ready to leave. I don't want to fight the traffic back to Snellville. Gotta run though, figured id go bother some techs.

Toes?!

This came to my attention this morning as I was changing the polish on my toes. My toes have not not been painted since 10th grade!! Ever since 10th grade there has always been some type of polish on my toes, chipped or freshly painted, but my little toe nails haven't seen the sunshine since 10th grade!! Poor little toes.

Just a sudden thought..figured I'd share.

Drug Tests

No, im not on drugs people! No, my parents didn't make me take one..."Gah, people! Eat your food!"

I'm just going back to Toyota and had to take a drug test, again. The thing about it is, it's not the normal "pee in the cup" and bring it back to the ugly lady, with big hair, coke bottle glasses and a jacked up grill at the front desk kind of test, but a "hair" test. Yes, that's right, a hair test.
So, I go and sit down in the chair at this drug testing facility that smelt like peroxide, lift my hair up and she wiggles her finger through to my scalp and pulls out this strand of hair and SNIP! Right at the root. So needless to say, I have a little bald patch of hair in the back of my head.
I had to sign a whole bunch of forms as she folds it up in this silver packaging that, without a doubt in my mind, could of just been the tin foil that she used from her lunch.

So anyway, for those of you who don't know how "hair tests" work, I'll explain it to you. If you have been in contact and/or using drugs up to 90 days prior to the test, it will detect it. So, for the normal people who apply for a job after waiting three weeks (being off the drugs) a "pee test" would result in negative.

So, yadi-yada - I passed. Duh. The amusing part to me is that my dad (The Fixed Op's Director) told me that so many people find out that the drug test is a hair test and they don't ever come back. That or they think that some special shampoo or some fruit will alter the results and of course, it comes up positive.

I just hadn't ever heard of a hair drug test until I started at Toyota and I found it to be rather amusing.

Give 100%

This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint...it goes like this:

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%


and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

DO YOU KNOW ANY PEOPLE LIKE THESE?????

Baby Demon

Now if this isnt funny....

....THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!!!

Compliments of Drew Coleman. Thanks for the laugh Drewski!

Proactive

Alright, usually I don't like to post about things like this, but this stuff is awesome.

All through high school I had pretty clear skin. Sometimes I had break outs, but nothing that lasted more than a week or so. Basically, I was very fortunate.

However, latley my skin has taken a turn for the worse. Ever since this summer, dealing with all the stress and what not, my skin has turned against me. Break outs that and don't go away. All kinds of just gross, not normal things for my face. Finally, this past week, I just got really angry with how nasty my face looked and I decided to go out on a limb and try this stuff they call Proactive. I've only been using it for about two days now and it really freaking works. Within two days, the swelling has gone down and the blemishes are gone. It's totally worth it the money.

I dont know what else to post about, basically I am just bored =)

Angels defeated by White Sox

This is probably the dumbest thing I have ever witnessed in Major League Baseball or, for that matter, in any game of baseball. Last night, the Angels had a lead of 1-0 all the way into the eighth inning when, in the ninth, the White Sox tied it up 1-1. Bottom of the ninth inning, Angles take the field. One out, two out....and then third out! They were headed to extra innings, or so they though.
The last pitch thrown is when Pierzynski swings and misses the low fast ball from the Angels pitcher, Kelvim Escobar. The home plate umpire undoubtedly calls the strike and the out with two, solid, articulate arm gestures when Pierzynski takes off towards first base. Meanwhile, the Angels catcher tosses the ball towards the mound and starts his jog towards the dug out. Apparently the ball hit the dirt and that is considered a "drop third strike." However, in all my years of watching and playing, I thought that if it was that close the home plate umpire had to call the drop strike. He can call the strike, but not the out.
Am I wrong?
The umpires and head coach of the Angels, Mike Scioscia, talked it over and without being able to sway them back to the home plate umpires original decision of an out, Pierzynski gets to stay safe at first base.
Long story short, a home run for the White Sox and they win the game.

Boo White Sox. I want the Angels to win this series.

(sorry, there are probably a ton of errors...I've got to get to class and I dont feel like re-reading this.)

P.s. The story can be found here at CNN.com. There are a ton of things I probably left out, but this was written to take up time before my test.

Car hunting sucks

For those of you who don't know, I totalled my car on September 1st. I had a 2005, blue, Toyota Scion and that thing was just awesome! Though, its no longer and it sucks.
So my issue is finding myself a car for something cheap. I have $5,3oo dollars to spend and I refuse to own anything other than a Toyota. It's so difficult trying to find a car...

=(

And the Angels have done it!

OUCH!!!

Thank God the Angels beat the Yankees!
The full story can be found here, though I'll just give you my run down. . . . .

THE ANGELS HAVE WON IT AND THE YANKEES ARE OUT!!!

I know I've said this before....

BUT SERIOUSLY!
I HATE MATH!!!
Sorry for all you math lovers out there, like Meach, but I just don't know how the hell y'all do it. I have a math test on Thursday and since I took off a little too much time from school... things aren't as easy as they were a few months ago. It's making me angry! I know that I should know how to do some of this stuff, but I'm out of practice and it's just so irks me so much and with that, I say this:

I WOULD RATHER RUN THROUGH A ROOM, NAKED, FULL OF POISON IVY INSTEAD OF DOING MATH!!!

What I want...

What I want to improve in my up coming ultimate events. Basically the Turkey Tourney and Women's League...

I realized, after reading Edelman's post, that there are things that I want to get better at. All season on Shotgun I was never really considered a threat to any of the other teams that we played against. I want to be like Amy Smith. Every single time she walked on the field, when I was on, I was like "Damn, not her. I'm not covering her!" She's a threat, or as someone says, "A terror on the field."
I want to be like that! I want to be feard when I walk onto the field. I want for someone on the other team to say, "You can't let her get the disc" or "you can't let her get behind you." I just want to be so much better! I want to be able to get the disc and to be considered "a thrower" or a "deep threat" or hell, I just want to be considered something!
I guess that there is a lot of personal pressure because I am not used to not being good at a sport. Playing softball for 14 years (I keep forgetting exactly how long) really shaped me into a threat. I remember over hearing a coach talking to his team while we were warming up between innings. He said, "What ever you do, don't the ball into the outfield unless its a grounder or a low line drive. If you give this outfield 5 feet, its over!" I was a left fielder and with my companions of a center fielder, Jennifer Green or Laura Ryan (depending on the team), it was true. Man, I miss softball. Even though I only swam for 3 years, I was pretty damn good at that, too! For only two years of swimming and making county and then swimming a 26.7 - I couldn't of been more pleased. Bah -
I just cannot wait until I am considered a threat. I can't wait until im good enough for people to ask me to play with there team or ask me to come try out.
So what I need to work on:
I need to work on my throws and release points. Which, even though I didn't play with Rival, I just wanted to say "Thank you, Evil" for helping me when I was at try-outs.
I need to work on my cuts and positioning. Especially in a zone offense and defense. I really need to learn how to be useful on the field.
I just want to be so much better and I can't wait until I am!

Really Bored...

It's late and I'm not tired. I'm extremley bored and with that, here is my warning: This is not going to be spell checked, nor will it make any sense (probably).


I absolutley love Norah Jones. She's just simply amazing. I'm listening to one of her newer songs, Sunrise, off of her new CD Feels Like Home. I would really love to fly out to California to see her live. I've heard that she is just as good live as she is on her CD's. Which, might I add, is high quality now-a-days. With all the lip singing that Brittany Spears and all those other teeny boppers do, it's amazing that someone actually sings when they performe. However, Norah Jones is far from a teeny bopper. What I love about Norah Jones is that her voice is so whole, full, and calming. She's usually perfect for me to fall asleep to, however, tonight I just cannot get pass the heavy eyes and hopeful wishing. Just too much on my mind. Also, another compliment for Norah Jones is that she is an amazing pianist and song writer. Truly a great musician. So - anyone want to catch a flight with me to California? I'm ready to go now that I keep listening to her. I also love the song that she sang with Ray Charles, Here We Go Again. Great song.

Just Plain Lame...

These are just absolutley amusing.... I had a conversation with someone about the lamest pickup lines that they have ever heard and with that, here is a list that we put together..

Please feel free to contribute, but this is a list of 10 a ridiculously LAME pick up lines:

1. Are you from Tennessee? "No, why?" Cause' your the only 10 I see!
2. Have you been eating your lucky charms? "No, why?" Cause' your looking magically delicious!
3. Baby I'm no Fred Flinstone, but I can still make your Bedrock!
4. Do you want to see something swell?
5. Should I call you in the morning? Or nudge you?
6. Do you work for UPS? Cause I could of sworn I saw you checking out my package.
7. I may not be Dairy Queen, but I'll treat you right!
8. Excuse me, but I lost my phone number, can I have yours?
9. Man: Want to play war? Women: War? Man: Yeah, I lay down and you blow the hell out of me.
10. All those curves and me with no breaks!

I'm sure that that there are some good ones in which we are forgetting, but seriously, those are pretty bad. Especially number 9.

^_^

So, I don't know what to call this post, so back off! ^_^

Like the changes? I figured that since I got all the kinks out of the way (the stupid, annoying, immature people who were being jackasses) I could allow for people to comment outside of the blog world again. Have fun!


This previous weekend as a ton of fun! Even though we didn't make Nationals (total bummer) I really enjoyed being down in Orlando. Scott, Teddy, Caroline, Stace and myself all shared a hotel room and a car ride down to Orlando. Weren't those converstations just interesting!? Caroline (left) and Stace (right) definatley made playing with Shotgun so much fun! Stace, who is undoubtably my twin (I think there was seperation at birth or something) was a lot of fun to be around. She was just like me, talkitive, flirty and fun! She was great amusement on and off the field. I still love how Scott Sample always mixed the two of us up! "Great Defense Sam!" - "Scott, I'm standing right next to you (on the sidelines).. thats Stace!" It was very amusing. Caroline, oh sweet Caroline! She was great to have around. She's just so nice!! Everytime she was around she had a great smile on her face. Something that I really admired. They both better hurry up and get jobs in Atlanta. I need roomies, ladies!! =) Both of those girls are just awesome!
Also, over the weekend, all of the girls were given nicknames with "whore" as the ending word. I was "Secret Whore", Stace was "Cuddle Whore" and Caroline was "Bff Whore." Haha, there were more, I just cant remember them for the other girls. Tons of fun...

So about the weekend:
We lost to Holes and Poles and JOTS (aka. Johnny on the Spot). I'm still okay with the way our season went. We played strong, came out on top in my eyes. I still feel that even if we made it to the game to go we would of been murdered by Hang Time or Hot N' Sweaty. They were just un-real. I sat and watched them play a little bit during there game. Neither team turned the disc over. It was just solid offense and solid defense. It would of been really tough. The one thing that I am okay with is that both teams, Hot n Sweaty and Hang Time, both deserved to go to Nationals. It's not like some team made it that we could of murdered. So, even though I'm upset that we didn't make it, I'm still happy. Couldn't ask more for a first year of club.
This club season has taught me a lot. I went into this season still rather clueless about a lot of things. Shotgun forced me into doing things, mainly handling. Which, by the way, I feel confident in saying that I did an O.K. job. I feel like I've gotten better since last year, though there are still a lot of things that I do need to work on still. Like Amy Smith said, I need to have more confidence in myself. I think that will come in time. I just can't wait until I am a threat on the field. What a season....

Driving was a bad choice....

This morning I took my momma to the airport. She's flying up North to see cousin Thomas, yadi-yadi-yada. So I ride down there with her, singing along to Barbara and talking about this and that. Anyway, I drop her off (I just don't know if saying "I dropped her off" is correct since she was actually driving) walk around the car and jump into the drivers seat. So I'm leaving the airport and I need to go North, North East to get home. I live off of hwy 78 on the eastside of Atlanta. So Im heading along and I see the signs for 285. There is a sign for 285 North and a sign for 285 East. WTF?! I usually do rather well with directions, I must admit, but I was just dumb founded. Do I go North or East? Oh wait, I need to go in both of those directions. I go North- it was the wrong way.
Now, of course, looking back on it, duh- I should of gone East. 285 is a big circle, but for someone who has never been to Atlanta - thats really tricky. Tricky, tricky, tricky...

Or maybe I am just a blonde =)

Stolen from others

I really didn't want to do this, but I guess it will be fun:

10 years ago: Wow, Ten years ago I was nine years old! Geese, I am young. I remember hanging out with Jenna at Lake Lanier, getting into trouble with Holly at Camp Toccoa and just being the typical, tomboy that I was. Yes, I was a tomboy. I really, really big tomboy.

5 years ago: If we go five years ago today, I was in my freshmen year of high school and hating every since moment of it. Though, my freshmen year of high school is when I met my life long friend, Benjie. I was dating a guy named John Armstrong, who was a twin and way too into religion for me.

1 year ago: I was dating Jonathan Monforti and just started playing ULTIMATE! I was being introduced into the world of frisbee and being consumed into a relm of a whole different world that, unknowingly, I would never be able to escape. Though, I really like it. =)

Yesterday: I was playing ultimate at Regionals in Orlando, Florida. We (Shotgun) played Rival and almost lost, but we pulled through. We lost to JOTS aka. Johnny on the Spot and then went hom. On the way home I was riding shotgun with Teddy as the driver and we were cracking up. I found out (from Teddy, of course) that I have been saying "Reeses" (in the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup) wrong my whole entire life and I never even knew it!! We were laughing at the fact that he said that I couldn't be quiet for more than 5 minutes and when I tried he starts poking at me with different open-ended statements that he knew I was just itching to respond to. Damn him! Though, it was so funny...it's amazing what the lack of sleep can do to you.

Today: I woke up and went to take the van back to Toyota. Saw my dad for a little while and then went home. Unloaded all of my dirty clothes into the laundry and then went to class. Class was boring, I really hate math. Went from class back home and then back to Dunwoody to pick up my lap top and camera.

Tomorrow: I will take my momma to the airport. She leaves for New Jersey to go hang out with her cousin (so would that make him my second cousin?) Thomas. Then to class and back home for homework. I'm going to go pick up with Jenny Lees goaltie team tomorrow and then maybe to dinner. Not so sure about the evening!

5 snacks I enjoy: Chocolate! Chocolate and more Chocolate!! BBQ chips, bagels and fruit. I love Mangos and Peaches!

5 bands/artists I know lyrics to MOST of their songs: Dave Matthews Band, Savage Garden (old school baby), Maroon 5, Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks. ( I like my country )

5 things I would do with $100,000,000: I would invest it. I would take out just enough to buy the essentails. A comfortable car, a small house and then I would travel. I could live off of the interest of the money for the rest of my life. So I guess 5 things would be 1. Take out money 2. invest 3. buy car 4. buy house and 5. travel.

5 locations I'd like to run away to: Greece, Rome, Paris, Germany and Australia.

5 habits I have: Fiddling, playing with my hair, cracking my toes, chewing on my lip when im nervous and pacing.

5 things I like doing: Playing Ultimate, reading, playing outside, kissing and holding my special someone =)

5 things I would never wear: Fubu, Baby Phat, cheap perfume, Guess anything and huge jewerly.

5 TV shows I like: House! (my favorite) Surface, Law and Order, Will and Grace, and CSI.

5 movies I like: The Last Samuri, Finding Nemo, Liar Liar, A Beautiful Mind and Saved.

5 biggest joys at the moment: Ultimate, a new special someone, hugs, kisses, and my puppy.

5 favorite toys: My lap top, my ipod, does a frisbee count? uh, yeah, I dont know...i dont have many toys...

Wow, that took a lot longer than expected!

Ages 4 to adult

Today I got home from a long weekend (which I will post about later, when I have more time)and was asked to help clean out our upstairs, hall closet. In doing so, I found my stash of old games from when I was younger. Yes, go ahead with the "hold are you?" jokes and "wasn't that last year?" comments, but these games, to me, are old school. Some of the games that I found were: Chutes and Latters, Monopoly, Hands Down, Candyland, Hungry-Hungry Hippos, Operation, Trouble, Life, Sorry!, Boggel and a few more that were just great fun to play. It just reminded me of how much fun rainy days used to be before the world of video games. I asked my brother, who is fifteen, if had ever played any of these games. He hadn't even heard of half of them. The only one he knew was Monopoly and then again, who doesn't know that game?!
I'm not dissin' the video games, I'm just sayin' - games used to be a lot of fun!
I miss those old rainy days....