Since I probably won't be writing tomorrow, (seeing that the library will be closed,) HAPPY NEW YEAR! Woo hoo!!! May your 2007 be as lovely as 2006 was! (Or, if you had a crappy 2006,) may your 2007 be better than your 2006 was! :P
Today in the mail I got a book called, "The Total Money Makeoever" by Dave Ramsey from my dad and Carolyn, (-AND a cd with a compilation of broadway musical songs!) While this book probably sounds boring to most people, I'm actually stupidly excited about reading it! I skimmed over it before work today and it looks to be full of usefull information, (AND in the section I just happened to read the author makes a reference to ROCKY!) Heehee. :P Anyhow, maybe this book will help me to avoid future financial woes. :D ALWAYS a good thing.
I also had to wait on (pardon me,) a complete and utter bitch at The Elephant Bar today. I was so pissed at one point that I was brought to tears. After she left, all the other servers were like, "Man, she seemed like a bitch!" It was her birthday. No wait- it was her DAD'S birthday. Does that give her the right to be a bitch? I don't think so. Then I got another table. Two snobby looking women- and OH- it was one of their birthdays. Ohhh goody. That was fun. And GUESS what happened after that??? ANOTHER birthday. I mean- what about birthdays makes people think they have the right to be a total rude bitch? (I'm just having fun using the word bitch right now because I never say it- can you tell?) Yeah. Today was the day of bitches.
So last night while at Chris' place, I discovered a television show that made me laugh so hard I wanted to wet myself! (Ok ... maybe not "want" to wet myself ... more like ... involuntarily wet myself!) Heehee. :P It's called Robot Chicken- and the FUNNY thing is, at first I thought it looked really dumb. I mean, I was just like, "Ahrrg. Look at this crap on tv!" But, as I began to watch it, it was really quite funny. In fact, the more I watched, the funnier it became! (There was a marathon on last night- and I was all drugged up because I was having the worst period cramps EVER!!!) I'd LIKE to say that it was so funny because of all the drugs but ... but no. It's funny. :P
I spent almost an entire week at Chris' place, which was really nice. (Even though I was uber sad my flight got canceled, at least I get to go home next month!)We finally got diamond records on all the songs on Karaoke Revolution Party- after singing 'Brick House' about a MILLION times!!!! GAHHHH!!! I hate that song. We also watched lots of movies, like 'Superman', 'The Family Stone', 'Hide and Seek', 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', 'Just Friends', and 'Little Shop of Horrors.' Fun times!
Christmas Eve I spent with Chris and his family over at his grandma's house- talking, eating, and having a jolly good time. There I was presented with part of my Christmas present from Chris- The limited edition 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' dvd and ... 'ROBOCOP 2'!!!! Heeheehee. Yes, I'm aware that many readers will be confused by my excitment over this particular dvd. He also got me the PLUTO special edition Cartoon Classics- very exciting. OH and he bought me dinner at the Olive Garden, YUMMY. Oh AND a ticket to 'Rocky Balboa'- yay!
Chris and I stayed at his dad's apartment Christmas eve night- along with his brothers and his brother's girlfriend ... where I had a dream about his brother David wetting the bed ... but ... THAT'S beside the point! LOL. Oh and we went to Denny's on Christmas- Tasty!
And there you have it ladies and gentleman, my Christmas week! :D
Merry Christmas everyone! (Or, as my brother would say, CHRIS-mas, lol.) Chris and I are about to watch Robocop 2! Heeheehee. And heeee.
Chris' quote of the day: (As he's speaking to me,) "No wonder I'm attracted to you. You're like a female David!" (David, by the way, is Chris' younger BROTHER. Yeah. Need I say more? ... ehem ... brotherly love.)
Right now, I'm sitting in Chris' apartment listening to Chris sing the song, "Sweet Caroline" as nasty images flow through my head ... ewww ... yuck. (Sorry, inside joke.) I also just got done watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas," which was quite jolly. (Mizzy and I watch it every year!)
Well, I was SUPPOSED to fly home last Wednesday, (the 20th,) but unfortunetly, my plane got canceled that morning due to a blizzard in Denver, (which is where my layover was.) So, I desperately tried calling the airline (United,) THREE times, but couldn't get through, so Chris drove me to the airport in hopes that I could talk to a person ... NOT so much. The guy in charge gave me a number to call ... the SAME number I had tried calling earlier. So I tried calling AGAIN, and finally got through after almost an HOUR of waiting and listening to MUZAK. In short, I ended up having to get a refund, (seeing that my plane was CANCELED,) and I TRIED to get on a different plane, but everything was already full. (Of course.) So I tried ANOTHER airline. All the flights were booked for that day. AND the next day. AND the day after that. The only flight they had open was for Saturday night for about $700. I was like, "Uhhh ... I don't THINK so!" So yeah, I won't be home for Christmas. :::sniff sniff::: I cried at the airport. :( (Although, I DID book a plane home at the end of January, with my roundtrip, NONSTOP flight costing a total of ONLY $167!) :D
I'm really sad I won't be able to see my family/friends over Christmas, and that I won't be able to do all the Christmas "traditions" that I've done ever since I was a little kid. Oh well, I guess that means I'll just have to create some new ones. :)
Since I had taken an entire week off of work, I've been staying at Chris' apartment, which has been quite nice, because normally he's swamped with school and work. We've been watching movies, playing Karaoke Revolution, going to Cinnabon, (yummy!) etc. The other night, we went to go see Rocky Balboa, which was actually quite good! (I admit to having developed a soft spot for good old Rocky!) :P When we got out of the theatre, Chris said, "That was a holy experience." LOL.
Anyway, that's about it. I'm covering a shift for some one at the Elephant Bar tomorrow night, and then I'm spending Christmas Eve and Christmas with Chris and his family. Should be nice! :) (I told him this means that he needs to come to MISSOURI next Christmas!) Heehee.
Ok so first things first: I officially can't check myspace anymore at the library ... which ... sucks because the library is the only place I currently have access to a computer! So if anyone sends me a messasge on myspace and I don't respond right away, that's why. I'll be able to check it every once in a while on Chris' laptop most likely, but that's it. (When the office area in my apartment is done being remodeled I'll have access to myspace again, but that could be another 2 months or so!) But yeah. Grrrr. Annoying.
Speaking of being BLOCKED ...
The other day Roger, who I shall now call my EX, (I don't usually like the title "EX" just because it sounds so harsh, but he just earned it,) sent me a message on myspace that said, "You have a bunch of mail at my house..." (Because I used to live there and then moved) And that's it. So, I responded by saying, "Oh it's probably junk mail, which can go in the trash can." That's a reasonable response right? I mean, I answered his question! Nope. I guess he was making some lame attempt to get me to come over to his house, because he responded all offended, "That's all you have to say???" And now, as of yesterday, he has deleted me from his friends list on myspace and has set his profile to "private," which means I can no longer view it because I've been booted off his friends list. LAME. If he's hoping that I'm going to message him all upset about it he's going to be sorely disappointed because he's not going to get any sort of rise out of me. That and the fact that I don't love him- I love CHRIS.
Oh and I went to the Kung Fu Christmas party over the weekend, which was fun. (But COLD.) And there was a giant cooked pig with the face, ears, etc. all still attached. NASTY. I didn't like pork much before- but I DEFINETLY don't want it now!!!
As of last night's Kung Fu class, I'm now the proud owner of this little baby! (Much to the displeasure of Chris, who says I'll hurt myself with them more than anyone else, lol!) Although, mine have a cooler picture of Bruce Lee on them, heeheehee. I've already learned the first "strand" in the nunchukas form! (And I've already bruised my elbow!) Yay! :P
On a side note, I'm really annoyed with myspace. I have to use the computers at the library, which work fine, and usually work with myspace. They're working just fine, (as in I have no trouble opening any sites,) EXCEPT since yesterday, myspace won't open. It wouldn't open yesterday and it won't open today. GRRRR. It's starting to frustrate me!!! Mehhhh!!!
I was going to write an entire blog on the lovely Christmas party we held at my apartment on Saturday, but I keep finding other things to write about ... sooo ... I'll just say that it was lots of fun, Chris came, the apartment was all purty with candles and decorations, there was lots of cakes and pies, I wore a really cute shirt, we had a random gift exchange and I got post-it notes with love messages on them, and Chris ended up with a hangover from drinking too much wine. :P OH and we accidentally violated Santa-Pirate. LOL.
If you read my last blog, you would know that I had those "stressful" and annoying type of dreams on Sunday night. By stressful, I mean that all night long I dreamt I was at work, (The Elephant Bar,) BY MYSELF, and everything was going wrong. I was the only waitress working, the food wasn't getting made, etc. When I woke up, I felt like I had been working all night!
Well, yesterday Chris asked me what type of dreams I had after he read my blog, and when I told him he responded, "Oh. Usually when girlfriends say they had a bad dream, it involves their boyfriends ... like chopping off their boyfriends' heads!"
Well ... SINCE he brought that up, my brain decided it would be a lovely idea to take Chris' words literally and give me stressful dreams involving my boyfriend last night. Hehehe. The dream was kind of funny actually ...
I don't remember exactly where we were ... outside in some part of Los Angeles probably. I was sitting there waiting for Chris, and he came up to me carrying a fuzzy blanket and a fuzzy jacket. He said (in a gushing tone,) "Allison, I spent all day Sunday with my ex ... and she's become such a nice person! She's so wonderful, and she gave me this soft blanket and jacket. I just love them. And I love her too ... so ... I'm afraid it's over between us." And just like that, I had been dumped! Obviously I was quite upset about this in my dream, and I found the whole blanket thing utterly retarded. (lol.)
Afterwards, I had another dream in which I was really upset that Chris dumped me, and I was going to my Kung Fu private lesson when my TEACHER began hitting on me. I was like, "I want a CHRIS- NOT a Kisu! Daaaaaamn!" Hehehehe.
I blame having these dreams on Chris, lol. Thank you darling! :P
Warning: This e-mail contains ranting.
Today ... is NOT making me happy. Yep- it's been one of those days.
It started with me having stressful crappy dreams all night ... you know ... the dreams that cause you to wake up all stressed and upset? And even though they clearly didn't actually happen, they get the day off to a bad start anyway?
I opened at Starbucks this morning at 4:30am, and whoever closed the store last night seemed to have forgotten their job, because NOTHING was stocked. Arg. But that's beside the point. The point is, I was working on bar and was in the proccess of making a nonfat latte with extra foam. As I was about to put on the foam, this young, twenty-something, brown-haired, name-brand-wearing girl poaks her head over and says, "No I don't want that foam. I want GOOD foam." "What do you mean?" I asked, seeing as how I had just freshly prepared the foam. "That's too runny." She pointed out. "Oh, that's because it's fresh. It has to sit for a little while in order to stiffen up-" "Well I'll wait here all day, I want my foam." She snapped. At this point, I was getting annoyed. Fast. So I let it sit there until the foam was nice and stiff, and was ABOUT to pour it in the cup when she says, "I want you to make my latte over. It's old now." I had to keep my lips tightly together in order to stop myself from saying something rude. So, I make the latte. AGAIN. For the third time, I'm about to start putting the foam on when, "I wanted nonfat foam." Well THANKS for telling that to me NOW after I made it with regular milk! I thought. I responded, "Make it yourself, bitch." (No not really, but I WANTED to!)So I went through the whole proccess again, with nonfat milk. Keep in mind that we're really busy and I have a whole line of drinks to make. Finally, I top off her f**king latte and she just gives me this glare that says, "It's still not good enough, but I'm sick of waiting." Seriously, I almost lost it.
To top things off, I was walking home from work almost 2 hours ago, and decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator. As I entered the stairwell, there were these two squirrels inside chasing and playing with each other. I laughed to myself because they looked like the ones from 'The Sword in the Stone.' Unfortunetly for me, I was so distracted by the squirrels that my head crashed into the sharp edge of this large, metal thing below the stair case. OW!!! %$#@! I knew it was a bad sign when I had to immediately sit down on the spot in order to stop myself from blacking out. After 2-3 minutes or so, I continued walking up the stairs and took off my Starbucks cap to feel how bad of a bump it was. I knew it was ALSO a bad sign when I looked at my hand and it was all smeared in blood. Yuck. By the time I got to my apartment my hair was all matted in a red sticky mess. Luckily, Kara helped me hold ice and paper towells on it, but now I have a gigantic bump and large gaping gash on the side of my head. I showered to wash the blood out of my hair, but two hours later, as I sit here and type, my head is STILL bleeding and I feel dizzy and tired. Oh and my eyes are having a hard time focusing ... and my hands feel almost a little numb ... is that a bad sign? Hehehe. I think I'll probably go take a nap shortly to stop the pounding ... good night! (Or afternoon!)
So today I finally got my bartending training manuel so I can be a bartender at the Elephant Bar! What does this mean? It means that, a.) I'll hopefully be making alot more money, b.) I'll know how to make ALL sorts of drinks, and c.) I have to memorize about a MILLION different drinks over the next couple of days. (Yeah, "c" is the one I'm not really looking foward to, lol.) Oh well. I'm rather excited to extend my knowledge of drink making from espresso drinks to alcoholic ones! =)
This morning Sifu, (my Kung Fu teacher,) woke me up by calling me at 8:10am to see if I wanted to have a private lesson today! Unfortunetly, I had to decline because I had to work ... that and my calf muscle still hurts from pulling it during Tuesday's class.
Yesterday while I was at Chris', I watched 'E.T.,' a movie I hadn't seen in probably a decade! It was quite cute. Afterwards, I watched 'War of the Worlds,' which was pretty good ... although I'm still rooting for E.T.- definetly the cuter alien. :P
Well, I'm starving so I'm going to go stuff my face with whatever I can find in the pantry, good night all!
Damn I'm full! My dad and Carolyn came out to visit me this weekend and we went out to eat 4 times! BUT- it was quite yummy for the tummy! :P
They got here Saturday morning, so I of course gave them a "grand tour" of my apartment and the surrounding area, which included the park, The Grove, and The Farmers Market. We ate lunch at The CheeseCake Factory, (which I hadn't eaten at since Trevor and I saw Barry Manilow in Chicago YEARS ago,) and it was reeeeally good.
Saturday night, Chris came over (for the first time!) so I of course gave him "the tour" as well. He arrived almost 2 hours earlier than I was expecting, and my parents were at their hotel taking a nap, and all my roommates were at work ... soooo ... yeah ... we came up with a way to kill time! ;) Heehee. And some more heee. Yummy. I got us reservations at Maggianos at the Grove, and dinner was super yummy. We talked with "the parents" and overall, I thought it was a lovely evening! (I almost choked on my pasta when my dad said he thought Chris looked a little like TREVOR, L0L!) Now THAT was funny. Hmmm- must've been the hair. And Chris almost choked on his pizza when Carolyn started talking about how she watched The Jesus movie in mandrin Chinese- lol.
Sunday my dad, Carolyn, and I drove up to Malibu and took some pretty pictures at this little secluded beach. We found a cute restaurant right on the beach and ate lunch there, (I got french toast,) and my dad ordered fish tacos ... something he's been obsessed with for awhile now. Afterwards, we went to The Beverly Center, (a huge mall,) because my dad wanted to see the shops and he was convinced that a "Woody Allen film might have been filmed there!" Unfortunetly, he was sorely disappointed when he realized it wasn't the right mall. THEN after THAT, Carolyn wanted to see some "mansions," so I gave them a little tour of Beverly Hills. To top the day off, we headed to The Elephant Bar for dinner, (where I was subjected to being embarrassed by Carolyn by being forced to take pictures in front of the big elephant head, with LOTS of people watching ...) On the way home, my dad wanted me to show him where the Jay Leno show is filmed, (because it's in Burbank,) sooo we did that too!
And THAT, ladies and gentleman, was my weekend. =)
Yay! After Kung Fu last night, my teacher pulled me aside and said that he's been really impressed with my dedication, hard work, and with the way I've excelled in the class, so he wants to give me private lessons once a week to teach me "techniques that he doesn't teach to just anyone in regular class!" Isn't that cool? He also said to "keep it a secret because other students might get jealous"- OOPS- looks like I just leaked the secret! =P But none of you are IN the class so it doesn't matter! Oh yeah, and the picture above is tooootally me! I even wear a hoodie to practice when it's cold! =)
