I would consider myself a complainer. I think my mom would too. This weekend I have no complaints...surprisingly! Yes, I did spend it in Washington.
Saturday started off with chopping off about 6 inches of my hair. And I LOVE it! I'm so glad to have short hair again. I texted Michael right after saying that I felt like me again! After that I came home and met Michael (after a morning of fishing) and we went to my most favorite place IKEA. Where we got a tv stand...one I have been eyeing for a few months now.
This morning we headed over to Point Defiance for "Taste of Tacoma." Which turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It's pretty much an annual festival where restaurants from the area set up booths and serve food. There are also carnival rides, arts and crafts booths, and 3 stages of live music. Of course we head straight for the Louisiana food booth...where fried alligator, jambalaya, and crawfish etouffee were served. It wasn't as good as home, but definitely enough to satisfy me. And to top it off we had some pretty good lemonade and I even got a snoball! Success! Got my crawfish, lemonade, and snoball all in one place! And to top it off the weather was absolutely perfect! Except for my sunburn, but hey, I'll take it!
A pretty great weekend.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Most of you have read my Facebook status from earlier today, you know the lovely event at Subway? Alright, I get a little angry when I'm hungry...anyways, this is how my day went.
Just to let you know, I try to have as little contact with the locals as possible...Louisiana has some idiots, but these people give new meaning to the word. And I have dealt with some pretty outlandish people. With the exception of my coworkers, the general population of Washington is just dumb...driving, talking, breathing,
1. The subway girl. Takes FOR.EV.ER to order her 3 sandwiches, and then informs the poor worker that she has yet another sandwich to order. At this point she had only decided on meat and bread. The two easiest choices.
2. Square Peg customer (as a co-worker so kindly named him). This man didn't have a lick of sense. Poor guy. Basically he didn't understand what 3cm thick was, or if his bathroom vanity was standard....a very generic conversation was extremely hard for him to grasp. Which, okay, I understand not everyone is familiar with countertops etc, but this was his third purchase from us. And, when given a form and told his selections were on the right side...he chooses one from the left.
3. Cowboy hat girl. At the post office I was fortunate enough to stand in line behind her. She was wearing a small child's toy cowboy hat, blue. With a see-through burn out t-shirt and platform flip flops. Oh and the beginnings of dreadlocks, which really just looked like dirty hair. And the best part...(I'm pretty sure these were the letters) F U C...you get it...tattooed on the fingers of her left hand.
I'm sure I could think of others, but you get the point. So this all happens on the day after my husband and I decided that we are going to be staying in Washington for the next 3 years. I feel like God or some other force is trying to tell me that this wasn't the best idea....which goes back to was this a good decision or not so much? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Just to let you know, I try to have as little contact with the locals as possible...Louisiana has some idiots, but these people give new meaning to the word. And I have dealt with some pretty outlandish people. With the exception of my coworkers, the general population of Washington is just dumb...driving, talking, breathing,
1. The subway girl. Takes FOR.EV.ER to order her 3 sandwiches, and then informs the poor worker that she has yet another sandwich to order. At this point she had only decided on meat and bread. The two easiest choices.
2. Square Peg customer (as a co-worker so kindly named him). This man didn't have a lick of sense. Poor guy. Basically he didn't understand what 3cm thick was, or if his bathroom vanity was standard....a very generic conversation was extremely hard for him to grasp. Which, okay, I understand not everyone is familiar with countertops etc, but this was his third purchase from us. And, when given a form and told his selections were on the right side...he chooses one from the left.
3. Cowboy hat girl. At the post office I was fortunate enough to stand in line behind her. She was wearing a small child's toy cowboy hat, blue. With a see-through burn out t-shirt and platform flip flops. Oh and the beginnings of dreadlocks, which really just looked like dirty hair. And the best part...(I'm pretty sure these were the letters) F U C...you get it...tattooed on the fingers of her left hand.
I'm sure I could think of others, but you get the point. So this all happens on the day after my husband and I decided that we are going to be staying in Washington for the next 3 years. I feel like God or some other force is trying to tell me that this wasn't the best idea....which goes back to was this a good decision or not so much? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Talking to Aaron and in walks Shane with a mud-flap to a truck. Aaron asks why he has it in hand. Shane exclaims "did you guys not see what just happened?!"
"Uhhh, no."
He then begins to explain the story...let me set up the scene. The building that I work in is on the left corner next to a round-about. (These idiots in Washington apparently don't believe in stop signs, just driving in circles.)
So he says...
"My dad was coming to pick up pallets and cut the corner at the round-about. There was someone else coming the opposite way and got mad that he cut it..(I'm guessing he cut the guy off)...so the guy turns around and whips into our parking lot and flies up next to my dad and throws a cup of water in his face! So my dad rips off his side mirror and throws it at him, and yanks off his antennae and windshield wiper. The guy then peeled out of the parking lot and ramped over the concrete block next to the loading dock!"
hahahah! What a bunch of psychos! Someone save me from this place!!!!
"Uhhh, no."
He then begins to explain the story...let me set up the scene. The building that I work in is on the left corner next to a round-about. (These idiots in Washington apparently don't believe in stop signs, just driving in circles.)
So he says...
"My dad was coming to pick up pallets and cut the corner at the round-about. There was someone else coming the opposite way and got mad that he cut it..(I'm guessing he cut the guy off)...so the guy turns around and whips into our parking lot and flies up next to my dad and throws a cup of water in his face! So my dad rips off his side mirror and throws it at him, and yanks off his antennae and windshield wiper. The guy then peeled out of the parking lot and ramped over the concrete block next to the loading dock!"
hahahah! What a bunch of psychos! Someone save me from this place!!!!
Friday, June 3, 2011
...is who I have to thank for the modern recipes for ice cream. And before him, Roman Emperor Nero and Chinese King Tang. Shout out to all of them in creating ice cream, my most beloved dessert.
Speaking of food, I'm starving and watching "Diner, Drive-Ins, and Dives" episode of BBQ in the south is not helping. Oh man, stops in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Mississippi....I'm gonna have to go eat.
PS--apparently God reads my blogs or something because after my last rant about the awful weather...its been beautiful and will be through the weekend. It's short lived and starts raining again on Monday, but hey, I'll take it!
Speaking of food, I'm starving and watching "Diner, Drive-Ins, and Dives" episode of BBQ in the south is not helping. Oh man, stops in Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and now Mississippi....I'm gonna have to go eat.
PS--apparently God reads my blogs or something because after my last rant about the awful weather...its been beautiful and will be through the weekend. It's short lived and starts raining again on Monday, but hey, I'll take it!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
I need to complain about the weather.
Would you honestly believe that it is the first of freaking June and I am STILL dealing with mid 40 degree weather?! On a daily basis...not just a random morning cold front. Every. freaking. day. This is the most miserable place ever. Why oh why anyone thought it was a good idea to settle here so many years ago is beyond what my little brain can comprehend. Idiots...and if you heard the history of settling in this area, you would more than agree. The city was built on saw dust. A wet city built on saw dust. And major sewage issues. Saw dust and sewage. Need I say more? One more thing...8 ftx15 ft sink holes that were like 9 ft deep. Horses disappeared and people drowned in the streets. Yes. They were idiots.
http://www.undergroundtour.com/ .........check it out, it's true.
I can not wait to leave this place. The amount of anger that I am overcome with every morning that I step outside into the cold, is too much for my body to handle. I actually leave my house angry and get more mad on the 10 minute drive to work. And as the day goes on, it only gets worse.
Oh but you say "the sun was out today." Who cares?! It's still cold. I mean it IS nice to see the sun, but what's the point if its cold AND ITS JUNE! Wasted sunshine is what I say.
I would oh so gladly switch places with all you people complaining about how hot and sweaty you are. I would give anything (ok maybe not anything) to be hot enough to think about sweating.
I completely understand why Seattle has the most suicides. If I stayed long enough, that would probably be a consideration....at least it's warm in hell.
Alright, enough of that. I should probably find out who invented ice cream and thank his/her family for helping me to make it through the days...
Next....so I've been searching and searching for an antique sideboard/buffet for a tv stand in the living room. Well kind of obsessed with searching for one. I have a few contenders, but I found a place online and will venture to the store on Saturday! I'm pretty excited about it. Hopefully, my trip will be a success! If not I have a back up plan.
http://fleamarketchics.blogspot.com/ --------such cute stuff!
Oh and on a lighter note, I got the cutest nail polish this past weekend! Raspberry something or other...anyway I've been pretty pumped about it. I know, I know, its the little things in life.
And that's all for tonight! Good Night!!! :)
Would you honestly believe that it is the first of freaking June and I am STILL dealing with mid 40 degree weather?! On a daily basis...not just a random morning cold front. Every. freaking. day. This is the most miserable place ever. Why oh why anyone thought it was a good idea to settle here so many years ago is beyond what my little brain can comprehend. Idiots...and if you heard the history of settling in this area, you would more than agree. The city was built on saw dust. A wet city built on saw dust. And major sewage issues. Saw dust and sewage. Need I say more? One more thing...8 ftx15 ft sink holes that were like 9 ft deep. Horses disappeared and people drowned in the streets. Yes. They were idiots.
http://www.undergroundtour.com/ .........check it out, it's true.
I can not wait to leave this place. The amount of anger that I am overcome with every morning that I step outside into the cold, is too much for my body to handle. I actually leave my house angry and get more mad on the 10 minute drive to work. And as the day goes on, it only gets worse.
Oh but you say "the sun was out today." Who cares?! It's still cold. I mean it IS nice to see the sun, but what's the point if its cold AND ITS JUNE! Wasted sunshine is what I say.
I would oh so gladly switch places with all you people complaining about how hot and sweaty you are. I would give anything (ok maybe not anything) to be hot enough to think about sweating.
I completely understand why Seattle has the most suicides. If I stayed long enough, that would probably be a consideration....at least it's warm in hell.
Alright, enough of that. I should probably find out who invented ice cream and thank his/her family for helping me to make it through the days...
Next....so I've been searching and searching for an antique sideboard/buffet for a tv stand in the living room. Well kind of obsessed with searching for one. I have a few contenders, but I found a place online and will venture to the store on Saturday! I'm pretty excited about it. Hopefully, my trip will be a success! If not I have a back up plan.
http://fleamarketchics.blogspot.com/ --------such cute stuff!
Oh and on a lighter note, I got the cutest nail polish this past weekend! Raspberry something or other...anyway I've been pretty pumped about it. I know, I know, its the little things in life.
And that's all for tonight! Good Night!!! :)
Better late than never...
I know this is a few days late, but I've been thinking about what I wanted to write about for Memorial Day...well obviously I haven't come up with anything yet....so here goes:
I would like to thank all of those who have given their lives in serving and protecting us. They all deserve the utmost respect because without their daily sacrifices we wouldn't have the freedoms that most (myself included) take for granted. Thank you to my husband for all that you do, and to all of the other soldiers that are currently serving in the military.
I would like to thank all of those who have given their lives in serving and protecting us. They all deserve the utmost respect because without their daily sacrifices we wouldn't have the freedoms that most (myself included) take for granted. Thank you to my husband for all that you do, and to all of the other soldiers that are currently serving in the military.
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