Reflection...

on the birthday.

Yes, this past Sunday I turned ANOTHER year older. Some don't want to admit stuff like that but I will stand tall and shout from the rooftops..... "I once again have turned ... 21?"

Shut up Kivi.

Well, I have to admit it was a good one this year. After getting my settlement check from a fall I had at Bennigans nearly 2 years ago I had a little extra cash. Since I've tucked away a couple thou....I thought why not by myself something nice.

I've always wanted nice jewelry, but never had the sense to actually date anyone who could afford my taste, so last Friday I went and bought THIS! Now it took me about 3 days to decide on this bracelet, but once I decided...I HAD to have it...NOW. I even when on my lunch break with a co-worker to go get it. It was a girlie mission ;)

Funny part to this story comes on Monday when my bestest friend Beth calls and asks me to met her for dinner. Fantastic, Beth's in town I'm THERE. We don't see as much of each other as we would like, so the moments we get we cherish. Now earlier in the week, I had emailed her about the bracelet and how excited I was. She thought I bought the necklace....and freaked a bit...why you ask? Because randomly at before I had even made my purchase of the bracelet, she had already bought me THIS!

I am SO Tiffany's right now with my 'collection'.

Now you gotta LOVE a best friend who knows you WELL enough to pick out a necklace for you not having a clue sometime later I was going to pick out the exact bracelet to match. That's LOVE folks. And I love her dearly....with or without the Tiffany's....

....but the Tiffany's makes it much shinier :)

I love you my dearest gal pal. You are the best through thick and thin you've been there for me through the last "years" of our lives. We've had some fun times (boating on the Chicago River), some hot times (Gibsons...or Eric's basement even) and some bad times (my 2nd time turning 21...) but all in all they have been GREAT years spent with you and I'm glad you were there to spend them.

You've proved yourself as a true blue (Tiffany's blue even) best friend and I'm lucky to have you. I hope I have only done the same for you. Kisses and love my dear. I owe you like 4 for this years gift. I'll have to think of something GOOD for the big ... 9th time you turn 21. ;)

One of the funniest things

....ever created in Photoshop, in my opinion of course.

Laugh it's FUNNY!

Will you visit me?

In PRISON that is cause apparently were arresting drunk people IN bars now.

Apparently it's public intoxication. Well people I hate to tell you this, but I've been drunk in bars SO many times in my lifetime...I'm pretty sure I'm set up for a life sentence when this reaches Chicago.

Geebuz people first you kill my business with your damn smoking ban and now your going to arrest my customers FROM the place. Great, next stop prohibition!

I'll be starting the first speak-easy when it happens too. Complete with bath tub gin. Now all I need is Homer Simpson with the bowling balls :)

And you WONDER why people annoy me?!

This last post was supposed to be neutral enough not to point anyone out....

...but since you asked....

I also have a friend who's a slut, and one who's hell bent on losing his virginity.

A friend that never seems to be drunk no matter how much they drink, and one who gets drunk on 2 Lynchburg Lemonades at Friday's.

A friend that's completlely serious at all times, and one who can endlessly make me laugh with jokes about my pooper. (those are jokes right?!)

....better TFK?

Getting serious for a moment.....

I have determined I sometimes really don't like people too much....

...not all people just most.

Ok, maybe don't like is harsh, considering what the rest of the post will be about. But I can tell you I don't understand how our society thinks now-a-days. Now everyone has their opinion and I respect that, why can't others respect others just the same.

People do and choose different ways of life for a reason. Some things just aren't a choice.

I myself am a straight girl who happens to be a ridiculously independent work-a-holic. I'm liberal, with conservative tendencies. I don't believe in organized religion, but I believe there is a higher power. I believe in Karma...A LOT, what goes around comes around if you like it or not. I also think there's a reason for each and every one of us to be on this planet. We all have a goal, once accomplished, we move on. No one's goal is set in stone, but it's out there.

Now I have MANY friends and family that beat to the tune of a different drummer. My mom is VERY Catholic, my father, a un-religious recovering alcoholic turned work-a-holic. (you wonder where I get it from)

One brother with a wife, 2 kids, a cat, and a crazy big house. Another, living across the country served in the armed forces, and just happens to be gay. (now that takes guts!)

One sister with the 'perfect' husband and a stay at home mom. Another sister who lives an alternative lifestyle and works with kids with disabilities.

One friend in college and working full time to pay their way through life at the same time trying to reach a goal. Another, a full time student riding on their parents money.

One friend hell bent on getting married to someone they love. Another hell bent on NEVER getting married.

One friend with more tattoos and piercing than you can shake a stick at....but I don't advise it cause you might get caught in a ring or two. Another believes your body is a temple and any kind of damage done will damage your Karma.

I love them all equally. Some I've known my whole life, some I'm just getting to know, but they are all like family to me. I look at people no matter how strange an unusual I think they may be as a new experience for me to learn from.

Just because someone is gay doesn't mean I have to be because I'm related or am friends with them. That's THEIR lifestyle. Or just because someone was fortunate enough to be born into money doesn't mean they should be cast off as the 'rich bitch'. Or even just because someone doesn't work as much as I do doesn't me they don't put their all into what they do choose to do.

Now don't get me wrong. There are exceptions to EVERY rule. That's how we came up with stereotypes in the first place. Some rich kids are brats, some gay people are not the nicest people in the world, some married couples aren't as happy as they appear. Some people's religions do help them cope with everyday life. But honestly there are opposite to all of those stereotypes.

You have to learn to accept people for who they are and understand that you may or may not like things about them. Hell, I can't think on one person I know that I like EVERYTHING about. Including myself. Just remember it's all about learning. Everyday you get up and walk out into the world is a learning experience.

You don't have to agree with people's choices in life. You don't even have to like them. Just remember they have NO effect on how you live your life.

Their are people out there who live an alternative lifestyle...deal...it doesn't effect you what so ever. They aren't coming into your house and snatching your children to make them gay. They aren't 'recruiting' for the other side. They are simply trying live their lives and trying to be HAPPY.

Their are people out there who are crazy religious...and some just regularly religious. Yes, the their are the one's who knock on your door and recruit, but when you kindly say no thank you, they move on....they don't egg your house or burn crosses in your yard because you weren't interested. They would rather be invited in one house out of a thousand for that one person who wants to listen the 999 that could care less.

I've even heard many times over the years....why haven't you gotten married yet....well frankly, I haven't met 'that' guy yet. Not to mention, what's so perfect about marriage anyway. It will in no way 'complete' me as a person. It will only re-enforce my love and want to spend the rest of my life with someone else. But, I don't knock the people who are married. Good or bad. Trust me my folks have been through some ROUGH times. I look at them in awe of the fact they've been married for 30 years! How often do you hear that now?!

Ok, before I get totally out of control (or is it too late) my point is....listen people, just listen! You may learn a little something. You may actually like that 'rich bitch' or that 'raging homo'. Really, you could ... trust me STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED!!!

Open you mind to new opportunities. It's fun to get to know people. Try it you may like it. I promise it doesn't hurt.

Yup...that about sums it up

As spring approaches, a parable...

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a long pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the perfect pot always delivered a full portion of water and the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

"I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled. "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them.

You know what I have to say

about this week....

...nothing good.

Nothing like a week where work beats the living HELL out of you, then you get a day off work,
only to have to go to another work for the day.

Your boyfriend is going to a St. Patty's day party...I'm working the Be niga s (of course), so while he's drunk, I'm serving the drunk.

Then your roomie take off to Flordia, the day after it SNOW's here. One word for that....Whore.

My vacation day tomorrow consists of ... driving Heather to work and going to Be niga s for a 10 hour (AT LEAST) shift.

WHOSE EXCITED?!?!

ohohohoohh...me...pick ME!

From the WTF files...

So my new roomie and co-worker Heather and I went out for lunch last Friday.

We went here. Nothing fancy, buffet style.

For those of you who have never been it works like this. You walk in there's a GIANT salad bar with everything you could imagine to put on a salad and then some. Well there's a line down both sides and you go down old school cafeteria style.

Once you have a seat there's all kinds of home-made soups, breads, pasta's, and even a dessert bar. Well, sometimes they get REALLY busy so they put up these signs asking you to wait to be seated. Not a large request, not even a hard one since they get you in and at a table pretty quickly for as busy as they are.

The guy who takes your money even asks very nicely if you could just wait a moment to be seated. Heather and I agree...so do the people on the other side of the line. But apparently they were too good to ACTUALLY listen to what the guy said and just went off and sat themselves. Now this could throw off the whole balance of things since the people who are seating others believe there's a table open but two dumb broads just took it so in reality there's no table.

BUT that's not even the icing on the cake people. Heather and I are seated moments later at a table that could seat four even though it's just the two of us. Really, we like it this way it gives us plenty of room to spread out and a place to put the dishes for the bussers to pick up.

Here's the kicker people. While were eating another table of inconsiderate rude people decide to seat themselves at a table kitty corner from us. This table had yet to be cleared from the people who had left it less than 10 seconds beforehand. So instead of calling over one of the 20 bus people. They decide to clear the table themselves.....right onto the table were sitting at.

Let me repeat that in case you missed it. On the table we're enjoying our lunch at these people decide to put someone else disgusting dishes.

Now it took me a minute to compute what had just happened considering I couldn't comprehend doing such a thing....and when it finally does click, I'm LIVID at the audacity of some people. Mind you if he would have asked if we minded if they set the things there since we had some extra room, I probably wouldn't have been so angry.

...extra angry means extra desserts you know (it's stressed spelled backwards so it really does mean that.) So I'm blaming that guy and his group of fellow rudeness on my extra 2 pounds this week....cause I can.

YOU MISSED ME....

Admit it...

...you did...

You missed me ranting and raving about something ricockulous (feel free to use it) problem or issue in my life right now.

Well one of my only issues was NO INTERNET CONNECTION. Well besides the one at work and since we all know we can get 'dooced' for that and not to mention my work blocks everything, no blogging for you!

absence makes the heart grow fonder people.

So, what's been going on your wondering? Well once again, I moved. I like to think my furniture could use the 'change of scenery' one a year...or sometimes sooner. That makes 5 times in 4 years people. For the re-cap people.....

1. Wisconsin (don't ask I don't know how I ended up there either) to Chicago
2. Chicago to down the street in Chicago when the building went condo
3. Chicago back to Wisconsin trying to be closer to a loved one
4. Wisconsin to Wheeling
5. Wheeling to the destination on now Arlington Heights.

Now I'll be moving again in the next few months. I'm staying with a friend until the house sells rent free, then were going to rent a place together. That will be more 'permanent' ... well a few years anyway. I'm SICK of moving, I'll tell you I'll NEVER do the 3rd floor again in a walk up or otherwise at this point. My arms and legs KILL. Chris was my savior in this situation since I really didn't know who to call to help.

I don't see much of my 'friends' with my schedule so I didn't want to just call them to ask them to help move. I really have GOT to do something about that. YOU....you out there if your reading this.....I miss you. Call me, you know damn well I'll forget.

So, other than that, boring work, boring life, boring DawnCandy. Remember when I was fun?
Member? Remember when I used to have late nights and early mornings with some of the
most interesting people in Chicagoland. Wow....lots can change in a few years. Beth you know what I'm talking about. I'll bounce back, I always do.

So, it's a blah day...that's nearly over. Only good news I've had lately is the contact from old friends on MySpace....Although that does just remind me my 10 year is coming up. Damn....10 years....that's another whole post...wait for it....

....wait for it....