PROTEST!!

I protest blogging until Kivi does.....ok...till Monday then.

Hello again....

There hasn't been an update in a while....so here's what's going on in the life and times of Dawn (that's me)>>

One, (and this happened a few weeks ago) I promised Dayne I wouldn't mention his name in the blog anymore, he doesn't like it....so I'm going to refrain from doing it. My theroy is if you don't like it don't read it, but him reading I suppose means he cares what's going on in my life still....so I can't knock that. Unless something nice happens, then maybe I will blog about it....but for now that chapter is done. Besides, there isn't much to say anyway, moving on is a wonderful thing.

Two, I'm kicking Kivi into high gear with his diet. I'm not sure if HE knows it yet but I am. The kid asked me for help with loosing some weight, I'm going to do what I can to help...without being pushy and making it backfire. I'll even cook for the guy to give him a break from all the Subway :-) Well, as soon as I can get to the grocery store that is.

Three, Dan is STILL calling me, funny thing though, I never gave him my actual phone number just my direct connect. So when he calls...this time from the gas station down the street, it was pretty creepy. I may have to have TFK move in just for the protection. But then I'd have to turn my air conditioner on and that wouldn't be good....damn you double edged sword.

Four, school is going really well lately...mainly cause Maranda tends to tell us exactly what's on the tests. But I'm ok with that....ok not fully ok cause sometimes I think I'm memorizing instead of learning, but I made the directors honor roll, who am I to complain. Yeah for A\'s! My normal teacher is coming back in 2 weeks so we'll see if I can attempt to keep it up.

Five, work is work ... boring and busy. Nothing like getting chewed out because Starbucks didn't get their cups. Here are some things I here at work that I want to shoot myself when I hear them:

Startbucks customer: )'I didn\'t order a 12 oz Plastic Starbucks Tumbler
ME: 'Ok not a problem, what is it that you needed and we'll have them switched out for you
Starbucks customer: I needed a 12oz Plastic Starbucks cup
My thought: ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!

Salesmen: Well their actually getting more sheets per case with this toilet paper
ME: But it went from 96 rolls to 80 rolls, most people don't count the sheets, just the rolls per case.
Salesmen: Well that's dumb, they should look at the big picture.
My thought: These are people who clean toilets for a LIVING; you're lucky they're counting the rolls per case...let alone COUNTING!

Yep...I love my job.

Six, I had the best time this past holiday weekend with Heather and her family in Ohio. Heather, Heather's brother (Chris), and I drove down Friday morning bright and early and made it to Ohio by 1pm (Ohio time, noon here). We checked in, went and found Heather's mom (Nancy), her fiancé (Bob), and Heather's aunt and uncle (Judy and Fred) at the Mexican restaurant across the street ... they were hammered...it was humorous. After a much-needed nap we then went and met Matt (the groom to be) and went to his new brother-in-laws (Dave) house for a BBQ. Dave and his family were GREAT. At this point, Judy confused the sister-in-law for the bride and started hugging her. I really enjoyed myself. Chris and I discovered we really get along (mind out of gutter)....and Heather was happy cause now I had someone to talk to other than her.Saturday was the wedding. It was beautiful! About 50 people on a boatcruising the river. Very intimate, and fun for all. I caught thebouquet....and proceeded to chuck it into the arms of the flowergirl....but not as funny as Chris pushing a 10 year old boy to thefloor to get the garter. Fun was had, dancing commenced, and to topoff the evening Chris performed the interesting feat of accidentallykicking a cup off the boat and the ice flying out of the cup and down my shirt at the same time.

Sunday was the picnic. It was again FABULOUS. Great food, great people. This time Chris was throwing ice down my shirt on purpose.....typical of a guy to discover something and continue to do it over and over huh? But I did show off my bartending skills by making a perfect Black & Tan with a glass as a water bottle with the top cut off, bottled Bass and canned Guinness and a plastic spoon. I was proud!! The rest of the day was spent studying, napping, and lounging by the pool area. Heather's Dad (Capt. Ron) bought us dinner at the Mexican restaurant, where I proceeded to FIGHT with Chris and Matt about putting your lawn chair in your parking spot when you dig it out in the winter. They just didn't get it....and those are the people with flat tires and scratched windshields. Capt. Ron invited me to Florida too....YAY...I may just have to take him up on that one. We were going to see a movie after that, but then went back to the room and got a little to comfortable to go back out.

Monday was the trip home. Heather ACTUALLY took us home after much threahting we were going to be dropped at Greyhound. We made great time...thank you Heather for your impatient driving. It was enjoyable except for the part where I mentioned I had to pee....and so Chris took that to mean, pull on my seat belt every 5 to 10 minutes and talk a lot about water. BUT I made it home from the South Side of Chicago! YAY ME! I did have to RUN into the house, but I made it.

asically, to sum it up....I got to spend time with Heather whom I love, and meet her family who were some of the nicest, funniest, and most amazing & unbelievable people I've ever met. I was glad I went! I'll be looking forward to Nancy's wedding at the end of the month to be able to say hello to everyone again. And if you haven't figured it out by now I developed a slight 'crush' on Chris over the weekend, he was probably one of the nicest, chivalrous, smartest, and funniest people I've ever met, but just like any man like that, he's unavailable, so therefore off limits. Not married this time, but still off limits. DAMN I'm good at this liking guys I can't have thing :-) He did mention to Heather if he wasn't dating someone he'd ask me out.....but I'm not going to hold my breathe on that one.

Hmmm....maybe he has some friends....but...it's possible, it's possible.Ok so you got six new things in my life....

Well really more than that if you count how big six is. So that should tie you over for a while....

Till next time, miss me

Blah....blah...blah...

So for those of you who have been pineing way to know how I did on my final....you'll be happy to know I aced them both. I was quite THRILLED with myself. Although I know when my teacher actually comes back from medical leave, things won't be so easy, but I still continue to study as much as possible to keep up with the rude awaking some people will be getting when he returns.

I had another test today, did pretty well I think. Maranda is a good teacher, but sometimes she give us TOO many of the answers so no one actually opens their book, just the notes she gives us. Not good, not good. But it's their grade not mine.

Work is work as usual. I can be a 'challenge' at times not to want to hurt someone when they get REALLY rude with you , but I blame it on too much coffee not enough social life. Then again, that very much could describe me.....except I gave up coffee since Dayne and I broke up. I drank too much of it....it's not good for my health and I think I was getting too much caffeine. But the social life part...yeah, that's definitely true. I'll be taking on a full shifts as coordinated in August at Bennigans due to Toni having her hysterectomy. I'm glad, but not because I won't have the money in my pocket right away, but AT LEAST, I'll have a nice check coming and I won't spend the money as quickly as I do when it's in my pocket.

So, I'm going to Ohio in 1 week for Heather's brother's wedding. It's the 4th weekend, and my dumb ass thought it was 2 weeks away so now I have Sunday to find something nice to wear, clean the house, do laundry etc. Sunday will be busy it seems.....The week after that I have Tracy and Bruce's wedding reception, then I'm back to normal for a while. It's going to be a nice LONG 2 weeks of running around. But it's cool and it'll get me out of the house, for once. :)

Just FYI, I do have a 'friendly competition' going on with a friend from school. Stephanie and I are competing to see who can loose the most INCHES in 3 weeks. We were going for 2...but then realized it's the 4th of July weekend, it's going to be hard to stick to a diet when there's so much BBQ going on. And for me...I'll be traveling AND going to a wedding then BBQ. It'll be tough but I'm going to TRY not to eat like I've never eaten before :) You know me I like food. It is my boyfriend and never lets me down :) it does however break my heart when I step on a scale, but comforts me in the end .... HA! Basically ... if you see me eating something I shouldn't ... take it from me and say Stephanie wouldn't eat that... or something to that effect.

So, the last words today are for you Kivi.....

In a New York minute......

Let's dance let's shout

....shake you body right to the ground.

So yesterday I attempted to have a get together of sorts for Kivi's B-day. The big 22. Heather and I made food, I moved some stuff around, and preped for the people to come. Gemma and Jeff were the first to show, then Heather and the birthday boy, then....well...there was supposed to be a then but it didn't seem to work out that way. Lots of people told me they were coming, and then didn't...but hell what'ca going to do right?

Monica did drop by for a quick moment, she was called away to dinner with the fam. Mistarz did finally show late in the day with Heather and Megan but only stayed briefly before they took off. So the important people showed, and maybe we didn't have as much fun as getting ticketed in Lake Forest. Fun was still hat I think.

Other than that, life is the same old...same old. School, work, home. And now I have A ton of food leftover....so if you hungry, drop on by.

Happy Father's Day to you and yours :)

It's gettin' hot in here.....

...but the clothes are stayin' on people.

School seems to like to forget that there's a 5am class and they fail to turn the air on until 8am. That means right now I'm sitting in the computer room losing a few pounds. YAY!

So the weekend was pretty uneventful. I worked Friday and Saturday. Did my laundry and cleaned up a bit....then Sunday TKF, Holly, Heather, Tony and Steve came over for beer brats and daiquiris. Nothing like a frozen tasty beverage on a hot day. Mistarz was "too good" for us and used some excuse like "I'm working on my portfolio so I can get a job" Pssh...yay, right :)

I'm telling you, there's nothing goin' on in the tale o' Dawn. I'm hoping to get a few people together next weekend for Kivi's b-day, but I may just have to push it back another weekend. We'll see....We'll see.....

I'll keep ya updated I promise.

Don't look for me....

I'm not there. My allergies are working overtime and I feel like POOP!! I may end up coming in later after the meds kick in. I hate feeling like this.....

Shut up now!!

Ok ok! I'm blogging I'm blogging.

So I had some free time this weekend...THANK GOD! cause I needed it.

Saturday I laid around the WHOLE day doing nothing except play PS2. I even went and bought Kivi 'The Simms' cause I was bored and needed something to spend my gift certs from Best Buy on. Kivi on the other hand had a date....OOOOOOO....that seems to have gone in the 'right' direction. I'm so happy for that! Megan seems like a nice gal so they deserve each other.

I WAS supposed to have company later, but Tony for some reason got it in his head I was coming to Chicago. With my $6, I think not. So when he called me at midnight, I was already in my PJ's and didn't have any intention of changing. So instead I played PS2 till nearly 2am.

Sunday I got up early did my laundry, studied, and grocery shopped cause I was having company. I decided to make tacos. Kivi, Gemma, her boyfriend Jeff, Steve and Mistarz came over for the night. Somehow after we dragged Kivi off Rachet and Clank, and Steve and Jeff off Techan we decide to play Scene It....may I tell you TFK and I kick some monster ASS!!

Jeff seems to think we cheated. But we didn't we just have no lives and watch movies...A LOT. Mistarz and Steve did pull out their A game in the end and won the second round. By win I mean we just went back to start and let them play from where they were. (and we almost came back to take the second game too.)

This is where the night gets interesting....

By the way Chapter 12 do not do 266 do 269/ abbv. on page 270 in the orange book by Tuesday.

Ok back to the interesting part of the night.....

At some point within an hour Steve drinks a 2 liter of Coke, and is now VERY awake.
TFK and Mistarz decide to do a power hour. (where you take a shot a minute for an hour)
I decide to bartend (and cut it down to a power half hour due to lack of beer and how much I didn't want anyone to puke)
So for the next 30 min we watch Mistarz and Kivi do a shot a minute....until 21 anyway where the Fat Kid punks out and switches to Mike's Hard Lemonade.
NOW I've got a hyper caffeinated Steve on the PS2. A very drunk ass TFK, and a pretty heavily buzzed. This is where I decide to make some new house rules.

Rule 1: As always, if you eat or drink it you replace it.
Rule 2: I don't care how many guys are in the house this is a girls apartment toilet seat goes down when your done.
RULE 3: (and very important) NO HITTING ON MISTARZ UNLESS YOU HAVE A VAG!
and Rule 4: There is no sex in the champange room ...in my apartment this would be my bedroom.

Now why rule number 3 you ask? Well TFK can't keep his hands to himself when he's wasted and proceeded to be a little handsy with Mistarz ... A LOT!!! Since it was creeping me out, and Mistarz during Scene It became my new favorite person, the rule was set. Now if you don't get how drunk TFK was from the hitting on Mistarz...well he also proceeded to ask everyone about their sex lives also....he actually said the words... 'slip her the dick' then got excited that he actually said it and ran in another room to call PNuts and tell him..cause according to TFK...he's drunk he doesn't need tact. Ahh...the joys of being 21 again. Don't worry Megan we did ban him from calling you that night....and he's not ALWAYS like this with liquor (but really either way .. it's funny as hell) By 230am it was drag Steve away from PS2, Kivi pass out, and everyone go home time. Good times, Good times.

Monday Tony finally shows up AND buys me a grill for my balcony (YAY) and we cooked up some burger and dogs for Holly, him and I. After a few drinks, and a few more Law and Orders I was sleeping on the couch soundly. Relaxation was finally had!

Now it's back to the grind.....speaking of which.....