Blackout 2007

On Thursday, April 26th, 2007, at exactly 9:10PM the entire city of Bowling Green and some surrounding areas experienced an unexplainable blackout. This blackout occurred while Liz, Bryce, Tim, and I were across the street from my house at Quarters. It was kind of creepy drinking in a bar that was pitch black and the only light were flashlights, cell phones, and lighters. After getting bored of drinking in the dark, we all headed to ONE49 -- It was the only bar in the town that had working lights, music, etc.

Tonight is the DiBenedetto's party over at Pete's. I was going to go with Tim but I think him and I got into a little argument the other day so I'm gonna book it to the party with my girls instead. Oh well. Tomorrow Sara and I are going to the Zoo to see the zoo babies so I'm pretty pumped about that. I have to work today in a half hour until 3 and hopefully it won't be too busy. I don't mind working on Saturdays because it's never that busy but I just feel like today could be a bad day.

I was going to go out last night but I ended up going to bed at 8PM. It was crazy. I woke up a couple times throughout the night but sleep peacefully for the most part. It felt good to get almost 14 hours of sleep. No drinking or anything, I feel completely refreshed and ready to party-harty tonight.

All I gotta do now is shower. I smell like work from two days ago. This stench NEVER LEAVES.

Wowzers

I do believe that it is not a good idea to go on a bar crawl with all your best friends the night before you have to work 8+ hours. Not a good idea at all. Although I might be a little hungover and have found stamp markings in places I don't recall being stamped, it was surely a good night!!!

I actually ran into my "almost" boyfriend's roommate. He told me that Mike (new) really likes me! Yay! I guess he talks about me when I'm not there, and it's good things -- Not bad. That's always positive to hear. I had fun with all of Chris' friends last night after all my friends disappeared. We all got drunk and danced and had some fun. We all went to Taco Bell and it was crazy packed. I waited like 45 minutes for my food. I was not a happy girl... When you are wasted, tired, and hungry... It's not a good combination. I do believe I also saw Mike (old) at Uptown but I ignored him the whole time. I could NOT let my boy's roommate see me flirting with another guy -- I had to be on my best behavior because he would tell on me in a heart beat if it looked like I would hurt the poor kid.

I miss him, actually... We got in a pretty big fight on Wednesday because he was mad that I "wasn't paying enough attention" to him at the bar. I thought it was pretty childish and woman of him and when I told him that (hey, I was drunk), he wasn't too happy with me. We still haven't actually sat downt o talk about what we are or about Wednesday night... He's in Indiana this weekend for National Guard so I guess we'll just have to wait until Sunday to talk about things... I'm not really sure how I'm going to bring it up or what I'm going to say, but I believe I need to tell him about old Mike. Not everything, just that I'm just ending this complicated relationship and I'm really stuck in the middle of a rock and a hard place.

We'll see what happens.

Exams, Quizzes, Papers, OH MY!

I'm currently cramming for my quiz at 3:30. I did study last night, however, I was easily distracted by the movie "Stranger Than Fiction" which, by the way, I highly recommend. I'm kind of at a loss of studying for this quiz -- The last quiz I took for this class I studied for days and got a 58% on it. How is that possible, may you ask? Apparently I didn't have enough "verbs and nouns" in my essay questions. I reread all those bad boys and my answers were awesome. Oh well. At this point I'm just skimming what I don't know and hoping I can bullshit my way through some of it. If I get a better grade on this quiz it just further proves that you can bullshit your way through life.

I work today and I'm hoping that today goes better than the last couple of days. I've wanted to throw things at my lovely bosses. Boss man drives me insane sometimes. He definitely called me out last week when he caught me rolling my eyes at him; but, who can blame me? This man is ridiculous!!

Tonight is Quarters/Endzone night. My one of two nights that I like to go out during the week (the other being Saturday). Tonight will prove to be highly entertaining because not only am I going with my favorite bar gals, but I'll be running into both Mikes. New Mike and old Mike. This is going to be FUN! I wonder what drama will brew up from this -- Time will only tell.

St. Patty's Day went swimmingly. It was a lot of fun. Some of my favorite 21ers and I went on an impromptu bar crawl and made it to 10 different bars. A round of shots and beers at each bar, some more than others, led to a very drunk Ashley calling a very sober (new) Mike to come pick her up. Poor guy didn't know what was about to hit him.

Promotion!

I've been promoted -- How grand.

Back to Basics

Ah, it's now time to start the second half of Spring semester. This year has blown -- Completely. I don't want to be here anymore, and it's getting more and more difficult to make myself concentrate on actually doing well. I've dropped two classes this semester and I'm down to 9 credit hours; I also dropped a major (since I was double majoring). I don't know what's wrong with me this year, but I'd much rather be working right now and making money than attending class. I'm destined to be working at Hollywood Video for the rest of my life.

Something new, though... I've been really thinking about forcing myself to try and finish school and join the National Guard or the Army. Since I'm majoring in Geography and I want to make maps, I thought joining the military would be the smartest route to go, but we'll see. I'm still so unsure of everything in my life right now.

This weekend proved pretty interesting. Sara is finally back and we had our own little fun. On Saturday night Jeff, Matt, and I partied it up with some good friends. It was a lot of fun... I forgot how much fun that "group" was to party with. They continually crack me up.

I work here in 20 minutes and I'm really not wanting to go in. I usually go into work at 11AM, but for whatever reason I'm scheduled for 9AM. That's pretty lame and I have a feeling I'm going to be slicing meats and shit all night. Lame. And, to top off the "lameness" factor... I work with the bosses.

I Like to Move it, Move it

This week has gone by terribly slow. It's been Spring Break up here but, unfortunately, I did not get a Spring Break... I got to work 40 hours this week. I should have also taken the time to look for a second job since I'm completely broke, but I was just too lazy. And it snowed. I blame the snow. I'm actually kind of excited for today -- My best friend, Sara, is coming back from Vegas today. I really wanted to hit up the bars tonight but I don't think I'll be able to get to the bank today so I'm still broke. Looks like it'll be parties for the ladies tonight. Still, it'll be good to have her back... I've missed her! Last night JB and I went over to his buddy, Tristan's, house. I didn't really like anyone there. A friend from work, though, showed up so I was happy I knew someone. I'm usually a pretty outgoing person, but there was one of those girls there that thought since she was just soooo pretty everything should be handed to her. I was getting rather annoyed. Stupid girls. When I got home around 1:30AM Kent had sent me some IMs saying that my "crush" had come over to his place to drink. I'm kind of mad I missed the opportunity to drink with Kent and Matt (my crush), but what can you do. Hopefully I can get out some good gossip from Kennels. We'll see.

I'm really not looking forward for today (work wise). I work open to close, essentially; 11-7. I also work with Mike from 5-7 -- Peachy. I have really, finally, ended it. I'm smarter than what I've made myself seem and he just isn't worth what I'm putting into this crazy relationship. I also finally told a couple girls from work (I wanted to keep it a secret)... They also agree with me that it is good that I end it. It was kind of hard to hide it from them when I showed up with Henry and Chris attached to my neck. That bastard.

I also have a long shift tomorrow -- 10-3 and then 5-9. That doesn't seem so bad with the 2 hour break, but it's still a nine hour day. We also have a huge order to prepare on Saturday which probably means that the bosses will make an appearance. Boy, am I excited. I hope these friends of mine on my neck decide to disppear before then. I was getting nothing but hell at work for them. I guess it's my own fault, though.

Ugh, someone go to work for me.

Party Hard

Meet Kent.


Now, in Kent's defense -- He really is a good guy, and one of my dearest and oldest friends. However, why is it necessary to go bonkers after a night of drinking? Just because we drink together quite often does not entitle you to confess your love for me, Sara, Kara, and all the other female friends you have. It's rather annoying.

I'm blowing off steam here, and I'm being kind of bitchy, but I have a right. I have to deal with this drama every time we drink. It's annoying (repeat).

Last night, as usual, we all head to Quarters for some pool, booze, and silver strike. I was having quite a splendid time and I was pretty hammered by the end of the night. While we were at the bar everything was peachy. There was no weirdness, nothing. We get back to Sara's apartment (since I'm crashing here) and it's like a trigger went off and he kept asking to sleep with me on the futon. I kindly told him no (four times), and to sleep on the other futon. Well, apparently, he was having none of that and left.

I would have stopped him from drunk driving but the room was spinning and instead of running to the door to stop him I yelled, "oh shit," and ran to the bathroom on the other end of the apartment.

Why are boys just so weird?

Now, I'm huuuuungova' and off to walk to work in the magical four inches of snow that we go last night. Fuck you, Mother Nature. She's a bitch, ain't she? I better be working with some sweet people today because I don't think I can handle the bosses.

Working Girl

You'd think that after being shown something once, that your boss would assume that you would be able to successfully complete that said task at a later date.

However, this is not the case. Yes, boss, I know how to slice tomatoes, ham, onions, etc. etc. You show me every day as if I've never worked there. In case you forgot, I've worked there for three months and slice daily. Get off my case. Thanks.

Also, I hate slicing onions -- Please make me stop doing it. Thanks.

And another thing -- Go home, boss, you make work 100 times more difficult when we are busy and you are there. We aren't 10, we know how to run a business efficiently and in a timely manner. The only time we get behind is when you are breathing down our necks and making us stop what we're doing every five minutes because you feel as though it's necessary to show us the "proper" way to make a sub. We've all worked there 3+ months. We aren't stupid.

One last thing -- If I have to hear you explain how none of us have good work ethic and how we're going to fail in life, I'll probably throw bread at your face. Oh, and before I forget, please have your son stop calling me "retarded" because I put a sticker on a piece of bread vertically and not horizontally.