Happy Halloween!

I am actually in a rotten mood today (work and PMS) but just wanted to wish everyone a safe, wonderful, candy-filled Halloween. :)

Terrible

Okay you guys, seriously, how do you think of things to blog about? It's like I want to be entertaining but honestly, my life doesn't afford me the luxury of sitting around and thinking of something fun to blog about. So I tell you guys about my life. Sorry! LOL!

We are moving next week. We, my department at work, are moving into the old executive area and we have new everything! It's like a wet dream for this girl because I LOVE new! I love change and I love new and I'm so excited we're moving. I am even more excited because I won't have to look at Re-re's ugly, stupid face anymore.

Yesterday's "Re-re Moment" is brought to you by the makers of Guns. Guns...if you don't have one, you probably want to use it on someone.

So yesterday Re-re asks me a question about where to assign a ticket. To me, it was an obvious answer but apparantly to Wonder Fuck, this was a hard one. I told him the answer and went about my business. Hour and a half later, our Desktop supervisor is talking to us, and Re-re asks him the SAME exact question. He gives him the answer (same as my answer) and I casually tilt my head into Re-re's line of vision and say, "Did you not believe me when you asked me earlier?"

This bitch get this smug, smarmy smirk on his face and says, "Nothing wrong with getting a 2nd opinion." Um, yes there is you fucking waste of space. You waste MY time when you insist on making sure my answers are right. I wish his mother would have aborted him. Yeah, I said it. I have never hated someone like I hate this guy.

But all of this will get better once we move. No longer will he be in my line of vision. No longer will I have to listen him loudly slurp his water bottle or look at his butt-ugly wife on his desk. I wish I could enforce the rule that he can only talk to me via IM but that's not going to happen. I'm not bringing my visitor's chair with me to my new cube when we move. I don't want Re-re to have any excuse to sit next to me and talk.

Happy Tuesday Ho's!!!!

Random Monday

I just wanted to say hi and bye because it is a Monday and as always, I am swamped. Mondays are always the busiest here so I'll make this short and sweet.

Got new pillows yesterday, who knew I was an extra firm kind of girl? :) Okay, I did. :)

We also got a new shower head that is not installed yet but I'm very excited about it. It's got the permanent over-your-heard rain shower kind of thingy and then a detachable fun kind of thingy. :)

We saw 3:10 to Yuma yesterday. Christian Bale? Hello! I'd like to be roughed up a bit by that man. He's hot! The movie was pretty good...I liked the ending. Russell Crowe does nothing for me but there was good acting in this.

Does anyone love How I Met Your Mother as much as I do? If you've never seen it, watch one episode and tell me how great it is. I would never have though Neil Patrick Harris was gay, especially watching this show. What a great actor.

Anyway, have a great week everyone!!! :)

SO busy!!

Guys, this week has been INSANE! Full moon today...did you know? You know what that means...my emotions are all messed up and everything that can go wrong has.

But I shall not dwell because that's not learning from my challenges. MEH!!! :)

I had my first weigh in last night (first weigh in at home, since re-starting WW) and I've lost 7.6 lbs. Matt was pretty blown away and I had to laugh and tell him not to expect that every week because this is the first week back and that always happens. If I can just lose about 2 lbs. a week from here on out, I'll be a happy sailor. :)

My question for you today is do any of you have alarm clock recommendations? Mine is not loud enough anymore (that or I need to have my ears candled) and I have been late to work almost every day this week because of it. Time for a new one. Any recommendations? :)

Have a GREAT weekend everyone!!!

Hump Day!

Well, it's the middle of the week and can I just say that I am exhausted? Too much drama going on at work and working a full week after getting back from vacation is always rough.

Is it true that President Bush passed some law or "made it so" so that Daylight Savings Time has been changed? I'm outta the loop, what the heck?

Yesterday's Re-re Stupid Question of the Day was: "Hey Beth, did you see that email in the inbox?"

We both look at the same help desk inbox ALL day long and considering the email he was talking about was one that *I* replied to...my head hurts from shaking it. I am a dumber person because of my exposure to him.

I have my first weigh-in tomorrow since rejoining WW online. I feel I have done VERY well this week and it has SO improved my mood. I just feel so good about myself when I do something like this for myself. I realize I don't take enough time to care about ME as much as I do others but...baby steps. :)

So it's a happy day my friends. I hope you all have a good one! xoxox

It's that time again!

It is time, once again, for me to remind my small group of blogging friends (and anyone else that might stumble upon this post) what life is like as a server. Not just a reminder but also I'm hoping that some of you learn a thing or two of what it's like to serve in a restaurant and how you can make your dining out experience more pleasurable.

Who has kids? Raise your hand. Actually, raise your right hand. And repeat after me:

I, Mommy/Daddy of this small being, do hereby promise to flip my server a few extra bucks to clean up after the ginormous mess my small being made at your table. I solemnly understand that although my server may not have to clean up after my child (but most of the time does) the busboys here will have to and my server has to give them part of her tips anyway.

That was a big one for me last night. I had a table last night with two kids, both under the age of 5, and I knew, from the moment I walked up, they were going to be an issue. How did I know? The first thing I do when I greet a table is set down napkins and silverware. The minute I put the napkin in front of the daughter, she grabbed at it and started doing with it whatever little kids do with those fascinating napkins.

When her mother ordered their drinks for them, she whispered to get the girl water and get the boy lemonade. I carried the drinks out, one on top of the other (kids cups come with lids, easy to carry) and set them on the table. Daughter grabs the top cup (with the lemonade for her brother) and since I'm not easily intimidated by small nose-pickers, I grabbed it right back from her. You should have seen the look on her face.

I also had the pleasure of serving three princesses last night. What? You didn't know there are princes and princesses right here in the United States? Well! Come to Chili's. Because obviously that's where they all go. They all come to Chili's, with The Ritz on their mind. Friends, please do not come into a chain restaurant, such as Chili's, TGIFridays, Denny's, Perkins, whatever, and expect table cloths and herbal teas. We are a bar and grill. We have some signature dishes that we are famous for, but we do not have 10 different kinds of iced tea, doilies, or bathroom attendants.

I swear to you this happened. These three princesses first requested classic margaritas (which are $3, so go low people, this is house tequila), but they insisted on having them in stemmed glasses. They refused to drink them out of our glass mugs and had to have a glass with a stem.

Next, the head princess ordered soup and salad (who knew there were so many ways to modify that meal) and told me FOUR times that she wants her salad out first and not to bring out the soup until she signals. She kept saying that, "until I signal you," like I'm some deaf person you have to wave your hands in front of to get my attention.

The princesses went to the bathroom during their meal and complained that the "bathroom attendant" needs to do a better job.

Finally, my favorite, the coffee. We don't get a lot of coffee drinkers at Chili's. Why? The coffee blows. In this day and age of Starbucks, why drink some generic brew out of a tinfoil bag? So the princesses want two decafs and one regular and I swear to you, on my kitties' lives, the coffee came out of the carafe, steaming. STEAMING! I drop it off at their table, attend to other less needy beings and when I stop back, they have full cups, complain the coffee is cold, I explain the steam I saw, they insist I brew new coffee.

We have ONE coffee maker in the restaurant so in order to make fresh decaf and regular, I have to do it one at a time. I explained this to them and they say, "That's okay, we'll be here a while."

Which makes me cringe. Why? Because now they are Camping Princesses. No one I know, unless they are servers or have been servers, EVER tips enough when they camp. And by camping I mean if you are going to sit at the table after you are done eating, you are now camping. This includes slowly finishing your drink, ordering coffee with many refills, or just sitting there talking. I could be turning over this table if you would just get out. I could be making more money at this table if I turned it over so again, get out. If you still are going to stay, you should give me a bigger tip to make up for the money that you are taking away from me by sitting there for HOURS!

I left and those women were still there.

Discrimination

Have you ever been the victim of discrimination? Not just race discrimination either...other kinds. Age discrimination? Weight discrimination? Sex discrimination?

I have worked for some offices that were true boys' clubs and little snip its of discrimination have invaded the day-to-day but nothing to offend a true naughty girl like me. :)

But recently, I've experienced more and more weight discrimination and being the Queen of Fair, it has me enraged.

While in the Smokys, I was unable to ride horses because of a weight restriction at the corral. I understand certain horses probably can't carry a certain weight but that didn't help my embarrassment or devastation. I looked forward to this so much and to be denied because of my size (which I do NOT let control how I live my outdoor life)...it was rough.

I have also experienced this when hanging out with friends. It's HIGHLY apparent that guys take issue with my weight when everyone of my girlfriends that is skinnier than me is lavished certain attentions.

I have always been a flirt and flirt a lot with the guys I work with at Chili's. Certain guys flirt right back, just as much (if not more) than I do and it does this old girl's heart well. But it is SO OBVIOUS that certain guys have issues with my weight when they make the rounds of giving shoulder massages and they skip me and this other girl who is heavier than me. It hurts my feelings.

So have you ever experienced something like this? Care to share?

Friday Smoky Post

Just wanted to share some more pictures!!! I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!

This is part of the problem with not owning a tri-pod. We have to rely on strange Larrys to take our picture. Now how the hell am I supposed to use this as a Christmas card picture when you can barely tell its US???

Isn't this totally Blair Witch Projecty? This area of Cades Cove once had settlers and they turned the area into a paved path and there are two fireplaces and a stone wall and I love seeing old shit like this! OMG! Just to know that 200 years ago, someone from back then was standing in front of what I'm standing in front of now...I love stuff like that.

When my sister and I were looking at the pics last night, she said in this pic, it looks like the cross on the ground is floating. What do you think?

Do you see this precious muffin? Do you see how he's holding his back paw? He's posing...because he's waiting for us to throw food down to him. In Cherokee, NC, they have two of these places where they have captured bears, keep too many in too small of enclosures, and people pay to see them and feed them. I loved it and hated it. I hate that these bears can now, never be released into the wild. They are fully dependent on people. But they were SOOOOOOO cute!! I mean look at him!! I wanna kiss his nose.

Mama's Back!

Hey friends! We are back! Okay so we've been back since early Tuesday morning but you know how it is...gotta get back to work and deal with all the fucktards that didn't get to go on vacation, gotta get the pets to remember that they love us and yes, we do feed you! Gotta remember what its like to wake up in a bed under a solid roof instead of in a sleeping bag, under some canvas. :)

The Smoky Mountains were gorgeous. We hiked and camped and biked and rafted and saw lots of animals and it was a great trip. I'm truly glad to be home though because now I don't have another vacation until March of next year (VEGAS BABY!) and I can breathe some. I hate the nervous anxiety I get before a vacation...I always feel like I've forgotten to do something.

Here are some pics I thought you all might enjoy. If the spacing gets all messed up, sorry but I don't have time to fix it. I hate this part of blogger.

Did everyone have a good week? I will visit your blogs soon! xoxoxoxo Beth

On the road again!

Matt and I leave in 2 1/2 hours for the Smokey Mountains so I just wanted to say bye and I hope you all have a great week! We'll be gone until Monday the 15th and I'll be back at work on the 16th but probably won't blog til the 17th so I can catch up.

Love to all!!!!

This ho is on vacation!

Fantasies

My blog sure has been depressing lately huh? :) Well, instead of another life update, here's something light and fun.

How dangerous are sexual fantasies? Let's say you have a person in your life, of the opposite sex, and you get along real well and suddenly, you are fantasizing about what it would be like to do it with them. Is it wrong? I once had a shrink tell me that it's healthy to fantasize. If you aren't ever going to act on it, is it okay?

Basically the reason I'm asking is because I, being a healthy, almost 32 year old female, am at my sexual peak. Or so I'm told. And mama needs action. And Mr. Matt works a LOT of hours and is frequently tired. So I have my little dreams. :) I have some cute boys that are friends at my 2nd job and let me tell you...they frequently make it well known that if I were single, they'd be...let's use the word interested. We flirt and have fun and they know Matt and have been over so it is definitely innocent...but I can't help but have little dirty thoughts about these guys!

Am I bad? I won't touch them, I promise. But I want to think about it. LOL!!!

Too funny to not post

I work in the IT department and our securities manager passed this on to me. Too funny to not do a second post today! :) Enjoy!

To all Internet users...

Big companies don't do business via chain letters and there are no computer programs that track how many times an e-mail is forwarded, let alone by whom. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class action checks.

Proctor and Gamble is not part of a satanic cult or scheme, and its logo is not satanic.

MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people.

The Gap is not giving away free clothes. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true."

There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their cousin. If you are hell bent on believing the kidney theft ring stories, see: www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.htm

And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories." None have. That's "none" as in "zero." Not even your friend's cousin.

Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at: www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html. Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.

If the latest NASA rocket disasters DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain letter?

There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first confirm that an actual site of an actual company that actually deals with viruses. Try: Symantec. And even then, don't forward it. We don't care. And you cannot get a virus from a flashing IM or email, you have to download it...ya know, like, a FILE!

There is no gang initiation plot to murder any motorist who flashes headlights at another car driving at night without lights.

If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells can't read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it with a web browser since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.

If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months. (Think Cut and Paste) It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the "" that begin each line either. Besides, if it has gone around that many times we've probably already seen it.

Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is no longer a "little boy" either.

The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do. Also, the American Cancer Society does not give 3 cents for each person you forward e-mail to. They ask for you to donate money, money, they don't give it, as if they could know how many e-mails you sent out...sheesh.

If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards anything that "promises" something bad will happen if you "don't" - then something bad will happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley.

Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, but forwarding an e-mail won't help their cause in the least. If you want to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch with Amnesty International or the Red Cross.

As a general rule, e-mail "signatures" are easily faked and mean nothing to anyone with any power to do anything about whatever the competition is complaining about.

KFC really does use real chickens with feathers and beaks and feet. No, they really do. Why did they change their name? In this health conscious world, what was KFC's name? Kentucky FRIED Chicken. FRIED is not healthy. So with the help of a focus group, they changed the name to KFC. It's short, doesn't offend dieters and it's easy to remember.

Another thing, just because someone said in a message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it true.

PS: There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies to charge you for using the Internet.

Bottom Line... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public rest room. Don't automatically believe it until it's proven false... ASSUME it's false, unless there is proof that it's true.

Author Unknown

Too bad they didn't add #19 - Always include the name of the person who writes the good stuff that you copy and circulate on the Internet so the authors are given proper credit!

Better

My dad is doing better you guys, he's out of the hospital and in the rehab "home" that he stayed at last year when he had his knee replacement. He can't wait to come home but first little Larry needs to be able to walk on his own and get out of bed by himself. He told me I am not to cancel my vacation to be with him.

Things at work are really hectic. Re-re the wonder tard is out this week and then I leave on Saturday for our final 2007 vacation. We are headed to the Smokey Mountains for some camping, hiking, alone time. It is well deserved and so needed. I am beat! This year kicked my ass.

So basically I'm not going to be around for another two weeks or so. I hope you all don't forget about me because I WILL be back. Its just been a rough few weeks and after I'm back from vacation, all will be right again. xoxoxoxoxo

Dad update

My dad's been in the hospital since Tuesday and it's been quite the week. Originally the doctors thought that he had a spinal fluid leak in his back but it turns out, after testing and waiting and more waiting, the determined he has spinal meningitis. He had a lot of nausea (that hasn't fully gone away) and more headaches and they tested some of his spinal fluid and found a blood infection which turned into spinal meningitis.

He's doing well now, as well as can be expected. I saw him most of the day on Friday when he wasn't so good and then Sunday he looked so much better. He's lost weight and can't get up and down without assistance so that's very hard to swallow. My dad has always been the big, strong tough guy and to see him like this was a kick in the gut. Today he will get more physical therapy and he will have a pik line put in. This pik line is a catheter that will go in through his arm and go directly into his heart. They will have to suture it in and he will have to have it for probably 6 weeks. It will pump serious antibiotics into him to kill the meningitis.

We are hopeful he'll get to come home this week. We don't want him leaving the hospital TOO soon (like we have a say in that) because obviously that was detrimental to him last time. I really appreciate all the love and support I've already received. My dad does too. :)

xoxoxoox