I would like to start off by saying a very sarcastic thank you to LUPD, after tonight I feel very safe in their "capable" hands....(as a disclaimer I really do appreciate them and this is just me being dramatic). So i am from Florida and this whole black ice nonsense is not in my driving skills, so whenever it presents itself utter chaos follows. Last year this very same thing happened and it ended with me calling someone to drive my car as I sat in the parking lot crying talking to Amy waiting for them to come, once they arrived I curled up on the fetal position in the front seat as they drifted my car to a parking spot. After I exited I slid all the way down the parking lot and the only thing that stopped be was a car, I hit it full on. Sufficed to say it was not one of my shining moments.
Now the shambles that unfolded follow the same line but guess what there are a few new plot twists to keep everyone hooked. So After 20min and help from the brother dorm SLD's and the rest of our big four my car is out of the commuter lot and on its way to my glorious workplace(see my blog "I'll have the bread chips" for my real emotions towards it). I manage to make it all the way there no problems until I hit the parking lot and have a mini scare, but I regain control. Well the work day passes and I get a shot of confidence that I can bring this sucker home, especially since the road ways were clear and I was doing great. Well I pull on campus and the drama begins. I call up Jess Bates( RA and emotional encourager)and ask her if LUPD has sent out an email about parking. You see I was trying to be smart because last year after the mess I got back to the dorm only to find out that an email was sent saying not to move the cars. So I try and check up on this (like beyonce) and it is a failure because no email was sent, and Jess had called the LUPD and was told (supposedly) to move the cars over there. Panic erupts inside my once confident heart as a flash back of last year came back into sight. So I hang up with Jess and proceed down to the depths of what will proceed to become my yearly ice break down! So i turn into the parking lot of David's place(apparently his place is Hades) and there are no spots...like great idea LUPD send people down here when it HASN'T been plowed, lord. And so I call Jess again and ask for their number thinking that they will help. O if I had only known that Steven was apparently menstruating. I call them up and I am going to display the phone call as if it was a 9-11 emergency...
LUPD:"LUPD this is Steven'
ME: "um yeah I tried to move my car down to David's place but it is really icy and i am drifting and I am afriad I am going to hit a car, so I have stopped moving..."
LUPD: "Well is it blocking traffic?"
Me: " No but I am like right in the middle of the parking lot, so I am kinda blocking that, and I cannot move it or I will hit something..."
LUPD: "so you are not in traffic?"
Me: "No, but I am in the way"
LUPD: "well listen ma'am we do not want you to get hurt or to hurt anyone, and we are trying to reduce property damage so if you are not blocking traffic you need to just leave your car there"(said in a tone!)
Me: "I cannot leave my car here someone is going to hit me I am out in the open"
LUPD: "you are out in the open?"
Me:"yes"
LUPD: "then no one will hit you...
UM EXCUSE ME WHEN DID THIS EVER SOUND LIKE A GREAT IDEA when cars are drifting of course someone is going to hit me I am right THERE! and listen if you wanted to reduce property damage then you should not be instructing people to move their cars into this ice trap.Chew on that Steven.I mean how is this even helpful, he was no were near to assess where I was, and never offered to do anything constructive about it.So I begin to cry as I call Jess again an reiterate the whole convo while yelling(it is an art and I def. have the lung capacity for it). So then she is like what do you want me to do do you want me to call someone and I am like, listen do whatever you need to to get me out of here. So i hang up and wait like 2 minutes and can't stand being in this "open space" so I try to move again this time it goes well, but just as I feel stupid for all my phone calls and hysterics, Tokyo drift happens again and I am now in a position where it "all being down hill from here" is NOT a good thing. So I call Jess again bringing the count up to 4(now I know why RA's sometimes do not give their numbers out) and she it like we are coming, well I am impatient and try and drive again and think its going good so I call her for the fifth time to tell her the good news, when she says just do not hit on the breaks...well not only can she spot people out of the liberty way, she also is telepathic cause right as she said that I did it and then I had to slam her into park cause I lost ALL control. Well she at this point knew the necessity of getting down there to help me and was off. So I was saved by the same SLD's and the big four, but we still could not get Gilbert(my car's name) into a spot. So he is sitting perpendicular in three spots on the brink of being in a snow bank. My 'lanta! And then just like last year I get back and I am informed that it was only "if you could move your car" that you should put it in David's place. So I guess this ice drifting is becoming a yearly ritual, so there is next year to look forward too. NOT!and that is all I have to say, except it is probably best for both me and Steven is we never meet!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
things forgotten on purpose
So I have not posted a blog in a while and I feel like this is a disservice to the world. But then i look at my followers and see that there are only three(one being my mother) and I realize I posting might just be the disservice. But the man can't keep me down so I will post this with confidence, even though my following is severely limited. Not much has been going on in my life...ha if only that was true. SO much has been going on, but due to the plethora of situations and changes it is hard to just capture it all. So i have chosen to write about something that has nothing to do with the situations that I have been facing(o yeah I avoid reality). So on my way back here from the FL I compiled a list of places that if I never visited again I would be ok. Now the list could go on forever cause let's face it not every place needs a return visit, but I had to have a cut off point so I am giving you the top 10. So here is the list and little explinations of the places I wish I could forget:
1. KFC Buffet- this was just a bad experience in itself all I wanted was chicken fingers and mac-and-cheese, but somehow I got caught up in this buffet idea and it was not a smart move. That night I ate around five cinnamon biscuit i don't even know whats and ticked off a group of old people because I was talking about lesbians.
2. Roller rink in Titusville-now granted this is not there anymore and the building just serves the purpose of a place to conduct indoor drug deals, but if it was still there I would not be participating in it.
3. Titusville High School- in putting a high school on the list I think that many people would be like o well duh, but for me this is not one of those I hated my high school and I regret etc etc for me it is just the people there are so dumb and whenever I was there I felt like my brain was on the decline. I had to take health my senior year with a bunch of freshman, and let me tell you all stereotypes applied to the class and the students!
4. Dinosaur museum- this one is not because it is boring but more along the lines of it is scary. One of my top fears is dinosaur skeletons and like the recreations of them (yep I am a real catch lol). But yeah I have cried and clung to my mother and had to leave multiple places that had dinosaur parts to them. I will just rush everyone out of the room, so that I have a shred of decency left. O and Night at the museum...that would be one of the worst things to happen to me.
5.Ohio- yeah been there done that totally sums this one up!(parts of it are nice but I have to give it the decline stamp)
6. Bathroom at rain forest cafe- let me set the scene...18 year old easter lunch goes to the bathroom will not let anyone leave her in the bathroom, cried on the way in,thought they left her screamed for them(while in the bathroom), ran through the restaurant the moment she was done.This will NEVER happen again and by this I mean using the restroom there. It is too much another fear of mine is like realistic animal eyes like paintings of tigers and what not. So yeah from then on I held it.
7. Bowling-now I will still go bowling but I try to forget the pains of my past. When we went in 6th grade everyone scored really high but me and so I was not going to share my score but everyone walked past and saw it so I was not at a good place. Then I returned to the sport and would go extreme bowling...the only thing extreme was how bad I was one time I scored a 19. yeah, enough said
8. North Carolina- Now this one is different than ohio,I was not a fan of Ohio due to the experiences that came with it. North Carolina is just a butt. It used to be South Carolina but I guess they got their lives together. Now N.C. causes me trouble. It took 2hrs to go 15 miles one time, another time they cause severe anxiety due to their "secret police," also they do not know how to drive, and it is just not fun times when we hit that state.
9. The Lucky U spot- that is right and no I did not change the name. This fine establishment is one of the sketchiest(still running) places I have been. I went in for coffee and was taken aback and having Katie there was like um..the worst idea ever. We walk in and both of us not knowing how to handle it, cause obviously we did not want to be there, Katie just walks into the middle of this room and stands there. All the workers who are super sketch are looking at us like we are the ones who are strung out, and there is like animal planet on and some guy is eating biscuits and gravy. I mean weirdest thing on earth. Let me tell you I did not feel the luck. sufficed to say we left that place and I will never use Katie as an awkward buffer lesson learned.
10. PANERA- just kidding I want to remember all that est. has "taught" me so that when I have children I can ramble on about my part time job, and maybe make it some life lesson...ha, I feel like that will be my right as a parent.
1. KFC Buffet- this was just a bad experience in itself all I wanted was chicken fingers and mac-and-cheese, but somehow I got caught up in this buffet idea and it was not a smart move. That night I ate around five cinnamon biscuit i don't even know whats and ticked off a group of old people because I was talking about lesbians.
2. Roller rink in Titusville-now granted this is not there anymore and the building just serves the purpose of a place to conduct indoor drug deals, but if it was still there I would not be participating in it.
3. Titusville High School- in putting a high school on the list I think that many people would be like o well duh, but for me this is not one of those I hated my high school and I regret etc etc for me it is just the people there are so dumb and whenever I was there I felt like my brain was on the decline. I had to take health my senior year with a bunch of freshman, and let me tell you all stereotypes applied to the class and the students!
4. Dinosaur museum- this one is not because it is boring but more along the lines of it is scary. One of my top fears is dinosaur skeletons and like the recreations of them (yep I am a real catch lol). But yeah I have cried and clung to my mother and had to leave multiple places that had dinosaur parts to them. I will just rush everyone out of the room, so that I have a shred of decency left. O and Night at the museum...that would be one of the worst things to happen to me.
5.Ohio- yeah been there done that totally sums this one up!(parts of it are nice but I have to give it the decline stamp)
6. Bathroom at rain forest cafe- let me set the scene...18 year old easter lunch goes to the bathroom will not let anyone leave her in the bathroom, cried on the way in,thought they left her screamed for them(while in the bathroom), ran through the restaurant the moment she was done.This will NEVER happen again and by this I mean using the restroom there. It is too much another fear of mine is like realistic animal eyes like paintings of tigers and what not. So yeah from then on I held it.
7. Bowling-now I will still go bowling but I try to forget the pains of my past. When we went in 6th grade everyone scored really high but me and so I was not going to share my score but everyone walked past and saw it so I was not at a good place. Then I returned to the sport and would go extreme bowling...the only thing extreme was how bad I was one time I scored a 19. yeah, enough said
8. North Carolina- Now this one is different than ohio,I was not a fan of Ohio due to the experiences that came with it. North Carolina is just a butt. It used to be South Carolina but I guess they got their lives together. Now N.C. causes me trouble. It took 2hrs to go 15 miles one time, another time they cause severe anxiety due to their "secret police," also they do not know how to drive, and it is just not fun times when we hit that state.
9. The Lucky U spot- that is right and no I did not change the name. This fine establishment is one of the sketchiest(still running) places I have been. I went in for coffee and was taken aback and having Katie there was like um..the worst idea ever. We walk in and both of us not knowing how to handle it, cause obviously we did not want to be there, Katie just walks into the middle of this room and stands there. All the workers who are super sketch are looking at us like we are the ones who are strung out, and there is like animal planet on and some guy is eating biscuits and gravy. I mean weirdest thing on earth. Let me tell you I did not feel the luck. sufficed to say we left that place and I will never use Katie as an awkward buffer lesson learned.
10. PANERA- just kidding I want to remember all that est. has "taught" me so that when I have children I can ramble on about my part time job, and maybe make it some life lesson...ha, I feel like that will be my right as a parent.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
and then the water turned into the bestest beers and wine
Tonight I was asked to teach the chapel service for the 1st-6th graders at church. Well when I was asked I was kinda caught off guard and then just said ok,but later the weight of that decision and what it would entail hit me. I have never really been a part of the chapel, in the 7yrs that I have been a part of the childrens ministry and I have never gone to a wednesday night service in the kids church. So I had no idea what I would be getting into. Well add on top of that the fact that I have not worked with that age group for a year and have not really taught that kind of way in two years, so I was not feeling it. But along with being good with children my Children's pastor is awesome at guilt tripping/sweet talking I was persuaded,and so the night began.
Now I am not an expert at Childrens Ministry and I am not trying to say that I know it all(trust me if you know me you not only know this but you have experienced it first hand)but I have worked with children for 7plus years now and I have noticed and learned some group dynamics and what not. And for all you lovelies who like to read my melodrama enjoy the tips I have to offer, and the joy I experienced tonight.
First off, my church has decided that chairs hinder the kids or some junk like that(I just think they were getting tired of setting them up) and so ALL of the seats are gone so the kids just roam free(problem numero uno) SO what seems fine is not when during worship these little ones decide they are half emergent and find God by wandering around the room. Sorry that does not work for me, if I can barely find the focus to worship while properly secured in row seats(we all know that is why they are in rows it is to control us)there is no way that kids who are on a diet of sugar and refined sugar are going to be able to worship unless they are sequestered. Now when I speak to kids whether it is telling just a simple bible story or lesson, or what not I have to do some ground work of rules first. And the other adults in there sometimes cannot handle them, but in the end they are asking me the questions, so my system is flawless(in theory). There is always one precious that likes to challenge my system, but unlike others they cannot break me. Tonight's precious i now deem carpet boy. And he was no match for me. He started by always being the one who could not comprehend or apply the no talking unless your hand is up so I had to deal with that but he was not too bad. I was nervous about not having enough to say but then my little precious from my old pre-school class walked in and I knew I was solid. He always liked to ask questions and for the most part had the right answers, the only problem is these came with a price...a 5 min story that went with it. But tonight that was going to work in my favor, so I focused on these two kids to enhance my message(great life choice). I had to tell carpet boy to stop peeling up the carpet(hence his name) and he seemed to listen so I thought that situation was over but 10 more minutes in and the same issue arrived. Here is where most teachers fail, when they are telling a story or a lesson a kid acts up and they either do not deal with it and just pretend to ignore it until they are done, or they stop their story and address it but then it gets them all off track so then the kid wins because the teacher then begins to ignore them so they can stay focused. And this is why I excel I do not let these newbs get to me they are precious and do not act up until you are mid lesson, thinking that you will not do anything. Well I do not opperate that way and I call them out right there. But I keep a mental note of my place in the lesson. I do not let their hyperactivity throw off my groove. i cut them at the source and they stop. It is what I call "shutting them down" you do not let them ramble on about nonsense you just shut 'em down. Trust me it works. You just have to not care what they "think about you"(which does not matter anyway cause unless you are abusing them all you have to do is give out some candy at the end and you are back on their friend list. Not everyone agrees with this but it has not failed me yet so until it does I will keep using it. So carpet boy strikes again with the carpet and I remind him about what I said and he said but it is bugging me, to that I said well now you are bugging me and the others so put it down and move over there. He did and guess what the rest of the time he was amazing, and he knew the lesson points and could say them back. And the other little precious can turn anything into a story so when I needed to regroup I let his thoughts run free.
Now the whole point of this is I love working with kids cause as we all know they say the funniest stuff.And it brings me such joy. Tonight the best thing was carpet boys description of some of Jesus' miracles. I was only going to let him say one, but he expressed to me that he was not sure if both were real and he wanted to say both just in case. Well who can deny that so I let him have at it. here is how he explained them
Number 1: one time there was this women I cannot remember her name, but she like was touched by Jesus and like she was bleeding forever but then she went up to Jesus and there was no more blood and she was better(that was almost correct and considering he was 8 I was proud of that answer)
Number 2: back in Jesus' day they had those big jar things (um ok) and like Jesus told people to fill it up with a lot of water and wait a day, and then the next day they came back and it was filled with the bestest most great beers and wine(um sure...this one I had to do a little ground work but for the most part it was ok)
but I just could not get over him he was too cute, rowdy but cute. when I was done the other workers in there were all like good job, you had to deal with a tough crowd tonight...um if that was a tough crowd I feel like they should be way past bible lessons and be teaching these kids like the doctrine of creation. I mean out of 25ish kids 3 acted up and it was over carpet and not sitting on their bottoms, I just think they are letting these kids play them way too much. Kids are sneaky and you just have to rule with no nonsense, but hey if that was a tough crowd I need to come back when it is a good one because we might be able to have a revolution.
Now I am not an expert at Childrens Ministry and I am not trying to say that I know it all(trust me if you know me you not only know this but you have experienced it first hand)but I have worked with children for 7plus years now and I have noticed and learned some group dynamics and what not. And for all you lovelies who like to read my melodrama enjoy the tips I have to offer, and the joy I experienced tonight.
First off, my church has decided that chairs hinder the kids or some junk like that(I just think they were getting tired of setting them up) and so ALL of the seats are gone so the kids just roam free(problem numero uno) SO what seems fine is not when during worship these little ones decide they are half emergent and find God by wandering around the room. Sorry that does not work for me, if I can barely find the focus to worship while properly secured in row seats(we all know that is why they are in rows it is to control us)there is no way that kids who are on a diet of sugar and refined sugar are going to be able to worship unless they are sequestered. Now when I speak to kids whether it is telling just a simple bible story or lesson, or what not I have to do some ground work of rules first. And the other adults in there sometimes cannot handle them, but in the end they are asking me the questions, so my system is flawless(in theory). There is always one precious that likes to challenge my system, but unlike others they cannot break me. Tonight's precious i now deem carpet boy. And he was no match for me. He started by always being the one who could not comprehend or apply the no talking unless your hand is up so I had to deal with that but he was not too bad. I was nervous about not having enough to say but then my little precious from my old pre-school class walked in and I knew I was solid. He always liked to ask questions and for the most part had the right answers, the only problem is these came with a price...a 5 min story that went with it. But tonight that was going to work in my favor, so I focused on these two kids to enhance my message(great life choice). I had to tell carpet boy to stop peeling up the carpet(hence his name) and he seemed to listen so I thought that situation was over but 10 more minutes in and the same issue arrived. Here is where most teachers fail, when they are telling a story or a lesson a kid acts up and they either do not deal with it and just pretend to ignore it until they are done, or they stop their story and address it but then it gets them all off track so then the kid wins because the teacher then begins to ignore them so they can stay focused. And this is why I excel I do not let these newbs get to me they are precious and do not act up until you are mid lesson, thinking that you will not do anything. Well I do not opperate that way and I call them out right there. But I keep a mental note of my place in the lesson. I do not let their hyperactivity throw off my groove. i cut them at the source and they stop. It is what I call "shutting them down" you do not let them ramble on about nonsense you just shut 'em down. Trust me it works. You just have to not care what they "think about you"(which does not matter anyway cause unless you are abusing them all you have to do is give out some candy at the end and you are back on their friend list. Not everyone agrees with this but it has not failed me yet so until it does I will keep using it. So carpet boy strikes again with the carpet and I remind him about what I said and he said but it is bugging me, to that I said well now you are bugging me and the others so put it down and move over there. He did and guess what the rest of the time he was amazing, and he knew the lesson points and could say them back. And the other little precious can turn anything into a story so when I needed to regroup I let his thoughts run free.
Now the whole point of this is I love working with kids cause as we all know they say the funniest stuff.And it brings me such joy. Tonight the best thing was carpet boys description of some of Jesus' miracles. I was only going to let him say one, but he expressed to me that he was not sure if both were real and he wanted to say both just in case. Well who can deny that so I let him have at it. here is how he explained them
Number 1: one time there was this women I cannot remember her name, but she like was touched by Jesus and like she was bleeding forever but then she went up to Jesus and there was no more blood and she was better(that was almost correct and considering he was 8 I was proud of that answer)
Number 2: back in Jesus' day they had those big jar things (um ok) and like Jesus told people to fill it up with a lot of water and wait a day, and then the next day they came back and it was filled with the bestest most great beers and wine(um sure...this one I had to do a little ground work but for the most part it was ok)
but I just could not get over him he was too cute, rowdy but cute. when I was done the other workers in there were all like good job, you had to deal with a tough crowd tonight...um if that was a tough crowd I feel like they should be way past bible lessons and be teaching these kids like the doctrine of creation. I mean out of 25ish kids 3 acted up and it was over carpet and not sitting on their bottoms, I just think they are letting these kids play them way too much. Kids are sneaky and you just have to rule with no nonsense, but hey if that was a tough crowd I need to come back when it is a good one because we might be able to have a revolution.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
scariest night of my life
I have learned that in Titusville I cannot win. It is like there is nothing I can do to change this, and so now I am forced to just expect and accept that where ever I go mass havoc will break out. Me and my good friend and fashion adviser always have a tradition that when I am back we watch scary movies and eat nasty amounts of taco bell and other such nonsense. Well this plan has worked, but the last two times the results have not been pretty. well go back in time to reflect on a past experience with this an then sum it up with the difficulty that was found this time.
I miss out on so much culture being in the "Liberty bubble" (I hate that phrase) but in truth I do. There is no cable so I do not watch TV (because my "Acer" does not liek to participate in the whole TV on the computer thing) so I do not see commercials or movie previews...OR ANYTHING. Also while I am in the VA the only stores I find myself in are bookstores, food stores and wait for it...WALMART. And these things are not too conducive for one to have a thriving lifestyle. So there are all these movies I want to see when I go home and that is what I do. The only problem is that we want to watch scary movies with tori and so I have no idea what any good ones are (and I am finding out slowly that there really are not any anyway) so the search is hard to begin with. So we go to Blockbuster and are searching and nothing is showing up so we go to the not new movie section(bad idea) and we try to find something. Well we finally decide on two movies, one was like a documentary kinda thing on a serial killer, sounds cool right? NO we did not do proper research on what this serial killer did and the display of it was not pleasant, the other movie was now a remake, problem being we did not get the remake and anyone who has watched a movie from the 70's knows how this one provided a problem. So this was not a solid run. sufficed to say we vowed the next time to be better.
The next time:
I went to Blockbuster the one closer to my house and spotted some potentials but did not remember the names just where they were and the display, and what not. So I convinced Tori that going to that blockbuster would have better results(we all know where this build up is headed). We go there and guess what the people at bolockbuster decided to actually work for their money so they were in the process of cleaning all the displays...the cracks in my plan begin to develop into gorges. So now we have to once again look around to find movies. Well this time we actually have some luck because we get the darko series which look promising and these other ones that look creepy enough. (It is now that the gorges crumble). Tori forgot her card, which is never a problem at her blockbuster because they all do not care and let her do what she wants. But this one had a problem, but tried to be helpful. So they were just going to use her ID problem is they cannot find her account anywhere and so He's all trying to use his blockbuster name badge as means of authority to tell us how to live. So I was just going to use my parents account but they had a movie out(it was actually me hehehe) and so I cannot check one out when one is late. So I am just like I am going to open my own Blockbuster account. And that is when "andre" decides he can take advantage of this situation, but not as easily as he would have hoped because this quick trip is pushing close to an hour now. So I go to fill out this little application and the jokes on Blockbuster cause I ask for the maximum amount of cards 3 just to tick him off. So I turn in my application and now Andre turns into the precious little salesman as he is and begins to try and market to me...I have reached my breaking point. I just want out of this blockbuster. Well he is trying to sell me this rewards card(great in theory but I live in reality and unless I am in T-Ville I do not rent movies, and even when I do someone else pays) and I am like um I think I am just going to wait and then he has to bring in the visual to show me all my reward options. Well im sorry andre but I am pretty sure I can understand what rent on get one free entails, but he is not letting up for anything. Then he brings in the mental math(basically him throwing out random prices to show how I can save money)My mind is going in circles and I am tired and hungry and I just cannot help but laughing and smiling so this must look ridiculous, but on the inside I am really peeved. So then he tells me that it will only be 11 dollars to rent the movies and add the rewards program on, so I am like fine do it whatever. And so he is like do it, and I am like yeah. So he starts ringing me up and says boldly that is 16.49 wait what...that is not 11 dollars. Then he brings in more attitude than a 7th grade girl who watches the Disney channel, as if he had not pitched enough drama to win a Soap award already. He is all like yeah that is what it would have been with out the rewards but with them it is only 5 dollars more. So i just try to solve this and just swipe my card but in haste punch in the wrong numbers and there are problems again because the little lady was declined. I start to rage and He is trying to tell me to chill and just do it again, trying to say that tonight is a good night, and we are like it was, and he is like are you saying I ruined it and I am like well you and Blockbuster it was a collaborative effort, and I swipe her again. It goes through, and I just want to get out of there, but I cannot with out my cards, and I am now regretting the decision of asking for three cards.An hour later we are out of that place.The drama that took place in that rental store was ridiculous!
After that taco bell seems to ease my pain. The movies were not even worth it and the scariest part of the whole night...this is really scary prepare yourself...I Danielle Nettuno thought that a man who wore a Hawaiian SHORT sleeve shirt, cargo shorts, and MANDALS, all in the same 130min. movie was ...CUTE! I am ashamed and scared and do not know how to handle this, but it just shows once again my life is in shambles!
I miss out on so much culture being in the "Liberty bubble" (I hate that phrase) but in truth I do. There is no cable so I do not watch TV (because my "Acer" does not liek to participate in the whole TV on the computer thing) so I do not see commercials or movie previews...OR ANYTHING. Also while I am in the VA the only stores I find myself in are bookstores, food stores and wait for it...WALMART. And these things are not too conducive for one to have a thriving lifestyle. So there are all these movies I want to see when I go home and that is what I do. The only problem is that we want to watch scary movies with tori and so I have no idea what any good ones are (and I am finding out slowly that there really are not any anyway) so the search is hard to begin with. So we go to Blockbuster and are searching and nothing is showing up so we go to the not new movie section(bad idea) and we try to find something. Well we finally decide on two movies, one was like a documentary kinda thing on a serial killer, sounds cool right? NO we did not do proper research on what this serial killer did and the display of it was not pleasant, the other movie was now a remake, problem being we did not get the remake and anyone who has watched a movie from the 70's knows how this one provided a problem. So this was not a solid run. sufficed to say we vowed the next time to be better.
The next time:
I went to Blockbuster the one closer to my house and spotted some potentials but did not remember the names just where they were and the display, and what not. So I convinced Tori that going to that blockbuster would have better results(we all know where this build up is headed). We go there and guess what the people at bolockbuster decided to actually work for their money so they were in the process of cleaning all the displays...the cracks in my plan begin to develop into gorges. So now we have to once again look around to find movies. Well this time we actually have some luck because we get the darko series which look promising and these other ones that look creepy enough. (It is now that the gorges crumble). Tori forgot her card, which is never a problem at her blockbuster because they all do not care and let her do what she wants. But this one had a problem, but tried to be helpful. So they were just going to use her ID problem is they cannot find her account anywhere and so He's all trying to use his blockbuster name badge as means of authority to tell us how to live. So I was just going to use my parents account but they had a movie out(it was actually me hehehe) and so I cannot check one out when one is late. So I am just like I am going to open my own Blockbuster account. And that is when "andre" decides he can take advantage of this situation, but not as easily as he would have hoped because this quick trip is pushing close to an hour now. So I go to fill out this little application and the jokes on Blockbuster cause I ask for the maximum amount of cards 3 just to tick him off. So I turn in my application and now Andre turns into the precious little salesman as he is and begins to try and market to me...I have reached my breaking point. I just want out of this blockbuster. Well he is trying to sell me this rewards card(great in theory but I live in reality and unless I am in T-Ville I do not rent movies, and even when I do someone else pays) and I am like um I think I am just going to wait and then he has to bring in the visual to show me all my reward options. Well im sorry andre but I am pretty sure I can understand what rent on get one free entails, but he is not letting up for anything. Then he brings in the mental math(basically him throwing out random prices to show how I can save money)My mind is going in circles and I am tired and hungry and I just cannot help but laughing and smiling so this must look ridiculous, but on the inside I am really peeved. So then he tells me that it will only be 11 dollars to rent the movies and add the rewards program on, so I am like fine do it whatever. And so he is like do it, and I am like yeah. So he starts ringing me up and says boldly that is 16.49 wait what...that is not 11 dollars. Then he brings in more attitude than a 7th grade girl who watches the Disney channel, as if he had not pitched enough drama to win a Soap award already. He is all like yeah that is what it would have been with out the rewards but with them it is only 5 dollars more. So i just try to solve this and just swipe my card but in haste punch in the wrong numbers and there are problems again because the little lady was declined. I start to rage and He is trying to tell me to chill and just do it again, trying to say that tonight is a good night, and we are like it was, and he is like are you saying I ruined it and I am like well you and Blockbuster it was a collaborative effort, and I swipe her again. It goes through, and I just want to get out of there, but I cannot with out my cards, and I am now regretting the decision of asking for three cards.An hour later we are out of that place.The drama that took place in that rental store was ridiculous!
After that taco bell seems to ease my pain. The movies were not even worth it and the scariest part of the whole night...this is really scary prepare yourself...I Danielle Nettuno thought that a man who wore a Hawaiian SHORT sleeve shirt, cargo shorts, and MANDALS, all in the same 130min. movie was ...CUTE! I am ashamed and scared and do not know how to handle this, but it just shows once again my life is in shambles!
Friday, January 1, 2010
and we have to have popcorn so that's about 50 bucks
Anyone who has spent at least a day with me knows two things(if you do not know these then it was not a quality day and you should schedule another with me)I LOVE movies and popcorn, it is actually a little excessive, but hey everyone needs a muse. Anyway my family decided that we were going to see a movie only problem is the movies that are out right now are not to my liking that much. But with the appropriate amount of popcorn it is fine. BUT I will not see Avitar! Just because they are blue(Katies reason for seeing it), or because they spent like 500 million on it and the WHOLE thing was shot in 3d imax(the reason my brother saw it) I still see no plot line that draws me in. It just looks like someone wanted to make another war movie, but all the wars have already had a movie filmed about them and no one wants to dabble in the war aka shambles that is going on overseas(no offense I love the military)so they decided to make a compromise and move a war to a fictional place...LAME! They tied in a morality conflict a love "twist" and some weird dragons and they thought that would suffice, well it did not work on this girl. I will not be drinking that cinematic kool-aid.
So me and my mom decided to see Meet the Morgans (not a great alternative but at least they knew it was going to be lame and predictable and did not take a 500 million dollar bath) Well we got to the theater, perfect timing and that is when life took a downturn and did not look up until I filled the whole in me that was caused by a failure of a life with home made chex mix (and that did not happen till 10 ish and the movie was at 7:30 so you can see that there was a gap in which life kept knocking me down).
As stated before I love popcorn and must have it...No really i have to have it when I go to the movies, there was only one time in the past 3 yrs. that I remember not having it on my terms.So we go to get popcorn and the girl asks "do you want extra butter?" No we reply, my mom even makes a disgusted noise (in which I call her out on) to show that we do not want the butter, and yet she walks her little polo shirt and name badge over to the butter and loads her up. My mom asks if I want to say something and I'm just like, whatever I think the girl saw my eyes or realized her mistake because she then made a creepy compliment to my hair, and went on to explain her frustrations with her own. Well I just took the popcorn and we went to our movie, we sat down and they announced the previews would be starting, PERFECT! But my life cannot handle that kind of perfection so something was about to happen(hahaha)and it did. The picture went blurry and just kept getting worse, I look up and there are 4 people in that little film booth...how many employees does it take to fix a projector? answer obviously more than four because after 10 plus minutes the manager with the headset came in to bring us the news. Know during that ten minute down time I was prepping my mom to make a fit so that we could reap as much benefits from this, luckily she was on board. So the woman says that it won't be able to be fixed tonight so we all get voucher to see it another time GRAND.NOT! That was not good enough for me so I told my mom to wait it out for the other people to leave and then pitch the drama. I found it works better with less people around cause then they only have you to appease and do not have to worry about giving in to everyone else as well. So we go up to get our vouchers and my mom talks about how we bought popcorn to sit and watch nothing so she said that she would refund our popcorn if we had a minute. Jokes on her cause the movie was cancelled of course we had a minute, I mean what else would we have to rush out for we were planning on being there...duh. SO as we are following her she takes my popcorn from me, I guess that was the stipulation of the refund, but it was not stated before so I was semi taken aback, but whatever. SO we leave the theater and regroup. We will just go to blockbuster rent a movie and have coffee an biscotti that my mom just made, and I was all pumped for that cause I had a latte in the fridge from earlier that I was saving. At blockbuster we walk around for 30 min. finding nothing but I informed my mother she could make me and my sister very pleased if she rented the wizards of waverly place movie(she HATES that show so you can only imagine what this did to her morals) she agreed, so I thought it was not too bad of a run...wrong o
We get home and I realize that the DVD is not the movie but some crappy episodes and some real bad "fashion" advice from selina gomez. So know that that plan failed too I moved on to the coffee, well I come to the kitchen to find my mom cleaning the fridge of "some latte that is turned over and spilling down the fridge" MY LATTE! So my tries to salvage this night are almost all gone, and to top it all of I have heart burn from the butter that was on my popcorn(the pieces I managed to eat before the women took it away). So I finally settle down and we watch Julie and Julia which was actually cute and then I topped the night of with the chex mix. Wow what a day...
So me and my mom decided to see Meet the Morgans (not a great alternative but at least they knew it was going to be lame and predictable and did not take a 500 million dollar bath) Well we got to the theater, perfect timing and that is when life took a downturn and did not look up until I filled the whole in me that was caused by a failure of a life with home made chex mix (and that did not happen till 10 ish and the movie was at 7:30 so you can see that there was a gap in which life kept knocking me down).
As stated before I love popcorn and must have it...No really i have to have it when I go to the movies, there was only one time in the past 3 yrs. that I remember not having it on my terms.So we go to get popcorn and the girl asks "do you want extra butter?" No we reply, my mom even makes a disgusted noise (in which I call her out on) to show that we do not want the butter, and yet she walks her little polo shirt and name badge over to the butter and loads her up. My mom asks if I want to say something and I'm just like, whatever I think the girl saw my eyes or realized her mistake because she then made a creepy compliment to my hair, and went on to explain her frustrations with her own. Well I just took the popcorn and we went to our movie, we sat down and they announced the previews would be starting, PERFECT! But my life cannot handle that kind of perfection so something was about to happen(hahaha)and it did. The picture went blurry and just kept getting worse, I look up and there are 4 people in that little film booth...how many employees does it take to fix a projector? answer obviously more than four because after 10 plus minutes the manager with the headset came in to bring us the news. Know during that ten minute down time I was prepping my mom to make a fit so that we could reap as much benefits from this, luckily she was on board. So the woman says that it won't be able to be fixed tonight so we all get voucher to see it another time GRAND.NOT! That was not good enough for me so I told my mom to wait it out for the other people to leave and then pitch the drama. I found it works better with less people around cause then they only have you to appease and do not have to worry about giving in to everyone else as well. So we go up to get our vouchers and my mom talks about how we bought popcorn to sit and watch nothing so she said that she would refund our popcorn if we had a minute. Jokes on her cause the movie was cancelled of course we had a minute, I mean what else would we have to rush out for we were planning on being there...duh. SO as we are following her she takes my popcorn from me, I guess that was the stipulation of the refund, but it was not stated before so I was semi taken aback, but whatever. SO we leave the theater and regroup. We will just go to blockbuster rent a movie and have coffee an biscotti that my mom just made, and I was all pumped for that cause I had a latte in the fridge from earlier that I was saving. At blockbuster we walk around for 30 min. finding nothing but I informed my mother she could make me and my sister very pleased if she rented the wizards of waverly place movie(she HATES that show so you can only imagine what this did to her morals) she agreed, so I thought it was not too bad of a run...wrong o
We get home and I realize that the DVD is not the movie but some crappy episodes and some real bad "fashion" advice from selina gomez. So know that that plan failed too I moved on to the coffee, well I come to the kitchen to find my mom cleaning the fridge of "some latte that is turned over and spilling down the fridge" MY LATTE! So my tries to salvage this night are almost all gone, and to top it all of I have heart burn from the butter that was on my popcorn(the pieces I managed to eat before the women took it away). So I finally settle down and we watch Julie and Julia which was actually cute and then I topped the night of with the chex mix. Wow what a day...
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