Don't be a Dbag

This is what was sitting next to me at breakfast


These are my friends and I after a night out!

So I went to eat with Jacob the other day and there was a group sitting across from us in the restaurant that all had on backwards hats, skin tight tees and their chains hanging around their neck. Now it is Sunday morning (when most people are hungover and getting breakfast in their pj's) these guys were ready to go fist pump it out at the club. Their conversations were about the girls they bagged the night before and how cool they were. I swear they even pounded fists a couple times. I just don't understand how they function in real life society. I mean really they think they are so much better than everyone else and it is almost amusing if it were not as annoying.

Now the boys are bad but the girls just as much to blame as well. They all had on stilettos and their hair was all done up and wearing skinny jeans and cute tops. I swear I felt like such a bum compared to these girls. At least their conversation was more intelligent! It was even funnier when the dbag guys tried to check out the girls and give them the common dbag nod. The girls totally brushed them off and just left while flipping their perfect hair over their shoulders.Classic. Now I know back in Chicago you have all types of people and our fair amount of dbags, but it was just everywhere I looked on this particular morning. It made me miss my friends more because I know we would have woken up and maybe brushed our teeth, probably not, and headed to get breakfast and mimosas or bloodys not caring what we looked like. We may not get hit on at that moment or maybe we would, it would depend on how many other guys were there in the same exact state of diarray that we were!

I guess I just had to let this picture stick in people's minds. You all know what I am talking about. You see these guys and girls out at the clubs,in the suerpmarket, at regualr bars, coffee shops, anywhere you go. One day those guys will look back at pictures and hopefully say to themselves wow I use to be a douchebag. Feel free to comment on this as much as you would like, I know you all have opinions!

Turtles

So I have decided to devote this blog to turtles, just to get Craig off my back! When I was growing up I would love to sit around and watch the teenage mutant ninja turtles, those little guys always kicked major ass!!I always felt that I identified with Rafeal, the one with an attitude.He would get mad and run away or cause some sort of drama within the brotherhood. Well I did not really create drama as much as I just had a bad attitude that rivals Rafs. I look back now and realize that is why i truly loved the TMNT.

On the other hand I have recently watched the movie and realized how scary the Shredder and the Foot Clan are! In one of the movies Shredder goes after the turtles and ends up falling through a deck (but not before Vanilla Ice has an amazing rendition of Go Ninja Go Ninja Go)Anyway he somehow manages to make it through he wreckage to brig more havoc to the turtles, the ooze (was that TMNT or Power Rangers?) makes him a super Shredder where he grows bigger horns and spikes.I am surprised I did not have more nightmares about him as a kid. I guess when the turtles took over and killed him that made it all better. It is a shame that no one in that movie ever went on to do anything else.

I don't really no what else to say about turtles, other than that we did have a humongous turtle crawl into our yard from the pond across the street. Alright Craig are you now satisfied?

Vampires...It's an Obsession

As some of you may know I have a major obsession with Vampires. I enjoy reading about them in books, watching vamp movies, imagining what I would do if I were a vampire, etc. With Twilight coming out soon I have been reading all the old books over again and realized that I would so love to have extra vampire powers. I mean what could I do with reading people's minds, manipulating moods, seeing the future (oh wait I can do that), or many of the other awesome talents that I could posess?!I would definitely tear shit up as a vamp. I do not believe I could kill people and drink their blood though. One day my friend Dino and I got into a conversation about how great vampires are. We decided to join a vampire blog and Vladimir D was born. We went in there and some of those people are bat shit crazy. We asked questions and they actually said thy drink blood from donors and can only go so long without the blood. They truly believe they were vampires. Now as much as I would love to beleve that there are real vampires out there that can defy aging and death and that maybe somewhere in New Orleans they all convene to meet up, I just know it can not really happen. If this were such a thing the governement would have to know and would be able to use it to their advantage sort of like how Dexter is a serial killer against other murderes, the govt could make vampires seek out bad people and drink their blood, but would it be as tasty because it's tinged with malicious intent? Anyway back to the topic, these whack jobs on this vamp site did not like us because we were asking questions and they felt we were being insensitive to their lifestly, hello crazy vamps don't care what others think!!! That was my first clue to the fact that these people were fakes. we logged out and found something else to occupy our time...like some cheesy horror flick. I decided to tell my friend Craig about this site and he logged in once to check it out under one name and proceeded to piss the vamps off and get kicked out of the chat room (surprise surprise) so he made another name I believbe it was hoodratvamp. We started watching the chat room again and some kid started talking to her "mom" about having babies, well we just couldnt pass up the chance and Craig started having ebabies with me, we made a whole story about how I abuse him and just started raggin on the vamps about their fakeness. It was a pretty intense discussion and we were no longer welcome in the chat room. Apparently making fun of your unborn ebaby is not nice in the chat world? who knew? I didnt even know chat rooms were still around!! I have not logged on again in awhile, but Vladimir D will forever be around on the internet sucking onto the vampire chat room!! Now this year vampires have become an obsession around the world, there are new shows and movies along with Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Vampire's Assistant, other shows that I can not think of, tons of literature House of Night novels, vampire academy, some others that I don't even know of! Vampires ruled Halloween this year, especially here in Florida, the whole Busch Gardens Halloween theme was around vamps. If you have not been as obsessed with Vampires as I am then you are missing out. Dino and I researched Vamp websites as well and found one where this guy claimed to be a ruler and we should follow him and he was awesome blah blah blah and you scroll to the end and see the picture and it's this nerdy looking guy's picture, I shit you not we didn't stop laughing for a good 10 minutes at least. Some people say zombies are better than vampires, I tend to disagree because zombies are not fast, they are not smart, they can die a lot easier, they smell really bad, it is just not plausable that zombies are better than vamps. I had to throw that one in there for you zombie lovers. I will one day go to New Orleans to find some vampires, maybe I will get lucky or maybe I will come up empty handed. Maybe I will just have some good stories to tell! All I know is that it's almost twilight mania again and I am super stoked. So if you have not gotten on the vampire train you may want to go google it now and look up Vladimir D! Thanks to Dino for contributing to my obsession and Gina for giving me the idea to blog about my favorite subject!

Friends for Life

So as I sit here and reflect on my last year I have realized that family and friends has become more important to me then ever. A year ago Britt took me to get my second tattoo because I was sad. My friends made me go out and get drinks when I could barely pick myself up out of bed. My family was there for me trying to cheer me up and tell me everything would be ok, they were right of course, but it took realizing how strong I was to realize how lucky I am. My Valetine' Day was spent in Cdale with my life partner Joe. He cooked me a fabulous dinner and took me out for tons of drinks! He then hooked up with my friend (identitiy will not be revealed as I promised to keep my mouth shut) and then woke up early to cook me dinner and take me to get my car out of the tow lot! He made me laugh when I didn't think it was possible anymore. I reconnected with a lot of friends that I basically pushed aside for 6 months. I had a blast in January at Nicole's wedding and met some awesome people who became new friends through out the year of the planning! D'anne and I even got to go out in Naperville and get called sluts because wearing a skirt and uggs in cold weather is inappropriate? I made a big move to Florida a couple months ago and the people who could come out and say goodbye did. I received some really sweet cards and well wishes and pictures of my girls that I look at all the time and makes me miss my bitches! One friendship that deveolped even more was with my business partner Samantha. We have decided to use our knowledge and creativity to begin out even planning business. By this time next year we will have New Millenium Events up and runnin! She has been there for me outside of the business aspct as well, I admire her and know that she will pull through every tough situation with a new understanding of life and one day she will see how truly amazing she really is! The ladies of Magnolia street will always be close to my heart as I have crashed out on their couch numerous times and they have put up with my crying, smacking into windows, my crazy birthday, the many boys I have dealt with, and stupid remarks I tend to make! Sadie, Gina, Abby, thank you! I am missing a lot of my gf's weddings this year because I have moved at the wrong time. I will not get to attend Heather's fabulous reception, Sandra's beautiful wedding, and Jen's exciting wedding! I am sad about all of that but I will be sending presents out for them! All of my friends have truly amazing qualities about them, to name them all would take forever! My famiyl has been my friends as well this year because they truly kept my spirits up through out the entire year. My sister and I skype, Adam just makes fun of me, and Eric takes my advice. It is crazy to see how far I have come this year but I could not have done it without all of my friends. So to Sarah b and H, Melissa, Sadie, Abby, Gina, Joe, Paige, Michelle, Jason, Heather, Nicole, D'anne, Billy, Craig, Mitch, Kim, Adam, Eric, Samanth, Asher, and everyone else I may have forgotten thanks!

SIUC

Last night I had a dream about one of my favorite places, Southern Illinois University Cdale!! As I spent more than enough time there during my college career it is only fitting that I miss it every now and then. My dream however had more to do with going back to school there for another couple years. I started to move my stuff back into the Dove mansion (Sig Kap house) to live for 6 months and then I moved it into my old apartment next to the old Theta Xi house, which I am pretty sure most of this people who go there have no idea where that is! Anyway I lived in a house while I was there that was just well not in the best part of town and I had a dream that I was with one of my old co workers from Gatsbys and he tried to play a joke on the poeple who lived there but they took it seriously and came after us. So basically we ran and then it morphed into a different situaiont from living in our haunted house on Forest, believe me it was haunted!!! I can't rmember a whole lot from there on but it was crazy. It made me start reminiscing about the old times from the crazy water balloon fight with th ATO's, to movie nights with the girls, crazy formals, where my roommate became black out Mandy and army crawled under the the bunk beds in the sleeping dorm and puked under one of them; at the meeting on Sunday someone found it and she didnt admit it to anyone for a long time! Anyway my last year there I lived next to the TX house and every morning at 3 am I would hear the boys next door screaming outside my window trying to get Sadie and me to come out and drink with them. Those boys had the cops at their house more than I had them at the bar! One time I set off a bunch of smoke bombs on them because they had been throwing firecrackers inside the hall between ours and Michelle and Lindseys place! I had had it and wanted revenge, I fed Craig a lot of alchol and he passed out and set one off in his room, unfortunately he was too drunk and didnt wake up so we had to punch out his cardboard windows (he had punched out the real ones earlier in the year) and save his life. From that day on he has owed me his life! I really got to meet a lot of amazing people thorugh out my time there, I have met my future bridesmaids, my best friends, the boys who make me laugh, and all of my friends for life. One of my my best friends I have known since the second week of school! Sarah Hanson and I rushed fall 02 the same time and both decided to pledge the same house. Once we received our bids for Sigma Kappa we had to break into groups to seperate us for the walk to the houses,I went to my group completely terrified and unsure what to expect. I only knew what sororities were based on tv and books, but I timidly stepped up to my group and this pretty brunette girl gives me the biggest hug ever and says", Oh my god we are going to be sisters" and starts kinds jumping around! I had no idea what to think of this girl at the time except that she was a nutcase, believe it or not she ended up being one of my best friends. We have the circle of trust and dont go a couple days without talking! I also noticed that if you went to another school to party they really didnt know how to drink. Melissa and I would go to U of I tailgates and we definitely held our own there, it was just diappointing realizing you could outdrink most people! When we go out in the city now and bring new people along it is always a trip! I guess we just had more practice and dont get as wasted as fast but other people seem to not be able to keep up. If you have been out with us and you werenot an SIU member than you know what I am talking about! I miss my college life and all the fun that I had, but I am also enjoying living an adult life now and not having to deal with some of the drama that was involved in the college lifestyle! I wish I could write every great memory I had but that would be next to impossible!So for now enjoy a couple of my memories and know a piece of me will always be left in Carbondale, probably sitting at the bar inside Gatsby's!!

You Need to See it to Believe It

Why do you ask, am I calling this blog by this name? Well if you have met my roommate Mullen you would understand that he is one of a kind. He has the most random conversations and looks at you a bit awkwardly at times. He does have a great personality and a huge heart but man sometimes you just sit there and wonder what he has going through his head at the moment. His one liners keep me laughing not on purpose but inadvertantly. I don't know if I spelled that word correctly but I don't give a damn, this is my blog so love it and embrace it. Since he is still lookin for a job I have had the pleasure to get to speak with him a lot, we have come to love Wife Swap and enjoys my chick flicks, he is able to put eyeliner on without crying, and disappears for hours at a time at "panera" I believe he is secretly out there hitting on someone or something, or maybe putting on the make up? He has supported my belief that the supernatural is living in my house right now. I hear certain spirits around me at different times and I believe there are 2 little kids that follow him around, however I may have put a little more into his head then there actually is, sorry I'm bored and it was easy. Over Halloween Jacob and I created a man out of his clothes and made the man sit in his computer chair (which ps he doesnt have a computer desk so I am not sure why he has a compute chair) in his closet. He came home after apparently pretending to punch himself a bunch of times at the bar to be in character, he was Brad Pitt from fight club, and was a bit nervous when he saw the guy in the closet. Funny I do believe it was. He has respected my ability to hear the dead which I appreciate and has brought about certain spirits with him. One of the funniest times I remember is that we were talking about something that I hold near and dear to my heart (aka Justin Timberlake) and he walked upstairs of our fairly large house and kept telling me how JT was gay and I was stupid for liking him and blah blah blah. Well he is still ranting and raving and then walks back downstairs and continues to keep berating me for the love of JT. It was quite amusing since his voice was muffled pretty much the whole time he was talking upstairs. He is known for walking away mid convo and yet still carrying it on while you are nowhere around. He does take very good care of the dogs and one day I will buy him one to be his lifetime companion. He loves taking out Mason while he is on a phone interview and getting annoyed when Mason runs away and has to hang up on the interviewer! Bahahahahahaha. Ok enough about him, just had to let you know who I live with and how great he really is, and yes ladies he is single!!!

My First Blog

So after going out and having a couple casual cocktails with some Tampa friends I decided to take to blogging. I have had some creative help through the help of my friend Craig and with the support of my boyfriend Jacob I feel that this will be very successful. Basically I am going to bitch and try to contemplate the world through the eyes of well, me. First let me start on the way people release their anger. Some choose to shout, some choose to act out violently, some choose to bottle it all up in their head, some choose to drive or ride a bike (my presonal fav), but others I noticed clean. Now explain to me how cleaning will help you get out your anger? If anything cleaning would make me angrier, I mean I am already pissed off why do something to make me exert more energy then already is being given out to the world. I guess I will never understand the point to angry obsessive cleaning. My old roommate was very anal with her cleaning schedule and routine. I always enjoyed putting her remotes in different positions because I knew it pissed her off. Sorry Sarah but you know it's true. You thought it was funny to because you knew we did it on purpose to you, now though I would never do that to her, unless she decided to wake up early and make a lot of noise, then it's on bitch! Anyway my first blog is about cleaning while mad because it makes no sense people, go find a different way because the vacuum is really annoying while I am trying to sleep!!!