Cdale Recruitment

Well it was a loooong weekend to say the least! I arrived in Carbondale on Thursday (or would it be considered Fri morning?) at around 3am. I had left around 4pm and got stuck in traffic and had to stop in at EIU to drop some shirts off to my brother. While it was going to be a quick trip in my other brother was in town as well for his battle buddy's commissioning so i went over to the VFW and stopped in for a couple drinks. It was a nice way to break up the trip for me so I can't complain. Now when I stopped to see Eric he was still at training so I had to walk up to his fraternity house and wait for the guys to come and get me. I ran in and dropped the clothes off and then went to my car and waited for Eric to return. While waiting some of his brothers pulled up and luckily one of them knew me so I didn't look like a total creeper! Eric arrived and I walked into the house with him to many cat calls and suggestive phrases, all in good fun of course. Eric had to keep explaining that I was his sister and not some random girl that came in off the streets. he quickly ushered me out the door, almost pulling me at times and I just laughed and told them all I would be back soon. And back on the road I went. I arrived in Carbondale and went to see my buddy Woody at his bar and caught up on some gossip while watching a fight at teh bar. I mean really I just don't see the point of fighting anymore!

Ok so I arrive at the house and walk into my room that has 2 futons in it and am a little confused but I am tired so I don't care and just pass out in the little box that the sorority likes to call home!! I slept well considering I never sleep well if it is not my house and waited for my little Snooki's arrive. The girl looks like a cross between Snooki and a Kardashian but she does Snooki's awful waaaahhhhhing sound so she is now Snooki. She arrived around 1pm and we basically started getting ready for the sorority recruitment to start. We received our Betsey Johnson style shirts and waited for the rushes to arrive. Now if you are not a part of the Greek system it is hard to understand that thrill you receive knowing some of these girls will be your future sisters! As alumni members we are not allowed to speak to the girls or interact in anyway so we had to stand there and take their name cards in silent which is really hard to do since the 2 of us are such big talkers! Basically this is how it went all night for the remainder of recruitment. We did not go out Friday night because we had to wait for lists to arrive and instead went and got Don Taco. It was fantastic and everything I hoped for. We went to bed shortly after talking to a bunch of the girls and getting to know them. I love these little doves they cracked our shit up all day/night.

Saturday started early and ended around 4ish so we got done with the formal side of things and decided to go out. Now the active members in each chapter are not allowed to go out so as we were getting ready I saw a hint of longing in their eyes and felt bad. I felt even worse because I actually did not want to go out at all. We headed to the bar I use to work at and met up with some old friends. Drinks came and shots were poured and it was a fun time. At the end we stayed and I got into it with the manager over something stupid but I was apparently very passionate about it. At one point Woody looked at me and said it's time to go, but I didn't think i was that bad. There was a girl there who looked like an emo lumberjack and decided to get in on the conversation where she had no place. The bitch probably follows some lame band who had a 5 person following and can't get a gig and thinks she knows music, way to go dumbass, i guarantee you think guys in tighter pants then you are hot to, fail. So we left the bar and walked down college street and stopped into the theta xi house where we let ourselves walk around and see things that jogged our memories. So after stalking little KE we decided to go home. We succinctly passed out after a long deep convo til 5 am, I apologize to any of the girls who heard our convo. So we had to be up and ready by about 10:30am which means to wake up around 9, well I think the second day in a row eating Don Taco was a bad idea.

I awoke at 7:30 and was sick to my stomach and threw up everything that was in me for the past 2 days. I then was back in there around 9 and was in so much pain I couldn't move. I slept for another hour and got up to get ready. I put on my formal attire and sat in the room with the other girls and our FC. I kept having to run to the bathroom so didn't even get to go check on the girls. Luckily I think panera saved my life that day. I know some girls thought I was hungover but it was genuinely a sickness, hungover i could have powered through but not this one! So the first half of the day ended and then the second half began. We waited for our new members to arrive and did our sisterhood circle and welcomed them to the house. Melissa and I both had tears in our eyes because it is touching to see new girls so excited to be apart of something that we loved and hold close to our hearts.

Snooki left shorty after and I decided to stay another night since it was late. i hung out with the girls til 3am and heard funny stories and they taught me new terms such as facebook purgatory which means you have someone pending a friend request and they are in purgatory and some others that I can not reveal on here due to the laws of the house! So we exchanged youtube videos, watched the evolution of a transgendered female to male, and I told them stories from my day. I was sad to leave the next day but have to get back to the real life at some time. It was a long drive home and I am pretty sure I slept for 12 hours and have been getting my voice back since this weekend kicked my butt! So that was my trip down memory lane and I am so happy I got to go and meet all these incredible women and now have tons more facebook friends :)

Sig Kap Wedding

Well another friend has gone and taken the plunge and gotten married. It was a weekend adventure that was held in Normal Illinois and ended in awesome. Friday night I worked at the Rockin on the River Ribfest and left to go straight to Normal to meet the girls and get a start on sleeping and getting ready early. I left around 11:30pm and drove through the creepiest roads at night possible. A huge storm had passed by and lightning was still going crazy. At one point I looked out to my left and saw red lights flashing in and out like it was on a timer and I thought aliens are attacking and I will die on route 55. The roads were uneven and all constructiony and wow I did not know if I was going to make it at this point. I arrived in the town of Normal a couple minutes before GPS said I would (yea take that technology) but got lost driving around trying to find the hotel. Now the funny part is all it took was one right turn but I missed it and had to drive around this town for awhile trying to regain my GPS setting. I finally got to the hotel and the girls I was sharing the rooms with were fast asleep.

I crawled into bed with Face Plant (name will make sense later) and felt like by the time I finally rested it was time to get up. The other 2 ladies with us in the room were up and chatting while Face Plant and myself wanted to continue sleeping. We were all keyed up though to see the wedding begin and found some of the other girls and to go grab breakfast with. We had a guy in the elevator with us and we were discussing the menu and he said it was the weirdest menu he had ever seen at a hotel, we asked what was on it and he said hummus and lobster burgers and something else, now first of all he was wearing a Cubs hat and second he was definitely from the South and apparently thought hummus was a weird food. So we went to the restaurant and found a delicious buffet and didn't find anything weird with it. I was so tired still and after breakfast Paparazzi and Shorty went to go get money and champagne so that we could drink and get ready. Well sleeping didn't happen so we started getting ready and began putting the weaves in. After dressing and only being 15 minutes later (that is really good for us) we headed to the ceremony. Apparently my dress was to risque for a church so my friends let me borrow a cardigan to get into the church. Now I understand you aren't suppose to look crazy slutty but it was a wedding and I was covered in all the right places. So we arrive and the ceremony begins. I am not a crier at weddings but apparently my friends are. We see one of our other sisters descend down the aisle and the girls start to lose it.

After the bridesmaids and groomsmen walk down Jenna starts her walk. I am not kidding when I say she takes your breath away. The girl looked perfect and there was no way to improve her. The ceremony was the perfect amount of time and you could tell Jenna and John were so happy to be together. After the ceremony we went back to the hotel where they did the pictures and we rested for a bit. Us girls got together and Rockstar brought her baby for us to see, that little guy is just too adorable for words. We head down to the ballroom for the reception and begin drinking. Our 2 tables filled with friends are right next to the bar (coincidence, I think not?) and we definitely take advantage of the closeness. Everyone is catching up and so happy to be brought together again that it feels like we all haven't lost years between each other.

We sign our card and put it on the table with all the cash in it. We will come to find out a couple days later that someone has stolen our present off the table and the hotel will not do anything about it. We are still working on solving this problem. Anyway back to the reception. Drinks are flowing and the dinner was amazing. We are all out on the dance floor and loving the music and dancing up a storm. At one point Face Plant is walking across the floor and slips in a wet spot and literally face plants into the dance floor. At this point we are lucky that the "adults" have all retired to their rooms. She lays there for a minute and gets up. We all laugh at this absurdity because what would an event be without someone falling on the ground? The reception starts to end and we decide to go to the bars. We find the bride and groom want to go celebrate their marriage...alone. So we head to the hotel room to put on flip flops and get money. Well I thought we had all grabbed room keys but apparently that was not the case. I grabbed a key for the wrong room and Paparazzi and Face Plant didn't have a key at all. The only other one who had a key was Shorty but she was downstairs and we couldn't get a hold of her. So Face Plant lays down in front of the door, face down, and Paparazzi lays down next to her. I am now taking pictures to document this moment, we are trying to call Shorty to explain the situation and FP's dress gets lifted by Paparazzi and I go and smack her ass because why not.

She then slaps me back really hard and gets up and we start running down the halls slapping each other. We tackle into each other and continue to sit there and laugh. Her man hands have left marks all over my body and my skin is stinging with this ridiculousness. Finally Shorty comes up and lets us into the room. We find the right keys and change quickly. We head to the bars which are right next to the hotel and find them pretty deserted except for the bride's aunt and sister and some uncles. We sit down and have a chat with her family members. Her sister tells us that everyone thinks we are snobby at the wedding, I find this amusing considering we are not snobby at all and all anyone needed to do was talk to us. So we have some drinks and decide we are hungry again and go get some nasty calzones. While walking back to the hotel we realize we have lost people and are not sure where anyone is, we are drunk enough to think they are fine though. So we get to the room and FP is passed out on her back mouth open spread out on our bed. Paparazzi and I sit on the ground to eat our food and laugh about the night. I don't know how she and I always end up sitting together eating after drinking but I love it. I take my weave out and climb into bed. I try to push FP over and she does not budge, I resign myself to sleeping on the corner of the bed and it works.

We wake up in the morning again to the other 2 girls talking and I continue to sleep for another half hour. We start discussing the night and what happened and decide we need to get out of there asap. So we pack up double check the room say our good byes and leave. It was a sad ending to say good bye to each other. I know most of us live near each other but for the ones that don't it's always sad to say goodbye. So it was a great weekend and I know I have left a lot out of here but it's probably cause I don't remember a lot, so any comments from people at the wedding are much appreciated!

This is Why I Am a Sox Fan

About a month ago I got a call from my gf and she asks if I want to go to a Cubs game with her and like 6 of her other friends that she always talks about but I had yet to meet. After careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons of stepping into said Wrigley field or the littler box or whatever clever name you have for it, I decide to put my prejudice aside and go. The tickets are cheap and I would like to meet these girls I have heard so much about. I had to work that night so I was not sure if I would get to stay for the whole game or if I would have to leave. Luckily we were able to figure out a time to meet and I would just park on a side street and meet them there.

Now seeing as how parking in the southside is never an issue when you go to Comiskey park I had not prepared myself for not finding a parking spot near the field. I drove up and got a call from my gf (I am going to call her Ashley because we watched rock of love and she was the Ashley to my Farrah) that they were in the bus in front of me, so I figured I would park quick and meet them in front of the field. I could not find a damn parking spot to save my life so I drove around in circles for awhile. I finally found one and set out to the park. At some point the rain decided to come and terrorize me on my walk there. It was like having buckets of water weighing you down as you walk. I get in front of the ticket people and grab my ticket from Ashley after blowing up her phone for 10 minutes. One of the tickets they had purchased was fake so one of the girls did not get in and she had to run down the street to get the real one. Big hot mess when I arrived.

All the girls were pretty buzzed at this point and I had been introduced quickly as we headed to our seats. The girls found these killer seats behind home plate and we all sat down thinking we just scored something awesome, unfortunately the rent a cop on duty came over and asked for the tickets, one of the girls (who let me preface this with saying she is clearly Caucasian) showed the guy her ticket and he said this is family only section who are you related to? She immediately retorted saying she was with Soriano. Fail on our part. We had to leave and go to our 500 level seats. Now in Wrigley there is NO smoking anywhere, not in the ramps, not in the stands, not anywhere. So some of the girls lit up and walked up the ramp and a bunch of old people got pissed. Like seriously its not being blown in your face, I am sure you had much worse things happen then a girl smoking in a clearly open area, get over it old people. So we get to our seats and there is a family in front of us. Awesome. They look like the cookie cutter type and were not happy that a bunch of loud mouth, swearing, inappropriate girls were sitting behind them. But realistically it is a ball game, if you don't want your son, who prob will grow up to date a girl like us, dont go to a ball game, and especially do not ever go to a Sox game!

So everyone is a little stressed and the family in front tries telling us these are not our seats, uh listen bitch the ticket clearly states these are our seats. I was annoyed with said family already but did not say anything as this is not my area. Ashley decided she just didn't give a fuck anymore and lit up a cig in the stand daring anyone to say anything. Yet again an old lady starts yelling no smoking here, I mean really she was like another section over, when did people get so uptight? Anyway Ashley decided to show this lady she would stand up and blow it towards her face. Well rent a cop number 2 comes over and tells Ashley to come down and gives her a warning. Great we have literally been inside for a half hour and gotten reprimanded twice now.



We leave our seats to go use the restroom and get more drinks (much to everyone's pleasure around us I am sure) and decide to hit up the ramp where some of the girls start smoking in front of the no smoking sign. We have people making comments as they walk by, I was on my phone and an older gentleman says look 4 hot babes standing around smoking or on their phone at a Cubs game, don't know what that meant but who cares. So after dirty looks and many rent a cops starting to swarm us we decide to leave and save further embarrassment of getting officially kicked out. We meet the other girls near the Captain Morgan club and decide that four of us are going to go to Cubby bear while the rest go watch the game. By this time I am ready to leave anyway and relax before possibly working. We head to Cubby and get some drinks. As we are standing outside having a smoke these 2 older gentleman come and start chatting us up. One tells us how he just paid out four million to his ex wife in a divorce and the other wants us to do shots with them.

We tell them that we have to go use the restroom but not before we also tell them that one girl is a gynecologist and the other is a radiologist. We then go in and try to escape these men where they wait for us outside the washroom. We tell them we need girl time and promptly leave and head to my car. I was taking them to Irving and Pulaski to catch the train and then heading out to wait to see if I work. After and eventful and downright funny trip I drop the girls off afraid they may not make it across the street. I went over to Muffy's to await my fate of work seeing as how it is still shitty out. I get the call that we are no longer needed and head on home where the sun starts to come out and I recover from the shenanigans of the day.

Basically I am glad I am a Sox fan because I can smoke in the park, I can curse out anyone I want, parking is easy, no one ever gets super creepy, it is harder to get thrown out of a park, the rent a cops do not care unless it is violence, oh and my team is a WINNING 1st place team!! Yea glad to be a Sox fan!

Don't Drink Where You Work.....

Holy balls I have a Saturday off?! That was my thought going into this past week where I promptly decided to round up the troops and go out for some much needed cocktails. I kept it slightly open due to possibly needing to work for someone on that Saturday. As luck would have it no one needed off and I was able to partake in the party. My oldest little brother decided he was going to join Big Sis and drink in our great city of Chicago with us. I had been planning this out with Dragonmaster (first mistake) as to what we would be doing.

Saturday rolled around and I was suppose to go to a meeting for my sorority and couldnt make it due to one of my lovely migraines. I luckily had is disappear within the time to go out and got ready swiftly to go to the city. I arrived at Dragonmaster's apartment around 9ish and we sat down to find out someone was already a bit shmamered. She offered us Jamo because why not start your night off with a shot of Jameson? We took it down like champs and sat around trying to figure out where to go. Do we branch out of our bubble and go somewhere unknown and unheard of, such as a bar on Clark street, or do we go to the old stand by which is a bar I can no longer name in this blog but we all work at. Of course Adam had never been to our bar so we decided to give him the full experience. We start to head out and I leave my stuff in my car because well last time my dear friend left and almost was stranded (refer to the fourth of July blog for further details.)

We arrive and are still sober, so I start a tab and order us a round of drinks. Not long after my cousin shows up and starts drinking with me. We take Car Bombs, why not, adn slam some drinks. The bar starts to fill up and my cousin and his friends head to the back. I convince them all they need to use the waitress and tip her a million dollars, which I sincerely hope they did. So I make my way to the front again and Dragonmaster is bombed, I am talking can't understand what she is saying, kinda fallin over bombed. She also has on a dress with heels, this will come in to play for the story in a bit. As we get our drink on a bit more we decide we want to get on the bar and pour shots. We jump up there and she is handed a bottle of shots and I am handed champagne. I love champagne so this is the worst thing they could have given me, I am pretty sure I chug more than I gave out, sorry guys. Dragonmaster is putting on a show with her dress and heels and everyone is afraid she will fall. So we get down and stand in the stairwell. My brother is sitting there shaking his head glad that I was the one who put on the show instead of him as usual. He basically said yup this is my sister and this is what I have to live with. They may have not helped my case in having him live with me in the city.

More shots are flowing and my cousin apparently left us. This is a good thing as he did not to my knowledge get kicked out of the bar per usual. Dynamite continues to play over and over and I am fist pumping with the best of them. The night gets a bit fuzzy from here, apparently we were pinching our fellow employees butts and causing a ruackous. Dancing in the stairwell, singing, having a good time. I may have pet people here and there. I am know I understood everythign that was being said between myself and Dragonmaster however I am sure to all of the bystanders it sounded something along the lines of bjkahshdsahkasdhsahdaslkdhsa.

The night ends and we decide to go to Tais. At this point it is the original 3 and Muffy. We hop in a cab and pull into Tais and realize that we can no longer speak or stand and need to go home. So we head back to her place and there someone orders pizza and pays for it. Not sure where it came from or how it came there but it did. I don't know what was talked about but I remember lying on the couch and having tons of blankets thrown on us and passing out.

I awoke to the phone texts going off and Cowboy Casanova asking how we were. Apparently we were a shit show but everyone said we looked like we were having fun. I drove home to get ready to go back to work that night and got a text saying Dragonmaster lost her phone. Now I swear to you that I had it in my purse and handed it over to her at her apartment. Again the night is fuzzy so I am not sure why I thought this. It turns out the cab driver called the number stored in there for an if found please call this number. It was returned to her at midnight but this nice cabbie!

I did not want to walk into work because I did not want to hear how drunk we all were, luckily I think I was more sober than my little Dragonmaster, so I got off easy! I will not be drinking like that at my place of business again, or at least for awhile because I am sure that my show was more than enough for everyone for at least a month. I am still hurting 2 days later and have nothing to show but some bruises, scratch marks (not sure where those are from) and a bruised ego.