My List

Things I have to do today....that is how I start out my days anymore. Things that I have to do, but wouldn't it be nice if the list read like this: 1. Purchase plane tickets to Cancun. 2. Shop for clothes for Cancun. 3. Go get full spa treatment and tan. 4. Stop off at plastic surgeon for brand new body. 5. Pick up hunky guy to take to Cancun. That is not what my list looks like. I have to try and find a reliable car with the least amount of money I can put down. I have to do laundry and clean the house. I have to get some more wood chopped because this warm spell won't last forever and then go grocery shopping with my coupons. Finally, I think I need someone to pluck my eyebrows because Julie, a sweet girl I work with at the college tagged me in a facebook photo, and well you can see for yourself!!!!!!!

This is me in my catering outfit.

Andrew and I made several pacts last night and one was to turn us into a dynamic duo. Lean, mean fighting machines. I will keep everyone advised on our progress, but it is not looking too good right now as I shove homemade chocolate chip cookies in my mouth with my morning coffee. Yep, that's the breakfast of champions right there. By the way of introductions, here is Andrew, my eternally pessimistic roommate, looking for love in all the wrong places.


He is my partner in crime for most of my latest escapades. He is also my very best friend and confidante. We will argue for days over this car purchase. I just know it. He will also be the one to pluck my eyebrows for me. Thank god for Andrew! Yesterday he told me not to wear turtlenecks because it makes me look weird. I said, "You mean fat" and he said "No, just weird". What do you do with that kind of fashion advice. I always thought I looked good in turtlenecks, but apparently we are not seeing the same vision of lovely me. I have a closet full of turtlenecks. What am I to do with them now? Also, have I just been looking weird for years now and no one has told me?

Yesterday, we went car shopping at "Pimpin Productions", that specializes in buy here, pay here transactions. Fortunately for us they were closed on Tuesdays and Thursdays because we might have bought a car from this rather seedy establishment. Yes, I would buy my car from a place called "Pimpin Productions" because that's just how I roll. Due to their closed status we proceeded on to Blairsville where they have many fine used car dealers and were immediately distracted by a huge Christian Love Thrift Store. This is not the Christian Love store that is 2 miles from my house, this is the Thrift Store of all thrift stores. We spent 3 1/2 hours in there going through everything and then had to go pick up the boys from the busstop. So, no further car shopping was done. I hope today is a little more productive. We must avoid thrift stores at any cost. However, we did make several purchases, records for the phonograph, clothes for the boys, black loafers for Andrew so he can wear his black pants again and a couple of fine sweaters for me (no turtlenecks). We got the Saturday Night Fever LP in excellent condition and also Neil Diamond's greatest hits. I love me some Neil Diamond. We also got about 20 45's which were in good shape so our record collection is shaping up. I love my $5.00 stereo which probably cost a couple hundred dollars when it was new. The boys are fascinated with it and keep trying to make it do digital things and I say "No, it will not do that". They think you can take a remote and point it at anything and make it work.

Well since I have all this time off from the college I will try to get caught up on all my communications and projects. I will miss my friends though. Isn't it funny that all my friends are between 18-21 years of age. Those are the student workers at the college. There is Jacob who I could write pages about, he is smart, funny and just plain crazy. Jacob and Andrew had a brief relationship that has resulted in some kind of love hate thing that I often find myself in the
middle trying to mediate.


There is Julie, who I talked about earlier. She is a sweet girl and the hardest worker I have ever met. She is best friends with Jacob.

Then there is JaJuan. He is a recent addition to my list of friends but he is hilarious. He claims to be the black sheep of the family as both his brothers are signing with the NFL this year. He helped us move the piano into the house and he was on one end and Julie, Jacob, Andrew and myself were on the other. He was saying "Hey guys, I got my end, but you need to lift up yours, Ok,,Ok, oh hell ya'll are some weak @##$$".


We recently included JaJuan on the catering team and here he is trying to look the part. Funny story about him. On his first catering job as a server, he was very nervous, but trying to do his very best. We were filling water glasses on the table for this wedding rehearsal dinner so I had assigned everyone tables and JaJaun was at the ready waiting for someones glass to get low. Well he spotted this lady that was about half done with her water and swooped in, picked up the glass and was about to fill it when the lady cried out "No.........give me that back". He looked like she had hit him and then got this look when she took the glass and reached into her purse, pulled out a flask and filled the glass to the top with gin. He had this expression like "Did you see that!!!"
Well that is all I have for now.