Weekend Debauchery…

I’m back, BITCHES!!  Yes, that’s right I’m back and more FAB than ever!!  This weekend has been quite a whirlwind.  It started off Friday, I was supposed to have a date on Friday night, but I got an email Friday afternoon cancelling.  So, I decided to go to my cousin’s bar and hang with the family (i.e. my brother and cousin).  I was going to go and have a drink, maybe a bite to eat then go home.  Well, no such luck, one of my brother’s friends was there and we had a VERY interesting evening.  There was alcohol flying all around that bar.  It was a lot of fun, the most fun I’ve had in a very long time!!

After a long morning of recovering from the previous nights events, Saturday night, I went to the New Kids on the Block concert.  Not exactly what I have in mind for a Saturday night, but I decided that maybe I needed a change in scenery.  I don’t usually hang out with the girls I went with and I thought it would be a good bonding experience.  Also, the opening act was Natasha Bedingfield and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her!!

I knew there would be a huge amount of cheesiness, let me just say that I was NOT disappointed. 

The Girls loving NKOTB

There was pyrotechnics, synchronized choreography, costume changes just to name a few.  Imagine being in an arena with 20,000 screaming 30 year old women.  Holy Moly!!  Actually, not a pretty sight.  During the concert I was taking notes of all the cheesy things that were going on…

• Flowers on the video screens when they were singing a slow song
• Women in the audience dressing as if it were 1986
• Our Cheesy “I (Heart) NKOTB” t-shirts
• The memorial during the middle of the concert of all their favorite actors that passed, including family members
• Each of the band members got to sing a song all by themselves on stage
• Piano in the middle of floor of the audience
• The costume change into all white outfits, the stage is draped in white drapes, fog covering the stage
• Then they changed again into Celtics jerseys
• Four girl dances in coordinating outfits
• They performed the same dances to the old songs they performed to in the 1980’s
  

  Only at the NKOTB concert!! Is it 1986?

• Oh and the cheesiest moment of the night goes to Jordan.  He was singing a song by himself on stage and he was wearing a white button down shirt and as he was singing the song there was a fan blowing on him from the bottom up.  Then!  All of a sudden!  His shirt flies open and the on-stage camera zooms in on his abs, so his abs are on the large video screens in the arena. 

All in all, I had a great time hanging out with the girls.  It’s a concert that I never thought, in a million years, I would have attended.  It’s something I can say that I have done and check it off of my list of things to do before I die.

 

Oh, P.S., my friend Christy is going to the NKOTB concert at the end of the month.  Christy, I have an “I (heart) NKOTB” t-shirt for you!!  Only worn once!

Dear Santa…Please put us on the TBOX Royal Court!!

Dear Santa,

 

I am writing to you on behalf of myself (Marina C.) and Jodi Z.  We believe we have been very good girls this year, or very naughty, it depends on how you look at it.  This year, for Christmas, we would like to be on Chris Festa’s (www.shopfesta.com he has wonderful t-shirts) production of the Twelve Bars of Christmas (from here on in referred to as TBOX) Royal Court.  Jodi and I have been attending TBOX for many, many years now, this year will be our 7th consecutive TBOX.  Last year, Chris Festa was so kind to put me on the Royal Court, so this year I would love it, if Chris could add myself and Jodi to the roster!  We are loyal followers of the TBOX brand and your kindness this year will not be forgotten. 

 

Over the years, Santa, Jodi and I have developed several traditions that we practice religiously while at TBOX.  They are as follows…

1) Whether they are naughty or nice, we insist on “handing” out spankings.  Just good fun for all!!

Janice HANDING it out!

2) We always try to bring at least 1 TBOX Virgin.  We know that spreading the “good word” would lead to spreading peace, joy and love throughout the world.  Last year we had 2 virgins in our group, this year we expect to have 5.

Jodi with our 2 Virgins

3) We also perfected the no-handed cereal carrying process. 

If a virgin can do it...

4) We always try to find people that wear the same costumes year after year and get pictures with them each year.  We hit the trifecta last year!

2005

2006

2007

 

2007

I have attached several pics of Jodi and I over the years. 

TBOX 2007

2006

2005

This goes way back

So, Santa, here is our plea.  Please talk to Chris Festa of www.shopfesta.com and convince him to make our dream come true. 

Thank You very much, we love you!!

Sincerely,

Marina C. and Jodi Z.

Gross Green Gunck…

I was flipping through the channels last night and I saw a report on the BBC news about the blue-green algae problem that China is having.  It seems that the ocean waters are soooo polluted that the sea is creating tons and tons of algae.  All this algae is being created where Olympic sailing events are supposed to be held.  GROSS!!!!  The Olympics are about a month away the Chinese better get their asses in gear and the the crap up. 

It’s also funny that I had to find out about this on the BBC new and not on my local news.  These local news stations in Chicago really need to beef up their international news headlines!!

Here are a couple of pics I found online…it’s sooo gross!!!

Weekend Drama Wrap-Up: Part 2

Arrgghh…the Drama continues…

Thelma and Louise strike again!!  If you’ve read my previous post about weekend drama (click here to read it) you know the back story. 

It’s come to the point where the mutual friends have to start choosing.  For the most part, when we want to do something we invite both Thelma and Louise.  Usually, if Louise knows that Thelma is attending she will not attend.  Thelma has no issue with Louise, she could care less is Louise hangs out with us.  Truthfully, the one person that is suffering from this situation is Louise.  She is missing out from all the fun because she just can’t get over the situation.  Boo Freaking Hooo!!  GET OVER IT!!!  So, now Louise is not speaking to me because she thinks I chose Thelma over her.  I really didn’t but that point is moot. 

When I found out that Louise was mad at me, I reached out and called her.  She didn’t answer the phone, so I left a voice-mail and told her that we needed to clear the air and to call me back.  Now, anyone who knows me, knows that I make 1 phone call.  I did my duty and sought out my hurt friend.  I will not call her again, I will not email her and beg her to call me back.  I do not play these childish games.  I have a TON of friends and a lot of them are waiting to make first string, so if there is an opening on the varsity team, then someone from the Jr. varsity team will get moved up!!  So, there!! 

I can’t stand all this fucking drama between the girls.   Thelma has offered to call Louise and apologize in order to clear the air.  But I told her that if her apology isn’t sincere, and if she truly doesn’t think she needs to aapologize then she shouldn’t call and aapologize.  That could possibly make the situation worse. 

Here I am today, 1 friend down, and possibly a little bit happier because I don’t have to deal with all the stupid, fucking bullshit!!  I prefer living in a cloud of ignorance. 

Who might be on the next Bachelor…

NOT ME!!!  My BF, Tidy Bowl Man (previously known as Maytag Man), would not be too happy about that!!

A girlfriend of mine has some pretty exciting stuff going on, since I am at a lull right now, I have to  depend on others for excitement.  On a whim and with some encouragement from several friends she decided to “try out” to be a bachelorette on The Bachelor #13.  We’re (her friends) are all very excited about this!! 

Over the weekend she decided to fill out the small questionnaire online and email in a picture of herself.  Yesterday, she got an email from the casting department asking that she send in some “vacation pictures” (aka bikini pics) and a interview video.  Here is the email that she received…

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in The Bachelor. Your information has been
reviewed and we would like you to submit a tape of yourself for further
consideration.

 Please find attached two forms:
1)            Bachelorette app. (PDF)

2)            The Bachelor Tape Instructions

Print out the application and hand-write your information.  Sign and mail
with your tape (do not send a copy of the app., we need the original signed
document).
Tape submission instructions are also attached. In addition, here are few
suggestions to ensure your tape is considered:

·      Choose a well-lit area – avoid standing near
mirrors or windows

·      Be sure to get a full-length body shot

·      Check the tape before you submit

Include some recent pictures of yourself including full-length (recent
vacation photos, etc.)

Please send the application, pictures, and tape together by June 23rd.

Just a heads up about the casting and travel dates.  If you are chosen as one
of the finalists, you would need to be available August 21st-23rd for Casting Finalists Weekend; we will pay for your travel and hotel expenses for the duration of your casting stay. At that time, you will meet with our casting team and producers.

Please note that filming is scheduled to begin October 13th for up to six
consecutive weeks. However, if you are not chosen as one of the final four
bachelorettes, taping may last up to 10 days only. 

We look forward to receiving your materials.

–
Best,
Emilee —–
Casting Producer

Now, we are trying to get it together and make her video and send in the info by the deadline date.  If you want to see the questionnaire and video questions they’re after the jump.

Seven Years of Bad Luck…

Today marks the 7th Anniversary here at my job!!  Good Gravy!!!  I can’t believe that I’ve been in hell for 7 years!!  Ohhh man!!  So, today my boss graciously is letting me leave at 3pm a whole 2 hours early!!  Then today I am also receiving an extra week of vacation.  Yip Yip Yippee!  Good times…somewhere along the way I must have broken a mirror!

Indy 500…Or Bust…

I attended my first race car event ever on Sunday.  My BF took me to see the Indianapolis 500.  I’m not a race car fan myself, I’ve never actually sat and watched the Indy 500 or any other type of car race.  Although, recently I have seen snippets of some races because my BF is a HUGE fan of this type of stuff.  I didn’t know what really to expect.  I knew it would be a sight!!  I knew I would see drunks and lots and lots of Hillybillys!!!  But other than that I thought it would be a 2 or 3 hour race and then we would go home!! 

I can’t begin to explain what I saw or what I experienced!!  It’s unlike anything I’ve ever been to before.  Now, I’ve been to Grateful Dead Concerts and Lollapalooza Concerts, but neither of those compare to what I experienced over the weekend.  People camped out for days and days before the race.  We parked in a field about a mile from the track.  The field was filled with tents and campers and people tail-gaiting.  People were passed out amongst empty beer cans and bottles of cheap vodka.  It looked like a huge continuous party had been going on for days.  Good times!!

Did I mention the characters I saw?  There were plenty of characters!!  There were characters!!  People spreading the word of the lord amongst people spreading The Herps! 

Here are a few more pics…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These pics were taken within the first hour.  When we finally got to our seats, wait, let me re-phrase, when we finally got to our bleacher, I was pooped!!  The race hadn’t even started yet!!  I was in awe of the spectacle of drunkards and attendees!!  It’s supposedly a “family event” but it was farrr from it!!  There were party revelers everywhere!!  When the track lets you bring in your own cooler full of food and beer and they have a designated area what they call the “Party Deck”, you know it’s going to be a good time!! 

Here are a few more pics from inside the track…

 All in all, it was a good day!!  My first Indy 500 went off without a hitch, I even made it onto TV.  These last few pics, Danica Patrick was hit by another driver in front of where I was standing, so I got a few choice pics of the situation!  I had a great time with the BF!!  He always takes me to the nicest places!!  I hope when I take him to Greece he will be just as impressed!!   

17 Weeks Later…

I just had lunch with one of my best gal pals, Z.  Z had a party last Saturday to celebrate her completing grad school, Congrats to her!!  Unfortunately, I had to miss the party because of my Maytag Man.  Since, I had to miss Z’s BBQ, we decided to get together for lunch today.  Every other time we plan to get together, she punks out on me because of some lame work stuff.  Anyway, Z told me today that she is expecting her first child!!  YIPEEE!!!  Holy Shit!!  Awesome news!!  Then I asked her how far along she was and she told me that she was 17 weeks along. 

17 weeks, I thought.  Let me do the math, that’s 4 months and a week!!  WTF!!!??  Thanks for telling me in a timely manner!!  Anyway, I’m extremely happy for Z and her hubby Y.  They don’t know what they are going to have, so we’ll just refer to the baby as X.  So, here’s hoping that X, Y, and Z will be a happy and loving family!! 

CONGRATS!!!  Love ya!

Home toilet use for women!!

Last night I was on the phone with one of my girlfriends.  We were chit chatting, blah blah blah…  She asks me to hold on, in the background I hear water swooshing, gulping and gurggling. 

She gets back on the phone and I ask her, “Are you plunging the toilet?”  She replies, “The toilet is backed up and my husband will kill me if he finds out!” 

All right, all right.  I can feel the heat in my cheeks, my eyes are all aglow, goosebumps on my skin.  Now, if anyone knows me, they know I don’t back down from the difficult questions.  Like a 2 year old, here I go…

“Did you take a really big shit and flush too much paper?”   She said, No.

“Did you little boy flush his diaper down the toilet?”  She said, No.

Ok, I was hoping not to get to this question, but here it is.  “Did you flush a tampon down the toilet?”  She said, yes.  I said, “Don’t you know you never flush feminine products down your home toilet?”  She said, “yes, but I’m too lazy to properly wrap the products and throw them in the garbage.”  She said it also makes her sick to do so.  (Please keep in mind that all the while I’m asking her these questions, she is plunging the darned toilet.) 

Then she starts explaining that this is not the first time that this has happened, and the her hubbie in the past has expressed extreme distaste when she does this.  So she’s standing in her bathroom at 11pm vigorously plunging the toilet because she not only flushed the tampon, but the PLASTIC applicator and the plastic wrapper.  Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!  And she’s trying to clear the toilet before her husband comes upstairs and catches her.  Vigorously, she plunges on…  Finally, I hear the draining of the toilet and the sweet gurgle at the end.

********AFTER THOUGHT********

So, I posted this blog with a final thought in mind, and I never expressed that thought.  Here it is…

The moral to this story is, (sorry that I have to use CAPS, but it’s necessary) DON’T FLUSH YOUR TAMPONS DOWN THE TOILET IN YOUR OWN HOME!!!!!!  They are not good for your plumbing.  I’ve spoken to a plumber about this and he says that they can get stuck in the pipes, because, hmmm, they swell, they’re made of cotton and they absorb liquids!!  Save your plumbing, and wrap the item in TP.  That’s all I have to say about this…

Gotta Love Work!!!

For as much as I bitch about my job, some days I just have really really good days, and yesterday was one of them!! If you didn’t know it by now, I work for a really huge company in the HR department. Yeah, yeah, I know, I don’t have the persona for it, blah blah blah… Well, yesterday was one of the funnest days at work I had in a very very long time!! I went to a job fair at a local university and had the best time. I really love getting out there and talking to people, it was really fun! If you’ve never been to a job fair before let me paint the picture…

Imagine a gymnasium full of rows of tables, one table inches from the next. Like a big maze!! Prospective candidates go from one table to the next. Each table is assigned to a company and the company brings signage, and info packets and goodies to give away. We give away pens, notebooks and backpacks with our company logo on them. Other comapnies had candy, highlighters etc..You get the drift!

So we got there and set up our table, we were situated between the 2 rudest companies! The company to our right, was some financial company and they had 1 lady there. This woman could not have been more disinterested in what was going on. She was on her Blackberry the whole time and when people would come up and talk to her, she wouldn’t even put the phone down. Don’t take my word for it, I TOOK PICTURES!!!! ah ha!! The job fair ended at 3pm, she left at 1pm. I should send these pictures to her company!! What a disgrace!!

The company to our left, well I don’t know how to describe them. They had 2 representatives there, a man and a woman. All they did was talk to each other, they barely talked to anyone else. They guy was snippy to me and I had to put him in his place real quick. I don’t know if the pair of them are screwing, but if they weren’t before yesterday, I can pretty much guarantee they are now!! The girl was wearing a suit, but the skirt was on the short side. To make matters worse, the skirt had a slit in front a good 3 inches long. Don’t believe me? Well, HA! I have more pics taken from my handy dandy phone!! Good thing we sat by the window and had plenty of natural light!!