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Sometimes you meet people in life who just drive you insane.  Most of the people who get on my nerves do so at work. 

I work in the kitchen at a nursing home and consider it a pretty easy job.  Following doctors orders on diets and making sure people get the right stuff is a daily chore, but for the most part we do a really really good job.  One of our residents does not agree with that statement though. 

We recently got a new cook due to an old one quitting.  The cook is actually a bit of a moron (but that's another story) but he was doing a pretty good job yesterday at getting people what they needed. I had been watching and helping him all day.  However, I walked away and he accidentally gave one resident the wrong meal (keep in mind, 1 out of 72 was wrong).  She was supposed to get pureed food (think baby food for senior citizens - it's due to the fact that they have trouble chewing or swallowing) but was given a regular meal instead.  Her son found this and proceeded to flip his lid.  I received the brunt of his anger, even though the mix up was completely not my fault. 

This particular resident had been in the hospital for the previous month so the new cook didn't even know she existed until that day.  Another reason I wasn't even upset with him. 

The residents son forced me to read the diet card out loud to him - "can you read? what does this say? No, really, say it, read it to me!"
He asked me if "you women" can ever get anything right
He asked what we would do if his mother had died on that meal (uhh she didn't!)
He then said "get my mother food" and stormed off

We had to prepare a whole new meal because all of the leftover food had already been thrown away and we were doing dishes. 

When I brought the new FIXED meal to him, I apologized profusely saying it was an honest mistake, the cook was new and things happen.  We took care of it in a timely manner and again, we were SORRY!

He then told me that if it wasn't  MY fault he expected me to file a formal complaint with my manager saying that my cook was inferior and unable to do his job properly.  I said that I would, just to appease him, but also said... hey.. it was a MISTAKE it was fixed, no big deal sir jackass! 

He rolled his eyes at me mid-sentence and walked away.  I stood there talking to his back, telling him that I wasn't finished talking and that he could listen regardless of the fact that he wasn't man enough to face me.  

**this man also has told us that he thinks women are the work of the devil**

Men are pigs. 

This year I am giving up boys.  It sounds insane and crazy but I have my reasons.  I've been known to go drinking with my friends and by the end of the night have a new guy whom I have danced with/kissed/or given my number.  I guess you could say I am a bit of a flirt!  This really isn't a bad thing, but giving up something for lent is supposed to be a challenge.  So this is my challenge.  There will be no new guys getting my number (or kisses) until Easter.  I'm not totally sure of the rules, but I hope I'm still allowed to take free drinks from guys, because that's part of the fun of drinking! Not paying!!

Wish me luck :)
 

love.. maybe

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Whooping cough sucks. For being a "rare" disease, how come I've gotten it TWICE in my life!!!

My boss at work doesn't believe I'm ACTUALLY sick. 

My professors keep sending me home from class because I look terrible and sound even worse.

I've spent the last 2 days in bed (including valentines day... ha!)



When I die, I want "on eagles wings" played at my funeral!
 

When I was in high school I would shower at night, sneakily watch TV until the wee hours of the morning, and then have to crawl out of bed at 7:40am in order to throw my hair in a pony tail,  climb into some sweatpants, jump in the car, and get a ride/drive to school, which started at 8am.  Oh, and the drive was 10 minutes.. unless there was snow (there's always snow in MN).  Then it was a completely different story. 

Now, as the productive and highly refined college student that I am, I will sometimes not shower at all, still wake up at 7:40, throw some jeans on, and sleepily walk to 8am class.  I realized this morning, things really haven't changed.  I'm still the non-functional girl that looks like she rolled out of bed and found the first semi-clean clothes that she could find... because I did!

I have no idea what I am going to do in 4 months after I have walked across the stage as a dignified college graduate.  What?  College graduate?  Real life?  Job?  Big girl clothes?  No mid-day naps?  What. The. Fuck!

But wait, It won't be so bad, I found my savior today! 

COFFEE!! 

Seriously, where have I been?  I hated coffee in high school.  I was much more the "Mountain Dew girl" (so much so that caffiene didn't affect me!) much to my parents hatred.  Then I realized that Mt. Dew rots my stomach and I can't stand it!  I still didn't like coffee during my first 3 years of college, but I was starting to get into the foo-foo high sugar stuff like caramel macchiatos!  Last semester I had 9am classes and started drinking plain old coffee (1 cream, 1 sugar please).  I developed a liking, but not a need.  I could tolerate 9am classes.  Piece o' cake!  Let me tell you 8am is a different story!  It's as if my body senses that it's an hour earlier and says "screw off!" as if I'm not confused enough that early in the morning! 

But today, I managed to grab a coffee the way to class, and about 15 minutes in I realized, WOW, I can think, and funciton, and comprehend things without thinking "I wonder what would happen if i just lay on the table for a few minutes to take a nap... I'm sure the professor wouldn't mind too much!"

Real life fear #12093840 averted. 

whew.
 

I've officially been home for Colorado for 20 hours now.  When I woke up this morning I expected to still be in the beautiful mountains with another leisurely day ahead of me.  Unfortunately I was in my own bed, with a day of laundry and shopping for school supplies ahead of me instead. Yuck.

My trip was amazing!  We left at 11:00 PM on Sunday night with a caravan of five cars.  We were going to drive through the night so we could arrive at 2 PM the following day for check in.  Stopping every 2-2.5 hours for bathroom breaks, it was definitely a long night.  I slept only two hours because the suburban was extremely cramped and I was way too excited to sleep!  Driving through Nebraska was also the most boring 6 hours of my entire life!  I am positive there are more cows in that state than there are people!  Finally at noon on Monday we arrived in Idaho Springs, Colorado where we stocked up on groceries and alcohol before getting into Winter Park.  My car also stopped at Tommyknocker Brewery for lunch and a beer.  I'm glad we stopped because it was absolutely amazing!  I suggest it to anyone driving on I-70 through Colorado!  Finally we arrived at Winter Park and checked into our condos.  Everyone from my school was in the same condo building so we could all hang out together! 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were all spent on the slopes of Winter Park, Mary Jane!  We couldn't get to the top of Parsenn Bowl the first two days due to high winds, but we did make it up there Thursday and Friday.  The view was amazing!  Snowboarding in the mountains is absolutely the most amazing thing I have ever done in my life.  Coming from Minnesota, we snowboard on hills with tiny runs and lots of ice.  In the mountains the runs are miles long, and full of powder.  Powder is HEAVENLY! 

Most nights we just hung out and relaxed but Wednesday night was spent at a Tech N9ne concert on the base of the mountain.  Just imagine, a bunch of white skiing and snowboarding kids going to a concert meant for black people.  There were no black people at the concert, and I ended up in the front row somehow!  There were lots of drinks, and lots of good times!  It was an amazing vacation and I'm really glad I decided to go.  There will definitely be return trips in the future! 

Tomorrow is the last first day of undergraduate school I will ever have.  4 months left until I move to Texas!   Can't Wait!
 

I swear it was the venison I ate Sunday night for dinner, but everyone else that ate the same venison seems to be fine, so maybe I'm making that up.  Regardless, I have not eaten in 36 hours and have slept for 16 hours last night.  There truly is nothing like going to bed at 7:30pm and waking up at 11:30am!  I had to call into work sick today because there was no way that I was going to be able to crawl out of bed, let alone keep out of the bathroom the entire time I was there.  (Gross, I know...)

Anyways, the whole point of me sharing this story, is that I am happy it happened this week instead of next week.  Sunday at 10pm I leave for a road trip/snowboarding trip to Colorado!  I've never been to Colorado and I am super excited to go with a bunch of friends and snowboard/party before I have to go back to school on the 12th.  I'm also a little scared about breaking my neck, because truth be told, I'm no expert snowboarder!  Regardless, I am hoping to have a great time, and take lots of beautiful pictures of the mountains!!
 

 I hate the end of the semester! 

I (stupidly) am taking 21 credits, and while the first 15 weeks were fine, now that we're on the final week, week 16... all hell is breaking loose! 

I have 2 HUGE projects due Dec. 3
I have 3 final exams Dec. 4
I have 1 HUGE project due Dec. 4
I have 1 final exam Dec. 9
I have 1 presentation to give Dec 11
I have 1 final exam Dec. 11


I want to climb under a rock and hide! :(

Vote.

Seriously.