Veggie Style

Been debating for the past couple days if I should try out going vegetarian for 30 days. Or maybe just a vegetable inclined diet? I don't know. I need to relearn how to eat healthy. I know what to eat to be healthy, but I've lost sight on putting it into practice. I have no idea where to start though. Do eggs count as being bad a vegetarian? What about milk? Fish? So have no idea where to start!

On another note, this looks delicious :D

Something I Wrote For Another Blog

My friends and coworkers have a blog that I love to read because they have many different contributors and I decided to become one of them, at least for this weeks theme. Let's hope that my story gets chosen to be put up. If not, then here is my story, written in the appropriate 20 minute time alloted. Their blog is called Writing, Writer, Writest.. here's the link: http://writingwriterwritest.blogspot.com/

'I’ve been following Writing, Writer, Writest almost since it began. I think it started a little after my own blog. I never really thought about writing a blog before last year. I was talking with my friend Mikey from Seattle. He writes all the time and now makes a slightly bearable living off of transcribing jobs. I’m jealous in a way. I’ve always wanted to write since I was little kid. I was the girl with her nose in a book, being pround of reading a 150 page book in a week when I was in 5^th grade. No pictures! I had a best friend, her name was Houng. We bought, read and shared books, then went the library together and checked out books and shared those. I remember being on a bus for a field trip, having a copy of my Mom’s Stephen King book Nightmare & Dreamscapes in hand. It’s a short story book. My Mom would read those stories to me and let me read them to her. I still remember my favorite story. It’s called Suffer the Little Children.. very creepy story. It’s about a teacher who finds her students to be monstrous things and they get revenge on her. I don’t remember all the details. Maybe I should go back and read it again. There was also a story called House on Maple Street. Somehow it turned out to be an alien ship that all of a sudden took off in the middle of the night.

I loved all sorts of stories when I was little. I’m still an avid reader to this day. Which is why it pisses me off when all Hollywood can do is make movies from a book and butcher the hell out of it. Can’t people have their own imagination fill in the blanks rather than have someone else’s vision shoved in their face? Don’t get me wrong, I love movies. But I would rather see an original movie than a movie based off a book. All it makes me want to do is go read the book. Which is loads better than the movie.

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my life lately and what I want from it. What I want to get out of it. What seems to make me happy and what doesn’t. Recently I’ve come to the somewhat wavering conclusion that college isn’t for me. Not yet anyway. I look at my boyfriend and he’s very accomplished when it comes to getting those pieces of paper that our society seems to think validates our so called “intelligence”. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in both economics and political science (he double majored) and just got his Master’s Degree in public administration. I’m so very proud of him and also a little jealous. I can’t stand being in college classes, I feel stuck.

I think I want to go to a culinary school. I want to work with food. Perhaps open up a restaurant of my own someday, maybe a bakery too. I’d need someone to help me manage it. I love cooking and honestly, serving people is fun for me. Sure, there are people out there that are jus t plain rude and have an entitlement mentality, but I love seeing smiles on people’s faces. I love getting compliments about my service. I get annoyed when the people around me don’t take it seriously. With the job that I have right now, the service needs to be top notch. I’d love to get into the kitchen at work. I’ve worked at a movie theater for almost a year now and come to think of it I should be farther than I am. I’ve been content at where I am for too long. I need to shoot for bigger and better things.

The only thing I know for sure in life is what I feel for my boyfriend, who I hope someday wants more. I won’t say it to him, not just yet. I love him very much and he loves me. I just want us to go farther. I wonder if he’s thought about it.. maybe.

My twenty minutes is up. Thanks for letting me unload the things on my mind.'

Insidious

Most of the people who know me know that I'm a horror movie fan. It's my favorite genre and good horror movies are hard to come by. I'm not exactly sure if it's because they can't come up with anything remotely creative or the majority of people just want cheap thrills. I was excited for Insidious, it looked like a really good movie, it had a great premise.



And while it looked good, there were only a few scenes in the movie that actually held my attention. Majority of it was laughable, as could be told by the entire theater cracking up through half of the movie. Honestly, save yourself the trouble and wait for it to be available on streaming video. It's good for a late night night laugh.

Oh April, Why Must You Hate Me?

The month is only four days long and already I've had one monster of a day. It didn't start out that way though. And not all my days have been bad. First, let me back track to day 1.

April 1st, otherwise known as April Fool's Day. I'm too lazy to look up the reason why it's Fool's Day, will someone enlighten me? Anywho.. I did absolutely nothing Friday morning and during the early part of the afternoon. Why? I had to work at 5pm. I pretty much just washed my work clothes. I was listed to be the Runner in our cafe, which means I run the food out to the table once it's ready to go. At first, I pleaded with my Busser (the one who cleans the tables afterwards) to switch with me because it was FRIDAY night and I hadn't had a running shift yet to try out my plate balancing skills (we rarely use the trays to carry out food). He made a good point where I would have to learn sometime and if it did get too hard to handle, that he would be willing to switch only then. As the night would have it, the kitchen backlogged all the orders and he had to do it, if only to get the food out quicker because our kitchen staff is retarded! Needless to say, it was a bad night. Good job April 1st, joke's on me.

Saturday didn't start out bad. In fact, the day was great until I went in to work. I woke up in the morning to find my parents making breakfast.. YUM! Dad was making his famous (in the family and to our friends) potatoes and Mom was making spinach and cheddar cheese omelette's. Freaking delicious dude. So I called up Bear and he joined us for breakfast. On his way here Mom realized that our milk went bad and so I asked him to pick up a thing of milk. Mom wanted to repay him so she tried giving him 5 bucks for the $3.77 half gallon. He refused to take it. Both our families are very nice but stubborn. So began a battle to give it to him without him noticing. Sadly, the $5 slipped into the slider part of his phone didn't work, as he found it after 5 minutes. It seems I had to get a bit sneakier. So I waited until he was just about to leave and I gave him a big ol' hug, I slipped it in his back pocket. I don't know if he's found it yet. He hasn't said anything if he has. Or has he and put it somewhere I don't know? We shall see.

After all that fun I went into work at 4. Work was just a nightmare. I was lead on the auditorium side, which is honestly the more difficult of the lead positions. In concessions you just stock the place and make sure everyone is on register. In the lobby you act as crowd control. In the auditoriums, you have to maintain a set of porters (those who clean the theaters after a movie gets out), restroom porters, seaters (for the movies that are going in because we have assigned seating where I work), a greeter (which is really the only position you don't have to worry about until they go on break), and all the problems that pop up that have to do with seating and guest complaints blah, blah..

Without going into too much detail, it was a bad fucking night.

Sunday, on the other hand was a much better day. I was working with one of my favorite crew members as my lead. She put me as greeter for the day knowing the real shit day I had the day before. Needless to say, I was happy and gave her many hugs for it. I love greeting, you get to stand in front of everyone and get to tell them to sit down, shut up, and keep their feet of the seats. Though the actual greet is worded in a much better and tactful way so as not to offend anyone. Once I got off work I was exhausted. Pretty sure the events of the previous day were catching up to me. I got off work, went home and changed, and went to Bear's. Once there I ate dinner (mmmmmmm pot roast) and fell asleep on his bed.. a few different times. I think I spent about 3 hours napping on and off, sometimes with Bear cuddles against me. Oh he's such a great boyfriend. I couldn't ask for a better man in my life. After I finally got up Bear let me create a character on Rift on a friends server so that we could play with her. Was fun as always. Then had some ice cream and went home to crash.

Today is day 4. I slept a good 8 hours and decided that I wanted to try out my new workout DVD. I love working out, I know I should do it more often. It makes me feel better. Also have to get ready for summer and for the Mud Run this June!

Ciao.