The people I enjoy, like, love, and admire...

There are a few different types of people that I tend to gravitate to. The first kind is the kind of person that sees the silver lining. Optimism is great, it really is. I don't see the silver lining and I like to be able to hear that from others, and do that for others. I LOVE spontaneous people. Like sitting around doing nothing and a random phone call to go to a movie or out for coffee or something to eat. Nothing gets me more on a natural high than doing something spontaneous. I enjoy being taken out of the norm but only if its still in my comfort zone. If I'm uncomfortable I don't have fun. I love laid-back people that will do just about anything when I'm the one who wants to be spontaneous e.g. hey let's to go the outlet mall, hey let's go apple picking, hey let's plant a garden. haha. Ok that's a little gay but whatever I'll admit it. haha. But to re-quote something from a past tweet that can sum this all up... "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." ~W.H. Auden The Dyer's Hand, and other essays‎ (1962), p. 372.

A little about me...

So in this one I decided to type a little bit about me. Let's start at the beginning my birthday is December 20th. As a kid my mom always told me that I would get my presents on Christmas. So for the most part I didn't get presents on my birthday. *I later found out a guy that has my same birthday got the same line from his parents* My mother and father separated when I was five and my step-father has been there since, so almost 24 years he's been there. I'm second youngest of 9 children. My oldest brother died when I was a baby and I never really got to know him but I've seen pictures and heard a few stories about him. 7 boys and 2 girls. I'm not really in with my older sister and a 2 of my older brothers but the rest of them are all good. I'm the only child one without children. Even my younger sister has 4 girls. I'm the only one of all 9 that actually graduated high school and went on to college and I will hopefully be going back soon. I'm very musically inclined and can play all woodwinds but bassoon *I don't like bass clef*, and a little bit of piano. I enjoy playing instruments very much. In high school I played in Band, Orchestra, Pit Orchestra, Jazz, a clarinet quartet, marching band, and pep band. I played a little in college but not much I actually joined colorguard and did flag and a little rifle. My first 2 years I learned flag, 3rd year became co-captain, 4th year captain, and 5th year instructor. In college I started as a business management major with a concentration in accounting (found out I didn't like it), then moved on to Theater with a concentration in Acting. Turns out I was actually good at acting but was always too scared to audition. Ended up leaving school and mostly worked a lot in customer service. So that's a lot of my personal background and let's go with likes and dislikes. Why... Why not? I like blueberry muffins but hate blueberry pancakes. I like to be outdoors but only for a short time. I tan very easy with being native american and love having the tan during the summer and get a strange olive tone during the winter. hmm.. I like stereotypical music.. Lady gaga, Madonna, Beyonce, and some other random stuff that I just enjoy, 3oh!3, fallout boy, panic at the disco. I love listening to classical music (but only if I've played it). I can watch sports but only if I'm there, I can't get into it on TV. I LOVE guitar hero but can only play it once in a while by myself but can play forever if I'm playing with someone. My favorite show in the world is charmed (not ashamed to admit that) and I DVR old episodes. I also watched an episode of glee and that seems cool. I'm a little scared of meeting new people but when I do I wanna make them my new best friends and want to hang out all the time. I'm a little clingy and have to restrain myself from not being like that. I feel out the situation. Which my clinginess gets in the way sometimes. I've been really good friends with people only to find out we don't have much in common. I've also had conversations with strangers only to find out we have a ton in common and some are still my friends today after years of friendship. My favorite movies are horror movies and I especially love zombie movies (more-so if they scare the crap out of me). I like people that don't completely agree with everything I think (I like a good argument). I'm a pretty confident guy but if I find a guy I like I turn into a little girl and blush at everything and can't stop smiling. Just about everything makes me laugh and I cling to people that are like that too. I feel bad if I see an animal that's been run over (not grossed out). My best friends can sit with me and we can laugh about the same things and have entire conversations without saying a word. I appreciate that I am fortunate but still sometimes see the dead tree in the beautiful forest. The only time I was in the presence of someone famous I found out I could care less. Noah Wylie. I have a major crush on Pete Wentz started solely on the fact that he mentioned in an interview a few years ago that he doesn't have a problem kissing guys. I find perfection in the imperfect. I thoroughly enjoy sunrises and sunsets. I mostly hate going to the beach and picnics (only if i have to sit on the ground). On most days I shower twice, once in the morning to wake me up and after work or in the middle of the afternoon. I HATE having nothing to do, I'd rather sleep or find something to do than do nothing. I HATE being idle. I'm still not completely sure I've ever been in love. I LOVE people watching and love it even more if I find someone to people watch that equally loves doing it too. I fall asleep at night thinking of sleeping next to someone but when I have slept in a bed next to someone can't sleep. There's only two people I could sleep comfortably next to and I'm sadly no longer friends with either of them. There's very few people I'm comfortable enough with to touch me. Smart I'm not sure of, I am intelligent but have more fun "playing the part" of the dumb blond. I know I sing badly in front of people but try to sing well when I'm alone or think no ones listening. "Who knows where thoughts come from.. they just appear." With that if anyone actually reads this from beginning to end at least comment and let me know. It's nice to find out I might be interesting enough to read a big giant paragraph about. I could probably go on forever but I'm going to get my car looked at in the morning and I have to get up early. Goodnight neverlanddd...

Words that annoy me... and Bret Michaels

So I'm at work earlier today and just doing my thing and I hear one of the words that just make me angry. I hear from a customer across the room, "so I'm conversating..." I typed the word and it even makes the spell check angry. Ok I get it. Your trying to sound smart. Some people may go for that. Me?? Not so much. There's not many things that make me angry but words like that totally do. I think that's all I have to say about that. I'm really at a loss for words on how it makes me feel. I'm sure there will be more words to follow but that's it. Oh and for Bret Michaels... Hang in there.

expect the unexpected...

It's totally rough when the something happens that could have been avoided altogether. So I have a 98 Elantra and my step-father from time to time fixes it for me. The last time something was wrong it was the exhaust and he rigged it, at my request, until I could get the car taken care of. So it's like I'm walking down the street and I'm warned about something and yet I continue to walk in that direction without changing a beat. I have no one to blame but myself. Why? My exhaust is starting to break again and my first reaction is "sell the f*cker." When I finally came to my senses I realized I'm not gonna give up on this car. Not yet. I can't. When sh*t hits the fan the first thing I wanna do is the fastest, easiest thing to just make the problem go away. Well today a friend suggested I try to see what I can do to get my car taken care of. I go to a garage and explain my problem and he seemed like he wanted to help. Another employee says "Your in the same boat I am and I work here." But the guy I was talking to suggests another place. I attempted to go there and all I remember him saying was the street and McDonald's. What do I do? I find McDonald's and give up. Well not completely I think "WTF he said *the name of the street* and McDonald's (again my fault for not really paying attention and only taking key words) so where is it." Well across the street is a garage and on a whim I stop to check it out. I walk in and there's 6 people in there just standing around. 4 mechanics, 1 secretary/cashier, and 1 random person. One guy walks over and says "can I help you?", and I reply with "I sure hope so." I lay the whole sob story out, practically on the verge of tears, telling him I can't really afford to pay to have the car fixed the way it should and just the look in his face I knew he knew how I felt. He said he'd take a look at it on Monday morning and that I could leave it there Sunday night. The last thing he said as I walked out the door was "I'll take a look at it and see how much it'll cost you and what i can do. Don't worry... it'll be ok." And with those last five words I walked away thinking... it is going to be ok. I'll find out on Monday if it's truly worth me trying to fix the car or just sell it. Foreign car parts are a fortune. One small pipe was 290 dollars. I'm gonna have to do some movin and shakin but a little extra time in at work and I should be able to pull it off.

There are nice people and there are the not-so nice...

In all the customer service positions I've had throughout the years I find I'm more apt to help someone that's nice to me. I had this one job at a cigarette warehouse and one woman called to let me know that it had been weeks since her cigarettes arrived. It took me about an hour to research the whereabouts of her cigarettes and get all the permission to do the things I wanted to do. In the end I called the package back to the company re-packaged a new order for her and over-nighted it to her. Why? She was nice to me. After all that she would only do business with me because she knew I would take care of her. That made me feel all warm when she'd call asking specifically for me. But I did make sure she was taken care of every time. Another man called while I was working for the same company to yell at me. He wasn't even our customer, the customer was his gardener and he was the lawyer boss. So after 45 minutes of him telling me what I was going to do I reached my breaking point. I stood up and said loudly (as loudly as I could in a call center without getting in trouble) "NO, YOU LISTEN TO ME..!!!!" As soon as i stood up everyone on calls beside me simultaneously said "I'm sorry Ma'am/Sir I'm gonna have to put you on hold I'll be right back.." I told that man what was going to be done which was virtually nothing because the actual customer had called and admitted to another "Customer Service Associate" that he had made the mistake. I ended the argument with ".. and don't call back to get someone else to try to do what you want since I'm notating the account right now that will only be handled by me." I totally meant business, and after he realized it he calmed down and I worked as best I could with him. He (the lawyer) also became one of my regulars. So all of this brings me to today... I love my job, I do... I know that from time to time I'm not going to deal with the happiest nicest people. Side-note: It's totally my pleasure to serve nice people even if they don't tip ( I hope they do, but don't get bent out of shape if they don't). I thoroughly enjoy people that order things exactly as they are on the menu, talk to me like I'm human, and genuinely thank me when it's all done. I don't really need to specify what happened today that inspires me to blog about nice people and not-so nice people. I would, however, like to end with nice people do get better service no matter which industry it's in (at least from me).

Merkin Vajazzle..

Now that I think about it.. That might be someone's new assassin name. *inside joke* So a conversation was sparked about pubic hair. Why this I'm not totally sure but that's where it went. So my bright idea was to add to the subject by talking about a pubic wig which I heard about years ago from this totally crazy girl I worked with. So I carried the legacy of passing on the knowledge of the pubic wig aka the merkin to wow them with useless information. Well someone mentions putting beads in it like dreads and another someone blurts out the vajazzle. What's a vajazzle you say? Well think of the bedazzler, now think of it on some shaved lady parts. Yup.. Someone went there.. After seriously doubting the word and the sheer idea of it we were shown pictures. So like the good guy I am I went to google and you know how you start typing something and handy dandy google starts adding words there that the search might be about. I made it as far as vaj and it popped up (the word.. not something else). Naturally, I bring it up at work and one of the servers I work with starts talking about her lady part and more or less how it already sparkles. I could not stop laughing when she told me this. Oh, then she added a dance. If you've ever worked in a restaurant you know servers/wait staff know some of the strangest things and have some of the dirtiest minds. On a lighter note I sang to some favorites from the 80's e.g. total eclipse of the heart, thriller, girls just wanna have fun, and others. On a darker note (literally) one of my headlights blew out tonight. Padiddle =(

Things that totally skeeve me out....

So I'm in the car with a friend and we're talking about where I work and stuff like that. And, I make the comment "you know what skeeves me out?," and I thought I should write something about that. Well let's start at the top of the last shall we.. The number one thing that just makes me shiver is when I sit down somewhere and it's still warm from the last person. Butt warmth... just typing that made my skin crawl. Even if it's someone's warmth I know I just can't do it. I used to be able to crawl into bed with my best friends, and I could cuddle/spoon with the best of em but let me sit down in their chairs while it's still warm and watch me squirm. I'm not at all sure what that's all about but it happens. What really prompted that conversation was that after I eat at the restaurant (IHOP) I work at I think to myself.... "How many mouths has this silverware been in?" Kinda gross right? Oh, and there was a girl that I used to work with a long time ago that had been in a car accident. She got a concussion and when it happened her pupils were permanently different sizes. Two pupils the same size no biggie but when I'd look her in the eyes to talk to her my eyes would start watering like no one's business. There's not a whole lot that makes me feel like that but the few things that do are tiny. I didn't think this entry would be so short but there ya go. Long day tomorrow gotta get to bed. Nite...

I got this text this morning. Your Federal Extension return was received and will be sent to the IRS.

National Tax day deadline... and google.

So it's time to file taxes and like any good normal guy what do I do? I wait until the very last minute to do my taxes. So I tried to at least be a little smart about it and e-file. But there's an issue and I need to file for an extension. So I try to e-file form 4868. So naturally I'm on the IRS website and I keep running across sites and I check approximately 12 of them before i figure out that to e-file form 4868 is not free, on those ones at least. Uh-oh what now? Well I turn to my old buddy Google. I love to google things and see what turns up. Well I google "e-file form 4868 free" after searching for 10 minutes on the wrong file. At first I kept typing 4898. So I stumbled on a link for yahoo answers and one of the amazing people that replied to the question that was posted by someone who decided to do exactly what I was doing (waiting until last minute and finding the easiest way possible without going somewhere and standing in line). This person said try taxact.com. Bingo... I logged in and it was very simple. I signed up for a free account and it asked which form i wanted to fill out. It was actually very easy. 15 minutes later (it would have been 25ish minutes but I'd already filled out the information 12 times on the other websites) I was finished. Not only was I finished with my extension form but the site would email me and send me a text when the form was accepted by the IRS. It's definitely something I recommend and will more than likely use next year. Thanx to my good buddy google, I am yet again taken care of.

First real blog

What should I start my first real blog entry about? Should it be movies, or TV, or any of the random things that I encounter throughout my day? I decided to start with my current craving.. Portabella mushrooms... Too small to start with? maybe.. Well let's start with my trip to Wegmans. I like shopping at wegmans. They have great food and good prices and there's always really hot guys there almost all the time. The wegmans i go to is near Buff State.. There's college students there almost all the time. The surroundings, the prices, and the scenery (wink wink). I used to go to Tops only because it was really convenient. Then one night on the way home about 2 months ago I stopped into wegmans to try something I've had once and wanted to try experimenting with on my own e.g. portabella mushrooms. I had them once before as a sandwich and I've recently been putting them in sauce with noodles. I tried marinating and grilling one. It didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. Am I ready to give up on them? Not so much. There's something that i have to cook for this weekend and I'm probably going to put them in what I'm going to cook. There wasn't anything of real interest that happened to me today that would inspire a great entry. I've decided to start with a menial topic and this will hopefully move on to something better. Other things that inspire me are certain quotes, pictures, definitely movies, TV, and my other source of current information Twitter and the yahoo homepage. Until then portabella mushrooms will have to be the beginning. Goodnight for now...

My first blog here from my phone.