Hee Hee

When I was driving home from work today, there was a truck with the name of the company on the side of it:

Ho Snow Removal and Landscaping

Now I know that I am 31 and laughing at this is something a 13 year old would do.  But you have to admit, it is still kinda funny.

Spam (Not the food)

Every once in awhile I will check my junk email folder to make sure that nothing that I actually wanted to read went in there.  When I checked it earlier this was the subject of a message:

A Vibrator is Born (Or How a Cucumber Grew Up)

By the way,  in case you were wondering, this was not one the messages that I wanted to read!

Good things are happening!

I can feel that some good changes are coming up for me.  I can't reveal them right now, but I will as soon as I can.  Think good thoughts for me!!

My Hair

I had my hair chopped off a couple of months ago.  It is so much easier to deal with and it now takes me about 5 minutes to blow dry it.  It's great.  And I do think that it looks nice and everyone that I know has told me that they like it.  But the strange thing is that I am getting a ton on compliments from strangers.  Patients and family members at work tell me that they like my hair.  It is almost embarrassing.  It makes me wonder did it look like crap before?  This weekend, I have been with my mom 3 times when strangers complimented my hair.  The first time was when we went out to eat after the Dream Cruise.  Then today we were shopping and at two different stores the sales clerk told me that she liked my hair.  My mom said that she thinks it's kinda creepy that so many people are complimenting me.  It is almost becoming comical.  One lady today even asked me where I got my hair done.  Way to go Maurica!!

Adventures at the Dream Cruise

So it was the Dream Cruise this weekend.  For those of you that don't live in Detroit, it is the biggest 1 day car show in the world.  There are usually over 1 million people in attendance.  Every year for the past several years,  I have sold the official Dream Cruise shirt with the YMCA.  It is our biggest fundraiser of the year.  I was there both Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening.  The "official" logo was not all the great this year, so some people were not pleased about it and they told us about it.  Like we had any hand in designing it. I kept saying , "Talk to the Dream Cruise committee."  For anyone that likes to people watch, it is a great place to go.  You see all kinds of people there.  Here are some of the funnier comments that I got from people.

Guy walking by the booth - "Are these free?"  (Pointing at the t-shirts, let me also qualify this comment with it was 4:00 in the afternoon and if they were free, don't you think that they would have been gone by now?)

Me - "No, but they are only $15 and the money goes to charity."

Guy - "Well then I don't want one"

So did he mean he didn't want one because the money went the charity?

Lady walking by the booth - "How much are these?" (Pointing at the travel coffee mugs)

Me - "One for $3, two for $5"

Lady - "I will give you $2 for one"

Me - "No, the money goes to charity, they have already been reduced from $5 a piece.  They are $3 for one."

Lady - "I only have $2, I will go get another dollar."

Teenage girl holding three $5 items in her hands - "Are these free?"

Me - "No, they are $5 a piece."

Girl threw them back on the table.

Man looking at the Hotwheels car - "I don't want this, it's a Ford, I drive a Chevy."

I am thinking OK dumb ass, then don't buy it.

One of the best things that I heard though was from another one of my co-sellers.  She had someone trying to barter with her about the price of something.  She looked at him and said , "This is not a flea market."

The best part of the Dream Cruise is all of the people that are there.  You see some interesting clothing and hair.  There are also people that totally don't look like they go together.  So if you have never gone and enjoy people watching, this is the event for you!

Phatty out!  (Yeah, I tried to sound like Ryan Seacrest there, I don't think I will try that again)

I am going to find a man!

I was out running errands today and I saw sign at a church for the St Anne's Sausage Festival!  Do you think if I go, I can find a boyfriend?

My $67 lunch

I went to lunch yesterday with my friend Andrea.  We went to this Coney Island place that I haven't been to in forever.  I had a ham and cheese omelet with some wheat toast.  My bill was $6.  I had $5 in cash that was mine, $20 in cash that was Dream Cruise money and then my debit card.  So I decided to use my debit card rather than embezzle the Dream Cruise money (I would pay it back!)  Andrea paid with her credit card and the lady was having a problem with the machine, so that should have been my first clue that I should have paid cash.  But I went ahead and paid with my debt card anyway.  This would be a good time to tell you that I had to have Andrea back to work by 1:30 and it was already 1:29.  They did have the little machine where you enter your PIN, so I paid my bill and walked out.  Then I looked at the receipt.  I was charged $67.40 for my lunch!  Ahhh!  I didn't even have that much money in my account.  I only had $40-something in it.  So I went back in and the lady that did it started freaking out because she didn't know how to fix it.  She had her co-worker come over and refund my money.  As she was doing this I asked her if they would pay my overdraft fee since I knew I didn't have enough money in my account.  She told me that it shouldn't go through because they haven't cashed out the machine yet.  She said that if there were any charges to bring it in and they would refund it to me.  But I had a feeling that I would be charged.  Isn't the point of entering the PIN that the money comes directly out of the account?  I then decided to pay with the Dream Cruise money rather than dealing with another transaction with my debit card.

Last night, I got home from work and checked my account - of course there was an overdraft fee.  Now luckily, because I have a credit union, it was only $5, but still, that almost doubles the cost of my lunch.  So now I am going to print out the statement and cross off the transactions that are not relevant and bring it into the Coney today to get my $5 back.

The moral of the story is: don't use your debit card at the Coney!

Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K

I was driving to work this afternoon, minding my own business and singing to the radio and all of a sudden my sunglasses broke in half!  And yes, to answer your question, I was wearing them!  At first, I couldn't figure out what happened.  Half fell in my lap and the other half were still on my head.  They broke right where the nose piece attaches to the lens.  There's no fixing them because the lens is broken.  I guess that I am happy that I didn't pay a lot for them.  I have a small head, so I buy kid's sunglasses, so they're not too expensive.  I guess that I have to head to Target tomorrow to buy another pair.  So if you see me with some Dora sunglasses, you will understand why.

Or, I guess that I could start a new trend - sun monocles!  I could have a sun monocle for each eye!

RIP - cute sunglasses 2007 - 2008

PS - Points for you if you know what movie the title is from (I think that I quoted it right)

McDLT Commercial

Ok, in my curiosity about the McDLT, I googled it and found this commercial on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac

I have not quite figured out how to upload to the blog yet, so you'll have to copy and paste the link into your browser to watch, but I will try to figure it out soon.  If it wasn't 12:30 at night , I would spend some more time trying to figure this out, but I am sleepy.

80s anyone?

Gotta love the thoughts that come from my co-worker Jason.  This is the thought he told me about yesterday...

You know how there's a Renaissance Festival?  Why don't we have an 80s festival?  No one really knows what people dressed like or acted like during the Renaissance, but we know what we did in the 80s, there should be an 80s Festival.  That would be really great!

Back to me - Just think of the ripped jeans, cut up sweatshirts, several pairs of socks, side ponytails, Tie dye, I could go on and on.  Maybe before we start a whole festival, we could just do a theme party.  What kind of food is specific to the 80s?  The only thing that comes to mind is the McDLT.  I think that is what it was called.  I am thinking of the special Mickey D's hamburger that "kept the hot side hot and the cool side cool" with a cool double box.  I remember going there one time for a meal and that's what my parents ordered.

Am I a Mind Reader?

Sorry that it's been a little while - if anyone is even reading this.  I know that I am bummed when my favorite bloggers don't post.  So I apologize!

Today at work, while on my break I was sitting in the lobby reading a book.  This man comes up to me and asks if I work there.  First of all - can you not see the badge on my shirt?  So I tell him yes and he says that he is looking for a patient.  I directed him to the information desk where there is a phone that goes directly to the operator for questions when it is not staffed.  He then tells me that he does not know the name of the patient.  I am thinking - what a dumbass!  So I explain that we can't help him find a patient if he doesn't know the name.  He tells me that he thinks that his patient is in the cath lab.  I tell him that we can't help him unless he knows the name of the patient, so he says that he's going to call someone and walk away.

Here's what I was thinking during this conversation.  Why is this guy coming to visit someone if he doesn't know their name?  Obviously you don't know each other very well.  And does he really think that someone is going to let him traipse all over the hospital checking in rooms for someone?

The guy was still sitting in the lobby when I went back to work, so I don't think that he was having much luck finding his patient.

The moral of the story is: only come to the hospital to visit people you know and if you don't know them, you should at least know their name!!