Pure

I am a in a pure state of exhaustion right now. Its been a long and stressful four days. I have the next couple of days to rejuvinate, get ready for my trip this weekend! AND for some visitors in 13 days?? and 17 days!!! AHHHGGGG yeah!

OPCG

Settling

Last night at work I made a slightly HUGE mistake. The worst part is it happened on Banana's register and not my own. So even though it was I who did it, she will feel the burn. I stayed late at work trying to fix it. Then I wasn't able to sleep last night from the guilt.

Today. People are still trying to fix my mistake. It has now been in 5 peoples hands trying to figure all of this out. UHG I feel terrible. But anyways. This guy comes in, his name is Ray. He wants to buy some cigs, I sell them to him, check his ID and we are joking around. He looks me dead in the eye and says "Amanda, whatever you do, don't settle" It threw me for a loop. I was all like oh ok? He then goes into an explanation. "you are beautiful, you are sweet and nice. I can tell you are an angle and you deserve the best. You deserve the best man, the best life, the best everything. You are a special person. I don't know why I am saying this, I don't know what has come upon me, something tells me I need to tell you this. Just don't settle for anything" I was all like alright I wont.

It was odd. But it meant a lot.

Lone Ranger

Prime Cut

Thank you Fa^1 for that comparison. Earlier tonight I sent a text to Fa^1 saying I have never felt more like a raw piece of meat then I have the last few hours of work. Her reply back was, prime cut or ground beef? I loved that. My response was prime cut.

To go into more detail... Momalo, you know when everyone (Uncle Fonzie, Canadian Bacon, Ruby, and Jewel) comes over, and we have prime rib. And everyone fights over the end cute. Not only do I compare myself to a prime cut, but more like the end cut of a prime rib! Damn right that's how good I am!! This gentleman comes in tonight. He is being very flirty, we end up spending a good amount of time together cause he cause a problem. Long story short we got to know each other lol. Banana came up and we were all joking around and he was all like well I am gunna come back and see you later. I was like OK yea whatever. So later. He does come back. I was helping another costumer at the time (who was good lookin lol) and we were talking and having a good time and this other guy, we will call him cross (the first one) and he starts talking to me. THEN the subway ppl come over and Krusty and Cross are talking about what time subway closes and how he wanted a sandwich. Krusty says, well if you ask Amanda she would make a sandwich. I was like WHAT? Cross says, "Yea I bet she would, she would probably give me her own lunch if she had one" I was all like oh ok... Then Cross starts talking about how my BF would be mad and blah blah. And Krusty takes it one farther, he says, you know I bet she would do more then just give you her sandwich. I just looked at Krusty, I was like oh no you didn't! So now Cross, and my customer are both laughing and making grunting noises (?) and both said at the same time. "Once you go black, you dont go back"

So it ended there. Brawk stepped in at this point and started saying hey leave my GF alone! and all that and now I am blushing SO bad Lol the guy I was helping kept commenting on how cute it was and I am thinking yea right... LOL why do guys like that? Please someone explain it, cause they all do. Cross asked me to dinner. Later Brawk says if I want to go I can. I couldn't believe he said that! So I decided if he was telling me the truth or not LOL I was like ok I will. And cross is sitting over there watching me, he waves when ever I look at him. haha. SO I am all like ok I'm coming over in a sec. And Brawk steps right back in and doesn't let me go lol. He's like no, you cant go its a bad idea. HAHA right.

So I didn't have dinner with Cross, but he did come back over to visit me. I helped him pick out a good orange juice lol. Then he went out to his truck. My other guy came back in and took a shower, when he was done he refused to let Brawk help him, he waited for me lol. He was headed for Seattle, I was tempted to ask if I could ride along. Sad...

Anyways, it was a fun night. Started bad but ended good. Like I said, with Krusty (subway man) dangling me out there for those two guys I seriously felt like a piece of meat. I have guys hit on my everyday I am there. It happens, but I have never felt so exposed. I don't know why it was different but it was. It was odd and bothered me a lot that these guys talked this way. I don't know how it was any different then normal it just was.

SprInG BrEAk!!

OMG it is my first ever college spring break. Maybe I am not going to Hawaii or Mexico, and getting drunk into an oblivion. But I am going on a crazy road trip to SEATTLE lol woop woop! Wha cha cha If ya know what I mean. But no really, my first college spring break is going to be amazing! I think I have something planned for everyday, hopefully I will be crazy busy. However... Today I woke up, last final, last day of winter classes and guess what happens? Its frickin snowing! Yes that's right, its FRICKIN snowing! Whatever! Lol tomorrow I am sure it will be so warm and sunny I just might go sit by the pool. Who knows. Maybe I should make a girls gone wild video LOL that's a typical spring break thing right? LMAO! OH boy. It could be an Amanda Gone Wild video! It would be amazing! No nudity.

Man: (walks over to my counter) are you open?
Me: Yep I'm wide open!
Man: Oh is that so? Then I might be needing something else...
Me: Oh my bad, not that kind of open! I'm closed!

LOL

Oh then there was this crazy lady, she walks up and very VERY loudly yells something along the lines of "hello gorgeous" and starts talking about how she thinks I should pack my bags and go to Las Vegas with her... I was like well that sounds amazing but I need to stay here! they need me. When she was just about to leave she was all like "listen sweetie, get those bags packed, I will be back later tonight!" I was all like OK... haha I got off at 1o.

2DAY

Today. Mom and dad left me! Sad... mom wouldn't even stay up late with me last night LOL.

I went to school today, to take a final. After school I decided to run to the park and clear my heads of some things going on. I went on a little hike, not long. (I'm tired of waiting mom lol, and look it ended up fine!) I took bunches of pics, I will try to get them on here soon. But it was so nice out there, I have been looking for "my spot" and I finally found it. This perfect spot along the trail that's not too far that I couldn't just run out there very fast. I will definitely be going out there. Then I went and hung out with squinty eyes and beaner, we went to winco and target. We decided to make a homemade dinner! We made pepperoni and pineapple pizza, with Alfredo shell pasta thing on the side. It was yummo!

While I was on my hike one of the bookkeepers form work called and asked if I would be available for a telephone interview. I said yes of course. But never heard anything... Maybe tomorrow.

My roots

Many of you know that I want.... NO that I am gangsta! For some time now, I have been, uhm rapping. (yes we can call it that lol, maybe not good, but dang those tassles!) Not really sure why, I dont have a black bone in this body, in fact I am about as white as white can get. But thats not the point.

Today I went shopping with momalo. We were standing in line at Torrid when a nice little rap number came on. Momalo looks at me... "this music makes me want to dance"

I have discovered, right there is my shred of evidence. I am meant to be gangsta, I Amanda from my mothers loin (is it loins?) should and will be a gangsta!

Shipe

There were Shipers (think about it... what does it mean in indiana jones language... aka IJL) walking around today! LOL

No it was a good night. Brawk felt sick, so he asked me to switch shifts whith him so he could go home early, I said yes... My parents came into town! YAY!! I noticed my fridge looks awfully full... I love them! As a sacrafice I took a big step for them tonight. I went to walmart, and made an expensive purchase. $7.36 expensive! I bought Toilet Paper for the first time!! I was so excited about it I felt the need to document the occasion (of course, yes christopher I really did). But I needed help taking the pic, this is how it went....

Me "can I ask you an odd favor?" to walmart Employee (whom shall remain nameless)

Employee "Sure"

Me "Great! Can you take my pic?"

Employee "With Charmin?"

Me "Cha cha charmin! Yes please"

He laughed. But he took the picture, I thanked him and went on my way. I think I made his night. I like to think so. I can picture him getting off early this morning, going home and writing in his blog (names walmart diaries... Im sure, cause that is an awsome name!) and writing about this crazyily cute adorable miss asked him a very off favor. And he followed through with it! I will be documented forever in his brain I am sure. And maybe in some blog somewhere out in space. I wonder if he was married? Ta ta!

AMANDA!

The other day an African American gentleman came in, his name was Mr. Q. He walks up to me and he is rapping something. I listen closer and I can tell it is the song Amanda by Boston! Now I have had truckers sing this song to me plenty of times. But this was amazing! He turned a love ballad into a rap! I LOVED IT. Uncle Fonzie toe... you definitely have some catching up to do!

Today, around 11 pm, almost time to go home! A woman, around 45 to 50 yrs old is my guess comes into start a pump on the truck side. I get all her info in, she still hasn't handed me a form of payment. I say "ma'am how are we paying tonight?" She says, cash. NOW the policy with cash is we can take their cash, but not matter what we need their ID lately we have had a lot of drive offs, so we have enforced this rule strictly. She looks at me says, I do not appreciate you calling me a thief. I was astonished, I stood there thinking did I say that? I knew I was tired but really I would never say that!! So reassured her that it was corporate policy that we hold onto everyone ID, and that I was not claiming that she was a thief. Now she is yelling at me! Over and over again saying she wasn't a thief. I just said OK. I had already told her that I wouldn't start it without ID. So now Brawk is down with me, making sure she doesn't try killing me. And we stand there, and wait for her to hand over her ID. She looks at me and says well aren't you going to start it? I said no Ma'am not till i have your ID. She flipped me off and said "I'm not a fucking thief, have a great night!" I waved back and said you too!

ZIPP...

AAGGHH!! Haha.

The last couple of days I have worked there has been an older gentleman there. I would say around 50 years old. Well the other night he had a pen in his hand and asked to see my hand. I was like what for? Are you trying to give me your digits? He replied, what would you do with those? HAHA laugh laugh Anyways...

So today he comes in and I don't remember what we were talking about but it ended with something like well have a look at this! And he started to unzip his pants! OMG right? So I covered my eyes and I was like PLEASE DON'T! lol and he didn't. I said goodbye. Wonder if he will be there tomorrow.

KIAN and I got together today to film a video for out hearing impaired class. It turned out very funny! And it was loads of fun to work on. I'm pretty sure both of us were ready to die from laughter when we were done. I will put the link in at the bottom for my youtube page. You should check it out! HOLLA. A little background on it though, otherwise it will make NO sense, and you will be all like WAIT WHAT? The video is showing ways to prevent RMS (repetitive movement syndrome) which is very common for interpreters.

To find it, go to youtube.com in the search box type mission RMS. It is a video that is 8 mins 24 secs long. The description says "Lauren and I working very hard..." And the pic you will see is of KIAN up against a wall, with her back on the floor. Check it out FOO!

Friday the 13th

We have had two Friday the 13Th's in a very short amount of time. I am starting to believe that these bad luck days truly hold bad luck. It seemed like everything that could go wrong went wrong. I was on the truck side tonight, and had about 20 fails out at the pumps. Because the amount a purchase can average anywhere from $100 to $600 it is very important that we get their information so the don't "drive off" technically leaving without paying. Some truckers do this on purpose, they know its not going to work but they leave hoping to get away. Some are just accidental and are easy to fix. But with every failed that occurs it requires someone going outside and writing down a bunch of information, AND telling the driver that they will have to come inside when they are finished to try running it through again. They hate this because potentially we may not be able to fix the problem, their company might be down which means they could be stuck there for a few minutes to a few hours waiting for it to work. Sometimes a whole day. All we can offer them is a cup of coffee and reassurance that we will continue trying every few minutes.

Some drivers take it all right. They understand that it is not our fault. But I would say the majority of them feel like it is our fault. We are holding them back, the more they sit there the less they get paid! I understand that. But there is nothing I can do to speed up the process for them. I think every driver that failed today was taking it out on me. Every single one of them yelled at me. One was so bad I had to have Susie step in for me so I could walk away. He just would not stop yelling.

So yep. Here is to a crazy night! Thank goodness the 13Th is over now! hello 14Th!!

PS. We have these new peach cigars at work. They smell sooo good! I have never smoked a thing in my life. If I were to try something, it would be one of those cigars. But I wont. I am too scared to become addicted. But they are nice to smell!

Easy

"That's twenty bucks right there" hands me a $10 bill
"Really? That looks like a Ten..." Me
"Nope its twenty"
"I'm Confused" Me
"You're easy"
"Oh she is?" Customer behind him

"I am easy!!" "No I I'm not easy! I'm not easy, I'm just easily confused. CONFUSED"

HAHAHAHA everyone laughs at me. Thanks

Dedication

ded⋅i⋅ca⋅tion  –noun
1.
the act of dedicating.
2.
the state of being dedicated: Her dedication to medicine was so great that she had time for little else.

Last night I attended a Cheifs VS Silvertips hockey game. It was a rough decision for me to choose between cheering for my home team (whom is always true in my heart) or my new home team. I finally decided I needed to stick with my Tips, my belongs to them and it always will... or so I thought.

The game was horrible! We were murdered. Final score was 7 - 2!! But the two goals we did make you better believe their number fan was there screaming at the top of her lungs and supporting her sexy players. And yes I looked like an idiot doing it all by myself... they are worth it. I am dedicated to them.

After the game we all went to red robin, there the seven of us sat waiting to order when I see a few guys walk in with Silvertips shirts on. WHOO GO TIPS! what are the chances that there are more fans here? Well Ginger pointed out to me, those are players! So I was like OMG we need to get out there and get on that bus!! Ginger, Hawaii and I went out and walked to the door of the bus. There I stood for a good two minutes begging the driver to let me take a pic, or let him have the cam and take a pic of them for me! But he wouldn't I begged this man... I would have gotten down on the ground if it hadn't been totally wet. I wish we had just hopped on and snapped a picture, it would have been so worth going to jail for! All in all I am a little upset in the tips for not over hearing what was going on and helping me out. Thanks a lot guys. Next time you might not have your one fan in the audience....

Ok you will but still! Its ok to be mad for a little bit.

Warrant for my arrest

Really? How long has it been since I got my ticket? 5 months!! FIVE MONTHS!!! And I am just now hearing back form the courts HAHA. This whole time I have been thinking that there might possibly be a warrant for my arrest out there. But no. Its all good. I got my confirmation back now, and I am on the deferral program. Which will remove the whole ticket from my record in a year. I have to pay a $100 processing fee. I guess its a good thing I am getting money back on my taxes! Today hasn't been that bad! Now I can go to Canada with no worries of getting held at the border.

I forgot to add: the person who wrote the email, sstoner!! haha I know I dont put real names in there, but thats not really a real name, its kinda a real one but not. It was just too darn funny to leave out!

Wardrobe Dilemma

Today I had a huge wardrobe dilemma. You know in movies when you see the character thrashing through their closest desperately looking for the perfect outfit for their hot date that night? Well now picture me doing that, only instead of searching through my closet I was tearing through my pantie drawer. LOL my biggest concern was what type of undies I should put on for my Doctor. I was going back and forth to something very typical, white, or something a little more on the edge. I finally (after thinking about it all morning while doing other things) settled on my lucky flamingos.

Had my appointment today. It was... ok. I don't want to do it again. Unfortunately I have to go back in six weeks. They will look at my moles again, and talk about my skin. This Spokane weather is not treating me very well, so they are having me t do this new treatment thing everyday to help my skin be less dry? I dunno, we will see what happens with that. My one doctor was really great! I joked around with him, made it an easy going atmosphere. But then then another doctor came in the room to take a look at my mole "situation". He was not so nice. Not so comforting at all. I didn't like him. But I guess its over now, and I am past that, and I have six weeks of clothedness to look forward to! They don't think that they need to remove anything immediately, they want to wait for a little bit to see what happens. The moles that they are slightly concerned about are in awkward places that would leave bad scars, so if they don't have to they don't want to remove it them. He mentioned that my case is difficult because I have so many moles that range all over the scale. I have some very normal looking moles, but then I have a good number of odd shaped moles. He said it makes it hard for them to tell if they are what is normal for my body, or something they need to take action on. So here we wait. I will see them in 6 weeks.

Not the best day ever.

Bend and Snap

We all remember the infamous Legally Blond scene, standing in the beauty shop and Reese Witherspoon (Elle Woods) is showing Jennifer Coolidge (Paullete) how to "bend and snap" to get the attention of the UPS delivery boy.

With that in your heads: Today I had this gentleman admit to me that he was only hanging around so that he could flirt with me lol. "hey sweetie, grab me some of that red man gold blend (chewing tobacco)" This certain brand is on the bottom shelf, you are required to bend over to grab it. I walk to the other end, where we keep it. I squat down, grab the chew and come back. "Baby! You did it wrong!!" I said, how did I do it wrong? "you were suppose to bend all the way over and show me your @$$!" I'm like great, I work at a truck stop! Do you really think I am going to just bend over and stick my butt out to the whole world?? He laughed, so did the guy behind him and commented "no but we hope you do!" BOY OH BOY

Later talking to Patricia, we decided we should practice our bend and snap more often! LOL

Smart Cookie

I was told I am smart as a cookie today. That's nice to know. I went in to work to talk to Banana and BB, they had something to ask me. BB asks if I would like to be a part time SAR. I don't know what that stands for, I will find out. But basically I would be a book keeper. Payroll, bills, all that yucky stuff. I wouldn't do it just for the truck stop, its for the two restaurants, the store, and the fuel. I would be handling money for all of it! Although I don't know exactly what it is that these SAR people do, I do know that they are always stressed out. Whenever I see them, they look worn out. They fix our mistakes, when we cant fix them. They find the missing money, that we aren't sure where it went. This is what I would be doing. I would be handling more money then I could even dream of having right now in my life. More then I have ever had saved up, more then I have ever held. Along with the new stress and responsibilities I would get a hefty pay raise. Which would be nice. The best part is that the raise I get to be a SAR would transfer over to my cashier schedule, so I would be getting a HUGE raise in that sense. Having this book keeper background on a resume would look great! Any job anywhere else where I deal with a lot of money would appreciate seeing me

So why am I having such a hard time deciding? This is why. I got a job at the truck stop out of pure desperation. I was running out of money and they were hiring. I HATED my job there. I think everyday my poor mom had to deal with me crying, I couldn't stand it. The truckers were so mean, this wasn't a job for me. But shortly I learned to love it, I realized the people there were really there for me. However it is still a transitional job. Its only purpose is to help pay my bills as I struggle my way through college. In no way was I looking to be promoted through the company, or anything like that. Yet here I am being faced with this "promotion". Will this stress have effect on my school? Will this stress be worth it? The money and the experience that I can document on resumes will be great. But at what cost is it worth?

In my stress class one day we were talking about something. And he said but is it worth it to me? I said well its not worth it to me, I am worth a million dollars! He looked at me and said oh yeah? Well I'm priceless. I know its strange to look back on that, but my saying I am worth a million dollars, not seeing it and saying it off the bat that I am priceless, could this mean something?

Conspiracy

**Top secret Top secret Top secret Top secret Top secret **

Turn on your speakers to low, and hit play on the playlist for the first song

This is on hush hush, this certain blog cant get into the wrong hands, the government cant know we have caught on!

As many of you know now, daylight savings time is on Sunday. Well I, for the first time, am actually thinking about this daylight saving thing. For 19 years I have been a sheep. I was taught on certain days of the year we change the times on the clock. It was just the normal thing to do. But now I am thinking about it... why do we have daylights saving time? We do it twice a year, this year they will be held on March 8Th, and November 1st. We all know in March we are springing forward an hour, and for a few months we have an "extra" hour. Then in November we roll back an hour "losing" an hour. This sets us back to what it originally was. We got nowhere in that time. We didn't REALLY add time to the planet. We hardly really notice the difference, except it gets dark later. So what is the point? What does daylight savings really do for us? Please, if you know inform me. Because here is the theory I am going with for now.

The government likes to control things, as we all know. Well who is to say there aren't five government officials sitting in a room all laughing the next day because again they have manipulated us into thinking that if we don't change our clocks the world will... I don't even know. EXPLODE?! We are their puppets, and it is a test, do we still have faith in our government? What will happen when one day people start to refuse, the don't want another hour, or the don't want to give that hour back. Will the five guys still be laughing?

After doing some research, not all countries have daylight savings time. China, which spans five different time zones does not participate in daylight savings. PARTS ( I don't know how it can just be parts, that's trippy) of Australia do not change their time either. It wasn't till 1996 that Mexico jumped into the conspiracy wagon! Now how is it some countries can live without daylight savings time? Why DO we change our clocks? Honestly, think about it. We do it without even thinking, no questions asked. Maybe its time we start asking some questions.

Just a thought.

Updates

I made some updates if you cant tell... I also added some more pictures to my slide show at the bottom so check it out.

Suicide

I don't have time to watch the news. But whenever I log onto the Internet my homepage has local news posted on it right at the top. I cant help but look at it every time I get on. So today I look to see what stories are going on and the one on the top of the list is about the new suicide assistance law.

Voters approved the Initiative 1000 in November. This law allows patients with six months or less left to live get prescription suicide. In order to have a prescription written the patient must ask for it twice, in a 15 day period. They must also have two witnesses present when they sign a statement that says they wish to take their life away. Doctors and druggists are not required to write or fulfill prescriptions for such a lethal medicine if they are opposed to assisted suicide.

After reading this I took some time to reflect on this issue. I can understand why people would want to take their life away if they were told there isn't much time. I get it in some scenarios. My personal opinion if I were in those shoes would be to keep fighting for as long as I can. Maybe not to hope to stay alive longer, but to be able to help science. Let my body be used for chemistry, so someone else maybe can live longer. But at the same time I understand that some people cant afford the bills that come along with six months of being in a hospital, or paying to have someone care for you while you wait. I guess I can respect that, if they didn't want to put a financial burden on the family they were leaving behind. I get that.

But I cant help but wonder what else will come out of this. Will suicide rates incline immensely? How easily obtainable will this drug be? Once it starts getting made it will be easy to get I am guessing, how many people will be find that drug in the wrong hands? I still don't know how I feel about this issue. I guess overall people have the right to make their own decisions. But I think that by saying that then shouldn't I be OK with just regular suicide? If people get the choice to take their life near the end, then shouldn't they have the right to take their life at any point in their life?

Tell me what you think.