Looking for a mate

Yesterday an impromptu decision came along. I was to go Buffalo Hunting. One text message to Squinty Eyes later it was set. Meet at the truck stop at 1 oclock and have your guns ready AKA eyes! One trip in to get some sausage thingies and a Red Bull and Nos energy drinks we were prepared for our adventure which would lead us back to home base no later then 6 as promised to Squinty Eyes (she had a paper to write) Off we go to the destination of State Line. We had an idea of where to find some buffalo, but like many times in life the road came to a Y and we had to choose a direction. We chose right. It led us past some really cute sheep! and baby sheep! We stopped to take pictures. We drove and drove and finally we got to this dirt path that led us up a huge mountain! With a cliff on one side, and the mountain side on the other we had no opportunity to turn around. As we got deeper an deeper into the well warned "private property" it got more and more scary. We made it to the top where we found a house and we were certain we would be shot (yes Beaner I actually said aloud "I think we might get shot"). One off the mountain we take another road that puts us back into Washington state. Once again we head for Idaho, go to the state line get back to the Y and this time choose to go left. Right over the crest of the hill we find buffalo! Amazed, shocked, and ridiculously happy we take pictures and move on.

Next destination, Cabellas. Now why Cabellas you might ask. Long story short, Squinty, B, Fa^1 and I were all in a situation a couple weeks ago where having pepper spray would have eased some worries of ours. I guess a bat sufficed but we still feel like we should carry pepper spray (plus it fits in my purse) Once we get to Cabellas we decide we need to know what kind of noise a buffalo makes, so we can go back out and attract them towards the car for a closer look. Talking to an employee we made friends over mating calls of Buffalo and moose. We move on the gun men, and the gun man shows us how to shoot a gun. We made many friends at cabellas. Including the fudge lady! and some cashiers. And you know I think we talked to just about every employee working at that time. We spent two hours in cabellas doing fashion shows, tasting fine eatery (AKA fudge! Don't get the habanero one...) and hosting fashion shoots for the stuffed animals. But we had business to take care of.

One of the employees sent us to Hauser Lake to look out for Moose. So to Hauser we went, after the zebra coffee stand of course! Oh and a potty trip at McDonald's. We were on our way. Long story short, we got very lost. Again on another dirt road, this time just a tad muddy, but it was definitely prime moose location. Although we never did see any we didn't failing making our calls. With no reception, we had no idea where we were. No satellite signal to get us out of the middle of nowhere. Finally we found a way out, got Vicky up and running and discovered we were a good 2 hours away from home! Just going onto 6:30 we booked it back to Spokane. We made it home safely. But have no doubt, we will be hitting the roads again shortly, on a look out for moose!

Stay Sweet Spokane

Rosie

I have a new nickname. Rosy. Thanks to a wonderful truck driver! Sunday night we don't have a janitor for the last few hours of our shift. SO any showers that we sell, or are being used when he leaves need to be cleaned. The last couple of weeks I have been cleaning showers. This Sunday, I was in the back doing the showers and working my butt off. It is very hot back there, so yes my face happen to be on the pink side. I walk out of one of the shower rooms and a driver takes one look at me and says "oh my don't you have Rosie cheeks?" Which of course when someone points out the obvious about me I tend to blush, making it that much more red. He comments on how cute it is and how cute I am. He says "your going to be my girlfriend, I am going to call you Rosie" I'm like oh OK sure lol whatever you say. Later that night, back behind the counter I am helping a customer, and the same old gentleman comes up and says oh look there's my girlfriend Rosie! And he goes on and on to the customer how I am his new gf and he just loves me to death. Of course I am blushing again, this poor customer doesn't care about my relationship with this man, he just wants to leave! Finally he gets to go. My guy continues hitting on me telling me I am his whole world. Whatever

Yesterday I go to work and I am telling everyone this story in the backroom. We all laugh about it, banana decides she will call me Rosie also. HAHA OK jokes over. But no. That night B came into visit. we were standing there talking, Brawk doing who knows what. All of a sudden my old man comes walking in, spots me from across the store and shouts Hey Rosie! GREAT so I start helping a customer and of course my old man has to come over and tell my customer all about his and my relationship. He tells me over and over that he will wait for me forever! That I am his one true love, he asks me how my night is going i say "fine" he goes I am know your FINE now tell me something else" everything I said to him he would change into something dirty! B walked away she was laughing too hard. I am giving Brawk the "foot signal" (which apparently only works when he is right next to me) So this guy (his name is frank by the way, we will keep calling him frank) Frank tells me how he is going to get a tattoo with my name blah blah and he is tellin me all about the things he wants to do with me. I am very uncomfortable, I am helping customers and Frank wont shutup! Brawk whispers to B to go get his cigs from the back (code for go to the back and don't come out till i tell you) He then comes to me and tells me to go make ice (another code) finally I escape from Frank! Oh but not yet

That would have been too easy. As I am trying to walk back there frank keeps calling my name, he tells me to have a goodnight, I say you too walk away, 2 steps maybe. He calls my name again, he did this like 4 times. Finally I made it to the door run back and giggle hysterically with B about 10 mins go by, I peak out he is still there. 5 more, another look and the coast is clear. Brawk explained the whole foot signal and now we have a new signal lol We are set!

Its a mad mad world

We all know that song, by Gary Jules "mad world" Most people hear that song and immediately think of Donnie Darko. But now when I hear that song I have a new affiliation for it. Last week at work (I know I haven't blogged for a while srry) we kept getting complaints from truckers that there was a woman walking around the parking lot pounding on truck doors. She wasn't alone, she had a baby with her. She was offering her "services".

Now I am not condoning that prostitution is a good thing. What I am saying is that I guess I can understand why people do it. Although there are better options out there if you need help I get why women, and men sell themselves. Like I said, I do not think it is a positive thing, or that I would ever do it, but I am saying I kinda understand. HOWEVER this lady the other night, taking her baby with her truck to truck. That crosses that invisible line. That is very wrong. It is one thing to have to use prostitution as a living, but to bring you own baby into that kinda of dangerous situation is repulsive. Short handed Oreo and I were sent to the lot to track down this woman. We were told the last truck she got into, we went to that truck but she was no longer there. The whole time Oreo is driving me around the lot he is cussing up a storm on how disturbing this is. I couldn't agree more. That night I wanted to puke. The thought of that poor child being in the truck with that, and who knows if it was just laying there, who knows what was going on inside, that though makes my whole stomach do flip flops, that are not good. We never did track her down. We kept getting complaints but we were so short handed there wasn't much we could do. We kept our eyes out for her, we knew who she was. We never did see her again.

My night didn't end there. Later, right before shift change this kid who looked to be about 9 to 11 years old walks in. He was looking for some gum. Banana shows him where it is and walks away. The kid walks up to my counter buys the gum and leaves. I noticed the kid had something on his lip, but honestly I didn't care enough to think about what it was. After he left Cuffs says to me, was that kid chewing? Banana walks over and she goes yea I noticed that too, i think he was. I was standing there in shock, what he had in his mouth and what was on his lip was chewing tobacco! The kid was at least 9 years old! What is happening in this world? Is this what our parents and especially our grandparents think when they see all the kids my age doing drugs and smoking? Has the next generation already started on these bad habits and I am actually noticing it? I cant help but wonder about this young guy, if he is chewing tobacco what are the chances he is smoking cigs or maybe worse? What else does this 9 year old and all his friends do?

That night was a window that I have never really looked through before. I was shocked by what I saw. It was clear as day, not frost diluting my sight, no steam blocking my view. This is what is really happening in the world. I can imagine what it will look like in 10 year.

An ADVENTURE to remember

Last week I had the time of my life. I spent 4ish days with Fa^1 And when I say I spent four days with her I mean four days and nights. We hardly slept there was too much to be done! For weeks we had been planning a time line of what we would do while she was visiting. And for the most part we kinda stuck to it! But then did a million more things! One of my favorite parts was when we were headed to the Garland to see a movie but got so lost and found this cute little place called polka dot pottery. When we pulled into a parking spot a guy was just getting into his car, he had a huge smile on his face and he was so excited to be getting his pottery back. I think it was that moment that we knew we were going to do it for real! There we sat for like what 3 or 4 hours painting pottery! It was tons of fun, and so random. We made some friends there with other people painting, and tomorrow I am picking up our beautiful peices of art!

We went on many mini adventures. Picking a random road and going wherever it takes us. One road led us to an indian reservation, we later found out that where we were was not safe? I guess the tribes start doing odd things this time of the month, and us driving around that early in the morning was not safe lol. But out in the middle of theb boonies all they had was bars and pubs, or and a post office lol.

We ate asparagus at 3 in the morning, we had a psych marathon (I will never be the same), we got super lost ALL the time! We went to Houston lol we had a blast. we had chinese food, we went to jack in the box, we hardly slept, yet we slept a lot. Things were great, it was so comfortable. OMG we went to Idaho! We went shopping, I bought sunglasses, we got grills! We played monopoly at 2. We bought skulls, we ran with statues, we gazed at the stars, we saw a SHOOTING STAR! we wished, we dreamed. We talked, we planned. We, I will never forget those four days.

BB

Beverage Barn! AMAZING. One night it was very late, we were lost in Idaho and saw a sign for the Beverage Barn. Milk was on sale! Now what type of place is this, a beverage barn, where milk is on sale? Sounds interesting we decided another day we would have to take an adventure day and visit. SO what did I spend my afternoon doing yesterday? Thats right, we went to the beverage barn! Are your interests peaked? Are you dieing to know what this "Beverage Barn" is? Well I will tell you now. It is a barn, that you drive through! You drive through and on the inside it is like a convenience store. You can buy beer and wine, soda, milk, juice, donuts, chips, anything you can get at a 711 basically. Only you drive into it! And some guy stands theree and asks what you want, then he runs and grabs it, brings it to you, you pay him and drive away! It was intense. I took a couple pics to illustrate its amazingness!

Stanwood Sorority

I discovered that I belong to the Stanwood sorority lol and who knew there was one!

Today this lady comes in and made the comment "time to hit the road again" I asked, oh where are you going? She replied, "Montana" I was all like well your almost there! And then she was like yea well we are coming from Stanwood.

Uhm so yea. I think my jaw dropped to the ground and the high squeal pitch that escaped my lips might have cracked a few windows. But it wasn't just me squealing, when I finally was able to get the words "I'm a Stanwood girl" out of my mouth the both of us were happy go lucky. After exchanging hugs and names to see who we knew from each others families we had it all settled. We had common friends and we are pretty sure we know each others families. She left with a smile on her face, and I walked away knowing that she was going to stop by on her way back through to Stanwood. Possibly might be grabbing a ride with them LOL. It had to have been the most exciting five minutes all day!

A woman who takes control

That's me! Apparently. I went down the the regular gas side, and told a line of about a million that if they did not need fuel outside I could help them down at the other register. One guy moves down, but stops at the cash register that is closed I say to him "oh go down farther" Which leads to me turning extremely red after realizing what it came out as, I said again "No sorry I just need you down here" I am just not helping my case here. The guy is standing there laughing at me and I finally just say, "please could you move over to this cash register!" And he did. But not without poking some fun at me first. I found out this guy likes to be "dominated" and he likes a bossy woman like me. Hmm. Thanks?

A goat and a pig... AT LEAST

Momalo, if a man comes to Camano and tries to buy me for his son, please don't settle for anything less then a goat and a pig.I feel I am worth more then that!

Banana calls me Sunday night. "Hey want to go to balkars restaurant? He is singing?" I said oh sure sounds like fun. When we get there though I find out that Banana lied to me! It was his sons wedding reception! Because they are Hindu it was (What I am guessing) a very traditional Indian wedding. The females were all in their fancy outfits (with amazing shoes!) and the guys all had their little outfits on and they were separated by sex. There was traditional homemade food there. I tried one of everything, I like some of it. But I did not like this round ball thing, ( I am led to believe it was a testicle from a pig) Banana and I split that one, she took it back out of her mouth but I had no where to put my half, I was forced to put it down my throat! YUCKY. We tried to leave after all of this, But balkar insisted we stay till the bride and groom had been fed and danced. Banana and I fed the bride and groom, it was awkward. Then everyone got up to do some dancing, We enjoyed watching them, and loved the music so we were having lots of fun! This guy next to me keeps telling me we should go dance I kept saying no no I don't know how. Eventually he grabs on to me and pulls me into all the people, I reach back and grab Banana, there is no way I am going in without her! So there were are, the only white people, and two girls in the middle of a bunch of men. They formed a circle around us and cheered us on, they even started throwing dollar bills at us!! We kept trying to get out of the circle but they kept pushing us back in. We escaped but not for long, we were pulled back onto the dance floor, back with the men. That is until balkar told us that we needed to dance with the ladies and not them men. So Banana and I are farely certain that we were claimed as sluts (especially cause of the money throwing thing) or if not we have marriages arranged for us, or we are married to like six guys each. We don't really know.

We left with smiles on our face. It was the most random evening ever! But definitely something I will remember for the rest of my life. It was odd being in a situation where I was the minority for once, and where the majority of the people around us didn't speak English. It was just a different experience and as humiliating as it was at times it definitely goes down in my books as AMAZING!

I 90

Keith Wann, WOW. A four hour trip, five girls. It took us eight hours to get to Seattle. Traveling along we made a friend, in a white mini van. I believe my words as he passed me were "oh HELL no a mini van is NOT going to pass me" and sure enough we won that little game. Till Emily had to stop... for the first time. Getting back on the road we continued our adventure with lots of junk food, including chocolate, chips, Dr. Pepper and loads of energy drinks. All hyped up and headin west. Every semi-truck we passed we made it our goal to get them to honk for us, I think we only came across one truck that didn't participate. I mean really how could the not honk for 5 sexy mamacitas!!?? We found our selves some hot guys in a car next to us and made it our goal to not let them pass. and oh BOY we won!! We kept passing signs saying "I90 closed" but I refused to believe it was true. Sure enough though the signs told the truth and we were parked on I90 for 5 hours. But it might sound horrible, it was anything but that. The guys we would not let pass were right behind us and they happen to have a football with them. There we were in the field between east and west bound traffic tossing a football around. Remember now... lots of energy drinks meant some passengers needed to find a restroom. All of a sudden we see Becca and Lauren booking it across the east bound freeway! Becca ran out right in front of a semi-truck! Laughing the rest of us took off to try and find them, on the way making lots of friends with people just sitting on the road. One of our best friends was the gentleman parked right in front of us, he offered us some chips and was kinda creepy staring at us while we played Frisbee... but Yea. Traffic started moving, but this guy needed help jumping his car, so like good Samaritans we helped!

On the road again, we go maybe five miles and get stuck. Emily is on the run for a bathroom, and after not being able to find one she pops a squat on the bridge and does her business!! LMAO We decide to go for a little walk and see how far we make it while traffic is stopped. We make more friends along the way and we run into the friendly guy that had been in front of us before "hey ladies!!" he shouts at us! It was like a family reunion. We really bonded. Finally make it over the pass, make it to Seattle with just over an hour to spare.

Keith Wann was amazing!! Jordan went on stage with him and shook her booty! LOL she danced with him it was super funny and cool to see her up there. After the show we all got back in the car and got ready to make the journey home, But first we needed to do a couple Chinese fire drills! Which was humorous cause Becca was certain we were being robbed and for some reason were all jumping out of the car... the second time went much more smooth, even Lauren was able to get out without tripping on my purse!

On the way home we stopped to get a flashlight, attempted to see the horses but apparently there was something in the bushes? I don't know where I was for this part.... But I ran with them lol. We finally made it home, I think it was 4 by the time I was in my apartment. It was an exhausting trip but tons of fun! Number 2 is coming soon!!!