Because I Haven't Been Around To Tell You.....

I'm really trying to get pictures up for you guys, but I don't seem to have the proper lighting to get good pictures of the pieces.  I need to go get some better lighting tomorrow when I get paid.  I promise they're coming though...

What else has been going on?  Well lots I guess, work is keeping me busy doing things that have nothing to do with my job title.  They're not great things, stuffing Thanksgiving cards, tearing apart old computers, designing fliers for our customers, bullshit like that.  It helps break up the monotony of my "real" job, so I'm down for whatever.

Those of you who have seen my Facebook posts lately are very aware that I have something personal going on right now, but I don't really want to talk about it.  Let's just say it's been a major setback in what I would have considered an otherwise good last month or so.  Oh well, we all get what we deserve in the end, ya know?  The final result of all of it boiled down to, people that I thought were my friends apparently aren't.  Tara and I haven't talked in weeks (for what reason, I have no clue she's just been an incredible bitch since the Halloween party) and when she found out about my weekend from Nicole, who only knew because it involved my sister (who lives with her) picking me up at the police station at 5am, she blabbed to all of our coworkers what was, I'm sure, an incorrect story.  Wow, that was the longest run-on sentence in history......

Anyway, I've spent the last couple of days doing damage control at work and trying to win the war against her and her new leader, who is quite possibly one of the shadiest bitches I've ever met.   I've honestly never seen Tara as such a weak fucking person.  I guess it just goes to show that even someone you've known for 15+ years will turn their back on you for a man who has brainwashed them.  Nicole is no better.  She's a fucking follower to the max.  It's ridiculous.  Her and Tara have banded against me.  At this point, I really don't care.  I'm over all of it.  If they think that them not being friends with me is going to hurt me, they need to rethink that.  Am I sad?  Well yeah, they're supposed to be my closest friends.  I've truly learned who my real friends are over the last couple of weeks and consider myself lucky to have people like them in my life.  Tara and Nicole are as toxic to me as I was them and it's probably for the best these friendships have gone on hiatus.  I've also had to get rid of a bunch of other people on Facebook this week because once I blocked a couple of people, everyone was scurrying around trying to see if I was writing anything about them.  Directly, I wasn't.  Broadly, I was, but you all know me and my writing style by now.  I can be as broad as a barn if I want to.

Enough with all that.  The good stuff that happened last week?  Well, I found out my friend Chip is coming in town over the Christmas holiday from Arkansas, so we're planning on LOADS of fun.  Also, I got to go to the Ohio State/Penn State game last Saturday.  Although it ended poorly for my team, it was a good time.  I got to hang out with my friend Drew, who was in town to party and even though the night ended poorly, all around it was an awesome day.

What else?.....  Jewelry sales are going freaking awesome.  I might not have to get a second job after all if I can just manage this until Christmas.  I've got two parties booked the first week in December which will easily net me $500 a piece.  I just need to steadily keep working on more pieces and stop letting my mom snag them before anyone else gets a chance.  It's hard to turn her down though because that's cash in hand right then.....

I think that's about it right now.  I've got to get back to work, but felt like I needed to get this out here since Curious was asking what the heck was going on.  Have a great Thirsty Thursday everyone :)

Halloween 2010

I thought that inviting like 80 people to our party was a bit much.  That was my half of the invites.  I created the event on Facebook and added Tara as an administrator thinking that she would only add a few more people to the list since we have so many friends in common.  The next thing I know the list was over 200 people long.  What.The.Fuck?  Anyone who has been around us knows that Tara's house is 900 square feet.  Her garage, before they built the room out there, was the size of her house.  Even 100 people in these two areas was going to be ridiculous.  The week leading up to the party, I was both excited and terrified about what could happen.  Our parties get out of hand when there are 20 people there, I could only imagine what would happen if even half the people on the list came.

I was stressed about a Halloween costume.  I knew which one I wanted, but I wasn't happy with the way it fit.  Basically it was spandex.  Ugh...  I tried on a bunch of different costumes and didn't find one that I really liked.  Tara was being the same way.  We were a hot mess.  The funny thing was, this is the same thing that happened last year.  We suck when it comes to things like this.  I finally tried on the first costume I liked, but in a bigger size and decided that it fit well enough for me to buy.

Not the greatest picture, but you get the point.  Tara decided on Amy Winehouse and it was pretty hilarious.

Here are some other pictures that I thought were pretty good.  Some people dressed up, some didn't.  We didn't really care, we just wanted to have a good time....

 This is Chuck as Boner Boy... Yes, he was wearing a strap-on....

 Tim lighting his fingertips on fire instead of a lighter.  Tara's lucky her wig didn't go up in flames...

 Me being retarded.....

 Me with the zombie & Jim Morrison

My friend Tasha with all of her little boy's nightmares...

Did we surpass our record of 65 people last year?  No, sadly we didn't.  Did we have a good time?  Yes.  Well I did until Nicole, Guy and my friend who I haven't seen since high school, John, took off in my car.  It was late, like 2:00 when they left to go get more beer and didn't come back forever.  I was pissed because I wanted to leave the party.  Brian had texted me and wanted me to come out to his house.  Being as I haven't seen him in awhile, I wanted to go, plus, the party was winding down anyway.  For whatever reason, it was almost 3 by the time they got back and I was throwing a HUGE fit.  I grabbed my keys from Guy and stormed out the door.

I went home, changed clothes and headed out to BFE.  Brian lives out in a place city folk would call the country.  Those of us who have lived in the country would just call it a housing development 5 miles from ANYTHING.  I get there and he's not even there.  I text him and he pulls into the driveway along with 3 other cars full of people.  Great....  I'm in sweats because I was under the impression this was a booty call and I could get mine and go to bed.  Not so much....  I sit on the kitchen counter talking to people I haven't seen in ages drinking directly out of a vodka bottle.  People come and go and I'm not really concerned with it until one person walks in.  

Let me just say this, it's not that I don't want people to know that I associate with Brian.  There are just people I would prefer didn't know that I hang out with him, unless it's going to be that we're in a relationship.  Mikey F would be one of those people.  As soon as he walked in the door, I knew word would get out quicker than I could blink.  Especially the way Brian was hanging on me.  Fuck.  Mikey made a beeline directly to me and started talking about how he hadn't seen me in forever, asking a million questions, while at the same time eying back and forth suspiciously between me and Brian.  Unsatisfied with the way I was answering his questions, he moved off to talk to other people.  I looked at Brian, took one last swig of the vodka and told him I was going to bed, walking my drunk tired ass to the basement.

He sleeps in the basement, so you never have any idea what time it is.  When I woke up Sunday morning, I was confused.  I knew where I was, but had no concept of what time it could possibly be.  When I finally found my phone I saw that it was 11.  I needed to get home with a quickness.  I grabbed all of my stuff and out the door I went.  A couple of hours later he texted me telling me he was sad that once again I left before he woke up.  Isn't that how it's supposed to go though?  I mean, we had a good thing there for awhile and he wasn't interested in it being a relationship, so now it's just sex.  Why would I stay and make it awkward in the morning????

Yeah, I Know.......

I suck.  I owe you the writeup from the Halloween party and to fill ya in on what's been going on with me.  Sorry I've been MIA for the last week or so, but I've actually had to be (gasp) working while at work.  WTF?  It happens I suppose.  Hey, who doesn't want to get paid 20some dollars an hour to stuff Thanksgiving cards, right?  Fun shit for sure.....

Anyway, there hasn't been too much going on here lately.  Since I wrote the post last week about the jewelry, that's pretty much all I've been doing.  I'm really going to try and get some pictures of pieces taken tonight so that y'all can see them, even though they're flying out of my possession at an almost alarming rate.  It's kind of nice because I'm actually getting caught up on some of the behind bills, plus I'm not going out every night and spending money I really don't have.

Other than that, I've been pretty boring.  There aren't really any guys making too much of an effort to hang these days and quite honestly, I don't have time to chase them around right now.  In the last week or so I've hung out with Brian a couple of times, went and picked up Guy from Cincinnati to come to the Halloween party, and oddly enough even after I kicked him out of my car a couple of weeks ago, Saturday night I went out with Josh and we actually had a good time.  Weird.....

That's about it for right now.  I promise that I'm going to catch up on everyone's blogs today and am working on the post from Halloween right now.  Oh yeah, and I've gained a couple of new followers, WELCOME TO THE MADNESS PEOPLE!!!!