5 Things That Drive Me Crazy: Living in a College Town Edition

While watching my hometown college team play football last night, I realized exactly what I needed to do for my 5 Things That Drive Me Crazy list.

 Traffic- My boss actually let everyone leave early yesterday so that we could actually get home and avoid the game day traffic. I literally live 2 minutes away from the stadium, and no matter what time the game is, you cannot avoid traffic on game day. If the game is at 7:00 p.m., they start tailgating at 7:00 a.m. So on game days, its pretty much a known fact that you are stuck in the house unless you are attending. Not to mention that they actually reroute traffic everywhere and make it convenient for the people going to the stadium. The people just trying to get to the grocery store? Yeah, no such luck. Pizza places even refuse to deliver on games days.

Out of Towners- It's not that I hate people from other states/countries. I just hate that they don't know where they are going and slow down traffic impossibly more.

Extra Cops- Because of all the traffic and the thousands and thousands of students who pile into our small town every year, cops are plentiful. DUI checkpoints are set up all the time, which is awesome because I'm completely against DUI, but when you are just trying to get home from work, being stopped at a check point sucks!

Expensive Booze- College students drink. A lot. Our bar and club owners are very aware of that fact. If you go downtown, you can easily spend $6 on a beer. If you go five minutes out of city limits, you can get a beer for $2.50. Only problem is...the bars and clubs downtown are so much better.

Noise- On game days, I can hear the stadium noises. Crowds cheering, occasional fireworks, the announcers on the loud speaker, the music. It's kinda cool, unless you are trying to sleep, then its just annoying.

Thankfully, beginning Saturday, Boyfriend and I will be living in a very quiet neighborhood, 20 miles away from the stadium. I bet I'll enjoy game days a lot more.

Who was naked?

Before I start with the poll results and Giggle Button winner, I have to recommend this to you guys.

Pink Ray Gun is offering awesome pumpkin carving templates. Like this one...

Vampire Bill from True Blood

Go check it out. If at least five of you email me photos of your carved pumpkins, I will share them on here. I know Boyfriend and I plan to carve next week, so you'll be seeing my pumpkins anyways. May as well make a whole post out of it! :)

Anyways...last week's poll was "How many articles of clothing are you wearing?"

Here are the results...

Out of 31 voters, 13 had on 1-3 articles of clothing, 10 had on 4-5, and 5 had on 6 or more. I find it disturbing/awesome that 3 of you read my blog while you were naked. Thanks to everyone that participated.

So for this week, the poll is "Which celebrity do you think gets the most lady lovin'?"

Also, Jess won the Giggle Button contest and has chosen one of her favorite blogs to fill this week's spot. Go click to find out! The question she answered was...

In The Big Lebowski, what is the main character's favorite drink?
Answer: White Russian

Happy Thursday! (One more day 'til Friday. I can do this.)

Support System

I've made a decision.

I am going to quit smoking.

Someone told me that the first step to quitting is to tell everyone you know that you are going to quit. So here I am, telling all of you and asking you to help me out.

I started smoking when I was 15 years old. Not even old enough to buy a pack of cigs, but I did steal them from my mom. And it wasn't hard getting away with it. It's going on ten years. That's much to long to be inhaling the poison into my lungs. I'm done with it.

Positive feedback is much appreciated.

P.S. There is a good chance over the next couple of weeks that posts may be quite angry. I get very mean when I have no nicotine. Boyfriend has been warned.


UPDATE: I installed a Quit Smoking Meter at the bottom of my page. It actually tells me how much money I'll be saving. So after a month of not smoking, I'm buying myself something pretty with the money that I've saved. Thank you all again for your support.

Wee Bit Wednesday

I usually write my posts the night before posting day, so for the Wee Bits of Me Wednesdays with Leigh Ashley, I will more than likely being doing the prior week's questions. I'm also very impatient and don't want to wait for this week's new questions before posting. :)

{one} grilled or fried?

Grilled. Fried food is yummy, but I can hear my arteries clogging while I eat it.

{two} if you could change one thing about where you live, without worrying about money, what would you change?

I would buy the house that sits on the property, tear it down and build a new one. I love the new place, but it is old. The property however is amazing.

{three} what is your favorite time of day?

5:15 p.m. That's what time I get home from work and I love knowing that I have the rest of the evening to do whatever I want.

{four} what’s your favorite cereal?

Fruit Loops.

{five} do you open your mouth when you put mascara on?

Of course! I don't think women know how to put mascara on with their mouths closed :)

{six} if you could make any fictional character come to life, which would it be?

Wow. Hmm. Probably Genie from Aladdin.

{seven} what are your favorite pizza toppings?

Ham and pineapple.

{eight} are you a heavy or a light sleeper?

Very light. Any little noise wakes me up.

{nine} what is your favorite board game?

Monopoly!

{ten} what star/celebrity do most people say you look like?

Um, no one ever really says that to me. So I have no clue.

Man Purse

Boyfriend asked me where his flash drive was yesterday. I told him it was in my purse and he huffed and puffed and went digging through the “great black hole.” (His words, not mine.) He finally found it and then demanded that I clean out my purse because he doesn’t “see how I can find a damn thing in that suitcase.” And I said, “Well you obviously found your flash drive, so it can’t be that hard. And I can find everything just fine.” Then he said, “I saw like five things in there that were mine. Please clean it out and give me my stuff back.”


So I pouted a little and finally broke down and started going through my purse. I found some interesting items.

1 bottle of Excedrin Migraine
1 bottle of very good pain pills (left over from surgery)
1 bottle of Vitamin B tabs
1 bottle of Dramamine (for that motion sickness I was telling ya’ll about)
1 empty wallet
1 empty wristlet
1 Pokemon walker (totally his, I don’t even know how it got in there)
1 empty cigarette pack
1 IPhone charger (his, I don’t even have an IPhone )
1 Nook charger
1 Copy of our newly signed lease
3 empty packs of birth control
4 Unpaid bills
4 tubes of chapstick
6 lighters
134,234 (approximately of course) crumbled up receipts

This doesn’t even include the necessities that were in there, like a full pack of cigarettes, check book, occupied wallet, lip gloss, car keys, etc. But since at least two of the things in my purse were his, I told him he was the reason my purse was so junked up and that I absolutely needed every single thing that was in there. He didn’t buy it, but who cares. It’s my purse and I’ll trash it if I want to. Then he went on to say, “I don’t understand why you spend hundreds of dollars on purses just to put a bunch of trash in them.” and I said, “I don’t understand how guys don’t carry purses. I’m getting you a man purse for Christmas.” His eyes got really big and he said, “You.Will.Not.” I so am. But he can’t carry it while I’m with him, because that would just be embarrassing.

 
DON'T FORGET! I have a very important question to ask you!

In the movie The Big Lebowski, what is the main character's favorite drink?

Whoever answers first will get to choose who goes on the Giggle Button on Thursday. Winner will be congratulated Thursday along with the poll results.

Game on ;)

Stop it Disney

I didn't have work this morning and I was soooooo excited to sleep in.  Well at 6:30 this morning, my wonderful little dog/son woke me up with a cold nose in the face. He had to go outside. I dragged my butt out of bed and took him out with every intention of going back to sleep.

Well, that didn't work. I always, always sleep with the T.V. on and when I laid back down, Dumbo was on.

I tried not to watch it, I really did, but ten minutes into it, I started crying. That movie gets me every freakin' time. The whole thing is sad except for like 20 minutes of it. And I'm not talking about tears were rolling down my cheeks and I was wiping them away silently. No, I was full on crying, sniffling, and making weird little whining noises. And I couldn't stop watching because I just had to see the happy ending after all those tears!

Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped and started wiping my eyes quickly. Boyfriend sat up quickly and was like, "Baby? What's wrong? What happened?"

And I said in between sobs, "Dumbo's mom got put into solitary confinement."

He looked at me like I'd grown a second head, but then being the good boyfriend that he is, he just hugged me while I cried into his shoulder.

I was blubbering and complaining through tears and I know he couldn't understand a word I was saying, but it was something like this, "Disney is so awful. They killed Bambi's mom, killed Simba's dad, left Cinderella without parents and with a mean step-family, Little Mermaid didn't have a mom. Why do they have to make everything so sad?"

He just kept shushing me and finally went back to sleep. I've been up every since deciding on whether or not to write Disney a letter and ask them to stop depressing me. I'm pretty sure they are in cahoots with the anti-depressant companies. Disney gets a portion of every profit they get from kids that need to be put on meds because of Dumbo.

Internet Scavenger Hunt

Someone is getting tagged! A few someone's actually, in an internet scavenger hunt.

Here are the rules.

1. Tell everyone who tagged you.
2. Find and post each item on the list.
3. Tag 7 other blogs.
4. Notify each blogger that was tagged.

Well, I'm starting this so no one tagged me. I'm just hoping ya'll will keep it going!

And the list is as follows...

1. Your favorite You Tube video.


I don't know why, but I love this video. I guess maybe because I wish I could do it.
2. A photo that will make everyone say "awwwwe."

3. A funny t-shirt.

4. Something geeky.

Boomer from Left 4 Dead

5. A link or photo to your favorite movie.

6. A link to the newest blog you've discovered.

Freckles and Fudge

7. A photo of something on your wish list.

Penguin nesting dolls. How adorable.

And the 7 blogs that I'm choosing to tag and start this scavenger hunt are...

It's a Big Deal, It Is to Me
O is Me
Just Another Avenue
Cynicism Isn't an Option- It's a Lifestyle
[[my MUSEings]]
This and That
Canadian Blogger Girl