And there it is. In a manner of about 60 seconds I went from feeling moderately secure in my new home and apartment building to being more than just a little paranoid now.
Everybody has at least one. That odd neighbor who's just a little too friendly, and says odd things at first meeting that makes them seem instantly sketchy. Mine, I met a few minuets ago.
On our side of the apartment building, there are only 6 apartments, two on each of the three floors. On the lowest one the laundry room entrance sits between the two apartment doors. Up until now there have only been 3 residents on our side, both apartments on our floor, and the people above us. Now someone has moved into one of the units on the first floor.
I'm sure he's a very nice guy, and I am probably going to hell for making an assumption about somebody I know absolutely nothing about, and I'm not really assuming anything, but I have instantly been put on my guard. He fits that stereotypical creeper. A larger, balding man in his 40's, glasses and an accent that sounds like it's mixed and he could be from the Russian area of the world and from Europe all at once. He was chatty and pleasant but said things and asked questions that's seemed to be just a little too nosy for a simple passing in the laundry greeting chat. And it was those questions, as well as how he presented himself that put me immediately on my guard.
The stereotype description I could care less about, as I know very very well, nobody can judge a book y it's cover. But when he asked if I lived alone (he saw me with a only an hour before), or if I had children, when we weren't even getting that chatty int he first place it just made me uncomfortable. I instantly went from feeling perfectly ok with leaving my apt door unlocked when I'm home alone (like I can do back home in Minnesota) to locking it as soon as I got back into the apartment where Jay was waiting for me. And you can ask him, I would rather leave it unlocked out of habits from growing up, yanno? It takes a lot to make me THAT uncomfortable.
I really really hope he was just trying to get to know his neighbors, and that I really have nothing to worry about but for an overly friendly down stair's neighbor. I am going to keep an open mind here, without ignoring my own safety. I will still stay on my guard more than normal for a while... even if I wanted to, I couldn't stop myself from doing that I don't think.
I know that's not a byproduct of my upbringing in a bad location. When I was little I lived in a very safe place where my dad could call for me out the back door and from a block and a half away he could hear me call back that I was coming, very Leave it to Beaver esque. We only locked our doors at night back then...except for Christmas Eve. We left the back door unlocked for Santa. There aren't very many places like that now days. When I eventually have kids, I really do want to be able to move to a place much like the location I grew up in. It's a far hope with how our society is but I can still, in fact, hope.
I'm getting off topic here though. The being on my guard, I think, is still part of my upbringing. My daddy, and my momma, my grandfather's and grandmothers taught me, and all of us in my family... the boys as much as the women...we can't be too careful. We are to never think or say "Oh it can't happen to me." Because the chances are it can and will. It's something that lies dormant in me, waiting to spring to the forefront to help protect me. It's always there in my subconscious, I'm always looking around myself when I'm alone in public. In my purse I keep a knife that once belonged to my grandfather, still as sharp now as the day my Daddy passed it on to me. When I leave work alone at night, my keys remain firmly between my fingers as makeshift self defense weapons, as told to me by my father.
I don't want to assume anybody is a creeper or worse, but at the same time, you really can't be too safe. There are so many untrustworthy people in this world, and its really a shame that I have to feel as though I need that knife in my purse or that one extra glance around the parking lot. I should be able to feel safe in my own apartment building when we have a locked and key code controlled front and back door in the general access. *sighs*
Those days are gone I suppose, but I hope that's only for now. I hope that one day, things will get better, even if it's just better to the degree it was when I was a kid. I guess there isn't much more to say on this subject. I'm going to continue watching my back and locking my door, until I can get to know our new neighbor better. I sincerely hope my first impression was just off due to an over eagerness to get to know a new neighbor. :)
Monday, November 7, 2011
Silly Things
I am bored, so here are some cute, funny, and generally amusing images I stole from my sister and other random places on the net :) Apologies for bad sizing it wouldn't let me re-size it all properly, but bah, whatever. I hope these still make you smile.
Can't Sleep
A lots been going on lately. I haven't had a moments rest between the move, going back home for my birthday, and work. I've been going non-stop. This past Friday was my literal first day off from doing anything at all, and I spent it and Saturday just trying to relax as well as work some more of our moving boxes and get our new home unpacked. Friday I slept so amazingly well, but last night and tonight, I can't sleep well at all. I'm tired and exhausted, and I just want to sleep! I only want rest, why on Earth is that so difficult? I'm in tears over this, I'm so so so tired, so sleepy why can't I just have this one small thing?
At least Jay is sleeping well. People seem to think that he doesn't do anything because he's out of work right now but really, he does a lot. For example, we're at only one vehicle, right now, mine. And I'm nice enough to share it with him and his mother. Poor Jay. In any one day he could make up to 8 back and forth trips just bringing me and his mom to work, and she works 3 jobs, rarely does she not work 2 in one day. If Jay get really lucky it's only 5 back and forth trips in a day and that's only if she and I both start or end or respective jobs at the mall at the same time.
On top of all of that running around, he still makes trips to the grocery store for us, he's putting in applications for jobs, and he's also car hunting as well! Many people don't realize it, but job hunting is in fact a full time job in and of itself. Especially in this economy. I know, I've been there, I was out of work for over a year and believe me, it sucks. It took months and months of constant applications to get even a single interview let alone an actual job. And the longer you're out of work, the harder it is to FIND work. Add to that the constant rejection, or "well call you back and let you know either way" bullshit when you never get a call back, etc. It all adds up and it just makes you want to give up. It all takes a huge and massive toll on you mentally and emotionally. It really hits your self confidence hard, which in turn can make it even harder to get up and get out job hunting.
I'm really proud of Jay though! He's not letting all this get to him. Sometimes it does, but that's how it is with everyone. Jay's hitting the apps really hard. He WANTS to work and he'll take about any job he can find! He's trying so hard and doing so much in between. I'm so proud of him! I'm really glad at least he's asleep right now and sleeping well. He needs it too. So at least one of us is well rested.
On another note, my big sister is having a baby. She's due in December. I'm really excited, I can't wait to go home for the birth. We were talking tonight, about how the both of us really think that the baby will be born early. It's a girl by the way. I am not the god mother, one of my best friends, April, is. And I'm really excited about it. So is Ape. She's really excited to be an Aunt/Godmother. And I know she's going to take as good care of this little girl and spoil her as rotten as I spoil Aurorah and Leo. April is going to be a really great god mother!
I'm really honored that Riss wants me to be there to cut the cord. She's not with the dad.. he's a douche, I won't get into too much details but lets leave it at they were really good friends from high school. They had a one nighter just for fun, he lied about the condom, and then jackassed his way into the dickwad hall of fame. Lets just say he ate a bowl of stupid every morning for breakfast.
As it is, my mom has been the one that's been there for Riss the entire time, been going to all the appointments, all the birthing classes, everything. I would have thought that would be reason enough to ask our mom to do it. But when I...in complete awe by the way...why me, she simply replied with "Who else would I ask to do it?"
Honored, that's all I can say about that. I am going to do every possible thing in my power to be there for my sister and that baby girl.
So yeah, I guess that's about it. I feel hungry all of the sudden. I'm just sitting here, doing nothing, watching the same Family Guy epps on Adult Swim that I watched earlier tonight, and wishing I could sleep. Not even my Valerian is working tonight...damn it.
Well good night everyone. I love you all, see you on the flip side!
At least Jay is sleeping well. People seem to think that he doesn't do anything because he's out of work right now but really, he does a lot. For example, we're at only one vehicle, right now, mine. And I'm nice enough to share it with him and his mother. Poor Jay. In any one day he could make up to 8 back and forth trips just bringing me and his mom to work, and she works 3 jobs, rarely does she not work 2 in one day. If Jay get really lucky it's only 5 back and forth trips in a day and that's only if she and I both start or end or respective jobs at the mall at the same time.
On top of all of that running around, he still makes trips to the grocery store for us, he's putting in applications for jobs, and he's also car hunting as well! Many people don't realize it, but job hunting is in fact a full time job in and of itself. Especially in this economy. I know, I've been there, I was out of work for over a year and believe me, it sucks. It took months and months of constant applications to get even a single interview let alone an actual job. And the longer you're out of work, the harder it is to FIND work. Add to that the constant rejection, or "well call you back and let you know either way" bullshit when you never get a call back, etc. It all adds up and it just makes you want to give up. It all takes a huge and massive toll on you mentally and emotionally. It really hits your self confidence hard, which in turn can make it even harder to get up and get out job hunting.
I'm really proud of Jay though! He's not letting all this get to him. Sometimes it does, but that's how it is with everyone. Jay's hitting the apps really hard. He WANTS to work and he'll take about any job he can find! He's trying so hard and doing so much in between. I'm so proud of him! I'm really glad at least he's asleep right now and sleeping well. He needs it too. So at least one of us is well rested.
On another note, my big sister is having a baby. She's due in December. I'm really excited, I can't wait to go home for the birth. We were talking tonight, about how the both of us really think that the baby will be born early. It's a girl by the way. I am not the god mother, one of my best friends, April, is. And I'm really excited about it. So is Ape. She's really excited to be an Aunt/Godmother. And I know she's going to take as good care of this little girl and spoil her as rotten as I spoil Aurorah and Leo. April is going to be a really great god mother!
I'm really honored that Riss wants me to be there to cut the cord. She's not with the dad.. he's a douche, I won't get into too much details but lets leave it at they were really good friends from high school. They had a one nighter just for fun, he lied about the condom, and then jackassed his way into the dickwad hall of fame. Lets just say he ate a bowl of stupid every morning for breakfast.
As it is, my mom has been the one that's been there for Riss the entire time, been going to all the appointments, all the birthing classes, everything. I would have thought that would be reason enough to ask our mom to do it. But when I...in complete awe by the way...why me, she simply replied with "Who else would I ask to do it?"
Honored, that's all I can say about that. I am going to do every possible thing in my power to be there for my sister and that baby girl.
So yeah, I guess that's about it. I feel hungry all of the sudden. I'm just sitting here, doing nothing, watching the same Family Guy epps on Adult Swim that I watched earlier tonight, and wishing I could sleep. Not even my Valerian is working tonight...damn it.
Well good night everyone. I love you all, see you on the flip side!
Saturday, October 22, 2011
New Apartment
Jay and I are so exhausted. We're sleeping out of our skulls. I personally was on the go nonstop from for 10 hours with no rest till about half an hour ago. That's when I promptly collapsed and let my sleepiness overtake me. One of the things we did today was move a bunch of stuff into the apartment. I also took video of it for you all to get a great walk-through for it! That's really the only reason for this post, so here is the video, enjoy it and I'll write later!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Ugh,
In my post yesterday I mentioned a few stories from work. So I got one for ya now. At my store almost everyone is a member of the management team. We have two girls who are regular associates. One is a new seasonal girl. She's really sweet, and nice I like her. She's only 16. The other is a girl who is 19 and has been with the company on and off for two years. I'll call her Maria. She's a really nice girl, and we chat about a lot of things. But she likes to try and see what she can get away with with the girls in management. She doesn't try to pull shit with our store manager, but there is another third key who will order her around so she doesn't do much with her. The thing with Maria is that you need to just be polite. If you ask nicely or say "for me" make it sound like a favor she'll jump right one it.
So yesterday, our boss was on her break. I was manager on duty. I was busy with some paperwork behind the counter. The other 3rd key that was there was busy ringing up customers. Maria was standing near her, doing nothing. See her greet a customer in a tie dye shirt that had just come in and come near us, but it was a half assed greeting. A few moments later I look up and the store is suddenly PACKED and Maria is still doing nothing. No one had been greeted, or anything and i was still busy. I looked over to her and nicely said, "Maria, why don't you go and pass out baskets and greet customers."
The girl blatantly ignored me. She stood there, looked right at me, then slowly and casually moved only her head, looking around the store. She then grabbed a single basket, and slowly walked tot he front of the store and then back again, not speaking to anyone or even offering a basket. She came back to where we'd been standing and I glance up and see the woman in the tie dye shirt with her hands full now. I was pretty annoyed with her at this point because Maria KNOWS better than to half ass it like that. So I told her to go give that lady a basket. And she goes "I already talked to her." That is a BULLSHIT excuse. This pissed me off to no end, so I pulled rank on her, which I've never had to do before. And I was like "Re-approach her! Her hands are now full, give. Her. A. Basket."
She just made me so angry. Re-approaching our customers is pushed really hard in our training and we JUST finished the yearly customer service training. She Knows Better! It pissed me off so bad and made me just so, ARGH! The store was suddenly flooded with customers. I was busy with something I'd been asked to get done, the other manager was busy, Maria knows so much better than that!
All of this took place in about two minuets, at most. She walked over to the lady handed her a basket and walked back just as I finished my paperwork. I told her one more time to go hand out baskets, firmly this time. Then I picked up a handful of baskets, passed EVERY SINGLE ONE OUT and greeted all of my customers before going back for more baskets. It took me all of a minuet to get every customer a basket and greet them properly and see if I could help them with anything.
There is a reason this girl was only hired as an associate and not a manager. Its the first time she's ever ignored me, or anything like that. And I know that she knows procedure better than that too. It made me so mad. y the time the crowd thinned out again my boss returned. I know others have had problems with this girl so I pulled my boss aside and told her what I happened. She was not happy. She punished Maria by putting her in the back room to start on the markdowns.
I enjoy her company at work, she's a nice girl but if she thinks that I won't pull rank on her when I will. She is known to have no motivation of her own unless given a specific task. I've never had a problem with her till now and this was a case of something she specifically knows, and shouldn't have to be asked to do in the first place. Meh.
Anyway that's my venting. I'm off not, ttyl.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
eh, meh
I am so exhausted and tired and sleepy. I don't really have a lot to talk about as of late. We have FINALLY found a new place to move into and we also found a car for Jay. We're both so happy and super excited.
On top of moving and the new car, I get to go home soon for my birthday. I miss everyone SO SO much! I can't wait to see my family again! We'll be home the 28th-1st. I get to party with everyone out on the 29th, earlier that say is my sister's baby shower. On the 30th its just gonna be a chill day, possibly we'll so see a movie. Well we ARE going, to see Puss in Booths that day. I am SO excited to see it! MUWHAHAHAHA! On Halloween, (my birthday) we're going up to the cemetery to visit my grandfather. I was born on his birthday, I miss him so much. My Gamma and Jay and April are going with. I hope my mom and my sister still want to go up there with us too. It would eb nice to have everyone there. We'll have a family dinner that night and run around like lunatics in costumes too.
Jay and I have to come back on November first. It'll be way too short a time to be home. I'm going to be miserable on the way back to Missouri. It won't be long enough to be home. I have no guarantee that Nick and Cass and the kids will for sure be able to come down for thanks giving..and if they can't...I just... I honestly don't know what I'll do. I care more about Halloween and Thanksgiving than any other holiday. I can't go home, and if I can't be with at least a small part of my family I think I'll actually be one of those people who falls into the holiday depression, which sucks, because I'm usually so chipper I love the holiday season. Decorations and the cheer, ect it's so great! I really hope my family can come down for it. Even if we have to celebrate a week early or a week late.
At the early start of Dec. I should (not 100% sure yet but SHOULD) be able to go home for the birth of my new niece! I'm so excited for that! Rory is my little love, but Rissa's baby shall be my Sanggol! That's Filipino for baby, I like the word and how it sounds and it will be my term of endearment for Rissa's baby.
My tired mind if just rambling now. My hours have gone up at work for gossipy reasons that I won't repeat here, but I'm happy about that. More hours means more money, and maybe I won't have to find a second job.
Anyway I have nothing more today A few work stories but I don't feel good, and and so sleepy so those will be posted some other time. Night all, love you all, ttyl!
On top of moving and the new car, I get to go home soon for my birthday. I miss everyone SO SO much! I can't wait to see my family again! We'll be home the 28th-1st. I get to party with everyone out on the 29th, earlier that say is my sister's baby shower. On the 30th its just gonna be a chill day, possibly we'll so see a movie. Well we ARE going, to see Puss in Booths that day. I am SO excited to see it! MUWHAHAHAHA! On Halloween, (my birthday) we're going up to the cemetery to visit my grandfather. I was born on his birthday, I miss him so much. My Gamma and Jay and April are going with. I hope my mom and my sister still want to go up there with us too. It would eb nice to have everyone there. We'll have a family dinner that night and run around like lunatics in costumes too.
Jay and I have to come back on November first. It'll be way too short a time to be home. I'm going to be miserable on the way back to Missouri. It won't be long enough to be home. I have no guarantee that Nick and Cass and the kids will for sure be able to come down for thanks giving..and if they can't...I just... I honestly don't know what I'll do. I care more about Halloween and Thanksgiving than any other holiday. I can't go home, and if I can't be with at least a small part of my family I think I'll actually be one of those people who falls into the holiday depression, which sucks, because I'm usually so chipper I love the holiday season. Decorations and the cheer, ect it's so great! I really hope my family can come down for it. Even if we have to celebrate a week early or a week late.
At the early start of Dec. I should (not 100% sure yet but SHOULD) be able to go home for the birth of my new niece! I'm so excited for that! Rory is my little love, but Rissa's baby shall be my Sanggol! That's Filipino for baby, I like the word and how it sounds and it will be my term of endearment for Rissa's baby.
My tired mind if just rambling now. My hours have gone up at work for gossipy reasons that I won't repeat here, but I'm happy about that. More hours means more money, and maybe I won't have to find a second job.
Anyway I have nothing more today A few work stories but I don't feel good, and and so sleepy so those will be posted some other time. Night all, love you all, ttyl!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
My Niece Bought My Boyfriend From My Mom!
So I am only telling this story because I laughed my ass off when I thought of the title.
When Jay and I had gone home to visit we were all sitting in the living room. My two year old niece Rory found some change on one of the table or the floor or something. A couple of quarters, and what not. All evening my mom had been trying to get it from her "You want your cuppy? Okay but you gotta pay Gramma for that." or "you gotta give me your monies if you want down." Things like that. Each time she'd shake her head and walk away or say "no" and walk off. She would not give up her monies.
So a little later Jay was in the dining room, and she just loves Jay. She went up behind him and hugged the back of his legs "My Jay." and my mom held out her hand again and once more told Rory "You have to pay for him."
Immediately Rory held out her hand walked over to my mom and put the money in her hand before going back over to Jay and grabbing his leg again.
I laughed so hard I had tears. It is one of my favorite stories.
That's it for today's Elixir!
Love you all!!!
When Jay and I had gone home to visit we were all sitting in the living room. My two year old niece Rory found some change on one of the table or the floor or something. A couple of quarters, and what not. All evening my mom had been trying to get it from her "You want your cuppy? Okay but you gotta pay Gramma for that." or "you gotta give me your monies if you want down." Things like that. Each time she'd shake her head and walk away or say "no" and walk off. She would not give up her monies.
So a little later Jay was in the dining room, and she just loves Jay. She went up behind him and hugged the back of his legs "My Jay." and my mom held out her hand again and once more told Rory "You have to pay for him."
Immediately Rory held out her hand walked over to my mom and put the money in her hand before going back over to Jay and grabbing his leg again.
I laughed so hard I had tears. It is one of my favorite stories.
That's it for today's Elixir!
Love you all!!!
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Over A Month
Been a while since I've posted. Since my visit to the ER last month, Jay and I have gone back home to Minnesota. We helped my parents move into their new house and set up plans to move home in October. But that is not going to happen now, as a few complications down here in Missouri have surfaced. So we are putting off the move till things down here are taken care of.
We found out that my sister is having a baby girl. I'm very excited for this. I've already bought the diaper bag, and I was to fill it with some fun things clothes and a few other things she requested on her registry. The baby shower takes place on October 29th. I have already requested time off so we can go back home for my birthday which is the 31st, so I'll be home for the baby shower hopefully. The downside is that the time I asked off is the start of a black out period at work, and there is no guarantee that I will get it. Especially since two others also asked for that weekend off, even though I did put in my request first.
In other news, we are currently looking for a new apartment. We received a letter from the landlord a few days ago. He's giving everyone in his rentals until Dec. 1st to find a new place because he's tearing down all the buildings, to pave over and expand out his car lot next door. WHY he is trying to do this int he middle of winter is beyond me, he should at least wait till spring when the ground softens.
We found a place, it would be 480 a month for 2 bedrooms, spacious, all we have to pay are gas and electric and renters insurance which we can get for 20 a month. This really is do able, but Jay's mom doesn't think she can afford it, I don't think she realizes that I'll be sharing in the responsibility of bills. Also even though this is an incredibly nice apartment complex, she has reservations about the place because "a lot of black people live there."
Still I'm setting up a walk through for Friday. The sooner we can find a place the better.
Other than that, things are going well for us. This was just a quick catch up post, I'll post again soon!
We found out that my sister is having a baby girl. I'm very excited for this. I've already bought the diaper bag, and I was to fill it with some fun things clothes and a few other things she requested on her registry. The baby shower takes place on October 29th. I have already requested time off so we can go back home for my birthday which is the 31st, so I'll be home for the baby shower hopefully. The downside is that the time I asked off is the start of a black out period at work, and there is no guarantee that I will get it. Especially since two others also asked for that weekend off, even though I did put in my request first.
In other news, we are currently looking for a new apartment. We received a letter from the landlord a few days ago. He's giving everyone in his rentals until Dec. 1st to find a new place because he's tearing down all the buildings, to pave over and expand out his car lot next door. WHY he is trying to do this int he middle of winter is beyond me, he should at least wait till spring when the ground softens.
We found a place, it would be 480 a month for 2 bedrooms, spacious, all we have to pay are gas and electric and renters insurance which we can get for 20 a month. This really is do able, but Jay's mom doesn't think she can afford it, I don't think she realizes that I'll be sharing in the responsibility of bills. Also even though this is an incredibly nice apartment complex, she has reservations about the place because "a lot of black people live there."
Still I'm setting up a walk through for Friday. The sooner we can find a place the better.
Other than that, things are going well for us. This was just a quick catch up post, I'll post again soon!
Monday, August 15, 2011
The Dangers of Rubbing Alcohol
Oh what a night Jay and I had last night. But before I can get to that, I need to start this story from earlier in the day.
I woke up just fine yesterday nothing wrong with me. At around 11 - 11:30 I was getting ready for work. My left shoulder started to hurt. Felt a little bit like a pinched nerve. I favored it a little bit, and continued getting ready. As my day went on, with no heavy lifting or anything strenuous, my arm proceeded to get worse. I went home at 4, took one of Jay's Vicodin, he'd been given some 2 weeks ago to deal with the bad infection from his cavity, and rested till 5:30. Then I had to go back to work for a store meeting at 6. I told Jay if my arm got worse we'd have to go in and have it looked it. I won't get into the long details of my pain, but lets just say up until that hour, I was able to hold my arms in at least one comfortable position, with no pain at all. But by the time we were done at 7, I was close to tears, and in a great deal of pain no matter what I did. I was shivering from the pain it was so bad. Jay had picked me up, he'd drove since I'd taken a pain killer, and as soon as I got into the car I told him I needed to go into the ER. He took me straight there. On our way in I called mom and let her know what was going on, and then Cassie.
After we got there and I registered, we didn't have to wait long before I was called in. The triage *sp* nurse was a bitch because I didn't happen to know the fucking name of my birth control pills *eyeroll*. Then she was gonna take us to room 5 but as we were just entering one of the guys back there said he had an emergency rolling into that room from the ambulance, so we were just shifted over into the room next to that, just when the guy was being brought in.
As we sat and waited to be seen, we could hear the guy in the next room talking. Clearly drunk, very harsh coarse voice, he was a bit of an older guy, probably in his 60's. He was arguing with the nurses and stuff, he didn't want something or other. Then a little later the nurse came back into his room. I guess he'd been complain that he couldn't breath. She argued with him, and it turned out he "couldn't breathe" because of the reason he was in there. She said if he REALLY couldn't breathe, that she'd sedate him and give him a breathing apparatus. He said that he could breath but it FELT like he couldn't and she told him "Then do not claim you can't breathe. we take that very seriously here." So at some point the guy's daughter showed up, and she is on the side with the Dr.'s and nurses and stuff, arguing with him as well. Then another guy finally came in and started asking questions. We kept hearing the old guy say "I! DIDN'T! MEAN! TO!"
It turns out he was so fucking drunk, he wasn't paying attention to what he was drinking and wound up drinking part of a bottle of rubbing alcohol! He was talking about his throat hurting and he couldn't breath and the nurses kept telling him they can't give him something to drink right now but if he stopped talking his saliva would formulate and go down his throat and help to open his airways, but of course, being drunk he wouldn't shut up for anything.
All of this took place over roughly 4 hours while Jay and I were waiting between visits to our room. So in the meanwhile, I was visited, asked questions, and had the RN or whoever move my arm around, in a few painful locations. Then the nurse came in and he put an IV into my forearm, and gave me morphine. My stomach was empty so that made me feel even more hungry. Right as he was finishing up the two people came to take me and get x-rays. That was okayish, no pain except for one way I had to move my arm that brought tears to my eyes.
An HOUR after my x rays, the Dr. himself finally came in and saw me. He said my X-rays said I was just fine, and from how I'd reacted when my arm had been examined, what I had is something called Nerve Entrapment.
According to Right Health . com... "Nerve entrapment syndromes pertain to medical conditions wherein the nerves become entrapped or restricted in certain areas of the extremities. To decompress the nerves, surgery can be performed on the affected area. Neurosurgeons, orthopedic doctors and plastic surgeons are the medical professional that performs such surgeries. The syndromes manifests with pain of the nerves or with loss of function in the nerves. Nerve Entrapment Syndromes occur when nerves sustain chronic injury usually from stressful or repeated trauma."
I would have to see the Orthopedic doctor, we had the choice of waiting that night to see him or I could call today and make an appointment. We would have waited, but there were a couple of case a head of me, including someone with a dislocated hip or slipped hip or SOMETHING like that. And there was something else a head of us too so they had no clue how much longer we'd be waiting. We'd been there just over 3 hours already. So we decided to go with the sling and just call the ortho today. He was going to prescribe me Vicodin, a sling and 3 days from work.
It took just over an hour to get all of that. During that time we heard a man being wheeled in down the hall several rooms away. He was just screaming at the top of his lungs.Screaming stuff like, "AAAHHHHH OH DEAR GOD HELP ME!" he was in A LOT of pain. He was screaming so loud and so hard he sounded like the background screams of horror that you hear in the movies at one of those asylums that torture the "patients" sort of thing. It was REALLY bad, really cringe worthy. I felt bad for the guy. They either put him on a pain killer, or they full of sedated him cuz he just randomly stopped screaming. The nurse came in just after eleven, he took the IV opening out of my arm (I wasn't on a drip or anything just the hardware was still in me from getting the morphine) and put the sling on me, telling me how it should look and feel when wearing it.
We left and I was SO hungry and SO tired, that we went right to McDonald's. I had a number 9 crispy chicken meal AND an additional McChicken sandwich. I had both sandwiches almost fully finished before Jay'd even eaten all his fries. I was that damn hungry lol. Halfway through my second sandwich, Jay tells me that whenever he was on morphine and he tried to eat he always got sick. I was so hungry it took about half a second for me to think about it, shrug, and tell him it was worth it before going back to eating haha.
I'm doing better right now, but the pain is coming back again little by little. I haven't had a Vicodin in about 6 hours, I do not want to rely on it, that would be bad. But at the rate the pain is returning I will probably take one before bed so that I can actually sleep.
Jay didn't leave my side once last night. He was so worried about me, and he was very comforting he did a wonderful job to make me feel better, and help me forget about being in the ER, etc. He's so wonderful, he really took great care of me yesterday. He'd yell at me for even moving my fingers let alone my entire arm. I love him so much. He's been taking good care of me today too, making sure I'm okay and eating well, and what not. I'm very lucky to have him. And I appreciate him so much, and I'm so glad that I have him. <3
Anyway I am off for now. I'll keep you all updated on how I'm doing!
<3
I woke up just fine yesterday nothing wrong with me. At around 11 - 11:30 I was getting ready for work. My left shoulder started to hurt. Felt a little bit like a pinched nerve. I favored it a little bit, and continued getting ready. As my day went on, with no heavy lifting or anything strenuous, my arm proceeded to get worse. I went home at 4, took one of Jay's Vicodin, he'd been given some 2 weeks ago to deal with the bad infection from his cavity, and rested till 5:30. Then I had to go back to work for a store meeting at 6. I told Jay if my arm got worse we'd have to go in and have it looked it. I won't get into the long details of my pain, but lets just say up until that hour, I was able to hold my arms in at least one comfortable position, with no pain at all. But by the time we were done at 7, I was close to tears, and in a great deal of pain no matter what I did. I was shivering from the pain it was so bad. Jay had picked me up, he'd drove since I'd taken a pain killer, and as soon as I got into the car I told him I needed to go into the ER. He took me straight there. On our way in I called mom and let her know what was going on, and then Cassie.
After we got there and I registered, we didn't have to wait long before I was called in. The triage *sp* nurse was a bitch because I didn't happen to know the fucking name of my birth control pills *eyeroll*. Then she was gonna take us to room 5 but as we were just entering one of the guys back there said he had an emergency rolling into that room from the ambulance, so we were just shifted over into the room next to that, just when the guy was being brought in.
As we sat and waited to be seen, we could hear the guy in the next room talking. Clearly drunk, very harsh coarse voice, he was a bit of an older guy, probably in his 60's. He was arguing with the nurses and stuff, he didn't want something or other. Then a little later the nurse came back into his room. I guess he'd been complain that he couldn't breath. She argued with him, and it turned out he "couldn't breathe" because of the reason he was in there. She said if he REALLY couldn't breathe, that she'd sedate him and give him a breathing apparatus. He said that he could breath but it FELT like he couldn't and she told him "Then do not claim you can't breathe. we take that very seriously here." So at some point the guy's daughter showed up, and she is on the side with the Dr.'s and nurses and stuff, arguing with him as well. Then another guy finally came in and started asking questions. We kept hearing the old guy say "I! DIDN'T! MEAN! TO!"
It turns out he was so fucking drunk, he wasn't paying attention to what he was drinking and wound up drinking part of a bottle of rubbing alcohol! He was talking about his throat hurting and he couldn't breath and the nurses kept telling him they can't give him something to drink right now but if he stopped talking his saliva would formulate and go down his throat and help to open his airways, but of course, being drunk he wouldn't shut up for anything.
All of this took place over roughly 4 hours while Jay and I were waiting between visits to our room. So in the meanwhile, I was visited, asked questions, and had the RN or whoever move my arm around, in a few painful locations. Then the nurse came in and he put an IV into my forearm, and gave me morphine. My stomach was empty so that made me feel even more hungry. Right as he was finishing up the two people came to take me and get x-rays. That was okayish, no pain except for one way I had to move my arm that brought tears to my eyes.
An HOUR after my x rays, the Dr. himself finally came in and saw me. He said my X-rays said I was just fine, and from how I'd reacted when my arm had been examined, what I had is something called Nerve Entrapment.
According to Right Health . com... "Nerve entrapment syndromes pertain to medical conditions wherein the nerves become entrapped or restricted in certain areas of the extremities. To decompress the nerves, surgery can be performed on the affected area. Neurosurgeons, orthopedic doctors and plastic surgeons are the medical professional that performs such surgeries. The syndromes manifests with pain of the nerves or with loss of function in the nerves. Nerve Entrapment Syndromes occur when nerves sustain chronic injury usually from stressful or repeated trauma."
I would have to see the Orthopedic doctor, we had the choice of waiting that night to see him or I could call today and make an appointment. We would have waited, but there were a couple of case a head of me, including someone with a dislocated hip or slipped hip or SOMETHING like that. And there was something else a head of us too so they had no clue how much longer we'd be waiting. We'd been there just over 3 hours already. So we decided to go with the sling and just call the ortho today. He was going to prescribe me Vicodin, a sling and 3 days from work.
It took just over an hour to get all of that. During that time we heard a man being wheeled in down the hall several rooms away. He was just screaming at the top of his lungs.Screaming stuff like, "AAAHHHHH OH DEAR GOD HELP ME!" he was in A LOT of pain. He was screaming so loud and so hard he sounded like the background screams of horror that you hear in the movies at one of those asylums that torture the "patients" sort of thing. It was REALLY bad, really cringe worthy. I felt bad for the guy. They either put him on a pain killer, or they full of sedated him cuz he just randomly stopped screaming. The nurse came in just after eleven, he took the IV opening out of my arm (I wasn't on a drip or anything just the hardware was still in me from getting the morphine) and put the sling on me, telling me how it should look and feel when wearing it.
We left and I was SO hungry and SO tired, that we went right to McDonald's. I had a number 9 crispy chicken meal AND an additional McChicken sandwich. I had both sandwiches almost fully finished before Jay'd even eaten all his fries. I was that damn hungry lol. Halfway through my second sandwich, Jay tells me that whenever he was on morphine and he tried to eat he always got sick. I was so hungry it took about half a second for me to think about it, shrug, and tell him it was worth it before going back to eating haha.
I'm doing better right now, but the pain is coming back again little by little. I haven't had a Vicodin in about 6 hours, I do not want to rely on it, that would be bad. But at the rate the pain is returning I will probably take one before bed so that I can actually sleep.
Jay didn't leave my side once last night. He was so worried about me, and he was very comforting he did a wonderful job to make me feel better, and help me forget about being in the ER, etc. He's so wonderful, he really took great care of me yesterday. He'd yell at me for even moving my fingers let alone my entire arm. I love him so much. He's been taking good care of me today too, making sure I'm okay and eating well, and what not. I'm very lucky to have him. And I appreciate him so much, and I'm so glad that I have him. <3
Anyway I am off for now. I'll keep you all updated on how I'm doing!
<3
Friday, August 12, 2011
PUPPIES!
HAHA N o not really the kind that Jerry "The King" Lawler likes to scream about on Monday Night RAW, actual puppies.
Last weekend Jay agreed to look after two dogs, one belonging to his aunt and one to his cousin. His Aunt's dog is a pit bull and dalmatian mix. Her name is Camie and she's five years old. The other dog is named Elsie, and she is Camie's pup. She's 3 and so she is a dalmatian/pitbull/lab mix. But she looks nothing like her mom she looks more like a lab than a pit and the dalmatian is really hard to see in both of them.
Last weekend Jay agreed to look after two dogs, one belonging to his aunt and one to his cousin. His Aunt's dog is a pit bull and dalmatian mix. Her name is Camie and she's five years old. The other dog is named Elsie, and she is Camie's pup. She's 3 and so she is a dalmatian/pitbull/lab mix. But she looks nothing like her mom she looks more like a lab than a pit and the dalmatian is really hard to see in both of them.
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| Camie |
Camie is so pretty, and she's just the BIGGEST baby is the world! They keep her locked up in their really "nice" finished off basement. It would be nice I mean, if there wasn't a ton of dog poo all over the place old and some very very moldy even. Its disgusting. It reeks down there and that poor dog! From what I understand at least, they don't play with her or love on her. It's like the lab pup Bear all over again...I miss Bear so much *sad* But this is worse. These people are grown adults. They should be taking care of her better and they should be training her properly and cleaning up that basement, ew. While we were there she didn't leave my side unless she was eating. I sat there and loved on her as much as I possibly could, I felt TERRIBLE about leaving her. She actually belongs to Jay's cousin Brian, who lives in back home in Minnesota, and was unable to bring her with. So his mom kept her but they still don't care for this poor girl. I wish that when we move back home we could bring her with and give her a proper life, but Daddy doesn't like anything that's even remotely related to a Pit, and with the Dalmatian in her, I don't know how she would be with children *sad* I really got attached to this big ol' sweetheart really fast and I only got to visit her twice!
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| Elsie |
Elsie has it a lot better. She actually belongs to the son in law of Jay's Aunt, Adam. She is a very nervous dog, incredibly shy. She only listens to Adam, and no one else....*sly grin* ... or so they thought. Elsie listened to me very well. She responded so sweetly to me, and especially when I sat on the floor with them, she was happy and so very content to let me just sit and love on her and Camie as well.
BAWHAHAHA I love that picture!
Camie actually acts younger than Elsie, it's really funny, but Camie has so much pent up energy that it's no wonder she runs around like she's puppy stupid! LMFAO!!!
I really did fall in love with both of these girls. They're so sweet, and just want pets and snuggles. Elsie wouldn't go anywhere near Jay's mom. She's not much of a dog person, and even though she was trying to get Elsie to her, and be kind to her but she just would not go anywhere near her. But if I called, Elsie would come to me, and sit for me and all that good stuff. I missed my dog Hurc before this, but being with these girls, I miss him so much more now *sad* But he's my boy and I'll get to see him soon. I just really wish I could take Camie. It upsets me SO much that someone who doesn't deserve a dog or really care treats it this way, when here I am unable to even have a cat let alone a wonderful dog like her! RAWR
Anyway more pics of these pretty puppies!
I will say it again........
PUPPIES!!!!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Can I Get Subtitles Please?
Alright, so lets see....
I live with my boyfriend and his mother. They are Filipino. English is a second language easily spoken by both of them. But his mother prefers to speak in Filipino. Especially when she's on the phone with her siblings. When she's on the phone it's one thing, but when she's talking to Jay in the car in front of me, or about me when i occasionally hear my name said, I would appreciate her speaking in English. Personally I feel it is rude to contribute to a conversation, in a language where one participant doesn't speak it or know what you're saying. Equally so, when you're speaking that person hear's their name. Its a bit rude to talk about someone in front of them in another language. Even if it's not something bad, even if you're just referring to them. I don't know that. All I know is that I hear my name sometimes more than once. I just feel like it's rude. Alternately I'm constantly asking Jay what they said. I feel left out, more like I don't belong. I understand it may be easier for her to use Filipino, but at the same time, its still rude. I'm trying to learn the language myself but its really difficult, especially without any consistent learning just me asking Jay what some words means.
I made a joke a few nights ago that was the reason for the title of this blog. His mom was on the phone with her sister working some plans out for us to watch their dogs. (That post will come tomorrow pictures and all.) And I heard my name once or twice and she was just babbling away. Jay was in a bad mood and so was I. I was trying to cheer us both up and I was thinking about his mom going off in Filipino and suddenly I had this thought and started giggling. I lean over to Jay while he's driving and I go. "Can I get subtitles please?" and we both just lost our minds. The whole drive I was making jokes about my subtitles being broken, first they were in French, then in German, then in Spanish. It was just hilarious. I had a big kick with it and Jay cheered up some too. *love*
But that's what people in love do for each other. They put one another at ease. They cheer each other up. I have so much love for Jay, and that's why I am going to keep trying to either lean Filipino, or learn those damn German subtitles. *love*
I live with my boyfriend and his mother. They are Filipino. English is a second language easily spoken by both of them. But his mother prefers to speak in Filipino. Especially when she's on the phone with her siblings. When she's on the phone it's one thing, but when she's talking to Jay in the car in front of me, or about me when i occasionally hear my name said, I would appreciate her speaking in English. Personally I feel it is rude to contribute to a conversation, in a language where one participant doesn't speak it or know what you're saying. Equally so, when you're speaking that person hear's their name. Its a bit rude to talk about someone in front of them in another language. Even if it's not something bad, even if you're just referring to them. I don't know that. All I know is that I hear my name sometimes more than once. I just feel like it's rude. Alternately I'm constantly asking Jay what they said. I feel left out, more like I don't belong. I understand it may be easier for her to use Filipino, but at the same time, its still rude. I'm trying to learn the language myself but its really difficult, especially without any consistent learning just me asking Jay what some words means.
I made a joke a few nights ago that was the reason for the title of this blog. His mom was on the phone with her sister working some plans out for us to watch their dogs. (That post will come tomorrow pictures and all.) And I heard my name once or twice and she was just babbling away. Jay was in a bad mood and so was I. I was trying to cheer us both up and I was thinking about his mom going off in Filipino and suddenly I had this thought and started giggling. I lean over to Jay while he's driving and I go. "Can I get subtitles please?" and we both just lost our minds. The whole drive I was making jokes about my subtitles being broken, first they were in French, then in German, then in Spanish. It was just hilarious. I had a big kick with it and Jay cheered up some too. *love*
But that's what people in love do for each other. They put one another at ease. They cheer each other up. I have so much love for Jay, and that's why I am going to keep trying to either lean Filipino, or learn those damn German subtitles. *love*
Thursday, August 4, 2011
VANS Warped Tour Part 2 "The Event"
OH how much there is to tell today! Yesterday Jay and I got up at 7...well Jay got up at 7 because he wanted to shower before we left. I got to sleep in till 7:30 haha! Anyway, we went to leave just after 8 and realized neither of us ate breakfast, so before getting gas, we hit McDonalds. We tolerated the wait but the guy at the window must have been really new. He turned to me and asked if I had the coke order. I said no, we had two number 2's with two large OJ's. he said ok and repeated that tot he girl next to him. Then they apologized and said the OJ machine was out of order and they could either give us a refund or another thing to drink so we just got sprites. They handed us our drinks an dour food and we head back towards the freeway. While gassing up, we start eating....they got our orders wrong! They gave us overly cooked ham and egg on BOTH sandwiches ..but they were wrapped in the sausage wrappers we had ordered. WHAT THE FUCK!? I was fucking pissed. Well I don't like the egg they use OR the ham. I ordered a sausage McMuffin for a reason! So I gave Jay both sandwiches while I just grabbed a doughnut form the gas station. So we hopped on the freeway for an hour and forty minuet drive to Warped Tour.
When we got there we had to turn around because apparently there is "V.I.P" parking..whatever, we go and park, getting there just after 10. We go chill out waiting n line when we're approached by a Buddhist Monk who actually travels with Warped Tour, giving free meditation books. He gave me one, really nice guy lol. I like to meditate so I was pretty into that.
While waiting we saw a lot of characters. I saw a girl dressed like I had been this past Halloween, black and purple taffeta skirt, purple tights, black t-shirt, and big black boots. Many other people have black marker drawn all over them to look like giant Frankenstein stitches. Plenty of girls running around in short shorts and bikini tops. It was here that we spotted the first one the "WTF" outfits. Two guys came passing through the crowd as we waited to be let in. One was dressed as Santa, full suit and hat, minus the fake belly. Behind him, his buddy was dressed as an elf, in a green and red costume hat included, all of which were made of felt. It was about quarter to 11 at this point and the temperature was already 90, and it just got worse as the day went on.
Then the tour people started handing out pamphlets. The guy hands us each one and says "A message from the artists about animals." On the front is showed several artists from various bands that were preforming, and something about being a Vegan, or something like that. I think to myself, 'Alright, they're going to talk about cruelty to animals on the various farms, etc.' I flip open the pamphlet at the same time Jay does and we both instantly went "WHAT THE FUCK!?" and closed them. Inside were grotesque images of animal cruelty on the breeding farms and stuff. It was seriously NOT something I wanted to be surprisingly exposed to. As a matter of fact it kinda pissed me off, the cover or the person who handed them out should have warned there were graphic images inside. We tossed the pamphlets and moved up in line as it was now 11 and the gates were opening.
Slowly and surely the lines moved and we eventually made our way inside. They wouldn't allow any outside food and only outside beverages that were not already opened. We get in, and look around. Right away I saw a sign that made me laugh. This guy was holding up a sign that said "Don't get caught looking @ titties! Sunglasses $5!!" How great is that? We checked out the wall schedule, and headed off to go find the first band we wanted to see.
The location we were at, was a massive circle with a big hill in the middle. Three different stages were spaced out around this hill and then an area of the parking lot was fenced off for the other two stages. One of the three stages was actually an outdoor auditorium with comfy seats and what not. Technically this stage was split up into two stages. This way one bad would play while on the other end of the stage the next band would set up and they just went back and forth like that. We didn't realize this was the case at first as we could only see one sign for the stage we thought it was all one big stage. As Jay and I were just chilling in the shade here a girl in the row behind up and a few spaces over asks if we knew where the Nintendo stage was. This happened to be the "second" stage that we too were looking for and also didn't know it was right in front of us haha. She was looking for Family Force 5, which is who we were going to see too. She said if we didn't mind she's just follow us then cuz she was alone and I immediately insisted that she come and sit by me and hang out with us today.
Her name is Anna, and she is going to turn 16 in a couple of days. She was there alone because she hasn't missed an FF5 show in 3 years and her best friend who usually goes with her was unable to attend this show because of a marching band concert she had to attend. Anna's grandmother had dropped her off and insisted she call as soon as she felt over heated or anything like that. We talked for a bit then got up to go find the stage. We continued on in the circle, walking right past the sign that announced the Nintendo DS stage since we were just looking at the huge stage as one and not as two lol. We walked all the way around tot he entrance before we decided to pay the wallet raping price of $2 for a schedule that had a map on the other side. That's when we discovered the one stage was really two and we went back tot he place we started at! HAHAHA!!!
Alright so I'm going to be honest, the only two band at this thing I was any sort of a fan of was A Day To Remember and Set Your Goals. I had no experience with almost any of the other bands. But that's okay because I discovered a lot of great music, and after watching Family Force Five live in concert I am an immediate fan! They were so awesome I loved it! The lead singer from FF5 hopped in a blow up hamster ball and crowd surfed it was awesome!
AWESOME!!!! His dancing made me laugh my ass off too he was hilarious!
So after that we went to their signing, and I took Anna's CD and got it signed for her while she asked the lead singer if he'd text her friend who couldn't be there. He was so sweet about it too he was like "I can even call her instead if you want!" But Anna didn't know if her friend would be able to answer so he just txt her instead. All the guys were really nice too.
By this time a few hours have already passed since we had to watch a few bands before FF5 Go Radio and Big D And The Kids Table both I liked. Moving on from there we wandered around, checked out the merch stands, refilled our waters and cooled off in the sprinklers. I bought a new bracelet for fighting cancer, and then we went and got some food. Holy Hell. The food there was so fucking expensive! 9.25 for three chicken strips and a handful of fries. They're DAMN lucky the food was really good and really filling, but it still wasn't worth 9.25! Water and soda we not any better. But there were free refilling stations for cold water so we can't complain too much at least. I had very little soda making sure I stuck with water so I didn't get dehydrated. Jay had more than I did and by the time we got home last night he was suffering form heat exhaustion, my poor man. But I'll get into that later.
After we ate Anna decided to head home since she was really only there to see FF5. We walked her to the entrance where her grandmother had already arrived and was waiting to pick her up. I'm really glad we met her. I'd hate to walk around all on my own its more fun with others. Also it was safer. She's a young girl someone could hurt her, or she could have collapsed form that nasty heat. I got her FB though and added her on there, She should be accepting soon so yay for that!
After Anna left Jay and I finally decided we wanted to buy something fun. We went to the official VANS merch booth with was huge by the way, but they had a great deal going on. Women's shirts for $10, and you get your choice of a free hat or wallet too.
We went to see Enter Shikari, but I was feeling icky and we sat on the steps of the hill next to the stage. Even after sitting there listening tot he music, I was feeling really really bad then. We went back to the auditorium and sat in the shad for an hour and half. I changed out of my black tank top into my VANS shirt before we sat though and I got more ice water. The new shirt was thinner, and cooler and I felt so so so much better just sitting there, learning on Jay and listening to music up on the stage(s). I actually almost fell asleep like that, it was nice. While we both relaxed and cooled down we got to listen to Moving Mountains, Lucero, Reliant K, Larry And His Flask.
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| Reliant K |
Half way through Larry And His Flask, we left to go off toward the main stage where Veara was playing. Jay told me they were a lot like Set Your Goals and that I'd really like them but right before they started I needed to use the rest room. So I wandered int he direction of the main stage to find it and happened upon Gym Class Heroes singing "Billionaire" and so I stopped and listened to it since that was the only song by then I really really wanted to hear. Then I went on looking, failed in my mission and went back to the Kevin Says stage where Jay was watching Veara. He was right I really did like them a lot they reminded me a lot of Set Your Goals, and they put on a great show.
We headed back to the main stage because Jay wanted a Monster. I cna't drink them too much or too often myself, they taste too much like candy for me, but we went and waited in a ten min line anyway. When we got in we expected to have to pay for the but as we walked up to the serving area, inside the Monster truck, the guy just hands drinks to us. We were surprised but hey free Monsters! We weren't allowed to leave there with the can's so we had to finish them there. Jay finished his and I gave him the last half of mine too.
Then it was back to the double stage auditorium to see The Wonder Years. Jay was a little disappointed with it, but it was still really fun to see. We sat in the lower area on the padded comfortable seats and enjoyed the whole thing from there.
Then we sat for another 15 min and watched The Aggrolites.
Set Your Goals didn't start till 7:10 wish was still 25 min off but we were really hungry again so we got more food. Once again our wallets were raped as we paid up the wazoo for food, and a sprite. And we sat in the shade and ate. We were right behind the stage we needed to be at and they were about to start so Jay went a head and I caught up with him when I was ready to get up again. I reached the stage just before they started, and in plenty of time to get hit by their water guns! Hahaha
The set was great! One of their guitarists had to rush home for a family emergency so their tour manager learned the set in like 12 hours and played to replace him. The hilarious thing is? This guy looked like a male version of the assistant manager at the store I work at. I feel a little bad about saying that able Lee, she's so sweet but it's true!
The entire set was really great, I recognized some of the songs, but others I didn't know either. Still I had a freaking BLAST! It was great, the security was getting really pissed about all the body surfing...but its not like they can do much about it either. I mean, at least that wasn't as bad as the moshing.
I made sure to get of shot of the "security" oohh scurry!
After the set, they had their signing. It was great, Jay was marking out so bad, hahaha it was funny as hell. He had bought their new CD the day it came out and that's what he had signed. But he forgot to tell them that it was becasue of them that we were at Warped because when he won the tickets he'd said that Set Your Goals was the band he was most excited to see. Oh well that's okay he still got his autograph!
The whole problem with it all though was Set Your Goals was playing at the exact same time as A Day To Remember. Jay was bummed that he had to choose but I think the choice was totally worth it! We both still had a huge blast! After that we left. All the booths were closing down and what not, only a few bands were left that we had no interest and we were both fucking exhausted.
As we were walking out of the gate, the Monster truck was there and they were handing out more free Monsters!!!
We each grabbed one before the masses caught on haha, and then headed off for the nice long walk back to the truck. The drive home was slow at first but eventually the time just flew by. We were so tired when we got home. Jay had heat exhaustion, and a heat rash on his upper back and chest and a light burn on his shoulder blades where his beater ended, otherwise he was okay. But he's never experienced any of this and had a very rough time sleeping last night. We both put on TONS of sun screen throughout the whole day and I still got badly burned. My chest, face, shoulders and the sides of my neck. Even the top tips of my ears were burned. I had to spin my cartilage hoop so the ball wasn't touching it because it hurt just to have that leaning against the burn. I'm pretty sure I had some heat exhaustion as well, but not as bad as Jay.
Today we both napped and rested and slept a lot. I made sure we both had tons of water and ate well. We needed it for sure. I'm really relieved that Jay's feeling better and most of my sun burn is already going away and I'm not peeling yet thank the gods.
That's really about it. I can't think of anything else at least to talk about. I had a blast yesterday and so did Jay! I'm so glad we got the opportunity to go to this!
If you want to check out any of the bands I've mentioned here today here some of their sites!
All the rest of the bands who play for Warped you can find HERE
Everyone have a great night and a great weekend!
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