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So I am sitting here thinking that I actually might be able to move in the next couple years. What I would really like would be to move to Charlotte, NC. I have never been there before, but I have been to myrtle beach SC and loved it. My boyfriend used to live in Charlotte and his cousin currently lives there so to me it would be easier moving to a place like that, where we know someone, opposed to where we know no one.  We are going to go visit him this summer to see how we like it. I know I will love it, just because of the weather.  I am willing to deal with cockroaches and big bugs for the sake of being warm.  I also think that this could be a new way of life for me. I am so very thankful that my boyfriend is not against moving, but he needs to have things planned out more.  I am more of a ‘drop everything’ type person and make a move because I am not so afraid of risks. He, however, is not that type of person…which is fine.  We are working together to figure out our life. Isn’t that what we are supposed to do?

I have lived in Rochester my entire life. One thing that Rochester offers that I think no other place does- is a garbage plate. What is a garbage plate? Well to put it simple, it is heavenly goodness on a plate. 

Garbage plates consist of a bunch of different foods placed on top of each other in one styrofoam box, for you to either eat at the restaurant or take home with you. A typical garbage plate would have the following:

2 Cheeseburgers (no bun), macaroni salad, and home fries, covered with mustard, raw onions and hot sauce. You also get 3 pieces of italian bread and butter on the side. It may sound gross (or gluttenous), but I have yet to meet one person who doesn’t like a garbage plate. I know a few people who have moved out of state, and when they come back to visit the first place they go is to a ‘hots’ shop to get one of these bad boys.  You can mix up the garbage plate however you want it, hot dogs, french fries, extra hot sauce, no hot sauce…anything your heart desires. Garbage plates are typically eaten from 2am-5am, after people go to the bars since they are open all night. The grease in the plates tend to ’settle’ your stomach, which will curb off a hangover the next day.

The one bad thing about garbage plates though is that they are loaded with calories. But then again, after a night of drinking….who cares!?

I have been sitting here for the last few days in a ‘funk’.  It is mid winter and I am really sick of the weather that we have been having here in NY. I’d say the average temperature has been 10 degrees and that is being nice.  I am the kind of person who is always cold. I am told that I have a ‘circulation’ problem, or low iron and that I should get that checked, well I did. I am fine. I am just cold. Honestly, it takes 90 degree weather for me to feel warm, but I can be comfortable in teh 80’s. 8 degrees however, is fucking freezing.

I sat here for the last few days and took a look at my life. The weather in NY sucks, my heat bill was $300 this month (and I live in a tiny place and my heat is on 60!!), my rent just went up, and my income went down. I am seeing this as a sign that maybe now is time to make a change. I would love to relocate to a warmer state. A state that doesn’t have as many taxes, and is easier to buy a house (NY is the highest taxed state).  There is one problem….my boyfriend doesn’t want to move. I really hate being in this predicament, as I want to be with him forever so I wouldn’t move away from him, but on the other hand I feel like, why can’t we move together?

I left off in my last blog talking about how I was stuck in a field with my girlfriend and our other friend had to come pick us up at 3:30am. She brought us back to my house and me and my friend (we were very stupid) decided to take HER truck back into the field to tow mine out. By now it is about 4:00am and we are driving back to the field. We get into the field and see my stuck truck sitting there. We are driving fast to get to it, so we can put a tow strap on it, and bam- we get stuck! We didn’t even make it to my truck before our wheels were spinning. We stopped trying to move it, looked at each other like “what are we gonna do now?”.  It was 4am and we couldn’t call anyone (we wouldn’t dare call that other friend again), and we had no way of getting home. Plus, we had to go to the bathroom haha.  So we sat there…..until 7am when we felt it was an ok time to call someone. We ended up calling my dad who lived fairly close and he came and picked us up. Now we got brought back to my house, and we still had TWO trucks stuck in the field. At this point, we had to wait until my friends boyfriend came with his big super duty truck to tow both of our trucks out. By the time this happened it was 3:30pm, and it was raining.  He barely was able to pull our trucks up the hill in the rain, but he did it after numerous tries. We were finally out. Our trucks were COVERED in mud, and we had no sleep. Other than that, we were golden!  One lesson learned from this: Don’t ever go mudding unless you are prepared for the consequences.

So I was thinking back to a time when I had a lot of fun. I was with my best friend at the time and we went out to the bar. It was a normal night, a lot of drinking, a lot of music and a lot of fun. At 2am the bar closed (as we always stayed until last call), so we decided to do our daily ritual and go get a garbage plate. For all of you who don’t know what a garbage plate is, its greasy goodness. Check my next blog and I will explain it further. 

So we headed to our favorite place, got our garbage plates, and then went back to my house to eat them. We finished them and then realized that we were not tired. It was about 3am at this time, and us being wide awake, we needed to find something to do.  We decided to go mudding in our trucks. I had a truck and my girlfriend had a truck so we decided to take mine out.  We loaded up into my truck and headed towards a local field. We got into the field and realized it was really muddy. I was flooring the truck making sure to avoid the ditches, and bam, suddenly I was stuck. Tires spinning and engine smoking.  I stopped and we looked at each other. We were stuck. It was about 3:30am now and there was no getting out. We were definately not walking distance and we didn’t know what to do. We decided to call one of our other friends, who we thought might be awake (she was a partier as well). She wasn’t awake but she did answer her phone. Reluctantly, she came to pick us up. We were very happy (and she was very mad), but we got a ride back to my house. You’d think now all would be set, but remember, my truck is still in the field stuck. We should have just waited for day light for someone to tow our truck out, but no, we were still wide awake so we came up with a bright idea….what is this idea? Wait until tomorrow and you will find out!!

Ever notice that some people are just annoying?? I sit here and wonder…do they realize they are annoying or is that the way they are? For example, there are some people who call my work to check the status of their application, and I will tell them that I have no answer  yet and it will be 2-3 weeks before i do. Then the next day they call again and say “any answer yet?”. Now why would they do that? Did they not listen to me when I said “its going to be 2-3 weeks before I hear back, I will call you when I hear”?  So again, I repeat that to them (and I hate repeating myself).  Then the next day, they call AGAIN and ask the same thing!  Are they just really dumb?? Or are they really forgetful?? I wonder how someone like this can actually end up having a job where they make tons of money!!  If they can’t follow simple directions, and pay attention then how do they end up keeping a job themselves??  This is why I am convinced that if I had a new job where I made $100,000 a year, I would be a deserving candidate. Or maybe all these people are smarter than I think, and are ‘acting’ dumb becuase they think that if they annoy me, they will get their answer faster. Well I am here to tell you- it doesn’t work, so stop acting dumb.

So the last few days I have been somewhat grumpy. I can’t figure out why either, but it is driving me nuts! I am getting annoyed with the simplest of things, and I don’t know how to get out of this funk!  I can’t wait until the weekend, and even that I am not looknig forward to because it is going to be 11 degrees outside. Maybe I am sick of being cold. You can’t even do anything fun in this weather. Its so cold that your heat is constantly on, and when you walk outside the inside of your nose freezes. Thats how cold it is. It really is putting a damper on my life. If my boyfriend didn’t live here I would move in a second. I would go somewhere where its warm all year round so I could ride my motorcycle. I have to say, if i knew i was going to be able to go ride today after work, I probably would be happier. But instead, we all get to go home and get in bed- because thats the only place that is warm.

So I work directly next to a Starbucks. The parking lot for my work is small and we only get two spots to park in. If we can’t park in our spots then we have to park across the street in the public parking. Obviously one of the spots is mine, and the other one is my bosses (the president). It works out all great except a lot of mornings people who are going into starbucks think its ok to park in our spots while they get their coffee. This morning I was waiting to turn into my parking lot and i saw a car pull into my spot. I saw the woman go into starbucks as well. I pulled in and waited for her to come back out, becuase she did leave her car on so I figured she’d be out in a minute. Besides the fact that it is cold out and I didn’t want to get in and out of my car over and over.  So i waited about 10 minutes. Now I am about to be late to work, so I parked (blocked her in) and went upstairs.  10 minutes later she was STILL not out yet?? Here’s my question- WHY would you leave your car on when you are going into starbucks for THAT LONG??? So I came downstairs after I saw her come out looking around to figure out ‘whose car is that?’ and she said “sorry she didn’t know”. Here’s my next question….can she not read? Right at my spot there is a sign that says “Liberty Employees Only”.  I am pretty sure she can read, or else she wouldn’t be able to order a tall nonfat latte from starbucks, so what is it then? Do these people just NOT CARE??

Have you ever noticed that sometimes water tastes so good and somtimes it just tastes so bad?? Im not talking about bottled vs tap, im talking tap vs tap from the same tap, just different times of the day. For instance, during the day I try to drink all water. With my lunch, snacks, or just to sip on. Frankly, I have a hard time sucking down this water for the most part. Even if I am thirsty it still just doesn’t taste good.

So then later at night, i can drink a huge glass of water with ice, and it tastes wonderful. It really makes no sense. Why can’t water taste wonderful during the day?? The only time it really does is if I am at the gym- and in that case I am thirsty.  Otherwise, water just tastes bad.  If only juicy juice had no calories I would drink it all day long. Water is the only safe way to go. That just sucks.  And flavored water tastes even worse for those of you who haven’t tried it.

Cocoa in water though…thats a real treat.

So today I took the leftover fondant that I made and used it on sugar cookies. It was way easy, i just used the same cookie cutter that I used for the cookies and cut out the same shape out of fondant. Then I glued the fondant on the cookie and pipes some stuff and used sprinkles etc. They came out wonderful. Only thing is, I dont know if people are going to like the taste. The fondant that I got the recipe for is a good tasting fondant but it is very sweet. It seems to me that people don’t like sweet stuff like I do. I could eat frosting off a spoon and forget the cake completely. I could eat chocolate up the wazoo and it never seems to be too sweet. I dont think most people are like this though, so I wont take offense when someone leaves a half eaten piece of cake on their plate.  its hard not to be offended “How could you not devour that?!?” but I just have to think of it as two things:

1) They dont like the sweetness.

2) they are on a diet.

I hope its #2 lol.