spring break 09

i have never had an actual spring break, you know the ones where college students go to florida and lay on the beach for a week and get drunk every night...ya, that has never been me. its weird to think that next year there will not be this designating week set off in my schedule to permit traveling or relaxing; college does not do a great job of preparing you for real world life. alright, so if i have never gone anywhere fancy before...what did i do for four years?

freshman yr: went home and worked
sophomore yr: went home and worked
junior yr: sat on my ass in columbus and attempted to be better young life leader
senior yr: 1. went to rockbridge to work a weekend and do some training 2. saw two dead people on the highway (this is perhaps the craziest thing ever) 3. cleaned my house 4. cooked food 5. went home to see my puppy and the folks 6. ate at the jug (thank god john ridge has too much money).

spring break has always been overrated in my book, i got paid money for my break. and, i love cooking for people; the idea of entraining others is fun for me, i enjoy it (almost too much). just ten more weeks of classes and daddy's health insurance is done, oh the joys of college being over.

trips to goshen

so, anytime i come out to goshen, va to work at rockbridge i travel through beckley, west virginia. beckley, wv is best known to many of us for tamarack, or the best of west virginia. now for all you young life people, tamarack is not the service plaza right off of i64 that has the most expensive, worst fast food ever. tamarack is behind the service center, its got the giant ugly red roof.

tamarack is unique in several ways:
1. west virginia has decided it is okay to advertise for this joint as soon you enter into wv, even if you are two hours away
2. in all of west virginia, apparently there is nothing better than tamarack, they claim they are the best of west virginia. can this really be true?
3. the two times i have gone, i see nothing but old people there. its like bingo hall on tuesday nights.
4. the display of crafts, while some are impressive, is lame. its like the quilt sale your church has ever year and you hate when when your mom and aunt drag you along.
5. they claim to have an greenbrier hotel-trained chef, who needs a top quality chef when you got sbarros pizza 100 feet away?
6. lets be honest, the roof? really?
7. they now have a conference center, i am waiting until crock has a regional weekend there, man that would be loads of fun. (maybe even a fall weekend, kids could have war games in the parking lot dodging semis).
8. i pray that the gates of heaven resemble tamarack.

Fashion Faux Pas

I walked into work this week and one my of coworkers is wearing her required polo and ballcap, but she had on leggings as pants. Since when was leggings an acceptable form of pants? The whole thing looks trashy, my apologies to my dearest friends that might stumble upon this blog and wear only leggings, but seriously consider the following:

1. Men just stare at the girl wearing leggings, motioning "the hell is this?"
2. Panty lines are unavoidable
3. Most girls are so cheap they buy the most thin pair ever and thus every ounce skin is visible if the leggings are stretched the slightest amount
4. Why would you ever consider not covering your chiseled butt, no one wants to see the protrusion of your ass muscles.
5. What would happen if men just started wearing long johns around with no other coverings? The huge bulge would be the greatest thing since sliced cheese.

new things in life

the finding of mr. holldand's opus on dvd
matt chandler sermons
the love for cooking
finding a shampoo that works
vitamin water - sync
cheap dvds at target
hats
calling grandparents weekly
job hunting/praying
craves for sweets
bandaids
messy beds
piling of dirty clothes
cleaner car interiors
potty mouth

Fresh Start

Lets begin round two of blogging.

I wonder at times who gets to have the "cool jobs" of society. Who gets to paint lines on a road and determine where people go? Who gets to type emails that everyone at OSU receives once a week? Who gets to be the camera operator at a sporting event and determine who gets on the kiss cam? Who gets to determine what price a Chipotle burrito can be, because that stuff is getting out of control? Who gets to press the button that drops the ball on NYE? As a soon-to-be college graduate, I seek one of these fun jobs, why labor in a cubicle when you could work in the great wilderness of Virginia or get paid to survive a week in the Amazon and have everyone think you are insane? Monster.com needs to a create a subsite that offers kick-ass job opportunites, I would visit it.