Sailboats & Other Fairly Stupid Tales of my Current Life

I haven't posted anything in a while, and I don't think that it's a bad thing. I know that my blog pretty much goes unread, so whether I post or not, I don't think it matters. Therefore, I leave you with a list of things that have been going on in my life lately for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

• No matter what, I think that as long as I shall live, I will freak out and hyperventilate when there is a tornado. As evidenced yesterday when one touched down very close to my house. Apparently the neighbors saw the funnel cloud/tornado out their window. I however, was huddled in the basement, bawling like a baby and praying a Divine Mercy Chaplet & Rosary. Needless to say, Our Lady & her Son won this battle cuz I'm still here as well as everything in my yard, untouched and unharmed. Afterwards I went to find a rainbow since it was still raining but the sun was shining, I didn't find a rainbow but got a few cool pictures of the post tornadic skies.

Standing in the field across the street from my house looking north

Then as I went down the road, I picked some Asparagus! 

• I LOVE Asparagus! I am very thankful that it grows wild on my road. This means that I get to pick it! It not only gives me a delicious meal, but I get some much needed exercise with my dog while I go to pick it. After reading Under the Tuscan Sun and being jealous that the author goes outside and harvests all this amazingly deliciously sounding food, I guess it's kind of the same thing. Starting with the Asparagus in the Spring, followed by onions, raspberries & peas then the countless other fruits and veggies (peppers, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, etc.) that I get to go outside and harvest whenever I become hungry.

Delicious Asparagus that I picked after the Storm! I know it's hard to see to the untrained eye, but there are Six 1-2' stalks!

       Which brings me to my next point:

• After reading Under the Tuscan Sun I became obsessed with herbs and have started growing basil and oregano. The worst part of this is that they are still baby plants and I can't harvest them yet! I am most looking forward to making fresh Pesto, which I fell in love with when I lived in Europe! The Country Store (or Nu U Foods, which is the Hell Hole I slave in) sells a Pesto, but it's a dried version that you add oil to and it's not the same.
• Point 4! My shitty job! Less than two weeks ago I checked my towns Hospital Job Site and they posted a CNA job. FINALLY! So I apply at like 2am Friday. Fast forward less than 12 hours and I get a phone call for a phone screening which I shall have Monday morning at 9am. It goes over very well because I'm asked to come in for a face-to-face interview on Wednesday at 8:30am. I do my best and am told I will hear by Friday or Monday (they really don't know, seeing as they have really nothing with them but blank pieces of paper to take notes.) Well it's Monday and I haven't been contacted yet. So I'm guessing that it's a no. I guess that means that my slave duties at the store (Whatever it's name is right now, I don't even know) still stand.
• So bring on the 5th point. I do the honest thing and I tell my Aunt that I have these interviews and by some miraculous chance, if I get the Full Time position, I will be quitting indefinitely. So what do they do? They hound me everyday since then as to if I got the job and went as far as getting a shit ton of applications (I kid you not, a stack of them!) and placing a "Now Accepting Applications" sign in the window. I even said, "Hey! I'm not dead yet! There are no guarantees I'll even get the Full Time, let alone the Part Time position I applied for!"
•  Oh yea, and I was told 2 weeks ago that they would be increasing my hours. At the time I was getting about 23 a week. The week after that I got 25, last week 28. This week 22.5! I don't know about you, but where I come from, that's a DECREASE!!! When I asked why it was like that because I was really confused, there was a "Well I don't know what it is that Jimmy wants you to do, but when I know I'll adjust the schedule..."(walk away). STORY OF MY FREAKING LIFE AT THIS SHITTY JOB!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.
• Bring on the 7th point! There is an option for switching occupations. With out explaining, there is a company interested in hiring me. What I would do is go to homes of people who need assistance and help them get ready for bed. It's basically a health care job and it pays pretty well with the opportunity for working full time. So it could get me some experience so that if I would get another opportunity to interview with the hospital, I would at least have some experience to back up my resume.
• Now to bring me to my most exciting part of this week (NOT!) I have to serve on Jury Duty Wednesday starting at 8am. PUKE! Oh and they say to show up 15 minutes early! I think I'll be rolling out of bed at 7:15 and looking like crap, cuz frankly, I DO NOT want to do this. I will be the most awful juror they could pick. So I'm hoping to be eliminated. The only positive thing I get out of this is a paycheck. THANK GOD!
• In conclusion, I had been seeing the damn sail boat of good things in life, but lately, that ship has sailed and now I feel just like Wilhem in Mallrats. Which is one of my favorite movies. I know there's a lot of bad stuff in it and as a Catholic I shouldn't watch it, but it's SOOOOOOOO damn funny! It is by far one of my favorite movies and I love it! To leave you I post a compilation of Wihlem's scenes in the movie. I feel all his frustration and hatred toward that damn sailboat and wish it would come back. Well I guess sometimes you win the ticket and sometimes the boat goes on without you. Enjoy!