Friday Fill In

I've slacked off again with posting. :(

1. Why are you making a big deal about it?
2. I want you to take your time and not rush.
3. __________ then it will be on my terms. *I'm completely blanking on this one.
4. Pray and see what happens.
5. I could use a maid.
6. Bend and then snap.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to packing, tomorrow my plans include Mardi Gras at Universal with Jess and Buck and Sunday, I want to ride a roller coaster!

Friday Fill In

It's Friday in Europe already, so let's just pretend I'm there. :)

1. Pickles are quite disgusting; I can't understand how so many people love them.
2. I like being at home.
3. The snow is not going to visit us.
4. Southwest Florida is snow-free in nature.
5. It's 5:16 PM; that means I was just taking a nap; it's been a pretty lazy day off today.
6. True friendship is hard to find.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to packing my things, tomorrow my plans include picking up Noa and taking her somewhere fun and Sunday, I want to continue to have fun with Noa.

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1. I know I had way too much espresso today...like three days worth.
2. September seems like the longest month.
3. You can't help but love me .
4. You don't believe me; bring it on!
5. Where have you looked for your keys?
6. Your table is now available.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to doing nothing, tomorrow my plans include going away party/dinner for Alison :( and Sunday, I want to sleep in!

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I'm beyond late on this one...oh well.
1. Wouldn't it be easy if we could all just get along.
2. New and improved; now better than ever!
3. I love the taste of peanut butter...and chocolate.
4. It looks like a tornado swept by in the living room.
5. The first thing we're going to do is attempt to get organized.
6. DRIP drip, drip, drip; coffee's done.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to dinner with the fam at Olive Garden, tomorrow my plans include watching Sydney and Austin and Sunday, I want to work on crafting for swaps.

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1. You have a chance to redeem yourself if you just try a little.
2. I'm in bed right now!
3. There is a cat sitting next to me.
4. Buy now and pay later.
5. It's time to finish what you've started.
6. It goes up in the air but doesn't come down.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to vegging out, tomorrow my plans include crafting with Mindy (doesn't that sound familiar!) and Sunday, I want to walk on the beach after work!

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1. The lesson I learned yesterday was mocha should be pronounced "moh cuh". I think Patrick and I will forever pronounce it this way in rememberance of a *special* customer.
2. Starbucks is where friends and family meet.
3. All these years I was missing out.
4. The party began when I arrived.
5. The truth is that we have fun at work.
6. Mocha is what I remember most from that day.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hanging out at Mindy's again, tomorrow my plans include a baby shower for Amanda and Aaron and Sunday, I want to have some more fun at work!

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Eeeekkkk....I'm late! But it's all #7's fault! I'm at Mindy's house for most of the weekend working on crafty projects!

1. There are places I've never been, but want to go.
2. The cold will blow those clouds away.
3. Standing in the sun, waiting for my rocket to come.
4. Boy! oh boy.
5. He went out tiger hunting and had no luck.
6. It is very, very hard to keep my mind from wandering .
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to hanging out with Mindy, tomorrow my plans include hanging out with Mindy and Sunday, I want to be well rested!

First Friday Fill In of 2010!

I haven't had a proper post in quite some time. I plan to do that in the next few days. Right now, I am exhausted. I've worked three open to close shifts in the last three days (39 hours). I'm looking forward to having the weekend off, even if I am babysitting for a two year old!

But in the meantime, here's my first post of the year...a Friday Fill In. :)

1. Last night I went to bed at eleven o'clock. That's the first time since I was a kid that I didn't stay up to see the clock strike twelve.
2. I want to fall in love this year. I've been in a hopeless romantic mood lately. You'd think I've been watching chick flicks, but I haven't. I just keep thinking about the book, Love Walked In, since I started working at a coffee shop.
3. The funniest thing is also sometimes the cruelest thing.
4. Ahhhh, yes...so where do we go from here?
5. He said this is this ; she said that is that.
6. The rocket's gone missing and it's up to us to find it.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to lounging in bed, playing on the internet, tomorrow my plans include sleeping in and babysitting overnight for Noa and Sunday, I want to knit a hat (for a swap)!

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So, this one is a little late...but if I haven't been to sleep yet, it's still Friday in my mind!

1. My boots are really flip flops.
2. I'd like to pay off all of my debt this century.
3. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
4. Can you walk the walk and talk (the talk)?
5. I'd like someone to organize my home for me.
6. What does it take to get over it?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to beating my family in Shrek Sack Races on the Wii (Technically this already happened! Both Keri/Jay and Pete/Katie got Wiis for Christmas and we had a marathon of games tonight. I rocked at any of the racing games, but did horrible on most of the others!), tomorrow my plans include a little bit of shopping and a holiday party with the Misbehavin' crew and Sunday, I want to have fun at work!


Merry Christmas, everyone!

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1. No, we will NOT stop dancin'. I really think I need to have a dance party soon. Even if it's in my kitchen by myself!
2. She sits reflecting on a life well lived at the old kitchen table.
3. I watched the steam rising from the hot cup of coffee (or tea) and thought: YES! I am finally getting it. My Starbucks training is going really well. I only had one meltdown- over steaming milk for a cappuccino. I just wasn't getting it. I ended up crying in the backroom for fifteen minutes. That was on Sunday. Yesterday, my manager said I made a perfect cappuccino. Woohoo!
4. Don't worry about a thing, it's going to be okay.
5. I'll take one of everything. Someday, I think it would be fun to have the money to walk in a store and say that and mean it!
6. Chocolate and peanut butter will make anything better, at least from my point of view.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to crafting (maybe with Mindy?), tomorrow my plans include hanging out with Papa and Grandma, taking them to see New Moon (hehe...suckers. I took Grandma to see Twilight last year, because no one else would go with me. She didn't quite get it, but she just loves to go to the movies.) and Sunday, I want to craft some more! I have all three days off of work and I just found that out last night. Three days of no plans or obligations. I really want to get things done and not be totally lazy. ;)

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1. Good times: Flip Flip Flip Adelphia. (I just watched the IASIP season finale and it was hysterical.)
2. I need to clean my home.
3. Sleigh bells ring are you listening.
4. I wish I was still little.
5. Once more things are looking up again.
6. Will it ever end? (I love how this contradicts number five!)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to knitting for me!, tomorrow my plans include working the Steward sale at the resort and Sunday, I want to make drinks and not screw them up!*


*Remember the crazy work stress/drama from last week? Things got better on Monday. The resort transferred me to Starbuck's. I wasn't too thrilled about it, but now that I'm there I love it! The people I work with are awesome and the majority of our customers are super happy-I think because they found a Starbuck's on an island that doesn't have anything else! My supervisor told me today that it's like working in a bar without dealing with drunks. I love that analogy.

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1. You get what you deserve, most of the time.
2. Get right to the point.
3. It's never the right time.
4. The communication (or lack there of) has been ridiculous!
5. I feel more and more angry every minute regarding my work situation.
6. Sweet dreams...goodnight!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to babysitting Sydney and Austin (love those two!), tomorrow my plans include painting baseboards and doors at Keri's house and Sunday, I want to have fun helping Kelley out with her pottery party!

I wasn't that creative with my answers this week, stemming from the anger and bitterness caused by numbers four and five. I haven't been this stressed in a long time. I have worked my ass off for the past few months and am getting screwed over. As it stands right now, I think I may be unemployed. I don't know for sure because my phone calls are not getting returned. My store was forced to close earlier than expected, leaving me without a job. Supposedly I am going to be transferred, but I don't know when. No one tells me anything. So I sit and wait and get angry.

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1. Wait! Wait, don't forget to save the date. (I felt the need to rhyme with this one.)
2. One large iced vanilla coffee followed at once by one extremely wired Kara. Yep, that's me today!
3. The trouble is Mom doesn't know how to make good mashed potatoes, but was too impatient to wait for me. I honestly don't know how she possibly messed them up as bad as she did, but they were a gluey paste. Yuck!
4. All of my best friends live many miles away.
5. With a faint pop the transformer blew and the entire island was out of power for nearly 24 hours- true story. Actually last Saturday night, it was more of a loud boom and light show.
6. After that, it was quiet, dark, shadowy and ominous.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to driving to Orlando, tomorrow my plans include Magic Kingdom with my family and Sunday, I want to be on time for work!

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1. We need to have a dance party.
2. I received an email from my boss today that said, "Send the bad hats to the Basement" and it made me smile. *
3. If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.
4. I now have to work on Black Friday because Mark is being pulled to work in another department.
5. Massachusetts has a proposed 5% sales tax on elective cosmetic surgery; I think it should be even higher than that.
6. Having the day off makes for a happy holiday.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to opening a swap package full of craft supplies, tomorrow my plans include work and then painting snowmen at Kelley's house with the Paint Misbehavin' crew and Sunday, I want to not deal with inventory and transfers at work! **

*My store is now being called "The South Seas Basement". We are the clearance center/outlet store for the resort. The hats in question were embroidered with the wrong color thread. The way the sentence was written made me think that the hats were being punished and sent to the basement and that made me laugh.
** Not likely.

Friday Fill In

I have been reading Sara's blog, Lazy Knits and Purls for a few months and each Friday she participates in Friday Fill-Ins. I love reading what she has to say and have been inspired to do write my own Friday Fill-in each week. Plus, if I actually remember to do it each week, it may help me to compose other posts throughout the week...maybe...

On to the Fill In:

1. The last band I saw live was Jack’s Mannequin. **



2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is mashed potatoes. Pretty pathetic, I know.
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is spent with Keri.
4. Thoughts of escaping fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear the clothes I wore in college.
6. Bagpipes and kilts.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to driving to Sebastian to have a “big girl” slumber party with Rachel and Kate, tomorrow my plans include geocaching and meeting the man of my dreams (Donald Miller book tour!!) and Sunday, I want to go to Rachel’s church and not rush home.


**The picture is of Jack's Mannequin in West Palm Beach at the Blue Martini on Sept. 26. I actually saw them (Well, only Andy) again on Sept. 28 at Icabod's in Fort Myers. Sorry for the poor photo quality!