and he was also wearing a pirate hat vol. II

so where did i leave off? oh yeah, we were talking about customers. this isn't something that "grinds my gears," but it's just something that has caught my attention. anytime that someone buys popcorn, they look down and see two salt shakers. i can see where this is confusing. one is a larger tin shaker and the other a generic glass shaker containing a mysterious orange powder. 

i'm not gonna blame anybody for being confuddled about our theater's salt shakers. because at first things make seem a little... salty, if you will. salty, may not work here, but i wanted to throw a "cheesy" pun in there. (foreshadowing)
ok, inside the large tin shaker, i would have to assume, disregarding my tenure working at the theater, that it would be salt. if you pick it up though, it rattles. it sounds like a salt shaker full a seeds. because it is. the holes are way too large and the salt pours out of it like deal hungry, sleep deprived, redbull fueled... um i've ran out of things to describe them... crazy people running into a wal-mart in nebraska at 5 am on black friday.

me, being the courteous worker, often warn people of the hastiness of the salt. only to see them say Huh? and douse their popcorn into an upcoming cardiac arrest. but they might be confused that this is salt when they first pick it up. regarding the orange colored sand in the glass salt shaker. that? that is butter flavored salt. write that down. butter flavored salt. its the salt we use to pop the popcorn. people often pick it up and say what is this? cheese? sometimes people smell it, and are like, yeah, it's cheese. umm... no. ok, i've heard it maaaay smell like cheese. i disagree. if you put it next to cheese, i don't think it would smell like cheese. now i've seen customers look at this like it is pixie dust and just give me a confused look on their face. then proceed to cover their popcorn with it. some people are weird. but i had an idea. and yes i checked urban dictionary first to make sure no one thought of it first. and no they didn't accept my word. fail. put a label on the salt shaker. not a label exclaiming that it is salt. but just two words:
NOT CHEESE
i think that should answer any and all questions.
just watch

 

and he was also wearing a pirate hat.

 so i was at work the other day, yesterday, last night, and i had some "run-ins" i guess you could say. run-ins. this is actually stemming into two stories but i will get to both of them. the order of these two stories has no importance to me, they both are worth bringing up though.
so, i was working behind the snackbar, i'm going to set the scene up for you. i was working with jon, remember i mentioned jon before so i didn't say his last name because we have been previously introduced. but it's kaiser in case you were wondering. ryne was the manager. we were kind of slow and i was on my concession register. a group of three walked in, two girls, one guy, and they walked towards the ticket counter. as i walked to the register, i greeted them. here is the opening of the conversation:

Me: "Hi."

Her: "Hi,                             ... Good, Thanks."

now i am like wtf? and i wanted to look at her friends because i was about to laugh. i almost laughed and made eye contact, but i restrained myself. she assumed, i am assuming this, that i said "how are you?" except i didn't. and her go-to response is "good, thanks." and if i don't ask her she still responds, making her look like a fool.
this was strange to me, even stranger was that it happened twice, last night. similar scene, no set up needed.

Me: "Hi."

Him: "Hi, just fine."
again he's got his response in his back pocket ready to lay it out in case i ask him how he is doing. don't be doing that. you embarrass yourself when that person doesn't speak the way you are expecting them to. very similar situation... normally when you finish a transaction at let's say, a gas station, and the cashier says, "have a nice day," you might say, "thanks, you too." common. and polite. but if i just gave you your small popcorn, no butter and large diet coke and say, "enjoy the show," don't say, "you too." i won't be enjoying the show. i have to work.
you see this is a common response to say, "thanks you too," but you have to actually think of what the person said to you. too many people aren't thinking about their own conversations. they respond like a reflex. it's actually kinda funny when the person realizes that i won't be enjoying the show with them and as they walk away they say something like, "well no you won't," or something to that awkward degree. and sometimes i'll say, "don't worry, i get that all the time," or "maybe i will, once i'm off work." you know, to be polite. either way i'm sure they are like in their heads, "wow, i'm a ritard."
i used a lot of quotes today. and i also decided this post is long enough that i will postpone the second part of the work related blog until tomorrow. "hopefully."

hey remember that coach who made the half court shot when he wasn't supposed to make it???

mid weak?

Answer of the Day: Vancouver

so it's been a while since there has been an official mid weak. I guess all my recent blogs haven't been on wednesdays. no com studies today or friday so bloggin' FTL betwixt my classes.
also matt and i went to the hub today, we haven't been there in soo long. we used to frequent that place after history on tuesdays and thursdays last semester. today was the first visit of 2010. we passed jeff goldblum eating an ice cream sandwich and i bought a cinnamon sugar bagel with cream cheese. and the caribou trivia of the day was what city is hosting this year's winter olympics? i know it's only 10 cents but answering the trivia question each day and paying 10 less cents gives me such a sense of accomplishment. i paid $1.70 instead of $1.80. boost
i would also like to address an issue. i feel like i was attacked on matt blog yesterday by isaac. yeah i'm going public with this. i don't know how i was ripping anybody. matt said he wishes he was like jason segal in forgetting sarah marshall. that confused me because it was the part of the movie where he was depressed about her leaving. does that make sense? also you asked for our thoughts on your new pic on your blog, isaac. i said i thought it was too plain. i liked the original one that you accidentally saved. so i was going to surprise you and submit a version to you that i photoshopped, but i decided to tell you now. and also i remember reading that blog with you where the guy would change all his font sizes and text and whatnot. all i'm saying is that you aren't getting the same effect
ok enough of the bickering
it's mid weak

sometimes i do.

been a while since i've been bloggin'
the computer, i'm not on-loggin'
cuz my schedule's been down-boggin'
and my socks have been wet-soggin'
ill stop the excuses and get to joggin'
to finish these posts so i can BE BLOGGIN'

enough of that. i've been busy. yea i used bloggin' twice
so this weathers really been sucking. snow and a frickin huge dose of wind. blowing my junk all over the place. it hurts to walk into the wind cuz it's so cold.
and now that it snowed again it has just cover up the ice on the ground. i fell twice on one trip to my apartment. the first time i was trying to slide so as not to slip. fail
the second i was coming down the stairs and i biffed it right at the bottom. my right leg stayed planted and it just bent really fast or something. it hurt. and also hurt my booty. frowny face
the semester is basically in full swing. i'm used to all my classes now. no com studies wednesday or friday boost! but this design project is stealing all of my time
i really don't feel like explaining the project other than it is a "doorway" if you ask any other design student they will tell you how crappy this project is and how it isn't just a doorway. it's "more than that." those might be unnecessary quotes
also, i've created a new word. and i'm documenting this here so if any chumps try to steal my idea... pow right in the kisser.
well this is embarrassing...
i was about to reveal my new word. and it's already a word. just urban dictionaried it. which in itself is a word. and i already submitted my version to UD. it's just spelled differently. i literally looked it up right before i was about to type it here. *facepalm*
ok so my word... was... texplain. to explain something through text messages. i thought i was genius i didn't see it on the website. after making my own i found "textplain" fml.
so i guess... i'll continue to blog... i feel super deflated right now...
you guys just witnessed something really embarrassing happen to me. and i'm not the kind of blogger who would just edit that out and pretend like i never thought of a word someone else already thought of. I KEEP IT REAL! YOUR WELCOME!

we go 100% here at BLAAAHG!

so i will give a shout out to one of our fellow bloggers. no not you matt. no not you isaac. SleepTalkinMan.blogspot.com! no exclamation point
this english guy sleep talks and his wife records it and blogs about it! the stuff he says is hilarious!!!
"Pork chops are most satisfying. Mmmmmmm. Dangle them from the ceiling."
"Butter... nut... squash. I like those words."
"Vampire penguins? Zombie guinea pigs? We're done for.... done for."
word up to mini daddy

don't ask

question mark?

so i guess i'm not really back unless i blog right? cuz i've always been "here" but not bloggin' and when i said back, i meant back to bloggin' so i guess i better blog. right?

k

spare time right now. best time for bloggin'

i was just about to say how i have nothing to blog about but then i remember i put blog ideas into my phone. so i whipped it out. and it said...

i totally forgot that it's 2010! i mean i didn't forget but i planned on saying something about it in my blog! for all those people who own computers with internet and don't own calendars or look at the dates on their computers... this is for you.

so ya... its 2010. i meant to have like a celebratory blog of the new year but i was to busy trying to recap things over break. so belated happy new year to everyone! just some cool pics i found.

so i guess i'll post some stuff i found. if you are a fan of failblog or texts from last night of fml or anything similar i think you will enjoy this. its called failbooking.com
it will feed all of our facebook addictions while laughing at everyone else screwing up at the same time. lets dip our big toe in and have a taste of what its like...

no offense missy, this is just comedy

so yaa bye y'all

remember bloggin?

hey remember when everybody blogged like errday? ya those were the days. o winter break, look what thou hast done to us

so ya i tried to get back to bloggin' once school started, but noooooo i probably had the busiest first week of school i've ever had.working. schooling. other people's classes. other people's dorms. eating. sleeping. but really, it was probably the most fun i've had in the first week of school. isaac was here this week and everyone had so much fun. i really paid more attention to extracurricular activities than to my new classes. bad way to start off the semester. i think i like my classes more now than i did at the beginning of last semester. if you would like to flip through those previous posts i would tell you that i don't really enjoy having strictly lecture classes. but as it turned out, i realized i loved my schedule last year! almost all of my classes weren't too hard and the lectures were "alright" but for the most part enjoyable. this semester i'm not dreading anything like the fall but it might go the opposite of last semester. love at first. by the end... hate
well it was pretty much a great week with a very disappointing weekend. great first week of school followed by a downer. missy left and isaac is leaving. hey maybe he should come back in the fall?...
man, stuff has happened between blogs but nothing too important like the last recap. i really hope to get back into the normal schwing of things and i think this second week will be "less fun."
for those who don't know i've been driving around the dodge stratus. it's my loaner car and i should be getting my car back on monday. the dodge stratus and i have bonded. i'm really liking it. but bring back the buick. oh dodge stratus...
anything important that i wished to blog about i have forgotten. partially because i am bloggin' on a saturday night/sunday morning. which is why this super fun week ended so lame. don't be bloggin' on saturday nights.
i just remembered something fun. on wednesday matt, isaac, liz, and missy had a spaghetti dinner, then matt and isaac and i went to the isu bball game to watch the cyclones give the no. 1 longhorns a run for their money, and then we went to see princess and the frog! that was fun!
something i have to look forward to is having a four day weekend. so ya that's cool
missy i know you aren't reading this but have fun in arkansas! isaac i bid you adieu. ames loves having you and we can't wait to hang out again. matt and liz... hi
lets shut it down with miley cyrus overdosing on some autotune

breakblog

ummm so it's been like 3 weeks since the last post. but i'm not gonna apologize for it! its my break and i'm gonna relax and do what i want! sometimes bloggin's a job in itself.

so let's try to recap what's happened since we left off...

finals. finally. finished. frustrated. frustrated because even though i did well on all of my finals, my theater class' grade is screwed up on accessplus. i added all my points together and i should have a 92% in the class. the syllabus doesn't say anything is weighted but i have a B. wtf and i emailed my professor like 2 weeks ago. no response. wtf

umm stuff happened

stuff didn't happened

christmas happened
wii happened. band hero happened. no sleep happened.
it's been really cold here in ames and everyone's freezing their but off. umm let me think...
i got into a car accident. crunched the front of my car. it was the city's fault. no ones hurt. insurance is gonna cover it. we painted my basement. sand color and red. kinda cardinal but i was still opposed to painting. it. it was my mom's idea. now i could rant about this, like i did, but i won't because this is a winter recap.
new years. missy got a new apartment. its pretty cool. we helped move and were gonna have a new years party, but that got... cancelled. no need for explanations...

then all of a sudden, everyone left.
kelsey... matt... liz... isaac... missy and i are alone. well i'm alone.
get back here guys!
i'm really ready for summer now. not because i'm tired of the cold, but because i'm really enjoying NOT going to school. but this semester should be ok. i was nervous but i switched some classes now i'm "excited". well as excited you can be about a school schedule.
soo i lost my train of thought.
oya we made the lobby at the theater into a forest for where the wild things are. maybe i'll post a pic later but not feeling it right now. still getting used to bloggin' again.
well iowa state beat minnesota in the insight bowl 14 to 13. boooost to that
isaac did a live blog thingy on his blog iostrohman.blogspot.com. hes been talking about doing a vlog. that's video log. here is a vid of a girl's first vlog

so just take that into consideration.
well right now i really can't remember what all has happened over break because brian regan is on comedy central right now so i do apologize for that.
well in the near future i plan on bloggin' like i do, rantin and posting vids and stuff, but for right now i'm trying to enjoy my frickin' break. speaking of frickin'

enjoy the rest of your break everybody.