Worst Proposal Ever!

So I was on instant messenger the other night and one of my friends that I haven't talked to forever was on. So I was like whats up, tell me about your life, etc etc. I haven't talked to this guy in at least 3 years. This is actual transcripts from the convo. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.

J: (12:03:28 AM): well considering I wanna marry my girlfriend.... another distraction
Rose: (12:03:55 AM): yeah but thats a good distraction
Rose: (12:04:04 AM): does she know yet?
J:(12:04:08 AM): no
Rose: (12:04:17 AM): well i won't tell her
J: (12:04:21 AM): well, she just read that
J: (12:04:27 AM): lol
J: (12:04:28 AM): brb
Rose: (12:04:33 AM): LOL
J: (12:07:04 AM): kay I had to do some explaining lol
Rose:(12:07:11 AM): yeah i bet
Rose: (12:07:15 AM): worst proposal ever
J: (12:07:19 AM): ROFL, nah
J: (12:07:29 AM): infact it was perfect
J: (12:07:30 AM): and she said yes

Yes, you read that right. My friend spoiled his proposal by telling me about it on IM with his girlfriend looking over his shoulder. He then had to get off IM and actually ask his girlfriend, which i find hilarious. He had actually been planning his proposal for awhile; he had planned to do it on their trip to Sweden but he manage to botch that. She said yes, and then promptly starting calling family at midnight. Only stuff like this can happen in my life.

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Wake Up Call: SYTYCD Auditioners

So I'm a self-proclaimed Reality TV Junkie. I love the stuff: American Idol, Survivor, The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Project Runway, Hell's Kitchen, Charm School, Tough Love, etc. My Summer Favorite is So You Think You Can Dance. If you have never watched the show. I suggest tuning in. Its much much better than those other dance; and if you want to see real dancing talent, its the show to go to.

That being said, could we find a few less delusional auditioners for the show? Like American Idol, the audition episodes are full of idiots who think they have talent. But what people don't understand is that unlike singing, even if you have a natural talent for dancing, if you've never trained anywhere ever, you're not going to make it on the show. Some might remember that last years winner Joshua Allen (love him!) had no formal training. But he did take ballet and modern classes as well as doing musicals. So he did have some training, but not formal dance training like the vast majority of the others.

What i love about this delusional dancers is that they think club dancing or techno dancing makes them dancers. Let me tell you anyone can shake their asses on the dance floor; its not complicated. You do double pirouette into a arabesque and then we will talk. What i love is the idiots who make up their "own" styles of dancing. If you are making up your own style, I hate to break this to you, you can't dance. I'm not some dancing expert, even though i did take dance classes for years. I wouldn't make it to Vegas, and i know that. But i'm also not wasting the judges time with bad dancing either. Seriously, auditioners watch yourself in a mirror before your audition and if you think you look like an idiot, you probably shouldn't audition.

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Coming Out of the Wood Work

So in the last month or so I've been facebooked by several former people i went to High School with. I find this to be a little strange. I spent 3 years of high school trying to get out of the school. My family moved after my freshman year to this podunk town in the middle of nowhere and I changed schools. I went from living on a military base where people come and go every couple of months to a town where everybody had lived there their whole lives. I was a fish out of water to say the least. I was the new kid in a town where everyone went to daycare/elementary/middle school together. In short, I would have made more friends if i had two heads.

That isn't to say i didn't make friends and i didn't get along with people. I had a few friends, less of whom i actually trusted. And i made acquaintances with most of the honors students because i had classes with them. But when i went to college, i pretty much stopped speaking to all but a few of those friends. You might think that's really shallow, but trust me, I did it for the best. Most of those friends didn't go to college, and ended up getting knocked up/married/doing drugs or alcohol. And that's fine for them, but that wasn't the life i wanted and i didn't want to be drug down with them.

But now, 7 years after i graduated high school (gosh, has it really been that long?) I find it weird that these people are Facebooking me. I accept the ones i remember, rejects the one i don't (sometimes i have to look them up in my yearbook to remember) but i just don't get it. I obviously wasn't that close of friends with them because i didn't stay in touch. And i have less in common with them now, then i did when i went to high school with them. I just find it a little odd, maybe i'm the only one.

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TBR Challenge: First Quarter Update

So four (yes i know five, by May isn't over yet) months into 2009 and i'm a little behind on the To Be Read Challenge 2009. I blame graduate school because trust me i have read way more than 12 books so far but none of them all that much fun to read. Now that's summers here hopefully i will be able to catch up.

TBR Challenge 2009:
January- Temptation in the Night of Jasmine by Lauren Willig
February- Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
March-Calamity Jayne by Kathleen Bacus (awaiting arrival from Amazon)
April- Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster
May- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
June- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
July- Hood by Stephen Lawhead
August- How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito
September- I was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
October-She Went All the Way By Meg Cabot
November- Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey
December- Hollywood Girls Club by Maggie Marr

My Alternate List:

1. Death du Jour by Kathy Reich
2. Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
3. Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster
4. Calamity Jayne Rides Again by Kathleen Bacus
5. Scarlett by Stephen Lawhead

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Do You Need Bloodhounds?

Dear US Postal Service:

Now listen, I am normally a fan of you. I don't gripe when you increase stamp prices every two months (What the fuck why don't they just make stamps 50 cents already and leave it that way? Trying to find 42, 47, 49 cents when i need a stamp is just too much work.) I don't care when you return my mail because i don't have the right postage even though what i'm sending weighs as much as a piece of paper (typically because it is a piece of paper). I'm even thankful when you realize i wrote the address wrong and send it back rather than it getting lost in the mail shuffle (A lesson my dryer could learn. I'd like to know where those socks are!!)

But seriously you have the worst package tracking system ever. I bought a slew of books from Amazon a little over a week ago (two German grammar/verb drill books, a German self-teaching guide, a French self-teaching guide and a fiction novel- I couldn't help myself I need something fluffy). Amazon finally sent them like 4 days later via USPS with tracking information. As of today, 4 days later, USPS still says there is no record of my packages (they sent one book separately). Why the hell do i have tracking information if there are no records of my packages? I went on Amazon to see what they had and they have both packages shipping from Kentucky.

Normally i wouldn't care where my packages are (thats a lie, anyone who knows me knows i'm th biggest f'ing micromanger and i would want to know where they are every second of every day until i got them). But i'm going out of town on Monday night to visit my parents, and i'm not crazy about packages sitting outside my door for 3 days. Let me just tip off the hoodlums in my apartment complex that i'm not home. So that they can finally steal my new TV-since its the only expensive thing in my apartment (the laptop goes home with me). Seriously USPS, do you need bloodhounds to track the packages for you? UPS and Fed-X don't seem to have a problem updating me daily on where my packages are. Don't these things have to run these things over a scanner anyways? would it be so hard to have that update your mainframe so that i would know if i needed to postpone my trip for a day so that i can not have my apartment broken into (deep down i just really want my new fluffy fiction novel).

Thank you,
Coyote Rose

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My Life (Painted) By Numbers

So I'm officially old today. It's all downhill from me after this birthday. Each year one step closer to being 30...40...80. But before i wallow in my own self-pity about being in my late 20's, I thought i would look back over the first 25 years of my life and see what i accomplished. So my life by the numbers:

25- years old
6- siblings (4 sisters and 2 brothers)
5- people I've considered my Best friend (at one point in time or another)
7- different cities
8- different jobs
2- people I've had sex with
11- concerts
3- times I've been in the emergency room
2- tattoos
18-years I've been in school
15-times I have had a nervous breakdown in the last year
30-times I wash my hands a day (rough estimate)
1- times I've been in love
2-degrees (High School and Bachelors)

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This is Why I Love My Friends

So I gripe about my friends alot. Mostly cause they do shit like putting me on Match.com. But i love them for it too, because at least they care enough to torture me. So Friday night, Ancient Civ Chick drags me out of my apartment to go to a thing at her Greek Professors house. Now i'm not really all that geared up to go since I have the first chapter to my Thesis due on monday, but i owe ACC for babysitting my problem dog and helping me out with a car issue, so i go. Plus i needed the break from working anyways. Her and another friend pick me up and then we have to run back to her house cause she forgot something, which she does all the time.

So we go into the apartment and its actually a surprise B-Day party for me and the other friend (Our B-Days are both on Cinco de Mayo). Let me tell you, it came as the shock of my life basically because i didn't see it coming and because I was so burnt out by work (the cat in the picture doesn't illustrate how far i jumped in the air). But it was awesome, ACC kept handing me alcohol which wasn't so great considering i hadn't eaten much that day and around 10:30ish the group disbanded and ACC, the other B-Day girl, myself and three male friends from the History department head downtown. It's our B-Day party, we couldn't tell them no. So we head downtown, and i didn't buy a drink all night and still ended up plastered. I don't even remember what i drank at this point. I just remember getting alcohol put in my hands. I did eventually start refusing drinks but only after the room started spinning and I was entertaining notions of making out with one of the guys. I'm not about to be that chick that goes to a bar, gets plastered and make out with random guys. I think at one point some guy was trying to hit on me, but i was so far gone I'm not really sure.

But this is why i love my friends because no matter what kind of hell they put me through on a daily basis, and how many times they try to humiliate me in public. In the end they are always going out of their way for me. Plus i'm totally impressed they all lied to me. Even G-Fab and he nevers lies to me. He got a scathing text message latter for not telling me, cause he's supposed to tell me everything. But still they managed to keep it a secret from me, which isn't easy to do. So props to my freinds for being awesome.

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