Thought You May Enjoy a Good Laugh...

I don't have much in the way of updates, but I found this video and thought it was hilarious... feel free to laugh out loud, I know I did.




~M

Gee How Long Has It Been...

Well I guess the last trip that I went on would be a good place to start. This year for my mom's birthday we went to Disneyland again. This time it was nice because my brother's girlfriend came with us. We spent the usual 3 days there and it was great. We left early in the morning on Thursday and came back on Sunday. The Thursday that we got there it was great because there were hardly any people there. On Saturday however it was a totally different story.
I can't remember the last time that I took a picture with Minnie!It's Halloween Time!!!Poor Lisa missed half of the trip due to the excessive texting and talking!!! Just kidding Lisa, you know I love you!Me and my mommy...that was a fun trip. Next year in November for the big 3-0 we are going to Disneyland for my birthday. That should be fun. I have never been there when it is dressed up for Christmas. It should be neat, the kids are going with us this time around.

I thought I would throw in one of Kipper laughing! How cute is that!

I guess next up on the shelf is Thanksgiving. I made dinner at my house for my dad (who didn't show up), his friend Gayle, my brother and Lisa showed up. I made a ton of food, I can say that right now if I never see stuffing, mashed potatoes or turkey again I will be happy. Since some people didn't show up and some didn't eat that meant there were a ton of leftovers. Which I put to good use, but it's still a pain to eat the same thing for 4 days. Me no gusta turkey sandwiches any longer!It was a really good turkey though. I had only ever made one other. Now I do have to confess that I found something out that day though. In the morning when I was prepping the turkey I pulled out the little bag that had the neck and the gibblets in it. Well when I opened the bag only the neck was in there. I shoved my hand so far up that Turkey's ass and still didn't find the rest of it. So I figured that Butterball jipped me and owed me about $3. Well later that night when I pulled the Turkey out of the oven and let it rest then cut into it, it was cooked beautifully. Not dry like I had nightmares over (think Griswald Christmas, turkey blowing apart when the knife was inserted). But I couldn't figure out what was in the neck of the turkey, it looked like paper. Well I pulled it out and Gayle started cracking up. "I wondered where in the hell the gibblets went" is what I screamed after opening the bag. I thought there was some secret surprise in there, I guess to Lulu and Kipper it was since they got to eat it later. But it was so funny. I guess I learned something that night. Did I mention that it was raining on Thanksgiving! I was so happy and excited about that. It really was a perfect day!The kiddies waiting to go outside after the rain...Anthony dreaming and wishing he could cut into the pie, but he has to wait one more day for Thanksgiving.Kipper gave up begging and decided to take a nap instead.

Well besides my 29th birthday on the 30th nothing else really happened. I thought I would end with some cute pics I have...Anthony, Kipper and Lulu...Me and my baby...

Till next time :)

~M

Miss M Lately...

There hasn't been a whole lot going on really. I have to sit down and download my pictures that I took while in Disneyland. My mom came up with the great idea of making a scrap book for all the pics or most of them anyways. I have never really scrapbooked before, it's fun. I'm sure it would be a pain in the ass if you weren't very creative though. Anthony and Olivia have been quite busy with school and some church activities. Cisco has been working a whole lot and so have I. I am not working the other job any longer so now I have time to do little things around the house, like move the living room around and tear up carpet in the den, which I will be doing tomorrow. That should be great fun. Not looking forward to Christmas this year, but what else is new. Thanks to the economy my children will really be able to appreciate their gifts ( which they usually do and don't ever complain) but I wonder what will happen still. We told them that due to the current economic crisis Santa won't be supplying that much this year, he had to ask the government for a loan. The kids looked at me like I was crazy. So I promise that soon I will post some precious photos of my chidrens.

~M

Proud To Be A Witness..

...to history. I am so proud to be able to say I watched as history was made on November 4, 2008. I will always remember that I was sitting in my living room watching and felt an enormous sense of awe as Obama gave his speech. I think this election was particularly important because our country is in such bad shape and I do not think that John McCain had a lot going for him because of that. Bush turned this country upside down and it is a real shame. Obama was right when he said it's going to be tough but things will get back on track. I am so glad to see that our country is not going to be run by Republicans for another 4 years. I think we now have a real chance to make things right. To all my friends who say they are moving to Canada I only have this to say, hope you send a post card.

It just baffles me to hear people say how good Bush did, or that this cannot all be blamed on him. Uh, someone drank the tainted punch. I just don't know how someone can look me in the face and say that things aren't as bad as everyone has put them out to be. Uh, yeah they are. I don't think that before this year I had ever seen one house that was being auctioned off, let alone 5 or 6 in one neighborhood alone. We are now in a recession regardless of what others may believe and what's worse is that we were led into a war under false pretenses and we as a country have had to suffer because of it. It's a real shame, but hopefully the end of embarrassment is near.

I did not only vote for the Obama / Biden ticket because I'm a Democrat, but because I was not about to have another idiot near the White House and yes I mean Sarah Palin. When considering things a sad but very real thought ran through my head. If something should happen to Obama could I as an American trust Biden to be our President, and the answer was yes. Now when I asked myself the same question with McCain I did not get the same answer. I was down right scared at the thought of this woman from Alaska of all places becoming our next president, should McCain die. I mean the woman didn't even know what the VP's role is with the Senate...come on.

I am at peace now knowing that we as a nation have a very real chance of getting out of this mess that Bush got us into and it will be a wonderful thing when we do start to see some real CHANGE.

~M

Back In Action...

Kind of. I am back from my Disneyland trip and am back to work, when I came back I was sick so now I am about all the way better and it's really nice. I will post some pics and update further when I get a chance.

Much Love,
~M

Something To Look Forward To...

Yay! Finally, it took long enough for there to be something to watch on TV! I have my Tivo all set up for this coming season. Since I'm working mostly at nights during the week I have to make sure all my favorite shows are being recorded. Thank god I will be home tonight to watch Desperate Housewives. I am looking forward to seeing how things have come along 5 years later and all :)

This is another one that I really got into that I am looking forward to watching tonight. It came on last week but Mr. Tivo is my little friend and I get to do laundry tonight and watch what happened! Happy happy!

there is some conflict with tonight so I have to Tivo Amazing Race so that Cisco can watch it with me. I am still wanting to be on this show...soon. I think that I will apply next season! I have to find someone to go with, I don't think Cisco would be able to.
I can't wait to see this tonight too!

got a couple of others that I like, like Survivor! I don't know why they are so fun to watch but they are. I think the only thing I hate about Survivor is what they do on one of the last shows, where they take the torch of the players that were thrown off and put them to rest...WHATEVER!!! Other than that, I like that show a lot!


There is also Saturday Night Live, especially since we have these joker nominees for the presidential race, it's pretty funny.

Well as you can see I don't have much else to blog about!

It's just a wonderful time of year! There is so much to look forward to, at least when it comes to watching TV!

Are You Serious...

The only reason why I ask this is because I always thought of women being more considerate of other people and clearly more tidy. This thought went completely out the window last night while I was working. Now, considering where I work I thought that people would be far better at picking up after themselves, but I was wrong. I worked in women's clothing last night where they have the evening dresses and women's suits, working in this area means that you have to keep tabs on the fitting rooms as well as the sales floor and tending to customers. I didn't think that this would be that big of a deal because I had done it the week before in men's clothing and it was easy, walk in check the dressing room and then sign my name. Piece of cake!

Now the under world of women's dressing rooms is a far different can of worms. I personally am very considerate when I go into a fitting room, I hang up my clothes when I am done and if there is somewhere to put them I place them there. The women that I dealt with last night are under the impression that since I work there and I am getting paid to put clothes away and adhere to their every whim they think that it is ok to leave clothes piled in knots on the fitting room floor, strewn over doors and left hanging by one string. Now I just know there there are some of you out there that are thinking, well it is your job to put the clothes away and make sure the fitting room is kept nice and clean. Yes, it is, but there is also something called common courtesy. When I use the restrooms at work I don't forget to flush the toilet and throw my paper towels on the floor just because I know that there is someone that will come and do it if I don't (and there are people that do this too, I've been unlucky enough to witness it). The least you can do is hang the clothes back on the hanger, hell I'll zip it up and button it, but I shouldn't have to untangle it, figure out where the hanger could have possibly gone all while you are asking me for another size. I just think that is plain wrong. It's pretty bad when men are better at the fitting room game then women. I thought for sure that would be far worse.

It just makes me wonder if they do that s*** at home. Do you leave your clothes in a knotted up mess laying in a pile on the floor? If something falls off the hanger when you are going through your clothes do you just leave it in a pile at the bottom of your closet? The answer is probably not, so why would you do it when you go out to other places. Just because you are somewhere other than home doesn't mean that you should forget about your manners. Now I know there there are some people out there men and women that have no concept of other people in the world and they could care less and that is fine, I can spot those people from a mile away and I deliberately do not help them because I know that they will be very rude and thoughtless throughout the whole process, there for making it not worth my while at all with the exception of leaving me frustrated and pissed off. Now, the ones that surprise me are the ones that are very polite and are a joy to help, then they screw you in the end. I spent an hour helping someone find the perfect dress last night, right fit and everything. When I finished trying to help her, she decided at the register that she didn't want to get the dress and that she would try Sears and then when I went back into her dressing room she left all of the dresses in a pile turned inside out and thrown everywhere. I swear if I could have found her I would have killed her with a hanger.

So please next time you go to the mall or a store, even a Target. Remember to be nice. Like the old video store slogan..."Be Kind Rewind". It's not that you have to do these things, it's just nice sometimes to do something for someone else.

~M

"I Am Not Going To Disneyland In October..."

Cisco wrote this and made me sign it but this of course was right after my mom and I went in October last year, and it was the second trip within a four month period so I was not exactly excited about going with my mom this year. Well when I told my mom that I wasn't going she said that she would take her friend with her. I definitely thought that she would not go at all because she wasn't taking me with her. Well a few months later she told me that she was going to take my brother's girlfriend. At this point I didn't really know her and I was just pissed that of all the people she could have taken that it would be her. I mean I hadn't even met the girl yet and my mom was instant best friends with her...please. Well I have gotten to know her since then and I just love her. She is the best thing that has happened to my brother and we love Disneyland like crazy so it's just a match in heaven. We do have a lot of fun together when we are together so that is good. I just love spending time with her, and I think that by her going my mom may calm down on feeling the need to talk excessively. I was really bummed at the thought that now that I wanted to go I couldn't because of school and now work, but since school is a no go for right now it was just going to be tricky to get the time off of the new job. Well I asked for time off from my new job so that I can go and actually got it, so now it's official I am going to Disneyland in October.

The bet was that I wouldn't go, I can't remember if Cisco and I actually bet anything on it, but my mom keeps reminding me that if I were to go he would pay for the ticket, she said that since she was a witness he can't go back on it...ha ha right? Yeah, well I don't really expect him to pay for the ticket, but if he wanted to give me some money to buy some Pooh crap while I'm there that would be ok too! So yes, I am going even though I signed the napkin saying I wouldn't. I know that the napkin is long gone, but since Cisco knew that I would destroy it he took a picture of it, I thought that I had erased it, apparently not. Damn those digital cameras...what ever happened to the 110 rolls that took years to develop!

~M

TMI...TMI...TMI...

Beware...Too Much Information can be dangerous.

I swear that is how I feel about one of my new co-workers. I guess there is someone like this in every establishment because I remember at Mandalay Bay there was someone like this as well. Wanting to share way too information about themselves. Let's call her A, well A decided to tell me all about her boyfriend today. Now let's keep in mind that I have never worked with this girl before. I guess it may be good that people feel so comforatable around me but I think that I would rather her not feel the need to tell me that she has sex with her well endowed boyfriend everyday and how good he is. She also felt the need to ask me how my sex life was. Now let's remember that when she was telling me this we were on the selling floor. I was surprised that my mouth didn't drop open. I just couldn't believe that she would feel the need to share this information with me. She also is such a lady. She thought it would be a good idea to burp quite loudly while a customer was walking by. Another girl we work with M said that she also farts in a customer's presence. How nice. I thought that my night of TMI would be over at the end of the night, but about 10 minutes before closing she wanted to air her frustration about having to still be there and the store not closing yet, since she wanted to go home and have sex and get something to eat. Gee aren't I stupid I keep forgetting that they fall into the same catagory! It's been a long time since I have had things to write about concerning work and I always get a kick out of other people's work stories. I have ever since I was little because my dad used to come home and tell me all of his, I never met these people but I knew who they were just by the stories he came home with everyday. I guess now I have my own to tell...again.

~M

Has It Really Been That Long...

Wow, nearly a month since I have been on here. That's hard to believe! That's quite a dry spell isn't it. Sorry to all of my loyal fans out there. It's been pretty busy around here, with school starting and me having a second job and all. Culinary School is unfortunately being put on hold for right now. I had to put my priorities together and sadly that doesn't include school right now. I was cut down to 3 day's a week at my little office job, so I decided that it would be a good idea to get a second job. I thought that it would be funny to add that into the mix. It's definatley a change of pace and I can honestly say that my feet have been killing me ever since I started this job. I am just so not used to being on my feet for three hours straight let alone 8 hours. This job is great because you even get lunch...however you have to clock out for it. It's ok, it's better than nothing right? It's funny because my uncle has been waiting for calls from the union hall for him to take some work, and it's been really slow there as well. So he's been taking unemployment and hoping that they call him for more that a one day job. He told me that instead of working his ass off for eight hours he would rather not work that one day and take unemployment. I couldn't do that. So when I told him that I was working two jobs and that I didn't have a day off from both on the same day, that if I was off at one I was working at the other he was telling me how depressing that would be. I continued to tell him that I didn't have much of a choice...but it took everything in me to not say, "Don't you think it's more depressing not having a job at all?" I swear I wonder why people don't think about what they say sometimes. I know that some people just can't see the glass as half full but, wouldn't you rather have two part time jobs, regardless of the day's off than to not have any job at all? Oh, well we have all lost hope on this particular family member years ago, so it's just best to keep our mouths shut and avoid confrontation, just hope for the best and be thankful that we are not where he is in his life.

So as I continue my little post before beddy bye and another long day tomorrow, I bid thee fair well and hope that it doesn't take another month for me to write.

~M

Along With The Olympics...Comes the Ridiculous...

Ok, please somebody tell me that this is all a joke and at the end of this year's summer Olympics they will say "April Fools" or something to that extent. I am not an avid Olympic watcher, I sit to some of the events, like swimming and gymnastics. But to sit there and watch a soccer game, no. Or to watch ping pong, uh no. The other morning when Cisco and I were sitting down and drinking our coffee and in an attempt to find some thing interesting on at 7am, which is impossible by the way unless you enjoy infomercials, we came across some of the Olympics...PLAYING BADMINTON. WTF...since when is playing birdie something that you could get a medal at! I think that anything that you could play at a family picnic should not be up for Olympic status. Personally if that is the way things are then they should have marbles or thumb war as an Olympic game. I don't know it's just ridiculous. I also found out that speed walking is in there too, give me a break. In this event they should have all the middle aged women in my neighborhood walking there dogs to see who comes in first, it shouldn't be some 20 year old. I just think that it was better when it was swimming, gymnastics, track and field and the other obvious choices. Maybe that is why I don't get into the Olympics that much anymore, because it's just getting silly now.

~M

Don't Hate Me Cause I'm Marvelous!

There is the title of my memoir, I can't help it if I am :)

I thought that it was a clever little game and since I was tagged to do it, I thought that I would participate!

Here's how you play...Make up your own 6 word memoir title.

1. Write the title to your memoir using 6 words.

2. Post it on your blog.

3. Link the person who tagged you...Yamell :)

4. Tag 5 more blogs.

Uh, let me see who I can think of...

Cisco

Summer

Rusty

Jenny

Sugarcookies

I think that might work. :)

Have Fun...:)

~M

A Dream Materializing...

So I don't think that it is a huge secret that I love baking. It is also no secret that I have been told by several people that I should open my own bakery. So the desire to do this has been getting greater and greater. I was registered to start school at CSN next month and figured while I was doing that I would look into Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts School. Well while I was there I started the application process and am now registered there for this fall and will graduate from there in 2009. It is a nine month class, but very intensive. Considering I will be there for 5 hours every night of the week, but I think that I will finally be happy at work, since I will enjoy doing things that interest me. I think that I will eventually have my own business but I will take that step slow, I still have some ways to go with the training and technical parts of things, but it's all very exciting!

I can't wait!

~M

Catching Up On Things...

So I guess that today would be a good time to catch everyone up on the happenings of Miss M., and my mom is doing just fine by the way. So Ciso and I went to California for a whole week! I was so excited, I can't remember the last time I was gone from this bloody state for a complete week. So I guess I will do a semi-play by play. The first picture that I put up was from our tasting at Gloria Ferrer. I'll write more about that later though. I think I will write about the first place that we stayed at, which I wrote about on the first day. The Langham Pasadena.From what Cisco was telling me this place used to be a Ritz Carlton. It was so nice, I did not want to leave, but the second day we headed up North towards San Francisco. We drove along the PCH and I could have sworn that I asked Cisco if this was a straight road and not really curvy. I also was under the impression that he confirmed that yes, the road was in fact straight. No, it wasn't. It was all curvy and pukey. It was a beautiful drive, I do wish that I could have enjoyed it more. I really enjoyed when we stopped to go to the bathroom or to eat, or to just get gas. That was the high light of the PCH for me. Anytime that we got to stop. :) So along one of the stops we were at a beach and saw a ton of Elephant Seals.I could not believe how many of them there were. Some of them were fighting, some of them were swimming in the water which I thought was really neat. They were just jumping around in the water and swimming around with eachother. It was so cold outside. I could not believe how cold it was, I did not pack for this trip. I packed shorts and t-shirts. I thought for sure that it was going to be hot, hello, it's California. I thought that it might get chilly once we got to San Francisco but not until then. Boy was I wrong. Cisco was so cold here. I had my jacket on so I was ok. This little piece of beach didn't have anyone on it. It was windy and freezing. We walked down there and Cisco had shorts and his little thin t-shirt on, so when I wanted to keep taking pictures he told me to hurry because of how cold he was. I did not think that I would get any good pictures, but I got this really good one of him and a couple of black and whites. After this it was back on the road again. I swear all that day we just drove, which was great, because I love driving, minus the curvy roads. I guess it was good that we went that way though, because we would have never seen half of the things that we did if we didn't go that way.The next stop after going through Carmel was Half Moon Bay. I thought that this place was going to be more built up and touristy than it actually was. I had yet another surprise waiting for me there, Cisco made reservations at the Ritz there also. It was so beautiful. I wanted to stay there for the rest of the weekend. I had no interest in going to Mammoth after that stay.This place had a giant fire pit and it overlooked the ocean. I think it stayed light out a little while until about 9pm, which surprised me. I just loved that place and wished that we had more time so that we could walk around and look at the grounds more and possibly go for a walk on the beach. I wouldn't mind going back for the whole weekend again sometime.San Francisco here we come! Too bad that we couldn't go into the city and hang out for a while. I love walking around San Francisco, we went to breakfast and then headed out from there. I was one happy camper that morning. It was going to be straight highway from there. But, after breakfast I was a gonner. I think I slept for most of the drive to Sonoma though. When we got to the hotel in Sonoma it was so hot when we got out of the car. Such a shock to what we have been feeling when getting out of the car for the past two days. It made me happy that I was wearing a t-shirt. Not that I had anything else to wear. We went into the hotel to check in, change and then hit the vinyards. We didn't get there in time for the tour which was a total bummer, because I wanted to go through the caves so badly. But we did a tasting, which wasn't even really a tasting, we pretty much just bought a glass of Sparkling Wine and sat on the balcony and drank it. It was nice though, it was a beautiful view from that balcony.So that was a good start to a some what short tasting day. The next place that we went to was Gundlach Bundschu.I think that this winery had some great wines. We bought a couple of bottles before we left. I cannot believe how hot it was there. I was definatly needing some water while we were doing these wine tastings. It was nice to just drive around and enjoy the scenery and enjoy the wine and enjoy eachother. This was so great because it was time alone doing something that we both enjoy. So this day was so exciting for me, because it just showed me what was to come on this trip. The next place and the last for the day was Matanzas Creek WineryCisco was telling me that Matanzas is a word meaning massacre so he was interested to find out what the story was behind that. If I remember correctly the guy that was giving us our tasting was saying that it is because they used to kill animals here, the natives that lived on the land a long time ago. I think Cisco thought that they were killing people or something. This was a beautiful winery. It had tons of Lavender all over the place growing, inside of the winery they sold lavender and soaps and shampoo's that were made with the lavender that grows on that property. I thought that it was really neat. Since the winery's close around 4 or 5pm that was the last one that we visited that day. There wasn't much to do where we stayed, I think that night we tried to go to a movie, but the guy that told me where to go was totally wrong and instead we went back to the hotel, which was fine with me. It had been a long day. The next day we woke up early and headed out to Napa Valley. We ate breakfast and then tried to go to Domaine Chandon, but we had just missed the tour so we decided that we wouid go back there later. So we headed out and went to Mumm Napa ValleyI just loved going here because it was almost like a private tour, it was only us and one other couple. We walked around and I had not known how that made Sparkling Wine before so they were so descriptive on how the process was done, there were windows everywhere so that you could see what was going on. I loved the tasting that we did also. I didn't want to leave there. It was nice. While we were waiting for the tour to start I found this book that gave all the winery's in Napa and in Sonoma, which was a better map and book than I got from the visitors center that morning, that thing sucked. Cisco made reservations for us to go on a tour of Cakebread CellarsI liked this winery also, hell, I think that I liked all of them. By the time we finished that tasting, I was pretty toasted, and it was hot and I didn't have any water...you know what that means...Warning, warning, sick, sick, sick! But luckily that didn't happen, I found some water and drank the hell out of some. The guy that gave us our tasting was so informative, he was going to school to be a somminer (I don't know how to spell it) so he knew so many things! It was great.I was ready to leave, but Cisco found some friends when we were leaving, so when he came back to the car he had a big bag of tamales with him, he bought 12 of them! I couldn't figure out why we needed so many, but holy crap they were so good, we were so hungry. We drove down the street to see what other winery we could fit in before it was time to call it quits for the day and he drove into Grgich Hills for a tasting. They had some really good wine and a great tasting...uh, atleast that is what I remember. While Cisco was deciding about a bottle of wine and cashing out I decided to go back to the car. I was just about done for the day, I was pretty buzzed from all of our adventures from the day.But just when we thought that we were done for the day, we remembered that the last tour for Domaine Chandon was at 5pm and it was about 4:30 so we thought that we would go and check it out.We signed up for the tasting and for the tour. I didn't stay for the entire tasting. This place had huge slide open doors, and it was about 90 degrees outside so the air that they had on was off shot by the open windows, and I couldn't take it any longer. I had Cisco finish off my glasses and I snagged a bottle of water and took off to cool down and sit down while we waited for the tour to start, which totally sucked, so anyone that is interested, don't go to that one. I'm really glad that we went to Mumm first because it gave some great information and you walked around in more places and saw the way things were done better. Chandon only showed a video in a different part of the place. I love this picture that I took, there is a wall with empty sparkling wine bottles with some light behind it and it curves. It was one of the things that I did to recover from the excess of wine :) One of the exciting things that did happen on that crappy tour though was the fact that in the middle of our tour the wine maker was walking through and stopped to talk to us for a while. It was really neat to see the person that makes it happen. It was great. Later that night we went back to the hotel and then dinner. I talked to someone that actually knew where the movie theater was so we went and saw two for one, it was so easy to sneak into a movie there. Then our little trip in Sonoma / Napa was over and it was off to Mammoth. I have never been up to Mammoth before, it is really nice, it's really high up and there is no air up there. We stayed with my parents outside in a tent on a blow up mattress. It was no Ritz, but it's ok. We had a good time there and took some really great pictures, it was so close to this waterfall, that's all you listened to while you were sleeping. It was really nice. We didn't do much up there, I didn't go hiking or anything because I had a really hard time breathing, so I stayed with the kids, my mom and my brothers girlfriend Lisa. We had fun.Up in Mammoth they have bears up there, so one of the big rules is that you can't have any food or ice coolers laying around because the bears will come into your camp area and go through your things. Anthony forgot to take his backpack into the trailer one night so the next day we found his pack with a tear in it and the food that was in it was gone.Anthony chopping wood in the modern way that only he could.Anthony and Miss O just hanging out.It was a wonderful trip and I was so glad that we went, eventhough we were broke when we came home. It was a great and wonderful experience, we got to spend lots of time with the kids and family so it was great.