Give Me That Filet-O-Fish, GIMME THAT FISH!

This commercial is constantly playing in my head. . . I don't know why I think it's so funny, but I do. :)

Anywho, after many a bad interaction with inconsiderate customers at the Chick-fil-A, I believe it is high time that I write a blog about drive-thru and fast food etiquette. It's well over-due. I sometimes think that people just don't know that its rude. Let me enlighten you.

Drive-Thru: Placing Your Order at the Speaker
1. When approaching the speaker box, please refrain from listening to your ghetto blasting music. We cannot hear you placing your order.
2. If you drive and obnoxiously large truck with an obnoxiously loud engine, please cut your vehicle off while placing your order.
3. It is not necessary to shout into the box. We can hear you surprisingly well.
4. But please do not whisper into the box, or park your car several feet away from it. We can't hear you and it's annoying to have to ask you to speak up.
5. If for some reason your windows do not roll down, do us a favor and don't come through the drive-thru. We are judging you.
6. DO NOT TALK ON YOUR CELLPHONE WHILE PLACING YOUR ORDER. IT IS RUDE. Most establishments have signs saying to stay off the phone. Do it.
7. If you need a minute to look over the menu, just say so. We typically don't mind. The drive-thru menus are designed in such a way that you should be able to figure out what you want in less than 30 seconds. Should you be an indecisive person in nature, go inside. You're backing up the line.
8. Please place your order in a dialect that is understandable. No, we do not know what "Splender" or "Mayernaz" is. It is pronounced SPLIN-DA and MAYO-NAYZ. Please pronounce them correctly.
9. If you would like something special done to your order, perhaps having things bagged seperatly, well done, or with a certain garden item, please let us know at the box. We will be happy to take care of it when you place your order. It is annoying when we have already prepared your order for you and are handing it to you, but you have waited until the very last minute that you wanted something different.
10. For ridiculously large orders, or a lot of special things that need to be taken care of to your food, go inside. It will be quicker than if you go through the drive-thru, I promise.

More to come later. :)

This is Your Life, Are You Who You Want to Be?

The past few weeks have been rather stressful. But I have to say I am feeling rather accomplished in most aspects of my life.

Hero Night at Chick-fil-A went VERY well. Alex was very pleased and I feel we have re-established ourselves as a family restaurant. HOORAY!

I got to teach a workshop at Junior Thespian Conference. And from it I have been asked to apply for a summer internship in Roswell, Ga at Georgia Ensemble Theatre Conservatory. Hopefully I get it. I'm mailing off my resume today :)

And I'm going to try to activate a new phone this afternoon :) Off to work and class!

Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go. . .

I'm really concerned about all of the proposed budget cuts that are going on not just at CSU but all University Systems of Georgia. What if they start cutting degree programs? The smaller ones are going to go first. . . Theatre Ed is exceptionally small. And we're the only school in the state that offers it. What am I going to? Do I transfer out of state? Or switch majors? I'm really concerened about my future. It's really scaring me and stressing me out, on top of midterms and projects. I mean education is such an important foundation for the future of America; why should we sacrifice things? There are other programs and things that should be considered before taking away from our education. It's really tough to be a college student right now with the economy the way it is. The only thing that we can rely on is our majors... what will we do if they take that away? We have the right to an education.

I'm just really worried :(

Just Keep Your Eyes On Me And Let Me Be Your Gravity

I want to get married.

It's an odd way to start a blog entry. . . but it's true.

Every time I run into a bookstore or pass a magazine rack, I'm drawn to the bridal literature. I spend my free time looking at dresses, daydreaming about my wedding day, trying to find an alternative to flowers since I loathe them so much. I love looking at engagment rings, fantasizing about what my life will be like when I'm married.

At the same time it scares me.

I'm convinced that Chris is the one. But. . . I don't know. We were talking about plans for the summer (we're both taking maymester courses)and he informed me that after May he will only have 5 courses left including an internship. So his projected graduation date? Spring 2011. Which is when I'm suppose to graduate. Am I? Negative. It'll be at least December. It scares me. . . I doubt very seriously that he will stay in Columbus. It depends on where he will get a job at. I'm aware that this is a year away, but then again its only a year away! What if he goes away and gets a job some place crazy like. . . I don't know Florida? Which is his dream place to live but I'll still be here. In Columbus. Alone. Without him. Look I can barely handle being away from him for a weekend, much less a SEMESTER. Is that obsessive? I am literally miserable when he's away from me. I just want to spend every day for the rest of my life by his side. And that's where I belong. I know some of you are remembering that we haven't dated for very long. . . but when you know, you know. I know it's cliche, but I have NEVER felt this way before. My parents came down to visit me on Friday and we went to dinner with Chris. When he left my mom said that when she watches the two us bicker and argue and eventually make up in the end for our stupid little fights, it reminds her of herself and my dad. They didn't date for very long either, and then got married. Granted after they got engaged my mom got prego so they kind of had to rush the wedding a wee bit.

Anyway, I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him. I've never been so sure of something.

Work is going well. Being an Assistant Marketing Director is quite time consuming and stressful but I still love my job. Just wished it paid more.

I'm super stoked about moving out. Heather, Lindsey, and myself will either be getting a house or an apartment the first of May.

School is great :)

Besame Para Siempre :)

Right now seems like an opportune time to blog. Considering I have an hour till my next class and my fingers are frozen :)

Any who, this past week/ weekend was probably the best ones I've had in a long time. At work I got the opportunity to prove to my boss that I am leadership material and had some quality one on one time with him, explaining my career goals and what I want out of Chick-fil-A. I feel like I made some much needed progress. A few days later I was approached by him to attend our new marketing team meeting today. I'm not sure what time it's at but luckily I have to be there at 3:00 to work anyway. Excited does not even begin to cover how thrilled I am about this. I immediately set to work on coming up with creative marketing ideas and ploys to help bring in more revenue for our store and of course, make our store a community hot spot. A mere hour later one of my dear assistant managers came up to me and asked me if I was interested in a supervisor or management position. I informed him that after going on three years of working with this company NOTHING would thrill me more than to be considered. He let me know that he was going to speak with our boss and recommend me for a position :) HOORAY!

After kicking ass at work I got to hang out with Christopher. We packed our bags and headed up to Atlanta on Saturday for a weekend full of doing fun touristy things. I'll put some pictures up later. We started at the first Chick-fil-A restaurant ever created. For those of you who are behind on your history, it was originally called the Dwarf Grill founded by Truett Cathy. The next one to open would be the Chick-fil-A located in Greenbriar Mall. Anyway it was really cool because it was identical to Truett's Grill menus :) So I got my delicious Hot Brown and crushed ice. YAY!

We continued our journey up to the High Museum of Art and saw a bunch of really cool sculptures, paintings, and even furniture. I have to admit though, I was a bit disappointed because the DaVinci exhibit was there but it was all of his sketches from his inventions. AND EVERYONE WAS THERE. Ridiculous.

After leaving the High (and nearly dying from slipping on ice), we headed over to The World of Coca-Cola which is the place that manufactures the product responsible for my addiction. It was super cool! I had been to the old one before they moved it to Pemberton Place but this one was equally cool. Chris and I tried 64 different Coke products from all over the world. Some were good, some were disgusting. Specifically the Beverly from Italy. Why anyone would purchase such a beverage is beyond me! We got free souvenir Coke bottles and then headed out to go the place that I have been aching to go to since it open.

In case you didn't know, the Georgia Aquarium is home to the largest aquarium in the world which holds 6.3 million gallons of water. They don't use glass to hold back the fishies; Acryllic is 17 times stronger than glass and the stuff they use is 2 feet thick. They have four Whale Sharks which are like 20 something feet long, but guess what? THEY ARE ONLY BABIES! They are going to double in size! Wicked crazy. It was super fun. We saw Nemo and Dory and some cute sea otters. I pet some Sting Rays. Chris wanted me to pet the sharks but I REFUSED. I had a blast and got TONS of pictures.

Then we checked in to the gorgeous Hyatt Place hotel and got all dressed up to go to the Old Spagetti Factory. Delicious. We went and got ice cream at the amazing Zesto's which has the best soft serve ice cream I've ever tasted. Headed back to the hotel, watched SVU and went to sleep. We woke up the next day to find that the Zoo was closed because of the weather. LAME. We went on the CNN Studio Tour which was pretty cool. . . when I was in middle school. LOL It was ok. Then we went to the Varsity and ate. Afterwards we headed over to the Fernback and looked at some pretty wicked dinosaurs and played with little kid science experiment things. It's kind of geared for a smaller audience. We left, walked around Atlantic Station for literally five minutes and then headed back to Columbus because it was too cold.

Needless to say I had an amazing weekend and I love Chris for giving me such an amazing Christmas Present. I had a BLAST. But now school is back in session. I was late for my 9:00 AM because Giselle is in the shop and I had to take the shuttle, which I of course missed. Luckily I was only 5 minutes late. And now I'm off to my 11 Am which is Spanish. Then back downtown for Creative Dramatics at 1:00. Then to work! YAY! Will post more tomorrow with pictures!

My World is Changing, I'm Rearranging, Does That Mean Christmas Changes Too?

Christmas is in exactly 6 days. And I'm really indifferent about it. I'm feeling as if I've stepped through the looking glass and somehow ended up in December. Work has been really great as usal. Unfortunatly hours are going to be hard to come by after Christmas because we hired too many new people. I may have to taken a second job on the weekends. But the good news is I was selected to represent our store at the Chick-fil-A bowl at the Georgia Dome on New Year's Eve. But I don't think I'll actually get to watch the game after we're done working. . . never fear! I'll hopefully be hanging out with the beautiful Megan in Augusta land!

The love life is great. Christmas day will be two months for Christopher and I :) I love him.

I'm reading this book called Sex God. It's fantastic. I think I'm going to try to finish it on the way to Chris's family gathering tomorrow. Or today rather I guess since it's nearly 2:00 in the morning.

The Holiday is such a freaking cute movie.

I bought Chris fishies yesterday :) We named the black one Token. . . hahahahahahah ;)

I Only Know That I Belong Where You Are

This week has made me want to delete my facebook. Apparently, there has been a lot of drama going on with my friends from work. Since I have the luxury of having a life I don't live on it unlike some people I know. Literally every time I have pulled up may page this week, my news feed has been polluted with negative statuses and trash talking comments. It's really unnerving. I miss the days when everyone at work got along. And what's sad is that the drama has nothing to do with work or things that happen at work. But somehow it's all connected.

This crap irks me.

Anyway. . . things with Chris and I are still good.

I'm just bored. Not with anything inparticular. I think it's the weather. Nothing super exciting going on.

I learned today that my beautiful Giselle (with her minor injuries) not only is a fantastic car, she also doubles as a boat. Downtown and Macon Road were SUPER flooded today. I hate Georgia weather.

No let me rephrase, I just hate Georgia. I'm so ready to move out of this God-forsaken state. Who honest to God loves it here? I want to move away so badly. I just need some excitment in my life. I hate it when things get routine.

It's almost like that monotonous feeling I had over the summer. This is my day.

Class.
Shower.
Work.
Go to Chris's.
Sleep.

Wow. . . when you put it like that no wonder I'm bored.

I did escape to Starbucks for 45 minutes yesterday and basked in the bliss of enjoying a delicious latte and reading a book. I'd like to start every day like that.

The End.