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Thanksgiving week; the best week ever. Or sort of close.

Let’s begin with last week on Tuesday when I bowled a 235!!!! I started out bowling a 155 then my game went to crap in the second and I bowled a 109. Part of the problem was that my back was killing me. In fact, its been tense all week (I am not in total pain yet). So I popped a few cold Budweisers. By the 3rd game, as Kyle S. likes to say, I was feeling a bit toasty. I bowled 7 strikes in a row. I was unstopable. The rest of team left me alone and kept quiet the whole time hoping not to ruin my good luck streak. It was awesome.

I stayed out past 3am about every night this break. Mostly because I worked at the bar on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I don’t think I could handle another extended weekend like that. Feeling a little exhausted right now on a Sunday afternoon.

I saw the “Katie’s” this weekend! Katie O and Katie C. You girls still crack my shit up. Katie O reminded me that we once dated in high school for 2 days. I vaguely remember it but I think it was the most romantic two days ever! Katie O, told me that she reads the site every so often. Little does she know I read her’s like every hour. It was great seeing you girls if you are reading this!

Helpful bar hit #45: A bartender loves a customer that has their money ready to pay.

I also saw Holly and Anne this weekend. They are my favorites because they said I was a hot looking bartender. Well, you girls were looking hot as well. Anne icing it up with the “bling” “bling” and Holly you look so hot with longer hair You both should give me a call next time you are in town, I love to catch up on how you are doing.

Thanksgiving with the family was the best. I had a double helping of mash potatoes and gravy, stuffing, turkey, corn, banana bread, and everything else that is great on T-day. Topped it off with a glass of white merlot and a beer. After dinner I was out for the count. It was so cute, I was laying on the couch and my cousins were laying on top of me watching Shrek 2 while I slept. They are getting so big. Best kids ever.

Saturday my parents and my grandma just had a small turkey dinner. I ended up making mashed potatoes for the first time. Not the “out of the box” kind, but the real stuff. I pealed, boiled, and mashed. The best potatoes ever. My mom says I am becoming “domestic.” I am going to ignore that she said that.

You know its getting close to Xmas but I had to spoil myself. My cell phone had been giving me terrible problems with static while I was talking. I had to hold it just right to get rid of the static. Well, I am impatient when it comes to stuff not working right. I went out and a bought a new cell phone. I got the Nokia 6230. This thing is the Caddy of cell phones. Its a high powered cell phone in disguise. It looks very plain but let me tell you about it. It does video with sound (looking for a program to convert to a video version so I can put stuff online), MP3 player, infrared, bluetooth, FM radio, email, web surfing, camera, audio recorder, speaker phone, calendar, and ooh it makes phone calls. Here’s a link I have had it for 2 days and its just been great. The only few things I don’t care for is that the screen size could be a little bigger and the joystick key takes a little practice to get used to it. Awesome phone though. I love having a Nokia again.

The days are numbering for the “Shoo-Mobile”. Getting closer to having a new car. Details as they come. Anyone for some last rides?

I know I am forgetting a lot of other things I ment to post but, if I remember them or you think I forgot something shoot me a buzz.

I have been in two different Panera’s in the last two days. I like the atmosphere. Like I am super smart because I am sipping on a mocha or ice tea and computing on the internet. Little do they know I am peddling Viagra emails. Yes, all the spam is because of me.

I am surprised that Kyle hasn’t blogged it already but myself, Ed, and Kyle went to Hardees for lunch. We had talked about it the night before that Hardees has a new 1400 calorie (about 1/3 of the calories a 3rd world nation takes in a day) MONSTER BURGER. Ed and Kyle were stoked. I just wanted someone to go to lunch with. Kyle and Ed both got the MONSTER BURGER, I on the other hand got the 1/3 lb double cheese burger; which is still a mass of calories. I was honestly filled up, and the other guys looked like they had their fair share, but could at least go for another one. It was a rather full-filling lunch.

I am heading to the dentist early-early tomorrow morning to get my chipped tooth fixed. I chipped the edge and its really rough. 7:15am is going to be a bitch.

Ohh geeze.. I am still in Panera, there is a friggin Christmas song. GAHHHH!

This weekend was actually fun. A different kind of fun, but fun.

First off, you guys missed an awesome lounge band at the bottom of the Hilton Friday. The El Orbits. Great band. Ed and I purchased CDs and will be making a mix of the two cd’s we bought and putting it in the juke box at the bar. As for anything else that happened Friday night… you had to be there. (Seriously)

Moving on to Saturday -
I worked. It was a steady night, not as fun as the night before. I didn’t even drink except for a beer at Dempsey’s while I waited for Reier to close down the bar so we could go to Chicago Style. Side note: For Xmas, Santa I want Gyros. Ohh soo good. I made like 5 “Sex on the beach” drinks this night. I have got “Sex on the beach” down!

Thanks Giving week is going to be a hell of a week. I am off the “real job” Thursday and Friday and I work at the bar on Friday and Saturday. I can’t wait! I love Thanks Giving. Its the only holiday where if you aren’t full already, then you need to eat some more. My kind of holiday.

I had this weird dream the other night where I was in some kind of stadium seating and there were a group of like 5 little girls around the age of 8 or something. They were all smoking. They were sitting by some huge lady. And she kept giving them cigarettes. And each time the girls would light up I would take the cigarettes and throw them down on the ground and stomp on them. And each time after that the fat lady would give them more smokes. That’s all I can remember, just weird.

You are probably thinking, “Ok, Shoo, its almost the end of the post - where does it get ridiculous?” And my response… “Stay tuned till the next post. Will Shoo find his true calling to life and be a righteous asshole or will he become famous writing a Help for Dummies book about using octopus hands to meet new friends?? Same website, same time.

Umm. This is a PSA.

I am ignoring everyone this weekend.

Thank you,

Have a good weekend.

Had bowling last night. Actually did pretty well. I bowled a 145, 186, and 155. Average is slowly rising. I think I have a 146 avg now.

I think I will be in bed early tonight. I got to stop staying up till or past midnight (such a sad, sad story). Which is really funny because I am working at the bar tomorrow and I don’t get out of there until after 1am. Maybe Ed will be nice to me and let me go early?? We’ll see. He’s really a slave driver.

So what’s new people?? I am slowly discovering who reads my ramblings. You guys should really be doing real work.

Ok, this weekend was just a little on the ‘crazy’ side. I’ve got a few stories that I can tell but I got a few more that I can’t tell; those you’ll have to ask in person.

IF you notice my previous post my disposition for people was knocked to the edge of “get the hell out of dodge” so this wasn’t a good weekend to piss me off. Let’s start with the first thing first: if I buy you a drink at the bar (yes I buy them, I can’t give them away) , a “thanks” is much appreciated. That’s it. No really, that’s mostly all I want to hear is “thanks Shoo.” Got to teach you people manners…

Ok, talking about manners, lets talk about some rude girls and a $4 dollar drink. I worked Friday + Saturday even after a full 37 hour week of work, so I was a little exhausted this weekend. Come on, I am not use to all of this “work” :). Last night, Saturday, this birthday girl comes in for her free drink. We had a million birthday people come in so I am thinking this shouldn’t be any different. She asks for a “Sex on the beach” drink, aka “takes more time that its worth”. I never can remember how to make the girly drinks so I ask Lori (who was not working but was in for a cocktail). I get the recipe (which I knew but just misplace in my mind). I make it, she says “thank you” and her friend next to her asks for a “Sex on the beach” and a Bud Light.

Granit, if she asked me for the drink a minute earlier with the birthday girl it would have made it so much easier. Ohh, just so most of the reading audience knows whats in a “Sex on the beach”: Vodka, Peach Schnapps, Triple Sec, OJ, and a little cherry juice then shaked. The birthday girl got her’s in a Pint glass because it was her birthday. I made the other girl’s in our “Wide” or 120z glasses. We always make them this way.

I hand her the drinks, “$6.25 please.”

She hands me the money.

“Wait, how much as the Sex on the beach?”

Me: “4 bucks”

Her muttering trying to get my attention “What the ___, this little drink is 4 bucks”

So let the shit hit the fan. I walk away, I got a million other well deserving customers to serve. I don’t want to deal with customer service right now. I don’t know why, but another girl from that group of “Sex” drinking dumb girls orders a “Sex on the beach” from the other bartender working that night. Now I don’t know why the other bartender did it this way - I think my evil intentions swept their mind into doing this - but she made the next one in a pint glass.

Ohh really let the shit hit the fan.

We were really busy at that moment. We even had Henry (one of the owners) helping us out to catch up with the demand. So my new favorite customer gets Henry’s attention “How come her drink is in a pint glass, and mine is in this one?” Henry being my hero, takes her glass and empties it into a pint glass and hands it back to her! She immediately explodes, “Where is the rest of my drink?” Henry replies, “I don’t have time for this” then continues washing glasses.

So I hear my bestest favorite customer cussing out Henry. I step up and say something to the accord, “We don’t do this here at the bar.” (That’s pretty close to what I said. They shut up for a second. Then start cussing at me. The atmosphere is just great because we are busy as hell and I am totally ignoring her. I have never had this happen before.

Lori who is just at the end of the bar has been witnessing everything and finally gets fed up. She starts dropping a f-bomb here and there - with something you have to leave the bar. This moment is kind of a blur but there was a lot of shouting and people starring at my “blue light special” friend. Finally they are leaving (actually they were being kicked out). So unfortunately, Ms. “Sex” drinking Aldi meant to put her drink down on the bar, spilled the whole 4 dollar thing everywhere. I felt so sad for her. Four hard earn dollars just flowing everywhere.

A few customers asked if I had ever seen anything like this happen in the bar before. I told them, “Honestly, I have been working since the end of July and never seen anything like this happen before.”

Now that ladies and gentlemen was priceless.

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Went car shopping this weekend. I have determined I want a truck. Looking at Blazers and extended cab trucks.

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Ohh and thank you for reading my blog. Let me buy you a drink.

And you would say, “………………………..”

A. Ohh Shoo, you are the bestest-hottest-nerdiest bartender ever.
B. Thank you.
C. Can I get a 4 dollar drink?
D. Other (Insert comments here)