Recently at garfield's this new hostess started working mornings and she's pretty attractive and all, and one day she was putting cups in a cuprack and I accidentally sprayed her, did the usual sorry thing and she's like de nada. well she didnt' really say de nada (spanish for it's nothing, or don't worry about it or whatever) and then like 10 minutes later she's doing the cup thing and she asks me if my name's joe. yeah. I thought she just heard people call me joe and wanted to see if that was my name because she's pretty friendly and comfortable there already for only working there like a week, then later she tells me we went to elementary school together... uhhhhhh. anyway, her name's amber rogers, and she's made quite a change since then. we'll just say the ugly duckling turned into the swan thing. she wasn't actually ugly, but certainly not what she is now. so yeah. it's weird though because now she acts like we're old pals(kind of are) and like she's known me for years, but to me it seems like she's some new person I just met because she's so different from when I did know her. oh well. that's life.

I got mortal kombat: deadly alliance last sunday and since then, I've broken 2 fans, 1 still works though, I think 3 ps2 controllers, a big coka-cola bank and have change now all over my floor, and once I kicked my dresser and my tv fell so now it has slight discoloration in the top corners :D pappy is in need of anger management. except I only get that way when playing video games and when I bowl poorly. both of which rarely happen anymore, but when it does, watch out buster... yeah... if they didn't make the games so hard...

I'm again trying to quit this sarah thing. I've known her as far as I know longer than everyone else at garfield's combined, but she seems to talk to me the least. so f00k it. maybe she's outgrown me and wants to be around the other less chimpish folk or something. she's not like avoiding me or anything, just not interested. but that's how things go. thought about starting a "Proof that god exists and that he hates you" list. stuff that happens to show you that indeed god exists and(duh) he hates you. I can't think of any specific examples right now but there's a few times the iq club has said it.

next week's going to f'en suck. this guy who works at garfield's apparently had a mild heart attack and so next week's schedule needs to be covered, I picked up 2 shifts so I'm now working monday morning, tuesday morning and night, wednesday morning and night, thursday morning, friday morning and night, and sunday morning. 9 shifts man. eep. even adam's only working 7. I guess when the check rolls in I won't mind so much.

one last point in case misty still sees this :D she mentioned that she thinks me and her friend nikki should go out, to which I say I'm for it, but I think it's her that you'll need to convince. pappy = (:(|)munkee! then again, she did go out with clint... j/k, clint rules. he's good people. anyway, out.

I had been planning to for awhile, I wanted to get it long enough before my birthday so I could still drink on the berfday. so I went home and got spiffied up and went to billy jo's. lara goings, yay :D it set me back 25 bones but that's ok. the first one was 35 anyway. there was only 4 people in there so they all watched me get it done. they didn't seem too interested though until the billy jo's wife said it was my second one. two tongue piercings aren't nearly as common as just one. everyone and their brother's dog has their tongue pierced. but not a whole lot have 2! 1 is socially acceptable, 2 is freaky. go fig. 3 is gay :D sorry chuck. ah it was nice to see lara goings again. it had been well over a year. I just sat in there for about 45 minutes waiting to make sure I don't get all light headed while I'm driving home or anything. left and went to adar's. He had to work and I got the night off because ralph came back so yay not as many doubles for joe. hell I was supposed to work tonight too but zeb had scheduled today like he did the friday after thanksgiving, so there was almost more cooks there than servers. which isn't right. so a few people didn't have to work, yay me. pwn.

Now I gotsa get my ass up in the morning to go to garfield's to see a tape about sexual harassment. why can't they just have mick and derek stay and the rest of us sleep in :D :D j/k. but the plan is to go to tehdenny's at 7:30 with adar to meal before we watch a 70's instructional video on why you shouldn't pat a female co-worker's ass for doing a good job. this isn't football. late

Last night was tehDolphins vs Bears game. and it was sweet. after the first minute and a half the bears had an injury :D but he came back :( but we hurt like 2 other people after that so ph34r. We attempted to go bowling but pretty much nobody showed up and there was a lot more people there bowling than usual. people we don't know, just being there, bowling. taking up space. bad. In the parking lot I saw pooh looking under adam's hood and went to see what the poop was. More car fun. Adam's battery wire thingy is all kinds of ate up and came off, so he has to get that taken care of. which really doesn't look like it would cost that much, but considering he has like no money to spend anyway, another small expense isn't so small. Watched the rest of the game and I almost got decapitated by a soccer ball. I had to take adam and chuck back to chuck's house so adam could get his stupid laundry. He was whining about it being cold and having to clear off the car seat so they could have a place to sit and I told them "You're guests in my car, so deal with it." and adam says "guests? oh so it's an honor to ride in your car now? you don't even have the best car anymore" to which I wittily respond "apparently I do, or you'd be driving yours up to charlie's house wouldn't you?" pwn pwn pwn. nobody can beat joe. he says it is when it's working right. and it's never working right so :D

But on a serious note, Interview With The Vampire is a good movie. go see it. poor kirsten dunst :(

I was just sitting waiting for adam to go on break which was supposed to be at 3, but he didn't come out. hmm oh well. Talked to people for a bit. Then sarah wants to sit so the guy at the little table with me gets up and she's sitting with me. k. I tell her about my tongue and she starts asking if it hurt because another hostess danielle said it did, and so sarah calls over danielle so I have 2 little females in front of me... then sarah waves at someone and she comes so three little females in front of me all squeezed into one seat... well danielle was sitting on her friend's knee. God was trying. he's a crafty fellow. You'd think I was a happy camper but they were just talking about what they got their boyfriends for christmas, so uh yeah, pappy = unpleasant. Anywhoo, so sarah and danielle go back to work and danielle's friend stays for a little bit, making small talk. Ahhh, good god... oh well. she works at journey's. so anyway, later jeremy sits and is counting his tips and all that and I tell him adam's probably going to be kind of irate since he hasn't gone on break yet, to which jeremy tells me adam's not working tonight which is why he hasn't had a break yet. yee. adam got the night off. the night of jen's graduation party yay. Adam comes out and multiple garfield's personnel just sitting around. after a bit we both left, with plans to go back to garfield's about 9:30 to all wander over to jen's place. I showed up, but nobody else did :\ well adam called and told me they were at adam's so I just went over there. I get there at like 9:45 and we end up not going to jen's until around 11:30...... wtf. oh well

I think we were expecting to see many garfield's folk there upon entering, but it was pretty much the opposite. and because god didn't get me at garfield's he tried again. had carrie price there, heh. small world after all. nevermind. So jen greets us at the door yay and there's absolutely nobody we know in there aside from jen, sean(who was hiding out at the time) and clark. All grabbed a brewski and just stood around talking to each other, feeling a bit uncomfortable. a little later derek came, then mick and jeremy. and uh... scott and tracy... all of which left within minutes of coming. Meanwhile I'm just pounding back beers and loosening up a bit. Then it was fun. Just a lot of people around talking, having fun time. Adam and charlie looked like they were in the middle of an execution or something. Of course each time they said they wanted to leave and I said no, it seemed to get a little more fun and interesting at the place. and chuck and adam knew it. Heh, sean was trying all night to get clark to show her boobs. I suggested taking a collection plate to see if we could coerce her but it didnt' happen. By the end of the night of me trying to hit on jen, who has again been immune to the latino heat, she ends up passing out on the couch holding onto charlie. I thought that was funny. and charlie being the intelligent young man he is was probably thinking "stupid drunk bitch" the whole time because he seems to have a problem with his medula oblongada. a thousand pardons if I misspelled that. or that.

By then I had like 8 or 9 beers and about 3 or 4 cups-o-champagne so I wasn't feeling spectacular anyway. I knew I had crossed the line into the "if I don't throw up, I'm going to wake up feeling like all holy hell tomorrow" so I tossed the cookies outside. and a little on the ride back to adam's. and more at adam's. I finally fell asleep on the floor in the living room. I woke up at like 11 and jeremy was still asleep. I left and went home and my parents and bro were playing uno in the kitchen. Then there's me walking in looking like a million bucks I'm sure. heh. my throat hurts like a mofo too. I thought maybe it was the tonsils but it's probably just a sore throat or maybe a small case of strep... I felt like poo until I fell asleep around 1. when I woke up. AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh, I felt like 200% better for some reason. guess alcohol gone now. Today's just be lazy day. what sucks is last night was fun and now I wonder how long it'll be before I have another night like it. probably forever :( until then, the game of cat and mouse with jen continues... unknown to her though because I'm not sure anyone's actually told her I kind of like her. Oh well. yay a double tomorrow and tuesday. out.

Tuesday... I worked again and jen was there, and it was busy as hell and she didn't bother me as much and whatever, I got cut around 12:30 and for some stupid reason I decided just to stick around until I came back on at 5. Well the first couple hours was ok, then after that, I started thinking about life in general and how it is.. needless to say I was in a less than pleasant mood after awhile. I guess I saw past my own idiotic thoughts and realized jen was that way towards everyone at garfield's. She didn't like me like that, I'm just another co-worker... which was to be expected, god forbid something good happen. So let's see... car's broke... nobody likes me, not in school, living with tehparents, friends are idiots who would rather smoke weed than breath and/or blink... tuesday night was pretty much just a crappy as f*ck night. What made me feel even worse was having mackey and greg notice it enough to ask me if everything was alright and if they could help in any way... I guess I was the garfield's headcase for the night. eep. just gave them both the same line, my life sucks and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Finally got at like 11:30 which was amazing because I thought I was far as f*ck behind on everything. I still was but I figured on a midnight or 12:30 exit. Went to imperial lanes to see if my car would start and it wouldn't. on the way there, me and adar talked about why I was so sh*tty and all that good stuff. he came with me in case my car did start so he could drive one of the vehicles to my house. I was currently in the wilson wagon.

Today sucked. I woke up feeling like I got hit in the head with a cinder block and was just stumbling around before I had to go to work. I get there and figured it would be a short day because I'm close to overtime. Surely I'd be there til like noon, tops.... well after I got off at 4:30, I was irate because it was a bit too late to have my car taken and fixed and all that good stuff, which might've actually put me in a good mood, to get my car back, but it's not to be. The only upside to this is that now I'm in overtime this week and I still have tomorrow to work before the work week ends. meaning phat check for joe. even though it'll all probably go back into my car. as far as I can tell that's about it... joyus joy joy.

Yeah, thursday I came home from work and my throat still hurt, so my parents were nagging me about going to healthcheck or some other little gimpy medical place to get it checked out and I didn't want to at first but then I decided I might as well, get better sooner. Went to place and doctor guy seemed a little puzzled why I had a sore throat for so long, but no other stuff like sinus aches or prolonged hacking and coughing or nasal stuff... just a sore throat... but he was a bit concerned since I've had it since sunday and it hasn't gotten any better, so he gives me a paper bag full of little sample boxes of medicine. heh. at least I didn't have to go get a prescription filled out or anything. scratch out a check for 84 bucks, I'm out.

Friday I woke up and felt like poo again, I didn't wanna work, but I did. At first it sucked because I have a small fever, nothing to get upset about, so I was warm all day. Then around noon my pa calls and says my car's ready and all they had to do was charge the battery, which is weird to me because when I tried to jump it, it wouldn't stay going. it just died. if it was just the battery, it would jump and I'd have to let it sit and charge itself for a bit... oh well, just more ammo to give god. So I go on break early, miraculously, and go get it. yay. I come back to work and before I get to the door, adam comes out to inform me pooh man chu got a ticket for passing a schoolbus when it had its lights on and the stop sign out. heh. silly bear. he claims he was past the bus when the stop sign came out and the cop was just an ass... right chuck.

Start the night shift on friday and when I go back to worsh th'dishes lisa tells me I'll be off by 7. yee. then megan(incredibly ridiculously hot girl) was all happy and talkative, sadly because she started dating some guy so she's happy. me and adam both got off early. me at 7 him at like 7:30. garfield's is the devil though. that many little hostesses should not be allowed to be in the same place at the same time. causes the brain pain. eek. anyway. came home and that's where I be for the rest of the night. oh well. Tried to go to sleep and couldn't fall asleep, then my throat starts being all dry and making me cough and so on and so forth........

Bowling sucked, the lane conditions were HORRIBLE!!!!!! gah. anyway... happy little females around. my dad has dubbed me and my brother "Poppa ponch and Unka Joe" poppa ponch thinks we should start a rap group and use that name... unka joe. eh...

yesterday at tehwork it was kinda busy. but fun. when I first got there I presented myself as Essa Claus, with my santa cap over my eyes, vato style, and the flannel shirt button at the very top, then open the rest of the way down. stylin'. word. mutha. Later adar came in and he has his santa hat too. except mine has black trim instead of white. people looked at me funny. Also everyone asked if I could see, because it was so low, and the fuzzy on the hat obstructed the view for everyone, but I could see just fine, and thank jeebus for that because the two little hottest hostesses were working. Mmm... right. Then we were prepping food and being silly little goats. mackey handed me a balloon so I tied it to my hat. then little host guy, megan' brother gives me two more in an effort to have the hat stand straight up, but it didn't work, then when I went out into the dining room, the doorway caught me and all my balloons were gone :( lisa was amused. she's the store manager, remember. Then when I went back I put another balloon on because I missed my other balloons. I decided I wanted to learn how to cook, so I went on line and adam showed me how to fry stuff and do salads and such. yay. then we got busy and he said he needed "a real fry guy" because I guess I'm just not good enough for him. I see how it is. I'm worried though because little'ns walking by the window in the kitchen distract pappy. he may lose a finger. ok... after awhile they let me go, so I came home and waited for meal. I then promptly decimated everyone in monopoly, mwuahhahahahaaaaa...... yeah.

Woke up, open presents, yay. kind of bored today. I know it's christmas and all, but still... no snowball fights or good tv or anything. and tomorrow I get to go into work at 8 instead of 9, hooray. fun day. it's going to be a slaughterhouse. stupid ungreatful people returning gifts because they're too stupid to just accept what people give them and store it in a closet to sell in a yardsale this summer :D I was bored because I didn't have any more car models to do, now I have 3 :D I'm working on the 64 chevy impala lowrider. mmmm.... all was well until I was detailing it and some paint peeled off. I was not amused. nothing a little airbrushing can't fix. late