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            My next blog makes me laugh…. A lot! It is about a nineteen year old man that is arrested and stoops the police. Now I don’t like thieves and I don’t agree with what he was doing but how he got away for the time that he did is pretty astonishing.

            The nineteen-year-old Henderson, Nevada man was arrested on Wednesday for suspicion on breaking into a nearby house. The man somehow managed to slide his handcuffs behind his back and crawl through a square-foot wide opening of plexiglass that separated the front seat from the back. While all of this was going on inside of the police vehicle the cops must have been paying absolutely 0% attention to what was going on inside of the vehicle. He then drove a total of two miles, while being handcuffed and was later apprehended on foot in between some houses he was hiding by. Authorities didn’t find the car until they used their built in GPS.

            Wow this really makes me have confidence in the police departments around the United States. It seems like there is a problem when you apprehend someone and then they have their hands behind their back and you still can’t bring them to jail. It just makes me wonder what the police were doing….. eating donuts perhaps. This story was too ridiculous to keep to myself I had to share it with all of you so you could get a good laugh. 

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Well I was out of things to talk about for a blog but I found one of the most bizarre articles that I have ever came across. In London an ice cream parlor plans to begin to sell a new kind of ice cream. Yes, it is organic and free range but it comes from a source that I don’t think you would expect. It is breast milk ice cream… uhhhh gross. But I will fill you in on the details first.

This ice cream concoction is called the “Baby Gaga” and it will be available on Friday at the Icecreamists restaurant in London’s Covent Garden. Matt O’Conner is the founder of the Icecreamists and he is completely confident that his take on this type of ice cream will go over well. He has priced it at 23 dollars a serving. The breast milk used to make the ice cream came from mothers that answered an online advertisement on a mother’s forum.

One of the women who donated breast milk doesn’t find a problem with doing it for a little extra cash. She also works with women that have issues with breast feeding their babies and she thinks that if people realized how tasty breast milk is that maybe women wouldn’t have a problem breast feeding their babies.

I personally find this really kind of gross. I’m not really too sure why because it is milk but the whole thing just makes me want to gag. It just seems really wrong. Unless you are a baby…..

Summer is a coming!!!!

Summer is coming lets hope smaller waistlines come with it! This year I am fully preparing for summer. It will not catch me by surprise this year. I have purchased two months of unlimited tanning and have began trying to get out of my winter slump of unhealthy food and eating just because there is nothing else to do. I am not really overweight but I would like to have a nice flat stomach for canoeing this year. I have realized that buying your ideal swimming suit is good incentive to get in shape.

            The tanning kind of started off bad with the heat rash but yesterday I was informed that bronzing beds could have that affect on people. So a plain tanning bed it is for me. I was not aware though that tanning clears up any acne you might have on your face or body. I know tanning drastically increases your risk of skin cancer but I can’t resist that feeling of the heat on my skin that reminds me of summer so much.

            As for the working out I have been a bit lazy on that but I looked up some exercises that I have been trying to stick to and they work wonders. A routine of fifty sit-ups and fifty bicycles will really give you a flat tummy. It was really hard at first but as the days go on it gets easier and easier. Another one that I could really use is to tighten up the thighs and butt. You spread your legs over a shoulder width apart and hold a squat for five or ten seconds at a time until you reach a minute. It sounds hard but it feels good to exercise if you can just get some inspiration going. Hence the bathing suit:)

Rant blog:( wedding catastrophe!

            Well I guess this is my blog where I get to rant… I will change the names of the people but this situation really ticks me off! I had this friend her name is Honna. We haven’t really been the best of friends but when she told me she was getting married to a really sweet guy his name is Derek and he has cystic fibrosis I was a little on edge. Honna is kind of the type of girl that doesn’t really care who she hurts as long as she gets attention and what she wants at the time. So she dubbed me bridesmaid in this farce of a wedding and I was fine with it I didn’t really think it would come to be anyway.

            So last weekend our friend that goes to MSU was down and we were all throwing together to get her some things that she needed. So I text Honna and say hey Ash is here you said you wanted to hang out and get that stuff, do you need a ride? She says sorry I am out of town. I though oh well she must be with her fiancé. Well Ash gets to down and says she talked to Derek on Facebook and he said that she absolutely forbade him to come to Lamar even to see his parents. Honna said she wanted time to hang out with her girls, which would have been us. So I got this horrible gut feeling that she was cheating on him.

            Now this was hard to decide because I knew in the back of my mind that she was back to her old ways and this guy was head over heals for her. So I text Derek and said, “Hey if you and Honna want to come down tonight you can come over to see Ash.” He said, “Honna is in town you girls have fun.” I said, “Oh I thought she was with you she said she was out of town.” Finally I had gotten it across to him that she was lying to all of us. He didn’t say much but that it worried him. I thought that was the last I would hear of it and she would just glaze over it.

            I was at work and Ash calls me at ten in the morning which isn’t normal for her so I answered and she told me that one of Derek’s friends had told him that she had cheated on him the last weekend and he confronted him and she told him not to “waste his breath.” Wow is all that I can say. He will only live to be 35 if he is lucky and he spent four thousand dollars on her wedding ring. I really feel horrible for the poor guy. At first I didn’t know if I was being out of line but if I was in that situation I would really want to know so I didn’t was any of the time I had. 

battling a rash with a bath:)

            I didn’t realize that tanning could cause a heat rash! My friend and I have been getting ready for summer by getting tanning packages at a local salon even though it is just February! But little did I know that the tanning could give you a heat rash that makes you want to carve your skin off! At first I thought it was just the tanning lotion that I was using before I got into the bed but I used a different kind yesterday and came out red with bumps. The bumps soon got worse and finally my sweet boyfriend went to Wal-Mart and picked up some cortisone cream.

            The cream really helped but the secret to soothing sore and itchy skin is with a bath that I have made up on my own. I put oatmeal, like the kind you eat in a disposable bootie like you wear when you try shoes on and let it set in the water for a bit. I also put in baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Then I put in about 4-8 tea bags of green tea and a little lemon juice and milk. After a while the oatmeal makes kind of a paste that is easily squeezed out and you can rub the little oatmeal sack on your skin. It makes it so smooth and it eases any skin irritation. The cinnamon is known to draw out toxins from the skin and in the old days people used to use it for spiritual cleaning. The lemon juice is great for blondes because it is used as a rinse and also to invigorate the skin. The tea also draws out toxins, as does the nutmeg. Egyptians used to take milk baths to soften their skin I am guessing because of how dry the climate is there.

            When you get out of the bath you will smell delicious but it makes your tub a little dirty. So you have to give it a rinse and you are all good. With my new job my muscles ache and this really helps! To say the least though I am holding off on tanning for a couple daysJ

week one of new job:)

            Well after week one of the new job I can gladly say that I like it but it is hard work that is for sure. You have to memorize how to do everything to the room so you do not forget anything. I didn’t realize how picky the super 8 chain was but I really like it because that is how thorough you hope a motel would be. I am glad I took to it so easy, I only had to do one day of training alone until I could do housekeeping on my own. The last day I went in I got to do the breakfast bar and I got a lot of good hours.

            Here is a quick run through of the cleaning process in case you consider getting a motel around here. All of the bedding including the pillows is washed on a daily basis. The phone is wiped down with alcohol; the sink is disinfected as well as the toilet and especially the shower. There cannot be any smudges or watermarks on any of the mirrors, faucets, or windows. Towels are to be folded a certain way and all the lights are to be turned on to make sure that they work. The bed is folded a very particular way as well and the floor is to be vacuumed daily as well. We also scrub the bathroom floor and look for any imperfections in the room. To say the least the rooms are pristine.

            What I really like about working there are the other employees. They are mostly middle-aged women to women a little later on in life and they are all really nice and helpful. Working there is kind of like being a part of a family environment. Everyone helps each other out and if someone needs to be covered for someone will always help you out. The man that owns it has been a friend of my dad’s side of the family forever as well. It is pretty cool that he knows all of my family and tells stories about them. I definitely don’t feel like an outsider that is for sure!

my new job!!!!

Well after a long job search I finally found one. I am now working for the super eight motel in Lamar. Today is my first day of training and I have to leave in not too long to go in. I have to wear black slacks, a white shirt and closed toed shoes. I don’t think that cleaning rooms will be a bad job because I can speed clean like no other. I am sure they will have to walk me through the rooms and show me how to do everything and I hope that I will remember it all fast.

            I am a little concerned with finding things in the rooms that I do not want to clean up but I guess that is my job now. Gloves I am sure are part of work uniform so I won’t get dirty. The hotel is a really nice one. It has been renovated and the family that runs it is good friends with mine so I think everything will work out good. To be honest the reason I got the job is probably because my family is friends with them. But right now they are bustling with business because people that were traveling and got caught in the storm are taking shelter there. I am sure it will slow down after this but then there is spring break and after that the traveling season really starts up. It will be nice to have a job again and actually have money. I am so tired of asking my dad for it every three seconds. Surely it will be minimum wage but that is better than nothing for sure. I am really grateful that I found this job because I have applied everywhere in Lamar and even in Pittsburg but the economy is just not in good shape around here unless you are a gas company.

            All I can say is thank goodness my nice neighbors dug us out of the three foot of snow so I could go to work and so could my dad. I am already sick of this snow but I did have some fun in it. I made a sled out of a laundry basket and tow straps and my friend and I attached it to her car and got up to 20mph on the snow. We also made forts like we were about four years old but I had never seen enough snow to make one. Well I had better continue getting ready for work. I have never had to balance a job and school before…… I am sure it will not be too bad! 

Blizzard 2011!!!!!

This year I was not expecting a blizzard but that is definitely what we got. The snow is so high that it comes over halfway up our back door and you cannot open it. I have never seen snow like this in my life! I tried driving home at six in the morning on Tuesday and my little Mazda six kicked butt. It is a front wheel drive and has a traction control system, which was a huge help. But as I drove home visibility was only a couple feet in front of me and at times I had to stop completely to ensure that I could see the road. When my father and I would drive to Pella Iowa the snow was similar once you passed Kansas City but I never thought I would see conditions so similar in this part of Missouri. The snow is at least three feet high in shallow parts and there are some drifts that come up at least five feet. My neighbor has a tractor and he just plowed the snow out of his driveway but my dad just has a lawn tractor with a blade on it. I have a feeling that it is not going to work. I hope he does not have to do it by hand in this freezing weather. If he does I guess I will help.

            It is so difficult being stuck inside all day. I just don’t know what to do with myself. Last night dad and I made snow ice cream and I was surprised at how good it was. I just wonder when I will be able to get out of this house and drive my car. This is the time to catch up on sleep I guess and start my paper for this class. After driving my car in these conditions I think that I may do it over the Mazda six. It is not very often you get to test you car out in a blizzard so I feel that I can really review the car.

            Well I hope you all get some enjoyment out of this snow and that you are all safe if you are able to travel because conditions like this are rare and most are not used to driving on this. Every time it snows it seems like I see cars off in the ditch everywhere and it really makes me think twice before driving very fast. So drive slow and stay warm!!!!