Pulled Pork w/ Sweet Potato Chips and a 22oz. Micro Brew in Paradise

Tonight I went to Cheeseburger in Paradise (restaurant) w/ some people from work and Jenny. It was one of the guys' bdays. Well, this guy went to the bathroom and while he was taking care of business at the urinal some stranger smacks him on the butt and then walks out of the bathroom. The guy (josh) didn't get a look at the guy so couldn't point him out but the whole thing was really freaky. The food was awesome!!

Two other things:
I was looking at West Chicago's website calendar and saw that sept. 5th was brush collection day. So I clicked on the link to see what they were talking about. WHen you read "brush collection" what was the first thing that came to mind. Well for me it was hairbrushes. I'm imagining the Naperville waste dept.-or some civic group-going house to house to pick up people's old goody, scunchi, revlon-broken bristled, hair clogged brushes and wondering to myself what are they going to do w/ these??!! After a couple sentences into the description I realize they are talking about yard waste.

Also, get your fill of Google Earth. I wouldn't be surprised if they "take it off the market". Jenny heard that people (I guess important people) are getting concerned about terrorists using it as a tool to locate bomb targets I hadn't thought of that! WHOA I just had triple deja vu! Have I already typed about the bomb thing, and then have I already typed about having deja vu about it? It must be the cheeseburger slider talking. G'night

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Hero In A Half Shell

Make it a Jaguar w/ GPS

Here's a pic of a turtle from the reptile guy that came to the co. picnic sat.
My weekend was pretty good. Fri went to napperville w/ bake and jenny, sat had the picnic. That was a lot more fun then I expected. They of course had free alcohol. My cookies were all eaten but didn't win anything. Sat night Jenny, me, a girl I work w/ and her bf went to a place called on the border. Then Jenny and I just went back to her apt cause we thought we were going to spew from fullness. Sun I ended up driving to the museum at 4 looked around till 5:30 when it closed and then went for a bike ride on the Lake shore trail. I liked the bike ride better then the museum which was exactly the same as I remembered it from my childhood-boring and old. I still remember the same exhibits from when I was little. The info about how the heart works and the stuff about...oh whatever it wasjust boring. After I got back from the trail it was time for the Body Works exhibit (which was the whole pt. of going to the museum) It was pretty cool but it was hard to imagine it was real human body parts I kinda just felt like I was looking at a human anatomy book in 3D. Plus they wouldn't even let you take pics. of anything!! Are you kidding me!? Then I got lost driving around the southern tip of the city. I think I was extremly close to Indiana. Luckily there weren't too many people out but I was getting pretty freaked. The reason I ended up in this direction was cause I was out of gas and that was where the closest station was. A homeless man made me let him pump it for me so I had to give him $1 when I only had $8 to begin w/ Luckily w/ a little help from deb and the internet I made it back up north to 55. I think my next hybrid is going to have a GPS.

Am I drinking the 10% ammonia or 5% pollutants?

I was reading a forward at work the other day about a press release that discussed the awards given to two IL water treatment facilities. One was in Rushville-Go Big Gold! Home of T.R. The other was in Wheaton-a town up around here-Christian's Rock The House That Rocks The Party!

Well that's great, I thought, IL has two outstanding water treatment plants out of the 6 nationwide that were given these awards. Until I read the basis of the awards. Rushville was awarded for consistantly removing an ave. 95% of pollutants from incoming wastewater. And Wheaton was awarded for for consistently removing 99 percent of chemicals and 90 percent of ammonia from incoming wastewater. Ok you tell me that 10% of the ammonia that remains is actually good for you, keeps the water clean or some such s#!t and I'll believe you, but if these places are being rewarded for leaving 5% of micellaneous "pollutants", chemicals and ammonia-WHAT DO THE STAT BOARDS OF THE LOSING PARTICIPANTS OF THIS AWARD LOOK LIKE?

If any of you are interested in moving up here-maybe to Wheaton-and think you could really enjoy one of the following job positions let me know.
1.) Director of Information Technology (IT)
2.) Project Account Administrator (Accounting)
3.) Receptionist (Both Woodridge and Colorado)
4.) Land Development Design Engineers, Project Engineers, Project Managers, and Design Technicians ( in both Woodridge and Colorado)
5.) Administrative Assistant / Construction Contract Administrator (Elgin Field Office)

If I refer someone and the keep the job for 6mths I get $1500! That's no wastewater reward but it's something.

Deb Print Out Your FarmAid Ticket From the Email I Sent You

So this sat. there is a work picnic and for some reason I decided to enter the bake off. I've been craving those Oatmeal No-Bake cookies on and off for about 3 years now (my mom never makes them). So I decided to make those. The recipe called for "Quick Oats" so that's what I got but for some reason they were still pretty chewy. Maybe after they sit for a day they will be better...:S I don't think I'm going to win the bake off. But f it's really hot out sat. I might win for "most resembles a turd".

I think I have strep throat and I REALLY wish I would've gone to prompt care earlier this week to get meds. cause now that it's the weekend I'm not going to stay at home and go to bed by nine like I've done all week. Tomorrow night I think we (Jenny, Erin, and maybe Bake) are going to Naperville-today at a meeting I went to somebody brought up that 3 people in the last 3 months at the same intersection have been killed by drunk drivers. Then today I heard this REALLY long commercial about drunk driving. It had a cop telling the person "you're going to jail" it was reallly scary. I think this is enough of a sign for me to insist on a cab no matter what-even if signs don't exist mandy. =) Then Sun. I'm either going to a triathalon to cheer someone on or the museum of science and industry to see this exhibit w/ human body parts EEEW! But people said it was neat. Or I'll probably try to squeeze them both in since I think the race is near the museum. Hopefully I'll have better luck w/ the train. Oh I washed the train pass I just bought last week in my shorts pocket $28 down the crapper.

Ummm what else. Oh I had a really great night of driving around about an hour out of my way. First on my way back from a mall (I got a couple hats from Lids Deb-I can't screw it up this time, there are only two Lids w/in 40 mins of me!! Luckily both the hats fit like a baseball glove so I won't have any returns ;) So I was on the right road on the way home and if I would've stayed on it I would've been back home w/in 10 mins. but then I saw a road that I had to get on on the way there so I thought "hmm, I better retrace my steps" and I got on it. It wasn't till about 10 miles later when I realized I was going the wrong way. I had to turn around then get back to the original correct road. Then I missed my exit cause I was in the far right lane and the road split cause of construction and I couldn't get over. So I had to go past woodridge and take the Joliet exit. By this time I was tired of turning around so I just went thru Jo. and bolingbrook and finally got to the meijer by my house-I had to get the quick oats and coco. By the time I got there my bladder was about to explode like a pinata. (i've been drinking water like it's beer hoping to get better) I run right past the bathrooms across the back of the store where they usually are, ask the door greeter where they are, he points to the other side of the store where I came in at, says something in Indian/English so I head back don't see them ask ANOTHER guy he finally tells me they are thru the exit where I ran in! GEEEZZ. I'm really hoping I'll eventually get the hang of where everything is!! Shit!!!
(I just wanted to consistantly end each paragraph w/ a form of poop)

Gimme pineapple, spinach stuffed thick crust w/ a side of retina

Deb~ Yes you are a very funny girl, but the scene of your mom ordering pizza,

(after about 10 minutes of debate and asking if about 3 diff. pastas were homemade)
Mom:"I'll have the small thin crust pizza, half spinach half anchovy."
Deb: "no mom, you wanted artichoke hearts."
Gay waiter: "I'm sorry mam we don't have thin thin crust in that size, but I can make it thinner then usual in a pan."
Mom: "ok, I'll have thin crust, uuuuh, do I have to have pepperoni on that?"
Gay Waiter(gasping): "do you have to have WHAAAT?? Um no, I think you'll be fine."
Mom: "Ok, I'll have thin crust spinach"
Deb: "don't you want artichokes on it?"
Deb's Uncle: "SHE'LL HAVE THE THIN CRUST MEDIUM, HALF SPINACH, HALF ARTICHOKE HEARTS! AND I WANT MEATY LASAGNA!!"

Followed by the spewing patron in the bathroom! That whole dining experience was much funnier then a guy pissing on the side of the road and well worth the extra hour and a half I had to wait for the last train back home-while listening to a chinese man tell me about his statistical research job at a hospital in Beijing where he's doing a study on the air quality and......

Work is still going good. My supervisor came back mon. from hungary only to leave again tues. for eye surgery. His retina was falling off and he had to have it reattached. He said he is in the 10% of people (in the city/state/nation/galaxy??) that have this problem due to EXTREME nearsightedness. BUT my dad said he knows three people that this happened to and another girl I work w/ is related to someone it happened to. I am really starting to freak out-my left eye is -5.0 I'm not sure what legally blind is but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was -5.3. Great now I'm going to have nightmares about my retinas falling off!

Exhausted

Ok Westfalls, I will try to work a little harder at posting blogs. It's just that by 7 o clock when I sit down to the tv/comp. I am too tired to think about much. I know I keep complaining, but who knew how draining 40hr work wks could be!?

PLUS! I still am not getting more then 6 hours of sleep a night. I just can't make myself go to bed any earlier then 11 I've tried so hard. And then I just lay there till usually 1. And THEN it seems like at that time every night somebody is coming home from work or something and feels like saying hi to everyone. AND THEN!! I am constantly waking up 1hr to 1/2 hr before my alarm even goes off!! Ok I'm done.

Deb (and Sandy) I'm proud of you for run/walking AND playing tennis! Way to go. I found a great way to motivate yourself to workout. Buy a pair of REALLY expensive jeans that are juuuust about too tight. It's worked for a week now.

Ok Policia Cyborg 3 is on, got2go!

Work Out With Deb:

Believe it or not folks, Sandy and I went running tonight. We walked/ran 2 miles and then played tennis. Of course, there was much more walking than running, but it's all about making progress.

Hillary, I enjoy your site soo much more when you write stories. It has been quite some time since you have given a qualified blog update. The pictures are ok too, but don't forget to write. However, when discussing the situation w/ Becca, she mentioned that she truly loves to read the detailed comments underneath the pics. I had never really paid attention before, but they are pretty interesting.

On other news, the Skeleton Key is an excellent movie. I highly recommend it.

Also, I broke the vow and talked to Ms. Marrin for awhile tonight, after she called my house. It was deffinately interesting. She basically didn't say a whole lot, and I basically told her that i couldn't hang out w/ her for awhile. She couldn't imagine why, so I had to spell it out for her. Not really sure how it ended, but I don't think it was too bad.

"The real hollywood?", "No, the chocolate one."

Well I finally got my pictures on a disk-I really hate computers sometimes. I also go my pictures up.

more pics

I got some pics up of moving, botanical gardens, and the baseball game. I was gonna get a stereo today cause mine is a peice but they didn't have anything in my price range. Gonna hold off till I can afford a nicer one. i'm going to Matteson tomorrow for an economic development meeting. I'm hoping they're open to the public-I haven't gotten around to calling and finding out. I know I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb and everyone is going to wonder why I'm there. I still don't know the general opinion "municipal people" have toward consulting companies-and who knows of V3. Anyway-time for bed.

UGH!!

I was gonna post a couple pictures from teh game last night BUT since the computer guy didn't fix my computer I have to use the USB cable spot to use the internet and that's how I hook my camera up to get the pictures off :(

nothing clever comes to mind

I'm watching mr. holland's opus and it is so much crapier then I remember. Maybe cause I'm catching it w/ only 30 mins left. When ever I'm at work I am constantly thinking of things I want to look up on the computer tons and tons of stuff but the second I get in front of my computer I can't think of a single thing. I'm afraid to check my email at work or do much of anything that I'm not supposed to do at least until the 3 month trial period is over.

HOLY CRAP!!! DEB IS MOVING TO CHICAGO!!!!!!!! I CAN'T FREAKIN BELIEVE IT!! I AM SO FREAKIN EXCITED. SHE GOT EXCEPTED TO NORTHWESTERN IN EVANSTON!!!

I have had such a hard time sleeping lately. Nyquil doesn't seem to help. Also, the other morning before I was really awake I lifted my head and as I tried to put it back on my pillow I totally smacked it on my head board. When I woke up I didn't remember if I fell asleep afterward or knocked myself out. And I had a huge knot on my forehead.

Richard Dryfus is now crying and singing lennon's "beautiful boy".