stuff

so I have been neglecting my blog for the last little while.. mostly cuz other things have been going on. but i have like 15 minutes so I'll give a quick overview of what's been going on

• things at work have calmed down. It's not like it once was but it's not nearly like it was either

• wedding stuff is getting started. the farther i get into it the better eloping sounds. :/ but our colors are like a bright dark blue like this and yellow like this. Yeah.

• I'm trying to qualify for a house. or we. whichever way it'll work.

yeah pretty boring. anywho I'm off to fill out paperwork so the bank can tell me whether or not we should look for a house or an apt.

yeah. pretty boring.

Can someone please explain to me...

so taking a break from all the wedding stuff (to which I will get back to posting shortly.) but can someone please explain to me how because i am a white Mormon i cannot be offended by things but almost anything i say can be twisted into something that makes me sound like a neo Nazi anti Semite? I mean honestly. when you laugh at what i say that voids your right to be offended. you don't get to go crying to the manager 2 days later cuz me and my friends have fun at work and still produce as much or more than you do. and don't even try and pull the race card. I will freak out. as a Mexican from Mexico city and a woman who is slightly black you can say whatever they hell you want? you can call me a honky and whitey and laugh when i say I'm too white to dance well and make all kinds of jokes about how Mexicans are getting weaker cuz TVs are getting lighter and other crazy race jokes I won't even bother to post but when we are all saying that and I make a joke about not being able to like cornbread cuz I'm the wrong color you get to laugh and then decided after emailing everyone in the unit that is not me and my three friends that that really offends you and that I've been saying racist comments all along without ever telling me that it offends you? fuck that. I apologized and took this one. this one time. because as a Caucasian person I cannot win. so go back to your minority meeting or whatever and chalk another one up. but let me hear a single race comment again from ANYONE and I will walk straight down to the union and file a grievance. I won't even go to my manager. I'll jump so far ahead it won't even be funny.

and on this same topic lets not be throwing religion into the mix. when you ask about my religion and I answer you in a very polite respectful way(even f the answer is I don't know.) that gives me the right to ask about your religion and get answered in the same way. When you talk about your religion semi politely (actually I would call it haughtily but whatev) with the other catholics that then gives me the right to talk about my religion politely( we weren't even semi polite about it. we were polite as hell dammit) with the other Mormons. you can't say that me telling a few people about the draper temple offends you. if anyone should be offended it should be me. asking if we sacrifice our firstborns naked in the temple if really offensive. and implying that the temple is a giant orgy and the place where we brainwash people Is really really offensive. but even if I brought that up it would get thrown out cuz I'm a Mormon which gives me no rights at all it appears. again I apologized to save my job. On this one I was for sure not in the wrong. but let me hear a single word about religion again. or anything even close to it. I'll march straight down to the union and file a grievance and freak out. In fact you know that background you have on your computer of Jesus bleeding and dying? That's pretty offensive to me. Push me.

and this one wasn't directed directly at me but it still pissed me the hell off. Don't sit around and talk about how big the average penis is and measure it out on a ruler and stick the ruler in your mouth and make jokes and talk about your hysterectomy and cramps and a whole slew of other things then go complain because two people talked about Brest feeding their child and claim you were "just trying to protect the only man in the unit" OK lets back up. we sit 4 seats away from Heber. You and your group sit across from him. We were talking about a natural thing and not even in a vulgar way. in a natural way. You were talking about blow jobs. When you ask him if what we are talking about offends him and he says oh i just tune them out that means "I'm 50 and a big boy. I've got this under control" it doesn't mean "please overstep your boundaries and go complain because you don't like these people who I do like and then use me to hide behind as your reason" I'm sorry. but Heber has 10 kids. he's familiar with breastfeeding. if anyone's comments were offending him I'd put money that it woulda been yours before ours.

so in conclusion I am becoming a deaf mute at work now. all communication that is not necessary for me to do my job will be kept to email and text. let me hear a single word about anything mentioned above and I will get so loud that not only will the union hear about it but also the lead, manager, and everyone else i can get to listen. Fuck. that. Tell me if I'm offending you. don't hide behind someone and don't wait 2 fucking days to decide that I'm offending me. and don't expect me to read your goddamn mind. and don't be surprised when half the unit doesn't come to potlucks or anything else and we get promoted first. you just can't produce the work and therefore you need an excuse. try and find a way to make anything i do from now on offensive. but if this doesn't get dropped today then be prepared. You have just created about 4 offend Nazis. anything that could even remotely and abstractly be twisted into something offensive to anyone will now be reported.(I'm just worried about the shite Muslims. they could be working here and what you said really offends me because it could offend them They are God's children too and we need to be sensitive to their needs.) Push me. I don't lose shit like this. you made this bed. now sleep in it.

quick post before work

so this is just a short post to tell everyone and their dog to repent now! I'm engaged and we told my family and they didn't flip like i thought they would! AHHHH!!!! It's a sign of the Apocalypse!

But yeah so I'm engaged. Before you ask. he hasn't done the whole down on one knee thing. that should happen this week sometime after we go pick up the ring and then I'll post all about that... at some point in time.

and we told my parents. although they are sad that they can't come in the temple with me and be there they respect that this is what i want. it went much better than expected. I'll keep updates on that too.

yeah so there ya go

it's been a while.. also I need to vent

so as some of you may or may not know about a week ago Andy and I came to a very much life changing decision (although not "official" yet so...) now I'm sitting here really trying to understand what this means. so I'm going to blog. if any of ya'll have any kind o advice/ suggestions feel free to leave them.

Kk so basic overview: on valentines day after we went and did all that hoopla Andy and I had a discussion about where we saw this(our relationship) going. and both kinda came to the conclusion that both of us see this ending in marriage. so it was basically a proposal without the whole "proposal" thing.-thus the it's not official part of this- so we've been talking about it a lot. which is where all this stems from.

After the intital excitement of the whole deal it kinda hit me. oh shit. now I have to tell my family. let me give you a little background on my family(in bulleted form)

• my parents anniversary is may 7 1988, my birthday is Nov 5 1988. go ahead count those. there are only 7 months... yeah and I wasn't early
• my dad is pretty anti Mormon for the most part despite what he claims. his actions say it all
• my dad has a wow problem. and not the computer game type o wow problem. the type Andy and I both have struggled with in the past
• my dad is stubborn. he hasn't been to church in years, when he does go he bitches and moans the whole time and causes much contention and discord and refuses to believe that someone here on this earth knows more than him and that "hocus pocus 'visions' and 'feelings' " actually have truth to them

aka even if we offered to wait and give my family time to clean up so that they could be there with us(which was my first suggestion. I would give anything for my family to be there. It's just not ) it wouldn't happen. and I'm not getting married outside the temple. it's that important to me and I know it is the right thing to do. so basically we have to tell my family our plans, make them feel included, explain our reasons in a way that makes sense to them and that they can understand and accept and not let them find out third party. oh and then plan and execute a meet the in laws and then a wedding. haha I'll trade anyone for the stress of finals right now straight across ;) not really but you know just trying to lighten the mood for myself. back off

so basically the only way we've come up with for telling my fam is to wait until Andy has a ring and then have him ask my dad for permission in a 'I'm-asking-for-permission-but-it's-going-to-happen-anyway' kinda way. and if they do by chance find out third party (which with any luck they won't.) We'll just fess up and explain our reasoning for waiting. but only cuz Andy doesn't go for the whole eloping idea ;) again. joke. kinda i mean my family isn't stupid for the most part. they know it's coming. I'm just hoping things will go smoothly enough that my entire side can live with it. cuz i know i will always have a hard time dealing with the fact that the only people there from my side will be my grandma maybe and a few friends also maybe. but with great sacrifice comes great reward... that's what I keep telling myself.

yeah so that's about it

I stole this from one of the random blogs I randomly read

So I was blog surfing and found this fun post. so I'm doing it. lol



YOUR REAL NAME:Myndi Greenwell



WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother & father's middle name)Kay Steven



NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)Jerry(is it bad I don't remember my mom's dad's name? I'll fill it in later)



STAR WARS NAME:(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)Gremy



DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal)Black Squirrel



SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, city where you were born)Marie Ogden



PORN NAME:(1st pet and 1st street you grew up on)Coco 6600 south?



SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)The yellow dew



FLY NAME:(first 2 letters of 1st name, last 3 letters of your last name)mygre



GANGSTA NAME:(fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)sherbet suga (i left the r off to make it more gangsta)



YOUR RAPPA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)mynizzle

YOUR GOTH NAME:(black, and the name of one of your pets)Black hunter. I like it

A7x concert. (I know I'm way late)

So I just realized that I haven't posted about the a7x concert yet (I prolly forgot cuz I don't have any pictures) But here goes.

This time instead of having a big group of friends to meet out there and all that it was just Andy and I. We got there about 530 and they opened up the doors at 6. I got us seats for this one cuz they were the same price and I'm not all about mosh pits anymore. so we had seat and were just watching everyone file in. Then my friend Elizabeth came in and she had GA-aka the mosh pits- so I walked down and talked to her for a minute. Then the concert started.

The first band was Saving Abel. They weren't great. weren't bad. but weren't that great either. I only knew one song by them(addicted) and not even really well. Yeah. not a whole lot on them.

The papa roach came out. I love Love LOVE papa roach! And they put on a great show! They did some of their earlier stuff (blood brothers, last resort, broken home) an some newer stuff (getting away with murder, scars) and Jacoby Shaddix-the lead singer- was out and wandering about the crowds and up in the seats and stuff. it was awesome! at one point He was like honestly maybe 12 rows away from us! awesome!

Then A7x came out! which was slightly disappointing! Cuz I thought they were headlining. Turns out they were co headlining with buck cherry. ugh.

But they put on an awesome show. They did some of all their stuff. unholy confessions, bat country, almost easy. all the popular stuff. It was good. Then we left cuz... yeah.. buckcherry? no

The coolest past of the whole thing was that slc was the kick off for the whole tour! yay! yeah. haha and I only got one pic from the concert that my friend Elizabeth took. so here it is

Ok well blogger hates me so it's going to have to stay at the top. but yeah there ya go

First day of Fediness

Yesterday was my first day of IRS. And although I managed to piss off a lead almost immediately(I seem to have that effect on people) it was pretty good.



First thing we did was get badges so we could get in everyday. Already this place was so much more organized that IAP(aka the files) I had to wait almost a month to get one there. so basically everyday they lost 20 minutes of their time and mine cuz I'd have to wait for a manager to sign me in and out. Grr. There was a big line and you signed like 93 papers and then boom. badge.



Then they put us in this training room. There were like 12 people too many so we had to o to the break room and get chairs. By this time I had found my friends shantel and daniel so we all sat in the back corner(the trouble corner as my friend daniel so eloquently named it. but we'll get to that later)



Then the training. there is a thousand page manual on how to take mail out of an envelope correctly. and the envelope is already cut open. I'm very serious. My friends and I were making fun of the training and kept laughing.. and trying to stifle said laughs. Thus the reason we took on the moniker the trouble corner.

then we went home after 8 hours. basically it's a monkey job. But I'm ok with that. $15 an hour almost great benefits. not to hard. Dream come true. and it's at night so no need to get up way stinkin early or stay up way to stinking late