Merry Christmas

          Christmas is one of my favorite holidays of the year. Getting presents and making Christmas cookies, picking out a tree and putting on decorations, though we have to have a fake tree because my sister is allergic to real Christmas tree, and many other festivities. But most of all, I’m going to love when the family gets together to have some fun and see what we got from underneath the tree.

          Every year, I celebrate Christmas Eve with my family. We have a nice supper that my lovely mom makes and when were ready to go, we go to church at 7 o’clock for our Christmas mass. The cool part is when we get back, we can only open one present that has been under the tree already. It was always fun to do so, because you have no idea what it is and you can only open one which can be very hard because you want to keep opening presents. Then when that’s over my grandma sometimes comes over and we play games, either its dominos or some other card game we enjoy to play. Normally we stay up till 10ish and then we go to bed with our tummies full of yummy cut- out cookies and peanut butter bom- boms (which are peanut butter balls covered with chocolate).  

          By the time I wake up, it’s already like 9 in the morning waiting for our parents. My sister and my brother and I are sitting in the living room snooping around the Christmas tree seeing how many presents we have and trying to figure out what it could be. After awhile we sometimes go into our parent’s room and jump on the bed to wake them up because we want to open our present by then already. Now that we woke them up, we have to wait for them to get ready, jeez how much longer we have to wait. Now it’s about eleven thirty or noon and we finally get to open our presents. We take pictures and take turns opening them so everyone knows what everyone got. After this, I get ready for to go to my grandmas. My grandma’s party is always on Christmas. We eat at 1 or when everyone gets there, we have ham, mashed potatoes, corn and dinner rolls, pies and other deserts, everything you possibly think of for a Christmas dinner. Then at 5 or so, we open some more presents which is where we all cramp into the living room. My grandma and grandpa had nine kids, which now those kids are all married and have kids too which brings some of those kids having kids too—point is, that’s a lot of people. While sitting in the hot living room, everyone received their presents, it’s time for some games. There are about three tables that are playing three different games, with a huge group of people playing. Sometimes people switch throughout playing, but we have blast.

          When the day is over and can’t eat no more, it’s about that time we all go home. With an eventful day like my family has, I get excited every year. But I know that this will be my third year going to three different Christmas parties; My grandmas, My boyfriends, and his grandmas and I always feel like my stomach is going to blow because there always in one weekend. Christmas is next week Saturday and I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

Expect Great Things!

            On November 8, 2010, I called Kohl’s for a job application, and lucky me, I got hold of someone. First they asked me a few questions and later I had an interview that night. I was surprised. I was suppose to apply online but something was wrong and I called about it, one of the associates said let’s wait couple days and see if it does come in. And when I called on November 8, they said they didn’t receive anything so I was given the opportunity to come that night for a group interview.

            Shock as I was, I got an interview within one hour. It was very interesting, I never was in a group interview before so this was defiantly my first. Still, I was nervous but as the meeting went on, it was actually pretty cool. At least it wasn’t all eyes on you, it was nice to hear what other people had to say and what reason why other people applied for this job.  First we all had to introduce ourselves: our name, where were from, likes or hobbies, something very interesting and from our previous job—what would we change if we had the chance to. As a group, we were to answer many questions they had asked us, but the trick was we had to answer it differently, and to them that showed them how fast we were thinking on our feet. Along with many other questions, we had to answer why we like Kohl’s and where we prefer to work in, I said “Well, first I shop there all the time, and I like the junior Kohl’s clothes, so I probably prefer to work in the juniors department or as POS,” (Point of Sale, which is working at the cash registers). After everyone answered their questions and was an hour later, we all were finished with our interview. They told us that we would receive a phone call the next day to come in for orientation, and happy I was, I received that phone call.

            On November 9, 2010, I went back to Kohl’s for my orientation I had to attend, which this took about three hours. We had to watch a movie of what Kohl’s been about and how it became Kohl’s. Did u know that Kohl’s used to be a grocery store? Later, it became a grocery store along with selling some outdoor stuff such as lawnmowers, and then after so many years later, Kohl’s is what we have now. There are now 1,058 Kohl’s in the United States located in 48 different states. In 1988 was when Wisconsin had their first Kohl’s. How would I ever known this if I hadn’t seen this video, I was surprised that Kohl’s was first a grocery store, I would of never thought of that. I would have to say that the video was very interesting.

After we were done with our orientations, we were to sign up for our training days, and that took 4 days to do so. Most of it was on the computer, but there were also some hands on activities too, and that helped to get around the store to know where everything is, what to do, and how to use many of the things Kohl’s use in the store. One day was especially spent on the registers to know what buttons to use and what this and that mean and so on. I still ask questions, because I’m not sure what button to use, but I do know most of it… I think! Ha!

                        Lucky as I was to get this job, I was hired as a seasonal associate, but we do have the chance to work part- time year round, which is decided through the boss who they want to keep. I hope I still get to work at Kohl’s, because I believe Kohl’s is one of the best customer services stores around here. As an associate, we put our customers first and I love the reactions I get back after helping them, especially the kind, older women, they defiantly appreciate your help. If I don’t get the year- round- part- time job from Kohl’s, I can say it was a great experience. At Kohl’s, we expect great things!

Thanksgiving Day Weekend

                Last week Thursday the 25^th was Thanksgiving Day, and I ate so much that I was full for the whole weekend. I had my thanksgiving dinner plus my boyfriend’s family thanksgiving dinner. It sure was a fulfilling day but first let me tell how my weekend all started and did it start out crappy.

                Wednesday was the night my boyfriend, Mike, and I wanted to go home but work got in the way.  I had to  work till 6pm and Mike worked till 10pm, which I guess gave me some time to pack things and get things ready but it still was pretty late for a 3 hour drive home. We did sit here thinking if it was a good idea to drive home or not, because first of all, there was bad weather and obviously it would be real late till we got home. So it was either we go home tonight in slush and not-so-bad weather or not go home, because we sure didn’t want to drive in the morning with all that ice that was going to be on the roads. Well, we both decided we really wanted Mikes’ grandma Jackie’s dumplings and my mom’s good ole’ turkey. So we packed our stuff into the trunk of the car and drove home Wednesday night at 11 o’clock at night.

                The roads started out pretty good, it was just super cold out and it was just starting to sleet a little bit. The further north we went, the more snow we saw and the more slush we were driving in. Before we left La Crosse, we did stop at Kwik Trip for obviously gas, but for some caffeine and munchies, because we both knew it was going to be a long drive home, plus I also got some hot chocolate, and that was amazing. Surprisingly we were pretty wide awake for the drive, we talked and told jokes the whole ride, we talked about everything, normally we don’t have this long of a conversation in one day but we sure did keep each other busy.

                After three and a half hours, we finally arrived to my house which was about 3 in the morning. Back from where I live, there was snow everywhere, we got about 8 inches of snow. Though it was a hassle to drive on my road, Mike had to also drive back to his place, which was like 20 minutes from where I live. I told him to call once he got home just so I know he made it and that he was fine, because the roads here were terrible. While he was driving I was getting ready for bed, by the time I got into my warm comfy bed it was already 4am. So after he gave me a quick call, I’m sure we both slept like babies.

                The next morning I got up at 10 and got ready to head over to Mikes. His family was having Thanksgiving Dinner for lunch time and my family was for supper time, simply because my dad and brother wanted to hunt most of the day. I got to Mikes about 11:30am and went to his grandmas at noon, talked it up with some of his relatives and then ate. We had dumplings and gravy, stuffing, turkey, and some other side dishes. Also had dessert of Raspberry Tort and there was pumpkin pie, but I hate pumpkin pie.  After couple hours hanging out there, Mike and I went to my place. There, we had turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet corn and delicious buns. And the dessert my mom made was Snickers Pie, my favorite. Overall I had great food all in one day, but I also know I gained another few pounds from all the food. My Thanksgiving Day was very eventful.

                Though I didn’t get to stay home for the weekend, Friday morning, Mike and I drove back to La Crosse because sadly we both had to work for Black Friday along with I had to work Saturday too. After three long days, I finally got some rest on Sunday to re-cooperate for this week. Last weekend I was what you can say “a very busy bee” and was happy to eat some amazing food on turkey day! I hope everyone else’s Thanksgiving Day weekend was fun and less hectic than mine. 

Let it Snow!

Winter is on the way...


Winter is good and bad, beautiful and ugly and can make u happy or very mad, as we say pissed off! I hate the winter because of the cold and many other reasons. I like winter because of Christmas and sledding. But one thing about winter is the driving on these crazy roads with people that just don’t have common since on how to drive on slushy or icy roads and that is what gets me very mad.


I can’t preach about driving because first of all, I have never drove on these roads here in La Crosse so this winter will be my first, but I sure did drive on roads back home that roads were never plowed on and can be very icy and that takes skill. Yes, I have been in accidents before but accidents that someone else caused, gotten myself into the ditch, but the accidents here are by the way people drive because they don’t know when to slow down but instead last minute put the breaks down and then rear- end someone. I’m just saying in general that most people don’t know how to drive on slippery roads because their in such a "hurry", but I know there are many people who do know how to take caution on snowy roads. Its just ridiculous how people can drive so senseless and not care about their surrounding and everyone else around them.


At home, on the road I live on, the road was never plowed in the mornings and sometimes I was able to drive through it and sometime I had to be late for school because I had to wait till the plow would go through. I remember one morning, I turned on the TV hoping school would be canceled, which I did every morning,  but that morning there was at least about 15 inches of snow or more and I knew that I couldn’t get out.Though school was not cancelled, it was about the time to head to school, I was lucky to drive out my driveway seeing that the fact it toke me about five chances, struggling to get onto the road. But this snow was the heavy packed snow, good for snowballs kind of snow and when I got to the stop sign at the end of my road, I was stuck because I was kind of was pushing the snow in front of me and when I stopped I couldn’t move forward because of all the snow that was piled up. 


While I was stuck this one car was coming down the hill behind me and obviously wasn’t paying attention and crashed into the back of me pushing me across the road into the ditch so now I was definitely stuck. I had a Dodge Eagle for a car at the time and it’s the lightest car that you would ever drive which I got into some accidents because the back end would always fish tail no matter who was driving. But anyways, I eventually got the car out of the driveway and started all over again the next day because the car wasn’t damaged. But I learned my lesson that next time I will not drive if I can’t get out of the driveway.


My point is its either nature or the people are those who cause many accidents and I’m saying please try to be careful while driving on snowy or icy roads especially on these busy roads, if one gets into one accident then there is guaranteed that another will get into one. And if you are running late for work or something important don’t try to drive fast, take your time because everyone understand its winter time and that the roads won’t be the greatest to drive on. Its better to show up late rather then get into an accident and pay a whole months pay check to pay for the accident you got into. 


Let it snow!!

My Accident

It was about May 2009, when I should of actually listened to my mother. I decided to go to my boyfriends house. While I was at Mikes, we were just chilling in his room watching TV until his parents were ready to go out to eat, we went to our close by restaurant and got back around 7 or so. I ended up staying later till around 10pm when my mom simply told me that I had to be home by 9pm because I had to work the next day. Anyways after Mike and I got done watching one of his movies, it was about the time I should go home. 


Around 10pm, I left Mikes and headed on home. Now the roads I travel on back at home are kind of dangerous I think. The road Mike lives on are very hilly and the woods and tall grass pretty much comes right up to edge of the road. I was obviously hour late from what my mom told me, so I put my lead foot down a bit speeding it up to about 65, which I shouldn’t have done. As I was coming down one of the hills, and right at the bottom at the last minute… Bang! A dumb deer decides to step out of the woods onto the road as I drive right past the spot at the same time.  But catch this. Because I was going fast, I hit the deer on my right side of my car making me swerve a bit ending up in a complete 180, as if I was heading back to my boyfriends house. When I hit the deer, it flew back smashing my passenger window, which the glass flew into side of my face leaving couple of scratches and the deer some how ended up about 20 yards in to the ditch about 30 yards away from where my car ended up.  From hitting the deer so hard, the guts were ripped open splattered all over side of my car, and it pushed back everything such as the moving the radar back a bit to point it was not able to drive. I also was a good enough driver to keep it on the road. I came out with couple of scratches and bruises but I was fine overall.


When it was all over in ten seconds, I called Mike first to come by me asap because I was so scared and shocked. Once Mike came I had him call my parents and when they got here we called the cops. And the first thing the cop said, “ Wow, I’m surprise its not in the ditch… and you're alive.” I was like WHAT, your surprise I am alive- what the hell. They said, from how I hit the deer and how fast I was going, they expected it to be in the ditch, and if I ended up in the ditch I would have been dead because there is a lot of rocks and a old fence that a fence post would of possibly of stabbed through the driver window into my head killing me. And I was like “Wow that’s some bullshit… obviously it didn't happen so can we focus on this right now.” I was so mad. But we took Mikes truck and pulled it to his house since it was right down the road and left it there overnight. The one thing that really pissed me off was when the cop asked if I was under the influence and I of course said, “Hell No,” and went form there. And now I have a curse on me every time I drive on that road because every time I go to Mikes house, there has been a deer in the very spot I had my accident. And the reason why I should of listened to my mom was if I would of left at 9 like I was suppose to it would of never happened…according  to my mother.

Guessing Game

 “Hmm, I’m craving for something caramel, chocolate and chewy!” I’m not talking about a Twix or a Caramello, and it’s not some kind of dessert bar that someone makes. But here’s the deal, I’m going to give you some information, and I’m going to see who can name the candy bar first for a winning prize.

It’s a chocolate bar made of malt nougat topped with caramel and covered with milk chocolate and on the other hand, without the caramel, is similar to a 3 Musketeers bar. The chocolate for this chocolate candy bar was supplied by Hershey’s. It was created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars and was manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Wikipedia Para 2). It was first commercially distributed filled chocolate bar. The name and taste was taken from a malted milkshake who supposedly Forrest Mars, son of Frank, came up with the idea and told his father. Though Frank was the one who came up the name of the chocolate bar that we all American enjoy eating this sweet snack.

On March 10, 1925, this trademark was registered in the U.S. claiming a first- use of 1922 and in 1924 this yummy bar was introduced nationally and was sold 800,000 that year and 8.2 million today (Wikipedia Para 3). 

It was at first called the Forever Yours bar.  It remained until 1979 when it was discontinued but due to popular demand, the Forever Yours bar returned in 1989 and was renamed to what we know today, the chocolate and vanilla was forever parted.

There are two version of this enjoyable snack, the American or the European and Australian version. The European and Australian version is pretty much the same but without caramel and the nougat is much lighter. It was also distributed by the Mars Confectionary company.

Have you figured out what candy bar I’m talking about, if not here is a hint; “The sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite” or “Comfort in every bar.” These slogans were first said when this chocolate bar were bitten into.

(Information^- Wikipedia.com)

This candy bar is what we call sweet, tasty and has a lot of calories. It can make every kids day bright up or even the adults that want to have snack during their break. I believe that this is one of my favorite chocolate candy bars next to the snickers, and now I’m sure you are wondering what it is. Well, I’m not going to tell you! If you can be the FIRST to tell me what kind of chocolate candy bar it is, and I’ll bring that candy bar in for you.

Lets see who wins! :) 

Halloween Time!

Sunday October 31, 2010! Halloween is just around the corner so its about that time you put your costume on and as for the kids, its trick- or- treating time. As for college students, its put your costume on and trick- or- treat to every house that has goodies, goodies that children are not allowed to have. Halloween is a holiday everyone can celebrates to dress up of who they like to be either its funny, scary, a celebrity, a sexy waitress or a super scary Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween is celebrated with carving pumpkins, telling ghost stories, going to haunted houses, going to costume parties, and watching scary movies. But do you ever wonder how Halloween become a holiday on our calendars.

Halloween dates back to "the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain" roughly 2,000 years ago, people known as the Celts were divided throughout modern-day countries United Kingdom, Northern France and Ireland. These people celebrated on November 1, meaning October 31, which was their New Year's Eve. The Celtics believed that the boundary between the worlds of living and the dead became blurred that night. Bonfires and animal sacrifices were common, as for costumes, they consisted of animal heads and skins.When the Romans conquered the Celts, the Samhain was combined with other holidays and when Christianity became powerful, Pope Boniface IV gave another name to what we know as Halloween. He designated November 1 as All Saints Day- day when followers could honor the dead, particularly the saints and martyrs. All Saints Day was also known as "All- Hallows" and Hallow is and Old English word for saint. The night before (Oct. 31) was known as "All- Hallows Eve", then shortened to Hallowe'en and finally to Halloween. 

Did you know that trick- or- treating and the name jack-o'-lanterns comes from Ireland. If not, this is why. Hundreds of years ago, Irish farmers went from houses to houses begging for food in the name of their ancient gods, to be used at the village Hallowe'en celebration. If the people did grant them food, they were promise good luck in the future and made threats to those who refused to give, meaning they would be cursed. One way they used to say, "You treat me, or else I will trick you!" 

And for the name for those harmless lightened pumpkin faces, jack-o'-lanterns actually is an old Irish symbol of a damned soul. Story behind was a man named Jack was unable to reach heaven due to miserliness and was unable to enter hell because he played jokes on the devil. So in results of what he did, he was condemned to wander on earth with his lantern until end of the world. And the light that was placed inside the pumpkin was to scare away evil spirits from the peoples home and wore costumes to disguise themselves.

The Irish, who arrived in America as settlers were responsible for spreading the concept of Halloween, where it eventually grew in popularity. With the advent of modern science and advancement in technology, Halloween in US, as in other parts of the world, became less and less religious and this annual event has now turned into more of a social event.

Halloween is fun for everyone and everyone enjoys have some time for themselves, but I think parents should take a minute or two to tell their children why we have Halloween because really without the history of it, we wouldn't have this exciting and crazy day to celebrate.. But really its just another way to gain another pound or two from all the candy... or for those dang college goodies! wink wink!