nothing can be planned.

why buy a plane ticket months in advance when for $50 more you can buy one for the next day?
one minute i'm getting sassed harder than ever by my boss, the next minute i'm getting dropped off by her amazing husband at the bus stop (he hugged me, kissed my cheek and said "have a safe trip").
i took a bus to manhattan then a taxi to my friends apartment where we had the time of our lives, went to CPK did a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and then they dropped me and my bags off at the subway station at 3 am. the next day at 1 i was picked up by adam at the airport in the SLC. then, we had a family party here and i thoroughly enjoyed everyone. i have the best times here.

• movies/pictures in LAYTON.UTAH.
• shopping at fashion place/gateway/trolley square(NOT SO MUCH)/literally ANYWHERE else
• eating out nearly every meal
• bee's games
• going bowling for a WEDDING RECEPTION and meeting THE david waterfall family

this is us pre-bowling

studio 600+the after maths of studio 600
this is us before studio.

 my dad taking these two pictures. we're surprisingly, NOT drunk.

this is the aftermath of studio. in between leaving someones house after a night of dancing and not sleeping and going to village in for dinner and a murray sun rise.

shoppingshoppingshoppingshopping.
nephew and sister, this is him after he cried when i tried to put lip gloss on him. i was forcefully trying to do it and katie was screaming ROBBIE NO DON'T LET HER NO NOO!! and he freaked out, pointed and me and yelled awful things and started sobbing. he got over it quick. love those m&ms.

us at the bee's game. boston vs new york? how bout the fact that i choose boston over new york?

more pix to come.

its over now.

how bout a round of applause? standing ovation.
you look so dumb right now, standing outside my house.
tryin to apologize, you're so ugly when you cry--please, just cut it out.
don't tell me you're sorry cuz you're not, baby when i know you're only sorry you got caught.

but you put on quite a show, you really had me goin.
but now its time to go, the curtains finally closing.
that was quite a show, very entertaining, but its over now.
go on a take a bow.

grab your clothes and get gone, you better hurry up before the sprinklers turn on.
talkin bout 'girl i love you, you're the one' this just looks like a rerun.
PLEASE, what else is on?

and the awad for best liar goes to you, for making me believe that you could be...
let's hear your speech out.
how bout a round of applause, a standing ovation.
go on a take a bow.

hampton shiz.

i'm sorry for
...losing your exacto knife.
...always having to tell you to do such ridiculous things.
...mis-judging you on the first day.
...not taking you out to lunch like i'd promised.
...not being able to speak better spanish.
...being republican. :)
...calling you a doll.
...not changing before hanging out with you.
...not paying more often.
...ruining your night when you wanted to have fun.
...describing you by saying "the one with the eye?"
...you, that you have to be married to her.


thank you
...for always always doing things for me, even if you were busy with something else.
...for never letting me down and always finishing the ridiculous thing i asked you to do.
...for being a mentor, friend, and support.
...for letting me help you do small things like help you use the laser leveler and use your screw driver.
...for teaching me spanish. thank you for letting me help you paint. thank you for telling me i look 'muy bonita' everyday, and in a sincere way, not a creepy way. thank you for looking sad when i told you i was leaving and thank you for continually saying "alexandra..bueno...:)"
...THANK YOU for telling liz that i was a good manager, before you even knew i quit. and thank you for kissing me goodbye.
...for getting me a snickers bar everyday.
...for showering and looking nice everytime we hung out.
...for paying for me all the time. even though it wasn't about the money. thank you for letting me cry on your shoulder, thank you for staring at me and smiling all the time, thank you for talking in my ear in spanish, singing to me in spanish, and teaching me how to dance. thank you for teaching me how to drive stick, for taking me to Montauk and listening to brand new with me, for worrying about my eating habits, and bringing me my favorite lunch; a tuna sandwich with cheese because "i know you like cheese on it..." and thank you for knowing skor bars are my favorite candy bars even when i didn't tell you that.
...for trying to lighten the mood. and teaching me cesus parce.
...for ogling me day and night.
...for being the sweetest grandpa in the world. thank you for actually showing me the family kind of love.


i'm going to miss
...waking up at seven everyday and hearing "morning alex"
...mi amigos, chillin with them speaking spanish.
...laughing at all the insanity that goes on in this house.
..."meester sharlees" aka mr charles
...being called a 'stupis ass' and loving it.
...being the only woman on a construction sight and being adored.

family.

when i'm sitting on the phone listening to my boss biotch me out about the tiniest things in the world, when i get denied lunch more than once, and when she's standing in front of me rolling her eyes at me, sassing everything i say, and yapping at me about writing this down in my notebook, i often think about what my family would do if they really knew how i was getting treated and it makes me want to cry. you guys would be so disappointed.

pictures.

this is the room that i am staying in. before i came i asked her where i was going to sleep. she said "there are ten bedrooms to choose from!" also, there is a guest house where she wanted me to stay. well, five nights of the week, two guys stay in that guest house as well. it is one huge room connected with a bathroom that has two door handles, and a little closet door separates the two rooms. well, i was NOT down for that, and neither were the two guys living there. so i called up my boss and told her that. so she told me to set up a COT somewhere in the house. i told my dear friend/mentor, charles, that she said that and he laughed his head off and told me that he would bring in one of the twin beds from the guest house. i told liz (my boss) that and she freaked out and said no, sleep on the cot. well, they brought the twin bed in there for me and this is what i'm staying in.

i asked my boss for a raise. she said she didn't think she could do that since she was giving me free room and board. this is hardly room and board. i hate her so much.

I had the camera out yesterday taking pictures that my boss wanted me to take. they saw me with the camera and asked me to take a picture of them.

he also asked me to take a picture of him and when i did he looked at it and said "good, good." he always looks at me and says "alexandra...good." hmmm

this is me on the beach by my "house" wearing my boyfriends jacket. hahahha.

answer me this...

why do i love a 19 year old columbian construction worker who took me to Montauk, bought me ice cream, taught me how to drive stick and vowed his love to me?

days of hilariosity.

so after a lot of chaos with me and jessie packing, making movies, and delivering a bike to washington heights while trying to be on time for the bus, i finally made it. the bus dropped me off at the east hampton stop at a little Inn. i was a panicked mess and was trying to do anything to calm my nerves (cigarettes, anxiety pills, a couple shots...), but when my boss picked me up, she was really nice and appreciative. probably because she knows that i could and would leave if i didn't like it here. on the way home she showed me "town", which is two perpendicular streets. thats all. and she told me about the history and what not...then she started telling me about how i needed to be able to take control of everyone at the house. she said "YOU have to be the boss. they can't know you're only 12."


we went to sleep early and woke up at 8:30. then we worked and worked and worked until 1 oclock when we all went to brunch for mother's day. well she asked her daughter to change because she was wearing boots and jeans, but her daughter flipped out saying that she could wear whatever she wants and that her mom only wanted her to change because she cares so much about what other people think. so the explosion started there and continued on through out dinner. my boss kept looking at me like i was going to tell robin to stop or something, but i just stayed quiet. robin wouldnt sit by her mom because she had "cooties" and kept saying mean things to her and having a lip. her mom said she'd give her consequences if she kept it up, but i saw no consequences. finally, the dad snapped and yelled at them saying they were embarrassing him and themselves and making me uncomfortable. then he turned to me and was like "well, happy mother's day alexandra."
we went shopping after lunch and when i was alone with liz, my boss, she said something about how i should sometimes tell robin she's being mean. i just nodded and didn't say i was going to because its not my job to raise her daughter. after we got ice cream we went back to the house and worked some more until 7 oclock when doug (her husband) brought pizza and dinner for us. we stopped and ate and robin begged me to play football with her so i played that for awhile. then we went downstairs and watched the series "the tudors" with robin while working. robin is only 12 and that show is SO bad. i was even shocked, and wouldnt watch. finally we finished working at 11 o clock when her car came to take them back to the city. doug is so sweet to me and made sure i would be okay and said "okay, goodbye darlin'." such a cutie grandpa.

the night was pretty scary because the doors kept blowing open, but i slept surprisingly well. the bed i was sleeping on was RIGHT next to the glass door to the outside and at 7 am someone came and tried to open it. i was supposed to be up at ready at 7 but totally wasn't so i jumped out of bed and opened the door for him. i scared him so bad because he didn't know i was in there and just wanted to use the outlet.
the day was so wack and i finally got a hang of things in the afternoon. being surrounded by 30 men is NOT bad to me. i am the only woman amongst so many men of different colors, shapes, ages, and sizes and i love it and they love me.

so apparently deer have been eating the plants out here and my boss FLIPPED out and started yelling at everyone saying that they ate 20,000 dollars worth of plants (completely false) and was looking any and everywhere for someone to blame. so she lashed out at the guy who sprayed the deer repellent(rotten eggs and hot sauce. awesome.) and made him come and try to figure out where the deer were getting in. so i was with him trying to figure it out and he goes into all the brush and is walking along the fence line, well, i take that back. he was pretty much crawl-running through all the thick shrubs and i was trying to follow him until i stopped him and was like "really?" and he got the point and said that deer like where it is very dense because then nothing can chase them. he acted like it was normal for him to be doing this, but then told me i could wait on the lawn. i did. after awhile, he finally figured out where the deer might be getting in. he was explaining it to me and showed me where the brush was "hallowed out" into a dome shape "about your height". no it wasn't my height it was actually to his waste but thats fine.
by the time 7 finally rolled around, everyone was getting ready to go. i held the front door open and let 20 men out and they were all saying "goodbye miss", "goodnight", "see you tomorrow alexandra", so cute. then there were only three left. one boy, jonathan, who is 20 and has a huge crush on me, the old black grandpa who is in charge of everyone, so cute and SO bossy, and his son. the old man (charles, fitting.) gave me his number and asked if i was really going to be alright out here and said to call him if i need anything, don't be shy. then jonathan made sure to tell me that "yeah, its really scary out here at night." thank you.

so i was left alone with no working internet or tv, and no food. luckily, i called a sweety and he ordered groceries for me online to be delivered today. i love men. jesus woke me up at 7 this morning because i slept through my alarm. today it went smoother than yesterday because everyone knows who i am now, and i know my way around. around 9, the "coffee truck" comes and EVERYONE clears out of the house, it gets so quiet and its like a ghost town. at least three of the workers come find me and say "miss alexandra, coffee! :) " so i went out with them today and was so happy. they really let loose when they are out there and they laugh and joke around, so cute. one of the men from columbia picked up this orange juice drink and said its really good. its all natural. so i bought it of course. i was carrying it back to the house when someone from the scaffolding yelled out to me.
"that stuff is not all natural!! he lied!!"
"really??..."
"I'M ALL NATURAL!!"

nice pick up line.

i asked one of the electricians, both named joe, to help me fix the internet. he looked on my boss' computer and hannah montana was up and he made fun of me. he was like "what are you, 13??" and i was like noo that's robin's. and he was like
"so really what are you, 19?"
"....no i'm 20."
"ohhh i was right yesterday!"
"you guys talked about me yesterday."
"of course we talked about you. we're all guys. but don't worry, it was all good stuff."

the best thing that has happened so far though, is when i went upstairs. they had the radio BLARING. and it happened to be. Shania Twain-"I feel like a woman."
i went up there and laughed SO hard and me and three other men started dancing. so funny!
though i do not like my boss, i love life from 7 am to 7 pm while they are all here.

the way it is.

"You really want me to go tonight, even though you know I don't want to?"

"..........yeah. That's what we planned."

"......alright."

that wasn't what we planned. and i guess i'm going on a bus to the hamptons tonight against my will.
i am not happy.

never a normal day

at the knicks game, we saw a girl dancing on top of a horizontal pole...



then there was some man painted white in columbus circle. he was posing and trying not to blink or smile or anything and he was just gazing into my eyes trying not to laugh while i was taking a pic, wow.



i also saw a woman just doin her thing in central park. you should have seen her, she was totally jiving, but i missed it.
the darndest things happen here.

on the way home from the airport this morning we saw a van turn left in front of a taxi and he slowed down and told the taxi driver to reverse a little bit or else he'd hit his car and the taxi driver got mad and said no, so the van just pulled forward and hit the taxi's front right side of the car and the taxi driver just sat there stunned and then they both just drove off.
so weird.

tagged.

10 years ago: i was ten. in fifth grade best friends with addie and had the biggest crush on jordan boyle, who is now married.


5 years ago: i was in 9th grade. best friends with lyndsi, jessie, bryson, alex and justin. chillin at hillcrest.

5 months ago: i was dating will and working at journeys kids. just found out i got accepted to two colleges including one in new york that no one had ever heard of...

5 things on my to do list today:
1) go to work
2) take clothes back to american apparel and urban
3) wait for my groceries to be delivered
4) eat everything that gets delivered
5) hopefully go to bed early.

5 Snacks I enjoy:
1) granola bars
2) M&Ms
3) Chips and salsa
4) snickers............
5) um chocolate??

5 things I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire:
1) pay off dads house so he wont sell it.
2) pay off katie's house.
3) give a large sum to my gran.
4) pay off all my and my sisters school debt (....)
5) put the rest in money market so i can easily get to it....

5 of my bad habits:
1) procrastinating.
2) eating too much. and too much candy.
3) leading people on..................................
4) being sassy and sarcastic.
5) talking about myself too much. sad.

5 places I have lived:
1) aryshire
2) edindrew
3) harlem
4) queens
5) manhattan

5 jobs I have had:
1) orange julius....
2) naborhood bakery
3) big five!
4) journeys kidzz
5) Personal Ass.

5 things people don't know about me:
1) i have a wall up.
2) i often think about how good of a reality show my life would make.
3) i'm scared i'll never want to get married.
4) i just fell in love at first sight when the guy who dropped off my groceries. and i think he feels the same way.
5) i appear very calm when i'm nervous

5 people I tag:
emma....kalie....sam....dave...doctor?

being someone's puppet.

go do this for me.
hurry we dont have all the time in the world.
you should be there by now.
hurry back, you have stuff to do here.
did you get it? i dont like it. can you return it? no cash back? um. i wish you would have told me that.
sort this out.
throw this away.
fax this for me.
print two copies.
no you DONT have to do it one at a time. i would have told you that if i knew you didn't know. that would take all day.
you've been waiting for ten minutes? well this would have been the smart thing to do...
actually you got here at 9:45 today. well it was 9:50 but you said you waited downstairs for five minutes. so write it down accurately because i pay accurately.
pick that up for me.
fine.
fine.
fine.
fine.



i can NOT.
take it anymore.