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There are 421,456 people in the U.S. with the first name Nicole.
Statistically the 131st most popular first name.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Nicole are female.

There are 3,780 people in the U.S. with my last name.
Statistically the 8773rd most popular last name. (tied with 90 other last names)

There are 13,349 people in the U.S. with my maiden last name.
Statistically the 2794th most popular last name. (tied with 8 other last names)

There are 19 people in the U.S. with my maiden first and last name togeather.



~ Nicole

Random Things

I get annoyed

Why do I get annoyed when people don't agree with me? You know everyone is entitled to their own opinion (even if mine is right, lol) and I know this. But it still annoys me. I'll talk over you so I don't have to hear you if we're discussing the issue if I'm in a really snotty mood. I know I'm wrong but sometimes I just don't care.

I'll never admit it

If I am debating with someone and later find out that they were right I never admit it. I'll continue a lie in front of them to keep them from knowing I was wrong and they were right.

I'm unromantic

I can be very unromantic. Or so my husband says. I mean personally I don't see the problem in saying "We have to have sex tonight cause I'll probably get my period tomorrow." I'm just letting a guy know. Sheesh. I thought I was being really nice.

And then he gets mad if he keeps on me for some boob action and finally I'll go okay two minutes. WHAT? I'm not a boob girl, so feel special that I'm giving you time with them. Cause it's not for me. Is that mean or unromantic? And am I the only one? I want some girls thoughts on this. Is it only me that isn't all oooohhhh ahhhaaahhh over boob stuff?

I get petty

If someone has something I want or is better at something, or even gets cut a good deal with something I want I'll be mean. I won't lie about anything, I'll just nit pick and point out why it should be me and not them.

I'm attitudy (here's a long one)

I am attitudy. Or so my boss tells me. In fact she swears this isn't a punishment but I beg to differ, listen to what happened. Last year around Christmas she hired this girl Mo for extra help....needless to say I didn't like her. At first I thought she was okay, but then after spending time with her I found her to be one of those people that think they are sooo smart. You know the kind, they use big words, the wrong way. They swear they are right about something when in fact they aren't, here's a simple example:

Customer: "Hi, I just have a question. Are all your pink sapphire's created?"
Mo: "Yes they are, would you like to have a look?"
Customer: looking all confused..."Ummmmm, I guess."

I am now highly annoyed, because if Mo didn't know the answer she could have just said 'I'm not sure let me find out'. But instead she said something that is not true and could lose us a customer. So I say...

Me: "Actually that's not true. We have both Created and natural, with a broad price range. Mo will be happy to show them both to you." then to Mo "they are marked on the tag, the created ones say CRPKSAP." Then I gave a fake smile and left.

It's not that she made the mistake it's that she did this CONSTANTLY, and never admitted she was WRONG!

Then we actually had an argument cause she wanted to throw away someones yogurt in the refrigerator. So I asked her if it was expired and she said of course all snotty like. And I looked at her and said are you looking at the expired date or the sell by date? And she argued with me saying they were the same thing! They are NOT!!! Finally I just said "It's not yours anyway so just put it back." I found out (secret source again) the next night that she was telling everyone about me being rude to her and saying she was about to rip me a new one. My source looked at her and said "first off we're adults we don't ripe someone a new one, and second nobody rips Nicole a new one cause if you tried she'd do it back to you ten times worse." Yeah, that shut her up. lol.

And it's not just me, there are others that felt this way.

So anyway my boss informed me that she is hiring her back this year, and I made it known I wasn't happy. We (me and my boss) came to an understanding, I'd stay away from Mo and if she came near me I'd be cordual (I know this has got to be spelt right but I'm not caring right now). Well Mo called the other day and I cut her off mid sentence and got my boss. I guess my boss caught my look and said "What's that look for?" I guess it didn't help that she had just delt with an irate customer but I didn't really care so I said "Nothing."
Boss: "I'm hiring her back."
Me: "I know."
Her: "Your gonna have to deal with it."
Me: "I will."

So then she took the phone call and when she hung up she said to me "And your going to re-train her."
Me: laughing "Yeah, okay."
Boss: "I'm not joking, since you know everything you can teach her the way."
Me: "I never said I knew everything."
Boss: "Well since your so good at your job I'm giving this to you."
Me: "Whatever." and then walked away.

I later found out (I have a secret source) that she did it cause I have to much attitude. Whatever, if she thinks this will make the situation better she's wrong. It's the holidays in retail, I had a hard enough time getting Mo outta my sales last year now I have to have her shadowing me! Uggggg!!!!! Kill me know. That is so punishment!

Soooo......

I don't know why I felt the need to point out more of my faults but there they are. It's a wonder I have any friends huh? I know it makes me sound really really bad, but I swear these things only come out when I get highly annoyed. And when I get highly annoyed it's not my fault! I swear I have good traits too, I just am not in a happy mood so I can't think of them right now.

Still love me???

~ Nicole

Who do you look like???

Me:


Josh:


~ Nicole

How do you clean?

I never really gave this much thought until Josh brought it to my attention today. Let me give you the facts, I HATE TO CLEAN! But sometimes I get in the mood and spend all day cleaning.

Now this happened today and I thought I did this great job since I was at it all day. That is until that night when Josh says "did you actually clean outside of anything?" I didn't' know what the heck he was talking about.

He pointed out that I cleaned the inside of the stove, the sink, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher, a load or two of laundry, the kids closet & dresser, and my bookshelves (go here to see the pretty organized shelves of mine!). All of which you can't really see. I didn't touch a vacuum, broom, dust mop, anything like this.

I think it is so funny that I didn't' even notice this fact till he pointed it out today. It's so true though. If we set aside a cleaning day Josh will clean like two rooms to my organizing one drawer. lol.

So my question to you today is .... is it only me? How do you clean?


~ Nicole

SHE TRIED TO STEAL MY BOOK! er...kind of

I'm not lying, I swear it's true. And anyone who knows me knows that is the worst offense, EVER!
I was at the gym and I had a book to read while I was doing cardio. When I was done I was in t he locker room getting all my stuff together, and this woman comes up to me. She was in a wheel chair, I think she comes for physical therapy, she's there alot. Well anyway she rolls up and says:

Her "What book is that?"
Me "A Sandra Brown book."
Her "What one?"
Me "Seduction by Design."
Her "Do you read them more than once?"
Me "All my books or this one?"
Her "Well that one I guess."
Me "Ummm, yeah I read all my books over and over."
Her "Oh"
Me "Well it was nice, bye."

She was trying to get me to give her my book wasn't she! Crazy woman. lol. Oh wait, or is it me that's crazy? ha ah.

~ Nicole

Haunted Houses???

Okay so who likes to go to haunted houses? I love getting scared, I always want to go but when I get there I keep my eyes closed almost the entire time. lol. Saturday night me, Josh, Jose, Sarah, and Hannah (my brother and sisters) went to one. All of them were like $20-$30 and I'm sure they were good but we just weren't up to spending that on a HH. So we found one right around the corner that was only $8, and said to be the 'best of 'said' county', chances are it could have been the only one in said county. But whatever. We get there, and buy our tickets (oh this is after we tried to hit up the liquor store first and they were all closed. freaking stores, why the hell would they close at 9pm!) and my brother proceeds to ask EVERYONE if it was scary. This kid that had to be about 9 said it was funny. Uggg.

So we go to the house, here's the picture, and I'm already getting freaked out! See that doctor guy standing on the porch? He kept staring at us and he was freaking creepy!
Then there was this fat guy that looked dead that was walking around by the line and would just walk up to you (like an inch separating us) and look at you, while we was holding an ax. And then he threw the ax at the porch and it went in. IT WAS A FREAKING REAL AX!!! And he could tell I was scared so he kept coming at me.


Anyway once we got in the house, this guy was giving us this shpeel on not touching and dying and all this crap, basically telling us the rules in a creepy way. Oh and while he was talking a guy's hand was reaching out of the wall and trying to grab Josh but he was to far away, to bad cause it would have been sooo funny to see him get scared.


So my brother is such a dork and took these kind of pictures all night, and pretended to be scared of everything. Which he wasn't he only made fun of me and Hannah (the only two to get scared) the entire time.
Oh but something really scary/funny! We went around this one corner and there was a hole in the wall, well Sarah thought it was this fake thing that made you think there was this big drop like we saw in this other room. So she runs up and yells "oh no I'm falling" and pops her head into the hole then SCREAMS!!! cause there was a person in there that was supposed to jump up and scare us and they hit heads. OMG we were laughing soooooo hard, my sides hurt.

Just for fun here are some pictures of Sarah messing around with all the 'scary' stuff they had in the house. She's such a freak.







When we were done we were still wanting more scare, so we went to see Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Beginning. And OMG I would be stretching the truth if I said I saw more than a third of it. I had my eyes covered and peeked through most of it. It was soooo gory gross. Every time something would happen or jump out I'd jump a mile, hide my face in my hands and my brothers shoulder and scream "OH JESUS!" Not kidding! So all in all, it was a fun night. I love hanging with my brother and sisters. Aren't they so cute! lol. And I swear Josh was there, but he just didn't' get in any pictures. ha ha.


Off topic, but to cute to pass up......

Alright, I know this is sideways but I don't' know how to edit it to flip and this is how I recorded it. But I was on myspace and Abby heard the music on someones page and says mommy look at me. I look and she's dancing, so I pull out the camera and she went to town. lol. Oh and of course you can all tell she had dressed herself, and no I did not let her leave the house like this.


~ Nicole

Friendly's ..... yeah, not so friendly

Friday night Jordon stayed at my mom's house and Abby had her first sleep over at a friends house. So kid free night, what do we do? Hit the movies, Josh has been dying to see Employee of the Month, he's a Dane Cook FREAK!!! I think he's funny too, but not as much as Josh does. Truth be told? The movie was not as funny as I thought it'd be. But I'm straying from the point.....after the movie we are starving! We decide to hit Friendly's for some food, they have great everything. When we pull up I see they are open till midnight, and it's now 11:24pm (on the dot!) so we go in. I mean I work in a mall, we're open till 9:30pm, customers can come in till 9:30pm. So as we're walking in, before we even get to the hostess counter, I see the girl shaking her head. When we get to her she says "Are you just getting ice cream?" and I reply "No." so she say "Well we close at 12 is that okay?" (all snotty like) so I look at her all innocence and say "As long as my food comes out with enough time for me to eat it that'll be fine." as I give her a big fake smile. So she has an attitude but takes us to the table.
The waiter was great, I asked if there was anything I could not order since it was late, and he said no. That they were still open so I could have whatever I wanted. Since he was nice I was nice. I got him our order as fast as I could and didn't dilly dally. Meanwhile the snotty hostess is chatting with her friends over in this corner, and I know she's talking about me, so I keep giving her snotty looks (yes I know it was childish, but she was really irking me!).
Anyway, we ate and finished before this group of people that were there before we even got there. So as we're walking out, the hostess is by the door, Josh looks at his watch and goes "Nicole? What time is it?" and I go "Oh look at that, it's 11:56pm four minutes before closing." and then I turned and gave her another big fake smile. lol.
So that was a fun night. ah ha.


~ Nicole

Being Sick SUCKS!!!

Just the other day Rene asked a question on her blog. When your sick are you allowed to be? (I know it wasn't worded the same exact way but you get the drift). And I commented saying as a mom your never allowed to be sick. Well guess what? I feel like shit and it hasn't changed a thing around here. Who woke up with Jordon? Me, who bathed and dressed him? Me, who feed him and walked him to the bus stop (in the rain)? ME! And what do I get? Josh walks outta the bed room and asks why I'm talking funny then says "oh" and proceeds to tell me I need to drive to PA to pay a bill, and then can I get his car inspected, and on and on and on. Does he not see me hacking my guts out???? Then when I say I'm gonna go to the doctors cause I already had Bronchitis once this year and I'm not up for round two, he says "Why waste a co-pay? Just get some medicine." JERK!


~ Nicole

Viva Las Vegas Baby!

Okay so in my last post I said in passing that I was going to Vegas in a few weeks and asked for some suggestions. But what I got was a million questions back. So what I'm assuming is that there is so much to do there, you need a better idea of me to know what to suggest to me.

Okay so here it is. I live very close to Atlantic City and my husband and I go a few times a year. Very fun. We go to the casinos but I really don't know how to play any card games and I don't like the slots (boring) so the only thing I really play is Ru-let. And I get addicted! I can be there for hours! lol. Josh plays poker with buddies but never at a casino so I don't know if it'd be outta his comfort zone.

We went to a comedy show last time we went there and loved it. It was kinda comedy, dancing, and singing. I really liked it. It was actually a guy that was in Vegas and came here for a bit. He impersonated that guy that sings and wears flamboyant clothes and jewelry with big glasses. I forget his name.

I really want to see at least one show too. Something very VEGAS! You know?
And I like to drink, dance (this gets done after I'm drunk, lol) and have fun.

Give me the good stuff, don't hold back. Hey I'm going to Vegas, I want to have fun and do things I don't at home. Hee hee. Mailyn said Chippendales??? I'm there! Or I'm somewhere like there. lol. So tell me all...

What do you suggest??? And give me things that will fit in a budget and things that are worth spending on. HELP!!!

~ Nicole

Catchig up....

***Scroll down and read my Guilty Not Guilty post too!***

I feel like I have nothing to say. Nothings really new so hmmmm what do I talk about?

Well I had that jewelery party and it was fun, except for my ghetto cousin that came with her loud/bad kids and was showing her ghetto jewelery she was selling while my lady was still there. And I didn't even know till after the party was over! I'm so mad, cause I totally would have kicked her out! It was so rude. And she said to my BF (that just got married in July) that all men are dogs and she's stupid if she doesn't think her husband has cheated or will cheat on her! OMG, who says that to a newly wed person???? Or at all....

I went to that conference with Jordon's teacher. It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I actually had to bite my tongue a bit. You know, I didn't want to be the parent that goes in and contradicts everything the teacher says but I really didn't agree with what she was saying. Like she was saying he didn't recognize any more than 4 letters in the alphabet, and I know that's not true! I've quizzed him on them before. And she said he doesn't recognize any numbers but 1. Hello! So not true. Just that night his homework was to count how many acorns were on each square then match it up with the correct number on the other side of the page, and he did it all by himself! He counted the acorns and then found the correct numbers. Which NONE of them were 1! So I was trying to tell her that maybe he isn't feeling confident enough to say it out loud in class, and she just kept saying that he didn't know any. Uggg, soooo annoying.

I go to Vegas in like 20 days or something, and I am soooo freaking excited. So anyone that's been before give out some suggestions! I'm all ears.

K, sorry but that's it for now. I'm still tired, I'm gonna lay down again.

Oh one more piece of news.....Josh bought handcuffs and cuffed me to the bed the other night. lol. He surprised me. Hmmmm good surprise baby!!!

~ Nicole