Gotta get down on Friday! ... not today?

Sarah and I typically like to start our Friday workdays with a popular little diddy that seemed to hit viral overload.  Yes, the much hated "Friday" by Rebecca Black.  We actually had plans to post the vid on our blogs today to start the weekend.  (Oh, we may or may not secretly be in love with the song, don't hate.)

You HAVE to understand my disappointment when I opened [CNN] to get my morning news fix and I found [THIS]

Here, let me just quote the most important part for you...

"Entertainment Weekly reports that the clip, which had more than 167 million views, has been pulled."

Friday, please don't disappoint me anymore... I don't think I can handle it... I always look forward to you most out of the week.

Pull it!?

My lovely friend/co-worker, [Sarah has.. Sioux City Fashionality], and I are employed by this fabulously classy bank that happens to be located inside of a gas station.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Our location provides us with hours of interesting people watching, but also comes with the downside of, um, being in a gas station all day?

Shortly before I started working here (nearly 3 years ago), we were provided with our own lavatory.  Throughout this entire period of time, we have experienced difficulties with said bathroom, especially with the door situation.

Last week, with his super-human strength, our supervisor crushed the door knob.  This led to me creating a fancy sign to tape to the door which said "OCCUPIED, DO NOT OPEN" so that the pervs would not walk in on me.  (I absolutely refuse to use the public restroom in the building.)

Yesterday, we were amused by this fantastic invention in place of my sign....

Oh, you want a close-up?

The deadbolt on this bad boy has forced about 5 too many people to become held captive by the bathroom, so it's a no-go.  Now, you use that new HANDLE to pull the door shut & slide over the lock (which is another recent installment).

Lovely, isn't it?

P.S. My bank is not responsible of managing/cleaning the restrooms.

P.P.S.  The pull it! reference reminds me of Bop It! so, so badly.

So What! Wednesday

I decided that I need to be more active with my blogging and in the blogging community, so I will now be linking up with Shannon, from Life After I "Dew" in SWW  :)

This week, I'm saying SO WHAT if...

• I bought a motorcycle two weeks ago and haven't rode it yet
• I'm being a terrible procrastinator with packing and moving out of my townhouse.  It will have to get done eventually
• I already failed at my new diet that I started yesterday...
• I complain about the dogs being so horribly exhausting every night
• I'm a terrible doggy mom and put the dogs in their kennels (much) too often
• I pick at my chipped fingernail polish (except when it's fresh, like today!)
• I have the tendency to add tons of things to the shopping cart throughout the day and rarely ever checkout
• I only clean when people are coming over.  So come on over!

What are you saying SO WHAT to this week? :)

MOH Duties [Bachelorette Party]

Wedding season is here.  Typically, I am merely a wedding crasher.  This summer, I was asked to participate in not one, but TWO weddings.  In the same month.  [This is okay, because odds are, I won't be in very many weddings in my life.]
My bff, Jessica, is getting married July 2nd in DSM.  It will be a fancy-schmancy wedding and absolutely gorgeous, I am sure.  Jessie totally deserves her dream wedding and she's been working ridiculously hard to achieve it.  I just hate that she lives over 3 hours away and I'm not able to help as much as I would like to.
My wonderful mother is also getting married in July, which I have mentioned before. :)  I am so excited for her wedding, even though she's super nervous about the flood situation affecting the reception.  We're throwing a Pampered Chef bridal shower, which will be occurring on the same weekend as Jessie's bridal shower/bachelorette party.  I will be hungover and rushing from the state capital back to the Sioux to make it to Mom's party. 
I also have yet to plan my mom's bachelorette party.  Since it's pretty much a non-traditional wedding, we will be meeting up with the fellas later in the evening.  I am thinking of a scavenger hunt that we can complete at the bars in the evening, but we would like to do something in the afternoon too (that won't break the bank).  I would thoroughly appreciate ANY ideas for things we can do! 

Water Wars.

You might not have heard, but my city is getting bombarded with water along with a few other cities in the Midwest.  This is causing mass chaos and things will only get worse.  The Gavins Point Dam in Yankton, SD is releasing water like crazy and hundreds of people's homes are getting destroyed.

That is supposed to be an exit off the interstate.  Dangerous, I know, but I snapped that while driving.  Woops! 

image via Flooding in Siouxland

So this past week has been spent working (well, sitting at work as many of our customers have fled the area) and moving as much as possible out of my townhouse.  That picture of the helicopter is one block away from my townhouse.  The National Guard has pretty much taken over the area.

Biker babe.

This past weekend was absolutely gorgeous, the perfect weather to be out on a motorcycle all day!  I participated in my first poker run (as a passenger) which was part of the 2nd annual BON (bikerornot) party!  It was so much fun!!  I met so many fantastic people that I can't wait to see again!

I am riding on the 2nd bike from the right :)

BON group!  I'm in the peach tank top towards the right

My beautiful momma & me downtown Friday night

BREAKING NEWS: I actually bought my OWN bike last week!  I purchased a 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250R.  It's cherry red and gorgeous.  I'm excited to really learn how to ride so I can participate in some poker runs myself!  Blogging world, allow me introduce you to Comet....

Get it?  Haylee's Comet! :)

Blondie blonde.

I get the occasional compliment on my blonde (spell check is preferring blond here, but I like blondE) locks.  Actually, I have been almost every color on the wheel.  I have been slacking in the hair department lately, especially since I was worried about how my feathers would feel about a change.  So I grabbed a chunk of saran wrap (to protect my feathers) and went to work.

Naturally, I forgot to take before/during pictures, so you get the afters. :)

My hair nearly blends in with the wall.  Ridiculous.

This is the magic stuff.  I get it from Sally's Beauty Supply and mix it with Ion's 20 Developer.  It also comes in little packets.  One packet gets mixed with 2 oz of developer.  If you buy the tub, use 4 scoops to 2 oz of developer.  I use a brush and my artistic skills.  I left the color on my hair for about 30 minutes this time, and it turned out whiiite.  I only color my roots now too, attempting to prevent maximum damage.

*I am in no way a professional at doing this.  Don't attempt to do this yourself if you're not prepared to deal with the consequences.  Personally, I know that hair grows back and can be changed, so I'm not worried about messing it up.

** I was also way too lazy to take pics with my camera & upload, so my webcam did the work today. :)