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Have you ever been sitting in a room, watching someone shake their leg? Well I have and it drives me crazy. Most people have a few pet peeves that really get to them, but not me! I have tons of pet peeves or little quarks.

My number one pet peeve is when people don’t match. I can’t stand when people where things that don’t go together, or the colors don’t fall together. I have been getting used to what people wear and not matching, but if I’m going anywhere at all I always need to match. My clothes match when I go out, when I work out, and even when I’m at work. Along with this matching my clothes my underwear and bra must match as well! One other thing that pisses me off is people who wear Nike shoes and Adidas sock. I really don’t like Adidas.

                Going out to eat is always a priority of mine. I love going to all different kinds of places, but one downfall of going out to eat is that different restaurants have different brands. I feel that if a restaurant doesn’t have coke products it isn’t really worth going to. I need to be able to drink a refreshing diet coke to enjoy my meal, without it isn’t really worth eating to me.

                I also cannot stand when you are texting a person, and you are having a full conversation. You send a text, they send a text. Maybe like takes 1-2 minutes. Then all of a sudden it takes them 30 minutes to text you back. Also it bugs me if someone who sends you a text saying what’s up, and you reply within a few minutes, and then they don’t send you anything back. Don’t start texting if you’re not going to reply it’s stupid.

These are just a few of my main pet peeves, I have many many many more!

FINALS

Since I’ve started college, I feel like I have been most stress over this semester’s finals. Although I only have 3 final tests, it seems like a lot to handle. Although I’m nervous and am hoping for all good grades, I’m just as excited. I can’t wait for winter break!

This semester I have taken less credits in classes than previous semesters, but I have felt overwhelm most of the semester. I feel like some professors don’t understand most students who are going to UW Sheboygan work full time or part time jobs. I know it shouldn’t be an excuse, but I feel like sometimes a professor thinks you only have that one class.

I’m glad some of my finals this semester are projects and papers, rather than final exams. I feel that making an exam worth 200 points can become really intimidating. I think it puts a lot of pressure on students, if you have 5 classes and 5 final exams. I know I personally get really stressed and feel like there is never enough time.

Although I’m stressing over finals, I am very excited for classes to be finish, having a month off of school sounds amazing. I am looking forward to all the fun winter activities that come with snow.(if it ever comes). Even though I’m really looking forward to the break, I’m excited to come back to school to start all my new classes!

Christmas Time!

Working at the Osthoff you deal with many kinds of people  and different events. Now that were in December, we have lots of events going on. We have lots of Christmas parties, breakfast with Santa, brunch with the reindeer, and the Christmas Market. Each of these events symbolized Christmas traditions.

For the first three Saturdays in December the Osthoff host breakfast with Santa. This is a buffet style breakfast made for kids. The buffet is tiny just for the kids, it’s filled with fruit, decorated cookies, snowman shaped cupcakes, pancakes with every topping you could want, and much much more. While eating, Santa walks around the ballroom and each kid get to sit on his lap and take pictures.  After breakfast is over, the kids can sign up to decorate cookies and make ordainments.

Brunch with the reindeer is a little different, its more formal. It is also a buffet style meal. It has lots of yummy food. There is prime rib, different salads, lots of hot food, and very very delicious desserts. While this is going on we have reindeer outside families can pet and visit with.  Also Saint Nicholas walks around for the kids to see and visit with.

If your looking for some good food, and some great family time. I definitely recommend coming to brunch or breakfast. Even if you aren’t, you should definitely check out the Christmas Market it, it is a German based Christmas Market. Lots of different booths to look at!

BLACK FRIDAY

I have only gone out shopping twice on black Friday. The first time was 3 years ago, and I just went this year. I know everyone always talks about the great deals that your able to get on black Friday, so I thought why not try it again.

The first time I went out on black Friday, I only went to one store. I went to best buy. I sat in a line with 100-150 other people, the line wrapped around the building. Some people pitched tents up and had chairs to sit on. Since it was my first time and my sisters, we just brought some blankets to keep ourselves warm. While sitting in line we started making small talk with the people around us. They seem pretty nice at the time. Eventually the store open, and we began to walk in. Very quickly those nice people began very rude and pushy people. We were able to get our laptops we patiently waiting in line for, but It open my eyes on the people around us.

This year I had a new plan to go out. I actually wanted to look around at a lot of different stores. My sister and I had a plan to go to the Oshkosh Outlet malls. The first store we went to was coach, which I found funny because they had the same sales going on, that you can get at anytime of the year. The second store we went into was NIKE. They had 20% off of your purchase. I thought that it wasn’t a huge money saver, but it was better than nothing.

As we went to other stores, the more I realized the sales that our talked about on black Friday aren’t really saving you much money at all. I felt that now until Christmas day that stores will have the same sales, just as different times rather than all stores in one day. I kind of feel now that black Friday is very over rated. I know I will more than likely go shopping again, just because I enjoy watching the people going crazy over things.

movies

Today I saw the movie Jack and Jill at the Sheboygan cinema. I thought over all the movie was pretty good. I was laughing a decent amount so that was a good sign. The only problems I had was the people in the audience.

While I was in the movie there was this lady in there.  Every single time there was a funny part or something happening in the movie she would freak out and laugh hysterically. I would understand if it was actually funny, but half the time is wasn’t even funny. It was extremely annoying.

The next thing that bothered me was this younger gentleman. Every two minutes he would take out his cell phone and text someone back or check the time. It got extremely annoying constantly seeing the light. Before the movie it clearly states to not use your cell phone.

Normally when I’m in public I tend to be respectful of other people and their things, it seem like neither of these two cared. I get the woman may laugh like that, but has she ever thought other people are trying to watch the movie as well. The younger guy could have easily followed the rules and I could have had a much better experience.  I’m just wondering is there some type of cut off where it’s okay to say something, without being rude yourself.

7 mile fair

The first time I went, I was very intrigued and skeptical about it. Once I got there it became very interesting.  Seven Mile Fair in Milwaukee is a very interesting place to go shopping at. It has lots of different culture type things in it, and sometimes a lot of junk. I have been there a few times, and each time I go I always find things I like.

Seven Mile fair is a place that reminds me of a flea market, some portions of the fair are like a flea market a lot of junk sold in one place. There are stands set up in a large building and outside of the building filled with tons of products. Other parts of the fair have newer clothes, hats, shoes, and much more. That’s what I like, because I can always find great deals on things I like. They also have a farmer’s market portion of the fair. Although things are cheap, sometimes you may get ripped off or you may get cheap product.

The seven mile fair also has different rides, and fun things for kids to do as well. They have many different types of food offered there. Most of its good, my favorite thing to get there is rice water. I also really enjoy the different types of Mexican candy they have.  

My first thoughts as I walked through were how many different kinds of people were there. There were lots of Hispanics and some African Americans.  There went to many Caucasian people there. The way the families react with each other is something I find really fascinating. You can observed and see the way the different subcultures interact.

If you have never been there I definitely suggest you go!

Believers in Christ

I work at the Osthoff hotel and resort as a banquet server, so working there brings in all different kinds of people each week. Sometimes we have weddings, business groups, or high schools. This past weekend we had a religious group. The group that was there were the Believers in Christ. They have come to the Osthoff on this church retreat for thirteen years.

The group was completely made up off all women, specifically two hundred African American women. The women were very respectful and many of them proper. They are extremely religious and express it in many ways. The main way this past weekend was in church service. These ladies’s were preaching, singing, and dance to become one with the lord. Some things they did were very unique and interesting to watch, such as the flag twirling. While other things frighten me a little, I think because I’m not a very religious person.

Being a banquet server, we served them many meals throughout the weekend. Each meal was set up and given in the buffet style. This allowed the women to go through as many times as they like and take as much as they wanted. As I started to clean up plates, I came to realized how wasteful the women were being. I didn’t clear one completely empty plate the whole weekend.

After watching the women waste so much food, I began to think. These women are suppose to be extremely religious and caring, but they had no care in the world of how much food waste was happening. I found it to be very interesting that being all proper that they would waste as much as they did, along with how involved and how deep they getting into praying and becoming one with god.