The Butte-hole of America!

Monday, June 25, 2007 Posted In Edit This 3 Comments »
As some of you may know Battle Mountain, NV was named the Armpit of America several years ago by a man who writes for the Washington post. Battle Mountain now has an Armpit Festival every year to celebrate the fact that their town stinks and it is sponsored by Old Spice. This is not the point of the story, but I figured I would give a quick prelude to my story.

On Friday June 22, 2007 Andrew and I drove through Butte, Montana. I was informed by Andrew that Butte has a copper mine in the middle of town that has a giant pit. This therefore makes Andrew believe that Butte truly is the butthole of America. Also a direct quote from him states, "Butte is a shitty place to live."

On Friday we arrived in Great Falls. This is where Andrew was born and raised. Since being here I have heard about the people roaming around with ankle bracelets and the restaurant that was closed because they were caught cutting cocaine in the kitchen and selling it out the back door. I'm not quite sure where he has brought me, but here I am and I won't be back to sanity (Winnemucca) until the end of next week sometime.

Keep me in your thoughts and prayers... Andrew is going to show me more of Montana in the next few days and I am a little scared.

Poop and Boobs!

Monday, June 18, 2007 Posted In Edit This 0 Comments »
Every Thursday night at one of the casinos in Winnemucca is comedy night. They bring in comedians from all over the country wanting to make it as a famous comedian someday.

Rules for going to comedy:
  • Do not sit in the front row.
  • Do not stand out in the crowd.
  • Do not draw attention to yourself (e.g. do not get up to go to the bathroom).
  • Do not heckle the comedian.
  • Turn off your cell phone.

One particular Thursday night my friend Julie and I decided to go to comedy, have some drinks, and go home to bed because we both had to work the next day. The headliner for the evening was Claude Stewart, a funny little man with spikey hair. Unfortunately when we arrived we had to sit in the front row. If you haven't already read the rules for going to comedy back up and read them now.

Thankfully for Claude he was funny, so we were laughing quite hard. About halfway through his time on stage Julie couldn't hold it anymore and had to go to the bathroom (once again reference the rules), so she stood up and walked right in front of Claude catching his attention. He stopped whatever it was he was saying and asked Julie where she was going. She told him she had to go to the bathroom, so he started singing a song about her having to go poop. When Julie returned from "pooping" she sat back down with me and Claude returned his attention to our table (in the front row). He joked about Julie going poop and noticed me laughing. Apparently when I laugh my boobs shake; Claude was ever so nice to point this out and directed the attention from Julie to me (not cool).

After a few more jokes and a lot more boob shaking Claude once again pointed us out and gave us our new names: Poopy and Booby. Lucky for us the lounge was full that night, so people we knew and didn't know now knew us by our new names.

Poopy and Booby aka Julie and Allison

Take a Year off to Travel the World

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Posted In Edit This 1 Comment »
Wouldn't it be awesome to take a year off from whatever it is you do and travel? Take a look at the following link and see how to make that possible.

Take a Year off to Travel the World

Who knew welding meant farming!

Friday, June 08, 2007 Posted In Edit This 1 Comment »
I am the Office Manager for a small company; let me give you a rundown of what goes on here. I as the Office Manager take care of all office duties including, but not limited to: answering the phone, invoicing, collections, accounts receivable and payable, HR, shredding paperwork, and making sure my bosses head is on straight. Our other two employees (not including my boss) weld, machine, and occasionally use their mechanical skills. We have a shop which houses my office and a decent sized area inside and outside to weld and machine. In the area behind our shop we have a few service trucks, forklifts, trucks, dirt, weeds, etc.

Everyday I make a trip into town to check the mail, make deposits, and anything else I feel is necessary. Today I was driving back to the shop just like any other day and as I was pulling up I noticed something different... To the left of the shop right on the other side of the gate were a dozen or so sheep.





You might be asking yourself, "Is this normal?" Let me answer you by simply saying, "No!"
My boss failed to mention we were hiring farm animals to do our landscaping. It turns out this is an awesome idea because they have no idea they are eating the Earth's unwanted plants and it makes life so much easier not having to do it ourselves.

Brand new Mazda 3 for me!

Thursday, June 07, 2007 Posted In Edit This 2 Comments »
On Saturday June 2, 2007 I purchased my first brand new car!!!!

I know I know it was about time. My old car the 2001 VW Beetle needed to be retired long ago, but I just couldn't bring myself until now to do something about it. I will agree it was very cute, for a teenage girl, but I am no longer a teenage girl and I wanted to move on to a more mature "grown up" car that is reliable.

Just to give you an example of the issues I had with the BLUBUG:


  • I live in Winnemucca which is a fairly small town and there are no shops capable of working on VW. This points out that not only does the car suck, but so does Winnemucca.

  • The passenger side headlight went out twice within a few months. Some might think this is not that big of a deal, but if you have tried to work on a Beetle you know that you practically have to take the front end off to get to anything under the hood. Damn you Germans.

  • While in Lake Tahoe the battery died. Andrew had to muscle the stupid thing out which took about an hour because yet again you practically have to take the front end off to get to it. We then had to walk 4 or 5 miles to find Napa to get a new one and just when you think it couldn't get worse my car takes a special battery which is more expensive than most.

  • Driving down the freeway at about 80 MPH I hit a rabbit the size of Texas and it caused about $2500 worth of damage.

  • Once again going down the freeway (I am starting to sense a pattern) on our way to Salt Lake City the incredibly dumb spoiler fell off. Let me say that again...going down the freeway at about 80 MPH the spoiler FELL OFF and slid off the side of road. I think it was held on by tape or chewing gum. I had to pull over to wipe the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard.

  • There is this funny little sensor that tells the car when the brake is engaged... apparently when that is broken the EPC (Electronic Power Control) light turns on and the shifter won't budge. When this funny little sensor brakes it tells the car, "I'm sorry, but even though it is quite obvious someone (me) is pushing the brake we (the car) are going to lock the shifter, so the car won't move." This is especially annoying when you are on your way to a friend's wedding and you get stuck at a gas pump for an hour in the middle of nowhere (Wells, NV).

  • The window on the driver's side decided to start making a funny grinding noise and then stopped rolling up or down. The major issue with that was it decided to stop working when the window was down, so it had to be man-handled to roll back up.

  • I bought the BLUBUG in December of 2004 and sometime at the beginning of 2006 the check engine light came on. As you are well aware it is now June of 2007 and Saturday when I traded it in the check engine light was still on.

These are just a few reasons why the BLUBUG was horrible.


My new car is a Mazda 3 sport sedan. The paint is Sand (it looks kind of gold), and the interior is tan cloth. This is the most awesome car ever, even if I do say so myself. My car only had 45 miles on the odometer when I bought it.



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