Thursday Thirteen

Thursday Thirteen #13: Alphabet Week!

rmiles7721May 1, 20086Site News

Thirteen Things about Richard

So since I have last participated in the meme they have been giving out a general theme for each week. This weeks object is to pick a letter of the alphabet and then list thirteen words about myself that begin with that letter.

Damn, this is hard. OK, Today’s Thursday Thirteen post is brought to you by the letter “M” (not to mention the fact that Bert is evil)…

1…. Manager
2…. Married
3…. Miles (My last name)
4…. Messy
5…. Mental
6…. Male
7…. Muscled (starting to be anyway)
8…. Mischievous
9…. Mean (occasionally)
10…. Mysterious (It’s my lie, I’ll tell it like I want to!)
11…. Mushy (if you read my earlier entry you would think so)
12…. Manic (sometimes)
13…. Marvelous

I did say they would describe me but I didn’t say they would all be true…I would have put masturbating but that was earlier…

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Thursday Thirteen #12: Thirteen Reasons She’s The Love of My Life

rmiles7721May 1, 20084Site News

It’s been quite some time since I participated in Thursday Thirteen. Prior to going to the Bahamas as a matter of fact because I had fully intended on putting this list up then, for Valentine’s Day. I’ve just gotten busy. Wednesdays and Thursdays (and now Tuesdays) are extremely long lately and I have been coming home late and just posting scheduled stuff if anything at all. Anyway, I am glad to finally post this! I am not normally prone to posting sappy bullshit, particularly for meme’s and stuff like that but what the hell!

I am actually posting two of these. This is the one I started in February. The one for later today is a theme that they have going on!



Thirteen Reasons I love my wife

  1. She manages to put up with my chauvinist pig attitude with a smile (and a smack)
  2. Can’t sleep without her anymore
  3. I feel complete
  4. While we both have things we do apart, sometimes it’s just more fun together
  5. She puts up with farting in bed (although that might be mutual)
  6. She has given me three beautiful children
  7. Sex (hey, it’s a healthy part of any relationship)
  8. After 20 years I am still learning new things about her
  9. She learned how to cook (thank god)
  10. She understands it’s OK to just be together and be quiet
  11. She puts up with my job
  12. She knows I am a pig and accepts me for what I am!
  13. She’s the most beautiful woman I know


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The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!


Thursday Thirteen #11: Thirteen Song’s I’m Listening Too

rmiles7721January 31, 20083Site News

I took the easy way out this week because I am feeling singularly uninspired this morning. These are the first thirteen songs on my party list. Without further ado…


Thirteen Songs I’m Listening To

  1. Dissident Aggressor – Judas Priest
  2. Evening Star – Judas Priest
  3. The Flame – Cheap Trick
  4. Girl – Beck
  5. Guilty – Ronnie James Dio
  6. I’m Waiting for the Man – The Velvet Underground
  7. Icky Thump – The White Stripes
  8. Jail Break – AC/DC
  9. Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, part 1) – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  10. Killing Yourself to Live – Black Sabbath
  11. Livewire – AC/DC
  12. Livin’ on the Edge – Aerosmith
  13. Mama Kin – Aerosmith

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Thursday Thirteen #10 – Thirteen New Years Resolutions

rmiles7721January 2, 200811Site News

Thirteen New Years resolutions that I may or may not keep this year…you be the judge.

  1. Quit smoking
  2. get a new car
  3. …right before I quit being so materialistic
  4. be nicer to people
  5. remember to post my Thursday Thirteen EVERY Thursday
  6. either take a promotion or make enough money online to not worry about it
  7. re-learn to play guitar (it’s amazing what you forget after 25 years)
  8. eat better
  9. have more sex
  10. sleep regularly
  11. get in better shape
  12. lose about 20 pounds
  13. retire

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

 

Thursday Thirteen #8 – My Thirteen Favorite Thanksgiving Foods

rmiles7721November 22, 20071Site News


Thirteen Things I Love to Eat DURING THANKSGIVING

  1. The first is of course, Roast Turkey
  2. Cornbread Dressing
  3. Mashed Potatoes
  4. Deviled Eggs
  5. Cranberry Sauce, the kind that comes in a can.
  6. Gravy
  7. Sweet Potatoes
  8. Corn on the cob, which I can’t eat anymore 🙁
  9. Chocolate Pecan Pie
  10. Pumpkin Pie
  11. Spiral Ham
  12. Baked Beans
  13. Banana Pudding

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!


Thursday Thirteen #7 – The Best Call-In Excuses I’ve Heard Recently

rmiles7721November 15, 20078Site News


Thirteen Lame Excuses I’ve Heard When People Call In To Work.

  1. Last Christmas one of my cooks and his wife, a waitress, called in on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Apparently he had gotten drunk and in a fight with his neighbors, so the police came and locked him up. Needless to say he was unemployed the next day. Christmas is by far one of the busiest days of the year for us and unless you are in the hospital or someone has died, EVERYONE works Christmas. I know, it sucks, but it’s just the nature of the business and I always make sure to tell people BEFORE they take the job that they will be expected to work ALL holidays and weekends.
  2. A couple of years ago I posted about this one. A waitress called in on me because her dog had died. Perhaps I am just an insensitive bastard but I feel like when you make a commitment to something like a job you take that commitment seriously.
  3. ‘My Chicken Died’ The same lady that hung me because her dog died, a few months later a chicken died and she called in as well. NOW you see why I was so pissed off about her missing work when the dog died.
  4. ‘I ran over a snake’. Guess who called in because of this. Yep, the SAME damn crazy lady.
  5. ‘I have a dentist’s appointment and I have to go to probation’. Now these are both darn good reasons to not go to work but since my managers hang their schedules up at least a week in advance one would think that the person referred to would have let their manager know well ahead of time what was going on. Nope, he waited until 30 minutes prior to his shift starting. Got this one yesterday!
  6. ‘I fell down the steps and broke two toes and have to keep my foot elevated for a week’. This was just a couple of months ago and was one of my managers.
  7. Ran out of gas. I hear this at least once a month. They don’t call and say they are going to be LATE, they run out of gas and I suppose it’s so traumatic that they have to miss an entire day of work.
  8. ‘I’m on my period’. No offense to all of the lovely ladies out there but I’ve been married for almost twenty years and when my wife is on her period she still goes to work. As a manager I kept a supply of multiple sizes of tampons in the office and you just didn’t call in with this excuse unless you wanted to be unemployed. My managers are a bit too nice and will believe anything.
  9. ‘My Clothes are Still Wet’. This happens when you are too damned stupid to do your laundry in a timely manner. My stock answer is generally that once you get to work if you walk real fast your clothes will dry faster.
  10. Too drunk to work. At least he was honest with me. I let him keep his job because he had the guts to at least tell me the truth unlike others that just show up drunk and have to be sent home. Been there, done that (on both accounts). I even slept under my cubicle at the office with the phone next to my head after one particularly drunk episode a few years back.
  11. ‘My husband stole my car and got arrested and they impounded my car’. Oh yeah, this was recently. Now that I have three times the number of employees I did as a manager I get three times the garbage.
  12. ‘I have to clean my house before Family and Children Services get here’. WTF? Apparently there are some other issues aside from your house being f’ing nasty.
  13. ‘I have a pimple’. ??? Not even an excuse like ‘My herpes sores are oozing’ but ‘I have a PIMPLE!’ You need to find a job where you do nothing but talk on a phone or speaker apparently.

    The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Thursday Thirteen #1

rmiles7721September 20, 20075Site News

Since I have ditched the Thursday Thongs meme here 🙂 I decided last week that I wanted to try and start participating regularly in the Thursday Thirteen. I was out of town last week and didn’t have the time to type up a post for it so this is my Thursday Thirteen edition number one.

Thirteen Reasons I Love My Job

1…. I get to awaken several hours prior to the crack of dawn.
2…. I get to meet all kinds of interesting people. Crackheads, murderers on parole, politicians, etc…
3…. Lots and lots of grease to condition my skin and hair. So thick that I get the chance to breathe it in daily.
4…. I get the chance to work 70+ hour weeks
5…. I get to work on holidays. ALL holidays including Christmas and Thanksgiving. This year I will get to enjoy working from 6 AM until around midnight on Christmas day.
6…. Burn scars make you look tough.
7…. Go to be AFTER all three of my stores are staffed.
8…. Work amazingly flexible hours such as getting home by midnight and back to work by six.
9…. The opportunity to train and develop 100 people that average $6-7 an hour.
10….Learn exotic languages such as ebonics and redneckese all from the same teacher.
11….Listen to country music all day long with the occasional break for Fergalicious.
12….The chance to learn and grow from listening to whiners…and those are just the customers.
13….I get to awaken several hours prior to the crack of dawn (Yes, this one bears repeating).
Links to other Thursday Thirteens!
(leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here but it may take a few hours as I really do work 9-12 hours a day!)
1. Mother of Hana – The Writer
2. Lori – A Cowboy’s Wife


Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!