Congratulations to Casey Mears for grabbing his first ever career Bud Pole for Sunday's Pennsylvania 500.
Elliott will be starting his M&M's Ford from the 5th starting position Sunday. Check out this article on NASCAR.COM, about my favorite Virginia boy. He says this about his car, "This is the best engine I've ever had -- ever in my life." Sounds like he should be hauling ass this weekend. Thankfully I don't work a double on Sunday, so I should be able to actually catch part of the race.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of our Lives...

Once again I am officially addicted to soap operas.  At 1pm I watch Days, while I flip to All My Children during commercials.  At 2pm I usually don't watch anything, but I'm starting to get hooked on One Life to Live.  At 3pm I watch General Hospital, which is my favorite soap.  I really like Days of our Lives, but the storylines are so farfetched its hard to watch sometimes, and they just recast Belle and I cannot stand the new girl.......she is a very bad actress.
The interesting thing is, if I happen to miss any of these episodes, they all happen to be reaired on SoapNet.  I guess there are worse things I could be addicted to, so I'll deal with this soap opera addiction. 

100 Things About Me
 
1.  I have never seen the ocean.
2.  I'm a sports junkie.
3.  My favorite football team is the New England Patriots has been since 1995.
4.  I still sleep with my security blanket that I've had since I was 6 months old.
5.  I love NASCAR. 
6.  My favorite drivers are Elliott Sadler, Kasey Kahne, and David Stremme.
7.  My favorite color is pink.
8.  Lazy people at work get on my nerves.
9.  I'm a waitress. 
10. I never waited tables until I moved to Atlanta.
11. I have 2 younger brothers, Brandon-18 and Zachary-5.
12. I'm a Capricorn.
13. I have two tattoos.
14. I have band of flowers on my ankle that I got when I graduated high school.
15. The other one I got when my heart was broken by a boy. It's a sun from the Tim McGraw album "A Place in the Sun."
16. I love Tim McGraw.
17. I saw Tim in March 2003 and had front row tickets.
18. I made a sign that said "Hey Tim All I Want is your Bud Lite"
19. He drank out of a Bud Light and gave it to me.
20. The empty Bud Light bottle is sitting on my entertainment center right now.
21. This is proof that if you try hard enough, you can get what you want.
22. I've never really been in love.
23. My favorite movie is Love and Basketball.
24. My favorite actor right now is Michael Vartan.
25. My favorite actress is Jennifer Garner.
26. My favorite show is Alias.
27. My nickname from back home in Michigan is Sunshine Shelley.
28. I've wrecked 2 cars.
29. Tom Brady is my favorite football player
30. Drew Bledsoe was my favorite, until he was traded to the Bills.
31. I like to change my hair color.
32. I love palm trees, even though I have never seen one.
33. When I decide to go back to school, I want to be a Dietician.
34. My favorite beer is Miller Lite.
35. I love Mucho Bahama Mama's from Applebee's.
36. I love 80's music.
37. I listen to all kind of music, I have over 300 CD's.
38. I love downloading music.
39. Kenny Chesney is another favorite performer of mine.
40. Out of all the music I listen to, country is my favorite.
41. I love to buy pajama's. (Matching ones)
42. I like having alone time.
43. I have 2 best friends back in Michigan, Jenn and Ronda.
44. I miss them.
45. I'm addicted to Soap Net.
46. Sometimes when I go out drinking, I forget stuff.
47. I love the smell of vanilla.
48. I collect diecast cars.
49. I have a scrapbook that I haven't worked on in awhile.
50. The best NASCAR race I've been to is the Food City 500 in Bristol, TN.
51. Kurt Busch won, and I hate Kurt Busch.
52. Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans get on my nerves.  "Jump on the bandwagon."
53. I used to be a Dale Jr. and Jeff Gordon fan.
54. My nickname when I was a little kid was Tornado.
55. My cousins Mike and Brian gave me the name because I was a hyperactive brat.
56. I've had 7 different cars since I've been 16.
57. My favorite one was my S-10, because I had alot of fun times with it.
58. I worry alot, sometimes I stress myself out too much about things.
59. I once told a boy I would move home for him.....I was drunk.
60. I've done the "Walk of Shame."
61. I've danced on a bar.
62. I want to learn to play the guitar.
63. I don't know how to play Euchre.
64. I've never seen any Back to the Future or Indiana Jones movies.
65. I've never been to Florida.
66. The farthest west I've gone is Chicago.
67. My favorite book is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
68. I tried the Atkins Diet, It made me gain weight because I cheated alot.
69. I caught the bouquet at my best friend's wedding.  I snatched if from another girl.
70. I'm left-handed.
71. My favorite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast.
72. My favorite animal is a moose.
73. When I was little I wanted to be She-Ra.
74. I want a yellow Ford Mustang convertible.
75. I was voted "Most School Spirit" in high school.  I was our football team's biggest fan.
76. I wish I would have been a cheerleader.
77. I'm addicted to reality shows.
78. I'm a member of the Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney and Elliott Sadler fan clubs. 79. I only drink diet soda.
80. I used to call soda "pop", now I just call it by brand name.
81. I have 3 roommates, Brennen, Katie, and Heidi.
82. I've known Katie since 1st grade and Heidi since 9th grade.
83. Jose Cuervo is a friend of mine....it usually makes me sick, but I drink it anyway.
84. My dad wanted to name me Stephanie.
85. My mom didn't like it because people would call me "Stuffy" Steffi.
86. She didn't think of "Smelly" Shelley.
87. I've never gotten flowers from a boy.
88. I love M&M's.
89. I have never had a cavity.
90. I once tried to dye my hair blonde myself.
91. It turned blonde, pink, and orange and I had to pay $80 to fix it.
92. I have never ridden on a motorcycle.
93. I have a scar on my lower lip, because I was hit in the mouth with a baseball bat when I was 4.
94. I love road trips.
95. Jenn, Ronda and I used to take one to the U.P. (upper peninsula) every year.
96. I'm a fast reader.  I read Gone With the Wind in 2 days when I was 14.
97. I get bored very easily.
98. I have blue eyes.
99. I love chocolate. (I want to go try the new brownie batter blizzard!)
100. I hate being late.

I found this quite interesting.  

This was taken from the August issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  NASCAR is considered trendy by Cosmo.  I'm amazed.  This proves that NASCAR is not redneck!  THANK YOU COSMO!

This is my new favorite song, by a country artist named Amy Dalley.  Check it out!
Men Don't Change
He was a bad boy and I was a good girl.
He needed me to smooth out the edges.
Well, he'd get his drink on and flirt with the ladies,
After two years of his crap, I quit beggin'.
I'm a magnet for the "fixer-upper man."
If I know it's fire, why do I let it burn my hand?
Cupid works for the devil: be suspicious if he cries:
"You know sex is usually good.
"Yeah, but it ain't always right.
Chocolate is a band-aid, no matter what they say,
Shoes don't stretch,
An' men don't change.
My friend Lisa, she loves a liar.
She found out about his other girlfriends.
He makes excuses, so she forgives him.
An' she swears she's gonna leave if he screws up again.
But he's good looking, that's why she don't see,
He's got her exactly where he wants her to be.
Cupid works for the devil: be suspicious if he cries:
"You know sex is usually good."
Yeah, but it ain't always right.
Chocolate is a band-aid, no matter what they say,
Shoes don't stretch,An' men don't change.
Instrumental break.
Cupid works for the devil: be suspicious if he cries:
"You know, sex is usually good."
Yeah, but it ain't always right.
Chocolate is a band-aid, no matter what they say,
Shoes don't stretch,An' men don't change.
(Cupid works for the devil: be suspicious if he cries:)
"Sex is usually good."
Shoes don't stretch.
Men don't change.

Here's a pic of Elliott Sadler getting into his #38 M&M Ford during a practice session at New Hampshire International Speedway. It was an up and down day for the team. The left front of the car was damaged during an altercation involving Jimmie Johnson and Ricky Craven. Elliott finished 15th in the race and is now in 8th place in the points standings. I hope he steps it up a notch at Pocono next weekend.
 

Dale Jr. Update
Still hurting from burns suffered in a practice crash last weekend at Sonoma, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will sit out Friday's activities at New Hampshire International Speedway. Martin Truex Jr. will qualify the No. 8 Chevrolet and will take over for Earnhardt on Sunday after Junior starts the race. Earnhardt plans to get into his No. 8 Budweiser Chevrolet for practice Saturday and will start Sunday's Siemens 300 to earn the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship points before giving up the driver's seat to Truex.

So the site looks a little different today......
Say Goodbye to Behind Blue Eyes and Hello to The Drive.  I took some advice from Kate and decided to do a little makeover to my site.  With the some help finding a template from Heidi, I began the transformation.  Considering the fact the majority of my posts are about NASCAR, I gave it a NASCAR theme, well more like an Elliott Sadler theme (for those who don't know, he's my favorite driver).  Let me know what y'all think!

Dale Jr. Crashes During Practice for the American LeMans Series 
This is a picture from inside Dale Earhnhardt Jr.'s Corvette C5-R.  Earnhardt was driving a Chevrolet Corvette C5-R in a 30-minute practice session when the accident occurred. The car spun and impacted a barrier in the Turn 8 section of the road racing track and then caught fire.  Earnhardt escaped the car on his own.  He suffered moderate burns on his chin and his thighs.  I was at work today when I saw the crash on TV and I kid you not, everyone in the entire restaurant was watching.  It was amazing to see that kind of crash and for someone to just walk away from it.  Good thing he was wearing a full face helmet!  I don't think anyone's going to be talking about Tony Stewart this week!

Sometimes Life Sucks!
Tonight at work I seriously screwed up.  Somehow I lost money.  Not a good thing at all.  So I'm feeling like shit right now.  It seems like I can never catch a break, of course I have to screw up.....its my destiny!  One of my co-workers, made me feel better and told me that it happens to the best of us, sometimes it just gets so busy and with handling a lot of cash mistakes are bound to happen. He said it happens to everyone at least once.  I'm just pissed because of course it wouldn't happen on a night I made shit for tips, it has to happen on a night I was doing really good.  I just know I shouldn't dwell on it....I'm going to move on....tomorrow is another day...oh wait it's already tomorrow.....
On the upside it looks I might get trained in as a bartender.  I'm not sure though if that is a good or a bad thing.....

This is by far the best cartoon dealing with the Kasey Kahne/Tony Stewart situation. I love it!
UPDATE Kasey's Crew Chief Tommy Baldwin was fined $10,000 and placed on probation for the duration of the season, for his involvement in the pit road fight at the Chicagoland Speedway.
 

FREE TOMMY!!!
as Michael Waltrip stated "he was just going to talk things over with Zippy (Tony's crew chief) and he tripped and fell down." NASCAR please don't fine Tommy Baldwin!
 

LOL 

This is funny! 

Enough about the Stewart/Kahne tussle. I'm going to talk Sadler. I'm pissed! Elliott ran in the top five for 254 laps. When the final opportunity to pit came with ten laps to go, the M&M'S team opted not to pit for four fresh tires while most of the field on the lead lap behind them capitalized on it. The result was unfortunate as Elliott fell backwards through the field to finish 21st. On the bright side both Ryan Newman and Kurt Busch wrecked so Elliott moved up one spot in points from 8th to 7th. Only 8 races to go until the Chase for the Championship and he's in a good spot. So even though he finished pretty shitty yesterday....he did move up in points. So I'm not that upset.

 


"I went to a NASCAR race and a hockey game broke out."
This is a quote I heard today, I thought it was pretty funny. It seems the story of the week in the motor sports world will be about the Tony Stewart/Kasey Kahne altercation during the Tropicana 400. At first after watching a tape of the race and Kasey's comments before he himself had seen what happened I though maybe Kasey was at fault. But tonight after seeing an interview with Kasey Kahne on Inside Nextel Cup, I believe Tony Stewart was a little impatient and this wreck could have been avoided. Kasey had taken on only 2 tires in the prior pit stop. Tony had taken on 4, so obviously he could get into the corner faster, and had he not punted Kasey out the way, surely he would have passed him anyway given the fact he was on newer tires. So I admit that Tony Stewart was a little impatient. But all this talk about him being suspended I don't really agree with. This kind of stuff happens all the time in racing....its a "racing" incident. Robby Gordon booted Jeff Green into the wall later in the race. Why isn't everyone making a big deal out of that incident??

NASCAR Drama......
Ray Evernham (Kasey Kahne's car owner) had these choice words on Tony Stewart, who may or may not have caused Kasey to wreck (I have no opinion on this as I have yet to review the race footage)
"He definitely needs to get suspended, and he should have his ass beat," Evernham said. "That's the problem with him. Nobody has ever really grabbed him and given him a good beating. If he doesn't get suspended, maybe I'll do that.

My feet hurt! I'm tired and I have to work again at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Whoo hoo!
Somebody please put me out of my misery!