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The BLACK CLOUD

Prologue:
BAD LUCK. Sounds so cliche, I know. Bad luck happens to everyone. BUT there is a difference between being caught in a rainstorm and living inside of a BlACK CLOUD with no exit door. Here in my twitterive, I will take you along my journey to give you a little glimpse. Why is this the place I chose? It lives with me everyday. Every time i drive pass these places mentioned below I am taken into my little mental cloud. Now keep in mind that these memories are just a few Raindrops. This doesn't include the summer of August 2009 when I learned that bad things come in a package of three. My mom passed away, the boyfriend I was dating at the time was moving to Florida, and I was starting a new school. Or the time i took my clothes to the laundry mat at Rowan and out of the 100 washing machines lined up so nicely, mine was the one that didn't drain the water. I sat there for a good 40 minutes squeezing out my clothes. I never had so much respect for the Pilgrims, lemme tell ya. Not to mention my clothes took five hours and a blow dryer to complete the process. Or the night of the blizzard when I got a phone call at 3:30 a.m from a man who I thought was Biz Markie by the sound of his voice. In reality it was the Rowan police demanding me to move my car in the next five minutes or else it would be towed. Or the time i got stuck in a locker and the teacher had to get a crow bar to get me out. Oh yea, and the time.....Ok..ok.. I'll stop there. You get the jist of it right? I don't consider this to be such a terrible thing. In fact, not only do I get humor out of it, but when I do get a little good luck fairy dust, I'm 900,000 times happier than the average person would be! Here lies some on the major events that i think of immediately when i think of the Black Cloud.

TWEETS
cant wait to go get lucy's twin trudy. hopefully romeo won't eat this one =/ #twitterive

v-day. roses with "lucy" the fish in bottom of vase spent 10 min with my new friend. phone call from sister. cat=nomorelucy.#twitterive#wrt1

ironic that im writing my project on my year of the black cloud consisting of bad luck? #twitterive #wrt1

Whenever i see a fire truck at wawa i assume someone else was dumb enough to run over a muffler like me. ha #twitterive #wrt1

after writing my series of the "year of the black cloud" i think its rubbing off on me again! hoping i dont have the flu =/ #twitterive

Memory:Webster hall, limo, VIP- no train til 6 a.m, breaks down, cold, tired, Thank goodness for friends #twitterive #wrt1

the chronicles of the black cloud end of 2009-2010 #twitterive #wrt1

why is it that when one thing goes wrong everything goes wrong. this day needs to end!! #twitterive

so excited to make it to class on time until the ropo pull me over in the parking lot. lovely #twitterive

WAWA

Turkey Hoagie $2.99
16 oz Coffee $1.37
Gatorade $2.00
Sour Patch Kids $1.25
Safe ground for your car to almost blow up, 3 fire trucks, 4 cop cars, and watching your best friend get cuffed and an unfair DUI while driving your car.....Priceless.

RAIN DROP# 1

    It was a Friday night and I went to pick up my friends to go to a party. My best friend Andrea, Dawn, Jill, and Nicollette were all piled in Lynuss, the slick pacific green sebring. Were jamming out to “get low”, talking, getting pumped up. My friend jill smokes and I hate the smell of it but I let her puff her cancer stick away with the cracked window. KABOOM. Everyones heads hit the ceiling of my car. Apparently there was some metal object placed perfectly in the middle of the road right where poor Lynuss was crusin. I still swear it just appeared out of know where. I mean I know I can get distracted but the boom that came from underneath my car sounded like the start of the civil war. I would of def seen something that big. Soo..i pull into the Wawa to go ask the gas man to check my car. Everyone piles out to see Lynuss throwing up gas from underneath. It was unreal. Within the next five minutes there was atleast 4 cop cars and 3 fire trucks. We told our friends they can go thinking they would stay with us. No they left to party ha. So me and Andrea called the Madre and told her we needed a ride home because something happened to my car. She pulled up with her sister and I wish you could of seen the look on her face. It was in a state of a child first hearing they are going to Disney world and a child spilling Kool Aid all over a white carpet. Unbelievable.

                           Snippity Snap Bad Luck like that
                                                by DJ Fleschy Flesch

Just filled my tank , it’s a Friday night,

Got my girls in the back and were feelin alright

Un enexpected bump caused my car to hit the flo

Ironic jamming out to flo rida “get low”

What the hell was that, I think Lynuss may blow

I pull into the wawa run up to the gas pumper

“he screams holy shat look at the gas flow from under ya bumper”

971 7149 hey ma I got a little problem you may wanna sit down with a glass of wine

My car almost blew up I ran over a big piece of metal

It appeared out of no where, no time to hit the break pedal

Four cop cars and Three Fire trucks

I shake my head and say “this is just my luck”

RAIN DROP #2

DUI- I swear this road is cursed. Were on our way home from a party and Andrea is driving Carlos my old school, black Nissan. We had a few drinks but she was def ok to drive. So she was hungry and we stop at the 7 eleven to get pound cake. If Jeff Gordon was to get sprayed with pepper spray in the eye while driving a vehicle, that’s how she drives normally. I can't even talk though because I'm the same way. So she swerved while trying to open the delicious, yellow marble swirl Entemann pastry and within seconds blue and red lights were flashing before my eyes so we pull over in front of the infamous wawa. She got out and was so unbelievably nervous. She is a straight A student, very classy girl, doesn’t get in trouble but she can get real sassy if she wants to be especially when people yell at her. Soooo. Between arguing with the cop, him making her do all these tests and she failed 1 because she was nervous, he cuffed her and had to bring her to the police station. She ended up getting a DuI and losing her license for 6 months. Granted she lives in NY so its not too bad. Talk about being a bad luck charm. I guess i should go to a different Wawa huh?

RAINDROP #3

The Church: So I’m driving with my windows down, the gentle breeze blowin through my hair, my stunna shades on jamming out to Britney spears. It was such a beautiful picture perfect day. Like one of those summer days that can be put on a calendar for the month of July. I took rt 9 home to stop at the Bayville Shop Rite to get my favorite broccoli salad. And I was starving so I was super excited to eat. As I pull around close to the yield sign my head goes flying almost hitting the steering wheel as Carlos was smashed from behind pushing me to slam into the car in front of me. My cds became Frisbee cutting through the air. There was 4 cars in this accident. The car in front of me was some man around the age of 30. The car in back of my was a mom, a dad, and a baby. And the cause of this problem was an old red beat up truck being driven by a narcoleptic man. Hmmm. Go figure. So the cops come and do there normal questions blah blha blah. Then the narcoleptic man comes and talks to me!Tall, Skinny, looks like he hasn’t slept in days maybe that’s why he developed narcolepsy, old jeans,grey hair and converse. “OMG I'm so sorry. Ya know I bet your parents are really worried. I have a daughter about your age (whips out a picture) you may know her if you went to Lacey. But as a parent I would be so scared. I am so sorry I was just diagnosed with narcolepsy and depression and I was on my way to the doctors.” Thank god the cop came back by then because I was like is he for real right now. Poor Carlos got it from the front and back looks like an accordion player and your really trying to talk to me. So the cops talked to everyone and I had to wait for a ride . My car had to be towed so I took everything out that was important to me. So now I’m sitting on a main road, on the church grass with my roller blades, my school books, and my cd’s. It was quite the site to see. Let me just add that the day before the death of Carlos he just got a new transmission, new breaks, and new tires.Then down the road the family behind me that got hit tried suing everyone and cops showed up at the door one day. My mom answered and they said “Is Nicole FLesch here” she was like ummm no. Then they told her why they were there but her initial reaction gave her that same eye opening experience as the Wawa day.

                                            Don't Sleep and Drive
                                                by DJ Fleschy Flesch

Started out on a nice sunny day

New tires, new transmission, me and Carlos are on our way

Getting out of class feeling really hungry

Broccoli cheddar salad needs to get into my tummy

Jammin out to b spears and lil wayne “I get money”

With one hand on the wheel and the other one fist pumpin

I feel a smash in the back…BOOM POW my heart is jumpin

I crash to the front looks like I'm in the middle

My car looks like an accordion left without a riddle

The cause of it all was a narcoleptic man

Why are you driving when you cant even stand

A four car accident lined up like a band

                                       RECIPE FOR A DISASTER

Ingredients

1 beautiful sunny day

1 car that you named

1 remix Cd on max volume (preferably Britney Spears or remix of Total Eclipse of the Heart)

A hungry Stomach..craving broccoli cheddar salad (see recipe below)

35 mph speed limit

1 Narcoleptic Man

On one beautiful sunny day, on an empty stomach, take Rt 9 home instead of the Parkway so you can stop at ShopRite. Make sure you go the speed limit 35 mph and pay attention to the road. Blast Britney Spears and Bonnie Tyler to maximum. Remember to smile because you are having the most perfect day ever. Make sure there is a car in front of you and behind you. Add a narcoleptic man to the car behind you and have him fall asleep. You don’t have to tell him, he is aware of his condition and will pass out immediately. BOOM BOOM POW. There ya go. In no time your car turns into a musical instrument, an accordion.

                                  Recipe For Brocc Cheddar Salad



.        6 cups fresh broccoli florets

·        1-1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese

·        1/3 cup chopped onion

·        1-1/2 cups mayonnaise

·        3/4 cup sugar

·        3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

·        12 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the broccoli, cheese and onion. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar.
Pour over broccoli mixture; toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours. Just before serving, stir in the bacon. Yield: 8 servings.

CARLOS Maxima, 11 years old, was in a tragic car accident mid Summer July. The day before his death he recovered from the black lung. He quit smoking and his wheels were turning bigger and brighter than Tina Turners. Unknown birth place, but was adopted by Ms. Nicole Flesch, who showed him the utmost love and affection she possibly could. Carlos was a natural born racer. No one could weave in and out of cars the way he did. It was an art to watch Carlos fly down that Garden State Parkway. You will forever remain in our hearts. <3

ROWAN UNIVERSITY

School of fleas and poisonous veggie burgers, oh yea and i guess I'll add education too. (Just for you die hard Rowan fans)

RAINDROP # 4

APARTMENT # 12

Microscopic, naked to the eye

One by one how fast they multiply

I thought it was fuzz, a crumb, or a piece of dirt from my shoe

Until that blood sucking demon jumped, that’s when I knew

My itching ankles I thought were an allergic reaction

Were really bite marks that gave their hunger satisfaction

Planning a plot to attack on command

They gather in an army, in sync like a musical band

Smallest of their insect kind,

Yet I fear them most as they infest my mind

Sticky traps, white paper, heat blasting out in every direction

Nothing can stop them, not even the exterminators’ chemical injection

The more he sprayed and said they were dead

The more they would plot and hide inside the woodwork of my bed

I feel them haunting me, every itch, any tingling sensation

I alarmingly wake up and examine, agitated with frustration

These duplicating insects, without hesitation, take over Apartment 12 with total domination

I don’t know why they picked me to be their queen

Every night I went to bed hoping this living nightmare would turn into a dream

They put me on edge, always on alert

Hoping they would be full from last night’s dinner and not looking for dessert

I can’t comfortably relax inside my own home

They picked me, and want my bed as their majesty’s throne.

I take my homework out to get my mind off the situation

Until a comma jumped off while correcting my punctuation.

After a million complaints to the Rowan Housing Department

They finally agreed to move us into a new apartment

Still to this day I think every black speckle is a flea

Leaving a mark in my school experience history

I’d like to thank you Rowan University

RAINDROP #5

REVENGE of the VEGGIE BURGER

SCHEDULE

8:30 a.m- Rise and Shine! What a beautiful day! Got a great night sleep, the sun is shining, it's going to be a splendid day!

11:00 a.m- 2nd day of class and its canceled! YES!!!

1:30 p.m- I don't know why but that veggie burger has my name written all over it. (First bite, chew, chew, chew....O.M.G this is DELISH! Chels you need to try it. Who would of ever thought, a cafeteria mystery veggie burger would taste like it's straight out of Wolf Gang Pucks Kitchen! Badda Bing Badda Boom. Just found my new fav food.

3:00 p.m- A gremlin sneaks down into my stomach. It sounds like a mixture between a growl and an angry chicken being plucked. I lay down for 2 seconds. Before my head even hit the pillow I waddle my way over to the toilet. I pause in front of the mirror to see my face has now turned the color of what looks like Mama E's homemade pea soup. Now let me just tell you. Our apartment was great and everything, but they were OLD. I'm not talking like built when Madonna was at her prime old, I'm talkin like William Shakespeare probably used our toilet himself OLD. It was definitely no place you wanted to stick your face in. But I was left with no choice.

4:30 p.m- Hugging the bowl as the smell of toilet water and peas(that's what I'm assuming the burger was made up of),dangled in front of my nostrils like a newly opened air freshener. Except poisonous.

5:00 p.m- finally gain the energy to crawl, not walk, crawl like someone who has been stuck on the desert for 5 days with no food or water, to my bed. My room mates tried to take care of me the best they could. I mean what great friends, for real. I looked like the exorcist on steroids but yet they still stayed by my side.

6:00 p.m- The E.M.S come. I could barely speak. For the first five minutes I thought i was being interviewed for match.com considering they asked enough questions to write a biography about me. Finally, they took me out on the stretcher. Michelle came with me in the ambulance and poor Chelsea, who ran to get me crackers and ginger ale, comes back to see red and blue flashing lights fly by and our new neighbors telling her I was taken out on a stretcher.

7:00 p.m- Sitting in a stretcher in the middle of the hospital hallway right in front of all the open rooms. There is one old lady grunting like a line backer in one and another old lady in the other yelling to get her out of this place. She was like a broken record on repeat and her voice sounded like a combination of Minnie Mouse and Homer Simpson. Thank God Michelle and Chelsea were there I would of never made it alone.

7:10 p.m- If the book "Dante's Inferno" was rewritten to have a nurse character, it would be the lady that stabbed me with I.V's like she was thumbing a tack into a wall, and who kept telling me she would bring me blankets but then sat back to watch the beads of sweat dripping from my head turn to icicles seconds away from turning into Jack Frost. She then asked me to give a urine sample. I slowly made my way out of the bed, hunched over like Quasi moto, making my way to the bathroom. She never needed a sample. I think she had me get up just for pure entertainment. I asked her if she needed it considering it sat there for ever. She said "oh, no I don't need it anymore."

8:00 p.m- Time stopped. Chelsea, Michelle, and I both froze. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't on an episode of Grey's Anatomy or something. This man was red carpet ready. I didn't think doctors that beautiful existed outside of the green screen in HollyWood. Speaking of Hollywood, I was hoping to have Kevyn Aucoin,one of the best makeup artists, standing by my side, making me look like the prettiest sick, posioned person ever. That didn't happen. Not only was Dr.Sexy good looking, but he had such a sense of humor. He was a graduate from Rowan himself, and asked if I was drugged into deciding to eat from the cafeteria at school. (HAHAHAHA) it really wasn't that funny but I did emphasize the capitol "HAHA" becuase he was just so charming. He signed my papers and let me go.

9:00 p.m- Chelsea and Michelle drove me back to our apartment. They took care of me, got me crackers and gingerale, and were by myside the whole way through. Then they were counting down the hours til the cafeteria opened again to go get a "veggie burger" so they can go back to see Dr.Sexy again!! What a night!


                                            Veg Out
                                        by DJ Fleschy Flesch

The day started great new student in school

New apartment and my roomies and im feelin real cool

Feeling kinda hungry we head to the caf

I head over to the bugers and the grill kitchen staff

Chicken patty, french fries, or a toasty grill cheese

I opted for a veggie burger made out of peas

Tasted so good didn’t want it to end

Ranting and raving to chels my best friend

An hour goes by and im sitting in my bed

Feeling really funky from my stomach to my head

My face in the bowl for the next two hours

What the hell is wrong, why am I feelin so sour

My roomies called the EMS they came in a hurry

They tried to talk to me but everything looked blurry

21 questions like I was in trial with a jury

Get to the hospital, my face is turning green

Just my luck stuck with a nurse that’s super mean

Wouldn’t get me blankets, she wanted me to freeze

As I’m stuck on the bed hooked up to Iv’s.

Chels and Mich were taken care of me

My immune systems down I need some vitamin c

Until a movie star jumped out of the t.v

WE named him hot pants, Dr.Sexy

So glad my face is green, lookin like a hot mess

Wishin I was showered, a lil make up and a dress.

Laughed when I told him what I ate from Rowan

As he gave me a prescription for amoxicillin

Oh wait a great way for my school year to begin!

RAINDROP #6

PENN STATION

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY LUCY

Boyfriend: "Happy Valentines Day" (hands Nicole a vase of roses and in the bottom of the vase is a fish)

Me: " Thanks!!!! (way to excited about getting a fish for a 21 year old)
            "What should we name it?!?!"

                                Boyfriend: "Lucy?"

                                Me: "Perfecto! Ahh! I can't wait to bring her back to school! Me and                                     Lucy are going to have so much fun together!! She can watch me do                                     homework and wacth movies with me.

                                My concious: "Wow, Nicole get a life"

                                Me: "I'll leave her here until I come home this weekend. Madre will
                                 take care of her until then.

2 hours later......

                                Me: (cell phone goes off. Ring a ling ling...Ring a ling ling...)

                                Sister: "Hey Nicole, where are you?"

                                Me: Atlantic City for the night...Why what's up

                                Sister: "Umm did you get Roses and a fish"?

                                Me: "Yea! It's Lucy! Can you feed her"?

                                Sister: "Lucy's dead"

                                Me: "WHAT"?!?!?!?!

                                Sister: "I came home to a shattered vase, roses everywhere, and Romeo                                 (cat) playing with it with his paws. I had to stop him from eating it".

                                 Me: "just my luck"

                                 Boyfriend: "HHAHAHAHAAA"

                                Me: ( gives "the look")

                                 Boyfriend: "just kidding. not funny at all. that was a crying sort of                                                    HAHA out of sadness. We can go get Lucy's twin                                                            sister Trudy when we get home!"

A Sprinkle of Sunshine through every Cloud!

Yea, hard to believe right? All this bad luck all the time, you would think people have to pay me or chain me up to a chair and tickle me to get me to smile. You would think I'm a Negative Nancy or a Pussface Patty but your WRONG! I'm one of the happiest people that exists on this earth! I always have a smile cemented onto my face, with no drill or jackhammer to knock it down. What makes me happy? The answer ladies and gentlemen is LIFE. Life is too short and beautiful to let dumb little things get us down. When your having a bad day look at the sun shining, or the trees swaying, or the cute little deer that stands in the middle of Highway 37 that you risk your life for swerving into oncoming traffic. Something as simple as someone saying have a nice day or smiling at a complete stranger are things to be happy about. Don't let the Storm rain on your parade of life!

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them".

-William Arthur Ward

1. HEALTH:I may be have the vision of a 105 year old lady but hey! that's what ACUVUE is made for! Otherwise, I'm as healthy as WHOLE FOODS grocery story!
2. MUSIC: Singing on the top of my lungs jammin out driving in my car with the windows down on a sunshiny day with the breeze gently bushing my skin.
3. PEOPLE: Nice people! When someone opens the door for you and smiles, or your customer who cares to know how your day is going and will talk your ear off to the point where i might as well sit down and have a glass of wine with them or when someone calls for delivery and says Thankyou, have a nice day.
4. CHILDREN: There is no better way to learn how to apprectiate life than being in a classroom full of children. Making kids smile and laugh is the most rewarding thing in the world. Better yet receiveing a hug from them at the end of the day or when they all race to sit in your lap on the reading carept. Or when they try to do the moonwalk across the floor when they are supposed to me adding and subtracting facts. If you are feeling like a scrooge, sit in a first grade classroom for a day. There is no better medicine for a bad day.
5. HELPING OTHERS: Most of my friends come to me for help when they need advice or someone to cheer them up. It makes my day when I have made someone elses day either through an act of kindness or simply just being a good listener. Making people happy is one of the things I get happiness out of most. I have been blessed with this ability to have people want to talk to me and condfide in me. Not only my best friends,family, and acquaintances but people I just meet or have become brand new friends with will open up to me and come to me for help and advice. I'm very thankful for that!

Here are some little things that have made my day recently!

Britneys New Cd Comes out on my birthday MARCH 15th!!! Biggest FAN EVER!

i won $ 3.00 on a lottery ticket!!!!!!!

            - Being in Bells Elementary School, Mrs.Barca's first grade classroom every Tuesday!
            - When the little girl I'm tutoring was so excited to learn with me and couldnt wait                  to do more work with me. Seeing the smile on her face when she got the right                      answers was better than anything money could ever buy.
            - Henry ( 1st grade student): " My job is to collect everyones books and put them in                 that pile over there"
                Me: "Oh my goodness. You must be really strong"!!!!!!
                Henry: "Well yea, I mean I do pushups almost like everyday".

Shoprite now sells bread shaped like Goldfish!!!! O.M.G!

RALPHS ITALIAN ICE opens in a couple weeks!!!
I made best friends with the owners Laurane and Pete last year. We became super close and they would come to Captains inn in the summer and request me as their waitress all the time. Some people buy there coffee everyday or come home for a glass a wine, I go to my Ralphs. I hang out with Petey and Laurane for twenty minutes while I eat my ice that has been kissed by the God of heaven, and we just talk about life and our day at work. haha. Free ice baby! It really is all about who ya know!

My ex boyfriends little sister Savannah (age 15) and I are super close. She looks up to me and always comes to me for advice. I love helping people and having people come to me to talk to about their problems or when they need a good cheering up. Recently, Savannah posted a 30 day challenge up on Facebook and each day was a new thing to post. One of the posts was a picture of "someone who has gotten you through the most" and she posted me. I swear i could feel my heart smiling inside.