So, it was totally awesome that on Thursday, I left home with enough time to get pulled over AND still make it to my Soc301 exam on time!!!

I got my first speeding ticket--the nice policeman said that he'd clocked me going 71mph (and the limit was 55), but I don't think he knew that's slower that I had been going until I saw him sitting on the side ( Read more... )

...it appears that I may be working at the Carlton store at Oxmoor when ours closes... I went over there today just to check the place out & inquire about a future position.  The manager (Sandy) was there and told me that the available positions were for a keyholder and some kind of management role (which was what Dolly had already told me).  I ( Read more... )

My very first thought upon waking up this morning was Did that really happen yesterday?? And then, What the hell am I going to do??? If I were a "people person" I probably wouldn't be quite as concerned or upset or have such a bad feeling about this; if I didn't worry about finding somewhere else with as comfortable of an atmosphere, or botching a ( Read more... )

Today brought with it the news that by the end of February (or, roughly 6 weeks from now), I will no longer have a job.  Actually, nobody currently employed at Carlton Cards, store #303, will have a job in 6 weeks, because, as we learned this evening, the store is closing.

The district manager paid Dolly and me a visit this evening around 7:00.  I ( Read more... )

So, the following is from earlier this afternoon.  I wasn't allowed to get close enough to see some actual flames (because I'm sick & twisted like that), so this was as good as it got:


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My mother still has not realized yet that, no matter how many times she emphasizes how many raw eggs are in cake batter or cookie dough and insists that ingesting such raw ingredients could potentially threaten my life, I will continue to eat the damn stuff anyway because it tastes good. 

So, the other day, I bought this book called "Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs.  I just picked it up while I was in the bookstore because the title sounded like something I might do for fun, and read a few snippets from it and decided I wanted to read the whole thing.  My favorite reading spot is in the living room on the small couch, ( Read more... )

So, my birthday was nothing short of being great...and I definitely was NOT disappointed!  Everyone met at my house for caramel cake, then all 5 of us squeezed into Bryon's little car and went iceskating.  I pretty much suck at iceskating but have never not had fun doing it, so I thought it would be fun for all 5 of us (although a few of us enjoyed ( Read more... )

 A great day, today was.  Spent it with Bryon... We mall-hopped and ended up eating at the California Pizza Kitchen.  Also ended up selling back my books from last semester (which amounted to only $40-something, but I still have one left--Econ201--that I'm waiting until next semester to return since my professor from that class isn't teaching next ( Read more... )

So, Christmas has been wonderful to me this year... I really couldn't have asked for anything more, except I wish more than anything that my grandma was still here. Both of my grandparents...but I'm still missing her especially much.  I found it hard to believe that it was just a year ago today that we were spending her last Christmas with her, ( Read more... )