so i feel pretty cool. yesterday andy and i were at chuck e. cheese and i totally owned at skee ball. i got the bonus tickets four times! that's five hundred extra tickets! woot! i've never gotten it one time before, so i felt pretty bad ass. andy got it once too, so we were doing awesome!
moving this weekend. very excited. it'll just be me and mom again...and milo of course. so that'll be nice. but i'm really looking forward to the actual place. it's pretty nice. and i think having a three season porch will be pretty sweet. and it'll be nice to have a bigger room, and more room in general. since i'll be able to walk around the place and not worry about what i'm doing. i'll miss kala dog though. that's the only real regret i have about it.
hm what else? oh. i'm the "official" assistant manager at the painted penguin. i was pretty much the asst. before, but now i have the actual title and a dollar raise (woot!). but i also get more problems, but not too many yet so that's good. it feels weird to actually be called it though.
also i got kind of a new part time job. i'm writing movie reviews at www.flixray.com i get paid $15/review so it's pretty exciting for me. finally feels like i'm putting my degree to some use, and i love watching movies so it's a win/win situation there. and the lady who runs the site is way cool and originally from my hometown, which was an odd coincidence. small world.
and i finally got around to reading twilight and it's amazing! i got the next book, but haven't started it yet, as i'm still
currently reading leftovers. i liked it so much though, i decided to read more young adult non fiction (which is way
different from when i was younger! it's much better!) and more sci-fi books. so we'll see how this new venture goes.
so after seeing kelly's post i decided i should too. it's not that i haven't had news, cause boy have i! i just haven't felt like sharing much i suppose. so let's see. well i was in a car accident with my mom about a week ago. no was severly hurt, and we're okay, but her car was wrecked pretty good. so now it's getting fixed and she has a rental. it shook me up pretty bad though,
in better news we found a place to live. we rented a duplex here in davenport the other day and it'll be available june 1st. so we're going to try to move that weekend, so far though we're having a hard time finding movers. my mom is pretty stressed about it, but i think it'll all work out.
i'm also getting a real promotion at work. i've been called the assistant manager since tosha left, but never had the "official" title because our owners didn't believe in having asst. managers. well now we're going through lots of changes, one of the changes is that all the stores will have an asst. manager. hence me at our store. i'm told it comes with a raise of some kind, but we're not sure how much yet. i hope it's a decet raise. if i can get enough money an hour there, i won't have to keep looking for a new job as soon and that can kind of go on the backburner for now. which would relieve me, since i've been having quite bad luck finding a new job as it is.
and finally, i did get a small part time job. i'm writing movie reviews for this website and getting paid to do it! it feels pretty awesome to get paid for my writing, it's not much (but more than i expected in the first place) and i've already met some cool people from it. we're just getting the reviews going, and the website is always getting new things, and the forums always have people talking, so if you'd like to check it out go to flixray . on the forums my username is mandarinpeel, but my real name is used for my reviews. so far i have one for "baby mama" up. i wrote one for "forgetting sarah marshall" too, but i don't think she's gotten that one up yet.
okay so last night i had another weird dream. this time it included steve harwell the lead singer of smash mouth, kimya dawson, ozzy osbourne, and some other singer i can't remember right now. and for some reason i was tina fey. anyhow, so i guess ozzy osbourne finally decided to retire so all these other singers were auditioning to replace him...or i dunno, but they were all auditioning in different venues with one of his songs. i don't know what it's called but it's the one that is pretty well known and it starts off with that "ai ai ai!" and the drums. so the compeitition started.
first was steve harwell. i haven't really thougt about this guy in forever, so why was he in my dream? i have no idea. but he started to sing and was terrible! he ended up getting booed off the stage and even had the hook pull him off. which was kind of funny. then it went to the singer i don't remember, but they got booed off too. then it was kimya dawson (of recent "juno" fame and the moldy peaches). anyhow, she looked NOTHING like she actually does, but it was supposed to be her, according to my dream at least. i mean hey, i was tina fey so anything is possible i suppose. so anyhow, she brought the house down with her performance. it was crazy!! like there were these wooden planks that kept going over the audiences heads as she walked and sang on them and they kept moving her forward...i don't think i'm explaning it to it's full extent but it was awesome! it's not possible AT ALL but it looked really cool. so obviously she won the contest.
then i was on tour with her and some guy named johnny. he was nobody i've ever seen or heard of but apparently was in kimya's band and her boyfriend. (i think this might partly be influenced by sadie and jo-jo's relationship in "across the universe" which i watched before bed). but so they decided to write a song and i was helping them write it and writing down all the lyrics they said. but johnny was speaking too fast so i didn't get them all. and then when they were performing at a show that night kimya decided to perform the new song. but one of the lyrics wasn't finished and so she asked the crowd for a word with like six syllables but nobody could come up with a good one, and then i woke up trying to think of a word for it.
i only remember two lines from the song and they are:
how did i get here?
how did we get here?
really...how did i get in that dream? crazy.
normally i have today off, but because i'm going out of town for the weekend, i'm working tonight to make up some hours. we have a group coming in tonight, but hopefully it won't get too crazy. i hope it goes fast either way, i just want friday around 3:30pm to get here fast and the weekend to go slow.
he is my favorite new man crush i totally fell in love with him during "Across the Universe." Now I can't wait to see "21" and i saw him in "The Other Boleyn Girl" tonight, and although I have my problems with the movie (like not enough george!), he was still enjoyable in it. his boyish grin was perfect for the role.
other than this, things have been happening but i can't say, not even here. they will stay secrets with me for now. hopefully that's the right choice.
in other news of things to come. andy and i are going to dubuque this weekend for our one year anniversary. it should be fun. (i really hope it all goes well!) we've been having some issues lately that haven't been enjoyable and i think this weekend away is just what we need.
so i had this crazy dream last night. i guess it was somewhat "cloverfield" inspired although i haven't seen the movie to say for sure. but there were all these people, including andy and myself and we all we on the run from this machines that had tails that were like scorpion tails. one sting could kill you. so you never wanted to see them. and we were hiding out wherever we could to stay away from them. at one point we were staying at this house with all thse other people and then the machines came, and we escaped, but not everyone in the house did. eventually though all the machines died out, and i have no idea how, they were just gone. so andy and i decided to go an amusement park, because that's what you do when this sort of thing happens. and we were going to go on some roller coaster ride, but they said we couldn't because they had closed the ride down. the reason for his? hulk hogan and bridgette nielson had been on the ride and gotten hernias! and then all the sudden there was hulk hogan and he had this huge bulge coming from his belly (which i'm pretty sure doesn't have anything at all to do with having a hernia) and he was all like "that ride's a killer bro. hulkamania forever!" etc. and flexing. and then i woke up.
i have no idea what this means, if anything, but it was a crazy ass dream. usually if i wake up during a dream i can't get back into it, but i woke up a couple different times last night and i would get right back into it. there was no escaping it i guess.
ugh...i hate my job. i just want to go home! :(
i got this book from the bargain bin at barnes and noble and after reading it, i'm sad to know it was there because it should not have been. it's an amazing book of a man who was injured and can no longer speak or write but forms a very endearing bond with a nine year old boy, his ex-girlfriend's son though not his own child. the way the boy makes every character in the novel change, even himself, is quite the journey but none so like the one of the main character. a great read and i would highly recommend!
i've been so tired lately after working so much but today, rejoice! due to weather, and an understanding boss, i'm getting two days off in a row! we had lots of snow over the last night and more coming so everything has shut down...but not the mall. the mall never closes (it has a couple of times, but it's a very rare occasion). but my boss called me to say that she is going to shut down our store at 4pm because of the roads and how slow the mall is in general. i was supposed to go in at 3pm, but she said not to bother and just stay home. so yay! and tomorrow was supposed to be my regular day off anyhow, so two days! what am i gonna do!? oh yeah...laundry possibly. there's also a chance that andy is coming down tonight, as long as the weather permits. so this is exciting! i could have worked both days at my other job because a lady is sick, but no way! i'm taking this time. it's been two and a half weeks since i've had a day off, so i'm very much looking forward to this time.
hm..other than working, not much else has been going on really. andy and i are making plans to spend a weekend in dubuque/galena for our one year anniversary next month. one year, wow. this is now my second longest relationship as a whole. i've had two others when we broke up and got back together, or still saw each other but didn't actually date for over a year, but they don't count. other than that there's just my first real realtionship that lasted over a year. i hope this one really lasts, i mean we've talked about engagement and lives together. that's good and all but i guess i'm a pessimist because i don't know what will happen. but i'm going to try my hardest because he's awesome and treats me so good. or maybe it's just that i'm scared of what that all means. i think i'm ready for it, but you never know. other people my age and younger are already married with children! i just don't feel like i'm ready enough in my job and money situation at least to have children. i could maybe do marriage already, well not the actual ceremony part yet but the idea. anyhow...enough of that.
i'm in love with the juno soundtrack. the movie was really good too, but i can't watch it over and over again like i can listen to the music. it's on in my car pretty much nonstop. kimya dawson is amazing, and i've gotten some more of her music and it's all great! i highly recommend it. i also love the michael cera/ellen page and moldy peaches duets. you think it would be annoying to listen to the same song on the same cd just by different people, but it's not. it's beautiful. and that was really cheesy, but it's true. i can't wait for the movie to come out on dvd so i can watch it over and over again!
laundry is in full swing. woohoo! i'm defeating that bitch one load at a time. i only have about two left to get in the wash, so i'm feeling pretty good about that.
what i'm not feeling good about is that i burnt myself today. i made pizza from lunch and when i took the sheet out of the oven i accidentally hit my other arm with it. ouch! it's not a huge welt but it's very red around it and it hurts to have long sleeves on, so i'm a bit cold. also it hurts to keep my arm bent for long periods of time because the burn is right above the crook in my arm and so the bottom part of my arm touches it when it's bent. so once in awhile i have to uncurl my arm. but oh well. it could have been worse.
let's see. otherwise yesterday i applied for another job. you'll never guess where. but i can make $10/hour or so and get full benefits and work 40 hours a week. give up? goodwill! yeah, not my dream job or anything but damn for $10 an hour i'll take it! it'd be a good job to let me save up some money so i can move out. they are accepting applications until today when they close so maybe i'll be hearing something next week. andy also finally got a call back for a job he applied for awhile ago and he has an interview with them on monday so that's exciting. he needs to leave new choices, they
are the dumbest people ever there. (well besides the employees at taco john's who i always have a problem with...but that's another story).
otherwise not much else going on today. we got some snow, but it's not too bad. i'm glad for that. i'm about sick of all this snow. it seems like we finally get rid of it and then it's back for more. like the terminator or something.
so i'm reading this book right now. i think i'm over 100 pages in so far. it's kind of confusing at times just because there are soo many characters. and each chapter kind of gives some information on each of the characters and if i haven't read about that character yet, it's easy to just read over them as not as important as another one. so far my favorite part has been about major major. it has funny moments, but really terrible ones too. has anyone else out there read this book yet? what did you think?
so i ended up calling on the bettendorf library job. but now i have to take a written test next week. that makes me nervous. i haven't taken a test since my last final before graduation. i've always hated tests anyhow and i have no idea what kind of test this will be. will it be about working in a library, general knowledge, or some questions to prove you're not a total idiot? hm... it can't be that hard, can it? anyhow, after that depending on how many people take the test and how well they do then they will call people back for interviews. so we'll see. it's a longer process than i though that's for sure.
laundry day tomorrow! i'm not excited by it, don't get me wrong, i'll just be excited to get that monster away from my sight. it makes me physically ill to know it's there. yuck. and it just grows every day. and pulsates. and mocks me. only one more day and then i will win! muhaha! i'll let you know how the battle goes, because i'm sure it will be epic.
it's friggin' cold here. winter is kicking out butts, that's for sure. we're supposed to get more snow here tonight or so. not fun. and this weekend it's supposed to get even colder. gross. not looking forward to that. but what i AM looking forward to is this weekend. well mainly getting off of work on friday until i have to go to work on sunday. because i get a whole day off to spend with andy and i think we're gonna go see "juno" finally! so besides the cold, it should be a good time.
the other night i had this dream that andy and i auditioned for one of those reality dancing shows, like so you think you can dance, or something like that. we weren't very good (true to life) but the judges told me they liked my style and glasses. kinda weird. i would never audition for one of those shows, i don't need them to tell me i suck. i already know that! now if it was like "world's best reader" or something i'd definetly give that a try. but considering that it's pretty boring watching people read, i doubt that show will be made. unless the writer's strike continues...then you never know.
things are kind of crappy right now. not totally but i'm just so confused about everything and then last night...oh man. i was up in clinton visiting with andy. we were having a good time and all, went out to eat and check outed some apartments that i have been wanting to look at. then we came home and watched tv. well inbetween us getting back and me leaving his car got broken into! they broke his window and stole his radio and soem computer games he had in his car. :( i guess this happened to his brother like a month ago too. i can't believe it. the car was in the driveway! not just sitting on the street. i mean i guess i'm kind of lucky that it didn't happen to me or both of us! but it still sucks. i can't believe it happened. so crazy. and nothing will probably happen to get anything back. i have nothing else to say about that right now. it just sucks.
and i'm confused about everything. do i have to move? and i know i'll be moving, but will it be sooner than later? i have no money to move with. what am i supposed to do? and i want a new a job, i know i do. but there's nothing here that pays decently. i applied for this library job, and i got a call back but it's only part time and the hours are going to conflict with any job i get because they are all over the place. lynda said she'd work with my schedule so i could do both but i don't think i'll be able to work enough there and at the library to make enough money to pay all my bills. but it would be good experience...but if i can't pay my bills it doesn't really matter. ugh. i just wish it was a full time job. that would make it all so much easier. i dunno what i'm going to do. i'm supposed to call them back to set things up from here. i'm going to think about it for now. and keep looking at job postings.
