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so all ive done the past 2 days is work...i worked 13 hours thursday and 10 yesterday...ugh!
why do people think because i work at an underwear store i want all the gross details of their private areas? i dont! please dont tell me why you dont like certain things because it upsets your pubic hair...i dont wanna hear it!

at work there was a man who walked in with his kids (who had all sorts of neat goodies from the disney store)looking for something "nice, comfortable, but sexy" for his wife "just because". i thought that was sweet. how many men will tke the kids all day AND buy his wife cute things. men, take note...especially chris... this will save you lots and lots of begging, bribing, apologizing, peacekeeping later on. hah. i promise.

yesterday also marked the first time ive ever been in a boscovs. the new store is really nice. they have some great sales going on! especially on jewelry. i found the perfect earrings and bracelet for taras wedding, and i almost found what i have in mind for a necklace. still deciding.

after work yesterday lauren picked me up from the mall (we had some bus issues) and we headed over to mollettieres for etheracides show. the first band, scorefour, was pretty damned good, and etheracide tore the place up! they honestly sounded better than ive heard them live in a while. they even had a cute couple slowdancing to lullabye. heh. it was neat. aside from chads drunken friend trying to hump me (or dance with me...im not sure he even knew)and the car keys suddenly going missing in action, it was a really nice night. i got to spend some time with lauren that didnt involve me putting her in front of bright lights and manhandling her boobs, and we all got to hang out for a little while.

we slept in today...a lot...got some boston market (which makes my bank acocunt officially empty) and rented some videos...time to go relax and cuddle up to a 4/$20 movie of some sort!

tomorrows some sort of model mayhem shindig in new hope...should be fun...were gettin a purttied up... :)

thats it for now...later everyone!
have a good weekend!

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for those of you who didn't get one in the mail for one reason or another...




today wasn't as bad as id imagined.
had a couple customers that made me want to scream, but nothing too bad. we DID have a guy call at 10pm trying to schedule a walk in for TONIGHT. I explained that we close at 11 (not at midnight as he rudely accused) and we take our last appt at 930....but he screamed that he wanted to talk to my manager and yelled at her for a little while as she tried to explain that we weouldn't have time to take 8 children and 4 adults in the time we had left.
i bought myself a pretty sexy pair of shoes on my break...but it means i have to paint my toenails to wear them.. boo! heh. i also got my 5ft long santa hat, which is awesome! i dont think chris likes it though. :(

i did forget a funny story from yesterday!
on the flight home i sat next to a little girl of maybe 3 or 4. when we landed, she spotted a cluster of planes on the tarmac and pointed excitedly. her mother and i tried to explain to her that she was, indeed, in an airplane just like them. she just couldn't wrap her mind around that fact. it almost made her kicking me in the kneecaps for 2.5 hours worth the pain. hah.

that's pretty much it...i just finished wrapping a bunch of last minute gifts i got today, and now its bedtime!

happy holidays everybody!

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so this whole thing with lauren turned pretty wrong pretty fast. ive apologized all i can at this point.

today i got up and went to work on an hour or 2 of sleep. thank you to a few special people who kept me from getting dangerously experimental in my desperate insomnia last night. i got through an hour of my shift before my body went into shutdown mode and bekah drove me home. i really cant afford to lose the hours...but i wasnt going to last the day through. ive spent the rest of the day trying to find my berrings again. no dice.

on a happier note. chad went with me to get red lobster takeout. i havent felt up to eating it yet, but its waiting for me when i can stomach the thought of food again. we had a long talk about the state of the union. its nioce to at least vent a little bit. i know he cant really give me advice or take sides, and im not asking for that. i just need to talk sometimes to sort my own thoughts.

i also started layout and prelim writing for the book i want to at least start this year. im not really sure where its headed, but well see. i wonder if i could borrow or rent a laptop for when im in dallas. id get some choice writing done. otherwise ill take a notebook and write until my fingers fall off. i might start a separate blog somewhere for writing. i dunno.

speaking of which...jennifer from chicago called me today! i LOVE hearing from jennifer from chicago because it means im one step closer! i havent called her back yet, because i like to be coherent when i talk to her, but i expect good things...maybe even a start date! yay!

ok there'll be more later...for now ive got some writing to do before i start to fade.

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i think i caught whatever chris had this week...
i really cant afford to be sick again...
looks like i suck it up and try not to puke at work...

work was ok...my day was cut short 2 hours but she added 2 on tomorrow so it evens out...
next weeks going to be tough on the bank accounts...

i still have to vacuum and get a few things picked up/taken back down to the storage closet before cat and the baby get here...3 more days! i cant wait!

thats all my stomach can take right now...i might be back later...

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I finally got ahold of Southwest today. Why is it that every time I'm about to be hired the woman handling my hiring goes on maternity leave and, pardon my lack of eloquence, shit gets messed up? I FINALLY got to speak the woman who called me last week saying Jennifer' left me a message on the 8th and I never got back to her. The 8th was the day she told me I needed my drug test, and she got the ID number from me that Thursday. Yes, she DID hear from me. We spoke on the phone. The gist of today's conversation was, "there WAS a spot, but I guess she already filled it so OOPS...maybe we'll give you a call next month...your background check is on file for 11 months." I really needed that phone call to have a start date in it.
The stress level of the day has NOT gone down. There's supposed to be some big wig from the top visiting our store tomorrow, so we were in "clean and organize" mode. Sales were shitty, and I have never felt so uncomfortable in a work uniform in my life as I do now that this shirt thing is being enforced. Today I felt ugl, and fat, and dirty. It was just one of those days.
I tried to get Chris to have dinner with me at the mall, but that backfired. He's making dinner we can eat while we watch TV. I love sitting on the couch with him, but we never really have conversations unless there's something we have to do or there's something wrong. I'd like to sit and have a conversation over a HOT meal (which is another issue altogether) one night, whether it's mall food or not.

And now..the (phonetically stress relieving) coo de GRAAAAAAH.... we STILL have no hot water! I hunted down the emergency maintenance number, but they haven't come yet so I still haven't had a chance to shower.

God give me patience...or knock me out quickly tonight so tomorrow can start a better day...and rent...we'd really like that too...
No one's really around to vent to, which is probably good because all I've done is be a puling bitch. Meh.

Ok enough...time to edit some more photos from last night. I can't wait to post them!

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Today started really well, with the news I brought you this morning.
When I finally managed to make it out of bed I decided I needed to make a doctor appointment. I called and arranged one that should've let me still go to work, just maybe 30 minutes or so late.
I got a few things done and headed out to my appointment. The doctor I saw this time was really nice. He gave me a nasal spray, a puff disk, a note for Mucinex and ocean saline, and a prescription for antibiotics (which cost me $130). Then he sent me and my grab bag of treatments to the hospital for a chest x-ray. At this point it's clear I'm not making it to work, so I call in, only to get fucking reamed for not going in! Jeez, because this morning I said how much I wanted to miss work to have my chest prodded and x-rayed, because if I could've gone tomorrow on my day off I'd have still inconvenienced everyone (Chris and myself included) to have radiation shot through my flesh! I was so upset I almost cried in the parking lot. Chris wasn't happy about spending a few hours of his night immediately after work sitting with me in a hospital, and then that? By the way, I'm fine, thanks. I've got pneumonia, which means I get to call and tell them I won't be in until I get the ok, which will be at least Tuesday.

So we headed home after 2 hours sitting in the lobby waiting for them to get in touch with the doctor so he could give me instructions. We got Taco Bell on the way home, and Chris was nice enough to let us just eat it there. Got my meds (which, as I said before, were nice and expensive), and now here I am. Sick, sore, tired, and currently writing my drug routine on some sticky notes or I'll forget all the layers.

While we were sitting and waiting, I saw two things on the news that made me think. The shorter of the two was Anna Nicole Smith's death. The first thing to cross my mind was "There goes Trim Spa's Ad Campaign"

The second thing was all the controversy over the HPV vaccine. Now the main argument against it seems to be that it will promote premarital sex. For one, this vaccine will protect these girls for the rest of their lives, not just now. At some point these girls WILL have sex, and they'll be protected from something that causes a fatal disease. HPV is 99% undetectable in men, which means that a girl could wait until marriage and end up marrying a man who carries it. Then what? I was the most careful person on earth with who I slept with, and I still got it. Luckily, it cleared up, and is no longer active in my system. Yes, sometimes it goes away. I'm tired of parents who don't know the facts NOT protecting their daughters because of their high horses. These are the parents who will end up with highly uneducated daughters who will wnd up pregnant at 15, or worse, extremely sick with things a LOT worse than HPV.

Ok, slides the soap box back into the closet....time to convert the photos from last night so you can all see them!

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