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| 03:09pm 20/03/2009 |
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| *blinks* Hello, LJ |
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| 04:48pm 20/08/2008 |
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Well, I haven't done this in forever, so it's about time I post. ...post something at least.
Let's see, I've been working a lot and when I'm not at work I skip town to visit Heather. All is well. Well, everything except the working a lot.
I went to a wedding this weekend and took pictures, which can be found on Facebook unless you track me down via Yahoo Instant Messenger. I think we would all prefer Facebook though. Maybe.
The wedding was pretty nice. I felt compelled to make some sort of speech on Jenny's behalf, considering everybody who did the toast thing pretty much just said "we're glad we made andrew go to tech because that's how he met her..." pretty much crediting themselves for there even being a wedding. And the matron of honor's speech pretty much said that they wanted andrew to be a girl and they didn't get to know jenny very much but they like what they know thus far. ...I felt the need to say how I didn't know andrew hardly at all and the longest conversation I had with him took place at the wedding reception discussing the uses of Facebook. It's weird though because ... well ... and maybe Michelle will agree with me here.... it didn't really seem like a wedding / reception. I've never seen a cotillion outside of on The OC, but it seemed more like some kind of debut party where Jenny didn't seem to want to be there at all. I'm happy for her, yes, but I dunno.... It's hard to put into words what I'm thinking, but I articulated it during the event so again maybe Michelle can help me out.
Jenny's parents were happy to see me and worried I wasn't going to make it home alright, as was Jenny...and I can only assume Andrew was a little more than indifferent. We made an effort to get along with each other while we were talking.
I dunno, ... Michelle what do you think of this one?
The whole thing just felt way too superficial.
IN OTHER NEWS:
School starts Monday. Yeah, I'm going back. Why? Just because. Just because? Yeah. Isn't that a waste of money? According to my mom it is but I would rather be smarter than my mom than compliant with my mom. |
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| 09:26am 03/05/2008 |
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My Personality
| | Neuroticism | | Extraversion | | Openness to Experience | | Agreeableness | | Conscientiousness | |
| You do not experience strong, irresistible cravings and consequently do not find yourself tempted to overindulge, however you feel enraged when things do not go your way. You are sensitive about being treated fairly and feel resentful and bitter if you think you are being cheated. People generally perceive you as distant and reserved, and you do not usually reach out to others. You are a moderately imaginative person who enjoys a good balance between the real world and fantasy. You will help others if they are in need. If people ask for too much of your time you feel that they are imposing on you, however you are not adverse to confrontation and will sometimes even intimidate others to get your own way. You have strong will-power and are able to overcome your reluctance to begin tasks. You are able to stay on track despite distractions.
| Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report.
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| 05:30pm 13/03/2008 |
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March
15 6a-2p
16 6a-2p
17 6a-11a; Band 7p-9:30p; work 10p-6a
19 6a-11a
20 6a-1p
25 6a-12noon
26 6a-4:30p
27 6a-2p
28 6a-5p; poetry slam 7p-10p
Bryan Adams is bigger than his body.
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| 03:29pm 02/03/2008 |
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3/1: 6a-2:30p; shocks v. saves / spirit game 4pm (got picked up around 3:30)
3/2: 6a-2p; concert at St. Street United Methodist at 6pm
3/3: OFF / OPEN (laundry is a MUST)
3/4: 6a-2p
3/5: 6a-11a; call Mindi to wish happy birthday
3/6: 2p-6p
3/7: 6a-12p
3/8: OFF / probably visit Heather
3/9: OFF / ^ pending
3/10: OFF / OPEN
3/11: 6a-4p
3/12: 6a-2p
3/13: 6a-2p
3/14: 6a-2p
(15-16 is my 6a-2p weekend and there will be an outing to the spirit game on Sunday). |
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| It's been nice knowing you, February |
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| 12:23pm 25/02/2008 |
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mood:  cheerful music: Feed the World (Do they know it's Christmas?)
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It seems that February is the only month since I've gotten this job that I have some TIME to update.
The Red Cedar Festival went well. The band got a lot of positive and helpful comments. Nobody had any comments directed towards me, which is probably more of a good thing than had I heard anything...even though my ego enjoys a boost every now and then. We went to a Pizza / Pasta buffet place after the clinic. That was actually fun. I sat at the table on the end with rather elderly folks. Flute and Clarinet players... the ones I never actually see much of or hear very friendly noises from. But I was my natural charming self and it was good. They showed me pictures of grandchildren and pets and I showed them pictures of my cousin's baby. I would say it was a fair trade. He's a cutie. Oh, and I enjoyed an adult beverage and was not carded. Captain and coke. Can't EVER go wrong with that. :-p Came home and had a shot of schnapp's and vodka. I have no clue as to why. I didn't feel like a vodka and squirt like mom was going to make. I just don't like Diet Squirt.
The downside to the whole band festival thing was the cymbals I used. They ended up leaving very VERY large bruises on my inner arm muscles. The cymbals were large and heavy and you know how I strive for excellence so I tried really hard to dampen whenever I had to. This is basically pulling "sharp" round metal objects into the meat of your arms to stop all noise. Add that to pure heaviness of these metal objects and you've got a recipe for more sweat than you could ever imagine. I thought the English Folk Song Suite would NEVER end!
What else? Oh. If you've received an invitation to my Facebook application, I've decided to NOT be affiliated with it anymore. I may be still listed as a developer but I don't even have the application added anymore. I don't think Jeff put it together right anyways. My friend couldn't even add pictures and when I asked Jeff about it he said he fixed it, but my friend still wasn't able to add pictures.
Last week I ended up with 43-45 hours, depending on what the final count was. When I get past 40 I just start to not care so much what I end up with. My co-workers are hating on me (and quitting apparently) because I am getting more hours than them. By co-workers I am pointing fingers at the first shifters. There's a staff meeting on Wednesday and I have a feeling my name is going to be tossed around like a FRISBEE on Kate's campus...one of the campuses anyway.
I forgot until just now that I will actually have to leave the house for a bit of time. I need to get stuff to do my taxes tonight, and I need to do banking. And here I thought I could sit around in my PJs all day. Boo.
*CONGRATULATIONS to Kelly and Andy on the purchase / ownership / moving in process of their NEW HOUSE! And by the way, congrats on the engagement, too. I may have never said anything, but I am happy for you.
*MICHELLE: We need taco bell. Oh, and The Pirates movie is at the Quad. I don't know for how long, but I am free this weekend anytime after 2-ish. (If you're still interested). All four of "us kids" will LOVE it, I'm sure. :-p
*HEATHER: I don't know if you read this or not, but I don't want to leave you out of my "shout-outs." :)
*KATE: You haven't updated in awhile. Hope things are going well with J.
*LAURENE: I think the short story I wanted to recommend to you was called "Strays." It's by Mark Richard.
*TO ANYBODY I MISSED: Comment and scold me. I shouldn't forget you. You are an important individual. (This is especially dedicated to JENNNNNN because she has decided that LJ was not for her anymore ;) ) |
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| Instead of trying to figure out the editing process... |
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| 06:56pm 15/02/2008 |
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mood:  accomplished music: english folk song suite, movement 3
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New Schedule at work. May be better, may be worse. I ended up with another day off or something so I am not complaining. Something strange happened in the subject of payroll. I was entirely too exhausted to try and read the things in the staff log, so I have to wait until tomorrow to figure things out.
BUT, here's the new schedule, starting with tomorrow since you don't need to hear about my 16 hour shift anymore. ;)
2/16: 6-2
2/17: 6-2
2/18: Off / Concert ... someplace ...
2/19: Off / OPEN
2/20: 2-8
2/21: 6-4/4:30 / Red Cedar Rehearsal 7pm in Carrollton.
2/22: 6-2
2/23: Off / RED CEDAR FESTIVAL IN OKEMOS, MI.
2/24: Off / OPEN?
2/25: Off / OPEN?
2/26: 6-11
2/27: 6-1
2/28: 6-2
2/29: 6-11.
That's 40/40.5 hours the first week and 25 the next. So, if I'm not mistaken and payroll is messed up, I could get some overtime if I stay til 4:30 and work all my shifts in "week one." Hmm... .5 hours of 1.5x pay. Almost not worth it, is it?
Michelle, I hope we can find some time for lunch in this mess I call life. I've got a hankerin' to try the fiesta platter at our favorite spot.
Hope everybody had a good Valentine's Day. I think I did. From what I remember of it. |
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| February? |
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| 05:20pm 13/02/2008 |
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mood:  lethargic
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I would like to apologize.
To all who have been my LJ communication for the past few years, I apologize for absolutely forgetting I have a LiveJournal. Case in point, that means I have not been ignoring your posts, but neglecting my duties as an "awesome LJ friend." I guess even just plain old friend to some/most of you. I feel like I owe you the worlds longest LJ entry to make up for not keeping you up to speed on my life and not keeping up to speed on yours, but then I think that you guys may have lives hectic as mine and would never make it through. SO, again, I am going to say hit me up with a comment and I'll comment you up. Not like I'm playing favorites, but that way I will know who's had time to update and such.
Here are a few highlights to "my life":
* New job is going well. I work close to 40 hours one week and close to 30 the next. I get called in enough that I've already managed to pick up overtime. The clients are finally getting used to me, so that's a plus and a minus. (In case I never told... I quit at McDonald's in January and I work in adult foster care. Yeah, yeah, cleaning up people's shit...any sense of the word fits). I got checked off on meds last thursday. Now I can administer medication. Hoowaah... Got to pass meds today, that was interesting. Got attacked a few times. Funny but not.
* I made it to Holland to visit Heather (finally). It was good to see her again. Hard to believe we hadn't hung out in only 3 weeks. Seemed like forever ago. Michelle and I got her a microwave so I took that down. There was much snow and wind, but it was worth it. I hope to visit more often. Heather, you're doing a great job with your apartment.
* Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Well, Thursday for the most part. To celebrate the "occasion" (Thursday) I am going to work 3rd shift. That is 10 pm til 6 am. Friday I am going to work 6 am til 2 pm. Yeah, 16 hours.
* Jeff is on some kind of mad dash to take over Facebook. He's creating applications and I make the info pages. I expect that some of you who use Facebook will at least check them out when I send you invitations.
* As you can see, my life is pretty much work and friends. Sleep should be implied, even though there isn't very much going on. To make "life" easier, I will post my work schedule here and hope to at least post once every 2 weeks with my new schedule. :)
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Feb. 14 10pm-6am
Feb. 15 6am-2pm
Feb. 16 6am-2pm
Feb. 17 6am-2pm
Feb. 18 Off / Concert Someplace
Feb. 19 2pm-8pm
Feb. 20 6am-11am
Feb. 21 6am-11am / Red Cedar Festival Rehearsal
Feb. 22 6am-2pm
Feb. 23 Red Cedar Festival in Okemos, MI
Feb. 24 Off / OPEN
Feb. 25 off / OPEN
Feb. 26 6am-11am
Feb. 27 6am-end of staff meeting (12:30-ish)
Feb. 28 6am-2pm
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For the record, yes, I have a hard time believing it is February already. |
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| yada golba? |
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| 06:32pm 10/01/2008 |
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mood:  blank music: End of the road - Starlite Orchestra & Singers
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I play solitaire when I get lonely and it does nothing for me.
I get the feeling I will double the solitaire soon.
I have a lot of feelings... and they don't know what to do to resolve themselves.
Do you suppose that's what they mean by "accidentally in love?"
Oh, and the "music:" section was next in line, not on purpose. |
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| 04:25pm 07/01/2008 |
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It seems I am truly living under a rock. I don't know if this is good or bad.
57% Bill Richardson
50% John Edwards
50% Chris Dodd
48% Barack Obama
48% Hillary Clinton
45% Mike Huckabee
45% John McCain
44% Mike Gravel
41% Mitt Romney
39% Tom Tancredo
38% Dennis Kucinich
37% Joe Biden
36% Fred Thompson
29% Rudy Giuliani
29% Ron Paul
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz |
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| Today |
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| 01:07pm 07/01/2008 |
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I am turning in my uniform at McDonald's of Hemlock. There is no turning back now. Hopefully all that comes from here on out is "real work."
Shout out to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kelbellene for this awesome icon.
Happy belated new years to everybody.
LOL it's 1:07 on 1/07.
Thanks for stickin' by me during my period of instability and terror (working at McHell). |
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| 02:33pm 20/12/2007 |
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...and you think I should've or are surprised I didn't, let me know. I forgot I had a LJ and don't remember when the last time I even tried to catch up on it was. I'll get to you if you comment because I get those lovely e-mails. My poor exhausted head is running out of space. I need a new memory card... |
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| You Complete me... |
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| 03:26pm 29/11/2007 |
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mood:  Smokin the Jerry...
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...You had me at Hello.
For one reason or another, I've gotten myself into a mood that can only be described as "smokin' the jerry maguire in a world not had by hello."
Other than that, I've been busy with work, work, class, and preoccupying myself with petty things. I think I'm going to quit McDonald's soon and see about "full time" at the new job. I'm a little uneasy about that whole thing. I'm getting caught up in the whole having to bathe / shower people thing again. I say again because way back when I told everybody I didn't want the job that was one of my basic reasons. There is a lot of incontinence from what I gather, so it's also like CHANGING people too. That just makes me nervous. I don't want to be any more touchy-feely than I have to be and changing people isn't in my list of good kinds of touchy-feely stuff. I can't even change babies let alone grown adults. I don't know. I think I'm at that state where if I find enough things wrong with the job I won't "have to quit McDonald's" which is funny since I more or less got this job SO I COULD quit there.
Last night was the first time I closed since the summer. I closed with Pennie, Felicia, and Monica. Felicia is ... gone ... and Monica is fired, so it was just hard for me on some kind of emotional level. I liked having that memory of Felicia. You know, where I could tell myself that I wouldn't close anymore so that could be the last time I closed. But, I don't think I would've fared well had I told the store manager I didn't want to close because I would rather preserve a memory with Felicia. I'm already on thin ice for my crappy availability.
SO, day after thanksgiving, my sister and I purchased 10 DVDs for like 50 bucks. I especially am proud to own Wimbledon. I watched it Saturday night. I'm soooo a Kirsten Dunst fan. *le sigh*
I think that's enough of an update for now. I miss school. I like the classes I'm taking for training. I may or may not be making friends. FIGURE THAT ONE OUT! :0)
Well, this is me saying, "I'm still alive." |
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| 04:22pm 09/11/2007 |
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( what it takes to be the greatest )
In other news, I started training/class today. I think I got one question wrong out of 3 quizzes. The only one I got wrong was in the one I needed to get 100% on. It's all good though. I still don't know if I'm going to like this.
Wallflowers concert last night. It was a blast. No response from the hate mail but I won tickets through a different radio station. A part of me thinks that the lead singer was almost apathetic to the concert. He may just come across that way through his music, but he seemed to have a good time talking to the audience ... you know... telling them to get off their phones -- no, actually, he did this bit on reality that I appreciated. I wish they were around more often. Even though I couldn't shout for them or sing along due to "cold"/"loss of voice"/"throat taking revenge for something." |
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| 01:04pm 02/11/2007 |
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This morning, Heather, Paul, and I went to the Joe FM Turkey Drop to try and win tickets to the Wallflowers concert. There was one turkey I actually caught and some one-eyed-bitch or purple-coat-bitch (I think they came together) came up and grabbed it away and told me that I took it right out of her hands. Sure enough, that was a Wallflowers turkey. I suppose she looked at the key to see which turkeys were winners (they had numbers on them) and saw I had a winner so she took my winner. Boo to that. But Paul got one, so between the three of us we got two tickets. I'm not even pissed off about the not winning as much as the "I was supposed to win." Plus now I can go around saying "one-eyed-bitch."
Maybe a "nasty-gram" to JOE is in order. Try and use my persuasiveness to get them to let me get my way. :-D Whaddaya think?
Poll #1081706
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4How should I handle the one-eyed-bitch situation?
Anyways, that's pretty much it. Sorry for the lack of "life" lately. Mostly been working, and if I wasn't working I was zoned out or something. I've been reading my Friends Page though. I get distracted easily and may have forgotten to comment, but I'm out there. Stalking. I think that would be a line in the nasty-gram...."I'm out there. Stalking." |
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| 10:39pm 07/10/2007 |
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Happy *still* birthday, JENNNNNNN! |
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| 10:55pm 06/10/2007 |
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I just realized I have two co-workers who remind me of LJ Friends of mine. Deirdre and Laurene, you may or may not be lucky people.
Okay, Back to being exhausted. |
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| Got this today.... |
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| 09:45am 28/09/2007 |
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today'sFUNNY==================================
MORE COMMANDMENTS
Thou shall not worry; for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.
Thou shall not be fearful; for most of the things we fear never come to pass.
Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them; for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.
Thou shall face each problem as it comes; you can only handle one at a time anyway.
Thou shall not take problems to bed with you; for they make very poor bedfellows.
Thou shall not try to relive yesterday for good or ill, it is forever gone; concentrate on what is happening in your life and be content now.
Thou shall be a good listener; for only when you listen do you hear different ideas from your own. (It's hard to learn something new when you're always talking.)
Thou shall not become "bogged down" by frustration; for 90% of it is rooted in self-pity and will only interfere with moving forward.
Thou shall count thy blessings; never overlooking the small ones, for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one.
today'sTHOT============================
Today is someone's memory for tomorrow. Make it a good one. |
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