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It's the start of a new month and you know what that means... Books Read in 2009 January Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
More Mouse Tales: A Closer Peek at Backstage Disneyland – David Koenig
Midnight Sun (partial draft) – Stephenie Meyer
Mental Floss Presents Instant Knowledge
Glory in Death – J.D. Robb
February
The Farming of Bones – Edwidge Danticat
Six Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure – Ed. SMITH Magazine
The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How To Do Them) – Peter Sagal
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands – Chelsea Handler
Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
March
Nocturnes – John Connolly
In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
A Silent Life – Ryhaan Shah
April
Have I Got A Guy For You – Ed. Alix Strauss
May
sTORi Telling – Tori Spelling
The Kult – Shaun Jeffrey
The Summoning – Kelley Armstrong
Lock and Key – Sarah Dessen
Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
The Awakening – Kelley Armstrong
June
Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin
Immortal in Death – J.D. Robb
Soon I Will Be Invincible – Austin Grossman
City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
The Alchemyst – Michael Scott
July
Earthbound – Richard Matheson
Evermore – Alyson Noel
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Something Blue – Emily Giffin
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure – Ed. SMITH Magazine
The Anti-Valentine’s Day Handbook – J. More
City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare
My Life in France – Julia Child
August
Full Frontal Feminism – Jessica Valenti
Julie and Julia – Julie Powell
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict – Laurie Viera Rigler
Miles To Go – Miley Cyrus with Hilary Liftin (this is not only a reference to her life but her writing skills)
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
Rapture in Death – J.D. Robb
Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde
September
Dreamland – Sarah Dessen
How To Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLCat Guide 2 Winning – Professor Happycat
The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perrotta
Be Amazing - Maggie Koerth-Baker with Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur
Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners – Josephine Ross
College Girl – Patricia Weitz
For Women Only: What You Need To Know About the Inner Lives of Men – Shaunti Feldhahn
October
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
Infernal Device – Erik Ruhling
1984 – George Orwell
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer (again)
New Moon – Stephenie Meyer (again)
The Automatic Detective – A. Lee Martinez
Duel – Richard Matheson
November
Cake Wrecks – Jen Yates
In The Woods – Tana French
The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Marley and Me – John Grogan
Belle Weather: Mostly Cloudy with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits – Celia Rivenbark
I finally finished my first Jane Austen novel cover to cover with the help of an audiobook. The narrator was Anne Flosnik who was amazing. I have her reading Emma and Sense and Sensibility which I will use to following along with those bookes. Marley and Me was fun and loveable, just like everyone says it is. It won't change your life but it was fun. The Book of Lost Things is now one of my favorite books. With a touch of horror, it is a book about childhood that is most definitely not for children. It has a narrative style and themes very similar to a children's story but was a great read for adults. Each fairy tale motif is tweaked ever so slightly to fit into the story the same way children personalize fairy tales for themselves. And of course, Celia Rivenbark was hilarious once again. She literally makes me laugh out loud. As did Cake Wrecks, which is also a website.
Now that we've gone over what I've liked, let's go over what I didn't. I liked In the Woods starting out but reading it was like those trains in cartoons that chugging along at full steam and the tunnel flips up to reveal a mountain and the train crashes to a complete halt. That was how events of the book worked. It would go and build up and just stop dead. Then there was the ending which ruined the book for me. It created more issues than resolved and leaves many questions unanswered. Overall, the ending completely and utterly sucked in my opinion. How it won an award beats the hell outta me. I always seem to hate half the stuff critics love anyway (Like the movie Closer, I am still wondering where the acclaim was coming from).
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I officially hate one of my coworkers. It seems to be the rule at all of my more recent positions that I will inevitably dislike one of my coworkers but this girl has been upgraded from lazy, immature brat to snotty little bitch. Every time I worked with her she has done everything in her power to get out of doing work including trying to pass it off on and bossing me around. I've seen enough of her work schedule to know that she is a minor. I am not going to take orders from someone who cannot vote for President. I don't care how much longer she has worked there. Apparently she didn't get the memo. A woman is trying to buy ribbon she thinks is on sale. I skim the sale paper (which is really effing big this week) and can't find it. I see coworkers X (the bitch), Y and Z (both guys). I ask one of them to double check on the sale for that ribbon. The woman is joking that it it's not on sale that Y can leave it back there but then mentions that she actually will take it. X calls me on the inter-building phone system to say that it's not on sale (fine print nonsense). I try to ask her to bring it back to the front but she hangs up. I page Y to bring the ribbon back up to the front. X pages me again to say, near verbatim, "Don't you be paging that bullshit-" I stopped listening after the first profanity and promptly hung up on her. I have worked at 1 restaurant, 1 clothing store, 2 theaters, 1 campus organization, and 1 Federal office. Not once at any of those jobs have I ever been sworn at. I understand that profanities directed at non-present people (i.e. That customer was a bitch!) or inanimate objects (i.e. Stupid piece of shit!) or just in general (i.e. Well, I'll be damned) are a normal part of our dialogue. Until tonight, never has one been directed at me in anger at my place of work. Everyone I have ever worked with, adults and teenagers alike, have had enough maturity and professional courtesy not to bring it there, whatever it may be. I honestly do not know what her problem was. I know she isn't stupid enough to think I actually like her, respect her or would willingly take orders from her. What did I do that was such a goddamn problem? Page Y instead of her? I did not give you the customer's ribbon, oh ignorant one. I gave it to Y. I was not sure if Y intended to bring it back so I made sure he did. If the manager has a problem with how I handled that, they are more than welcome to say so. I will happily take constructive criticism from the person who has the authority to fire me. I will not take orders from an underage, immature, lazy bitch who the managers don't even like. I know two who have acknowledged to me that they know she doesn't do work. I will never say which two assuming anyone from work can actually tie this to me. I think I handled the situation as best I could at the time. I was at my register with a line of customers waiting so rather than say something back that would only get me in trouble (i.e. I'm sorry. You have been disconnected due to a foul mouth and bad attitude) I just hung up the phone. I would have loved to say something back to her. I still do and it would namely be that out of four years and five jobs worth of work, she is without a doubt the most immature and unprofessional person I have ever worked with. I worked with someone at my Federal job that I know didn't like me or respect me and occasionally made an effort to screw me over. She, however, wasn't stupid enough to be painfully obvious about it. The girl at least at the tact and maturity to not make it painfully easy to prove. I know if X keeps this up, she will get herself fired. I'm not going to the managers about this since it would mostly be her word against mine but I know it's only a matter of time before X either gets herself canned or I get a new job. I can live with that since we don't work together that much anyway. Now if you'll excuse me, 26 of the last 72 hours have been spent at work. It is now time to crash.
The Fortune Cookie Says I'll Be: |
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So today was the busiest shopping day of the year and I was at work for 8 hours. It got off to a crappy start since I woke up around 5:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep until it was almost daylight. This was followed by my alarm not going off. I probably could have used the extra sleep time (almost 30 minutes) but it’s still crappy to know that you now have to rush. It was even weirder because I had a dream where my alarm didn’t go off and I was late for work and the time clock was broken (we actually have time cards and punch in and out). The store was a total mess and we had items in the store that I didn’t even recognize. Of course, I wake up and my alarm didn’t go off. That’s the only part that’s true.It was actually was pretty good since I was busy almost the entire time I was working. It was a little annoying when I get there within three minutes of on time, am putting my stuff in my locker when I hear a page for me to get to my register. I had to quip to the other cashier standing there, “My alarm didn’t go off. Y’all are lucky I’m here at all.” I actually like it better when it’s hopping because when I have down time I tend to get more worn out and the time takes forever to go by. When I finally did get lunch (4.5 hours after I started working), I enter the break room to find plates of Chic-fil-A platters. Instead of dry turkey, I got nuggets, tenders and Coke. I didn’t even have to pay for my caffeine fix. That made my day right there. I also got a few things for charity and something small for my mom. The sales in my store weren’t awesome but they were pretty good. Then we hit up Lane Bryant because they’re sale was pretty good. I got pants and a couple of sweaters. I still haven’t lost my post-graduation, pre-real job weight so I needed some more jeans that were a little more forgiving. I will sleep pretty well tonight which is good since I have to be at work for what will likely be 9 hours tomorrow. I doubt I’ll be getting free food two days in a row but one is better than none. |
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It's been a rough couple of days at work. Friday night I had to work with a snotty, lazy little brat of a coworker. She's still a minor and it shows. She was assigned to be on the floor and on the register if needed. She decided that she didn't want to have to do anything and "I'm allergic to reshop [putting back crap customers bring up and return]" and "Freight [putting away new items] isn't in my job description." The last one was the result of something I said. She was late coming in and said that I had been on the register since she'd been there (which was late BTW) and did I want to do reshop? The answer was, of course, no since we have tens of thousands of things so I don't really like doing it since it takes me longer than most other people. I told her the honest answer, she basically repeated herself and I said that the last time we worked together she didn't do any freight or reshop. Hence the smartass comment about freight not being in her job description.
When I didn't giver her what she wanted she complained that she had a problem with someone else who worked there and "Everyone wants to have it out with me." Um, I've never met the other person you're talking about so the only common denominator is you. You really think it's the problem of two strangers and not you? When she figured out I wasn't going to let her have her way, she literally started to herd people over to her register to try to get out of work. At one point she came up to tell me, "[The Manager] said there's a cart full of reshop that needs to be put away by framing." If a customer hadn't been standing there, I would have asked her, "And did the manager ask you to come and tell me about it? Did ya think maybe she mentioned it to you because she wanted you to put it away?" This behavior didn't really stop until the manager on duty came up front and actually had to boss her around into 'doing reshop.' I use the quotes because that girl did as little work as possible and half-assed the rest.
Last night I had the first customer who was actually nasty to me. She had a Visa giftcard with, I'll say, $30 on it. Her bill was maybe $42. I warned her that it would likely not work because it won't read it as a gift card; it will read it as a credit card that’s over the limit. She told me to not be so negative and let's just try it. I say fine and let her do it. After it fails, she figures out that neither she nor her son activated the stupid thing. She called the company, activated the card and she told me that it would be active in about 5 minutes. She didn't want me to void out the entire transaction so I had to wait and couldn't help anyone else. Self-absorbed much? Also, idiot much? You give me crap about being negative about it not working and it turns out that it didn't work because you're a dumbass. After we wait, she tried it again. I was right and she didn't take that very well. She had to use a regular credit card and the entire time she kept saying that "You shouldn't be so negative. People who work up front at the register need to be have a better attitude." The whole fucking transaction was like this. Even the customer behind her said to me, "There's no pleasing some people." I had to agree with her since I warned the pain-in-the-ass and she didn't listen. I don't think she liked the fact that she didn't get the end result she wanted, she was wrong and went through great lengths to prove that.
Today, I had the most difficult customer of my entire retail career on an 8 hour shift. She spent more than $200 but didn't have a reward card so she wanted to get the points. This meant that I had to return all the items and since she didn't have those with her, I had to punch in individual bar code numbers. When that didn't work quite right, I had to get a manager and the whole ordeal took at least 20 minutes. She was a sweetheart about it, thank God. It doesn’t sound bad but since this was at the end of my shift, I was getting extremely tired. I was also ready to hurt someone earlier because I closed last night which meant leaving at 11 and getting into bed closer to 12. I got to open at 9 AM the next morning. Yeah, well rested wasn’t happening. By 1, I was on the last of my fumes and close to empty. I want to take my break but then I find out that I can’t because the new guy is taking his. Frankly, I’m a fucking do not care bear on that one. I was on empty and it was very lucky I got nothing but nice customers or else there would have been problems. I was ready to fucking hurt somebody because I’m very tired, I’m hungry and I’ve been at this for long enough. I was more than happy to go home. It has been a rough couple of days at work.Internet dating hasn’t gone much better. One guy sent me a message a few days ago. Apparently he’s been winking at me every day I didn’t respond to his message. I smell desperate. I also looked at his profile. I didn’t really like him because his profile comes off as completely negative. It’s a major rant about how his jobs suck and his situation sucks and how he hates that the job that was supposed to change everything fell through and he lives with his parents…This guy is basically in the same station in life I am but I don’t bitch about it on my profile. I found little appealing about him and I can’t imagine many others did. Like I said before, the more I see of internet dating, the less faith I have. I got an email from the guy at the latest temp agency I interviewed at and he sent my resume to be an assistant to a CEO. They were interested in me and want to set up an interview. I hope it goes well but we’ll see.
The Fortune Cookie Says I'll Be: |
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I hate my new hours at work. I think it’s remarkably unfair for me to have to stay there until 11 at night and then have to open at 9 the next morning. I don’t get into bed before 12 and I have to get up just before 8 to actually bathe (which, since I’m starting an 8 hour work day, is optimal) and eat. There is no way I will show up the next day well rested. It sucks but I saw my last pay check so it could be worse, I suppose.
I used some of it on my favorite holiday charity, Toys for Tots. Families get toys for all ages but I recently went a little overboard. I can't help it because it just kills me knowing that some kids won't have a Christmas without this. I got spoiled rotten on Christmas when I was little. I want to make sure I can at least give several kids a good Christmas. I damaged one of the discs on my Gilmore Girls Season 5 DVD. I saw in the Target sale paper yesterday that I could get the entire season for $15. I went into Target tonight to get that and get an idea of prices of toys and books for presents. Unfortunately, Target has several reasonably priced toys. In the words of my mother: “Bad store!”Tonight alone, I bought: -A black ‘starter’ baby doll. It’s just a simple doll with a pacifier and is actually called a starter doll. -A blonde Barbie doll in a dress that looked a lot like lingerie to me. -A Puppy in My Pocket Cocker Spaniel Family. -Two Matchbox cars.
I put back The Tale of Desperaux, a stuffed dog and a My Little Pony. Since I grabbed a last minute book for myself (On Strike for Christmas), it put me a little over the edge. Despite that, none of those toys cost over $5 save the $9 baby doll which was very nice for the price. Plus, with my employee discount and coupons and sales at the craft store, I’ve already bought: -A medium sized stuffed cat and an outfit for the cat -Three dinosaur figurines, two were on the larger side with one medium sized one. -Chutes and Ladders -3 books designed for very young readers -1 search and find puzzle book.
All together, the craft store items cost about or a little under $30. I tend to round to the closest 50 cents so I haven’t kept a perfect count.
I’m also in a good mood since my cousin had his cancer benefit tonight. He just graduated high school and they are waiting to start treatment. I’m not exactly sure why they are waiting. In order to raise money for the upcoming treatments, they got several members of the family together for lots of food, silent auctions (all of it was sports related), and raffles. You could enter raffles for baskets (self pampering, movie night, jewelry), and outings (golf, fishing). I won the crabby day raffle basket which had crab mallets, seasoning, recipe books and a gift certificate to a seafood market. Some of the teenagers seem so grown up now. It makes me feel old because I remember them during their awkward phases, not the phase where they finally grew into their looks. It was nice to see the whole family together but it would have been better under other circumstances. It did get me off work early. I told the manager about it and he agreed to give me a half day which let me leave at 1.
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I have a major conundrum. I am waiting to hear back about a temporary legal assistant position. I told the man who interviewed me in an email that I have no new leads. He has a executive assistant position from Tuesday to Friday which will in no way effect my eligibility for the other position. It pays more than double what my current position at the craft store pays hourly. The catch is that it is only for four days, I doubt I'd get done in time to make it to my craft store job on time (they start me at 5 for evening shifts) and the temporary legal assistant position totally up in the air. Do I go for the very temporary position and make good and quick money and risk losing my craft store job? Or do I turn down the well-paid four day position in favor of keeping my current job as underpaid & underemployed cashier? I doubt I have the strength and energy to do both. I'm sure I can give him an answer tomorrow and be fine but I'm just not sure what to do here. I have to say, the money is winning out. |
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OK, I am suffering from some major computer problems. It regularly suffers from unexpected shutdowns and has to run recovery stuff which takes a small eternity. There are also times when I leave it on but walk away because life happens and when I go to wake it up, it won’t. The screen is black but it is clearly not asleep but it won’t wake up and freezes like that for however long (10-20 minutes) until it decides to wake up. I have frequently had to unplug it and let it die before restarting it. Now, I’ve found that some software missing. About a month ago, I used to be able to burn CDs. I tried to do that today and iTunes claimed that there was no CD burner or software. Given that there is no way to remove the actual CD burner without wrecking the entire computer, I think I am randomly missing software.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why I’m having daily computer problems? I’m not exaggerating. If I go 24 hours without this thing acting up, it’s extremely unusual. Maybe I’m letting it get too warm or should shut it down more often but outside of that, I’m out of ideas.
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Work wasn't too bad yesterday. I'm still tired and I did stand for 5 hours (15 minutes break) but it wasn't as bad. My computer was constantly making my life harder but only part of it was my fault. One woman was a total pill. One girl was upfront folding shirts and went to open her register and the woman started saying how rude my coworker was for not saying she was going to open her register, how the service was terrible, how she had no common sense, etc. She seriously starting ranting to me and the one person ahead of her in line. Total strangers. I, of course, made nice and apologized and all the other crap you're supposed to do but I just thought she was being a complete pill and there would have been no pleasing her. At least she appreciated my joke about how common sense went out of style in the 90's. That could have gone either way. The snippy lady was buying beads and wanted me to call a manager because one bag was missing a staple. He could only discount 10% and she did nothing with the bag so I rang it up. She said, in a slightly too emotional tone, "No, I don't want that." I void it and ring up the fourth item she has which is sitting with the other two I know she does want. She says, "I'm not sure it will match" right before I ring it up but does nothing. Once she hears the beep she snaps at me, "No, I don't want that." I'm supposed to know this why? It's sitting with the same stuff you do want and you haven't told me otherwise. For $8 an hour, I'm making zero effort to read your mind. I was just happy when she left. I have no doubt that was a good day for her. I'm sure she could have been a lot worse than snippy. On the upside, I made a nice Jewish lady's day. She was looking for handkerchiefs to cover bread and things to decorate the fabric. I helped her find beads and fabric paint and glitter sticks and such. They were for her Shabbat class (Jewish version of Sunday school) of 4th graders. I spent approximately 5 minutes with her. She decided on what she was going to buy and, when given a choice, waited in my line for me. It made me feel good that I made her day. I also had a lovely chat with a woman who was in Germany recently. She heard me snipe at my computer in German. My coworkers seem cool for the most part. I'm sure we'll get along fine but I doubt we'll be lifelong friends or anything. The one guy (under 30) who was working that night said "6 women and 1 guy?" when we met in the office at the end of the night. I had to say, "You work in a craft store and are surprised?" I also liked that my schedule said 10 and meant 10. It's not like when I worked at Lane Bryant when they said 9:30 and meant 11:45 (I'm not exaggerating). I got out within minutes of when my schedule said. I also get 20% off. I might use coupons because I saw several things I think would be good for Toys for Tots and somewhat in my budget. We had some stuffed animals and outfits for them on sale. I also saw some reasonably priced dinosaur toys that might be nice. The only thing that bugs me is if I was getting paid for my degree and ability, I wouldn't have to quibble about spending $35 on a stuffed cat, outfit for cat, and 4 large-ish dinosaur figurines. I could buy Barbie and Candyland and dinosaur toys and not have to think twice. I have an interview with a staffing agency tomorrow so maybe they'll actually have something for me rather than wasting my time like some of the others seem to have done.
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I read this in a recent copy of the Washington Post Magazine. I thought I would share it with the world (and friends of mine who love to go). |
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It’s a new month and you know what that means… ( Book List! ) |
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Tonight for dinner my mother and I had fried chicken blobs. I remembered that I didn't like this kind because the breading was incredibly hard and difficult to chew. My mom took a tiny blob off my plate and accidentally dropped it on the floor. It sounded like someone dropped a rock. I said "Meat should go splat when it hits the ground. It should not go thonk." I then furthered clarified by saying "If I threw that at you, it would hurt. Meat should not hurt when it's thrown." I made an addendum for meat with bones and such but the point is still there. These are the conversations had in my house. Life with me can be remarkably amusing. |
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The end is nigh! I got a job at a craft store. I start on Monday. I don't know what I'll be getting paid an hour but I'll take what they'll give me and shoot for a respectable amount. And wait until after I start to try and see I can get you discounted yarn. I'm not looking forward to this but I graduated in May. I've had three interviews, none for actual jobs but for staffing agencies. I have yet to get any sort of position or even a client interview. People keep talking about how the economy is picking up. Personally, I think it's mostly talk at this point. Maybe in a few months, they'll say it and actually mean it. Until then, I really do need to make money and add something to my car fund rather than just let it collect interest. Plus, it's not like I don't need the exercise and intellectual stimulation. My only complaint at this point is that this is the worst job for me to actually meet a guy. It's great if I want to meet moms or grandmas but I might actually have to try if I want to get back into this dating thing. Goody [please note the overwhelming amount of sarcasm]. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am proof that the world is either coming to an end or the economy is definitely in a bad place. I am 90% sure that I have a job working at a craft store down the street from my house. At least I know I can't blow my paycheck there and they have a half decent break room. The guy said it was seasonal at this point but that will be reevaluated come January. Maybe by then I'll have a better shot at a realish job. I did not go to college to sell yarn and holiday decorations but it's something to get me out of the house on a semi-regular basis and bring in some cash. I really do need to start making money. |
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So my friend got married this past Saturday. I will definitely the day since it was my first (and possibly last depending on how it goes) time as a bridesmaid. I had to be there early so I could get prettified. The matron of honor’s mother does hair and she did everyone’s hair as a wedding gift. The bride kept hers in a short bob and it ended up being very Marilyn Monroe. Since the matron of honor and I have similar length hair, we had some strands left out in front, part curled and pinned up in the back and the rest curled and draped over our shoulder. I felt very Belle from Beauty and the Beast. The bride’s dress was lovely. It was a pure white with a halter bodice with lovely beading. The bottom had lovely beading and embroidery as well as a long train. She looked like a very pretty cupcake. The bridesmaid dresses were lovely but the only hard part I had was that the building was hotter than hell. I kept sweating and nobody had an easy time cooling down. I couldn’t use the adhesive bra I bought since it would just fall off. The need for hosiery didn’t help to keep me cool either. I needed it for the fancy shoes. My little toe kept trying to escape. I had to use a bra and fabric tape which didn’t do that well either since it was really warm. I kept having to adjust my wardrobe malfunctions. At some point, I used a leftover hairpin which helped some. The bouquets were gorgeous red, yellow, purple fall flowers and berries. The smelled awesome. Mine still does. It was perfect for a fall wedding. My groomsman couldn’t march so I told him in order to keep time, just go “da-dum” ala Jaws in between steps. I actually heard him do it under his breath more than once. It helped keep me smiling because it was warmer in the hall than in the upstairs dressing area. Despite the oppressing warmth (which the place eventually fixed), the vows were lovely and sweet. I also enjoyed the reading from Shakespeare at the start and finish. I wasn’t quite sure why I was part of the handshaking, congratulatory receiving line but I shook the hands and made the small talk. Then it was time for pictures. I felt bad for my date/escort. I brought my friend along and he knew me and the bride. I tried to introduce him around to the groom’s friends who were in a metal band but that chat only lasted so long. He was a real trooper for not knowing anybody. It became easier during the sit down dinner portion since the dates sat with the bridal party at the head table. The first dance was lovely. It was also funny when the matron of honor got mad at her husband since their first dance was very stiff. The bride got twirled at least twice. My friend took note because during our one waltz, I got twirled twice. I have a feeling the husband got yelled at again. My date was not too much for chatting but he was more than happy to cut a rug. He was well known for being the life of the party since the bride and groom made the rounds as well as danced. There were very few dances he sat out and I was on the floor more than I intended because of him. I just couldn’t let a black man dance to Taylor Swift alone (or with just the legal secretaries). I also made him stay on the floor for Lady Gaga. I really enjoyed the cutting of the cake. The groom smashed his piece in his face and the bride smashed her piece in his face as well. It was quite funny. After that was the bouquet toss. I of course went out there and found out something I already knew. I’m not next in line. I’m also not crazy about someone’s girlfriend since she pawed my head which is not optimal since there were at least a dozen pins in there. Her BF has no intention of getting married but the way she went after that bouquet, I don’t think she believes him. All the groom’s friends went out there for the garter toss and my date bravely fell on it to protect them. I like that the woman who caught the bouquet was probably old enough to be his mother and wearing a pantsuit. Yes, I took pictures. After that was The Time Warp. The only people out there who knew how to do it were my date, the bride and me. Everyone else was following our lead. After that they starting dishing out the cake which kept me off the floor. It wasn’t a problem since I got to watch my friend cut a rug with a lawyer’s wife. It was a grand old time. And from what I hear, they’re loving their honeymoon in Vegas. I think I hear Katy Perry somewhere…
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Pilfered from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bluepixystix Reply to this post by yelling "WORDS!" I'll reply with five words that I associate with you (further explanations available upon request). Then you can reply with 5 words you associate with me, if you want to (and you will). Ready, set, yell! |
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I just realized that I have read 55 books this year. Only two were something I've read before. You'll see which ones after Halloween. I wonder how many I can get up to this year? I've already got a plan for next year... |
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I know I post entirely too much on this thing but once I actually have a life, I may not so much. I just saw an episode of NCIS that breaks my heart every time. It's called Designated Target and I will spoil the ending for you. It's about political figures in a war torn (and possibly fictional) country in Africa. A woman's husband was vocally against the extremist government and was smuggled out of the country. She stayed behind to take care of her ailing father. He went off-grid in the US and was being hunted by hitmen hired by the less-than-popular government fearing he will return. His wife came to the country in the hopes of finding him. She describes him as her soulmate to one of the agents. By some small miracle, they actually find him. She is talking to him about how he was always in her heart and he said that he heard their entire village was slaughtered. He said that he thought she was dead and then, his current wife and daughter come out of his house and on to his front porch. She says she understands and says that she's just happy he's alive. She then gets back into the car with the agents and leaves. He picks up his daughter and goes back inside. That breaks my heart because she never stopped loving him but he believed she was dead and moved on. If the whole soulmate thing is real, wouldn't he have known that she wasn't dead? The whole concept of soulmate is that you are connected on a spiritual level. How deep could the connection have been if he was able to move on so thoroughly with his life? Maybe I am reading way too much into this but that makes me very sad. She never stopped loving him and now it was all for naught and she has to get on with her life with nothing. I can't imagine going through that and loving someone enough to say, "I'm just glad you're alive" and leaving. I'd be devastated but I lash out when I'm hurt. I'm also not romantic and this is a story of why love sucks and is a stupid idea. She spent 7 years loving her 'soulmate' only to find out that he married someone else and had a child. How much of a soulmate could he be if he believed she was dead? I hate this episode. |
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I got a job interview!! Well, sort of. It's for a nonprofit staffing company. There is an irony in that I never expected to work for a nonprofit and it may just come to that. The company called me after seeing my resume on Monster/WashingtonPostJobs telling my they had a position I would be a good fit for. I applied, called him back this afternoon and left a message. He called me back on his way out of the office ( it was 4:54). I will be meeting with them on Tuesday to discuss two possible positions. Just today I was thinking that my mother's intuition was way off. I may still be right on that front but I would really enjoy it being right. I need a paycheck. I may have to reschedule my driver's test but I can live with that if it means a job, even a temporary one. What a great way to start the weekend!
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My mother is on a conference call in the other room. I was down here applying to work at a nonprofit when I heard this memorable quote: "We've spent over 100 manhours worrying about boxes." I don't know the full story and I'm not sure I want to but it sounds fun. |
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