First and foremost, I have to say happy birthday to my Nana, who is currently far, far away at pharmacy school. At least, I think it's her birthday today. *shrugs* Anyway, she'll be calling me back later after she gets out of work.

Did I tell y'all that she got engaged and I, her maid of honor, didn't find out about it until a week later . . . and not even from her? *sighs* I could kill her sometimes.

We got a cold snap this weekend. Devon's iguana had to come inside and now the cats are tormenting him. Of course, if he were actually let out of his cage, he'd kill them all. XD I like the cold weater. It makes me want to write. It also makes me want to move . . . not like *gets up and dances* move, but like pack-up-and-leave-the-state move. New Mexico, Colorado . . . somewhere in that area would be nice, I suppose, despite what Zakai and hikaru have to say about the liberal amounts of snow.

Eh, guess that's it for now. Gotta go to work.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ATHENA!!! Hope it was a great one. X)

Happy birthday, Chloe! May it be filled with good food and alcohol. XD

Our priest sang Bob Dylan and then Sasquatch came out, chased a girl, and threw some dude's leg at her.

I kind of love our church. XD

I've been growing my hair out to donate to Locks for Love for a while now and, when I went in today to get a haircut, I FINALLY had the required ten inches of hair. \o/

So now my hair is short short. ^__^ No more ponytails for me.

Good movie. Though, I trusted Christopher to keep his promise to Wikus a lot more before I realized that he was wearing Pinocchio's outfit. :/

We've only been waiting a year, now. <____<  My parents ordered it for her for graduation last year; it's a smart car - one of these little boogers:

http://monigold.com/images/paris/smartCars/smartCar3.jpg


We'll be driving to New Orleans in about two weeks to pick it up. *nods*

If I'm honest, some days I would gleefully choose shooting myself in the face over going to work. I'm pretty sure that this happens to everyone, but considering that I only work about three days a week, I don't think that's a good thing.

*sighs*

I can has writing crappy-ass novel about sparkly-pires and making instant millions, plz? O-O

According to Wii Fit, I am 34.

WTF, Wii Fit? Even my dad was 8 years younger than his actual age. And I'm +12? *sighs*

At approximately 4:20 this morning I was awoken by the sound of my dog barking. Diablo isn't the type to bark at nothing, so I got up to go and check. She was at the back door, growling. And then I heard somthing out there get knocked over.

Me: O_______O

Well, by the time I had gone and gotten my glasses on and come back, Dad and Devon had gotten up as well and were at the back door. We turned on the lights . . . and startled five baby raccoons who were making there way across our back porch. We watched them for about ten minutes while they procceeded to overturn things, knock two plants out of their stands and generally wreaked chaotic merriment.

Since we live, pretty much, in the middle of the city, it was a nice surprise. ^__^


Also, did anyone happen to actually see the Perseid meteor shower last night? I went out and looked up several times, but never saw a single shooting star. :/

At approximately 1:34 in the pm, I entered my room and approached my computer to begin typing.

Mouse: unresponsive; keyboard: unresponsive; screen: black.

Attempted to reboot.

Computer began to make horrific whirring and clicking noises. Screamed for my sister. We deduced that it may have been that the fan was so clogged with dust that Lydia could no longer function.

Made dad go out and buy a can of compressed air.

[Once I returned from work] we took Lydia apart and cleaned her insides quite thoroughly. No change.

*sighs* I'll be going to Geek Squad tomorrow to see what they think her chances are, but I don't hold out much hope. If she needs something like a new motherboard or something else outrageously expensive like that, then I won't be able to cough up the money. I'm pushing out $600 tomorrow for one metalworking class, and that's pretty much all of my summer savings. e__e God, I hate being broke.

Anyhoozle, the problem is that even if they can't fix her, I'm going to have to pay them to take everything off my hard drive, considering that I have stories stored on there that are saved nowhere else. *huffs* Problems, problems.



In other news: my sister was nearly bitten by a brown recluse today. If Diablo hadn't spotted it and killed it, the thing probably would've crawled up Devon's leg.

I hope it's a good one! <33

So, I went out into the barn to cut some wood for a stretcher bar I was building, when I heard a strange noise. Upon investigating, I discovered one of the cats attempting to, er . . . "befriend" a rather large snake. The snake, for reasons that I can't possibly begin to fathom, was not interested in getting to know her and was trying to climb straight up the barn wall where Bella had cornered it. Needless to say, I grabbed her by her tail (the cat, not the snake), dragged her away, and threw her into the house. By the time I got back the snake had already vacated the premises.

*sighs* I don't believe that she was in much danger. It was only a pine or a rat snake and though it was a decent size, it wasn't big enough to kill her. Actually, I think it's nice that we have snakes out in the barn to keep the rat population in check; although I'm no longer sure if they'll be coming back, what with the brilliant reception Bella gave this one. e__e He's probably off telling his friends right now to stay clear of this house.

Some woman came in today and paid for her item with a large silver coin that, having never seen one like it before in my life, I thought was a fake. After giving it a long, hard look and finally figuring out what it was I quickly bought it out with a dollar I had in my pocket.

It was an Morgan Silver Dollar.

. . .

From 1880.

. . .

And she had bought candy with it.

Heh. Well, her loss is my gain. XD

Dear Dollar Tree Customers:

If you need to ask your cashier a question and she is conversing with another customer or her boss about store-related issues, you should say "Excuse me" and then wait. You should not say "Hey" or "Yo" or "Lady" and then go into asking her the question while she is still talking to the other customer/boss; you should not tap her to try to get her attention; and you should not stand there and say nothing and then get upset whenever the cashier does not acknowledge your presence. None of these things will endear the cashier to you and she will mix your food items with your chemicals when you come to check out.

If you ask the cashier a question, do not try to ask her another question/attempt to talk over her/answer your cell phone/yell at your kids while she is answering you. This annoys the cashier to no end; it makes her want to hit you in the mouth.

Do not leave your empty buggy in front of the cashier's register when you know that there are people waiting in line behind you and they will have to move it for you. You are rude and stupid. (PS: If you are the person standing in line behind this person . . . MOVE THEIR BUGGY. Do not walk around it and deposit your stuff on the counter. The cashier will waste your valuable time to walk around her register and move the buggy in your stead.)

Do not call the store and ask the cashier if the Ryan's across the street is open. She is sure that they have a phone number at which they can be reached. She will either hang up on you or tell you that no, it is not open, sorry, without actually checking.

Do not (or do not allow your children to) release bodily fluids into buckets and/or garbage cans for your cashier to find whenever she is cleaning up. Most of the time, there is a restroom that you can use; if said restroom is unavailable, there are stores on either side of Dollar Tree that have bathrooms you can use. The same goes for changing your tampon. Do not do it down the aisles.

Thank you.

Celina P.
Cashier


*releases giant breath* And that was just for so far this month. In other news, I just knocked a pot of red pepper onto the kitchen floor and now my sister, one dog, and myself can't seem to stop sneezing.

By the by, has anyone gone to see 'My Sister's Keeper' yet? I'm supposed to go with my boss tomorrow and I wanna know how it rates for y'all. :/

FINALLY.

Clothes: picked and laid out.

Gown: ironed.

Hat: decorated with various sheep paraphernalia.

Tickets and other penalties: paid.

Am I ready? HELLZ FUCKIN YEAH!!!! XDD People keep asking me if I'm excited to be graduating and I'm like, ". . . Myeah *shrugs*" To me it's just another day. I'm more excited about getting it over and done with and getting some cake afterwards. :P And goin' see Star Trek again on Monday. :D

I'll let y'all know how it all goes down.

OMG!!!!!! IT SNOWED!!!! I KNOW SOME OF YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND MY EXCITEMENT *cough*zakai*cough* BUT I LIVE IN SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND WE NEVER GET SNOW THAT STICKS. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made a snowman on my car. XDD I was hoping it would snow again tonight, but it looks like it's all gonna be gone by this afternoon. Sadness.

*checks map* Looks like the snow is passing over fullmetalrose right now. Wonder if she's as excited as I am. <_<

I have a yellow stain on my left hand between my thumb and my index finger. It's a fun game to ask people what they think caused it (because you get a random range of answers) and then tell them:

"This is what happens when you get nitric acid on your skin!"  ^__^

I tell them this because it's true.

Brian (Printmaking teacher - because this is where I received the burn) looks at it and tells me, "Well, all that skin is gonna die, turn black and fall off . . . but then there'll be this pretty pink skin underneath. *nods*"

Me: "Okay."

Going on three days now and it's still yellow. *shrugs*