I feel like I've been typing forever
So, I just looked at my LJ calendar and it is shamefully empty.
So, the last month and a half.
I lived with Abbie for three and a half weeks and it was so, so good. So relaxing. A relief.
Sweet (in the poetic sense, not the more recent sense, although, it was that too). I decided I was on a staycation at Abbie's fabulous house. And it felt like it, even though I worked all the time. It was even wonderful to be there when Abbie left and Momma Hain came back because I don't mind hanging out with Abbie's Mom, and doing chores with/for her.
Abbie thanked me profusely again and again, and every time I told her,'No, thank you.'
I came home and got yelled at (once again) for something I didn't do, and accused of stealing something I didn't even know existed (a towel of Suzanne's, that my Dad found at the bottom of her dirty clothes pile). I mean literally.
I walked in the front door, set down my bags so I could have lunch before I lugged everything upstairs and then got ready for work. I'm just starting in on my reheated leftovers and Robby's pouring himself a bowl of cereal when Suzanne stalks in and starts in on me.
I kind wanted to laugh. I have no idea what she's talking about. I've been gone a few days short of a month.
After that there was yelling at me about different things that make me tired to think about because they're so stupid and insignificant. Ugh, just ask me to wipe out the microwave? You don't need to yell at me, accuse of me being lazy and not covering my food, try to turn your yelling into a lesson while your finger is in my face. I, just. I did cover my plate. I didn't make the microwave dirty on purpose. I am not going to start a war over being asked to wipe out the microwave. If you point it out, or ask, or something, I will do it. There's just no need for the huge, loud, and angry production every time.
I want to ask if she ever gets tired of being mean and suspicious constantly, but the answer is undoubtedly no.
Also, the same day: Luke broke the shower and shaved his beard in the sink. Not shaved like a man: over a towel, so his beard mess can just get thrown in the washer. Shaved like a jerk: left his facewater, beard hair, and foam clogged up in the sink.
I need to own up that I have been pretty bad at work. Calling out my managers publicly and defying them in ways that are unacceptable. I Girl Scout Promised my co-workers that I would do lots of deep breathing and woo-saaa-ing between now and school. Doing only work is not working. More smiling and 'whatever! :D' when my managers are incompetent and allowed to get away with it.
I do pray every night (and Emma too), that Leah goes away on maternity leave and just doesn't come back. I hope they ship her off to a different store and we get Angie Tomlin instead.
Angie is the best manager I have ever worked for, and she wasn't even a manager yet then, just an assistant. Not because she really liked me, or I liked her particularly, but because she was fair and did her job well.
Everyone knows that Angie is one of the best managers in the district and so she must not deserve to languish up in Waleska, at that tiny Publix, making pitiful profit sharing bonuses, and driving forever to and from work.
My store, despite incompetent management is trading off with King's Plaza every holiday in making the most profit in the district. Angie needs to be 'promoted' (promotion in $$$) to my store. Please please please! Please let this happen!
In lighter news:
I have seen a lot of movies lately! According to my planner (where I've been taping my ticket stubs):
Thor: 5/27/11, Robby's Graduation weekend with Mom, Bruce, Rob and Jessica
Heimdall is THE BEST
Favorite Quote: "You mean rainbow bridge." LOL
X-Men: First Class: 6/4/11, I was so excited for this movie that I forgot until the day before that probably lots of really sad things were going to happen. Cried.
Saw it with Nancy and Erin from work, and Torrie who brought Jessica Taylor (and also their boyfriends)! Torrie, Jessica Taylor and their boyfriends came over and played pinball afterwards. They all had never played or only once in a while and not for a long time, so I got to coach a little, and (for once in my life!) beat some people at pinball! XD
Super 8: 6/11/11, EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL. THE ENTIRE MOVIE. EVERY BIT OF IT.
I dragged Jessica to see it with me. It was a good movie for us because I was jumpy and surprised a couple times and Jessica was never scared, and we both knew and loved all the music in the movie. We stayed after the movie, and then movie from in the movie to sing along with My Sharona during the credits.
Super 8, again: 6/18/11, Robby and Dad were hot on Super 8 ever since they saw the very first teaser trailer, like, two years ago, the one that was just the train crash.
So, for Father's Day Rob and I got together to be awesome children.
I came home from Abbie's early and made Dad his traditional Father's Day Breakfast: French Toast and Bacon. Then we went to Best Buy so Robby could get the computer he wanted to buy with his Graduation money. Dad and Robby spent a while drooling on the records.
Then! Robby went to meet up with the person he was buying Heart&Def Leppard concert tickets for that night from. Meanwhile Dad picked Moe's for his Father's Day Lunch, and then Dairy Queen. Robby met up with us at Dairy Queen and at his Moe's there.
We went home to look up movie times and chilled out for an hour and a half before we drove down to see Super 8! Which Dad loved and saw how it was a lot like E.T. and missed all the ways that it was like Stand by Me, because, yes he'd read the book/short story/whatever, but hadn't seen the movie (much to Jessica's disappointment because they always talk about Stephen King stuff when they're hanging out, and she was so sure he'd notice right away).
Then Dad and Rob left straight from the movie theatre to the concert, which was awesome, they loved it.
Green Lantern: 6/25/11, I like Ryan Reynolds, what can I say? I also have always really enjoyed everything about the Green Lantern since I saw Superman meet the Green Lantern on afternoon after school. Then Justice League came out and the Green Lantern on that show was different, but awesome!
Jessica, Devin, and Rob saw it with me.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: 6/28/11, I saw The Return of the King, with Nancy and Erin, but I've misplaced that ticket stub. :(
The AMC 24 down by the mall rereleased the LotR movies, one each week for three weeks, in honor of The Fellowship of the Ring's 10th anniversary (can you believe that? I was in 8th grade in 2001).
If you don't know already: I am a cryer. I will get sobs in my chest from the smallest thing. Other people crying. Sincerity. Ooh, sincerity.
I started crying as soon as the bells started ringing when Pippin tumbled off the signal tower once he got the fire going and those guys up in the mountains started lighting fires and Aragorn called the Rohirrim to arms for Gondor.
I can't help it. That feels momentous every time it happens, and is the start of everything else in that movie.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Part 2): 7/9/11, Saw it with: Abbie, Ashley Aiken, Ashley Cowart, Baiken (Aiken's brother, Cowart's boyfriend), Chelsea, Laura, Emily Helf, Nancy, Erin and Patrick from Meat. Abbie wore her Ginny cosplay, and brought her replica of Hermione's wand.
I left for the movie after work. I changed at home really quickly. I tried to get Dad to drop me off since I thought the parking lot would be really full, and he was like,'It's barely after 11. The parking lot won't be full!' and I was like,'But Nancy and them went down to wait in line around 8:30! And I think some other people did too!'
He said,'That is a level of crazy I cannot fathom for a movie.'
So I went down to Cherokee 16 and got trapped in the full to the brim parking lot. I said to myself,'Fuck it!' and turned around to come home. On my way out, I saw people parking down the hill at Bogey's and walking up to the theatre. My frown was so big.
I called Dad and I was like,'I told you so!' and he was like,'Fine.'
So, then Dad and Suzanne just rode down with me since they had tickets to the 3D show (the only thing still available when Dad went to buy tickets the day of). Dad was super nice and did drop me off so I could run in to my friends while he and Suzanne parked my car.
There was a lot of reminiscing and shenanigans before the movie. :)
I only heard one stray comment from my peanut gallery during the movie: Abbie whispered 'Blinded by the li-ight,' when Harry got Avada Kedavera'd. I wanted to facepalm, but I was watching the movie.
I cried a lot after Snape died.
I have mixed-leaning-towards-negative/bellyache feelings about the epilogue. Kinda whatever. I wish it was different, but I'll take it, of course I will. (But, man, that poor child. Harry and Ginny are cruel parents.) (I also had the thought that Daniel Radcliffe is kinda short, so they must have had to find even tinier child actors. XD)
I do feel a little sad and empty. Nostalgic. Now that 'Harry Potter is over.'
It's not really because, I don't know about you, but I own all the books, and also have a library card, but I know what everyone means when they say that.
It's all over for us as a group. The world. My family and friends. We won't be discovering Harry Potter together anymore like we used to.
But we do now have all the books, all the movies, and all our memories of all the first times, so I'm more than okay. :)
I think that's enough for now.
Oh yeah! I forgot I wanted to post this!
I didn't like it the first time I heard it. The harp was too repetitive and I hadn't warmed up the to melody and the the humming. Now I have only hearts in my eyes (and ears).
So, the last month and a half.
I lived with Abbie for three and a half weeks and it was so, so good. So relaxing. A relief.
Sweet (in the poetic sense, not the more recent sense, although, it was that too). I decided I was on a staycation at Abbie's fabulous house. And it felt like it, even though I worked all the time. It was even wonderful to be there when Abbie left and Momma Hain came back because I don't mind hanging out with Abbie's Mom, and doing chores with/for her.
Abbie thanked me profusely again and again, and every time I told her,'No, thank you.'
I came home and got yelled at (once again) for something I didn't do, and accused of stealing something I didn't even know existed (a towel of Suzanne's, that my Dad found at the bottom of her dirty clothes pile). I mean literally.
I walked in the front door, set down my bags so I could have lunch before I lugged everything upstairs and then got ready for work. I'm just starting in on my reheated leftovers and Robby's pouring himself a bowl of cereal when Suzanne stalks in and starts in on me.
I kind wanted to laugh. I have no idea what she's talking about. I've been gone a few days short of a month.
After that there was yelling at me about different things that make me tired to think about because they're so stupid and insignificant. Ugh, just ask me to wipe out the microwave? You don't need to yell at me, accuse of me being lazy and not covering my food, try to turn your yelling into a lesson while your finger is in my face. I, just. I did cover my plate. I didn't make the microwave dirty on purpose. I am not going to start a war over being asked to wipe out the microwave. If you point it out, or ask, or something, I will do it. There's just no need for the huge, loud, and angry production every time.
I want to ask if she ever gets tired of being mean and suspicious constantly, but the answer is undoubtedly no.
Also, the same day: Luke broke the shower and shaved his beard in the sink. Not shaved like a man: over a towel, so his beard mess can just get thrown in the washer. Shaved like a jerk: left his facewater, beard hair, and foam clogged up in the sink.
I need to own up that I have been pretty bad at work. Calling out my managers publicly and defying them in ways that are unacceptable. I Girl Scout Promised my co-workers that I would do lots of deep breathing and woo-saaa-ing between now and school. Doing only work is not working. More smiling and 'whatever! :D' when my managers are incompetent and allowed to get away with it.
I do pray every night (and Emma too), that Leah goes away on maternity leave and just doesn't come back. I hope they ship her off to a different store and we get Angie Tomlin instead.
Angie is the best manager I have ever worked for, and she wasn't even a manager yet then, just an assistant. Not because she really liked me, or I liked her particularly, but because she was fair and did her job well.
Everyone knows that Angie is one of the best managers in the district and so she must not deserve to languish up in Waleska, at that tiny Publix, making pitiful profit sharing bonuses, and driving forever to and from work.
My store, despite incompetent management is trading off with King's Plaza every holiday in making the most profit in the district. Angie needs to be 'promoted' (promotion in $$$) to my store. Please please please! Please let this happen!
In lighter news:
I have seen a lot of movies lately! According to my planner (where I've been taping my ticket stubs):
Thor: 5/27/11, Robby's Graduation weekend with Mom, Bruce, Rob and Jessica
Heimdall is THE BEST
Favorite Quote: "You mean rainbow bridge." LOL
X-Men: First Class: 6/4/11, I was so excited for this movie that I forgot until the day before that probably lots of really sad things were going to happen. Cried.
Saw it with Nancy and Erin from work, and Torrie who brought Jessica Taylor (and also their boyfriends)! Torrie, Jessica Taylor and their boyfriends came over and played pinball afterwards. They all had never played or only once in a while and not for a long time, so I got to coach a little, and (for once in my life!) beat some people at pinball! XD
Super 8: 6/11/11, EVERYTHING WAS WONDERFUL. THE ENTIRE MOVIE. EVERY BIT OF IT.
I dragged Jessica to see it with me. It was a good movie for us because I was jumpy and surprised a couple times and Jessica was never scared, and we both knew and loved all the music in the movie. We stayed after the movie, and then movie from in the movie to sing along with My Sharona during the credits.
Super 8, again: 6/18/11, Robby and Dad were hot on Super 8 ever since they saw the very first teaser trailer, like, two years ago, the one that was just the train crash.
So, for Father's Day Rob and I got together to be awesome children.
I came home from Abbie's early and made Dad his traditional Father's Day Breakfast: French Toast and Bacon. Then we went to Best Buy so Robby could get the computer he wanted to buy with his Graduation money. Dad and Robby spent a while drooling on the records.
Then! Robby went to meet up with the person he was buying Heart&Def Leppard concert tickets for that night from. Meanwhile Dad picked Moe's for his Father's Day Lunch, and then Dairy Queen. Robby met up with us at Dairy Queen and at his Moe's there.
We went home to look up movie times and chilled out for an hour and a half before we drove down to see Super 8! Which Dad loved and saw how it was a lot like E.T. and missed all the ways that it was like Stand by Me, because, yes he'd read the book/short story/whatever, but hadn't seen the movie (much to Jessica's disappointment because they always talk about Stephen King stuff when they're hanging out, and she was so sure he'd notice right away).
Then Dad and Rob left straight from the movie theatre to the concert, which was awesome, they loved it.
Green Lantern: 6/25/11, I like Ryan Reynolds, what can I say? I also have always really enjoyed everything about the Green Lantern since I saw Superman meet the Green Lantern on afternoon after school. Then Justice League came out and the Green Lantern on that show was different, but awesome!
Jessica, Devin, and Rob saw it with me.
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: 6/28/11, I saw The Return of the King, with Nancy and Erin, but I've misplaced that ticket stub. :(
The AMC 24 down by the mall rereleased the LotR movies, one each week for three weeks, in honor of The Fellowship of the Ring's 10th anniversary (can you believe that? I was in 8th grade in 2001).
If you don't know already: I am a cryer. I will get sobs in my chest from the smallest thing. Other people crying. Sincerity. Ooh, sincerity.
I started crying as soon as the bells started ringing when Pippin tumbled off the signal tower once he got the fire going and those guys up in the mountains started lighting fires and Aragorn called the Rohirrim to arms for Gondor.
I can't help it. That feels momentous every time it happens, and is the start of everything else in that movie.
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Part 2): 7/9/11, Saw it with: Abbie, Ashley Aiken, Ashley Cowart, Baiken (Aiken's brother, Cowart's boyfriend), Chelsea, Laura, Emily Helf, Nancy, Erin and Patrick from Meat. Abbie wore her Ginny cosplay, and brought her replica of Hermione's wand.
I left for the movie after work. I changed at home really quickly. I tried to get Dad to drop me off since I thought the parking lot would be really full, and he was like,'It's barely after 11. The parking lot won't be full!' and I was like,'But Nancy and them went down to wait in line around 8:30! And I think some other people did too!'
He said,'That is a level of crazy I cannot fathom for a movie.'
So I went down to Cherokee 16 and got trapped in the full to the brim parking lot. I said to myself,'Fuck it!' and turned around to come home. On my way out, I saw people parking down the hill at Bogey's and walking up to the theatre. My frown was so big.
I called Dad and I was like,'I told you so!' and he was like,'Fine.'
So, then Dad and Suzanne just rode down with me since they had tickets to the 3D show (the only thing still available when Dad went to buy tickets the day of). Dad was super nice and did drop me off so I could run in to my friends while he and Suzanne parked my car.
There was a lot of reminiscing and shenanigans before the movie. :)
I only heard one stray comment from my peanut gallery during the movie: Abbie whispered 'Blinded by the li-ight,' when Harry got Avada Kedavera'd. I wanted to facepalm, but I was watching the movie.
I cried a lot after Snape died.
I have mixed-leaning-towards-negative/bellyache feelings about the epilogue. Kinda whatever. I wish it was different, but I'll take it, of course I will. (But, man, that poor child. Harry and Ginny are cruel parents.) (I also had the thought that Daniel Radcliffe is kinda short, so they must have had to find even tinier child actors. XD)
I do feel a little sad and empty. Nostalgic. Now that 'Harry Potter is over.'
It's not really because, I don't know about you, but I own all the books, and also have a library card, but I know what everyone means when they say that.
It's all over for us as a group. The world. My family and friends. We won't be discovering Harry Potter together anymore like we used to.
But we do now have all the books, all the movies, and all our memories of all the first times, so I'm more than okay. :)
I think that's enough for now.
Oh yeah! I forgot I wanted to post this!
Click to viewI didn't like it the first time I heard it. The harp was too repetitive and I hadn't warmed up the to melody and the the humming. Now I have only hearts in my eyes (and ears).