it's gonna be a long one
so i'll make a cut
Hello all,
I've totally neglected my LJ for quite some time. It'll make for a boring end of the year quotes come December. Anyway, here's how things are going...
I really love my job! I love hanging out with my kids ("my kids" meaning the av students who i am in charge of). It is seriously the best thing ever. I can totally make them do everything I DON'T want to do and I'm still a cool enough boss that we get along really well. The kids I have over the summer are SO FUN. The other week we started getting a bit bored with fixing cable that Sam (a film major) started making movies of us. It was hilarious and so much fun. According to my boss it was considered "getting acquianted with our equipment" so I pretty much get paid to play around all day. Most of my day is spent playing around on the internet...like i'm doing now. Best/easiest $16.50 an hour i've ever made!
Last weekend was Alumni Weekend at Oxy and I was warned that it was way worse than Commencement weekend and boy were they right. I worked 14 hours straight last saturday and all 14 hours were overtime since I worked the entire week beforehand. After 12 hours I went into Double overtime. Can we say CHA-CHING!?!?! The best part was it felt so much like my old PAF (theater) job I had as a student...that's still the best job i've ever had though. I worked my ass off but i love moving around and working and sweating and seeing something come together. I'm working both Saturday and Sunday this weekend after working an entire week. but the event on saturday is actually for a projector in the theater in which i used to work so by work i mean that I get to hang out with my theater friends. After this next week coming up, i'll have worked 20 out of the past 21 days of work...crazy huh!?
But It's fun work and it will definitely help when I MOVE! Yup, we're signing the lease on Saturday and after much drama which has stressed me out and brought me back to having nightmares it looks like the 6 of us who are living in the house in Silver Lake are finally ready to sign and move in. It's been really stressful and difficult times with me and dealing with this move. In fact, we are currently going through drama number 20,000 in this saga. Our little group of friends have been fighting a lot but we'll so get over it when we have everything settled. It's a lot of money and money i don't necessarily HAVE to spend because I live close enough to continue commuting but I REALLY just want a family. My real family is never around and I really LOVE my friends and the other weekend when we were showing the house the few of us who were there were just laying on the living room floor in the empty living room and talking and laughing and I can't wait to live with them!
Although, this month hasn't been to bad with living at home. My oldest sister moved from Arcadia to Riverside (another big change in my life since I spent a lot of time with my sister and her family) a few weeks ago which is about an hour away from my house and an hour and a half from downtown LA. So since my nieces aren't finished with school yet, they've been living with us and it's my job to take them to school every morning. It's odddly enjoyable even though it takes me an extra half hour (for a totaly of an hour and a half) to get to work PLUS waking up earlier and getting to work earlier since they start school at 8am. It's totally eating up my gas and ruining my miles per gallon but I love it so much to wake up and get ready and make sure they're dressed and fed and run out the front door with them just like i used to do as a kid. I feel like a parent except they aren't my kids. I like the responsibility. Also, they're someone to come home to. The other day I went straight home and REALLY needed to go buy some new jeans (whcih is another story alltogether. None of my clothes fit anymore because I have recently lost a lot of weight so it was either buy new jeans that day or go another day at work walking around holding my pants up). Anyway, I got home and helped them with homework and then asked if they wanted to go to the mall with me and they were so excited and jumping around and we went to the mall and had the best time. Other times I get home and we watch movies together and a few times i've taken them running with me which was a lot of fun.
I'm still having a lot of problems with my parents though. Like i said, it's been difficult explaining to them that I want to move and they sometimes say hurtful things that they don't mean to be hurtful. But seriously, i can't take it anymore. I hate feeling like money and making money is more important that I am and have them rub it in my face if i complain that they're only making money so they could support me. I can't argue with that. I am grateful but don't deserve to be treated like I don't matter. Again, that's another story entirely. Unfortunately it effects all the other parts of my life, especially when I take out my frustration with my parents on innocent people. I project a lot...yeah, not a good thing.
So anyway, I'm doing REALLY well. I'm really happy and my mood has changed so dramatically for the better. I have things to look forward to and my friends are all being so amazing and supportive. In fact, I got three calls last night asking me randomly if i wanted to go to dinner from different friends. I thoguht that was pretty awesome even if it meant i couldn't go to dinner with all of them. I've seen to have gotten my wit and humor back in a big way. I've been really quick in making funnies, especially with my friend Ethan who is like SO much fun to joke around with. My boss at work thinks i'm the funniest person in history and that makes me feel good. My doc, Ross, says humor is a sign of intelligence. I've been feeling very smart lately. I'm happy that friends are home for the summer. My friend Annie got home yesterday from her school in Sweeden and she visited me at work and also yesterday, I found out that my friend Matt from Ohio that i haven't seen since we graduated last year is coming to LA. His mom got a job with an airline and he gets to fly for free. So i get to see him in less than a month!!! I've also made a lot of new friends at work because i've been playing softball with the Oxy summer softball league for alumn, faculty, and staff. I really suck though but my friend Andrew who is huge into baseball is gonna help me out with my skillz.
So the only things I have to do this summer is move, of course and finalize my plans to visit NICOLE (my AEIE turned AEIA) because she's been waiting 3 years to take me canoeing and see fireflies and stars and corn...and maybe some fistulated cow! Is that thing still alive? And I also need to visit my friend Kelly in Portland who i've also promised to visit for the past 3 years and I figured while i'm at it I should visit my friend Jason who recently moved back home to Seattle. He's been pestering me to come and it's only been a few weeks since i've last seen him. But Kelly and Jason are probably going to have to wait until Spring...cuz I might not make it to all those places during the summer and there's no way in HELL i'm going to any of those cold places in winter! I'm also supposed to visit my old high school teacher turned friend. She just had a new baby and it's a good enough reason to hang out at Laguna Beach for a while and sit on her awesome ocean-view porch are her crazy amazing house.
Summer is truly the best time of year!
EDIT!!!
I forgot to menion that I got into my first car accident ever with another vehicle. I was almost home and yielded at a yield sign for oncoming traffic and the woman behind me didn't stop and slammed right into me. Both of our cars were okay which was a good thing since she's an idiot and didn't have insurance. She explained to me that she just got her car and that she was on her way home from the doctor and was told that she was pregnant. What a day for that woman! But the good news is that I'm okay and the car is okay. I was really scared and shakey when it first happened. I got slammed pretty hard and my head was turned looking at traffic so I was worried I would have back or neck issues but I iced and heated just in case and I feel fine. I took some relaxant stuff because I was shaking when I got home. I didn't cry at the accident but I cried my eyes out when I got home. But Kayla and I just watch a movie and everything was ok. During my drive home that day I was writing lyrics to the tune of the song "Sexy Back" to post onto LJ in my head. The song was called "Sweaty Back" because even though I had the AC blasting in my car it was so hot and sunny outside (my favorite!) but by the time I got home from the accident I wasn't in any mood to post "Sweaty Back". Maybe soon. It was a good song.