something new, no longer blue

State Motto: Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?

Currently listening: "Bent" By Matchbox Twenty From 'Mad Season'

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Wanted another new format...something cheery, since I'm kinda in a poopy mood. What do you think?? I kinda like it. I also updated the comments to where they come up in a popup window...let me know if that works out or not, in case you have pop up blockers...I know it's not working for me. I'll probably change it back soon.

Skipped History this morning, but went to the rest of my classes...just needed to sleep in today.

I noticed today in class that I have a lot of scars on my left arm/hand. They're mostly Smelly Cat induced scars, but I'm sure I did a few of 'em on my own, like the one on my elbow from helping dad reshingle the roof and I sliced it open on the edge of a fiberglass shingle. That felt good. Nice and drippy.

Watched "What Dreams May Come" last night; one of my Netflix movies. It was either that, or "The Notebook," but I didn't feel like watching a sappy love movie. So I went for a depressing death movie instead. Good thing there's no late fees!

boys are dumb

State Motto: Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Currently listening: "Havin' a Bad Day" By Blue Flannel From 'XL'

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This sucks. I emailed Wes yesterday, asked him when I was going to see him again, if he could come out during the summer, since I'll have summer courses and won't be able to see him until July, more than likely. I also told him how I hated that we never talked anymore, that as soon as he pulled into the driveway, he was hanging up the phone...couldn't even wait to get inside, talk in bed like we used to. This is what he had to say:

I am just not as into our relationship, as it has become tough to date someone that I
never see. Not saying that I want to break up, becuase I value what we
have. It has just become extremely difficult to find time.

I dunno, I guess I've just tried to pull away from what we have because it's
less painful to do that, seeing that I know I'll be getting busier and
busier as the summer comes, and especially next fall semester...I'll be
busier than I've ever been. This semester is still a trial run. I dunno.

I don't know what this means. He says he doesn't want to break up...but it sure seems like he doesn't want to do more than what we're doing now...that he's still going to pull away from the relationship for the duration of the semester. I'm not going to just sit around for two or three months before I hear from him again...before we can have a normal conversation again. This is stupid.

homesick

State Motto: Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les (Yes, I Speak English)

Currently listening: "The Millwhistle" By Jalan Crossland From "Moonshiner'

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*Sigh* I don't like it here. I don't like school, it's becoming a hassel, especially the Government and History classes I have. I don't like work, as Kmart is the more poorly managed place I have ever worked for. Everyone expects everyone else to do the job that needs to be done. People don't show up for work, and they're not replaced, so we have to work short-handed, and everyone suffers. Everyone gets stressed out and crabby.

I don't like not seeing my parents for so long at a time. At first it was cool; I was on my own, doing my own thing. But man, it's starting to take its toll. I'm really broke all the time now, I can barely afford to pay my rent, television, internet, and cell phone bills. I could give something up of those...television would be the only logical one to give up, really. I use the internet far too much to give that up. Why spend $1300 on a computer and just use it as a word processor? Might as well buy a typewriter. I can at least watch movies and play Nintendo on a TV with no cable...and the cell phone is a must, as it is my ONLY phone. And I have free long distance, which I need to talk to my parents, sister, Jill, Wes, Lacey, anyone, really.

I hate living by myself. Having no one to talk to. Sitting in a bed all the time when I'm here, because there's no room for a couch in this place. I never talk to Wes anymore. Things weren't this lonely until this semester started up again. We NEVER talk. Once, we went for a whole week without talking on the phone, even though I sent him many voicemails during that week. He did email me once, but that doesn't count. We went from talking every night for an hour, to maybe every other night for 10 minutes. I hate it. When we do talk, all we do is bitch about what's going on in our lives. Now that's cheery, eh?

I may be a loner, but you can only be by yourself for so long before it starts to get to you. I guess I'm not as much of a loner as I thought I was when I lived back home, but that's because I had my parents and sister there all the time. And I love 'em. I love hanging around with them, talking with them, and just being at home...it's a really nice feeling. I don't have that here. I have a stuffed animal and internet friends. Jill and I try to hang out once a week at least, and do our "roomie thing," but we didn't get to do that this week 'cause of work or being busy or something else...it just didn't happen this week.

I get depressed like this a lot. A lot more than I ever did when I lived with someone else. I really don't think I should live by myself. It's not good for me.

i win!

State Motto: Tennessee: The Educashun State

Currently listening: "Chicken Trucker" By Jalan Crossland From 'Moonshiner'

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Drove to Rapid City this evening to see Jalan Crossland perform at the Dahl Fine Arts Center. Spent a buttload of money for it, too, as it was $20 to fill up my car, $15 for a CD (it would've been $17 if I'd ordered it online), and $16 to get in. But it was SO worth it!

I actually got to talk to Jalan this time, unlike up at the Big Horn Bash, 'cause he was pretty preoccupied with other stuff. I was standing around like a dork kinda behind/off to the side of this couple who was talking to Jalan, and the lady kinda noticed me and was all, "Oh, were you waiting to talk??" And I just freeze up..."Umm, I don't know?" Gawd, what a dork. But he remembered me from the emails we'd sent back and forth a few weeks ago when I was trying to clear up where the concert was. Talked to him for a bit, told him that my dad and I saw him play this summer when he opened for Simply Jane, and he said that it was nice to put a face to an email *smile* so that was really cool.

Then the show started. I picked a seat near the middle middle area, so I could see everyone, but a little to the left so I could see Jalan better (he's left-handed, so he was on the end so's not to bump into anyone else). No one sat in my row for the longest time while the other rows filled up. Did I smell? No, I'd just taken a shower before I got there. Oh well. I didn't want to be claustrophobic, anyway. On either side of me was one person, and they were each about 3-4 chairs away. Fine by me. More than halfway through the concert, Jalan says, "Oh, I almost forgot; everybody look under your chairs, I've hidden a guitar tuner under one of them."

No one really did anything 'cause we all thought he was joking around, like maybe he'd lost it or something and was just trying to find it. "I guess no one really wants a guitar tuner," he said after no one really moved, so I decided, what the heck, and felt under my seat. And sure enough, taped up to the bottom of my chair was a pretty guitar tuner in a nice leather case! ("That was the one you didn't want, right Jalan?" asked one of the other guitar players.)

There were four "Guitar Masters" playing tonight, and they were all incredible. Just amazing. This guy from the local Black Hills area who played the blues like Johnny Lang or BB King. A young man from Canadia who was just beautiful on the guitar, could play all different styles, an Indian who was just beautiful himself, and played wonderful music, and of course Jalan with his own crazy style of guitar and banjo. What a fun night. I'm really glad I didn't have to work tonight, or tomorrow morning, so I could go. Yay.

bummer, dude

State Motto: South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota

Currently listening: "Touch of Grey" By Grateful Dead From 'Very Best of Grateful Dead'

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Gah. Got a C on my American Government test because of how insanely hard he grades the tests. You have to put in EVERY single minute detail that was ever talked about in class in order for the essay questions to be counted right. One of them was worded so oddly that I had no idea what he was talking about, and answered on a completely different topic, but he gave me one point for effort, so that was nice of him haha.

Also got a C on my American History class, didn't do so hot on the essay parts there, either. I know all the information that goes along with it, but when it comes test time, I can't think of it all and forget large chunks of the information. Yikes. Also, for the history test, he gave us four essay questions ahead of time to study for the test, but only picked two of them to put on the test. The only one I happened to not study was one of the ones that was on the test. Damnit. only got 9 out of 15 points on that one. Eeep!

But, they're not Ds, and I got a B on that History paper earlier...and he always gives attendance quizzes (the answer is usually still left up on the board from lecture, anyway, and about the easiest thing ever), so that'll help. I'll just have to study a little harder for both of them. It just sucked 'cause they were both on the same day...and my next Government test covers FIVE chapters. Shit.

Concert tonight. Hope I can find the place. Laundry for now. I even took out the trash 'cause it was such a nice day today.

Moving??

State Motto: South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender

Currently listening: "Learn to Fly" By Foo Fighters From 'There is Nothing Left to Lose'

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Well, the plan has been for the last month or more that in April I'm going to get a two bedroom apartment for Jill and I to live in over the summer. In May, when school is out and she moves out of the dorms, she's going to come move in with me, and we'll split the rent. We'll stay in this apartment building because it's pretty cheap, and if we're splitting the ticket, even cheaper than what I'm paying here now by myself.

Well, Jill messages me today online with an idea about living together. Her boyfriend currently lives with his sister in an apartment complex about a mile up the street from here, but she's moving out, apparently. Jill suggested that she and I move in with BJ, we'd split it three ways, and it would only be $133/mo each. Which would be GREAT 'cause that's really cheap and would save us all a lot of money. But, they're both leaving Spearfish when the summer is over. I'd be left by myself. I of course, will be left by myself when Jill moves away, ANYWAY, but I'd still be in my same building complex, which I love because it's so close to the school, I just walk there.

I'll be taking classes this summer, so I don't want to have to drive to school over the summer, and I don't want to have to drive to school in the fall again next year, and I don't want to have to try to get an apartment back over here again, because I don't know how easy that would be. Also, with moving within the building complex, I don't have to borrow my dad's truck to get all my stuff to another building, I can move almost all of it by myself (or all of it by myself if I took a few things apart) and not have to use a truck. Jill said that she and BJ would help me move my stuff, of course, which I would appreciate, but we all just have cars, no trucks (unless BJ has one and I don't know about it), and that would still be a pain.

I don't know. I don't really like the idea of moving that far from the school. I suggested that Jill and I get the apartment here still, but that BJ move in over here, but she says he doesn't want to live so far away from the Ambulance Barn, which is where he works because he's now a paradmedic and apparently on-call a lot. Which I understand his point of view, as well. She said that no matter what, we'd be living together, she just thought it could be an idea. I just don't want something to happen between her and BJ (not that I'm saying it would, but it could, and that would be awkward) or something. I don't know.

I still need to talk to my landlady and figure out if they have a 2 bedroom that I can reserve for April. Might have to push it back to May and have us both move in at the same time because I'm really really really dirt poor right now, and I'm barely making enough money to get by. In fact, I don't think I am making enough money to get by, because Mom has to keep helping me out, and I hate that. *Sigh*

Hopefully things will pan out. Wish us all luck!

dream

State Motto: Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island

Currently listening: "Sunday Morning" By Maroon 5

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A co-worker of mine once told me that if you take a certain vitamin before you go to bed, you'll have really freaky dreams. Well, my dreams are weird enough without the help of drugs, so here goes.

I was at a lake with some friends, on a cliff with a balcony over the lake, pretty high above the lake. It was frozen over, and people were ice skating, ice fishing, dinking around, whatever. Just having fun because it was a beautiful warm day. After a bit, a large white SUV is driven over the ice by a woman. I keep thinking to myself, "Don't do it, the ice is too thin," but she obviously couldn't hear me say that. She puts her vehicle in park and as she doesn't even have time to get unbuckled and open the door before the SUV goes crashing through the ice.

I stare down at the lake, dumbfounded. Having never seen something like this happen before in my life, of course I stay to watch and see what's going on. Fortunately, there were a lot of people on the lake when this happened, and she was close to the shore where she parked. The vehicle immediately was submerged all the way under water, but popped up again like a bobber when you're fishing. It slowly started to fill with slushy cold water. Someone dove in after the SUV and struggled to open the door as the vehicle started sinking. He somehow managed to fling it open, and undo her seatbelt and pull her out of the water.

It was soon learned by the crowd that there were still two more people in the vehicle, but that it was already resting at the bottom of the lake, since the door had let more water pour in at an extremely fast rate. Soon, there was an ambulance truck to help the woman, and a crane to pull her SUV and the people inside out of the water. I don't know if the people were saved because my friend and I went to our car to leave.

We were parked on a little car-elevator one level up from the ground, and I wanted to beat traffic and didn't want to wait for it to lower me, so I just backed up a little and drove my car over the edge and bounced a couple of times when I landed, beating most of the traffic there.

Some other things happened, but I don't remember what they were very clearly, so it won't make sense.

forgetfulness

State Motto: Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal

Currently listening: "I'm So Ronrey" By Kim Jong Il From the 'Team America: World Police' Soundtrack

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I called my mom last night to talk to her about some stuff. Then I couldn't remember if I'd called her, so when she signed online, I asked her.

Me: Did I call you earlier today?
Mom: No, I don't think so.
Me: Are you sure?
Mom: Well, Ashley called me to tell me when she was going to be done with class...
Me: Didn't I ask you about FAFSA and summer classes and vacation?
Mom: Oh yeah!
Me: I thought I called you!
Mom: We're silly.

So that was fun. And then we discussed how sometimes we forget how to spell our last name. Whoops. She has an excuse, since she married into it, but I was born with it and have been spelling it since I was a wee tot. I have no excuse for looking at the first three letters of my last name and thinking, "That doesn't look right."

Worked out in the Garden Shop for most of the day. Effing freezing in there. Near the end of the day, Grant bought us all some thin gloves 'cause we were all complaining that our fingers were numb. I had to keep going back into the store where it was heated (what a concept) to warm up. Helped a cute lady work the Kodak Picture Maker thingie near the end of my shift, walked her through all the steps, got her some paper so she could write down the steps and do them herself, and watched her do all her pictures just in case she needed some help somewhere. At 2:30pm, when I was supposed to be off work, she still had a couple pictures to go. Aaron came over to relieve me of my duties so I could leave, but I could tell he would get impatient with her or something, so I stayed, and I was having fun talking to her. Later when I passed by Aaron on the way to clock out, I told her that she didn't know how to use the machine and I was helping her, and he rolled his eyes and said, "I hate that."

I need to go grocery shopping again. All I have left is chicken noodle soup, which I actually haven't made in quite a while, so maybe it'll be okay. For the day. But I'm thinking Subway sounds better.

i hate everything

State Motto: Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner

Currently listening: "Get Back" By Steve Wariner From 'Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles'

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Okay...not everything. But a lot of stuff. I'm actually not grouchy today...but I'm not cheery, either. Someone at work thought it would be okay to open up boxes of Hi-C juice with a BOX CUTTER. So I had quite a bit of sticky red juice all over me and the floor. That was fantastic.

I don't think anyone yelled at me today, though, "anyone" meaning customers, so that was good. I feel great today, no more stomach pains at all.

Unfortunately, I have to get up at 4am tomorrow so I can make it to work at 6am to set ad for the rest of the week. I hate setting ad. A couple weeks ago, I set up one for a 14" flatscreen TV. It was supposed to be for just a normal TV, but I accidentally put it on a 14" flatscreen of the same brand with a DVD player in it...so...we lost about $60 on that sale. Shit. I don't function well in the mornings when it's that early. Besides, getting up at 7am on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, sleeping in on Tuesday and Thursday, and then having to work at 8am on Saturday, 6am on Sunday totally messes up my sleeping schedule. I'm not used to having to go to sleep before 10pm, so I really don't sleep well Saturday nights. AND I have to miss Saturday Night Live!! *SOB*

Okay. Enough of that.

Checklist of things I must do on Monday:

• Find out FAFSA information (even though I already got my alotted monies for this year...parents just don't listen)
• Find out when my summer courses start to make sure I can go to Mississippi with my mom and sister in late May. Yikes, I hope I can. I wanna play more black jack!

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update

State Motto: Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing

Currently listening: "Let's Get Retarded" By Black Eyed Peas From 'Elephunk'

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Well, the stomach's feeling a lot better. Thanks everyone for your concern! Still hurts a little, but not nearly as much as before, so I think it's going away, whatever it is.

I don't necessarily like watching Emergency Vets on the Animal Planet because sometimes animals die, and then I get upset and cry about it, and feel poopy the rest of the day. But I do like one veterinarian on the show in particular. He's the older vet, gray hair, and talks like Tommy Chong (of Cheech and Chong). Once, he saved a baby bunny, and kept calling him "little man" and "dude." It was the cutest thing.

Also, I took my tests this morning in History and Government, and I think I did pretty well on them. I'm suprised I remembered as much as I did on the Government test, because that's stuff I haven't learned since 9th grade. Not sure how I did on the History one, however, but I guess I'll find out by Wednesday (no school on Monday!!). We did get our papers turned back to us from History, and I did the paper the day before it was due, since I procrastinate like it's my job, and I got a B!! I was pretty pleased with myself.

slowly dying

State Motto: Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan

Currently listening: "The Taste" By Five for Fighting From 'The Battle for Everything'

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Well, today I either had a short bout of the flu, stomach sickness, or maybe I have appendicitis.

It started at 10am when I woke up with sharp pains in my stomach. I was constantly getting hot flashes, then getting really cold. Then I was nauseous most of the day. It got worse around noon, and I finally called my mom and asked her what I should do. Aside from telling me to go to the school nurse, she wasn't much help. And the school nurse was closed.

Then I called the ER and told the nurse my symptoms, and she said something about apendicitis, which was a little scary because I'd seen what apendicitis did to a friend of mine a few summers ago, and it wasn't fun...and I had some of those symptoms.

Mom told me to go to WebMD and put my symptoms in. I told her that the site would just tell me I was pregnant. "Well ARE you pregnant?!" Jeez, Mom, of course not. So I checked, and sure enough, I was either pregnant, or having growing pains. Then she asked if I had our insurance information in case I was going to go to the ER, but I didn't. "I just have the car insurance information, and that won't get me too far," I told her. Then she told me to drive around for a while and get in a wreck, then go to the hospital. Good idea, Mom. Hahaha.

But I ate around 5pm, the first time I'd eaten all day, and took some ibuprofen, and I'm starting to feel a little better, but still having stomach pains and some hot flashes. I have no idea what this is, but it'd better go away soon. I have two tests tomorrow, 9am and 10am, and I need to be able to take them without rushing off to the bathroom every 5 minutes. Hope I'm not due for a trip to the ER any time soon.

'nother new template

State Motto: North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

Currently listening: "Rhinestone Cowboy" By Glen Campbell

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Okay. So I got bored again. This one was quite a bit more work, as I had to save pictures and stuffs like that and put in URLs instead of just copying and pasting html into my template.

I also had to get rid of some of the stuff on the sidebar, because it made the sidbar too wide, and kept messing up the blog body area. Rather annoying, but whatever, I doubt people looked at half that stuff, anyway.

And my tattoos are itching like crazy, I want to scratch the skin off the tops of my feet. ARG!!!!!

Bent

State Motto: North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable

Currently listening: "Bent" By Matchbox Twenty From 'Mad Season'

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If I fall along the way

pick me up and dust me off.

and if I get too tired to make it

be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love

give me more than I can stand

and when my smile gets old and faded

wait around I'll smile again

shouldn't be so complicated

just hold me and then

just hold me again

can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

get put back together

you're breaking me in

and this is how we will end

with you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep

could you paint me better off

could you sympathize with my needs

I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded

just phoning it in

just breaking the skin

start bending me

It's never enough

I feel all your pieces

start bending me

Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

shouldn't be so complicated

just touch me and then

just touch me again

Not much to write about today. Thought I'd find a song instead.

Gambling Rawks

State Motto: New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney ...

Currently listening: "Raspberry Beret" By Prince From '1999'

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So this weekend was the big weekend at Deadwood. It was a lot of fun. I ended up $15 ahead from what I brought with me, and both Ashley and her friend were about $40-60 behind haha. I just think they don't know when to stop when they're ahead. Ah well. It was fun. Black Jack is definitely the best, and the slots are worthless unless you're going to spend all day there. Ashley and her friend lost most of their money at the slot machines because they are addicted to them. I had to drag them out of the casino because I was tired of watching them lose all their money.

Before the gambling, we went to get tattoos, however. Ashley and I each got the matching ant on our right foot, and I got the Libra constellation on my left foot, she got a butterfly on the back of her neck over the bones (ouch!) and her friend got a star on her shoulder. It was a good bonding experience.

We finally got back to Spearfish and dropped me off at my apartment, and they were on their way back to Gillette. Half an hour later, I get a call from my sister, "Bridgette's car broke down, we can't get it to start, nobody's stopping for us, and we don't know what to do!" So I call my dad to let him know what's going on, pick the girls up at their car, turn around and head back to Spearfish so they can get food, have Dad meet us back at the car, and take them back to Gillette, since he couldn't figure out what was wrong with it and it was getting dark. They were saved, and everything was good.

All in all, good weekend.

Weird-ass dream

State Motto: New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets

Currently listening: "Talk Show Host" By Radiohead From the 'Romeo and Juliet' Soundtrack

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Had a really weird dream last night. I think part of it stemmed from last night at work, when I had to help Chelsey bag her register out at jewelry, and I found a Bicentennial quarter. So here's the dream:

I was at work, working behind the jewelry counter, and there was a man walking through the store, with a gun, but no one seemed to notice but me. At one point, he'd even set the gun (and another one) down on the jewelry counter, along with some things he'd picked up. Why I didn't pick up the guns is beyond me at this point. He walked around for a little while longer before coming back to me. He wanted the Bicentennial quarter I had, and instead of just trading me for another quarter, he made a transaction, and paid tax for it. I tried to give him the receipt, but he didn't want it. I'm pretty sure that he'd robbed the store, stolen something, or something along those lines.

He wanted me to come with him, escort him out of the building to his vehicle, but I was scared. On the way out the door, the man was a little ahead of me, and I ran into Sony, my manager when I work up front, and I made him come with me because I was scared. The bad guy noticed what I was doing and chased after us. I ran into a gas station and hid, and the bad guy followed me there, but once I was in there, he became interested in two other people, and one of them was Justin Timberlake, and the other was an old man. All three of them were arguing, and the bad guy shot his gun. I thought he was going to shoot the old man, but he shot Justin Timberlake instead, right in the head, and his head blew up. Then he turned and shot the old man in the head, only this time it was Matrix-style slow, and you could see everything from every angle. Even his head blowing apart. Gross.

Then I woke up.

I hate people

State Motto: New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here!

Currently listening: "Bad Day" By Blue Flannel From 'XL'

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So let's recap my day:

• Rude people in student union who can't tell I'm trying to read and won't shut up.
  
• People leaving shit on the electronics counter.
• Customers who feel the need to talk to you. I don't care.
• Chuckles.
• Not having Yellow Oxide paint to mix paint for customers.
  
• Children playing with toys that make noise. (hey, that rhymes!)
  
• People who can't read the "Hours" sign on our doors as to when we close.
• People who can't drive the speed limit.
• Or use their turn signals
• Finding out I have to work at 8am next Saturday (4th weekend in a row)
  
• Finding out I have to work at 6am next Sunday (4th weekend in a row)
  

Ugh. I need this weekend.

quick post

State Motto: New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone

Currently listening: "Big Ten Inch Record" By Aerosmith From Toys in the Attic

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Just a quick post before I scurry off to work. My friend Peat found this incredibly awesome site The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager. This site kept Peat entertained for almost 6 hours, and me for three, but that's only because I was only up for three hours after I got off work.

You can type in almost anyone's name, and see when it was popular, see if it's declining in popularity or becoming more popular. You can look at old-fashioned names and see when they were popular, like names that start with H or something...just start typing, and the page changes for every letter you put in. You can see fashion trends becoming names, like Dulce, or cartoon characters...people didn't start naming their kids Jasmine until Aladdin came out.

It's just about the most entertaining site I have been to, and there's no lack of names to choose from. I know it's about the nerdiest thing on earth, but apparently Peat and I are easily entertained...maybe some of my readers are, too, since they read my blog.

And on a completely different note, Ashlee Simpson is having a fit about her mom hating her haircut, because cutting your hair is a way of finding yourself. *eye roll*

Weekend plans

State Motto: Nevada: Hookers and Poker!

Currently listening: "Canned Head" By Jamiroquai From 'Synkronized'

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This weekend is tattoo, gamble, and drink weekend with my sister. I'm getting ready to call the tattoo parlor in Rapid City to set up a reservation for Saturday morning. Hopefully this can be done, otherwise Ashley's going to have to get her butt to Spearfish by 9am, and we're going to have to make it to Rapid by 10am in order to have this work out. It sucks that it's gonna be cold outside because I'm probably going to have to wear sandals lol. It is warming up today, so maybe we'll be in luck!

I have got to do laundry today! I have to be to work in three hours, and I don't think I have anything to wear. Shit. Guess that's my cue!

Happy 21!

State Motto: Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Currently listening: "Battleship Chains" By Georgia Satellites From the Georgia Satellites

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Well, today marks the 21st year of my sister's life, and Ash Wednesday. Happy Birthday, Ashley!!!

And I've got a new blog template...again. It's hell trying to find them for free around here!! But I think I'll stick with this one for a while. It seems that whenever I try to edit anything on the sidebar, the entire blog ends up underneath the sidebar! It'll take me a while to get it figured out, but I'll have all my sidebar shit up eventually. I'm just tired of messing with it right now.

For those of you using Internet Explorer, STOP! It's not gonna work well with this site, and Explorer is infamous for popups and shit. So, I highly suggest you switch to Mozilla Firefox as your new web browser. It allows for tabbed browsing, so you only have one window up, but tabs inside that window. Those of you who use Firefox will know what I'm talking about, and those who don't should REALLY download it. It has a built in pop-up blocker, and it just awesome. Download it now!

procrastinating

State Motto: Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, And Very Little Else

Currently listening: "Undone (The Sweater Song" By Weezer From 'Weezer'

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Today was the grand opening of Quiznos in Spearfish, so of course I had to go. How can you resist mmm mmm toasty subs?! Stood in line for probably 45 minutes, there was lots of confusion and people's sandwiches got all mixed up. It was great. But he didn't put enough onions on my sub. Rawr.

Well, I woke up this morning and crawled out of bed around 9:30 and started right to work on my History paper that is due tomorrow morning at 9. Worked on it for a couple of hours, reading the book as I wrote, even though I was supposed to have the book read already. Whoops. So it's probably not going to flow very well, but I don't care.

Then I showered and went to Quiznos and wasted about an hour and a half of my time, and I didn't even eat my sub there, I got it to go. Talk about crazy. I won't be going back there any time soon unless I have the day off and nothing better to do. It's a really small store, too, which is sad, because it's not like they used an old building and put it in there, they built a whole building for it! Oh well.

Then I came back here, ate my sandwich and watched Comedy Central for a while, but turned it off and started working on my homework again. And then I decided I would rather do dishes. Dishes that had been sitting in a tub (not THE tub, as in bathtub...but a little tub for dishes, as I have no kitchen sink), dirty for over a month (I am a disgusting slob, I admit it. But you can do that when you live by yourself and don't have a lot of company over).

So I got those almost all done. And my paper's almost all done. And now I'm blogging and listening to music and trying to find someone to talk to online because MSN isn't working and no one's on Yapoo! or AIM.

*Sigh*

ugh

State Motto: Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work

Currently listening: "Mamma Mia" By A*Teens From The ABBA Generation

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I just found out all the shit I have to do in order to get my application into the college of education.

• Make a portfolio that includes:
• Cover sheet with graphics
• Autobiography
• MANY papers that were done in classes that I didn't take here, but in Gillette, and we didn't do those papers in Gillette
• Many "Self-selected" pieces
• 20 rationales
• for 20 pieces
• 20 signatures for those 20 pieces

And OMG does this suck. So far I've got the front page halfway done. I bought some scrapbooking papers and made a pretty cover, but now I need my name and all this other crap on it that I have to print up now. And I've written my autobiography, which can only be 1 page long, MAYBE a little longer if necessary.

Because I'm a transfer student, I will have a lot more self-selected pieces than most people, but also, I don't know where all this stuff is from my last couple years when I was in Gillette. I have a lot of it, but I'm not sure if I have all of it.

I also found out I might have to take an extra elective, plus 3 classes over the summer. Otherwise I'm going to be behind a semester and have to sit around here for a semester and wait it out. That would SUUUUUUUCK so bad!

OYE!

We also got quite a bit of snow, and I still haven't started my History paper on the colonists and why they fought so much. I have got to do that tomorrow. I don't work until 4pm tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be able to get it done. I might have to go to the library and shut the world out for a while in order to get it done. There are too many distractions around here. Distractions that I can't/won't shut out. I need more will power. And I need to pay a $30 parking ticket. Grrr.

free ipod shuffle

State Motto: Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State

	Currently listening: "Warmer Than Fire" By Ash From Intergalactic Sonic 7s

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This referral link for a free iPod Shuffle has been going around on MySpace for a while, and I just want to see if it works. You can also try to get one, too :) All you have to do is click on this referral link, sign up, and get 3-4 people to click on your own referral link, and supposedly you get one in the mail.

It can't hurt, right?

Here's my link, if you would be so kind.
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I'll return the favor if you do sign up.

apparently i look...

Currently listening: "Can't Get High" By Widespread Panic From 'Uber Cobra'

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So I went back home yesterday for the day because I thought I was going to get some of my financial information figured out to see if I could afford to live in the 2 bedroom apartment for a while before Jill moved in. Well, that never got accomplished, but I did manage to buy more checks and a movie and go shopping with my sister for shoes (kill me now). "Do these look cute? What about these? Oh, I like these, what do you think?" And they're all brown chunky shoes that should have gone out of style 5 years ago.

My sister and I then took another trip into town for whatever reason, and ended up at Wal*Mart, looking for movies. I found Bubba Ho-tep, this "Hilarious hybrid of horror" movie that I'd heard a little bit about, but it had Elvis, a black JFK, and a mummy, so it had to be good.

My sister works at Wal*Mart and obviously knows everybody and their dog who is in the store. While at the checkout line, I swipe my debit card as she rings up my movie. The cashier asks for my ID, and I pull it out, not really knowing or caring why she needed it. Probably because I hadn't shopped there for a while, I figure. Well, that only works with checks, not debit cards. My sister asks "Why are you IDing her??" like it's the weirdest thing ever to ID her older sister, and the cashier says, "Because I can't tell if she's 17 years old or not."

PSH! "I am 22 years old, thankyouverymuch," I say. Apparently I look like a senior. In HIGH SCHOOL. And then the cashier goes on to say that my sister and I look like we could be twins, and the guy standing in line behind us agrees, and says that we could be identical twins. What are they smoking?

Me in red, Ashley in green. NOT identical in any way. Hrmph!

new things happening

State Motto: Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes

Currently listening: "Cecelia" By Simon and Garfunkel From 'The Best of Simon and Garfunkel'

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Okay, now I have something to talk about! I just found out about an hour ago that a 2 bedroom apartment in the building I'm living in is only $350 per month, and right now, I'm paying $230 per month. That's only an extra $120 per month, and if I have a roommate, it's only $175 per month, which is $55 cheaper than what I'm paying right now.

Jill, my roommate from last year when I lived in the dorms, was going to live in a house over the summer with one of her friends, who was going to charge over $100 more per month than what she'd pay if she lived with me. So we'd both be saving money.

I was going to see if I had enough money to move in like...tomorrow or Thursday, and just go on my own for three months until school got out and Jill could move in with me. I had over $1,000 tucked away in my savings account the last time I checked, but then when I called Mom at work to tell her about the idea, but then I realized that I'd paid almost $600 in books and tuition and that sucked most of my money away, plus other small things.

Plus, I don't know what I'm actually paying for when it comes to rent, groceries, and whatnot. I don't know if Mom or Dad are transferring money into my account, and how much of the money that I'm spending is actually mine. Anywho. I'm going to go home on Thursday, most likely, and get my spending figured out, to see what I'll be able to afford.

I'm going to try to move into a 2 bedroom by April, that way I'll be in there for a month, and I'll be able to figure out where everything of mine is going to go, I'll get all settled in, and then in May when school is over, Jill can move in, and I can help her with that, and that way we won't both be trying to move our shit in at the same time ('cause Lord knows we both have a lot of crap).

So. I'll let y'all know how this goes. Wish me luck!

And God created February, in case eternity wasn't long enough

State Motto: Michigan: First Line Of Defense - From The Canadians

Currently listening: "Give It All to You" By Jalan Crossland From 'Poorboy Shanty'

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Well, here it is. February. The shortest, yet most terrible month of all months.

Today is a day off day...no school, no work, do a little bit of homework, some laundry, watch some America's Funniest Home Videos. I don't care how stupid they are, it's hilarious. Also did some grocery shopping and tried to buy things that were more healthy, even though I did end up buying a lot of chips and snacks. But I figure the peas and pickles will make up for it. (Not eaten together, of course.)

Tonight is American Idol night! And tomorrow is a new episode of Lost. And I don't have to work! Oh, and Scrubs is on tonight, too! I haven't got to watch it in SOOOOO long. How sad. Pity me, please.

I really don't have anything interesting to say. Sorry. I'm just glad that I got to sleep in 'til 9am today!