myspace is a stalker.

one thing i like about google is if you google me, you don't actually get much besides my blog.  which, if you don't know it's my blog, is completely useless.  however, on myspace, you can find me.  and people are.  mostly they are people that i would want to find me like long lost friends and relatives that i never get to see.  on the flip side it means people like jason (remember him from freshman year?  yeah...) can find me too.  i made the mistake recently of having a conversation with him on aim, and now he WILL NOT LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!  he keeps sending me ims, and since i don't have him on my list (nor have i blocked him, stupidly) i just close them without reading what he is saying to me.  then he tried to add me as a friend.  DENIED!  also, while just searching around today i ran across someone else from my past whose last name i had even forgotten until a few minutes ago.  all that progress getting these people out of my life, reversed!  hooray for painful memories of jackasses! 

other things:
a week ago when i was with laura i made fun of some lady for exchanging plain cottage cheese for the kind with pineapple.  yesterday, i exchanged cheese at target.  i'm sorry, i'm a hypocrite old lady even more than ever!  at least it wasn't because of me not paying attention, this cheese was completely inedible. 

one of my housemates i have seen like twice the entire time i have lived here, until i got back.  now i've seen him like five times and he's spoken to me as well.  i know he's around, because he lives above me and i can hear him play music and stuff, but he's even more hermitish than i am or something.

today starts me working at target as a team member in photo!  i am closing, all by myself, and it will totally rock because i LOVE photo.  and i get to leave before everyone!  except tonight, i told jan i would stay until ten to do reshop because closing has been bad lately.  but i am leaving at ten, on the dot, no exceptions.  that was one of the main reasons i wanted to work photo in the first place, not having to stay until midnight.  (which we did on saturday, and i went in at one.  that's eleven hours.  i should totally be getting some extra compensation for it, but you know i won't.)

it's a record year for king's cake, i will be making a total of six, having already made four and finally making my two for my friends and housemates herer on wednesday.  i know, that's into lent, but i hardly think that anyone i know in iowa city will actually be observing lent, so we should be okay.

guess who is scheduled at the photo lab next week?  ooh, yeah!  it's me!  except i guess i will still have to be guest service on wednesdays.  blech.

new york photos are in the album!

almost home

times i almost cried today:

• when i checked my credit card account online.  it's scary.



• on the bus to laguardia.  i can't say that i really wanted to leave.



• in the terminal.  same reason.



• on the plane.  see above.



• in o'hare.  i KNEW i left my keys in laura's apartment.

but now i am in olin, staying the night with my sister.  laura will overnight me my keys, and someday i will actually be back in iowa city in my house.  i really hope that my plants don't die first, because they haven't been watered in a week.  and for that, i really would cry.  i've done it before.

i have an extra hour to kill because i misremembered my flight time, and it's driving me nuts. i can't stand it, i don't want to leave.

i miss laura already, and i haven't even left manhatten yet.

i'm sure i will post when i get back, because i am not scheduled until saturday. i will try to get more hours, but i will be morose and pouty. i do not want to go back to my job. i want to stay here with my best friend!

some people have no talent!

right now i am in laura's apartment and there is a lady in the building who is singing. rather, she is doing various scales and has been doing them for at least the past two hours. she really needs to either take lessons or just quit, because she is not any good. LADY! STOP DOING SCALES ALREADY!

yeesh! last night i saw my first episode ever of grey's anatomy, but despite what laura thinks i will not become addicted to that show. especially while bleak house is still on. this was after we went down to chinatown yesterday and walked through there, little italy, soho, and who knows where else up bowery to union square. then we went to h&m to go shopping before we went to watch tv and eat pizza.

so far today we have done very little other than shower and sit around in bathrobes (it's a bathrobe party! whee!) but later we are meeting up with the brewery boys. i am so excited! i do not know what to wear, either. i am so popular!

still thinking about making an album, but meh, it can wait until i get back to iowa!

exclamation points! galore!

new york! it's fun! i went out last night with laura, and her friends rachel and lindsey to the brooklyn brewery! we hung out with math guys! i gave one my email address! (actually, rachel went back and gave it to him after we left and she said that the collective group lit up. it was pretty hilarious. but it was fun!)

i took a million pictures so far! they will be in an album after i get back since i have two days to edit them and stuff! hooray!

now we are making a kings cake! and we ate red beans and rice! and i went to the met! that is all for now!

happy 22nd birthday
stephanie!

who let all the crazies out?

probably because of all the painkillers i took this morning, or because of the millions of people who came into the store today, i have no idea what happened at work other than IT WAS MASS INSANITY!

MASS INSANITY!

(i only just got back, and i was only freed because i hit 40 hours for the week.  that's how bad the store is right now.)

hello out there!

i have no idea if anyone is even reading my blog anymore, but i will write stuff in it anyway just in case.

my dad helped me do my taxes and i am getting huge refund back.  there are some advantages to being poor, i guess.  he also took me to lunch and bought a book for me that i will read on the airplane, if i can hold out that long.

i get to see laura in a week!

owen is probably leaving photo lab.  which is sad, because he is awesome, but good, because then they will HAVE to schedule me over there.  there just aren't enough people to give them a choice.

i think i pulled a muscle in my shoulder because it really hurts.

if anyone wants a camera, i've still got one to sell.  i'm going to go ahead and buy the one i want and hope i can sell this one. 

feeling slightly ill

however it's my own fault for drinking something like a bottle of wine and sharing four plates of nachos last night.  but it was girls night at bloom county, and it was a lot of fun.  we watched the corpse bride, drank some wine, and then chia-chi, melody and i went to the foxhead for awhile.  came back, stayed up until at least three drinking more wine and eating more nachos while listening to fanny pack.  good times, and makes me glad that i decided to live here.

i am trying to sell the kodak camera (it's an easy share C340, if you want to look up specs and reviews).  i don't think target is getting anything in, or at least, it doesn't appear so and so i'm thinking about best buy.  but i need some money back on this one.  and i would prefer not to sell it on ebay if i can help it, so if you know anyone in the market for a camera!  i am leaving in a week and a half for new york and I NEED A CAMERA!