hunter_ryu

Hello LJ Flist,
Sorry I haven't been posting. It started with my motherboard dying and no computer for a couple weeks. Then I just got lazy and didn't feel like typing stuff. I've also stopped posting my schedule because I don't think anyone cared so there's no reason to put it on display. I've been writing more and more in my paper journal because most of the stuff going on right now is either wahhhhhhh or romance with new boy Rick. It's nobody else's business so I see no reason to post my whining or my kissing on the internet. I am not an LJ whore! But I AM lazy and don't feel the need to repeat myself several places when I've already recorded what I wanted to say. I do still read my flist and catch up on all your posts. I just haven't been inspired to post my own. Such a slacker! So know I am safe, and happier than I thought possible. It's like the worse my mood the more I have to say but when I can't remember what miserable feels like I don't feel like sharing.

I should check my comcast email more often. I completely missed the fact my webhost provider was bought by a different company and now no longer exists. Emax Hosting now belongs to Jumpline. This may or may not be a problem. They sent me the email about it on October 1st that I didn't see until just now and I got a bill for it today and was incredibly confused.

October 18th to the 24th

Sunday 10/18 12-7 (close, HATE THIS SHIIIIFT!)
Monday 10/19 5-10 (close)
Tuesday 10/20 OFF
Wednesday 10/21 5-10 (close)
Thursday 10/22 5-10 (close)
Friday 10/23 OFF
Saturday 10/24 OFF, doll meet 12-4

Schedule for October 11th to the 17th

Sunday 10/11 11-7 close
Monday 10/12 4-10 close
Tuesday 10/13 off, doctor 11am
Wednesday 10/14 off, doctor 11:15am
Thursday 10/15 1-7pm
Friday 10/16 off
Saturday 10/17 4-10 close, party 1-3pm

Two different doctors and a birthday party for a doll friend. 2nd doctor was originally 1:30 on Thursday but OBVIOUSLY that was a problem so it was switched to Wednesday morning. And that's that. Can we fit in Keith time? Only Mr. Owl knows, and the answer is illogically 3.

Ooops, I just realized I don't think I posted next week's schedule. I'll get on that later since now I need to get ready for work. Let's just say this Sunday's shift is EXTRA SUCKY because it's an hour longer. Also I had to reschedule a doctor's appointment because one day randomly I'm NOT closing for a change and therefore a 1:30appt was undo-able.

Also, been feeling like crap for two weeks but it was mostly due to stress over bloodtests that are now over and after 3 full nights' sleep I feel much MUCH better! And it's NOT MONO! Hooray!

Went to the lady doctor today, and to save any TMI I will only say that SHE WANTS BLOODWORK DONE! I just had blood drawn YESTERDAY for my GP to test some things, and a day later I find out another doctor wants another bloodtest. Why did I have to gather courage and get it over with when if I had waited ONE DAY I could have saved myself a second needle? FML to the max. I hate needles soooooooo much, I am truly terrified. Now I have to go back and get more tubes of blood drawn! AUUUUUUUUGH!

Thursday morning is the new blood day, as it must be fasting and HAS TO BE DONE AT 8AM for some hormonal reason. I also have a podiatrist appointment that day. I swear if my plantars wart is bad enough to need surgery or something severe I will just explode from all this doctor crap overload. EXPLODE!

To reward myself for all this trauma, tomorrow I am going to Ross and buying myself a new shirt or dress that makes me feel pretty. No pants though. I will NOT buy pants until I drop a size. I refuse to buy anymore size 11s, only size 9 from now on. It's a promise I will not break, even though I have a bad habit of breaking the promises I make to myself lately... Whoops?

And maybe I'll go to Target and buy some new pajama pants, too. You can never have too many pajama pants. Even if I already have enough to almost last 3 weeks with no duplicates and a new pair each night, it's still not too many. Nope. Man, I love pajama pants... Payday isn't until Friday so I'll have to be extra thrifty about my purchases, though.

I have about a hundred subject lines for this one, but they're just too damn easy......

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging, violent river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed: "God, please give me the strength to cross the river." Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about 2 hours, having almost drowned twice.

After witnessing that, the second man prayed: "God, please give me strength and the tools to cross the river." Poof! God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row across in about an hour after almost capsizing once.

Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed: "God, please give me the strength, the tools and the intelligence to cross the river." Poof! He was turned into a woman. She checked the map, hiked one hundred yards upstream and walked across the bridge.

Moral: If at first you don't succeed, do it the way your wife told you!


See? Too easy.
But here is the Burning Question: they were just out hiking, right? So why did they have to get across the river? Why not just walk back to the car?
Men.

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Everything above was just copy/pasted from her email.

Without going into details let's just say I've felt like crap the past few days, starting with the end of KeithTime(tm) on Thursday. I even called out of work last night and ditched the meetup after an hour because I just felt so drained and pained. I've got 3 days off this week in a row that I'm actually not looking forward to because I could use those 5 hours back thnx.

ANYWAY!
Schedule for next week
Sunday 10/4 12-7 (close, suckage)
Monday 10/5 5-10 (close)
Tuesday 10/6 OFF
Wednesday 10/7 OFF
Thursday 10/8 5-10 (close)
Friday 10/9 OFF
Saturday 10/10 5-10 (close)

A whopping 22 hours, minus a half-hour break on Sunday. And I can pretty much guarantee my days off will not line up with Keith's days off and I will be a sad panda indeed. SAD PANDA!

Tomorrow I am no longer closing (I hope) but I am opening. The opener for the morning called out and bosslady was unable to get anyone to come in on such short notice. So I switched to the open shift (will be crashing ASAP so I can wake up in time). I dunno who will be taking my closing shift, though. Hopefully I don't get stuck with just the 3 extra hours tacked on the front and have to cover the whole day. Maybe now I'll have the afternoon free to... do... see... accomplish... well nothing but at least work should be over sooner!

Also, Friday I have off from work but have been drafted to play taxi for Candy. She had shoulder surgery last Wednesday and isn't allowed to drive and I offered to take her places she needed as long as it doesn't interfere with work. I've got the day off and nothing better to do so Friday is doctor taxi day! This should be a week full of doctors because I am determined to finally see a general practitioner and lady doctor since I haven't even had a regular checkup in at least a year. I have 3 days off and it's about damn time I cared about my health and wellbeing. (Monday I also have to take G-mom to the chiropractor in the morning, just call me DOCTOR TAXI!)

I AM SO TIRED OF THESE 12-7 SUNDAY CLOSING SHIFTS I REALLY AM, THEY'RE KILLING ME! I hate weekend customers. And I hate 7 hour weekend closing shifts. HATE HATE HATE.

Sunday 9/27 12-7 (close)
Monday 9/28 5-10 (close)
Tuesday 9/29 OFF
Wednesday 9/30 OFF (4-10 was crossed off)
Thursday 10/1 OFF
Friday 10/2 5-10 (close)
Saturday 10/3 5-10 (close)

I am getting so tired of these closing Saturday and 7-hour closing Sunday shifts. SO TIRED! My entire weekend is wasted. And also next week I close after the DOLL MEETUP! My request off slip was "lost" again and so she "never got it" and I didn't get my day. I maybe request off one day a month and this is twice they were not given to me. FML!

Sunday 9/20 12-7 (close)
Monday 9/21 5-10 (close)
Tuesday 9/22 OFF
Wednesday 9/23 4-10 (close)
Thursday 9/24 OFF
Friday 9/25 OFF
Saturday 9/26 5-10 (close)

Doll meet is Saturday 12-4, normally we stay until the kick us out at 5. This time I can't bring more than one or two dolls and I'll have to lug them with me to work afterwards. I'll also have to bring my work uniform to change into. So pissed off.

My sister was watching 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?' that she had downloaded, and I was in her room waiting for it to get over so we could watch Supernatural. These are real things I said while it was playing in response to the show I saw out of the corner of my eye.

Stolen from her AIM away message.

my sister fails at life
seestah: "is that a vagina on his shoulder?!"

me: "the vagina spread to his hand!"
seestah: "well maybe he should stop touching himself."

tv: "what's the dark dragon?"
seestah: "its within you. stop touching yourself!"

seestah = me because I just copy/pasted her message.

I think my mind is in the gutter and I'm also slightly delirious or something. Rereading it makes me laugh as much as I did when I said it. I have issues.

Yesterday, I had a flat tire on the interstate, so I eased my car over to the shoulder of the road, carefully got out of the car and opened the trunk. I took out 2 cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so life like you wouldn't believe it! They are in trench coats exposing their nude bodies to the approaching drivers. To my surprise, cars start slowing down looking at my lifelike men, which made it safer for me to work at the side of the road.

And of course, traffic starts backing up. Everybody is tooting their horns and waving like crazy.

It wasn't long before a state trooper pulls up behind me. He gets out of his car and starts walking towards me. I could tell he was not a happy camper!

What's going on here?

"My car has a flat tire", I said calmly.

"Well, what are those obscene cardboard men doing here by the road?"

I couldn't believe that he didn't know.

So I told him, "Helloooooo, those are my Emergency Flashers."

A brief history and then a why I hate the Post Office. I'm part of a website called bookcrossing that is about tracking books. The main focus is to label the books and release them "in the wild" for anyone to find and read and track where it goes after it leaves your hands. Provided of course people take the time to log them. I have registered almost 2,000 books on that site, many in my To Be Read Pile, many already released, and many I box up and send to "Zones" around the USA to be stocked and released in other locations.

In the past two weeks I have had TWO boxes of books lost/mangled in the postal system. Two FULL boxes PACKED with books that are now lost in the postal system somewhere never to reach their destination.

One box reached it's ending completely empty, and another I received the mailing label back with a note from the Post Office that the box it was attached to is no loner attached and location unknown.

That's like $15 I blew out of my ass in postage to mail this stuff that will never arrive. The PO will destroy its mysterious contents so these books are completely lost forever. I've destroyed literature.

I'm so angry I could punch the next mailman I see.

I have only had one or two items lost in the mail before, doll clothes I easity replaced. This is ridiculous. Two boxes full of books in a short time completely gone. I'm shaking with anger, frustration, and remorse.

So I've filled up my paper journal in a little less than 3 months and started on a new one last night. Wrote about 12... no 20 something pages (12 sheets front+back) into the new journal last night while I fought off insomnia until 4am. So it's already 1/5th of the way through after only one night. I dunno if that's something to be proud of or not.

New Schedule up!
week of September 13 - 19th
Sunday 12-7 (close)
Monday 5-10 (close)
Tuesday OFF
Wednesday OFF
Thursday 2-7
Friday OFF
Saturday 5-10 (close)

I guess she cut my hours down a day because I whined about no Keith time, but days off MID WEEK DO NOT HELP! Need weekends. Need the weekendssssssss! But unfortunately that's when she needs the most staff so I'm screwed.

This past weekend has sucked at work. Saturday and Sunday I had problem customers each day, like real problems that stressed me out not simple crankiness. Yesterday I bent a fingernail backwards about 45 minutes into a 7 hours shift so my hand was partially unusable due to pain all night. Fun times. Please let tonight go smoothly. F the labor day weekend sale, F it for realsies!

Last night while I lay.. lain?.. WAS in bed trying to sleep I was thinking up a good journal entry to post here. I was planning it out and it sounded awesome. Now I can't even remember what the topic was. Memory fail. And were did the warm weather go? I'm sorry I complained about being hot, I want to keep wearing my sundresses please.

Sometimes my journal makes me feel better. Sometimes my journal makes me feel worse. And sometimes my journal makes me feel like a total creeper to go back and read what I wrote.

This is in reference to my book journal, not LJ some things the internet doesn't want to see.

September 6th through the 12th 2009

Sunday 12-7 (close)
Monday 5-10 (close)
Tuesday 5-10 (close)
Wednesday OFF
Thursday 8-2 (open)
Friday OFF
Saturday 5-10 (close)

THANKFULLY this open shift is standalone and not after a close. I'd die. Not literally but it would be awful.

This week into next, they have to go together to show the wonders that are closing Saturday and opening Sunday. Yays. (that was sarcasm)

Sunday August 23rd - 12-7 (close)
Monday 24th - off
Tuesday 25th - off
Wednesday 26th - 4-10 (close)
Thursday 27th - 5-10 (close)
Friday 28th - 4-10 (close)
Saturday 29th - 4-10 (close)

Sunday 30th - 9-2 (open)
Monday 31st - 4-10 (close)
Tuesday September 1st - 4-10 (close)
Wednesday 2nd - off
Thursday 3rd - off
Friday 4th - 4-10 (close)
Saturday 5th - 4-10 (close)

I'm really glad to be getting hours now, truly I am grateful. But it's filling up my weekend and leaving me no Keith time. Either I have no hours at work and no money or I have no Keith. Fail at scheduling. Epic Fail.

I'm not selling my dolls or quitting or changing anything from how it is now. I've just sat and pondered and realized I'm falling out of the fad. I enjoy my collection but they mostly just sit in the closet safe from sunlight. I enjoy the monthly meetups but hardly play with them other than that. I'm pretty much entirely inactive from the online dolling community. I barely even sew stuff to sell anymore. I've just fallen out of the excitement. It breaks my heart to think about selling any of them so I'm definitely not quitting. I just realized it's not my major driving force anymore. And this is even before I started dating again so it's not boys > dolls. Although Keith and I are up to 6 successful dates <3!! Maybe a break is just what I need and by this time next year I'll be hyped all up on the BJDs again.