Cartilage Scare

Last night i took my cartilage piercing out of my ear because it was bothering me while i was trying to sleep. I had full intentions of putting it back in when i awoke but natch, with having a short time to get ready and rushing, i forgot. i didn't realize until i was half way through the bus ride this morning. i immediately texted hannah when i realized this to see if she thought if it would be closed or not. about an hour or so later she responded saying that it will most likely be closed. so i quickly searched my bag to see if i had any earrings. none. i asked my other summer help co-worker to see if she was wearing any post earrings or had any. none. she then said to ask my sister. doi, why didn't i think of that. i felt like an idiot because i forgot that my sister worked here and a girl that i met 2 days ago could remember that. anyways, i texted her. no response. so i checked my email. and she had emailed me about something else so i then asked her if she had any. i told her to respond ASAP by either texting, email, or calling me on the phone that is at my desk. maybe 15 minutes later she called me and said that she was wearing post earrings! success. so i went up to her floor and got the earring and came back, after seeing her desk and meeting people of course. i went to the bathroom and disinfected the earring and tried. it went through! hallelujah! i'm so glad that it did not close because i really really like my cartilage piercing. thank goodness my sister was wearing post earrings. i was fully prepared to stick a broken off piece of a paper clip in my ear just to make sure that it would not close. i already had it broken off. i would have disinfected it, of course. i'm glad i didn't have to do that though because that would not have looked very good and would have been hard to keep in since it would have just been a stick and nothing to keep it from falling out.

Now back to "work."

peace.

Chacos Firsts-Continued

My chacos, named Ayden (yes, i named them), on their first bus ride! (technically second-i forgot to take a picture yesterday)

peace.

Chacos Firsts

Going to school down south introduced me to many new things. For example, shoes! Chacos are big down south. pretty much every other person on campus wears them so natch i fell in love with them and i have wanted a pair ever since august. i finally broke down and bought myself a pair because i had just gotten paid for pep band so i figured what else should i spend the money on than a really cool looking pair of shoes and have had a desire to buy. so the night i got back, literally it was like 11pm and i investigated and ordered my shoes. with the opinions of my friends, of course, about what color. never suspecting that chacos ran big in size, i ordered a size 7. so i now had to wait. 3 business days later there was a package on my doorstep! i was so excited. i put them on immediately only to my disappointment that they were too big! :( so i had to repackage them and send them away with UPS to be returned. I was going to wait to re-order for when they got back and i got the money back into my account but then i thought to myself, i have more than enough money in my account to buy another pair before they get returned so i got onto the website and ordered another pair in a smaller size, 6. having tried on melissa's chacos and going to ll bean to try on that size, i knew this size would work. so now i would have to wait again. a few days passed and i arrived home eagerly that day to a package on the doorstep! i was excited again and put them on immediately. they fit!! yayy! since then, i try to wear them as much as possible. i love them. i am obsessed. ;)

AND...

since i am obsessed, i am taking pictures of all the firsts that they happen to do. kind of like a parent would do with a baby but im doing it with shoes...weird i know. like i said, im obsessed and have no life.

My chacos first day at work!

My chacos first babysitting job!
( i know, the kid doesn't look happy but thats because he wanted to play with my phone but i was trying to take a picture so he couldn't...at the moment)

More to come!!

peace.

Fender Bender Number Two

yesterday on the way home from work, the second fender bender in my driving career happened to me. AND this time it was not my fault. :)

the first fender bender that ocurred in my driving career happened, i believe my junior year(?), i was late for a band rehearsal so i was rushing and didn't have the chance to put everything into my bag before i left the house. as i was pulling up to a stop sign, i was looking down and placing things into my bag and before i knew it, i came up on the car in front of me rather quickly. thankfully, since i was coming up on a stop sign i was barely going 5 miles so it was just like a love tap.

the second fender bender, my father and i were on our way home from work, later than usual because i had books to mail out so there was more traffic, we were on the road and this particular stoplight gets backed up easily when it is rush hour and since it was later than usual it was backed up more than normal. i was climbing up the slight incline of the hill when the car in front of me placed their breaks on quickly. i then got yelled at by my father to hit the breaks which i was already in the process of doing (thanks for the advice dad-i know how to drive). So i had to quickly put my breaks on and the car behind us had a short distance but ample space to stop but didn't. so he rear-ended us. cool. so we got out exchanged information and all that. barely any damage to either cars. good thing they both were small cars, theres no telling how much damage would have occurred if the car that hit us was a SUV. i don't think we would even have a car left and probably would have ended up in the ER with minor concussions or something. Praise the Lord for that.

hmm...back to work to read! almost done with book two on my list to read this summer!
peace.

i LOVE sleep AND food.

last night, i got a solid ten hours of sleep. it was glorious. i know thats what the weekend is for, to catch up on my sleep, but really, i had church on sunday and i awoke early on saturday because of a sneezing fit. so i didn't get to catch up on any sleep. anyways, at 8pm i had nothing to do and i hadn't turned my computer on yet (and i didn't feel like it) so i got in bed prepared to watch some scrubs for awhile. i also had a headache and a minor upset stomach so if i fell asleep then that was ok with me. i had taken advil so i really was good to go. but scrubs ended up freezing and i was already in bed nice and warm under the covers so i just turned it off and my light and i was out cold. i was thinking i may wake up later but that didn't happen. i slept until my alarm went off at 5:45am! awesome. i LOVE sleep.

if you're an avid reader, you know that today was i-convinced-my-dad-to-eat-out-once-a-week-day. we went to primanti brother's(infamous in pittsburgh). the food there is so gooooood. i got my usual, cheese steak(with no cole slaw and tomatoes, of course). for those of you who don't know what primanti's is and what a sandwich contains, i shall tell you or you can follow this and explore yourself. for those of you who are lazy i shall explain. a typical primanti sandwich comes on fresh italian bread, with your choice of meat, cole slaw, tomatoe, and french fries. perfection (if you like all that whereas i don't so i order no cole slaw and tomatoe so then it is perfection!) the sandwich tasted really good, which it usually does. thank goodness i'm a daddy's girl. i LOVE food.

peace.

Week Two

It's the beginning of week two and i finished all the work that is available to me to do before my lunch break so since i got back at 12:30 i have done nothing. naturally, i have surfed the web(well, all the sites that aren't blocked). i've looked at every store i can think of and their sale items. i found a really cute dress that american eagle has on sale and express is having their annual box sale. man, do i love that box sale. i usually always find some good shirts and occasionally pants that i like. i immediatley texted my mother that they were having a box sale in hopes that she can take a hint and offers to take me there! she probably won't offer because i am a working girl now. psh, whatever. although, i am making bank, as some might say. i got my first timecard approved(!) and my supervisor printed the approval page out for me, i looked at the total and it was more than i thought it was supposed to be. so i quickly pulled out my handy dandy cell phone(which is attached to my hip, especially at work-so text me!) and divided the total by the hours only to see that i am getting paid $12.10(odd number) per hour instead of $10.00! righteous! i'm making even more money than expected. maybe i don't need the second job that i am interviewing for tonight anymore. eh, i'm still going to interview so who knows. i'm interviewing at forever 21 in ross park. i probably won't get the job anyways because i can only work evening hours now starting at 6(earliest 5:30, if i have to) and weekends. and i would rather not work sundays but i can if it will have them take me. i hate interviewing for a job. i get so freaking nervous and i think that my answers suck. i think if i would have interviewed for the job i currently have, they probably wouldn't have hired me. thank goodness my dad is a good worker and they hired me based on him. thank you father! gah, interviews suck. i'm not looking forward to the many many many interviews i know i will probably have to do when i am out in the "real world" looking for a job. i can't believe that the "real world" is only 3 years away. working in this office has really made me think if i want to do a business major. but if i don't do business, i don't know what i would do. i have been thinking about minoring in missions(if thats possible) but i don't know where i could go with that. i don't even know if i could fit a minor into my schedule, if i want to graduate on time. blah, why is the future so sketchhhh. i don't like it. i like lists and having everything in order and not knowing what the future holds is killlllling me. seriously, why can't somebody just tell me what i am going to be doing for the rest of my life. everything would be grand if they did and a weight lifted off my shoulders, for sure.

well here i go back to work, rather i'm going to be reading my book now. ha, love it.
peace.

p.s.-my room is clean now. no longer under construction! yay for having the weekend to actually work on it and make it so i can find my way easier, especially in the wee hours of the morning when i have to wake up.