In other news, we're moved into the house now. We have amazing bamboo hardwood in the main rooms and it looks fantastic and the paint looks super great. Thanks Dutch Boy for your corresponding color palettes. I love you. I'll take pics eventually, but right now we need a bit more for the living room. It's a huge room and we have pretty much nothing in it so hopefully that'll change soon. It's just super nice to have a house that's all ours.
I got to see a 16-inning baseball game on Friday night. Apparently during the 14th inning, they do a 14th inning stretch. It was crazy. The game lasted over 5 hours. It was pretty freaking awesome.
Yeah, I got nothing else.
- Mood:good
God, he's beautiful.
- Mood:happy
When the hell did Chace Crawford get so hot?
- Mood:hot
- Mood:okay
With that, I am displeased with this new switch to digital television. We have a digital TV, but it doesn't pick up on any of the channels, so it's worse than being able to watch it when it's all fuzzy. I'm sure we need a better digital antenna... but it seems dumb to buy one if we're moving in a week anyway. We close on the twin home we looked at in Isanti next Thursday and have 5 days to get everything out of here, and paint the entire main floor interior of the new house. Carpet is also going to be installed in the bedrooms and hardwood in the living room and kitchen. We have to make this place really sparkling clean too and I have to work 2 of those days... it's going to be hard to get everything done. It's just annoying because right now we're just sitting around waiting for it to happen. It'd be nice to be able to get in there earlier... it's not like anyone's living in it now.
Of course it has to be all gloomy on one of my days off. Again. I would really enjoy spending actual time in the sun. I also much prefer working out when the sun's out... it's like a two for one deal cuz I can actually tan too. I need to stick to a better regemine because I can't apparently stop eating pizza or drinking beer. I had to pull out my bigger jeans last week. It was very very sad.
- Mood:hungry
- Mood:okay
He is HOTTTTTTTTTTTT.
Man, what a movie.
- Mood:hoo
And yeah, Brett and I have been looking at houses. We submit offers on two - the first was rejected and the second ended up having a ton of problems (water, structure, etc). That one really sucked cuz we both really really liked it. Last night we wrote an offer on a twin home in Isanti. It's big, but we'd have a lot of work to do right away. I'm pretty sure we'd paint and re-floor before even moving in. The previous owners smoked in the house and it reeks after being closed up for months now. I'm thinking this is the one we'll end up with and while I'm not 100% in love with it, I think once we paint and re-floor, I will be. It's hard with bank owned sometimes cuz they can still look so crappy (people do not really clean when they're about to get kicked out of their homes, which is understandable, though I wish the banks would do SOMETHING to it, you know?) It's alright though. I actually LIKE painting inside. I'm looking forward to picking out colors (currently, the living room is painted bright pink and the carpet is like... cornflower blue. Yuck).
Love love love the weather. I need to start spending some time outside, like working out or something though, because this winter wasn't good to me weight-wise. Why do I love pie so much? It's just unfair. I'm going camping with Brett on Mille Lacs on Saturday night, which should be fun, but of course it's the coldest day in the next week or so.
Hmm, anyway, I should go catch up on all the TV I haven't been able to watch being so busy.
- Mood:busy
And I wish I had hair like Blake Lively.
And pizza.
That is all.
- Mood:drunk
These jerseys were imitations of the jerseys worn back in 1982, when the Metrodome first opened. Since this is the last season, it's fitting they wear them.
However, since that day, they have not worn them again, instead wearing their super trailer-trashy sleeveless uniforms many many games since. Wanna see their trailer-trashness?
Seriously? They keep wearing THESE, but not the super awesome ones they wore for Opening Day?
Wanna see again how awesome it is?
My mom has one from 1982. When she worked at the ridiculously upscale Jax Cafe in NE MPLS, they had to wear these on Opening Day. She gave it to me last year. (And since then, I have had Coke and ketchup spilled on me. It's a problem I face at every game, but that's for a different day). Yes, it's made from 100% polyester, but we forgive these things, since it was 1982. Good things were born that year, like Jason Kubel, for instance.
Here's a simple rule to abide by, not just in baseball, but in everyday life as well:
VINTAGE = GOOD.
TRAILER TRASH = BAD.
For example, you female Twins fans, I imagine, don't plan to attend games wearing blue eyeshadow, a denim vest, and clear platform sandals. We know that this is simply unacceptable. So why in GOD'S NAME are the PLAYERS wearing SUPER TACKY SLEEVELESS UNIFORMS??!!? Why do we have modelesque players like Blackburn, and Morneau, and MAUER(???!?!?!), wearing such UNFLATTERING things?
They should be wearing the amazing vintage uniforms they have now.
... so that way Mauer and I can match.
...and he can realize how absolutely perfect we would be together......
... and because it's important to baseball... and stuff....
....
Weekends haven't been lasting long enough lately. This is pretty much the first time in a long time that I've really dreaded going to work tomorrow. Getting to know more and more about Target's policies and expectations is starting to grate on me, because they're forced to meet a quota on coaching per month, so they'll find any bullshit reason they can to, essentially, make people feel like crap. On Friday, I was pretty much told that the managers don't see that I'm doing anything and it was said in such a snide and rude way that I almost just left. I mean, not only have I worked my ass off there, but I've done the work that some stores have three people doing. Back the fuck off. So I'm not looking forward to sitting through meetings and shit tomorrow when everyone just talks crap about everyone else anyway. Ugh. Why does this shit never end?
In happier news, I'm really glad baseball started, even if the Twins are 3-4 right now. I pretty much plan to go to every game I possibly can, so at least there's that. It's nice to have some kind of way to feel good, even if it's not real cheap.
That's it for now. More Easter celebrations, but I'm exhausted. Ice cream cake is the only thing that's keeping me going.
- Mood:blah
It's super cute though, right? I love it, but I'm gonna lose stuff in it even worse than I did in my last one.
- Mood:eep
YAY TWINS IN A LITTLE OVER A WEEEEEEEK!!! WHOO. Oh husband, I've missed you.
I bought the last book of
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cassandraclare's Mortal Instrument trilogy and I loved it lots and lots and now I want to read nothing but fantasy. Anyone have any suggestions?So I had a dream that Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl wanted me to be his girlfriend. I said no, because I have a boyfriend, but then I gave him this big hug. That's all that happened. Is that not the shortest dream in the history of the world?
( Shag, marry, or throw off a cliff? )
- Mood:chipper
( PRO PITCHERS!!! )
It was fantastic. Also, it's very nice and there's an ocean and Dunkin Donuts are EVERYWHERE and I had a crab cake burger and crab legs and there are WAFFLE HOUSE's (though I didn't get to go to one cuz of needing to eat crab cake burgers and crab legs). I am currently sunburnt but I do not care at all because I was in Florida and it was like the first vacation I've ever been on. I also met a gator named Leroy.
( He's adorable... )
April 6th, thankfully, is only a month away.
( Me and Brett, cuz we're cute. )
- Mood:good
cassandraclare's City of Bones and City of Ashes were fantastic. Not to mention, she's also written the best Harry Potter fanfiction out there (ok, it ties with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
shoebox_project ). I've been watching the movies as I've gone along rereading HP and OMG I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE 6TH MOVIE. I keep rewatching the trailer on youtube.I went bridesmaid dress shopping today and found one. It was the quickest dress shopping of my life. They've already been ordered.
( I'm just glad it's not pink... )
I went tanning for the first time ever today, in preparation for Florida. It was weird and I totally forgot about covering up my tattoos. Bad me. They don't need to fade even more.
And seriously, it was 18 degrees outside and I was totally comfortable in just a sweater. It is a travesty to feel like 18 degrees is warm.
That is all.
- Mood:chipper
Still no news on possible Target promotion, but whatever. It's only taken like 6 weeks. Geez. I really just want to finish the set of interviews and KNOW, but that's apparently becoming impossible. I'll harass the management on Monday.
It's cold out. I can't wait for the warmth.
(I think this potential weight-loss would be easier if I wasn't craving omelets).
- Mood:excited
The potential promotion at Target is still taking forever. I have to do 3 interviews before I even know anything, and I've only done one because I don't work much with the store manager and then I have to do a phone one with the district assets protection dude and I'm like UGH CAN SOMEONE PLEASE JUST MAKE UP THEIR MIND SO I KNOW WHAT TO DO?!!?!? If I don't get it, I'll have to look for something else cuz I can't really handle having only enough money for bills and that's it.
In other news, I'm re-reading Twilight to get the movie out of my head and I've decided that Bella falls in love with Edward way too soon. Like, for whatever reason, I get Edward's feelings, but I just don't buy Bella. I think the movie made me realize this more; I thought the book did a better job, but I guess not. I reread the Host too, which I still think is better than the Twilight series. She should write a sequel to that.
Well, my life is boring. I haven't written in like almost a month and I still don't have anything to say.
P.S. I hate winter. It's so freaking cold out. I'm just not made for this crap. I hate driving in the snow and I hate the wind and it's just super lame and annoying and wet and I want it to be over.
ETA: Brett is amazing and wonderful and not boring in any way. I love him tons and tons.
- Mood:okay
So I'm slightly annoyed currently. My boss at Target is no longer my boss, she's moved on to a different department. So she's been training me to do everything she'd been doing so someone's doing it. Which makes sense, expect that I'm getting paid $8.25 an hour to do stuff she had been doing for 46k a year. I've only been with Target for two months and they don't promote until someone hits their 90 day mark. Whatever. But then my boss was like, 'I'm gonna talk to the district guy and see if we can override that because you're great at this and have a degree and have done assets protection type stuff before so you can totally get the team lead position.' So she emailed the district guy and sent him my info and called him and talked about me and I was like, super excited. Being this stupid uniformed security person is not as bad as I expected, but I'm still bored off my ass and thinking wow, I could do so much more than this. Well, I haven't seen my boss since Monday and today one of the electronics team leads applied for the position and it like crushed me. There's no way they're probably gonna give this to me when a person who's already a team lead applied. He's been with Target for a while so there's no drama about the 90 days either. I'm just sad cuz I wanted it a lot and I know I could easily do it (I went to school for this shit) and Target's policies are annoying me in general.
sigh. I like Target for the most part, but I can't keep working at $8.25/hr. I'm doing 40 hours a week and it's not enough. I have like... $60 to last me til Friday and I'm just not sure how to deal with Christmas and all that. It's frustrating. This money thing is really hard, especially now.
- Mood:annoyed
- Mood:disappointed
God, I'm tired. Not really sleepy or anything like that, but it has been a long, long time since I've worked 7 days in a row. I'm hitting my 7th today (I have to leave shortly), and I just don't get how places think anyone is at all productive when they've already worked 48 hours in six straight days. It would of course help if I was making a bit more money. I got paid on Friday and with all my bills, I have $150 to last me until next Friday. Good luck, me. I just can't wait until tomorrow. Finally, a day off.
Not that it will really feel like one. I have to drive to Brooklyn Park to pick up my birth control from Planned Parenthood and then I need to go home and start clearing out my closet. It's not pretty either, cuz my closet was kinda the community closet when I was off at school and that hasn't really changed just cuz I live there now. Not for much longer though. I'm on the lease with Brett at his apartment and I've already started moving some of the important things in (computer, shoes, etc). The cats will come as soon as I have enough money for the $300 deposit. I'm excited. Living with him for real sounds fun considering I've been about 3/4 here anyway.
I'm sucking at NaNoWriMo... I just don't have time. I want to write at work, lol. That's what I used to do at Sears. Bad me.
I should go. Target awaits.
- Mood:busy
