Partied like it's 2008

Hello.

It's 10:14 pm and as I sit here writing this I'm being swarmed by fruit flies for who knows what reason. They're probably attracted to the smell of my diet coke or the M&Ms that I'm having for dessert after an awesome tamale dinner that my sister made. Tonight I ate dinner before and after my 3 mile run... lol it's a little progress day in that respect.

I went to a pretty fun party the other day over at Justin's mom's place again. This time it was a pretty different crowd, many of which I hadn't met before. It was a going away party for Lexi who's moving up to Olympia for school soon. She seems like a pretty cool girl-- her girl friends she invited were really pretty; but had all left by the time this picture was taken. The party dragged on really late. I wasn't paying attention to the time and I swear I wasn't in a bed on the floor until 6 am-- crazy!! 

One of Lexi's pretty girl friends was dating a guy named Khai K., a guy I remember being friends with on MySpace and commenting a picture he had posted of Dimebag thinking it was Claudio Sanchez.... As you can imagine it was a roast in response, even stupid bitches that probably couldn't name two songs by Pantera were like "wow ur stupid, its dimebag RIP". Of course I didn't mention the extent that I remembered that interaction on MySpace probably more than 6 years ago.

Today I went into town and delivered a resume to Rue 21 in Kennewick that seemed pretty booked for employees so having Tiffany as a reference wasn't going to help me much. This would have been really discouraging had I not gotten awesome news from Kayla that her boss is considering hiring me if I come to meet him and he likes me. I submitted an application to the Subway she works at earlier and I have a good feeling about it. Tomorrow I am going to meet her manager "Jr" face to face.

Yesterday I was really irritated and depressed when I'd gone to work and asked Brianna if we were getting paid soon and she said that we weren't for another week. I'm almost sure she's wrong.. Like I don't recall getting my check on August 31, but unfortunately because I rarely wrote that month I can't use my blog to recall what I did that day.

I was tempted to call Caesar's today to ask if the checks were there but decided not too. Regardless of being flat out broke cash wise and having no idea how much is in my bank account (it can't be much) I've got enough gas to get me into town tomorrow and to my next shift. I'm hoping Brianna is wrong and I'm stressed out over nothing but if not I'm going to be forced to ask my Dad for money again in the next few days which I'd really like to avoid.

Today I tried again to get a good recording of Aerials but it still sounded muddy. My mom helped me tweak with the amp settings to see which ones sounded best on camera while I was playing and she ended up really liking the "Tweed" sound because it sounds the cleanest-- though seems too twangy sounding for what I'm trying to perform.

I'll show you the attempt I made today that's still not up to my uploading standards as far as sound quality goes. I'm considering trying to dig up the POD out of our shed and try hooking it up to a speaker tomorrow instead of even bothering with the amp anymore because it's clearly not working as well as I want it too:

I have a new crush. I actually thought I might see him today because it was his first day off in awhile but he ended up too exhausted.

peace. 

No excuses or turning back now

OKAY, first week of school, second to last quarter, no doubt going to be the hardest one I've ever taken.... Here we go.

Two of my three professors (Wassell and Carbaugh) I've already taken so I know their lecture style and class format pretty well (especially Carbaugh, I'm pretty sure this is the fourth class I've taken with him so there's no surprises there). My finance professor Becker seems cool, her teaching style is a LOT like Sipic's, tons of asking the class questions and trying to make them think for themselves. 

She's a tiny lady, like she reminds me of Aunt Cheryl because I doubt she weighs over 115 pounds. I can tell she's a really smart, no BS kind of professor, and I'm going to have to do a lot of studying to do well in her class. I have too.. This class might have scared me last quarter but this quarter I'm facing it head on. 

Thus far my time management has been alright, could be better. I've read the first chapters of forecasting and finance this week and looked over some of the homework. It usually takes me a little longer to get back into the swing of things. I was also able to write down everything that I needed to get done this week assignments wise and will start tackling those today. 

This last week I continued to do art when I found time and completed a few more drawings. Last night while lying in bed I thought it would be a good idea to make a separate facebook page to showcase my work. I figured an external location would be beneficial, especially if I continue to develop my small sole proprietorship where a person could pay $20 for a guaranteed drawing if they chose too. 

Here's a pic of Alex Lukyanov, my friend from Russia that I've known for years now. I'm starting to experiment more with clothes, backdrops and props.

Here's a link to my page: https://www.facebook.com/emilysportraitstudio

Well that's all I've gotta say for now. Today is going to be spent doing schoolwork mainly. I let Marshall out this morning and here it is 1 pm again and he's still not back. Turns out he literally goes to all of my neighbors houses and meows to get let in, which is crazy. Drives me nuts how fearless he is. Yet he always manages to come home... 

peace. 

Ice Cream and Blythe Dolls

Look at how adorable these are. Okay, you might disagree, but I think these are the single prettiest, cutest dolls I've ever seen. They're about 2 inches tall and have very human like hair. They are high quality and have really realistic clothes. I want to start collecting them someday. Maybe in a couple pay checks I'll hunt for one because IIIIII...

HAVE A JOB NOW

Ohh yeaaaaa

I'm not even lying. I got a job at my favorite ice cream place in the tri cities and I start working tomorrow at 2:00 pm. Isn't that awesome?! One of my favorite places in the tri cities. But I got a LOT of help, now that I look back on the past couple days Here's what happened..

Me and Katelynn went in to get coffee drinks on thursday to treat ourselves after my long day of presentations and her long, crazy week at work. When we ordered, the woman that owns the business says "What are you guys doing currently?" And my friend answered working at Wal Mart and I said going to college and looking for a job, and she said she was currently hiring one more person! I was so excited.

The next day I spiffed up my resume and editted my cover letter. My dad helped me a lot with that, as he's editted a lot of cover letters and resumes in the past. He helped me get rid of a lot of the unnessasary information out of my cover letter so that it's too the point. I was happy he did, because when I turned it in the woman that works there looked at it immediately and they are very busy. I doubt she would want to read about me rambling on. So she gave me the job! Sort of. She told me that she needed me to get a food handlers card, and explained that the way to get a raise is to take a cake decorating class offered at Michaels. She gave me a lot of information about the business and how fast pace it is, and how she expects me to work very hard. I will work as hard as I can-- I can't mess this up! (Not that I will, but you guys know me.. I look at the glass half empty...) She also told me that I have to memorize the entire menu and take a test to prove that I know it. This was intimidating, but I eagerly wrote down everything on a sheet of paper and left to make an appointment to get the food handlers card.

I probably searched for about 20 minutes for the health department building, and I wouldn't of found it without Jon telling me where it was. So there's another person that helped me with this. Nobody in my family was picking up the phone, and Jon happened to know where it was. I made an appointment for Thursday, thirty minutes before it was going to close. Luck was on my side again.

I then went to Michael's craft store to sign up for the cake decorating class. This starts on the 7th, and I was the last spot available. Hopefully, work doesn't overlap with the class. o_o oh jeez.

So when I got home, I started studying this immense list of ice cream flavors and had my sister and my mom quiz me over and over again. My sister helped a lot too because she thought of clever ways to remember things. When I was quizzed today at the store, I aced it. :) The owner was impressed.

So that's it! I'm very happy luck was on my side for once. I can't mess this up no matter what.

yours,

emily