Saturday, August 02, 2003

Lauren is now all moved out. She's moving into her apartment at school today. My dad came with his van and the three of us filled the van. I was surprised that it all fit, but it did. I'm gonna miss her a whole lot. I'm hoping she will come back and see me this next weekend cause Jenny is supposed to come down from Minnesota. It'll be good to see her too. She's going to be gone for nine months while she is away at Hong Kong teaching English or something. She might be back for Christmas.... :P Both of my sisters are gonna be so far away from me for nine months. It's gonna suck.. I only have three more days left of work!! I'm working Monday thru Wednesday and then I'm DONE! I could work a whole lot longer, but I decided that I'm tired of spending my entire summer in a factory being bored out of my mind. I have the house to myself for a few days... YAY!!!

~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 1:54 PM

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Cinderella


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~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 5:04 PM

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Today wasn't tooo bad at work. My friend Katrina came back to work so I got to hear all about her trip to Europe. She went to Sweden, London, and Scotland. I'm so jealous. I would love to have gone to all those places. Her talking only made the first half of work go by fast though. The last two hours went by soooo slow. Mark went to the doctor. His visit cost him like 97ish dollars for a VERY short visit. They told him what they thought it might be and that it should be out of his system anywhere from seven to ten days. He's on the seventh day and feeling better so hopefully that means he'll be okay soon. It's too bad he had to go to the doctor and find all that out and spend all that unneeded money.

I've finished Book one and two of the Harry Potter books. I'll probably be starting the third one soon. I like them quite a bit. I was afraid they would be too much like the movies to be interesting, but they did have a few differences that I felt made it worth my while. I'm looking forward to the third book.

I don't have a whole lot more to say...... I get paid tomorrow!!

~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 7:41 PM

Monday, July 28, 2003

Wow... I forgot to write about one particular incident. My sister and I went out to eat with my dad. This is always a special occasion for us because we don't see him very often. Sometimes I go months without really seeing my dad. I love my dad dearly, and he's really tried to be a good dad. Unfortunately, he's never around. When I was around nine or ten my parents split up for good so I was only seeing him every weekend. Since then that's deteriorated to it's present state of maybe once a month. I try not to hold it against him because he owns his own small business which is super hard. He's a workaholic too. To make money in his business you kinda have to be. Anyways, so we were all ready to go to dinner and he actually only arrived ten minutes late which is good for him. He comes to the door and we give him a great big hug. My sister and I both think we're in for an evening of great conversation and debate like we always get when we see our dad. Well... As we walk out the door he says.. Oh.. by the way, Michelle will be joining us. Let me give you some background knowledge on this woman.. She's been living with my dad for a very long time now. I have seen her a handful of times probably only numbering around four or five times. From the moment my two sister and I met her we didn't really like her. We have liked many of his other girlfriends but never her. On top of all this... he had told us time and again that they were NOT dating.... they weren't boyfriend and girlfriend or anthing.... SO the question was... WHY was my dad asking me to "get to know" this woman who he had been living with and he knew we despised if he didn't want to have anything to do with her? He had told us before that he was trying to get her to leave his apartment. Dinner was pretty awkward. Where I would normally be chattering away I found myself just sitting there not saying a whole lot. I tried... I really did try to be nice. I wasn't mean at least.. I know that much. I was just in such shock. I didn't understand why this woman was at dinner with us. The time my sisters and I spend with my dad is supposed to be special and I felt that she was definitely intruding on that. I think if I had known before hand, I could have been more prepared..... Lauren thinks that there was a reason for it all. She doesn't think they are dating, but there is a better explanation. I dunno.... I hope next time I talk to my dad I can feel okay about the whole thing. I'm sure I could give her more of a chance too. I just don't like being told one thing to find out that it was a lie the whole time...

~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 9:14 PM

I was really pissed off earlier today. My day at work was actually really good for no reason at all. It just went by really fast which is unusual for my line of work. Anyways, when I got home I found out I couldn't go over to Mark's. That was a bummer since I haven't spent real quality time with him since last Tuesday. I saw him Friday but he was sick. He's been sick since last Wednesday and he isn't sure what it is. He's going to the doctor. :( Since he doesn't have health insurance right now he's gonna have soooo much money spent on that shit. I feel so bad. I wish there was something I could do. I just wish he could wake up tomorrow and be like.. wow.. I feel just fine. I ended up going to Walmart with my mom and sister and we bought a lot of school stuff. It's early to be buying it all, but Lauren is moving into her apartment on the first. I figure it's better to make one trip rather than two so that I don't forget anything. We tend to help remind each other of what we need to bring. It's nice feeling prepared too. I have all my bags of shower and school stuff ready to go.

Why was I pissed earlier today? My StepDad the Computer Nazi....
So I ask my stepdad if it's okay that I download a poker game to the computer. He asks what site... and I tell him. He kinda huffs a little and thinks. He starts telling me how he really doesn't like it when I download things to the computer like the program Kazaa does. ( He thinks we download a bunch of music to the computer) I tried to go on to explain that I don't download ANY music. All I do is take cds that I already have and copy them to the computer so I can burn them to another cd as a mix or a complete cd for myself or someone else. He looked at me VERY confused. I explained again and he said... so none of that was downloaded? And I said.. no it wasn't. Rather than making himself more confused he just says... I don't want you downloading ANYTHING to the computer. GREAT... freakin great. That just pisses me off. He thinks that anything we download is going to come packed and loaded with viruses to hurt his precious computer. What was the point in getting a roadrunner connection when we can't even put it to good use? My step dad ticks me off big time..... I DO have a lot to be thankful for though. It could be worse. He doesn't really invade my privacy at all. There have been a few memorable instances, but for the most part he's stayed out of my way. He HAS made it possible for my mom and us to move into a whole lot nicer house. Of course, it wasn't because of his job but an inheretance he got.. but hey.. at least he spent it on the family right? There was the time that he contributed four thousand dollars to my sister's college when my dad's loan fell through... They want my sister to pay it back I guess... but I don't know if that will actually happen. Although I know Lauren would want to pay them back.. her track record has shown that she has problems with that.. (sorry sis, but it's true). I dunno.. On one hand I'm grateful... On the other, He annoys the crap out of me. I think I just vent my frustrations out on him sometimes.... wow.. this was a long post....

~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 9:00 PM

Sunday, July 27, 2003

I talked to my new roommate! She seems really nice. She was going to a school in North Carolina. She's a chemistry major and is into running and volunteering for stuff. Yeah... I think we'll get along pretty well. She said that she had brown hair and eyes and I think she's about my size. :) I just hope we get along. I think we will. I'm not too terribly worried. She was really excited to meet our suitemates and stuff. We got a lot of stuff out of the way as in what we were both going to bring so that's kind of a load of my shoulders. YAY... I'm just glad that I finally got to meet her and I didn't hate her right off the bat or anything. We'll have to see....

~*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch.*~ 2:05 PM