My loans went down again.

I'm supposed to be getting a raise in the near future.

It's not enough.

Well it is, but it isn't, you know?

So I want to write a letter to an agent trying to sell a story...it's weird and scary.

And I am planning on applying to B&N when I get stats on my new references [most likely two people from work, if that sounds remarkably kosher]...

And I went to church on Sunday--was that really yesterday? it feels like eons ago--and I want to be better with that whole lifestyle.

I understand that a number of you are up-to-snuff, more or less, with church attendance and so one. I also know that a number of you have made other choices in your various and sundry ways.

But I don't know how to be better. A better friend, a better daughter, a better person, a better Christian...

Well, I don't know.

I don't know much of anything, but that's life, right? A random pointing, going, falling, scuffing your knees and your nose and trying all over again in the morning.

But this is more a note to say, I love you all and I thank you for your support--spoken and unspoken--and your friendship.

Hopefully I won't freak out too much if everything fails like I expect it to.

Love you all.

[And did I mention my loans went down again?! Woo.]

Tags: family, friends, life, loans, work

It's a weird day when I feel like I'm one of the more regular posters for our little LJ family...but I suppose that happens when everyone else is too busy living and stuff. Really, I'm just kidn of tired and putzing around though I should be getting dressed for work.

I suppose I say that a lot.

Life's been a bit crazy of late. I have all these plans and they just kind of become dynamic rolling masses that augment themselves on contact with other plans or spontaneously by themselves. For instance: Heather came--yay! She goes home and I figure, hey, I'll have a normal weekend of Scrabble and whatever. FAIL. Greg came for HP6 [yay!] and I worked Saturday..and then got asked to work Sunday, which I did because it was nice to do things other than my daily crap. I don't think this weekend thing may be so miserable after all! We'll see, right? So then, I take a weekday off because we can't have overtime--especially since we're not even really in the heat of the holiday crafting season, no matter that our freight is being shipped under Christmas labels already. I figure, I'll take a day off and have the house to myself and relax. FAIL. I take Wednesday off because Lula will have Chelsea with her so she doesn't have to work alone. Why is that fail? Because theoretically, my boss might be coming over to the house to scrapbook with momma. Blah blah blah. This weekend's plans are to go to Nicole's party thing, come home and do a belated Jacky Chan 4th of July marathon and eat Chinese with my roomie...and then basically stop spending money until Hershey. Woo. We'll see how that goes.

Today, I request my weekends for Hershey and GIJoe. We'll also have to see how that goes.

I hope to get some writing done at some point in my life. I even have an idea of how to just do a little blurb-thingie for practice. Put your music library [some are more substantial than others, cough cough Karla] on random. Press play. List the fifth, tenth and twentieth songs and write/draw/whatever about or inspired by them. It can be one of the three or all of the three, and the connexion doesn't even have to be obvious.

Anywho. I really should go get dressed now.

Yawn.

Tags: family, friends, life, random, work, writing

Okay, I had this weird encounter this morning. Setup: It is summertime, we have open windows. Consequently, bugs get in and seem to enjoy the bathroom. Yech. So I'm swiping some crunchy creatures into the toilet when I have this brief, though fairly intense brush with guilt--almost a...vegetarian streak surfacing in my mind. Or would it be vegan? I didn't want to kill the bugs...but I didn't feel like saving them either.

Anywho. Unrelated.

HP6 was pretty, even though, no offense Daniel Radcliffe, I'm kind of sick of Harry. But I've never been a huge fan--and I was thrilled that the Weasleys got as much screen time as they did [GO TWINS]. And what was SAVIOR OF THE STORY NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM DOING WITH ONLY ONE LINE AND A FEW BACKGROUND SHOTS?! SERIOUSLY.

...

But still. Gerg's here for the first time in a long time and it's been fun, as usual. We put him to some manual labor, too...as usual. Yesterday, mom, Gerg and I, sans Nicole, built a firepit. Well, sort of. We reworked the raised stone section of the backyard to include a hole for building fires. It was awesome. And hot. I'm a touch pinker than I was before, but still.

And, you know what? Blah. I'm getting hungry. I'm pretty sure we don't have much stuff for brekkers, and I am also pretty sure that I had a dream about eating poptarts because mom made coffee...this is possibly because yesterday became my Saturday, because they randomly changed my M-F schedule, without warning to me or my direct supervisor, to have of Thursday so I could work Saturday. Consequently, today has felt awfully like Monday. And it is really unsettling. Not in a bad way, just in a "Huh." kind of way.

Anywho. Should probably shoe myself. Socks first though! And I think I might stop at the Giant to pick up some strawbees. They sound very tasty right about now.

Tags: family, friends, hp, life, random, work
Current Location: family comp
Current Music: Greg's laptop sounding overheated.

These were edits to prove this should have been a twitter day, but the post was already long so I moved them to their own world:

I am missing a sword.
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I'm at a crossroads and am not entirely sure where to go from here. All the books are out of boxes [excusing those about to be put up for sale--most of which are not mine but rather Dr. Mark's]--but I have books upstairs that I want to bring down so I can sort through which I want to be where. I am afraid my subconscious might be digging for excuses to stay rolling in books. Not literally, though. That would be uncomfortable and unproductive.
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Should I have a straight-up LotR section? I have plenty of Tolkien..but not all of it is LotR. Foo. And what about Lewis? I have tons of Lewis.
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Dad came down and has been distracting me. I think I'm going to use him and his manly muscles.
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Karla, have you read any James Thurber? I'm afraid I've quite fallen for him. And I read The Phantom Tollbooth, did you like that? I think it was you or Katy who told me to read it.

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Or you AND Katy!
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Found the sword! Or, more appropriately, Dad found the sword. Silly little thing, falling behind the base of the sideshelf. Sheesh. Oh, and Mark has officially sold three books to me--I'll post a list to see if any of you are interested. Then I'll venture back into the realm of Amazon book selling...which still makes me nervous. Bleh.
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Katy's coming today! I hope she'll be interested in helping me organize. I know she's good at it.
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I've made my way upstairs so I can unload my poor little teenage girl camera so I don't over work the poor purple thing. [Read purple: Pehrpul. It's more fun that way.] Dad got his bloodwork papers in the mail today and informed me that there's a key that informs the reader that things marked with an a = abnormal values while things that are astericked = panic values. I don't know why, but we find it quite humorous. As do we find the band name "cheap sneakers" humorous.

I love my daddy.
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Back in the basement and continuing 101 Dalmations, enjoying the acting of Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams as Jasper and Horace...though every time I go to start my movie, I go for the DVD player. My copy of 101 live action is notably VHSlike.
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Ho hum. Alaphabetize? Library of Congress? Problems, problems, problems.
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I decided that Gregory needs to have sons. He will name them Ward and Cray.
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I love my Mikeh.
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I need about six more hands and two more brains to do this properly! Why oh why can I not have telekinesis! ...don't answer that. I can see it only ending in tears.
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Katy is here!!! I'm gone.

Tags: family, friends, random, twitterpated

She has seen the Mummy fifty-two thousand times.

She just jumped at a scene.

Hehehe.

Tags: family, movies

The madness began two days ago. It continued through yesterday, roaring through frizbees hitting cars, munchies, board games, Scrabble [yes, it gets its own world] and general fun things until it peaked during the actual Easter Egg hunt. Though we easily totalled out at 420-some-odd eggs first time round, we found another four shortly thereafter and then two today. Played and lost a game of Scrabble and Ticket to Ride [and she don't care]. It's not been a bad Invasion, especially with the two newbies making a fair stand in the egg count [Christy was second at 51, I believe!]. Great, great fun.

Also, I am capping it off by riding with young master Gregory to New Jersey, retrieving a suspiciously not-Greg's-anymore-type-car and driving home.

Woo.

It was sad that we were missing Heather, Denny and Mikey, but the weekend was, on the whole, a great success.

It is quite obvious that we all look forward to discovering more as we go forward.

Speaking of forward, what're we thinking about Hershey this year?

Tags: family, friends, invasion, life

Listening to your parents argue over which record belongs to which half of the pair: Priceless.

"I would NOT have a Peter Frampton album!" --Daddy

Tags: family, joy, life, music

It's an interesting thing.

Today started slow built slow and finished slow.

I almost had a fire, almost destroyed one of my mother's pots and passed almost on the way to filling seventy five per cent of the upstairs with burny chicken smoke.

Dinner, however, was delivered on time and was quite tasty, much to my surprised joy.

The pan, however, is unhappy and needs to be scrubbed to be recognized as usable.

Still. I broke 225 in the FF12 battle chain and took an unexpected nap [part of the reason for the chicken issues].

Oh, and it would seem that I need to purchase a new red pen. Using red pen to label payments as recieved in my very official college-ruled notebook for loans is one thing when you're not also carrying it around to hemorrhage on a friend's story...so yes. New red pen.

Anywho, heading to bed because I work at five tomorrow. AM, that is. Good night, loves.

Tags: family, life, loans, random, work

Mom rolled the jeep on Monday. Mike is gone, but Mom's fine.
Sore, but fine.

Thought ya'll should know.

Tags: family

Mom: I had a dream with Mark Lowry in it.
Me: I had a dream where I worked at Best Buy in a post-apocaplyptic world.
Mom: You win.

Tags: family, random, wtf