So after three days of working my tail off, I got the sit down. Yep, the I’m sorry but we had a conference call with our corporate office and we are going over budget, and we need to do personnel cuts.

Scary.

Since I was the last one to be hired, I got laid off and two other people had their hours cut in half.

I think I’m now the proud owner of the “Worst Luck in the World” world title (sorry Philonious)

Yeah, baby, serious ownerage going on here!

But you know, it’s not that bad. At least my time there paid for my phone, and it was only 3 days into it. If it was next month I would have been seriously pissed off. Now I’m just mildly perturbed.

And it’s better to be “laid off” than “fired”. At least I know I was doing a good job (because they told me), and that the lady that I replaced did a bad job, so she got fired. (If only she knew that if she had hung in there for 3 more days she would have been “laid off”)…(maybe she has bad luck too?).

So now I’m back to square one, indeed.com. Bah humbug.

The cure for this state of perturbity is a Dallas Mavericks game and a bowl of ice cream. Yep siree. So…
LET’S GO!!!???

That’s one of Cons dad’s most favorite sayings. I kinda miss him. He’s sorta like my second father. You know I’ve known him longer than Cons has…a weird piece of trivia for you.

Anyways I got a phone. And Speck you should be happy, I got a pay phone from ATT. But it’s not like I had a choice in the matter. I have no credit, well they didn’t even bother to look, so they put me on prepaid, otherwise it’s a 500 buck deposit that I can’t have until a year later. (are they crazy???)

It’s okay. I got the 400 minute, 3,000 night/weekend and unlimited mobile to mobile. So if you have ATT/cingular…call me sometime, and if you don’t well wait until 9 oclock my time, which is 7 for you SoCal people.

The phone I wanted wasn’t in stock, so I had to get this one. I didn’t want a flip phone, but since I had to I got a red one to make Chuck happy. (the only time I will call her Chuck is when the word red is involved.) I miss my room-mate.

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I’m doing a mixture of CP’s and CVA mixed together. In fact this job makes my complaints about CVA a joke.  For instance, before I had an uneasy feeling whenever I had to write (in an e-mail) that someone didn’t qualify for the certificate, well now I have to do it face to face but for a job.

And it certainly isn’t easy when your boss tells you to tell them that they don’t quite make the criteria, and then a few hours later tells you that it was a a mistake and YOU need to call them up again to tell them that YOU made the mistake.  This person isn’t a northerner either….naww…it’s a southern and southerns don’t take too nicely to things that they term insults. But I like my boss. She’s real down to earth.

Boy I’m pooped. I’m not sure if it’s the early wakeup, that I’m not used to anymore, or the busy day. Either way, I’m pooped.

Oh, and I got a drug test today. I got to pee in a little cup. It was disgusting! You can’t wash your hands or even wipe them until after you give them the cup. It’s was pretty gross.

I got the job.

I got the job??!!!

Yep, it was my wake up call at 9:30 this morning. I had written it off as a no go, but I got it.

Can you come in this morning? Uhh…yeah 10:30 okay? Yeah.

And there I was.

Now my day begins at 8:30 and ends at 5. Take that 9-5 routine. I’ve one upped you.

So my job includes basic receptionist jobs, answering phones, greeting people, etc. plus administering applications and tests, and on and on. It’s a pretty busy job.

“Mama said, Idle hands are the devil’s handwork.”  (see country is everywhere in these here parts)

I also saw my first real bag of dope. Somebody dropped it in the place and the supervisor disposed of it. (Don’t be alarmed. It’s in a pretty high class part of town, just some of the people can be a little shady)

So that was quite the experience.

Red Sox won the world series last night. Congrats Red Sox fans.

I’m not a big baseball fan, and I cheer for the loserish Orioles, so all I can do is say congrats, and sulk that my team doesn’t have diddly squat of a chance for a world series for another 10 years or so. (in fact we have more of a chance of folding than winning…isn’t that lame?)

But I refuse to be like Micheal Phelps and abandon the Orioles for the Detroit Tigers. You know, he has the nerve to call Baltimore his home while he wears their despicable hat all the time. That’s like one of the unwritten rules that everyone from Baltimore adheres to. You can like any other basketball team and you can like any other football team, but you have to support the Orioles and you have to hate the Redskins, otherwise you’re a backstabber.

Bah humbug.

Tom Brady does commercials too!

Tom Brady’s commercial for Snickers.

He went into the wrong huddle…and who’s huddle would that just so happen to be? The Jets. It was made sometime last year.

I like so totally watched it like 20 times and I like lmaoed, rofled, and became a hyena.

Oh, it makes me so happy.

And now for an interesting tidbit of personal info. Sometime last year I abandoned Snickers, which was my favorite candy bar for many years, and adopted Reese’s. Now I feel justified in my switch over.

I’m currently watching Halloween on Ice and I just have to mention how awesome Nancy Kerrigan still skates. I’m shocked really. She’s way past her skating prime and from looking at her you wouldn’t think she can still do it, but man does she bring it.

During the 1998 Olympics while little Tara Lipinski was cutting up the ice and stealing all of the lime light, there was one skater that totally rocked that we hardly heard about, Surya Bonaly. I found a youtube clip of her performance, which was right before Tara’s. Pats fans might want to take special note (instead of an eff you touchdown, she performed an eff you backflip…and consequently became disqualified…nice). Oh, and she’s black.

Cricket went from being number 1 to number 2 in my list of The Most Boring Sports Ever, NCAA women’s field hockey has taken it’s place.  I thought it might be kinda of interesting because a lot of lacrosse players double over into field hockey during the offseason, however after I watched the first half (35 minutes) of Penn State (ranked 9th in the country) versus Ohio State I gave up. There was no score and there literally was no rhyme or reason to it.

Today I had my first interview for a receptionist position. I felt decently confident afterwards (before I felt extremely nervous), but there was one more interview after me. After seeing and hearing bits and pieces of it, lets just say that whatever confidence I had certainly dwindled.  The other lady was older and had way more experience than me.

If I don’t get the job, I’m cool with it. It’s not everything that I had envisioned my “dream job until I can get my dream job” to be, but I could work with it. I should be hearing back Monday if I got it or not.

I’m not so sure if I should ask you to pray for me to get the job or if you should pray against it (for the reason mentioned above.)…

I got my hair done today down at the beauty school. I’m rather happy because I saved myself quite a few bucks, and they did a good job.

While there I received lots of compliments about my thick and healthy hair. Quite a few students and instructors came around to envy me. (who would have thought a year and half ago I would get a compliments like that?) I was also told that I have a Jennifer Aniston jaw line. I’m not sure what that means, but it sounds nice anyways.

Here’s a crappy self photo of the new look. hair.jpg

It’s up over my shoulders, which makes me quite happy.

I like being happy.

The months not over, but this is for my friends who prefer news about my life in one long post instead of in pieces.

Wearing: Jeans, and lots of sweaters. It’s been cold. Meaning in the 50’s.

Listening to: I’ve rediscovered slow rock recently and I’m digging Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, and Dave Matthew’s Band. I’m especially liking DMB, witty lyrics, and awesome mix of instruments. One word – sexy.

Reading: Finished the Wikibook Communication Theory, started John Ghrisham’s The Partner, and I’ve been spending lots of time with my copy of the Official SAT Study Guide.

Watching: Hockey, basketball, football, soccer, and women’s college volleyball. I had no earthly idea that volleyball was so popular…I guess it’s kinda interesting. Go Duke (they’re number 16 in the country)

Craving: Tacos Manuel (I didn’t have any before I moved. sniff.), Taco Bell, and pizza

Wondering: A whole lot.

Wishing: Most importantly that nothing major happened to the homes houses back in Cali, and whatever damage that was done that it can get repaired quickly. That I get a job soon. That Duke wins the NCAA basketball championship. Colts win the Superbowl. Duke Lacrosse wins the NCAA tourny, the Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Championship, and that the Penguins win the Stanley. (It’s never to early to wish these things.)

Lusting after: Food and gadgets as usual.

Loving: Life in general, and working out (gasp.)

Hating: Sportscasters, who even in the most entertaining hockey game ever, the Rangers vs the Penguins, which is airing on versus discuss the Patriots. I’m watching my favorite hockey team, who I’ve loved since I was 3 yrs and some months old, play against one of my former heroes, Jagr, who used to play for the Pens back in the day, and they bring up the Patriots, and no other team mind you. Blast them.

Missing: Loto and David. All my pals back in Cal. and I’m even missing the Foodbank dudes.

Boy crushing: BTW. There’s a few this month.

So I watched Bend it Like Beckham the other night (and before you all butcher me, it was Keira Knightley’s breakout movie) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (who also plays Henry the VIII in the Tudors) is now a current crush. My infatuation with Eli Manning has resurfaced, and my biggest deepest crush, Michael Phelps cracked a bone in his wrist after stumbling while getting out of a car. Poor guy, he needs comfort. Yeah right…If you are thinking “drunk”,I’m down with you. At least he knows how to party right? They say he’s going to be okay, and it’s not going to affect his training, so that makes me happy. I’ve also been adapting well to my new homeland, and Dierks Bentley and Brad Paisley have been added to my crush list.

Girl crushing: Colbie Coilet, Anita Marks (she has such an awesome job!)

Awaiting: Job interviews, this weekend, College and NBA basketball (1 more week),

Dreading: Not to much

I’m throwing in a brief interruption to my sports discussion in the post below to rant about the lack of equality in our nation.

There are large deadly fires burning in Southern California, the worst being in San Diego. Close to 265,000 people have had to evacuate their homes. Over 1,000 homes have brunt to the ground. I have friends, some of my best friends, who are part of the evacuates looking for shelter. And I could have been there with them right now if I hadn’t moved 2 weeks ago. Yes, it’s a little troubling to think about.

There are only 6,000 firefighters fighting these blazes, and they are no where near contained. Just yesterday the state of California decided to send in help, while these fires have been going on for days.

But do you know what most of the Fire Fighters have spent most of their time trying to save? Celebrity houses in Malibu. Where a total of around 500 houses might have been effected. During that time fires were raging in San Diego County where 1,000’s of people live. All the news channels were showing the hills of Malibu while the real fight was happening in SDC. New articles about a silly castle that was destroyed sprang all over the internet (Though I do give Lilly Lawrence props for not letting her possessions own her), but we hear nothing about the one person who has been found dead except for, 1 person dead.

What’s my point to all of this? Where’s the nations aid for this disaster?

We were so quick to blame the nation for the lack of help during Hurricane Katrina, and we still hear about it 2 years later. Yes, it was horrible. Mother nature played a real doosy on us, and yes we should have been better prepared even if it was unexpected. But what makes this one any worse?

No one was prepared for these fires to spring up, especially not in San Diego. Why hasn’t the nation sent firefighters to help combat the fires? Why aren’t we sending aid? Why are we watching it on TV and letting California fight it out for themselves?

Now it’s California’s turn to whine about the lack of support. But nobody will listen to them because they are termed “rich and white”. This is how bad our country has gone down hill because of the stupid race battle.

Everyone has to be careful with what they do and say. If the nation was to send help right away to California, we would be hearing it from the people who were effected by Hurricane Katrina, “You helped the white folks first!”. If they don’t…then well nothing will happen. People will just die and lose their homes, because even if they did speak out no one will listen.

I’m sick of Celebrities and their summer homes and I’m sick of whining. We need action. This is totally ridiculous. Where’s FEMA when you need them?

The other undefeated team just won. Go Colts!

I love how the Colts are so underrated right now. I also loved the cameras long pauses on Peyton “The Commercial Boy” Manning’s green gray eyes, and the way that he only talked about his “team” during the post game interview with Michelle, instead of himself.

I also discovered why Brady has so many more TD’s than Manning. Manning likes to hand off to his backs. He’s not into personal stats. Hahaha. Gotcha.

Yep, he’s pretty much my most favoritest QB ever (yeah, he took Warner’s spot. My love is cheap okay.)

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I have 9 resumes floating around at 9 different places right now. If you feel the urge to pray that they end up in the right hands and those lovely eyes of the right hands likes what they read, and decides to call me up for an interview and that at that interview they like me and that I like them. It would be totally awesome.

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The Tennessee Pharaohs won again. We have a 2 game winning streak. It was a great game Mike…umm…I think.

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Working out gives me way too much energy, but it’s like the annoying kind. I’m tired, my eyes are sore, my body aches but my mind is pumping, my feet are tapping, and my arms feel pumped. It’s 11 at night!

I can see this is going to be a problem when I start my job.

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Looking and sounding young is great when you are in your 30’s, but is so not cool when you are 18. Everyone mentions how young I look, and how young I sound on the phone. It’s not fair! I’m never going to be able to fake being 21 (not that I ever wanted to, it’s just the principal of knowing that you could if you had to.)

When I was 13 people thought I was 18-20, now when I’m 18 people think I’m 15. How did I progress for the worse?