Stess's Journal

So today was fun. Good church, lunch at a local hamburger place with the best waffle fries ever, and then my interview at Avenue, which went swimmingly. Almost definitely have a job, unless katysdiary upholds her threat and tells the manager all sorts of horror stories on me.

So after my interview I did a little random shopping out of boredom. I've been on a flip-flop hunt, looking for cute ones that aren't just your average $2 Wal-Mart variety, but still cheap. I went to Kohls and found a cute pair. I also learned, via the five-year old girl in line behind me, that Thumper is actually the Easter Bunny, and that he has email. Seriously, y'all this girl was adorable. This is the conversation:

GIRL: Mom, can I have some candy?
MOM: No sweetie, you can't have candy. Remember, you got in trouble with the candy? I had to tell the Easter Bunny not to bring you any because you are in trouble.
GIRL: *gasp* You know Thumper?
MOM: He has email.
GIRL: *pause* What's his email address?
MOM: Only mommies know it. Otherwise you would email him, and only mommies can tell him if you get candy.
ME: *silently dies laughing*

So I come home, blah blah, normal afternoon, watch some TV, play a little Sims, make some icons for my icon contests, and then about 11:30 I am totally bored, hungry, and still not tired. Mark, it transpires is also hungry. This calls for a random sneaking-out-of-the-house-to-get-McDonalds run. That accomplished, I return upstairs, sit down, and not five minutes after I have delivered Mark his chicken nuggets he IMs me and says "help. come down here now." I proceed to freak out, run downstairs, to discover that Mark mistook a bottle of rasperry vinagrette dressing for barbecue sauce, and consequently has spilled it ALL over the carpet, chair, himself, desk, and keyboard of his computer. Woe. His words? "Oh good, it didn't get on my nuggets. That would be nasty." I'm like...uh...who cares about the nuggets, dude, if you don't get this up quick, your mother will murdelize you. You'll never eat another nugget again! Although it smells lovely now, it is quickly staining the carpet, which our mother is highly protective of, being that this house is brand new. So we quickly fetch the industrial strength carpet cleaner (WHY we have this is anyone's guess) and manage to get the stain out, for the most part. The keyboard is another story, but that's his problem, not mine.

I'll give you a fair warning: it is late, and I have had caffeine tonight. I am talkative.

So after much toil and editing, I have made myself a rockin' awesome LJ layout. Everyone should check it out. I figured out how to add a banner image (thanks to help from l8nitewriter) and then with a few more changes made something that I can be happy with for at least a few weeks! (lol - that's for you, Aaron!) When I have an income, perhaps I will upgrade to a paid account so I can get my excessive icons and do more fun stuff to the layout. Now that I've become an icon-making madwoman, I suppose I should.

Anyway, church tonight was amazing. First of all, they opened with James Taylor's "How Sweet it is to be Loved by You". I was like, James Taylor? In church? Rock. On. The pianist/singer from the worship band is amazing. Then the pastor giving the lesson this week said that he didn't want us to learn anything tonight, he wanted us to feel. We're doing a series on Ephesians and tonight was all about the end of chapter 3, about God's love and how awesome it is. It was really great. They gave us snacks too! Before the service there were people walking around with trays of cookies and trail mix, and they had water and soft drinks. It was so fun.

Yesterday I finally shelved my pride and took an application in to Avenue. (For those of you who aren't familiar with women's clothing stores, Avenue is like Lane Bryant, only less hoochie - which I can say because I worked there for three years) I should hear back from the manager soon. It's longer hours, but hey, it's a job. I need one of those, not just because I'm broke but because I am bored to sobs around here. I need something constructive to do besides make LJ icons and watch movies and play Zelda. Hopefully the people from JB Graphics will call me back soon and then I'll have a real job, doing what I really want to do.

In that same vein, sort of, my dad decided this afternoon that I could have been a math major. See, my family has fallen prey to the fad known as Sudoku. If you don't know what it is, go here and check it out. It's a matter of filling in the numbers so that 1-9 only appear in each row/column/box once. It's addicting. My dad is good at it, and my mom tries, but I've mastered it. It's what I do now when I'm bored. I generally end up doing maybe, twenty odd puzzles a day. This is why my dad thinks I should have been a math major. I like math. I'm pretty good at it too. At one point, I thought I wanted to teach it. Then I realized I was psychotic and had a death wish. Sudoku isn't really math, it's logic. But it's still addicting. (strangely, after deciding I was insane for wanting to teach high school, i became an art major. now I've decided to eventually go back and get a masters so I can teach graphic design in high school or college. Go figure.)

Ok I've rambled enough.

so...bored... ...must...stimulate...brain... ...losing...mental...functions...

So I totally rented the original Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego...I remember it being a *lot* harder. Of course, there is a big difference on my grasp of world geography now than when I was you know, nine.

My parents best friends from Ohio are here visiting for the weekend. I like Tom & Kathy. They are fun people. But usually when the two couples get together, it's elsewhere, like, they both go away for the weekend. It's kind of irritating to have company over and not be invited to join in. I think my parents realized how left out we felt because this afternoon they invited me and Mark to play Apples to Apples with them, but then they went out to eat and now they're back to playing their umpteenth round of bridge. Seriously, y'all, they played bridge until 1am last night, and went through at least one bottle of wine between four.

So having basically been sequestered to either the upstairs or the basement, I have been bored to death this weekend, because I have no life, and nothing is on TV. Mark and I watched The Corpse Bride last night. Very cute. I liked it better than Nightmare, personally. I think he's been to the video store twice today already. I have been staring at my computer screen, television, or books intermitently. I watched a movie, played a video game for like five minutes, read a chapter of Eragon, played Sudoku, watched CSI, and now I'm trying to dispel my persistent writers block. I think it worked. I'm just so BORED.

And I was supposed to babysit tonight but the family never called me back and I think they changed their minds. *Shrugs* Oh well.

So, I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but Carmel has a wicked awesome library. Like, better-than-a-college-library library. Even my brother gets excited about the library - mostly because one half of the downstairs is devoted to CDs/DVDs/VHS/Audiobooks/and Computer Games. Yes, folks. You can rent computer games. From the library. *squees* (is totally planning to rent the original Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and FINALLY BEAT IT so that she will have some closure in her life)

Anyway, I decided to finally read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Funniest. Book. Ever. Now I'm reading Book 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Meme ganked from chewie_007 and akelavincent

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does. Heh. How about Ace of Base? Or the soundrack to "Into the Woods", the soundtrack of Titanic, the first N*Sync album...(i don't own it anymore, it was terrible, lapse in judgement, shuddup)

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Well I would say "Perks of Being a Wallflower", but just in case Jenny or Paige reads this, I'll say the Dragon Nimbus series by Irene Radford, just because it's kind of an obscure fantasy series I found at the library and liked.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Gosford Park, Danny Deckchair, Calendar Girls, and Saving Grace because most of them are British Comedies that arent's so well known. Those or maybe Titanic because I really do love that movie.

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
Mykonos, Athens, Thessalonica, Crete, Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, Rome...unless you've been to HUG then you did go there...other than that I haven't really been anywhere in the US that no one else would have been to. Except maybe Piggot, Arkansas.

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has. My pride and joy, my Powermac G5. (and by the way Nate, i do SO own a legal copy of Photoshop BOOYA)