Stess's Journal

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I stayed up until 4am the other night talking to katysdiary on the phone. Now my sleep schedule is off again. I had almost gotten it under control. Sigh. I don't like taking Unisom because it makes me feel heavy and lethargic the next morning. But I have to get up tomorrow, because my mom is going in to have...something done. I forget what it is exactly. She's been having problems for a while, but they're the kind you really don't want to hear about, so I'll spare the details :) Anyway, for this test they have to put her under anesthesia I guess, so I have to go with her. I get to spend about three or four hours chilling in the medical center. Whee. My dad won't let me bring his laptop either, which sucks. So it's back to good-ol' pen and paper for me. I just printed like twenty Sudoku puzzles from the internet, so that should keep me occupied for a while. I can get some writing done too, though I wish I could have the laptop so I could type instead. It's faster. Oh well.

In other news, still broke, still jobless. This is getting very old. Avenue hasn't called me back. I think I'll have to look elsewhere. There's a really nice shopping area nearer home, maybe I'll check over there and see if anyone is hiring. So far the only other place I've noticed is Old Navy, and I really really don't want to work somewhere were teens/kids shop. I like working with older customers. They're nicer.

Also I just noticed that my room looks like it belongs to that little girl from Signs. There are half-finished water bottles all over the place. I hate drinking water if it isn't cold, though, so if it sits for too long I won't drink it. Note to self: put them back in the fridge.

By the way, l8nitewriter any confirmation on the idea of a reunion game night while I'm in town? (I will be there. I will!)

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.

bored bored bored bored

So I'm determined to go to Searcy for Spring Sing this year, but with still not having a job and no income, getting the money to go is proving difficult. I'm babysitting when I can, and thinking very seriously about just breaking down and getting a retail job now, which I should have done like two months ago anyway. *Sigh* If anyone wants to donate to the "Send Stessie to Spring Sing" fund, I'd be very happy. :) Just kidding. I can make it, I know I can. I just need about $200 for gas and food to get there. All I need is to watch my girls about four more times and I'll be there. Especially considering this last time the parents stayed out until 3am again. (Not that I blame them. When you have three girls under the age of 5, it's probably nice to get out and have a life once in a while)

In other news it's supposed to snow tonight or tomorrow. Fnarr. It had just gotten nice around here! They're predicting up to six inches. Oh well.

So today was another eeh-xcellent day. I got my hair done, and it looks super cute. The highlights are chunkier and the underside is a little darker, and she stacked the layers in the back more to give it a little more interest. It looks awesome. Then I met up with my mom and we went to Max & Erma's, which for all you southerner's out there is just like Fridays or Applebees only you don't have them so HA! And they have awesome fries. Wooo!

Then it was DASH home, change, and go to my interview, which went spectacularly. He loved my samples, and liked me. He said there definitely might be a place at their company for me. I have to wait a few weeks for his response, but I'm hopeful. He really seemed to like me. Hwuuu!

PS: Any Project Runway fans out there in my flist? Anyone else not think that Chloe's collection would rock your face off? Yeah, I was pleasantly suprised and she totally deserved to win.

Oh and Ashley: Lemonade. That's all I'm saying.

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In other news, I have a job interview Thursday (whee!) so that's exciting. If that doesn't work out I'm going to get a retail job just so that I can have a LIFE because I'm bored out of my skull.

Good two days, actually, because yesterday was good, too. I actually got up in the morning, got things done, and then yesterday evening my parent's friend Kathy came in. She was in town on business but came by to have dinner, and since I seemed to enjoy playing bridge I got to play with them. When Kathy and her husband were here for a weekend, they played 51 hands in one day. That's a lot. We only played about six or seven, but had a good time, and me and my dad won all but twice. Kathy said I'm not allowed to have beginner's luck anymore because I'm not a beginner. lol.

But the best part about yesterday was when my dad called. I did some work for his company when I first got here, designing a logo for a service in his company. Anyway, they took what I had done to their normal graphic designer to work on further and utilize in other ways. She met with my dad yesterday, and when she learned that I was the one who had done the original and I was looking for a job, she said she was looking for a new entry-level designer and she wanted my resume. !!!

So I took my resume over today. The principle wasn't there, but one of the other designers was, and he was really nice. He seemed impressed by my resume, so I'm really excited. The woman who owns it will be back tomorrow, so here's hoping!!!

Also LOST tonight was probably the best episode I've seen all season. Alex! Others! Ethan! Baby Aaron! And almost no Jack! And next week? Sun pregnant wha?

A friend of my mom's asked for a copy of my resume for her son's company. So I print the first official printed draft of the whole thing and sign it and show it to my mom. You know what she says?

"Well it looks really good, except I really hate your signature. Could you reprint it and sign it different?"

*Sigh*. It's my signature mom. Yes, it doesn't say "Stephanie Ringold" exactly. It looks more like "St*scribble* Ri*scribble*. But I like it. "Well what if they think you're sloppy?" Have you looked at the rest of it, mom? Does it LOOK sloppy? *shakes her head*

Oh well.

l8nitewriter, I apologize for laughing at you after you saw Chronicles of Narnia and ran screaming into my apartment.

Why? Because I (finally) saw it today, and if my dad hadn't been with me, I would have done the same to him.

It was AMAZING. My dad had never read the books, so it was a new experience for him, and he loved it. I think he and I might take my mom to go see it again sometime.

It was awesome. I loved every minute. Never has a movie adaptation come so close to my imaginary vision of what the story would look like. The children! The house! Narnia! The Witch (omg she was amazing), her palace! ASLAN!! (breathe, stephanie, breathe). It was amazing. Just...incredible. And from what I've heard, they have the greenlight on Prince Caspian. Dunno if Adamson is directing again, but I cannot wait.

"You shake it."
"Why?"
"I don't know!"

(And now I'm really glad I got Tumnus on that quiz, because I adored him)

PS Just as a follow-up, the presentation to mu dad's office went really well, and they're going to use my stuff to brand this service. I've got a bit more work to do for them, but it's awesome.

So my dad asked me to work on this logo/letterhead design for this Healthcare Benefits thing. The marketing guy in his office had done something, and it looked kinda ok, but I worked on it some more and made it better. And now my dad wants me to go into his office and PRESENT it to his office. OMG!

So that's exciting. I'm going in with him on Friday, which means I have a few more days to work on some ideas for the rest of the packet that will be sent with the cover letter.

So yay! This could be really great for me to have an actual corporate piece, professionally printed and everything. So excited! Wish me luck for Friday!