so this morning i get a call from the guy saying "your name sticks out, i remember being bummed i didn't meet you at our hiring fair" and i was like "uhhhh, hiring fair??" apparently i slipped through the cracks when they were notifying people... but as it turns out, there was someone they'd hired who wasn't able to attend all of their hardcore mandatory training classes, so there was another opening and he called me since he remembered my name and remembered he'd wanted to meet me before. so it's sorta serendipitous, really.
basically he interviewed me over the phone and then offered me the job then and there. SWEET.
so i go in tomorrow morning for the initial training type setup stuff, and then there's like two weeks of training classes; the store opens on 6/13.
duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude i got a job!!!!!
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood:ecstatic
- Music:budgies tweeting
lola likes to preen my hair and my face. chester doesn't much care for me, but landed on my head to be near lola for a little while. that blur in front of lola in the last picture is chester flying away to have fun elsewhere.
had four naps, was miserable in between them, all groggy and wanting to go back to sleep. feh. just had the last one and now i'm free to go -- once mr. man arrives to pick me up, that is. ;-)
i won't know the results for a couple weeks; then i have a follow-up with the doctor, although the soonest i could get in was may... nice.
- Mood:
happy
can't take a nap, though. i'm going to the sleep lab tonight to get tested for apnea or some other sort of thing. i am a hideous snorer, and i'm very restless in my sleep. and lately i've been having trouble keeping my eyes open when driving -- mostly on the way to or from work. highly disturbing on the highway at 75mph...
so yeah. apparently they have wifi and everything, so i won't be completely bored. besides, the appointment isn't until 8:30 this evening anyway -- i reckon by the time i get checked in and all that, it'll probably be time to sleep anyway.
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:"team fortress 2" in the background, yay :P
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood: jubilant
i think it was just one huge gigantic spasm. i felt okay the rest of the evening without having to dose up on anything else, and today i've felt mostly back to normal except for noticing a tender spot here and there.
next time i sleep all day i'll just have to alternate from master bed to guest bed to couch to comfy chair and around again. ;-)
- Location:budgieville, 78704
"a while" turned out to be the entire fucking day. i was just exhausted, and truth be told, kinda depressed. working so much is beginning to take its toll on me. didn't feel depressed about anything in particular -- chances are it was probably just sleep deprivation coming to a head. i woke up off and on but just rolled over and went back to sleep until about 11:00, when mathew came up to go to bed. then i changed into my pajamas and went to bed for real, hah.
this morning i woke up feeling refreshed (wow) and in a pretty good mood. amazing!
except that within an hour or so, my back started to hurt. a lot. i decided to have a nice warm bath with eucalyptus salts. it was lovely but didn't seem to help much. and it just got worse and worse. i tried to go about my business for a while... at some point mathew suggested we go out for coffee, so we went to dominican joe but at that point i was in so much pain i could barely walk. we sat there just long enough to finish our drinks and i just had to go home -- it's the most pain i've had in *years*. seriously, years, and i deal with a considerable amount of pain on a regular basis.
so i took a vicodin (although reading the prescription label, i see the stuff is two years old and probably not all that effective anymore), mathew put some icy-hot on my back, and i rested for a couple hours. got up around 4 and felt pretty okay -- actually i still do, though it's touch-and-go.
i'm sure it's just from having been in bed for 24 hours straight, but christ -- i've *never* had this happen before. welcome to 37.
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood:
olde
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baalofconfusion's place with a few of the usual suspects. it was pertelote22's last night in austin before she headed back up to memphis. since the funeral party i've been thinking about all the awesome people i'm able to call my friends, and getting the warm fuzzies about it all. **big fuzzy hugs to all of you**- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood: content
got a real actual barista job!
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i don’t do resolutions. i don’t need to give myself MORE opportunities to fail.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
nope
4. Did anyone close to you die?
no
5. What countries did you visit?
this year we didn’t go anywhere at all.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?...( Read more... )
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
don’t give up, don’t make assumptions about people’s behavior or motives
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Well I been workin in a coal mine
Goin down down
Workin in a coal mine
Whew about to slip down
Five oclock in the mornin
Im up before the sun
When my work day is over
Im too tired for havin fun
Lord I am so tired
How long can this go on
I been workin goin workin
Whew about to slip down
-- “working in a coal mine,” devo
- Location:home sweet home
- Mood: chill
Scorpio Horoscope for week of December 18, 2008
Verticle Oracle card Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Happy Holy Daze, Scorpio! If I could give you one symbolic gift to set the right tone for 2009, it might be a clear glass vase with a potato growing partially submerged in water, allowing you to see its gnarly roots. I'd hope that would inspire you to put diligent yet playful effort into getting reacquainted with and exploring your own personal source code -- you know, the master plan of your life that you formulated before you were born. The coming months will be an excellent time to cultivate a wise innocence as you get to the bottom of who you really are.
jeez, this is only what i just fucking talked about with my therapist on friday.
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Music:hüsker dü: you're a soldier
 Dear Santa...Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In May I ruled Iran as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). In November I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). Last week I punched princesca in the arm (-10 points). In July I ruled Duluth, Minnesota as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). In April I gave fidgetybird a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-36 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, |
- Location:budgieville, 78704
- Mood:
naughty
made myself a raspberry mocha around 9:00 last night and was up the whooooole night. caught half an hour of z's here, half an hour there... but i was pretty much up all night. suuuuuuuucked.
no more bedtime lattes for rothko. ugh.
- Mood: exhausted
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so we've wanted to get chester a little budgie friend for a while now -- i think he's lonely and wants some like company. he's learned to imitate the wrens outside and sings their song when he's out by the back window. poor little guy.
so we called gallery of pets a couple weeks ago and purely by luck it happened that they were getting some hand-fed budgies in very soon. hand-fed rather than parent-raised budgies are used to being handled by people, so they're easier to tame and train. we were hoping to go that route, but they're kinda hard to find -- it's funny, you can find all sorts of breeders for bigger, more exotic birds, but it's tough to find a proper budgie breeder -- i guess the big stores sell budgies for cheap, and so a breeder doesn't wanna put too much work into budgies since they can't get much $$ for them due to the huge competition and the general public's ignorance regarding parakeets' needs. gallery of pets (183 and duval) is very small, though, and they have a woman who brings them a clutch of hand-feds every once in a while.
ANYWAY. we were put on a waiting list, and they called today saying they had just 2 or 3. we headed up and picked this little one -- she's very sweet and happily sits on a hand already. not very shy, very curious and loves to climb. we got her a separate little cage to stay in for a few days next door to chester so they can kinda meet and get used to each other (and we can determine whether or not they're gonna kill each other), and once they get comfortable with each other then they'll both go in a humongous brand-new cage big enough for both of them (and then some).
no idea what to name her yet. gotta see what her personality really is first, i think -- though suggestions are welcome. ;-)
also picked up the ghostland observatory thing this evening; haven't listened yet though.
i'll catch up eventually. if i decide i care, that is.
- Mood: bedtime
mathew has taken some fantastic pictures of chester budgie recently. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meta40
- Mood: jubilant
