3 posts tagged “of”
9:30pm
The new health food shop is going to be right near my work. It will be four times the size of the original store, and have a juice bar in it. There's still no official opening date yet. I could DIE of joy.
Right down the street from the original health food shop there's also a CPS shop, a fairy/nature(/CPS?) shop, and an Irish pub (which I got stew from with Cameron today. IT WAS SO GOOD.). My next day off I want to walk around that area and check out all the places. And the other health food shop across the street from the one I go to that I still haven't been to yet. There are apartments in that area too. And it's all in like a half hour walking distance, in a nice neighborhood. That's where I want to live as soon as I have my degree paid for and own a car. If I moved there right after getting my degree, I'd be paying rent out the ass and wouldn't be able to afford a car. So even though I'll be mostly walking, I still need to get a car first.
They have mint chocolate swirl ice cream (at the original health food shop XD) that's made from rice milk. It's AMAZING. I think I like it better than Bryers. No milk after-taste. Excellent texture and flavor. Not so good once it's melted, but it melts very slowly. The chocolate swirls are fudgey and minty. Not sure if I like that so much. The new store should have more flavors. I think they have it at Giant Beagle too. Maybe they have more flavors. Unless they only have the rice milk, and not the ice cream. Anyway, it's called Good Karma (Rice Divine). Let's check it oooout!
I want to make a work people list too. Yes.
Cindy (aka: Hitler/Christine2): Self explanatory.
Anne: HILARIOUS. 25. Has a 5 year old daughter. I thought she was like eighteen and was so shocked about the kid. LOL We take the (breaded) soooole train to Clam Town whenever one (or one hundred) opens up, and we mimic Hitler when she's off. We salute each other when it's time for our lunch breaks.
Justin (aka: Daddy/Captain/Squirrelaroo): Jealous because he was off the day me and Anne formed 67687963123 inside jokes. Slacker. Dave the Laugh. Drinks and parties a lot. Squirrelaroo is his species, because stores cheese for winter in his apron pouch. (Me and Anne are GENIUSES.). Went to L.A. to try to become a DJ right before I started working there, came back a week later. Currently trying to figure out if he's capable of developing musical taste. I'll determine that after he plays some music from the band he was raving about yesterday. Calls me Meat Man. Smoker (ick, elch, eltche). We talk about cartoons. Cameron hates him with a passion.
Jenn: Went to our "rival school" and does a lot of black head motions when she's got an attitude. Round, with glasses, same age as me. I steal her customers and she tries to crush my arms when I try to get meat out of the case. XD She tells me about how her old boyfriend cheated on her and how she thought she might have been pregnant a while back. I sit there and nod, trying not to hurl at the idea of someone touching a person that physically terrifying. She constantly tells me I'm weird. I tell her I know. Anne can't stand her. Justin asked if I'd stab her with a poison dart in the break room if he gave me one. I said I'd think about it.
Pam: Tiny, cute grandma type. From England, and therefore so much fun to hear talk. All of our customers from the UK talk to her, and bring her newspapers from London, etc. Really cool.
Ed: Best person to close with 'cause he's so laid back. Probably in like his sixties. From New York. Light-hearted. Hates Cindy's bullshit. Starts chats when it's not busy instead of making us clean the world in silence.
Mary: Greatest demo person ever. Me and Anne always hope she's going to give out samples. Speaks kind of slowly. Really nice. "Come on over here and get a sample. I have breaded soooole. I have clams here ready for sampling. One just opened up." Good times, good times. When I brought Cameron in to introduce him to everyone, she said we were so cute walking around the... stooore together. ^-^
Maryanne: Usually nice, but snapped at us for talking the other day (bizarre). She's the one who sneakily threw away chicken because she was annoyed by Cindy being Cindy. She shakes. Like a chihuahua.
Myra: Nice. In her forties or fifties. Good to close with. She said she likes closing with me. ^-^ Her and Justin joking around together is REALLY hilarious. She laughs really hard at a lot of the "that's what she said" type of jokes. Only they're usually worse. XD She'd make a much better manager than Cindy.
The Sushi Chef (whose name I still don't know): Really nice. Cute. Thick Japanese accent. Should let Niki live with her. LOL
That's everyone in the deli (I hope I didn't forget anyone LOL). Unless you count a couple people from the seafood department who come over to help when we're short-handed. Outside of the deli there's my friends from school, Mary who trained me (I'm her unofficial dietician XD), John from the kitchen, and Cathy and Corrine up front who I talk to the most in the breakroom.
I got my first five-day-week paycheck yesterday.
$240
I deserve a juicer.
Friday
1:30pm
While it is a day meant to celebrate our "freedom" from a much better country, I must try to remind myself that I should be happy about it, because if my ancestors had not come to this land and "mingled" with the natives, I would not be here to type this. Shame they won the war though, eh? Thanks anyway, guys.
Sorry it's been so long. First I spend like an entire week at Niki's, and was simply having too much fun (AND WALKING TOO MUCH. HOLY SHIT.) to type. Then after I got back home, my mom decided I don't do enough chores to deserve internet access. Fine, mother. I won't use the computer. But don't come complaining to me when you're sad because you pay all this money out every month for absolutely no reason.
Anyway, I managed to get it back two days ago (after spending the entire day pulling weeds and mowing the lawn) but I just couldn't be bothered to type until now.
So, during my week at Niki's (more or less) I experienced many things. There was walking. And some more walking. Lots of penises and drunk girls. (Aunt Sandy's bachelorette party.) Dancing ALL night (ending around 6am when I went for a walk). Getting invited to an Autumnal Equinox bonfire at my aunt's. A metric shit-ton of Pokemon. Pizza. Crisis. Parents sucking at being parents. Rain. Sun. Waiting four hours for Wendy's to open and then deciding not to take Devin's money. Sitting awkwardly while Devin and Chris ate. Walking. Getting invited to the bridal shower at 10pm. Tv shows about fat people. Being Aunt Sandy's "amateur nutritionist" until the wedding. About six more shit-tons of pokemon. Spending ten years trying to get a ride to the store. Flat tire. Walking in the rain. At night. Imagining being pulled over for weaving on the sidewalk. Hiding my cards for fear of them being stolen. Along with everything else I brought over. The Espeon-Charmeleon incident. Niki, the fairest bitch of them all. XD Amazing water from Iceland. Strawberries. Blueberries. Making the best blueberry pancakes ever with Niki. Poo that looked like charcoal from eating so many blueberries... and that's probably a good place to stop.
I felt a bit slow for not realizing it earlier, but I've figured out what I want to do with my life... as far as a first career goes. I'm going to be a nutritionist. I've been interested in how food affects the body since like sixth grade when my mom took interest in Somersizing (Suzanne Somers' weight loss eating plan), and over the last year or so I've become completely obsessed with natural health. And people are always asking me, you know, "Is this healthy? What about this?" And I'm always trying to push my views about food on other people, so what better job would the be for me than telling people what to eat?! XD!!! I just can't believe it took me so long to figure out. It wasn't until I started planning stuff with Aunt Sandy that it really clicked.
The problem was, though, that my college didn't have a program for that. So, I started researching and in just a few hours I found my dream school. It's an online school, so I wont have a schedule to work around when I try to get a job (SOON). It's almost the same price as Land O'Lakes. EVERY class is directly related to the career. There are no pointless unrelated requirements. You can work at your own pace, so as long as I can afford it, I can finish up faster. Anyway, it's called Clayton College of Natural Health. It's accredited by a credible-looking source, though the accreditor is not on the U.S. Department of Education's list. That doesn't mean that the material and degrees are not legitimate, though. It ony means that graduates of the college won't be able to participate in certain federally sponsored events that require the title (Ph.D., etc.) they earned there. I looked through the list and there isn't even an accreditor there that's for nutrition in any way shape or form. Fuck you, Department of Education. You and your love o'drugs. I may become an herbalist too.
I also met a lovely dragonfly when I was weeding the front flowerbed. I really wish I'd never sat on my camera. I still can't afford to get a new one yet. I don't even know if I'll be able to afford my books for school. My mom offered to help me with my books a few weeks back if I couldn't afford it. I may have to use the $150 that Cameron gave me for graduation to use for an emergency. The tuition is quite literally all of my savings. I'll have thirty-five dollars left. So now I can't even get a laptop yet. Gimme dat jarb.
I've started doing yoga again. I've finally managed to get myself on a... not quite NORMAL, but rather, an EARLIER sleeping schedule. I've been waking up in time to do this yoga program that's on at 6am on the Oxygen network, called Inhale. I discovered it after staying up all night watching infomercials one new years eve (or rather, day) a few years back. I would stop for different reasons. Either I'd have to go to school half way through, or they would replace it for a while with Xena, or I just couldn't bother to get up that early, etc., etc. For the last year though, my main reason was that my wrist has grown this big crazy bump, and it would hurt when I did poses that require you to put your hands on the floor put weight on them. But, I'm managing to do it without much discomfort, and I'm convinced that it's going to go away. I thought so for a long time, just because it would fluctuate in size, sometimes shrinking. But when Niki's mom mentioned yoga when we were talking about stress last week, I showed her and she said she had the exact same thing and it went away (after some years, but still).
Also, I walked to the library last week (which took about an hour) and picked up a couple books.
Tuesday, March 11th
11:30pm
I've been so laxy with my journals lately (i.e. there have been none). So, I've decided to drop out and become a SyrupTales addict. Well. Not technically, but that's certainly the way this last week has felt. I did decide to take Niki's advice and drop the rest of this semester to clear my head, make some money, and get the hell out of this house. Luckily I can do this without my mom finding out. Because I'm just THAT good.
SyrupTales! I'm a level nineteen magician and I've only been playing a week and a half. Cameron wanted me to join so we could get married in the game. ^-^ He's already proposed. I'll add a picture of the ring next time I play. I haven't had much to write about other than how many green mushrooms I've killed (over 100 for sure) or how many times I boiled at Niki's (10 for sure). I can't even write about my fun weekend because she already described it well enough for the both of us. XD!!! But I can say that we got snowed in (as far as driveways go) and I got to stay two nights, which was so much fun. And WE MADE GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF FOOD (AND ALSO VIDEO).
Then I "helped" Cameron with a speech he needed to film for a class. Basically meaning that I tried REALLY hard to not fall asleep, as I'd gone to bed that morning at 7am. And then I held the camera. There were gratuitous amounts of cuddles, then some pizza and South Park. And his sister (who is a doctor) is putting their parents on one of those diets where you order all your food from them, so they're giving me a big box full of stuff for baking and such. Basically, more sprinkles THAN MY KITCHEN HAS ROOM FOOOOR. Niki! We should make cupcakes with cute little millions of different sprinkles!
Also, I saw this Korean music video yesterday that made me bawl my eyes out.
AND. I got my FREE HELLO KITTY CHECKS! And my debit card. And I tried to buy things with it before I activated it. HILAAAAAARIOUS. Not. The black chick at the checkout looked ready to kill me after like ten minutes of trying to figure out why it didn't work, and asking me if I REALLY had any money in my account. I felt so dumb when Cameron told me I needed to call to activate it. I thought I was just supposed to swipe it once. Anyway, that meant no mint plant from Giant Beagle for me. But that's okay. Because I can make money now.
WHAT?! HOW?!?!?!?
Well. Let me tell you. Later. XD Because now it's time for SyrupTales. ENJOY THE SUSPENSE!
Okay, fine. Here's a hint.
