Bunny Love

Tomorrow is my last day at Starbucks:



Seriously I am so happy to be leaving. The politics and management at my store have just been a nightmare for the past couple of months and I'm glad to see it all gone. There's about 4 people I will really miss working with, we had some good laughs, but other than that, nothing, nada, zip, zero. The first time I quit Starbucks I told myself I'd never go back (the job itself isn't that bad, but it's retail and you don't make any money) and I did, but this time I believe I won't have to. Tuesday I start university and for the next three years I'll be dealing with that and lack of sleep. Once I'm done I'm going to have much better prospects and possible a job.

I almost feel like things are really getting started for me. This should have happened years ago, but it is now and I'm both super excited and so nervous I feel as if I could puke. Today I got an email from one of my teachers telling the class which textbook we needed to buy for next week and it really hit me that it's almost here. Also the textbook (okay, more like a notebook) is only $11, so I don't have to spend a bundle on it. That I have to do on art supplies.

And speaking of art supplies I saw this last night and it is literally like a dream come true:



I WILL HAVE THIS IN MY POSSESSION. YES I WILL. I DO NOT CARE HOW MUCH IT IS. I WILL HAVE YOU. YESSSS PRECIOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....

It would be super awesome if we could use this in second year, because that's when we do all our digital work. I'll get a brand spanking new Mac and tablet out of it and this would just be the icing on the cake. :D

( Not many spoilers )

NEW LAYOUT: leggyslove

Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll; Tangled won, but I could not for the life of me get anything I made to my liking. I was creatively stumped and thought that the least I did the better I would feel and it worked. I love Stardust and thought that would be a nice theme.

Tomorrow is my interview, drawing test, creativity test and communications test at the university tomorrow. They may as well just take some blood and hair samples to test my DNA to make sure I'm really me after everything. Either way I'm not really worried, I'll just do my best and that'll have to suffice.

My back is slowly getting better. I had a physio appointment today and she's really pleased with my progress. I'm starting to walk without a cane now and am able to do some things on my own. I made dinner last night without any help and also was able to pick up Moe (if cats were sumo wrestlers he'd be one). My boss has me scheduled for a shift on the 18th, so we'll see how that goes and if it goes well then I can get back to work on a more regular basis. Which is good because mum and I don't want to go begging on the streets. Mum said that I should rent out my uterus to a gay couple and make $100,000. XD

Thank you everyone for your comments, love and support about my Grandma, it means a lot to me. Tomorrow my aunt is having an open house/gathering so we can all say goodbye and remember. We opted out of having a formal funeral/service since it's just too much stress for everyone and in later years my Grandma wasn't really affiliated with any church or organization, so we felt it wasn't really necessary. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty nervous about tomorrow. I haven't been to something like this for a family member since I was about 7 and that was for my Grandpa. I barely remember any of it, so really this is the first time tackling the whole 'death of a family member' as an adult. I am always uncomfortable crying in front of family or in public. I just try to bottle it all up and then usually have my own mini meltdowns alone days or weeks after everything. Healthy, no? ;P

This week has been hard for various reasons, some not having anything to do with Grandma. Money is bad, probably the worst it's been in... well, ever. Last night I crushed my big toe underneath the giant blue garbage bin at work; probably one of the most painful things I have ever felt in my entire life. Thankfully my toe wasn't broken. I could barely walk the rest of the night, but today I can bend it fine and put pressure on it, it's just turning a nice purple/blue colour. I also wanted to take my mum to the aquarium for her birthday on Wednesday and I had the mindset that I would make this happen no matter what, but I can't, so that kinda knocked me down too. I have made alternate plans; I have gift cards from Christmas to the movies and to a restaurant so that will just as fun. So to really sum it up this really hasn't been my week for a number of reasons. :D I think after tomorrow is over with I'll start feeling better and just having the pressure of certain things over with and I can just gather my wits and focus on assembling my portfolio.

[eta] THIS ANIMAL IS NOW MY HERO JUST BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND OF REAL LIFE POKEMON:

My Wifey, I received your card today!!!! Which is odd since there is no post on Sunday's, but it is only because no one checked the mail box on Friday, so YAY!!! Thank you very much. It is now with my other cards. ♥ ♥ ♥

I hope everyone had a good or a relatively good Christmas. Mine was actually pretty good; I wasn't really expecting much (both out of the actual holiday/presents), but overall it was nice. Mum and I stayed home and did nothing and dad came over for Christmas Eve/Day. We basically ate, watched TV/movies, ate, slept and ate some more.

Now the oblig present moment:

You sometimes when you make up a Christmas list and you put down something that you're 99% sure you won't get, but thought you'd put down anyway? Or just set yourself up for relatively low expectations overall? That's kind of how I was feeling about some stuff on my list; most of the stuff I put on I knew I had a fair chance at getting, but a couple of items I was like 'that'll never happen, but whatever. *writes it down anyway*. Yeah, well that 1% did happen because my dad got me two things I didn't really think he would.

1st: the Kobo eReader. It's so cute and tiny and cute and book-like. :D It's more of a basic eReader with not a whole lot, but for what I want/need it for it'll do perfectly. I also know 100% that this will work within Canada. I got so confused looking at other eReaders on the market and hearing that they worked fine in Canada and then hearing they didn't and people had a lot of hassles with them. So there we are. I also got gift cards to the book store where I can buy books/ebooks and now I cannot make my mind up as to what I want now. *headdesk. The cool thing is with the Kobo is that they pre-load 100 classic novels (i.e. Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, War and Peace ect.) onto it when you buy it, so even if I cannot make my mind up as to what I want to buy I do have a lot of choices to choose from right now.

2nd: SEASON 1 OF SHERLOCK (BBC) ON DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Since the invention of boxed set tv seasons my dad has never once bought me one before even though they show up on my lists every year. I am very excited. :D

But I think the best present of all is the pair of slippers my mum bought me from Superstore (like WalMart). She got me these nice light grey slippers that can be worn both inside and outside, but she realized when she was wrapping them on Christmas Eve that she picked up one Large sized slipper and one Small sized slipper. XD So now I have a slipper for one foot.

Today I had to work the Boxing Day morning shift. I haven't worked a Boxing Day in about 4/5 years and I remember why I hate to. The second we opened our doors at 7AM it was lined up to and pretty much out the door from that point on. It was crazy. PEOPLE, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SLEEP IN ON BOXING DAY!!! I hate working retail on occasions like that. For those of you who may not be familiar, Boxing Day in Canada is like shopping on Black Friday in the US, tons of deals/sales go on and it's nuts. I had to get up at 5:30am this morning (I have not been up that early for any purpose in years) and I fully support that 5:30am should be illegal. I am going to bed soon and it's probably the earliest I've been to bed since I was, like, 10 years old. Can you tell I'm a night person? :P

I fucking hate working in retail at Christmas time. [/end venting]

First off: boromirslover, I received your card on Friday! I've been meaning to post a thank you earlier, but I suck and put it off until now. Thank you very much! <3

Sunday night I watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC... ( minor spoilers if you haven't seen it )

I've been rereading some of the Harry Potter books before the movie comes out in a couple of weeks. I finished rereading Deathly Hallows for the first time since it came out and it felt like I was reading it for the first time again, I honestly had forgotten so much. I am very excited for the new movie and will definitely go see it. HBP is the only Harry Potter movie I never saw in theatres and it was one of the best ones, I think.

Tonight I have to go into work and when I do I'll see the whole store decked out for Christmas. I really am not looking forward to Christmas or to see Christmas stuff yet, but sadly when you work in retail you get little choice. D:

I slept in until 3pm today... um, oops? No, I was so tired after last night so I'm glad I slept. Especially since tomorrow I start my new job. I'm actually pretty calm about it. Of course I'll be a bit nervous, but really I'm not stressing. I think that's a good sign.

Last night I went to a pre-Halloween party thrown by one of my friends from work. We had a lot of fun and we all had to dress up. I was a faery. :)

The last couple of days have been rough. Between my mental meltdown at work and yesterday bringing dad home from the hospital it's been... tiring to say the least. My mum is currently over at my dad's place right now and he seems to doing alright. I feel better today. I'm just going to stay home and putter around.

One bright spot about this week... I HAVE FOUR MORE DAYS LEFT AT STARBUCKS! *Snoopy Dance*

Yesterday while mum and I were at the pharmacy picking up dad's drugs I got most of my Halloween costume. I'm going to be a fairy and I got some awesome wings (pics to come) for $12 (yay for sales) and a wig. I couldn't really afford any big or elaborate costume, so I'm happy that I could get everything for less than $30.

My mum and I are also convinced that Tinkerbell has anger management issues. This morning she was trying to find a way outside and she was rattling around in my blinds and curtains this morning and when she couldn't get out she actually huffed. It was so damn cute and then she just walked out of my room.

Finished watching season three of Doctor Who. a;lksdjfa;leirufa;ldskfj as;dlfkja My question for DW/TW people is should I watch season two of TW before watching season four of DW? Or doesn't it matter?

[eta] Thankies! Going to watch TW season 2 now. :)

Mum had her surgery yesterday and she's doing really well. She was all wobbly yesterday and high as a kite, but today she's really good. She's getting around well and isn't in a whole lot of pain. I'm glad it's said and done with, she deserves to to be without this excruciating pain 24/7.

I am now officially off work until the 18th. \o/ So happy to get away from there.

Yesterday and bought myself a Playstation 3 and Guitar Hero 3. Dad had put some money away for me six years ago and totally forgot about it and we just recently found out, so I decided to treat myself after I paid the bills. The place I got it from had them as a bundle, so it was an awesome price. I'm happy with it and all need is an HDMI cable for it because I refuse to game in nothing less than HD.

God, I've been such a HD snob. :P

I'm almost done watching season one Torchwood and I'm kind of toying with the idea of downloading season one of Doctor Who. I know some of you on my FL will be happy to hear this. ;) I'd buy the DVD's, but holy crap they are expensive. I will not pay $80+ for a show I have never seen before.

I've come to the definite conclusion that I am done with my job. My gut tells me it's over, I'm just not happy there anymore, plus with mum on disability she's just not pulling in the money anymore. I would really like to find something that will pay more than $12,000 a year, I can't live on it. As of August I'll have been there three years. I wish I could just quit, but like so many of us we do not have that luxury. I have to have something else lined up before I quit, because mum and I would never be able to survive more than a week or two without some income.