Pinkie Larue

I’m really nervous about today. I could have a really stressful day or a relaxed day. Department of Human Services is coming to assess my preschool. Out of all of the classes in the preschool they draw out of a hat 4 names of classrooms that they will assess. They will he shadows in those classrooms. Following your every step, making sure you follow every rule in the book. NO One follows every rule in the book. Some of the rules are just plain ridiculous. But today we will. We will wash both our hands and the child’s hands before and after we wipe their nose, we will disinfect any toy or item that gets sneezed on or licked-immediately, we will place mats at least 4 inches away from other mats, we will not tell the kids to do anything, but suggest it just like the book says and tons of other stuff we never do.

I hope my class doesn’t get picked. I don’t work well under pressure and I’m sure I’ll forget to do something “by the book” with people observing me.

Woah! Wednesday already. This week has flown by so fast. Hope it continues because I am exhausted and want to sleep all weekend…even though I probably won’t.

I saw Inglorious Basterds last night. I hadn’t even heard of it before this week, then all of a sudden everyone was yapping about it and raving about how great it is. I saw it and wasn’t disappointed! I liked it a lot. I thought the dialogue dragged on at parts, but it’s still a good movie with a great story line. (You know how I love films surrounding WWII) I definitely recommend seeing it. Brad Pitt and the actor that played Colonel Landa were amazing as their characters. So, yea…go see it!

It’s finally starting to cool down here. This morning it was even chilly enough to wear a jacket when Peanut and I went for a walk. Fall is my favorite season so I’m hoping the weather sticks like this and kick starts the season. But knowing our screwy weather, this could just be a tease and next week we’ll go back to 98 degrees. Here’s hoping that’s not the case. *crosses fingers* I start classes on Monday. I switched them to online classes instead of actual classes because the times conflicted with my work schedule. Let’s hope I can not be distracted by WoW, Twitter, and whatever else.

Sheesh I really need to work on my blogging. Sometimes I get in a rythym of doing it every couple of days and sometimes even every day then there’s times like…now. Where I’ve gone weeks without a peep. Oh well, most of you that read my blog follow me on twitter and those that don’t should. :P

So, my first week of work was alright. I’m not going to say very good or awesome, because it simply wasn’t. I like my co-workers and I love teaching and being around kids, but this age is just not for me. I’m used to kids that are a little less dependent on you for EVERYTHING! Thank goodness they can walk, but I have to help them eat, they can’t talk so I have to decipher baby code to even know what they want, they still wear diapers, they can barely pay attention for 5 minutes so a game or even flash cards is difficult. *sigh* I’m not a big fan of this age, but I am learning a lot. The other teacher’s taught me some baby sign language. Which is very useful. The kids can’t talk, but with the sign language, we can communicate with them. They learn fast and they know the signs for please, more, and drink. Which is a lot nicer than hearing them scream or make some weird noise. *sigh* They are much too young for my liking, but it’s a job and it’s not terrible, just not my preference.

Is World of Warcraft the new match.com? I always hear stories of people meeting in WoW. My guild even has a married couple who initially met in the game! and I know a handful of people that date people they’ve met from the game. I always made fun of those people and joked about it, but umm. well, I kind of met a guy from WoW. I’ve been talking to let’s call him …”the hunter” because that’s the class he plays in the game. Anywho, the hunter and I’ve been talking for years now. We’ve played the game together for years, email like crazy when he’s deployed and even talk off game. If you play the game you know how easy it is to make friendships. You play with these people for hours every day or even just a few times a week, but it’s still more often than not. We’ve played together for ,as I said before, years! I knew him, he knew me, but we had never met each other…until this weekend. He always talked about coming to visit and I didn’t really believe him. He definitely called my bluff and was at my house on Friday night! I thought it would be weird, but it wasn’t. I was myself the whole time we talked via WoW and everything and so was he. So, I was just hanging out with the hunter I’ve known all the while. Meeting him was nerve wrecking! I was so effin nervous about it. I took a hint from Devynn and took a few shots before we were actually going to meet up. It helped…maybe a little too much? >.< Anywho, after an hour of hi’s and hugs and nervous talking we finally loosened up. Sort of watched movie in bed…I mean…it was on but we were kind of just hanging out. It was nice. We spent the entire weekend chilling (we even spent an afternoon hanging out with my mom), seeing the city, and getting to know each other. It was lovely. Am I going to see this guy again? Yup. I like him, a lot! Which isn’t surprising I guess. I kind of liked him before, but this just intensified it. So, yea….we’re dating. I’m dating the hunter. Dating as much as you can date someone who lives a 12 hour drive away. Which isn’t really a problem for me, Pinkie Larue the princess of long distance complicated relationship thingies. Besides if I’m going to be in a relationship, I prefer this at the moment. I tend to become more dependent to my partner than I’d like to be and I’m still trying to be more adult like and independent. so this works just fine :) I just realized I didn’t take any pictures on the weekend. Hmph. When he gets back from his deployment (he’s going to Germany for a just a month and a half) we’re going to see each other again and I’ll make sure to get some then. I am hoping this works out for the best and doesn’t have some shady/crazy ending, but you never know! And guess what? I’m fine with that too!

oh and another quick side story. So, when we hung out with my mom we accompanied her to the casino for gambling and dinner. the casino buffets are awesome ^_^ . She loves going down to Tunica, Mississippi, a casino resort town about 30 minutes away, so we decided to go with her. The hunter and I weren’t going to gamble much so we were playing with a little money. After losing some money on a random machine next to my mom, we decided to change machines. We changed to a rinky dink nickel machine. with unicorns on it. Ha! Well, we put a 20 dollar bill in the plan was to take turns making bets. The hunter was like “You need to bet big” and pressed max bet which was the whole $20(he didn’t know that at the time) and I was so pissed off at him that I looked at him and kinds of yelled “That was the whole freaking twenty. UGHH! Why’d you do that!” and when we turned back to the screen we saw blinking bright lights that said we had won $4100 dollars. WHAT?! FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS! We were in disbelief at first, just staring at the screen making sure we had actually won. When we finally closed our mouths, we called an attendant and the attendant came and paid us the money! Awesome, right!? So, I’ve been looking at used cars ( I need a car!) and thinking about buying my ticket to Australia now instead of in September! i think he may be my lucky charm.

This week I was lucky enough to have Devynn , my old flat mate from Amsterdam , come visit! She and her friend Emily were taking road trip from Michigan to Texas and guess who’s right smack dab in the middle? ME! So they stopped to visit for 2 days. It was nice seeing Devynn again and meeting her bff Detroit Emily who I’ve ALWAYS heard about in stories, but never had the chance to meet. Didn’t get to show them around, but they got to see/experience Memphis Bar-B-Que and our famous Beale St, which they definitely left an impression on. And I hope it made an impression on them. ^_^

Ah well. I’ll tackle that when it comes up.

OH HAI!
remember how I said I was going to go drop my resume off at some retails hops? yea, I never did it, BUT I did go to an interview for a pre-k teacher position and guess what! I got called back for a second interview. Hopefully it’s the one where they say “YOU ARE AWESOME! TAKE THIS JOB!” It’s tomorrow, so we shall see. I also got a heads up for another position at a non profit. I’ll get more information about that tomorrow.

Unemployment allows me so much free time. I know I complain about it sometime, but gosh darn it I’m going to miss it. This week I’ve been a crafty Pinkie! I’m working on a scarf for my friend in Australia. Hopefully I’ll finish it today or tomorrow. I need to send it soon because her winter is almost over! (oh yea…surprise! You’re getting a scarf in the mail soon! I know you’re going to read this. haha) I’ve also been working on a set of pillowcases for a friend. I’ll post pictures of everything when they’re done. Well, not the scarf until the receiver receives it.

Also, been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I’ve been focusing more on my alts (alternate characters) than my main. My mage is now a level 53! and I finally moved my warlock back to the server (I transferred it about a half a year ago) and started officially leveling her yesterday. She’s 71…for now! ^_^

Guys, promise me you won’t allow me to have more than 3 level 80s. I never thought I would even come close to having 3! o.O eeek!

I am on the job hunt again! At first I wasn’t so worried about finding a job. I have money to last me for awhile as far as my living expenses go. But I don’t have any money for my savings! I need a job to save for my December vacation to the land down under (“you better run, you better take cover”) and for the move out of my mom’s. I actually have no complaints about living with her. She doesn’t bother me and even better, I don’t pay rent. It works out rather nicely. However, I do miss having my own space and doing whatever tickles my fancy. I’m making a target move out date for either right before I leave for Australia or as soon as I get back. I have a place in mind already. A nice apartment complex in midtown. As far as jobs go, I’m going to hit up an area I haven’t tried yet. Retail! I have a lot of experience in retail. I held retail jobs during college and summers off from college. I worked as sales rep for Limited Too for a couple of years, The Gap for a short stint, and as a Third Key holder and ear piercer at Claire’s. Haha! short side story about a piercing fail. A mother came in and wanted me to pierce her 4 month old daughter’s ears. Piercing at Claire’s isn’t serious business. We were trained to make a mark on the lobe and shoot it with the piercing gun. So, I marked the baby’s ear with a little marker and shot the gun. I realized as soon as I removed the gun away from her ear that I had pierced it in the wrong place! o.O The earring was about 2 cm from the place I had marked. whoops! I tried to distract the mom while I rubbed the mark off, but she saw it and was completely horrified. She yelled at me and told me what a crap job I did and then demanded to see my manager. He was in the back doing inventory, but came out to handle the situation. He gave her the piercing for free, but I HAD to do it because he was doing inventory and I was the only trained piercer in the store. If I was in her shoes, I definitely wouldn’t have wanted the girl that screwed the piercing up to begin with to re-pierce it, but she allowed me to. Thankfully, I didn’t fail. ^_^ Anywho, I’m going to print out a million copies of my resume, put on my cutest little outfit, and give it out to shops on Monday. Surely someone will call me *crosses fingers*

*sigh*I miss having friends! Scratch that, I miss having girl friends. I have lots of guy friends around, but no girl friends. I have one girl “friend” that I go out with on occasion, but it’s not the same. She just wants to hook up with guys and it’s not really hanging out. It’s just having me there so she’s not alone, until she finds some random guy…or at least that what it feels like. I have another truly awesome girl friend here too, but she’s been busy or when she’s free I’ve been busy, so we haven’t been able to catch up. But we are hanging out next week, which I am really looking forward to. I’m on a mission to meet new friends. I know I’ll meet some as soon as school starts, but I want some girly-friends now! I made a new myspace account. (I deleted the old one sometime ago) I know, I know, Myspace! But I didn’t know where else to meet girls. Not sure how it will turn out. I messaged some girls my age in the city that share interests like gaming and comics! I hope they actually write back instead of thinking I’m some weirdo. haha, woah…am I a weirdo for doing this!? o.O

in any case, you can add my new myspace. I’ll probably hate it in a week and delete it, but for now you can find it here.

Guys! I got a job! *dance* A temporary job, but a job nonetheless! I will be working for Wicked, the musical while it’s in town. Hopefully I’ll get to see the show too! I’ve been meaning to read the books for years now, but never got around to it. I do however know the songs- thanks to former co-workers playing the soundtrack ALL THE TIME when I worked for the newspaper. I have a sort of uniform. In addition to shirts they will provide me with, I have to wear pants/jeans. Weird! I haven’t worn jeans in a looong time. My wardrobe consists of skirts, dresses, cords, slacks, and khakis! I had 2 pair of jeans in the last year, but I rarely wore them and guess what?! I tossed them when I was moving back to the states-I figured I didn’t wear them(and I couldn’t fit everything into 2 suitcases), so why not? Little did I know, I would need them now. Oh well, gave me an excuse to go shopping. I went only for a pair of jeans, and came back with a pair of jeans, some cuuute black mary janes, undies, new sunglasses, and a top. ^_^ I can never just get what I go in for.

In other news, I have decided that I will install windows on Macauly (my mac) at the end of the summer. I’m not a fan of windows operating systems, but I am a fan of gaming! And i’m sick and tired of games I’m interested in playing being released only for windows platforms! bleh! Instead of missing out this time, I will install windows. The game I dont want to miss out on? Aion-The Tower of Eternity ! It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by NCsoft similar to their other games, Lineage and Guild Wars. Oh and also similar to a game I talk about far too much-Blizzard produced, World of Warcraft. ^_^ Today NCsoft announced that Aion would be released in September. After reading about it, seeing the screenshots (Holy crap the graphics are awesome), and reading reviews of the beta players, I am excited and can’t wait.

Memphis held it’s Gay Pride festivities this weekend. I was lucky enough to be a volunteer for my most favorite non profit ever! Planned Parenthood (PPH)! I worked the PPH booth at the Gay Pride Festival, walked for them in the Pride Parade, and I worked the booth that morning at the Black Pride conference. I had a lot of fun and met a lot of people. Some cute little fairy boys, some interns, other volunteers, and directors of local Memphis non-profits who will hopefully contact me if they have a job opening. I gave them my info and let them know I was interested in a job within the non profit sector. I’m not counting on anything, but at least now when I apply for one of their jobs, I can attach a little note or something reminding them of our “meeting” and my volunteer work. Oh! I learned a new talent. I now know how to put a condom on a penis using my mouth. “Look ma! No hands!” hehe, well I learned how to on a fake penis that’s used for demonstration purposes. Now to see if it will work on the real thing! >.< The only thing I will complain about is the heat. It had to be at least 103 degrees and I was walking down that street during the hottest part of the day. It felt like the sun was just walking in the parade behind me. As soon as we got to the end of the parade, we went to our tent and proceeded to squirt each other with a water gun full of ice cold water! It felt soooooooo good.

Today, I've been a little down. I know when I get a job, I'll be missing these days -- I can sleep in, read comics, and surf the internet. But right now, all I want is a job! I don't regret quitting my horrid job, but I do miss money, a normal sleep schedule, and having something to do. I feel like I've applied to a million jobs and not one has called me back for an interview. Besides the job thing, I guess reality has set in that I'm actually living in America again and all the things that I dislike about living here are becoming more apparent. But I'm trying to keep a positive outlook on things! I know it will get better. Just need a job, to move out of the mom's, and some friends/social life. I have a few friends, but they're always at work, have their other friends, or we've grown apart and I don't feel like we have anything in common. Who wants to be my friend!? I'm nice! I will play video games with you and drink beer, and play with our dogs in the park, watch True Blood with you, and, and, anything*!

*ok, ok...not ANYTHING, but a lot of things ^_^

pics from gay pride

Since i quit my job, my life has been pretty uneventful. I wish I had even World of Warcraft news to report, but I don’t. Haven’t been playing for the last couple of days. I recently told a friend I haven’t logged in since THURSDAY which I thought was a huge deal. His response? “ZOMG SO LONG!” with such sarcasm. It sure feels like it even though It’s only been 5 days.

Instead I’ve been reading. I borrowed Jeremy’s collection of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. So far, so good. It’s a graphic novel about Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, taking revenge on the people who kept him captive for 70 years and the rebuilding of his kingdom which has fallen into despair. I USED to read it at night before bed, not anymore! I scared myself after reading and couldn’t sleep one night. I think this is also the reason why I had the epic nightmare 2 nights ago. I haven’t had nightmares in ages and then all of a sudden I get an epic nightmare which one day I’ll turn into a short story. I mean…it was EPIC! I couldn’t even go back to sleep afterwards.

Also, been hanging out with real people instead of just my in game peeps, watching lot of movies/tv. I recently watched

*Stardust-omg such a cute, sweet, movie!
*Coraline-great animation and the story line was good too
*Vicky Christina Barcelona-Lovely views of Barcelona and Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson make out…need I say more!?
*Arrested Development-I’m the last person in the universe to watch this series, I know. It’s so funny! When I first started watching it I thought it was bland and didn’t really like it very much, but now I think it’s hilarious. I crack up laughing all the time and even hot my mom hooked!
*Nurse Jackie-it just premiered last week on Showtime. I watched it, liked it and will probably watch it again

And now by the request of my sister after finding out that I didn’t know who Speidi is (it’s Spencer and Heidi by the way) I am watching The Hills season 1 >.<

I've also been jogging. having a dog I am forced to go to the park anyway, so why not jog/run? There's a HUGE track at the park I go to, so for a few weeks now I've been jogging. I'm not a runner by any means(I used to be! ran cross country and track from junior high through high school!) though I do love to run! I see my endurance getting better and I can actually see a little weight loss. woot woot. OH! And shopping! How does a broke girl manage to shop? I thrift!

I’m a fan on vintage dresses so, even when I’m not broke I shop at thrift stores. I bought 4 dresses in the last 2 weeks. My favorites are this red one and the blue/white one. I’ve worn the blue/white one with white sandals. The red is my absolute fave, but I won’t wear it until it gets cooler. It’s polyester. Bwahaha. >.<

I’ve applied for a thousand and one jobs and have yet to hear from any of them to interview me. Not stressing…yet. and still looking. Before I moved back to the states I said I would never work in childcare again. I decided to forget about that and apply to some preschools for the summer. So, today I am taking my resume to some places in Bartlett and Cordova.

Have a lovely day!

My first week as an advertising sales rep was alright. I didn’t trip and fall in my heels! score! I wasn’t actually a sales rep yet as I was in training all week. So, far I’ve learned a lot. How to sell effectively, Do’s and Don’t of selling, the demographic our publication targets, and tons more information about our publication. Seating is everything when you have a week of training. I picked the worst seat ever! We’re on the 25th floor of a building and it has a great view, but of course I picked the seat facing away from it and closest to my boss. I had to sit there ALL WEEK. Ok, it was a short week because Memorial day was Monday aaaaaaaand I wasn’t feeling well on Friday so I called in and went to the doctor.

Tomorrow I start selling! Well, I probably won’t go any sales calls, but I will probably arrange some. I’m going to dedicate the day to calling the prospects (I prospected about 42 businesses that I think would benefit from advertising with us) and setting up appointments.

It is so hot in Memphis. I woke up on Saturday morning to take Peanut out for a walk, put my hand on the doorknob of the storm door and yelled! The doorknob was was so hot. Outside was even hotter. It was only 85 degrees (29 degrees euro peeps!), but it’s so humid here that it felt like I was going to die. I once read on a blog that “Memphis has the highest humidity rate in the world, perhaps the universe. Rain forests are less humid than Memphis.” I dunno about that, but it is flippin hot. Tomorrow is supposed to get up to 95. HALP! : /

It’s not even summer yet!