I'm ALIIIIVE!

Wow... It's been over a year since I've posted. Bad. Bad bad.

Ok so... most of you who read this personally know me, so it's old news that I stopped working for Honda right after my last post. Good riddance.

Also, last June (the 22nd?? 21st??) I went to the New Kids On The Block/Backstreet Boys concert with my sister and a friend. Awesome concert, horrible ending to the night. I tripped on a sidewalk in downtown ATL and "just skinned my knees". Or so I thought. Actually, I tore my PCL tendon in my knee and broke my tibia (shin bone). And for everyone always telling me I'm a baby and don't handle pain well, I actually walked around on this broken leg for over a month until I found out it was broken! HA! Anyway, I fell on it again when I tripped on pajama pants and tore cartilage in my knee and had to have surgery in November. So it's 6 months to the day since my surgery and my knee is still stupid. To all my friends becoming doctors, heal me please. :)

Work wise, I work for a retail store and may be promoted to a management position. ALSO (I'm really excited so I'll use CAPS) I may start teaching at a local private school. I have a family friend that works there. She told me they needed teachers, showed me around the school, introduced me to a few people and apparently their processing my application and will give me a call this week! Here's hoping! It's not great money, but it's way better than what I make now and what teaching in the public school system will pay!

Time for randomness:

• Anyone ever actually done the cinnamon challenge? I'm really tempted. lol

Cinnamon Challenge a la Glozell

• New obsession: One Direction (a boy band from England/Ireland). So what I'm 25 and they're 18-20?? What of it?? I just spent way more than I should have buying concert tickets to go see them in June 2013. Yes. 2013 as in more than a year away. These darn kiddos are so popular that their summer tour in the states is sold out, so they had to add a tour when they next have free time. More than a year away. Guess it does suck to be in a successful singing group... I'd panic if I knew I wouldn't have free time for the next year and a half. And yes, my favorite is Harry (like every other freaking girl). See?? They're just too adorable to resist.

WAR EAGLE!!!

I know I haven't posted in a while, but only one thing needs to be noted:

 

WAAAAAAAAARRRR EAGLE!!!

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Hi.

I'm in a mood today, but better update before I forget for another 10 years...

So.... I still work for Honda... longest 5 months of my life since I started working there. Still love my coworkers (most) but now I work in the Customer Service department and it... is different. I was completely used to telling people to pay up, "no you can't wait to make a payment, you need to do it now". Now I have to be super nice and all "How may I help you? ....... Is there anything else I can assist you with? Thank you so much for your call!" It's a hard job I feel like I suck doing. I honestly don't have enough space in my brain for all the policies and procedures Honda has. I also don't get the point of waiving late fees just because the customer had a big enough tantrum about it... late fees are there because you paid LATE. That's the purpose of them. Take the late fees away and, just like the Friends episode with Phoebe and the Christmas Trees, they don't get to fulfill their life purpose. Sad late fees.

I'm also super excited since the holidays are soon! And this week is the only week in November that I don't have a day off from work! YESSSSSSS! I go to NYC at the end of next week and won't get back til the beginning of the following week, then Thanksgiving and a doctor's appointment. And this weekend I may be heading to the mountains with my parents! I love roadtrips of any kind, and I've been dying to go to the mountains for a while!!

Oh about the doctor... I've been getting sick to my stomach every few weeks for over a year now. It makes my stomach hurt so badly that I get chills from the pain and can't stand. Joy. My doctor's thought I had Crohn's Disease or something else I can't remember. Or my thyroid, or gallbladder or a million things. Apparently I don't have those... or anything else they can think of right now. I don't have any kind of medicine to prevent me from getting sick, only for making me feel better once I am sick. Joy again.

BUT quickly with my obsessions of the week... Snowboarding (and snowboarder Kevin Pearce), hockey (has been an obsession for years, but I just went to a game after not going at all last season and I'm hooked again... not to mention the Russian rookie on ATL's team named Alex Burmistrov... Mmmm), my new and amazing red coach purse, and frozen yogurt places like Yogli Mogli and Pinkberry.

Well...sleepy time. Work in the AM.

I suck at blogging...

First post in 6 months. Wow. Nice one, Emily...

Let's see... a quick update on the first half of the year is in order:

My last post was the day before graduation. So... I graduated. I "walked" and everything (though I was still running a fever with Swine Flu, Mom made me go). My grandmother was so happy she cried, made me feel a bit awkward and proud, blah blah blah. I moved home to ATL... it was very sad to leave Auburn and my friends (but good riddance to my roommate and the hellish situations she gave me/put me through). I then decided to take a bit of time off to get over being sick and adjust to living with my parents again and having every one of my actions analyzed. One night out with one of my "guy friends", my grandmother called me every half hour til I came home. I finally got home around 4am and actually woke my mother up to complain about her mother calling me all night. But good news is, I think my grandmother realized how much I hate being called and she doesn't do it anymore. haha

So... I started looking for a job, mostly applying to be a flight attendant or wedding planner's assistant (still think I would LOVE those jobs!), but I started my first full time "big girl" job at Honda Finance last month. I'm a customer accounts representative for the region 2 financial office of American Honda Motor Company. Yeah, I'm a collector. I call people all day who don't pay their bills. People yell at me, people tell me to eff off. Fun times. Thank God my coworkers are so awesome! I already love them all to death! Just a few days ago, one of my supervisors was distracting me while I was trying to leave someone a message and I said my name was the customers name, which wouldn't have been so bad except my supervisor hid his head because he was laughing so hard and another coworker erupted into the loudest laughter I've ever heard... which made me laugh through the rest of my voice mail message. I'm fairly sure that person I called will NEVER view Honda in a professional light again. Oops.

But thank God for this job opportunity! I feel rich with a paycheck that is more than the $150 max I would get at my old job (but I still work at Build-A-Bear on some weekends). I now am completely responsible for the expenses of my dog. I feel like a grown up with a kid. Unreal. lol

Um... that's pretty much the last 6 months. Yep. Oh, and I got to go to the beach for a bit right before I started my new job (I literally was at work less than 12 hours after I got back to ATL). I stayed at my uncle's condo, which I am really wanting to move in to. I love it there. It always feels like home. When I sit on the comfy couch with the balcony doors open and read a book while listening to the sound of the ocean waves, that tiny condo is absolute heaven. Aaahh... I want to go back right now!

Current (new and old-but-still-going-strong) obsessions: buying cute work clothes and shoes, the ocean, The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien and the book's characters of the seven sons of Feanor (who can resist literature with 7 strong, unbelievably attractive young men?? and yes, I'm a dork), headbands, classical music, art... :)

Well... hopefully I'll have at least one more update in year 2010. lol

Oink Oink... but for real this time

So... I finally finished with my college career!! WOOT! I get to become an official alumnae of Auburn University tomorrow! I'm super excited, but really bummed at the same time. After all the complaining about Auburn I have done, I'm not ready to leave it. I don't want to leave the town that has been my home for over 5 years, and I really don't want to leave my friends. I'll miss hanging out with my Spanish Civilization crew. I'll miss my sorority sisters. I'll miss stupid Haley Center and its confusing quadrants. I never have to sit through another lecture for as long as I live... unless I decide to go to graduate school... And hats off to this girl Mei Tsutsumi at meiillustration.com for this cute little drawing... I googled for an image that might summarize my current feelings, and hers nailed it. :)

I made straight... Bs this semester. Kind of a bummer, but hey... it was my last semester. Of course I went out with friends a few times when I should have been studying. I think that was time well spent. My whole family is coming in town tomorrow morning so we can take the obligatory Samford Lawn graduation pictures. But sad day... it's 90% chance of rain tomorrow. Hopefully I can still get some good pictures.

Worst part of all this: I started feeling kind of crappy last weekend at my parents' house. I got a bit of a fever and slept a lot, but I had to go back to school for my last final on Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning rolls around... I feel like absolute sh!t. I feel like sick dookie and I think I'm going to fail my final since my dookie-feeling self didn't really study. Anyway, I suffer through the final, hop the transit back to my apartment, hop into my car and head to the Urgent Care center. I sit there for a bit... waiting for the nurse to call me back so she can weigh me (worst part), get my blood pressure (always on the lower end... and the reason why I'm like a drunk when you try to wake me up in the morning), prick my finger, and take my temperature. Hmm... fever of 101... no wonder I felt a little off during my final. After I told her all my symptoms, she tells me to blow my nose, but don't wipe it. EW! She then takes a cotton swab and swabs my boogies... I'm convinced she has the worst job ever. They take my wonderful sample and test it for Swine Flu or H1N1 whatever the proper name for it is now... and it's POSITIVE. Crap. Thanks, God... for your wonderful gift to celebrate graduation. Swine Flu. And I think this is the second time I've had Swine Flu, but the first time I didn't go to the doctor. I only went because my symptoms were worse this time. Apparently that's why I have had Swine Flu twice... there is a newer, more severe strain that started showing up recently. Looks like I'm the factory tester for Swine Flu strains.

So... I finally got rid of my fever about 12 hours ago and have been stuck in bed in my lonely apartment for the past 3 days now. I can't even tell you how many movies I have watched... and the entire first season of NBCs show Community. Hopefully I can keep my fever away and I'll no longer be considered "contagious" by tonight. Thank goodness I won't have to graduate with a doctor's mask on my face, but with some of the crappy mess-ups I've had to deal with from Auburn and the officials, maybe I sould cough into my hand a few extra times before I shake their hands on my walk across the stage. ;)

Hmm... makes you think just how humans got "swine flu"... Rule #1: Don't lick pigs.

*sigh* continued

Oh my gosh, when I thought it couldn't get worse, I went to go make dinner... and my roomie left my food out on the counter while she took it out to get to something behind it.

Awesome. My food... ruined. Thanks.

And I remembered that a few weeks ago, she was going to do me a favor and meet a friend on campus to give them my football ticket . Her phone "didn't work" and she didn't get to give it to my friend who had to buy a ticket from someone else. Granted, I'm pissed at my friend who didn't call me when I said "If you can't get in touch with her, CALL ME!!". Obviously, that means "don't call me" in her language. I was excited about $35 extra dollars of spending money. But no, nothing can go right if it involves my roomie.

*sigh*

Ok brace yourselves... I know most of my posts are "rants", but get ready for the mother of all rants...

I CAN'T FREAKING STAND THE WAY MY ROOMMATE KEEPS THE APARTMENT!! Ugh!! Seriously!!
First I should probably say that I love her to death. I met her freshman year in college when she pledged my sorority the semester after I did. She's awesome and I'll never say she isn't.
But her lack of cleanliness is NOT awesome at all.

We decided to live together about 2 years ago. I lived in the room across from her in the sorority dorm, so I knew she had a bit of a problem with picking up after herself. I asked her before we signed any type of lease... "Will you make the apartment all messy like the dorms??" Her reply: "No, I just keep messes in my room. The common areas are always clean." .......... Ok I have to call bullshit on that one...

The summer before we moved in, I worked really hard to pick out furniture and decorations for our place. She told me to go ahead and do that since she's not that into decorating. That made my day. The decor in good ol' #8203 at The Reserve wasn't exactly my style (Sorry Allison and Liz!! But the whole "Mexican-Restaurant-With-A-Hammock-On-The-Wall" just made me smile... but go ahead and poke fun at my bullfighting poster! :) ). I was happy to put my own personal touch on a new living room. I never made decisions without asking my roommate how she felt about it first. I planned A LOT!! I coordinated EVERY thing in that living room perfectly. I spent A LOT!! The one apple green pillow on our couch is freakin POTTERY BARN!! NOT CHEAP!

Here's my problem. I am my mother. I agree with every ounce of my being that everything has its place. Once you take something out of its place to use it, put it back when you are done. That obviously does not happen in my apartment.

I walk through the front door after a stressful day of class and the last thing I want to do is enter ANOTHER stressful environment. It stresses me out BECAUSE I WANT TO CLEAN IT!!! Currently down stairs, the living room is full of random boxes and Halloween costumes, empty coke cans, scattered trinkets, the cover on one of my chairs is falling off, and the pillows for the couch are on the floor. THE EFFING POTTERY BARN PILLOW. ON. THE. FLOORRRRRRRRRRRRR. What the freaking hell is that?????? It's a freaking $60 pillow made of linen and a tortoise shell button. The linen is wrinkled and the button is falling off because people put it on the floor and LAY on it! Pottery Barn pillows are NOT for laying on!! It's outright disrespectful and not courteous to treat someone else's things like that.

I'm the only one who ever cleans the place! And when I really want it clean is when I have guests coming in town. The apartment is so dirty, it's always a mad dash to the finish line to get it clean before the guests come! I'll give my roomie credit that she did clean the basement, but that's because she had a Halloween party last year and the basement was caked in candy corn. My roommate only just recently (a year later) cleaned out the basement because we had bugs down there. You think?!?! You left effing candy corn out on the floor of a basement for A YEAR!!!

The kitchen is another story. The kitchen table is never used because it has all her crap on it. The floor is always dirty no matter how many times I mop. The counters, stove top, and microwave are probably breeding grounds for the next plague virus. I never take out the trash in the kitchen, because I figure my roommate needs to clean up something (how bitchy of me, but I can't play mommy to someone older than I am). I never have friends come over because I would be ashamed for anyone to see the trash and food everywhere. I have no clue how she isn't embarrassed having people over.

Granted, my bedroom isn't always the cleanest, but I clean most of it at least once a week. And NONE of the crap downstairs is mine. As much as I love my roomie (And I really do, even though I just sounded like a complete bitch complaining about her habits), I'm really glad I graduate and move out next month. The only thing is I have to find someone who wants to sublease. If only they knew what they would be getting into. Then I would never find a subleaser.

This was way longer than I thought and I only feel like I got half of my frustrations out. Oh AND I get home from ATL this week and someone has finished off all my bottled water. Ok. Maybe all my frustrations are out now. Oh one more... there's even her crap on the landing of the stairs outside our bedroom doors.

Ugh. I was going to go to bed, but now I'm all fired up...