trombonish

Smooth move of the moment: I remembered the laptop. I remembered the bags of brown sugar. I even rememered to grab the Civ CD out of my desktop. What I forgot, however, was the power cord. Oops >.<

Yes I got harry Potter at midnight last nigh. No I have not finished it. No I have not made any real attempt to either. I was just having a hard time being enthusiastic about reading it, and I figured as it's the last book, I'll wait untill I'm more into reading it. Also untill I reread the 6th book, because I haven't seriously looked at that since a few months after it came out. So news pending on that.

I did, however, get a decent start on our pretty awesome costumes. My sister and I both drew up what we would like quiditch robes to look like, and then I made them. (My interpretation is completely impracticle. It looks awesome, yes, but it would be like flying wearing a sail. Wouldn't work). They were spiffy enough to wear last night, but far from done. Picutres pending of both last night and the completed costumes.

Oh, I was really impressed by the turnout at the B+N last night. TONS of people in costume, much more awesome than the release parties we went to at the Thornton B+N for the past 2 books.

Switching channels:

I have jobs. For now. I calculated it the other night, and between my 2 jobs, I'm technically working 48 hrs a week and making the same $360/week I did last year at my painting job. However, this having both jobs at the same time is only happening for 2 weeks this summer. So I still do not win at making money compared to what I would have been doing if I hadn't had those, um, issues last summer.

However, the jobs are easy, and dare I say, almost fun. The night job is a pain but I don't have to do anything, most nights (though I dread coming to work for fear of another night like the one of doom with so many people complaining). The JoAnnes job is actually really enjoyable, even on the bad days the day goes fast and I don't feel like I've totally screwed anything up by the end of it. And I'll get to keep the JoAnnes job into the school year.

This job, night job, is almost over, and I am very happy about that. On one hand, it's easy and a job and all, but on the other, I don't like having to reverse-polarize my schedule twice a week. But only 4 more nights, counting tonight. And then sunday-monday-tuesday nights, and I don't have to work at all next weekend. Yay.

The one nice thing about the schedule for this job is it's easy to work around. Very regular, and doesnt' come into conflict with too much else. 3 nights at work, 4 nights to play, works fine for me.

JoAnnes, however, has no such regular schedule, and is a bit more of a pain to have time off for. We're supposed to give at least 3 weeks notice of wanting time off and fill out paperwork, and I'm pretty new (along with like half the other employees) and generally bleah. I was examining the band camp schedule and it looks like the only way to make it work is to ask for that whole week off. Which I'll do, nice and early, and hopefully he'll give it to me (if not, well, there's not much I can do but go anyways. Band is more important to me than that job. I can always get another job.)

This helps contribute to a rather stuck decision regarding Boy's trip to Arizona. The list looked like this:
Cons to going:
-Difficult to get the time off at this point
-Long car ride again (though that's really not all that bad, it's good company)
-"family"
-all the stuff I have to do here
Pros to going:
-I like spending time with my boy, and I will miss him
-Fun Arizona people, and things being different than they were in March

So instead of going to Arizona, I will be doing my boulder thing, and also going home for a few days. Because I have only been home twice this summer, and only stayed the night once, and I think it would be the good thing to do, to see my family before they take my little sister off to college 0.0

I don't quite understand the little sister. In some ways she's the more outgoing, disturbing one, while I'm the shy, "naive" one (not so much really as in general opinion). So why is it that she's the "good" little christian girl going off to happy christian college to get married and have babies, and I'm the one who freaks my family out by the way I want to live?

Yes I'm kinda being rambly about all the things on my mind. I just really needed a brain-dump.

It's amazing how soon school is starting up. There's already a big list in my head of things that I can start getting out of the way before then. I'm sort of excited - in some regards it's been a kind of obnoxious summer (but not in others - in those regards going back to school will be a sad shock). I'll try to do more life positings instead of one mongo one in the future. And I'll try to remember the power cord.