So I’m updating… yay!  I’m going to be leaving Huntsville shortly to head back to Calera.  I came home for Xmas and have been enjoying my parents company.  Mom has been telling me I need to update more, and she is right.  So if you look to the right of this post you will see a section under the search bar that says What I’m Doing…  I am now signed up for twitter.  A service I can access with my cell phone and provide little one line updates throughout the day.  You can check the side bar on the irght throughout the day, or I have it set up so that it will make an official blog post at 11:58 pm each evening.  And if I don’t update within 24 hours it will alert me.  Hopefully this coupled with my New Years Resolutions (more on those tomorrow) will result in more updates.  Hurray!

Okay now that I have the twitter thing set up I need to go finish packing up all my stuff.  Whoo.

Yesterday was awesome.  I spent a GLORIOUS day sitting in my new reading chair, reading.  I bought the chair last week at the thrift store for twenty bucks, and this sucker is nearly as good as the one my parents have.  And yesterday I finally got to use it.  I spent most of the day curled up in reading.  I read a graphic novel called Fables: Legends in Exile a gift from Quentin and Jackie.  I loved it!  It was a murder mystery set in the hidden fable community of New York.  It was ridiculously good and once Christmas is over and I have money again I’m going to buy volumes two through however many there are.  I also read a graphic novel called Rapunzel’s Revenge that set the story of Rapunzel in a sort of wild west setting.  It was good, different but still enjoyable.  Then I re-read all of the David Weber/John Ringo books, March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars, and We Few.  Ah so good so good.  And there you have it, that is all I did yesterday.

Tonight Jeff is going to take me to see a movie.  We were thinking about seeing Bolt.

Oh, I was reading the news when I came across this article Doctor Finds Foot in Newborn’s Brain Wow.  I mean- just- wow.  There is a picture to go with it (not for the squemish or the faint of heart) that shows the foot.  And it truly is an honest to god foot.  Not one of those jesus on toast things were its a nebulous shape in which if you squint and look at it from just the right angle you can see it.  No no, this is a HUMAN FOOT growing out of this childs brain.  I thought it was pretty crazy and thought I would share.

Warning:  Here thar be typos.  It is very late at night and I didnt’ sleep well last night so I just wanted to go ahead an warn you that there might be typos.

While I was at work today I had this great idea for a story and I printed off a long tail fo recipt parper and in any time off I could get today I wrote it down.  When I got home this evening I started writing it.  Now I’ve written four pages and I saved it and will write mreo of it tomorrow.  Its a Christmas story.  I think it is going to turn out well.

I’m thinking about starting a small writers group down here, mostly amoungst my friends.  Haley and I are going to make duel New Years resolutions to write an hour each day and we’re hoping to encouragement slash condemnation of the other will help keep us on track.  I was thinking a once a month accounting, where we must read something that we’ve written within the past month, would not be remiss and so I was thinking that while we’re doing that we could involve other people.  Namely Jackie and Quentin since I know they both like to write.

I also have my craft project for next year.  Haley doesn’t know this yet but she and I are going to get suits/jackets from teh thrift store and modify then.  Creating eclectic testimonials to outrselves.  A lady came through wearing one that someone had made her for christmas and it was really cool, and last night, part of why I didn’t sleep great, was that I had this idea for one I’d like to make for myself.  I’m really excited to see what I can create.  And its all about modification.  I don’t know how to make sleeves or shirts or anything like that.  But I don’t have to, I just modify one that has already been made and I make what I want.  I’m very excited about the idea, even if it come to naught.

I’m sorry I coulnd’t go to the family Christmas party this year.  This is two years in a row I haven’t bene able to go and I miss seeing everybody in person.   I couldn’t even go viawebcam this year, which made me sad.  Mom informed that people are sad that I’m not updating my blog more often.  I’m sorry!  I am trying.  It’s just sometimes, I either think ntohing of note happened, or I just don’t have the time to write about it.  I’ll try to do better now.

Okay I’m very tired and I can see huge bags under my eyes reflected in the screen so I think I need sleep.  G’night.

So I’d like to start with a hearty congratulations for Haley an dJohn on their engagment!  Woohoo!  Also Congratulations to Jackie and Quentin on their engagement two days earlier.  Wow, I feel all old and stuff.

Now better late than never.  Black friday.  Long.  Long and busy.  Friday we were ridiculously busy but really most people were nice.  I guess they understood that it was a tiring day fro everyone.  The real bitches apearentally wait until Saturday to do their shopping.  I had one woman come through my line with like twenty wooden puzzles from our cheap section.  Things there are usually one dollar, but there are some that are $2.50.  Everything that belongs over there has this little dot on the back and the price clearly listed.  So this lady wants to know how much they are, I flip it over and check the price.  It says $2.50.  I scan it just to make sure, and sure enough it’s two dollars and fifty cents.  I tell her so.  “Well the shelf said $1.00″  “I’m sure it did ma’am but that section gets messed up all the time so tings get shuffled around and they are very rarely in the spot they belong.”  “Well these were all in the same place and it said right there on the self Kitchen Shears $1.00″  I look at her a moment than I look down at the wooden puzzle.  Now if she hadn’t have been short with me a minute earlier and if she hadn’t counted her money, in pennies, out onto my moving belt, I might have been nicer, I would have apologized for the confusion as it was I was tired and she had pissed me off.  I held up the puzzle, “Well ma’am this is obviously not a kitchen shear and this is 2.50.  It says so on the back.”  You remember how you mother always said “Don’t take that tone of voice with me!”?  Well that was the tone I used on this woman.  I also gave her the are you an idiot? blank smile and stare. But yeah Saturday was filled with people like that.

In other work related news they’ve started training me in Photo which is exciting!  Maybe this means I can start working in Guest Services mreo often!

The reason I’m able to post this morning is because I’ve finished my last paper!  Huzzah!  I had two finals Monday, one of which I was concerned about because I had to get a certain grade to ensure that I passed the class.  I had BOMBED the midterm, but aced the otehr grades so I needed to make sure I got a better grade on the final to pass the class with a good enough grade to graduate with it.  I got it!  Woohoo!  I had a paper due Tuesday as well as the ACAT, graduation exam .  I don’t know how I did on that, but it really doesn’t affect whether or not I can gradutate.  It’s more of a measure for the department so that they can see what they needoto focus on.  I have a paper due today at noon, which I alrady finished natch.  In my spare time this week I decorated christmas ornements for my teachers.  Mostly as a way of saying thanks for everything you’ve done for me these four years.  I tried to decorate them with something I associate with the professor.  Hmm,. Ishould take pictures.

I think I’ll sign off here and go find my camera.  If I find it I’ll post pictures.  P.S. Any gramatical errors and weird typos are becaus eI don’thave my glasses on and I can’t read the monitor real well.

Sorry I lied, there was no update the next day and now it’s been like two weeks.  I’d like to say, here ya go.  But I can’t.  The reseaon I didn’t update the next day, and I’m not updating today is because it is finals week.  Last week I had a crap load of final papers and I still have them.  This is just to let ya’ll know I will give you guys something when all of my crap is finished.