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Oh hai journal and social forum! Long time no see~

Ah where to begin...looking back at some of the most "recent" posts from here, I was still making 7.55/hr and just an hourly associate at Marshalls. Now I'm a boss (Figuratively and  literally! HA!) and make...not enough more to post publicly, but yay more than a dollar and a quarter! I don't get much of a better schedule out of it, but at least it makes it more bearable making more than $200/check...per week. Biweekly checks would kill me. I'm just a manager...still hourly, though, with the creative name of Key Carrier. (Guess what swings from around my sweaty neck!) Anywhozul, I don't really hate my job per se anymore. I mostly tolerate it until I make it to the very top and can just smash things around with my fist and laugh and not get in trouble for it. IN FACT I will be rewarded with bonuses and extra payroll for
my minions. Yes, this is my future.

My personal life is A-MAY-ZING. A little on the less of friends side, but me and Damian are still going strong at 2 years and some odd months. We still have those warm and fuzzies, which is great! I don't think I ever mentioned that last year his parents and us went on a cruise together...generously paid for by said parents. Well, it was glamorous and fun, and this year rolled around and they invited us again! It's very exciting and we will be leaving in about 4 weeks. Woo! A not good part of this is I have gained back the ten pounds I had awesomely lost since me and Damian have dated. These would not be so bad alone...except that these super baby suppressing hormones I gorge on daily have sort of enhanced my somewhat already large assets to gigantic bulging balloons of fat and pheromones. Wait. Hormones. Auto correct should be careful of such things. But with as much attention as they bring about I guess pheromones isn't too far off.
Moving on. These newly large BBoFaP have made wearing some of my beautiful dresses from cruise #1 impossible to wear.
Le sigh. Now I have to buy some new ones. This is actually sad for me, only about 25% sarcasm in this.

Why am I being even more of a tight ass frugal woman than usual? Because I've been previously saving for my meager Key carrier earnings for a

NEW APARTMENT
*sparkles/confetti/music*

I've always wondered how those Twats on twatlight put that sparkly backgrounds on their texts. :(

BUT, back to the matter at hand, I've pretty much been saving for this future apartment for about 5 months now, buying furniture and knick knacks and saving money and what not.
Then, I came to my goal month of May, and I was ready to go and...
I got a wee bit scared.
Mostly to due with money...and food, and loneliness and how am I going to fit all my shit into an apartment....
SOOO I've pretty much kind of decided to wait for my friend Sara to move out with me...or to buy a car.

Yes. Thats what I've decided. Sort of. :/ I'm kind of a pansy.

And at the moment I am watching the second season of My life as Liz. She gets an apartment.

This is my living room.

Once, before my sister had a child, we had a pretty decent living room set.Well, that child, named Noah, ruined our entire set by throwing up all over them several times. Couldn't quite get the stench out.

Having no money kind of means no new furniture for us.

But, then, facebook pulls through with a possible answer!

Gallery Furniture is having a contest on their FB page where you upload a picture of your (lacking) living room in hopes of having the most likes. If you do by Sunday December 12, you win a new set! So...yes, I am asking a favor to you tumblr!

All I need you to do is login to facebook and "like" Gallery Furniture. Then, "like" the picture of my living room.

That's all.

I would really appreciate it, because this would pretty much be the best Christmas present for my Mother, ever.

So I was looking at my old website Ro Frolics. It was meant to be a weight loss blog that I started in about 2008. I weighed about 135 pounds!

Now I weigh about 119, fit into size 3-5 jeans, and...I'm actually getting in shape! I go to weight lifting twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday. I also go two times a week to either my gym class or Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred.

So yesterday I went to my first Step group class and it was freaking intense! The instructor's name is Candy Kane Cotton. Sweet! And she is fucking amazing! Completely whooped my ass. I can barely feel my calves! I am seriously limping around, dragging my right leg around as dead weight.
I especially liked the 45 minute ab workout after the one hour Step session. My sides are killing me and it feels amazing! I really liked it and plan on doing it every Wednesday. :)

I've also up the amount of sets I am doing on weights during class. I'm only lifting 15-30 on each machine, but started doing about 3 sets on each one now. Should be moving up again in another week!

As for my eating habits... I pretty much haven't really been doing anything, I guess. I drink water more because I go to the gym more often and that's about it as for me going healthy.

I actually weighed less, about 116, but I started having bad habits again, eating two toast soaked with butter every day. Lots of sodas. Just getting back into bad things from before.

Oh, I also got a new haircut Woo!

( Behind the cut! )

I didn't come to school yesterday. Just one of those weekends where I feel like I didn't get enough done, and having to be at acdec so early in the morning was going to break me.

So I stayed home and cleaned and hung out with my sisters and worked out and got my hair cut.
We also went to resell some clothes at Plato's Closet, which we found out sucked and they only took two shirts, and only gave me $4.00 for them. e_e Waste of gas!!

But...

All in all, it was really relaxing and I really needed it. Yay!

I also bought this awesome jacket on Sunday!


It looks way big here, but thats just because its on my chair. It fits perfectly. :3 ($10)

Among other things!



Again, looks big, but fits perfectly. :3 ($12)


This cute cute cute beany that I will wear when I can't bother with my hair. :3 (I look kind of ghetto though bwhahahaa.) ($3)


I need accessories! So I got these at Aeropostle for $12. :P I think these were the most expensive things I got. Hahaha!


My new favorite pair of earrings. They came with another pair of purple flowers that I like a lot, too. ($4)


Cute little compact so that I don't have to use my ipod when I'm putting on my make up anymore. :3 ($3.50)

Either way, I had an awesome shopping day on Sunday.
(Everything on clearence at Hot Topic was 50%off. Just FYI.)

When I should have been at an Academic Decathlon meeting.

But whatever, I was tired and I couldn't make myself do it.

Which reminds me that AcDec state is next weekend. ;_;
DEATH TO ACDEC. Stupid thing better get me scholarships or something.

Jerny bought me a box of chocolates! :D Weeeeh!!!

Did I mention I went on a date with Gentry? I did. It was nice.
He's pretty cute. :3

Arrrrgh, Sid has completly disregarded me. ;_;
And he's my prom date, so this kind of, you know, upsets me. HAhahahaa.
Oh well. I'm sure we'll have fun!

:3

I hate not having the time to write in this anymore. :[

So, last Wednesday me and Jerny had an awesome skip day!

We started off by me going to my Academic Decathlon study session at 7:30 in the morning. Ugh. It was okay though, because the Berner sessions are always fun for me. Ian even brought kolaches. :3 Either way, after this I simply walked out of school and met up with Jerny.
We went to her Grandparents house to pick up the GPS. It was still pretty early though, around 8:30, so we then went to her house where I got about 45 minutes of extra sleep. (She watched TV. XD We are so lame!)
Either way, after that, we started off on our awesome journey to downtown Houston where we initially decided to go to the zoo.
Unfortunately we got a little sidetracked. XD
We ended up going to the Galleria because Jerny had never been. We walked all over the damn store and didn't buy one thing! But we had a lot of laughs and giggles. :]
After spending a decent amount of time there, we headed towards a restuarant because all I had had from the past four hours was a single kolache. We ended up eating at this little hole in the wall called "Pizza Rome." (Love the grammatical correctness.) After this we spent about forty minutes finding Half Price Books, which we had been passing up for the entire day.

It was of course heaven once we got there for us two book nerds. My finds:


$10 Versus $60 Retail


$2 versus $15


$1 versus $15


$4 versus $11


$15 versus $20+?


Either way I was ecstatic. :]

Except about this time, my mom called and completely bitched me out for not telling anyone where I was, and she later found out that I didn't go to school. Oops?

Either way, that is later. After this we got a shake from Jack in the Box before heading over to the theatre to watch A Midsummer's Night Dream: The Opera.
We were severly underdressed, but that kind of made it fun.
Well, when we got seated or whatever, we were pretty high up, but it was still nice. And there was this little old lady next to us who couldn't stop giggling throughout the entire thing. She was so cute, I wanted to take her home. :)
Jerny fell asleep for about thirty minutes. XD



The entire thing was pretty nice. I've never seen an opera before and this one was at least fairly amusing to watch. But damn was I tired by the time it was over!

Puck was really a cute character, but the Faerie King was probably the coolest character on the stage. But I sort of thought the actor was an actress the entire time. xD



The ending was easily the coolest part. :3 And probably most amusing scene of the entire opera.

It was cool, and me and Jerny plan on going back to the opera and/or theatre district to see more stuff like this. :P

After that we got lost on the way home but generally had a good time. :]

**

Lately all I have been doing is studying for Academic Decathlon.

Which, by the way, we in fact did make it to state! :D Sorry, I forgot all about doing the second day of wonder post. LMAO. Maybe when Ian upoloads the videos from our trip, I will make one. :).

My schedule for the month of February is CRAZY.

Monday -Friday we have 7:30 morning sessions to study. (Mon-Thur with our teachers, and Friday we all meet at Starbucks to study math or economics.)
Monday and Tuesday we stay after school for an extra forty minutes with our teachers.
There is at least one day per weekend that we meet at Mr. May's house to study.
We're expected to read on our own time.
;_;
IT'S SO MUCH WORK.
But you know what? I actually don't mind it too much, if it weren't for me having to get up so damn early.
Luckily, Marshalls has barely any payroll, so when I asked for 10 days out of the month off, there wasn't too much said about it. (Though I'm sure they are pissed that almost all of the days were on the weekend. Oops.)

I hope we do well at state, though I think that Nationals is a bit of a stretch for us. Hahahaa.
And I'm actually reading the required readings now. Who would have thought? :D

My weight has been giving me trouble lately. :[ It makes me sad. So I've pretty much decided to cut out as much Fast food as possible, and go back to my "No Chocolate Days" and start filling up with more fiber rich foods. (Think: Vegetables, Fruits, Wheat based products.) I'm also thinking that I need to start scheduling excerise into my schedule, because it otherwise doesn't get done. :[
(Even yesterday, on my day off, I wanted to go, but since I didn't a ride to the gym I didn't. I could have gone to the gym, but laziness ensued after the initial let down. :[)
Tiffany, however, said that she would burn me a copy of 30 Day Shred:

A lot of the reviews are really positive, and Tiffany said that it kicks her ass each time. I figure with this, I can do the workout at home after work, so that I have no excuses for not being able to do anything.

Miyavi is coming to Anime Matsuri.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to Super Pass that bitch. :]]]]]

Off to Second Period!

So, I am back from my first real Academic Decathlon meet, which may or may not be my last.

It was actually a lot of fun!!!

We at first went to Ihop where we criticized our teachers and talked about the upcoming day.
I had the split decision and ate almost everything on my plate. Jesus. XD

Getting to Santa Fe:


Raping Daniel.


Me and Benji--I look gigantic. xD

After we got there, we did the first segment of the competition--essay! Pretty average essay on my part, though I really did try. (I think I got a 720 or so out of a 1000.)

After essay we had about an four hours until we had our interviews and speeches due. So, we went out to eat at this place:


Warning: Do not go here.
It's a buffet that tastes like it needs to have been replaced three days ago. xD
And the burgers were so salty!
But, either way, this was the place that we practiced our speeches at and got dressed at. (Sorry, I completely failed to get a picture of me in my suit. :P Oops.)


We are the C's, We are the Awesome.

After we arrived back at the tournament, about 6 or so, we continued to practice before heading off to our designated speech/interview rooms.

I did Speech first, and I did below average. I knew it, which was a plus, but I failed to keep pace well. I was nervous enough that I was speeding through each of my paragraphs in hopes of just remembering everything than actually giving a good performance. I also went under by seven seconds, causing an automatic 70 point deduction. :[

Impromptu was decent I suppose. I talked about my mother and how she would be the person that I would want to take with me if I won a scholarship to South Korea. xD

Interview was so much easier because all you have to do is answer questions, be friendly, and have a sense of intelligence about you. I had three really great judges that I had a lot of laughs with. :] I was super confident with myself here.

At the end of the night we were all pretty proud of ourselves.


Happy.


Jessica-B Alex-C Together we make: Team Estrogen!


Me and Jeremiah, who was my person that I said to be "most admired" during interview. My judges claimed I should marry him. xD


Me and Litch of course.

After taking our group picture, we found this glorious picture of Little Richard on the wall, and Mr. May, well...


Our coaches are pretty much fantastic.


My favorites. :)


Disheartened Maki. :)

We got home around 8:30 and were told not to stay up too late studying.
I watched Greys Anatomy and Nip/Tuck while going over my History notes. Hahahaha.

I will update later today with how the second day of the tournament went. Need to get ready for work. :)

There's this girl I sit with at lunch because our two guy friends sit at the table. (ie, me and the girl are not friends.)

She is, in simple terms, stupid. Her and her other friend say stupid things. Not funny. Just stupid.

I don't hide my utter lack of humor for such things and I guess my facial expressions show this.

She told me I could leave if I wanted to.

I laughed.

People astound me.

Looked better on paper.
But Michael took it.
:/

Noah Rey Guerra.

I love my new nephew. Shh. Don't tell my sister.

I has a monkey.

Sort of.
Better Update Later.
Homework Tiem.