Won't be around forever, girl

HI. I've been absent because I've been feverishly working on a truly awful manuscript that's been sucking away all of my time when I'm not at working at Starbucks. Lord. It was bad enough that it was so awful, but the moron didn't even bother proofreading it himself before he sent it. I'm getting a pretty good cut of the money, though, so that's nice. Unfortunately, I just sent it last night, and already I have another 300+ page manuscript that looks like it might barely be a step up from the last one. THINK OF THE MONEY, SARAH. MONEY AND CONNECTIONS.

I've also been asked yet again by my manager about considering the promotion to assistant manager or store manager. AND being told by a few other people I know that I should just take the promotion. I'm still really balking at it. The only pros I can think of would be: the money (my W-2 says I still haven't broke 20k a year yet HA HA THANKS BUX) and how great it would look on my resume. It's just... not that this is brand new information, but customer service is so emotionally/physically/mentally draining. As a lot of my coworkers and I say, you really have to drink the koolaid in order to climb the corporate ladder. And there is no way I would become a store manager in this area. The district manager is a horrible human being, even more evidenced by some things my manager told me when I got mildly tipsy with her last week at a bar, lulz. It would be really nice to fall back on, but right now, I wanna focus on a career, you know, the thing I got my college degree for.

On a long list of things I will never be over is the inclusion of Jensen being a daddy because oh my god tiny baby and jensen I CAN'T. Between him and Danneel, the kid is going to be the most beautiful smartass in the world. ;______;

Still impatiently waiting for Cards Against Humanity to be restocked so I can BUY IT ALREADY because I'm too lazy to make my own set and I want the BOX and stuff. Their website says they'll be restocked before the end of January, but the 29th is almost over, so they better hurry it up. TINY HORSE.

This is my new bb:





I bought my very own car on Saturday. Both thrilling and terrifying, taking on a loan for the first time. But I think - hope! - the car was worth it. It's a 2004 Camry with about 90K miles on it, only had 1 previous owner, leather seats, a sun roof, and a very clean engine. The only real cons I have with it right now is that the previous owner had a dog that a) shed E V E R Y W H E R E seriously it's going to take me weeks of re-vacuuming to get all the dog hair out and b) clawed up the leather seats a bit. The bigger scratches can, apparently, be pretty easily fixed with a kit, but the dealership I bought it from was hella dumb and tried to paint over the smaller scratches with a leather-specific paint. Unfortunately they didn't do it correctly so it's flaking off AND smells like paint in the car, so. Nothing that can't be fixed over time, but it kinda irks me a bit.

SO. CAR. OMG. ADULT AND STUFF.

My parents also put a bid on the house in Georgia and we've yet to hear anything back, so we're kind of flailing around our house with thoughts of can we do this? can we afford this? what if this house doesn't sell? what if we should have just waited a little longer? DOWN IS LEFT? So YEAH, WOW, that would be weird if we got it.

And in case you were wondering, I'm still ( unable to deal with this. )

( I NEED YOU TO LET ME TOUCH IT )

Also this apparently happened at Dragon Con:

What would you like to do in Supernatural if you had an unlimited budget?

Misha: I think they should take the show on the road a little bit, like shoot an episode in Hawaii, shoot an episode in Vegas, shoot an episode in Mongolia. Do the whole, you know, travelling thing.
Jim: And actually shoot one in Kansas.
Misha: Shoot one in Kansas, that would be amazing! It would be great if we did like a whole episode that was all puppetry or ventriloquy. That would be amazing. An animated version like a South Park Supernatural. The musical would be great. The drag show would be fantastic. What else? Mime? Can we do a full hour of mime television? Never been done before. Very avant-garde. Very cutting edge.
Jim: I think we should do a dance episode. “So You Think You Can Be on Supernatural.”
Misha: And obviously the gay porn. So yeah.

Weeping.

This week. Oooh, this week.

My parents are leaving on Monday to fly to Seattle, and then get on a cruise ship to ALASKA, of which I am insanely jealous and also super happy that they're doing. They never do anything nice for themselves, and they definitely deserve this. So, my week looks like this:

Tomorrow: pick up my aunt and uncle's dog for dogsitting (they're going with my parents)
Monday: drive my parents to the airport at ass o'clock in the morning and then go to work, ughhhhh
Wednesday: drop the dog off with my cousin
Thursday: memphis86 IS COMING TO VISIT ME LKJA;SLDKJA;SLDJ!!
Friday: ummm call in sick at work Go to Magic Kingdom with Memphis and rainbow vomit all over each other
Saturday: Go to Islands of Adventure/Harry Potter world and drink butterbeer until I bleed butterbeer. And then drop Memphis off at the airport later that night. :(((((
Sunday: pick up the dog, have Sunday lunch with my Oma and cousin
Monday - Wednesday: be forever alone. :((

Seriously I can't believe I live an hour and a half from the place, and I have yet to go to Harry Potter world. I'm so exciiiiiteeeed. I WILL RIDE ALL THE ROLLERCOASTERS. ALL OF THEM. TWELVE TIMES.

I'm nearing a breaking point at work, which is stupid, because most days all I feel like is a glorified answering machine. My coworker still hates me for reasons that I am still unaware, but at this point I almost equate it to a child having a ridiculous tantrum while I just sit there and lol and let her waste her energy being a miserable snot. Things are going to be a little different starting Monday though; my boss apparently hired a (male) law clerk, who is in the middle of law school, to come help her with her cases. He'll only be there about 20 hours a week, but I'm almost positive it'll be wonderfully awkward, thanks to my coworker. Oh well. I hope he's cute, at least. And makes better conversation than her.

But at least there's Jensen.



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Lady Gaga concert on Saturday was absolutely smashing. So much fun. She has this stage presence that's just... so awesome. Not that that's news. I think my favorite was You and I, a new song on her upcoming album. And when Bad Romance came on, you damn well better believe I got on my heels and danced the sexy dance. Or at least attempted to. Ahh good times.

YESTERDAY I was leaving work, and I noticed the wonderfully overwhelming stench of gasoline, which filled me full of dread, as I have smelled it before under such circumstances, and it's never a good thing. Parked, got out, looked behind my car, and yep, gasoline, leaking out EVERYWHERE. Basically, squirrels have once again chewed through my gas line. This is the THIRD TIME this has happened, which is so dumbfoundingly STUPID it's almost hilarious. Per last time when this happened, I didn't start my car again, as gas could have been flying all over the engine which eventually equals me dying in a fireball. So I left it there and had my dad come pick me up. We had it towed to our mechanic this morning, and apparently it's going to take A WEEK to get the replacement part. Oh lol. But the good news is that it might cost me less than $250 dollars this time.

Stupid fucking squirrels. WHY WOULD YOU CHEW ON A GAS LINE. WHY. Does it have delicious flavor? WELL, no, apparently where I park is close enough to where people from another office feed them, so of course they're so dumb that they gnaw on whatever else is closest, including expensive car parts that have gasoline coating them. OKAY. Gaaahh rage rage rage.

But, everything was made a bit better by my friend texting me and saying she found a REALLY good deal on, uh, hot air ballooning! Lol no really. We've been thinking about doing it for a while, and it was a good deal, so I bought a ticket, lulz. HOT AIR BALLOONING. Who would've thought. We'll be doing it some time next month!

Alsoooo I know I totally had a fit about it on twitter, but I must flail about it here too because ( OH GOD IT'S SO CUTE. )

Tonight is definitely a "scour youtube for best-of-Rifftrax clips" kinda night. Good Lord, really, The Last Airbender? It was painful even WITH the commentary for just ten minutes.

OH my goodness. How can I possibly be 24? When I was in high school, do you know what I was thinking about myself at 24? Maybe not married, not yet, but maybe in a serious relationship. Definitely done with college and powering full steam ahead in my set career, moved out of Florida and etc etc. Lol I guess one out of four ain't bad. And I'm not disappointed with how my life post-high school has gone, not at all; I guess what I mean is, back then, 24 seemed so much more distant and grown up than what I actually am. HOW CAN I POSSIBLY BE CONSIDERED AN ADULT. I still live with my parents! I have no idea what a health insurance deductible is! MY BED IS NEVER MADE.

Ah, well. Panic about getting older aside, it's been a pretty good weekend! Trying to go out with friends last night was a bit of a clusterfuck, but we made good of the bad; we were late for a neat little planetarium show I wanted to see and therefore couldn't go inside, BUT a nice gentleman took us on the roof anyway and showed us through 3 massive telescopes the moon, Saturn, Sirius, and the nebula on Orion's belt, all of which was SUPER AWESOMESAUCE in case you were wondering. Then we headed over to a restaurant that I was really excited for, a Thai-Mex fusion, but they stopped serving 10 minutes before we got there, SIIIGH. Fortunately we knew another good restaurant in the area, so it worked out! Then there was drinking. LOTS OF DRINKING. So at least it ended well. :D

Today my parents and I went to Orlando to the Great American Pie Festival, where $10 gets you into the all you can eat pie buffet. Piiieee. If you can think it up, I probably had it. Omg. So good. Unfortunately it was all outside and almost unbearably hot (I know, it's April, I KNOW, MY RAGE, IT SIMMERS) so we didn't stay too long. Later we went to dinner at a Spanish tapas restaurant which was holy crap amaaaazing. Quail is awesome, btw. When we came home we had a Skype session with my sister, which was really nice because I miss her! I opened the present she sent me while we Skyping, which was pretty cool. A framed picture of us, vanilla rooibos tea from the Republic of Tea, and an assortment of ethnic food goodies from a store they have up in Chicago called World Market. DO YOU ENJOY HOW MY BIRTHDAY HAS CENTERED AROUND FOOD. I sure do. And thennn my parents gave me Tron on blu-ray (AHHHasjkdfla;jdka I am so excited to watch it you have no idea), $40 gift card to the ~mall, a full year's subscription to Flickr, and a pair of shoes of my choosing. I will keep you up to date and informed about said shoes.

Tomorrow I get to have the peppermint chocolate cake that my dad is making me. It has peppermint schnapps in it. And ganache. Omg. Sugar coma. This weekend. I cannot.

( OH YEAH THEN I GOT THESE STUPID FACES )

Also HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS to my fellow birthday buddies who are continuously awesome, kashmir1 and poppyjar. I hope it was super! ♥

And last, but certainly not least, thank you SO MUCH for all the messages, comments, and other birthday wishes! Your awesomeness is my happy place. ♥!!!

( That screencap wot I mentioned. )

Happy birthday to my lovely and awesome ignited!! I hope it is full of TRON and DOLPHINS and WINCHESTER BEEFCAKES. ♥

Today was pretty perfect. I had the day off and my friends and I drove down to St. Pete. Had lunch at a lovely little British/Indian place outside (the weather was perrrfect), and my chicken curry was delicious. Then it was a walk to a gelato cafe (sea salt caramel, unffff) and a few cloves. Then we frolicked through this old hotel, The Vinoy, trying to find a way to get up to the tower on top, but were UNSUCCESSFUL due to a locked door. Six flights of stairs, and I locked door! Uncool. Ah well; next time I'll bring lock picks.

( So I dub thee Unforgivaaaaahhn. )

UM, so earlier, I had a really bad momentary stomach cramp, and I went to bend over slightly so I could get the blood back up to my head, because it was making me lightheaded, and the next thing I know I woke up passed on on the floor. Seriously, I... don't even. I hit my head pretty hard on my dresser on my way down, so I woke up completely and utterly confused with my head throbbing, my lip bit, and carpet burns on my knee. I am a veteran at passing out (happens pretty much every time I have to give blood), but frick, I was so weirdly out of it for a few seconds. The lump on my head is still hurty but not as bad as before, and it's all so absurdly ridiculous that I can't help but laugh. Plus, confirmation that my pain tolerance is still stupidly low HAHA YAY.

I leave you now with Alec, the love of my fucking life. Shh, don't judge, just enjoy.

Dear Hollywood.

I don't ask for much. Sometimes I get unbelievably excited for your movies, but most of the time, I just let you do your thing.

But I am asking you, begging you: omfg please cast Jensen Ackles as Finnick Odair in the Hunger Games series.

( WHAT YOU SAY )

I honestly don't want the Hunger Games trilogy to be made into movies, though. They're probably going to Hollywood-ize it to high heaven and ruin that feel that it has. I could be wrong; I hope so. Just... at LEAST cast people who are relative unknowns (I've seen a couple articles that have the audacity to suggest Taylor Butterface Lautner as Gale, which, UH, NO AND ALSO NO) and who aren't prolific. And I hope they don't have Katniss go the route of what I like to call the "Scarlett Johansson Action Movie Syndrome," where she's beautiful! and her hair never goes out of place! and she has boobs! and she kicks ass! Which, hey, there's nothing wrong with a hot girl kicking ass, but when the sexiness that they're flaunting begins to overcome her actual character? Not cool. But, I mean, Katniss is only sixteen, so I think they won't go that route, but still, aughhh, I wouldn't put it past anybody.

OPINIONS AND STUFF.

My friends should be here soon and then we're going to attempt to watch Run Lola Run. Last time we tried we ended up just putting on my dvd of MXC and talking for like, three hours. BUT I NEED HARDCORE GERMAN TECHNO MUSIC IN MY LIFE.

caithream Excuse me, if there's not bulging 'roid veins, I DON'T WANT IT.
loony_moony Forget the bulging 'roid veins, DO HIS OVERLY DEVELOPED MUSCLES HAVE OVERLY DEVELOPED MUSCLES? No? GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR.
caithream http://tinyurl.com/27hmjk9 THIS OR GTFO
loony_moony YES. EXACTLY. WITH THE TINY TESTICLES AND ROID RAGES!
caithream Omg that's my ~dream boyfriend~
loony_moony Break me off a piece of that beefcake, would you.



Yawn.

In other news, this is the coolest thing you will see all day. A TORNADO MADE OF ACTUAL FIRE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.