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| Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 | | 6:48 pm |
hmm Life is funny. This isn't a bad thing. it just makes me shake my head at the curveballs it throws. huh. Current Mood: contemplativeCurrent Music: carmen ohio (YEAH OSU!) | | Thursday, August 12th, 2004 | | 10:19 pm |
i need to be better at this so, i've done exactly what i said i'd do, which is slack off majorly when it comes to this journal. i'm hoping that going back to school will get me back on track because i use my computer a lot more when i'm at school.
lots of stuff has happened. we went to canada...it was nice. we were there for 10 days, which really ended up being just a couple days too many. but it was gorgeous, really gorgeous. we got to stand and walk around on the athabaska glacier, which was exciting for a nerd like me. then it took us forever to get home. our flight couldn't land in salt lake city because of a thunderstorm, so we had to land in poc-a-tell-a, i-da-ho. so, by the time we got to salt lake, we had missed our connecting flight to cincy. there were no other flights out until the next morning, so we got to spend the night in salt lake. it was a nice hotel, but we were so ready to get home.
staying pretty busy here. joann's finally decided to give me hours and i've been working there a lot. i'm actually working 9 out of 10 days. but that's mainly because my boss is a major slacker who gives people her hours so she doesn't have to come into work. actually though, she doesn't work when she's there. she mostly sits in the back room "doing paperwork", but its bullshit. its actually been good experience for me because it has taught me what i DON'T want to be like when i have my own store.
finally got my computer all fixed up. we got 512 ram for it, so now it isn't as slow as molasses. then i got an external hard drive today that gives me 80 gig more space. this is exciting for me because without this stuff my computer is a piece of crap. but now its pretty awesome.
i got punched in the nose by my cousin on sunday. he didn't mean to, he was jumping around and his flailing elbow smacked me. he felt really bad about it, so i didn't tell him that it was swollen and bruised (just a little, but enough to notice and hurt whenever i touch it). i've never been hit in the nose like that so that's its swelled before...interesting experience, one that i really don't feel the need to repeat.
well, lucky me got to close at joann's tonight and get to be there at 6 am for shipment tomorrow morning. so this girl is off to bed. :) Current Mood: mellowCurrent Music: No One needs to Know - Shania Twain | | Tuesday, July 20th, 2004 | | 10:23 pm |
vacation going on another vacation soon. i know, i know, i just got back...but this is the last one, i promise. actually i'm pretty excited. we're going to calgary in canada. i've never been to canada. so this should be an experience. so, we go on a vacation every year with a family that we've been friends with since before i was born. there's me, claire and bobby and then their two boys brian and derek. brian is a year younger than me and derek is a year older than bobby. every year we go, i'm reminded of why i redevelop a crush on brian every time we go. this guy is hands-down the nicest guy i've ever met and has a got a smile that melts knees. so, right now, i know that i will get there and be fine, then, within a day, i'll have a crush on him again. then, i'll get home, and within a day i'll be fine again. so, its a vicious cycle. i tell you what though, if he ever came to me and said he liked me, that crush would definitely have an indefinitely extended life ;) but i don't want to wish for anything like that.
joanns still sucks. well, i guess only parts of it suck. however, it seems like too much effort to try to get another job for just a month and a half. i'll just stick it out and get a different job when i get back to school. oh well. good night.
Current Mood: excitedCurrent Music: talking on the phone :) | | Sunday, July 18th, 2004 | | 8:54 am |
oops oops...man, i suck at this. yeah, i've been gone but there were a few weeks where i wasn't and i could have updated....i'll try to get better. anyway, its been a really great month. i just got back from a week at hilton head with my dad's family and then a week at the outer banks, nc with my mom's family. i always have so much fun when we go on those. i definitely wasn't ready to leave the outer banks yet. especially because i finally got in the ocean! i have been scared of the ocean (or, more specifically, THINGS in the ocean) since i was 8 years old and got stung by a jellyfish. so, i haven't been swimming in the ocean since then. well, its hard to resist the ocean with 15 cousins all riding the waves, so i went in and had so much fun. we spent hours riding waves. it was also fun because claire, me and two of our cousins carolyn and renee had random girl talks out in the ocean. the things i learn ;) anyway, i miss them all already.
so, a random thing happened a little while ago. well, i took a social dance class during winter quarter and it was way fun. there was this guy in it named john...very nice guy. anyway, near the end of classes he asked me for my number, saying he needed his new friend's phone number. I gave it to him but wasn't interested because i had a boyfriend at the time. he didn't call and then i forgot about it. well, i got a call from him a couple weeks ago wanting to know if we could hang out, however we're not in the same city so that makes things difficult. so, he talked about coming down to cincinnati and i said cincinnati's a great city, come on down. just thought that was funny and we'll see if he actually comes.
i know i should have tons more to write, but my mind is drawing a blank and i have to go to work on this lovely sunday morning. i'll write with more later. Current Mood: rejuvenatedCurrent Music: Shrek Soundtrack | | Friday, June 18th, 2004 | | 6:14 pm |
too much just finished having a conversation with my dad for the 80 thousandsnth time about my weight. yes, i realize that i am overweight, and no, i don't want to stay that way. but saying i'm going to do something, and actually doing it are 2 different things. what i hate the most is being talked to about it, especially repeatedly. i'm less likely to want to do something if someone is bugging me about it. so, this time he starts in on how i'm starting my junior year of college and people are going to be interviewing me for jobs and how they might be looking at my physical appearance without knowing the person within. not to mention the guy factor. i know that my weight makes me less attractive to guys and yes, that's hard for me. i would love to be thin and beautiful and i'm neither. but, do i want to just be asked out by a guy because of my physical appearance? do i want to be noticed by the guys who didn't notice me when i was fat? i would rather be with guys who did notice me when i was fat because physical appearance isn't obviously a big factor. so, i'm supposed to come up with a "plan" by sunday afternoon to "shape up" this summer. yippee. i know its for my own good and i want to lose weight and get in shape, but i HATE doing it under the scrutiny of my parents. always watching whatever i'm eating, doing and giving me those looks that say "are you sure you should be doing that?" its my body, dammit, and if i want to i could screw it up as much as i want. however, that's not what i want. its just much easier to diet and do exercise when they're not around. i don't know. like today. the conversation started because my dad and i were talking about dinner. i didn't eat breakfast today and didn't eat lunch before i went to work from 12 to 5, so i didn't get lunch either. so, i came home hungry...who wouldn't? so, my mom told me to eat some peanuts (high protein, low carbs you see). so my dad came in and we talked a little bit about dinner and i told him i was going to eat some peanuts (expecting approval because he's on the same high protein, low carb kick as my mom). however, peanuts are high in calories (did you know that?) and there was no approval. so, he tells me to drink metamucil instead so it will fill me up so i wouldn't be that hungry when we got dinner. so, he fixed me a glass of that and, well, let's just say its not my favorite. then, he goes into it about my weight. well, i guess i'd better go figure out my "plan". the new, improved erica plan, i guess. i think i'd really appreciate some comments on this because right now my self-esteem just hit rock bottom. Current Mood: gloomy | | Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 | | 4:39 pm |
throw rocks at them so frustrated right now. i don't want to use this journal as a name-calling thing, so no names will be said, but i am so mad at somebody right now. i don't even know why i'm so upset about it, because in the whole scheme of things, its really trivial. but its one of those situations when you realize that someone you think highly of obviously does not think highly of you and probably doesn't even respect you because of things that they do, or in this case don't do. it probably isn't even the actual action that makes me mad. its the idea that someone i have spent way too much time thinking about obviously doesn't even have me crossing his mind in the least bit. i don't mind the fact that he doesn't think about me....at one point i definitely did, but now i couldn't care less if he thought about me at all. its taken me a while to get to this point, but i've been there for a while now and am glad. however, its just that there's no respect and that's what's so frustrating. we're all going to a red's game tonight and i couldn't care less if i saw him....it would actually probably be better if i didn't. seeing his face would probably just make me angrier.
what's also frustrating is my job. i'm back at joann's and am working 5 hours next week. 5! what the hell? i asked for saturday off because i'm going to visit my katie in DC and she gives me 5 freaking hours. normally, not getting a lot of hours wouldn't bother me at all. but i have now really realized that value of money and the fact that i don't have any and i need some. not to mention that i'm going on vacation in 2 weeks and next week was the week i could work the most and i was looking forward to having some of that spending money on vacation. also, another girl who is also away at college, but has been there 2 years less than me, got more hours than me. and they weren't on saturday either. i'm definitely going to have to get a new job after vacations in july. i'll stay at joanns for probably one night a week, but that's just so i can keep my discount. i'm so pissed at everything right now. but, this is really just a recent development. its been a fairly good summer break so far, its just today that has me climbing the walls in frustration.
thanks to anyone who read all this venting. i'll be in a better mood next time hopefully and i'll write about the good things that are going on.
Current Mood: frustratedCurrent Music: evanescence | | Saturday, June 12th, 2004 | | 12:48 am |
sleepy well, i'm really sleepy so i'm not going to write much. i'm all done moving out and i'm home safe and sound (no thanks to the weather and the rest of the people on the road yesterday). these past two days have been long, hard and tiring. moving out was a bitch, for many many reasons. i don't really want to go into them, but suffice to say that it sucked. i was really glad michelle was there though....i would have been going crazy if i had had to do all that by myself. she rocks my world. :D glad to be home. had a nice family dinner to celebrate my mom's b-day, then we went to lowe's! (talk about a party :P) it was cool though. i'm really excited (except not) because i get to drive back to columbus tomorrow afternoon. i get to see the lion king, which is awesome, but the driving part is less than thrilling. ok, erica is a very sleepy girl. night. Current Mood: sleepyCurrent Music: frank sinatra | | Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 | | 9:06 pm |
spring does anybody ever notice how many things there are for a couple to do during spring? i mean, once winter's over, all anybody wants to do is spend some quality time outside. there are so many things that a guy and a girl can do together that requires little or no money and would probably be more fun than spending money. taking walks to enjoy the trees that actually have leaves on them, getting ice cream on a warm spring night, going to a playground and swinging on the swings, doing homework together on the oval, going to a river and feeding the ducks, having a picnic...etc. i have one all planned out that i guess i will just have to use next spring since i didn't have a chance to use it this time around. there's a little park on lane rd (not lane ave) in upper arlington. its right by this wee library and has a baseball field, a playground, and a few other things. there's a hill shadowed by big elm trees and a picnic table that has a great view of the park. i want to go there and spend the afternoon. bring a big blanket, spread it out under those trees, have a relaxing picnic and spend the rest of the afternoon just chilling out. maybe play some cards, make shapes out of clouds, or just talk, or whatever ;) i think that that would be a great way to spend an afternoon with someone who was really special and i plan on doing that as soon as its possible. not really sure what brought this on, but i wanted to put it down in writing.
not sure where my happy mood went. i was in a great mood all day today and now its gone....i hate it when that happens. getting annoyed at things that shouldn't annoy me and that don't usually. i guess i'm just tired. going to watch a movie with the girls instead of study for my geology exam tomorrow. hopefully the movie will cheer me up. Current Mood: moodyCurrent Music: crazy - patsy cline | | Monday, June 7th, 2004 | | 11:46 pm |
well... well, i really don't have much to say right now. that's actually a lie, i have tons to say, but i don't have the energy to write it all down, especially when i should be studying for a stats final. so, i guess all i've got today is boo for finals. i can't wait to be done for the summer! like i've said a million times, i'll miss my girls like crazy but am glad to be getting to go home to the fam. ok, i need to stop because this just became a helluva lot more appealing than my stupid statistics. so, back to the books. night all. Current Mood: drainedCurrent Music: you can't stop the beat - hairspray | | Thursday, June 3rd, 2004 | | 1:00 am |
another day well, another day goes by. its amazing how staying busy makes the time fly. and, of course, it wouldn't be joanns without interesting customers. i think my personal favorite is the husband and wife who come up to the register with 2 carts filled to overflowing with stuff at 9:02 (we close at 9:00). so, at 9:30 and $438.72 later, we finally got them out the door. is it just me, or is it common courtesy to NOT wait until AFTER the store closes to bring the cashier 2 cartloads of stuff one wants to buy? i don't know, that was definitely a little bit annoying. but, also, funny story. a guy came in last night and wanted 8 yds each of like 5 different fabrics. i asked him what he was making and he said costumes. i then asked what the costumes were for, and after a brief hesitation he answered "drag". i said "oh" and mentioned that i knew some people that did that. and he proceeded to tell me that he dressed up and did shows and donated all the money to children's hospitals. and i said that the people i knew didn't do it for that reason and we had a good laugh. we kept talking and he told me he figured i had heard that answer plenty of times and so that's why he decided to tell me. i told him that i hadn't been working at a columbus joanns for long and that i was from cincinnati, which is why i'd never heard it before. (i have not yet decided if he is gay....he seemed very straight and my gadar is, while not great, not bad) so, i was on break today and went outside because a quilting guild had taken over our break room and he was out in front of the store checking out our REALLY on sale stuff. so we started chatting again....very nice guy. quite cute. works at applebees. the girls and i have decided that we need to have dinner there before school's out ;)
speaking of school, the girl has not yet brought back my geology notes. so, i took matters into my own hands today and got her last name and email address from the teacher so i can get my damn notes back. in the beginning, it annoyed me a little bit, but now i'm seriously getting angry. how rude is it to borrow someone's notes on a friday, say you'll bring them back on the next monday, and then proceed not to show up to class for the whole week (knowing full well there's a quiz on that friday), THEN not show up the next week either? if she shows up to class on friday and thinks she can get these past notes from me, she's got another thing coming, that's for sure. sometimes people just get on my nerves.
definitely getting more and more excited about summer. sad, because i'll miss my girls way too much, but excited because i want a change of pace and i don't want to take classes! it'll be good to be in a different environment for a little while. plus, i miss my puppies :(
ooh! another funny story. so my brother bobby (a freakishly athletic sort) plays a game with a deck of cards. you flip over a card and then you do that many push-ups (or sit-ups, whatever floats your boat) and then get that many seconds to rest. so, he goes through the whole deck on saturday night after we get back from troy. told you, freakishly athletic. anyway, on tuesday he was showing off his cicada baseball swing to his friends (to you non-cincinnati people, that's when you hit cicadas with a baseball bat) and pulled one of his already sore pec muscles. so, apparently it has now swelled to twice the size of the other one. my dad told me they're calling him booby instead of bobby. when i heard this story, i cracked up....still laughing now :D
its late and i need to sleep. kudos to anyone who read this entire thing. night! Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: san francisco - oldie, but a goody | | Tuesday, June 1st, 2004 | | 12:47 am |
back to school well, this weekend was great, but its school time again. had a family night minus claire on friday where we watched master and commander (good movie by the way). saturday had lunch with katie lame :D and then claire's baccalaureate mass (one of these days i'll spell that right), then out to dinner, then we went and saw troy (also a good movie and not just for the obvious reasons of brad pitt, orlando bloom, and eric bana.....oh my god, the scenery was great ;) ) sunday was claire's graduation....it was really weird seeing my baby sister receiving her diploma and getting crowned and all that good stuff. i was very proud though because she received one of the senior awards because she had the 3rd highest gpa in her class. then came dinner at trio's and then we went home and relaxed in our new hot tub...which, i love by the way. slept in way too late today and got back to columbus around 6 and just had fun with the girls tonight.
this week is going to be busy. i'm working tuesday, wednesday, and friday from 430 to 930, then saturday 10 to 3. busy is good, but i'm wishing i had a little more time to myself and to spend with kids around here the last week of school, not counting finals. hopefully i'll get to hang out with some people i haven't seen for a while, even though i don't have much time.
been thinking a lot about what i want to do with my life. i mean, my goal is to own my own store....not a big store, just a little one. however, i don't want to jump right into that as soon as i've graduated. so many things matter before i do that. i don't want to put down roots in a city and start a store if i don't know where i'm going to be. i'd rather not start the store until i get married and get settled. that way, i won't have to uproot it if i were to get married and move. not to say that i wouldn't move after i'm married, but it'd be easier to start some where. of course, i won't wait forever. if i'm not married by the time i'm 30, then i'll go ahead and start it. hopefully, that's not going to be the way it goes, because i'd like to have at least 1 child by 30, hopefully more. i know, i know....but its what i truly want out of life....i would give up everything to be a mother and wife. nothing else matters without that. ok, anyway, i haven't decided if i want to go to graduate school. at the thought of more school, my brain yells "no way in hell!"...but i have to wonder if its the best course. and then there's internships or studying abroad (i'm not graduating on time anyway, so its no big deal). so many things to consider. if anyone has any thoughts, please post them because i'm always eager for input.
i'm off to bed and going to try not to think too hard about my future, but i'm not a patient person, so i want it all to happen now.....i need to work on that :P night Current Mood: contemplativeCurrent Music: curbside prophet - jason mraz | | Saturday, May 29th, 2004 | | 12:38 am |
life is good i just want to say that life is good. i have no particular reason for saying that, but it just is. this week has been so great, and i could never explain why. its been so busy, but it just left me with this great feeling. i would think that it's being home that has something to do with it, but i've been feeling this great since wednesday night and i didn't home till about 6 hours ago. no complaints here! happy is good! i'm off to have some sweet dreams....night :D Current Mood: optimisticCurrent Music: none (what? no music for erica?!) | | Thursday, May 27th, 2004 | | 9:49 pm |
well, i kind of shocked the girls today. we were sitting in the living room and all of a sudden "i'm horny" popped out of my mouth. i'm not sure who was more shocked actually, me or them :P well, i guess i was alone with sarah, whose mouth dropped and she started yelling for michelle to come out there and made me repeat it, which i did, turning bright red. then she and michelle started howling in laughter. and gave me some suggestions to cure it, which i will not repeat here. i didn't mean horny as in sex, since, let's face it, its me. i'm not even sure what i meant....i guess horny for attention, hugs, kisses, hand holding....i don't know. but it made for a really funny moment, and i think i'll put horny as the little icon for my mood just for kicks :) not sure if i wanted to share all that with the general public, but oh well.
today was a good day, actually a really good day. i didn't have to work (but i, of course, went to joanns anyway to spend money i don't have), so i got to relax. i made flannel pants for the girls and they loved them, which was good :D they didn't know what i was doing in my room and apparently were coming up with lots of plans to look in my window (which required shimmying around the building in a thunderstorm). oh i love my girls! i'm going to miss them! well, i guess i'll still be seeing michelle all the time because she'll be living in my house for almost a month, but i'll miss the three of us being wild and crazy (well, as wild and crazy as we get).
sleepytime...night! Current Mood: hornyCurrent Music: i don't give a damn about my reputation - shrek | | 12:04 am |
today for you, tomorrow for me i am, officially, no longer a voice major! i can stop saying "technically" every time i tell somebody what i'm studying here at school. i am now honors pre-business and will hear whether or not i got accepted around the middle of july, but the counselors i've talked to have said that i shouldn't have any problems.
today was a good day and nothing in particular happened. had the appointment with the advisor, came home and didn't do much until my class at 130, then went to work from 430 to 930. i'm really tired though. i forget, when i'm not working throughout the year, that combining work and school takes more out of me than usual. its a good tired...not the tired that comes from doing nothing, but the tired that comes from being busy, but not overly busy. but, i don't have to work again until tuesday, and that makes me very happy!:D
i lent my notes to a girl in my geology class because she hadn't been to class for a while. she said she'd bring them back to me on monday. well, i have to learn to not be so nice because she definitely didn't come to class on monday (surprise, surprise) and then she didn't come today either, so that means erica is slightly screwed for the quiz on friday, because this girl has my notes. i guess one has to learn the hard way, but it makes me sad. next time someone wants my notes, i'm going to be less inclined to help them out and if they think i'm a bitch, then whatever. so, wish me luck on the quiz....luck is all i've got!
sleepytime for this tired girl! Current Mood: happyCurrent Music: I've had the time of my life - dirty dancing | | Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 | | 12:11 am |
See, I'm smiling I know the girls are worried about me. well, i think sarah is more worried than michelle is. But i'm ok. i really am. i smile more, i'm laughing like i was before...i know i was different for a while, but i think i'm coming back together. it is SO frustrating not being yourself and wanting to be yourself and know there's nothing you can do to get back to being yourself. unfortunately, time is the healer...and i've never been a patient person :P. so, i've decided to make a list of everything that makes me smile.
- my michelle and sarah
- talking to/seeing my family
- my puppies!
- seeing the face of someone that i've made something for and they didn't expect it
- really good mexican food
- seeing babies and wanting one for myself
- playing euchre with marty, michelle, and sarah
- talking to my katies
- getting to spend a week in washington dc with my bestest friend!
- the song "The Reason" by Hoobastank
- singing my heart out
- making things
- aceing a test/midterm/final
- Whose Line is it Anyway? (definitely the best show on television)
- hearing someone tell me "i love you"
- telling people "i love you"
- that my baby sister is coming to osu next year!
- seeing a broadway show
- chick flicks (and i mean the sappy ones)
- having my little cousin jack hold my hand and not let go
- making music
- being wild and crazy with michelle
- the fact that summer break is in 15 days! and only 10 days of classes!
- smelling the flowers in the air as i walk across campus
- the guys that try to play frisbee on the oval and fail miserably
- helping people
- making someone laugh
- playing games
- the smell of febreze
- getting all dressed up for no reason
- looking at pictures and remembering those carefree high school days (they didn't seem carefree at the time)
- thinking about my vacations this summer
- scented candles
- holding someone's hand
- wearing a dress i've made and getting lots of compliments :)
- feeling like the person that is looking at me thinks i'm really special
I know there are more, but that's as much as i've got at the moment. i've definitely got a lot of reasons to smile and i'm smiling more and more. I am determined to have the smiles win.
Today has been a mostly good day...busy, but good. making money is always a good feeling. I forget, when i don't work for a while, that some people just don't care if they are rude or not. since i'm working there, i'm obviously just there to serve them and if they don't like what i have to say, there's hell to pay. i don't understand that mindset. the only thing i can do is smile at them and pretend that what they've just said doesn't make me want to kick them out of my store. oh well, the anger fades pretty quickly and i move on. i really don't have much going on...right now its just school and work. i go to classes, i come home for about 45 minutes, then i'm off to work until close, then i get home and immediately put on my pjs and veg. its actually not bad at all....i kinda like it that way, but it majorly cuts down on the amount of time i get to spend with people.
ok, i think i'm done for now. night all. Current Mood: hopefulCurrent Music: Evanescence | | Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 | | 1:15 am |
so, i swore i'd never have one of these well, this is try # 2. I wrote a big long entry and it definitely didn't post, so now i get to try all over again. We'll just have to see how this goes. I don't know if i'm going to be very good at this and i swore that I would never have one, but things change. only 16 days left until cincinnati! 11 more days of classes/finals. i love my roomies and am fairly happy here, but its time to go home for the summer. So, i'm trying to keep myself busy. Fame is over, which was fun, but frustrating at the same time. I haven't decided if i'm going to be doing it again next year. It depends on a lot of things, one of them being if i'm working and how the classes are going. This hasn't been the easiest quarter for several reasons and keeping myself busy makes it go faster and allows for less time for thinking. I'm working at joann's again part-time and helping the olentangy rd. store with their liquidation phase. The liquidation guy is a total flirt. he's older than my father, but that doesn't stop him from hitting on me. It hasn't gotten to the uncomfortable point....yet. unfortunately i could see it going there. he has a problem with the personal space boundary thing and he stands just a wee bit too close all the time. oh well, i'm only working there until the 9th of june, so i won't have to deal with it for too long. I started a list of projects when i got back from florida with my family and seem to add a new one everytime i cross one off. In about a month, I have made a crocheted afghan for my family, a pillow for dad, a crochted purse for grandma, 3 dresses for me, a pillow for my 2 year old cousin, another crocheted purse just for the hell of it, a crocheted dishcloth for the apt, an elon fleece blanket for katie, fixed sarah's pants, and organized my embroidery floss (which was a major mess). And i still have things i need to do before school's out. I did all this with fame practices, school and work. busy=good...for the most part. By the way, if anybody ever wants anything made, let me know. its my little side-business. well, i know i wrote other stuff in the first one, but i'm getting tired and the brain isn't functioning quite as well. hopefully i won't have too many more problems posting. we'll see how this journal thing goes. night all. Current Mood: thoughtfulCurrent Music: As long as you're mine - Wicked |
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