Well, I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend! For a lot of people I know that meant a 3-day weekend off work and to those people I say: Lucky you! I ended up not having to work Easter Sunday, but I did work Friday and Saturday. Friday was nothing special, but Saturday was the work-day from hell. No, customers weren’t overly rude, and it wasn’t a long day…it was actually something the store did that made it horrible for me.
A little backstory: I have absolutely no clue why, but I am DEATHLY afraid of people who dress up in full body costumes…the Pirate Parrot for instance. They freak me out to no end and I have absolutely no clue why. I can usually get by if I’m just seeing them, or if they’re a long way away from me, but if they attempt to interact with me in any way, I tend to go into full-blown panic mode.
Well, I knew that we were going to be having the Easter Bunny at work on Saturday…but I thought it was only for breakfast in the morning. I didn’t know that he’d be walking around the store, especially down in the cash lanes. So imagine my surprise horror when Mr. Bunny walks from behind me into my field of vision. And as he passed, because he knew me, he waved. I almost full-on lost it right there in the middle of the self-checkouts. My hands started shaking, I started sweating and I’m pretty sure I almost started crying there for a bit. It was absolutely pathetic. Thankfully he only popped down a couple times and then Mr. Bunny retired for the day. Because I don’t know if I would have been able to keep working if he kept showing up…I even told one of my managers that I was freaking out about it so that he wouldn’t wonder why I looked scared out of my wits.
But I survived to work another day… which in a way is a good thing but in a way is a bad thing. I have decided that I am way too addicted to shopping in my store. They need to revoke my employee discount so that I stop buying things. Twice this past week I ended up leaving the store with various items.
Like I really needed more stuffed animals!
Clearly I have a problem…
Other than work, life is starting to kick into high-gear. It’s three weeks until the Pittsburgh stop of the Devil’s Carnival Road Tour, three weeks until classes are over and just four short weeks until I graduate!
Who knows what comes after that, but I’m excited!
I do believe that I should hang out with Kyle more often… For some reason every time I see him I get home and am completely exhausted and ready for bed. Plus…he’s my best friend so… DUH
The past couple days have been AWESOME. I didn’t have to work and it was absolutely beautiful out. I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday cleaning around the house, which wasn’t the most fun thing…but it needs to get done.
Look ma! I has a clean IKEA showroom!
Had class both nights which turned out to not be so bad, we got out early from both and for once I wasn’t bored at all.
Wednesday night brought a semi-decent Radio X Show despite a couple technical difficulties. I keep badgering John that he needs to come visit so that we can take proper promo pics to use instead of our photoshopped ones.
Thursday night after class I headed to pick up Kyle from work and we went to Starbucks. Then it was back to his house to wait around until it was time to head to the theater to see the midnight showing of The Hunger Games in IMAX. And can I say that it was absolutely AMAZING. I will admit that I was fairly worried about whether or not I’d like it because more often than not I end up despising movies that are based on my favorite books. I wasn’t jump-out-of-my-skin amazed with it, seeing as they did make some pretty big changes to the story line / left out a few of my favorite parts, but I am still absolutely thrilled with the job that they did. Am definitely planning on seeing it again and the depression that we’re going to have to wait until November 2013 for Catching Fire has already started to set in. I want it to come out TOMORROW!
Yes, that does say $15… IMAX tickets are expensive =(
Luckily I only had to work 4.5 hours today, so the fact that I didn’t get to bed until 4:30am wasn’t that big of a problem where work was concerned. After I got out it was off to pick up Kyle again so we could go to SAMS Club where I ended up buying over 50 cans of Monster Rehab….what can I say, it was on sale!
Sooooo gooood!
After shopping we were pretty bored so we drove around some looking at some houses/apartments for rent that Kyle found on Craigslist. We found a fairly cheap townhouse for rent out in a really nice plan but it’s waay out in Whitehall and neither of us were sure we’d want to move that far out of the city. I guess we’ll see. We’ve both been itching to move out into the South Hills area. I’m definitely happy with where I am now, but if we could find a 3-br place close enough that both the boys could still catch the bus, rent would be a hell of a lot cheaper!
And now I do believe it’s time to pass out. 8.5 hour shifts tomorrow and Sunday and then two more days off!
The past few days have been absolutely beautiful. I realized how much I’ve missed the sunshine, not having my heat kick on every ten minutes and being able to go outside without six layers on.
Been waiting a long time for “go outside barefoot” weather!
Unfortunately though I’ve had to work through most of the nice weather and exhaustion caught up with me so I’ve been coming home and basically being useless. Came home Sunday night and sent a text to Kyle for him to call me when he got home so I could pick him up and he could help me re-arrange my living room. I figured I had some time to clean in there before he’d be home and then I could get that room all squared away. So I grabbed some dinner and sat down to catch up on one of my DVR’d shows.
…I woke up at 3am. Oops.
Hopefully the nice weather is going to stick around for a bit, since I’ve got Wednesday and Thursday off and I’d like to actually be able to get out of my house for once. Even if I have to go do something by myself (which is more often than not the case since I really don’t have many friends in Pittsburgh). Getting out and doing anything is better than sitting at my computer doing nothing all day long. Sure I have class both days and the radio show Wednesday night, but that still leaves all day long for me and I refuse to waste any more days sleeping/laying in bed. I need to fix my sleep schedule and I need to fix it now rather than continually saying I’m going to fix it and never doing anything.
Though I will be getting to bed late Thursday night, since Kyle, his roommate and I all have tickets to go see The Hunger Games in IMAX. I am literally beyond excited to see this movie. I’m just REALLY hoping that it is as amazing as the trailers make it out to be. I don’t know if I have the heart to see another one of my favorite book series ruined on screen. But I’m sure it will be great!
And now I’ve completely exhausted the ideas in my head to write about…. More proof that I need to get out there and start living a life….if only to make me a better blogger! And I need to start taking more pictures. My mom went through all the trouble of getting me a new point-and-shoot camera and I’ve barely used it since Christmas.
Right now I’m sitting here blogging from class. Want to know the funny part? My professor is sitting right next to me! Tonight is the last night for my Multimedia Production class… you know, the one where I had to climb up into the grid of a theater. The filming is done, the editing is done, and tonight the graphics team is adding in the menu and all of the last bits and pieces. In fact, I’m pretty sure the final DVD is burning at this very moment. That means that when I walk out of this classroom tonight, this class is over and I have my Monday nights free again.
Other than the current happenings, I really do not have any excuses for why I haven’t blogged in almost a month. I haven’t been overly busy, school and work haven’t been hard, and up until the past couple weeks I haven’t been sick. I’ve just been lazy.
Oh, and addicted to Minecraft.
Minecraft!
I’ve pretty much been playing non-stop for the past couple weeks. I’m playing on two different servers at the moment: One The Proudlands owned by a friend and home to some AMAZING builders, and one that I’m running off the computer for a few of my friends and I. With the latter, I managed to get my three best friends into the game and we all finally have something that we can play together again (this hasn’t happened since high school when we all played Diablo II together).
I don’t really have much else to say… I’m going to try and update more frequently from here on out but, obviously, no promises.
Ugh! I feel like I’ve been on the go non-stop for the past several days. The sad part about it is that I haven’t actually gotten all that much accomplished.
For the most part I’ve been spending all my time either at work or school. It seems like if I’m not one place then I’m at the other and it’s got me itching for a vacation…preferably soon.
Last week I got out of class a bit early and realized that I’d started to get the “driving itch” again, so I called up Kyle and we decided to play the left right game a bit. Basically you drive and someone picks left or right. You turn that direction and then take the next turn in the opposite direction and just continue on like that. We played for about an hour and realized something very significant about playing the game in Pittsburgh v. playing at home.
Left/Right in Bradford County: Play for an hour and end up on creepy dirt back-road in the middle of nowhere
Left/Right in Pittsburgh: Play for an hour and end up….in Pittsburgh
We did get pretty turned around for a while though, and saw a lot of nice houses / developments out in the Brentwood / Whitehall area.
Eventually we just kept driving and ended up in Washington, PA. Ended up scouting out The Meadows, which is somewhere Kyle and I will probably be spending a LOT of time this coming race season, and we also checked out the Tanger Outlets. Other than that the trip was pretty uneventful and we made it back home by midnight.
Saturday was my busy day. My Multimedia class is filming a play that our school’s theater company is putting on so we can produce a DVD of the performance for them. Had to show up at the theater early to get everything set up: including hanging microphones from the grid. Nobody else at setup was willing to go up into the grid with our professor, so I ended up doing it… If you’ve never climbed up a 25ft completely vertical ladder…it’s quite an experience. Especially if you’re terrified of heights like me. But I did it, and I’m proud of myself for doing it! Once we got things set up, I had a bit of free time before the actual play started so I spent a few hours just hanging around and doing nothing. Filming the play was uneventful, and hopefully everything went well because I do not want to have to go back and film again next weekend.
After the play I went to Kyle’s house because he and his new roommate Kaleb were having a house warming party. There weren’t too many people there and we ended up playing Kings. I don’t drink that often, so I’m pretty much a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. I also rarely ever play drinking games because of that fact and because of the fact that I suck at them. Needless to say I ended up crashing at Kyles and waking up with not that much time to spare before I needed to leave for work. And of course I spent all day feeling like crap because of it. I still can’t figure out why my left leg hurts so much though…but I’m supposing that it has something to do with climbing up into the grid and not being able to stand upright while up there.
Now I’m just sitting around watching Pirates of the Caribbean and thinking about trying to sleep away the rest of this head ache, so I shall leave you with one last pic…decided to show off my tattoo a bit.
Whitney is a twenty-five year old girl living in Pittsburgh, PA. She's a grad student and retail slave by day, and a (slightly) rabid fangirl and tech-head by night. When she doesn't have her head buried in books and a barcode scanner is nowehere in site you can usually find her spazzy dancing to Trance, burning out on video games, and habitually watching late-night informercials. Want to learn 
