Ami's journals

i got a wii today.  well, joe and i technically got a wii today since we're both too broke to buy one individually.
that shit is way too much fun.

i definitely celebrated my promotion in style last night.


...by getting wasted off of $3 mai tai's.  00|

god.  nothing makes me dance more than cheap mixed drinks.  the alcohol is so cheap you can taste your liver going bad.  shit makes me wild for sure.  so joe and i ended up being the only two people on the dance floor dancing to "throw some d's"--i rapped the whole song while doing some questionable dances.  come on rockford--get the sticks out of your asses and have fun.  people were so uptight last night it was ridiculous.  they only dance to the top ten summer jamz from like 4 years ago, but they won't get down to some fucking 69 boyz.  what the hell is up with that?  BOOTY DROP! BOOTY DROP!  no one has fun anymore.

and yeah, i go to clubs where they play shit like 69 boyz.  i love it.  you don't play 'tootsie roll'?  what about some 2 live crew?  no entrada!  play some booty bass and i'll get all sorts of white trash on your ass.

dunno what i'm doing today.  probably recovering from this nasty hangover.  i don't know why i got a gyro last night--i can only taste onions and its making me feel sick.  our bedroom smells like the sickest breath you can imagine.

tomorrow i'm going out for brunch with my best friend brizzle.  its a good excuse to drink champagne in the morning.  then we're going shopping because i need new clothes for my promotion... seriously...  i have one more week to soak up all the plain t's and sneakers i want because then i have to wear certifiable adult clothes.  fuck blouses, dude...i hate them.  dress shoes on the other hand, i love...only i can't wear heels because that place has the hardest floor and you don't stop walking during your 10 hour shift.  what's up, swollen feet?

soooo...

i got my promotion today! weee!  :party:

i pretty much knew i had it, but i don't like to jinx things by getting cocky.
so the second week of august, i get my big raise and keys and alarm codes and vault codes and all sorts of fun stuff.
ha ha.  they must trust me or something.

my mama took me out for a celebration dinner and when i came home, joe bought me a congratulatory balloon with a dope starbucks gift card.  no, i can't live without my $5 coffee on sunday mornings at work.  its my thing. 

i went out and bought myself some new clothes...i gotta keep it PHRESH!

peanut butter puffins cereal is fantastic.

i'm waiting for joe to wake the fuck up so we can go to the magic waters today.  i wanna ride the splash blaster 2000 a million times.  :crossed:

had my annual review yesterday--got myself a $0.75 raise.  apparently i'm worth an extra $0.75 because i: 1) mind my own business and stay out of the rumor mill  2) actually WORK  3) don't call in  4) don't argue with management about every single decision they ever make WITHOUT valid arguments 5) i'm good with balancing customer service and department projects  6) i'm just fucking good at merchandising, duh.
my assistant manager always acts like she hates me, but then we get behind closed doors and all she can talk about is how happy she is that i've stayed and then shared her advice for getting ahead.  she kept making references to my interview on thursday, like:  "if everything goes through, which i'm sure it will, you'll just have to learn how to maintain the friendships you've made from a distance".  so what i've heard is true...management makes up their mind on internal hiring long before they post the job description.
so anyway, tomorrow i interview for the promotion i applied to.  i'd like to think i've got this one for sure, but i don't want to be devastated in case i don't get it.  i've been pulled aside by 4 different managers, including the store manager, and told that the job is mine if i want it.  most people would probably accept that for what it is, but i tend to lean towards not trusting anything until i have a wage negotiation in front of me.

:pissed:

i don't mean to be so angry at the kids who live below me, but why do they have to make it so easy?

it is currently 9:30pm CST.  i have to be to work by 5:45am.  which means i have to wake up at 3:45am.  why am i on godsgirls instead of in bed? 
let me tell you.  the kids downstairs and their stupid white trash mom who uses my tax money for her two bedroom apartment because being obese makes you too "disabled" to have a job.  its such a great idea to let your kids run all around the neighborhood screaming at the top of their lungs at 9:30 pm, because god knows you just wouldn't want to do that during the day. 

dear hormones,

i know you're telling me to gear up for massive blood loss, but could you please stop making me break out?  i've got a calender which gives me a general idea of how long 28 days actually is.  although you are not like clockwork (lucky bitches), i think the crippling cramps in my uterus should suffice.  so lay off the zits, ok?  they're cramping my style.

-me.


in other news, i'm bored.:peace:

my eyelids are heavy today.
i didn't stop moving yesterday from 3 a.m. until 11 p.m. and now i feel like i didn't sleep.

kind of an odd day yesterday.  i've been thinking about my grandma lately, and it sometimes feel like i'll never stop feeling shitty about her dying.  its been two (almost 3) years now, and life has definitely moved on for everyone...and it sucks she's not around for it.  everything yesterday kept reminding me of her and i kept getting chills up my spine, which is kind of an awkward feeling.  i ended up stopping by my mom & dad's house after work to hang out with my dad for like...5 hours, and i just kind of mentioned how i had been feeling weird all day and he said he had been too.  stuff like that spooks me out.
we took a long drive in "the little car" (itty bitty convertible) to a drive-in about an hour away and listened to the cubs game on the radio (they won).  on the way home, we took this super curvy road because my dad likes to drive fast on curves--i think i giggled more than i have in 5 years. 
we stopped about 5 minutes from the house and got ice cream (because my dad and i can't eat a meal without dessert) and got into a pretty intense conversation about why he thinks he and my mom have made their marriage (happily) last 35 years,  and how they share a very common bond of having virtually no childhood.  and it came back--the chills up my spine.  my dad always talks about the summer he was 12 and his dad took him and his little brothers fishing in canada, and when they came home my grandma was completely bed-ridden.  no doctors could figure out what was wrong with her, and she ended up spending the entire summer at mayo clinic and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.  and my dad always says this when he talks about that summer: "i'm 12 and i don't know a damn thing about cooking a pot roast, but here i am cooking a pot roast.  and then my dad beats the shit out of me because its dry".  it kills me, because i know the rest of the story.  about how hard my grandma tried to muster up the strength to walk every day and take care of a family with the help of my dad, and not her husband.  and how my grandpa ended up cheating on her during her hardest times.  how he told her he didn't know what love was.  and then he came back.  and then he was diagnosed with brain cancer.  and how they were both so sick, but she never left his side and she let him die at home.  she took care of him.  my dad lost his father at the age of 23--he had never heard his dad say that he loved him.  he never told his kids that he loved them.  it kills me.



my dad gave me the best hug ever, yesterday.  he sometimes has the ability to give a good hug just when you need it.  and he makes you feel like you're a baby again. 

how weird is it that i just found my blingy plug that i lost TWO WEEKS AGO on the floor by the computer?  do you have any idea how many times i combed the floor in this general area in search of this stupid plug?!  all this time it has been sitting in the EXACT place i KNEW it was going to be, only i couldn't find it.  for two weeks.  i'm slow.

p.s.  for those of you who don't know, i got a tattoo...last year.  i just now got around to putting up a somewhat decent picture of it.  not finished, but i ran out of cash so what the hell.

Blah.
Its gonna be a looooong day.
My boss came back from vacation and made the shocking realization that he's not allowed to do that EVER.  He just can't.  As annoying as he can be sometimes, he keeps the store on lockdown and we need that desperately!  You can't give a bunch of emotional and chatty and otherwise lazy people free reign and expect the store to look halfway decent.  You have to be up their asses at all moments and give them a good shove in the general direction they're supposed to be in.  Plus, I hate when he leaves because then its like estrogen firebombs all over the store and all the female managers get their panties twisted and they FIGHT!
Needless to say, he hasn't been in a good mood this week because the store looks like a wreck and all of the managers aren't speaking.  He did, however, hit me with a newspaper in the back of the head to get my attention and gave me a high five...so at least I didn't fuck up enough for him to hate me this week.

I wish it wasn't so gloomy today.  Its making me so flippin' tired and I hate it.  Stupid mega rainstorms last night...:rain:

AAAAAAAAAANNNNYYYWAYYYYYYYYY, just thought I'd update even though I don't have much to talk about, really.  Hope you're all fantastic!

:party:  for anyone who's friends with joe on myspace, wish him a happy quarter century today!  (he's #1 on my personal myspace, and #2 on my godsgirls myspace,  y'all)

i'm making kung pao chicken later...and serenading him with a kazoo.  no lie.

also, has anyone seen the 80s movie 'mac and me'?  its the mcdonald's/coca cola version of 'ET'.  joe made me rent it the other night and it is probably the most hilariously lame movie EVER.  please someone tell me they've seen it.  let's chat about it!
here, i'll help you out... here's a super rad clip of the BEST DANCE SCENE EVER!