I feel happy, oh so happy

This week has been an extremely good week!
So, as you know I've been training at the Clinique counter. Not only do I get so many perks with the job (free makeup and/or body supplies before they are open to the public) but since it's at the University Bookstore (a private owned business that is actually separate from the Uni itself) I get discounts! Some departments are set: 5% in technology, 10% in textbooks; but for the main department, general merchandise, I get 20% now, and it increases to 30, then 40! Loving this! And and and...
Are you ready?
Are you sure?
Okay here goes:
I get 2 4-day weekends free (that's right FREE) each month! I work 60 hours per month normally (35 hours/week is considered full, 17 is part), and the other part-time person and I switch weekends! I never work Mondays, so when I get Fri/Sat/Sun off, it's actually 4, not 3 days off! Which is almost the same for Elise (the other parter) because she normally gets Thurs off.
It's a lil bonus they throw in for part-timers so we don't feel like we don't have any free time. I think I'm gonna like this...

...and I just realized that the places I've worked at for the longest have all made 'Top Places to Work At' lists. The gym for gyms and Snohomish, Starbucks on Forbes and Seattle, UBS (University Bookstore) on Seattle and Independent Business, AND Clinique for cosmetics. This is a very good sign.
It may not mean anything, however since I'm so high-maintenance it only makes sense that it translates over to the places I work also.

Meanwhile I'm focusing on getting out of school. I have a plan of sorts. While in school I'll continue at UBS, when I graduate I'll work at the Canada and/or California branch(es) of an international ESL/EFL school so I can easily pay back my loan/save a bit then transfer through that school to other countries!

Good plan? I think so.

I'm kinda bummed that I won't be able to actually move to other countries for the next 2ish years, but this time between will be chock-full of explorcations and mini-trips to help keep the itch at bay (haha, 'keep the itch at bay' I'm gonna get a whole new set of readers)!
~Speaking of readers, I'm excited that my reader count has finally reached the double digits. Haha, look at me, I'm growing.

Yessah, a good week indeed.

I keep saying I'm gonna give back my lurkin pass and actually start commenting on other's blogs that I read, ohhhh, basically every day.

Yep, one of these days...

Can't think...

brain no work...
It's hawty hawt! So for the past 5-8 years Washington's been doing it's climate shift thing...it started with a freak snow-storm in April and has turned into this:

~Snow in the winter (that actually sticks to the ground! Like, y'know, REAL SNOW)
~Sun in the summer (as in we have entered a second wave, this time HEAT. After 30 days without rain about 1 month again, this 90+ isn't working for me)

G'DAMN! It's difficult for me to function. I don't like hearing the weather man say that after 1-4 days of 95-99 degree weather we're going to "cool down" to 85-89. There's only about 8.5 things wrong with that!

But today I started my training at the Clinique counter. Yay! I don't know exactly why I chose this over tutoring, we'll see soon. I'm hoping I work a bunch of hours so everyone can get to know and love me, if not the next oh, 3 explorcations are sooooo not gonna happen. Or they'll be super short. Damn.

Here's my new thing I learned about Clinique today: Clinique, MAC, Aveda, and Origins are all owned and created by Estee Lauder. Fascinating. Yet not so much. hehe. So I get to learn to put makeup on people and about beauty regimes, and lots of stuff like that. I have paper to practice on and my workshop in September. I'm actually a little excited. Cuz it's exciting.

I'm apartment hunting. Because...yeah, here no more.
The best part is it's basically breaking even. If I stayed here I wouldn't be able to work because of how far away it is and major bus lines don't run as late out here; with a job I can live in my own place, eat/buy/cook what I want, and wouldn't be losing any money, may actually save even more each month! It's like I'm getting paid to move away from people that I must move away from if our relationship is to remain intact. Whew. I thought that like I was saying it without breathing. That one too. Okay, I'll stop.

I accidentally offended a friend on the phone the other day. I wait for the other person to hang up before I do and before she did I said something along the lines of "That was the longest convo ever! I don't understand how people do this!"
She kinda took it the wrong way. Especially since we only talked for 10 minutes.
Don't you know me but at all? I can't! You should be happy I didn't cut you off mid-sentence. I HATE the phone, I only talk to some people cuz I have to and others cuz I love em. That simple. And you know which one of these you are, because if you're not on the I'll-talk-to-you-even-though-I-hate-it list you get 10 minutes. Seriously. Everything needs to be said in that time because at 10:01 I've been known to say:
"Okay, well I'm done now. Bye bye now." click
Some people find that offensive too. {shrugs}
Anyhoodle speaking of phones I actually had an enjoyable convo with ma petite, man I wish I was going to that beautiful island!

Things I don't understand: Gym Edition

There are some things that make me mad when I go to the gym -I mean how can you NOT wipe off the machine after you've poured about a gallon of your sweat over and through it?! Seriously.

There are some things that make me sad, mainly the people who look like exercising is painful instead of strenuous-in-a-good-way.

And there are those other things. Those things that I just don't understand...

-Why are you taking the elevator from the locker room to the 1st floor? Why are you taking it at all? Maybe there are gyms that have many many many floors, this one has 3...walk a bit.

-Did you really just drive here to walk around the track? I understand people who live far away and come to use the machines. But you never do. You pay to park your car and use the gym, and then just walk around. Wow um, well you know you can do that outside too. And, here's a secret: It's FREE.

-Cell phone? Really?

-Outside the gym, when people say they 'love' my shape and 'would do anything' to get it, I offer a workout plan (yep, I do them for people. Helped AnaB drop 4 sizes!) or even better a partner and they backtrack. "I just meant the actual shape. I'm not a pear shape though, I'm rectangular*, so I'm just not going to do anything."
Alright, so because you aren't shaped differently you are going to be a soft version of something you can't change? Super.

-It makes me mad, sad, baffled, perplexed when I hear "I didn't have time to workout/cook dinner/do _____...ooh, but did you see the episode (or even better, marathon) of ___?" Umm, no I didn't. I did all those things you didn't have time to do while you were watching TV.


So yeah, take your pick, I've got more...
...but what about you? Isn't there anything that you just can't understand even when you attempt to look from both sides?


*And this is the point where I try not to strangle a jo b/c they are probably size negative 2 sitting next to my phat azz.

oh, sweet cheez-its.

This is getting fucking ridiculous.
Ridi-damn-dunculous if you ask me.

Why is everyone trying to give me drugs?!

Anemia (okay, more vitamins than drug), insomnia, migraines, depression and the latest: ADHD.

I've never (nor will I ever) been tested for ADD/ADHD. You cannot assume that just because I like to travel, can't focus, and 'suffer from' the majority of the things on your list that I have ADHD and proceed to try to give me pills. Don't do it!

Why does everyone have to be/act/behave the same way?
Why do you try to dope me up so I can be a cookie-cutter version of what you want me to be?
Why are you trying to force-feed me drugs when you damn well know that I get addicted very easily and am prone to excessive everything?

Stop drinking my koolaid and go saddown!

She called it "Cultural Re-entry Shock"

But can I call it "it's 4 in the afternoon why aren't you dressed yet common sense"
But that's the thing with common sense, it's not so common.

Although there are some things I absolutely love about the US, there are some things I could absolutely do without.

Par example:

People who think it's okay to leave their house undressed! Alright, okay, I understand if it's the morning and you are going to the gym, or you're just going out for a quick something and heading back to your house (sure I judge just the same, but I understand, I did it too when I was at my low point). But excuse me, it's the middle of the day! Why couldn't you take off your old crusty clothes and get dressed properly? Why? WHY?! Go cry yourself to sleep, you disgust me.

Hey you, little girl, where's the rest of your clothes? I understand it's been warm and so everyone automatically disrobes a bit...but you are still at school. I repeat: still at school. You're looking particularly whore-iffic for a school campus. I know you like the quad, the grass is green, the trees are beautiful, the sun is shining...put your clothes back on. I save my ho uniforms for when I go out dancing-sure, wear them whenever you want-but there are students who don't need to see your nakedness, besides there are children!

Oh and a-hole, I've got something to say to you too. This is not a park! I can fight the urge to football your kid like I really want to, but you need to play your part too. Namely: keep your child out of my our way when we're going from class to class. I don't like many children (especially when I'm not being paid to be around them), I definitely don't like them on sight, and this is supposed to be a child-free zone, let's keep it that way. Or I can help you help me, just give me 5 minutes with them. They either won't want to come back, or will be quiet and stay the hell away from my window when I'm working.

On the plus side I still love the Suz reading room. It's upstairs, completely silent, and has this beautiful globe that I may or may not stare at and plan my next trip with.
I was slightly bummed that I had to go to the gym at 7ish instead of opening time but at least the summer sports have started working out in the morning so I still have muscles to look at. I missed strenuous exercise so much and I didn't even realize it! It doesn't touch dancing, but it's still so...just so. My French partner thinks it's weird I like to exercise so much, but it keeps me on an even keel, things are just better when I exercise regularly.

It's safer for everyone around me too.
I'm just saying.

But I miss food that's healthy and tastes good. Why do people seem to think that in order for something to taste good it must be deep-fried? I'm so glad everyone in my family cooks! And we all cook different things so it's always interesting and good.
PS Welcome back jalapenos, chili peppers, and pepperoncinos, how I've missed you so! Yay spicy food again!