I have given my two weeks notice and I am out of here on Saturday!! No one could ever really guess how excited I am about leaving. I really can’t wait!. I’ve met a new guy. Well. Kind of. I’ve known him for years and years, but I’ve always thought of him as the goofy little potheaded kid I used to hang out with. He’s changed so much and now I can’t get enough of him. The only thing that sucks is that he is in the Army. He is being stationed in Hawaii in a couple of weeks. I wish I could go with him. I feel like this huge hole that has been making me so unhappy is just starting to fill in. And he’s a big part of that. His leaving will probably stop all the good feelings. 
At least I will have my new/old job to keep me busy all summer. I got back on at the grocery store here in town. I will be working as a cashier and also helping out as a cake decorator when its hella busy. I’m actually excited. I miss it there.
Hmmm. Hopefully J will come by tonight. He’s just too perfect to me.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Broadway heights, Chicken, Chico, Elite Boutique, Pesto, Sacred Art Tattoo
My friend and I went to Chico yesterday. I love that town. Theres something about the houses and oak trees that really make me happy to be there. It’s my favorite town so far.
I went with my friend Summer to help her watch her kids while we just hung out. It was nice. The first thing we did was stop at Summer’s school. She is going to the University of Phoenix. I think I’m going to start there as well in a couple months. I’m so excited about that. Then of course we had to go to Starbucks. I know that most people will tell me that I should help support the smaller coffee shops, but you have to admit Starbucks is at the top for a reason. They’re fucking awesome.
After coffee, back to the school. Then to a great restaurant that was reccomended to us. The restaurant was called Broadway Heights at 300 Broadway st. I had the best sandwich I’ve had in a very long time. I ate the Creamy Pesto Chicken. It was so big I had to take most of it home. Very worth it. And the waitress was just awesome. I’m definitely going back there.Although just a tip, it’s not the type of place to take a 2 year old.
Summer also got a tattoo. She went to Sacred Art tattoos. I guess they dont have a web site, but a myspace. So check it out. They seem to do some great work.
While Summer was getting a tattoo, I got the [sarcasm]wonderful[/sarcasm] task of keeping the kids occcupied. I love the terrible twos. I went to the Elite Repeats Boutique on Broadway st. Its this great little salvation army thrift store. I barely had a quiet moment. But I did find a couple of good deals.
And that was yesterday. Thrilling right?
Today just the same old same old. I love life.
1.I am the most horriblest blogger that there ever was.
2. I’m also very lazy lately
3. And I’m a bit of a looser. :/
So. June Bugs right now are the bane of my existence. For some insane reason they like my porch. Since I have my light on in my living room they also really like my window. All I hear right now is the clicky clicky clack sound of their wings right before they hit my window. It’s like suicide bombing beetles. Ick!! And you know how in the day time they are all slow and tired and don’t fly a lot? Well that means that tomorrow whatever gross bugs didn’t make it off the porch will be just sitting there, inching around in circles. I swept them off today. I made a game of it. I would fling them off the porch as hard as I could. And then I could actually hear them hit the pavement 20 feet away. It creeped me out big time. And they’re creeping me out right now. Just so you know.
On other B news I got myself an iPhone. I am completely in love with it. I don’t understand how I ever got along without it. I learned some awesome tricks from my forum friend and iphone guru Scooby. He taught me how to jailbreak and unlock my iphone. I am so happy he did.
I bought my wonderful phone from ebay. I spent a grand total of $232.00. Which is not that much if you search ebay for an iphone. I found a great deal. Since I had planned to spend so much money, I really couldn’t see myself spending another $70.00 a month for phone service and the data plan. So I went the geeky route and hacked it. I’m really happy I did. Not only do I get to use a prepaid wireless service, I also get to stylize my phone to fit my personality with all kinds of themes from the Winterboard app which I got through Cydia. And that’s another thing. I now have access to all kinds of apps that Apple App Store doesn’t carry. It’s amazing.
ipnone fun/ Louis Vuitton << Pictures !!
iphone fun/ Louis Vuitton 2 << Pictures !!
Hmmm. Other news includes my littlest sister going in the army. I’m so proud of her.
I also have a new little nephew from my sister Stephanie and her looser husband. He’s so adorable.
Cuteness!! << baby pic 
I found youtube finally. I’d never really paid much attention to it except to look up some music or the random how to video. One of my favorite people on youtube is Philip Defranco. He does a couple vids weekly and a daily vlog. He’s hilarious. At times I think “what an asshole”, but its always while I’m laughing my ass off. He’s very goofy and sarcastic at the same time. It’s a great combination. Oh and he also does twitter stuff and has a blog
Another thing that I’ve done recently is get a pay cut. Yep that’s right. The company I work for took a 15% paycut out of each employees pay rate. I don’t know how many people care about this little bit of news, but to the 15 to 18 people I work with it’s HUGE!!!
The staff of the Inn was told to come to a mandatory meeting last Friday morning. At the meeting we were notified that each employee would receive a 15% pay cut starting the next pay period. They gave us two days notice that our livelihood is going to be taking such a complete blow. We were also told that cutting our pay so drastically will not even come close to solving their money problems, but will make a small dent. What I don’t understand is if this is only going to help just a tiny bit, why do it at all? I’m sure there is a better way to come up with that same amount of money. With so little of an amount of employees working here I don’t think they could be saving more than $3,500. We were told that supposedly once this money crisis that the hotel is going through is over, every one will go back to their regular wage plus a 5% raise. But they can’t tell us even a ballpark date on when this could be. It’s totally ridiculous.
I am personally loosing $1.57 an hour. That doesn’t seem like a lot when you look at it in print but imagine what that adds up to. I used to make only about $1,344 gross a month. The last check I received, $136.18 was taken out for taxes. We get payed bi-weekly so that makes about $1071.00 a month take home.Now I’ll be making $1,141 gross a month. I imagine that the taxes I’ll be paying will be a little less at about $115.00. That makes my new take home pay about $911.00 a month. $911.00 A MONTH!! I’ve been doing some number crunching, and that leaves me about $200.00 to feed and cloth myself after I pay my most basic bills.
I understand that this “recession” is taking a hit on all of us, and I am so happy that I at least still have a job. But I can’t help but feel that there has to be a better way to save/make a little bit of money to keep us at our same pay rate. I can’t think of it though. Anyways I just had to get this off my chest. Especially since we were asked not to make a big deal of this and spread it through the community. So now I’ve spread it through the interwebs. Muahahaha 
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Today is actually kind of a bittersweet day for me as well. I’m very sad that for a year now a friend of mine has been gone. But I’m also happy that the community seems to have got through it just fine. We’re a very resilient bunch.
Oh!! and I almost forgot!! The sun was out in all its beautifulness today. And I got a sunburn. I love the sun. There is something about the heat I feel from the sun that relaxes me. So i was very happy about that.
