Catching Up

Nothing major has happened in the past two or so weeks. There have  been some pretty funny/cool moments....so let's catch up.

Work is going great. I am averaging about 20 hours per week....finally! A week doesn't go by in which I take up a new shift from somebody, so the hours continue to grow. The store is getting ready for the Christmas season already, which means even more hours. Score. Funny/awkward story from the other day....

I walked into the break room and was waiting for the time clock to turn so I could clock in. Two people were in the back, an older lady and mid-aged guy. The guy asked me if I worked with computers. I told him that I had a basic knowledge. He then asked if I could work on web-sites and said not really. HTML is not really my expertise. I told him that and his response was "oh, well I guess I can't tell you my idea." I was like okay. I then suggested that there are web-sites that help you design. His response was then "well my idea involves web cameras if you catch what I mean." I didn't catch it again and then I caught it. He realized that I caught it and was going on and on about how that industry is booming. In case you didn't catch it....he is talking about making a porn web-site. ................................ yeah he asked me to be a part of a porn web-site. Ummm, no thank you. And you shouldn't be asking that at work.........duh.

On non-work topic....I have officially left Ridge Baptist church. For a while it was held back but now the cat is out of the bag. It started when the music minister messaged me about going to a handbells meeting. I decided at this point that there was no point in holding back. I messaged him back and said that I no longer to Ridge but thanks for the invitation. He then consisted on asking where I was going. At this point I have narrowed it to two churches. What upsets me is that the minister went to the youth minister to ask about certain reasons why I left. Why not ask me? I'm not going to fret about it. RBC is behind me and it is now time to look forward. The two churches I'm looking at is Newspring Baptist and Northwood Baptist. Praying for guidance on which church to go to.

One last thing that has happened is that I made a decision to change the health of my body. I decided to start an exercise program, Insanity. I started it yesterday and wow it is tough! Today was rough but I have a support group and a coach and I will make it through the 60-day program. Hopefully I will be able to post results on here. I am pretty excited about it.

Well, that is a rough catch up.

Bye-Bye Summer

Everything associated with Summer.....heat, movies, beach....are all coming to an end. That's right, summer 2012 is in the record books and for me, it was not the best one. But I am not hear to talk about the past but the future.

September and October are turning out to be pretty good months. The main thing is all of the releases coming out. All of the summer movies are coming out in DVD starting with The Avengers on September 23. Once this starts it's a domino effect and pretty much every other two weeks, a new movie comes out. Yep, Avengers, Madea, Spiderman, and Dark Knight....those are the four I am looking for. Also NCIS Season 9 comes out, just in time for me to catch up before the new season starts.

Another slew of releases come out in September and October, but in the video game genre. October is the main month for video games and there are is a time when a new video game comes out every week. It starts out with "Epic Mickey 2" on October 2nd. This is a video game where they go through the history of Disney. Yeah......I'm a nerd, but it only gets worse. October 16th comes with the release of "Lego Lord of the Rings." I'm a HUGE Lord of the Rings fan and I thoroughly enjoy the Lego video games. Looking forward to this one. October 23 is when "Playstation All-stars" comes out. This one I am not too sure about. Going to wait to see what the reviews say before I buy this one. October ends with the release of "Assassin's Creed III." I have never played any of the franchise games but this one takes place during the American Revolution and looks great! That is all of the video games coming out that I am interested in.

Yea I am going to be spending a lot of money in September and October but to make up for this, I am starting to get more hours at Kohls. Speaking of Kohls, I am not a permanent employee and no longer in a trial period.

Well that is all that is happening in the near future. Should be fun.

A Little Venting

Yeah I know it's been almost a month since I blogged but I really don't have much to say besides venting for a moment.

This past week or so has sucked. I got back from a great trip in Alabama where I always doing something. I come back here and I am bored out of my mind.I tried to hang out with people but they are either busy, don't respond, full of drama, broke, or don't respond at all.

My friend has recently been going through a tough time with his family and he reached out to me and we started to hang out a lot. Something that hasn't happened since I moved back to Charleston. I actually was enjoying it. Sure there was the family issue to deal with but that is not why we were hanging out...or so I thought. In the past two weeks this friend hasn't even text me to hang out. It's almost like he fell off the face of the earth. I have tried to reach out to him but nothing has come back from it. To me it almost seems like I was just his crying shoulder and now that the issue is beginning to be resolved he doesn't need me anymore. Great feeling...........just being there for hard times and no more depth to the friendship.

Another friend is about to drive me crazy. His lack of dedication is so horrible. I hung out with him almost everyday right when I moved back. Then I left the church and he hasn't text me since then. It seems like he only hung out because he was getting something in return as I helped out at the church. I decided to try that theory this week and suggested he text me if he needed help with an event coming up this Saturday. He said he would text me for sure. He did text me on Monday and asked what I was doing. I wrote back and said "nothing." No response back. Weird. Yesterday he text me again and asked if I was working last night. I said no. No response back. To me it seems that my theory is coming true. He casually mentioned we are going to get lunch either today or tomorrow. Let's just say that I am not holding my breath.

There are other people who are broke and don't respond. The person who doesn't respond is my cousin.....how about that?

I am so ready to move out of this house and out of this city and start over all fresh.

Good Month

This month is going to be great! Been pretty good so far!

I am starting to get more hours at Kohls which is a great thing! July 4th I had to work thought but it will be a pretty good paycheck :D The good month continues to go on this past few days with Shanita and Trikia coming into town and we all got ice cream and played games until 3 AM!

The rest of the month is going to be a blast! I work everyday except Friday. Then I have a few days off in which I will be packing! Where am I going you ask.....well ALABAMA! I am finally returning to Alabama for a few days. I leave next Tuesday and stay until the following Sunday. I am going down for Colin and Christina's wedding and to see everybody down there. I am so looking forward to it and can't wait!

As soon as a get back, on July 23, WWE Raw celebrates its 1,000th episode! It is going to be EPIC with legends returning and some major plot twists. After this every episode will be 3 hours long.

After the 23rd, nothing much is going to happen but after all the stuff going on in the next two weeks, it might be nice to relax.

Let's do this!

Celebrities

Recently I have been thinking about the life of a celebrity and comparing celebrities to celebrities.

This all started when I saw "The Amazing Spiderman" which stars Andrew Garfield. He portrayed Peter Parker in a great way....as an awkward teenager trying to find his way. I was watching/reading some articles on the movie with Andrew and he said that he is just as awkward in real life as the way he acted in the movie. He was very humble in the interviews and seemed like a very down to earth guy. I kind of want to meet him. I think me and him would get along just great.

This started this whole thinking process of celebrities. Now a days with social media and apps such as Instagram, it is easier to get a sneak peek into the lives of celebrities. For example, I follow Channing Tatum on Instagram and he posts photos of him just chilling around and living a life. He seems like a down to earth guy. There are a ton of celebrities that seem like great people that I would like to meet. Such as Emma Stone....co-star in spiderman. She is cute and funny, from the interviews that I have seen.

So I have been speaking about a lot of celebrities that are down to earth. There are also celebrities that live in the life of drugs and alcohol and those who give off a vibe of stubbornness. One of these celebrities is the biggest one right....Justin Bieber. This week he has said that he could take other celebrities in a fight and got caught speeding and in his interview he seemed like it was not a big deal. Sure speeding is not a big deal but don't give off an attitude of you are being better.

With all of this celebrity stuff, I kind of wish I was working in Hollywood. Isn't there an NWS office there? Yes there is. Who knows. Maybe I will end up there.  

A While

Wow....it's been a while since I have blogged as I have not been in the mood to blog. A lot has happened over the past few weeks, but not motivation to write it down. To be honest, I don't have much motivation right now but I am bored haha.

So yeah here are a few things that have happened over the past few weeks:

• SCDOT job didn't work out. The said I was going to start on June 17th but they never called. I took this as a sign I didn't get it. I never contacted them, but I never really wanted the job. So I am now focusing all of my attention at Kohl's. I am about to start new things at Kohl's including sales floor and other positions....AKA getting more hours :)
• Sister came down for a Saturday and we went to the beach. Pretty fun trip. My nephew and niece crack me up. We caught three fish and two crabs. One fished died but my niece (a big animal lover) said it was sleeping. 
• I semi-left Ridge as I am starting to look for a new church. Really haven't had a chance to look yet. Every Sunday something has come up and I couldn't visit new churches. I ended up playing piano at Friendship Baptist Church the past two Sundays to fill in for my aunt. It was great to be playing piano again. I won't be able to visit new churches until July as my sister is coming back down for the weekend and staying through my birthday.
• The last big thing that happened, actually happened today. The alumni of the Stratford High Marching Band learned some bad news this morning. A girl named Patty passed away in a car accident in TN. From the news report, her husband was driving and fell asleep and she was partially ejected out of the car. This was a huge shock to everybody in the band and facebook exploded with the news. Very sad news.

Well that is pretty much a quick update. Some exciting stuff coming up this week as my birthday is in 6 days! :D

Relief!

This morning I went into to work to discuss with the HR manager the consequences of me missing my shift on Tuesday night.

First of all the HR manager is one of my favorite managers as for one he is a guy (we are very few at the store) and he is pretty close to my age. So after hardly any sleep I called into the store to see if he was there and then headed up there. I walked into his office and he asked the general questions about how I was doing. It must have been pretty obvious that I was stressed out as he then said "so you made an oops." Haha. I learned then that things move quickly through the store as he already knew that I was showed up, just on the wrong day.

He then went into a discussion that about how each employee gets 3 "no show, now call." However he told me that he was not going to count this one against me since technically I did show up, just the wrong day. What a relief! He then said that most everybody in the store has done it at least once. He even said that a few weeks ago he showed up at 5 AM to a shift that he was not scheduled for.

I am very thankful for my job and the people at Kohls. It is a great company and has a lot of great people in it.