A Long Week (or 2)

So much has happened since my last post... thank goodness lol I was in a pretty sour state. I guess I have to start from the beginning... and by beginning I think that's thanksgiving.

I started my first week out of training and had a very positive/wild experience. I was given Thanksgiving Day off, and I went to Va Beach to be back home Wednesday night. It has become a tradition with my core high school friends to all get together the night before thanksgiving and pretty much catch up and get smashed. It started our Freshman year, when I had only taken my first drink of alcohol a week earlier. Needless to say it didn't end as well as last week's.

If I recall correctly that was the night Johnny-boy almost died on my floor. He has really bad knees and has been on heavy doses of pain meds and what not since I can remember. We played soccer together in high school and I always remember him popping a handful of tylenol before practice. I can only assume his liver is making him pay for it eventually. We all have our issues though... I have like a 7 degree scoliosis going on that makes one of my hips lower than the other. It was never a problem (and continues to not be) until I found myself running/sprinting (mostly sprinting thank you coach..) 4 miles a day. Personally, I don't like pain meds in the least but I digress once again. Oh yea so the point of that tangent was that he misread the bottle on his antiinflammatory and took like 4x what he should have and then split a bottle of rum with me. ... mother was not pleased when she got home. (She is a recovered alchoholic... I know I know, on all counts, guilty)

The group has changed a little, and too my liking. So this is my 4th Thanksgiving away from home, and the 5th without my father. My mom has stopped cooking except for that year, and even then it wasn't right. Sophomore year a girl I was dating invited me to her house. (I broke my ankle in an... incident with a pledge the week before and couldn't have driven home if I had a car) This pledge just so happened to be like a 2-time national junior karate champion and decided he wanted to wrestle his pledge instructor. Guess how it went for me. Last year I want to say that I went to my mom's in SC. This year Johnny-boys family had me over. So night before, (I know I talk too much and get distracted easily, but we are back in recent-present-tense) Johnny-boy, Jesus, Chubby Cheeks and one of johnny's boys from a soccer team. CC and I had went out for dinner beforehand and had a great time.

Although one thing stuck out, we were talking about relationships, etc. (I dated two of her friends seriously in High School) and she started talking about her new boo. It seams CC has fallen for a hard working country boy. Unfortunately he plays the part a little too well. Lol her biggest complaint is that he doesn't text. I think I just have higher standards because I got her to admit that they didn't ever really talk like me and her do. I couldn't date someone that I couldn't connect with on an intellectual level. Not that hes dumb at all, I have tried to date people that were very simple (not in a derogatory way either) and it just feels like something is missing. Point in case would be Ms. May. Not matter how hard I try to stand this girl, she can't hold the other side of a decent conversation to save her life. The only time we ever actually had an ebb and flow resembling a conversation was when she brought up Sarah Palin. I say resembling because she started off by praising her intelligence, so I wasn't exactly candid in my feelings. Great woman, couldn't do all she does, don't want her anywhere near a national office.

Anyways so I ended up leaving my little brother in Richmond because he was being a pain in the ass about everything. He said he would rather stay, so I left without him. He had nowhere to go, so it kind of made sense. I felt bad for him, so I arranged a bus ticket for him and picked him up at 6am from the Greyhound station, with no idea where I was gonna take him for Thanksgiving. I just knew that I couldn't let him sit at home cold and alone over the break. He was mostly against it but somehow I convinced him to follow my directions. Six AM came WAY too fast after the night I had.


We had left my car at the bar and CC gave us a ride home to Jesus' house. There is nothing more sobering than a 2 mile walk in sub-freezing temperatures in a hoodie and jeans. I promise. Ended up taking him with me to Johnny's and enlisted his back in helping us split wood. I figured they were having me over for dinner (and now most likely my little brother as I still had no plans) so I figured it was the least I could do. We spent the entire day splitting wood. I think the 3 of us split a cord and a half by 4 pm. ... "O he is a lumberjack and hes ok..."

My brother kind of wigged out just before dinner (he really didn't know any of Johhnys family and it was practically a second family to me, so I gave him my keys and made some arrangements with my ex who lived down the street's sister, as they were good friends in highschool and hadn't seen each other in a while.) and they were slightly offended but I handled it pretty well I think. Thanksgiving was AMAZING... its nice having real food every once in a while. Although... scallops were on sale today and I had this for dinner. Quite delicious, though I wish I had more vegetables.
But yes, so Thanksgiving went really great. Then came Black Friday. I didn't realize what Black Friday really was until last week. All weekend was basically OT overload so I was trying to get a slice of that pie. I put in a 16 hour-day on Friday, and barely put a dent in what needed to be done. At one point I was working on 4 systems at one time. Exhilarating at the same time though. I really think I am going to like this job. Oh and my schedule is perfect. I got everything with ODU squared away, and I have a full course load registered and everything is gonna work out great. I talked to my soon-to-be new roommates the other day and everything is set there too. I've lived here for three years almost to the day.... I'm gonna miss this hell-hole of a house. At the same time, it's about time to move into a house with a dishwasher.

It's finals week, and I think I'm going to make out fairly well this year. Although for better or worse, my second test in Finance was apparently lost so my final is now half my grade. I'm pretty sure I failed that test so again I have to say someone is looking out for me up there, but still.. no pressure lol. My paycheck hit from all that overtime, which was nice. Since quitting my old job my bank account has hovered at $15 and I wiped out my savings, so having income is good again. I was a week away from financial disaster. Oh and another bonus about my job, on wednesday morning I was dead tired from not sleeping and had to be at work at 8 am. We don't get busy until 11 usually and this morning felt particularly slow... I put my headset on, turned up my speakers, and went to sleep until I got dinged. 2 hours later, I got dinged. Sleep acquired. Yahtzee. Abnormal, but most convenient.

Next semester is all Finance, Accounting, and Management classes with one Programming in C++ course. Yippee! C++ should be a breeze. Well im off to sleep. O and Ben Kweller, he sounds like the lead singer from weezer, only he is still trying. Im a fan.