Mish-Mosh of a Happy New Year

First off, I'd like to say HAPPY NEW YEAR.

In other news...

So the CP Kiosk closes this week. FINALLY. I am SO HAPPY. I have been waiting for this since it OPENED. >.<; After that closes I'm going to help close down both the Wilton kiosk and the Waldenbooks. :< MY POOR BOOKSTORE. I miss it already. QAQ

I am really going to miss it too because of my coworkers. We just have a lot of fun together. But the ones I'll miss the most are Bonnie, Caitlin, Cait, and Alix. Megan left two days ago before the CP Kiosk was closing, and it was such a sense of loss... I hope she's doing well out in Maryland. If you're reading this Megan, best of luck!

God, and CP... the drivers are AWFUL. I almost got killed on Friday. Friggin, I was in the left hand lane coming up to a red light on Clifton Country Road, and this hunter green Subaru Forester SWERVES AT ME. Because he wanted to be in my lane too, and WAS TOO GOOD TO LOOK. I was into the oncoming traffic's lane to avoid him, and had the roads not been slippery he would have gotten quite the horn blowing aside from the bird after I regained control of my vehicle and quite a string of adjectives in several languages. I WAS PISSED. I took down the license plate too, but I didn't get a chance to call the cops. Which is a fucking shame. >[

But yes, at the CP kiosk we're down to myself, Huma, Heidi, and Andrew. So it's going to be a crammed work schedule with no room to call out this week. And I don't plan on it, since I need the money. lol

I also got wind that Borders downtown is looking for cafe people, so even though I really dislike food service, I'm going to go speak with the manager this Saturday when he gets back about filling one of those positions. Because it'd be a job, and it'd keep my foot in the door at Borders. I... just don't know where I'll park. x'D;;

My sensei and friend, Steve, is also getting a job with a magazine (I can't for the life of me remember what one) and is going to see if he can't get me in as a photographer too. So if I could move into my field of study permanently... well... that would be amazing. OwO

I have learned something though about retail. The first is that telling someone that you're reading the Gothic and Lolita Bible magazine is a no-no. The poor woman though I was reading the American Girls (wtf? I'm not that young! lmao) and when she pressed me for the name... she was horrified. ^^; She wouldn't speak to me after that, nor say thank you, and practically fled that kiosk. Oops.

I also learned that fangirling over things in aforementioned magazine will get you odd looks. BUT IT HAS ONLY STRENGTHENED MY DETERMINATION TO MAKE IT TO ANIME EXPO. <333

In the photography front, I attended First Night Saratoga to try and get some shots, but due to bad weather and the poorest planning I've ever seen from Saratoga, it was a flop. So I came away with something, but not much. I personally prefer the sepia-ish one, but it's a toss-up of personal taste really.

I finally purchased my business computer as well. AND I AM IN LOVE. <333 Brendan and I picked it up from Best Buy yesterday after our weapons class, and we set it up, and I had to spend at least five minutes petting it. It's a quad-core 640gb computer with a 22" viewable HD flatscreen. <3 LIFE DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER RIGHT NOW. Goodness... editing my photos on that is going to be AMAZING. OwO <3

Speaking of weapons class and Steve...

I was there three days this week. I ran down on Thursday to discuss what we were doing on Friday, and he asked if I wanted to play with the boys. So I threw on his spare tank top and warmed up with them. And dammit, I refused to be treated any different, and he wasn't about to go easy on me anyways. The boys did get nervous though when I started tossing the 100lb bag around... >.>;; But it was fun, and I learned some new moves and got to grapple. Shit, Steve even came out of no where and attacked and I won! I know he was holding back, but I still managed to hold my own and get a submission out of him. YAY!

Afterwards we sat around chatting for a while. Which is nice. I really enjoy intelligent conversation.

Then I visited him on Friday for my private lesson, already sore and battered from Thursday. It was really fun and I learned a new move in the moi tai style that is meant not to injure the legs, but to destroy them. Both of them. WHOO YEAH BABY! It's... one of my favourite moves now. x3

Saturday (yesterday) I did weapons with him. And I ended up with two smashed fingers, and somehow a lack of a bruise on my neck where I was hit. oO; Odd, but okay. I did win when sparring against Brendan though, 5-4. So it was a close call, but he was fearing for his own fingers because I told him I would run his over if he hit mine again. x'D I was only joking, but still. Guess he didn't notice or something. LMAO

One thing Steve did note to the others though, was that because I was so small they had to watch out for my speed; because I make much smaller movements, I can move faster because of it. That, and I am also a much smaller target. I love being small. ;w; <3

Then last night was also Mia's 16th/18th combined birthday party. I was a shameless playful flirt with Martel because he's cool, and it was fun.

Other than that nothing much is going on. My sister and her friends want to do a bikinis in the snow photoshoot today, but so far they're not ready yet and the light is fading, not to mention the heat. Stupid girls. Oh well, not my problem really. *shrug*

So we'll see what comes of it.


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