Today is so nice that I am sitting outside at the coffee shop and typing this. E is writing a story so it gives me something to do. I wish that I had more than one day off in a row. I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow so that I could just hang out. I think I need to work on marrying a rich man to take care of me. Oh who am I kidding I would get bored.

I have been on a kick lately of renting movies... I need some suggestions of movies that I should rent. My video store has just about every movie I could think of including foreign films... I need help people.

I tried to read the book last night that teaches you how to knit. I am going to need someone to show me because there is no way I can teach myself. I tried and completely screwed it up.

When I am not so tired and not so busy I will sit down and update my journal. I am now all moved in to my new place in Virginia. I start work tommorrow. I am nervous, excited and scared. Once I start this all, I will update my whole journal and I have updated user pics to start the process :)

So I woke up this morning and it hit me. In one week they are coming to get my stuff. The movers I mean. An overwhelming sense of sadness came over me. My whole adult life (i.e. since I graduated college) I have been living in Florida. Never more than 3 hours from my parents and making friendships stronger that I could ever have imagined. People I know will be in my life forever. We have shared laugher, tears, complaints, anger, sickness and health. My heart just broke today. As I was looking for a place to make copies I drove past my first job after college as a manager at Little Caesars. I drove past the first paper that gave me a shot. And I cried. I just broke down and cried.

I got this quiz from a friend and it is pretty fun.

Anything under 25% and you're a bad bad person :) well at least I came close to that with a 26... yikes :)

*****

Start with 100%, and take away 1% for everything you've done/that's happened to you on this list. Put the number you are left with in the subject line

EXAMPLE... if you did ONE thing you would put 99%

Smoked
Drank alcohol
Cried when someone died
Been drunk
Had sex
Been to a concert
Given a handjob/gotten a handjob
Given a blowjob/gotten a blowjob
Been verbally sexually harassed
Verbally sexually harassed somebody

Felt someone up and/or been felt up
laughed so hard something came out of your nose
Cheated on a boyfriend/girlfriend before
Been cheated on by a boyfriend/girlfriend
Been to prom
Cried at school
Gotten lost in a WalMart or a department store
Went streaking
Given a lap dance
Had someone of the opposite sex in your room
Had someone of the opposite sex sleep over
Slept over at someone of the opposite sex's house

Kissed a stranger
Hugged a stranger
Went scuba diving
Driven a car
Gotten an xray
Hit by a car
Had a party
Done drugs

strip poker
Got paid to strip for someone
Ran away from home
Broken a bone
Eaten sushi
Bought porn
Watched porn
Made porn
Had a crush on someone of the same sex
Been in love

Frenched kissed
Laughed so hard you cried
Cried yourself to sleep
Laughed yourself to sleep
Stabbed yourself
Shot a gun
Trash talked someone and then acted like their best friend the next day
Watched TV for 9 consecutive hours
Been online for 9 consecutive hours

Watched an animal die
Watched a person die
Had sex and/or messed around somewhere with at least 1 person present
Pranked somebody
Put somebody in the hospital
Snuck into someone's room and/or your own room after being out
Kissed somebody of the same sex

Dressed punk
Dressed goth
Dressed preppy
Been to a motocross race
Avoided somebody
Been stalked
Stalked someone
Met a celebrity
Played an instrument

Ridden a horse
Cut yourself
Bungee jumped
Ding dong ditched somebody
Been to a wild party
Got caught stealing something
Kicked a guy in the balls
Stolen a boyfriend/girlfriend from a friend
Went out with your friend's crush

Got arrested
Been pregnant
Babysat
Been to another country
Started your house on fire
Had an encounter with a ghost
Donated your hair to cancer patients
Been asked out by someone that you never thought you'd to be asked out by

Cried over a member of the opposite sex
Had a boyfriend/girlfriend for over 3 months
Sat on your ass all day
Ate a whole carton of ice cream all by yourself
Had a job
Gotten cut from a sports team
Been called a whore
Danced like a whore

Been mistaken for a celebrity
Been in a car accident
Been told you have beautiful eyes
Been told you have beautiful hair
Raped somebody
Danced in the rain
Been rejected
Walked out of a restaurant without paying
Punched someone/slapped someone

Just wanted to give a quick update and eventually I will probably start writing in this again. I accepted a job today. The job will be with The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Va. Would be starting after the first of the year. Barring a drug test (which I am not worried about) it should hopefully all be a go.

Will write more soon...

Sometimes I wish I wrote more in this journal and then other times I realize I am better keeping things to myself. I am starting to realize more and more lately that I don't really have a lot of trust or respect for people I surround myself with. A lot of lies and backstabbing. People doing a lot of shady things that I don't have a lot of respect for. Lord knows I am not perfect but I will never lie to people or do things behind people's backs that if nothing else looks like something is going on. If someone is your friend, don't make it look like you are trying to do things to hurt them. Like trying to sleep with their boyfriend/girlfriend. That disgusts me and I have seen more than my share of it lately and frankly it makes me ill.

If it takes me to spend more time alone then I have to do it. I have the close friends in my life that mean the world to me and frankly they are all I need. I am tired of trying to fit in where I obviously don't belong. I am tired of making all the moves to befriend people who don't care to return the friendship. Normally I would make this entry friends only but any more I don't care who reads this.

The Swedish Chef rules...

Swedish Chef! You scored 57 Mood and 71 Energy!

You are happy and energetic. People just love being around you and your infectious energy. You're good at entertaining people without even trying, and you make a mean lutefiske.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 26% on Mood You scored higher than 83% on Energy

Link: The Muppet Personality Test written by TheLadyEve on Ok Cupid

This is so weird that this came up like this... since I collect these.

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The most happiest birthday wishes to my girl dinamartini. Love you and have a wonderful day. I will be trying to give you a call later but I wanted you to know I was thinking of you today!!

Yeah I know I never update. This should really be a long one but I just wanted to get some of my thoughts out that I had today.

There are a lot of things I am proud that I have accomplished over the last year and I need to remember these things if I ever feel down.

1. Lost over 50 pounds. Now if I could only get pics scanned in from hurricane get together at girlonthewire's house you could see how different I look right now. Sometimes I don't even believe it. But I am falling off track because of the recent 3 hurricanes and need to get focused again.

2. Bought a townhouse. It is really nice when I am cleaning my house last night and I realize that it is completely my place. I can paint it how I want and decorate it how I want. It is also nice to have 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. Now maybe some day I will get it all together and have a housewarming party. Still need to take a class on installing wood floors so I can do that over my vacation in November.

3. Have really gotten to the point where I feel like I have a great friends circle. Girls Night Out has become a thing I look forward to every week because being silly with female friends and flirting with boys is something I have missed for awhile.

4. Being single and enjoying it.

I have been working a TON to make sure I have enough money and such so I can still hang out with friends. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. Money = good. Working 55+ hours a week = tiring.

Anyway that is my update for awhile. All the recent hurricanes and work have made me exhausted and unmotivated to update. Hopefully I can get better.

I just wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to laurahell :) I hope you have a wonderful day you deserve it.

Oh and happy "40th" to the person no longer talking to me :(

I need to make a list of things I HAVE to do this week and since I am on livejournal all the time I hate to bore you with it but it is the only way I will remember since I am going to have a crazy busy week.

1. Call OUC to set up shutoff date for power (DONE)

2. Call Progressive Energy to start power service (DONE)

3. Call BrightHouse to gets cable modem/cable shut off (DONE)

4. Stay on Nationwide about getting car fixed (yeah jackass hit me last week and now instead of my PT Cruiser I get a Kia Rio to drive in) (DONE SORT OF, GOT THE CAR TO THE REPAIR SHOP THEY ARE NOT TOTALING IT EDIT: They are totalling it... arrgh)

5. Take driving class for ticket (DONE)

6. Pay State Farm for homeowners insurance (DONE)

7. Call all bills to change address (DONE)

8. Get change of address form (DONE)

9. Call to get final payment for closing

10. Call credit union to make sure I can get cashier's check on Thursday for closing (DONE)

11. Get cashiers check for closing

12. Get registration sticker for car (DONE)

13. 2 p.m. Wednesday is final walkthru at townhouse

14. 10 a.m. closing for townhouse on Thursday

15. Get key made for Megan after closing

16. Call U-Haul to set up for moving van

17. Celebrate 30th birthday on Saturday at girlonthewire's house by drinking heavily

Am I forgetting anything?

Ok I really need help from trailofdebt and girlonthewire. Money situation is REALLY tight for the next 3 weeks while I am trying to get my finances in order to hopefully buy the townhouse I have found (long story I will update when I know everything is ok) PLEASE make sure I write down what I spend each day starting today because I can't spend over $10 a day if I want to be able to pay my bills. Just hold me accountable please. I need all the help I can get.

So I was looking back at a particular entry I made in November. I had set some goals for myself and here is how they are going so far.

1. Continue weight loss plan.
2. Start 401K.
3. Start saving money for a house/condo/whatever. This including taking money out of my paychecks more than $10.

Ok here are the updates:

1. Continue weight loss plan. -- So far I have lost 58 pounds, I joined a gym, work out every day and I am only 12 pounds from hitting my lifetime goal.

2. Start 401K. -- Yeah I will skip that one for now :)

3. Start saving money for a house/condo/whatever. This including taking money out of my paychecks more than $10. -- Ok today I feel like a nervous wreck. I called to get preapproved for a morgage. I feel like they are never going to call me back or they'll call me back and let me know there is no way in hell that they will give me enough credit to buy anything other than a brokedown tool shed. I feel like I am going to have a breakdown. Waiting sucks and they could call today or a couple days... a couple days makes me worry because that means it is taking them a while to find someone willing to give me money... *bites nails*

Ok going to try to get my mind off this.

So I haven't updated my vacation times because I just don't have the energy yet. Here are 2 cute pics that show some of my fun times:

Me and dinamartini at Beauty Bar in NYC (shut up I suck at taking pics and Dina always looks cute and I look retarded)



Me getting my beauty on at the bar. I loved these seats.

I had an awesome vacation. LOTS of driving (Orlando to Columbia, SC to Pittsburgh, PA to New York City to Raleigh, NC to Orlando).

It is funny when people who have known you your whole life don't recognize you. Weight loss and a different attitude will change you I suppose.

dinamartini showed me the best time in NYC. twelvis is the funniest person EVER. I will write a long entry later because I am trying to get done with work. I never update this thing. I suck.

New LJ icon because I have to copy... recent shorter hair cut makes it hard to do this. Plus my hair is red but not that red. I will work on it tommorrow. I need a background.

Oh one more... she is a lab mix my sister and I adopted from Petsmart.

I forgot to post that I adopted a little girl. Her name is Rukus. She is so sweet and fun to play with. Yeah I never update and need to get to that more...

Here is a pic:

Someone very close to me is having a really hard time and if you have any words of encouragement anything would help.

She'll take any advice she can get