HERE'S TO A NEW CHAPTER

Wednesday night ended my employment at Walgreen's and I even got to leave early - at 3 a.m!  Even though I'm truly going to miss everyone there, I can honestly say that I'm genuinely excited to begin this new chapter of my life.  I finally, for once in my life, feel like I'm in a good place.  Just hopefully I never have to step foot inside a factory or warehouse ever again.  I mean, I do have plans of hopefully staying at the Disability for the rest of my life, so unless they have plans of letting me go at any point, I think I'll be good to go!

Money will be a little bit tight until I can draw a regular paycheck from there, but we'll be okay!  I spent yesterday in bed and played some Final Fantasy and it felt good.  This morning I got up, took a shower, got ready and did my grocery shop.  I only spent $110 dollars on food which excited me a whole lot because I got a lot of great deals on meats!  I was able to get two boneless rib-eye steaks for like $14, a 6 pack of pork chops for $8 and a big package of ground beef for $8.  I also had to get a new shower curtain liner and a new floor mat for the shower because both of them were just getting gross looking.

SUNDAY'S POST WAS SUCH WANK

I felt that the post started out okay, but I wasn't really, truly happy with the ending of it.  I guess when I realized that I hadn't even posted it until yesterday, I just hurried and clicked the publish button.  Granted, I changed the date back to Sunday as that's when it was actually typed up.  But it kinda just ended abruptly, don't you think?

Anyway.

Today is going to be a great day - I can feel it.  I woke up early this morning and took a shower so that I could blow dry my hair since I'm still without a hair straightener.  I warmed up my Dunkin', maple pecan flavored coffee in the microwave from yesterday and decided..."Nah, this isn't good enough..."  So, I went into the kitchen a brewed a fresh pot of Dunkin's Cinnamon Roll coffee and used butter toffee creamer and man, is it good.  I did my hair and makeup and I think my attire is halfway decent anyway.

I feel pretty good other than being a little cold, but I don't mind.  I LOVE this fall weather.  I actually wish that fall would hang around longer than it does.  There's just so many wonderful things about fall like the rustic color change of the leaves, the cold autumn air...yes, "autumn air".  Autumn air is different from any other type of air.  There is a certain aroma to it...like as if all the leaves that fell off the trees took their last breath before they died and their scent releases into the atmosphere - the wonderful, beautiful smells of all different kinds of trees...aaah...truly wonderful, isn't it?

With fall weather also comes sweaters/sweat shirts, warm colored makeup, fall flavored coffee like maple pecan and pumpkin, baking, etc.  I've always loved my rock music...but it feels most relevant in the fall for some reason...especially love rock music.

Like Incubus, Skillet, Edwin McCain, etc...

Anyway, I have to get ready for my orientation at 1:30!  I only have an hour until it!  I'm so excited! 

:D

A ROUGH SUNDAY

I'm just in a really irritable mood today for some reason.  I'm not really sure why.  I slept in until about 10:30 this morning, had a piece of cheesecake for breakfast, and made a very delicious salad for lunch.  I even played Final Fantasy for a bit...I'm living the dream aren't I?  The only thing really bothering me at the current minute in time that I can think of is that my house is a complete MESS and I can't be asked to do anything about it right now...but my house has been that way for almost four months now.

I guess it's just one of those days.  I mean, I have to work tonight and then have Monday night off and after that, I just have two more nights at Walgreen's and then I'm free forever.  I have orientation at 1:30 p.m on Tuesday in which I'm pretty excited to attend.  They are anticipating it to last about an hour and will go over everything the job and training consists of.  I am a little anxious to begin my employment with the Disability Board.

My mom texted me yesterday and asked what I thought about her coming down here with her boyfriend in August to spend a couple days and then we'd go to Myrtle Beach again.  This time there are no kids involved or camping - we're getting a hotel and are going to have complete unadulterated fun and go wild!  I'm so excited for this vacation and I have time to save ample money for it as well!  Jason and I have plans of bringing our own car, so that if we decide we want to go off and do something without my mom and her boyfriend, we can do that.  Also, we won't be packed in a car with a bunch of things around us that we're bringing with us on vacation.  It's nice to have a reliable vehicle or two now! ^^

I'm making an apple wood smoked bacon pork loin tonight for dinner - the crock-pot is taking care of that for me.  I'm really in the mood to just lay in bed all day.  I mean, Jason is still knocked out and I don't think he has intentions of getting up for awhile....

CATURDAY SATURDAY

I'm very much having a cat like Saturday.  I opened my eyes this morning, sprawled out on the couch, stretched, took my first breath of the day and decided, 'Nope...not yet...'  I closed my eyes and cuddled back under my fuzzy black blanket for another couple of hours and man, did it feel GOOD.

After awhile, I decided to log into Final Fantasy to check the market board to see if any more of my items have sold and to dreadfully smash my face through one round of palace of the dead so I could finally see level 46.  Lilith will be my main, but I sure do love my wittle lala too...Bitty fortunately will never see palace of the dead.  She is going to be story and class progressed .. if I happen to decided to genuinely level a class, it won't be through palace.  I couldn't care less if I ever stepped inside palace of the dead ever again.

Legit.

EASY LIKE SUNDAY MORNING

Good morning, everyone!  I hope everyone has had a great weekend so far - I know I have!  I've had another crazy week filled with emotional roller-coasters all over the place!  Like I mentioned in my previous posts, I've been trying to obtain a career with the Anderson County Special Needs and Disability Board.  Well, after a few weeks of getting discouraged that I would never have that opportunity, I'm pleased to say that as of October 31st, 2017, I will officially hold the title of Direct Support Professional there!  Despite being as discouraged as I was, I still did my best to maintain interest and communication with the human resource department there and after weeks of being persistent, I finally received a job offer!

It just goes to show you that if you're really passionate about something, don't ever give up on it - no matter how many times you fail or how discouraged you get in the process.

SORRY FOR THE DELAYED POST

Ugh, it's been crazy around here lately.  I was sick for the past two weeks.  I just thought I had a common cold and that I would get over it on my own, but apparently that wasn't the case.  I tried to continue going to work, but one night while at work, I started feeling kinda funny.  I went to the bathroom, came back and continued to pick orders then my vision and hearing started playing up on me, so I stood there for a minute and it wasn't getting better.  A co-worker looked at me and asked me if I was okay and I told him I wasn't feeling that well.

He forced me to sit down and he fanned me with a folder until they called the first-responder's on me.  Two guys plus my boss came up to me and took my blood pressure.  It was a little low.  To say the least, I went home.  One of the first-responders told me to go to the doctor in the morning, no matter how I felt to get checked out.  Getting a doctors note would also cover my ass.

So I did just that.