I didn't post last night because I was incapacitated....inebriated?.....intoxicated, maybe. At any rate, I've learned the hard way that no matter how "ok" i think I am, the post will come out bad. So here's the sober version.

G-Master and friends called me up and wanted to know if I'd go to Babe's for LADIES NIGHT after I got off work. I was pretty reluctant, to say the least....but finally I decided I'd go. So I got "funky-fresh dressed" (lyrics reference anyone?) and ran over to the bar. It was about what I expected. Everyone I didn't like from high school was there....yeah....but G-Master and friends were at the far back at a table and nobody was around, so that was cool. I saw a few people I hadn't seen in a long time, but, alas, a few people I wanted to see had left by the time I got there. Oh well. So anyway, G-Master had saved a mug of beer for me. That was nice. But then there was also a half pitcher that nobody was really drinking....so I had all of that. G-Master was pretty far gone....and a few other people had a lot to drink...and were probably ready to go about 45 minutes after I got there. But then Justine (any Lakevillians remember Justine? She's one of those random acquaintances you pick up throughout life) decided that she wanted another pitcher and would split it with me, even though she paid for it. (Yeah, I didn't pay for any drinks all night. Ironic, since it was Ladies night) So we got this pitcher and it was only Justine and I drinking it. About 10 minutes later G-Master decides she is ready to leave. So it would've just been Justine and I there. Yeah....we're not THAT close. So I had to pretty much down almost 3/4's of a pitcher in 15 minutes. Not good....although it was light beer, so after years of Bud-heavy I can drink lots of light beer and it doesn't affect me much. The problem here, though, was I drove myself...and there was nobody to drive me home....and the FUZZ were out in full force downtown...and it was nearly 2 a.m., which would've been a bad time to call the parents. So I did the tried and true stand up test, to see how much it affected me. And the result was not much. Strange. I drove home. Not the smartest plan, no...but, to use the cliche, "I was so close to home and there weren't that many people on the roads, anyway." Oh well. But does the story end there? Oh no.

When I got home, I was way hungry...so I made a hot pocket...and then had two candy bars...and finally fell asleep at 3 a.m. Yeah....I had to get up at 11 to get ready for some pictures I was going to get taken, for my senior college pic (just a headshot of me in my suit) Oooooh man....when I woke up for the first time at 9....Pepermint Patty, I shake my fist at thee! It was rough. Eventually I was fine, it just wasnt' a good idea to go out the night before these pics...'cause it will be up on my parent's wall for a while. I did a pretty good job of getting myself together and plus, I looked dang sexy in my suit, though I did forget to shave. Oh well. It hopefully won't show up too much.

Now onto today's news. I got this letter from the Post Office today apoligizing for ruining one of my letters that I sent out a week or so ago....the letter just happened to be the payment for my credit card bill that was due last sat. Yup. I got my new statement today as well, and since they didn't recieve the payment, they slapped on a $30 late-fee. Unbelievable. I was P-I-S-T. I'm calling tomorrow to see if I can get that waived. My mom thinks they will, but I doubt it. Argh.

So that happened right before work, so I got to work a little late and in an extremely bad mood. And then we had a gas spill, where the nozzle doesn't automatically shut off. I don't know why that happens, so don't ask. But this lady was pissed. Most of the time if I just shrug it off and go out and put down the absorbant, the customer will just leave and it'll be all good....though we are authorized to give out $20 at the most for this types of situations....but if we can get away with not doing that, then so much the better. This lady wasn't going to let me get off that easily, so I had to give her 8 bucks for a car wash, since our store doesn't have one. And then we had another gas spill about 20 minutes later, but on a different pump. See, if it happened all the time on the same pump I'd know that that pump handle needed to be changed. But it doesn't. It probably happens once every 1,000 customers. That's less than 1% of the time. Nothing's perfect. But the general public doesn't know that.
People in general are a moody, ignorant bunch. Like, for example, if the pumps are acting funny during the summer, people demand an answer. How the heck do I know what cause the pumps to go crazy? I always tell them it happens when it gets really hot out. They accept that B.S. as the truth.
Ignorance. During the winter? It's the cold.
Minnesotan ignorance.
People just want an answer. Sometimes I'll go out and hit some buttons and pretend I actually know what I'm doing and then say "there, that outta fix it."
Technology ignorance.
Keep that in mind the next time you rely on someone else's word as the knowledgable truth. I always think about that when I got to a place like Best Buy. "This kid probably just got placed here and he's making it all up."
Anyway, so our pumps were being stupid. And then we ran out of gas. No joke. Our tank level for Reg. got so low it stopped pumping, so I had to order an emergency gas truck (it still hadn't gotten there when I left at 11) and then I lowered the Plus price to the Reg. price, so people could get that gas. It was a fiasco to say the least. And then we got super busy because word spread that our Plus price was about 15 cents lower than it was supposed to be. Yeah, we lost some money tonight. Jeez. I can't wait to get a non-gas station job. That'd be nice.

So once again, I've gotten strange comments. I think they're not from real people....I went to a random blog moments ago and that person was having the same results. You can currently search for my blog right now....and I think I'm going to stop making that possible.

Man, I'm tired. I need to email a few people, but I'm too tired. I was tired after work, but then Hunecke and G-Master called and wanted to go to a bar. So I did. And Hunecke puked, and I had to finish his beer....in addtion to mine....and then I had a looong phone conversation....and now I'm spent. Wow....I'm going to bed before 3 a.m.!

I mean...are you kidding me? Tonight the new overnight dude calls the store at 10:48 p.m. saying he's in the hospital for a back injury he got at his other job (where he's a paint consultant) and he can't come in. Soooo.....that meant the manager had to come in yet again and work the overnight, but me and the other girl working felt bad for him, so we worked until 1 a.m. and that's when the manager came in. So I had to work today from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. Now, I'm not gonna lie...it wasn't that bad, because you all know that I stay up late anyway...but still, it's the principle of the thing. At least I'm getting some overtime this week. KA-CHING!

On a side-note, what's up with the random people leaving me comments that are really advertisements? It's happened twice now, and it's a little annoying. Oh well.

I'm going to complain one more time about the crappy editing job that was done on the newest Harry Potter book. For those of you who have it, turn to page 346 and on the second line, the last word that continues onto to the third line. I had to read the sentence several times before I understood it. In the book it reads "...said Scrimgeour, sounding relieved that Harry had cottoned on so quickly." Cottoned? As far as I know, you can't make the noun "cotton" into a verb. I looked it up to make sure. I think it's supposed to be "caught on so quickly." That's so bad. I can't believe a mistake like that would make it through the editors. Wow. If I were J.K. Rowling, I'd be P-I-S-T.

And that's my rant for the evening.

Oh yeah, and I decided that pretty much all of my new shirts would look better with a pair of jeans that is darker than any that I own...so I went to AE.com and bought a pair that were on sale. I don't like to buy clothes online, but they have jeans that are 36 length. And if the shoe fits...

Wow. Today was a day of clothes. I went shopping with my mom today as my birthday present. We went to Southdale, where they had massive amounts of clearance racks in the Marshall Fields store. Yeah...we hit it up big time. I was able to get 4 shirts and a tie for about 100 bucks....normally it would've cost 350 bucks. I was pleased. And I got some really cool shirts....one of them was a dress shirt that I thought would look good with my black suit. It does cross the line for me a little bit, 'cause the tie is pink, but wow. It looks great against the black. Then, later this evening my brother and his wife got back from the East coast and they gave me my b-day present from my Aunt and Uncle who live in New Hampshire, plus the two presents from them. Can you guess what they were? Yup, three shirts. Good stuff. Finally my wardrobe is a little more than black and orange Wartburg shirts....although one of the new ones is orange, it's 10x cooler than a wartburg shirt. And I have a lot of cool "going out" or "weekend" shirts. Yup.

My other birthday present was the new Harry Potter book. I am both impressed and disappointed in the quality of the book. From an author's standpoint, it's awesome. From an editor's standpoint, it's unacceptable. Obviously the publisher was attempting to get the book out ASAP, for even though I'm only 200 pages in, I've already found 3 grammerical errors. One was using "was" instead of "were," one arranged two words incorrectly so that the sentence was a question, instead of the intended statement, and the other one was the misuse of an apostrophe. And I was able to find these when I was just reading it for the first time....which is never a very thorough reading....mostly skimming. I don't fault the author, only the editor. The story deserves a better grammerical representation. And that's my beef for the evening. Good night.

It's crazy to say, but I think I had a better time today than I did on my 21st birthday. I went to church this morning...even though I was way tired and it was kinda hot...but it was good to go to church. After that my parents and I went to the Twins game, where they got slaughtered...but the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs was pretty fun. We were down 11-4 with nobody on. Long story short, we lost 11-7 when Jaque Jones struck out with the bases loaded. It was one great almost comeback. I really didn't think we'd win, but it was definitely fun to watch.
After that we went to the Rock Bottom Brewery for supper (I noticed I was wearing the exact same clothes as last year's birthday...so we took a similar pic as you'd find on our fridge)...and that was some good food. The combination of a free appetizer coupon and the free beer they gave me, my parents only had to pay for 2 beers and 2 appetizers for 3 people. What a great deal! After that I was way tired. I just wanted to take a loooong nap....but then on the way home I got a phone call from Saienga, of all people. Turns out he and Alicia were back in Lakeville and he wanted to know if I wanted to hang out. Well of course! The only problem was....we couldn't think of a place that had both a real bar and pool or darts in the general area. I'd say we drove around for about an hour and a half before we settled on BW3. The bartender there was a jerk and we weren't impressed, so one giant beer later we decided we'd either venture into the Lakeville's VFW or Babe's. Upon further review, there were several cars in Babe's parking lot and only like 1 in the VFW's. Babe's it was. For those of you that have never been to downtown Lakeville, Babe's looks like the typical local dive on the outside. I must admit, though, the inside was 100x better than I ever thought it would be. It was better than decent...and the drink prices werent' that bad either. It was like Saienga, me, and 10 other people and that was it. But it was still good.

But yeah, it was a really good day. I mean...it would've been nice to have my brothers there, but it still was good. ooooh! and I got the newest Harry Potter book from my parents. That was one of two things on my birthday list. I really didn't expect to get either of my two things. The other is an old fashioned Church Key. They're my absolute fav. for opening beers. Now tomorrow I'm going to go clothes shopping with my mom as a part of their birthday present to me. After that I'm going to hang out with Steph....which probably means going shopping again. It's like the one time in the year where i actually shop for myself. woohoo!

A couple of nights ago I bought a powerball ticket because the jackpot is pretty high again. It's kind of fun to think about what you'd do with the money. I guess I stay characteristically reasonable and think about paying off debt and my brothers' debt, and my parent's mortage, and all of that....but I didn't win. Nobody did, actually....though I did match two of the numbers. I was pretty pumped...that doesn't count for anything, but I've never matched numbers before. So anyway, I was in a pretty good mood after that. Then I came home and decided to watch a movie, but I didn't have anything to snack on...unfortunately, the only two things open after midnight around here is Walgreens and SA. The closest thing to me is my current SA, but I didn't want to go back there tonight...so I went to my old SA. The reason why I tell this story is because with my last dollar (that I got when a drunk dude gave me five bucks about 4 days ago) I bought a scratch-off ticket....and won 10 bucks! Woohooo! I never win on those stupid things. Normally I wouldn't buy them...but I sit and stare at them for 8 hours a day. It starts to get to you....it really does. So anyway, now I have some cash again without having to spend any of my own money. Good stuff.

Now tomorrow...which is actually today....I go celebrate my 22nd birthday with my parents. We're catching the afternoon Twins game, and then heading to the Rock Bottom Brewery for some good food and especially good beer. We went there for my 21st birthday celebration as well. Yup. And then I'll probably go watch a movie by myself. OR....maybe I'll call up a few people. I still need to go out for drinks with Jess...and G-Master, for that matter. Yesssss....that's a good idea.

And there it is....I'm 22. God help us all.