This week saw some rather big changes for me in my personal life as well as in the world.
Monday saw me getting frustrated with Robby’s mom being here and deciding that she knew better when it came to the dogs who aren’t her dogs. It is like someone telling another parent how to raise their kids. At one point, Trouble came upstairs–where he is not allowed–and it’s just like… Um, hello. He isn’t banned from being upstairs because we are being mean. There are things up here that he could get into that he is allergic to and he doesn’t do so well with the cats. Soooo. Yeah. Highlight of the day was when we lost power upstairs… while I was in the bathroom going tinkle. ZOMG.
Tuesday morning began with Trouble making these bark-howl-bark-howl-bark-howl noises because Robby’s mom took Benji and Diesel out for a walk and he didn’t get to go with them at that moment. FML. So I had to drag my ass out of bed and go toss his butt outside for a bit before putting him back in his kennel and going back to bed for an hour. Oh. And then when it came time to log in for work, my PC has decided that it no longer wants to recognize the USB ports when I’m running Workbooth. So I had to get my laptop set up instead. Almost two hours into my shift, my laptop just shuts off. Mid-call. Apparently I had forgotten to plug in the laptop when I was frantically getting everything set up. OOPS. Robby’s mom left but instead of going back to San Diego, she went to Utah to be with her mother who’d had a stroke. Not a very good week for that family. *sigh* Unfortunately, my mental state was already frayed for the whole day and I was fighting off yet another anxiety attack. I only very narrowly avoided a full on attack but my head was not a very happy place for the day. This kept up through Wednesday even with the awesome news that I wound up receiving.
Wednesday brought about the wonderful news that I got the job! YAY! Only I was leaving for San Diego the next day so there was going to be a lot of scrambling to get whatever I could done. Even knowing that things were going to better, my pending anxiety attack just blew my mind anyway. Side note, the tacky pick-up line of the day was “Oh, I’m sorry, I thought that was a Braille name tag.” – this did not happen to me; some people on Twitter and I were trading hilarious pick-up lines. I won.
Thursday. I spent half of the day traveling. But my work day can pretty much be summed up by this:
Friday was supposed to be the first of my pre-employment stuff since Chase had a center in San Diego that I could utilize for my fingerprinting and drug testing. None of this happened because there were specific appointment times and there weren’t any available. Monday it is! My mother and I wound up going shoe shopping at Kohls for her and she gave me the Kohls Cash she got from the transaction. Sweet! $20 at Kohls next week!
Saturday saw a surprise birthday party for my mother, who will be turning 50 on the 7th of May. Pre-party, I drove to Mission Valley and had breakfast at Mimi’s with my dad, Lieke, Anneke, Marieka, and her boyfriend. It was Marieka’s birthday. From there I went back up to Escondido and helped with the final preparations for the party before the guests arrived. The party went off without a hitch which was awesome. My mother apparently figured that something was up but I had taken care to make sure that all of the guests’ cars were hidden on the property, in the rear field, and that everyone was silent and in the rear of the house. So when my mother walked in the door, she had been expecting something but no one was there. She walked into the family room and BAM! We had her open her gifts early on because the big event for the coming week was that she was going to be in Kentucky and would be at the Kentucky Derby ON HER BIRTHDAY. So exciting for her. She’s followed horse racing for so long and she always watches the Derby from her living room. This year she will be there. For gifts she got a dress and shoes from her husband and a proper hat from my grandmother. She teared up when she learned what she was going to be doing. My mother and I may not always get along but I am excited for her. She and I had a couple glasses of wine together after the party when it was just a few of us left. We decided to go to a casino and had to settle on Barona because it allowed the 18 year olds (my youngest brother and youngest step-brother). Teehee I actually came out ahead and not because I won anything. I spent my mother’s money instead. She wound up giving me one of her winning tickets that I’d made her cash out. I split it with Kelly because that boy is terrible and lost $60. At least he walked out -$20 at the end of the night instead of -$60.
Sunday was mostly a day of rest. Everyone except for my mother and I wound up going to the movies to see Fast Five. She and I went back to Kohls so she could return the shoes she didn’t want (she had bought three pairs to decide upon a winner later). This time, I managed to talk her into buying me some work shirts while she shopped for summery clothes for herself. I walked away with 5 shirts and gave her the Kohls Cash back since that was only fair.
Then we got home and it was all over the news: the US Military had killed Osama Bin Laden and had confirmed the identity. We were shocked and had to sit there to replay what we had missed. I don’t remember what happened but we did not actually watch the President’s speech live. I can’t actually remember what we were doing that we missed it but I looked it up later in the night to watch.
Stay Classy, Internets.
♡ Kristen
