big long sigh
Jul. 15th, 2007 03:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rena_librarianI can't even begin to put a number on the times I said "Oh well, won't matter after tonight," "Ha! I never have to do this again!" or "Guess it's not my problem anymore" tonight.
We were done closing in, like, thirty minutes, but then Hannah got so absorbed in her paperwork that we had to sit and wait on her for fifteen friggin' minutes. I understand that she was coming up short, but DAMN. (Oh well. I spent my last five minutes at Taco Bell getting paid to sit on the counter. XD)
I have to say she's been so pissy the last two nights that I really don't feel sorry for her. Yay for karma and schadenfreude, which I have decided is my new favorite word.
But you know what? It's not my problem anymore.
So tomorrow I'm doing laundry, washing all my uniforms before I turn them back in. Also washing new purchases before wearing. And as luck would have it, I might have occasion to wear some of them tomorrow night! ^_^
But I'll get to that momentarily.
Speaking of shopping, Nico and I went to Rogers a few weeks ago--Sunday the 24th, lol, it doesn't seem like it's been that long. Anyway his aunt and uncle (who, in a nutshell, own a golf course and send him a four-figure sum for Christmas every year, and he's just their nephew) were there for some sort of healthy-living seminar, and since they were "so close" (three-hour drive), they convinced him to meet up for lunch. I tagged along, and was lucky enough to get invited to lunch (Nico and I had planned on me taking his car and shopping while they ate).
We went to this place called...Cabrera's? Caberra's? Something like that. At any rate, this really expensive Italian bar-and-grill place. OMG it was so good. Nico and I did the math later and we realized that for the four of us, including the tip, that meal probably cost about $200. (Of course there was alcohol involved, too, and that jacked it up quite a bit, but still.) Definitely the most expensive meal I've ever eaten, lol, and I'll probably never have another one. I told Dad about it later, and joked about rubbing elbows with big money, lol. He said we should have such rich relatives and I told him that the easy solution would be for me to marry Nico, if only I could talk Nico into it. XD (I was kidding.) Even Dad said, "Well, good luck with THAT."
But Nico's aunt and uncle--Jenny and Roger, who Nico calls by their names, which felt completely weird to me, who is used to calling anyone older than a cousin by a title, Aunt Diane, etc.--were actually really fun, too. I mean, I don't know--they're Nico's relatives, how boring could they be? But still. I wasn't expecting to have THAT good of a time, lol. When we walked in the hostess wrote down our name, then when the waitress got to our table she was all, "So, is this the...Studdard party?" Nico's uncle corrected her. "Stoddard. There's odd in Stoddard." XD
They never carded any of us at the restaurant. Hmm. Not that it matters since we're all over 21, but I thought it was weird. Had a delectable drink, a house mixed drink with cranberry juice, apple schnapps, and vodka, with a maraschino cherry. Looked like pink lemonade, tasted much better. ^_^ I think it was just called a Wildberry cocktail, but it was REALLY good.
After they left (they had to catch their plane), Nico and I went shopping. Among my finds--a purple Asian-style top (which I have ALWAYS wanted), the Claire's 10 for $10 sale, Flatland (it's a geek novel, look it up online), and a Rurouni Kenshin novel. (Have decided that RK needs its own entry later, lol.) Oh, and my hot new purse, which was 40% off. Yay!
Nico (with the most incredibly sweet gesture he's ever done for me, period) completely surprised me with one purchase:
(click to enlarge...yes, I just laid it on my scanner and scanned it, lol) I'm Best. He's Friends. ^_^ I really found myself at a loss to articulate how deeply touched I was/am. No, I don't wear it every day, but often enough. (I just realized that I SO need to wear it in front of my parentals! XD) And actually that's my general chain--anytime I get a necklace that's just a charm on a chain I take the charm off and wear it on that chain, because I heart it so very much. It's so simple (in my mind, simple=elegant), and when you just have one they don't tangle...but I digress.
So. Yay for shopping. Yay for fantastic sales (Nico and I found more than a few!). And yay for pics--the first mall we went to was kinda crappy, but the second one was SO awesome and cool-looking that we took pics. When he puts them online you can bet I'll share. ^_^
Anywhoozles...the night before all that, Duncan came to Taco Bell. We didn't get to talk much, just enough to establish that A) he still has my two books, B) he's read them and therefore can give them back, C) he was on his way out of town and couldn't hang with me, but D) he would try to get a hold of me the next time he was in town--possibly the next weekend--so I could get my books back if nothing else.
Well, that was all well and good, but I heard nothing from him after that. I messaged him on MySpace when the weekend came and went, still haven't heard back, called him the other day on my way back from Harrison, got voicemail.
And then he showed up at Taco Bell today, on my very last day. *cue the Hallelujah Chorus*
So...well, we have tentative plans for tomorrow afternoon/evening. (Quite frankly, I can't think of a better way to spend my one day of unemployment, lol.) I'm HOPING we can go out for dinner (and wear some of those hot new clothes, lol). We shall see. Not exactly holding my breath.
He's looking good these days, he hasn't cut his hair since we saw Spiderman 3, I don't think (I couldn't tell today, he was wearing a do-rag, but last time it was long), and he's shaved down to a goatee. He wasn't kidding when he said doing so made him look kinda like Faramir. ^_^ *squibbles a little* (I think maybe he's lost weight, too...though he was a little skinny thing to begin with, so I'm not sure...)
Ah, well. I'm getting tired. More tomorrowish.
We were done closing in, like, thirty minutes, but then Hannah got so absorbed in her paperwork that we had to sit and wait on her for fifteen friggin' minutes. I understand that she was coming up short, but DAMN. (Oh well. I spent my last five minutes at Taco Bell getting paid to sit on the counter. XD)
I have to say she's been so pissy the last two nights that I really don't feel sorry for her. Yay for karma and schadenfreude, which I have decided is my new favorite word.
But you know what? It's not my problem anymore.
So tomorrow I'm doing laundry, washing all my uniforms before I turn them back in. Also washing new purchases before wearing. And as luck would have it, I might have occasion to wear some of them tomorrow night! ^_^
But I'll get to that momentarily.
Speaking of shopping, Nico and I went to Rogers a few weeks ago--Sunday the 24th, lol, it doesn't seem like it's been that long. Anyway his aunt and uncle (who, in a nutshell, own a golf course and send him a four-figure sum for Christmas every year, and he's just their nephew) were there for some sort of healthy-living seminar, and since they were "so close" (three-hour drive), they convinced him to meet up for lunch. I tagged along, and was lucky enough to get invited to lunch (Nico and I had planned on me taking his car and shopping while they ate).
We went to this place called...Cabrera's? Caberra's? Something like that. At any rate, this really expensive Italian bar-and-grill place. OMG it was so good. Nico and I did the math later and we realized that for the four of us, including the tip, that meal probably cost about $200. (Of course there was alcohol involved, too, and that jacked it up quite a bit, but still.) Definitely the most expensive meal I've ever eaten, lol, and I'll probably never have another one. I told Dad about it later, and joked about rubbing elbows with big money, lol. He said we should have such rich relatives and I told him that the easy solution would be for me to marry Nico, if only I could talk Nico into it. XD (I was kidding.) Even Dad said, "Well, good luck with THAT."
But Nico's aunt and uncle--Jenny and Roger, who Nico calls by their names, which felt completely weird to me, who is used to calling anyone older than a cousin by a title, Aunt Diane, etc.--were actually really fun, too. I mean, I don't know--they're Nico's relatives, how boring could they be? But still. I wasn't expecting to have THAT good of a time, lol. When we walked in the hostess wrote down our name, then when the waitress got to our table she was all, "So, is this the...Studdard party?" Nico's uncle corrected her. "Stoddard. There's odd in Stoddard." XD
They never carded any of us at the restaurant. Hmm. Not that it matters since we're all over 21, but I thought it was weird. Had a delectable drink, a house mixed drink with cranberry juice, apple schnapps, and vodka, with a maraschino cherry. Looked like pink lemonade, tasted much better. ^_^ I think it was just called a Wildberry cocktail, but it was REALLY good.
After they left (they had to catch their plane), Nico and I went shopping. Among my finds--a purple Asian-style top (which I have ALWAYS wanted), the Claire's 10 for $10 sale, Flatland (it's a geek novel, look it up online), and a Rurouni Kenshin novel. (Have decided that RK needs its own entry later, lol.) Oh, and my hot new purse, which was 40% off. Yay!
Nico (with the most incredibly sweet gesture he's ever done for me, period) completely surprised me with one purchase:
(click to enlarge...yes, I just laid it on my scanner and scanned it, lol) I'm Best. He's Friends. ^_^ I really found myself at a loss to articulate how deeply touched I was/am. No, I don't wear it every day, but often enough. (I just realized that I SO need to wear it in front of my parentals! XD) And actually that's my general chain--anytime I get a necklace that's just a charm on a chain I take the charm off and wear it on that chain, because I heart it so very much. It's so simple (in my mind, simple=elegant), and when you just have one they don't tangle...but I digress.
So. Yay for shopping. Yay for fantastic sales (Nico and I found more than a few!). And yay for pics--the first mall we went to was kinda crappy, but the second one was SO awesome and cool-looking that we took pics. When he puts them online you can bet I'll share. ^_^
Anywhoozles...the night before all that, Duncan came to Taco Bell. We didn't get to talk much, just enough to establish that A) he still has my two books, B) he's read them and therefore can give them back, C) he was on his way out of town and couldn't hang with me, but D) he would try to get a hold of me the next time he was in town--possibly the next weekend--so I could get my books back if nothing else.
Well, that was all well and good, but I heard nothing from him after that. I messaged him on MySpace when the weekend came and went, still haven't heard back, called him the other day on my way back from Harrison, got voicemail.
And then he showed up at Taco Bell today, on my very last day. *cue the Hallelujah Chorus*
So...well, we have tentative plans for tomorrow afternoon/evening. (Quite frankly, I can't think of a better way to spend my one day of unemployment, lol.) I'm HOPING we can go out for dinner (and wear some of those hot new clothes, lol). We shall see. Not exactly holding my breath.
He's looking good these days, he hasn't cut his hair since we saw Spiderman 3, I don't think (I couldn't tell today, he was wearing a do-rag, but last time it was long), and he's shaved down to a goatee. He wasn't kidding when he said doing so made him look kinda like Faramir. ^_^ *squibbles a little* (I think maybe he's lost weight, too...though he was a little skinny thing to begin with, so I'm not sure...)
Ah, well. I'm getting tired. More tomorrowish.
