good evening,

i worked today. books at CG, tech at mendota heights. fun store, that. nancy brought in fresh salsa. heh it was so yummy...garlic, cilantro, tomatoes, onion...chris can be kind of a bitch and she's a little high strung, but i enjoy working with her.

one of my best friends called me today. twice. left one message. i talked to him on aim tonight. i dont know what he wanted to talk about, but we chittered about some crap. he's engaged to vanessa. my best friend jason, all grown up! i'm really excited/happy for them, but wowsah.

my other best friend called me the other night just to chat cuz he was depressed, scared about the future, and confused about the afterlife. i dont know if i helped him at all, but we talked for more than an hour! he's coming over in the morning so we can order his computer online and to get some stuff i ordered off ebay for him.

10 more days til i'm free! i've got my room mostly clean. it needs a few hours yet, but it looks better than it has in ages....heh...i've pretty much caught up on laundry. i just need to inventory what i have, and decide wtf i will need! then its off to TJ/WallyWorld for me! Anyone want to come with?

if u would've asked me 3 weeks ago if i was looking forward to going off to college, i would've said "hell yeah i wont look back." but now the time is almost here and i'm kind of nervous. i'm glad to move out, but i've never been on my own or even moved and its all gonna be so different. ahah whom i kidding it'll be awesum :D


peace

jeffo

whoa. whacked day. were to begin?
1) woke to find my parents getting ready to go off to the hotel. she just turned 50 on wednesday.
2) manager at work called to get me to work tonight because the assistant was sick. and oh btw he's getting transfered to a different store. he was really upset about it, and he's a great manager. its gonna be different.
3) work was work. had my first short-change artist, but with a little thinking i defeated him. yay. go me.
4) jess called me and invited me to learn dnd with them tonight. went to her house, made a character, got kicked out and brought them over here. it was pretty fun. not a simple game. and i need to loosen up, but it'll get better.
5) had a good talk with jess about the future, our parents, and work. it kind of scared me. most of us end up just like our parents. pray for redemption? she's got it pretty rough, but not as bad as some. i'm really lucky to have her as a friend.
6) must get started cleaning the house, maybe finished some laundry. parents come back in the morning, and i must work at two stores tomorrow. lucky me.

im coming out of my cage
and ive been doing just fine
gotta gotta gotta be down
because i want it all

damn it. blogger sucks.
blogger bulimia. except that i'm too lazy to delete all my old posts. so i just deleted a few and stopped :)

work sucks. corporate goes down every other week (blah blah power failure, blah blah backhoe severing telephone lines, blah blah blah). makes it very frustrating. eek.

I CANNOT WAIT TO GO TO UMD. drove up to see natalie last week. had a sweet time. even slept on a mattress in the living room. it was really fun!! duluth is such a nice town. and getting out of this hel^H^H^Hhouse will be nice too.

my mom's going down to Missery for almost a week tomorrow. by herself. she's brave, and a good daughter. i even bought my grandparents are present! a double-sided 500 piece puzzle (same image on both sides, rotated 90º). they ran out of the challenger puzzles (not straight edges, and 5 extra pieces that do not belong). maybe next year.

living with your parents is a very difficult thing to do.

who wants to go FREEWAY BLOGGING with me? i am totally serious. I can get the cardboard + paint + everything. c/m.

UMD is awesome!! i'm so excited to go there! i'll post more on that later though...

hey every.

its turning out to be a bleak day. grey snow, grey sky. kind of like my mood.

i got accepted into umd so thats pretty awesome. my orientation is march 7th, a week from next monday! i just registered for it, and i'm sure my mom will thank me. not that they need to go or anything, i don't really care. it'll be kind of exciting. can't wait to move out of this place.

last few days i've been helping my friend joe with his computer. what a headache. i've installed xpsp2 twice, and his modem doesn't work at his house. everything is fine here, but he gets disconnected right away from his house. bah. i guess we'll have to call the telephone company. beh. i predict more good times.

last night called nat to talk about the store closing, and she invited me over for a movie with jesse. it was pretty sweet. we stayed for like 5 hours, watching a movie, king of the hill, and fear factor. heheh. it was fun. coworkers are great.

do ya ever wonder about life? sometimes everything is peachy, sometimes you just coast on by, and sometimes ya think everything is gonna fall apart. repeat ad infinitum. gosh i'm happy today.
"and you just don't get it you keep it copacetic
and you learn to accept it you know its so pathetic."
local h - bound for the floor

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Have a great day!

happy 19th of february! its saturday!

meh. thats how i'm feeling tonight. long day at work. 3 stores, too many hours. isn't that always the way? heh now i'm getting people mad at a store manager for "spreading me too thin". its kind of funny. pays well though...

my parents got new cell phones after much unsubtle prompting. they <3 them. i showed them a few things last night and they seemed happy. verizon lowered their rates, so we doubled our plan minutes and added a 4th phone for $10 a month. yay.

interesting thoughts for the day. last night, my coworkers told me that a) i work too much, b) what do i do with all my earnings, and c) i could afford an apartment with some cool roomies... heh that got me to thinking that actually i could like afford one. it would be a big change, and i'm not really sure if i'm ready to deal with all that, but it would be awesome. if any of you my lovely readers a) know of a good deal on an apartment this side of the cities, or b) want to get a pad together + uberkewl roomie...drop me a comment!

math team is over. i missed the last meet, the pizza party meet, because i had to pick up my parents from the aeropuerto y trabajo. its kind of fitting, me not caring about math team this year and missing the last meet. such is life though, ni?

well, i left my glasses at 41 (IGH) like 3 days ago, and i might be getting used to them. the dr gave me a sample of blink, and it actually works pretty well. i just thought i would let ya-ll know :) ohh, and contacts are sshhuwwizzzeeeeettt.

i know its been a while. its just hard to write down the trivialities of my life.
week in review:
joe's pretty cool. crazy, but cool. and the little oven or something has the best pizza. like ever. its on white bear and something.
parents got home. they loved cancun. its fun hearing them talk about it, all teh things they say, all the people they met. it wasn't too different having the house to myself. i barely see them as is. its kind of scary, but my mom is looking really older. she's got wrinkles and lines and its just kind of freaking me out.
school is hard. motivation really is such an aggravation. and yes, it is getting harder to fake inspiration. Class is a drag, and so is homework. heh.
work is just like normal. it never changes. diffent faces, different stores. same crap. i dont mind it terribly much, i just work a bit too much. and i start my second job on wednesday! go me.
grrrrrrrrrrg

hey all yous

que pasa? aieee i'm so dead today. worked 9-2:30 at 41, hung out at 21 for a bit, went home for like a minute, and went to 88 for 4:30-7:15. shessh. sometimes i do work to much, but it pays well :)

in other news, my parents are going out of town - to cancun - for a -week- !!! oh yeah baby i'm kind of excited. wild parties every night :)

in other drug store news, THE ASS-ISTANT is getting transfered!!! head of HR said she's switch him in a week or 2, and that was last week. *happy dance* oh thats gonna make the store so much nicer. well, assuming our new ass-isant is better. we've got our fingers crossed.

yay! i filed my federal income taxes! $109 to the man. I cant wait to file my state ones, but that has to wait until february :( damn republicans.

and for your viewing pleasure, click here and here. think, half of our nation voted for this. this makes me sick.

hey y'all

whats new in jeffoland? i've got quite a few tidbits to share!

• i did not make it into UMN. :( life happens. heh i did want to go there, but ya reap what ya sow. i dunno, i guess i can be happy anywhere i go. it'll still be w00ti3r then at h0m3...
  
• i applied to UMD, UWRF, and UWSuper! exciting times, i know! except that each application is $35+$3+$5+$7, for a grand total of $50/app, or $150 in the last few days...
  
• textbooks suck! i bought them (courtesty of the pseo program) before winter break, and now they are nowhere to be found. so i re-purchased them (courtesty of jeff's visa). $321.95. And thats not even all of them.
  
• i'm now a key associate at 88 (woodbury)! go me. it's pretty sweet. i have regular thursday nights there i guess.
  
• you may have noticed the 'There Is No Crisis' banner on my blog! yeah there really isn't a crisis, it is just bush/republi****s trying to get rid of social security. WE CAN FIGHT IT.
  
• cambodian kim is pretty awesome. she and i went to bakers square last night and it was great. i <3 friends. we didn't really do a heck of a lot..except for the ketchup...and yeah it was fun.
  
• How can we dance when our earth is turning
  How do we sleep while our beds are burning
  
• does anyone know of a good torrent site? BT rocks, but since suprnova closed i'm sad. umm of course i'm only using it to download music that i already own because i'm too lazy to rip my own cd's. i would never violate copyright protections.
  
• jessica invited my to come out to to uwrf will her friday night because she's moving back. i think it would be really cool, and i switched with stephy so i can go.
  

Well I hate to see this evening end
God only knows when I'll see you again
Just send a fax or send me a letter or give me a call that would even be better
Give the kids a kiss for me and say hello to the family
And tell them all my future's lookin' bright
Well, I miss 'em but I'm doin' alright
I said I miss 'em but I'm doin' alright

hey all

a little melancholy tonight. long day at work. yesterday was 12 hours, too, but today is was crazy busy. bad crazy. like omgwtfhappenedi'veneverseenthismanypeopleinlinebefore. tomorrow, similar fun will ensue, but it'll only be 8 hours of fun.

talked to an old friend tonight. first time in nearly a year. she wasn't very talkative. i just kind of felt bad afterwards though, because maybe i am missing out on like high school and high school friends and stuff. i've made a few friends at inver, though the campus dems. and park blows. a lot.

i told the parents i'd be home for dinner when they called at 6:30. i ended up working until 9, then i had to take kim home. so i got home at 9:40, and they were both in bed watching tv. my dad finally came out a bit after 11 and said hullo. family love, eh?

happy new year to all of you.
maybe it'll be a better year.
here's to!

hey peeps

merry christmas. happy hannukkah. have a good quanza!...you get the idea.
the christmas spirit just isn't upon me yet. last week i went to moa and walked around for quite some time. didn't find a single thing. i have no clue what to get people. heck, i dont even know what i want. i have a good job. i'm not hard up for money cuz i mooch off my parents. but yes christmas is fast approaching and i have purchased zero gifts. thursday night i'm going to my grandma's to make pies. i even got in a tiff with my parents because of that. maybe i need to make some cookies to feel more christmassy?

bah. tonight i saw Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. good movie. kind of depressing, and it had an even worse ending, but yeah a good movie.

last night jessica invited me to make christmas cookies with 'shley tina bekah ellie josh and donna. she even waited for me for like 45 minutes at snyders while i closed. turns out that only schley was making cookies, but yeah. they were still good. afterwards, we all went to perkins on s robert st and it was fun. i feel like such a prick, though. jessica is so cool and nice to me but yeah i dont do anything for her. aieeeee. :(

sometime last week, nat steph, lisha, bryan, cole, jason, and i went bowling (also on s robert) and it was pretty awesome. i even got a 122, so i was pretty proud of myself. the rest of the time i just got like 70s :) afterward, we were gonna go to perkins but that got canceled. lisha and i ended up like talked in her car in the sny parking lot for three hours or sometime. i dont totally remember everything we talked about, but it was fun. my coworkers are all great people.

i'm kinda worried about dazzy. she is antisocial. i try to talk to her on aim, and she either doesn't respond or says little. if i ask her to do something, she always says no. i know shes going through some tough stuff with her family and all, but yeah. idk what to do. aieeeeeeeeeee.

yesterday morning started out with a call on my cell from my friend kim. she was lost in downtown minneapolis and needed directions to the ford something or other (420 5th st). after finally waking up i just looked on yahoo and helped her. i wasn't her first choice for directions, but its nice that she though of me. its a rough way to get woken up though.

finals:
thursday: speech: 8:00am.
      time arrived:  8:50.
      time finished: 9:13.
      feeling: goodish.
friday: sociology: 8:00am.
      time arrived:  8:45.
      time finished: 9:07.
      feeling: okay. took a while to track down the teacher but she's awesome.
english: 12:00pm.
      time arrived:  12:15.
      time finished: 2:20.
      feeling: umm it was a quiz on a movie and a course eval. w00ty.
tomorrow: math: 8:00.
OMFG I'M SCREWED. maybe i wont fail the class? i dont think i will. i'd be happy with a B. maybe even a C? aieeee. i hate math.

~~~~
Just like the white winged dove...
Sings a song...
Sounds like she's singing...
Whoo... whoo... whoo...
~~~~

night all
and to all a good night.

WAIT! i have an idea! for me, for christmas! maybe the new green day cd? that'd be awesome. now i just have to find something for everyone else on my list....

do u ever feel just crappy?
living a mediocre life?
you have friends and family that love you and just want you to do well
but its all the same thing, in and out, and it doesn't matter
and you think of those kids in china and the rest of the world
without food, clothing, shelter, or family
and u just ask yourself is it all worth it?

yeah on a happier note:
last night's party at nat's sis's house was pretty sweet. laur, andr, nat, step, and bek were all there. by 4 am, andr had had like 12 shots of vodka and he was almost passing out...guess he puked several times on the way home and then for 45 minutes...another kid there decided to go for a ride with step's bf cole, and of course they crashed into a tree doing major damage to his car. other than that stupiditiy, drunk people are fun :)

managing a sny is awefully crazy. i've only done it once by myself and it was not happy. books are a little better. i must be dyslexic or something. maybe just bad with numbers or money. i bet laurie is happy now that i'm not using her code in the computer anymore! i can finally do books in my name!...but that's probably a bad thing....

yeah i'm excited about christmas break. i tihnk my last final is like the 17th, so that's pretty AWESOME. i work the 20th-24th at 76 (rice st -- monte's store) in the rx, 9-5 each day. here comes a happy pay check! after that classes dont start until january 10 and that's gonna be awesome.

EuroTrip is a SWEET movie! go rent it! its been out for ages but i just saw it tonight. yeah, i would recommend against the unrated version because some parts are Bad.

i'll post more later, but if i should somehow forget, here's to a better 2005!

don't let the days go by
could have been easier on you
I coudn't change though I wanted to
could have been easier by three
our old friend fear and you and me
glycerine (repeat)
don't let the days go by
glycerine


i cleaned my room today. yeah, its like you can see the floor. its still pretty grungy and needs to be swept and it'll be a few more hours, but yeah. it's coming along. as i was cleaning, i found a photo of my grandparents with the note, "with love, jeff." grandma + bompy had tucked it in a box for me last time they were here. and ya know, i really do love them a lot. they aren't the easiest to get along with, but they are great people. i guess i was just surprised at myself.

yeah, so i figure i spent 1/3 of my weekend (friday + saturday + sunday) at synders! go me! kill me slowly with a q-tip! i guess its an easy way to make $240, but still. aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. next weekend, nikki had scheduled natalie 9-5 and 10-4, WITH NO OTHER HELP! that's crazy. tomorrow i'll call the grove and see if i can be natalie's other help. grrrr that makes me mad though. my next day off is friday!!!

wowsar. my friend jay just finished a poem to his g/f and its like crazy good.

i hate speeches.