The Grrface

I had a very long, very tiring day. It’s necessary to unwind while wearing fuzzy socks because it’s impossible to not be happy while your feet are so darn comfortable.

I have five or six pair, which is strange because I never wear normal socks. I hardly ever wear socks at all because I just wear Crocs, which are, admittedly, pretty hideous, but if you can find a more comfortable shoe to wear while walking around for ten hours a day, I’d love to hear it.

I rearranged so many shelves today. I spent about six hours just moving around stock bottles, tidying up shelves and condensing things where I could. But the entire department is so clean now! AAAAAND my boss was very impressed with the amount of work I did, which is awesome because I’ve always been afraid that he doesn’t really like me very much, and with all of the projects I’ve taken on lately, I think he’s starting to realize how serious I am about this job.

Have you ever woken up and thought, hey, my life would be a lot easier if I bought a decent 3-hole punch? Welcome to my mind.

I’m planning on taking my test in September, so I’m starting to buckle down and study. I’ve never been very good at studying. I’ve always coasted by just by paying attention in classes. Half the time in college, I didn’t even buy the books because I knew myself well enough to know that I wasn’t going to read the book anyway. But now, there is no class. I learn a bit here and there at work, but I’m not going to learn about the cancer drugs, or vaccines, or even the math because we don’t do any of it, so I’m having to teach myself to start studying for something, even though I’m 24.

Luckily, this is where my mad organizational skills and type A+ personality are going to help me out.

I want to believe that the dog was all cuddly with me because he likes me, but the truth is, he’s probably just been all over me because I spent half the afternoon playing with my friend Brandee’s yorkie.

He only wants to cuddle when I’m studying. I’m trying to make the most frustrating part of studying more interesting, so I’m making stupid little worksheets with the pharmacology. I’ve been working off-and-on the insulins most of the day, even over at Brandee’s, and so far I have a matching game, a fill-in-the-blank activity, and a 20 question multiple choice test.

Can you tell I spent three years in college to be a teacher?

Due to the complete lack of space in our bedroom, I am constantly reorganizing, moving everything around to try to make it look just a little neater, just a little better.

Unfortunately, the only way to make these things fit on this shelf was to give the Gamecube a place of honor, right above the Luigi card my Gabecube gave me a few weeks ago. It looks like some kind of a nerd shrine up there.

A rare picture of Dianna smiling, but probably because she’s getting cuddle all over my pillows. She and Ryan have been watching Gabe play Lego Harry Potter all day, and he finally got all of the achievements for it. Finally. Because I’ve been wanting to play multi-player on it with him for a week, but if we did, he couldn’t get his achievements. Stupid Xbox.

I haven’t done anything fun today. Since that girl passed her test, she’s lending me her book to study. Everybody is lending or giving me books to study; I have 4 full textbooks, a huge 500 page manual from work, and 5 or 6 workbooks. The girl, P, has the most current, and it’s kind of badass. It’s not a huge book at 150 pages, and it’s very concise. There are even three practice tests with answer sheets, which would be awesome if she hadn’t circled all of her answers, then noted where she was wrong and what the correct answer was. I’ve been studying my ass off because I’m going to take the test soon, and I obviously want to pass because it’s expensive, and I’d get that 50% raise.

I wanted to take the tests, so instead of just erasing the marks, which are in pencil, I scanned the first one of them into the computer, cropped out all of her answers and notes, and pasted the a b c and d where they should have been on all the 150 questions. I’ve been working on it since 9, and I’ve only finished copying one test, which is printing on the world’s slowest printer as I type.

If I ever needed a Pepsi, it would be right now. However, the generic grape Crystal Light is pretty good. Although I didn’t know they made sugar-free Hawaiian Punch! I am totally going to have to try that now. I’m probably going to end up spending $20 on drink mix the next time I go to the store.