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What a lonely weekend!  Zach left for San Diego last week and I really wish I could have gone with him.  I have been working almost every day, but this week my boss decided to give me less hours!  Well gosh, if I would have known, I would have just gone with him to Cali.  Oh well, someone had to take care of the puppies, right?

I got a curl remover/at-home perm kit to do.  I am tired of the slight curl my hair has.  The perm seems to be going away slightly, but I want my old, straight, curls with a curling iron only hair.  Oh well…  My lazy butt could have applied the death-to-hair chemicals today, but I decided doing absolutely nothing was of utmost importance.  The most extreme thing I did was walk around the block with the puppies, do a 10-minute work out from exercise tv ONdemand, and kill a mosquito.  I’d say that was pretty darn eventful!  Now I’m off to bed to goto work bright and early at 11:30.  lol  I’ve got a rough life, huh?

I just got my teeth yanked out on Tuesday… My mouth definitely feels like a war zone.  My stomach says, “feed me!”  while my jaw says, “stay shut!”  I have to eat slowly and it is driving me crazy.  I can’t even open my mouth all the way.  Argh…  Not the happiest camper in the forest.

The days have been going along smoothly.  I have been working almost everyday.  Next week I have off, though.  I’m getting my wisdom teeth pulled and going to a Bridal Shower in Glenwood Springs.  I really want to try to plan a private romantic trip somewhere for just Zach and I.  Hopefully I can make it a surprise.  Just a simple weekend getaway possibly somehwere not farther than 8 hours away by car.  And hopefully he will want to go if it is that far!  We’ll see.  I just want to have a nice weekend together.

It’s official!  I just registered for my classes next semester.  I am almost there!  I am taking four classes, one of which is.. -drum roll- ..in the elementary classroom!  Yay!  I feel like I’m getting somewhere in my education now.  After seeing Zach graduate, it makes it feel that much closer, knowing I’m only a year behind him.  I cannot wait to actually start living.  It feels like I’m not really an adult until I have a real job.  And no, Panda Express is not a real job.  Which …argh new paragraph…

BUGS ME!  Again, with the snobby customers!  It is absolutely amazing how cruel people can be to a complete stranger.  I told a lady on drive thru, who I was half paying attention to, because she was talking to someone in the car, listening to the radio, talking to herself, and occassionally ordering something on the microphone.  So all I hear was Broccoli Beef and Wontons.  I told her we have SOME broccoli beef left.  She comes back later, and note we were closed when she first came, but we keep drive thru open to sell out any food we have left.  NOT TO MAKE MORE!  She came back later freaking out that I gave her a single entree of beef when she ordered a large.  (Did I remind you she was talking to other things other than me? Including talking at the radio saying, “Wooo!  Oh, sorry the Nuggets are winning.”)  And somewhere I missed the “large” and she missed the “some”.  Oh, and she missed the signs (which are posted on every door and even the drive thru window) that said we closed at 9pm.  She came after 9pm, returned at 9:28pm, yelled at me over the microphone saying, “I was just here 5 minutes ago, you said you had broccoli beef.”  

And I try super hard not to freak out and reply, “Oh, well I said we have enough for one entree, I guess we got misunderstood.  We actually closed at 9pm.” (NOTE: 9:28pm)

The Freak: “Well I was just here at like 5 minutes ago and you had broccoli beef.”

Still trying not to get angry: “Yes, but we closed 28 minutes ago.  And we only had one scoop. Would you like some kung pao chicken?  We have 2 scoops of that.” (Which she ends up buying)

Freak lady: “So are you telling me that when you get my order wrong I’m just supposed to deal with it?”

I don’t really remember what I said after that… Other than a lot of high pitch answers to try and sound like “Oh really? I’m so sorry, what can we get for you?”  kind of thing.

So that was the first time I made someone go from “freak out on innocent people mode” to “fine I’ll buy your food since I realized I said I came 23 minutes after closing, then 28 minutes after closing, and realized you were closed both times and the amount of food you had didn’t change” mode.  I’m pretty proud of myself.

I rock at customer service when the store moral is good (aka the boss man didn’t yell at a single person today, not even the cooks).  Conditions, conditions, conditions.

Summer is here and I have absolutely nothing to think about!  It is amazing.  I am doing some things to keep my mind creative and what not, though.  Plus working a lot and taking care of puppies.  I’m creating something special for Zach’s mom.  Since she missed his graduation, I want to create something special for her to remember his graduation even though she wasn’t actually there.

I’m also reading about XML.  My mom got me a book about it from the IBM Impact 2009.  It’s actually pretty interesting and could be really useful in the future for any customers I may have needing a low maintanence website.

Speaking of useful, I got this cute, pink art supply carrying case.  It holds everything I had stuffed into a plastic storage bin, with more room to spare!  I love it, now I need more art supplies to fill it.  :)  Just kidding…  I have supplies scattered throughout the house.  Now it’s just getting them all into this one little case.  Excluding the beading kit of course.  That would need 5 more cases.

The picture above is of Zach’s commencement ceremony.  It was a great day!  We sat through the Clerk & Recorder drone on about nothing with the occassional mention of Tyra Banks, which we could never figure out why Tyra Banks was of any importance to graduates from Colorado…  Then we tried to video tape Zach’s name as he walked up to get his diploma, then they said it weird, so I missed it and the video ended up sounding like: “There he is!  He’s coming up next. He’s coming up next, everybody.  Wait, did they say his name already? I missed it?  Oh no, we didn’t scream!!”  Then texting Zach to sneak out the back so we don’t have to sit through all the sub-college’s graduates names being read.  It was sad to not get to see him throw his hat in the air though, I don’t know if I’d wait around to do that or not next year, probably not.  Then we all split up and went different ways, some shopping, others home, the rest to my house.  We cuddles Tobey and Penny a bit and said goodbye to my mom’s Westies.  Four dogs in a 700 spaure foot apartment was definitely not a bright idea, let me tell yah…  Then we drove our butts to the Bent Fork restaurant and had a great meal, that I wish I had ordered something else, and took lots of pictures of everyone.  Maybe not lots, but enough to create my special something for Zach’s mom.  Then everyone went home and wished Zach good luck in his job search to become to become the best editor, proofreader, writer in the world.

There are puppies everywhere.  The wonderful times are when everyone is asleep.  Then the neighbors have to stomp down the stairs when they come and go and make everyone wake up and bark like crazy.  Other than that, they’re wonderful when they’re not leaving presents.

Back to the normal puppy count tomorrow!  Thank God…  I don’t know if I could handle walking 4 dogs at once ever again.

The end of the semester is finally here!  I have one more final tomorrow at 8 a.m. (Wake up call please?).  I gave my ELL modifications presentation today, which I think went well, other than the fact that when I don’t prepare for a presentation, I don’t remember anything I said.  I seemed to appear pretty confident though… In my own little mind.

New addition to the family!  Little Man Tobey.  Tobey is a dachshund with dapple coloring.  He is so adorable and the sweetest bad little puppy in the world that leaves wonderful presents for us to find when we’re late for class.  He is learning fast, though! So that is a big plus.  My mom’s dogs, Sonny and Daisy, are here till Saturday while my mom is in Las Vegas for IBM Impact 2009.  Go SOA!  Ahem…  Whatever that is, right?  My grandparents are scoping out the area for a new home to retire in and John decided to join my mom so she’s not lonely while she’s stressed out for a week straight, which is so wonderful of him.  Zach graduates on SATURDAY!  College is finally over for him.  I have just one more awesome year of college, and I’m not being sarcastic.  My final year is all in the elementary classroom and only the fall semester will have classes at the college.  Then we’re off to wherever Zach finds a job!  I am definitely more excited than he is for him.

Off to the dog park with four dogs!