highway robbery case: me v. Quiznos

I was charged 1.89 for a diet Pepsi?!?!!  it doesn’t even have sugar in it, and thus, should be cheaper.  i can’t believe it.  I still drank it though.  I had a too.  I had a cup of chili a bag of sun chips and a 20 oz. bottle of diet pepsi.  I can’t believe it was 1.89.  I’ve paid more for pop BUT it was at movie theaters and amusement parks this was Quiznos.  I expect a performance next time i show up…good grief.

in other news, after my traumatizing experience at the aforementioned sandwich place I came home and i noticed a banner for a Helotes festival: Cornyval.  How lame…and yet, I can’t wait to go.  I imagine it’ll be a the most boring and slow moving of trainwrecks in trainwreck history!  I have to be there!!  after all, this tiny town event is competing with Fiesta! San Antonio’s week long festival devoted to gluttony…or something like that, I haven’t finished reading the pamphlet.

www.cornyval.com

ciao homebodies,

lo

wk. no (wk. no currently unknown…)

Ok so I didn’t work today.  I’m a sub so my schedule is not entitled to be planned.  BUT no excuses were used today to waste my day away.  Here’s what I did:

Diet: i ate a lot of cheese.  I had a really really blacked up grilled cheese for breakfast.  I nixed the coffee this morning because I slept an illegal amount of hours.  Also, I ran out of joe.  Had I had it in the pantry I would have forsaken the time slept policy and had it anyways.

for lunch I had a hefty slice of my sister’s meatloaf and rice…hmm…i guess I didn’t have as much cheese as i could have huh?

ok and for dinner which to be frank i wasn’t even hungering for yet, i had Sonic.  Fast food on the fly is the best when it’s deep fried and filled w/ preservatives so I went with: a Chili CHEESE Hot Dog, and CHED-AH filled jalapeno poppers, and a Route 44 (signature 44 oz drink) 1/2 filled w/ diet Dr. Pepper and 1/2 filled w/ Diet Coke and overflowing because I requested strawberries in my drink.  It was delicious to drink BUT not so fun when you realize you have your work cut out for you the moment one of the strawberry slices gets sucked into the straw.  BUT: i believe because of the strawberry entrapment incident I managed to increase my lung capacity.  The human suction power is almost might reach heroic status one day.

yummmmy! is greasy a smell? it is now...!

 

aside from my not-so- impressive-cheese-intake-list my day wasn’t that interesting. 

 

Here’s a breakdown:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. I filled a loan consolidation application.  I want to thank Direct Loans for making that possible otherwise I would have spent 3.5 hours of my day doing something else.  I also want to thank the internet for saving me a stamp.
2. I applied to teach middle school math at Northeast Independent School District.  In my Letter of Intent Form I spoke of how my fashion background made the greatest use of math by helping me organize my award winning creations on paper…?!  Yes.  I’m serious there.  UNBELIEVABLE.  I don’t know what I’ll do if I get an interview because that is something I AM NOT looking forward to explaining.
3.  I checked my email.  Several times.  TALK about INITIATIVE!!!WOW!!! i’m the best at checking my email.  I don’t think i can be beat.
4. I checked craigslist for a WHOLE BUNCH of jobs that i could possibly be interested in for the summer when the kids are out and the need for substitute teachers is obsolete.  The progress report on that is pending.  However, I did get a rejection letter from some Virginia chick:

Dear Ms. Alvarez:
 
Thank you so much for submitting your resume in consideration of the position as listed above.
 
We have decided to move on with another candidate for this particular position. 
 
I wish you much success,
 
Virginia Balfour
Human Resource Coordinator
Med-National, Inc.

Thanks Ginny.  I actually do appreciate it when they get back to me.  At least I know I didn’t fall for a scam posting.

5.  I studied for my Sunday Mtg…CHECK!

6.  I went to the park and saw a kid and his dad.  The dad was trying to push his kid on the tri BUT what the dad should have been doing is investing on a belt, or a third hand so that he could lift the back of his shorts at LEAST 2 inches.  It was then that i totally though: he must be a plumber.  Then it became understandable.

7.  OH!!! and i registered to test for EC-4 Certification.  You guessed it: one day, yours truly might end up being a KINDERGARTEN TEACHER eeekkkkkk!!! Can you say Cardigans? cos i can!!!

8. I watched a good 40 minutes of Bones.  Yay for science shows that totally downplay the science and crank up the drama…

9. OH!! i weighed myself in this morning.  the results were satisfactory yet i should mention there was a .6 lb increase from last week. 

ugh…this listing option isn’t the best.  alignment is so non-existant.

peace-out my homebodies

black bag stress

so i’ve been trying to find a new purse for about….i guess since January-Februaryish…lets go w/ Feb and put it to rest. So yes. Here’s my dilemma: i need a new everyday and everything bag. HARDEST THING EVER!!!

Having to subject myself to a ‘practical’ item is a pretty traumatizing experience. There are too many feelings of commitment involved. I miss shopping w/ mom because she’d always help me decide. Sometimes I’d decide contrary to her suggestions BUT the point being: i would DECIDE. So far, i haven’t been able to make myself pick anything yet.

Today I was standing at TJMaxx and I thought…I miss school. You took one look around and bam! in school you know exactly what leather piece you should be whining to your parents about. this growing up/transitional stage i’m in sucks. i can’t make decisions. i have NO clue whatsoever what style items are socially acceptable for me. UGH!!! this is drastically annoying!

ok here is my solution:

Dear Superman,

Please run backwards really fast so that I might be back up in Ithaca with all the Gossip Girl wannabees if only so I might gain some insight into what sort of bag I should buy. 

Many thanks,

Lo

AS IF!!!  ok i need to get going.  If i try REALLY hard i might get my sister to go back with me to the store so that she could help me pick out my to be bag.

peace out my homebodies!!!!

there go $4.50 I’ll not see again

ugh…forever ago I went on an interview for a very bare bones type of position for an Architecture firm.  I have a love affair w/ too many things architecture btw, so of course no matter how remedial the job was, i wanted it.  I NEEDED IT.  and i obviously didn’t get it.  From what my recruiter told me: 

“Unfortunately, PBK ended up going with another candidate who has less experience.  He was extremely impressed with you and honestly thought you would be bored after a few weeks.  I am waiting to get the scoop on the other firm and will keep you posted.”

awesome.  I didn’t get it.  because i’d be too good at it?! what a negative quality to have in an employee, like duh!  fine.  i’m flattered, but only to cover up the non-salary i’m getting, and still managed to lose 2 days of my job so that i could make the interview.  which, btw, the guy really did like me.  I left there feeling great! I was crushed when I didn’t get the job.  Now, they have a Marketing position open.  I don’t think I’m gonna get it.  I’m saying that now.  

Last night close to midnight I found out that the same firm, PBK Architects is hiring a Marketing Coordinator.  When I saw that posting on careerbuilder i felt like the clouds opened up so that sunlight could beam down on me.  YES! the firm i wanted, the job i wanted!!!!  omg… so i emailed the guy that I had interviewed with, real nice guy too, Darrell Pearson, a Director too.  I secretly thanked all my college roommates that many a times preached the power of networking and I emailed him.  

Then this morning I sent printed out a ream of resumes and headed to the Austin office with a few resumes and a box of donuts to be shared.  he took the donuts and wrote an email address on a resume, then said good-bye.

encouraging?  very.

bye donuts.  I barely knew you.

bye-bye my sweets

sun harvest

I have an affair of sorts with Grocery Stores.  My preference for them is over other retail options goes without saying.  

Over the years my favorites have been known to rotate some.  I think my all-time favorite is HEB.  But I must say, I also have day of the week devoted to one store- Sun Harvest.  and guess what?  it had it’s start in San Antonio.  

I thought about it today because that will make me feel a lot more comfortable with the move.  Moving in to my new home w/ my old family is going to be that much more emotionally facilitated because of  the presence of these 2 retail environments.  Thank you HEB, and thank you much smaller under, Sun Harvest.  Many more double ad Wednesdays to come for me and you my friend.

 

peace out my home bodies!