Sleepy times and another year gone...

So in two days time I will be 27 years old. 27. Yep.

and I still look like I am 15... so I guess that's good right?

Yeah I Got Something In the Oven...

Currently Spinning: My Baby's Off the Market" Two Man Gentleman Band

No real point to this post it's just that I haven't posted in a really, really, embarrassingly long time. Not that there hasn't been anything to post, of course there has been. My life, it would seem, is in a constant state of change and upheaval. Nothing is ever as good as it seems no matter how much I want it to be. Therein lies the problem...

In a little more than a month I will turn 27. Of course I know this isn't old. I don't feel old. I certainly don't look old. I just feel like someone my age should have something to look back on or at least look forward to. I can't say that I really have either. The only success I have had is in alienating people who were once quite close to me, or attracting the type of people that I will never really be able to become close with.


I suppose I shouldn't be so pessimistic but it only comes naturally to me.

I hate my job. My personal relationships are strained and complicated. I've basically made mess of things all the way around. So... what's a gal to do?

The answer to that is this:

I have no idea.

Any suggestions?

Merry Christmas and.....Happy New Year?

I hope everyone had a good Christmas this year or whatever other holiday you may, (or may not for that matter) celebrate. I did. I got some things I had been wanting for a while and Larry and I started a new tradition this year involving Indian food and Green Hills Cinema. I toyed with the idea of posting some of the pictures we took but I am really embarrassed at how much weight I have gained so I don't think I will.
I also got some good news this morning on the job front.
A few weeks ago my manager let me know of another management position opening up at a store in west Nashville and suggested I apply for it. I did, and then sorta lost hope at hearing anything back about it.
This morning, after I am sure was a rather comical dance I did after finding a bug crawling on the wall next to me, the phone rang. I was told to prepare my resume as I would most likely be getting an interview for said position. I am pretty happy about that. I won't be paid much more than I am making now but I will be able to put "management experience" on my resume now which of course could lead to much better employment in the future.
So cross your fingers for me if you so desire. I can and will take all the luck I can get.

All good things must come to an end

Ok.... long hiatus. Sorry about that. I will be posting more regularly, (complete with pictures) in the near future. Until then, I am allowing you to feel smart by letting you know:

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Let me tell you bout a gal named Karen

For those of you that don't know, for the past two and a half months I have been working as a Barista in a large chain book store. Part of my job is to keep the the shelves of books closest to the cafe straight and to help stock them when the new shipments come in. I have been lucky, or unlucky, enough (depending on how you look at it) to be right smack dab beside the bible/religion/Christian living/Christian fiction section.

This means that once or twice a week, I get a cart full of bibles and Christian reading materials to fit onto already crowded shelves. I usually have a hard time fitting some of those horrendous joyce Meyers self-help books but it's nothing a few minutes of cursing doesn't fix. I don't have any real trouble until I get to the Christian fiction shelf.

Every week, our store receives about fifty to sixty additional titles from one particular author named Karen Kingsbury. Please check out her site. She is the author of more than 20, count them, 20 inspirational and uplifting Christian fiction books. We carry a minimum of ten copies of all her books at any given time. There is at least one whole shelf dedicated, or shall I say, infested with only Karen Kingsbury novels. Now I am not knocking Ms. Kingsbury's readers or even her writing ability. I am however, a bit disturbed at her need to write so many books in such a short time. She is apparently one of the top selling Christian fiction authors out there. I know she has had at least one of her books made into a film. I am sure she is now financially very secure at this point in her life.

If money is her motivator then I propose this: I will give Ms. Karen Kingsbury $100 to stop writing Christian Fiction. $100 is a lot for someone as poor as I am. It would be like Donald Trump plopping down a billion. Maybe try a new genre. Why not try sci fi or romance? Both of those sections are far away from the cafe and aren't already crammed full of your pastel colored paper backs. Please, be the kind Christian woman you appear to be, and spare a poor, hard working girl like myself from having to rearrange entire shelves just to accommodate your books.

Just to warn you

I have been watching TCM all morning and I have to say that Dirigible is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is also unintentionally funny throughout the whole thing, which I think is probably not the greatest attribute for a movie about men stranded at the North Pole.

Quote from the movie:

"Die? Nobody's gonna die! I won't let 'em. I'll get you home if I have to pull you back on a sled, see!"

yeah it's pretty much all like that. I don't recommend it.

Oh it is so true

You Are 56% Cynical

Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you're a realist. You see what's screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what's right.

How Cynical Are You?