April 5, 2007

• I’m so stressed out right now. And super jealous that everyone else is
  going home for Easter Weekend but I have to work every day of the
  holiday! Ugh, ugh. I mean, okay, work is awesome because it means that
  I get money (and I’m working 22 hours this week just at Petsmart which
  a-okay in my book) but still… I would go home tomorrow night but I
  open at PS and yuck… it’s at 7 am and who in their right mind would
  get up at like 4:30 am just to drive back here to be at work at 7? Not
  me. We have three weeks left of school and finals are the last week of
  April/first week of May. I only have four finals and they are spread
  out so much. My last one is on Saturday, which okay because it’s in the
  class that I’m having the hardest time in so I kind of need that extra
  time to study my ass off. Hopefully I’ll pull close to a 100% on that
  test and come out of that class with a low B or a high C. Rough. But
  after last semester, I’m way okay with C’s.

  I know that’s horrible and I shouldn’t be satisfied with being so
  average but I feel as I am still struggling. I’m slowly picking myself
  back from falling so bad back in January and it’s going alright. I just
  need to take things one step at a time so hopefully by the end of
  summer semester, I’ll be back to how I was when I was a freshman in
  college – excited about classes, devoted to everything. I know what I
  want and I know the path I have to take to get it, it’s just getting my
  ass in gear to do what is necessary to get it all done.

  I really love my job at PS, I really do. I will even go so far to say
  that it is by far better than it was at Petco. I feel so much more
  welcomed into the arms of PS, and the people I work with are awesome. I
  get along with all of them and that makes me really happy. I’m just
  someone at work who just wants to make sure everyone succeeds – I
  always offer to help if they need it, and I love that I’m usually
  booked every day. It’s tiring and when I get back home after work, my
  feet are killing me but it feels so good to actually do something at
  work instead of stand around doing nothing. Another thing I really like
  about PS is that there always has to be two people in the groom shop at
  any time (except for if one of us goes to the bathroom). I hated
  working alone at Petco, which was the main reason I loathed closing,
  which I did every time I worked. At PS, I only close one night and it’s
  always with a groomer — so we always have someone to share the closing
  cleaning, and we can talk and joke around or dance to the music they
  play. It makes for such a better environment. Part of me wanted to go
  to groom school but it’s a full time job and we can’t do it when we are
  in college. I know it’s hard work but there can be a lot of money in
  the business. Oh well, I’ll keep my eyes focused on what I really want
  to do and that is vet school.

  I got a new phone this week, one of the LG Chocolate phones (mine is
  green). It’s so very cute and I am still getting used to it but it’s so
  much better than any of my Nextel phones used to be. Plus I get
  reception everywhere, unlike when I was using Nextel — I could only
  get service in certain spots of my apartment which is very annoying
  after a while. I also took off my gel (fake) nails yesterday. I was
  paying $28 every three weeks to get them done, and my nail lady
  cancelled on me twice and then she went on vacation for three weeks.
  Nice, huh? I had broken two of them and I had gone about a week with
  them broken. It was so bad that they were starting to separate from my
  original nails so I figured it was time for them to go. I spent about
  two hours yesterday peeling them off (ripping them off, more like it),
  filing them done as smooth as I could get them, and painting them. I
  would have left them unpainted seeing as I hate my fingernails painted,
  but they looked HORRIBLE after I got done taking the gels off. Plus
  some of the gel residue was still on the nails so they weren’t
  perfectly smooth. My nails are so weak right now because they have been
  under the gel since the beginning of January. The nail polish doesn’t
  look too hot either but it’s red so you can’t really tell how unsmooth
  they are underneath. I don’t plan on getting gel nails again for a
  while because I don’t feel like paying the $28 to get them redone every
  three weeks. I’m broke right now, I’d rather use that $28 for something
  more productive – such as the gym. Yeah.

  Speaking of the gym, according to my scale, I’ve lost seven pounds. I
  mean, it’s okay for right now but I need to really get my butt in gear.
  I would like to join a real gym because the school gym isn’t really
  that great but I just have to get myself to do that. I am giong to call
  the YMCA and see if I can go there with my membership from a different
  YMCA or possibly have it transferred because my mom pays at the one by
  their house and I no longer live up there. But she might pay a family
  membership fee. I’ll have to check what the prices are here. I’m going
  to do that right now..

  Have a good Easter weekend, y’all.

  –Kate.

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