Sunday, February 20, 2011

The Concrete Minerals Electric Eye Primer giveaway winner is...

Ki! Thanks everyone for entering, I enjoyed reading all your suggestions for my new kitty's name. If you're wondering what I ended up choosing... I decided to keep it Gloria, the name they gave her at the shelter :P It just seems to fit her, and it kind of stuck after calling her that for a few days. Here's some pictures! Sleeping in bed... Sitting on the couch... Getting ready to do her makeup... and distracting my boyfriend from doing his homework. For those of you interested, here's some updates on my personal life as of late. This is going to be looong. The last week-ish has been pretty bad, and yesterday was so unbelievably bad it's almost comical. I realized, as I had suspected all along, that the itchy bumps I've been covered in for weeks were NOT from a virus, like the dermatologist said, but bites from bedbugs. Yeah, I had fucking bedbugs. So yesterday I had to take all my pets to my boyfriend's house so the exterminator could come and poison the shit out of my apartment. While he was doing that, I went to my job interview at Macy's, the only place to show any interest in hiring me out of the 8 or so I've applied to since I moved. The interview went well, but in the end, I was told they wouldn't give me the job (which was only going to be 12 hours a week anyway, like that's enough money to live on) unless I would guarantee them that I would stay with them for a full year. As it stands right now, I am looking at moving back home after my lease is up in 8 months, so that's not a promise I'm going to make. I left the interview, obviously pretty upset, and went to my boyfriend's house since I wasn't supposed to go back into my apartment for another 4 hours. We decided to go to the store to buy me some new bedsheets and a new comforter, because I decided I was going to throw mine away. On the way there I had a tire blow out. It didn't just get a little puncture, it got ripped to shreds. So we pulled over and called a towing service to come change the tire, since we didn't want to attempt it on an un-level, extremely busy highway. We drove back to my apartment on the spare tire, and my mom called my boyfriend's cell phone to tell me that my new phone I ordered should be there on Tuesday. This sounds like it's a good thing, but it's not. I broke my cell phone, and ordered the new one WEEKS ago. The shitty company, US Cellular, repeatedly lied to my mom about shipping the phone out. Now that they finally actually did their fucking job, they spelled my street address wrong, and somehow managed to lose my apartment number, so UPS couldn't deliver my phone. I was expecting to get it yesterday, and now I have to wait even longer. It's already been 3 weeks. Then we go inside my apartment and learn everything is still wet and smelly, so I had to grab some stuff to go spend the night with my pets at my boyfriend's house, where I spent the night doing laundry and homework. Now I'm finally back home, and after I finish this post, I have to go out to the store to finally buy the new sheets and comforter. How was your weekend?

17 comments:

  1. Wow that really sounds like one of those days where everything goes wrong! Hopefully all the good things will come now :) How funny that a dermatologist who spends his life looking at skin can't recognise something as common as bedbugs.... did he get his certification from a cereal box or something? haha. Your cat is adorably cute, she looks so sweet! >.<

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  2. Oh for crying out loud, it was bad enough when you said they wanted a guaranteed year out of you, but for a measly 12 hours a week? Macy's can go screw itself, honestly. (They didn't hire me for a stupid reason, either, but yours takes the cake.)

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  3. What a lame weekend! I hope the next one is much better and that your apartment is ok. Really shitty about the job interview but atleast they showed an interest in hiring you.

    Gloria is such a cutie and nice that you've kept her name. xx

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  4. Oh god poor you! What a crappy time you're having :( I hope everything gets better! Gloria is a lovely name and she is just stunningly beautiful. Kisses for you!

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  5. AW your cat is the cutest! I love the picture of her "doing her makeup"! I hope your week gets better!

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  6. That sounds like a horrible weekend! I hope your luck gets better and you have a lovely week!
    Your kitty is gorgeous, so cute! I love the 'doing her make up' picture! :)

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  7. Sorry to hear about the issues with job hunting. I went through those issues last year and I am not kidding when I said I easily sent out 150 resumes. My problem was as a recent science graduate I was under qualified for most of the jobs seeing I graduates outside the time frame that they hire graduate each year. I was also over qualified for retail, and most thought (with good reason) I would run as soon as I got a science job.

    Then I lost my job through odd circumstances and spent 2 months searching again with the same issues. Then I got hired by one place with crappy money (would have earnt more working on checkouts and this required hard core lab work) and just before I started I got hired by two companies to do the sleep tech work I had been trying to do for the past year. So while horrible things worked out eventually in the best possible way. So I am speaking from recent experience understanding how hard it is to hang in there but keep strong :)

    As for my week - well straight after my 12hr night shift I had to take a bus into the city and walk heaps to get to a medical appointment. While there I found out I need all my fingers splinted and that what I thought were good fingers were bad and my bad fingers were becoming deformed. Then I lost which bus stop I had to go home on and was walking around for hours lost and by the time i got home hadn't eaten for hours. So I ordered pizza for dinner and they were an hour late and my food was crushed. So yeah my Friday was fun for all too :(

    Hugs take care!

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  8. That was indeed a crappy day! *hugs* I hope thing turn around for you soon. Your kitty is sooo cute!

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  9. I hope things get less crazy soon *hugs*
    I mentioned you in a blog award, http://glitterandtoucans.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-first-blog-award.html
    :)

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  10. Make up and kittehs. I'm glad I found your blog. :)

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  11. OH ugh,what a terrible day! Those kinds of days that make you wonder if you have the worst luck in the world...no fun. :/
    The bedbugs thing is icky but it's a big problem all over the country right now. I've been seeing/hearing things from friends, net, news, paper and even fashion magazines about people getting infestations.

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  12. Rubbish things are rubbish :( Hope the icky bugs get sorted :S

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  13. Why would anyone commit to a year for a job that is only going to give you 12 hours a week?? That's just nutty :)

    Sounds like you hit a rough patch...I hope it gets better for you!

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  14. WTF thats why I hate dealing with phone companies. You're working so hard, I really admire that, just hang in there!!! I failed my driving test again if that helps anything (it really doesn't lol) I love that picture of your kitty next to the mirror though!! So many hugs >>> <3

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  15. **insert gigantic freaking hugs here**

    I'm sorry all these horrible things are happening to you so close together :( It should be better this week, though- here's hopin!! :)

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  16. Holy shit, lady, that sucks! I hope it only improves from here. And wtf, Macy's, lame. A year guarantee for 12 hours a week? Who are they kidding with that?

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