Not too much new going on. We’re still waiting for our building to be completed – 9 weeks and counting since we’ve been here. They’re teasing us by saying we *might* be able to get gas turned on this week which means showers at home. But we’re not holding our breath. It’s always something with them. Cable modem couldn’t be installed last week when someone finally came (after not showing up and not calling twice) because there’s no cable box for the building so when we talk to the owner this week we’re going to have them make the call so we can get that going. I’d be going even more crazy if I didn’t have internet at work. What kind of a world does not have high speed internet access??
We went to California Pizza Kitchen on Thursday night and they were having the premier for Starsky & Hutch across the street (we didn’t know that or would have showed up at the beginning). From our table we were able to see the stars as they left, we were still across the street but we were able to see Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Snoop Dog. So that was pretty cool. At this premier they were letting people get pretty close up and when they’re leaving is the best time to go because the crowd has thinned considerably.
Casey’s been working crazy overtime lately. He hasn’t had a whole day off in three weeks. But that means extra money and vacation time (since they will only pay him a certain amount of overtime money). We had to reschedule our reservations for the Hard Rock in Vegas to see Howard Stern because they changed the dates. The bad thing is that it’s so close to when my parents are getting here to our vacations are going to be close together. The good thing is that it’s a little less money for these dates because I booked through hotels.com instead of directly through the hotel. We’re both looking forward to it as a vacation for all we’ve been through.
My internship is still going well. I think they were planning on hiring two interns for the morning and two for the afternoon but there’s only me in the morning and another chick in the afternoon and she plans on quitting. Ya know they could just let me intern for credit in the morning and pay me in the afternoon. We’ll see if that will work.
I should be hearing from colleges out here sometime either this month or next. I’m nervous to see which college(s) I get accepted to. Like I’ve said, everything is more money out here especially tuition. Speaking of prices, gas is averaging $2.20/gallon for unleaded.
I finally got my plates for the 4-Runner and have sent in the information for the car. After waiting at the DMV for 2 hours, when I had an appointment and it shouldn’t have taken nearly that long and as I was about to have a nervous breakdown from ALL of the stress, I got everything for my drivers license done. I had to go in there two days in a row because they made me wait so long past my appointment time that they were no longer administering the written tests. Can’t something go my way??? But at least it’s all taken care. Unfortunately, since they scheduled my appointment 3 weeks out from when I originally went in (and waited 3 hours to be seen without an appointment) I was not able to register to vote until last week and thus unable to vote in the primaries. I’m kinda disappointed with that since I haven’t voted in the primaries before but at least I’ll be able to vote in the election in Novemeber (haven’t done that before either). Did you do your civic duty and vote today?
We joined Netflix last week so that I’ll be able to get all the movies for my class without driving all over. We’ve also rented several other movies so we can keep up on new releases and classics that we’ve never seen. Saves a lot of money as compared with Hollywood Video and Blockbuster.
I went to the library last weekend and picked up a book for a different class and a couple of others. With nothing else to not a lot else to do I finished both of the books last week. For those of you that like chic lit: I recommend Maneater and Shopaholic Ties the Knot.
Well that’s all I can think to say for now.