Wednesday, November 26, 2008

GRE Studying

Darn Verbal GRE score! Why won't you go up?

Why can't I memorize your vocab words like I did when I was a Junior in High School? It's only been 4 years!

What's going to happen when I take the real test? Are practice tests supposed to be harder than the real ones?

Oh well, at least my math in in the 700 range...

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sniff sniff cough cough

I'm getting over a cold.

My head feels stuffy

my throat won't unclog

I feel tired

and I still have to work.

however, these are one of the times that I am happy that I am an adult.

I remember elementary school, middle school, and high school felt like PURE H#LL when I had to go when I was sick.

omg, as if being sick wasn't bad enough, having to sit in a confining desk all day and do work and take quizzes!

I'm thankful at least that I can move around freely here...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

My Dear Mom

I feel so bad for my mom right now.

Just because he had to buy this place so abruptly without thinking about it all the way through.

When he was getting ready to buy this place my mom and I both told him from the start that we had no intention of leaving California with him. He told us that he didn't need our help and went along with his plans. When he realized that his new store was just too much to handle by himself, he called my mom and asked for her help. He called me too and asked me to help during summer, but I declined because I couldn't just leave my job and summer school.

Mom however decided to support him and sold her store which gave her the luxury of leaving home after 9:30 am in the morning and come home before 6pm at night and still gave her the convenience of a 10 minute drive from home. She didn't have much choice on her part.

Now she's stuck in a business that runs 17 hrs a day 365 days a year!

Her store in California was situated in a upper middle class neighborhood so she usually dealt with nice people who were educated, professional, or retired but now she has to do business in a ghetto neighborhood.

I feel so frustrated. I know that when I go back to school next year things will be good for me, but how will I be able to sleep at night and enjoy life when I know that she's in this wasteland?

We were discussing my future today and she said to me "you have your own life to live. you have your own education to finish, your own friends to meet, and your own career to pursue. I can't keep you here and let you hold off on your life."

That broke my heart because I knew that she was talking about herself too. I understood how she must feel. Becoming newly widowed in a strange new town away from her home, friends, family and church. She only had less than two days to meet with her friends after it happened to vent and cry with them or be comforted by them before she had to go back. Mom never wanted to come here in the first place.

I guess I've learned from example that the role of a husband is to protect your wife and create stability for her and to never put your family in a vulnerable position.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

YAY for FOOD

Okay, so being stuck in a gas station with no kitchen has its disadvantages.
Unless you like to eat convenience store food ALL day.
Little Debbie Snacks and candy bars.
so yesterday,
I went shopping for Food at Sam's Club.
I picked up the essentials:
1. Cranberry Juice
2. Blueberry Muffins
3. Keebler Club Crackers
4. Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pockets

Now that I finally have food, I don't know what to do with it all...

Monday, November 3, 2008

A NON- BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRE

I've come to realize that I am truly living the existance of a VAMPIRE.
---- Minus sucking the blood of course,
----or maybe an owl, on a less-disgusting note.

anyway,
my schedule:
6:15am-get up and shower
6:30am-open the store when it is still dark out and stay at the store until closing time (All meals, phone calls, and naps are taken inside of the store)
11:30pm- go home when it is dark.

I haven't experienced the sun in months, and when I do, it hurts my eyes...
in fact, just looking out the window for longer than five seconds hurts my eyes...

guess how white I've gotten!
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on another note, I'm scared....
Circuit City is closing 20% of their stores...
IHOP purchases APPLEBEES in an all-cash buyout...
more news like this on the way I suppose...

What's California going to be like when I go back?