Today, I woke up around 10:30. I played a few chords on my guitar and then stretched to go running. I ran about a mile and a quarter today. It seemed much harder than usual. I am guessing it is because it was so humid. After that, I came back, took a shower and called Mel's house because her, Laura and I were suppose to hang out today. She was taking a shower so I didn't get a hold of her. She never called me back. Brad called, and he came over. We went to the mall to look at these new stores I had heard about. I looked in Aeropostale, but it wasn't as great as I had heard it was. I went in American Eagle. They had a sale going on, and I got a shirt. It was only $15.29. Enough to empty all the money from my wallet so I couldn't eat out like I was planning on. After that, Brad and I left. We went and picked up my check from Wing Stop and then went to the bank to deposit it. We came back to my house, and he had to go to his brother's all-stars game. I called Mel one more time and she told me that she thought George had said that Dave (her current boyfriend) had called. That's why she never called back. Anyway, Laura went to see a movie with another friend so Mel made plans with Dave so I'm just...here writing a journal. Now we are up to where I am in the day. It's about 5:30 PM right now.
MONDAY, JULY 13, 2003
Today, I woke up around 12:00 or so. My brother had an oven baked pizza on the stove, so I ate half of that. Brad called and told me that Patrick and Jordan were coming in town, so we all went to eat at Logon's Roadhouse. After that, we all went back to Brad's house and they talked about the apartment that he and patrick were going to live in when they got back in school. Around 8:00 Brad dropped me back off at my house so I could get ready to go to my BS shift of working from 9 pm to 1 AM at WingStop. I thought 8-1 last week was bad, and then it got worse. Maybe next week, I will work from 10-1...yay.... So I flipped chicken a lot...then around 11:15 or :30 it was pretty slow, so Peyton turned the music to techno and turned it up really loud. The girl that works down at National Video always thinks we are having a party because we listen to techno every night at clean up time. She walks down and looks in our window and then walks off. So, I went outside and walked down to National Video and looked in their window at the customers for about a minute while she was standing outside smoking, and then I just walked back down to Wingstop without looking at her. She later came down and poked her head in our door and said "funny". That was my "highlight" of the night. Yes, some of you probably think it is pretty sad. It doesn't seem as funny to me either, now that I have written it down. We didn't lock anybody in the cooler tonight or else that might have been the highlight. Anyway, we got out of there pretty early, 12:20 and I came home and went to bed.
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2003
I don't remember many of the details of today. I got up and ran a little over a mile with my dog, Luna. She got tired so I took her home. I could have otherwise gone further. Brad later came by and we went to Ruston to find him a job. We first ate at Griffs when we got there. Then he took me to hang out with Christina while he went to look for a job. He came and picked me up about 30 minutes later. We then went to pick up a few applications at some of the restaurants around the town square. Then we went and looked for some jobs on campus. While we were there, I decide then would be the best time to change my major, since I was still just majoring in 1st year basic engineering. So I went through all the paperwork and now I am majoring in Electrical Engineering and minoring in Physics. I might change that to major in physics, too, since that and EE have most of the same classes. It wouldn't take much longer to get a degree in that. I saw a few people I knew. It was nice to see some college friends again. I am so ready to go back. I also found out that I might not be getting TOPS because my parents didn't fill out the parent info section which is not required to be filled out. The government apparently enjoys screwing me over so they decide that it needs to be filled out now because there is some shortage in money or some crap. So it is a possibility that I may not get TOPS which will make college cost over $900 more per quarter. That's about all that happened today.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2003
It's about 3:05 PM right now. I just got back from cashing my pay check and going to walmart to pick up my pictures for the second time. I've been to walmart 2 days in a row now and the still don't have my pictures. So I have to go back tomorrow. I wish they would've told me that they send the pictures to Thailand to get developed (I don't actually know where they send them to). Also, several weeks ago, the daughter of the boss of Wingstop, the place I work at, told me that I had gotten a raise to $5.35 an hour. Well, on all of my paychecks, I am still getting $5.15. Last night I counted up all of my hours from last week, and they came to about 26.25 hours, but on my paycheck, it said 24.75 hours. I guess that might be because I worked until 1:45 one night, 1:30 another night and I only get paid until 1:00. So after 1:00 AM, I become slave labor. I am working this summer so that I can make a lot of money to stash in my savings account for one day when I might need it. It is hard to accomplish this when I am getting minimum wage, not getting paid for several hours of work, and only working 20 to 25 hours a week. I am not in a good mood right now. I have got to go to work at 4 today and work for 4 hours until 8:00 today, so that shouldn't be so bad. Maybe I will get in a better mood.
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2003
Today, my mom scared me awake. I was asleep on my side when I felt something hit my bed. My mom had apparently bumped into it. I spun around real quick and my heart jumped from about 55 beats a minute to 140 or something. I must have been having a scary dream or something. I don't usually do that. Maybe it was just because my whole bed shook. Anyway, my mom thought I faked it. I had apparently scared her when I had flipped over so fast. She wanted to know if I was going to church. I then noticed that my alarm clock was playing music like it is suppose to to wake me up. I'll have to turn it up for next time. I got up and got ready and went to church. Then mom and dad met me there. I didn't ride with them because they were going to Home Depot afterwards and I don't really care to go there. Last Sunday after church, I asked the choir director if he would have the church sing "Come Thou Fount (of Every Blessing)" because I knew that song from the contemperary stuff I listen to. It sounded pretty cool to hear the whole church singing a song I liked. The only thing I found wrong with it was it was sung too fast. The organist could have slowed it down a bit. But it was still neat. After church, I came home and went to sleep. I must have been tired because I didn't wake back up until 6:00. I then got ready and went to youth...even though I'm not a youth anymore. I'm an adult in the youth group. I can drive them around and stuff. It's also the best spiritual input I can find since I am not in college at the moment. I saw Jenn this morning at church and she said that she might come to youth tonight, but she didn't : (. After youth I went to Melissa's house. Mel and her mom had gone to the grocery store to get some stuff, so when I got there, they weren't there. George (Mel's step-dad) was though. I knocked on the door and nobody answered and so I went in and all the lights were out. I called George's name, but he didn't answer. I figured he might be taking a nap or something. So I just sat down and started watching TV. James Bond was on the First Network for Men. After about 30 minutes, I saw the hallway lights flicker on so I called George's name once more so he wouldn't come around and shoot me or something. He came in and chilled with me for a bit. Finally Mel and Mrs. Tammy got home. I hung out with them, and then Mel's boyfriend, Dave, came over and hung out. Dave left around 10 or so. Me and Mel watched TV. We watched Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. There is this cartoon that has nothing but people who have something strange about them in it. That last sentence might be a bit hard to understand, but oh well. After that, we watched Lupin III and I went home after that. Now I'm home writing this journal and since I am up to now I can't write anything more.
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2003
Today, I think my alarm went off at 9:23 AM because that is what I had it set for, but my subconscience turned it off. I slept until 2:15 PM. I woke up, screwed around, then around 3:30, I realized I was really hungry so I ran and made a PB&J. I rushed through that and then got ready to go to work. I got to work at 4 and worked until 8. Peyton was taking naps in the back and not working. I didn't really know why he would stay there at work but not work. I messed with him like he was depressed or something. I told him he stayed here because he "had no place else to go." When he was sleeping, I would put stuff on his head so when he woke up, french fries and stuff would fall off. At first he thought I was throwing them at him, then he realized they were on his hat. Anyway, after I got off work, I came home, changed into my running stuff, and took Luna, my dog, for a jog. We jogged just a little under 2 miles. I could have gone further, but she was ready to go home. After that, I ate a couple of leftover sloppy Joes and took a shower. After that, I played on the computer the rest of the night. Brad called at one point and I went and sat with him at the 50's grill while he ate. I didn't know that the place stayed open until 4:00 AM. I thought that staying open until 12 sucked. Brad and I were the only ones there. The whole parking lot was empty except for the employees and Brad's Tacoma. The lady that waited on us was kinda old and had kinda nasty looking teeth. I got a rude vibe from her. I would be talking to her, and she would just walk off. I thought I was more interesting than that, but whatever.... After we finished that, Brad dropped me back off at my house. I played a little on my guitar. I think I need new strings, because I was getting better but now the chordes I play sound crappy because the big string keeps hitting the second biggest string or something. It's making a wierd noise. Yet I still play. Then I got back on my computer and continued being a nerd. for the rest of the night. At 12:30 AM, I hooked up the cable to my TV for the first time this summer and watched Spider-man on MTV. It was a lot cooler than the other spidermans I have seen. I think I am going to start watching that every night from now on if I get off work in time. Tomorrow, I work from 7-1, but we sometimes get out earlier.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2003
I woke up around 9:30. I don't know why. I guess I was going to try and jog some or something. I kept hitting my snooze alarm until about 10:15 or so. It got kind of annoying because I have a CD player alarm clock and it plays the same track every time it goes off. I got up, ate some toaster struddles and took a shower. I then went to Book-A-Million to help Megan with her math. Some of the questions asked for the domain and range of things. For all of the maths I have had, I somehow can't grasp the concept of domains and ranges. It's stupid. I think I helped her a little bit with the other problems though. We were there from about 11 to 11:50. After that, I came home....don't really remember what I did. Around 1, I went to take a nap and slept until 3:30. Not really sure what I did after that. I ate supper and then headed off to work at 7. There was hardly any business tonight. As soon as it hit 12:00, we were pretty much packed up and ready to go, so I got home early. Spider-man didn't come on MTV tonight like I was hoping. Instead, the Osbournes came on, so I watched that. Not much more happened.
TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2003
I got up and played some chords on my guitar even though I know it is time to change the strings. After that, I ran around the block with my dog, but she was tired so I dropped her off at the house before finishing a mile. When I finished that, I came back and grabbed a bike and rode it for about 2.5 miles. On my way back to the house with the bike, I saw my mom driving around looking for me. I got in the house and my brother asked if mom had seen me. She was looking for the bike to make sure nobody had stolen it. That happens a lot in this neighborhood whenever someone leaves a bike out. After I got back from all that, I took a shower and then went to eat a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwich made with the blueberry jelly that my granny made. Around 2, I went up to the church to get my old youth director to help me restring my guitar. I put folk strings on it. I thought it would sound pretty sweet with them. They look pretty cool, too, with the silvery color they have. They still rattled when I plucked the bigger strings though. Brad came by the church while I was there and hung out with me, Andy, and Heidi. After I left the church, I went by Matt's Music and asked them if I could get a new bridge to put on it, and the guy that worked there said that I needed two things fixed. I gave him my guitar to fix and I will pick it up Thursday after I pick up my paycheck. I then came home and played on the computer a little bit until it was time to eat. After eating, I went and hung out at Mel's house for a little bit. We watched the Real World. I then helped her step-dad move some furniture, then I left and came back home. I watched TV while playing on the computer. Oh, and my dad's computer got a virus and crashed. I saw that it had one yesterday, but it didn't seem that bad and I didn't know what to do about it anyway. I guess the ZoneAlarm Firewall didn't work that well or something.
Things going on lately....
Jarred, the guy I was planning on roomming with next year, has been unable to find a way to contact Ryan Gibson, the guy he is actually rooming with, to ask if he would mind changing rooms so we could room together. We have run out of ideas of how to contact him. I talked to a Ryan Gibson in Slidell, but it wasn't the right guy. I guess I will be rooming by myself in the private dormatory of Hutchison. I am warming up to the idea, though...even though it will cost a lot more. I will have to meet all new people. The room I had with Jarred was on a floor where I knew half the people on it. It is also further away from everything with an unpopular route to classes. I am going to take the long way so I can see people on my way to class. It will kinda be nice to have my own room though. Not having to worry about arguing with a roommate or anything. And I can set stuff up the way I like it. It'll be great...I hope I get a window facing the parking lot so I can see everybody coming and going. It might not be so bad on the other side, though...since it is facing a couple of frat houses. I might see some interesting parties.....I dunno. I wonder if I will be any different after living there. I wonder if I am making a too big of a deal about it.... I wonder if people would come over and hang out with me. I'm done with the wonders now. I can't wait to get back to school. The longer I am away, the more I miss it. I am tired of being home. I want to be back with all my friends at tech. I want to be back with the spiritual input that Tech's ministries provide. I think about how much I want to be back almost constantly.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2003
Today, I got up around 10, got cleaned up to get ready to go help Megan with her math at 11. About 10:50, Megan calls me asking where I was. She thought that I always got there really early. She is always late. Anyway, I just hopped in my truck and drove the three minutes to Books-a-million. Around 11:45, we left BAM and went to West Monroe to eat Subway with Jenny on her lunch break. That was fun. I love hanging out with my tech friends. After we finished at Subway, Megan and I came back to BAM and studied a bit more. We then parted and I came home. I played computer a little bit and then Brad came over and hung out. He saw the shirt that I had made for him before Frosh year for the first time today. That shirt is shown on Misc. pics2 page. He left about the time I had to start getting ready for work. I went to work....and worked. We talked a lot about going to Watertown tomorrow. I have to be at the West Monroe Wingstop at 8:45 in the morning, I hope I have enough energy to have fun. I just decided to call Kristen back because she had called me earlier tonight. It was 1:00 AM when I called, I woke her up. Whoops. She lives near Shreveport which is where Watertown is, so I am thinking I might be able to talk the guy driving tomorrow into stopping by Old Navy so I could say hi while I am in town. Okay, it is late and I have to get up early in the morning so I am going to bed.
THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2003
My mom woke me up today at 8:42 AM. She was like, "Hey, weren't you going to water town or something today?" After I looked at the clock I jumped out of the bed, brushed my teeth, put in my contacts, and drove off. I got to the West Monroe WingStop at about 9:05, but nobody was there. They told me to be there at 8:45. I figured they just left me. So after sitting there for about 5 minutes thinking about my options, I decided just to go back home. When I got home, I went to sleep and woke up around 1:00 PM. I don't really remember much at that time. I think I had a bunch of cookies for lunch...or maybe that was yesterday... crap! Anyway, later, I think 3, Brad and Joel came by my house and hung out for a little bit. Then I went to the MAC with them to work out. It was fun. That was my first time to do a real workout this summer. Brad kept telling me about this "rule" that we couldn't make each other laugh while working out. Brad kept laughing at stuff I did anyway and had trouble lifting some of the weights. He got me later. I realized it was harder to lift weights when laughing. After we finished, we went down and Joel got a huge smoothie. He gave me some. It was really good. We then went back to Joel's house and Brad played on the drums while Joel jammed on his bass. That got me really interested in the bass. I want to learn to play one of those. I need to learn some new chords on my guitar. The ones I know are starting to get old and I am beginning ot lose interest in playing. I do not want to do that. I woud, however, like to become familiar with multiple instruments. I would like to learn to play the banjo, but my brother won't let me touch his. Anyway, where was I.... Brad brought me home after they finished their jam session at Joel's. I thought my mom was going ot make something for supper, but she didn't. So I had to go eat nasty Taco Bell. I then went to work at 8:00. When I got there, I found out that I had not missed going to Watertown. They had decided not to go since it was raining this morning. So we are going to try and go again Monday. Later in the evening, Adam brought a car CD playter out from somewhere and asked if I wanted it. He said he would sell it to me for $40. I thought it was pretty good, so I asked why he was selling it. It seems that he bought it off this guy who needed some quick cash because he had gotten kicked out of his house. I asked how much he had bought it for and he said $35, so I am going to pay him $35 for it. We are going to Walmart tomorrow to get an adapter for my dash in my truck so we can install it. I think I am going to start fixing up my truck some since it seems I am going to be stuck with it for a while. I am tired of driving around with super crappy sound, since that is where I mainly listen to my music. SO, he is going to sell me his CD player so I don't have to keep a tape adapter attached to my portable CD player in my truck. I'm going to meet him tomorrow before work to do that. Anyway, we closed and got out of the store by 12:30 AM. I came home and got on the computer as per my nightly tradition.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 2003
I got up around 8:45 this morning and got ready for my church's contemperary service at 9:30. I sat with Mrs. Tammy and George. I hadn't been in a while so I decided to go. It was a little better than I remembered, but it is still nothing compared to the contemperary stuff I am used to. It was communion Sunday so we had communion. After that service, I talked with Mrs. Tammy some, then Melissa and Charlotte came up and we went to the Traditional service at 10:50. I like communion better at the traditional service, because I can kneel at the alter rail and pray some. You cannot do that in New Beginnings (the contemperary thing). After church, Me, Mel, Charlotte, Andy, and Heidi went to eat at Cucos. Then I took Mel and Charlotte back to Melissa's house and we hung out for a while. I mainly talked with Mrs. Tammy, because Melissa fell asleep on the couch and Charlotte just talked to people on computer. After a couple of hours, I told everyone bye and came home. I don't really remember what I did after that....I took a nap around 6:00. Then I woke up so I could go to youth at 6:30. I was planning on going to youth for a little bit and then going to Portico after that. On my way to the church, I had just turned right onto Lamy Lane from Loop Road. Suddenly my truck felt weird. I knew what was going on; it had happened to me before. My truck was out of gas. It surprised me because my gas pointer thing usually goes past the red line. Not this time...it stopped right on it. I pulled into a church parking lot because I figured I wasn't going to be able to coast all the way to my church. I locked my door and began walking to my church. It was really hot. I was hoping not to get sweaty, but it seems inevitable whenever I go to youth. I called Joel first because his house was on the way and a little closer than my church. He, however, wasn't there so I just went on to the church. When I got there, all the kids were coming out to play a little game in the field. I just kept walking on inside where it was cool and where I could take off my shoes because they were rubbing the skin off the top of my foot from walking so far in them. I went to Andy's office and told all the adults there what had happened and some offered to help, but I wasn't in any rush; my truck would still be there. I was just pulling out a fan to plug in so I could cool down, when Andy asked me to go outside and help Heidi control the kids. I got out there and stood under the pavilion thing next to the field for a little bit. The kids were running back and forth. I didn't really feel like doing anything. The little game dragged on for a while and Heidi asked for a few people to come out and help finish it. Me, being the "adult", felt obliged to join. It seemed the point of the game was to catch all of the people running back and forth and lift them off the ground, then they would help us catch the others that were running. I wasn't too enthused. I helped catch a couple of people, but mainly let the others do their thing. Finally it came down to where Aaron was the only one left. He was the biggest and was hard to throw around. I finally held him in place long enough for the others to lift off the ground. We finally got to go in. I am pretty sure Heidi was as relieved as I was that we could finally go back into the AC and cool off. She was kinda red-faced. I made a B-line for Andy's office for the fan that I had almost plugged in earlier. I got it going and stood over it as it cooled me off. It took a good 10 or so minutes til I finally felt better. I went into the worship room where we started worship. Andy played a few songs. It seemed different somehow, though...better. Maybe it was because I was sitting in the back instead of right up front like I usually do. I was thinking about a lot of stuff at the time though, too. When Andy started talking, I listened to a bit of it, and then decided to go find the prayer room that is in the church and pray some. I spent about 15 minutes, I guess, I'm not really sure, in that room. I went back and continued worship. When that was over, everyone went to Johnny's Pizza to eat. Me, Melissa and Mrs. Tammy went to my house to pick up a gas tank and brought it to my truck that was still sitting in the parking lot. It seemed to take forever to empty the gas can. Finally I got enough that my engine would start. I drove to the Kangaroo and put $11 of gas in. Mrs. Tammy had given Mel the money to give to me. It was very much appreciated. I guess it was because I drive Melissa around a lot. It got my gas level up to a little above half full. It hasn't been that full all summer. Reminds me of the days when I first got my truck, when I would wait til it got to empty to put gas in. Which is probably why I ran out of gas one time back then, too.... It always seems to happen within about 3 or 4 hundred yards of Gennie's (evil ex) house. I think that area is tainted by her or cursed or something. The first time I ran out of gas, I ran TO Gennie's house for help. This time I ran away and would not go there for any reason...even if her house was only a block away and my church was about 5 blocks. I went to the church. Anyway, were was I....I got my gas from Kangaroo and then took Mel to Johnny's and scavenged pizza from whoever was willing to give some up. I saw a girl that I used to go to St. Freds with. She was a year below me. We talked for a while; actually a lot longer than I expected we would. Usually I have trouble holding up a conversation with someone I haven't seen in a long time. She is going to Tech next year, so I will probably see her there this fall. After all the kids from the youth left, Me, Melissa, Heidi and Andy left. Mel and I went to my house to get a movie to watch. We got "Lone Star State of Mind". When we came back out to my truck, a fire truck was sitting next door. I went over to investigate, but didn't find out much until the ambulance came and pulled the little old lady out the door. Her friend was there and told use that she had cut her leg a couple of days ago and when she pulled the bandage off today, it apparently pulled the scab off or something because blood started shooting out and Rosemary lost a lot of blood and passed out. I think she will be alright. Me and Mel waited until the firetruck and ambulance drove off to leave and go back to her house. We got to her house just as her boyfriend did. I ate a burger he had brought from Rays PeGe and we then started the movie. Dave left at 12, and me and mel just hung out. Had lots of fun. We watched part of Lupin III on Cartoon Network. I left her house about 1:30. I came home and got online like usual. It's almost 3 and I am going to bed now.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2003
My alarm went off at 10 this morning, I turned it off. Another one went off at 11, I thought about getting up, and then turned it off. I woke up at 12:30 when Brad called. He came over for a little bit and hung out. Joel came over later and then we all went to work out at the Monroe Athletic Club. It was pretty fun. Some little kids kept staring at me. So I stared right back at the little punks. We spent about an hour and a half there. I saw a guy I used to play baseball with in high school. Me and Daniel (the guy I saw) would wrestle after practice. He was like double my size about about triple my strength at the time so he usually won. He now has a, I think 3 or 4 year old, daughter that he had with a girl that was a Junior in high school when I was a freshman or sophomore. He also plays baseball at ULM now. After we finished working out, Brad and I hung out at the food place downstairs and talked to Jacob, a guy I used to run track with, while we waited for Joel to get his schedule. After that, Joel and I went to his house and he got a protein drink. Brad came over later and they had a "jam session" where Brad played the drums and Joel played the bass. Jam sessions aren't that fun for me since I don't really know how to play drums or bass and barely know the guitar. I finally got Joel to take me home. I played some on my guitar and practiced switching some new chords. They sound pretty sweet. Anyway, I went to get some gas in the gas tank that I emptied last night into my truck. I then ate spaghetti with my family. Now I am playing on the computer and writing a journal. I go to work at 8:00 tonight, so I am going to get ready for that.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2003
Well, I felt like writing a journal when I started this pagebuilder thinggy to loading, but my dial-up connection took so long loading it, I really don't feel like typing anything on here anymore. Oh well, I ran this morning when I got up. After that, my brother and I went to eat at Johnny's. I think just hung out at my house and then went to work at 8 til close. Now I am really bored. I want summer to be over now. This summer has blown.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2003
I am so pissed off right now. I'll start off from the beginning of my day before I was pissed. I woke up and was about to go running when Marcia called. We were going to go see movie today at 1:35, but she called me and told me that she had woken up late, so she had to move her nail appointment to a little later so she couldn't go to the movie with me. After I got off the phone with her, I ran a little over a mile with Luna, my dog. I took a shower and then decided I wanted to go to the mall. I called Melissa to see if she wanted to go with me since she doesn't live that far from the mall. We went and she saw a homecoming dress that she wanted and she got really excited and put it on layaway. It did look really good on her. This old guy was looking her over when she came out of the fitting room with it on. Anyway, I got some jeans and a shirt from the mall and then we went back to her house where we hung out for while. I ate supper with them and then had to leave because I had to be at work by 7:00. Kristen had called while I was eating with them, but there isn't very good cell phone service out there so I had to call her back when I was on the road coming home. She invited me to go to the closing ceremony of Pine Cove camp with her tomorrow and I told her I would go. I thought it would be really fun and I would get to see her again and it would be great. As soon as I got off the phone with her, Stacy called from Wing Stop and told me that they didn't need me to come in tonight. That is the point where I became ultra pissed. I was going to have 42 hours this week and I was really excited that my check might be over $200, but no, not anymore. Now I have 36 hours. She called me 15 minutes before I had to go in. So it wasn't like I could go back to Mel's because it took me 20 minutes to get from her house and I didn't want to use up so much more gas. So that has screwed up my whole weekend. Why? Well if I had known a few hours before like perhaps 5:00, I could have gone to eat Supper with my family for my mom's birthday tonight, but I was suppose to work. However, we are eating lunch together tomorrow because I am working tomorrow night. So I cannot go to Pine Cove with Kristen because I would not get back in time for lunch with my mom for her birthday. If I had been told a couple hours before, I could have had supper with my family and then gone to Pine Cove with Kristen, but that's not going to happen now because I found out 15 minutes before I had to go in. I asked Stacy if she would changed the schedule for next week so I would have more than 20 hours since they screwed me out of 7 hours worth of pay this week and she said she would look at it. I guess it's not like they care anyway, I already told them I was quiting on August 22. I dunno, though. Maybe I should have taken Peyton and Adam's advice and just quit the day I didn't want to come back. Too late now, though. I wish I could find someone to hang out with since I just found out I had a day off. I'm probably just going to sit on the computer all night, though.