Holy crap new Stephen King Dark Tower novel announced!

They weren't kidding when they said the tetanus booster might make my arm hurt a little bit for a few days.

In 2 weeks, we will be halfway between my mom's house and my family reunion location in Oregon!

Happy birthday Thor! You are now 32. You are totally old.

SMOOCH!

The date for doing something out and about in Seattle when Thor and I are visiting is Monday, August 17th. Christina very kindly is trying to help me organize/come up with ideas, and so far we figure that Spaghetti Factory downtown would be the best place to meet up for dinner/drinks, not too late because I know it's a work/school night and all that! Depending on how people feel, we will most likely end up wandering around downtown and finding somewhere else fun to hang out for a while.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? Does that date absolutely not work for someone who wants to go? Who is thinking they might be able to show up? Just to get an idea of the amount of people, that is. You guys are on my flist because I like you, so I'd like to see all of you! Lemme know plz kthx.

Going to see the doctor at 4:15 today. They're making me wear a facemask in the waiting room.

Sick. It's gross. No fever or aches (other than the head) so it's just some gross sickness I caught from some guest at Target. WASH YOUR HANDS PEOPLE. DON'T PUT STUFF IN YOUR MOUTH AND THEN GIVE IT TO ME TO RING UP. YOU ARE GROSS.

Anyway. I've felt sick since Monday. Felt awful on Tuesday, but I have no classes that day so it worked out relatively well. It was over 90 degrees on Tuesday as well, so we had all the windows and blinds shut and the fan cranked.

UPS is supposed to be here today. I've been waiting for him to show up so I can go out and get something to eat. I'm tired of broth. I don't know what I want to eat though. I should probably just get more soup.

Happy birthday frogger414! (and me!)

Southcenter Mall has a Blue C Sushi in it now?

Paul Harvey died. That's sad.

still having fun. We´ve been in Cusco since Saturday (only yesterday, I guess!) and are going to Machu Pichu tomorrow. My and Thor´s moms had an exciting brush with danger at a market today - we´ll have to make sure not to let them go anywhere by themselves anymore!

The food is very tasty. Thor likes it all so far! I have a list of foods I have to make him for reals now - I keep saying I will, but always run out of time and since he didn´t know what he was missing he didn´t push it, but now he will. Oh wells, it´s all tasty.

Going back to Lima on Wednesday, and then Chiclayo on Thursday. Apparently there was a bus crash with 32 killed in northern Peru, very near where we will be - if anyone was concerned, don´t be. We weren´t there, and we´ll be flying up, not driving, so we should be safe.

Next Monday (the 19th) we´ll drive and boat to Nazca and see the lines! We´ll be back again in Lima on the 20th, leaving for home on the 22nd.

was the first day this season I got to use my scraper. For scraping snow off of my car!

So I had orientation at Target today. Since it's a holiday, we got paid time and a half! I'm going to have to get used to all these rules being followed, like: In the state of MA if you work on a Sunday you get paid time and a half. I certainly NEVER got paid time and a half at the hotel. I wonder if it's a rule for a big corp that has locations in certain states, or what? Who knows. All I know is that I have availability on the weekends, so I'll usually be working on Sundays!

I start my training tomorrow. I've never worked for a large company like this. Yeah, I worked at Sam Goody for a few years, but it wasn't the same. If you punch in 5 minutes early, you have to leave 5 minutes early. You must take your lunches, you must not do any work on your lunch or either of your two 15 min breaks.....we didn't get breaks at the hotel. Granted, we got paid for lunch (when we could fit bites in) but weren't allowed to leave the desk for anything.

Also! I get 10% off my T-Mobile bill for working there. That'll be nice, since my bill just went up by about $10 because of my new data plan.

What else. I forget.

I deposited my severance check yesterday. I forgot they were going to tax it. Lamers. Thor reminded me that I'll get it back when we file our taxes though.

I've already started doing Christmas shopping. Hmm. Who wants a Christmas card? Email me your address and I'll send you one. I'll start up a similar list when it gets close to Peru time, although postage is significantly more expensive, so that list might have to be limited. We'll see. I feel like I have unlimited disposable income right now (even though I don't!). I'm just happy with myself that I avoided unemployment. I mean, I could have tried to collect, but I know I'm able to work and I'd rather earn my money than get a pittance from the government when that money could definitely be used for something better.

It's CHILLY. It's supposed to be around 20 degrees tonight, I think. Brrr. When will it snow already? I'm ready!

Ok, fingers freezing. Ciao!