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summers of yore June 25, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 4:51 pm

Oh, how I long for the summers of yore…for days spent lounging by the pool, exotic vacations, handsome devils, and fancy jewelery.

Wait…no, scratch that. My summers were never like that. I’m confusing my life with a Mary Higgins Clark novel again.

My summers, instead, were spent doing yardwork.

(There was one year in which we had a problem with the septic tank, and had to get a new one installed - or something like that. While we were at it, my dad decided to have the giant pine tree that was in front of our house removed, too. Which meant that our lawn turned into dirt. Literally - no grass, just dirt. And rocks. Lots, and lots of rocks. That was the summer that the Sixth Sense came out, and it was also the summer that my family and I spent pulling those rocks out of the front yard. True story. Almost every day - except for stormy ones! - we were out there, picking rocks.)

Or looking up vocabulary words. (My older brother and sister can attest to the fact that my younger brother and I were luckily. When they were kids, they were each given a new crossword puzzle a week, with a week to finish it. But my younger brother and I usually had to find words that we didn’t know - I don’t remember how many a week, say, between 10 and 50, - look them up, write down the definition, and then give them to my dad, who would make a quiz for us to take when the week was through.)

I remember (probably from 12 on or so) that my brothers would be told to do something constructive, like read, while I would be told to do something constructive, like go outside. I liked going outside, but I was a voracious reader. Had I my way, I’d sit inside for days at a time reading away. We’d go to the library and leave with huge stacks of books. Those were the days of the Babysitter’s Club, Animorphs, Sweet Valley, and the like - those series with hundreds of books in them, averaging a hundred to two hundred pages a piece, and I could get through five to ten of them a day.

We do have a pool, and have had one since 1991. And we did get to go swimming, no worries there.

Every year though, summer gets less and less fun. I know that makes sense, as I’m getting closer to adulthood, with a real job, with no summer vacation. This year I’m taking classes and working. Little pool time.

Oh well. I guess I’ll enjoy what little time I have left.

 
 

This post goes out to David and Michelle (and her huge mitts…) June 24, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 10:08 am

So, anyway: Sorry I haven’t posted much ever. I’m busy busy busy with work and school - more so than during the semester!

 
 

MOAR cake! June 9, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 9:52 pm

My first attempt at a cake that is wedding cake-esque.

Wedding Cake from the top/side

 
 

June 6, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 1:25 pm

My first attempt at a real cake. :)

The Dark Tower Cake.

It’s not perfect, but, I’m thrilled with it.

 
 

it’s gonna be me June 4, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 11:51 am

I think I’ve mentioned my radio dilemma - the car I drive gets about 3 radio stations, depending on the area. WHUD and K104 are 2 of them. But when I’m up in Poughkeepsie, all I get is K104.

So I’m driving along this morning, on my way to Marist, and the DJ announce a vintage track! Wooohooo!

It’s starts playing, and OMG, I just burst into laughter. I couldn’t help it.

Why did we used to find whiny boys dancing together attractive, kids?

 
 

how my day almost turned into a Stephen King story… May 29, 2008

Filed under: Random — gina @ 8:24 pm

Well, not quite.

Today, at Shop Rite, the power went out. You know me, in all my geekiness, ESPECIALLY when it comes to anything Stephen King - my mind immediately went to The Mist. Which is a short story included in his collection, The Skeleton Crew. I first read it at Loyola, so, last year. I found it quite terrifying - more so than a lot of his others. Most people who are not King fans assume that he is a horror writer, and, to a point, that is true. While his stories contain a lot of supernatural stuff, the main aspect of the horror is what we like to call the human condition.

A-hem. Anyway.

The story goes, there’s a strange mist that moves into town. The protagonist and his kid are in a supermarket, and it’s like, OMG MIST! The power goes out, and there’s a problem with the generator, and then shit goes down. Basically, In a nut shell.

So. I’m in a supermarket. The power goes out. OMG. No mist yet. Then the generator goes out. Double OMG! Still no mist, though, we were in the clear.

For a second, though…it was a little exciting, not going to lie.

Driving home was hard, though, because none of the stop lights were working. O.o

PS - the movie was lamesauce.

 
 

it’s like rain on a beautiful day…. May 26, 2008

Filed under: Personal — gina @ 8:36 pm

I’ve always, somewhat jokingly, but with a hint of truth in it, said that Spotlight made me bitter. This is true, to a point.

It’s known that I’m not the happiest or most social person - I can be rather mean, and bitter, and like to be along a lot.

Lots of things have made me angry and bitter. Being at Loyola in freshman year depressed me. I was bitter. My roommate in sophomore year at Fordham bothered me and made me angry. I was bitter. I sometimes get bothered and bitter at family gatherings, gatherings with friends, in classes - I’m easily annoyed sometimes. It’s something I’m working on, honest.

However.

Never, ever, ever have I been so bitter and angry and pissed off and frustrated as I have been this past week, working at Shop Rite.

I’m really, really furious at them. Now, I don’t really feel one way or another about the actual job: it’s like any other. There are parts I like a lot, and there are parts I dislike a lot. I like the people in the bakery department.

But, seriously. SERIOUSLY. Get your act together, people. If you are going to hire a college student for the summer, who is taking classes over the summer, and you tell her, when hired, that she will be doing evenings, for an average of 20 hours a week, do not schedule her every single day, all hours of the day, reaching just about 40 hours a week.

SRSLY.

 
 

work, work, work May 24, 2008

Filed under: Personal — gina @ 9:04 pm

My work at Shop Rite is a little shitty.

Well, actually, the work is ok. I may have mentioned what I mostly have been doing, but, just as a recap. When I get there, I generally do set up. Set ups involve looking at a hastily scrawled list, then pulling the items out of the freezer and putting them on a tray so that the baker can bake them early the next morning. In includes pies, breads, bagels, cookies, pastries, etc.

Today I worked on my own for a little while. I didn’t mind it, actually. I kind of liked it, to be honest. I did markdowns, some packaging, and helped some customers. I also did some scrubbing and mopping and squeegeeing. Lame stuff, but it was v. peaceful back in the bakery when it was just me.

At one point, I got a phone call, and a woman wanted me to hold something for her. I said I would, but, I wasn’t going to be here when she came to get it. So I asked two of the deli boys (Somewhat Stoic Deli McCutey Pants (who is the original deli mccuteypants, for those keeping score) and Slightly Sketchy Deli McCuteyPants) to give it to her when she came. And then I went home.

So, I was there until something like 7:35, which was an 8 hour and 35 minute shift. WHAT?! Yeah. With only one 1/2 hour break. Say it with me: WHAT?!

So, this week, I’ve worked 27 hours.

I got my schedule for next week, too.

Ready?

Sunday, 3-9 (6 hours). Tuesday, 11-7:30 (8 1/2 hours). Thursday, 10-6 (8 hours). Friday, 10-5:30 (7 1/2 hours). Saturday, 11-7:30 (8 1/2 hours). Thats a whopping 38 1/2 hours. Which is dangerously close to full time. Which is waaay too much for a part time summer job.

Now, please couple that with classes on Wednesday (luckily I have off Monday, because they were trying to con me into that, too.) In general, I’m looking at weeks like that, only with Monday classes added in.

This is not happening.

Prepare for the shit to hit the fan. It’s going down.

 
 

a snapshot of today’s youth May 22, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 7:27 pm

I’m 20 years old, and I’m already out of touch with the teenage population. Actually, I’ve never been in touch with the teenage population. I’m not in touch with most of the world’s population. But that’s a story for another day.

Last night I was driving home from Marist, in my brother’s ex-car. Which is a little bit hurting. The radio gets about…5 channels. Give or take. On one stretch of the highway, only K104 was coming in, and they were playing their top 10 - maybe the top 10 requests of the day? But, it was really bad music. While their website doesn’t give what they played last night, it did give their 10 list for the week. Here it is:

I don’t know any of the songs. However, two songs (I don’t think they are on this list, but they were on the other list I heard) stuck with me.

One of them had lyrics something like, “I’d hit it from the front, I’d hit it from the back.” I know there was more, and worse, but, I was like, come on guys, really?

The other one was called, “I Kissed a Girl.” The lyrics go like this: (courtesy of google) “I kissed a girl and I liked it/ The taste of her cherry chapstick/ I kissed a girl just to try it/ I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it/ It felt so wrong/ It felt so right.” …what?

None of the “music” was pleasant to listen to, none of the singers has much vocal ability, none of it was any good!

Ugh.

 
 

oh, the lolz

Filed under: Uncategorized — gina @ 8:57 am