what's a girl to do....?

So as you all know I've been at the Sarasota Store for the past few months as a front end manager. It's all good, I go do my job and go home and start over the next day. Some days are better than others, but it all works out at the days end. I am working on getting a college degree in graphic art and design as well at working full time at BBB. I've signed up for 5 classes this semester even tho I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for them, for times are tough right now. I could rack my credit card up as I've done before, but who want's to be in debt for the rest of their life..? So, with that said. I just got this job offer. It's still with BBB, but it's 'thee' customer service manager... so your probably thinking, isn't that what she's already done, and your correct. When I was in pPort Charlotte I was indeed the customer service manager, but this time I'll actually get paid for the title. It's a salaried postion which means I'd work 47 hours a week, 10 hour days and get paid the same each week. Well that doesn't sound so bad. But...theres always a butt...when I took over that position in Port Charlotte I really disliked the job, and I'm just wondering if it's going to be any different being in a new store, new people, new atmosphere. I'm thinking more stongly about taking it, but i dont want it to end up the same way it has the last 2 times I took it. What's a girl to do??

crazyness

• A gallon of Milk in Hawaii is $10.00.
• A loaf of bread in Hawaii is $4.00.
• Regular gasoline in Hawaii is $4.23 and going up.
• A house on the ocean in Hawaii is $ 6-$700,000.00.
• A house accross from the ocean home in Hawaii is $400,000.00
• A regular 2 bed 2 bath home in Hawaii is $300,000.00.

Who wants to move to Hawai'i!?

Ha, that's what I thought.

Crazy huh?

succcesss!

So ladies and gentlemen it is official. I passed my classes I was so devestated to learn that I had failed. Yup, I FINALLY got ahold of the teacher and she reassured me that infact my grade was entered incorrectly. Well hells bells. Thank god! I couldn't have been happier! So congratulations to ME! :)

Aloha!

I still feel like Im rocking back and forth on the cruise ship. I find myself stoping to catch my balance, when in fact I'm not moving at all...funny. Hopefully that'll pass soon. So, we made it back, safe and sound. We are soooo glad to be home. Sure vacation is nice but so is sleeping in your own bed and not having to stablize yourself as you walk around. But where do I even start.... to my Hawaii was a bit of a dissapointment. I know your probably thinking 'WHAT, YOUR IN HAWAII'. I know, I know. Well lets make this fair, only 1/2 the time was dissapointing. The ship was not all it was cracked up to be. I guess they were in dry dock for a while until we all got on the plane, plus they sold The Pride of Aloha so there were all those workers who came to The Pride of America to work and had no idea what the heck they were doing. There wasn't hardly any entertainment on the ship, so while we weren't out touring the island we really didn't have much to keep us busy. Sure there were a couple shows here and there but they didn't last long at all, only like a half and hour. There was a comedy show and that guys was AWESOME! We laughed from the time we got there until the time he was done, that was probably the highlight of being on the ship. I'd love to see him again. You may have seen him on Comedy Central and the Late Show, his name is Chris Alpine and I highly recommend his work. Well we got there on Saturday and was pretty much going non stop until we left. We had excursions that we went on an every island starting with Maui. We took the Road to Hana which is not recommended for people with motion sickness. It was probably the best tour that we went on. To me seeing those views of hawaii is what it's all about. That was a looong 10 hour day so by the time we got back to the ship we were sooo exhausted. We also went to Kona and went in the submarine which was a waste of a lot of money. I thought it would be cool and we'd see all these cool fish and that it would be colorful but it wasn't anything like what we had thought. It was boring and we hardly got to see anything and what we did see was all the same fish over and over again. We were 100 feet down into the coral reef. We also went to Pearl Harbor and Hunolulu City which was interesting to see the USS Arizona and to see all the names on the wall, it was sad and emotional for some. In Hilo we checked out Valcano and Rainbow Falls. In Kona we hoped aboard a pinzgauer to travel up to the cool and misty lava scaped slopes on an off road rocky adventure, we went from sea level to 6,000 feet, it was freezing up there! Not my cup of tea thats for sure. James loved it, but I would have been better off at the gift shops...lol. We enjoyed a 45 minute helicopter ride over East Maui, that was the best even tho I did get a little sick torwards the end, but it was well worth it. We were pretty much going all day, most of the excursions were 3-8 hours long, some days we had more than one to go to. This is all I can think of now, I'll continue later.

vaca.

so in just one more day i'll be basking away on the cruise ship with a Zima in my hand working on my fake tan so I wont be embarassingly white. (lol Trish).

wish me fun!

peace and quiet

so the family has departed and i have my house back to the way I like it. the air is at the right temp, not to hot and not too cold, I have my comfy recliner and most of all it's quiet. the constanzers are sooo loud. there is no need to talk to someone like they are a block away. i guess they have hearing problems or something because when i talk they don't even hear me. oh well.

so i e-mailed my professor to get a breakdown of my grades from the very beginning of the semester, if you ask me this is a bunch of crap! i was devestated and still am. i just hope she answers my e-mail or i'll have to get on the phone to get to the end of this.

on a happier note....hawaii here we come....5..4...3...2...1.. the countdown begins.

Mother Effin class

Yeah, so I just pretty much failed my computer graphic class. I knew I hated that teacher, and I knew I should have dropped this class. She was soooo unfair through the whole class. I worked my butt off to try to understand what the H was going on. Curses to her and everything else. I might not even go back to school. Thanks for ruining my night.