Yeah so I last posted in May, and it's now September. Usually I go a month without blogging, but it's been 4 now so I figured I'd give it a whirl. Don't know how long it'll be this time, but I know a lot has happened recently and some of you thought I fell off the face of the Earth...

So I just got off work. I quit my last job on Sunday because they were morons and would never give me hours because the month was slow there. No matter what anyone tells you, unless you're working at a higher-end restaurant or you have a big section with a lot of tables, you really don't make that much. Salt Grass sucks about that. You usually get a section of like 3 tables, and unless you get some really nice people, your tips suck ass! People come into a Steak House and order a salad. A f**king salad! I don't care if you're a vegetarian or not... unless you're coming to eat a nice big fatass piece of red meat, don't go there! The salads aren't that great anyways. Anyways to make a long story short, I got another job at a new place called FreeBirds and quit Salt Grass.

For those of you that don't know, FreeBirds is a burrito place (like Chipotle, but better!) that's actually a lot of fun. You get to wear whatever you want as long as you have a FreeBirds hat on. The atmosphere is really crazy and fun, and they promote peace and freedom and all this crap. While I don't really care so much about all that, it's still an awesome place. If you have one around you, then go! We don't officially open until Monday, but we have two 'parties' tomorrow where people can come in and eat for free and we get the practice. Unfortunately, I have to work both f**king parties instead of just the one I was scheduled for. Class from 8:00-11:30 and then work from 12:00-10:00. But hopefully it won't be too bad. One of the training managers there is a big flamer and I'm pretty sure he hits on me, but in a joking way. So I'm a smartass to him and it all works out. Plus, I got to break a 1 inch board with my fist today ninja-style! Kinda fun, but hurt like hell!!

Just signed a lease for an apartment with Mason today. We move in next week so that's all moving really fast, but it's a nice apartment and we got a good deal on it so we had to do it. Things are going good with us... no real major problems. Just the usual crap that all couples go through now and then. He has his little quarks that I put up with and ignore for the most part, and I know I do shit that annoys the crap out of him, but we're still going strong

Pretty sure I should be on some form of anti-depressants. In the last couple months I've lost about 15 pounds so I’m hovering around 139 right now. I've just had so much shit going on, and some of it absolutely miserable and I haven't had any appetite or the energy/will to do much of anything. When working at Salt Grass I would have a lot of time off and I used it to do absolutely nothing. I took a leave from GA for a while to get things sorted out, but I never really did. I had a lot of crap that I wanted to do, but never got around to it. I'd either sleep, or sit on my ass and watch TV. Now with school and a full-time job, I have even less time, but seem to get more done. I've been perking up the last week or so since I started FreeBirds and it's a lot of fun, but today I just completely crashed and almost had a melt-down.

I haven't told my mom I'm moving out yet, haven't told her I have a boyfriend (that's a no-no topic around her), and I don't really know how to break it all to her. I thought about calling her and telling her, but I honestly don't think I would be able to hold myself together. I know she'll start crying and either hang up on me or not say anything, and then I'll feel like even more shit for doing anything to begin with, so I decided to write her an email. I started it earlier and had Viv take a look at it before I left for work. Haven't sent it yet. Don't know when I will, but it needs to be done. I'm not ready to be fully on my own yet, I know that for sure, but I can't sit here and live the life my parents want me to live. I've been doing it for too long now and need to take the steps out on my own. My brother is a lazy ass and will live under my parents as long as he can. My sister can probably do the same thing I'm doing and start taking steps to get out on her own, but I don't really care. I might be the youngest of the three, but I'm not going to sit here and live a life that's not me for too much longer. Yeah I still need help and wouldn't be able to make it completely on my own, but give me a year or two and I should be able to.

Enough of the sappy crap... school's going well for now. I have 3 classes with my favorite Professor, and they're awesome. He's an amazing teacher and really makes sure you understand everything. My programming class is a bore, mostly because I don't pay attention and haven't done a damn thing in there. It's only one day a week on Fridays for 4 hours, so there's not really much she teaches us. It's mostly out of a book (which I have yet to really open ). Then the last class I have is a complete joke. It's a statistics class where we take reading quizzes over the chapters in the book. The guy can't teach a rock how to sink in the ocean for f**ks sake! He'd probably throw it and have it float on top. It's horrible! But, it's an easy A so I shouldn't really bitch. I just can't stay interested enough when he takes 15 minutes to take the roll... of 30 people! Northwood professors are either hit or miss. They're either amazing or shitty. It sucks, but I have to deal with it for a little while longer.

I had a lot more I wanted to say in this, but Mason was talking to me and I got distracted and forgot what else I wanted to get off my chest. Just a few random thoughts:

I need a haircut. It's long again and bugging the shit out of me, so I've been wearing a hat all day so I don't have to do my hair Laziness at its best!

I had to put a tow bar on the back of my car so people would stop rear-ending me. Twice within a week. Both were when I was at a dead stop, neither of which my fault, but there was never damage to my car so nothing major. I just got annoyed so I figured the next time some dickhead hit me, I'm hoping the 8 inches sticking out the back cracks their radiator.

Laundry sucks. Mason's been living with me for the past month or so, so now there's double to do. I'm lazy and only like to do 2 loads max, but I don't have time to get to it and end up having like 5. Bah! Make bigger washers you f**kers!

My back hurts and I really need to go to the chiropractor, but I can't afford it. It's completely out of alignment and it's just getting worse, but there's nothing I can do about it for now. Another reason I'm not really eating much is because I haven't really had the money to do so. That should change now that I have a decent job, but we'll see if my eating habits change at all.

My hamster is fat. My sister's friend gave him to me, so I didn't really want one, and don't pay attention to him (which I probably need to feed him soon... meh) so he never gets to run. He just sleeps all day. I just put a wheel on his cage so he can run, but he likes to run at night when I'm trying to sleep so I put a rubber band around it so he can't. Call me an ass, but I need sleep damn it!

I spent the last two weeks watching Season 1, 3, and 4 of House and can't wait for this season. Really excited about it! I missed the first episode, but I'll catch it sooner or later. Plus, Heroes is starting up again soon, hopefully Grays Anatomy, Dexter (WOO!) and whatever else I'm forgetting. Burn Notice and Eureka have been keeping me entertained, but I'm really looking forward to the fall season.

OH! OH! Sunday you all better be cheering on the Packers. They're playing the Cowboys at Lambeau Field. Usually when the Packers and Cowboys play, the home team wins, so I'm hoping that's the way it goes again, but we're missing Favre (don't even get me started on that!) this time so we'll see.

Like I said on Viv's blog, I think Palin is a complete nut. I despise her with a passion, but I have yet to decide who I'm going to vote for. Honestly it's a lose-lose situation when you look at it, but we'll see. I think October 2nd is the VP debates, which I'm looking forward to Palin getting her ass kicked!

Well, I've rambled on long enough and I think Mason is annoyed that I'm still typing so I'll shut up and go cuddle and grab some sleep.

Peace, Love, and Joy!

Hah, yeah right… f**K y’all.

Just kidding of course

Joe

(Who went on for 1,724 words. Oops!)