Happy Belated Christmas!

12/27/2014

Time: 10:37am

State of Being: chilling.

Song lyric in my head: we will never ever ever get back together.. (i have no clue why Taylor Swift has been in my head all morning)

current desire: more time to develope my creativity bug

where am I?: in the living room on the couch

what's that noise?: the ac. and i can barely hear the music from the neighbors next door. at least i could hear it like five minutes ago. the ac just turned off. i can hear it again. lol



So Christmas morning, we went to my dad's and I cooked breakfast. We brought Little Bit with us. (our tiny teacup chihuahua) It seems like a tradition every year that I somehow set the fire alarm off. I blame the bacon. So every year, my dad's like "i'm just going to open the windows now." And I hear about it the entire time I'm cooking lol. And of course without fail, the firealarm went off... again.. for like the 3rd or 4th year in a row. It's not like I burnt anything. It's just a sensitive alarm. lol

We hung around for a bit and opened presents. My dad got us a BUNCH of gift cards. woo-hoo! I love gift cards. We opened presents from my aunt and uncle. We got an ear of corn christmas ornament and a coffee mug and a gift card to target. My aunt likes to give me christmas ornaments every year.

russ just woke up. gonna continue this later.

So anywho, my aunt likes to give me an ornament every year. I have enough now to actually get a tree. lol. we don't put up a tree. Probably due to our laziness. I wouldn't mind getting a tiny one. Maybe next year.

Every year my dad and my uncle exchange gag gifts. They pick out a gift. I think the budget is ten dollars, and send it to each other. And the rule is that it must be displayed prominently. I have to emphasize how much weird stuff I grew up with around the house. This year, my dad got this funky looking pig clown. And I found my uncle's gift at goodwill this year. A small painting of two largely sized women and a piece of cake.

After we left my dad's we headed back home to drop off the rest of the cold breakfast things I brought. I still had some cheese and eggs left that my dad didn't want. We were going to bring the dog to his mom's but changed our mind, because Little Bit seemed pretty stressed already. She doesn't like car rides or weird places very much.

So we went to his mom's. Hung around. Open presents, watched some movies, ate dinner. Watched some tv.

Then we came home.

Oh! Rewind. Christmas Eve I had to work at the pharmacy. It was SO busy. Like a regular weekday. It was just Ram and I, and Dwynnifer our cashier. But we stayed caught up. I still don't know how they usually get so far behind during the day. On a regular weekday, I get there at like 4 or 5. The had done a little over 100. The order isn't up or applied. And there are so many in the cue to fill/type etc. On wednesday, we did 100 before lunch at 1:30. The order was completely applied and up pretty much as soon as it came. And it was JUST the three of us all day. That's why I like having a cashier. I can get SO much done. If I have to stop what I'm doing to get the register, it's SO annoying. okay. that's enough pharmacy talk.

Christmas Eve we opened up our presents to each other, and the ones my mom sent us. My mom is so cool. I got word magnets with a Princess Bride theme. Y'know those magnets with one word each you can put up and make up stories, poems, sentences, etc. Our friend Lew got a zombie themed bundle for Russ a few years ago, and we had put them on the inside of our front door. Now I have to find a place for the Princess Bride themed words. Our fridge is COVERED in magnets, stickers, and fake tattoos. I'll have to post a picture one day. lol. (I don't believe in blank space. My walls are pretty much completely covered in pictures too.) My mom also sent me those necklaces that glow when charged with UV light. SO cool!

But I decided to wear one on Christmas morning. I put it on right before we left and charged it up. (she had sent a little UV flashlight) I was so excited. When we were in the car on the way to my dad's I wanted to see what it looked like, so I put down the mirror, looked, and it was gone. Gone. It looked like there was a little screw in thing, and it fell off. It wasn't in the car anywhere. When we got home between My dad's and his mom's, we looked outside. Nothing. Inside the house. Nothing. Somehow it disappeared. I was so mad. It was so cute. Like a little lantern with tiny rocks/beads inside that glowed. I was going to wear it to school to make my kids go "oooooh!" My mom sent another necklace too. It's a really pretty silver pendent that glows too. So I have another one. I'm just really mad about the lantern. I can't believe i lost it before I even actually had it. I really hope it turns up one day in the apt or the car. If it fell off outside, it's definitely gone.

BUT I got a giant dose of perspective last night. Losing a necklace isn't nearly as traumatic as losing my cat. Last night, Russ wanted some pudding pie, so we paused our binge-watching of American Horror Story (season three on netflix) and went out to the kitchen. Russ' mom made him pudding pie for Christmas. (it's really good. graham crackers, banana pudding, bananas, chocolate pudding. all layered awesomely) While he was getting ready to scoop it, I went out into the living room to pet the cat. Because I realized I hadn't given her any love yet that day. And the cat wasn't in her spot.

I looked all around the living room. No sign of her. I checked her usual hiding spots. Nothing. So Russ proceeded to help me. We looked all around the apartment. Everywhere. Sometimes she'll sneak into the second bedroom if we go in there. (I have my box of gift bags and tissue paper and stuff in there.) It's our "storage" area, and there's a billion places to hide. So we looked around there. No sign. We looked EVERYWHERE around the apt. No cat. So now I'm freaking out. Because Kitty likes to sneak outside sometimes when we open the door to leave or come in. She'll hide right by the door and bolt out.

I had left yesterday to head to wal-mart to get my time clock fixed. (When I clocked out on Wednesday, it told me I was never clocked in. There were no managers around, and the managers that were there didn't know what to do, so they told me to come back on Friday to fix it. My day off. go figure) And I did a little shopping at Ross, and stopped at Publix.

So I went over in my head leaving and coming back. And I didn't see the cat at all. She's sneaky though. I was feeling so bad, because I didn't see her. And I'm usually good at stopping her. But she doesn't go far when she gets out. About a couple feet before she gets scared and runs back inside.

Then we started thinking. We really hadn't seen her since Christmas Eve. We couldn't remember if we saw her at all on Christmas. We were gone for most of the day. So now we were worried that she got out on Christmas. It was raining that day, and she might have gotten scared and went to go hide somewhere.

So we walked all around the apartment building. It was dark, and we couldn't really see. We called her name. We asked all the neighbors. No one had seen her. Then we got in the car and drove around. We saw a couple black cats, but none of them were her. I'm in complete panic mode now. I couldn't stop crying. I was picturing her getting hit by a car or something.

We got back home and proceeded to look around the apartment again. Russ was moving furniture. We were tearing everything up. Calling her name. nothing. We looked at the county website to see if she was picked up. She wasn't. We were planning on making flyers in the morning. I could barely breathe. My baby was missing.

So we were putting on shoes and socks to go walk around more. And guess who just nonchalantly comes out from whatever hiding spot she found. Apparently she was under the chair in the living room the entire time. *sigh* Russ even moved that chair, and I even shined my flashlight under there. Damn ninja cat.

So she's been getting a lot of love today and last night. I'm still so mad at her for putting me through that. lol.

I'm just glad she's okay.

so that was the last few days. It's nice to have days off.

I had a long talk with Russ the other night about possibly quitting wal-mart. He said if I do, he won't be mad or think any less of me. I just have to be aware that it is a risk, and we probably have to cut a lot of things out of our budget. Like the internet.

For about.. i think it was four or five years, Russ and I lived without TV or internet. We still don't have TV, but we have netflix. So it's not like it would be a big deal living without it again. I just need it for school. To check my school e-mail or to look up lesson plan ideas.

I'm meeting with that after school drama teaching dude in the beginning of the year. I really hope that works out.

This is my plan if I quit wal-mart. Teach at school during the day. Teach after school drama classes. Then at night host bingo or trivia nights at bars.

It's a risk, because those three jobs are not guaranteed to be permanent. The only job I know is stable is the wal-mart pharmacy. Russ said like it or not, the pharmacy is my job. Everything else I do, is just side work. And if I want to quit wal-mart, I can. I just have to know it is a risk to take. And if I want to take it, it's my choice. He won't be angry or think any less of me. He basically doesn't care. lol. He's a very go with the flow type of person. He said we'll figure something out, and if that means cutting out a lot of extra spending, then we have to do that.

I'm going to wait until I talk to the after school teaching dude. And then go from there.

On February 16th, it'll be my 6th year anniversary at wal-mart. That's the longest time I've stayed at a job. lol. Six years of constant soul sucking is a long time. lol

not much else to talk about. I hope everyone who celebrated had an awesome Christmas!

peace!
-mel-
11:44am

edit: we JUST found her hiding spot. she had climbed up inside the chair. lol crazy cat
12:25pm