Today's rambling: "Miss Berry Bombat"
Written on June 8, 2001 at 12:41 a.m.
while feeling a bit

I got a parcel from Janette today!!! I love getting stuff from her...whenever she tells me she's sent something off, I get all excited and spend the next few days just waiting for the mailman to deliver the parcel! *giggles* She gave me an adorable little toy bombat (wombat, for you unenlightened ones, hehe), and Tim Tams (I guess she knows I'm addicted to those things?), and other chocolates...and she also gave something to Mum, and then of course there was a really sweet card! Aww! *gives out an Internet huggle to her bestest friend* Thank you, Janette, if you happen to be reading this! ;)

Oo, I even took a picture of my bombat (I plan on putting it up on my website eventually)...anyway, lookee!

Strangely enough, before I'd gotten her parcel, I had just finished repacking the things I've been meaning to send her since Christmas! I'm horrible enough when it comes to sending letters, and that only involves walking to the mailbox! But parcels involve going over to the post office, and I never have any way to get there! But this parcel is going to be sent! I feel really guilty about how long it's taken me to send the thing out...it should have been there a little after Christmas, but at the rate I'm going, I might as well wait for NEXT Christmas to come around! I even missed her birthday! *feels like a horrible friend*

Anyway, not much else has been going on today. Mum's still bugging me about the fact that I need to get a job so I can pay these bills off, and while I know very well that I need a job, I don't have a car or a license to go out and FIND one! I know I'm going to have to go work at a grocery store yet again, which really depresses me. I HATE grocery stores, and if I had my choice, I'd never work in another one as long as I live! Okay, I've only ever worked at two--Super Fresh and Genuardi's--but both of them turned out to be...less-than-pleasant places to work. I'm not a 'people person' (in fact, except for a few individuals I really can't stand people), so right there you have an obvious reason as to why customer service isn't the job for me. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the customers weren't always so damn RUDE! But then there's the management who constantly feels like jumping down your throat...and if you're an honest, hard worker, they ALWAYS take advantage of you. At least, that's been my experience both times.

So I've resigned myself to the fact that, for the time being at least, I'm going to have to go work at the local grocery store called Redner's. Not exactly looking forward to that, but I refuse to work there exclusively this time. There's a little pet shop in the same center as the grocery store, and I plan on asking if they could use some weekend help. I hope they'll say yes, because working there on the weekends would help to preserve my sanity! If I had to work at Redner's all the time, I think I'd go crazy...The worst of it is, Redner's doesn't pay hardly anything! I was making $7.75 an hour when I left Genuardi's, and while I could run a lot of different departments, I was still just a clerk. My friend Melissa works at Redner's, and she was a Customer Service MANAGER for a little while, and right now she's only making $7.15! She used to be making $6-something an hour, and that would hardly be enough for me to pay the bills every month! As it was, $7.75 was just enough for me to pay off everything! I'm definitely specifying that I want no less than $7.50...with all the experience I've had, I don't think I sound conceited when I say that I'd deserve at least that much!

Heh, talking about having to work at a bloody grocery store is making me irritated, so I'd better stop! ;) Working at the pet shop would be a lot more fun, I think. It's just a small affair, and the two owners (a married couple) work there a lot...and because I'm in there so often, I've met them several times. They mostly sell supplies, but they have a whole wall of tropical and goldfish that they sell, and then on the opposite wall, they have rodents (mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, etc) and reptiles. Every so often they get ferrets or chinchillas, and they also sell birds (which I never really thought about until now, because I've never gone in looking for birds before, LoL!)....I love animals, and I'm used to cleaning out aquariums and cages, so I think I'd do alright! *crosses her fingers and hopes they'll hire her*

Ugh. I think I need to find a new bedding material for my hamster. I just cleaned his cage a day or so ago, and it's already making the room across the hall smell. I felt like sharing that with whoever's reading. Which is probably no one. ;)

On another topic, the girl Melissa who wrote that Labyrinth fanfic based on my storyline emailed me again today! She's got an idea for ANOTHER story, and as soon as I write back to her, I guess we're going to start working on it together! I kind of just scanned the email quickly before, because I couldn't stay online that long, but I think after I'm through writing about my boring day, I'm going to go back and reread it...and hopefully inspiration will strike so we can start working on the new story!

I couldn't get to sleep last night (actually, it was morning by the time I went to bed), because I had this incredible urge to just start writing on a story. Unfortunately, sometimes when I feel like writing, I don't feel like writing anything in particular, and that's how it was this morning...which really made me angry, because I wanted to write something SO badly, but none of my many unfinished stories were striking my interest! So in the end, since it was after 6 am, I just went to sleep. ;) And now all that creative inspiration is gone, so I don't really feel like writing on ANYTHING! Bah!

I just got spammed on ICQ...I HATE SPAM!!!! Does anyone ever actually take up on the offers they get in junk emails and junk messages? I'm getting so sick of all of them, I wish I could find the creator of each and every message I get and...castrate them or something. That wouldn't work if the creator was a female, but just the same I feel like beating them! How ignorant can you get with this stuff? And the porn is the worst...it's pretty bad when you have to mass mail people about PORN to get anyone to notice! And the subject lines they use are disgusting! Urgh! *sends out a mass SLAP to all the porn spammers*

Hrmm...I haven't seen Janette in a couple of days. Someone just signed onto ICQ, but it turned out to be this guy that I cannot STAND. He's fallen in love with a mutual Internet friend of ours, and he's never even met her in person! It wouldn't be so bad, but he's one of those guys who's very clingy when he falls for someone. For example, the three of us were talking one night and my friend Jeana said that she wanted to drive up to PA where I live, pick me, up, and then we'd all go down to Kentucky for this summer social thing we all wanted to go to. Well, DumbAss here whines, "No, don't do that! I want to have as much alone time with you as I can!" Can you say 'GAG?' I never want a guy who's all clingy and "I have to be with you all the time, and I'll mope if you're away!" They're disgusting! I think GIRLS who do that are pathetic, but guys are ten times worse! Bleh. Anyway, he's a pervert too, but I don't feel like going into that. Oh, and his sense of humor sucks. Can you tell yet that I just don't like him? I really really REALLY want Janette to come online!!! I miss talking to her!

Oh well, I've blathered on enough for tonight, so I'm going to wander off, answer Melissa's email, and then see if I can't work up enough creativity to start on The Berry Patch!