Families can be the worst sometimes.

Last Sunday, before the whole mugging incident, I had to go to Jul’s family party. Hate having to do those! I met his Granny for the first time. Apparently, she was this huge alcoholic. Obviously, they don’t even know what a true alcoholic is. She wasn’t even drunk at all. Such a sheltered family!!! My uncle is a REAL alcoholic. Drinking beer like it’s water. That’s a real alcoholic! The first thing his granny said to me was, “So, this is the infamous Lisa.” Uh, how do I take that? Hahaha! Yeah, bitch, I am! Watch out. Hahaha. His other Grandmother, the one that likes me, looked at me and rolled her eyes. She didn’t seem drunk at all. I just think she is really bitter and has a big mouth. Maybe next time I’ll be more prepared and spit something else back at her. But then again, that might cause more problems with Jul and her. But do I really care? No, not really. But overall, the party was good. It wasn’t fun or anything. Let’ not get too carried away. I mean, at least my family is so crazy that the parties are fun! Well, sometimes.As long as no fights are being started and no ones crying. Yeah, his family doesn't even know what problems are. Oh, and the whole time his uncle kept shouting that I was pregnant. Not too funny when grandparents are two feet away...Awkward moment.

New Five Below

This new store looks annoying already. And we haven’t even opened yet. Just walking by and peeking in makes me want to roll my eyes. It’s completely empty—which means one thing. We have to put it all together. And I hate pegging!!! I’m way better at it now, though, which is a relief. The schedule for this week wasn’t done until just yesterday. And I work six days this week, 36 hours. Nice paycheck, but bad week. They are pretty much expecting me to run the store. So I guess it’s like I’ll be a general manager. God, that’s going to suck!! I’d never be a GM. The highest I’d go would be Assistant Manager. This is because they treat they’re GM’s like crap during the holiday season. They have to work six days a week. I think that’s so messed up because it’s the holidays! And I love Christmas time and I want to be able to spend time with my family and boyfriend. So nope, I’d only go up to AM. My AM sucks. I seriously think there is something wrong with her. In the head, I mean. She is just really manipulative and takes credit for stuff she didn’t do. Because that’s okay to do. Nope, sorry Cari, but that’s not a way to make friends. You’ll be shown the door real soon if she carries on like that.

Sunday is my blogging day.

I didn’t intend it to be so, but Sunday has ended up being my blogging day. It’s funny, when I was first told we had to create a blog and write in it weekly, I was not so excited. But now that I’ve been doing it for almost two month (Where did the time go!?), I have to say it’s not so bad. It’s a good way for me to reflect on the week I’ve had. This week was crazy. Last Sunday was the worst night of my life! I was sitting at home trying to learn to coupon, which is way too hard, when my best friend texts me asking if Jul is okay. Ashley never does that so I was immediately worried. Long story short, my boyfriend ended up being mugged and held at gunpoint with two of his other friends. He lives off campus down at Temple in the city. I always told him to be careful! But his parents are from Abington and know nothing about the city! Wish he would have listened to my dad. My dad grew up in Germantown. The stories he has told me are crazy. So I hate to say it, but it annoys me that his family was so naïve about him living at 18^th and Diamond! They should have known better. But what do you expect from two white people who grew up in Abington. At least I have my dad to help me out. And hopefully Jul, too.

Let's get wasted! Maybe?

I turned twenty-one this weekend. And my boyfriend and I had plans to go out to dinner and try some fancy drinks. However, the plan was a huge fail. We were driving to the movies and we just happened to pass Houlighans. So we were like let’s just go there! Bad choice. The food was awful. I orders chicken which ended up having some pine tree on it. That was strange. The desserts sucked They didn’t even have a simple brownie with ice cream.  And the drink choices were disgusting. I had really wanted to try a mudslide because I heard they tasted just like ice cream. But they had all gross kinds of stuff. I ended up ordering a Whipped Chocolate Winitini. It sounded really good. And the waitress said it was. She brought it out and said it looks so good. It looked like dirty water. Then it tasted like cough medicine. Actually, my cough medicine taste better than that. Give me some of that instead! I tried to drink it but I was too gross. But it was okay because I still had a lot of fun hanging out with my boyfriend and we made the best of it. I was a little disappointed that I couldn’t try my mudslide. But now im twenty one and I can go whenever and try one! I can’t wait till Ashley is 21, too. Then we’re definitely going out drinking together. It just sucks that no one else is 21 with me!

Happy Birthday to me...

My birthday was yesterday and it was certainly entertaining. We spent the day at Peddler’s Village just walking around and shopping. I didn’t buy anything because there wasn’t really much I saw. Then after that we ran over to the mall so I could find a dark brown leather jacket that would work well with my outfit. We were running really late for our plans for the night and I was getting pissed off. Can’t anything go right? And Jul was taking forever in all of the stores. I had no idea what he was doing! Then we went back to his place and he took forever there, too!  I was really proud of myself for not flipping out and losing my cool because my blood was boiling on the inside. Then we finally went back to my house and I found out the reason he was stalling so much. When I walked into my room, it was all decorated with twenty first birthday decorations! And to think, my little sister did it! That was quite a surprise. She even tied cute little decorations from my fan. And bought me a Pandora bracelet! Except my brother didn’t get me anything, which was strange. We don’t really get along but we’ve always gotten each other gifts. But my sister did an awesome job and posted a hilarious picture to my Facebook with herself wearing hats and those birthday horns. She’s a hoot sometimes!

Sunday Funday!

Last Sunday was the best day ever! My boyfriend called out of work so he could spend the whole day with me. This was a rare treat because we usually end up working the complete opposite shifts, which really sucks. So last Sunday, we drove up to Montgomeryville Mall and walked around and looked at the different stores. The Five Below there was horrible. That was surprising because the general manager there was my old manager and she usually runs the store very well. Maybe it was just an off day. After the mall we went to Mondak Park and walked around and laid on the grass together. It was the best day of my life; until I looked over and saw my parents walking the track. Seriously? Go somewhere else! It was almost comical and we just waved and laughed it off.

School hasn’t been too bad this semester. Shit, hope I didn’t just jinx myself. I tend to do that. I’m really good at writing papers and I’ve been keeping up pretty well. The only class that seems to be a problem is my Astronomy class. This teacher just loves Astronomy too much. She gives quizzes all the time and sometimes questions on the quizzes are topics we haven’t even covered yet. I know it’s college, but that just seems unfair to me. I need to put more time in for this test on Wednesday because I needs this class to graduate. Hope I do well!

We're smiling, but we're close to tears...

Typical. I would have about 348957894 homework assignments and test to do the weekend of my birthday. It’s funny that I complain about that because I don’t even really care about my birthday. I’m not a big drinker. So turning 21, is just like any other birthday. The only person who I want to care about my birthday is my boyfriend. So hopefully, it’ll be a good day. I am curious though to try a drink or so. But I can’t stand beer. It’s disgusting and gross. But my dad has been politely asking me to try his wine that he makes. LOL Just kidding! He’s only been trying to shove it down my throat since I’ve been ten! He’s Italian! There is a picture of him taking a shot with his family when he was only twelve! Twelve! And he’s not even an alcoholic.  But I have seen him pretty much drink a whole bottle of wine in one sitting down the shore. But he wasn’t even drunk or sloppy. He was a little goofy. But that’s it. I guess when you start drinking at twelve; you can hold a lot of alcohol.  I think I will be more of a wine person. Except the kind my dad makes. It’s so nasty and strong. I don’t know how he drinks it! He told me that Caberniet is “like drinking grape juice. But it makes you happy.” Hahaha. He always says the funniest things. Can’t wait to start experimenting all the different types of alcohol with my boyfriend. Maybe we’ll start by drinking old, cheap bottles of wine. Shit talk and up all night. Saying things we haven’t for a while.

Couponing!

My friend, Ashley, is trying to teach me how to coupon! But it is so confusing to me! I don’t understand any of it! I had a coupon for buy one, get one of Tresemee and Dove shampoo. But I ended up getting the Dove shampoo for free! But I don’t now how! She just worked her magic and was like BAM. Free shampoo and conditioner! Today, I am going to get a Sunday paper because that’s where all the good coupons are apparently. But the problem is this: which paper is the Sunday paper?! I have no idea. So I’m going to drag my boyfriend with me on a count of he’s the smartest person I know. I’m sure he can figure it out. It sucks though because many of the coupons that I have seen pretty much suck. For example, a coupon I saw was $1.50 off the purchase of three bags of Halloween candy. Do you know expensive that candy is?! Big deal, a buck fifty! For three bags of Halloween candy, it’ll cost about ten bucks! What kinda couponing is that!? A great deal that I did find was at Walgreens. Ashley told me they have great deals. There 3 pack of Orbit gum is 2 for $3. But I have a coupon for a dollar off the purchase of two. So ill get six packs of gum for two bucks! At least I found one deal on my own!

Sunday Funday?!?! Finally?!

Could this finally be a fun Sunday? No work and my boyfriend called out of work so we can hang out all day!! I don’t want to jinx it. But it sounds promising!! I was a little agitated at him because we agreed to hang out with our friends last night. But low and behold, my plans didn’t work out. Seriously, who has a cold on Saturday night that prevents them from going out?!?! Dude, its Saturday night. I know you’re going to party with your other friends!! Hahaha It doesn’t even bother me because it just shows how dumb she still is! It just isn’t worth to get into a fight with someone I barely see. But I kinda wished my boyfriend would have stayed with me since my plans got all screwed up. But why would a boyfriend do the right thing? Boys are dumb and need severe guidance for the simplest, everyday things. So my Saturday night sucked. They’ve been sucking a lot lately. Wow. Next week he’ll probably take me out for my birthday. Wonder what that’s like?!?!?! I’m such an ass. hahahah but I don’t care. I did see 50/50 this weekend with my friend, Ashley. It was such a good movie! And it had a happy ending! (spoiler alert) AKA he doesn’t die!! It was a great movie because it really showed me what it was like to have cancer and what a normal treatment is. He got high a lot in the movie. So that was pretty comical. Hope this Sunday is a funday…. Bye.

Drinking old, cheap bottles of wine...

Sometimes, having to write these critiques can be annoying. I feel like I’m running out of things to say and am repeating myself. I love reading all of these different stories that people come up with. But when I love a story, I LOVE the story. And it’s hard for me to critique it because I don’t really have much to say. And sometimes I don’t understand what is being asked in the guidelines.

School is so irritating right now. My 21^st birthday is coming up and I have one test the day before and one test the day after. How am I supposed to enjoy it? And with everything else that’s going on. I’m afraid we won’t end up doing anything because of everything. I never get to go out, but it’d be nice to next weekend. But what if everything isn’t ok? I know it can’t happen overnight. But it’s hard to just sit back and just stare at each other every weekend. Especially since we did it all summer. I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like everything I do is for him. We’ve just hit a rough patch. Hopefully everything will be ok. But I’m starting to feel like this will be the worst birthday I’ve ever had L

Murphy's Law

It was my turn to be grilled this week in creative writing. It didn’t go too bad. He even told me it could get published some day! But the “no title” but was so annoying! Only because I KNEW he was going to say that with my paper! I KNEW IT!! I was sitting with my sister doing homework and she leaned over while I was writing my story and said “Why is there no title?” I said “Because I don’t know what I want to call it yet.” She replied, “Oh, that’s probably annoying for the teacher.” “Yeah but everyone’s been doing it. But don’t worry for my paper, he’ll say something!” STORY OF MY LIFE. Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Stuff like that has always happened to me! I didn’t mean to sound mad when I answered the question. I just thought it was funny that it did happen and a little exasperated too. But overall, I was really pleased with what he said about my paper. I really need to work on the whole “crash” part. Hahaha that just sucked. But I didn’t know how to describe the sound of a crash or explosion. And certain student’s feedback was helpful too. Although some people simply handed me back a blank copy of my story. Thanks, already got that. I don’t need 12 more. I’m excited to start re-writing again and maybe I will try and get it published. That’d be quite an accomplishment! I’d deserve a gold star!

Worst Sunday Ever!

This was the worst Sunday of my life. I worked 9-7. I opened AND closed. What the hell do I look like, a full time employee there?? And the whole time I just wanted to pull my hair out of my head and be bald. I didn't even know what was going on. The two of us were just running in circles trying to cut the other deeper. How am I the one who does not value our time together if he wants to go run off with his friends the one night of the week we have together? He sees them all the time! He lives with them for crying out loud! And then my new pyscho boss has her friends "drop by" to check up on us. Seriously, get a life you LOSER. I love working there too. But I don't drop by just to check up on people. So what if my and Ashley were talking for a bit. It was probably the only time we were. She just came in at the wrong time. I should just be the GM already. I know more than her anyways. She’s only been with the company for less than a year. Holy shit, I know way more than her. I just want everything to be better and go back to normal. But it’s hard to do that when the other just tries a little bit. And to top it all off: Marvin was all over the place Sunday. Hate you, Marvin.