Notes of the day

I said this week was gonna suck and be awesome at the same time. Here's why:

Suck:
1) I have so much work to do. And I'm going on a retreat this weekend so I need to get a lot of it done by tomorrow.
2) I got audited at work. But, it didn't go as bad as I thought it'd go. Actually, I didn't realize that I got audited until about halfway through when I had to sign something.

Awesome:
1) A bunch of electronics I ordered came (finally), and the best part is that I didn't have to "pay" for any of it! I used credit card points. I now have the green iPod nano that I've wanted for 6 months.
2) I found out that my parents finished paying off the house.
3) Ok. I'll say it. I got the full fellowship to Stanford. It's definitely my top choice school right now - I haven't even heard back from MIT or UCSD yet, but it kinda doesn't matter anymore. Maybe.
4) I'm gonna see Josh Blue tonight! He's coming to campus. I need a good laugh. Here's a link to his website. He's inSPirATionAL http://www.joshblue.com/
5) I'm going on a retreat this weekend. It's my last one as an undergraduate (woah...), which makes it sorta sad, but it should be fun.

The awesome part is definitely winning.

Random comment: That song that goes "I hope your vagina tight, I go underwater and I hope your piranha bite" makes me laugh, even though it shouldn't. Lil Wayne, you slay me. And now you get the picture.

my mom is going to drive me crazy

my sister's laptop broke, so we're helping her get a macbook/ipod touch combo with my student discount. basically, my mom is doing a pretty good job of being the most effin' impossible person to work with. the following are the text message convos that happened over the past 2 days (she texts me at work like every 5 minutes - ARGHHHH!). commentary in italics:

monday:

mom: channon and i want to get christina a mac. she need laptop because hers broke. do u have discount?

me: she said she doesnt want 2 get one until she goes back 2 school. so ittl last longer

me: but ya. up til sept 15 i get 100 bucks off and a free ipod //it's a pretty sweet deal

mom: can i pick you up after work today and we go to mac store?

me: we can wait until the weekend //usually my sister takes eons to decide what she wants, and i wanted to make sure she wanted a macbook. if you get her something she doesn't want, even if it's nice, she won't fake appreciation and this usually pisses off my mom.

me: ask christina if its ok. she might want 2 pitch in too. //she told me she wanted to spend about 500 for a cheap laptop.

mom: i want to surprise her. //usually a baad idea with christina

me: she might b more mad than happy

mom: can i use your discount? if not its ok. //which in momspeak means, to spite me, she'll go and get the macbook without me = without discount. and she's a tech retard/easily suckered, so this is not good.

time for damage control. i called channon (my other sister) to talk things over with her and we fixed things. in the end, i was gonna be sly about seeing if christina really wanted a macbook (i kno she wants an ipod touch), and we were all gonna split the cost. when i came home from work, christina was looking at macbooks and she really wanted to get one. she was talking about ordering it online by wednesday because she's leaving next monday, so it was time for plan b. i said, "think about it a little more because i'm pretty sure you can get the deal in stores too. that gives you until friday to decide." i said i'd help her look at options at work tomorrow (today) to help her decide. phew!

tuesday:

me: she wants one. want 2 pick me up 2day and get it?

mom: k //so far so good

me: i have my bike so bring one of the restaurant table cloths in the garage //she's really anal about getting her car dirty. my dad has a restaurant. we don't jack table cloths.

mom: can u bike home first or we can go 2morrow //see? but if i go home first and then we both leave, then christina will get suspicious.

me: No she said she was gonna get it by wed

mom: did u tell her we were going 2 get it 4 her?

me: No. me n channon talked. i pay 100, chris pays 400, chan pays 500, and you pay 200. that way everybodys happy.

mom: how did u know chris wan it

me: because i'm cool. i have 2 work now. ill b back at 5. pleasant hill.

mom: i don want ur bike in the car //MASSIVE EXPLOSION OF BAD WORDS IN MY HEAD

maybe i'm just tired, but hot damn. i had to get this out so that i wouldn't be pissed at work.

Thank God for Good People

I didn't tell that many people because it was a sore spot for a while, but I lost my Ipod a couple months ago. It's not really a big deal, but this was after I broke my camera and I was tight on money at the time, so losing my Ipod made me feel that much worse. I totally gave up on it because I figured someone found it and kept it, but today I got a really nice surprise.

I happened to check one of my email addresses that I never check because it gets a lot of spam, and I saw a message that said, "I found your Ipod." I thought it was spam at first, but I thought, that's a really weird way to send someone a virus or advertise something because how many people lose their Ipods? So I opened the email, and this guy named Even Marcelo said he found my Ipod on the street, that it had been run over by cars, but could still play music. He told me where he found it, which was near where I thought I lost it, so I know it's mine. He even sent a picture of it:

Notice how the LCD screen is cracked? My Ipod is a bad@$$. Anyway, he told me I could pick it up whenever (I dunno where he lives), but I feel kinda weird about that because I'm paranoid. Even though it's some really nice person who didn't keep my Ipod, which now has sentimental value. What's really kind of odd is that he took the effort to get my email address off of my Ipod (I didn't know you could do that, but I did buy it online), so maybe that's the source of my trepidation. I'll probably go with someone so I don't get killed.

Isn't it weird that we're suspicious when people do nice things for us? Still, it's good to know (or hope) that there are good people in this world.