1. i was hella sick and had to call out of work FOUR days in a row. Then I tried to go back and I only worked for an hour because I kept getting so dizzy I had to sit down on the floor to prevent falling over. During this time I had two doctor's visits and three perscriptions and my blood taken and an ex ray to see if I had pneumonia (I, shockingly, didn't). So far my oh so generous parents paid about $150 for the perscriptions. Why can't I spell that? 20 for the one that didn't work and $130 for the two that did.
2. My manager, who I defend to people cuz despite his faults I think he's a generally good guy, told me to my face he thought I was lying about this sickness. Me, who in my almost 6 month tenure there has never ever been late and before this episode called in ONCE. Me, who obsessively cleans and stocks during slow times when others fall asleep in the chair on the clock.
3. I just got a letter from HMS host, my official employer, informing me (it's quite confusing and my mom will have to read it) that I either didn't sign up for health insurance next year (I spent hours on it) OR I have been unqualified for not having enough hours. Because of the time I was sick.
4. The DOCTOR HIMSELF called my house at SIX PM on a day his office was CLOSED to tell me something was up with my blood work the last time I was in (for my terrible unidentified coughing up blood but not pneumonia illness) and that I NEED to come back to get my blood checked on again. He mentioned a white count being low. I know from my years of experience watching hospital shows that could be: AIDS or leukemia. I'm pretty sure I don't have AIDS cuz my gyno didn't mention it last time when I had to have a terribly painful procedure and I certainly haven't done anything risky since that. Which leaves leukemia (or something tv didn't educate me on) and now i WON'T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. I got my blood taken yesterday and if I don't hear from them by Monday or Tuesday then I'm probably fine. tick tock.
FUCK MY LIFE IN THE ASS WITH A GIANT CROWBAR
Before receiving this letter about my lack of insurance (I forgot to mention that I've been on my mom's but she took me off because I was gonna get it from HMS host. Btw, obama's plan doesn't help me out in this situation. Thanks. So glad I got you elected.) I was in a decent mood. I was gonna write and post a pic of my car and tell you guys about this student's endearing story and how my brother and I watch the wire constantly and how gross and DISGUSTING my seventeen year old cousin is. Hopefully I will calm down and post a happy post. We shall see.
Team work!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
boring........
meh.....i feel like my life is becoming so boring......i sleep, eat, go to the work and go to the gym. sometimes i practice violin. still waiting to hear from JET. i went out with nick the other night. i really don't know.....
it's been raining a shit ton lately, but i guess that's better than snow right.....
one day at borders i sold 25 borders rewards plus (that's the membership that get discounts and stuff, but ours is better than barnes and nobles). i usually barely get 4 in a day. maybe i'm starting to be a good salesperson. christmas was cracra.the lines were soo long. i was at the register all the time. the store looks like shit because we don't have enough people working since we are all at the registers ringing up the customers. i've been working a ton, but looks like things will start to die down again.
so on christmas eve we went to my dads cousins house for a party. there were like 18 of us, but maybe 12 of us were drinking champange and we killed 10 bottles. then christmas day i just chilled at home. it was super low key this year. so for new years my family is gonna eat crab and pop some firecrackers. but this is the last year we can pop firecrackers/fireworks. the state passed a new law so next year we can't pop fireworks anymore. that just killed the spirit of hawaii....(kelly knows how crazy hawaii is with fireworks on new years)
i'm so proud of you tiffy. your all grown up paying your own bills and what not. i don't even make enough to pay my own rent. sorry to hear about all the financial problems you had.
kelly-wow that stuff about cambria and your cousin andrew sounds sooo funny. lipbalm!
i'm so confused...did someone change the dog picture again.....
so there is this japanese drama called nodame cantablie, and i was watching it again recently and it made me really inspired to practice again. it's about music students and stuff so we can really relate to them, even though they are fake playing, but the concept is there. you can stream it online, so you guys should watch it if you have time. there are 11 45min episodes, 2 1hr &30min specials, and 2 1hr45min-ish movies. The movies are super good. Its all good. Here is the link to stream it http://www.mysoju.com/search-series/?series_name=Nodame+Cantabile
it's been raining a shit ton lately, but i guess that's better than snow right.....
one day at borders i sold 25 borders rewards plus (that's the membership that get discounts and stuff, but ours is better than barnes and nobles). i usually barely get 4 in a day. maybe i'm starting to be a good salesperson. christmas was cracra.the lines were soo long. i was at the register all the time. the store looks like shit because we don't have enough people working since we are all at the registers ringing up the customers. i've been working a ton, but looks like things will start to die down again.
so on christmas eve we went to my dads cousins house for a party. there were like 18 of us, but maybe 12 of us were drinking champange and we killed 10 bottles. then christmas day i just chilled at home. it was super low key this year. so for new years my family is gonna eat crab and pop some firecrackers. but this is the last year we can pop firecrackers/fireworks. the state passed a new law so next year we can't pop fireworks anymore. that just killed the spirit of hawaii....(kelly knows how crazy hawaii is with fireworks on new years)
i'm so proud of you tiffy. your all grown up paying your own bills and what not. i don't even make enough to pay my own rent. sorry to hear about all the financial problems you had.
kelly-wow that stuff about cambria and your cousin andrew sounds sooo funny. lipbalm!
i'm so confused...did someone change the dog picture again.....
so there is this japanese drama called nodame cantablie, and i was watching it again recently and it made me really inspired to practice again. it's about music students and stuff so we can really relate to them, even though they are fake playing, but the concept is there. you can stream it online, so you guys should watch it if you have time. there are 11 45min episodes, 2 1hr &30min specials, and 2 1hr45min-ish movies. The movies are super good. Its all good. Here is the link to stream it http://www.mysoju.com/search-series/?series_name=Nodame+Cantabile
Sunday, December 26, 2010
fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra!
happy hanukkah (to tiffany) and merry christmas to all! (to tiffany as well). i know it is the day after christmas but i thought i would go ahead and do a holiday blog, as my gift to all of you.
i didn't know that tiffy posted until yesterday so it was such a wonderful christmas surprise to read about your life! I was glad to hear that you are doing well and see those cute doggies you posted, even if one of them did have to be put to sleep :( at any rate, i am glad that you are enjoying your internship and that you like working at whole foods. it sounds like your house is pretty cold but i am sure that you have lots of blankets, seeing as you always were curled up in one when we were roomies. i miss those days, except for when bridget always had the tv on, i wasn't a huge fan of that. but y'all were good roommates. glad to hear you're dating a musician as well, that's good. and thanks for the christmas card, it was so cute!
i am SO glad to be home for a little bit. it's nice to be able to stay here for an extended period of time versus the like 1 day that i came home during fall quarter. i got 3 weeks off of school but i worked an extra week in admissions because we were so busy and stuff around december 15 and stuff. when i came home though i went through indy to eat dinner with patrick and of course he just ended up coming home with me. i went to his grandma's funeral last week and met his entire dad's side of the family for the first time. i thought it would be super awkward since it was his grandma that i had never met and that i didn't know anyone there, but his dad's side is SUPER nice and friendly and it wasn't awkward at all. i think his grandma's death hit him a little bit harder than he will admit, but he seems to be doing well. we spent most of last week hanging at my house with my family and he got me hooked on this sci-fi show called sanctuary, which was on the sci-fi channel (go figure). it's pretty good except sometimes it's a little cheesy but it's mainly pretty good. he went to my family's christmas eve dinner in spencer and then he went home for christmas yesterday, but he's coming back here today to hang out.
my family's christmas get together was really fun. it has recently become VERY entertaining to be around my mom's side of the family because my little cousin cammie (patrice knows her) is SO mischevious (sp?)!! she's 3 now and her aunt and uncle (my other cousins) think that her parents let their kids get away with too much. for example, they let cammie play on top of their huge SUV when it was raining and cammie fell off of it into gravel. i'm pretty sure they all just laughed when it happened, even cammie. but it's so funny because their parenting drives my other cousins up the wall so it's like a huge ridiculous mess when we get together. but it's funny. for example, my cousin andrew (the one who thinks his sister is a bad mom) was really teasing cammie the other day and he kept saying the same stuff over and over and over and she just looks at him with this little evil look in her face and says "if you say that one more time, uncle andrew, i am going to kick you in the face." just like, plain as day, totally serious. she is crazy, but she is so cute too! patrice knows. haha. but my get togethers are now really entertaining cause it's usually cammie (and her brother cooper) doing really funny misbehavingish-type things and my other cousins getting really annoyed by it, haha. oh well.
no ring this christmas. it's still at my house, so looks like i won't be engaged in 2010. ohhhhhh well. that's ok, i'm still young.
at this time last year i was on my way to hawaii. sigh. wish i could go again, considering how much fun i had with patrice and anna. and i ate so much good food. and it was WARM. ahhhhhhhhhh. i need to stop thinking about it.
i am thinking about you all right now during the holidays and i miss you all very much! i hope you were all as excited about christmas as this lady shopping at walmart was...
i didn't know that tiffy posted until yesterday so it was such a wonderful christmas surprise to read about your life! I was glad to hear that you are doing well and see those cute doggies you posted, even if one of them did have to be put to sleep :( at any rate, i am glad that you are enjoying your internship and that you like working at whole foods. it sounds like your house is pretty cold but i am sure that you have lots of blankets, seeing as you always were curled up in one when we were roomies. i miss those days, except for when bridget always had the tv on, i wasn't a huge fan of that. but y'all were good roommates. glad to hear you're dating a musician as well, that's good. and thanks for the christmas card, it was so cute!
i am SO glad to be home for a little bit. it's nice to be able to stay here for an extended period of time versus the like 1 day that i came home during fall quarter. i got 3 weeks off of school but i worked an extra week in admissions because we were so busy and stuff around december 15 and stuff. when i came home though i went through indy to eat dinner with patrick and of course he just ended up coming home with me. i went to his grandma's funeral last week and met his entire dad's side of the family for the first time. i thought it would be super awkward since it was his grandma that i had never met and that i didn't know anyone there, but his dad's side is SUPER nice and friendly and it wasn't awkward at all. i think his grandma's death hit him a little bit harder than he will admit, but he seems to be doing well. we spent most of last week hanging at my house with my family and he got me hooked on this sci-fi show called sanctuary, which was on the sci-fi channel (go figure). it's pretty good except sometimes it's a little cheesy but it's mainly pretty good. he went to my family's christmas eve dinner in spencer and then he went home for christmas yesterday, but he's coming back here today to hang out.
my family's christmas get together was really fun. it has recently become VERY entertaining to be around my mom's side of the family because my little cousin cammie (patrice knows her) is SO mischevious (sp?)!! she's 3 now and her aunt and uncle (my other cousins) think that her parents let their kids get away with too much. for example, they let cammie play on top of their huge SUV when it was raining and cammie fell off of it into gravel. i'm pretty sure they all just laughed when it happened, even cammie. but it's so funny because their parenting drives my other cousins up the wall so it's like a huge ridiculous mess when we get together. but it's funny. for example, my cousin andrew (the one who thinks his sister is a bad mom) was really teasing cammie the other day and he kept saying the same stuff over and over and over and she just looks at him with this little evil look in her face and says "if you say that one more time, uncle andrew, i am going to kick you in the face." just like, plain as day, totally serious. she is crazy, but she is so cute too! patrice knows. haha. but my get togethers are now really entertaining cause it's usually cammie (and her brother cooper) doing really funny misbehavingish-type things and my other cousins getting really annoyed by it, haha. oh well.
no ring this christmas. it's still at my house, so looks like i won't be engaged in 2010. ohhhhhh well. that's ok, i'm still young.
at this time last year i was on my way to hawaii. sigh. wish i could go again, considering how much fun i had with patrice and anna. and i ate so much good food. and it was WARM. ahhhhhhhhhh. i need to stop thinking about it.
i am thinking about you all right now during the holidays and i miss you all very much! i hope you were all as excited about christmas as this lady shopping at walmart was...
Monday, December 20, 2010
'Tis the season...
okay so this is a draft from like a month ago. I'm finally going to post it now... Some things have changed probably. Still don't have internet. I'm at ryan's (new dude in my life) using his. I'll guess I'll read through and make changes in italics.
Also, I am sick too.
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for Tiffypoo to finally let everyone know whats going on in her life.
First of all I would just like to let everyone know that I am cold. I'm still cold.
okay.
So Rach knows most of this stuff already, sorry you have to hear this again!
living situation:
NYC/Jersey City is great! I live in Jersey City (which is like a stone's throw from NYC, it's closer than Brooklyn and Queens and its cheaper!) My place is not too bad. I live in a 3fl house with 4 other people, one of which is my landlady. I most definitely have the best room in the house. It's the cutest (it was already furnished!) and largest out of all the rooms. The only drawback is that it's in the basement so I can hear everyone walking around...and also the heater in the room needs to be fixed too, so its cold in there. Heat still not fixed! But, I only pay $500/month with everything included (electricity, water, laundry, and cable) I know that sounds like a lot for renting a single room but it's actually pretty remarkable that I found something that cheap. I would be paying at least $300-400 more if I were in Brooklyn, which is where most 20-something NYC transplants flock to. What else? The place is really cute. My landlord, Carson, used to run a bed-and-bath in the house so all the decorations and furniture and little knick-knacks are super cute. There's a lot of french inspired things around the house because she catered to French tourists. There are two dogs, Jules and Maggie. Jules is an old-man dog. He has doggie osteoporosis. :( Jules had to be put down two weeks ago because he couldn't move his back legs anymore. Maggie is young and full of energy. She likes to chew things like power cords and shoes and people's plush horses... The house is like a 15-min walk to the train I take to get into the city and in a pretty safe part of Jersey City.
working situation:
WNYC (Soundcheck) is awesome. I still have to do mundane intern things like make coffee and sort mail but I also do like actual work that a real producer would do. I've worked on two preps (like scripts for the host) so far and in the process of one right now for Wednesday's show. I do a lot of research, reading, and writing about music in all genres. I'm also in charge of the facebook and twitter accounts too. It's pretty cool and I've met a lot of interesting people. Every once in a while a big name will drop by like Ben Folds, David Byrne, Alex Ross...Regina Spektor is coming next week. I'm not exactly sure when the internship ends but I think it will most likely be in Feb or March. Internship was supposed to end this month but the senoir producer asked me to stay for the coming semester! We'll see where I go from there. Grad school has come across my mind again.
I also work at Whole Foods as a barista in their coffee shop. It's a pretty great job. I get paid $10/hr and work about 30-35 hrs a week. Just about everyone that works there is either a hippie or a hipster (yes there is a difference) and an alarming amount of them are from California. My department (specialty) is the coolest; it includes cheese, coffee and beer. The WF I work at is in TriBeCa (there are like 5 other stores in manhattan alone) which means there's a lot of young rich families everywhere. Without fail, on any given day, I will hear at least 3 babies crying. In addition to doing coffee I also get to make gelato! It's super fun coming up with different flavors and experimenting with ingredients. We have this sorbet that I came up with now, Hard Apple Cider. SO GOOD! I basically stole 5 bottles of Crispin's Hard Apple Cider from beer and used that as my liquid instead of water. num nums. Best part of working at WF: everyone calls me Tiffypoo.
With my internship I usually end up working 50 hrs a week and have one day off...oh that glorious day off. I'm basically working all the time.
financial situation:
I'm poor! Not a lot of money to spare here. It wouldn't be so bad if a) I had not been sued last month and b) at&t would not have taken $400 out of my bank account without my consent. Now I know you're probably like "What?! Why did you get sued?" Well it's a long story...here's the abridged version: my insurance company decided to deny the claim from when I got into a car accident in March and the dude's insurance company who I got into accident with sued me $1600 for that claim. This hit me out of nowhere last month. I was supposedly not covered with insurance at the time of the accident, but my mom swears that I was so she's looking for documents to prove that I was right now. In the meantime though I am obligated to pay off that money. I had to put $500 down and will pay $150 for the next six months. If my mom can prove that I was covered then I'll get reimbursed all the money, so let's hope that happens. The at&t situation is also really long and stupid too. I was basically fighting with them for a week over the $400 they took out of my bank account without me knowing. They basically told me they wouldn't put the money back into my account (the money they took out without my consent) unless there was another $400 that would replace it. Uh what?! stupid, so that's a lost cause. Also both of these things happened in one week, so I lost almost $1000 in just a few days...thank god I had enough money in my account to cover everything. I had to defer paying off my loans because of this. Luckily I make just enough money from WF to cover all my monthly expenses, but I only have about $100 breathing room each month...things are real tight! So my finances kind of suck right now, but I like the fact that I am completely independent, paying all my bills and rent on my own. I'm a big girl!
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other things 12/20/10
I have a boyfriend. His name is Ryan. He works at WF too; He is the beer buyer. He's also a musician. We've been dating since the beginning of October. Things are good on that front. He loves the Dead, Phish, and pot....he's a hippie. He is an aries. Our signs go together at least.
I got a membership to Bally's for my birthday. So now I can work out n stuff.
I think thats it for now. I'm going to read all the posts I missed now.
Also, I am sick too.
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for Tiffypoo to finally let everyone know whats going on in her life.
First of all I would just like to let everyone know that I am cold. I'm still cold.
okay.
So Rach knows most of this stuff already, sorry you have to hear this again!
living situation:
NYC/Jersey City is great! I live in Jersey City (which is like a stone's throw from NYC, it's closer than Brooklyn and Queens and its cheaper!) My place is not too bad. I live in a 3fl house with 4 other people, one of which is my landlady. I most definitely have the best room in the house. It's the cutest (it was already furnished!) and largest out of all the rooms. The only drawback is that it's in the basement so I can hear everyone walking around...and also the heater in the room needs to be fixed too, so its cold in there. Heat still not fixed! But, I only pay $500/month with everything included (electricity, water, laundry, and cable) I know that sounds like a lot for renting a single room but it's actually pretty remarkable that I found something that cheap. I would be paying at least $300-400 more if I were in Brooklyn, which is where most 20-something NYC transplants flock to. What else? The place is really cute. My landlord, Carson, used to run a bed-and-bath in the house so all the decorations and furniture and little knick-knacks are super cute. There's a lot of french inspired things around the house because she catered to French tourists. There are two dogs, Jules and Maggie. Jules is an old-man dog. He has doggie osteoporosis. :( Jules had to be put down two weeks ago because he couldn't move his back legs anymore. Maggie is young and full of energy. She likes to chew things like power cords and shoes and people's plush horses... The house is like a 15-min walk to the train I take to get into the city and in a pretty safe part of Jersey City.
View from my bed
Maggie
working situation:
WNYC (Soundcheck) is awesome. I still have to do mundane intern things like make coffee and sort mail but I also do like actual work that a real producer would do. I've worked on two preps (like scripts for the host) so far and in the process of one right now for Wednesday's show. I do a lot of research, reading, and writing about music in all genres. I'm also in charge of the facebook and twitter accounts too. It's pretty cool and I've met a lot of interesting people. Every once in a while a big name will drop by like Ben Folds, David Byrne, Alex Ross...Regina Spektor is coming next week. I'm not exactly sure when the internship ends but I think it will most likely be in Feb or March. Internship was supposed to end this month but the senoir producer asked me to stay for the coming semester! We'll see where I go from there. Grad school has come across my mind again.
I also work at Whole Foods as a barista in their coffee shop. It's a pretty great job. I get paid $10/hr and work about 30-35 hrs a week. Just about everyone that works there is either a hippie or a hipster (yes there is a difference) and an alarming amount of them are from California. My department (specialty) is the coolest; it includes cheese, coffee and beer. The WF I work at is in TriBeCa (there are like 5 other stores in manhattan alone) which means there's a lot of young rich families everywhere. Without fail, on any given day, I will hear at least 3 babies crying. In addition to doing coffee I also get to make gelato! It's super fun coming up with different flavors and experimenting with ingredients. We have this sorbet that I came up with now, Hard Apple Cider. SO GOOD! I basically stole 5 bottles of Crispin's Hard Apple Cider from beer and used that as my liquid instead of water. num nums. Best part of working at WF: everyone calls me Tiffypoo.
With my internship I usually end up working 50 hrs a week and have one day off...oh that glorious day off. I'm basically working all the time.
financial situation:
I'm poor! Not a lot of money to spare here. It wouldn't be so bad if a) I had not been sued last month and b) at&t would not have taken $400 out of my bank account without my consent. Now I know you're probably like "What?! Why did you get sued?" Well it's a long story...here's the abridged version: my insurance company decided to deny the claim from when I got into a car accident in March and the dude's insurance company who I got into accident with sued me $1600 for that claim. This hit me out of nowhere last month. I was supposedly not covered with insurance at the time of the accident, but my mom swears that I was so she's looking for documents to prove that I was right now. In the meantime though I am obligated to pay off that money. I had to put $500 down and will pay $150 for the next six months. If my mom can prove that I was covered then I'll get reimbursed all the money, so let's hope that happens. The at&t situation is also really long and stupid too. I was basically fighting with them for a week over the $400 they took out of my bank account without me knowing. They basically told me they wouldn't put the money back into my account (the money they took out without my consent) unless there was another $400 that would replace it. Uh what?! stupid, so that's a lost cause. Also both of these things happened in one week, so I lost almost $1000 in just a few days...thank god I had enough money in my account to cover everything. I had to defer paying off my loans because of this. Luckily I make just enough money from WF to cover all my monthly expenses, but I only have about $100 breathing room each month...things are real tight! So my finances kind of suck right now, but I like the fact that I am completely independent, paying all my bills and rent on my own. I'm a big girl!
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other things 12/20/10
I have a boyfriend. His name is Ryan. He works at WF too; He is the beer buyer. He's also a musician. We've been dating since the beginning of October. Things are good on that front. He loves the Dead, Phish, and pot....he's a hippie. He is an aries. Our signs go together at least.
I got a membership to Bally's for my birthday. So now I can work out n stuff.
I think thats it for now. I'm going to read all the posts I missed now.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
sad
so one of my best friends, jules (the one in the peace corps in niger), wrote a post on her facebook about how she misses her ball state crowd most of all. and desperately awaits their letters. i write her once a week. i just spent forty five dollars mailing her some goddamn christmas cookies. but she misses them the most. and doesn't feel bad about posting that on the internet for all of us that she barely misses to read.
it made me cry a lot
so please
please
will none of you ever write on your facebook or something about how you like miss tiffy the most?
i miss everyone
but apparently the feeling is not mutual
also i feel like beth in little women
one day i'll take a pic of my new car (named him enrique) and put it on the blog) but changing clothes exhausted me today. so maybe tomorrow.
it made me cry a lot
so please
please
will none of you ever write on your facebook or something about how you like miss tiffy the most?
i miss everyone
but apparently the feeling is not mutual
also i feel like beth in little women
one day i'll take a pic of my new car (named him enrique) and put it on the blog) but changing clothes exhausted me today. so maybe tomorrow.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
kelly
omg i wanna see that movie so bad! i hope patrick doesn't want to see it and you and i can see it together. k? k. it's decided.
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