It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, gas prices have gone down, which is good. I can now afford to go back and forth to work, for the most part. Cell phone bill is still expensive, but I can't go without it, as I don't have a home phone. Living with parents after they've caught the whole cell phone bug is kind of annoying. The house phone is now a cell phone, but since I'm on my own plan, I can't use the home phone because it's on THEIR family plan that THEY'RE paying for. Someone explain parental logic to me again?

In any case, I'm also picking up more hours at my job. I'm still not full time, which is going to be terrible come my birthday when I'm off my dad's insurance. Not that it's terribly good, but it's better than having nothing. I'm still looking all over for jobs, but the only places that I'm seeing that are hiring are for seasonal work, which I don't need. Seasonal hours are actually picking up for me, so I'm doubtful I'll be able to start a new job until...oh, after New Year's?

I'm also taking a trip over New Year's, to Canada. My friend is flying me up there and paying for the hotel, so I don't have to worry about that. All I need is spending money, and hopefully after Christmas and working all sorts of hours, I'll be able to do it.

So at work last week I got more hours than most full time people, simply because I'm willing to volunteer for promotions. I worked with kids all of Halloween, which wasn't bad. The store was pretty dead. The weather was nice, and most kids went Trick-or-Treating in their own neighborhoods. Now, if the weather had been much worse, I would have been MUCH more busy, but I was having a blast with the few kids that did come. There were some ADORABLE children that came through, and they managed to make me smile. And when I'm having a hard time with money and such, I just think of them.

My family has also gone through a giant upheaval, my grandmother on my father's side passed away somewhat suddenly. It was nice to see all the family again, but not good that it takes a death to do it. So I lost some time at work for that, but at the same time, it was worth it. And now another girl at work just had her grandfather pass away, so not only do I know what she's going through, she's going to be away a bit as well, meaning we're either going to be a bit shorthanded, or someone else is getting more hours. The manager can't give them to me because I'll go into overtime on hours. Not that I'd mind, but I don't think the company wants to pay me for it.

Nothing else is really going on right now. The weather's really starting to turn, and I need to get the fan switch fixed in my car (still), but that's a cheap fix. All it takes is a nice day where I won't freeze working on it, the right tools, and time. Hopefully it all works out in the next two days, because it's my 'weekend' from work. And I need it. It's time to sleep in and not do much at all, except for keep looking for jobs.

Can it be New Year's yet? Please?