Go, Speed Racer, Go!!!

I have known about Speed Racer for a long time. When I was younger, I remember watching a few episodes from a movie we got at the library. I now own the VHS that has all the episodes I saw as a kid, and now I have seen the movie.

GASP!

New writing genre!

In a nutshell, Speed Racer the movie (2008) was AMAZING! I don't think it's my new favorite movie, but it comes pretty close. (Edit Sunday 6th: Nope, it is my favorite movie! I saw it again!) It was visually stunning, with graphics that were just a little bit odd for this day and age where every graphic looks real, but put together, Speed Racer was something I cheered for. (Only in my mind. I'm not that rude in a theater...)

I went with my brother, cause we had nothing else to do. My parents are in Northern California right now, for something I'm not going to reveal yet, and my three youngest brothers are staying at my Aunt and Uncle's house, and hour away. I would have liked for my other brother to be there as well, but, I can't have everything I want... At least I don't have work today or tomorrow...

Birthday plans........

Lets just say there are none. I am having a 'party' on the 9th of August, which will substitute for my 'birthday party'.

What we are going to be doing is I'm reserving the ball field behind my stake center and we are going to have a BBQ and play wet kickball...

Allow me to elaborate: We will play normal kickball, only when someone is running around the bases, the other team has to try to hit them with, not the ball, but water ballons! Won't that be fun!

Anyway, Balgram and her social circle are all invited.

And the YSA group in my stake.

And my best friend Cheez.

And anyone else I can think of.

I want to have the biggest party ever, and have a blast. (Which will happen anyway if Balgram invites her group. You can't not have a good time with them...)

Anyone happen to know the cure for spending money? If you do, I would like to know... I'm not letting myself even step into a bookstore anymore... (I went in to get one book for my brother, ended but buying two books and a movie...)

Laters!

Since I said I would and didn't...

Okay. I think I have collected two notebook pages of stuff for this post... I need to post more often.. Anyway...

There is a guy at work who, while shorter than me, is the funniest guy to listen to, has read and loves everything Stephenie Meyer has published, and I try to tell myself I don't have a crush on him, but it doesn't work.
One day at work, I think it was because I was looking tired or something, he said something which I couldn't hear properly except for the word Princess. And he was obviously talking to be and calling me that word. Inside I was blushing and screaming like none else, which was the first clue that I like him.
Then, a few new girls came through, and he happened to be the one that traided them on the computers, and just listening to him chatting with them and helping them was enough to spark my jealousy. That was the second clue.
The two problems with the unexpected liking is that he is leaving on a mission in half a year, and is shorter than me. Not by much, but by enough. (Go ahead, laugh at me...)

So I saw Jessica and her mom one day, Balgram might remember who that is. First I talked to them at Barnes and Noble, then they spotted me later at Walmart. And I got her number, which was good.

Some pretty interesting names I have run across in my job, Zoran Alu-Acol and Fasi-He-Ngalu Kalawafoni....

There was this one phone call that was really funny. It was a husbend and wife on the speaker phone talking together about whether or not to buy the films I was selling. It was really funny to hear two people talking to me in one ear. (I am on douples now I normally have a person in each ear...)

And now at work two people are doing TRIPLES. I didn't even think that was possible! How they do it is the third computer is on a speaker and they never do the end screen, where they actually sell the films. They transfer it to someone who is only doing the end screen. And now they have everyone transfering, which means that I have to use the guy's voice (Gabe) instead of the girl's voice (Melissa). And it bugs the crap out of me, cause I can't go live when the computer can pronounce the name or they interupt and ask a question I don't know the button to.

And I got to train two girls. Me, training. When did that happen? I just started the job! Anyway, everyone jokes that I scared one of the girls off, cause she never showed up after two days training with me. The other girl is on vacation in Texas right now, but she has stayed.

While on the phone one time, I asked for a girl in Gabe's voice, and the man who had answered the phone shouted "You can't have her!" and hung up. ? I mean, ?

And one person I called has exactly the same name as my newest character.

One person's excuse for not having time to take the call is "Have to get off the line, I'm waiting for a call from the White House." ?

There was this one guy who bought films from me who made me take a 'test' before he gave out his credit card number. This was how it went.
"Who is your 'pastor'?" I answered, I don't have a pastor, I have a bishop, then gave his name.
"Do you take 'communion'?" I answered, I take the sacrament.
"What is your favorite scripture?" 1 Nephi 3:7. Then I recited it for him.
He finally bought the films, and afterwards I laughed so hard my side hurt. It was the funniest call I have every had!

One none job related thing is, Wednesday I took my brother to work and dropped him off at his friends house, picking him up afterward. When I got home, I had a brilliant idea. I went downstairs where the parents were watching a movie and I chatted with them for a little bit. Then, when my mom asked where Jo, my brother, was (like I knew she would), I put my hands to my mouth and gasped, like I had forgotten all about him. My mom groaned very loudly, and then I burst out laughing, saying I had gotten her. We had a good laugh, and I got my mom! Whee!

About my birthday, which will happen in less than a month, the next post will tell everything, mostly for Balgram's benefit, 'cause I think she is the only one who reads this...

Laters!

And now I'm pissed...

So, I'm buying my parents car. I think I said that before. Anyway, now I use it to get to work and cut about a hour and a half off my commute to work.
Tonight, I was driving home, minding my own business, when ahead of me, maybe five car lengths, I could see the car in front of me was going way slower than myself. I was using cruise control, and didn't want to turn it off, so as I got closer, I got ready to change lanes and pass the super slow car. But as I turned on my signal and looked to the left, the car that had been ahead of me on that side was slowing down a whole ton. So I looked to the other side and the same thing! By this time I was really close the the car in front and had to slam on my breaks in order to not hit the vehicle.
THEN EVERYONE SPED UP AGAIN LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED! It was like they had slowed down on purpose, with no reason other than to bug me! There was no accident ahead, no blocked up traffic, less than thirty seconds after I had to slow down from 65mph to 30mph, it was clear again!
It doesn't even make sense!
I was pissed off the rest of the drive home and no amount of soothing music could calm my anger...

I just had to write that one down...

The rest of the stuff I have collected since the last post will come tomorrow, I think. Maybe later.

I have so much to tell you! (And Balgram must read the entire post)

Lets start with how much fun my job can be at times: There are so many people who say the funniest things! One woman, convinced that I was a recording (which technically I am) asked if I had a current temple recommend. I went live and answered that I did. She listened to the rest of the script thoughtfully.

Some of the excuses people come up with are downright hilarious, one of which being that she was in labor. It didn’t sound like though…

One man with an adorable Irish or Scottish accent kept telling me to ‘get to the point’ in a really nasty voice.

One phone number led to a Sushi restaurant!

Someone’s name was O J Redhair, another’s name was Devin, and it turned out to be a girl.! When did that become a girl’s name?

And another person, Alan Fry, was the biggest flirt over the phone…!

Sometimes I want to wish the Bourne movies away, not because I hate them, but because they have ‘alerted’ people to the ‘fact’ that people ‘can intercept cell phone calls’. NOT! I wish people wouldn’t believe everything Hollywood thinks up. It is way over exaggerated.

There was one woman who had the last name of a family I remember from when I was twelve, and another man gave me some help on making my… I don’t know the word…better. He said that I had done a great job and that I had a great personality. (What’s really funny is that we use pre-recorded voices for everything!)

And yesterday we called Hawaii. Someone answered the phone with Aloha!

Oh and there’s a new guy at work named John who is 6’ 9”, adorable, and drives a blue mustang!

Aside from the job, I had so much fun last Saturday when my family was in Yellowstone, because I got the car while they were gone and Saturday I hung out with two of my friends!

I have discovered that since I have stopped buying books at Borders, I started buying movies at FYE. OOPS.

And I just bought Dungeons & Dragons the movie, and it is my new favorite movie, aside from the ending. But it has a scene in it, actually two or three, that I have watched over and over and over and over and over again, like over a hundred times… (Guilty of self induced depression….) And they are sad scenes. I have come close to tears each time I have watched one of the scenes. And I’m not going to tell you which one! Haha! If you’ve seen it and know all about my weirdness with movies, than you will know what scene I’m talking about. If not, too bad.

However, on the DVD of D&D, there is a PC extra that I printed off. It was a D&D fast play game based on the movie, and I played it with my two youngest brothers and had a blast as the DM. Wheeee! I should play more often… If only I had time and access to the D&D group my BFF is in…

I do, however, want to ask my BFF Balgram if she or her brother might be willing to be DM for a YSA group D&D activity one time. (I personally think it would be so much fun, I just haven’t talked to the group yet. It’s all girls, and I’m not sure how they will like it. Just a question though…)

And I haven’t talked about my week home alone yet!

My family left for Yellowstone on Friday the 6th, and I was home alone the entire time. And since I had gotten my driver’s license on Tuesday (Squeal!), I got to drive the car the entire time they were gone, from Friday to Wednesday the next week. It was a blast! It was wikabang! (That’s my new word, in case you didn’t know… It’s a combo of wicked and bad said really fast on accident… It’s a great exclamation!)
Anyway, got of subject… The entire time, I had until 1pm before I had to leave for work, instead of the normal 11am. It was heaven! And I got to listen to what ever music I wanted, however loud I wanted it, with the bass pumping the floor like none else! It was the best time I have ever had in a lifetime! And like I said before, after work on Saturday I hung out with two of my friends, Cheez and Dani. We ate at Del Taco then went and saw College Road Trip in the local dollar theater. It was the funniest show ever! I love Martin Lawrence!

I think I just ran out of things to talk about…

No! I have one more thing!

I’m buying my parents car from them, and not moving out for a long time.
The car, I’m paying the last year of payments until it is all paid off, then it’s mine. Because of that, I won’t have money to move out, or go to college next year. But no worries! I will have a car! And I won’t have to ride the bus 5 hours a day just to get to and from work!
Ain’t it grand!

I have also finally seen the movie Blood and Chocolate, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who has read the book, and recommend it to everyone who hasn’t, then recommend the book as a completely separate story. The movie was terrible compared to the book, but it was a great story by its self.

And I love the music on the Blood and Chocolate CD, almost all of which is NOT in the movie.

And I’m done. For now.


Laters!

Moving/Not, Job, Zack A., and a great deal of rambling

Written 11:42pm-1:23am, the night before.

(You don’t have to read everything. It kind of rambles closer to the end as it got later and later.)

So I was planning on talking happily about the apartment that I would be moving into on Monday. I was going to write about how I had gone to the management office, applied, and got an apartment where my new job is now. I would have raved about how great it was with the two pools, the cheap rent, and the walking distance to my work.
Well, I did go to the management office, but I did not get an apartment.
The reason?
I have no credit. And no credit score. Big whoop. Comes from not believing in credit cards and never buying a car.
The alternatives were as follows: Have someone else over the age of 18 submit to a credit score check and guarantee that I would pay rent, or pay the entire lease up front.
The first, my parents said ‘No way.’ The second, I said ‘I don’t have that kind of money.’
So, I’m back to getting a driver’s license and getting home after midnight on weekdays.

Let’s just say that my job great.
Today, we started at the new workplace. And I had two phone calls that were a little more stressful than normal.
The first, because I had to go live every call to ask for the person because there were some problems that were still being fixed, I asked for the woman’s name when a man answered the phone. He asked who I was and I stayed live because it’s just easier that way before the actual person answers. I said, in the same tone and inflection and everything as the recording, who I was and were I was calling from, then asked if the woman was available again. He immediately began saying stuff like I don’t like your tone and even after I apologized, he still was practically yelling at me. After about a minute, he finally gave up yelling and hung up. Yuck. Some people….
The second, I was talking to a woman who had decided that she did want to get the films I was selling, but wanted to do the split pay that we offered. After I got her credit card number, I asked her to hold while I asked someone how to do the split pay, which I had never done before. Halfway through learning how, the computer program which we use turned off on my computer. I panicked, of course. The woman would probably think she had been scammed! I also felt terrible! I immediately asked someone how I could call her back, and after I learned all I needed to fix it, I tried calling the woman back every 2-5 minutes. After a while, I finally got her back on the phone and began apologizing very profusely. She was more understanding than I could have hoped for, but had decided to wait a few months. I apologized some more, then we said goodbye and hung up.

Our new workplace has a lot of windows. While I worked, I was able to watch the trees as the breezes gently blew. While I watched, I caught a glimpse of someone I knew and had a crush on for a long time. He was someone I knew when I lived farther south than where I am now. He went to marine corps boot camp before he went on an LDS mission. When he got back from boot camp, he was the most gorgeous, tanned, muscular, blond haired, blue eyed man I have ever seen. Sigh… Then when he got back from his mission he worked with the young men, then he got married… Sigh… Oh well…

Oh, yeah… And about my phone… last Friday, I got on the bus home, checked something on my phone, then did something with it, what exactly it was, I have forgotten. When I got off the bus and went to wait for the train, the bus left for the garage, and I realized that my phone was still on it. I was so scared that I would never get my $220 phone back. The next day, when dad got home from work, he held his phone out to me for me to listen to something. It was a voice message from the bus driver saying that he had found my phone and that I could pick it up anytime after Tuesday at the lost and found. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get it until today. I am so happy that I have it back now… Sorry to any one who tried to call or text during the week… I have it back now….

‘Satan’s Camaro. In my backyard. It’s stalking me!’
That’s my new favorite quote. If anyone can guess what it’s from, kudos to you.

I’m running out of things to ramble about….

Guess what my favorite car is!
Dodge Charger.
Haha, you never would have guessed!
I just love the aggressive face it has! It’s so beautiful!

You know what is really hard about my job? I don’t agree with most of the stuff. Sure, I like the videos that I’m selling, but I don’t believe that it’s getting harder and harder to find positive entertainment. Just this month I saw a really cute and clean move called Penelope. The Narnia movies are good, Transformers may have a ton of swear words, but it has great themes through out.

I think I want to make computer wallpaper…. To bad I need a way better computer, and some graphic manipulating program.

The only unrealistic thing in Transformers is the fact that the robots make groans and cries as if stuff really hurts them. There probably is some explanation somewhere, but I haven’t found it, unless I’m just being stupid and unobservant.

You can tell what I’m thinking about right now…

I would stop writing, but I’m not going to be until the movie is over, and I’m still in the middle of the big battle at the end.

Maybe what I’m going to do to get some credit on my record is get some kind of simple, small loan from the bank, use the money to buy a great laptop, and pay it off before the summer is over. That’s what my mom suggested, sort of. Only she said that the money should go into a savings account. Only I would rather use the money for something useful, rather than just to get some credit on my record…

How can Megatron smell Sam, he is a robot and has no olfactory senses? Just a question…

Kay, I totally take back everything I said last post about college and everything that had to do with that subject. I don’t want to go to college, I don’t want to get anything higher than an associates degree. I don’t want to do anything other than write sorties for the rest of my life. Oh, and have a family. That’s pretty high on my list of things to do. Plus, I need a husband that would be able to support me while I wrote. Not a paper pusher, and only maybe a military man, only if he is gorgeous. (See how shallow I am?) Maybe a teacher, if he teaches something cool and isn’t like my dad was, staying at work until way past school hours just cause he likes to work. I would rather have a husband who would rather spend time with his family. And who will go to church on a regular basis, and who is healthy. I think I need to take a cooking class…

Movies I want to see in theaters now….
Indiana Jones 4
Prince Caspian (AKA Narnia 2)
Speed Racer

Movies I want to see in theaters in the future…
Batman
Harry Potter 6
TWILIGHT
Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D
Winged Creatures
Transformers 2


Inner voice (AKA voice of reason) : “Do you know how late it is?”
Me: “Yeah…”
I V: “It’s after one in the morning. What are you still doing up with everything you need to do in the morning?”
Me: “Finishing Transformers?”
I V: “Are you unsure?”
Me: “No…
I V: “Oh, just go to bed…”

Another thing that bugs me about Transformers is that Bumblebee, through out the entire movie is a really hip, cool robot who talks through the radio. He acts kind of like the newbie, but in a way that makes him even more cool. Then, at the end, he speaks, and out comes this weird, English accent that just doesn’t fit his personality. What is with that?

And why do the robots have to blink!?

Oh yeah. I also wanted to talk about how I’m never going to the dentist again. But I will have to do that some other time, because the movie is over, and I have to go to bed now. I really do have a ton to do tomorrow…

Adieu!

Getting A Car

Here's a little bit of info:

My new job is more than an hour bus ride from where I live. And at night, I just barely have enough time to catch the last bus back north. On Saturdays when I have to work, however, there is no bus that runs as early as I need it to be. Mom promised that she would drive me, but said that I should get my license. After further investigation, I have discovered that when my workplace moves to it's new home, I won't be able to catch the bus home. Therefore, I need to get a car.

I am so excited!

It's probably just going to be a cheap car, under a thousand dollars, and not very new. However, if it will get me to and from work every day, it will be the best thing ever!
I have yet to investigate how much insurance will cost, but with my new job, I think I will be okay. I might not be able to go to school full time in the fall though. (Yeah!) Not that I want to any way, but you know. The 'rents think it's best for me... Maybe once I have established myself financially I will be able to start going to school full time, which is what I need to do if I'm ever going to finish college in what I want, which has changed drastically since I started school last year.

Let me explain. When I finished high school, I had decided that I wanted to be an American Sign Language interpreter. I wanted that for a while, then it's slowly changed back to being a librarian, until I learned that I would have to do a lot more schooling for that. So then I didn't know what I wanted. When I went with a friend to the college I'm going to transfer too, I changed it again, to just plain English, with a creative writing emphasis. That changed again when I got interested in forensic science again. Now, I don't like science very much, but I think that I would be able to get through all the hard and boring science classes if I know that I would be able to do what I'm really interested in.

What started the interest back up again (I have been interested in this kind of stuff since I was 12, and I get it from my grandma, of all people...) was, I have to admit, the TV show CSI, then CSI: NY (which is way better). Of course, having read a whole lot of books on the subject prior, I knew that most of the timing and scenarios weren't very realistic. After watching a whole bunch of that (and when I say a whole bunch, I mean a TON), I went to a fireside that my church was holding where George Throckmorton, the forensic expert who cracked a bit case in the 1980's, spoke about the case. I was totally entralled, and knew that that was what I wanted to do. Not what he did exactly, he emphesises on forgeries, but solving crimes, proving theories, that kind of things.
I definitely don't want to be a pathologist or anthropologist. Maybe DNA or trace, but both of those involve nano-microscopic things, and I was terrible in my nanotech class last year. Didn't understand anything. Can't comprehend things that small. Maybe I'll be a digital forensic scientist. I'm good with technology. Or maybe I'll be an actual investigator, who knows a little bit of everything, and actually goes to the crime scenes to document it.

Well, that's a lot of talking, and I have to finish getting ready for work...

P.S.
My grandparents and aunt are staying at my house for my grandma's 80th birthday!

Laters!

New Obsession, New Job, and a really cute guy

New Obsession:

CSI: New York. Just the name gives me the chills! I really like how it is a combination of science and police work, until CSI (Watched this first), where it's mostly science. My all time favorite episode is the season finale for season one. I think I have watched the first two minutes of that episode about a hundred times (No joke!) I even started a story idea based on it! I'm way obsessed. Maybe even more than SG:A, because I went out and bought the first season of CSI:NY, but not SG:A, at least, not until a while after the obsession faded...

New Job:

I'm finally leaving the fast food business. Wahoooo! Instead, I'm going to be selling family videos over the phone. I'm going to be a telemarketer! But it pays good, is only a two minute walk from where I'm planning on moving to, and is a sit down job, a big relief after a job where I was ALL WAYS standing up.

A Really Cute Guy:

As I was walking home from work today, a young man stopped me. He looked about my age, with skin darker than mine and a really cute face. He asked me if I rode the bus, and I said yes, what could I help him with. He said that he was trying to sell bus tokens for $1, which is pretty cheap now. I apologized to him, and told him that I had a bus pass from my school, and continued walking. Normally, this sort of thing wouldn't leave such a big mark on me, but he was REALLY cute!


Laters