Ugh. Extremely irritating last few weeks. I can't even begin to explain..... But yeah I just got back from Visalia. I went with my dad and my brother this year to my grandparents' house for Christmas. We left on Saturday and got back about half an hour ago. Already my brother is driving me crazy. Doesn't help that we're in an extremely confined space. And he keeps hitting the couch next to me with a metal baseball bat thing that he found outside. Grrrrr...... But I think this week's crappiness started with having to go to work on Thursday. I didn't have to go to school since I didn't have any finals on that day or the day before that, but I had to go to the Lyons Ave. location of my work on Thursday. Lame. BUT....I was expecting to get paid so whatever....as long as there's money involved. So I was waiting and I even worked late, waiting for the woman that takes care of our paychecks to come in. She finally showed up around 7ish, about half an hour after the place was supposed to close. Then when she found out that we didn't have to work the next day, she was like oh shit.....I didn't do your paychecks. And my boss claimed to have lost all other checkbooks (genius) so she couldn't give us our checks, either. What...the fuck..... So the last time I got paid late and now I didn't even get my paycheck?? And this is the one before CHRISTMAS. If you have employees and you expect them to continue working for you, you should pay them on time. ESPECIALLY RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Uuuuugh. So yeah I still haven't gotten paid. Great. Then on Friday night we were supposed to have dinner with my mom and her boyfriend to celebrate Christmas early with them since they were going to Lake Tahoe. So I ended up cooking everything since my mom was busy cleaning the house and whatever she was doing....it was pretty damn good. Oh yeah. I ordered a new phone from ebay last a little over a week ago. I got it for way the hell less than the $280 I was going to have to pay for it if I bought it at the Cingular store, so I was happy. But it was shipping from New York. So I expected it to take about a week, maybe a little more because of everyone shipping stuff for Christmas. So I wait a week and after a week I get an email from ebay saying that the phone that I ordered does not come with a battery..........so I could cancel the order and get a full refund if I wanted to. What......the....fuck....? You would THINK they would inform me of this maybe.....less than a week after I paid for the damn thing? I mean I was expecting it to be delivered and it hadn't even been sent yet. I figure batteries don't cost a lot, though.....which reminds me I have to look it up right now....shit.... But yeah I bought it anyway. It's just irritating that it's taking so long. But seriously....who sells a phone with no battery... (ok it's $20 not bad) I'm tired. So for Christmas I got some cool stuff. I got: - Money (of course) - An awesome ring from my mom - Chanel perfume - Cooking lessons at this extremely expensive restaurant in Ventura - Gift cards - A cool pencil set from my Grandfather - Reeeeeally soft black slippers from my Grandmother - An electric blanket from my dad - An apple-scented lotion set from my boss (no paycheck, but lotion, yes) - Cookies and candies and stuff from my students at work (awesome) as well as more gift cards - Candle set from Mom and other stuff...that I can't think of right now.... I had almost no time to go Christmas shopping this year due to work and just....nobody in my family wanting to go shopping... But I got Steve Clerks II because it's a fabulous movie. We probably watched it 5 times this weekend alone. Boredom! Ha oh yeah my dad wants to get me this car. It's a '95 Blazer. It's burgundy. When he told me about it I didn't know it was a '95 and I thought it was one of those cooler older ones that look a little like Broncos....but yeah. It's not. Burgundy. And the dude that owns it was going to have it repossessed because he lost his license due to a DUI and didn't drive it and didn't have the money to pay it off. So my dad wants to buy it for me and fix it up (the guy let his friend drive it and whoever it was sideswiped a pole on one side so it got majorly scraped). It also reeks of cigarettes because he would go sit in the back and smoke out. There are tons of empty cigarette packs in the back. And on the back seat there are about a dozen pizza boxes and Starbucks cups. I would have to majorly clean it up. So yeah I dunno. Oh yeah. My grandfather called me into his office last night to talk to me, which is weird because for most of my life he hasn't even talked to me. But lately he's gotten a lot better with me, mostly because I think he's impressed with my drawing. So he called me into his office and showed me a couple sites that he thought I might be interested in. He showed me how to illegally download programs from the internet (haha) and how to hack into other people's computers. It was hilarious. But a lot of the stuff he showed me could be really useful. I can get Photoshop and other programs off these sites. As well as music, movies, etc. So yeah. Grandpa's cool. Hmm my mom is in Lake Tahoe and I'm at my dad's.......I have to go home and feed the cat. And the dogs. Shit.... Ok. End.