February Skies and Hard Goodbyes

It hasn't been the most exciting of weeks. So I don't really have much to say. I've been working pretty much nonstop. Hours were changed around due to other people being unavailable to work. Staying late to help out and becoming more and more disgruntled with my job.

Monday was an interesting day actually. After my little Valentines Day posting I worked and then had to take care of my parents pets because they went to Turning Stone. Shane was gonna go pick up dinner of a roast and when i got home he was here. He has me come in and pulls out a chair to sit down. He sits on my lap and says "the good news is I'm ok." He was in an accident on the way to the store. The other guy kinda decided to pull out in front without enough room. Shane's truck may be considered totalled. We don't know yet. It looks like the frame might be bent. And his drivers door will not close.  Needless to say it wasn't good. I took him out to pizza for dinner that night.

Aside from that very little else of interest. Still have heard nothing from the job. I called on I think Wednesday but all I got was a machine. I keep trying to remind myself how long it can take for someone to be hired anywhere. I mean I got an interview right after the post came up. So I was the beginning of a lot of interviews. He said 200 applicants, so that's a lot of info to go through. And when I was starting with Staples it took at least a month for me to get hired. I did 4 interviews, about one per week, and called about 6 times.

I had to do one of the hardest things of my life on Thursday, say goodbye to my best friend. They're moving tomorrow. I made a card Wednesday night and wrote out a lot of my feelings in that for my love, Mrs. Brookles. (Sadly i don't have the scan of the card on this computer.) It was hard. Really hard. Well, we didn't really talk about it the whole time there. Aside from watching boxes get packed, and the human centipede..which i do not recommend to anyone ever. But the hugs were really really good. I just managed to cry the whole way home. Of course I get out of work yesterday and we're invited to dinner at Glenn's parents and I'm like "I have to say goodbye again?! I can't cry this much" But it was actually really really nice. And then when the hug and goodbye time came I thought there would be tears.. and there were.. but they were from me and Brooke laughing our asses off at Shane almost fracturing his skull on the ice. Seriously I almost pissed myself.

AND NOW, literally as I started writing this we got a call from Mr. Glenn asking us over to help pack things into vehicles and the sort. So its a third goodbye really. But whatever, no matter how sad I am it doesn't change them from leaving so at least i get to spend some time with them first. So I must finish this and shower so we can go say goodbye to our best friends AGAIN. After 17 years I still don't want to say goodbye.

But I know they love me no matter where they go. And I will always love them. And (as I wrote on the back of the card) when we're old people and the adventures are all done with we're gonna end up in the same nursing home having wheel chair races.

My 16th Birthday  2003