So Ali, did you ever find some luggage?
I'm glad to hear you seem to love your job so much, I understand about alone time, I get an hour on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at my work and I love it, I usually blast the music and sing horifically loud.
And OMG Ture Blood is NUTS!!! I love it! I really like that Godric guy, he seems really wise... and I'm curious as to where they're going with Maryann, hm.......
Also I wanted to vomit when Tara and Eggs were eating that suffle.... so gross!!!
Maryann needs to go...I can't stand her! And yes, the souffle thing was digusting. It was the first time during this entire show (first and second season) that I ever had to close my eyes. Horrendous! And what ensued after they were done eating just relly bothered me.
I still have no found luggage however at this point, I can't afford it anyway.
OK so now for the update. I apologize because this is pretty much a "venting" post. Don't be alarmed. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming in a day or two.
Today is Tuesday 8/11. Not counting today, there are 72 days until we leave!
Thats the good news.
Now I go into spazz out mode.
Yesterday, I went and deposited Lumars paycheck, stopped by the post office to mail out the prize for the DIS Scrapbook Challenge winner, and went to Target to buy a giftcard for a friend of mine who is getting married on Saturday.
On my way to work, a little rock, about the size of a lemonhead candy, jumped off the road and hit my windshield. And left a crack/pit in the glass about the size of a nickel
.right smack dab in the middle of the drivers line of sight.
I came to work upset not because the crack is all that big but because that was the first time that has happened to me in the 12 years I have had my license, and because I have been hit by bigger rocks (and some chunks of tire after an 18-wheeler had a blowout on the highway while he was driving directly in front of me) and never had that happen.
Oh and my insurance just went up about $20 a month because we moved out of my moms house and no longer get the discount for having the homeowners insurance and multiple cars on the same plan.
Sooo
. Lumar got out of work at 6 last night and went to visit his mom for a few minutes who lives about 10 minutes from where we work. When he came back to get me at 7:15, there was a loud squealing noise coming from under the hood and it was VERY hot in the car. He told me that A/C stopped working and for some reason there was heat coming from under the steering column. All of this started when he left his moms.
So were driving home (keep in mind it was over 90 degrees yesterday) with no A/C and HEAT pouring out of somewhere onto my legs as we were driving 20 minutes home.
We got home at 7:45, I called the dealer to see if I could bring my car in today. I didnt want to go the dealer because they were going to charge me a lot of money, but at least they would give me a loaner for the day. They closed at 7pm.
I called my mom and she told me I could borrow her car for the day, so I dropped mine off at the mechanic this morning. Im waiting for them to call me and tell me how much money they want.
Keep in mind, I havent paid bills yet.
And when I got to work, I realized that I left my lunch in my car. Which is now in the shop.
So anyway, to back track just a little more, my friend called me Thursday to tell me that they were up here in CT visiting and they were having a birthday party for her daughter (my God Daughter) on Saturday. She called me Thursday to tell me about a birthday party that would be held within the next 48 hours. So on Saturday morning, The Lumar and I get up and run to Toys R Us to look for gifts for a 6 year old. What does a 6 year old girl like these days? Hello Kitty, Wizards of Waverly Place, and of course, The Jonas Brothers.
So we run around the store like mad for about an hour. I found a Hello Kitty purse/beach bag, a Hello Kitty t-shirt, a Wizards of WP t-shirt, and a Jonas Brothers stationary set. Then I saw the Jonas Brothers t-shirt. It was perfect. I wanted it.
I walk over to the rack
.
And some skinny little twit jumps in front of me and grabs the LAST ONE in a size small. Which, of course, it the size I need for my God Daughter. I was about to tackle her, but decided against it. So I sadly sulk my way up towards the registers and Im in the wrapping paper section looking for a gift bag, when I see the Skinny Little Twit walk by, WITHOUT the shirt! I whisper to Lumar she ditched the shirt, find it, find it now! We backtrack and I spot it, in all its baby blue glory, hanging from a random shelf in the musical instruments aisle. I snatched it and ran to the register. But not before I picked up a Hello Kitty purse for myself
.
$75 later we were leaving Toys R Us and now trying to pack everything into the gift bag while sitting in the car in the parking lot baking in the sun. The party had started at 12. It was now 12:30 and we were 20 minutes away.
So we arrive at the party and are like, the 3rd people there. We stand around talking and catching up, when I notice there is a little dog in a crate under the porch. My friend tells me its hers. A little long hair Chihuahua named Alexis. Shes 6 months old, Im told.
For those of you new to my trip reports, I am an animal rescue volunteer. I have been in the business (the non-profit type lol) for about 4 years. My friend, has known me for 10 years so this is something that she is well aware of. She got her dog from a breeder. Then she tells me (and a few other people who happened to be standing around) that she will get the dog spayed
after they breed her.
For someone who works in animal rescue, this the equivalent of finding out that your best friend is sleeping with your mortal enemy. Talk about a stab in the back. Approximately 3 4 million cats and dogs are euthanized every year because of overpopulation. Because there are already homeless pets out there who breed because its natural. Then we add in all the people who breed for money or because they want a status pet (the cockapoos, and labradoodles, and puggles, and what have you). People would rather CREATE a breed then adopt from a shelter and risk getting a mutt.
3 4 MILLION. Put to sleep simply because there is not enough space in the shelters, and not enough available homes.
So I try not to think about it because all it does it make me sick to my stomache.
Oh and I got sunburned at this party and it hurt really bad and now it just itches like crazy. Just to add insult to injury. Or injury to insult. Either way.
So then I come to work on Monday and another friend of mine who Ive known for about a year, tells me that he was at the mall on Saturday
and bought a rabbit from a pet store.
Ive been volunteering for 4 years at a rabbit shelter. We just rescued 16 rabbits from a hoarder who had all 16 divided into 5 cages. There live rabbits in cages with dead rabbits. No food. No water. Living on piles and piles of excrement. This is the 2nd times in two years we have taken animals from the same family. The last time, it was 17 rabbits. On both occasions they had other animals in there as well. Not to mention, the garage was packed FULL with garbage bags (probably containing more dead animals). Oh
and they have small children.
My friend knows that I work for a shelter AND we had discussed it ON FRIDAY. Only 2 days ago!
Oh, and I got an email on Saturday morning telling me about a Petland Discount employee in Ohio who drowned two rabbits at the store and then smiled for a picture with the two carcasses (a picture which the store manager took) and then posted it on her facebook.
After all of this, I am about ready to have a complete and total meltdown. Add in the crack in my windshield and now the over heating car with the non-working Air Conditioning and Im in SERIOUS need of a vaycay.
So now that I have totally spazzed out, I would like to thank you all for letting me vent.
I think I need to extend my trip to Disney by about a week.
I even posted a pic of my own tattoo! There are people out there with some really amazing Disney tattoos! 
I love your PTR so far. I love True Blood too! Yea, last Sunday's eppi got to me I had to look away several times YUCK 
! Sorry to hear about your car hope all works out for you. I can't wait to hear more on your trip!!
I want to get one really bad but he won't budge! 
COME ON!!! 
!! When we went down in March/April we were able to use our Disney gift card for tips. So maybe you can include that on your gift card. I believe you can put $500 on one card. 
!!
I really like being a volunteer and I wish I had more time to devote to it. Depending on how things go when we get laid off, maybe I'll be able to take some time off without having to go right back to work. We'll see...
