We had our first test in my math class this week. For a minute there, I thought that I may not do that well on it. The last problem was a pattern problem where we had to find the pattern, solve the problem, then make an equation. These things really trip me up, and my brain does not like them. But, I pushed through, and I did it! There were only a few people left in the class by the time I finished, but who cares? We got the tests back on Wednesday, and I got 99%!!! Woo hoo! I think that's the first time I've ever gotten an A on a math test. Aw yeah. It feels great!
In other math news, I'm just about done cramming a term's worth of math into my brain. I'm going to take the placement exam this coming Wednesday. I've still got some reviewing and a little more learning to do, but overall, I'm feeling pretty confident. My tutor has been amazing, and I'm soooo glad that Ingrid hooked me up with him! We're meeting one more time on Tuesday afternoon to go over any last question before the exam. Wish me luck!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Retail therapy high!!
Who needs drugs, when you can hit a sale like no other!?! My roommate Larry, led me and Jocelyn to a warehouse sale this afternoon. It was for a fairly high-end, sustainable clothing line called Nau. They were having the sale of the century! Here's why I'm feeling so great: $150 jeans...I paid $15. $125 pants....I paid $15. $125 denim skirt...I paid $5! Also got 2 shirts that were tagged at around $50 for $5 apiece! Ahhhh...that much clothing for $45! Sooooo awesome.
Funniest part of the experience? The "dressing room"...it was a curtained off area with a lot of women crammed in, stripping, and trying on clothes with discarded clothes and hangars strewn all over the floor. Fun times. Bumping butts with strangers? Yes. Madness? Yes. People being pissed off? Refreshingly, No! What a great shopping trip.
Funniest part of the experience? The "dressing room"...it was a curtained off area with a lot of women crammed in, stripping, and trying on clothes with discarded clothes and hangars strewn all over the floor. Fun times. Bumping butts with strangers? Yes. Madness? Yes. People being pissed off? Refreshingly, No! What a great shopping trip.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
One night in Seattle...
For a little while there, I didn't think that I'd be able to get to Seattle this weekend for my friend Jessie's baby shower! I-5 was closed for a couple of days because there was a major downpour and the freeway flooded. But, I guess mother nature decided to cut us a break, and they re-opened it on Friday! Jocelyn and I were originally going to go up on Friday, but decided to go first thing on Saturday morning instead. We rolled into town around 10am, had lunch with Jocelyn's friend Erin and her daughter. I went to the baby shower in the afternoon, which was very enjoyable. It was fun to catch up with a couple of old friends, and meet some great new girls! Here's a pic of me, Jessie and Becca at the shower. :)
After the party, I met back up with Jocelyn and Erin, we checked into the hotel, and then had quite a treat for dinner! Erin had a $100 dollar gift certificate that she wanted to spend, so we went to a fancy joint a couple blocks from the hotel. The food was AMAZING. I had a steak that was $46!!!! I would pretty much never order something that expensive, but, it was free money! After we stuffed ourselves with dinner, Erin insisted that we had dessert, so Jocelyn and I shared the Creme Brulee...shoot, I forgot to take a picture of it before we dove in! So, here's a pic of the delicious steak instead! After dinner, we nearly had to roll out the front door. We crashed pretty hard that night. Couldn't do much more than lie there and digest!
This morning, we went shopping at H&M (which STILL hasn't come to Portland!) I was rather disappointed with their current selection, but, managed to get a couple of things nonetheless. We went down to Pike Place market to play tourists for a little bit before going home. Here's a photo of some of the pretty pretty produce on display! More pics of this weekend can be found on my facebook page!
After the party, I met back up with Jocelyn and Erin, we checked into the hotel, and then had quite a treat for dinner! Erin had a $100 dollar gift certificate that she wanted to spend, so we went to a fancy joint a couple blocks from the hotel. The food was AMAZING. I had a steak that was $46!!!! I would pretty much never order something that expensive, but, it was free money! After we stuffed ourselves with dinner, Erin insisted that we had dessert, so Jocelyn and I shared the Creme Brulee...shoot, I forgot to take a picture of it before we dove in! So, here's a pic of the delicious steak instead! After dinner, we nearly had to roll out the front door. We crashed pretty hard that night. Couldn't do much more than lie there and digest!
This morning, we went shopping at H&M (which STILL hasn't come to Portland!) I was rather disappointed with their current selection, but, managed to get a couple of things nonetheless. We went down to Pike Place market to play tourists for a little bit before going home. Here's a photo of some of the pretty pretty produce on display! More pics of this weekend can be found on my facebook page!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
I hate everything!!!
Ok, maybe not everything. Pilates today was pretty rad.
But...I'm supposed to go to Seattle tomorrow for a weekend of Baby Shower and shopping at H&M. And I-5 has 10 feet of water on it! What the hell, mother nature??? You jerk. I guess that's a sign that I'm not supposed to leave this god-forsaken city until spring?? I swear to god, if I can't get to the Egypt/Israel trip in May, I might just lose my shit. I'm tired of re-arranging my schedule to leave town, then having the weather leave me stranded!
Oh, and here's a big YOU SUCK to whoever isn't making a detour around that mess!
But...I'm supposed to go to Seattle tomorrow for a weekend of Baby Shower and shopping at H&M. And I-5 has 10 feet of water on it! What the hell, mother nature??? You jerk. I guess that's a sign that I'm not supposed to leave this god-forsaken city until spring?? I swear to god, if I can't get to the Egypt/Israel trip in May, I might just lose my shit. I'm tired of re-arranging my schedule to leave town, then having the weather leave me stranded!
Oh, and here's a big YOU SUCK to whoever isn't making a detour around that mess!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Good day/Bad day
Today was the big "first day of school!" I had my algebra class today. It actually went really well, and was almost fun! My teacher is only a couple of years older than me....and he's cute, so YAY! The other best thing of the day? Feeling smart. We had a couple of in-class projects today. The first one we worked in pairs. We had to figure out the answer to a question, and then find the pattern to find additional answers. The girl sitting next to me and I figured out the problem a good 5-10 minutes before the boys next to us....YEAH! They were trying to over-analyze it and make an entire equation, instead of just doing the work. Silly boys. Then we got another hand-out and had to fill in a chart where we needed to reduce fractions from 12ths to 6ths, 4ths, 3rds, etc. It wasn't terribly hard for me, and I know I'm not perfect...I did miss a couple of them! But, it was making me giggle a bit to see the guy and girl on either sides of me putting down whole numbers...1's and 2's....why would they do that, when the paper asked for fractions? Ah, it's good to be a smarty pants!
After my intellect-high, I figured I'd have a good day at work. I figured wrong. The evening started out dead. It got pretty crowded after a bit, but, no one was tipping! When 9pm came around, I only had 19 bucks in my tip jar, and had to tip out my cook! Well, he got the shaft tonight, but I was getting it too! Worst part of the evening? A guy that comes in and gets spendy drinks for him and all of his friends came in. He always whines that I don't pour as heavy as Levi (my boss)... Of course I don't! He's the boss, and he can do what he wants. I have to do what I'm told. So anyway, after MANY rounds of drinks, the guy who always pays starts to head for the door. Without having paid. I sent my cook out the door to grab him. He came back in, apologized for almost running out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here...he always pays and never runs out on a tab. It was an honest mistake. His tab came to $99.75. He gave me a $100 bill. I took it, grabbed a quarter, turned around, and he was mostly out the door. Nothing on the bar. No tip, no nothing. Boy did I want to kick him in the balls!! I just can't get over how horrible people can be. Especially him, with his HUGE wad of cash in his pocket. He tends to hit on me when I'm working. I hope he asks me out again, so I can tell him to fuck off!
And now it's late...I'm off to bed!
After my intellect-high, I figured I'd have a good day at work. I figured wrong. The evening started out dead. It got pretty crowded after a bit, but, no one was tipping! When 9pm came around, I only had 19 bucks in my tip jar, and had to tip out my cook! Well, he got the shaft tonight, but I was getting it too! Worst part of the evening? A guy that comes in and gets spendy drinks for him and all of his friends came in. He always whines that I don't pour as heavy as Levi (my boss)... Of course I don't! He's the boss, and he can do what he wants. I have to do what I'm told. So anyway, after MANY rounds of drinks, the guy who always pays starts to head for the door. Without having paid. I sent my cook out the door to grab him. He came back in, apologized for almost running out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here...he always pays and never runs out on a tab. It was an honest mistake. His tab came to $99.75. He gave me a $100 bill. I took it, grabbed a quarter, turned around, and he was mostly out the door. Nothing on the bar. No tip, no nothing. Boy did I want to kick him in the balls!! I just can't get over how horrible people can be. Especially him, with his HUGE wad of cash in his pocket. He tends to hit on me when I'm working. I hope he asks me out again, so I can tell him to fuck off!
And now it's late...I'm off to bed!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Mother nature is a beeotch...
For those that don't live in the area, or didn't hear about the madness, Portland has been a mess the last few weeks. We had a freak snow storm that lasted two weeks, and the lucky children of the area got a whole extra week of Christmas vacation. Portland is silly. The first week only had a couple inches, or no snow on the ground at certain points...and no one can seem to function in it! The second week was actually bad. And being from Utah, I feel like I have some authority on the matter! There was a ton of snow, and driving without chains woulda been dumb. Anyway....I digress.
I had a fantastic Christmas vacation planned. I was going to fly to L.A. and spend the holiday with my good friend Evie, who was going to be alone in the town she just moved to. I was going to go shopping at H&M, which still hasn't bothered to come to Portland! We were going to visit my friend Martina, and we were also going to spend Christmas day at Disneyland! Martina got us reservations at Club 33, which was Walt Disney's private dining room back in the day. It's now the only place in Disneyland that serves alcohol. Cool right? I know! Well, that beeotch Mother Nature had other plans for me. Apparently that much snow makes Southwest a bunch of pussies, and they grounded all of their flights for 3+ days! I was gonna leave on Monday, and they said the first flight they could get me on was Friday. That was the day I was going to come home...sigh. Oh, this all happened AFTER I spent 2 and a half hours getting to the airport, and freezing my rear off when we had to wait outside for a shuttle bus for an hour! Brrrrr.
Even though my little heart was cold and sad that it wouldn't get to LA, my friend Jocelyn came to the rescue. She invited me to go home to Roseburg with her. It's no LA down there, but, it was better than being stuck in the snow for another week! It took us an hour and a half to dig her car out and get the chains on. The 3 hour drive down took us 5 and a half. But, we had a nice time down there, and by the time we got back to P-town, all was melty. Woo hoo!
Now it's the new year, and I start school on Monday....scary! More details to follow on my first week or two....
I had a fantastic Christmas vacation planned. I was going to fly to L.A. and spend the holiday with my good friend Evie, who was going to be alone in the town she just moved to. I was going to go shopping at H&M, which still hasn't bothered to come to Portland! We were going to visit my friend Martina, and we were also going to spend Christmas day at Disneyland! Martina got us reservations at Club 33, which was Walt Disney's private dining room back in the day. It's now the only place in Disneyland that serves alcohol. Cool right? I know! Well, that beeotch Mother Nature had other plans for me. Apparently that much snow makes Southwest a bunch of pussies, and they grounded all of their flights for 3+ days! I was gonna leave on Monday, and they said the first flight they could get me on was Friday. That was the day I was going to come home...sigh. Oh, this all happened AFTER I spent 2 and a half hours getting to the airport, and freezing my rear off when we had to wait outside for a shuttle bus for an hour! Brrrrr.
Even though my little heart was cold and sad that it wouldn't get to LA, my friend Jocelyn came to the rescue. She invited me to go home to Roseburg with her. It's no LA down there, but, it was better than being stuck in the snow for another week! It took us an hour and a half to dig her car out and get the chains on. The 3 hour drive down took us 5 and a half. But, we had a nice time down there, and by the time we got back to P-town, all was melty. Woo hoo!
Now it's the new year, and I start school on Monday....scary! More details to follow on my first week or two....
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