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4:26

It is 4:26 and I am newly showered. I am waiting for Wendy to awake but I realize that she may not work at her usual time. So, I am sitting here in a towel, listening to the quiet hum of my laptop. It is very calming and I realize that I have not been in a place where I could simply listen to it hum away. Wendy’s computer is ridiculously loud–so loud that you can easily hear it down the hall, in the bedroom. My laptop hums away; although, sometimes it is nearly silent.

It’s a shame that I do not take solace in the comforting and familiar sounds around me more often. The narrator of my relaxation CD tells me to do this as I fall asleep and, I must admit, the CD is more effective now than ever. Where I used to listen to it all the way through, and be wide awake, I am falling asleep with no concept of how long I have been listening to it. And sleeping through the night without so many awakenings. The result? I am sleeping far less than I used to. Perhaps still more than your average person (although, I have nothing on your average bear).

Now to get on a normal sleeping schedule because, as you can guess, it is quite abnormal for me to be awake at 4:26 in the morning and I won’t even make it to 8 o’clock tonight. I didn’t last night. That’s okay. I sleep much more soundly when it is dark. Luckily, Wisconsin offers me around sixteen hours of darkness every day and it certainly messes with one’s inner clock–especially if one is not awake during the few hours of light. This is also why I want to adjust my schedule.

But, for now, it is 4:41 and I am calmed by the sound of my laptop and that is all I need.

No news is good news..

Sometimes and sometimes not. Sometimes it means Cole just isn’t blogging because she doesn’t want to say “I was in a car accident with Wendy and while everyone is okay and it wasn’t my fault, the car isn’t doing so well and it should have been so much worse.”

Sometimes it also means that Cole and Wendy went to see movies like Coraline and Watchmen which were both good or that they spent hours wandering around downtown, 2 minutes visiting the Alamo (which is all you really need) and dined at a “British” style pub where their server was a friendly lad in a kilt who Wendy loved.

Sometimes it’s both.

Down the rabbit hole

Last night, Wendy and I headed out to a local bar/venue known as the White Rabbit. We saw 3 bands play before heading out. Toward the end, we could definitely tell which was the local favourite and there was some talent to be seen but the bar itself was a little lame. All drinks were prebottled and just sitting in refrigerators to sell. If you wanted something non-alcoholic, there were vending machines outside. How odd, no? Still it was an interesting experience.

She’s late! She’s late!

Well, she was late. Wendy’s first flight was delayed 3 hours because f the snow but she finally made it to Chicago where he second and third flgihts were rerouted to just a second flight straight to San Antonio but that flight was delayed 3.5 hours itself. She finally wound up leaving Chicago for San Antonio at the time when she should have been here already so my sister in law couldn’t pick her up from the airport. Wendy wound up taking a taxi, after I explained to the cab driver how to get here (okay, it’s a weird street name but you drive a cab!) and she showed up around 3:30 in the AM. It was exhausting just waiting for her!

Tonight is the night

(is the night of love? LOL)

Actually, it’s the night Wendy comes!

Like Fry is Destined to be a Delivery Boy..

I have a job. I’m not super excited but after a day, I don’t hate it so that’s good, right? I’m cashiering at a place on base and my job consists mostly of currency exchange (USD to Yen and back), check cashing and club (credit) card payments. I was quite nervous as they gave me money and put be on the register immediately after I arrived and had the tour of the place (which didn’t help – those back halls are confusing!).

It was definitely a different form of training than Wal-mart where I had to to do hours of computer-based training and watching over others cashiers’ shoulders until I was almost ready to murder because it was not helping. I admit, I would have preferred to work on the register in training mode but I think I caught on pretty fast.

It was a long day, though: over 9 hours before I could leave. I haven’t done that much standing for a while and my feet were killing me by the time I got home. I need new shoes. )= I was also quite sore when I woke up this morning.

It sucked being away from Rian, too. On days when we both will work, we’ll barely have a chance to see eachother and I am not looking forward to that. Still, it’s nice to be out of the house sometimes and I’ll be making some money. It’s not the best in the world but I was honestly surprised that I didn’t hate it.

I was a bit disappointed because after I was hired, my supervisor had offered me another, better sounding position but had not offered it to existing employees so she had to rescind the offer.

Anyway, aside from that I’ve been really bitchy lately. Rian and I got into (and still are in?) a spat earlier because it’s such a nice day and I just want to be outside, but not by myself. I know there’s nothing to do but I’d be find just wandering around off base looking for something to do – and if we find nothing, that’s cool too – but Rian just doesn’t like to do that. It just escalated from there and it shouldn’t have.

But I think my overall bitchiness is related to the fact that I’m much more confident these last few days. I’ve been taking the time to “doll myself up” and feeling quite good about it. I did have a frustrating time trying on some potential tops for work, earlier, but aside from that I’ve been in a pretty good mood and I think Cole in a good mood equates to Cole feeling more aggressive and, ultimately, being bitchier.

It bugs me, a bit. Mostly, everyone else seems fucking stupid and needs to shut the hell up and/or die (preferably a quiet death – thank you!) so my time on forums and The Pork has been limited. (Speaking of, Cradz – the admin – had issues so the release of The Pork 4.0 has been delayed yet another 3 weeks)

On the plus side, Wendy will be here next month (and for my birthday!) which should be cool. They actually have a Disneyland tour set up then and I am hope-hope-hoping we can go! That would be super cool!

PS. Happy birthday internet.

Good Times!

A number of things have happened recently which make my quite the happy camper.

For starters, I am counting down the days until I get to see Rian (6 days now!) and anticipating the time we will be spent together, some of which will be here, some in San Antonio with his family, some in Wausau with my family (where my mom has offered to pay for us to rent a car and we will be able to get a discount at the hotel where she works because we’re family) but most of the time here. However, while here we’ll have Wendy staying for a week or so and celebrate our anniversary late at a hotel. (=

Also I am very excited because, for the first time since I moved, Samantha talked to me on the phone last night and she told me she loves me which is only the second time she’s said that. You cannot believe how happy that makes me and I am so anxious to see that little girl. I don’t know if this has to do with the fact that I’m coming home and that makes he be less angry with me or maybe it’s because I pretended to cry on the phone when she wouldn’t talk to me. -chuckles* But I’m super happy and when Mom called today, I could hear Samantha in the background begging to talk to me, so she did. ^_^ Also, I cannot wait to give her the little Dora the Explorer snowglobe I bought for her.

But Samantha isn’t the only reason I’m looking forward to going to Wausau; I get bourbon chicken! YES! I’ve missed that so much. I’m planning a “bourbon chicken party” with all my friends to see them at once and catch up. And I kind miss Mom too, but don’t tell.

Another great thing happened yesterday. My old friend Val(Jetta) from Ozpark e-mailed me and it was great to hear from her as well. It’s great to catch up with her; we used to be super close and talk every day but she’s a busy lady with her children and work.

Also, Wendy’s friend bailed on her which means she has 2 tickets to the Family Values Tour and no one with whom to go so she asked me. Of course we’d have to ask Rian and buy another ticker because it takes place when they’ll both be staying with me but I figured, why not, it’s a decent line up and something to do. The only roadblock we have is that we don’t really have a way there (Wendy’s friend was her ride) so we’re contemplating renting a car for a day or so. I wonder i f any local radio stations would have a bus or something going but I don’t know where to look, really. We’ll see.

On another note, today my friend Christina called to tell me she’d gotten engaged to the guy she’s been dating since earlier this year. I had a chance to meet him and while he was quite, he seemed okay. For some reason I’m much more excited for her than Ashley and, while I feel bad, I don’t feel so bad anymore. I guess Ashley hasn’t been keeping Christina updated about the wedding, either.

At this point, I think I could go to Japan and join Rian before the wedding but, of course, the problem is I’m supposed to be in the wedding and I’ve already backed down as Ashley’s matron of honour (because I don’t believe in the relationship) and I’d feel bad going but I don’t want to stay, nor do I have the money as Rian and I had decide I didn’t really need a job if I can go so much sooner. So I have to have a big talk with Ashley but, of course, she never calls me or anything. Bleh.

Speaking of calling, once in Wausau I’ll be able to get a new cell phone. I broke the screen on mine a few weeks ago and while I can receive and make phone calls, I cannot use anything via the screen (phone book, alarm, texts, etc). Unfortunately, my cell phone carrier doesn’t have any offices further south than Marathon County so I’ve had to wait to replace it.

So that is about all my good news for the day. -grins*