FallingLEAVes of Sunshine

Sherisse and I are now coworkers. She applied about two weeks ago, got interviewed, and started working last Saturday. Now we have another AFer working in a retail store in Los Angeles. Actually, I think we have three now. Sherisse and I actually don't work together much. Not yet, anyway. So far she just works Thursday and Saturday nights. I just work Monday through Friday, from nine to five-thirty. I only saw her for about half an hour on Thursday, that was all. As of last Monday, we started a contest in our store. So far I'm in the lead. It's a little tough because I have a lot of hours. But this week has been a good week. So it was a little easier. Hopefully I win! If I do, I'll let ya'll know what I won. And if I don't, I'll tell you what I didn't. This is gonna be quite a long blog. I've been working a lot. Currently we're down an associate manager and a store manager. All we've got is an assistant manager (who takes a week to do what th...

Don't worry! The title of the blog actually is the title of Mat's new CD!!!!!! I was so excited!!!! It finally arrived on Monday!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I already uploaded the songs onto my IPOD. I should probably put the CD in my car so I can actually listen to it. Ever since I got my IPOD, I don't listen to my radio much anymore. Or my CDs. Guess that's what happens when you get an IPOD. Anyway, I saw the cutest thing on Thursday. I picked up my mom in Chinatown and then took her to the market so she could buy fish. While I was waiting for her, I saw these kittens (a gray one and a black one) in the parking lot next door. They were playing with these Duracell batteries someone had thrown away. It was so cute. One would pounce on it, then other would pounce on the kitten and get the battery. They'd pounce on each other to get the battery. It was the cutest thing. Then this morning on my way out, there was a kitty digging in the dirt in front of someone...

So, two of the last three times I've gone to a Drive Thru starbucks defeated the purpose of a Drive-Thru starbucks. I walked in, bought what I wanted, and walked out. Funny cuz I keep saying how I'd like a Drive-Thru Starbucks here in L.A. Yet, there's this one by this place I take my mom every week. and the last two times I went there, I walked through, not drove through. Makes any sense? And the one time I did go throug hte drive-thru and ordered something, we didn't even have to pay! The guy just said he'd give it to us.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=FallingLEAVes02 So, I tried LaDonna's and thought it was cool. Therefore, I made my own! Nough said. go and tell me what you tink. its late nite

Casting Pearls will be in Harvest at Riverside this Sunday! They're gonna broadcast their performance live on the web. Go to Air1.com and there's a Day 7 link. That will take you to the broadcast. Of course, if you're like me, you'll be in church at 6:00 PST on Sunday. That's okay, because they have the webcast available in the archives! I've already checked out Todd Agnew's and Paul Wright's. You just have to sit through the worship and a mini-message before the performance. GO BRYAN!!!! GO SCOTT!!! GO CASE!! YAY!!!! CASTING PEARLS!!!!!!

Here's the update guys! Now I can actually get from my bed to my computer desk without climbing over stuff. I just don't have a bed to sleep on. There's a bed somewhere under all taht stuff in the left picture. Also, in the left picture, on the bookshelf on the first shelf is the majority of my smaller journals. The journals actually range from to the right of the orange colored book (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants #3) to the taller books (fresh, new journals). In the big red Talbots bag are my final project prints from my photography class. Hopefully I can scan them or get a copy to show you what I printed. And yes, if anyone's wondering what that orange stuff is that is in my purse, it's a bag of goldfish crackers.

Don't you love it when you turn on the radio to the local Christian station, you decide you don't feel like listening to whatever song they're playing at the moment, switch over to the only other Christian station that actually plays music and find out that they're playing the EXACT same song the other station was just playing and you end up listening to your CD instead? Living in LA, there's only TWO stations that play music all day long. And it has happened more than once the scenario above. The first time it was Salvador's "Heaven," the second time it was Switchfoot, and it happened again today with Jars of Clay's "Lovesong for a Savior." My favorite story is how I was listening to my Todd Agnew CD and decided I didn't feel like listening to that particular song at the time. Instead of skipping the song, I wanted to see (hear) what was on the radio. Guess what? Without skipping a beat, the radio picked up exactly where the CD left ...

I guess I haven't been posting much. Let's see. Show of hands here... how many of you heard our big news recently? Brother Darry is retiring and our new pastor is gonna be Brother Byron Parker. News of this possibility of Brother Darry retiring leaked out a couple months ago, but of course I kept my lips tight on that. Here, with March almost being over I thought we were in the safe zone. Brother Alan announced this news on Sunday night. Also, I tried all week to find a way to get up to Portland for Jay's wedding this weekend. Sister Berda tried to call me last week, so I called her. Apparently, they sent me an invitation but it got returned to them because they had the wrong address or something. I mentioned this to Juan the other day and he asked me, "who do you know?" He was surprised I was invited. So was I! Nina was surprised I wasn't. I think Roxie was too. Anyway, with no way to get up to Portland, I will be working when the couple says their "I do...

I found this out at our staff meeting on Saturday morning. One of the important guys in our company is the father of Kate Bosworth, who is/was dating ORLANDO BLOOM!!!

Yesterday, i went to the last place I remember playing my DS, which was the hair salon. I left the lady my name and number. So, today when I got home, I checked the messages. Nothing. I went to pick up my mom and brother. When I got home, there was a message waiting for me. Actually, two. The first one was from the salon. They found my DS! The second one was from an army recruiter guy. Anyway, I got my DS back! My doggies didn't run away. They were dirty, parched, and famished, but sleeping.

I've done it, guys! I've lost my Nintendo DS. It happened on Saturday afternoon. I don't know where or when, but it's not in it's usual place. We went over to Terri's house and I realized, Hey, I don't have my DS with me. Well, I've looked everywhere except for one place. Hopefully tomorrow I can go there and look. I don't know where it could be. But if it's really gone, then there goes 180 something dollars. Oh well.

How long does it take for one to gain RIP status? I wanted to see how long I could go without post. What was it... twenty days? Not bad. A few days short of a month. Okay, like a week and a half. But I did comment, so it wasn't like I wasn't on. It just wasn't adding to my blog. So, if you don't hear from me let's just hope that means i'm not posting anything and not sent to siberia. We'll see.

"Getting lost is easy. Finding Starbucks is easier!" This is soooo true. Brother ron was giving me a hard time yesterday about being lost. I was trying to find this place in Walnut which is off the 60 freeway. I happened to be on the 10 freeway which is PARALLEL to the 60. I ended up at this place called Ontario which is like an hour away from us. So, as completely lost as I was, I found the mall! Brother Ron gave me a hard time about having a homing beacon for the mall. Well, I discovered I have a homing beacon for Starbucks. Today we went back and found the place. I dropped them off and decided to go looking for a Starbucks. I didn't have to go any further than around the corner! Talk about a Starbucks radar!Now you can borrow my quote Reesie!

Don't you love it when the night before something important, you try to print something and guess what? You're out of ink. Naturally, you had plenty of opportunities during the day, hey even during the week to buy a new ink cartridge. But did you? nooo. Then as you sit down, work on that thing you needed to have done before the next morning, and as you're printing it out, you're missing half the page because you're out of ink! sigh.

Well, this week we started the New Year (Chinese New Year as well as with work). Last month, I didn't make my target, but I did have the most charge accounts opened. Already this week I have one! I almost had another one. Drats. But, today, I did have a good day. One of my sales was like 500+! So, it's safe to guess that I made this week. Woohoo! Considering I made my day everyday except for Tuesday. Yay me! I deserve a mocha for this! So, today, Gabriel asked me (like he always does) what are my plans for the weekend. We both have tomorrow off and he said he's been craving Old Spaghetti Factory. He said if i didn't have any plans tomorrow to go with him (he said he'd pay). He said he'd call me after he got off work. Just like a guy to say he'll call and doesn't. So, we'll see if we're on for Spaghetti Factory or not.

Okay, you’d think that as a library student, I shouldn’t have any problems with returning library books on time, correct? WRONG. Some of my fellow classmates would certainly agree that library students are notorious for library fines. An example? When I was in sixth grade, I ran up at forty-sometime library fine. Guess what? I just broke my record. Apparently, I’m missing some books. So, guess how much my library fine is? 284. Yup. You read that correctly. It’s not 2.84 (if only), or 28.4, but it’s 284.00! GULP! Hopefully I can find those books. Umm… wait… has anyone seen those books? Actually, has anyone seen the state that my room is? Now try finding some library books in there. I forgot to mention what happened. Okay, so for my history final, I had to write two papers. Let's not forget to mention that the paper topics were passed out around Thanksgiving, giving us plenty of time to do research. So what do I do? Wait until the last week to go to two libraries, check out like thir...

WOOO HOOOOO!!!! Mat Kearney's new album, "Nothing Left to Lose" is going to be released April 4th! I already preordered my copy. Hopefully I'll be one of the first 500 so I can have an autographed one! Yay!!!!

So, today, I went to GJ to get my mocha and guess how much I paid for it? Two bucks. And... I got two punches on my punch card, making it full. Hee hee... My brother had a basketball game today at a middle school in Hollywood/LA. It's right by the Spaghetti Factory on Sunset Blvd. After the game, guess where we went? Amoeba music. I ended up buying Newsboys' "He Reigns" and John Reuben's "the Boy vs. the Cynic." My other choices? Relient K's "Mmhmm", Josh Groban's first concert on DVD, Matthew West's "History," Nichole Nordeman's "Brave," amongst a few others. Does anyone want to know how I did yesterday after all? Well, two of the four ladies did come back and purchased their things... bringing me to a total of 2188 (or something close to that). Yay! My target was about 970, so... someone do the math (Chris) and it comes to something like 1300 extra towards the month. Sadly, today was a slow day. I only got ...

So, last week, Tracy pulled each associate in to give us our productivity report. So far, I'm BEHIND again. Those first two weeks of January are what killed my productivity. So, I'm gonna have to sell sell sell during the rest of January to catch up. Not only am I going to have to continually meet my target (some days are harder than others), but I'm gonna have to exceed my target to make up for the days that I don't make it. Now, if only I keep having days like today, it would be great! I had "princess" hours today, meaning I only worked a five-hour shift. So, my target was like 970 or so. When I left, I had over 1800 in! At one point, I had three or four different piles of stuff for customers. One lady bought like 21 things. Another one bought just as much, but in three different transactions. See, if she had bought them all together, my UPTs wouldn't have dropped. Grrr... why do customers do that? They buy something, see something else, buy that, see so...

That's how many wins I have in my winning streak in Spider Solitaire, easy difficulty. My previous winning streak was 49. Since I got off work early yesterday, I decided it was about time I beat my record. So, I spent a majority of my afternoon and evening playing Spider Solitaire, much to the distress of my wrist and fingers. Boy were they screaming by the time I went to bed. My goal now? To get better at medium difficulty. BTW: today was the first time in awhile that I got a free mocha from BeBo. It was funny because Gabriel asked me to get him something from McDonald's if I could during my break. He also said I could get something if I wanted. I said I didn't want anything. So, he said to use his card to buy my mocha. I said it was alright, I had my money. Turned out, neither of us needed to pay for my mocha today. BeBo was about to wring me up, but he looked like he changed his mind at the last minute. :-D