NAME:
Julie Ann Huebner, my birth name is Julia but I've always preferred Julie. My last name is German in origin and means "one who plows a hue", which is apparently a method of measuring in German, but I'm kind of a mix; I've got Italian, Irish, German and a tiny bit of Cherokee Indian in me. Just call me a melting pot.;)

AGE:
41 and loving it! I honestly don't feel my age and am really having too much fun to feel old. It's especially fun now because my niece was born October 24th of last year so this year we shared a birthday, had cake and a fun party with presents.

LOCATION:
Urbandale, IA. We live in a little cul-de-sac community, mostly made up of retired older people, but this is where I met one of my newest friends. She goes to the same college and we started carpooling together this past year. It is a nice little place and I live in the basement but my space is huge! I have everything except for a kitchen, and it's very homey.

OCCUPATION:
I am working part-time for Nobbies, a party/costume store. It is a lot of fun most of the time, and most of the people I work with are great! I just need to get more hours right now, especially during December. I am also looking for a full-time job working in social work somehow, because while at school I discovered that I am very curious about social behavior and I also desire to help people who really need help in various things. I've always had a big heart and wanted to help people who had no money or are going through a rough patch, and the hard times I've gone through has made me more aware that a helping hand or even just someone to listen can be a great thing.

PARTNER:
No partner, although I currently flirt with a couple of guys online.:) Most of the time I'm happy to be single, especially considering that I'm still trying to get to where I want myself to be. Sometimes though, I wish for that someone special, someone to be a true partner and work with me to have a great life. I've had 3 relationships which were serious at the time or could've been, but for one reason or another the guys decided either I wasen't enough, or they wanted to move onto something else. I seem to make a better friend for guys than a girlfriend, and most of the time I accept that.

KIDS:
No kids, but I have sort of adopted my niece Shaye. She and I have a special bond and she loves spending time with me! I was holding her today and she was so curious about the lights on the tree and all the Christmas decorations, she knows where my area is (in the basement) and will stand at the child gate and yell for me!:) I don't know if I'll ever have kids of my own, especially now that I'm past 40, but for now, being an aunt is good enough.

BROTHERS/SISTERS:
I have one younger sister. She is married although currently seperated from her husband (because he's a jerk), and she has a one year old girl who I love spending time with. As said below, I have a feeling my sister is my parents' favorite and although I love her to bits we've never really been close. We are complete opposites in personality which made for an interesting childhood, but I would do just about anything for her.

PARENTS:
My folks are pretty great for the most part, except for when they (mostly my dad) treat me like a kid. Yes, I've made some serious mistakes mostly having to do with money, but at the same time I've had to struggle and learn how to handle money on my own, in fact I've had to learn about a lot of stuff on my own. I've never confessed this before, but I can't help but feel like my folks prefer my sister, just because they spend a lot of their time helping her with things, where I'm definetly more independant and prefer to spend time on my own.

PETS:
None at the moment, when I get my own place again I'd love to get a cat. I've always loved kitties and seem to get along well with most of them.

LIST THE 3-5 BIGGEST THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE:

1. I turned in my final paper for school yesterday so I am offically done with college!

2. I have decided to make a career for myself in the field of social work, hopefully helping either kids or women, so I've started job hunting.

3. Trying to decide whether to move to Colorado with my family or stay in Iowa, or possibly live somewhere else.


WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS?:

RL:
Carrie Davis, Nat, Stacy Sherman

ONLINE:
keeptrying, decadent_dream, duma723

I have gotten my paper back from the professor I was working with, and there are corrections that need to be made. The amusing part is that the part where I wrote my findings and did my graph are perfectly fine, it's just the literature review (my sources)that needs to be fixed. Once I get that done, I'll send the email back to her and she can grade it.

Tomorrow I need to run to school and pick up the binder with the paper copy of my final, plus I want to stop off and have some of the different offices fill out and/or sign the forms they need to in order for me to offically graduate. I also still owe some money to the business office, so I need to take care of that as well. A helpful hint to any deciding to go to school, if you are signing up for financial aid, make sure you take advantage of that, even during your last year. *shakes head* I should've known better than to trust what the girls at Grandview's f.a. department said!

Anyway, the other exciting news is that I've signed up to be a part-time Mary Kay consultant! A friend of mine invited me to come to one of the meetings and I got inspired. I'm hoping that this will help me make some extra money while I am looking for a full-time job, especially since my hours at work have been cut back now that we're done with the Halloween rush. I'm excited about this, I think it will be fun! I even have my own website, www.marykay.com/jhuebner. Check it out, you can even do parties online and order products!

Things are starting to change again for me, and I'm mostly excited. I'm also a tad nervous, but that's mostly that I can get school loans paid and so I can figure out what I want to do for work now. I really want to get a job where I can help people and also where I can save up enough money so I can travel more. I really want to visit friends I've met online, who live all over the world, and I'd also love to go to a Heroes/LOST/whatever convention.

Thanksgiving is this coming Thursday and we're all gathering at my aunt's place. It should be fun, I'm going to offically announce my new Mary Kay business and see if I can get some people in my family interested in trying some stuff. We also draw names for our Christmas gift exchange, which should be fun.

Hey guys! Wanted to update on the goings on, work has sorted itself out. I'm not entirely sure what happened between the two leads but they've worked things out and I've actually been getting along well with both of them! We're in our busiest month of the year so things are progressing nicely there. We had a haunted fair on the third of this month and got to dress up, I wore a Star Trek uniform dress like in the new movie.



Work is great, I really love it! Even tonight when I had a sore throat and couldn't really talk, me and my co-workers were joking around. I'm really going to miss it when I get a full-time job in social work or social science, most likely social work.

The interesting thing is that I keep finding human behaviors that I want to study/figure out. For example, I've noticed that when I ring up sales for couples who come in(one female, one male) that usually the female will do her best to distract her SO from paying attention to me, even if she expects him to pay. Now, I don't usually even flirt or anything with most of the guys, but I am nice and friendly! It kind of makes me chuckle, but then I feel bad that these women feel so insecure about their guys.

I would really like to study more of human behavior, but I also figure that I can do that while I work in a field where I can help people. I still need to narrow it down though, which is proving harder than I thought. I'm kind of ashamed to say this, but I don't usually feel comfortable around people with mental difficulties, and I don't feel like I'm strong enough to be like a live-in helper with someone who's physically disabled. I know I don't want to work in a daycare again, so maybe something helping women. I'm not sure, but I do still have time to figure it out.

I'm still living with my folks, planning to get my own place again probably sometime next year. Depends on when I can find a decent paying job, because I also want to upgrade my living quarters. The last place I lived started out okay but got trashed and drug down by the unsavory characters who lived there. There were times I was scared to go out of my apartment, and would have loved to have a roomate! So, I want to live somewhere decent where at least the doors are locked and you have to buzz in if you want to visit someone.

Oh, I haven't forgotten about writing, although I feel like I've put it on hold for a while. I have to get done with this 30 page paper to finish up school, and we've had some major stuff happen in our family. My dad just got over having a kidney stone, my sister just got a new place but her husband's away at basic training, so we've had my niece over a lot lately! All in all it makes it difficult for me sometimes to get time to just relax, but I know I have to take time for myself. I do have motivation for writing because I'm working with a friend of mine on one story and I just found out that another friend has posted fanfics on the same site I use.:) Good motivation for writing more!

Anyway, I should get to bed and try to get over this cold I've caught. Until next time, my friends!

First off, I apologize for not having any work pics like I promised. Things have been kind of crazy, so that's been put on the back burner for now. Hopefully I should have some up soon though!

Anyway, work is going well. I'm getting more time off since there really aren't any big holidays left, but we're getting more and more Halloween stuff put up, which excites me. I also bought a really cool costume during our clearance sale, it looks enough like a wood nymph that with a little altering I can hopefully make it look similar to the ones on Charmed.

I am currently taking my last two offical classes at Grandview, a theater appreciation class and another religion class. After that, I just have a special project to do and I'll be done! Unfortunetly, the financial aid department has messed up my aid yet again and I have to take one of my days off this week to go down there and try to straighten it out.:( Ugh, I hate confronting people but there's no way I owe what they're saying, and if I do, it means they lied to me. See, at the beginning of the year I was told that I wouldn't have to fill out a FAFSA because I was getting aid leftovers from last year. I even double checked with them after finding out I wouldn't be done in August, and they said all I needed to fill out was the summer aid form. I did that, and now they're saying I owe over a thousand dollars, and of course, the deadline for submitting the FASFA is past and gone.

That is really my only complaint with college, other than them constantly messing up my aid it's been a wonderful experiance. Just send me good thoughts, cause I hate confronting people!

Anyway, I did sign up for a Heroes RPG group and so far I have 3 characters: two original and I also play Molly Walker.:) It is a lot of fun and I hope to be able to make more characters soon.

I also want to post more pics of my niece, she is starting to crawl and is very vocal! She's such a cutie and loves to play!

Ok, that's it for now. I am tired and am heading to bed, but I will hopefully post again really soon.

I know, who'd think I'd be bored with everything going on, but I'm pretty much caught up in both classes. Only have a final test for philosophy and have to write a 10 page biography on my grandfather, but it's really easy because my mom already has a whole bunch of information from when she did her family tree.

I've been looking for a Heroes or Charmed RPG to join, just because I miss the old days of plotting with a group of people, but there aren't that many out there that I can find. The Heroes one that did look interesting was a total non canon site, no characters from the show, which is weird to me. I mean, I play mafia on the TwoP site because I can play Peter or Elle or Jessica, or at least interact with them.

Other than that, I have been writing as much as I can and trying to talk myself into actually submitting something to a publisher or magazine. I'm just worried that if I take this step, that writing will become like a job instead of a release from stress or outlet, like it is now. On the other hand, I am curious to see if I'm good enough to meet actual written book standards.

Things are going pretty well otherwise, been spending lots of time with my niece. I plan on taking some pics of me and my workplace, so look for that post soon!

As far as college goes, that is! I have four more classes to take and I should be done by or in August.:) I'm currently taking an Ancient/Medival philosophy course, which is really fun cause we're reading the book Sophie's Choice, which puts all the questions about life in a novel, and also taking a course on Public History. That class is going to be fun because I get to go to our historical society here and get a tour of everything, and it's gonna be a lot of digging in public records and stuff.

This week has been kind of hard. Me and my mom have been babysitting my four month old niece every weekday, plus I was finishing up a final for my last class, so it's been a lot of running around and helping, not getting much done for myself. Today was better, didn't have either of my classes so I got to do laundry and go through my bank statements and other things. I work tomorrow and Saturday, have to find out when I work next week because I need to make an appointment for a complete physical. It's been quite a while since I had one, so it's time.

I have been attempting to work on a story with a friend of mine, hopefully will be able to do more of that this weekend as well as work on homework. I miss hanging out with the friends I used to hang out with, but they're all busy too, with families and new jobs. Sometimes I wish I could go back to being a kid and just escape to my room with a good book, but I'm pretty happy where I am right now. Sure, it gets stressful at times but I'm really learning a lot about myself, and I wouldn't trade my life for anything!

Yes, I've been bad and haven't updated in ages! Just with school and work and everything else, my life has been kind of crazy lately. The good news is that I'm now on my winter break from school and I'm not working as many hours as during October. I'm still pretty busy, helping out my parents and shopping for Christmas, but it's a lot calmer.

I have pictures, especially of my sister's new baby! She was born October 24 and she is such a cutie! Me and my mom end up watching her a few days during the week while my sis works, it's quite fun.

I got an A grade in both my recent classes and found out that I should be offically done with college by this next summer, which makes me happy. I've loved going to school, but I will enjoy having more of my evenings free. I've kind of narrowed down what area I'd like to go into, I think social work would be good, considering I enjoy helping people and I'm doing some research into exactly which area would be best. I'm also going to take a class in anthropology, which I'm really curious about!

In other news, I really want to do some more travelling this next year and see if I can go to a concert. I went to see the Transiberean Orchastra and they were awesome!:) I really want to go see like Nickelback or Rascal Flatts though!

Christmas is coming soon and I can't wait! Our family has grown from four to seven people, which means more presents and stockings and fun stuff. I'm going to visit a friend of mine during the week of New Year's, got time off from work, and then it's back to school.

Well, I think that's it from me for tonight. Oh, if anyone wants a Christmas card from me, post in the comments or email me your address.:)

Hmm, could've sworn I'd updated more recently! Anyway, my assignment ended at the beginning of September, and just in time cause it was driving me crazy! Not only was the work I was doing soo boring and way too easy, but they decided to split up my route and have the new guys do it. Speaking of the new guys, they would surf around online while they were supposed to be working and they got away with it too!

I got a job, started last Friday. I'm working at Nobbie's, which is a costume and party planning type store, and it's fun! The funny part is that it actually stays mostly picked up during the day, doesn't look like a whirlewind went through like with Target.:)

School is going well, I passed the required "can you use a computer" course and I'm almost done with the counseling class I'm taking. Then on the 21st I start two other classes, one is another required course and the other one is a sociological type class.

I've decided that I want to go into social work or social research of some sort, and I'm trying to do some reasearch into what area would be best. I know I don't have a lot of strength so it would be hard to work with handicapped people, but I'm not sure what I'd like to do. I just need to rebuild my finances so I have a decent nest egg plus I'd like to do something I really enjoy!

Anyway, that's my update for now. Gotta work on a paper this weekend and I'm working too.

So, work is going well. The leads have finally decided to train a couple of the new temps as my backups, mwhaha, in case I'm sick or have to leave early. I've been doing a lot of daydreaming and plotting though, cause it's just checking out files all day and can be so boring! One good thing that came out of it was I decided to run the current Mafia game at the TwoP Heroes forum, it's fun! Plus it'll give me an excuse to start writing again, I really need to get back to doing that.

In other news, I bought the latest Sims2 expansion pack, Apartment Life. Other than a slow load time, it's really fun and I've already found my favorite premade character! Oh, and there's witches in it and sims can become witches, with spells and everything! I also got the Heroes season 2 DVD set, haven't watched much of it yet.

I have to tell people, do not do business with Washington Mutual! As you guys know, I've been struggling for quite a while, trying to find a job and stuff, until a couple of months ago. Well, I got a couple months behind on my credit card payments, but even though I alerted them beforehand they've socked me with overlimit and late charges and they keep calling me to try to intimidate me into making a payment over the phone, even on the weekends! I have never been late on my payments before and I most of the time would pay more than the minimum balance, even when I was unemployed, but that means nothing to them.:( I am very thankful that I'm working again, and I will be able to pay it off once I get my financial aid leftovers from school, but I am very angry with them and am planning on cancelling my account and getting another card somewhere else.

Anyway, I should probably get to bed soon, but I wanted to post and keep everyone updated.

Hey guys! I've started my new assignment at Farm Bureau, so far I'm doing data entry and am currently being trained on doing deliveries. It's funny though, because I've run into my old boss from when I used to work in the mailroom and back then she was not a nice person and really made me feel bad about myself, but since I don't work in her area, things should be okay. So far it's been really busy, especially now that I have deliveries every hour to check on!

I'm still waiting for my security deposit from my previous landlady. I've been waiting for three weeks and just left her another message. If I didn't need the money I'd tell her to just keep it, but I left the apartment in great shape! I actually got mad about it, and it takes quite a bit for me to get mad!

In other news, I'm taking a class on racial issues now. It's different, we've been watching a lot of movies and then writing papers about them, but this week I have three papers to write. I'm done with one and am working on the other two tonight, fortunetly they only have to be one page long. Our professor is so odd because she says she doesn't watch TV, only
movies like we've watched like Ghandi and Cora Unashamed, so usually one of us students have to get the TV and dvd player working!

Anyway, I'm keeping busy and once I start saving up some money I plan on going on vacation around my birthday to visit my friend in South Carolina. Still got some bills to pay off first, but then I want to save up as much as I can and maybe even get to go to Australia to visit decadentdream.:)

I have a whole bunch of writing ideas but not much time lately, hopefully that will change soon! In the meantime, I'll keep everyone updated on what's going on over here.

Hello everyone! I'm typing out this update from my new "apartment" located in the basement of the townhome my parents bought. I will take pics and post them soon, but it's huge! I've got a nice big living room area with an electric fireplace, a dining area, my nice big bedroom and pretty, new bathroom.:) What's really great is I can live here rent-free until I'm done with school, which should definetly help me rebuild.

The other piece of good news is that I have an assignment for next week! I'll be helping prepare literature for our local MDA association, and it's supposed to last at least 3 days and possibly more. I really hope it lasts for a while, cause I could definetly use the money! I'm waiting to get three checks, my economic stimulus check from the government, my security deposit back from my landlady, and possibly a check from my financial aid at school, cause those would really help!

Anyway, I'm getting sleepy so I'll wrap this up. I will get back into writing mode soon, I promise. The 4th of July was fun, except for getting sunburnt, and I had a haircut today.

New stuff to share: I offically ended my first assignment last week and got paid for it. I am currently packing up all my stuff and cleaning my apartment, I gave my 30 day notice to my landlady. My parents and I are having a huge garage sale next weekend and I'm selling a bunch of my old furniture, and I mean old! I've had my bedroom furniture since I was 12 and it was my great grandmother's before me, and I'm selling my kitchen table and chairs. Anyway, I'm actually pretty excited about this, will give me a chance to rebuild my money stash and maybe do some more traveling too.

I finished the first chapter of a new Charmed fic I'd written and posted it on fanfic.net. I'm going to work on a couple of other fics/stories this weekend, as well as write a paper for my class. Oh, and the Mafia game is starting back up tonight! I think it's gonna be a good weekend!:)

I've got lots of news since the last time I posted. First off, I got a D in my math class, which means I have to take it over again.:( I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that we had a total of 4 teachers in the class and it wasen't until we got our last prof that I started feeling like I could ask questions.

My other class is interesting, although I have to say it annoys me that most of my professors have a liberal viewpoint on the Bible. This guy says he believes in God but he keeps saying how it's most likely that the people who wrote the Old Testament made up the creation and flood stories to match similar myths by other cultures, and tons of other stuff. It makes me think, but I just have a hard time accepting what this guy says! It would be easier if he was an athetist or something, at least then I could say he's simply following logic. I just know what I believe and have to stand by it!

My temp assignment is almost over, I've been there for six weeks. It's been a really good working experiance and I'll miss everyone when I'm gone! I should be there through Wednesday of next week, then I want to take a brief break before starting something new. That leads me to hopefully my final decision: to move into the basement area of a townhome with my folks until I finish school. I'm still trying to rebuild from almost being totally broke, and while it's better, I would have it easier living with them until sometime in the middle of next year.

Plus, the way things are going around here, I'm not enjoying the enviroment. I hardly get to see or talk to any of my neighbors, and there's two guys who live here who worry me, just because they like to have parties with a bunch of strange people, and I was actually propositioned by one of them! The complex is rapidly going downhill, with cigarette butts and empty beer bottles all over the place, and I don't know if calling the landlady would do any good. Not to mention, I'm usually the one who has to make sure the front door is locked every night, I try to clean up other people's trash they leave out in the yard, and I have to bring down the trash for my neighbor all the time. I just don't feel like being responsible for anyone else, I've got enough in my life to worry about!

Well, that's all the news for now. I'm going to see the new Narnia movie with my parents, sister and her hubby, and my aunt tomorrow.

So things are much better for this update! I got a temp. assignment working for this insurance agency and it's lasted for three weeks so far. I go back next week, and I got a very nice compliement saying that I was a filing guru!:) It's kept me very busy, in fact I've had to drive straight to school from work the last two weeks. However, I am offically done with my non-fiction writing class and my math class; got a B in the writing one and I'm waiting to hear on the math class grade.

The next class I have is Intro. to the literature of the Old Testament. I was going to take a World Religion class too, but it got cancelled due to not enough people signing up for it. I have to call my advisor on Monday and see if it's ok if I just take the one class, although it should. I mean, all the other classes are probably full by now. I also should call the financial aid dept., I'd already filled out and signed my summer f.a. agreement, but I don't know if the class cancelling messed up the amount I'm supposed to get.

Anyway, I have also decided that unless things get really bad again, I'm not moving in with my parents, especially since I found out that my mom will be babysitting for my sister's new baby and she wants me around in case she has to take off and run errands. I just...I would gladly babysit for my sister if she'd ask, but for them to assume I'm going to give up working full-time just so I can be the back-up sitter, no.:( I have a pretty full life and I'm happy, it's amazing what just working will do for the self confidence. Plus there's a new Mafia game in the TwoP forum and I'm going to write this weekend.:)

Ugh, I've got a horrid sore throat and feel like I've got the nasty flu!:( I haven't been sleeping well the last few days, with school and everything it's just been really stressful! We did a chapter in algebra and I tried my best but didn't do as well as I wanted. The next chapter's on Geometry and even though I'm supposed to do homework this weekend, I just don't feel like it. I signed on with two temp agencies and hopefully they can get me some work, and I also signed up for unemployment through working at Target. Plus, my parents are wanting to sell their house and move into a condo, and they invited me to move in with them until I finish school. I used to think that wasen't a good idea, but if I move in with them I'll have my own basement apartment, I won't have to pay rent or utilities, and it's only temporary until I graduate. Then hopefully I can get a job in social services and find my own place again.

The only thing I need right now is to get some work, either temp assignments or retail, then I can do that while I room with my folks. Other than that, I'm just trying to take better care of myself, eat right and excercise, plus rest.

The subject doesn't really have much to do with anything, I'm just having a little fun. I have been really busy the last couple of weeks, trying to find a job and going to school, as well as dealing with everything else that keeps popping up. I even applied with this temp. agency online, haven't heard back from them though. This week is my spring break, so no school, but I do have homework to do. I'm writing a travel paper on South Carolina and reading in my math book. The weird thing about that class is that we lost the professor! On the 7th, when I went to class, this guy told us that our current prof. couldn't teach the class anymore and wouldn't say why, then he sprung on us that we were having a test next week!:O I think I did alright, but I won't find out until next Tuesday. The hardest thing about this class is that we so far haven't been told what chapters to read in the book, but I do seem to understand what we go over in class, so that's good.

Other than that, I'm just trying to survive until I get another job. I should be getting some more money for school and I did find out that I can reapply for unemployment once April starts, so that will help. Just send me good thoughts that I can find a nice, offical job soon, ok?

Hello all! I know it's been a while since I updated, I've just been busy with school and job hunting and catching up on domestic type things. I got my taxes done last night and I'm planning on going job hunting tomorrow. I am playing a new game in the Heroes forum at TwoP, it's called Mafia and is a lot like the real life version I used to play in the singles group, it's totally fun! I am really getting tired of all the snow we've gotten, it seems like everything just gets melted and then we get another snowstorm or blizzard. Last night we got freezing rain and then snow overnight, so I've spent most of today inside. It kind of gets me feeling a little stir-crazy, cause other than my online buds and my parents I haven't really talked to anyone else. We even missed class last week because of the snow so now I have to edit three papers and put everything, including my notes and people's responses to my papers, in a binder for my portfoilio.

I've been watching Supernatural and LOST since they started back up and they are both so awesome! I can't believe we're already almost at the season finale for Supernatural, it's been so good! I really want to do more writing but I just haven't found or made the time to do so lately. Hopefully I can work on that more this coming year, and find a decent job!

Hi everyone! I have good news and bad news, I was let go from Target this past weekend because the seasonal time is over and they supposedly don't need my help anymore, even though they're still sooo short-handed it's not even funny! The good news is that I got paid this past week, even though I was told I wouldn't be, so I've got some money, but I so need to find another job soon! I've been out job-hunting the past two weeks at various places, so hopefully I should find something soon. In other news, I started my non-fiction writing class and it's a lot of fun! I've had to write up a short memoir and I got to read it out loud this past Wednesday and then the teacher and other students got to critique it. My assignment for next week is to edit it and narrow the focus a bit then I have to bring three copies of it to class.

In writing news, inspiration has struck, partly due to Nat and I playing a two-person RPG about Supernatural, and I want to write a new fic. Just have to think of a good idea, been watching the season two DVDs for inspiration. I also made up a Sam and Dean Sim family for my game and I put them in Strangetown, where they can investigate ghosts and aliens and stuff.
Now I'm thinking about changing up my lj, either getting a Supernatural or Heroes banner or design. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it!

Hmm, I thought for sure I posted an entry for Christmas and stuff, but either LJ ate it or something! Anyway, I'm still working at Target, but the charm has definetly worn off and I'm ready to find something new! I just am getting older and I can't bend down or be on my feet all day like I used to, I've even hurt my knees! Plus I keep getting put on the close shift and what that basically means is that after the customers leave the store we have to go around and clean up, organize and make sure the store's neat and put all the stuff that's left scattered all over the store back in its proper place. The latest we've stayed so far has been 1:30 in the morning, believe me it makes you tired!

In other news, January 9 my next class starts. It's gonna be a non-fiction writing class, which should be fun and it goes until sometime in March, then I have my non algebra math class, which I should hopefully pass. This'll be my last year in school and I'm gonna miss it, it's been really a neat experiance!:) Hopefully I can take what I've learned and maybe find a good career to be part of.

The other really good news is that the writing bug has bit me again and I am working on the next chapter of A New Leaf, the warlock fic I had been working on a year or so ago. Hopefully it should be up at fanfic.net really soon for people to read!

Christmas was fun but stressful cause I had to work a lot, but I'm pleased cause I got a lot of good presents! Most of them were practical stuff I needed like new tennis shoes and I got two new red shirts for work, and a toaster and can opener, plus I got gift cards so I bought a new Sims expansion pack and two new books. I have last night and today off, so I'm just relaxing and getting caught up on lj.

Hello everyone! It's another update from me, Christmas is almost here and I can definetly tell from working in retail! Seriously, everyone's waiting until the last minute to do their shopping, which is fine, it just keeps me very busy! I'm planning on looking for a different job after January 1, something that pays a bit better and hopefully I can use my talents for helping people in a different way. Anyway, I've lost four pounds already from working, just running around and being on my feet all day and I do love talking to all the different people that come shop!:) Other than that, my Christmas plans include having lunch at my parents' house tomorrow with my mom's side of the family then working the afternoon/evening shift, I work Christmas Eve Day until 4 then my parents and my sister and me have our family time. Then Christmas Day I get to hang out with my dad's side of the family, and then go work on the day after Christmas, which should be crazy! Now the nice but kind of weird thing is that the next week I only work three days; Sunday, Wednesday and the 4th of January. I mean, I don't mind having less hours cause I've been working a lot, but it's just odd and makes me wonder if they're planning on letting me go after the holidays. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I see them hiring a bunch of new younger workers and it just gets me thinking.
Anyway, I'm going to be creative here and write a little ficlet for my friend decadentdream about the Halliwells around Christmas.

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