Love, don't leave me lonely

So, my mom came to visit me this week. We've had such a great time! Even though we really didn't do a whole lot, that's just fine. We did a lot of walking. I only have one bike... but that's ok. Walking is a great way to kill time, and you can also talk while walking. That's a little harder while biking... We also did a good deal of window shopping. I really don't need to spend any more money or buy any more stuff that I'll just have to haul across the country and then the Atlantic. But most importantly, we were just together. Thank goodness my brother works for Delta, so my parents can fly for free. We got to eat out for dinner tonight. I never, ever thought I would say the following: we ate at Panda Express and I enjoyed it. I didn't even like rice until about eight months ago, so this is huge progress for a picky person like myself. And then, as we walked back to my apartment, we ran into some of my friends. What a coincidence! Except I don't really believe in coincidence. Everything happens for a reason. We also visited my friend from back home. For some reason, a lot of my friends think my parents are super awesome and that they're like a second set of parents. I also think my parents are super awesome. So we just talked. Sadly, though, all things must come to an end. Mom's leaving in the morning. Boo. I'm really not a fan of being left. Alone. I really love my family and I can't wait to see them again, hopefully in a few weeks. We'll see.
I stay up later than my mom (I somehow got my own room- there's five girls in a six-bed apt). So I surf the web. I found this shirt on threadless, and I really wish I could have it. I think the song is fantastic and stuff.
 
So if anybody is feeling generous, or that they want to make my world a happier place, they can buy this $9.99 shirt for me. Come on, it's not even ten dollars! Until you pay for shipping, that is...  Oh, you need the link? Why here it is! http://www.threadless.com/product/1589/Friday_I_m_In_Love/tab,girls/style,shirt. This poor college student will love you forever!

...or Thursday watch the walls instead

Guys, my life has been pretty dull the past three days.
I went to the library on campus, and got Grimms Märchen aka fairy tales. I've been reading that a bit. It takes longer, since German isn't exactly my native language. There's some crazy stuff in those stories. Maybe it's a good thing we don't tell our kids those stories anymore. Oh wait, I think I'd rather read them to my future children than let them watch the crap that's on tv these days...
So, due to the book, I haven't really been going on adventures. And the internet's been jacked up. But, the good news is that my mom's visiting next week! Heck yes! I love my mom! I have no idea what we're going to do to entertain ourselves, but at least we can do nothing together. Doing nothing with somebody else is much preferred to doing nothing alone, especially when that's all you do all summer.
Ummm... I made cookies last night... wasted some time... I volunteered at the MTC again today... I watched the movie "Help!" by the Beatles" last night... wasted more time... One could say I've been watching walls. Especially since the internet connection was lying to me about just how connected it really was... It would act like it was loading something, then practically tell me: "hahaha, FOOL! I'm not really gonna load this page!!! muahahaha!!!!! please try again later, SUCKA!!!" Fortunately, the wired connection is working today, as opposed to the past two days... Well, I think I'm going to read some more crazy fairy tales now.... why not?

Let It Be

What a day! Not all Mondays suck. Evidence: Today, and all it's glory.
Early this morning, I got an email from someone in Germany. Two Thursdays ago, I sent letters to all the stake presidents in Germany. For you not-mormons out there, our church is organized geographically into stakes, which are split up into wards. I want to be a nanny/au pair in Germany, so I wrote letters asking if the leaders or the members in their wards knew anybody who needs or wants one. I was so excited to hear back, that I could not sleep for a while, notwithstanding the fact that I had a job interview in the morning. So, as you can very well see, Monday wasn't off to a bad start. The interview was pretty standard, although I don't think it's worth it any more. Nobody is going to want to hire me for just the summer... and the time is ever lessening. After that, I went decided to take a detour to Target. When you're in a car, it's not that far away from where I had my interview, which was about four miles from my apartment. Turns out that Target's about two more miles away. But that's no big deal when you have a bike as awesome as mine. I wasted a sufficient amount of time wandering about the store, and found a shirt that has the Shelby Cobra logo on it. I pretty much had to buy it.
I still had some time to kill after I'd looked at everything in the whole store, so I proceeded to the Mall, which is on the way home. I wandered about like a waif. Malls are great time-murderers. If you're not careful, they will also gleefully murder your bank account. But I refuse to let that happen. I have a plane ticket to buy.
I rode my bike home, and found more good news. I had another email from a bishop of a ward saying he would look for a family for me! And to top it off, my dear little sister sent me a letter snail mail. There's nothing like getting snail mail in this digital world. So I wrote her back. This evening, my old roommate and I volunteered at the Missionary Training Center. That was a really great experience, and I'd recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity.
Sometimes you have to let it all go in order for it all to fall together.
And, as a parting comment: I love the Beatles. Always have, always will.

And I wish I was back in 1981

Well, my friends, I actually managed to stay busy this weekend. And by busy, I mean mildly entertained. 
I woke up at a decent hour yesterday. I promptly (a.k.a. lazily) got my stuff together to make an expedition to the grocery store. My cupboard and fridge spot were beginning to look like a famine hit. So I grabbed my backpack and rode my bike to the store. Well, I intended to go to the store. But I went to the thrift store across the street first. I really had no business being there. It does make a rather excellent time-killer though. I like to go through the store, finding all the old vintage clothes I can and then trying on the ones that might fit, no matter how hideous. DI is rather picked-over by all these silly hipsters, though. Wait, what am I saying, I'm half a hipster myself... oh dear... So I tried on all these hideous dresses from the 80s and stuff. And then I found this superb striped polo... and I had to buy it. The colors of the lovely vertical stripes remind me vaguely of Easter eggs. I showed it to my parents today on Skype, and they were totally disgusted. They can't imagine why anybody would want to buy clothes from the 70s. My mom said I have the most unique style. I guess that's what I'm going for, so that's fine by me.
After that little detour, I crossed the street to the grocery store. There were more people there than... at Walmart on Black Friday. OK, not even close, but there aren't normally that many people there. Shopping Accomplished. Then I biked home, feeling rather like a camel with this huge backpack full of food on my back. I had enough time to cook a frozen pizza that I bought on sale before my shift. Yay food! Work wasn't so bad. I even learned how to clean the part of the fryers that comes out and get washed every night. After I got home, I finished my book and then watched the third Star Wars auf Deutsch. Thank goodness for YouTube, although a few parts were missing.
And today I went to church and Skyped with my family. I found out that my sister can make the best Pterodactyl noises. Ever. I pretty much died laughing. And now I'm going to go visit my old roommate. Life's good.

Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi...

And may the fourth be with you. Ok, so technically it's the fifth now, but I'm writing about the fourth...
Today was pretty nice, despite the fact that I woke up waaaay too late. I didn't miss anything, fortunately. I just woke up about an hour and a half later than I intended, that's all.
I hung out with my friend Carla today. We go way back- all the way to my first day of high school after my family moved to Georgia in 2007. We had first period Geometry together with this crazy teacher. We won't go there... Anyway...We walked to the grocery store. I compulsively bought chocolate peanut butter ice cream. I NEVER buy ice cream. That's not to say I don't like it. I like it too much, and it's expensive, and not exactly something that helps you lose weight. Therefore, I just don't buy it. I also bought a one-dollar Star Wars cup that's probably meant for five-year-olds. It is May the Fourth, after all...
I had a shift at work, too. I got to shovel half-eaten food off plates. So. Much. Fun.
After I got home, I took a shower. Working in the dish room makes you feel kinda nasty. Ok, so today wasn't bad at all. The real reason was that I wanted to wear my Star Wars shirt. And then I watched some Star Wars on YouTube auf Deutsch. That was pretty awesome. Yes, I admit to being a dork. I think last week I had a dream about podracing. It was pretty intense. I think it was somewhat based on a game my brother once had (or probably still has) for his Nintendo 64. I have to blame my brother for the whole Star Wars thing. He was pretty obsessed with it as a child. I remember many nights when we had to watch them. I confess, I didn't like it then, but I do now! It's funny how tastes change.
Crap, I didn't mean to be up this late again. I even paused the movie so I would go to bed earlier. Oh well. Why do I feel so awake at this hour???
Oh, and all that Job Hunting has maybe paid off a little. I have an interview at Joann's on Monday. I think the economy must be picking up, since that's the second interview in two weeks. Compared to all the other job hunts I've been on in the past five years, this is really great. But... interviews are one thing, and getting hired is another thing entirely.

It's only teenage wasteland

I'm not a teenager anymore (thank goodness), but as I sit here on the walkway outside my apartment, I feel as though I am staring off into one. It's slightly chilly, here in this dumb desert, even though I think it should be warmer, seeing as it is finally, or maybe already, May. I gaze through the cold iron railing, up to the chill sky, down to the half-grassed yard, across to the old and boring buildings that surround my own. Apparently, when this wasteland is inhabited during the real school year, it is mostly people that are young and fresh- not to say that I'm old, because I most certainly am not, but because these people are younger than me. It's a strange feeling. The tenants tend to be people that just finished their first year of college, like my roommates, and therefore still teenagers, or are guys fresh off their missions. The guys would then be slightly older than me, but they still usually have only a year or less of college under their belt. All this makes me feel, well... I dunno. Like I'm sitting in a barren wasteland. Especially since most of the individual apartments are closed for the summer. I think there's only three open in our whole building.
And somebody else I know got engaged tonight. There must be at least one per week. Last week there were four.
I don't mean to be a downer, but could y'all slow down a bit?
When I was 13, I couldn't wait to be 14 so I could finally go to dances. Then I couldn't wait to be 16, so I could date. I'm not sure whom I was planning on dating, since going steady was out of the question. And then I wanted to be older, so I could have a boyfriend. I thought that, for sure, once I got out to college, I would find me a boyfriend. I've been out here since the end of August 2010, and haven't even had a second date. I guess I'll just have to be patient. I've waited 20 years, it won't kill me to wait a bit longer.
If anybody cares what I did today, it wasn't much. One more job app, one more shift at the lovely Cannon Center. Heck, I even splurged and got a movie from Redbox. It's pretty sad when a buck fifty for a blu-ray is a splurge. But such is life as a poor, lonely college student off for the summer. At least my computer plays blu-rays, or else I would've had to bike even farther. Ok, let's face it, I would've just gone home if they were out.
Any suggestions for how to entertain myself tomorrow? All that's on the calendar is doing something with my dear friend who's leaving for her home in Alaska for the summer. That'll be in the evening, though, so I've got a whole day of nothingness ahead of me. Oh wasteland...
Just sayin... I should not have to wear a hoodie and blanket in the Merry Month of May. Yay Desert.

And maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time

And today was even more boring than yesterday. I didn't even have a boring shift at work.
I did go on another Job Hunt. I think that may be my new hobby, in a sense. I have to get out of the apartment, or else I'll die of boredom. At least going on almost pointless searches all over town is something to do. Maybe it's become some sort of depressing game for me. Hmmm, I wonder how many applications I can fill out today before I feel like I need to go home to eat? I purposely only bring a little bit of food (of the variety that I know I won't want to eat) so that I'll go home eventually. Today I brought along some baby carrots, just in case. I biked probably another 10 miles today. On the bright side, the weather was perfect for biking. I even got a little bit sunburned! That's what happens when you are a redhead and you stay outside for more than five seconds.
When I got home, I did a whole lot of nothing, mainly because I didn't want to eat pasta again. Eventually I made biscuits. I'm so glad I grew up in the South. I love biscuits, especially whole wheat ones. I even talked to my roommates a bit. It's a shame they're all in classes/work all day.