Soooo…

Remember how I got that job at Walmart a bit ago? C:

Well it’s been going okay. Its a LOT of work and some nights I’m the only person manning the entire Apparel department, minus the fitting room. It’s way too much for one person to do but hopefully I’ll get used to it eventually or something. D:

I made a new work-friend there named Halley and we talk at lunches and stuff. She’s given me a ride home twice, which was awesome. C:

One of my duties is answering phones though and I get soooo anxious when I have to. I’ve always hated phones! :C

In better news, though…

Cam had an interview and within 4 mins of him leaving it they called him back for a second one! We were all excited and them BAM… he got the job!

The best part?

It’s at WalMart! My Walmart! We’re gonna be working at the same place! C:

This will make finding an apartment so much easier! We even have a place in mind! Sadly they only take two cats so we’re going to try to convince them to let us in with three. If they wont… I don’t know what we’ll do.

But yeah… he got the job and I amSOPROUD OF HIM!

He starts on the 29th, which is next week.

Wednesday he had his free dental clinic visit and… it was horrible. They treated him like shit and I could tell from the begining that he was terrified. It’s obvious to me he has Dentophobia (fear of the dentist). He could barely speak and the entire bus ride home he was shaking and looked like he was going to be sick. (He was sick, later, actually.)

They said they would recommend him to a doctor that MIGHT put him under for surgery but we’ll have to see. If they don’t… well, then we’ll find someone who will. I don’t care what the cost.

That night I stayed home both to comfort him and because I wasn’t feeling 100%. Mostly because of him, though. My throat was hurting a bit and I felt sick to my stomach, but I figured it would pass. I had Thursday off and I thought I would enjoy a nice day with my love.

I was wrong.

I woke up with my throat hurting so bad I couldn’t speak. Every time I tried it sent waves of pain down my neck. Cam looked into my throat and said I had white patches there. I was terrified that it was strep, even though I didn’t have a fever and I wasn’t throwing up.

Mom drove us to our insurance’s private urgent care (which was NICE cuz otherwise we would have been there like 7 hours) and we sat around for about 15 mins before being seen by a doctor.

He told me that there was a virus going around and that’s all it was. There was no meddies to help it, I just had to bare with it. He gave me a note to give to work saying that I could stay home Wednesday and today (Friday). He also wrote on the note that I have to rest my voice, meaning that I can’t speak very much until the 1st.

I answer phones at work. They not gonna be happy.

I am terrified of being fired over this. D:

Today I woke up with my throat feeling mostly better but now I have a cold. xD

On top of that, I seem to have gotten Cam sick as well! D:

Not looking forward to returning to work tomorrow, especially since I have an 8 hour shift feeling sick and unable to speak. Saturdays are really busy, too.

Soooo I’ve gotten in dollies a bit more lately, including trying to make a skirt for Emilina today *didn’t end well, was too big…twice* and just thinking of sewing/pictures. I’d love to bond with Tanner more over the hobby-the top reason I wanted Emilina in the first place. Well….while looking at dollie wigs….I saw a picture of a doll that just triggered something. Hours later we’ve found her model and already been playing around with colors/etc. She’s absolutely beautiful! She’s a Volks Lorina. Just….wow! It struck something and I just really really really like her a lot! I’d love to jump to the thought of someday getting her, but I want to be a tad rational and think if I’ll still love her as much *coughwillcough*. Tanner likes her a lot too =) I think it could really lead us into bonding together more over the hobby…..<3

Tanner here with a totes math update!

I started an art blog for random doodles and stuff, which can be seen at tibbyart.tumblr.com (shameless self promotion, goooo!).

So I sulked around Wednesday afternoon, fretting over if WalMart would call me or not. I googled my chances, and what would happen if they did, and even asked Miyuki what her interview process was.

On Thursday in the middle of the afternoon or so, Cam and I were having a bit of a tiff and we were laying in bed together. I had the randomest feeling that WalMart was going to call but I didn’t mention anything (and he’s probably reading this for the first time now, since I can’t remember if I told him or not. derp.), and then ten or so minutes later… they did.

And I… GOT THE JOB! MAAAAAATHHHH YEAHHHHH!

They asked me to come in today to get offered the job officially and so this morning around 11 we left on the bus and went down there. After sitting around a little bit, they took me back in and I filled out a little bit of paperwork!

They then gave me a piece of paper for a drug test and told me to take it to this place over on Capitol and something or other. We thought maybe it was downtown so we took the bus down there, only to find out we had to take ANOTHER bus to get to that place. (A nice man who works at the bus depot told us where to go!)

After carting our butts down there we sat around for almost an hour, waiting in line. I then peed in a cup and left, taking the long bus ride back home.

The lady at Walmart had informed me that it would be two days to two weeks before I’d get called in if I passed… but when we got home, not even 20 mins later, they called me to say I start on Wednesday!

BUT, that wasn’t the highlight of my day!

After I’d gotten out of the paperwork meeting, Cam met me at the other end of WalMart and bought me lunch at McDonalds. He then informed me that he had a surprise for me. I assumed, at the time, that he had bought me a pony, and he gave me the hint ‘white’, so I went about guessing every white pony I knew.

He kept teasing me the entire time we were at the clinic and on the busses. Finally, when we got home, he actually wrapped the present and made me open it.

To my absolute shock and utter delight- it was Adventure Time, Season 1 on DVD! I FREAKED THE MATH OUT. And I am still SO VERY HAPPY!

We also went food shopping and went to Goodwill to get me some work clothes.

A great day, indeed!

Mmm so things have been exciting the past few days.

Sometime last week I got called in for an interview at WalMart (apparel department). I was super excited because my friend Miyuki recently got hired there (and fired like a month later, but whatevs) plus Cam’s sister and her husband work there (but in Canada).

I got all prepared for your typical personal interview - coming up with strengths and weaknesses I could say, pumping myself up, ect. Well…

I get there to find that it’s not a typical interview. In fact, they barely asked anything related to myself. Instead, they sat me down, pulled out a stack of papers with questions, and began to read them to me. They were related to past work experiences, including problems I’d had before that I needed to solve.

Panicking because this wasn’t what I was prepared for and it’s been so long since I worked, I made nearly everything up. And believe me, they were dumb as glob answers.

I was absolutely certain that I had blown it, especially after three or so days with no call. I wanted to cry because this is my first job interview in forever (other then those BS group interviews I’d had before) and I could REALLY use this job.

Then, to my surprise, Monday afternoon I get a call that they want me in for a second interview!

Now, we’d known since about Saturday that Cam had an interview-thing he had to go in to on Tuesday. It was for a job at the state fair, cleaning up and what not. We’d planned on going together, with me sitting outside to wait for him.

But my interview was Tuesday, too. We were both a little bit bummed because we’d wanted to go together, but we worked up the nerve and were happy for each other!

I spent a while looking up what the second interview is like and eventually found out that it’s exactly like the first. I was terrified as I got on the bus and rode down there (only to find out that I could have left an hour later and still been on time, but whatevs). I sat around in McDonalds for an hour before heading inside to wait.

After a little bit of waiting, the lady took me back and sat me down. She told me that I didn’t have to answer the questions with work-related stuff, I could use life experiences too. Her vibe put me at ease (we’d laughed because we both asked ‘how are you today?’ at the same time), and she seemed patient and kind. Plus, I was expecting this, so it wasn’t such a shocker.

I answered the questions (pretty much) honestly and she actually told me one of my answers was good! I smiled and was kind and she seems very happy and impressed by me.

She told me that they would check my references and get back to me and I left, telling her to have a nice day (at the same time she told me, which caused us to laugh again).

I then caught the bus and thankfully, I got home in time to leave with Cam to his interview!

We headed down to his place (which was on the same bus, even!) and he was VERY anxious. After standing around a bit we noticed that a large number of people waiting outside (because it was a giant orientation kind of thing) were heading inside about half an hour or so early. He decided to go in too and I wished him good luck.

According to him, they had to fill out paperwork, so he was glad he got there early. He gave his letter of recommendation along with his paperwork, which I think makes him stand out amongst the crowd.

He said that after 100 people, they started to turn everyone away.

They talked about stuff that I don’t really know (he might have told me, but I spaced it) then everyone left.

After meeting up with him, he asked if I wanted to take the bus (same bus) down to safeway and get a bite to eat (and Starbucks for him). I said yes because - lets face it - I wanted to congratulate a day of hard work for both of us. (Hey, getting up and spending the day on the bus is hard!)

We went down there and got some food for me and some Starbucks for him. He noticed a missed call on his phone and tried to call them back, but the people just kept transferring him and he was almost out of minutes, so he hung up. We decided we needed to get him more minutes for his phone so we bought some and as we were heading to go sit down and eat, they called again.

It was WalMart, checking my references! Already! They asked him a few quick questions and then hung up with him having .6 minutes left on his phone. He sent a quick text to mom to tell her to tell Fraser that they would be calling her (my phone was dead), taking .3 minutes from him, leaving him with only one text left.

We headed home after sitting in the sun at the bus stop for like half an hour (which was nice because we thought we’d be there for an hour) and then came home.

It was very, very awesome. C:

So the last few days were awesome! But let me back-track.

Cam has been having pains in his chest and I declared that it was gastritis, so I told him he needed to rest. Now, getting Cam to rest is like trying to give a cat a bath… damn near impossible. I begged and pleaded, yelled and fought, but eventually I gave in and let him do little things. (Of course, he did bigger things, too… like a poop.)

(OMG mom shut up with the mememe I’m trying to type.)

Mom went like 4 days without ever asking us how we were. She didn’t even notice that Cam was in pain at all. Of course not. Freaking glob.

It took Cam a little while to heal and his teeth have been hurting. Mom got antibiotics for some made up infection and she pretended to lose them so that Cam could have her extra bottle, which I admit was pretty nice and selfless of her. Or whatever.

Anyway, so Saturday was a family reunion and I kept telling Cam he had to be good or he couldn’t go on the carousel. He wasn’tthatgood, but I let it slide. We awkwardly sat around and ate (my mom, us, and my grandpa were the only ones from our non-extended-family that came) before Cam and I took our free tickets and went to the rides.

We rode on the carousel (we had 4 tickets each and the rides were only 1 ticket) and had lots of fun! Then we went on this little miniature train that goes around the park, but I was afraid that it was going to tip over pretty much the whole time. Still, we had fun! We also played a balloon popping game (with bean bags instead of darts… wtf) and I wont a “medium” toy, which was a dog about the size of my hand. With no nose. What the glob.

After that, Mom went camping with a friend (after taking us home, of course). She said she’d be gone until Tuesday, which left us alone for a while! We were soooo excited and happy. She even took the dogs, so we could bring The Doctor out of our room and around the house! Cx

OH! We’ve both become slightly (or even more then slightly) addicted to a show on Cartoon Network called Adventure Time. It’s so damn addicting. I like the gender-swapped versions of the characters that appear in one episode, especially Marshall Lee,while Cam likes the lesbianish main girls.

Anyway, so back to what I was saying (damn Adventure Time, causing me to digress!)

So the first night we ended up falling asleep around 3 after going to bed around 1 and being unable to sleep. I started searching for fan-fiction but couldn’t find any good ones, so I wrote one myself. (Who knows if I’ll ever post it…) Cam watched some Doctor Who!

The next day we just sort of enjoyed each other’s company. I fought him doing chores but gave in, although I made sure to do some too. We watched a few episodes of Adventure Time and even played an MMO that just entered open beta. (It’s got a bad plot and the monsters are peaches that make farting noises when you attack them. Wtf.) We went to bed at like, 8 in the morning, because we were so happy to be alone and excited to spend time together.

Today started like any of the others. Got up, did chores, had food, snuggled the kitties. We were just settling down to another Adventure Time marathon when Cam looks out the window and… Bam.

Mom’s home.

Now, she told us she wouldn’t be home until tomorrow. Mind you, it’s very hot outside and I’m sitting around in my underwear because it’s too damn hot to wear much else…

She didn’t call and give us any sort of warning. NONE. She could have called from the road and said, “I’m on my way home”, but… nada. We weren’t expecting her until tomorrow NIGHT, not today around 4:00 PM…

Sooooo globbingmaaaaaaaad.

Anyways, so she comes home and she’s like, “MemememefreakingME” about how her knee hurt and how camping was bad and how she wanted to come home early. Not one single time does she stop and ask, “Did you guys enjoy your time alone?” Or even, again, ask how we are.

My day is pretty much ruined. I’m still grasping on to the trails of maybe goodness that I can, like the fact that there’s a new Adventure Time in half an hour.

(To top that off, the tail I helped Cam make just keeps having problems and I have a feeling its just going to fall to pieces the next time he wears it.)

Oh, and I have an interview tomorrow.

I caught a seepy so I’mma make this quick.

The Doctor is freaking SMART. He’s like, 5 weeks old and managed to figure out how to climb to the top of the cat tree. Without help. He’s gonna be chaos, I can already feel it. Bring it! Cx

Loki is slowly getting better. He still growls a little, but we learned that it’s good for him to get that out. He and The Doctor duked it out at the top of the cat tree, however, and The Doctor started crying for me to grab him because he couldn’t figure out how to run away. Poor little guy.

HE IS SO DANG TINY OMFG.

I’m a little worried about him because he wheezes so much, but Cam assures me that if it gets bad enough, we’ll take him to the vet. I got paid today so we’ll hopefully have enough to if that happens. (We should.)

We decided to skip seeing brave because… well, kitty. Brave can wait, The Doctor cannot.

Found out some douche bags are taking free cats off Craigslist and using them as target practice. With guns. There is a special place in hell for people like that.

Spent like half an hour trying to find out how to tag a cat in a facebook picture without linking to a fan page. Turns out I just had to type the name and press the up key, then press enter. It figures.

I might be confused, but I’m pretty sure the family reunion is next weekend. Whateves, not that excited. Maybe some pictures, but I’m not sure the girls will even be there and I don’t feel like bringing Amador. You know what that means, Cam? You will be photographed. Often. C:

Cam and I got addicted to Sims 3, though I tend to grow bored of it after spending a while creating a house. I’m slowly losing interest, though I’m trying hard to cling on because I’ve been so bored lately.

Cam’s parents sent his tablet! I’m very frustrated, trying to figure out how to work it. It’s just… different from my old tablet PC. The pen pressure will take some - frustrating - getting used to. (I know, I know, white people problems.)

Wrote part of a fanfic. Doubt it will go far.

Oh man, two months until September! That means 3 things - one GREAT one, one AWESOME one, and one I want to avoid. xD

The GREAT one is that the fair will be going on and I get to show it to Cam! It’s a tradition in my family to go to it (though mom would gladly not spend the money, which makes me sad) and I can’t wait to share it! Even if we don’t go on any rides or spend any money, it’s the experience I want to share.

The one I’m trying to avoid is that my birthday is coming up and I will be 24.

The AWESOME thing (read as: AWESOME AMAZING SWEET COOL SPECATULARLYANAZIGNLKHFEAHLKFEAFDA JUICE) is that… Cam’s parents are going to visit!!!! I can’t wait to see them again and I KNOW he’s excited like wuuuut!

Oh god I am getting so tired.

Well, I’m off! Soon I will be snuggled up with my love and our newest baby on our shared bed! C:

Night, Tumblr!

Today was quite the day! Started off with Tanner babysitting Shelly, then we went to go look at a kitten.

Wait, hold up, kitten??!? Yep! We’ve been looking at kittens lately due to us finding one we really liked, but it fell through. As did a second one. As we were saying it was just not meant to be- we found him. The Doctor. The craigslist post didn’t have a picture (usually I don’t look at those) and detailed about a kitten being left on someones front lawn by their neighbors, and saying they didn’t have food for it, and couldn’t care for it due to having a newborn. There was a number to text and I thought “What the heck.” A picture arrived, and he was precious. A hopeful look in his eyes grabbed Tanners heart, and the decision was his to go see it. We set up a time for today, the 4th, at 10.

Turns out the lady was Frasier’s sister/cousin person. She was…well. Her boyfriend was a douche. But we’ll get to that. So as we find our way to the house, Shelly and Char waited in the car. We approached a garage and heard a flurry of frantic mews. We met the sister and she took him out of the cage quickly. Tanner got handed a wiggly *his words, too!* black and white kitten who was very frantic. The look in Tanners eyes while he held and stroked the kitty sealed the deal.  The douche guy just kept saying how it never shut up and pooped everywhere, well no duh- they left it alone caged in a garage :/ Poor thing. He was so precious, and looked so scared but desperate for lovin’s. Very small and bony too. So I said yes, and we loaded him in the pink carrier. The douche kept repeating the above, and gave us a little kitten food and some litter. To home we went!

Lots of bonding followed. He acted crazy and clawing at the cage until we let him out…he turned into a total cuddle bug! He has some slight wheezing and boogers, but our love can heal him <3 Tanner is so precious with him, it really touches a special part of my heart. Loki was introduced and only growled a little and backed away.

Afterwards we went to the St.Paul Rodeo. It was *very* fun, and I enjoyed it a so very much! I finally achieved seeing a rodeo, and being there with Tanner was simply astounding. I liked the barrel racing very much. After that we stopped for some kitten milk/food *Safeway failed us, Fred Meyers had some!* and hurried home to love on the kitties, then to the Doctor! He got some milk and is pottying in the litter box. He looveess to play with the mosey on a stick that my lovely rents sent for Loki for X-mas. Chicken at first just smelled and was curious. Then a bit later he was moving and she was her growly self. On the cat tree she seemed to just watch. Flea combed him and he had some, mostly flea dirt and his coat was ragged and we didn’t notice- poor raggidy Doctor!

Afterwards we tore ourselves away to go to fireworks at Jon’s/ the trailer park. It was fun to see them with Tanner, though sadly he took the wrong lens so many shots probably won’t turn out :( Was forced to socialize a bit by Jon, but he introduced me as his brother-in-law….<3333 He also said he liked me and hugged/kissed my head. Made me really feel part of the family, even if he was a bit on the happy juice *most were*. 

Now my sleepy head is in bed with our new little bundle of cuteness, and I’m writing this to be always reminded of the amazingness of life- and the perfection of being with my darling soulmate, Tanner. <3

Gosh! The Hunger Games trilogy rocked! It left a deep emotional impact, and a lot of thought-provoking material.

As Tanner said- do not watch the movie, just seriously- don’t. It was almost painful to watch. The irregularities had me foo-ing for quite a while. I tried to get over it and think of it as another movie but…good gosh it sucked.

Besides that, I’m so thankful to have my amazing soulmate. Through all emotions, all trials, all blessings- he’s here beside me. Thank you so much, Tanner, for completing not only me, but my life as well <3

So Cam and I just finished reading The Hunger Games trilogy together.

We’re both in tears! D:

Very, VERY good books. Very moving, as well.

I don’t recommend the movie, though. We watched it and… we just didn’t like it. It was almost nothing like the book and to me it seemed a little hallow and emotionless. The cast just wasn’t right for their rolls, either.

But I DO recommend the books!

So lately I’ve been attempting some Extreme Couponing, inspired by the show on TLC. I actually worked it out to get 10 free packets of toothpaste, but when we got there it didn’t work out. Sadly. :C

Cam found us a group we could go to, though! I’m excited, but a little nervous. Maybe we’ll make some friends? I’m sure we’ll be the youngest ones there, though. D:

We’ve both been looking hard core for a job, but nothing’s really coming up. It has us both frustrated and we’re trying to believe that things happen for a reason, but it’s hard sometimes to keep that belief in mind when days pass by and nothing happens to move your life forward. :\

I’ve been trying to find an old friend recently. I’ve been kind of caught up in Kess’ death, more then normal (I’m not really sure why) so I’m trying to connect with someone I knew around the same time, whose friendship didn’t end very well. I don’t know, I guess I’m looking for some closer in my life right now, so I can move on from the past. (And maybe even get an old friend back? That would be kind of nice…)

Cam and I are great! Relationship wise, I mean. We argue a little because we’re both so stressed lately, but it’s actually been getting a lot better as of late! I’m glad for that. It was very sad how much we fought before, I’m very happy that we worked through it.

Oh, and we’ve become addicted to Teen Mom. Did I mention that before? Well, we are. It’s kind of sad, but we both enjoy it, so who cares? xD We’re both thankful to have better lives then the girls on there, though! (Though admittedly, I wouldn’t mind the 60k they get per season!)

My head feels a little fuzzy at the moment, like I can feel a headache coming on. Kind of sucks.

Anyway, gotta go! Might play Skyrim. C: