"You make me smile like the sun"

Song: Smile - Uncle Kracker

The past 2 or 3 weeks since my last blogpost have been pretty busy! I finished the Spring semester, have been working an average of 20hrs a week, seeing Zack and Katy, and partying.

Here are my grades for the Spring semester:

Math - A

Psychology - A

Public Speaking - A

Geology lecture - A

Geology Lab - B

Pretty good right?! I'm very pleased with that.

Works been going good! Still enjoying it. We've hired 3 new people (on the Marshalls side) and I've worked with all of them now. All nice, but Stacy gets on my nerves just a little bit. I bought my first clothes from there last week! First time ever shopping at work, felt really weird too! Got this cute mini skirt that came with a pair of 3/4 leggings and I also bought a top. Sunday I came home with 2 very fluffy and cuddly pillows from the Home Goods area. They are beyond amazing. We've got our 20% off discount weekend coming up so i'm excited for that! I want some fake flowers and a vase plus maybe some clothes.

On Sunday though, that was a stressful day at work. About halfway through my shift, some lady had a seizure in the womens department, luckily it was near the front and she had friends with her. She hit her head when she fell, all I heard was something breaking which was her shopping cart when it tipped over then her convulsing on the floor then blood. It was scary. I did not know what to do. Lucky for me Iman and Carolyn were up front and dealt with it, Iman pulled me away to the side. We called 911 and the fire department got there first then about 30min later the ambulance arrived. She was conscious when she left on a stretcher and I hope she is ok.

A few weeks ago my car was broken into. The fuckers stole my iPod. Thing is that you couldn't see it. It was in the centre console. Nothing was visible except the stereo.....Which they left. Now every night the stereo and everything comes inside with me. My (step) dad put money into my NZ account so I could buy a new iPod. I got the 8GB iPod Touch... I LOVE IT! So amazing. I use it for Facebook, MySpace, checking emails, Twitter, Internet, plus all the other apps I've downloaded :)

I'm still seeing Zack. He was over this past Thursday (20th) and he bought me orange Tulips! He bought me flowers. First guy ever to buy me flowers. He also bought a pot plant for Phyllis. He is so amazing. We aren't "official" yet, but heading that way. I feel like I need to meet his parents before I want to be, i guess, official. He's met mine, and I have met his sister. We're just taking it one day at a time. There isn't any rush for us. We both know we will be together. We watched Fight Club when he was over for dinner Thursday night and I remember him saying something along the lines that he hopes we are together for ages. I can't remember what he said but that was pretty much the meaning of it. He later sent me this amazingly sweet text that said:

"I am telling you right now that I will be the best boyfriend you have ever had. And I will treat you the way you are supposed to be treated"

Amazing right? I get a text every morning that just says "good morning beautiful" :) Oh and the song from the subject line was chosen because Zack told me that song reminds him of me. Go listen to it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj03CIizqFQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=aY3N7_aFsiI

Katy and DJ are now together and I could not be happier!!! They were hanging out a lot after my birthday weekend and I knew it would only be a matter of time after I found out that DJ liked her. Katy was getting there slowly. By the time of the party, I knew it was inevitable! He will treat her right, like the princess she is. If he doesn't then I will hurt him. Or find somebody who will.

Katy had a small party last Sunday (16th) where I got extremely intoxicated. So much so that I do not remember the rest of my night when my wine was opened. My own fault I know. Should have started with it but whatever, I had fun. Well, I'm pretty sure I had fun. Zack was there as well. We played the first 2 games of BP and WON! Me and DJ were both shocked at how well I played.

My car is having issues...Again. This time its the tail lights. Dad replaced a blown fuse last night, checked it today and it had blown already. Not a good sign. Plus the "service engine soon" light is on and I have no dashboard lights. My car needs to go into a shop I think.

I think thats all....Most likely I have forgotten things but oh well.

Have a good day and SMILE :)

"If he were telling the truth he wouldn't have told us"

Ahh yes, lovely line from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Please forgive me in advance if this post has random quotes from the movie..To which I am currently watching....

"Pride of the Kings navy you are"

So it has been about, oh, two weeks since my last post? [checking...] Yeah about two weeks!

"I don't see your ship"...."I'm in the market as it were"

So the big news in my last update was that I was offered a job at Marshalls Home Goods. Its a super store combining Marshalls and Home Goods. I work in the womens department right now with Dushanka and Alex. It's kinda crazy hectic but in a good way. I worked Wednesday 7 and Saturday 10 last week, and this week I was scheduled for Sunday 11, Tuesday 13, and Saturday 17. Tomorrow is payday so hopefully i'll be able to go in after Geology and check my schedule for next week along with picking up my pay cheque. I haven't sorted out direct deposit yet.

"Your not a unick are you?"

Oh in other news, last week we sold the Nissan!!!! $600 for it. The guy knew about the problems with the over heating and engine issues now. So I no have no car. I get to drive dads car during the weekends if im working. Dad and I may go out this weekend to look at used cars. I know we need to sort out the loan and the payments etc. I hope I can handle all this!!

"You can keep doing that forever the dog is never going to move"

Orientation at work was good. Long but good. I meet Lindy and we text each other, she seems cool. Afterwards I went straight to RJ's place and stayed there until 2am. It was fun cos I hadn't seen this kid since before the semester started. Last Saturday (10th) after work, as soon as I got home in fact, I called RJ and was like "Hey....So come get me!" This was like 4:30. He picked me up an hour later and it was sooo much fun! I had put my bikini in my bag as a 'just in case'! Turns out I did jump into his pool. His mum was surprised and happy to see me! We were sitting outside for, I dunno, maybe an hour before I went and stood in his pool, RJ and his mum were like.."Just dive in!".."No, I don't wanna get my clothes wet!" So I said to RJ "i'll go in of you go in", he said deal. Had him shake on it, and said "ok, i'll go get changed" Came back out in my bikini and he was still standing there. He thought i was joking, but I wasn't so he went in and got his boardies on. The water was kinda chilly but got warmer as you moved around. His parents were shocked he actually got in!! Go me! Hahaha. After I had got my clothes back on, his mum, me and RJ sat outside until 9pm. I was killing bugs but a bug zapper that looked like a badminton racket. I killed soooo many of the big bugs that were around. You pushed these two buttons and these lights came out, get the bug on it and it fries the crap out of them. You can make them pop and crackle, they also emit a burning smell. Katy came over at about midnight to hang out, it was cool she got to meet one of my friends for a change! Those two got along famously!

"I am disinclined to act-request your request....means no"

Hmm what else.. I passed my book review speech! I got 65/66! Go mee!! Also I passed my tribute speech! I got a 94 on my math test from Monday. I think its safe to say I am doing pretty well in school! This semester is almost already over. It's gone by so fast. Signed up for Summer classes already.

"This is either madness or brilliant.....Its remarkable how often those traits coincide"

Next week i'm turning twenty! Crazyy. It doesn't even seem like a year has past since I turned nineteen! I have class on Wednesday which means its the 7:30 class! Bleh. Fun stuff. Meh, I don't mind so much haha. I hope i'm not working either Saturday or Sunday. Katy has plans for me and I wanna party sooo bad! She won't tell me what she has planned or who it'll be with. I think I have some idea who we may be with but I am not positive.

"Curse yah for breathing yah slack-jawed idiot!"

Mum and dad sent their birthday boxes to me which arrived Tuesday. Dad's had a few tops which are super cute and the rest of the box is full of NZ delicacies! Like pineapple lumps, cookie time cookies, crunchie bars, rose's chocolates, whitakers peanut slab, jar of marmite, tim tams, toffeepops, oddfellows, and some more items!

Mum's box had some clothes I wanted plus a present! Which I have already opened..tehehe. It's this MASSIVELY huge white pleather handbag. It's gorgeous but huge. haha.

I think thats about all. I honestly can't think of anything else to tell yah!

"Annamaria, [slap]"..

"I suppose you didn't deserve that one either?"..

"No, that one i deserved"..

"You stole my boat"..

"Actually [slap] Borrowed, borrowed without permission but with every intention of bringing it back to you"..

"But you didn't"..

Haha i could go on for hours! I could almost quote this entire movie. I am such a dork!

So no more movie quotes!

Time to tell you about my Easter weekend and why it was the best Easter everrrr :)

Saturday night I had Aunt Charlene's easter dinner. Phyllis and I went down together b'cos dad had taken the boys to Castle N' Coaters. I had a lot of fun there as well! Grandma got me a birthday cake that was seriously delish! I told Phyllis I was gonna be her DD, she had like 8 beers that night! Dad had had a few beers too so he had obviously decided I would be driving the van home with my brothers and Phyllis. The drive was ok, dropped Phyllis off at the Whiskey River bar. :P Katy came and got me soon after I got home. We were planned on having a movie night cos Kylee hadn't gotten back in touch about hanging out. Took some beer out of the fridge and Katy and I made our way to her place. Her dad gave us half a bottle of red wine. Made two bowls of popcorn and popped in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, we decided we would take a shot of wine every time we saw a owl. Made it 20min into the movie before we weren't paying attention, so we just decided to drink it. After her dad left, Katy and I opened up another bottle of wine and at around midnight her friend Mike came over (from the party out in Surprise that night) and hung out with us. Katy and I opened up a third bottle and we were fucked!! Completely trashed on wine. Mike left at like 2am. Sunday morning we were supposed to go to church but we overslept, so we just ended up going to lunch at her aunts house. They told Katy to invite me haha. That food was seriously AMAZING! Defo went into a food coma, again. Found out that DJ is of German and Ukrainian decent. Hot combo, haha. After lunch Katy and I headed back to her place with her dad and his GF where we decided we wanted to go and play in a park. We have such an affinity with parks. We tossed around a football and decided that we were gonna have a picnic in a park with Ilya and DJ and have some games.

Until next time dear readers :)

"Tik tok on the clock but the party don't stop" - Tik Tok, Ke$ha

Hey guys, how is everyone doing? Well well well. So much has happened!

I guess i shall start with last Friday 26th.

Like a typical Friday i had Geology, but today my teacher was dressed like he was going to go on a safari. No lie. He had on the khaki top and pants - which were of course belted high on his waist - and he was wearing those sandals with the Velcro straps. Me and Jen were talking about how we figured he even had the hat at home because he used to be a geologist. Jeremy and I were half talking during the lecture when we could, he's fun to talk to and when i got home i added him on facebook. Later on in the night he accepted! Go me haha.

This was the day i also had a interview with Marshalls Home Goods store, i'm telling everyone from New Zealand that its like Farmers just without the electronics. They had rung me on either Tuesday or Wednesday? Can't remember which day it was but it was done for 4o'clock. I had also made plans to pick up Katy after my interview for a GNI (Girls Night In). Anyway, i made my way to Marshalls and was actually in there for 1/2 hour! I talked to 2 managers as well.

After that was over i decided to put gas in the car, when i had done that as i was going through 40th and Bell the car decided to almost die on me... AGAIN... I swear the car hates me. Fucking scary but i made in through the intersection okay and parked in the Phoenix Hospital car park. I rung Katy and talked to her for almost 30min while giving the car a break, after that it seemed to have improved and i started driving again. I made it to 31st and Greenway when i felt like the car was gonna lose power again so i pulled into a parking lot. I rung Phyllis this time and told her what was happening, i then asked what the H and C stood for and after i said it was reading Hot she immediately said to turn it off. I didn't know to keep an eye in that! Dad never told me. Car was bloody overheating. By some cosmic occurrence i had parked outside of a auto shop! So i went in and asked if anything could be done to get me home. Nothing could. So Phyllis said she would come get me and follow me home, when she arrived we tried the car again and when i revved the engine the needle immediately started to climb towards hot. So we just locked the steering wheel and put the steering wheel bar on and she dropped me off at Katy's.

I got to calm down and chillax with Katy for a few hours because her grandma was letting her use her van. When i arrived at Katy's she immediately attacked me with a hug and just looked at me and handed me a smoke. She knows when i want one and when i don't. Around 7:30ish (?) her grandparents came and picked us up, i hugged her grandpa before i even got in the van! We dropped them at their house and came back to mine so i could get some jeans on and a different top. Katy made a mix cd and i was absolutely shocked when MY grandma (on dads side) added me on facebook!!! She said she only made it to have a better way of getting in contact with me which is cool. We left the house about 8:30ish (again i can't remember) and headed towards Kylee's (Katy's other BFF) so we could decide what we were going to do, i had grabbed 2 Miller Lites from the fridge to start our party early. :)

We ended up going out to Surprise for a party that Jake invited Katy too. He has like a monster crush on her, it was kinda funny to watch! The party was kinda fun, meet a few cool people and watched some epic beerpong battles! Had a shot of something while i was there too. Met this guy Dan and got his number before i left. He was quite intoxicated and very touchy-feely with not only me but the other females there. We left about 1:30am and Kylee drove us to her place then Katy and I headed to Jack n' the box before heading home. I guess we got back to mine around 3:30am and Jake was texting Katy all the way back and was put out that he didn't kiss her goodbye so she said if you want it come and get it. So he asked for directions which i gave. We had hardly been home for 10min before this guy Adam called saying we should come over and hang out. I was extremely tired but had decided to go anyway. We got there and i met him and this guy Devon. They were beyond drunk!! We each had a shot and decided to play beerpong. Me and Devon verses Katy and Adam. Surprisingly to me, I won the game for me and Devon! I made the last 2 cups and prolly the last 4 cups in reality. Adam was all over Katy, i know Katy wasn't appreciating the forcefulness of his actions but didn't want to hurt him. Devon was all over me, i didn't mind the kissing but he would not take 'no' for an answer and keep trying to put his hands up my top and down my pants. I finally text Katy when he finally managed to get me into his room, and that was only because i knew we were leaving soon, saying "are we leaving soon". It almost said "save me" and that was what she was expecting it to say! I said goodbye and Adam held up Katy again so i just left and started the car waiting for her to come out. By this time it was 4:30am. Katy finally came out and Adam followed saying that we shouldn't leave, he would come with us, we should just stay. I had only had a shot and a beer in that last hour! I was fine and really just wanted to go home. Devon had made me feel uncomfortable because he was just not respecting me!

We made it home safely and were in the door by 5am!! Turns out Josh was online so i just gave Katy my laptop and she was talking to him until i PTFO (Passed The Fuck Out) at 6:30. I asked Josh the next day what time she went to sleep, he said 8am. We woke up at 10:30 and Katy had to leave straight away cos her grandma needed the car.

I managed to get a 2 hour nap in the afternoon which helped me a lot! Ben had sent the tops dad had given him while he was in NZ and they arrived today. Ben's mum had gift-wrapped them for me, i tried to be good but i was dying to know what he had bought!! So i opened them and i have to say - he did a great job. He bought me my Canterbury Crusaders jersey!!! It's the one they wear when they play. He also got me a top that says "I still love you Dan"... You know as in Dan Carter. Dad and Phyllis were going out for dinner so i was gonna be babysitting my brothers. Started to watch Halloween but was smart enough to stop it before it got gorier than what it already was! Its on tomorrow night so i think i will record it! I was in bed by 12 and PTFO again!!

Sleep for 10 hours straight! Dad and i finally went to get the car! He showed me how to put water in and he drove it back home while i drove his new car. I like his car haha. Grandma and grandpa were coming over for dinner at 4 which was cool. I showed grandma how to write on peoples walls and how to send private messages.

Yesterday i got the best phone-call ever!!!! Marshalls Home Goods offered me employment!!!! Of course i fucking accepted!! I have orientation on Friday which goes from 1-9pm. I get a 1 hour dinner break as well. I will have to skip out on the Lab part of Geology but thats okay as long as i am there for the exam during the lecture.

So, a lot has happened right? I got drunk, the car overheated, partied, slept for 10 hours, and GOT A JOB!!!

[Breathes a sigh of relief] Dad is now off my back about getting a job.

ohh and Katy wants me to go and see Nightmare On Elm Street when it comes out at the end of April. I said if we could get Dj and Ilya to go so i could hold on to Dj i would love it haha but we might find other guys. This guy Mike who was at the party in Surprise offered to go and he let me hold on to him which i thought was super sweet of him! The fact that he's into Katy but wants to hang with me and will let me hold his arm in a death grip!!

Katy told me today that she was talking to Ilya last night and he said that "he doesn't know what Dj thinks about me but thinks you guys would probably be better off as friends with benefits." That kinda sucks if he's right. I would rather be in a relationship. But oh well, i've only hung with the guy once but text him quite often!

Hope you are enjoying your week!