You know how I know that I made a good decision to leave Destare?  It’s Wednesday night, and I’m already dreading having to go to work tomorrow night.  Then, Friday night, my dad’s office friends are having a big party at Larry’s.  For anyone who has ever hung out with my dad, Larry and Trevor knows that’s going to be an awesome time.  Happily, I had already asked Jessica for the night off, because I didn’t want to work Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  And I asked before I even knew about the party!  Sweet!!!  But then, now I’m dreading working on Saturday!  And that’s not for a couple more days!!!  It will, however, be my last Saturday working at Destare.  Alysha said she has some friends coming in for a party, so hopefully I’ll get to wait on them!  That will make it a fun night.

I was driving to Hannaford Sunday night to buy some fruit, and I wanted to stop at Walmart to buy yarn.  I haven’t knit in a long time, and I was thinking “Wow, without working at night, I could spend my nights watching movies and knitting.”  I don’t know about you, but that seems like a fantastic idea to me.  I really want to knit a blanket.  I love blankets, and am under one on the couch all the time, even in the middle of August when its 90 degrees out.  I think it would be awesome to be able to use the blanket that I made myself!!

We had a Brew Year’s Eve meeting tonight at Hooligans after our two meetings, and we got a lot done.  At each meeting we all leave with “to do” lists.  It’s a good way of getting stuff done, but now I have a list of things to do!  Luckily, I passed in my paper for school today, so I don’t have to worry about any more school stuff.  Yay!  Now I don’t have to feel bad about spending my free time reading or blogging.  Cause what else am I suppose to do with it?  I will happily take suggestions for books, especially from Paul who said that Twilight was “written for tweens.”  I’ll admit, I’m still a little bitter about that comment.  Perhaps it wasn’t that comment specifically, but here’s how I feel: “If your comment isn’t helpful to me, or nice, I don’t want to read it.  If you’re trying to be funny, include a smiley face, or ‘lol’ so I know.  Otherwise, don’t leave me something bitter and mean for no reason.  That’s not a nice thing to do.”  If you can’t say something nice, please don’t say anything at all (but I didn’t mind your “douche” comment… that was a good one).   But in all seriousness, Paul, send me books suggestions.  I’ll look into them.  I just read Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) and it was really good!!!

So anyway, we printed up labels for our B.Y.E. postcards, but somehow, the labels printed randomly, and we don’t know which ones printed!  So I’m going through our 150 postcards and marking down which ones we already printed.  I have to go through the postcards, find the name on our mailing list, and check it off.  Then, I need to print out labels for the ones we didn’t already.  I am sitting on the couch with a blanket on top of me, laptop on my lap, and watching TV.

Time to get back to work!

We got our tree on Saturday.  Beautiful!  Also on Saturday, we went to the Armory for the Fitchburg Chowder Taste Off (or whatever it was called).  Then, we walked from the Armory to the Fitchburg Art Museum where they had their Holly Berry Craft Fair (also unsure of the name).  We bought some nice homemade presents for Christmas.  It was a very eventful day!

Monday night, I went over to Amy’s for a Lia Sphia jewelry party.  Cait and Alysha were also there.  We had wine galore and vegetables, chips, and M&Ms.  I ate too much.

Because I ate so much at Amy’s, I did a super hard hour long workout at the gym on Tuesday.  I watched two episodes of Californication.  It’s not a comedy, and sometimes it’s kind of depressing.  But it’s with David Duchovny, so that’s awesome.

I started watching True Blood this morning while I did strength training at home.  It’s going to be my new gym show (it’s about Vampires!  Like Twilight!).  I could still use suggestions, if you have them. I’ve already watched Pushing Daisies, How I Met Your Mother, and Californication.  I need more suggestions.  At home, I watch (or have seen all of) House, Heroes, Medium, 30 Rock, X Files (duh!), Lost, Weeds, and probably more that I just can’t think of.  My mom suggested New Adventures of Old Christine.  I’m going to download it… I’ve heard good things.

I am babysitting this afternoon, and then tonight I have an interview with The Telegram’s FLASH at 5:30, and then we’re on FATV (Fitchburg Access Television) at 7.  I knew that I might not have time for cardio, so I wanted to get something in this morning before babysitting.  Also, when will I have time for dinner?  I didn’t know about the FLASH interview until Trevor called me a couple hours ago.  It was scheduled for 4:30, but I’m babysitting until 5!  Luckily, they were able to push it back.  I thought I’d have time to have dinner, but now with this interview, it doesn’t look like it.  We’re at the Armory for the first interview, so maybe we’ll have to run over to Espresso Pizza again for dinner (that’s what we had to do last Wednesday, too!  We had one meeting at 5:30, and another at 7:30).

I did end up going down to Destare to talk to the owner.  I told him I was giving my two weeks notice.  He seemed indifferent.  That’s another reason to leave.  I’ve been there  a year and a half, as long as the place has been open, and the guy doesn’t even care that I’m leaving.  Why would I want to work for a person like that?  That’s just not very nice.

Trevor said a nice thing about me leaving is that I’ll have plenty of time to work on Brew Year’s Eve.  I had to call him and Jenny from Macy*s on my way to Destare cause I was freaking out that much.  I said “I’m making the right decision, right??”  They both said yes.  When I told Jeanne today, she didn’t miss a beat when she said “Oh good, you shouldn’t work for such a jerk anyway!”

If any of you guys have any ideas for things I can do for extra money, let me know!  I’m going to sell the school books that I don’t need on half.com, and then I babysit.  If you need your kids/dogs/cats/house/plants watched, let me know!  I have great references.  What else can I do for spare money while looking for a job?

So, I’m freaked out about leaving and not having any money.  I’m thinking January is going to have to be another Buy Nothing Month.  I’ll also cut out other things that I don’t have money for.  Diet soda will probably be one of them.  It’s bad for me, and I shouldn’t waste my money.

On another note (I sure am jumping around a lot today!), I think that the reason why I’m always hungry is perhaps because I’m not getting enough water.  The Real Age doctors say that I should be getting half of my body weight in ounces of water every day.  I don’t get that much water at all!!!  I should be getting 65 ounces of water every day (to save you the math, I weigh about 130 - but I haven’t weighed myself in over a week…).  That’s 8.125 cups.  That’s 2.7 fill ups on my Camel Bak water bottle.  That’s a lot of freaking water.  After the gym, I usually do about 1.5 of them.  I should make a plan out where I will finish one by 11am, one by 4pm, and another one by 8pm.  Now that I think about it, maybe it’s actually not that much water.  I just started drinking one, and it’s almost gone!  Unfortunately, it’s 4pm, and I still have two more to drink.  Also unfortunately, I’m in Leominster, and Leominster water is pretty crappy.  It comes out brown, crappy.  They have a Polar water fountain thing… but I don’t think it’s that full.  Darnit!

Anyway, my point is that I think this is a challenge!  I’m challenging every to start drinking half your weight in water.  Starting tomorrow!   It’s a good thing for everyone to do, especially around the holidays when we’ll all probably be overeating anyway.  Then, our tummys will get full with water, not on cheese and pastries, and crackers.

But I really think that’s why I’m ALWAYS hungry. Seriously, I am hungry ALL the time.  That’s why I talk about food so much.  I eat, and then I’m still thinking “Mmm… what else can I eat?”

Oh, and this is most definitely a challenge for Shauna.  Shauna, you have to do this with me!!!

(long post!  Sorry if there are spelling or grammar mistakes, I haven’t had time to read through it yet)