How to Succeed in Buisness Without Really Trying...
So i got a promotion. For months i was an account rep for this one residential account. Then i started doing replacements for all of the residential accounts (a total nightmare- its what happens when we can't fix the computer, we have to replace it. Only its a long, tedious process and none of the clients are terribly happy by the time you speak with them...)
Last week though, i got pulled off replacements (yes!!) to start training on a different residential account. The girl who runs that account is pregnant and when she leaves, i'm taking it over. They had mentioned it to me a while back that when she leaves in August for maternity leave that i might get to run it. Only when she started training me, she told me that she's really planning on leaving in the end of May and she's not coming back (her and her husband are moving back to Maine where they're from) and so i get to take it over permenantly. Its kinda cool but its also kind of scary. Its different than what i was working on before in that this warranty company that we deal with covers printers. Printers are a whole other ball game that i don't know how to approach. Whatever, i guess i'll figure it out. I'm just waiting to see what kind of raise i can get. Probably not enough to quit Dominos altogether but maybe enough to at least knock it down to only once or twice a week. Its crazy how this whole office thing has been working out anyway, its so out of character for me, but lately its sorta of suiting me.
I've been trying to expand my horizons anyway, though.
I've started listening to country- not when i'm alone in the car or anything but i've learned to tolerate it anyway. One of my friends listens to it a lot and plus one of the closing managers i work with and so there's now a few songs anyway that i really like- which is weird because i used to really hate it.
I'm also not generally a sci-fi fan but i've started reading "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". So far, so good. Its really funny. The only thing i don't like is all the names- its all these really long words with too many consanants. Why can't the robot from the planet Solarocktov just be called Sam?
So I went to the dentist today (yeah health insurance!) I have five cavaties! I have never had a cavity in my life and now i have five of them. I'm a big wuss too, fillings will not be pleasent for me.
Anyway, i've got this online friend Zach who discovers the most random bands that no one has ever heard of- his most recent discovery that he's passed on to me is Marah (not Carey): www.marah-usa.com
If anyone still reads this thing and has time to let some 'of their stuff download, you should check it out. Its kinda hard to describe the sound but i like it :)

Always a bridesmaid. Never a bride.
So Kim's wedding was today. The pepto fairy lives! It actually wasn't all that bad. We spent most of the day getting ready and drinking chamagne. The ceremony was performed by the groom's dad and thankfully didn't last that long considering after five minutes I couldn't feel the balls of my feet the shoes I was wearing hurt so bad. There were a lot of old people there but the few young people they had were cool so the reception was fun. I hung out the whole time with my best friend growing up- Ashleigh and her boyfriend (who is a dancing nut.)
The bridesmaids had all taken Kim out Friday night for the bachelorette party- we went to Southport Hall to see the greatest 80s tribute band ever..."The Molly Ringwalds." It was a lot of fun. In keeping with the 80s theme yesterday, Tommy, Rebecca and I went and saw "Ferris Buller's Day Off" in the parish. There's just something about watching a John Hughes movie on the big screen....Especially at the Chalmette show....It was really cool though. We're gonna go there to see Rocky Horror in a couple of weeks.
I can't believe Kim is married!!
I was supposed to get spray tanned. I didn't though because I'm still sun burned from last weekend. Rebecca, Tommy and I went to Dallas to watch Becca's dad's race (he's a pro stock race car driver.) I hate Dallas but we had a good time driving around and stuff. We went to a history museum and to the grassy knoll and to a HUGE mall... The race was kinda cool too, the best part I think though was Becca's dad. He came in third but he was so proud of himself. Its hard- being able to focus on your own accomplishment and not the failure of the task. He didn't care that he didn't win, only that he did his best and had a good time. I wish I could be like that with my acting.
Weekend before last Becca, Tommy, Mickey and I went to Biloxi (where I didn't get sunburned ironically.) We actually didn't make it to the beach though because the weather sucked. Tommy and Mickey went to a country concert and Becca and I went to the casino. I lost some money but we played for a while- my favorite was this penny slot machine of the phantom of the opera, I did good with that one. We also played Hawaii Hi Lo for a while which is like a cross between poker and blackjack- kinda weird. I've also decided when I get my own house, my sinks are going to look exactly like the ones in the bathroom at the Beau Rivage. Plus I got a couple of stoners phone numbers, so all in all good weekend :)
My car broke down the other night. I was delivering pizza and all of a sudden the car just killed. I ended up calling a tow truck and my dad and my roomate, etc. After like an hour of being broken down on the side of the road with all kinds of people looking at it and me imagining worst case scenario, it was determined that I had run out of gas. Apparently the gas gage is broken. I felt SO stupid. Oh well, at least I knew how to fix it...