I always shake my towel before I dry off on it

I think God has a sense of humor. Otherwise He wouldn't've created a type of worm that makes humans itch their booty. Anyway, so we keep our towels hung up on a hook and reuse them multiple showers. There was one time after a satisfying cleanse I was towel drying my hair then I did my routine wrapping of myself in the towel. I felt a huge drop roll down my face and went to wipe it off when I discovered it was a giant spider crawling down my face from my towel. I freaked out obviously and threw the spider off me which it then crawled under the bathroom rug. I lifted the rug up to catch that little bugger only to find two spiders crawling around under there! I threw the rug back down and stomped on it then crumpled it into a ball intending to throw it into the laundry room. Just as I was thinking to myself "Oh You. You are so funny. You're lucky that You are God", another spider popped out of nowhere on the wall by the toilet. Oy. I let that lucky varmint be and just laughed to myself. I feel like now whenever I see a spider it's like God and I's inside joke.

So I dyed my hair. It's supposed to be red but it's more of a strawberry blonde and continues to lighten from the sun. I had to keep it natural looking for my job. So far I have seen lots of people that I used to go to high school with around town and no one has recognized me and of course I'm too shy to bother saying hi. Sometimes I just don't like people. Lately I've been enjoying time hanging out with myself. I just got my packages in the mail full of my new workout clothes and my theory tested true. I like working out more often now that I have cute workout clothes. I always tell people this when they come in at Nordstrom but now I can testify my own experience. Today in the gym I wanted to workout longer to show off my new bright blue workout pants but couldn't when my left leg muscles nearly tripped me down the stairs. I'll probably be sore tomorrow.

Old Friends New Enemies

I know I should be sleeping right now but I can't. I have to get up at 6 tomorrow for beach volleyball training and then I work from 11AM to 8PM. I had a great night with my boyfriend. We made dinner together and hung out enjoying each other's company. He is my bestfriend. When I reflect back to all the bestfriends I've gone through in my life, I never expected my bestfriend to end up being my boyfriend. I've always had a best girl friend to gossip about my boyfriend to. Now it's like my boyfriend and I gossip together about his friends or professors or sports. I've gone through a lot of bestfriends not on purpose but just the way life happened. After I lost my first bestfriend because she was too busy doing drugs to be my friend, I had my friend Sammy. We've known each other since the 5th grade. We are still friends but since various things in high school and college, we've grown apart. My other bestfriend since the 9th grade, Lauren, and I grew apart when she went to college out of state. In high school, Lauren and Sam both tried to be a part of the same clique. I hung out with those girls a couple times and just didn't find them very fun or interesting. Lauren told me how they liked to gossip about people, including about me, so obviously I wasn't going to waste my time trying to fit into their clique. I was also told that Sam didn't stand up for me and even contributed to the gossip since we were best friends and she knew all the "dirt" on me. Our friendship never really recovered the same after I confronted her about it. Why would I want to be close with someone who was just going to bad mouth me to other people for entertainment? I'm still friends with her today but she often likes to talk bad about her current best friend to me when we do talk. I had this other friend that picked up on that rivalry between Sam and Lauren who used to tell me how all my other friends were bad for me. She was partially right but I loved Sammy and Lauren just like any high school girl loves all her friends. We were on again off again friends but I don't remember why anymore. She was always a good friend to me and never did anything wrong. We don't talk anymore because after her dad died from a brain tumor, she changed completely. I worry that she's turned to drugs and alcohol but that's partially the reason we don't talk anymore. She only thinks about herself now and when she's going to party again. I tried to intervene and help her by bringing her to the church I attend on campus but that didn't help. I heard through the grapevine that she's engaged and I worry that the next time I hear something about her it's going to be in an obituary. How many people can a person loose in a lifetime to drugs and alcohol? The other day I was talking on the phone with Sammy about her new bf and she told me to hop on facebook to see his picture. I was at my parents house and the computer was on so I was like alright. My little brother's facebook popped up and Sammy and I agreed that I should snoop. There was tons of messages between him and his friends filled with plans of drinking and one even about smoking. I was shocked. He spelled it out right there saying OK guys I'll hang out with you guys until my 11:30 curfew then I'll go home and "go to bed" then I'll sneak back out around 12. Woah. One message had some guy telling my brother Epic stealing that alc. That was legendary. I'm guessing he had to of stolen it from my parents because where we live there are cameras everywhere and everyone who's tried to steal alc has been caught. I don't understand what is so great about alcohol. Is living life really that bad that you have to risk getting kicked off the basketball team and losing everything you have for alcohol? Maybe I'll understand when I turn 21 in a couple months but I'm afraid because of the things I've witnessed. Maybe all this is why my boy friend is my best friend. I know that he will never do anything to hurt me, he will never talk bad about me, he will always choose me over any drug or alcohol, and we have this crazy connection. We always text each other at the same time or I'll start to do something he's about to ask me to do or he'll say something I'm about to say. It's like we can read each other's minds. August is our year and a half anniversary and I have never dated anyone for that long before. It's kind of scary to think about but I can't imagine living my life with anyone else.

So my job is taking over my life right now. When I sleep, I dream about being at work. In my dream I am filling orders and my feet are hurting and I'm super drained. When I wake up, I get up and get ready for work and go work for 9 hours. After work my feet throb and I lay down until I fall asleep and dream about work before I do it all over again. I missed a lot of things because work is very demanding of my time right now. There are a couple people I really like working with though. My friend Angela is so funny. We were talking about how bad our feet were hurting and she was talking about how her heels are literally bruised from being on them so long. It was so funny the way she was walking so they wouldn't hurt. I'm sure I looked the same. We were working together on something and I finally had to ask her. I asked if she was Angela Nordstrom of THE Nordstroms and she said yes. I apologized for asking because she probably heard it all the time but she said it's not a big deal because I was sincere about it. She told me about all the things people would do in high school that were totally rude but funny because of the way she told it. After she told me that her heels were bruised I had to check mine and see. Lo and behold, my heels are bruised as well. I'm hoping my feet learn so they stop hurting all the time.

I wish I had something more exciting to talk about than work, but literally that is my life right now besides training for beach volleyball.

Misses Nordstrom

I had my first day "job shadowing" today at Nordstrom. I worked with the other Nordstrom trainies and met the rest of the department. I watched as the one guy that works at our department sparked an interest in one of the girls. They were both cute. I could tell by listening in to their conversations he was trying really hard to talk to her. She was cute, had a fashionable outfit on, and a nice diamond ring. Her name was Angela and she talked a bit about her mom working at lingerie and how her mom found it difficult to work in that department and it wasn't as easy as it looks. She also talked about how her grandma owned a hotel walking distance from Nordstrom and that she kept one of the floors for her and her grandma to live on. I was like wow that must be so cool to live at a hotel for the summer. We all worked together and put clothes away from the fitting rooms, answered phones, filled orders, took clothes to be altered, called customers, and rung up sales and returns. My 4 hour job shadowing shift seemed to be short but my feet were killing me. I need better shoes, or at least ones that my foot inserts actually fit into. This girl and I compared mental notes on the job and I helped show her how to log out. I knew her name was Angela but after I helped her log out and was about to log out myself, I noticed her full name. I work with Angela Nordstrom. It all makes sense. I learned from the training video that every single Nordstrom started out as a sales person before they became executives in their family business. Either way I really like my job and I'm hoping to stay on for more than just the July sale. I really think that I could do this job while taking classes and there are no chances that a chef would threaten me with a knife. Win win.