Well my floor is dry now, though a bit brown in places. The maintenance guy came by a few days ago and got a bunch of it out of the carpet with a wet vaccuum. He said we'd have to let the rest dry on it's own though and then eventually they'd get around to steam-cleaning it. I heard someone doing just that this afternoon in my neighbor's house (I guess the water damage in his apartment was far worse), so I'm guessing it'll only be a matter of time.

Had I been a little more awake, I probably would've had the sense to go and ask. However, it was a driver's ed day, so I was pretty wiped. I hate getting up so early for lessons, especially seeing as the hour and a half spent for class time is only to reach the fifty required hours. I don't even have to do any work, but it'd be kinda rude to sleep, you know?

The driving itself is getting a little more productive. Several people have joked before at work that my 'driving' skills with a pallet jack could use some work, so I guess it only makes sense that I'd have as much difficulty with a real vehicle XD. However, when I first started out with a pallet jack I was abysmal and now I can at least use one pretty comfortably. I figure I'll reach the same point with a car eventually, though I figure it's going to take a lot of practice. I don't want to go after my license until I've had such practice though, so this may take some time....

After all of these drives thus far, what it seems to be coming down to is steering. Sometimes I make turns a bit too sharply, and the steering wheel and I don't get along so well... not that I drift all over the road, mind you. Really the problem only occurs when I'm going in reverse. I often turn it the wrong way or something. ^_^; Just one more thing to work on.

But I did fairly well on both of my drives today! We went on a highway drive first, and I didn't do too horrible. Scariest bit was when I was stuck with one semi in front of me and another behind in a construction zone. That was pretty freaky. I thought my next lesson would've been worse actually, but parallel parking turned out to be much easier in comparison. Everyone had me thinking it was going to be really difficult! I'd much rather be practicing that one instead.

And that was pretty much my day. Wrote a little bit though. Once again I'm noticing how horribly out of practice I am on the writing front. Though maybe it has something to do with all of the other fandoms I'm trying my hand at. Avatar fic is pretty easy, actually. Deadpool is still proving a bit difficult, as is One Piece.

I think my problem with that one is that I'm so used to plotting around a fairly realistic setting... er, you know what I mean. One Piece is rather different though. 'Tis one of the reasons why I love it so, but it still makes it difficult to write. Thankfully my first try at it will be for an anonymous prompt, so if I epically fail it won't be so big of a deal. Plus the setting is something that's already happened, so I have some form of structure. The remaining variables are still a bit to work with though. Maybe I'll finally finish a project? Would be nice.

Ah, the magic of Bipolar disorder. Frequent right turns into depression suck, of course, but when you take a left back into mania? Everything's all better again. I don't know why.

Anyways, I think that had to do something with why I was so emotional about missing the wedding. I feel better now, though. Am contemplating sending him a gift too. Maybe if I can get a hold of his mom, I can find out if there's something they could use for their new house or something....

In the mean time, I have driver's ed in less than an hour, and it comes with two exams. >.<

(studies)

I awoke bright and freaking early to reread the driver's manual. Was exhausted, but I made it to the DMV. They were a little busy, thus they had two people helping everyone who came in. One was the lady from before, and the other was the one who actually helped me.

Though I actually had no choice in the matter, I was very pleased to end up with the non-bitchy one. I presented my birth certificate and proof of residence and stated I needed to get a new permit. Upon asking when the old one had expired, I told her the first of this current month.

She was rather surprised by this and informd me that I shouldn't have to take the test again until a year after my permit expires. I told her that the other lady had told me otherwise and the newer lady made a quick phone call to find out what was up.

Turns out the first lady was just an idiot. Didn't have to take the test again, and after a quick little picture I had my new permit. Yayness. ^_^

Afterwards I went to driver's ed. Learned some very brief stuff and then came home to get my stuff ready to go to mom's house.

...Only stuff came up preventing my stepdad from coming to get me. (headdesk) I'm still bummed. However, he's picking me up early tomorrow. And I got to RP tonight over at TT to pass the time and the stuff.

Also watched the animated Wolverine vs. Hulk movie that came out a month or two ago. Am still fangasming over the Wolverine trailer and subsequently went on a Deadpool kick. Upon seeing clips with him from it, I had to watch.

...I was disappointed. ;_; Lionsgate did awesomely with their Avenger movies, but everything else is really starting to blow. This one was only an hour long and was basically all random fight scenes in which blood was everywhere and Deathstrike appeared to have an orgasm upon stabbing Wolverine (Pi: ...WTF? O_o). People also lose their arms a lot. The Professor in the begiining has his cut off, and then Wolverine cuts off one of Deathstrike's robotic ones. He also proceeds to later slice off one of Deadpool's not so cybernetic arms... though that was actually kinda funny (Deadpool: (*trying to put the pieces back together* There we go... No, that's not right. ...What the hell? Oh, now it's upside down... *adjusts* There she is! Sweet.). Anyways, later Deathstrike gets both cybernetic ones ripped off. It just happened a lot.

I know the thing was based off a very early comic (featuring Wolverine's first appearance if I remember correctly, as a matter of fact), but it was just really lacking. No development at all, and it literally ends with Hulk and Wolverine starting up another fight.

Deadpool was awesome though. I'd rewatch just for him.

...

Deathstrike: (moves The Professor's body with her foot)
Sabertooth: The last thing The Professor said before he gutted him was for us to kill Wolverine'!
Deadpool: Really. Huh. (to Omega Red) You buy that? Yeah, you know, I would think the last thing he would've said was "AHHHH! Sabertooth!" (makes death noises)

Muah. Here's all of the little things that have slipped any previous posts by my own forgetfulness. I shall try and keep them short, for fear of having an entry that can be wrapped around the middle of the world.

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Thoughts on new co-workers:

I've known Patrick since starting at Wal*Mart. Uber nice guy- he was a cashier before this. Working with him more now is kinda weird though... but in a good way. Sorta. It's actually really hard to describe. In short, I've never met someone as sincerely happy as he is. The guy's never down, even when he says he's bummed about something. The glass isn't just full with him, it's like full of liquid sunshine and rainbows. Someone asked him yesterday where he gets all of his energy from and I kid you not, his answer was 'happiness'.

...Poor guy gets thrown into the ICS. The rest of us don't 'do' happy. XD

Anyways, worked with Jesse a few times before. He was also a cashier. Working with him for the past few weeks has given me enormous respect for him. He's everything I've wanted back there since forever. He's very pleasant to work with, and very attentive. In the first few days, whenever he was attempting something, he'd ask if it was right, or if I had any suggestions- all kinds of stuff. He's great at stacking and is already starting to get into the groove of how we behave around one another. Example from yesterday yet again, when Billy was getting some pallets down for everyone when we were doing picks:

Billy: Which pallet do you need, little girl?
Jesse: 24B- B as in 'bigmouth'.

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Last Wednesday I woke up to my cell ringing. I answered it and was informed by my grandma that I needed to be ready for her to pick me up in an hour as she'd signed me up for driver's training.

Yeah. I wtf'ed.

Anyways, went down to the DMV. Lady there is a bitch. I have to take the test for my permit again on Tuesday, and apparently I need an ID that was issued to me in 2004 to get it. What the hell? I never needed that thing for my last permit. Secondly, it would look nothing like me anymore with five years passed. And lastly- no one knows where it is. Ugh. Hope she isn't there when tomorrow.

But yeah. After that affair I went down to the high school and had to sit in a room with thirty other high school brats. Oy, it was painful. Good reminder for why I ended up home schooling myself. But I do appear to be getting special treatment. Schedules were handed out later in the day showing when classes are (my days off, out of luck) and when the driving groups will be driving. These groups don't tend to be on a Tuesday or Wednesday, and are actually split up all over the place. I went to talk to her later to point out that thosedays with those times wouldn't work for me no matter which driving group I was in, and found out she was making an exception for me due to work. I just get to drive with whoever. XD

One thing I'm not very pleased with though is the bill. Not nice to learn that I have to fork up $145 an hour after waking.

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Am going to visit mom Tuesday after driver's ed. Will be staying up there until Thursday, when my stepdad will bring me home before work. He's also picking me up. Translation: I have between when I get off work until then to get the house looking decent. (FEAR)

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Operation: Birthday was a partial success. The people who threatened me with songs and the like were mostly avoided. Found out later that Billy had convinced them that the best way to grant my 'birthday wish' would be to not do the birthday things. Was rather grateful.

Later however, my birthday was again announced- this time at the overnight meeting (which we missed due to the arrival of a frozen truck). Later, when I was taking out other pallets on the grocery side, someone noticed me and said happy birthday. This alerted everyone else there that I was in the vicinity, upon which they all came out one by one to say it as well. XD

Later:

Pi: (embarassed) Thank you.
Aaron: Waitasec. How come you don't get mad at them when they say it, but you bite our heads off?
Pi: Because you know better.
Billy: Oh what the hell.

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Same day Billy said something interesting to me.

Billy: You know it's not a big deal if someone wants to do something for your birthday. It's actually kind of a nice thing. It makes you feel appreciated by your friends.

I've spent the last several years under the impression that I have no friends (in real life). Well, one friend... but she's still away in the Dominican Republic. It's gotten to the point where I really can't remember just how people become friends. Is it really that simple? I still find it all confusing.

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Jen is back from vacation. She is a million shades of awesome. Twice in a row now, I have been chosen to sort break packs andscan electronics over Kathy. Pure win.

Best thing is that Kathy's throwing a fit over it. That's supposedly 'her thing', and she was never happy when I was even asked to help her at times after she learned I do it too. She's been really nasty lately, but I could care less. MUAH. I win.

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Twice now, happy news completely unrelated to me has made me have brief moments of emo. I don't think this says anything nice about my character.

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I've started playing Bishop over at TT officially.  It's oresome. XD

Thus far, I have to say... living on my own has been one of the best experiences of my life. I mean, I got home yesterday from seeing a movie and was sitting down at my laptop when I realized that I haven't been this happy in a long time. Even throwing the foot pain in there, I am, for the most part... happy. :D It's a strange feeling!

I barely did anything yesterday. My alarm clock didn't go off, so I ended up waking two hours later than I planned. I had about an hour tojust get awake before my grandma came over so we could get some things done.

First thing on the list was picking up my debit card. For some reason, putting that card into my wallet seemed bigger than getting my permit. Probably because I haven't done much with said permit ^_^;. Either way, it felt like a real adult step or something. Was really cool.

And holy crap- it's so neat looking! Like, all pretty and everything. And it has my name on it. O.O Duuuuuude... That shouldn't be as awesome as it is! XD

After I got that, my grandma went to her own bank to get a withdrawl for groceries later. Then she took me to this new subdivision that isn't quite done yet (and thus a bit more empty) and I got to practice driving for a while. It's been a while since I was behind the wheel, and I've only done that twice. Nevertheless, things seemed to come a little easier now. I remembered to use my turn signal 99% of the time- the one time I didn't when I was trying to figure out how to Yield and and do it at the same time. >.>

That was the harder part, I think. I couldn't quite remember what to do at a Yield. Hopefully next time will be better. Another thing to work on is a problem my stepdad pointed out during my first lesson last year- I overcompensate when I turn the wheel sometimes, so when I go to straighten out the vehicle afterwards, I end up having a harder time at it then I should. (scratches head) Maybe I'm turning too slow? Because when I do it, I try to turn the wheel just the right amount, but I always feel like I'm going to hit the curb or something when I do so I end up turning it a little more. Hmm... (considers)

Other than that though, I think I did fairly well. Stayed on the right side of the road most of the time as well, the only time I didn't being during some of those oddball turns of mine. But since no one was really in the street, I didn't have to worry about hitting anyone.

When we were done there, I went to grandma's and lounged for a bit. That's another thing that's been great about me being on my own- my relationship with my family members is actually seeming to improve! I haven't had stressing conversations with any of them, for the most part, since I've moved in here. And with my grandparents, I actually seem to be getting along with them well! I like this a lot. Maybe someday I can do the same with my dad? He'll be harder, I know, but it's not impossible.

Anyways- before going to grandma's, we'd driven by the little theatre in town and I'd seen that Eagle Eye was playing. I've been wanting to see that for awhile, but thought I wouldn't go as it's not much fun seeing a movie by yourself. And it's not like it's my grandparents' kind of movie.

That was when I remembered though- the only person I've really been able to keep a friendship going with that lived so far away? Yeah, we're in the same town now. :D So I called her up and asked if she'd like to go with me, and she ended up bringing her sisters, cousin, and two people I don't know. XD It was cool though! Her family is really nice, and I like hanging out with them when I can. Heck, they're usually less busy than I am! And her older sister has offered to help teach me how to drive as well, which is really neat.

The movie was really great, by the way. I give it a little Pi Stamp of Approval! It was definitely my kind of movie- action with a nice side of thriller.

One of my favorite lines is the thing about the timers. XD I won't quote it because it has the potential to spoil, but it was awesome.

My friend took me home after the movie was done, and I came into the bedroom. I already stated my little realization above, but yeah. It's great to finally have things going for me. Though I miss talking to peoples online and stuff. ;_; It's like no one's on anymore, even if I know it's only me who isn't on anymore! XD

Seriously though- I miss. Though I don't miss some of the crazy net drama that goes on, and I hope there hasn't been any of that. I'm kinda keeping an eye on one that could be starting up, but hopefully it won't fully develop.

Though all things considered, with the way this fandom runs it probably will. >.<