damn car.

This whole car situation is so frustrating. Today my father informed me that I needed to come out to 280 and sign some documents to complete the loan process. So, on my lunch break I braved the terrible lunch rush traffic. For those of you who don’t know, highway 208 traffic is the worst kind. So, I get to my house and we go to the bank that is doing the loan for us. The lady that my father has been speaking to about this matter had to leave due to an emergency so, another lady had to come in and figure out our situation. We go it all taken care of and everything was signed. Now we can go register my car. I’m getting excited because we have had this car parked in the driveway for a very long time and all I’ve wanted to do is take my new car home. So we get to the DMV and there was no line and three ladies at desks. One lady was already helping someone but the other two were just sitting there. It took them a good minute or two to ask us how they could help… really? Are you kidding me? You aren’t doing anything and I’m here ON MY LUNCH BREAK! I haven’t eaten lunch and I’m pushing two hours. I’M HUNGRY DAMNIT AND MY DAD IS IN A BAD MOOD! Sigh. Anyway, my father explains to the lady that we need to register my car and he tells her that it was totaled. She then asks if we have the documentation stating the total loss so we could get a discount on registration. He said that we have it but it’s at home. She tells him that he could go get it. Mind you, we live literally a minute away. So, he tells her ok and we walk to the car. As soon as we get out of the DMV my father screams F***! There was this lady sitting in her car and she looked at him like he was a complete maniac. I told my dad that I have to get back to work and he tells me to go home and get my moms car and go to work and he will come back and register my car. We say good bye and when he got in and closed the door to his car I heard him totally flip out. Screaming and yelling curse words and banging the steering wheel. I started to laugh because if you know my father you know that he is a very intimidating ex-marine. If you REALLY know my father then you know that he flips out over simple things… ex:

I was about 10 and one morning and my dad had already gotten up and so I crawled into bed with my mom and we heard him scream from downstairs… “ANTS! YOU BASTARDS!” my mom and I just laughed. When we went downstairs, the whole kitchen reeked of Raid.

So, I got in my mother’s car and drove back to work… to sit and sit and sit.

update. plain and simple

Wow. A lot has happened since I last posted. I actually miss my blog. OK. Lets see what has happened since that last post. I still teach private voice lessons. I have around 11 students. They are all nice and I love to see the improvements they make everyday. One thing I’m not too keen on is that when they decide to miss their lessons they don’t call me. So, I’m left to wait and wonder if they will come or not. Tuesdays are my long teaching days. I have 7 students on that day. Last Tuesday, I had 2 of the 7 show. And the other 5 didn’t feel the need to call and let me know. It is very frustrating. But, I enjoy teaching… when I get to. I don’t work at Victoria’s Secret PINK anymore. I quit because they kept cutting my hours. It was just a real waste of time. I did get that job I interviewed for at UAB but it didn’t turn out to be what I thought it was going to be. They led me to believe that I would get to work 20 hours a week and get paid twelve dollars an hour. Well, I did get paid $12/hr and I did work 20 hours the first week. Then, I only got called to work twice a month. So, for a while I was just living by the seat of my pants. I hadn’t gone grocery shopping in the longest time and had a hard time paying my bills. I was in a rut. It was not a happy time. Then, I totaled my car. I was driving on 20/59 the week before thanksgiving and it was rush hour traffic. I was stopped in the middle lane and some car came up behind me and rammed me into the SUV in front of me. My car is sloped in the front and went right under the SUV. It busted my head lights and bent up my hood. My car was still drivable so, I just drove it until I could call the insurance companies and take care of the mess. I took my car in and the estimated damage was around $3800. Now, my car was a 2001 Saturn. Not an expensive car. So they deemed it totaled. The guy who hit me’s insurance company gave my $4875 to go toward a new car. My uncle works at a dealership in Massachusetts and so he sent me links to his web sit to check out some cars and I picked out a 2005 Toyota Corolla. They shipped it here the Friday before Christmas and I won’t be able to take it home with me until this Wednesday because of legal issues. That whole situation is also very frustrating. Good new did eventually come my why however. My old boss at Medical towers called me and told me that one of the girls I worked with on the LookAHEAD Study (the UAB choir sang at an event they had for the participants in 2008.) had accepted a position at a different job and they needed someone to start immediately. And, since I had worked there before doing basic office work and kind of knew the ropes already I would be a good fit. So I accepted the temporary full-time position as Coordinator Data Collector. It was a God send because right when I thought I was going to have to go back to PINK and try to beg for my job back my old boss called. With this job, I have my own office… with a window view of the parking deck, health benefits… which is awesome because I was paying month to month individual blue. Things are really starting to turn around for me.

Life here at the new office has been really slow because of the holidays. We have no participants to see in clinic, and I don’t really have any participants to call. So, I’ve been trying to fill my time with busy work. But that isn’t working out. I just end up staring at my computer screen. I hope you have enjoyed reading about what I’m up to. Now that I’m not too busy in the office I’ll will try to fill your day with the nonsense in my head.

Life as a post college student.

Having graduated in May with a degree in Music.... where does the story go from there? I went to Europe for two weeks. Exciting. I teach private voice lessons to people ages 5 to 18. Exhausting. I just started working retail at PINK by Victoria's Secret at the Galleria. Not ideal. I went for an interview at UAB's Lung health Center for a research position dealing with asthmatic children and hand hygiene. Interesting. My boss at the music store is starting a Kindermusic program where he wants me to be the teacher who is in-charge of it. Intense. Jenny and I have found a house to live in. YAY!

So, as you can see. I will be living my life pay check to pay check. But, that's the exciting way right? It is the all american way to hold more than three jobs to live. It excites me just thinking about it.

My days now that I am not in school and have a set schedule is very strange to say the least, but it is exciting. I enjoy living with questions. not too many. But, I do enjoy it none the less. I have a feeling that I will miss choir very much. I have been in a choir ever since I can remember. My mom wants me to join the BCC. That may take some contemplation. I know I will miss the UAB choir. I have fond friends and memories. But, we all must let those be at some point in our lives. We can't all come back every time we have a free day. That gives no one time to miss us. I want to be missed. I'm not sure that I will be though. Good luck to all those who audition. I hope you have a great time and fond memories as I have had.

I have been learning guitar. Enough said.

I turn 23 on Sunday. Enough said.

I wish my best friend good luck in law school at LSU!

I will leave with an anonymous quote.

"Life is lived in the present. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is yet to be. Today is the miracle."