It still seems surreal!

In a matter of HOURS I'm going to be in LAS VEGAS FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!

I'm so excited and nervous and just plain silly about the whole thing!

I packed & unpacked like 4 times tonight to make sure I had everything...and like when I was first packing for my trip here (Arizona for those who don't know) I forgot to pack underwear but in the end I remembered. But just the simple fact that I forgot in the first place makes me go "wtf is my brain?!" LOL But not to worry! I packed them. LOL

I'm too excited to sleep. I know I should though. We're (Jeanine and I) going to leave at 930 or 10 am. I don't remember the time exactly, but I should be up around 7 or 8 am.

I'm going to watch another episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery and bookmark some more links before I finally go to bed. I'll more than likely post pics [[H E R E]] while I'm in Vegas if you want to check them out. Or you can wait until I get back to Jeanine's for me to post them.

And I'm off!

My sister should be here to get me in about 20 minutes so I'm typing this as fast as I can. Sadly she doesn't have the internet so I won't be able to get online, but I think *knocks on wood* my cell phone is on it's way to working again. I'm just having a bit of problems with e-mail and maybe pic messaging. But I can get and make calls and send and receive reg txt messages!

I'm all packed (I think) and like I said, waiting for my sister. Better do last minute checks before time completely slips away!

Thus my 2 week vacation starts

but first things first, I guess.

I'm without a cell phone. I mean, I physically have one, but about all I can do is take pictures, use it for a clock, play games or make notes. Oh and I can look up phone numbers. Sunday around 4 pm my phone went down the crapper. the phone itself is good, it's the service/network that I'm having problems with. Like I said, Sunday around 4 pm I started having problems with it. Dropped calls, not being able to call out, no reception, the data aspect of my phone (txt messaging, pic messaging, e-mail & web browsing) are shotty - I can receive all of them (minus pic messaging) but I have to hope and pray I can send out. I was on with T-Mobile tech support twice yesterday. The first time I got through about 30 mins of trouble shooting before I was disconnected. I waited a few hrs and tried again. The new person I spoke with told me I wasn't the only one experiencing problems. Apparently various towers I could/would connect to were going down and booting me from the network. So she entered the info and gave me a service # or some such. I don't know how they're going to get a hold of me if I can't send of receive calls. though I can check my messages from a landline phone in case anyone calls and leaves a message (which no one rarely does so it doesn't really matter, right?) [while out at the bank I was able to send txt messages so I think something with where I live that's suddenly giving me problems w/my cell phone]

My dad got a car April 3rd and Saturday (April 18th) the ignition messed up or something. Of course I didn't find out until 1030 pm that night...the ignition stopped working at like 4 pm! wtf!? I was very annoyed with my dad about that. Sunday I called Lora and she was back to being the chauffeur for my mom and I as my dad rather take the bus to "get to church on time". whatever. The lack of car also put me in a spot as I knew there was no way he was going to have the car fixed in time to get me to the greyhound bus station on Wednesday by 630 am [back from a trip to the bank] so I was freaking out. My parents threw out lots of suggestions as to how I could get there and then dad suggested that I ask my sister. He said I should stay the night and since she lives in LA (about 20-30 mins from the Greyhound station) she could take me. That's better than the idea I had of waking up at 4 am to catch the 509 am bus/train/bus to get to the station around 6 am.

so tonight I will be staying at my sisters. I don't think she has internet so if she doesn't, I won't be back online until LATE Wednesday night...for sure Thursday as I will already be at Jeanine's house!!

Hmm what else... I need to type up my itinerary to leave with my parents. I'll also e-mail them a copy in case they misplace the paper copy. [whoops got sidetracked and didn't finish/post this entry]

so that's everything. Off to clean the kitchen and make sure I have everything I need for tonight & for when I leave tomorrow.

so...that was out of left field

I have a job. 16 hrs a week. it's obvious to anyone who sees me on Twitter, that I don't nearly work 16 hrs a week. At most I do 8 hours (4-5 on Fridays and the rest on Sundays). So Monday-Thursday my fat butt is parked on my bed watching talk shows and tweeting what I see on TV.

Well today I get this message from my cousin: Lizet I think you need to get a job being a talk host on a radio station, or either writing for a newspaper or magazine.

That's totally out of left field. First, I have no idea what I'd speak or write about, second, several of my online friends have/had jobs in both those fields and have been doing it for pretty much all their lives and have had their hours cut or lost their jobs and I'd feel really bad to up and get a job as a radio talk show host or writer when they're looking for work.

and like I said, totally out of left field. But I replied back to my cousin: my writing is no where near good enough to writer for a newspaper or magazine and I wouldn't know what to talk about on a radio show

but that got me to thinking...who's to say I can't host a podcast or whatever. Scan the news for stuff that's of interest to me, ask my friends what's interesting to them and gab about it for 30-60 mins

but I'm just so ehh about it. Even what I've typed up right now I find completely horrible and just lacking.

No. What I need to do is find a sugar daddy and just coast.