*is embarrassed*

going through more boxes in my room to see what needs to go to storage or be tossed and thought to myself, "my god! how into boybands was I?!"

I found unopened box of 98* Valentines Day cards, a BSB gift bag and magazines with *NSYNC on the cover!

I thought I put that stuff in the garage long ago & that I took it to storage on Monday!

guess not! lmao I think I as clean more, I'm going to find EVEN MORE boyband related stuff.

for those wondering how the testing for the school office assistant position went here you go:

there were about 500 applicants, of those there are 7 testing groups. testing started today (7-28) and will go until Monday (8-3). I won't know if I passed the test until around 8-10.

after all the testing and scores have been calculated, the top 30 will be asked back for further testing. of those 30, the top 20 who pass the 2nd round of tests will be asked back for interviews.

they're only hiring for 3 positions - two 8 hour 11 month positions and one 3 hour 10 month position

that's kind of it. I have to wait another 2 weeks to see if I'll be asked back for more testing or I'll know if my results will be kept on file for 2 yrs.

so...waiting...

I see cute brothers

Tuesday I test for the school office assistant position i applied for. i wish it wasn't past the 2 yr mark since the last time i applied or i would use the results from that test. i had to have been in the top 30 back then because I was called for an interview (which i sucked at). oh well. this gets me out of the apartment and the testing keeps the stuff fresh in my head so both are a plus.

for the longest time I've been telling my mom how her china was mine and I was going to take it when I move (my brother & sister don't 'deserve' it because they aren't here to clean it) and she keeps saying "I know I know". well today (Monday) I took some stuff to storage and she gave me boxed dishes (they'd never been used!) and some other bowls (and when she finds them, some silverware) and they are mine as well. yay! I don't have to go shopping for dishes (or a china cabinet) when i move.

downloaded the first 6 episodes of season 1 of SPN and will watch them this week. I can't wait.

gonna shower now. I want to watch the pilot episode of SPN and be "in bed" by 1 am so I get plenty of sleep.

eta
I'm really starting at this late, but that's better than nothing, right?

My tv watching plan for the rest of summer to the end of year: watch at least one season of "it" tv shows.

On my list so far is:
Supernatural
One Tree Hill
Moonlight
Merlin (I know it's currently on NBC but it's almost always on opposite something I want to see on PBS)
True Blood
Heroes

I KNOW there are more, but I'm completely drawing a blank as to what they are!

comment me with a tv show you think I should check out and I'll add it to my list
commenter beware: should I find full time work, who knows when I'll get a chance to watch these shows. :(

who am I? Lizet Elaine!

sorry, currently watching Drumline and Petey Pablo was just "singing"

Like I expected, I got a testing invitation letter from the school district I applied to 2 weeks ago. my testing date is July 28th at 1045 am. I'm confident I'll pass. Only applicants who pass the test and score within the top 30 are invited back for more testing/interviews. I do fine when it comes to testing, it's the interviews I balk at.

I dyed my hair today (Thursday). with the lighting in the apartment I can't tell if I got the desired color, but my mom says it's a reddish brown. I was going for more of a red over brown, but I do know it's lighter.

one of my cousins is having her sweet 16 on Saturday. our grandmother said I was invited but I haven't gotten an invitation or a call about it so idk what's going on. I do have a dress out in case I get a call the day of inviting me to it (it's happened that way before)

I've been invited to like 4 baby showers (for cousins) and I have gifts (hand made blanket from my mom) but no paper invites. so I'm uber confused about what's going on. word of mouth invite used to be fine, but with how this part of my family is, i'd much rather have a paper/electronic invite.

umm yeah, that's everything I guess. Got work in the morning (Friday) and my sister asked me to type up some papers for her and will pick them up before she goes to work. this means I have to be up 3 hours earlier than I usually am :(

to call or not to call

there are these apartment like houses I see for rent about 5 minutes or so from my church. there's a whole tract of them, like 2 blocks or something. well they look like they wouldn't be much to rent but I've been too chicken to call and ask about them (at one point I got off the bus, wrote down the number & walked 6 block to my connecting bus stop but I've since lost the number)

anyways, the for rent sign is back up and it's got me thinking about moving again. I totally can't afford it nor can my parents afford to help me (and I wouldn't want them to for that matter) get the place until I got a better job to pay for it myself (she offered to pull early SSI when I thought about moving to AZ and I almost took her up on it, but glad I didn't)

also, there's a vacant apartment behind me. it hurts to look at that place day in and day out. I daydream about how to decorate it, all the cool furniture I could get from Ikea, Target & Walmart. But apartments in this city are overpriced out the ass! $1200 for a cramped 2 bedroom/1 bathroom. outrageous!

it's all pathetic on my part. really it is.

supposed to hear back from the school district. I think letters go out this week to the applicants they want back for testing. I got to testing (and interview) when I applied for a different position 3 yrs ago. I really hope it pans out this time, but I interview horribly. why can't my resume & references speak for themselves?! *sighs*

oh gosh, I'm dragging

at work right now. been on the go go go since 8 am. I know that's not too long ago, but I was up until 2 am or something, then I had to lug boxes around and the heat isn't helping...it's just making me more tired.

Friday I finally got a storage unit. I was up until 1 am telling my dad which boxes in the garage were mine (there's still 1 more buried deep), then I couldn't go to sleep once I was done with that so I washed more dishes, finally went to sleep and at 8 am my dad woke me up. it felt like I had JUST fallen asleep, but I got up at 6 am when my cat was thisclose to my face meowing. gave her the rest of her dry food (I have to pick up more b4 going home), fresh water and I closed my bedroom door to go back to sleep.

By 815 my dad and I were at storage putting my stuff in my unit (which btw is the size of my closet! lol), he cleaned out his unit and by 915 we were back home. Thought my mom was going to return something to Kmart but she decided to do it tomorrow since she doesn't have to work, dad and I made some other stops before finally arriving at the church at 1015.

He's supposed to be doing the lawn, but I don't hear any machines going. I hope he's not still reading the news paper. we have to be back to take my mom to work by 1 pm and I need to get the cat some food.

OH! Yesterday my mom bought my this cute dress from Kmart! It was originally $26.99 but there was 60% discount (30% on the particular dress then another 30% store-wide)!! Hello! I'd like to go back with her and maybe get a couple more dresses! She also got me some hair dye and said if she didn't have to work today she'd do my hair, but thats not going to happen now, so I'll have to wait until next week (I want to wear the dress w/my freshly dyed hair lol)

I'm sure there's probably other stuff I could go into, but I need to see what my dad is doing (he has 1 1/2 hrs b4 we have to leave) and I need to finish my work!

oh that's disturbing

I'm watching SoCal Connected and I hear them mention my city. so naturally my ears perk up and I pay more attention.

they're talking about hospitals and the cost to run them or some such. Well, there's a hospital within walking distance from me (about a 15-20 min walk) and it's the one I'd prefer to go to if I had an emergency at home.

then something was said that made my mouth drop open...a few yrs ago (b4 hospitals started closing left & right) there were 8-9 hospitals around me. now there are THREE! that is unbelievable...that's unacceptable!

I totally understand why the emergency room at King Drew was closed in 2007 (a woman DYING while waiting to see a doctor is insane! a man in pain for 4 days before his family took him to another hospital where he was diagnosed with a BRAIN TUMOR!)

but how do you go from there being 10 hospitals with emergency rooms to THREE.

I don't get it. I don't like it.

also, California being 51st in repaying hospitals due to patients not having full or any health insurance (apparently we're behind Puerto Rico!) is also bad.

I'm just so disappointed in the way my state has been run into the ground.

I ventured out for the day

I dropped off my job application at one of the local school districts. the lady told me the closing date is July 14th and about a week after that I'll get a letter in the mail for testing. I've gone through testing with this school district before (about 3 or 4 years ago) so I'm confident I'll pass that with no problems. it's the face to face interview part I kind of suck at. Anyways, she also told me instead of the 3 positions that was listed on the website, there's only 2 - an 8 hour and a 3 hour. I'm not picky so I asked for both. the pay and benefits are great for either one.

After that I made my way to downtown LA to go to the Central Library. There was a bit of increased traffic, but honestly, nothing too bad. I keep forgetting that when I go Downtown, I need to take a camera because the buildings are so...wow! beautiful and big! It's the one time I don't mind being a tourist in a city I go to all the time. I was in and out of the Library in an hour and I was home by 1 pm.

dropping off the job application, going to the library and back home was like 4 hours.

my mom complains that I'm in my room too much, and would like for me to get out at least once (not counting going to work & church). so I did that today. I'm not in the walking mood and I don't have enough change for 3 bus trips so the next time I go out is Friday when I go to work and for my "yearly" check up.

cross your fingers ya'll

I'm applying for another job!

I'm finally getting tired of being at home 5 days a week that I searched some local school districts to see if they're hiring and one I checked (Paramount Unified) is hiring! I'm sure it's going to be a lot more than who were applying at WalGreens that's for sure.

The position I'm applying for is School Office Assistant. If I read the site right, that position is going to hire 3 people: 2 positions at 8 hours per day; 11 months per year and 1 position at 3 hours per day; 10 months per year. I'd be happy with either! Working 5 days a week, whether its 8 hrs a day or 3 hrs a day is still working and I KNOW it won't be like how it is at the church. ALSO the pay is pretty good! 8 hours per day/11 months $2,507 - $3,055 per month - 3 hours per day/10 months $940 - $1,146 per month.

Just realized that while the listing was posted on the 28th of June and that's not that many days ago, that's plenty of time for enough people to see, fill out applications and turn them in. I need to get on the ball!

Checking other school districts though. I want to apply to as many as I can.

Random: suddenly, I'm not as tired as I usually am this time of day