So yesterday?

Yesterday was the reception at my church for my graduation. There were people I wanted there, who weren't there and it wasn't a surprise to me, but it hurt just a bit. But there's nothing I could do about it. Food was good, even though I didn't eat any there (I was too busy opening gifts lol) and everyone seemed to like the cake and ice cream. I brought about 1/3 of it home, which isn't bad conisdering there was maybe 15 people of the 20 who stayed from church.

I got lots of cards and money, I got a Target gift card, some things from Old Navy, a watch (which I REALLY needed), a frame with my picture from JPL in it, a pink necklace/earring set, a book (with bookmark), a vanilla musk candle, and 2 little date notebooks.

Today I'm going to use the cash I got to get my pictures (that I put into Longs Drugs), get some mailing envelopes and some other things I need. I hope that later this week I can get to Target to get some storage boxes so I can take my old school papers out of the notebooks and put them in that. The notebooks I'll store someplace else so that I have them for when I go back to school.

Hmm whatelse...I'm anxious to hear back from Universal Electronics to know if I got the job. If not, I need to start back applying to other places. My dad's been working the Star Wars Celebration IV event since last Tuesday and tonight is the last day of it. Apparently last night he came home with a freakin' Anakin Skywalker lightsaber. What the hell does he need that for?! It's just another piece of crap (although it is nice) to take up space in an already crowded 2 bedroom apartment. And this goes totally against what my mom said to me yesterday. She said that he realized that we (really he) doesn't need all the stuff in the garage and on the bookshlves here in the apartment. That he was going to start getting rid of it so I won't have to get a storage unit. Getting stuff for free from a convention isn't lessening the stuff he doesn't need. If we had a 3 bedroom apartment, it wouldn't be so bad. The 3rd room could be the office and all the crap from the living room could go in there. Whatever...just another room to junk up.

I better get dressed and head to Longs Drugs. edit: OMG I just saw a picture of myself from JPL on the 20th. I looked fatter than I feel! And my so called sexy jeans don't make me look sexy either. UGH!

More graduation pictures!

Well not really more, but I've added to what I already have, and I'm still waiting for 2 or 3 people to send me their pictures so I can add to my collection.

Now for the long awaited Graduation pictures! This folder contains 3 additional folders that are broken down into 3 different days. Before Graduation, Graduation Day, and my reception after Graduation.

That's all the pictures for now. I'll give more of an update tomorrow.

14 hours after graduation

And I don't really feel any different. lol My parents where there (obviously), Lora, Maria and Licha were also there. There were only 4 students (including myself) from the ATC program (I assume everyone else who would have graduated got jobs in the travel industry). I didn't see Kathleen, but I did see Evie and Marc. I felt kind of...gipped that Kathleen wasn't there. I e-mailed her a couple of times letting her know that I was graduating and from her responses, I got the impression that she'd be there. No other students from the ATC program were there.

I missed having honors by a tenth of a point! My over all GPA was 2.9 something and high honors is from 3.0-3.74 (highest honors from 3.75-4.0). There's nothing I can do about it now, but it gives me something to strive for when I get my bachelor's degree. I want that gold cord! lol

Now for pictures. They aren't completely organized. I have them broken down by day - when I first got my cap & gown, graduation itself and then for the party on Sunday. I wish I would have taken my camera (or at least my phone) with me. I missed a bit of group shots with the other 3 people from the ATC program. 59 pictures with more to come! As a nice gift, ASB bought all the graduates frames with Cypress College on it. They opted for less food and to get the gifts. I thought that was nice, because apparently there were other frames being sold for $15+ (one frame that was really nice was $80!) So I have my Cypress College frame plus 2 other frames. I can't wait to see how the professional pictures came out! Sometime next week we should have proofs.

So I was talked into actually going through with my education. None of the classes I need/want to take are offered during the summer so I have to wait until the fall to take them and I'm going to apply to CSULB in August if I want to go Spring 2008 or in October if I want to go Fall 2008. If I go Fall 08 I don't have to rush in making up classes, if I do Spring 08, I have to rush...and I won't have much of a financial plan together. I think I'll wait until October to apply.

My cat got out this morning for like an hour. I was pissed that I had to get up at 6 something this morning to try and get her. Finally it was food that brought her in. and then my mom tells me that she's been out since BEFORE she left to take my dad to the train. OMFG! She could have told me instead of leaving her out there! Someone could have taken her, she could have gotten hit by a car or worse, in my opinion, gotten pregnant (yeah, I know I need to get her fixed)! That really made me mad. So now I have to keep her in her carrier or in my room when my parents go out in the early morning.

It couldn't have come at a better time!

Graduation gift from my Uncle and cousins. $$ I'd deposit in the bank today, but as soon as my parents get here, we leave for the college.

I was really freakin' out about money because I have Netflix due Saturday, I have to get my cake Saturday and I know there was something else, but I can't remember.

This morning Jasmine gave me a card from her, Marlin and my sister. That was nice. I haven't opened it yet, but Jasmine was like, "Mom wrote you a check..." Gee thanks for spoiling the surprise. lol

About 30 minutes ago my friend Jen had some flowers sent to me. They're nice yellow roses, yellow and white daisies, and one other flower I'm not sure of. They're really pretty and in a yellow smiling mug. They were sitting by the door but my cat kept eating the petals of the flowers. So I put them on the fridge. Not like that would stop her, but I don't want them to go in my room just yet.

It's 325 and I don't have my make-up on and my parents aren't here. I hope they hurry up and come! It's going to take AT LEAST 45 minutes to get to school, and that's IF my parents don't take a long time to get ready.

1 1/2 hours until line up
2 1/2 hours until ceremony starts

It's countdown time

T-Minus 4 hours until I leave for graduation at Cypress College

T-Minus 6 hours until the ceremony starts

For the last hour I was helping my mom make paper hats (for the women at the retirement center) and then I decided it was time to slowly get ready.

I just did my hair (which I'll continue to touch up until I leave) and I've made sure my clothes are ironed, as well as my gown.

Before my mom leaves at 1230 pm to drop the hats off and head to get my dad from the Staples Center (he gets off at 130 pm), I'll have her take pictures of me in what I'll have on under my cap & gown, then I'll take it off (so I do get it dirty) and continue to get ready.

I'm hoping that my parents are back by 230 pm (at the latest) because I want to get more pictures and then leave at 330 pm.

Line up in Gym 1 on campus is at 5 pm and I'd like to be there around 430 so that my parents can find parking, I can introduce them to any former instructors who are around and then do my thing.

Meh, that's a lot to do today. But I'm ready and excited.

Lunch calls! I'll try not to spam.

Oh big misunderstanding

When Janice called me earlier the reception was very bad on my cell phone and I thought she said that Universal Electronics people didn't like me, so when I did my rant entry, she read it and called me and thought they called me after she talked to me and wanted to know what they said.

That's when I found out that they DO like me and to be fair, they're going interview another person to be "fair" and they'd call me sometime next week to let me know.

I can now stop overreacting...and just worry about how the other person is going to do and if I get job.

whatever to them

Janice called and told me that the people at Universal Electronics didn't like me and they'd call in a couple weeks. Forget them. I don't know what they were looking for, but I was more than capible of meeting and in my opinion exceeding what they would want someone to do. When she told me that I had this gut feeling they called SBCoG and they said some BS about me. Like I said, whatever.

Now I wish I wouldn't have said no to the Star Wars event, but I'm glad I did. I don't want to be rushed the day of my graduation and I know that getting home at 2 or 230 to then have to leave at 4 to get to Cypress at 5 would be too much for me.

So I continue to look. I do wish I could know why these places I apply to and interview with don't like me. Just so that I can better myself for the next interview I go on and so I won't internally beat myself up over everything.

I'm home alone for the next few hours. Then tomorrow I'll also be home alone. My mom kept hinting and suggesting that I wash my clothes. Well, I'd like to do that but I don't have enough quarters and the quarters I do have I'd like to keep in case I need to take the bus somewhere. So I don't know what's going to be done about that. I think I might just go on and use them because I'm out of socks and other things. I wish I could go to my sister's house to wash my clothes, but eww going on the bus with all the clothes I have isn't fun or attractive. Plus I don't want to be clumsy Lizet and fall anymore. I need something BIG for graduation. lol I'm only kidding!! *knocks on wood*

I'm going to watch Mary Poppins, Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve and count down the days to Ocean's Thirteen.

I don't feel like recapping...

Today...well yesterday was interesting to say the least. I finally got things straightened out with Universal Electronics and was offered an interview with them. I went to that (full detail in a bit), kind of got the bank/money thing straightened out and now I'm sort of on cruise control with the whole graduation thing.

Thursday started out bumpy. I set my alarm for 7 am knowing that I like to lay in bed a bit to "wake up" and I should have set it for 630 am. I got up at like 715 and was slow to get ready. I missed the 730 bus and I didn't want to wait until 830 because then I'd get to the interview at 1002 and that's late. My mom dropped me off at the train station and instead of waiting for the bus that would have gotten me there 30 minutes early, I opted for the one that was leaving when I got there (train station). So I got on the bus and we were off. 30 minutes later I was getting off that bus and going to chatch my second bus. Waited about 10 minutes for that and another 20 minutes I was getting off that one. Here's were things started to go bad. I was walking across the street to wait for the 3rd bus when I fell! Skinned my right knee pretty badly. And broke the straps of the tote bag I was carrying. Usually I can feel when I'm about to fall, but this time I couldn't. I don't know why...maybe because I was listening to music? who know. I didn't have anything to clean my knee with so I kind of had to let it dry under my pants. Thank God I was wearing pants or it would have looked very bad. Third bus comes and I'm nervous. I'd never been this particular direction on the bus so I didn't want to miss my stop. I didn't miss my stop, but I walked to blocks the wrong direction. I got my barrings and headed in the correct direction (later found out there's a bus stop closer. I know that for next time). My interview time was for 10 am and I got there at 950 am. I try to get to interviews between 15 and 20 minutes early so I was stressed I wasn't there in my ideal time frame.

The interview itself was okay. Met with the receptionist and Sr. Recruiter for 30 minutes and the last 30 minutes was with the HR Director. I think both parts went okay. I hope they went okay. After meeting with them, I'd like to work there (and after 6 months I can transfer to other depratments if I wanted) and I found out the hours that I'd be needed would be 11 am (to cover the receptionist's lunch break) to 5 pm (to cover when the receptionist left for the day). I was told that the earliest I'd hear back from them would be Friday. I hope it's something positive! After the iterview I had small talk with my friend Janice and the receptionist, loosened up more (which is good) and made my way home.

I missed the 11 am bus (if I wouldn't have stayed to talk I probably could have made it) so I got a manicure and my eyebrows arched...missed the noon bus so I went the round about way of getting home - the opposite direction I needed to go, then back the way I needed to go. So I didn't end up leaving Cypress until 1 pm. I was going to stop by the college but I didn't know if anyone was going to be there (and I needed to hurry and get home incase my parents weren't there when Marlin got out of school). I took the kind of long way back to the train station, but I used the time to sleep. Here is where the other bad thing happened. I got off the bus at the train station, I was walking through the crosswalk and fell again! I've NEVER fallen twice in one day! Something with my balance is waaay off. More of my tote bag broke, but I didn't skin my knee anymore than I had the first time. Got on the other bus...it would take me within 10 blocks or so of my apartment if I walked - I opted to wait for the bus that would drop me off across the street from my apartment. While I was waiting, I kept hearing someone honk but couldn't tell where it was coming from. Finally turned around and saw my mom. So yay, I got a ride home.

On the way home, I told her some about the interview and falling and she suggested I go to the er/hospital/dr. Don't have the insurance or money to cover that so I'm going to have to pass for now. If I continue to fall, I'll go or something. When I got home, I got online right quick to check my e-mail, watch the last of NCIS and then I slept until 1030 pm. Before I went to sleep, my Uncle (he lives in North Carolina and Detroit) called. He told my mom he got both announcements I sent (one to the family house in Detroit and one to his house in North Carolina) and that he had my cousin write a check to me because he didn't know what I needed. I don't really need anything other than money lol. My mom kind of told me that but she forgot to ask him how much. I know this Uncle, so when he gives money, he really gives. He's my favorite Uncle on my mom's side - reminds me of my Grandpa (their dad), so I'm anxious for that.

When I woke up, my mom told me my neighbor Angie was calling my name (I was asleep and didn't hear her) so she could give me a graduation gift. I'll give her a thank you card the next time I see her. Hopefully she won't be too "hurt" if I wait until I get my gradaution picture to give her the card. Sometimes she's...weird and gets this attitude if she's not thanked right away for things. But she gave me some kitty slippers, a graduation frame I can write on, a certificate (which I'm going to give to my church so I won't have to order the one I saw online), a photo album, a little graduation bear and a card. It was all really cute.

Hmm whatelse...There was some Lost special on TV when I woke up. I watched it and part of me wants to see the 2 hours finale next Wednesday, but I don't know if I have other shows that I watch that will be on. I know the results for AI will be on, but I'm not watching that anymore since Melinda isn't there. Other than that, I don't know what other shows will be on...what other finales I'll want to see. I know I'll have to record something.

It feels like it's supposed to be Saturday, but it's Friday. And it's 130 am and I'm still awake. I'm going to try to go back to sleep.

I swear I'm going to cry

I'm looking at my high school's website (I'm mailing my graduation announcement to the only 2 people who I had while there) and there's been so many changes in the last 6 years, but it's like it's still the same.

There are 3 Vice Principals, 2 Assistant Principals and 1 Principal. The Principal now was the Vice Principal when I was there, one of the Assistant Principals was a teacher...the rest I don't know. Same pretty much goes for the Counselors. There are 8 of them. Mine is still there, as is one other I remember. I think another one was once a teacher. Oh yeah and 2 students I went to school with...they're TEACHERS there now!

And now I feel...like I didn't make as much with my life as I could have. That depresses me.

So that's what networking is...

Or something like that.

My friend Janice told me that the place she works at needs to hire someone to fill her position within the next 2 weeks. She gave me all the information and told me to call for a phone interview. I just got done with that and now I'm waiting for some follow up information and some questions that I have to answer and e-mail back to Isacc.

And I just can't seem to escape the OC. This job is at Universal Electronics and that's about 10 minutes or so away from Cypress College. No big deal. I know EXACTLY how to get to this place, what buses I need to take and what time I'd need to leave in order to get there on time. There are 2 possible time shifts I can work: 9 am to 3 pm or 11 am to 5 pm. I think I'd choose the 9-3 simply because of my graduation on the 24th. There's no way I'd be able to get home and back to Cypress in time, plus it'd be a waste of money. If I get the job, I'd just wear whatever I was going to wear to graduation to work and have my parents meet me with my cap & gown. It's a shame I'll have to e-mail Sheri and tell her I can't work the Star Wars thing.

Oh yeah, more about the new job...the position is HR Assistant, it's part time, 30 hrs/week and between $11-$12/hr. Everything that Isaac was telling me I'd do is pretty much what I did at SBCoG. It's a glorified secretary position, but I don't care. It's work and Isacc sounded nice. He said the HR Director is nice, as are the other people in the department. Jen (my friend who told me about the job) also said they're nice. I'll have to be the judge and hopefully I'll get along with them better than I did the people at SBCoG.

Speaking of SBCoG...it's been 4 months since I stopped working there and sometimes I miss some of the people. Mostly the Children's Pastor and the Director of Noah's Ark. Everyone else was a bit too much for me...especially Jeannie.

But I have some questions to answer for Universal Electronics, so I better get on that and e-mail them back to Isacc asap!

Stuffing envelopes for 2 weeks and I get how much!?

I got an e-mail from OfficeTeam (the temp agency I'm with) and they're looking for someone to stuff envelopes for 2 weeks at $300 per week...that's $600! I can do so much with that kind of money so I replied back. It's not too far from me (that I'd be will to travel by bus) and it's from 8 am-4:30 pm with a 30 minute lunch. I hope it doesn't get in the way of what I have May 22-28 because the job those days is also good money (even if the hours aren't what I like)

In my head I'm already going over the things I can pay on, do and buy! A good chunk of it (something like $300) will go towards my credit card bill and then give some to my mom towards her cruise in September and the rest for me. Weeee

Marlin should be home soon...

And there's no food for him to eat...not even chips. flippin' joy. but hey it's not my problem, only it is because I'm here alone and he'll be here and I don't want to deal with it. Oh wait, he has a corn dog frozen dinner in the freezer. If he asks for food, I'll tell him he can have that. I don't understand how he can be so flippin' hungry after school! I mean, he has lunch around noon, I'm sure he gets something to eat on the way home, so why does he feel the need to eat MORE food when he gets here, only to have dinner a couple hours later when he get's home!? I've heard him mumbling that I'm fat (so my business) and calling his sister fat...he has no place to talk, he's just like we are and there's the whole respect issue with talking back to me and not listening when his mom or my parents tell him not to call his sister names. And Jasmine is being nice (I guess) to me and that just throws me for a loop...asking if she can take out the trash that I set at the door...talk about a double take! Last night she was like "Auntie do you want me to take the trash out for you?" I said no, but I should have said yes because when I wanted to go to bed at 11:30 I forgot I still hadn't taken the trash out. geez, I suck!

anyways...Tomorrow I get Pee-Wee's Big Adventure from Netflix. Today American Dreams disc 6 (I removed disc 7...it's not like my mom will even know/remember) and Alpha Dog both came today. I'm sending AD back tomorrow (no one will watch it...I'm evil like that). Friday I should get and then I'll get The Pee-Wee Herman Show. I'm piss there's a wait for NCIS season 3 (just disc 1 and there's a short wait) so I moved some other movies ahead of it. I hope I'm able to see it soon.

Nosey neighbor Angie was supposed to have given me an application to work for the county in Norwalk. I thought she was going to give it to me yesterday, but she didn't. Not too much going to hold my breath on that one...though I would like to have a county job. They have GREAT benefits and the pay is pretty good too. I'm just not down for a M-F 9-5 job yet. I need to work up to that again. lol

I have Smirnoff that I want to drink, but I have to wait...well I don't have to, but I had one with lunch and I want to at least wait until my sister's kids are gone before opening another one.

Hmm what's going to be for dinner? I don't know. I can make chili again, but I had that 3 days in a row (and it's gone) already. My mom or dad better come up with money s real grocery shopping can be done! Snacking all day isn't good for the body!

I taped NCIS and Law & Order: Criminal Intent last night so I better watch those before it's time to set the VCR for Criminal Minds at 9 pm