ok so about this whole new job thing...
Current mood: worried ,glad
Category:  Life

WOW! There is a lot to remember and  I'm not sure I can do it all, I always have to be smiling too, and for those that know me- I'm a happy person but I dont smile 24-7. (Who does? and why?) Yikes...I don't think I'm cut out for this! And making the drinks? Haha, that is a whole nother blog by itself!! I could do an pages & pages about all the hard things I have to do and am learning how to do.

Kinda concerned right now...so make me feel better by leaving me love or calling me. I know I'm wrong but I feel like only I get stuck in these situations.

And I will be 21 the first week of June (June 5th) and I think I will probably cry cuz I'm no where NEAR where I wanted to be at 21, and I don't know how I got this far. (mom & dad2 have helpd me a ton..thank you!!) It's just that you know when you are younger like jr high age, you can even think of turning 21. Oh well, I think mabye I'm staring to understand how my mom feels getting another year older. And I e have the same birthday..that has pros and cons though.

It just stinks that life totally DOES NOT go the way you plan..or even close to it And I don't really wanna get another year older...I've just been very emotional  lately. (long story..if you really wanna know email me and I will give you the details) My Guardian Angles must be working overtime. Actually I'm sure they are!

 I got to go to the Boulder Creek Art & Wine festival yesterday with my mom. That was sooooo fun! We took the Hwy 17 bus there and back.

For those of you who dont know the Art & Wine Festival is like a street fair type thing where people come to Boulder Creek (in the SC mountains) from all over once every Memorial Day weekend and block off the main street and set up their tent type things on the side of the street sell things they've made like baskets, African Tribal and regular African jewelry and sarongs, beautiful dish sets, hand made jewelry like the really awesome one of a kind neclaces and earrings, t-shirts with wolves and animals(those reminded me of Teresa),beaded coin purses andcute hobo and hippy chick type purses,music and food and of course wine and ALL kinds of Awesome stuff!

They even had Jerry Bears!!! I was so excited about that!! If anyone knows what Jerry Bears are. (Eliza- going reminded me of you and John and Teresa, I think you all would have loved it!) And I saw and talked to friends that I haven't seen in over 2 years! It may not seem like a long time to some ppl but it was for me, bcuz I really bonded with a ton of ppl from high school, now I'm lucky to talk to 2 or 3 ppl from high school on a regular basis. Which is ok...I understand that ppl are busy living their lives..it's just sad that ppl who've known you for so long can't seem to find time to see you but they make time for other things/activites.

Anyway, it was great to catch up and find out what's going on with who and who married who and who had babies and what types of jobs my friends have now.

 Really glad I went...da best part? I got to see Nika! (one of my bestfriend since the 7th grade)

I talked to Mishelle and Tiffany too, that' was great cuz I hadn't seen/heard from them in a loooooonnnnnnggggg time! (Friends since the 5 grade)

Well that's all for now...I'll write later this week and let everyone know if my job is going better and what's up.

Thank you for caring enough about me to read this!

Sending you Hugs!

Much Love~ A

I got a new job! Yesterday was my first day of work. It is at Starbucks Coffee Company.

I'm in training right now to become a barista. I was suprised at how much reading I had to do yesterday!

There is a ton of background info. And I thought I would just be serving coffee and pastries...but I also have to do coffee tasting and a ton of reading first and I will be training on the floor today hopefully when it isn't busy. Yuck is the only word I can use to describe that. (Coffee tasting) Just pure coffee tasting like right after it has been pressed..or how ever they prepare it. I burned my tongue yesterday and it wasn't fun.  I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that on wednesday I have to go to a tasting class and yuck, I dont want to. (and I'm worried

 about how I might have to answer for that someday...probably sooner than i think...Idk. But it is expected of me and my girl Ayshea (whom I also met at target. Horrible company to work for but amazing people, I still keep in touch with the friends I've made there) anyway Ayshea was teasing me yesterday and she was like" Girl, U betta not fuin my name,I know its boring at first but please stick it out!" She's very supportive.

 Ayshea got me the interview last tuesday and I talked with the manager for 45 minutes and she said she would get back to me by friday. My now boss really seemed to like me and told me later that she loves my personality and that she really hand picks the people she hires. So that made me feel special. It turns out that she liked me so much she called me back the next day and offered me a position as a barista! I will be starting at 9.00 an hour, which is nice for me because that was more than I made at target. And the best part is that this Starbucks is located in the business part of downtown san jose, there are banks and coroporations surrounding my work (It is down the street from DeAnza Hotel)...so they are closed on weekends!!!

I'm so ecxited about the fact that I won't have to worry about working sundays! And I will have my friday nights and saturdays to do fun things with friends! Whew, I'm really relieved. I'll stop rambeling now hehe, I'm sure you have other things to do.

I just wanted to share my news and let you all know that I am doing better.

And I hope all of you are well, and having fun with life!

Much Love~alicia

haha How to post a new default pic that is! It took me like 20 minutes! I guess that's what I get for not using my Xanga often enough...it's probably safer than Myspace anyway. ooo! and I figured out how to make and post albums! Yay 4 me. Hey, it was hard to do...but I mastered it..sort of. haha

So today I had a really good day. I went to school this morning,(after pressing  snooze too many times) I was a little late but it turned out ok, my teacher was just glad to see me coming in and making the effort to study even though she knows it hurts my brain. Today's math pages were on ratios...another part of math I don't really understand...but I will get there. I'm making progress just slowly, mabye it will stick to my brain this time. Wait..did that make sense? haha who cares. Y'all know what I mean.  So anyways I left class around quarter to noon, bcuz by then I'd had enough math for the day! And I was thinking about when Eliza and I used to go to the library, and I thought I'd try walking there from school. I'd forgotten how long of a walk it was, a lot farther than I remember! Like 7 traffic lights from school,possibly more.

 I deffinetally got my walk on today, and I didn't get lost. (I usually get turned around while walking) I got 3 books from the library. 2 Stephen King books; Lisey's Story and Skeleton Crew, and  Green Girls by Michael Kimball. Yes I know what some of you are thinking "Ewwww, Stephen King?! He's morbid and scary." But really, he isn't as freaky as ppl think, well I don't think he's that bad. His books are entertaining and they make you think. Yes I probably should be reading a better,less creepy book but why not read what catches your eye? Yeah I'm crazy like that.

 I'm listening to Kenny Chesney's " She's Got It All", it's my feel good song! And I'll tell ya why. One of the lyrics is

"She's got every quality from A all the way to Z, it's easy to see she's the perfect girl. All of my life I spent hoping I could give someone such devotion. Every sweet memory I can recall, she's got it all. All of my heart, my soul, my wishes, all of my love my hugs my kisses. She's got it all"  So Kenny is the cutest guy in country music..and Tim Magraw. And I'm not that big into country...well ok I lied, I like the newer stuff. I can't handel the twangy counrty crap, it assults my ears.

So anyway I came home and had lunch and texted some friends and now I'm blogging. I still don't have the hang of it yet, so if you are reading it, thanks for bearing with me and I hope somethin' in here made ya smile, I know I crack myself up all the time by laughin' at sumthin' that's not even that funny. But hey, it if makes U smile why not?

My mom is doing well too, not as good as she could be but we all know how that story goes. Good news? She got a part time job! I was so glad for her, I hope she can keep it for a while. I say that bcuz the job was through a temp agency and I heard they often bounce their ppl around to diff jobs. So I hope that works out for her.

Ummmmmm...let's see what else. In the last 3months I've applied to 20 diff places but no calls back yet. I've been looking for employment six months  bfore  I thought

 I was going to quit trgt.  I guess I should enjoy this time to relax bcuz when I do get a new job I'm going to be exhausted the first few weeks and probably stress if I am doing erythang right.

I'm sure U've noticed that I abbreviate and use slang a lot in my blogs and emails. I hope U can understand what I mean...and if not tell me and I'll explain it. That's all for now....stay tuned for for the next episode..haha

X's & O's ~ A