Chapter 314: Chinese

Today was a pretty decent day. I don't know what all to say about it - my brain is kind of scattered this evening. It was a REALLY long day. It's been a really long week, actually. Like I have mentioned on here a few different times recently, my schedule has changed recently. Instead of working 10-hour days Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am now working 10-hour days Monday-Thursday and am off Friday-Sunday. I am really excited for this change and glad that the opportunity was offered to me. Still, this is the first week that I am doing this schedule and it is really starting to wear on me. After all, this is the first week where I have had to work four days in a row. It sounds ridiculous but it is really feeling like TOO MUCH this week. It sucks. It's been...

11:56pm

Okay, so I was writing this blog from my phone right around 8pm, waiting for Rachel to come over and for my Mom to get home from work. Then, we all ate Chinese food and watched the VMAs. It reminded me of that Lily Allen song, "Chinese," where she says, "I don't want anything more than to see your face as I walk through the door, You'll make me beans on toast and a nice cup of tea, then we'll get a Chinese and watch TV." Basically, since the Chinese and TV part lasted so long, I am not going to say a whole lot here. I haven't the time for it tonight. Let me just do a quick recap of the main points of the day. We had a "client visit" at work, so I decided to experiment with natural looking makeup and I think I did a really good job of it today. I personally loved my look today. It didn't have a really obvious appearance of makeup, which I normally hate but really liked today. I felt like I looked really fresh-faced through much of the day. Also, after about a week and a half of hunting and finally getting the right piece of information to make me give up on the hunt, today I saw the boy from last week on every break I went on. Not only did I see him on every break but he came and talked to me on every break. He was all sweet and adorable and such and it was really annoying. I told Rachel about it and she said that I was developing a pattern that needs to be broken - I get obsessive about the "shiny, new things" for a while until I get a closer look, then I decide that they are not so shiny or new at all and give up on them. My question is this: If I am going to go all obsessive about every boy that I meet, how will I ever know when I have met the right one? Therefore, I must find a way to break this pattern. I'm not sure how exactly I will go about it but I will. I just find it so random and kind of going against "The Secret" that as soon as I decide to give up the search for him he shows up. I mean, I know that I was still thinking about him and such but it wasn't near as much as I was last week. I think, perhaps, it is because of the fact that my thoughts of him are coming from a much more rational place this week. Who knows? It doesn't make any difference because, as far as I am aware, he has a boyfriend. I probably shouldn't mess with all that. Today was kind of a boring day overall. My two friends who I take all of my breaks with every day were indisposed due to this random training thing they have going on at work right now, so I had to take most of my breaks alone, which sucked. The day passed quickly for the most part, though, and was pretty well free from any drama or issues. I did a whole lot of nothing between the time when I got home from work and when Rachel came over. Rachel and I had a very long conversation this evening about religion and how different our religious beliefs are. I think she and I living together will work out really well because we are so close and know each other so well but the more that we discuss the matter the more I have begun looking at some of the fundamental differences between us. Don't get me wrong, I don't think any of these differences are major enough to create any REAL drama or make living together a bad idea but I just find myself taking notice of them more lately. Also, I think that the differences between us are actually a really positive thing for both of us. I think that we could really stand to learn a lot from one another and will be very useful to one another in our growth as individuals. It's really cool. After all, I can't think of anybody I know who I don't have some pretty major fundamental differences with. I'm not a usual thinker, I've decided. I've never come across somebody who thinks quite the way that I do. I'm an odd one, I suppose. Who isn't, though? Anyway, it is 12:15am and I need to go to bed. Goodnight.