About a year and a half ago I was in Vegas with Karyn. While we were walking on the strip back to our hotel room this lady walked up to me and said, "I'm getting a strong vibe from you." While standing there she told me a few things about my life that a stranger would have no idea about. Her name was Samantha, and she was a psychic in the mall attached to our hotel. I have never believed in psychics and thought she was a total quack at first until she started talking about me. We decided to sit down with her outside and get a quick reading. A lot of the things she was saying was dead on about our lives at the moment. The other things she was saying seemed so outlandish. She pinpointed every little detail about my relationship with a guy at the time and what was going to happen, she knew little things about school and work. Then there were the weird things. I'm supposed to be getting married 3-4 years from that time, I will be proposed to twice, but only married once, and my next job will have something to do with children. At that time I really did not care for children so it seemed so bizarre. Karyn's reading was dead on too, with strange things randomly in there. Occasionally when I'm talking to Karyn, Samantha will pop into our conversations. Now, I usually forget about psychic Samantha until Karyn brings it up but lately all of the weird things that she said are coming true. I'm a little freaked out.

A week or so ago I was doing some thinking about my life and what exactly I want to do with it. I have this degree that I will receive at the end of the year that I can't do anything with unless I go to grad school. Art History and Women's and Gender Studies is awesome but not a money maker. My mom has always been telling me to teach and I've always said no. Up until last semester when I taught that relationships class to kids on the west side I was terrified of kids. I loved teaching that class, which brought me to my new career choice - elementary art teacher. It's perfect, I can use my degree and make some money. I was talking to Karyn about this last night and she said, "psychic Samantha said your next job would be with kids!" Now I can't get this crazy bitch out of my head. What else did she say was going to happen? So far all the stuff she said to Karyn is happening. This is why I hate psychics.


So yeah, elementary art teacher. I've been looking at what I have to do and I think it's just an extra year of school to get my teaching certificate. I could sub until I can find a school in the city that's not on the south or west side. Maybe I'll move. We'll see.

knowing people is always a good thing.

Today was amazing. One of the guys I work with came into the store and told me about this job he's working on for Cricket. He needs people to drive around to stores in the Chicagoland area and set up equipment. Since I'm on spring break I said why not, it doesn't hurt to make some extra money. For each day I work I get $200 and a free rental car for the week! Monday, Wednesday and Thursday I'm working a full day for him and Tuesday I'm only working till noon. I'll walk away with $650 (50 for Tuesday). SO AWESOME! I wish I wasn't working on friday so I could work another day.


I'm mostly excited for having a car for the week. Target here I come!!!

I only feel inspired to write here when I can't sleep. It's 2am. I'll probably be up for another 2 or 3 hours before I can actually fall asleep. I'm overwhelmed. My list of things to do isn't long, but each thing is extremely time consuming.

1. Clean. I haven't cleaned my apartment in about a month. School is stressful right now and I just don't have the time to put my all into it. I will do this sometime this weekend.

2. Homework. I have an outline to do by Tuesday. Did I mention I was on spring break, because I am and I still have to go to class. I have a paper due the Tuesday after I get back from this "spring break" and then 2 papers the following week. I hope to get caught up soon.

3. Go through everything. I really really want to go through my entire closet and get rid of 70% of the shit that is in there. I must have 20 pairs of jeans and I only wear 4 of them. There is no need for all of that stuff. Plus most of them have holes in them and are tore up at the bottom. My closet is the main thing that has to get done. Shoes, bags, shirts... anything that I haven't worn in the past year is gone. I'm pretty sure there is stuff I haven't worn since before I moved to Chicago. I'll take a before and after picture of this.



I just got distracted looking at 20s and 50s hair styles for a good hour.

I guess it's time to sleep.

I finally received Internet after almost 2 weeks without it! I was about to go crazy.

I'm becoming extremely proud of my shoe collection. This week I bought 2 pairs that I am in love with. One pair is Vivienne Westwood for Melissa that were originally $140 which I proudly purchased for $20. $20 for Vivienne Westwood shoes, I couldn't say no. They are made from recycled plastic and are surprisingly extremely comfortable. The second pair I bought as everyday walking shoes because I walk a mile or two every day just to get where I need to be. I refuse to wear sneakers or any other hideous shoe. I found these asymmetrical mary janes with a 2 inch heel. They are perfect. Sometime during spring break I'm going to go through my shoes and get rid of the ones I never wear anymore.

the Vivienne Westwood shoes

My new everyday shoes.

I've been tracking my purchases this month to see where all my money goes. Hopefully at the end of the month I'll be able to cut out a lot of spending that I don't really need. I plan on not buying anymore shoes till at least May or June. Maybe even later.

I made polenta last night. It has become one of my new favorite things to make for dinner. Tonight I think I'm going to make Gnocchi. I haven't figured out what sauce I'll use with them yet. I have stuff in my house to make both tomato and pesto. One day I'm also going to learn how to make madeleines. My mom has a tray for them that she's going to give me. For some odd reason, I love cooking these days.

I have so much work to do and no motivation. I've been putting aside laundry for about 2 weeks now. I'll try and get to it tonight.

I know I have more to write about but I just can't remember anything.