paint the sky with stars

Back from a lovely Queensway Esso shift. It never really got insanely busy today. I figure this is because it is the last week of summer and so people are off doing better things than going to work. Wish I could be the same...and yes, I know I just got back, but one week so isn't long enough!

My latest Chapters order arrived just in time, because I have finished re-reading the Shopaholic books (and next week, when my Chapters coupon is good, I'll go buy the 5th because I'm not waiting another bloody year to get it in mass market PB, when the trade is only $15 anyway...also need to get Secret Lives of Bees and Tigana). So now I've read up to 8 in Tsubasa (so woefully behind, but I really didn't get into it until the last few volumes, when more emphasis finally got placed on the overarching plot and less whee, this world is fun~ stuff) and vol 14 of Nodame (which I think means I'm actually caught up with the English release, OMG!). I also started reading Sex with the Queen, which is a companion to Sex with Kings which I read awhile back, recced to me by Lily. So much fun and it's really interesting to look at the contrast between a king's infidelity and a Queen's (though mostly only the Queen consorts, since the ruling Queens could pretty much do what they wanted because the royal bloodline would still be intact regardless).

Also it is very nice of Charles, Camilla, and Diana to have given us a modern version of it to compare to. Very thoughtful =P

I also have vol 9 of Fables, but I didn't bring it with me because it's a bit on the larger size and all.

Anyway, not too much planned for today. Please, Himitsu people (and Margaret, since she knows enough about it to make fun of me), don't laugh at me too much but I've made myself a schedule for my entire week, set up in hour-long blocks which tell me what I have to do. I keep trying all these things to get my life to really work how I want it to be, but so far none of them have stuck. So I'm trying out the Routine (and yes, that's what I've titled it XD).

Thankfully however, I am less strict with myself than the crazy Nallen people are with theirs.

My arm muscle is twitching, bah. I hate it when that happens. Thankfully it isn't often (and usually not my arm...my eye likes the twitchy thing much better).

I am so sick of work and I'm only 2 days in. There's no real reason to be sick of it, beyond the fact that I hate my job. Really hate it. BAH.

But at least I'm doing quite well financially this month, between getting my vacation pay (since I missed 2 shifts for the wedding), GST return, tips, and money back reward from Scotiabank VISA. This means I may not be completely out of the market for the Wii Fit right now...and I also am that much closer to buying an iPod, which I decided a few months back that I desperately want (and I want it in green, which at some point became my favourite colour, I'm not sure when!). I am so over the design of my cheap MP3 player which doesn't allow me to easily change between songs that aren't beside each other alphabetically -_-

I also do need to revive my savings after paying for the plane tickets to Moncton and back. Plus I'm trying to open an RRSP because Suze Orman says so. Look at me being all responsible.

And then going crazy and buying a ton of stuff with the rest of my money (I have a Chapters order coming to me, which includes this month's book club selection, though I also took it out from the library the other day when I had to kill time before the book launch). Book club is me and other Himitsu people, for those who don't know. It should be fun (we are reading Neil Gaimon's Anansi Boys this month).

Uh...that's about it. I need to find ways to get myself out of bed when the alarm goes off, instead of just lying there for an extra hour and a half. Because that is LAME (except in cases when I really need sleep, and even then...still somewhat lame).

So, work schedule is a bit interesting during the next 24 hours. Originally, I had tonight off because tomorrow I have to go to a Food Handling course from 8-3. But they needed someone to help out at Queensway Esso, so now I get to do a 11-7 shift and then go do the course. So essentially a doubleshift. At least half of it will not be working. And I have the next two nights off.

I slept well and long and hopefully that will make it work.

Also, still nothing from Chapters. No package, no card about picking up the package. I am confused. But I'll deal with it later.

Alright, fair amount of stuff to do today. It's my last day off until NEXT WEDNESDAY T________T

To-do list!

- rent and watch Juno (SO EXCITED FOR THIS, YAY!)
- groceries
- Value Village
- type up next Braided Lives chapter

I'm really hoping my Chapters order appears today. I will be most upset if it doesn't. I want my pretties now!!!

Yay, I finally can make my last summer Chapters order, hurrah!

I'm getting Godslayer by Jacqueline Carey, since I just finished reading Banewreaker. They aren't as good as the Kushiel books, but still enjoyable fantasy that unlike every other series I'm collecting is currently out in mass market paperback (oh, hardcover/trade paperback, how I HATE you).

Also finally getting ParaKiss 4, since it's back in stock. xxxHolic 2 is coming and I'm getting Ouran Host Club 1.

Very excited. It was more expensive than my usual orders, since the subtotal of 3 wasn't going to get me free shipping, but they are all titles I was going to get eventually, so I can rationalize ^_^