Not too much has happened. I’ve been working hard with my jobS and school. The two classes I’m taking ain’t no joke! I knew the one with the paper was going to be tough because I don’t like to write… but my security class…. You know how I said that my group paper was a piece of cake? BS!!! The paper has to be like 100 pages!! And then I have my own 10-20 page paper to write on top of the 35 page paper for the other class. So I’ve been tired as hell!!

I work at the part-time job this weekend, and that’s when I normally write here… but I plan to knock out that 10-20 page paper, so that’s not going to work. They keep giving me these long hiatuses between the weekends I work… I don’t mind cause I don’t want to work back-to-back weekends. But I don’t like working at the beginning of October, and then not again until the end of November. That’s too long of a break and I might forget pertinent information.

I’m in my new position at my full-time gig. It’s not too bad. I’m not on the phones that much. My call intake dropped from like 280 a week to like 70 a week, so I’m definitely not complaining about that! But right now, there’s nothing really going on in my department, so I really have nothing to do. I check my email, but because my friends actually work… I’m kinda bored right now. (knock on wood – cause I don’t want to soon be swamped w/ crap!)

My manager was getting on my last nerve right before I switched positions (3 weeks ago) So I applied for another position. I FINALLY had the interview today. It was some BS. I was supposed to have 3 other interviews but they kept being postponed b/c the dude that would be my manager and his immediate supervisor kept having ish pop up. Well finally he’s able to see me today at 10AM. I get to his desk, he “has to finish up an email really quickly and then he’d be right with me.” He put me in an office and then sent someone else in there to speak with me. I was there for 20 min (and the interview was supposed to be for 30 min!) Then I finally was like, I can’t stay any longer, I have work to do (lying but I rather have been in at my desk than sitting in an office twiddling my thumbs!) When I got back to my desk, dude comes in and apologizes and asks if he could have his last 10 min. So I obliged and reiterated on some things he already told me about the position and told me a few more things. At the end of his 10 min, he tells me that he wants me to meet w/ his supervisor really quickly. I told him I would have to come back. So he made it for 12:30. I see the dude in the hall like 12, and he asks if I can come back right before I leave. I told him yeah… but I’m so not going. They should’ve had their shit together. I don’t have time for foolishness!!

GTL’s birthday was Saturday. His party was Friday night and then we had a more intimate party on his actual birthday. I actually gave him all his gifts early: I took him to see Jay-Z (yes I was one of the lucky people to purchase tickets w/in the 12 min they went on sale! I was online at 11:40 to make sure of it!! LOL) That Sunday, I took him to dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse. I loved the ambiance. The server brings a cart to you and shows you their different types of steaks (raw meat), vegetables, lobster (live)… it was really nice. We came for the steak/seafood special, so she didn’t need to go through her little skit, but I’ve never been to a restaurant that does that, so I let her. LOL. It was nice. And then the last part of his gift was that I paid for the food and drinks at the intimate party.

The big birthday bash was cool. GTL and I both were pissed at first, but then realized there wasn’t much that could be done, so we just made the best of the situation. There were 4 birthday parties going on, only 2 people made an effort to bring people out (GTL and my cousin) since they’re dudes, naturally, all of their homeboys came out. So for the beginning of the night, it was a sausage festival. Jack Daniels was to sponsor the event… they should’ve been there like 10PM – they got there like 11PM and the club didn’t have any JD for them to purchase to give away!!! They had to a liquor store!!! The girls were supposed to be setup upstairs at our party (cause there were 2 going on) but they were setup downstairs and just kept up and down the steps. There was supposed to be an hour of open bar – only 2-4-1 drinks. The dude that we worked everything out with, wasn’t there b/c his mom had passed, and his partner was clueless so there wasn’t much we could do about it. The turnout was decent, but if definitely could’ve been better.

But what took the cake with one of the birthday bitches…. We’ll call her Ann. My drunk ass cousin (birthday boy – he had every right to be as drunk as he was. LOL) was trying to talk to Ann. I say it and intervene and was like “Chill cousin, she got a boyfriend.” And his response as most dudes do, “I don’t give a fuck about her boyfriend!” I had to laugh but then told Ann, don’t worry about dude, that’s my cousin, he’s drunk, but harmless. Do you know this whore told her boyfriend some dude said fuck him?!?!?! But left out the part it was my family. I finds out because the boyfriend was heated (as he should be) and said something to me and was like he was about to go b/c he didn’t want to ruin the party and people were being disrespectful. I had to explain to him that the person he was talking about was my cousin and he had nothing to worry about. Why the fuck would Ann say something to her boyfriend after I told her ass what the deal was?!?!? If something would’ve popped off between boyfriend and my cousin, I would’ve smacked the shit out of Ann because my cousin and I grew up like brothers and sisters (we’re a month and a half a part and our moms are really close) and I would never let any bitch bring any harm to him.

This first year of hosting parties has definitely been a learning experience for GTL and I. I learned more and more about who I can depend on, who expects handouts, pros and cons of working with other people versus by ourselves. I’ll say by summertime next year, we would have worked out most of the kinks and we’ll hopefully will have a great party where when I post about it, my response won’t be “It was a decent party, I had a great time, BUT….”

That’s pretty much it: school, work, part-time work, and partying.