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Forgot to add this to my post from yesterday but guess what!?

Remember GeoKitty? The one that disappeared?? Well he showed back up a few weeks ago. That's right!! I got my boy back!! n.n

Hai, sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been pretty bummed lately. I still haven't found a job, which really sucks and has put a big strain on Sara. I've had a few offers BUT there is something holding me back. Something I have been putting off and putting off for a long time. My damn GED. I still haven't gotten it. My parents have offered to pay for it, and we're about to get a good dependable car (More on that in a bit) and I've gone through the books and taken all the tests and I think I am ready.

I'd gotten a call from a Marketing company with a job offer but I couldn't take it because of the GED. (There have been a few other offers that went about the same way this is just the one I am most excited about.) She seemed really interested in me, and said she'd try and hold a position for me for a few weeks so I can get transportation and that darn GED. Hopefully I can get it.

So, I'd given my dad some money to work on my Mustang a while ago and he never found the time or parts. Well, he found this guy with a car for sale and him and my mom are buying it for Sarah and I to make up for it. It's not a brand new car or anything, but it is in great shape it was very well maintained. It's a good dependable car. I can't believe I'm drawing a blank on the kind at the moment. It's a really pretty redish-orange color. We've been waiting several weeks for some paper work to go through so that we can get the car because the lady the car belonged to died.

Reason they are getting a good car so cheap, the lady died in it. She over dosed in the car. I thought it might be a bit weird, but the way I look at it is this; It wasn't about the car and this woman took like the up-most excellent care of this car, she'd want it to go to someone who'd take care of it and really needed it right? I think Sarah finds it a bit weird, and my mom was freaked about it at first but It's fine by me. It might be different if it was a violent suicide, but it wasn't so I'm okay with it.

Been sick with Bronchitis for the past four-ish weeks. Finally went to the ER and got some meds to clear it up. Hopefully it'll be clear before I get any job interviews, which will hopefully follow my getting of the GED.

So... um... my mom got hit by a car yesterday.

Her own car....

While no one was driving it.....

It's funny now, wasn't funny then. She could have been seriously hurt.

We were pulling out of McDonald's and the car died so we were going to push it backwards into a parking spot. I told my mom I could push it by myself, because I have had to do that before on several occasions. I told her the easiest thing for her to do would be to get in and ride so she could steer and put on the brake when needed.

She said no, I couldn't do it. Well, we pushed and she tried to steer without being in the car and it went for the curb. She tried to put the break on but couldn't reach it with her foot so she dropped to her hands and knees and tried to push it with her hand, her knee ended up getting drug between the tire and the curb.

It was about to completely run over her knee but got caught in a drain.

Her knee got scrapped up pretty badly, and it's really swollen but they did x-rays and everything checked out fine.

Feel like posting a few of the necklaces I have made so far, tell me what you think!!

This was a Christmas gift for my cousin Nikki.

Treasured by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Just something I threw together because I was bored.

Cameo Pendant by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

This was a commission for my cousin to give as a Christmas gift for her friend.

Sea Friends by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

This is a design I came up with, I've made them in several different colors and have even sold a few so far.

Barbed by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Another product of boredom.

Lock and Key necklace by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

I really liked how the sea themed necklace for my cousin turned out so I made another kinda like it with these glass beads Sarah had gotten me.

Sea Friends Necklace with glass beads by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Another example of the barbed necklace in a different color.

Barbed - Green and Black by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Wanted to try my hand at a SteamPunk themed necklace, and this is what came out. This is actually one of my favorite pieces I've made so far and it's going to be hard to part with it when/if it sells.

Steam Punk Pendant by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

By ze way, I am working on improving my photoshop/photo manipulation skills, so excuse the badness of them. If you have any tips, tricks, or critiques feel free to give them. There is always room for improvement, and that goes for my jewelery too. Also, if you like one of the necklaces, I would of course offer discounts for meh friends so let me know! :)

Also, any advice on pricing for these necklaces would be helpful, I am so bad at putting a price on stuff. I never think my stuff is as worthy as it is, and normally get ripped off because of my lack of confidence in my work. So... ya... HELP!!

AND one last thing I need help on. A name for my Etsy shop. It was going to be &stuff which I REALLY like, BUT you can't have the & sign in the shop name and it just doesn't look right as And Stuff, so ya... it took me FOREVER to come up with that one, so I know it'll be years before I can come with another.... Well maybe not years, but you get it. XP

Hey guys, I know I haven't been on in forever but I didn't disappear, promise. xD Just been without internet and busy.

We finally have a laptop again, and not one we're making payments on either. Well, we have to pay Sarah's dad two-hundred dollars for it, which makes no sense since it was her Christmas gift. She has decided to share it with me, but she's only spent maybe a total of an hour on it since we got it. I hope I'm not taking it over. It's a brand that I have never heard of, Asus, BUT her brother (who is a computer tech) did a lot of work to it, even put a second hard drive in it, so it's got lots of space for EVERYTHING. He also put emulators for the NES, SNES, and N64 on it with a bunch of awesome games. Also, he bought Sarah Skyrim for the PC. Skyrim = FANTABOLOUS!! Srsly.

Also I have been keeping busy making jewelery. I've started up an Etsy store and I am trying to sell my creations online to make a little extra cash since I am out of a job.

Oh, did I not mention getting fired? Ya, for three tardies. That's what I got fired for. I tried to go through corporate to fight it, since you can only be fired if you've had a D-day and the only reason I had a D-day was because of that idiot Chad, ( http://lerhat.livejournal.com/111720.html )  and I was in the process of fighting that D-day anyway, because every manager in the whole place said I should have never been written up, except Mr. Jerk aka Mr. Larry. So yah, I have been without a job since a little before Thanksgiving. So, finances are in the dump right now, and we may have to forgo our Cruise we were supposed to take in July sometime. I am hoping I find a job soon so I can start pulling my weight. Sarah started a second job today, and I feel bad that she has to work so hard to support my jobless butt. I feel like such a bum, I've never been without a job this long (Except during my medical leave, but that doesn't count).  :(

What else is new??

We have a new family member, and we've lost one.
  Geokitty got out and we haven't seen him since. I really miss him, I keep telling myself that someone saw him, and realized what a wonderful, cute, sweet, and loving cat he was and took him home to spoil him even more than we did. That IS my story and I am sticking to it. He is in a good loving home. Period. I haven't given up looking for him though, we canvased the neighbor hoods and posted adds and signs. I don't think I'll ever see him again, but I'll never give up hope or stop looking. I MISS YOU GG! PLEASE COME HOME!! Those of you on my Flist who are local, keep an eye out for a huge fat black and white tux cat. I miss my baby. :,(
  I'm not sure if I have mentioned WheeMan or not, but he was one of my mom's cat's kittens. He was the runt of the litter, and was getting beat up and wasn't being taken very good care of by his mum so when my sister got his sister MaggieMayham, we brought WheeMan over too so he could heal and get the attention he needed. He wouldn't grow for the longest time, I think his growth was stunted or something. He has always been half the size of his siblings, hence the name. My sister decided she was keeping him, and he was going to be an outside cat when they moved, well Sarah and I decided to keep him. More on WheeWee later.

Well, I'll have to finish this update later on, it's time to get Sarah up for her second job and take her.

So, I've really gotten into painting my nails recently and just realized I've never posted any nailart pictures on LJ.

So, yah. Here are a few of my attempts;

This was my first ever attempt at nailart:

Skulls and Stripes by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

You know I gotta pay love to Jack:

The Many Faces of Jack by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Just trying to find the right technique for doing stripes:

Wyld Side by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Just a few designs:

Creative Nails by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

Just wanted to try and do a few characters:

Guess Who? by ~LeRHAT on deviantART

If you have any tips and tricks let me know, I am new to the whole nail painting scene but I love it and I think I am pretty good at it too. (Not to toot my own horn or anything.) Even though I don't even wear it. I always take it off not long after I photograph it. xD

Had a game night Saturday, it was so great!

Don't get me wrong, all of our game nights have been fun (even the one where only Daniel showed up!) but the one Saturday was the most fun one I've ever had.

Not many people came, becasue it was last minute, but the group that did come got a long so well. Normally at the game nights the people don't talk much among each other, they converse with Sarah and I and any people they already knew, but this group acted like they'd hung out before, and did so on a regular basis. It was great.

The only people that showed was Blake, Kristy, Candice, Blain, and Devon (fashionably late. xD). And of course Sarah, my sister, and myself were there. Eliot was there, but he didn't participate in the gaming fun at all.

It also wasn't as loud as all the others, which was nice. I don't mind a loud game night every once in a while, but this much calmer version was great. I think this might be the more regular game night group, with the addition of a few people that couldn't make it that night.

I also found some people that share my love for furries and that I could probably happily drag to a furry convention with me some day. Now I don't have to force Sarah to go to one. xD (ust for the record, I'm talking about social furries, the 'Lets all be friends and have fun pretending to be someone/something totally different!!' not the 'Lets all get togather and have bunches of crazy mad monkey furry secks yo!!' there IS a difference. (Nothing against the yiffier types of furries, to each their own. I judge no one.)

We spent the whole first half of the game night playing around on Blake's laptop looking at furry themed stuff.

OH, and Kristy brought her mask she'd made and she is going to help me make one too. Hers is a cat, and it looks so amazing. I only hope I can make mine look as good as hers. She's going to teach me how to make one.

I love being crafty!!! xD

No postie in like forever! Woah. It's not my fault, it's the darn interwebz fault.

SO, ready for a work rant!? If not, skip this journal and move on to the next..

So like... Wednesday I believe I had to close with new guy. Have I talked about new guy yet?? Well, new guy is like a male Elita. He bitches CONSATNTLY! Seriously, he makes me just want to squish him.

SO, back to Wednesday. I had to close by myself. I also had to do the eight and nine o'clock person's stuff. The only thing I didn't have to do was the slicer side. That was Chad's job. What I had to do: Close hot side, close back, clean both rotisserie ovens, clean the fryer, and make sandwich. That's five people worth of work. All he had to do: Slicers.

He was supposed to get off at ten, I didn't even know what time it was because I had been busting my ass trying to get my shit done. I know I'd seen him chatting with some dude for what seemed like forever. Ten-forty rolls around and he comes and tells me he is leaving.

I go and look, none of his stuff is done. Well, he half way cleaned ONE slicer. In and hour and forty minutes he half cleaned ONE slicer. ONE!!! I can clean one slicer in about five to ten minutes, and do a good job on it. You are not supposed to leave until your closing work is done.

Needless to say, I was pissed. I already had like a billion extra things to do. I found Mr. Louis, a manager, and told him about the whole situation, and how I was already estimating me having to be there until about one in the morning trying to clean up all the stuff I already had to do.

Mr. Louis said: "Don't clean it, as far as I am concerned you can just leave it for them to see tomorrow. He just keeps doing it so just leave it."

He only had to say that to me once. IF he hadn't told me that, I wouldn't have left it. But since he did, I felt I could. So, I did.

The next day I got wrote up for it, and got a D-day becasue of it. (D-day - Decision Day - The day Walmart makes you stay home and write a paragraph of why Walmart should keep paying you. You get paid for the day as if you were there.) I didn't feel it was fair AT ALL.

I went and talked to Mrs. Velinca yesterday, and she feels the same as I do, and she is over Mr. Larry so she is gonna have my D-day taken off and I just got to sit at home on my butt and get paid for it. SO HA IN YER FACE! In whose face, I dunno. Just someone's.

P.S. I CAN"T STAND CHAD!!!

Well, I went on a job hunt today, and I got my job back. I had to do some begging and pleeding (which I hate doing but we NEED me to work again). I got the job back, he is putting me on the schedule tomorrow, I asked for a early shift but he seemed like he was in a assy mood, and said "I'll see what I can do, but you'll get what I give you and you'll work it if you still want to work here."

SADLY I was invited to a party tomorrow, my friend's birthday. If he puts me on the schedule I can't go and I hate canceling plans. HATE it. Plus I like REALLY REALLY wanna go. I haven't been out in forever, well other than job hunting and Geocaching. I hope he takes it into consideration, but he seemed pretty mad that it took me this long to ask for my job back.

I know, I should have been in there weeks ago trying to get back to work, but me being the worry wart I am, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

(I interrupt my regularly scheduled LJ post to bring you potentially great news... well great for me. I got a call while posting this from the girl that used to worn my car before me, she said the problems it is giving me now it gave her when she had it. She forgot to tell me, they couldn't find the right fuse for the car so it had a different one for the starter relay fuse and it blows out sometimes and does exactly the same thing that my car was doing. The fuse costs eight bucks. I am not going to let my hopes get up to high, but OMG IF I CAN GET MY CAR RUNNING AGAIN IT WILL SOLVE ABOUT HALF THE PROBLEMS IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!)

So yay, I have a job again. Just in time too, the bills are starting to catch up to us. We're about four hundred dollars short on the bills right now, and they are all due this weekend and next so ya... it's gonna be rough, but I think we'll pull through. I hope.

Was supposed to go to a job interview-ish-thing tomorrow at seven am BUT my mom's insurance canceled and when she went to renew it she left her wallet, and now she has no insurance until well after seven am tomorrow SO I'll have to go another day.

I'm dreading and I'm excited about working at the shelter again, that's where the interview-ish-thing was at. I have to volunteer two days in a row from seven to four with an hour for lunch. I don't get paid, BUT I am helping out the animals so I guess it works. I used to go there and work a full days shift just as a volunteer all the time so it's all good. It's kinda like a tryout.

I'm going to go day after tomorrow, of considering it's almost one am, tomorrow. lol I hope I get it. I NEED a job. I don't want us to get behind on bills because of me. :(

SO, I might be a pooper scooper again! YAY.. -.-