My Twenty-Something Quasi-Soap

i kvetch, therefore i blog. ok, so i hate working at cheesecake factory. i've hated it since day one. i've kept telling myself that it's eventually going to get better, but after a month it has not. i don't like the people. i don't like the system. i hate the way i get treated there and i hate the way other people are treated there. the hours royally suck. and i mean *royally* suck. i'm not getting paid enough money for the stress that i go under, and this job is sucking the life out of me. even my mother says that it's impossible for me to have any kind of social life with the job that i have, and i agree. so it's obvious that i have to get out of there as soon as possible. but what do i do if i quit? so i obviously have to have something lined up before i go tell everyone at cheesecake to go to hell. the problem is that i have no clue where to go. well...there's one option. i stopped in the toy store today to say hi to everyone and

*sigh* welcome to summer...i guess... this past week or so has been, well, interesting and dreadfully boring all at the same time. last weekend i went to austin, texas with my mom and my sister for a family reunion. ahhh...that lovely summer event...the family reunion. now, everyone had been looking forward to this for a long time now. i mean, like since october. i was all excited about meeting all of these family members that i hadn't met before and seeing the ones i see all the time and going to texas because i was only there once as a baby...it was gonna be great! i should have known we were in for trouble when our plane headed out was delayed for 2 1/2 hours. spending hours of the morning that i rarely see in Newark Airport (screw the Liberty part...no one around here says that) is not my ideal beginning to a weekend. i have also decided to never name any of my children Carter or Natalie. i have two toddlers by the same names to thank for that, as i had to hear their

new feature added! i finally figured out how to add comments to my blog....this means that you can respond to any or all of my pointless ramblings... comment away....

now back to our regularly scheduled programming.... so i've been out of college for almost a month now and it still isn't really hitting me yet. well, it's starting to kick in a bit, i guess. my two best friends from Illinois are engaged (to different people), and it's weird. i mean, i guess it makes sense. the general american way of life progresses in such a way that it's perfectly acceptable to get engaged and married right after college. but still.... granted, rachel and jeff are two of my dearest friends...we were real tight when i lived out there. you know how you you don't see people for a long time and then you see them again and realized how much they've grown? although i keep in touch with them (well, mostly rachel put she's kept me posted on jeff), most of my tangible memories of them are of when we were still in high school. and early in high school, at that. it's just weird to see people my age settling down and getting married..