I’m home at the moment. I decided to send Eddie to work on his own and not go into school today because I just didn’t want to get out of bed on the first day in 9 months that I’d have the chance to not be required to go anywhere. Instead, I present to everyone my weekend in review.

Friday night: came home with most of a cake from work. Watched TV, played FFXI, chatted with people online. I avoided in-game drama by not logging into the linkshell group, thus enjoying a quiet night to do my own thing for a while.

Saturday: Spent the morning unlocking one of the new jobs in FFXI on my own while Eddie was at work. I also managed to have a conversation with one of the linkshell officers about how I didn’t feel like I belonged in the group, since I’m tied with Eddie as the lowest in the group, don’t feel very welcome, nor do I feel like anyone particularly likes me. He told me that my fears are only fears and not the truth, and that I just need to work on advancing myself. Eddie came home and surprised me with an afternoon quicky, then made some dinner for us. I snuggled with Eddie on the couch for a while, then logged back into the game for about 45 minutes before going to the bedroom to watch SNL and go to sleep.

Sunday: We got up early because yesterday was the opening day of the flea market and we were determined to find interesting crap to buy. Fearing the blazing sun and my pale skin, I wore long sleeves, but neglected to cover the back of my neck and the open area on my chest, so I’ve got the first burn of the year. My mother found a handful of books and a painted “Welcome” slate with a pyramid of penguins on it. She also bought me a big wicker basket full of yarn for $3. The basket itself would probably go for about $10 in a store, easily. In addition to having an assload of this weird red yarn (we think it’s nylon), it also had a bag of assorted trim and a small figurine in the bottom, hidden under the yarn. I spent yesterday afternoon crocheting a ladybug from some of the red. I’ll probably make a lot of ladybugs out of it, assorted sizes. Eddie grilled up some steak and we were all happy and full. We came home, and I uploaded a bunch of pictures to my Flickr account. Once I get a job I can buy a pro account and be able to organize them, and that will make me very, very happy.

Today? I’m sitting around in a breezey tunic, listening to MP3s, making some new graphics for my homepage, and possibly dying my hair. Eddie will be picking up some stuff from work to make for dinner tonight, and I’m gonna slather myself with some lotion and fill out some online applications for pharmacy tech work.

As Eddie says, it’s been a long week.

Tuesday I worked up at the front end of the store. Sicne I’m not a licensed tech or tech trainee, I can’t handle any of the production end of things, nor can I do any data entry, and while I’m allowed to run the register I can’t offer counceling to customers. Mind you, by councelling, they mean asking people “Do you have any questions for the pharmacist?” and not offering them medical advice. So Tuesday I worked up front and got a few quick lessons on the registers and with 20 minutes was ringing people out on my own. Mind you, I shadowed people for 6 full hours on Monday and wasn’t confident enough to do anything back there, probably because I spent more time just getting the hell out of the way because it’s positively insane, and people actually talked to me up front.

Yesterday and today I had training. I spent yesterday at home doing training CDs for about 4.5 hours. This was not fun at all. However, it did count towards my weekly hours, which is good. Today I was in East Providence doing more training with the rest of my group, which was fun because I got see to see Crystal again and talk to Dawn about the Easter animals. I promised Dawn I’d have them all done the next time we were at training in the first week of April. Tomorrow I go back to my regular store, and hopefully they’ll actually give me something to do.

I’m getting bored with my website layout - not so much the layout but the existing color scheme. I think I’m going to change things a bit over the weekend. We’ll be home on Saturday because Mom’s going to the casino for bingo, which works out well because our linkshell on FFXI wants to have a meeting that night. Although at the current rate of communication, the meeting date and/or time will change at least twice before then. We’ll have dinner at Mom’s on Sunday. Hurray for free food!

Work was excruciatingly boring today. I didn’t sell anything. After my busy day yesterday, I didn’t care.

I finally finished up some site design for a FFXI linkshell I’m in, hopefully that will be up soon because their existing page sucks. I uploaded a zip of the page files, messaged the current “webmaster”, and told him to be sure to keep the same directory structure or risk screwing everything up.

Eddie’s working overnight again. I’ve got the bed to myself. I don’t like this, I miss snuggling with him. I told him that tomorrow I’m going to come home from work and fuck his brains out. He didn’t seem too enthused. *sigh*