So Maz grabbed Dan and did the ‘how many kids are you having ring test on him’ on our lunch break today. Apparently we’re having a boy and a girl ‘shrug’ (which confirms with the ring test she did on me another day previously). Though I am quite intent on NOT having kids thus far… *shutters*

Anyways, it reminded me of the time when we were first dating and we got onto the topic of kids. We both agreed that William and Elizabeth were good names for kids… and then the pirates of the Caribbean movies came out…. So that kind of blew that hehehehe.

I have a weird name (Tegan) so I have always had an affiliation with interesting names where as Dan (Daniel) has always been into traditional names. (My middle name is Elizabeth which is one of the reasons Dan wanted to go out with me- he is obsessed with the name Elizabeth LOL!)

But we have settled on a nice ‘girl’s’ name for our ‘little girl’. Adia- believe it or not it was Dan’s idea. After one of his fave Sarah Mclachlan songs ‘Adia’. I nearly choked on my drink… Adia was my first screen name. When I was 14 everyone called me Adia.

How weird is that!! 

What is most weird though... is the fact that Dan and I have already named our kids (we named them before we even got engaged!) and yet my friends who are having thier first baby and have been married for about three or four years now still havent settled on a name for their baby (which is due in about four weeks) hehehehe. 

Seriusly... after seeing what she has gone through with her pregnacy.... i am NEVER HAVING KIDS..... of my own free will. I mean... she a small girl but her stomach is HUGE she is constantly in pain and cant get comfortable, always tired... and the worse is yet to come... i mean... SHE HAS TO GIVE BIRTH!!

LOL i loved her husband's insights though:
"Delivering shouldn't be that hard... its just like catching a football right?" LOL!!!!

Drew had a pink hair clip in his hair all day today…. No one said anything…we all just thought it was ‘drew’ he likes to do weird things. Finally someone approached him about it… LOL apparently he had no idea there was a pink hair clip on his head!!!!! LOL!!! As it turned out Phil Jr. and Josh put it on his head when he wasn’t paying attention. Oh man it was hilarious.

It was really quiet today which was unusual for a Saturday. Our new assistant manager was looking after the store today. He doesn’t say much at all. I spent most of the morning wondering who he reminded me of… then on my lunch break I had a brief look over one of my latest manuscripts I’m working on and it suddenly hit me… This guy is the living, breathing replica of one of my characters!

I was like, Holy Shizzle! So yeah… I was studying him pretty carefully today… just watching his mannerisms and the way he walks, talks, associates etc… (author research) I’m not sure if he knows how to take me just yet. Hehehehe. He has these really striking blue eyes though, just like my character, Er Shua. It’s just… fascinating.

 Other news: I got a message from my brother the other day. “I’m so hot, caught on fire!”

LOL! Apparently, he was wielding something and smelled smoke… looked down and realised his pants were on fire! LOL!!!

He came over to visit us today and I didn’t get to see him because I was working :(!! I was very sad, I miss him. I’m having Jacob withdrawals. I miss mucking around and saying funny movie quotes with him and just hanging out. The last time I saw him he picked me up and we went and had pizza and watched moon rise at one of his favourite lookouts.

I was wondering why his car was so shot too… then he confessed that he’d been having drag races with some of his mates on a drag strip. I was like *Gasp!*. He drives around in this Honda civic… a real GIRLS car but he was happy because he managed to beat this guy in his supped up *insert fancy car type here*. Hehehehe cheeky tsk tsk tsk.

My aunties are still on his back “Why haven’t you got a girlfriend yet?” blah blah blah. Hehehe  poor guy. I have to beat his fan girls off him (he has so many girls on his tail at the moment)- he’s just chillin. He told me he wants a girlfriend eventually, when the right one comes along. (his idea of the perfect girl is Belle from Beauty and Beast)

Jacob is ‘weird’ in the sense that he likes to just explore different places. His idea of the perfect date is pizza on the beach followed by a swim with the dolphins at sea world- or just driving to find a sunset or something that inspires him. That’s what’s so awesome about him though.  We’re so alike, we speak the same language.

He is going to find it so hard when I get married, because I won’t be ‘his’ anymore (in the brother-sister sense). It’s always just been us, bro and sis just exploring the world and hanging out. So I feel bad, I really don’t want to loose what we have but I know it won’t be the same. So I’m sort of just passively keeping a lookout for someone for him. Someone who he can just share everything with and can just gel with. He’s has to have a connection with someone otherwise he looses interest pretty quickly . While he’s a social butterfly on the outside, he needs someone who will always be there for him and someone he can always look after. He has this affiliation with shy girls, but I think that’s because I’m shy in person too. People tend to think I’m rude or unresponsive but that s just because I’m shy and he knows that. *shrug* oh  wells.

I think I’m going to phone him- maybe arrange to do something tomorrow afternoon.   

Dear boston_conangrl.
I don't really know how to tell you this, but your nostrils are insulting.
I think I realized it when your dwarf bit me in your camping car and I saw you drive out the crazy monk.
I'm sure you're frostbitten enough to understand that I did a sex-change.
I'm returning your contact book to you, but I'll keep your collection of butterfliesas a memory.
You should also know that I told in my confession today about Eggplant-fetishism.
With ease
-Tegan

 (Im not irritated. its just that there is no other mood that can describe this post other than Zazu's expression in that mood icon! LOL)

Ok… so at work we have this lady that comes in- she’s prolly in her 70s or so. She is Polish and only knows two words of English and she is stark raving crazy.

She wears a coat and gumboots and walks around town screaming at herself and at people in polish.

So she is pretty well known by people.

Anyways, she came into the store yesterday which isn’t unusual.

She walked around, screaming at herself and people and so on which we’re all used to. People just leave her alone.

She dumps her groceries on the counter as she usually does and walks out without them as she also usually does.

Whew… it’s over… for another day… or so I thought….

Later on my lunch break I needed to go use the bathroom. Unfortunately there aren’t any staff bathrooms here so we have to use the public toilets.

So I go into the ladies bathroom and I am greeted by a sight that will forever haunt me in my worst nightmares…..

Because there is crazy polish lady… sitting in her stall with her skirt down at her ankles and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth…. THE DOOR TO HER STALL WIDE OPEN!!!!!!!

Seriously…. I’m gagging just writing about this…. it…was….HORRIBLE!!

My eyes….burn….

Needless to say I bolted from that bathroom so fast!!!!

Ran back into the lunchroom and people are asking me what is wrong. I told them what I’d just witnessed. LOL! Josh one of the guys that works there says it best.

“Holy hell I didn’t need to hear that! I need a bath now!!”

*shutters*

I am forever scared.

Apparently, as it turns out, crazy lady does it all the time and there have been many people who have had this unfortunate encounter with her.

After that I decided that I didn’t need to use the bathroom that badly after all…

WARNING: REALLY PISSED OFF CONTENT BELOW!!

Oh man I am so angry! I’ve just finished ranting to Dan so I’m going to do more ranting now.

So I don’t normally work Thursdays but due to the long weekend (which I worked anyway) I got to have Monday off and Phill rostered me on to work Thursday…. We have a our bookstudy at seven on Thursdays… I was rostered on to work till seven.

So anyways, I did what I thought was the right thing and I told my supervisor that I can only work till six on Thursday because of my religious standing.

She told me it should be fine were normally quiet on Thursday evenings anyways. She just had to clear with it with the manager but she was sure it would be fine.

It apparently wasn’t fine with him. He sent her down with a message telling her that I either worked Thurs or I lost my job. (HELLO- This is for legitimate reasons!!!)

I told her outright and politely that I have a right to practice my religion and that he cannot fire me over one stinking hour.

I ended up getting called to the office where he proceeded to have a complete screaming fit at me over ONE STINKING HOUR!!!!!!!!!

I MEAN COME ON! I HAVE BEEN WORKING THERE FOR OVER 3 YEARS!!!! ONE STINKING HOUR!!!!

And yeah he put it to me- I either turn up to work tomorrow or forget about it.

I was going to quit right there and then, seriously. I told him I was going to find someone to cover my shift tomorrow. And that I would see him on Saturday for my next shift.

 He had nothing to say to that. In fact he was really shocked that I was willing to put my means of living on the line for this.

If he fires me.

I am going to sue him.

Because  ITS AGAINST THE LAW TO FIRE ME FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS AND HE IS INTERFERING WITH MY RIGHT TO PRACTICE MY RELIGION.

If that wasn’t bad enough, I reckon he is going to take it out on Dan too.

Because he such a ass-hole… I mean… he wonders why people are quitting left right and centre on him. And why people have no respect for him… even the assistant manager thinks he is a real dick.

URGH!! …. I just want to strangle him.

Hit him with something very hard (pref in the metallic sense)

And stab him with something very sharp.

I know he is going to cut my hours.

The last time he got cranky with me, he cut my hours down to four so I already know I’m getting 4 hours next week… most likely on a Thursday night at that.

The next time I’m not going to tell him anything. I’m just going to call in and tell them that I can’t come into work. End of story.

Oh get this… he also tells us that we have to be willing to work on our lunch breaks when we’re busy. Pssh. Hell no! There is no way in hell- after what went on today- that I am doing time that I’m not going to be payed for. Screw that. I

GAAAHHHH!

UPDATE: awww Dan made me feel better…he helped me come up with different ways that we can kill Phill. Poetic justice- something in that damn store is going to kill him…. And we are going to laugh. I like the ‘impaled by the forklift and then smashed by a pallet’ idea very much.

Mmmmm Hazelnut chocolate… no greater bliss…. Seriously…. Orgasmic!

Ok, had a pretty fun weekend… despite the fact that I had to work on Saturday (urgh). Work was nightmarishly busy so I was glad to get that out of the way.

Our memorial was really nice too, we had 148 in attendance which was awesome (we ran out of seats!)

My uncle gave the talk… hehehe and when the brothers were passing the bread they accidently did our isle twice which was pretty funny.

Carla who was in the middle seat got handed two plates (one on either side) and she was like ‘What the…?’ Hehehehehe.

Then Dan and me went back to Sharon’s (the mother of that girl I spoke about in my previous posts. She’s home now but I’m pretty sure she hasn’t learnt anything). Sharon was hobbling around because she just had a knee operation. Anyways her other kid, Dale stole her crutches. So when she wanted to get up she screams at the top of her lungs:

 “Wheres my crutch?!?!?!”

Yeah you had to be there… it was pretty hilarious.

Though she was very excited to announce that the woman who brought her and her family into the truth partook of the memorial emblems for the first time on Sat. Now what amazing privilege that is, to have been brought into the truth by an anointed sister!

Yesterday after the meeting me and Dan with Kolin and Jessi went to Scott and Amy’s for another night of Catan. I love that game. We’re all so hooked.

Then today we went out in service. Of course… we had to do this hill that I swear was almost a 90 degree angle!! Urgh… well that’s what it felt like.

Then Dan and me went and did some shopping- bought some DVDs and the like. And as we were walking I bumped into one of my friends who I’d long ago lost contact with. We were the best of friends but then she had to run away from an abusive marriage. She’d vanished off the face of the earth and we just happened to see each other at shopping centre. I was so excited, I was shaking so bad!! (the last time I shook like that was when Dan asked me to marry him). So yeah, we exchanged numbers and we’re going to arrange to meet up. Im really excited about that!

And then on our way home we get a call from my mum. Friends of the family are up from Melbourne.  (I hadn’t seen them in about 3 years!) So we went and met with them too. So yeah it’s been a pretty cool weekend.

Haha and then I get onto DeviantArt and nearly died… my page views jumped by nearly 300 in only a few hours!  I was like “HOOLY CRAP!!” (I average about a hundered page views in a WEEK not a few hours!!!!) And then I realised that regarding this commission I had asked for, from an incredibly I talented artist- she had submitted it on her page so that explained it. Hehehe. 

So I have a cousin-in-law… she is 16 and a real BRAT of a kid.

She decided to run away last week…

Anyways she has finally outstayed her welcome at all of her friends houses so while I was at work she appeared on the scene approached me and asked me for a place to stay.

Soooo she’s staying with us for the night.

I phoned her mum and unfortunately their relationship is so strained that she isn’t welcome at home until she fixes up her act.

She’s been getting into a lot of trouble. You know, the usual stuff- sneaking out at night, getting drunk with friends etc. She’s going to get herself into a lot of strife, we can all see it but it’s what she wants. She is extremely self-centred (one of those popular b*tches at school that no one can stand). She and I have never gotten along at all, so I know I’m her very last resort.

Unfortunately her mum can’t deal with her at the moment either, I mean she is at her wit’s end with this girl and what’s worse is that she is a single mum and she has two other kids that she is worried sick about too.

 So yeah, I’m really not sure what to do with this kid.

Been busy lately with wedding plans. 
We finally settled on a venue for the reception, yaaay!! We booked out the cafe Dan took me too before be proposed to me :D! so it has special significance. 
its really really really nice, it has a big fire place and a lounge and these book shelves everywhere with big old books on them... it has an awesome feel to it. i just love it!!!
im pretty excited now :D!
though i chose my flowers... im having lillies and roses... i nearly died when i got my quote $600!!! for FLOWERS!!! ack, oh wells its one day i suppose. 

My best friends Kolin and Jessi are going back to Germany in two months so they wont be here for the wedding which is so dissapointing. I im realling going to miss them. heheheh they had the watchtower presentation this evening at the meeting and they did something different, Jessi spoke German and pretended she couldnt speak english so Kolin did a presentation accordingly...
And then on Jessi's turn (shes still actually learning English) she sounded so shy but she did a great job! her English is really improving. 
Kolin is from Canada- only half an hour from where Dan used to live actually which is wicked! he is probably one of the funniest guys i know. and put him with Dan and our other friend Scott and theyre a really hoot to be around... esp when Dan and he go into their 'Canada invented everything' rants!

LOL Kolin and Jessi were having this huge debate over whether it was Germany or Canada that invented waffles.
And Kolin cries at the top of his lungs. 
"It was Canada! Canada invented everythiing! We invented the waffle! Hell we even invented Germany!"
LOL!... well you had to be there....
So yeah... Dan and me are planning on going to Germany to see them when they move back, ill need to get back into practicing myy German again.

Sooo my boss, Phil gave Dan a job.

Dan was miserable because he realised that the only way we were going to be able to keep the house was to swallow down his pride and go back to the grocery store.

Dan quit it several months back and so Phil really chewed him out over it. But Phil was desperate for him to come back so Dan started work last Wednesday.

 He’s in the freezer dairy dept now which is an pretty cool job (heheh pun! ^^)

So now we earn enough to keep the house!! Yaay!

On another note, I had to work yesterday (Saturday) because all of the weekend girls quit…. And it was SO hot and we had a power failure!

Everything in the store just went black and it didn’t come back on for hours! So we had to kick out all of the customers and hang around in the dark! Which was cool until I me and a friend decided to go on lunch and so heading down the stairs I miss judged a step and I fell down the stairs and strained my ankle!! (heheh as I fell though, my workmate Sarah was ahead of me and I accidently threw my lunch at her!)

On a high note I got the rest of the afternoon off and that didn’t stop me from going to see Jumper at the movies with Dan and my brother.

But Im sitting now with a sore ankle all bandaged up and Im not allowed to move. I wanna be better for work tomorrow!*sigh*