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[13 Oct 2006|11:14pm] |
It's been a while since I updated. But I still check it.
I've officially worked for two weeks, but I only got appointed today so I have to wait until Monday for my first paycheck. But I'm looking forward to it.
I've been memorizing scripts, graphs, facts, verbage, etc. I made one appointment so far, but either I didn't know or I didn't remember: his dad is a financial planner.
Things should be picking up, and then I will put them to an immediate halt as I take a super-long weekend and go to Indiana on the 20th. A cousin getting married- and maybe I'll see snow! And I haven't seen my relatives up there in a long time, so it'll be nice to finally see all these new little babies, pictures of whom I've seen on my mom's refridgerator.
My sister is getting married in December. She has a gorgeous new engagement ring and she's in town to check out some dresses. Things seem good. I bought Zachary the Free Willy movie because I saw it on tv a few weeks ago and the little boy reminded me so much of him.
I'm tired. So long, suckers.
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[25 Sep 2006|03:32pm] |
i thought i was going to be able to start work this week. unfortunately my licenses still haven't been placed with the new broker-dealer, so i'll just go to the meeting that's this wednesday, and start the intense training NEXT monday.
i kept calling my boss all weekend. evidently i rang his cell phone at 2am the night of his daughter's wedding. making his girlfriend thoroughly suspicious, which he thought was funny but i can't even BELIEVE i did that! i guess it was kind of automatic when he didn't call me back last week or all weekend and i didn't know if he wanted me to come in today.
holy crap.
well this weekend was wildly successful. went to the dueling pianos bar with melissa friday night, which was a blast and i'm glad she suggested it. and then saturday to adina's mom's birthday party, so i hung out with adina and adam and then was able to just walk back to my parents' house.
i really need to start working soon.
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[29 Aug 2006|11:19am] |
at panera again, for the reliable internet. it's very nice that it's so close, but i still have to get so much crap together before i leave the apartment. i got a few calls as i was about to leave and ended up having to go back in my room and change- into my interview suit! with MassMutual at 2 today. never heard of 'em. but what the heck.
and i've got a crapload of emails from random financial groups, like American Income. will someone tell me which of these are bullshit?
melissa and i will soon get internet and more cable channels! woooooot!
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[20 Aug 2006|06:11pm] |
erin came into town and hung out with jeremiah and me. we met my parents at the movies and saw World Trade Center on saturday night, and everyone thought it was good, and everyone was crying (of course), except that i was actually pretty disappointed by it, for a few different reasons. i thought it was hokey, like that "do you remember" (lame-o) country song that has just gotten on my nerves, and i feel like it's just ignorant and doesn't consider every viewpoint. there were some christian images in the movie that almost seemed mocking they were so blatant, obvious and overdone. ANYWAY. then erin, jeremiah and i came back to the apartment, played a lot of games of scrabble (three of which were special games timed between 10 and 15 seconds to put your word down or else you lose your turn. i won one of those) and we watched Date Movie, which was stupid but surprisingly funny.
so my job at ameriprise is out. i wrote a thing about that earlier. i am going to call the main ameriprise guy tomorrow and see if i still can take this last test on wednesday. it may turn out that i have to NOT take it in order to actually get reimbursed for the 1200 or so that i shelled out on my own. i had two interviews last week, one with Florida Financial Group and one with some independent financial advisors down the road who used to work for ameriprise (they basically want me to do their bitch work. it's not really my style- my interpretation is that kind of job is for someone who's totally licensed but who is scared of being in front of their own clients, and i'm scared, but not that scared.)
i have an interview with merrill lynch on monday (or so). he's going to call me monday morning to set it up- he called me last week and gave me a homework assignment of a one page marketing plan, and i emailed it to him and he left a message saying it was excellent and well put together. so i think he likes me, and according to the stuff that he was telling me about this particular job, it kind of seems to be the best plan. merrill lynch doesn't believe in cold-calling, OR natural markets (basically they won't even encourage me to try to get my family and friends to be clients, which is a good thing because that takes some stress out of the equation, and i've heard from a few different sources that it's a bad idea to pressure those people for business...)- they mainly work through setting up seminars. but that job is salaried, so i would know exactly what to expect. and it's merrill lynch, so of course that's good.
and once i get a job i can stop saying "i need a job" and we can commit to some reliable internet and maybe some more cable channels, and i can stop feeling bad for buying alcohol, and i'll probably have less time to DRINK so much alcohol anyway. HEH. but it still has been nice hanging out so much lately with jeremiah, melissa and steve. i like having people around, since my useless laptop computer hasn't been able to connect me to the internet in order to keep in contact with all my other friends.
i need a haircut. i need to go to the gym. and i need a job. if merrill lynch falls through i'm going to start going to every financial place i can find, in addition to Pizzazz and any marketing business that will talk to me. ready, go.
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[14 Aug 2006|02:17pm] |
They are CLOSING the Jacksonville branch of ameriprise!!!
Found out today. I'm out of a job. I still get the opportunity to take my last test (the series 66) next Tuesday, and then I will be "fully licensed". For what? I have no clue. They WILL reimburse me for all of the materials and tests that I paid for, including the one that I didn't pass and had to retake. But no one is allowed to start now, and the people who started working a week ago or eight years ago are all looking for new jobs. And the people who just got hired and ordered their study materials are no longer allowed to even take their tests, because they won't have a place to work once they get done.
So now I have to look for a place to work. At least I have some sort of a "skill set" with the tests that I have passed, and there are options of places to go to, and I have references from all of the people at Ameriprise that I've known.
In other news, we had a party this past weekend at the apartment and, in my opinion, it was a raving success. I had a really good time.
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[23 Jul 2006|06:41am] |
it's looking to be a long time before i will be able to start my job at ameriprise. i am considering calling up bob nelson at Pizzazz and asking if i can hang out and work over there for about a month. i think i might go nuts if i have to hang out at the apartment for days at a time... for much longer than i already do. main problem with this: i'd have to ask permission from ameriprise to get a different job, and all these forms and information has to be filed with the NASD if i'm getting income from ANYWHERE else.
possible solution aside from whoring out my time making things from fiberglass at Pizzazz: i need a routine. and hopefully one that utilizes my gym membership more than i have been. and i should cook more. and work on this emotional competence that apparently i'm not so good at.
i watched the sunrise on the beach this morning: most anticlimactic sunrise. evar. there were clouds and stuff covering the sun and any interesting colors. but at least the sky was a pretty dark blue right beforehand.
i think i might be able to fall asleep now. maybe i can actually stop my mind from racing this time. im torturing myself over such meaningless stuff that can't be changed. in the words of a recently troubled friend, 'i need some encouragement.' and possibly a slap in the face, a big breakfast, and a jetski.
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[09 Jul 2006|08:24pm] |
I passed my series 7!!! 81%!!
...that means i'm a genius, in case you were wondering.
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[06 Jul 2006|11:10am] |
my test is tomorrow. i feel okay about it. on the "green light" practice exam i averaged a 61%, but there was drama all around it, i rushed b/c everyone at ameriprise was trying to escape work (it was the 3rd) and it was supposedly harder than the actual series 7 will be. and i'm still studying. can't wait for this to be over- i really hope i pass, obviously.
i came home LATE a few nights ago, and there was a police car at my apartment building. all the apartment complex people would tell me was that there were people living underneath me that "weren't supposed to be there" which could mean:
1) they're illegal and INS has a problem with that
2) they didn't sign in at the front desk, and you have to register anyone who stays the night 7 consecutive days
3) they had felonies and lied about it, and the background check didn't go well
4) there were too many people in one apartment, which would make sense b/c you're only allowed 4 people in any 2 bedroom apartment, and it definitely seemed like there were more than that.
so i watched these people standing by a tree around midnight with the cop shining a flashlight in their faces. a man and a woman holding an INFANT child. and within 2 days the apartment beneath me, when i looked in through their back door, doesn't have a stick of furniture, and there's no movement. i guess they were all forced to leave.
there are still the people who live NEXT to us, and i thought that they all knew each other since it seemed like they would hang out and go in and out of each others' apartments, and also there's this OBVIOUS cord in between the apartments where they were sharing their cable.
it's sad.
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[21 Jun 2006|09:31am] |
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i set my alarm daily so i don't sleep in too late. i drank two cups of coffee today. i am going to be picked up in an hour to go to st. augustine with my parents, niece and nephew. i really need the company. i am copying the "cheat sheet" with formulas and facts over and over and over to memorize it so i can write it down once i get in the testing center to be able to look at it while i'm taking the 7. i have to know everything by next friday, when i take the dummy 7 so they can know if i'm ready.
it's getting annoying in this apartment with the A/C crackling and croaking- it makes my bedroom window rattle so i crammed a piece of cardboard in between the panes so i don't hear it as much, but you can see it from outside and it looks rather ghetto. the maintenance people are supposed to be here today, so i guess i shall put christie in mel's closet since they have to get in her bedroom to change her vent. if they happen to bother themselves with that.
i have kind of lost my enthusiasm for getting things done.
i don't know whether i want to go to tallahassee this weekend for evan and bridget's housewarming party, but bridget's birthday is tuesday anyway, so i need to find her a gift and i probably should go. and i'll be retrieving my dresser from lisa's garage.
we should be having 2 lovely friends over on friday for dinner. but the kitchen table probably won't be useable. but i hope it will. we need bolts, or something, for it. and it's too heavy for me to move at all.
i think i've inadvertantly led on a guy who is 38 with 2 kids. i said i'd try to go to aroma's on friday to see his band- he plays with shane. the rules for girls who aren't interested are to immediately cut off all communication, otherwise you're "leading him on". could end badly. i guess i'll ignore him soon.
i have never really prided myself on my independence, except for simple tasks like putting up curtains. (apparently my power drill isn't powerful enough, and my curtain rod is barely clinging to the damn wall.) i need company. i'm being stupid about this whole thing.
i broke the glass out of a picture frame, but i'm using it anyway. i think i was supposed to iron the couch cover and my curtains, because they all look pretty rough. at least melissa lives here, and if i ever do anything productive, she appreciates it and humors me with excitement. i can't express how much more encouraging that is than if i lived here alone and would only have done it for myself.
now to take out the trash.
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[18 Jun 2006|05:23pm] |
finally home. i managed to squeeze my parents this weekend for
1. a ride to tallahassee
2. a coffee grinder
3. a complete extra virgin olive oil refill
4. $20
5. a lingerie laundry bag, because i can't find mine
6. a promise that they'll lug a dresser back for me next weekend
7. moderate interest in my job
8. a very cute 6th birthday party of my niece, which i was very moody throughout and caught the nickname Crabby Abby
9. a release from their grasp and thus an awesome saturday night at 3 parties and watched a good movie with sammy, drank wine, got crazier than usual, went home with erin who took such good care of me with water and tylenol that there were zero negative consequences today.
10. a genuine smile when dad read my father's day card, and they both were impressed with my gift of 2 recycled st. augustine "ghost tour" tickets
i'm glad the apartment is almost done. but i must hurry up and post this before AOL kicks me off and i lose this entry again. looking forward to another moment in tallahassee- hopefully next time i can see more friends and do a little less partying.
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[15 Jun 2006|09:34pm] |
My internet explorer and my firefox won’t work right now, so I’ve been stealing this pathetic wireless connection through my AOL account. And it kicks me off every few minutes when I click on something it dioesn’t want me to click on. Anyway, we are drinking vodka martinis and watching Hello, Dolly! And Melissa knows all the words, apparently, since she is singing along to the opening credits.
Today I slept in a bit and started writing note cards for the series 7 stuff that I need to distinguish that I never got totally straight. Maybe this extra knowledge will bump my practice test scores up into passing range. Hope so. Otherwise I’m an idiot that doesn’t belong in this career without a full four years of a finance college degree. ::muttercomplainbitchwhine::
Steve is here now and he’s cooking food. J it’s good to have a guy around for fixing and cooking things.
This weekend I am going with my parents to Tallahassee for my niece’s 6th birthday party. It’ll probably be real cute, but I’m not totally looking forward to sitting in the car with my parents for 3 hours. And then in between zack and anna in the back seat for the next 3 hours. But hey, it’s a birthday and then father’s day. So I can’t really complain.
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[14 Jun 2006|09:35am] |
i rescheduled my series 7- i was NOT ready to take it in, um, 5 days. I haven't even finished the practice tests. but by today they will be done. the new date was going to be june 30, but they were all booked up when i called to reschedule, so now it's going to be july 7th. so now i basically have 3 weeks more than i thought i needed, so the studying is much more lax. i'm finishing up the last of the practice tests today, and then i will go to target to buy some note cards and big sheets of paper to draw out every formula and the tax dates, times, rates, definitions, etc- that i have to memorize. i WILL be ready for this thing.
mel and i bought a washer/dryer and steve is working on installing it for us. we're encountering a few quirks and difficulties, but steve seems to be figuring it out for us. mom came over yesterday and said our apartment is "cute". she had not seen it since we peeked in before it had even begun renovation (old carpet and trash/beer bottles/baby bottles everywhere). today we're going to the salvation army (half off on wednesdays!) to try to buy a couch, coffee table, etc. i think we're getting steve's mom's kitchen table, too, and it sounds (way TOO) nice, but will be nice to have, probably.
took the dogs to the vet yesterday. annual shots for $20/per dog. that seems like such a good price, i didn't even get all that upset when i wasted money at the ATM and then got almost irreparably lost on Riverside Ave looking to get back to Roosevelt. ah well.
i want to buy frames. lots and lots of frames. and then i want a jetski.
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[09 Jun 2006|03:48pm] |
i have to do two practice tests every day, each with 125 questions. i have done 10, and i still have not come close to a 70%. it takes me about 6 hours, IF i can get it all done at once. it's a really frustrating schedule, but i have completed an entire week of it. it's finally friday, and i am finished. i even managed to squeeze in a long-overdue shower!
tonight melissa, steve and i are going out to see a band at a place. moni's? i dunno. but it will be nice. sammy is in town, too, but i think he will be hanging out with shane at the Aromas gig tonight.
i am out of minutes on my cell phone until this weekend. please do not call if you do not have t-mobile. sorry...
mel and i moved in with no emergencies. things are in place, altho we still need some necessary furniture (bed, anyone?). but i'm proud of how quickly we got things liveable (we even bought a washer/dryer yesterday! $150. so, matt, i'm going to need to call in that IOU...). i still am loving the lake view, despite all problems.
now we're going to go to a few cheap places to shop. we both hate our clothes. or maybe it's just the way they're fitting right now. so much pressure!
FRIDAY!
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[05 Jun 2006|08:21am] |
yet another reason to stick with LJ.
this morning was the first breakfast ever in melissa's and my new apartment. and it tasted pretty good, despite all the annoyances. i think we stirred up some dust during the moving process, because my allergies didn't like me much last night. woke up at like 5:30 b/c Paco was growling at the mexicans talking and getting up outside our door, so i put him in my room. then around 6:30 they all sat on the stairwell and talked for a while, and i could have listened to their conversation, had they been speaking in english.
melissa and i sat out on the back porch on our new deck chairs, and paco went down the steps to sniff around. when i was calling to him, this dude from next door stuck his head out the back door and stared at me for like a minute. i think maybe his name is Paco. THAT might not go over so well.
so in case you haven't gathered, we have exclusively mexicans living in our complex, or at least the building mel and i are in, at the very end of the complex. they are ALWAYS sitting around talking, and i think they all know each other. there have to be about 25 people living in the other 3 apartments in our building. and i don't think any of them speak english. nor do they offer to help lift things when they're all sitting around one old rocking chair, drinking coronas, laughing and pointing at me as i'm trying to ignore them.
so today i have to go to my dad's office around 3 and get my teeth cleaned. and then i have to go to Ameriprise from 6-7:30 for that weekly thing i had forgotten about, since last monday was a freebie. before all that i have to study and take at least the first 2 practice exams, about 150 questions each. but this is much better than insurance, because it tells you if you are right or wrong immediately after you answer the question, and then it tells you why. and i also have my material right here to look it up. ...well, somewhere around here.
anyhoo, i'm going to get moving. good luck to shane on his interview.
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[02 Jun 2006|10:00am] |
last night i saw shane and dusty play at Farah's, which is right next to my parents' house. adina's parents came by, and so did my dad for a bit. i saw mrs. barber there, too! it was real cute. and they played really well, i should mention. of course.
so, today is the big day. mel and i are going to meet at our new apartment around 5ish?? to sign the lease, pay lots of money, and fight over whose room is whose (jk). i'll have a truckload of crap to unload ASAP, and then i'm going to pick up the rest of my crap that shane has (unfortunately for him) been holding for me for over a month. maybe 2. i probably will come back here to the parents' house to crash, and then moving the rest of things on saturday. lisa's truck will come in handy.
zack and anna are here, too. i randomly hear the CUTEST little histerical giggles from the other room. lisa took my car down to south florida for a suicide prevention meeting thing.
i need a bookshelf, a bed, a couch, coffee table, a tv stand, and a dresser. it might be a while before we can host a "housewarming party". and judging by the stuff i need, you'd NEVER imagine how much shit i already have to unload. it never ends. i need to become a minimalist.
...except that i buy stuff, and then i never throw anything away. i guess that poses a problem.
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| tally reunion |
[29 May 2006|09:11pm] |
so i got back this afternoon from my weekend in tallahassee. it was really great. i got to visit with my siblings. and here's the news: my sister Lisa is pregnant. woah.
then i saw sammy, suzy, matt, mike, adina, josh, sebastian, bobby, graham, tom, and brett. it was really weird to be back at the oaf house, and my old bedroom is TRANSFORMED into this cute little matching set of furniture complete with a coffee table, and a little tall table with barstool chairs. and pictures in frames! eddie's birthday party there was really fun- there was a keg and a lot of people. i went to leon pub, saw V for Vendetta at the dollar theater (which was INCREDIBLE and i can't wait until it comes out on video!), met adina at the mall (she was in town from South Carolina to visit with the in-laws), went to Moes, went to dinner with the siblings at Outback, ate some burger king breakfasts, and just hung out and visited with everyone. it was so nice to see these people i miss a lot.
My car had more problems. you know how bad things happen in 6's? Yeah well, that's the new rule:
1. Friday night I backed out of the OAF front yard and my driver sideview mirror tapped another car, and it shattered.
2. And then I immediately got a flat tire.
3. The day before my battery was declared dead, and I had to have it replaced.
4. Last time I was in St. Augustine, I got a parking ticket for an expired meter.
5. A week before, I ran into a PARKED car and had to do the exchange of information, why-the-heck-did-you-hit-my-parked-car thing (the car turned out to be a rental, so hopefully no one cares).
6. A few days before that, I got a flat tire in the middle of the night, (and it was a different tire than the more recent adventure).
...all of that within like 3 weeks. that poor thing is getting back at me for something.
and i didn't get ANY studying done, which only contributed to the well-being of my weekend, of course.
i went with mom tonight to visit my mom's good friend, and my godmother, who got in a car accident 2+ months ago and broke her vertebrae. She was very lucky that she's not paralyzed, but she's wearing a halo that has screws in her head, and a big piece supporting it thats in front of her chest and down her back. she's not allowed to get it wet, but she just FINALLY washed her hair, which was really just that one little thing that bothered her most. but doing anything is difficult, and she said she just rolls around the house all day in her wheelchair like an idiot. but she really does have a great attitude. and the halo will probably be on for another 4 months, because she's older and it's just not healing. so it's hard, and she's in a lot of pain.
Friday melissa and i can move in to our new apartment! i got some more of my stuff into my car from lisa's while i was in tally, and i might leave all of it there for the next few days. we can move in around 3pm, so we may just move a little bit and save most of it for saturday morning when it will be earlier in the day and less hot. or we may just get it all done then. i don't know. but i'm excited.
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[24 May 2006|03:09pm] |
fine, i'll concede and start a myspace blog. but i'm only going to copy and paste things that i write here first. i still like livejournal better.
i hate the subject of insurance. i took a week to study through the online course, and then i got confused and just started on studying for the series 7. so i had to go back and finish up the final tests of the insurance course before i can schedule all my state exams, but i've been concentrating on stocks and bonds so i had to take these insurance tests over and over and go back through the entire course before i finally passed the tests this morning. i mean, this afternoon. so now i am two days behind in my series 7 studying, even though i picked up some this past weekend and i'm going to do a day's worth today. i hate insurance.
so i got a new cell phone? yeah, nevermind. they gave me nothing but shit with a smile for 2 weeks, before i find out that they put the WRONG VERSION of telenav on my phone. WTF?! so i just returned it. the phone, and the service, and they even took off the activation fee. it was NOT worth all the effort i had put into it. i called repeatedly, and visited at least 4 different store locations. i still am disoriented in this town and i need some sort of GPS, but i will make do until they organize their company internally. that is ridiculous. i'm still fuming over that stress. the worst part, though, is now i have to make another thorough PSA and let everyone know to call my OLD cell number. but i'm going to change it to another 904 number soon since i'm staying in jacksonville, so it's not quite worth it. they'll figure it out if they want to get ahold of me.
"emotional competence" tells me to play the freeze game and let it go.
i'm not going to st. augustine for a while. i have to concentrate on studying, and that guy lost my number and i don't anticipate him calling me. oh, and i changed it. but still. he has every resource available for him to find it.
but THIS WEEKEND is tallahassee! it's eddie's birthday, and i miss my friends, siblings, and zack, and anna. i plan to be in tally late friday, maybe spend some time with the family since they're on the way into town, see erin, and saturday night at the OAF house i can chill with everyone else i miss a LOT. i'm glad i didn't go back until now, though, because it's hard enough to say "goodbye." "i mean, now i REALLY mean 'goodbye'." you know.
so melissa and i signed a lease yesterday! i think it might just be 3 minutes away from my work. (i think maybe i can jump on baymeadows and get off on touchton like a block away. unless i've got the streets all wrong, which is totally probable. i guess i need telenav.) it's got a good pet policy, and we saw the apartment and walked in- it's in the process of being renovated- and it's upstairs and has an incredible view of the lake right out the back porch. and we're in the last building all the way in the back of the complex, so we have some land right next to us to walk our dogs. it's gonna be great. yay southside! YAY FREEDOM!
not that being home has been so bad. i've done a lot of walking on eggshells paired with stringent damage control with mom. i write long apology notes when she's frustrated with me, and i make my bed EVERY morning. and she's still pretty nosey. but it's nice to have her around when we're getting along really well. i just have to be careful.
i told my mom the other day, "hey, last night i dreamed that you were going through my purse, and you yelled at me a LOT because you found some makeup"
and she said, "that's weird. ...why would you dream that?"
"uhhh, i dunno." ::walks away quickly::
poor livejournal. people are leaving you.
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| thanks, josh. |
[22 May 2006|09:09pm] |
sodaskills (9:04:29 PM): one day you'll realize it's ok to be odd
sodaskills (9:04:39 PM): and you'll stop fighting it so hard
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[19 May 2006|01:31pm] |
french dude seems to be leaving me spiteful text messages.
i adore st. augustine- it's got the lovely quaint atmosphere i miss from tallahassee. i can get ANYWHERE in like 15 minutes, and the beach and even a few bars are within walking distance. and my parents aren't here. and Eli is... for a month at least, until he moves back to seattle.
i'm getting my studying done.
ok, i'm half a day behind, but i'll catch up tomorrow.
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[16 May 2006|12:38am] |
who knew that i could stay up WAY too late answering 150 insurance exam questions, only to FAIL THE COURSE because i got only 80%.
80%?!?!?!? come ON!
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[12 May 2006|10:05pm] |
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so i've spent the past few days in st. augustine. with a boat boy. (hey, josh liked him.) we saw An American Haunting at this cheap theater downtown, and it didn't entirely make sense. and we rented Shopgirl and it was pretty good, although not very lighthearted. and we read books, and made food, and got pizza, and i went on his boat, and i did less of my insurance course than i should have.
now i'm back in jacksonville with strep throat, on antibiotics, and i have only 2 days left to complete the last 40% of this insurance course before i have to start my scheduled studying for the SERIES 7 ::impending doom music::. so there goes my weekend. but hopefully i can still look for a new place with melissa. and then go back to st. augustine on tuesday. ;)
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| tom is gonna be sooooo jealous... |
[02 May 2006|06:25pm] |
i just saw this in my new jacksonville LJ community, dated yesterday:
REMINDER
Jacksonville Art Walk/Zombie Walk is just two short days from now.
If you're planning to attend, great! Join us in front of the Landing (outside as to not get kicked out, yo) around 6:15-6:30 for a great stroll around town to see art, and more importantly, braaains.
If you want to go but can't attend at that time, email me at sanitoid at gmail dot com and we'll work some kind of secondary meeting place/time out!
-Holly
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| and i JUST remembered i have to be at ameriprise at 6 tonight... |
[01 May 2006|04:42pm] |
So here I am in Jacksonville, at home. Dial-up AOL. But my parents have some people in town and they’re on the house computer, so I’m writing this on my laptop and I’ll update it to LJ later when I can get online.
Turning into my neighborhood with my windows open, one of the boxes I had on the backseat slid into Paco, and he half jumped/half fell out of the window onto the street. Poor pup. He was very (understandably) frustrated about that.
Today I went to the post office to mail some things, the bank to deposit my “happy graduation” checks, and to office depot to have them fix my laptop. Problem: it was on “Pacific” time. And also the wireless network settings were all wrong, so apparently they fixed it. Unfortunately, I was hoping once I got home I could steal a signal from one of my neighbors, but they’re either too far away or way too old to have wireless internet. Damn.
I have a bedroom full of boxes that I really don’t want to unpack. I don’t want to move so many times so close together, but here I am at home and Melissa and I are still planning on getting an apartment in a month. Hopefully I can just live around all this upheaval without my mom pitching too much of a fit about it, and then I won’t have to REpack in only a few weeks. Also, I’m seriously thinking about spending lots of time at the condo if this situation gets too stressful. I just wish I had friends in St. Augustine. Maybe this will just help me to force myself to study so I can start working and stop wandering around with nothing to do.
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| graduation day |
[29 Apr 2006|04:27pm] |
so it's official, i graduated. i walked this morning (in shoes that were waaay too uncomfortable), and then i removed fsu_noles from my LJ friends list. ::tear::
i got a whole lotta cards for graduation from my family, and i felt loved. mom said my new nickname is "cum laude." my grandmas came in town from Indiana and baked me a big chocolate volcano-like cake. and tomorrow i plan to move out of the OAF house and drive back to jacksonville. it's rather sad.
so tonight will hopefully be comprised a good OAF-y (dance?) party.
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| 10 days til graduation |
[20 Apr 2006|10:29am] |
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this morning i made breakfast, counted my bugbites (25?), took out the trash, got josh to take out the bug-infested pot of old pasta, took out the recyclables, picked up the rest of the beer cans that have accumulated around the house, shut all the windows and TURNED ON THE AIR CONDITIONING. it's my graduation present to myself. and my allergies (and bug bites) already feel better (although it also rained yesterday, which was good).
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[15 Apr 2006|07:09pm] |
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laid in the sun on the shed roof today with diana. plans to go to wal mart tonight to look at rope ladders to have the span of the HOUSE roof to lay on. jessica's coming next weekend! chop chop!
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| help! |
[14 Apr 2006|01:21pm] |
escaped!
small pomeranian dog. peachy-white. responds to Lulu. fluffy tail. pink collar (but no info!)
left about an hour ago, should be somewhere around Hiphop Fish & Chicken, Medical building, call/conradi/whitehall, northwest of campus, near Tennessee st.
please let me know if you've seen her.
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| 2 weeks and 3 days til i'm a "college grad" |
[12 Apr 2006|03:34pm] |
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http://aol.salary.com/careersandwork/salary/articles/atcl_careeradvice.asp?atc=558
apparently "financial advisor" is the #3 top job. that's rather reassurring. :)
i presented my HUGE project yesterday with two other girls, representing the 9 people in our group. it was brutal, but i think we did really well. we presented for 15 minutes, and then had half an hour of grilling questions. i had thought we were embarassingly overprepared, but we weren't at ALL. and the worst part was that our teacher never strayed from her stoic facial expressions and continued to be very unimpressed and unconvinced.
nontheless, we knew a LOT of information, and we had a LOT of research, and we were able to answer pretty much every question. even when she asked what we would do if there was a coup de etat in Costa Rica? talk about random!
so next week we have to turn in the written part of our project, which shouldn't be too involved since we've already done pretty much all of it. i have to present another project, take one small test, and i have one final and one take-home final. i'm pretty much done for the semester, and i have massive senioritis. as should be expected when im two weeks and 3 days from graduating. WOOT!
i'm having lots of trouble trying to set up my laptop to connect to the FSU wireless connection so i can play on it while im on campus. any thoughts?
im going to order my study materials now for my tests to take to get licensed. i'm finally able to breathe easy with this project presentation out of the way.
i'm still a little sick, but getting better. lemon-lime POWERADE turned my snot flourescent yellow, in case you were wondering.
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[07 Apr 2006|09:13pm] |
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most stressful "relaxing weekend" EVAR.
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[01 Apr 2006|01:17pm] |
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totally just got my graduation present from my parents: my awesome new HP laptop. rock!
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[31 Mar 2006|03:48pm] |
went to ameriprise today to get fingerprinted and sign papers, etc. everything went very well.
in other news, my group project in international marketing: franchising a Club Med luxury spa hotel off the coast of panama, is going VERY well. we even have a website so far!:
http://bocasdeltoro.tripod.com/
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[31 Mar 2006|09:18am] |
i am in jacksonville to sign some papers/contracts with Ameriprise today at 2. (but i still haven't totally gone over them.) tonight i'm going to dinner with my parents to celebrate my "birthday," and maybe i'll still have time to go see V for Vendetta with ye ole' high school cliche.
tomorrow is Springin' the Blues at the beach? and then dinner with friends and THEN meeting up with Jodie at the Ritz for her "birthday party". (OOPS! I left her card in tallahassee! just realized that. oh well.)
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| I really need to change my screen name... |
[25 Mar 2006|03:30pm] |
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"Abby, I'm happy you wrote. I was thinking about you the other day and how that little piece of paper disappeared. My father found the piece of paper and thought it said fsu call girls, so he sat me down to talk. lol. "
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| I love getting birthday emails from my lawyer sister-in-law like this one: |
[21 Mar 2006|10:46am] |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
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| assorted interesting pre-birthday things... |
[20 Mar 2006|01:59pm] |
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Forbes made a list of the top 15 richest FICTIONAL characters!
my siblings and some people came over on saturday. jeremiah came in town in the middle of last week for our birthday (which is tomorrow) and melissa and steve drove over, too. paco loves melissa. we drank and... good times. josh had some people come over and they did a little acoustic show in our living room. we smoked the hookah with jasmine and then mango flavored tobaccos.
been going to lisa's house every day to take care of that damn chihuahua dog. she needs antibiotic pills, vitamin E drops, and lotion rubbed on her scabby mangy body every day. but at least lisa has a hot tub that steve, melissa, jer and i heated up and hung out in yesterday.
and on another note, check out the badass pocket knife that jeremiah bought me for my birthday!
 Melissa bought me a REALLY cool swiss army pocket knife card with a light, tweezers, pen, needle, knife, etc in it, that fits really well in my back pocket. how do these people know how much i like to pretend to be a badass? i guess that's how we know our true friends. now all i need's a flask, zippo, and a cigarette case. old school poser. this guy.
i've been adopting jeremiah's SPLOOFUS obsession, although not quite on the same level as he is on that site. trivia is fun, sometimes. but i really like the word puzzles.
i have 2 tests this week that i have to study my ass off for. but for now i just have to drive out to lisa's and take care of that stupid dog.
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| freakin finally |
[15 Mar 2006|11:56am] |
So I got the job at Ameriprise. They're going to overnight me information and papers and such, and I have to start studying for the tests to get me licensed. Apparently I'll be working ~ 60 hours/week for the next three years, but I probably would be a workaholic anyway.
And it starts.
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"I wouldn't know," I said. I really wouldn't.
"'I wouldn't know' seems to be a pet expression with you," she observed.
"Maybe so."
"And 'maybe so' is another."
I didn't know what to say.
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| pretty expected, i guess |
[10 Mar 2006|12:05am] |
| You Are 27 Years Old | 
Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax. |
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| OMG SpRiNg BrEaK 2K6!!11!!!11! |
[08 Mar 2006|01:32pm] |
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Got in last night. Miami was incredible.
Diana, Josh and I drove the 8ish hours until we got to Jessica's house, and Jess' family was crazy hospitable. The house was very environmental with lots of wood and the yard was very plush (but hey, it's Miami). We went to this beautiful complex and snuck into their pool which was very warm, went to a party, drove to Key Biscayne and laid out in the sun, drove to the Everglades and went on a 15 mile bike ride and saw SO many alligators and herons and turtles and other birds and took pictures, went to Churchill's for jazz night, rented The Dreamers, and we went to Key Largo and went snorkeling! Jessica's dad made us breakfast EVERY morning, and we ate some great cuban food and got some cool different fruit drinks (guayabana?). Jessica chauffeured us around and it was very nice to be constantly entertained.
On the way back we dropped Diana off in Sarasota where her mom fed us sandwiches, and then Josh and I made our way back to Tallahassee. We got back to the house and couldn't even find a place to park in our driveway or even along the STREET of our house, because there was a show here with SO many people. We had to drive to another street and park in the back yard of a house behind our house (good thing we didn't get towed, though). Lots of underage kids smoking and cussing and telling rude jokes. But the bands were incredible (as long as I wasn't INSIDE the shed with them); much better than I figured they would be, because I usually go out as soon as there will be a show here. Heh.
I think Paco missed me :) But Tom did a good job taking care of him.
So today I think I will be gathering my stuff together and heading over to Jacksonville. As soon as I can work up the motivation to spend some more hours inside the car, which I am not totally pumped to do.
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| MIAMI |
[03 Mar 2006|01:10am] |
josh, diana and i are leaving for miami (to see jessica!) after diana's test, so we should be on the road in about 12 hours. YAY miami. i've never been there. we're talking about going to the beach, clubbin', a bar, josh wants to see a few shows, and i REALLY want to go to key west and snorkle for a day. we're staying at jessica's place: apparently josh and i will get to use the bunk beds.
earlier today we took a trip to publix and bought lots of crackers and peanut butter and cheeses and apples and such for the road trip.
i'm excited, in case you couldn't tell. but i'll be much less so once we've been on the road for 7 hours and still haven't arrived.
anyway, we should head back tuesday-ish. i should be in jacksonville around wednesday until the end of spring break.
yay spring break and a stereotypical college vacation!
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[23 Feb 2006|09:28pm] |
lost my driver's license, went to the DMV and bought a new one, and then found my old one. D'OH!
at least it wasn't IN MY PANTS, and besides, having two is useful.
(somehow I'd left it at The Warehouse?)
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| so i thought that was the end... |
[22 Feb 2006|11:02am] |
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i did get the phone call from ameriprise on monday. apparently i DID pass the interviews... but that doesn't necessarily mean i get the job. she will send me marketing materials, and then i have to come up with a marketing plan that i will share with cliff (head-honcho guy) when i meet with him next month here in tallahassee. i don't even know if there are more interviews after THAT. this is starting to get kind of annoying. but i think i really want this job.
anyway, things are going well. just been hanging out with my housemates and getting random things done. and watching lots of FUTURAMA. heheh.
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| weekend update, live in jacksonville |
[20 Feb 2006|11:59am] |
thursday i skipped my marketing exam and laid out in the sun with diana, then drove to jacksonville.
i had the last parts of my interview with ameriprise on friday. so, there were 9 college seniors in the room that they were interviewing, and they ordered in Moes and we ate, and then we introduced ourselves with a "two minute speech". so then we had individual interviews, and apparently the guy who interviewed me knew my family, b/c the first thing he said to me was, "do you know evan and lisa smitha?" and i said yeah, my siblings... so he knew my parents and used to play soccer with evan. and he also used to work with Pizzazz a lot, back before the company merged. weird.
then i had to do a "call simulation" where they gave me a packet of like 10 pages of paper that i had to study for half an hour. they included basic financial programs, stuff on ameriprise, the schedule you're supposed to follow when you make a call, and information on these 3 different "scenarios" of people. i had to call this company and try to talk to 3 different people and convince them that:
1. they need a financial advisor
2. they should set up a conference with me
3. they should give me references of more people i should call.
the first one i spoke with was a woman who yelled "you have ONE MINUTE to convince me that you're company is better than just the bank im already with." and altho i probably could have done it, i was so flustered and confused that i just ruined it. but i nailed the next two, so hopefully i did well.
i'm supposed to find out whether i got the job by TODAY. i'm rather nerve-wracked.
so i ended up hanging out with melissa on friday night. we met up at a really laid back bar (sherwoods) and it was REALLY nice to just talk and hang out. i cannot wait until i move back and things can be... easier. we told a few secrets and laughed a LOT. blargh.
then erin, lisa, and the kids came into town. we went to st. augustine on saturday, and we laid out on the beach for a bit. it was really wonderful weather. jeremiah came down and we all hung out and ate a lot and played with zack and anna.
sunday was mom's birthday. bridget and evan came into town and we had a big lunch and we made an awesome chocolate cake with strawberry sauce stuff in between the layers. it was a little off-balance, but it tasted reallllly good.
i watched the corpse bride and this documentary on conures at jeremiah's house last night, and now i'm back in tallahassee.
i went to my first class and found out i got pretty good grades on the exams i took last week (except, of course, the one that i skipped). everything is going fine. i'll let you know about that job when i find out!
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