Party in the USA

. . . L i f e . i s . g r e a t . . .

I'm reconnecting with a few high school people I never really knew.

Heroes night / Game night is back!

The Office has returned.

I received a MUG Award from my manager :)

I purchased 14 tickets for the Midnight showing of New Moon.

I'm going to Andrew Bird with said high school people.

And I have the best roommate ever!

For Kimberly

So, like I have said in the past, I do not update my blog for lack of reliable internet.

Tonight, Kimberly told me that I haven't updated, but made her voice curl in suspicion as if my lack of blogging was due to questionable activity.

So here I am.

Blogging.

I love my co-workers.  They are fantastic individuals, and I hope the relationships will become more than merely professional!

As it would happen, I have enjoyed waking up at 3:30 AM for the morning Starbucks shift. I'm good at getting up that early...

Also, It is fall, which means the Pumpkin Spice Latte, Pumpkin Scone, and Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins are back.  O, dear Lord, help me say "no!"

I have fallen in love with True Blood (HBO) and Dexter (Showtime).  I am learning that all TV shows on those types of channels are excellent.

Rachel and I have begun a new tradition of Twilight nights (hopefully) every week, where we watch Twilight, surf the internet for the latest cast gossip, and drool over the fact that she and Jon Ross and Robert Pattinson and I would have the most fantastic double dates!

One last thing:

IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON!!!!!

I can explain...

I have been so out of touch with the blogging world for three reasons:

1) Internet is spotty at my place

2) I started working at Starbucks a week and a half ago

3) I read the Twilight Saga in a week

Actually...I've already started re-reading the series.  I just finished the 2nd book, New Moon.

Let me just take this opportunity to say that I absolutely love my job.  I love the environment.  I love the rushes.  I adore working in the drive-thru.  I am crazy about my co-workers.  There isn't a single thing I dislike.

When it comes to Twilight... Read it.  I have a fictional boyfriend, and we are in love.  I swear it.

About my apartment... It's times like these, when the gates to our apartment complex right outside my bedroom window slowly squeak open and shut all day and night, that i force myself to recite, "i love my apartment. i LOVE my apartment. I LOVE MY APARTMENT!" 

This is a short update, but nothing is going on except for numbers 2 and 3 above.

And let me just say...

YUMMMMMMM!!!!!:::

The beginning of something else

So up until this point my life lately has been all about Change. (Not Obama's "change")

Losing relationships, losing jobs, losing friends, losing my identity...

All very sad and life-altering things.

Just now I realized that I am done Changing for the moment.  I am now in the process of Living!  I really do feel that I am (somewhat) OK with being single.  I like that I am free to be myself and focus on myself for a little while.  I have a job starting in about a week that I am very excited about.  I really think I know who my friends are after all the smoke has cleared from recent uncalled for events.  And, finally, I am realizing how quirky I really am, and I am learning to love myself for it!  Sure, I don't know what I want to do for a career yet, but that will come in the future.  For now I can relax and go with an actual flow in my life.  I can finally just be.  At least for a moment.

I am incredibly thankful for my dear roommate, Natalie.

She watches out for me in such a way that I can't help but know I am loved.

She has gone above and beyond when she worried about me, and I cannot thank her enough.

She fills my life with so much joy and laughter.

She made the last year bearable.

I don't know how I could have managed without her across the hall.

My dear dear loves, Rachel and Kimberly.

Each of you has shown me the kind of friendship I always hoped I'd have.

When the roads got complicated and bumpy, you both stood by me and made it work.

Rachel, you always reminded me of how much you loved me, and that pushed me onward.

Kimberly, you kept me busy when I needed it, and let me cry when I needed it more than staying busy.  You held me and rocked me for an hour at my breaking point 6 months ago.

My love for you both is irreplaceable.  

Again, thank you all.

 

(long pause for a long phone conversation)

On a side note, I really like feeling like I'm needed.  Who doesn't, I know... but when a friend tells me that I'm helping them in some way, it really helps me with my own healing process.  For so long I was the one who needed fixing.  So much so that I was useless to my friends' benefits.  Helping a friend is helping me.

Two last blips:

1) I am finally going to conquer the Twilight series.

2) Everyone needs to watch the short series called Harper's Island.  (It's somewhat lame in the beginning, but once it picks up it does not stop for countless episodes).

Goodnight, all!

Or should I say good morning!?

Two posts in one day.

Sorry about posting twice, but I absolutely HAD to share my Harry Potter Experience!   I promise, there are no spoilers or anything, Rachel!  ;)

We arrived at the Rave at 11:30 only to find the nearest parking spot over by Hobby Lobby.  There were Harry Potters everywhere!  I love that!  Natalie and I, however, chose to go to the movie in pajamas.  We are quite brilliant.

Anywho, there were SO many people there.  I ran into two people I knew, as did Nat.  I got us Icees hoping the sugar would help us stay awake.

We sit down in the theater, and the energy was super!  Everyone's shockingly alive at midnight.  Out of no where, two AWESOME guys dressed as Harry and Ron zip past us down the stairs and go to the floor of the theater beneath the screen.  They whipped out their wands and started dueling!  They were yelling spells and seriously tumbling and twisting through the air like in the movies!  They were hilarious!  Got a TON of applause.  I want to be their best friend.  That moment made my night the best possible!!

The movie itself was beautiful.  Not what I expected, but that is a good thing!  It's so much better :)  Go see it.  Now.

Life is looking up!

Things are finally moving in my life, and I am so glad!

As it turns out, I DID get the job at Starbucks!  I am so thankful that they are giving me a shot!  I'm incredibly nervous, but I'm glad that I have some experience going into it.  It will be wonderful to have a paycheck again.  O gosh, yes!  I go in next Monday to meet with the Manager and go over stuff.  I'll be there for two hours.

Like I said recently, I have wonderful people in my life, and the past few weeks have brought back a few old friends.  I love adding different people into the mix.  Refreshing.

I am determined to lose weight and tone up.  I swear.  It will happen.  I am enjoying the workouts a lot more than I could have expected.  I feel accomplished.  That is always nice.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT MIGHT EXCITE ME THE MOST?!

Harry freaking Potter comes out in 2 hours, and Natalie and I have tickets!  Yes, ma'am, we do!  It has been too long since one of these puppies came out.  I will be so sad when the last movie is released :(  No more new Potter anything.

My life is tragic hahaha  I'm such a lame-o.

Peace :)

Could it be?

Could Hannah finally have a job?

I think it is HIGHLY possible!

Today, I went to an interview at Starbucks, and I am almost certain that I am hired.  I sure hope so, because I really have wanted to work there for years.  Two years ago, before I decided to attend Highlands Worship School, I applied at Starbucks and actually got a call-back for an interview.  Unfortunately (for them - ha!) I had just signed up for school.

I do love making drinks, and I know that I am good at it.  I am confident in my customer service skills.  And this may make me sound a tad dorko, but I am ALWAYS curious when I go to a new coffee shop as to how things are done there.  Seattle Drip, Cambridge Coffee (R.I.P.), O'Henrys, Primavera, Mate Factor, and the New Life Cafe in New Life Church (Colorado Springs, CO).  I even took pictures of the NLCafe and ordered a drink to see how their speed was looking!  HAHA

ANYWHO I am really praying that the Manager-who shall remain nameless-liked me :)  She was awesome!

Night-night :) :) :)