Dear Family,

Thank you everyone for the birthday love :] Terri, it was amazing to see you! I hope we can meet up in New York City! And Amy, I can't wait to see you again, it has been way too long! Mama and Dad, you guys know me better than anyone in the world, thank you for the amazing shopping trip and all the millions of other presents you have given to me all my life (you know the big ones like housing/school/food lol) Much appreciated! Grandma, you are the best ever I love you very much. Aunt Pam, Uncle Bill, Judd and Freckles, thank you so much :] Aunt Shelly and Uncle Jerry thank you too! And thankyou my second family the Ryan's! I think I've covered everyone except for my dearest brother and his little fam.

Let me just say, this gift was genius and I am going to explain why.

Above is a picture of my "sketchbook" I have been using this year. Also known as twenty pieces of computer paper stapled together.

This beautiful hard cover book complete with artist's pencils is my new sketchbook! Much less ghetto.

Some other random things I ordered. The brush, to dust off eraser crumbs without smearing your masterpeices! The little tub is the greatest glue in the world. The brayer (the rolly thing) is God's gift to gluers. And the white paper underneath is the most amazing paper an artist could ask for. 

All these glorious, nerdy art supplies came in these two boxes (two day air rush delivery!) So amazing. I love love love love love it! I'm using all of it for a self portrait collage due on Thursday. (A collage of stamps, plane tickets, envelops etc. to symbolize my moving around all the over the place!) So if anyone has any plane ticket stubs, train tickets, you name it send them to me pleaseeeee!!!

So what else is new? I bought a gorgeous amaryllis flower at my second home, Ace. I already put up Christmas lights in my room. I am one of Kaila's bridesmaids, and I'm wearing cowgirl boots to a football game tonight lol. 

So that's a picture of part of my tiny room with the Christmas lights. Let me just explain that gross poster. I bought it for 4 dollars to prove a point to my stupid ex boyfriend that he should not have gross posters of disgusting women in his room! I won the argument and the poster pissed him off so much I decided to keep it up. However, a poster of NYC is on its way to take its place. So no one think less of me for having that, it really was not something I saw and said OH perfect I'll put that on the stone block wall in my dorm room. 

Mama, I am showing you this heap of laundry to prove to you I do not always look like this:

Alright, I got some random Ace stories on the brain so please enjoy! So as many people know, Ace caters to a certain uhh age group. And its like everyone above 60. I mean we literally have an entire aisle devoted to the strict home owner's association rules in Sun City (Aisle 15). I mean the UPC for sun city address lights is D603015. And I only know that because I ring them up a billion times a day! Okay, so the other day I'm cashiering and this is what happens:

Me: Hello sir, did you find everything okay?

Sir: (Attempts to lift bag of potting soil onto the counter) I'm getting too old for this.

Me: (Rings up soil)

Sir: So, if I get your number can I call you sometime?

Me: (Speechless)

If you are too old to lift a 5 pound bag of potting soil, you are certainly too old to ask for my phone number.

So other than the sun city aisle, the other aisle that gets the most action: plumbing. I honestly can't even count how many times people bring in old plungers, flappers, etc. and ask me to throw them away for them. I don't care if I sound like a beezy, I say no. That's so gross. One time this guy came up to the counter, shoved the plunger down so hard it stuck. In one fluid motion he whips out a knife, pries it off the counter, and leaves without saying a word. Awkward! And one time, this lady RUNS in the door and yells "I NEED A PLUNGER RIGHT NOW!" I mean how embarrassing. A lot of times people tell me things I don't need to hear. Like the one lady who told me about how food got stuck in her throat so she reached her fingers down there and pulled it out and had to go to the hospital because she scratched her throat! I almost barfed for that one. She told me the story complete with hand motions, noises, the whole nine yards. One of my personal favorites is the guy who burst through the doors right before we were about to close exclaiming he needed drywall tape because his wife ripped the stripper pole out of their ceiling. It's really amazing what people will tell you lol. So bag sale day was last Saturday, anything that you could cram into a brown paper bag was 20% off. 

Customer: Does a rake fit in the bag?

Me: No...

Customer: Well, are you sure? Why not?

Me: (Holds up average sized brown bag) Well, this is the bag.

Anddd cue customer freak out/storm out the door. 

I really do love my job so much. I work with the best people ever. For example, yesterday my boss ordered pizza but since I was at the front I didn't get any. Did he order an entire pizza just for me later that night? Yes. How seriously awesome is that? Did all my male coworkers threaten to kill my ex boyfriend? Yes. Did 30,000 other people? Yes. 

Okay, that's for now :]