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ok so i haven’t blogged in like 4 days. i still have nothing to say. i figured i’d check in for the holiday to assure any of my faithful readers that i am, indeed, alive. i don’t have a reason for my hiatus except that i’ve had nothing to say.

work: 2 nights on bacc, last night i did absolutely nothing the entire time, then we closed the game. tonight i worked at 7, figured i’d have roulette, ended up not even being on the schedule, and getting pai gow. still haven’t found out about “the thing” yet.

xmas: xmas with the parents today. got my furniture, and my new monitor which indeed wont fit on my desk. dad has to create some kind of rig for the desk. sucks. i just want a new desk LOL. got my great great grandmothers super rad art deco diamond ring, i just have to get it sized now. finally got a black velvet blazer. and 2 more black blazer/jackets. it seems that my dad has suddenly gone totally grey. i don’t know when this happened, but i noticed tonight. he’d make a good santa…except he’s not fat.

life: i’m reading “tale of two cities” and tho i will forever hate charles dickens, i will admit…there are some really amazing lines of prose in there. i read before bed, when the comp is sleeping for the night, and then i forget the lines i wanted to post. oh well.

the reason i hate xmas music: there are about 20 xmas songs, just sang over and over and over again by 19823487 different artists. i really don’t need to hear the 45,033rd version of “Winter Wonderland”. and no, they do not know it’s christmas time at all BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT CHRISTIAN!

t-minus 6 hours til i have to wake up and drive to detroit.  it will again, be an experience.

so merry christmas to everyone. i should come back from 2 days in detroit with more sit-com like stories. at least that’s what i’m hoping for. paying attention for good things to blog keeps me from going crazy. good night.

wednesday i got my hair cut. it’s very…1920s. i guess. need to get used to it i think.

today was my photog class “final”. had to show up and display our assignments, then he gave us grades. got an A. he already told me i was getting an A so no big deal. more of a waste of time than anything else.

then the ctrc board meeting. i had to give back the keys to the building haha.  i’m in charge of finding local bands to maybe do a concert thing in august. so far i gave them contact info for lance diamond and the revivals – beatles cover band. we’ll see what happens.

i bought yet another new domain name. cerulean-sky.net what am i doing with it? NO CLUE. hahah.

is today social security day or something? cuz i swear, ever blind as a bat, trecherous senior citizen driver was on the road today. i’m not exaggerating when i say i had run ins with 7 senior drivers on my trip to wegmans and back. the first old man, turned left at the stop sign at plaza and whatever street, and then stopped…half in the intersection still. and it’s not like he was the only car there. there were 2 cars at each stop sign. he made a wrong turn and turned around right there. meanwhile we sit there bewildered as to what is going on. 2nd lady…kept hitting her breaks. i guess 20mph is too fast. then an old man pulled out in front of her, dropping our high speed to 15 mph. then the car in front of me lets 5 cars out of the media play parking lot, onto the blvd. FIVE. and then they do it again when we actually get to wegmans. so that time i slammed on the horn. turns out the car she was letting onto the street is a floor sup from work LOL. i hate him, so it’s ok. haha

the drive home from wegmans was equally frustrating. wtf.

so. some stuff going on with ctrc that i can’t really talk about, cuz i don’t want to jinx it, but if it happens it’ll be good. just like if the work thing happens. i might find out today about the work thing. we’ll see.

i got to be on bacc with tony tonight. good times. we had a game most of the night tho, so it wasn’t as much talking as it could have been. all good.

some stuff is going on at work right now, that i don’t want to talk about cuz i don’t want to jinx it. but it could be good. if it happens, it’ll be good.

i need some more smilies for my blog but it’s such a pain in the ass to add them..haha *random*

 

my new mission in life is to get trent to the terminal. how i go about doing this..NOT A CLUE. but it’s my mission. must. get. trent. to. the. terminal. i was drafting letters in my head this morning, cuz i’m a dork. no clue who to send them to.

dear trent…come play a personal concert for me in buffalo central terminal. i’ll supply the piano and candles, you supply..yourself. love sara.

haha. i think i dreamed about him again last night, but i dunno what about. trent trent love you trent.

oh yeah. i need to join the new orleans preservation counsil, cuz trent freakin opens his house up occasionally for tours. GAAAAAAAAAAH

and imagine, there isn’t even a new nin record out yet, and i’m talking about trent. we’re in for it once the record is released.

completely unrelated. pressure from mtv made lacuna coil record a 2nd video for “heaven’s a lie”. the first was done in a house in san fran, low budget, but good video. the new one was all high budget with effects and it’s shit. the radio mix of the song is shit, the video doesn’t capture their spirt at all. they’ve got christina acting like every other female lead singer, and it’s just so not them. ug. disappointed.

i had this wicked cool dream about meeting trent reznor at a hot topic that he owned (?!). he was really nice to me, and i didn’t freak out. he was just super friendly, talking to me about different things. then i was going to leave cuz i was done at the store, and i said i looked forward to the new album whenever he ended up releasing it, and he sorta clammed up and didn’t say anything.

i woke up to my alarm playing “closer”…weird.

 

merry christmas to me. i’m buying myself a home theatre system with my christmas bonus from work. i think i’m going to get the panasonic 600 watt progressive scan dvd home theatre system. 5 disc changer, am/fm, plays any kind of dvd/cd/vcd/photo disc imaginable, a sub and 5 satellite speakers. oh, and most importantly, it has dts. going to go out to best buy and circuit city tomorrow to see if it’s set up and i can listen to it, then i’m buying it from dell cuz it’s about 100 dollars cheaper from dell. DUDE I’M GETTING A DELL.

then i can have a nin dvd watching party. or watch it by myself, you know, whatever.

threw me right into baccarat tonight. gah. it went decently enough, til the very end. someone walked on commission on my side of the table. i didn’t know who it was or when they walked, or even if they had been gone before i switched to that side or when i was on stick. then i got tapped out to go home, so i don’t know what they were going to do about it. but yeah. it was a bit stressful cuz the VP of table games and the entire casino…head…guy…CEO or whatever were watching the game. yeaaaaaaah. good time for a break in dealer to debut. but it was ok. no glaring mistakes, etc etc etc.

 

i worked 1 hr and 45 minutes tonight. i couldn’t stop choking on my game, tears streaming down my face. it was fun!

so saddam was captured. super. maybe that’ll put an end to all this iraq occupation bullshit.

but i doubt it.

and you know what this means right? bush is going to get re-elected. can the world survive another 4 years of this idiot?

hello again.

so leighanne’s mini visit went well. tony got her at the airport and brought her here. we went to the casino to kill a few hours and a few bucks. came back this way, stopped at tops so i could get milk and cough meds. tops has a mouse problem. tony and leighanne saw a mouse running around behind the milk cooler. barf. after the mouse/tops stop we went to dennys then called it a night. around 4am. haha. did the christmas thing. super de duper xmas gifts gah. a serial killer book, a freak show book, and a fallout detector, so i’ll always know when it’s safe to come out after a nuclear attack!!! best thing ever. the fallout detector came with old civil defense nuclear saftey books. and lots of bells, courtesy of The Fly.

friday i had to get up butt ass early to go to the dr, just to sit there for an hour, so i came home and took a nap before going to the terminal to meet russell. he left us there, and i showed leighanne around to all the places she couldn’t go cuz of the gimp foot at the picnic. we were there for about an hour and a half. then we decided to go pay a visit to horsefeathers, snoop around for more terminal stuff they’re hiding. got to horsefeathers, and i locked my keys in the car. stupid gloves – i can’t feel anything so i didn’t realize i dropped the keys in the backseat when getting my purse. so i had to call my roadside assistance that i have for another 6 months and 6000 miles. they said someone would be there within the hour. 5 min later the tow truck showed up and got my keys out. nice and smoothly. so that was good. i bought myself a present at horsefeathers, to add to my newly started “weird gadget” collection…now aside from my fallout detector, i also own an explosimeter…apparently it was some gadget you took into the mines, and it would test the air and stuff, and you could tell if something was going to explode. neat.

from there, i drove out to the marine star to show leighanne. at the marine star leighanne experienced real buffalo winter…wicked wind off the lake, wind chill factor all over the place hahaha. i had forgotten my sinatras gift certificate so we went to the parents house for dinner, then rented the godfather and came back to watch that. i told her we’d need a good 5 hours for the movie, she didn’t quite believe me hahah. and in the time we spent watching godfather, it snowed 2 inches. hahah god continuously smotes us. watched u2’s popmart concert after that. gah *drool* popmartbono

took leighanne to the airport this morning and came back and went to bed. it seems no one else got snow except us. haha. i have a full blown cold. and it sucks. my head is all stuffed up…but it’s not in my nose…my nose is only slightly stuffy, i can still breath, but the rest of my head is stuffed, and going to explode and really hurts. blaaaaaaaah. i dont like taking cold meds either cuz they make me go bonkers. i dunno how i’m gonna work with this headache though.

i really need to do laundry and i have no money so i have to take it to the parents house…and thus waste a whole lot of time by not being able to do anything while i’m there. i better go shower and get started.

 

i must not spend all my money on civil defense things on ebay…BUT…i really want
1. a docimeter…well actually, i just want the docimeter charger. my dad might still have his docimeter…
2. a geiger counter
3. tons of civil defense posters…they just don’t make propaganda like they used to

if anyone needs to get me an xmas present still….*looks up*

….and i need to take more civil defense stuff from our urbex sites. like the survival biscuits and stuff. and a fallout shelter sign.

and about my explosimeter…

Use: Explosimeters are used to verify flammable gas concentration in the atmosphere. Instruments can be used in the immediate environment or can draw samples from remote areas through the use of sampling lines or probes.

Description:

The instrument operates by the catalytic action of a heated filament in contact with combustible gases. The filament is heated to operating temperature by passage of an electrical current. When the gas sample contacts the heated filament, combustion on the surface raises the temperature in proportion to the quantity of combustibles in the sample. A sensor measures the change in electrical resistance due to the temperature increases. A signal is processed and displayed as the percentage of the combustible gas present to the total required to reach the lower explosive limit (LEL) and/or the percent combustible gas by volume.

ug work was rough tonight. aside from being in shitty pit 1 for the 2nd night in a row…i was on the bus and the bus was stopping at the casino when i realized i didn’t have my vest or my badge. super. i’m fucked. got a temp badge and ran up to scheduling to see what to do about my lack of a vest. they were gonna let me go home and get my shit and i’d end up being late. but i managed to catch a dual rate (who are supposed to have a dealer uniform and suit with them every shift incase they have to change) who let me borrow her vest. the only vest that was a small (though too big on me cuz it’s not fitted like mine). so i didn’t have to be late, so that was good. still. running around at the begining of the shift, all the hassle. not good. and fucking let it ride to boot. honestly it wasn’t that bad tonight. i made friends with my supervisor who just switched to our shift. he’s 24, cute, etc. so that made it a bit more tolerable.

the baccarat audition was fine i guess. mine went a hell of alot better than most of the rest of the class. i did make one HUGE absolutely HUGE glaring mistake, just cuz i wasn’t paying attention. but…BUT…the teacher didn’t see, and i managed to fake it out hahah. it’s not something i’d EVER ever do on a game, and I have no clue what made me do it, but whatever. we didn’t get scores or told if we passed or not cuz not everyone had theirs done today. we all have to go back tomorrow still.

we took an hour of the class to go to the employee meeting. we are indeed getting a christmas bonus, this friday. score. they talked about the future more, what’s going on down on the reservation etc. so that was good.

tomorrow leighanne comes. tony is picking her up at the airport cuz he lives right near by, and is coming out here to go to the casino with us anyway. i just hope they don’t end up missing eachother or something. tho i think tony will be able to get her attention. so far so good as far as the bowie show actually happening. every report says toronto is on. besides he had a week to recover from the flu, he should be fine now.

on a related note, i’m getting sick. felt a tickle in my throat last night, woke up with a cough. not happy. i can see it turning into bronchitis again. i can’t do my ab workout cuz it makes my abs hurt so much, that it hurts like hell to cough. oh well.

 

bowie show postponed

 

change of plans. even tho bowie is a wuss and postponed the show, leighanne is coming anyway. and we’re going terminal-ing tomorrow. we get the keys yay. hopefully tony understands my two messages i left on his cell, and he does indeed go get her at the airport LOL.

bacarrat auditions are wed and thursday. if we are considered weak in any area we have to go back next week. weak is defined differently depending on who is there for our auditions. i have no doubt i’d pass an audition from my teacher, but the VP and casino manager…that’s a different story. they made the first class go 8 weeks cuz they weren’t polished enough. we are definitely. not. polished.

david bowie is sick. cancelled 3 previous shows. no idea on the status of the toronto show as of now. grrr. there’s a super great shirt for sale that i’m gonna have to shell out the enormous amount of cash for because it’s just so rad. my only hope is that it’ll be the same price in canadian, and thus cheaper after exchange. that is, if the show goes on.

 

big news regarding michael jackson’s latest troubles. Allegations “unfounded”. i like how the smoking gun blur out the photo of the kid on the page, as if you can’t go watch the documentary and see the boy lol. but good news for mj definitely.

i got the coolest stamps for my xmas cards. andy warhol!!!!! yay.

so i had mentioned to kevin that i would consider going to work in lake tahoe, cuz i heard it’s super beautiful and cool and everything. he kept bugging me to talk to one of our shift managers cuz he came from tahoe. i had mentioned this to anthony, who talked to the shift manager in class yesterday. he said tahoe isn’t a good destination because dealers aren’t making much more than we are, and the cost of living is way higher. but he said california is a good place to go. so anthony and i were considering going out west in the spring to do some auditions and stuff. the shift mgr said they have no craps or roulette out there, so i wouldn’t have to feel pressured to learn craps before i leave the falls. they look highly upon pai gow, which is good. i wish there was somewhere here where i could learn pai gow tiles. apparently the game is harder than craps to learn, but once you know it, you can go anywhere and get a job. the shift is going to give us some people to talk to out there when we decide to head west.

i think if/when vegas happens i’m going to see if i can do some auditions just for shits and giggles, since i know there’s no way i’d get hired on the strip with less than a year experience. see if i can make some contacts, and get some tips on what i need to improve etc. make it a learning experience haha.