oh hai livejournal.. how have you been? i never update this thing anymore.

so let me tell you all about this little first date i had the other night.

i met this guy online and we'd messaged back and forth a couple times. so he asked me if i wanted to meet up about a week and a half ago. i said yes and he said he'd call me to hammer out the details the day before.

well the day before i was at the david cook concert and didnt get his message till 1130pm-ish and didnt want to be rude and possibly wake him up, so i texted him the next day. he said when he didnt hear back from me he made plans with other friends. sad story, i know. a few days later he asked if i was free and i was, so we made plans to go out to dinner.

he showed up at 8pm to pick me up. when we got to his car he totally opened the car door for me and closed it once i was in. for real? it was a really sweet moment that i dont think happens enough with guys anymore.

we went to dinner at my big fat greek restaurant and he refused to let me pay any/all of the bill.. insisting that he "had asked me out." we ended up talking so much we were there after the place had closed and they kept walking around us waiting for us to leave haha.

as we were going back to the car he asked if i was ready to go home or if i wanted to go out for some drinks. of course, i said drinks would be great! he took me to an irish pub closer to where we live (he lives pretty close to where i do) and we had some beers and talked some more. finally, around 12:30 we decided to call a night, and i snuck my credit card to the server to make sure he didnt pay for BOTH places.

then he drove me home, walked me to the door and we totally had a quick little goodnight kiss.

since i live with two girls, when i told them this story they got all mushy and ooohed and aahed over a couple parts.

someone asked me to put this on lj, so here it is. hahaha. it was great. and we have a second date tomorrow.. im taking him to the cardinals/seahawks game. whoohoo!

• 15:21 @thedavidcook can't wait for tonight's concert!! if david cook by any chance reads this, feel free to let me come backstage!! #

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• 06:27 Still not a big tweeter. testing something out @jodielynn #
• 06:27 Can't wait to see @thedavidcook in november. it's going to be off the hook!! now to find out how to get backstage passes #
• 08:38 working the baggage office today.. for some reason i feel like my white shirt is tinted yellow..? weird? #

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The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' next to those you have read. Tag other book nerds...

[] 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
[] 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
[] 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
[X] 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
[X] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
[X] 6 The Bible
[] 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
[] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
[] 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
[] 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
[] 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
[] 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
[] 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
[] 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
[] 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
[] 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
[] 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
[] 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
[] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
[] 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
[] 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
[] 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
[] 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
[] 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
[] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
[] 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[] 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
[] 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
[] 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
[] 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
[] 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
[] 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
[] 34 Emma-Jane Austen
[] 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
[] 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
[] 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
[] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
[] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
[] 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
[] 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
[X] 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
[] 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[] 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
[] 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
[] 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
[] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
[] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
[] 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
[] 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
[] 51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
[] 52 Dune – Frank Herbert
[] 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
[] 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
[] 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
[] 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[] 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
[X] 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
[] 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
[] 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[X] 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
[] 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov-
[] 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
[] 64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
[] 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
[] 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
[] 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
[X] 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
[] 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
[] 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
[] 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
[] 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
[] 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
[] 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
[] 75 Ulysses – James Joyce
[] 76 The Inferno – Dante
[] 77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
[] 78 Germinal – Emile Zola
[] 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
[] 80 Possession – AS Byatt
[] 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
[] 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
[] 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
[] 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
[] 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
[] 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
[] 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
[] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
[] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-
[] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
[] 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
[] 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[] 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
[] 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
[] 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
[] 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
[] 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
[] 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
[] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
[] 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo



I got 7 out of 100.. a little better than the BBC expects!

i am in the process of losing weight. i have been at this for 1 month now. i am down 17 pounds.

i feel good about this. my two roommates are also dieting/exercising/losing weight too.. we motivate each other to keep going.

i am currently drenched in sweat from working out for only 30 minutes (i am very out of shape, yes) and must get ready for work.

oh, and my new shift at work, starting august 22nd, is 4:15am-11:15am Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 8am-noon wednesday, and off Friday/Saturday/sunday

I have never had weekends off at this job.

• 05:14 At the gate in nashville.. About to head home to phoenix. I've never seen this airport so insanely busy! #
• 05:26 Its 20 minutes before departure andthey haven't even started boarding. I bet they still leave on time.. How does southwest do it? #

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• 11:17 What up smyrna! #
• 21:34 Last night in nashville. Back in phx in the morning #

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Hello everyone

I've been getting facebook comments/text messages etc since wednesday asking how it went, and figured this would be a much easier way to let everyone know where i'm at with my possible career with the FAA as an air traffic controller.

For those of you that don't know, I applied to be an air traffic controller last august and since then I have taken the entrance exam, been put on referral lists, chosen my geographic preference and been tentatively selected for a position as an enroute ATC in ANC. This past wednesday I was invited to go to Chicago and attend the Pre Employment Processing Center (PEPC).

My appointment time was at 9am, and thanks to leaving three hours early and getting lost on the bus/train/public transport system of Chicago, made it right on time. There were 10 of us there for 9am.. we all had to go through a metal detector and had to be escorted by real FAA employees all day.

At the beginning they gave us all a checklist of things we had to do today. It all started with check-in, where they give everyone a bottle of water and beg you to drink up for your pee test. Then one by one they called us into the interview room where real air traffic managers asked us typical interview questions. My interviewer was from the chicago enroute center and seemed very disinterested in the whole process.. which sucks for me as most people had good people who were excited to have people there.. this guy just kept looking at his cell phone. However, i'm fairly confident that I did well and built a decent rapport with him because everytime I answered him he would smile or laugh or nod.. all good signs, i thought!

Afterwards I was taken to HR where they gave me my tentative offer letter which I signed saying I accept the position in ANC.

Following this I had to go to security, where I had to fill out a computer form of my entire life for the past 7 years (residence, employment, credit issues, with each one having a personal reference or two). This took about an hour and a half. Afterwards I was fingerprinted and then led into a room completely far away from the rest of the PEPC. this room was reserved for people with bad credit reports to be interviewed.. I was told I need to contact the companies on my credit report and set up payment plans and fax in letters from these companies ASAP.

Afterwards (one more bottle of water...) I was taken to the psych test.. 567 true/false questions all on a laptop. All the questions were things like "The voice in my head are trying to get me." or "I love my mother (if your mother is dead, 'i loved my mother')". I flew threw that in about 40 minutes.

After this was the medical testing. First a hearing test.. followed by a vision test.. then an EKG.. then a physical.. and last my urine sample which was for the drug test.

After the medical part I had to wait in a room for the doctors to review my results.. much to my surprise I passed everything with flying colors.... except the vision test. Turns out my vision has deteriorated since I had lasik.. my left eye is 20/30 and my right eye is 20/40. Thanks to this I have to get glasses or contacts when I get home tomorrow. I plan on going to walmart and getting the cheapest glasses possible since I dont really need them just yet.

After all this it was all over..

I have the job tentatively.. and all I have to do is a.) get glasses, b.) work on my credit and c.) wait a lot more. they said that none of us should expect to start training until at least january. I have a feeling with me needing to work on my credit a little but it will be even a little longer than that.

Thanks to all of you for your support during this whole process.. if I didn't have yall I would probably go insane with this crazy waiting time!!

• 12:04 Storms over chicago = flight delayed :( #
• 19:39 Why is nonreving so difficult #

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• 03:22 Just woke up.. Not very nervous.. Good sign?? #
• 04:15 Dressed up and on my way to the interview! #
• 05:43 Taking the trains and buses of chicago has been smooth so far... #
• 06:07 Maybe I shouldn't have spoken so soon.. Lost.. Found a doubletree and called a cab #
• 13:04 All done, have my offer letter, accepted the position.. Only about 8 months of waiting left! #
• 18:58 Whew. Just ate at foodlife.. I love that place #

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• 14:18 Just saw Harry Potter: the Exhibit at the chitown museum of science & industry... Marvelous! #
• 14:19 God I love hotel room air conditioners #
• 16:36 I'm crazy tired.. Good thing. Now I can sleep before the faa interview tomorrow #
• 18:43 Heading to bed.. Big interview in the morning. Wish me luck everyone!! #

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• 02:24 Can't sleep. Do.not.want #
• 02:33 Just setup loudtwitter to ship daily tweets to my livejournal.. Thanks drew! #
• 03:12 Cowgirls don't cry #
• 07:33 Just landed in chicago. T minus 48 hours until FAA interview #
• 09:13 At the movies to watch the proposal waiting for ty to get here #
• 11:24 Damn that movie.. Making me get all misty eyed #
• 16:58 Laying down at the hotel. Exhausted #
• 22:36 Why am I not asleep? DOES NOT COMPUTE #
• 23:15 I'm fairly sure work has turned me into an insomniac #

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This is my 3rd.. 4th.. i dont remember which one, but one of several weeks in a row i work the 4am shift.

i think im dying. as the alarm went off this morning at 3:15 i started chanting "no.. no... no.. no.. no.." with my face buried in my pillow. *sigh*

im off all week next week and will be heading to chicago for the FAA/Air Traffic Control interview/medical screening/all that jazz.

im seriously nervous. and tired... most of all tired i think.

looks like im going to be an air traffic controller in anchorage....

i did this months ago but i decided i wanted to do it again

Your Debut Album

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

so today is the big day.. nightmare move-o-kaust 2009 AZ: welcome to the jungle.

im moving out of this house that ive lived in for a year with my roommate and moving in with two coworkers at an apartment a lot closer to work. more roommates = less rent, less utilities, less $$$, less work.

i hate moving. with a passion. no, probably more than a passion. with a passion that had crazy inbred sex with vengeance and produced a devil spawn pass-geance baby.

i hate it so much i didnt really start till this morning. and all ive done is taken my bed apart into the 1 million pieces that it breaks down to and loaded it up in my car. ive still got to pack up my clothes, throw all the garbage in my room (where does it come from!?) and then my computer, desk, chest of drawers, tv, kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff, dvds, dvd shelves, nightstand and i think the list just might end there. then i have to clean this room ive occupied for so long.. i dont know how, but for some reason there are black marks all over the walls. it looks like ive been rubbing my feet in dirt all day every day and then rubbing them all over the walls. i just dont understand how some of this stuff happens.

im excited about the move. im excited to pay less, be in a new place and be so much closer to work. im also sad. im sad to leave my roommate who ive lived with for a year and a half and to leave the house that ive grown so accustomed to over the past year and a half. c'est la vie, i guess.

i should totally be packing up my clothes right now. but.. eh. i really want to go back to sleep. oh. wait. bed in the car.. i guess i could always use the guest bed.....

so i had to work from 4:15am-12:15am.. came home and took a nap

i woke up around 3pm.. and was still exhausted so i went back to sleep.

during my last nap, towards the end, i had this crazy dream where i was getting married. me and my fiance were at his parents house.. and were really happy. we were laughing, having some sort of pre-wedding party.. a lot of his friends were there. he kept leaning over to me and whispering things like "i love you" and smiling. i remember that in the dream, i felt the absolute happiest ive ever felt in my life.. then we went to bed.. and thats when i woke up.

now that im awake again. . i feel super depressed. maybe it's a dream of things to come.. i cant tell you the amount of times i have deja vu and realized i had dreamed that moment that happened.

anyways, i just hope and pray that i get a chance to feel that happiness i remember from the dream.. it was the best feeling in the world. and if it's enough to make me feel that strongly just from a dream.. i can't imagine how it would feel in real life.

best performance BY A MILE today was Kris Allen. He made the show fantastic tonight. i love american idol a little too much.

i bought myself an old fashioned CD!



i have to support my girl kelly. so here's the deal.. im really nervous i wont like it better than her last one. each time she releases an album it becomes my favorite one.. Thankful, then Breakaway. then My December and I just dont know if she would be able to top My December.. it's absolutely one of my favorite CDs of ALL TIME.

So here's hoping she can do it again.. she's done it twice so far!

Have any of you heard the whole CD yet? is it spectacular?