Having the time of your life

Hmm... yeah, Saturday was fun.

The crew meeting was fun, the bowling party was a blast. Oh, and V for Vendetta is FUCKING AWESOME. I say that even though I fell asleep during parts of it - not continuous sleep, just dozing off here and there, my head lolling back... kind of embarrasing, since I was on a first date and everything. She didn't say anything about it, I don't know if she noticed. I hope not. But yeah, the movie was still awesome, and it sounds like I'm going to see it (at least) two more times - Rose on Friday, and Ambra on Monday.

So, the date... it went well, I think. Well, as well as could have been expected. She admitted that it was kind of awkward, her being friends with Janelle and everything, which is understandable. I told her it was cool if she wanted to call the whole thing off, but she didn't. I got my truck vacuumed and everything, I think it looks pretty nice. Of course, it was a moot point - I got hung up at Mom's house as her and Mike were asking about Ashley, and since Janelle happened to be there, she pulled up her facebook, which was FUN. So yeah, by the time I got back here and showered, then left to pick her up... she called me as I got about a block away, asked me if I wanted her to just meet me here, so I didn't miss the beginning, which is what we eventually did. I ended up standing outside the theather for a bit, waiting on her, which I really, really hate doing - I mean, I'm not complaining since it was definitely my fault and everthing, I'm just saying, I feel like such a doof when I have to do that. But she showed up before too long, and we went and got our seats. Ended up sitting down *just* as the previews were ending, which is good and bad, but still good timing.

Then, the movie.

Afterwards, we ended up standing outside by her car for like an hour and a half, just talking about myriad varied topics. Fairly enjoyable, no long awkward pauses or anything. I would later learn that Gina drove by at one point, as her little cabal was going to a late show, but they didn't say anything, figuring that the last thing you need when you're out on a first date is for your manager to show up and be like, "Hey! What's up?" - which isn't really true. I mean, yeah, if Dave did that, I wouldn't be happy, but Gina's cool. So yeah, we stood around and talked, and she finally had to leave, competition in the morning and everything. I walked across the parking lot to my truck, very nearly broke out in tears. I really, really don't know why - I certainly wasn't disappointed with how the date went or anything; hell, at that point, I was still surprised it had happened at all. I mean, even now, I still don't know what set me off. But yeah... I had been thinking about going up to Austin to play DDR, but I ended up just falling right asleep, since I had been up for quite a while at that point, and running around crazy for a good portion of it.

Woke up, went in to work Sunday 5 - C. Gina told me she saw me on my date, asked about Ambra and me, apparently like half the upper management things we're dating. I mean, it's an easy mistake to make, given how much time we spend together and what-not. I did Sunday night paperwork as usual, Ambra brought some XL dough on her way in... and I managed to lock myself out of the store while I was looking at the dough. Good stuff. I got Joe's roommate to bring me up the store key - Joe was kind of drunk - and finished up everything. Ambra and I talked a little about the misconceptions going on about us. She said something to the effect of "I've been thinking about [us dating], but didn't want to say anything about it, 'cause I didn't want to be a tease." which can be read one of two ways, but more on that later. Took the paperwork, came back here and crashed. We were thinking about going to see V for Vendetta at 3, but when my alarm went off at 1, she was in no mood to get up, so I got up and doinked around for a few hours while she slept. Didn't do much with my day off Monday, worked Tuesday 5 - C. Really, really slow for a Tuesday night - I think our highest pie hour was like a 48, which is *really* slow for Tuesday night. Found out Jimmy's not going to be a manager, "just" an insider (well, a San Marcos insider, at least), which makes me happy, 'cause I don't like him.

I mean, just as a person. I'm sure he's a fine worker, there hasn't been anything to make me dislike him, that's just my snap judgments kicking in. I'm not engraving that in stone, he still has an oppurtunity to show me I shouldn't dislike him, but 'til then...

Today (Wednesday)'s been okay. Had to go to training class with Joe 7 - 10. I really hate being in a San Antonio-based franchise, when we have to drive like 30-45 minutes to get to these things, very annoying. The class itself was pretty bad - the title was "Fundamentals." The only thing I learned was that someone has trademarked the phrase "Emotional Bank Account", which I still can't really wrap my head around. There were comment sheets to fill out, and that's really all I talked about. The rest of the stuff was stuff they had already shoved down my throat by the end of the first week, so yeah, pretty boring. I crashed on the way back, which is why I'm still up, and probably won't go to sleep. I just finished filing my taxes, netted a fairly sweet 1600+ return. Unfortunately, most of that - about 1300 - will go to finishing paying of my transmission loan, but that's still about 350 or so to play around with. Probably just go into my account, nothing really excited looming or anything. Well, except for moving in with Ambra in a little over a month.

So, what else is new? Let's see...

Rose and Lilie are moving to Austin, sounds like they're going to be moving into the Hills of Chevy Chase, which is an awesome name for an apartment complex. They'll be up on Wickersham-ish, so I can definitely stop by to say hi when I'm up there to play DDR or whatever. I'm taking Rose to go see V for Vendetta on Friday, which will be fun - again, it's a fantastic movie. She's still with Richard, which is great, but I don't know what's going to happen when they move to Austin, except I think she's buying his old car. Or something. Lilie kind of half-way admitted she had kind of led me on, which is nice, I s'pose, 'cept I don't really care. I mean, I'll always be in love with her, I just don't love her. I still get a little melancholy about her every once in a while, but that's very few and far between, so that's nice. I doubt I'll ever get over her fully - why should she be the first? - but it's progress. Hell, one day, I might even be able to talk to her again.

But anyway.

Played DDR on campus today, which was fun. I've fallen far - I couldn't even pass Healing Vision (Angelic Mix) on Heavy, but I know I can get back up there. Cullen and I are (pgoing up to Austin on Friday to play, which will be fun. We haven't really hung out in like nine months or so, so that'll be cool.

Ambra's being weird, as usual. She's just hard to read, I guess. Hell, most girls are, I'm just dealing with this one up close and personal, so the difficulties are magnified. But that's another story for another time.

Shana Vanguarde -- Dancing Queen