So this was my day.

I was incredibly tired but for whatever reason I just could not fall asleep until 7:30 A.M. and I woke up a little before 2 P.M. and realized I was sleeping but I went back to bed cuz I was still tired. I finally got up around 2:30 P.M. though so I wouldn't have to rush getting ready for work and plus I had to feed my dogs and I wanted to leave a little early to get some lunch on my way into work. I got to work and it was crazy busy, but I am just completely done with helping them out..they have treated me like crap for too long and I'm tired of it so I took my time putting my stuff in my locker and getting my work shirt, apron, and hat on. After a few minutes though I went to work cuz I couldn't stall for too long without having to deal with a bunch of people throwing tantrums cuz I still hadn't clocked in. Anyways, I went to work and all was ok atleast for a little bit but then the assistant manager decided she would throw quite a few tantrums. Ugh I don't know what her problem is but she needs to just get over herself...the whole store is turning against her and I don't even think she realizes it or if she does, she doesn't care. Long story short, it took all my self control to prevent myself from walking out the door and quitting. On the plus side though, my sister was talking to my mom today about me going to live with her and getting a job at the company her and my brother work at. She told my mom she thinks I'd do good working at the company and she really wants me to live with her so I am super excited. I just have to get my mom to help me do a resume and then I have to send my brother my resume and he will get it to who it needs to go to and then hopefully I will get an interview and they will let me take the class required for the job and I pass the test at the end of the class and then I get to go to work there! I am hoping I can start before the new year but I don't know. It just depends on when the company is doing the class. But anyways, I am going to put an end to this post. I hope everyone else had a Happy Halloween!

My rant of the day..

Ugh okay so I had to go back to work today after being off for three days in a row. I really wasn't looking forward to it but I went in anyways and was just going to try to make the best of it. Well I get there and clock in and everything and everyone seems to be in a decent mood. At about 4:30 this one guy I worked with asked me to cook cheesy bread cuz he wanted some and he knows I like it to. Well, we aren't supposed to cook between 5-7, but I figured it would be ok since it was 4:30. Both the managers got mad about it, but the main manager didnt really seem too mad. The assistant manager however decided today would be her day to throw a fit about every little thing. She went on and on and on about why did I cook it cuz we aren't supposed to cook between 5-7 and I know better than that and it's the main manager's rule not hers. I told her the guy at work had asked me to make it and since it was 4:30 I figured it was okay. And she was like "well look at what time it is now, and no one asked!" and I go "I don't know what time it is now" and she was like "it's 5:00" (it wasn't really, it was like 10 mins til 5 but whatever). I just ignored her and ate it along with everyone else that was eating. What's funny is I asked the others if they wanted some but they all said no but then after I cooked it and took it out of the oven they saw how good it looks (everyone loves the way I cook the cheesy bread cuz I put extra cheese on it and I cook it long enough so that it's done, but it's soft) and they said it smelled good so they all ate on it too. Well anyways, I kept trying to be friendly towards the assistant manager all through the work day but she just wouldnt even really talk and I asked her why and she goes "I don't have anything nice to say" so I just walked off and ignored it..well a little later she comes up I'm saucing a pizza and she goes "your saucing technique is shitty" and I didnt hear her at first so I was like "what?" and she repeated it. Again, I just ignored her, but I was thinking "no one has ever complained about it before and what does it matter how I do it as long as I get it done, it's done right, and in a timely manner?" whatever. I am over the job. I want out of there sooooo bad. She used to be the cool manager that everyone liked but now she has just become the manager that is always in a bad mood and always has something to complain about. She just acted like a jerk all night and I just wish she would quit or something. Oh well. I am trying to get a job at the company my sister and brother work for, and if I get the job, it will be awesome cuz I will make about double what I'm making now, I'll get insurance, I'll have paid vacations, holiday pay, sick pay, and I won't be in the retail or food business! I am going to have to get a whole new wardrobe for work though, but I don't mind. But to get the job I just have to give my brother my resume and he will give it to someone who will look over it and decide if I should have an interview or not and then if the person thinks I should have an interview that person will tell someone to give me one and I'll go in for an interview and I'll have to take some sort of simple test and if I do well during the interview and on the simple test, they will pay me to take this class that lasts for like two months that will teach me how to do my job and things like that, and after the class is over I have to take a test. If I pass the final test, I will be given a job there. My plan is to live with my sister or grandmother temporarily until I have enough money to get an apartment, and once I have enough money to get a small apartment, I'll get one. I figure that worse comes to worse and I don't pass the final test, I am just going to look for a different job near where my sister lives and save up money until I can get an apartment and then move into an apartment because eventually my mom plans on moving to someplace near where my sister lives and I don't want to come back to where I live at this moment only to later move back near my sister. I would rather just go ahead and stay with my sister for a bit until I can get enough money to get a small apartment. The only thing is I don't know about school and I'm really not worried about school. I figure I can just take online classes only and just get a general associates for now and then later on get a bachelor's degree in social work to have as a back up. If I get hired on at the company my sister and brother work at and I like the job then I am probably not going to pursue a career in social work at that moment in time because the company I would work at pays pretty well and there's a lot of room to grow in the company, and the longer I am there and the higher up the ladder (I suppose you could say) I get, the better my wages. Either way, I intend to move hopefully within the next six months. I just have to see how things go. For now, I am staying at my current job and hating every minute of it, but I am dealing with it because I don't want to quit until I have another job and I am going to see if I am able to get in at the company my brother and sister work for before I do anything else concerning a new job.

Knoxville Review

On October 1, 2008 Hanson performed at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee. This was my first concert for The Walk Around The World Tour. I had also won a meet and greet for this show and I was super excited about getting the meet and greet even though I didn’t really show it. I honestly had no plans of what to say other than I knew I wanted to ask Zac how he felt about llams because that’s an inside joke between my friends and I and we had been trying to find out how he felt about them for a long time. Anyways, I’m getting off track here. Although the Bijou Theatre is only about ten minutes from my house, I really didn’t want to drive there because I hate driving down town alone as my sense of direction is not the greatest and one way streets do not help me any. Well, my mom wasn’t home so I decided to just drive myself, until I went downstairs and saw my step dad was getting ready to go to the post office. Since he was getting out anyways, I asked if he would take me to the venue and he said he would. Long story short, we drove around looking for the venue for about ten minutes before we finally found it (I am not sure why we had so much trouble finding it, but we did). I finally saw a sign that announced Hanson performing at the venue so I told my step dad to let me out of the car and I could find my way from there, so he pulled over to the side of the street and let me out. I went and got in line with everyone else waiting for the walk to start (by the time I got to the venue it was about ten minutes before the walk was scheduled to start). The first thing I noticed was Morgen’s long blonde hair. I remember thinking to myself “I wonder if that’s Morgen.” Then, I noticed Trish’s sign, and I was like “hey I remember that sign from Asheville!” and after a few minutes it finally clicked in my head that Trish was the one that had the sign in Asheville so I yelled “Trish!” and she turned around and then we hugged and talked for a bit and she introduced me to Cassie, Morgen, and Cassie’s mom. A few minutes later, Valerie showed up with Beth, Rachel (CA), and Erin. Trish and I waved them over to us and they ran for us because it was almost time for the walk and they didn’t want to miss it. The walk started out at a nice and relaxed pace. For whatever reason, Hanson took a different route this year than they did last year. Well, at some point during the walk the pace picked up quickly and it felt like taking the run rather than taking the walk. Haha, I’m kidding, it wasn’t that fast, but it definitely felt as if everyone was trying to keep up with Taylor and not just the people near him lol. Anyways, after the walk ended I mainly stuck close to Trish cuz neither of us can stand the smell of smoke (I'm also allergic, not sure about her though) and someone was smoking towards the back of the crowd where the others were. A little later, Trish and I joined the others and we went back to the hotel Trish, Morgen, Cassie, and Cassie's mom were staying at. Erin decided it would be a good time to mention "taylor's pants" but Valerie told her not to talk about it lol. Well as we were walking, we came to a cross walk that was taking forever so we all just decided to sing "Great Divide" and eventually the thing told us we could cross the street so we crossed the street and continued singing. Eventually we got back to the hotel and just kinda hung out lol. After awhile though we all headed back towards the venue cuz the others wanted to get something to eat before the show and it was getting close to the time I needed to be back at the venue for my meet and greet. The whole time though Rachel (CA) kept trying to get me to talk but I still didnt really talk much other than to Valerie and Trish. I sat at the venue for a bit and just talked to the other girls that had a meet and greet and the cool thing was one of the girls in my meet and greet group was a girl I had been talking to about wanting to plan a walk in knoxville. She told me she is trying to get one organized to take place sometime in January. I told her I don't know for sure if I will be living in Knoxville at that time but she said it would be on a weekend so I told her I would try to make it to the walk. Eventually, it was time for my meet and greet. The tour manager came out and called out our names and each of us walked into the venue as our name was called (there were only four of us including the reporter). The funny thing is, two of the girls wore the same outfit (the grey hanson t-shirt they started selling in '07 and jeans) but they totally didn't plan it or anything. Once we were all inside the tour manager introduced himself and asked who the reporter was and we told him. He then told us he was gonna go get the guys and for us not to go anywhere cuz if we wandered off someone might kick us out of the venue not knowing we were in there for a meet and greet and if we got kicked out there was nothing he could do. So anyways we waited there for a little bit and the two girls that were matching had me take a picture of them real quick before the guys came out and we weren't allowed to have our cameras out any more. A few minutes later, the guys came out and Ike had this big cheesy grin on his face and he saw none of us were holding anything to be signed so he asked if we wanted anything signed and we were all like "oh yea!" and we all got out what we wanted signed and he signed my tour journal and then signed stuff for the other meet and greet girls. Zac and Tay started on the opposite end of me. Zac eventually made his way to me and Tay was kind of hanging out with Ike but then he saw me and came over. While Tay was signing my journal I asked Zac how he felt about llamas and he said they were great for riding and companionship. I wanted to die laughing but I didn't cuz everyone would have thought I was insane and I really wasn't looking to have the guys scared of me, though Zac did kind of find it weird I was asking that, but he never asked why I wanted to know so it was all good. I'm not sure what I would have said if he had asked why. Anyways, after the meet and greet was over it was not too much longer until the show started. I hung out in the venue until Valerie, Erin, Trish, and Morgen came into the venue. Once they got in I went over to them and started talking with them and then we all decided to go get merch before the show started. I bought the hoodie (which runs big..I got a medium and I normally buy larger or XL in my hoodies), tour t-shirt, MONA, and The Walk DVD. The guy that was getting the merch for me couldnt figure out how much money I owed him so I got my cell out of my pocket and calculated it and then told him how much it was and showed him the total on my phone and he said "ok works for me" so I gave him the money and then waited for Valerie to get done buying her stuff and then we went back to our seats. Once the show started I texted Breanna to let her know EBE was on stage (I was texting the set list that night and she was posting it on hnet). Since it was the first time I heard EBE I wasn't really dancing and singing along cuz before the show I hadn't heard any of their songs, but I was standing and clapping. Then came time for The Veronicas..I texted Breanna and told her they were on stage and after a bit I texted Rachel (WI) and told her she was right, I didn't really care for The Veronicas. By this time I had started talking to Rachel (CA) a little more, but once The Veronicas came on stage she mysteriously disappeared (I found out later she went to go hang out at the merch booth) but Beth showed up and started talking to me so I started talking to her. Even though her seat was in the balcony, no one really paid attention lol she stayed at Rachel's seat during The Veronicas and after they went off stage she stayed there and as well since Rachel wasn't there. Anyways...when it was finally time for Hanson to come on stage the two girls sitting by Valerie rushed to the stage and Beth and I took over their seats real quick so we didnt get run over by the crowd trying to rush the stage. Rachel stayed where she was at but moved closer to the center of the stage. The show was awesome and I texted the set list to Breanna and Beth's mom was following the set list and told Beth she wanted to hear the song that was being played at that time (I think it was Soul Shine but I don't remember for sure). After the show, we all went out by the bus to hang out and we got bored so we started singing some Hanson songs, and even had a guy fan join us at one point. Before the guy fan joined us though one of the security gaurds near the bus came up to us and told us we had good harmony, and a little later Carrick from EBE came up to us and started dancing while we were singing lol and then he got a phone call and I guess whoever it was asked what he was doing and he goes "dancing with some fans by the bus" lol. Anyways, Zac and Tay came out and we waited for awhile to see if Ike would come out but he never did so we all piled in Valerie's car and left to go to her house so Beth could get her car. On the way though we stopped at sonic. Once we got to Valerie's house, Beth and Rachel (CA) got in Beth's car and then I told Valerie the back roads to get to my house and Beth and Rachel (CA) followed us. Finally, we got to my house and I told Valerie how to get back to her house without taking back roads and then she left and me, Erin, Beth, and Rachel (CA) all hung out at my house for a bit before going to bed. Overall, I had a lot of fun and I was looking forward to the Nashville concert.