Not to be girly, but one of my favorite things is when I have the time to paint my toenails and do my nails. Now I have red toenails (yay! red!) and french-tipped finger nails. :-)

So I stayed up until 5:30 last night to watch the ending of the National Spelling Bee. Man I felt monstrously dumb watching a friggin' 3rd grader make it to the last 4! THAT IS INSANE! And I almost cried when he lost because the first thing he did was run to his mom and cry in her arms. Watching him cry like that reminded me that this genius was still 9 years old and still finding much comfort in his mother's arms. It was kinda beautiful. Anyways, I was rooting for the other Indian kid who had been there 4 times or something. He won on the word "pococurante" and I think when he heard the word, he knew it already. It was sweet. It's unbelievable how nervous you are for these kids as they battle it out and think and ask and spell mentally. It was worth it to be up that late to watch it!

Work was sooooo crazy on Saturday. We broke our attendance record for the first time since we first opened YEARS ago. We had around 9300 people come in on Saturday. It was raining and we got slammed. My favorite part was that all the shows kept selling out, even the less popular ones. Around what would have been the 7 o'clock rush, every show playing at that time in any possible theatre was sold out and people would come up and I got to say "We are sold out of everything right now. The next available shows are around 9:30." It was sweet! Oh and traffic was a bitch! It took me 25 minutes to traverse about 6 blocks... granted these 6 blocks were by the Upper Peach... but still... 25 minutes! I will have to take the high way next time I work a Friday or Saturday evening shift. I guess the people of Erie don't know what else to do except see movies when it rains.

There was an almost riot a work too. All these people had been waiting in line for seating for Finding Nemo. And Ryan accidentally let this family go into the theatre early because he wasn't paying attention. Well the people in line noticed and started getting SUPER PISSED and demanded that those people get out of the theatre and get in line. The people in line said they refused to go into the movies until those people were gone. But then the people in the theatre refused to leave also. It was such an ordeal and about three seconds from a crazy riot. Yeah scary!

Funny story of the night: Some stupid teenager boy sticks his hand through the box office hole and says "High five?" and so I high five him and give him a weird look and then after the high five, he keeps his hand in there and goes "Can I touch you?" and that's when I draw the line and say "No." and he leaves. Execpt I think about it and I think "Didn't I just touch you when I high fived you?!" Hahahahaha. Such weirdoes that come to see movies. I think later on he got kicked out of the matrix because he was being too loud and rowdy and on top of that he didn't have a ticket to The Matrix since he wasn't 17. Too bad for him... NOT. I hate teenyboppers with a passion! :-P

My mom comes home later tonight and I am so relieved! :-) Patton and I aren't really talking talking still and I don't think he realizes that I'm not really speaking to him. I think it's because I'm so busy and he chalks it up to that. But really, I don't feel like being around him ever since our really bad fight. That fight spooked me and I'm just tired of those fights. That night made me almost want to leave my house and drive over to Becky's or maybe even call the police for a split second. It was scary. Bleh, I'm not going to think about it anymore. All I want to think about is my mom coming home! I need to clean a lot today so she doesn't think we were living in a pig sty for the last 2 weeks when we really were. I worked so much and Patton is the laziest person ever and all he does is go out and have fun and dirty the house. Then I'll come home and do all the dishes and laundry and clean the bathroom and the entire house and take the garbage out after I've had a horribly busy shift at the movies. Yeah it sucks to live with the bastard. Remind me never to let him live with me when he's in a supposed "tight spot." I will so send him to mom in New Orleans someday. No way will I put up with that. Brother or not, I don't deserve that.

Me, Ace, and Becky went to Eat'n Park last night after me and Ashley got off work. I think it will be a weekly thing where we go to Eat'n Park to "de-tinseltown" ourselves. Last night was soooo funny just because it was such a bad and busy day. We were all laughing so hard that we were crying at some point haha. We all had tears in our eyes haha. It was great. I really needed that after last night. She started telling us how Andy Pasi, the kid with slight Tourette's syndrome and is mentally slow, tried to hit on her. He comes up to her and says in a weird taunting face, "I have something you don't have!" And he pauses and Ashley is really disturbed because she thinks he is talking about his penis. And at this point in the story telling, me and Becky are dying already because who tries to pick up a girl with that line! HAHAHAHA. Gawd our stomachs hurt so bad. And then she finished the story by telling us he said "I've got a mental disorder!" and that's when the tears began. I bet all the people eating last night thought we were so drunk or something because we were sooo crazy and laughing haha. It was a super good night. I'm glad me and Ace are good friends again because I definitely remember a time in high school where we weren't speaking to each other really. I can't remember why but she was super upset at me. I think it was because we weren't talking much anymore and not hanging out and she thought I hated her and was ignoring her on purpose and yeah she got pissed. Luckily we patched things up and she is the one who enlightened me to my love for tennis and got me to join varsity tennis. Haha that's how she got her nickname, Ace. Our bastard of a coach called her that and I found it so funny I told her that Ace would be forever stuck with her. Haha I'm the only one who calls her that but people catch on that I'm talking about Ashley whenever I say Ace. Maybe it will grow!

Also the other night at the movies, a jeep from the parking lot up the hill (a hill that is as large as our very own WPI hill) rolled over the curb and down the huge ass hill into our parking lot and hit a van pretty damn hard. Momentum, you can't stop it! Haha. It was just friggin weird... whoever saw that coming? It was funny though because when it happened, the entire usher department stopped cleaning and went outside to the front. It looked like they were going to strike or something haha. Wow I talk about work so much! I can't help it, since it's all I do right now. :-)

Oh I get to hang out with Brian Huster today! Yay! I am sad though because he isn't staying in Erie for the summer. :-( I just assumed he would be back but alas he is staying in Ohio. (Yes, I know people, why Ohio?) Anyways, I think it sucks that he isn't staying since he has become a favorite Erie-ite of mine over the last two summers. Also he was a regular at lazer tag. Oh well. But the lazer tag tradition will not die! We plan on keeping it up for a third summer in a row. This time it's on Wednesdays at 7. :-) I love it. It's one of the few consistent things we still do and I refuse to let it die.

I'm listening to Lionel Ritchie and it's making me laugh. Right now, "Hello" is playing and it's such a funny song. The video is even better. I downloaded it because I remembered it from that addictive series "I Love the 80s" on VH1. I always watch it no matter what year and no matter that I've seen it all probably twice over now. But still... it's so funny and great and I love watching and hearing 80s stuff. :-) Jon Abad will know what I'm talking about. :-P

OK, time to clean. T-minus 9 hours til my Mom comes home. This place needs to look clean. Or at least liveble. Right now, it's neither of those things. :-)