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My phone arrived in the mail today, much to my happiness. It's been weird not having it, but it appears that I don't really need it since I only received two texts and one missed call in the four days it was gone.

I'm going back to Baltimore the evening of Wednesday Aug. 2nd and returning Sunday Aug. 6th. Yey! I'll buy my ticket in a few days and put in the time off request today.

I realized today that Target and Trader Joe's are two places I really need to avoid. I dropped $35 today between cat food, cat litter, blueberries, melon, olive oil, grapefruit juice, yogurt, kashi, tonic water, and dog toys (buy two for $1!! Ziggy loves his new squeaker!). Arrrrggghhhhh...well at least I made $25 of that last night on take out. I can't wait to go to work today and clean the whole front room. It'll probably be dead tonight, but at least I'm getting more hours. We're facing a severe overstaffing problem and I'm just glad that I'm not suffering too much. I feel bad that some of the newer hosts keep getting called off but damn it I was there first, they haven't quite mastered the floor and the computers yet, and I really need money.

Mattison got me interested in the Tour...it's pretty cool. I've been keeping it on whilst I continue my painting from earlier this summer. It looks pretty good so far and I'm on the oil self portrait stage (finally). Oils are hard but I'm learning. I think I'm going to do an oil seminar at CCS in the fall, or so I hope.

Hmm just enough time to do some cleaning up and take a nap before work.