The apparition of these faces in the crowd

I'm... slowly working through comments. I honestly and truly love you guys beyond words. I am doing loads better than I was about a week ago. Am I still disappointed in my score? Yeah, I am. But I also know it's not the end of the world. I am going to retake them in October and have already talked to Kaplan and got a new set of materials to start working. So, starting on monday -- I'm going to work my ass off even harder.

I know I can do this. And I know a lot of this is mental. I know I'm smart -- but I also know I've felt as if I've been going uphill for a couple of years after the car accident. And I know I haven't been the same since. But my mindset just feels different this time around. So... we'll see how that goes, eh?

Just simply -- ♥ thank you. I don't know what I'd do without so many truly amazing people in my life.

My birthday is tomorrow -- and I'm going to be 24. Holy shit, where has this time gone? Though -- an appropriate birthday present to myself is the fact that I've lost about 16 pounds since May. Could have been more, but there were a couple of things stressing me out during June. No idea what they could have been. None whatsoever. ;o) *cheers Weight Watchers* I've even gotten back into my Gap jeans! *squee*

Also! To Cleveland this weekend to celebrate my (and Jonno's) birthday. w00t! On Friday when I got my score, sbnrko35 basically ordered me to Cleveland this saturday and said I was sleeping on his floor. So, no offense avengangle! I'll crash with you guys in a couple of weeks. And have to figure out when xpolmex and I can get our butts over to Cedar Point. So much to do, and the summer's nearly half over! Gyah!

So the main point of this post...

Comment here and I'll give you a pick-me up. A nice word, piece of music (and yes, it'll be b'way oriented. shush), or just something to brighten your day. Because you guys brighten mine.

Also known as... oh, god, I think I'm upright!

It's been... one helluva week.

Monday- I got to close at Lynch. Now, this wouldn't be a bad thing except for the fact that Jim left me BY MYSELF. I've closed MAYBE two other times and that was with Tim doing everything and just showing me what to do. He leaves and all hell broke loose. The phone was ringing off the hook, people kept coming into the store and I was nearly in tears by the end of the night. Let's just say... a busy day at Lynch is about four people coming in. I probably had about 14 customers in the course of 3 hours. And most of them were in the store in batches of three or four at a time PLUS the phone ringing. Not a happy Lia was I.

Tuesday- Basically had a complete and total breakdown where teh boy is concerned. However, this was later chalked up to the fact that I had about fifteen hours worth of sleep over a period of about four days so I wasn't exactly mentally balanced as it was. He basically just talked to me at the theatre, I left and burst into tears for no apparent reason. Had Avenue Q on in the car with "It's a Fine, Fine Line" repeating which didn't help matters.

Wednesday- Wake up to my father waking me saying the power is out. Joy. Turns out it went out around 3am. Go to Lynch for a nice quiet day (thankfully!) return and the power was still off. So I texted jateshi and wook77 about it... and as an afterthought, I also texted the boy. Boy replies in about two minutes and invited me over to watch 24. So I went, inspite of my breakdown yesterday and just enjoyed my time with him. Had uberly good meeting with therapist after that and by the time I got home, power was back on. However, wednesday was the beginning of the cough.

Thursday- Couldn't. Fucking. Move. Skipped work and ended up sleeping for about 16 hours. Only time out of bed was basically to do hogwarts_today then went back to bed.

Friday- Lather, rinse, repeat. Though not with the sixteen hours of sleep thing.

At least today I'm finally feeling better. On Thursday I had a fever of about 102*... and I'm a person who has a normal body temp of about 97.4*. So fever that high really was NOT GOOD.

So, my darling flist, I hope your week was a helluva lot better than mine. And also -- massive, massive love to everyone who left me a note on tarie's snap-cups meme. It was the high point for me this week. Seriously. ♥ I love you guys.