The next two weeks of school are going to brutal, so I won't be writing on here for a little while.

I'll update everything immediately after!

Today, we began our Christmas decorating!

First thing in the morning, we went to Marsh to pick up a tree, and it was only $26! Last year we went to a farm and the tree cost us over $100! It's a Donner Fir, I believe, and it smells so good.

Anyways, here are some before and after shots.

Yesterday I made a pretty big decision. I quit my job. If you know me well enough, you know where I worked, so to avoid name dropping let's just call this place I worked "The Superstore."

I walked in yesterday, gave management my letter of resignation, and never looked back. I was going to give them 2 weeks notice, but I have so many project due dates coming up with school, and I couldn't afford to lose the time I would have to work on them.

Reasons I quit:

School

It's getting more intense as the years go on, and I can see my grades being hindered by my job. School is more important than working when I can live without the money.

Stress

Working at "The Superstore" is so stressful as a Seasonal/Lawn and Garden Associate. Nothing is ever the same, and you're expected to do everything; even things that aren't in your job description. For example: unload thousands of boxes worth of semi trucks, push carts (in 6 inches of snow, that was fun...), stock milk in the dairy cooler (in shorts and a t-shirt), and clean the bathrooms and wipe puke up off the floor when no one can find the janitor.

Pay

I didn't get paid enough for all the work I did. Plain and simple.

Management

Their management is so unorganized. One moment one manager would ask me to do something, and the next moment another manager would ask me to do something else without knowing I already had a project I was working on. "The Superstore" moves their managers around to different departments every so often. They did it right before I received my 1- and 2-year reviews, so the manager I had been working with for the past 6 months didn't even give me my review. The new guy who I only knew for about 2 weeks gave me less of a raise than I deserved (twice).

Unhappiness

I haven't been happy with my job for probably 6 months or so. I kept telling myself that it would get better, but it didn't. I'm not much of a quitter, but I know when to walk away, and the time came.

I started work there Valentines Day of 2009, so it still hasn't hit me that I'm not actually going to have to go into work this weekend. I will miss  the people I worked with, but I'm glad to be done working at "The Superstore."

Ok, I'm done venting.

Last night was the awards ceremony for the National Kitchen and Bath Association Student Design Competition, and I won second place for my school!

My professor decided to use the competition as an assignment for class, and we could enter the competition if we wanted to after finishing the project. I almost didn't enter because I didn't have enough time to redraw all my designs by hand, but when I found out we could enter AutoCAD drawings, I did!

Oh! And one of my best friends, Tori, won first place for IUPUI, and there is no one I'd be happier to lose to.

So exciting!

I go through phases when I listen to songs over and over again until I get sick of them. Here are my top 7 songs of the moment that I can't get enough of.

Today, Lindsay admitted to violating her probation, and the judge sentenced her to jail! She must surrender by November 9th and begin serving 30 days without eligibility for house arrest or early release!