Damn....

There are so many things going on in my life... and yet not. First and foremost. Hurricane Rita. Someone I know is actually going to be directly affected by her. Someone I've known most of my life. And that would be Mrs. Jean Tass. She lives in Houston. She's really worried about it (even though when I talked to her last night she was rather philosophical about it saying, "There's nothing I can change by worrying about it, so I'm going to do whatever it is I have to do when the time comes.") but she's (thankfully) evacuating to Dallas with some school friends. Pete had an already-planned trip to Iowa this weekend so he won't be with her. But she has people she knows to stay with. All of my thoughts and prayers go with everyone affected by this next round of weather. I find it hard to belive that this is happening again, and I can do nothing but hope that this will not be as bad as New Orleans. I find myself rather numb with it all, and with all of its ramifications. Amazing. Shocking. Unfathomable.

Tomorrow I have off at Target; Saturday is my last day there. (4-11) Plan on packing Sunday and taking off Monday morning. Cory and I are going to have lunch when I make my stop in Menomonie, I'm debating between El Patio or Acoustic. It's tough! And I'm thinking about working at Target again (since I know I can get hired and I know what I'm doing...) for a 'in the meantime' type of job if I don't get anything better. But I'd have to move closer to one than 45 mintues! That doesn't make it worth the gas to drive there! Hopefully something better will come through... But I am thinking about burning a mix CD to listen to after the store closes and we finish zoning and reshopping. They need some different CD's! But I get paid tomorrow and I can't remember the last time I bought clothes, so here's hoping some at Target fit! Right now there is sooo much cute clothing and it SUCKS staring at it all day!

Can't wait to go home, even though I give it two weeks until I freak out and need to get away. Not to mention seeing Shaun. I doubt that I'll be able to see him until the weekend of Oct. 14th. Then the 20th is our taste-testing, then that weekend is homecoming at Stout. Yayers. But Shaun's going to be looking into getting a job in the MN area, even just a factory job right now so that we can have some $$. Even though that will give us such a narrow margin of living that there will be no spare $. Oh, and thats including whatever crappy little part time job I can get. Yikes.