I passed my CST exam. So...That's all done. I don't really have a FYS final. It's just a portfolio and a reflection paper. And it was two weeks from yesterday (Monday) to my Calc I final. I can't believe it's only 2 weeks of school left and than I'm DONE with this semester!

Days till the end of the semster: 18
Days till my 19th birthday: 22
Days till Christmas: 26

Hrm...something about the Europeans and pickles...than again, there is some protest, I think, in the US against a pickle factory. *shrugs*

Prince Charles Visits Pickle Factory

This is my last article on pickles, btw.

Calling all British people...Can you PLEASE explain to me the hype over THIS?!

Branston Pickles

This is an interesting article for everyone else... And now, I don't want ANYONE to say that the US has some weird things goin' on...This is just plain...odd...

I Love Pickles

Everyone go there! That is a weird, yet interesting site. DRESS Mr. Pickle! There's a link close to the bottom in the activities section.

How did I come upon this website you ask? I did a search on "pickles" on google. Today at work someone asked for a kid's picture book called _Pickles to Pittsburgh_. I was flipping through it and was talking to two co-workers about pickles and they said something about someone sang a song about pickles, so I wanted to see if I could find it and typed in "pickles" into google and I came upon that website.

Oh my goodness...The beginning for countdown till school is over, my birthday, and Christmas has begun!!

Days left of school (including weekends): 21
Days left till my birthday: 25
Days left till Christmas: 29

The irony? They're all 4 days apart! *laughs* I just realized that right now.

Life is going okay, right now. Work is getting a bit hectic because of the holidays and such. Today, for a Friday, it felt like a Saturday. So I'm kind of scared what Saturday is going to be life? The Thursday before Christmas (Christmas is on a Sat, this year) our store goal for sales in one day from 9am-12am is around $85,000! Which is almost more than we've ever sold in ONE day. We've done $30,000 while I've been there, but this is just INSANE! No really grumpy people today at work, which was nice. One unhappy customer, but it wasn't bad.

Wednesday I had one hour that felt like the hour from hell. I won't explain it all. But to say the least, this lady was just really frantic on the phone for, from my view, NO apparent reason! And this guy had this difficult return. It's been okay, though.

School is goin' all right. I had "fall break" this week. I haven't been to school in a while so it feels weird, but I only have a few more weeks left! It's kind of nice, also, that I only have one final.

Next semester I'm going to be taking Chem I and Lab, Calc II and Lab, The Oceans, The Atmosphere, and ASL 1B for a total of 16 units. It's gonna suck for working. Because of the way my classes fell and I had NO control over making it a nicer schedule too. *shakes head* I have class in the morn M&W from 9am-12pm (Chem-M, Lab-W), TTH from 10-12pm (ASL), MW 4-6pm (Oceans-M, Atmosphere-W), TTH 4-6pm (Calc II), and finally F 10-12pm (Calc II lab). Essentially I can close for work, but it'd suck having to work till midnight and get up 8 hours later to go to school. The real only two days I have is Friday and Saturday. Oh well. *shrugs*

I think that's all for now. Write something later

I just wanna say...

I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving!

Ohh...*drools* Has anyone heard "Believe" by Josh Groban? Now there's a good song for the Holiday season! Btw, everyone should go see The Polar Express!! It was good, especially if you read the book before hand.

Hello...my name is Bethany and I'm a bookaholic *Applause from audience*

Yes, that's what I'm labeling myself... I like books...I have book withdrawls...it's just...TERRIBLE! Frankly, it never really happened until Borders came into the picture. I mean, I've ALWAYS loved books, but it's just...terrible now!

I'm in love with Sleeping Bear Press Alphabet Books now...They are the COOLEST things. You should type "Sleeping Bear Press Alphabet Books" into Amazon.com and see all the books. Some of the books authors live in Monterey. I got my dad the _H is for Homerun_ and it's autographed. I have _H is for Horse_. Geeze, I wonder why I got that one for myself? They're COOL though! They're NOT just "B is for Bit" or "H is for homerun," but more like a little poem and then on the outside of each page for the letter there's more information on other things concerning "horses" or "baseball." Like on the 'B' it talks the bits for horses and also the bridles and such. It's really cool. The illustrations are great too! I want now...B is for Bluegrass (one on Kentucky) and S is for Star (Christmas book, talks about the history).

So, yeah, that's my latest obsession at Borders... My last one was Tamora Pierce. I bought almost every book she's written... Well, that's not quite true. There's 8 books I haven't bought and won't. She has these series and they over lap! So the first set I read, but didn't buy was _Trickster's Choice_ and _Trickster's Queen_ and realized I was reading the books backwards, so I went and got the other ones and ended up buying the first two I read. It ended up being 14 books... *cough* I got them in mass market size though (smallest size). Didn't spend an arm and a leg either because of my discount.

It's probably a good thing my section of the store isn't Christian Fiction or pets or something...I think I'd be doomed if it was. The kids section is bad enough! Finding all these cool picture books and young adult books... Picture books are EXPENSIVE too. The hard back are rarely ever under $15. More-or-less they're around $16.95.

So far, though, my favorite book has come out to be _Daughter of the Forest_ by Juliet Marillier. I dunno if you can say it's my ALL time favorite, but it's at least, right now, my favorite. It's based off of an Irish folktale about a sister who's brother's turn into swans and only she can return them to being human. The Grimm brother's did a short thing on the same tale. It's a girly book, I will have to say, even though it's in the science fiction section. It's a science fiction romance, I guess. No gross stuff like sex or anything, but it's just one of those type of books, I dunno. I just like it a lot. The folktale is good too.

Another good series I keep trying to tell people about is the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde. Colin actually found those at Borders and now I'm hooked too. Very cleverly written books. It helps if you've read _Jane Eyre_ too, at least for the first book, and _Hamlet_, for the 4th book. Or if you're at least familiar with how the story goes in each one of those, especially the ending in _Jane Eyre_.

Books I'm most looking foreward to coming out: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling, Opal by Lauraine Snelling, and The Eldest by Christopher Paolini (I know the release dates on two of the three! No Harry Potter date, yet...)

DVDs I'm looking foreward to coming out: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (extended special edition), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (they're coming out the end of this year, yay!!)

Any ways, other than that...there's not much going on. Things are going as they normally do. Calc, FYS, and CST are fine.

Whelps, got hw to do. All for now!