sweeeeeeet..! (my 1st American paycheck) Ü

haaaaaa-llelujah! haaaaaa-llelujah! (*ray of light from the sky and the sound of angels singing*) hahaha XD

whooopeee! i got my 1st paycheck today! ^^

but b4 i begin blabbing XD, just wanna make a greeting =D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA! ^^

it's her bday this 24th of august.. hehe =D .. nyweiz.. .. .. =P

this paycheck was just for last week's work which totalled 34.39 clocked-in hours out of the 36 hours i supposedly worked since they subtract pala the time you take on your breaks and if you clock out early and stuff lyk that.. so in short, talagang strict cla w/ the time you put in.. =D .. if your shift is 9 to 7 but you clock out at 6:30 instead of 7, bawasado ung 30 mins na un sa oras mu.. i guess that was the case with this.. i was expecting 36 hours worth of work pero i gues it just turned out to be 34.39 pero minus na ung breaks and ung early clock-outs.. bale, i get paid for every minute i work and don't get paid for every minute i don't work.. =D

here's the math =D ...

minimum wage [$6.67] / hour times [34.39] hours minus mga [30] dollars of tax = :> ;) :> ;) :>

6.67 x 34.39 - 30 = ***.** .. =)

and that's just one week of work.. *nudge nudge* .. ^^

ima budget this one into a couple of expenses.. a couple of em is:

maybe a little more clothes for me to wear =D , pabango (dhl naubusan aq =D ..), money to have my guitar checked out and to buy new strings and a bottle of polish, tapos shmpre, 10% tithe to the Lord ^^

other stuf that's been going on...

i bought my books yesterday and today ^^ .. hinihintay ku n lng na maka-recieve ng information ung bookstore from my prof for my ENC 1101 college writing class para mabili ku na ung books for that class ^^

nabili ku na lahat ng books ku for my biology class, my psych class, nd my stat class, (which totalled about $400 bucks by the way!) .. tpos un..

i also got to see today my regular work sked for wen skul starts.. ill post it na lng wen it;s final.. kakausapin ku pa c ms. darla.. ima ask and see if i can cancel one shift on tuesday.. i gave her 2 avaiable slots kc, one in the morning, and one in the afternun.. 1 b4 and aftr class, not thinking that they really myt actually give me BOTH those slots.. kala ku isa lng.. i wanna cancel one of them para naman medyo mas matimbang ku ung school work-load ku.. i dont wanna have too much of a hard tym.. kng macancel ku nga ung shift na un, ill be working 25 hours a week pero kng ndi ku macancel, it'll be 29 hours. either way, the pay is ok (watta rhyme XD..), pero i just wanna free up my tuesdays a bit para ndi naman aq maxado mahirapan.. tska para 1 work shift lng aq per day =D

also today, (like other days), i met a lot of people.. helpin em out with their books and all.. but today, there was this one guy who looked pinoy (there are other pinoys i see too, but not all of em i get to talk to about our being pinoy-ness.. XD..) .. pero what made me talk to him more was that i noticed he had a pool cue with him.. hehe which was awesome ^^ .. so yeah i guess we kinda clicked there.. we talked a bit etc etc.. bout billiards, our being pinoy, other pinoys on campus, the game room in UNF (where there are a couple of billiard tables) etc etc.. hehe so that was cool ^^ to have been able to connect w/ some1 n ganun ^^

continuing work, i went to the back room and had to do some prepping for some books.. that's number 15. btw on the list of stuf i do @ work =D .. i also did another new thing besides that today.. =D

15. book prep - all i do here is tag them w/ a 99999 sticker, a used book sticker, and a security tag.. tpos what's next done with these books is just locating them and shelfing them..

16. phone voice mails - basically these are the voice messages on all of the phones in the store.. i just had to listen to each message and note the name of the person who called and their number for someone to call them the next day..

so nyweiz, doing #15 right after talkng to that ryan guy, i mentioned it to john/johnathan since he's half pinoy (tpos 1/4 welsh [from wales] and the 1/4 swiss ata un XD [from switzerland]) .. so i told him that i got to talk to that ryan guy tpos that's wat made me and john start talkin about billiards kc he plays pala! hehe niceeee ^^ .. we eventually also talked about guitar cuz he playes that as well too! ^^ .. so aun, click na click tuloy kmi.. XD .. he's the closest friend ive made so far i gues ^^ .. aun.. la lng.. ^^ share ku lng.. just something nice i thought i'd mention ^^ =D =)

nyweiz that's pretty much it.. i gotta rest lrdy.. ima do my chores tomorow morning so i wont go OL.. =D

take care lagi kau dyan ^^ .. miss you guys =) .. just haven't been saying it, but i really REALLY do.. =| .. .. haay.. ..

anyway, bye for now ya'll.. ;)