I wake up at around 8 AM - Take a shower and all that good stuff
Drop off Natalie, my younger sister who also goes to UNO with me, at school. It is now 9 AM.
I am driving down Dodge street heading west, and I cannot decide if I should go to Westroads or Oakview Mall to get my FREE GGP Mall gift card. Along the way, I finally decide that I'll go to Oakview Mall, because it is further away and I still have about 50 minutes or so until the mall pass out the gift cards at 10 AM.
I arrive at Oakview Mall at about 9:15ish AM. I look around the mall trying to figure out where they will hand out the giftcards. I look at my e-mail, the print-out sheet needed to redeem my gift card with a legal document license, and it says, "February 12 - 13, 2010, from 10 AM - 9 PM in the Food Court." I finally find the place, it is a table with their logo signs, and it is set up at the edge of the Food Court in front of Sears. Since, I am early I go and sit on the couches behind the GGP table. As I am there waiting forever, I decide to write about something, anything. I have brought along my composition book, where I record details or notes for my use or for my fictional stories, and I write about what I see. I write, "Older people walking around the mall. Their ages are from 30s to 80s. I'm not sure what they are doing, but it seems like a health program that they are doing. Walking, they are working their body and heart. I want to ask them what they are doing this for, but I don't want to interrupt." Those were my thoughts and notes of what I saw while I was waiting.
I finally go to the table and wait in line at 9:53 AM. I am like the tenth or fifteenth person in line. I should have gone in line and wait there first, since I was one of the first people to arrive there. It kind of makes me mad, but I make myself relax. I tell myself, "It's okay, don't worry. You'll still get a gift card. It's not going to run out so soon." I exhale my breath and take another deep breath. I feel better now. I look around myself, and I see different ages waiting in line. I think they are all probably older than me, except for the children who are in line because of their parents. There were mostly old people, like 50s to 70s, in line. I think to myself that I have become an old person. Sometimes I feel like I do things that only older people do and not what young people do, like reading romance books. I hardly ever see any young women around my age look at romance books at the book store. I always see older women. It makes me feel weird. I guess I am sort of an old lady. :( The only other person I know that reads romance books that is around my age is my cousin, Maiya. Other than that, I know no one else. I sometimes feel awkward or embarrassed to admit that I read romance books, but now I don't really care. I READ ROMANCE BOOKS, SO WHAT? WHO CARES? I shouldn't care what people think, I tell myself all the time, as long as I am not doing anything bad and it is beneficial to me, then it is okay. I am not doing anything bad, so I should only care about what I think of myself.
I finally get my gift card at around 10:10 PM. I am so happy! I smile to myself and walk quickly, but smoothly to front entrance of the Food Court to leave the mall.
As I reach my car, get inside, start my car, and sit in it, I tick off my first goal: "Getting my first free gift card." Now my second goal: "Get my second free gift card at Westroads Mall." I am really pumped up and cannot wait.
I arrive at Westroads Mall at about 10:20 PM. I park in Von Maur's parking lot, because the next location to get my gift card says it is in the Von Maur court on the lower level. I am not sure where that is, but I go in and look around the store, and then I walk out of the store. I walk further away from Von Maur making myself towards the center area of the mall. I finally see it! It is set up in front of the Dippin' Dots ice cream shop. I get in line. I see that the line is not very long. Perhaps, the line died out before I arrived. I am not sure, but I am probably right. It takes me about ten minutes to get through the line of about 10 people. I have finished my second goal at about 10:30 PM. I smile big as I turn around and leave the gift card redemption table.
I shop at Forever 21. I look to see if there is anything of interest that I would like to buy with my free $20 total of gift cards. I shop for about 45 minutes, and finally decide on a black sweater-like material jacket/coat. I am not sure what to call it, so that is what I called it. I will later post up a picture of what I bought. It is so CUTE! :D
It is now about 11:15ish AM. I have to be at HuHot Mongolian Grill by 11:30 AM, so I quickly exit the mall and take Dodge street heading East all the way to 72nd to the restaurant.
I arrive at HuHot at 11:25 PM. I feel happy and proud of myself for arriving on time. If you know me, I am usually, most of the time, late to parties, events, etc., so I was happy that I made it on time and that I have 5 minutes to spare. I smugly smile at myself and walk with great pride as I am entering the restaurant. I also wanted to arrive early at the restaurant, because I have work at 1 PM and I do not want to be late for my shift. I am the third of my friends to arrive at the restaurant. I say "hi" to Ed and Aoi. I also see someone else I know, an old classmate of mine from high school, Courtney M. It was nice to see her. I have never met Aoi, so I begin chatting with her about all sorts of things. I am a "curious-being," that is what I like to call myself. I like learning new things of my interest or for academics. We three decide to get our food first because we have to leave the restaurant before 1 PM (either to get to work or class). I ate only two plates of noodles, but I wanted to eat more. I talked to long and I was running out of time and I talked too much rather than eat, so there was only time to eat two plates.
I finish eating and say my good-byes to my friends. Some of us made plans to watch a movie, "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief," at 10:10 PM. So, I tell them that I will see them later tonight. I leave the restaurant at around 12:50 PM. I wanted to leave earlier but, again, I talked too long when I said my good-byes.
I get to UNO at the Fine Arts Building at around 12:56 PM. I pick up my sister, who just finished her art class. I drive us over to the back of the student center, MBSC. I drop myself off and quickly walk to the computer lab, where I work as a student worker. I am three minutes late, but oh well. I hate that when I am in a hurry the time seems to move a lot quicker.
So, it is 1:03 PM, and I am at work. I will be off work at 6:30 PM.
After 6:30 PM, my brother, Whougie, will pick me up as soon as he can when he gets off from work. He says he is very busy, and that he will try his best to get there around that time. I hope he pick me up on time or that he does not take too long of a time to pick me up.
So after he picks me up, we will go home.
At around 9:30 PM, I will leave to go to RAVE movie theater at Westroads Mall to meet my friends and others, who are a part of the movie group. I cannot wait to watch "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief" movie. I hope it will be as great as the book. The trailers looked good, so the movie better be good.
The movie will start at 10:10 PM, starting with an approximate five minutes preview. The movie will finish in 2 hours.
Me and my large movie group will be done watching the movie at around midnight.
At 1 AM, I may have to pick up my younger sister, Maggie, from her middle school. She gets back in town from a competition in Iowa. I do not really want to, but I will or may still be up. So it is up to me to take care of her and look out for her.
The last thing for my over-extended day, I will go to sleep and dream of something interesting, exciting, and mysterious.
So there, you can see how busy my day has and will be. This kind of day is quite busy for me, since I am a person that does not do much, like working and staying at school or home to do my homework and study. My life is quite boring most of the time and not very busy, but there will be days where it can get busy to hectic to crazy. Those are usually my best days, but they can sometimes be my worst days. It depends on what is going on for it to be a good or bad day.
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