Heeeeeeey! I'm back! Sorry for not posting in a while: a lot has happened over the last several days. I hope you all have been doing well! I'll try to pay visits when I can!
In Recent Events
So let me give a little recap of what I've done lately. But before I do, I color coded the "subjects," if you will, so that if you wanted to skip a part, you could with ease. (I tend to be wordy: thus, I use colors instead! ^^) You may recall from my last post that I had a lot of plans, e.g. go into a coal mine (green), hit the beach (red), go to a concert (blue). Well I was able to do all of them! x3 It's been great! Here's what I did...
Emerald Mine
Ok! So it's Tuesday. We were given nice golf shirts with the company's logo and allowed to wear jeans to work! Yes, I said JEANS! Lol. That may sound strange to you all, but believe me: when you have to wear nice dress clothes everyday, any relief from the button-ups is welcomed! XP
Anyway, we're off on the road to Pennsylvania around 2:30ish. It's a 4 hour trip to where our hotel is in Waynesburg (i.e. the "Boonies"). So some time later, we finally arrive at our Comfort Inn Hotel. I've heard rumors about this hotel, like "O my gosh! I swore I'd never stay there again. There are truckers in that area..." and "What?! They're making you all stay at the 'Cat-Pee Inn'?" O_o Dude, what's up with this hotel...? It turned out to be not TOO bad. However, my friend who booked our rooms never specified "Smoking" and "Non-smoking." Fortunately, we all had non-smoking rooms except one person. Unfortunately, all of our rooms stunk except that one person who had the smoking room. GO FIGURE!
All right. Wednesday morning, we leave to go to the Emerald mine. Before we could actually go into the mine, we had to have some training, but it was easy stuff and they assured us that we wouldn't have to worry with it. ^^ Our destination was 450 feet down and maybe only 4,000 feet in. It really wasn't as bad as I thought. The ceiling level was roughly 8 feet high throughout the mine, a bit different than what I had in mind. We visited different parts of the mine and observed some of the special equipment, like a longwall and a CMU (Continuous Mining Unit). It was a neat opportunity. They even gave us samples of coal. If you all had the opportunity to visit such a place, it'd really give you an appreciation for what these people do! For 12 hours everyday, before the sun rises and after it sets...
To the Beach, Baby!
I was soooo happy that my boss said I could have Friday off to go to the beach! ^^ It was only me and three others who went, but we still had a great time...for the most part.
I was looking forward to going since I bought a new bathing suit from Pac Sun. X3 I think it's cute... Anyway, I also wanted so badly a stinking tan! I think I have a trucker's tan where my left arm is darker than my right. Plus my tootsies are ghostly white... heehee... So my friend and I planned to do some sun bathing...
Well, we were definitely drenched with UV rays as we laid there in increments from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Around 3 p.m., by body screamed in agony. If it could talk to me out loud, it'd say something like, "SARAH!! YOU *IDIOT! YOU DID NOT PUT ON SUNCREEN!!!!" (*I'm sure my body would call me something less tasteful than "idiot.") Hm. That's not completely true, for I put some on my lips and my shoulders: I didn't want anymore freckles on my lips (only 2 that I know of! Lol.) and didn't want my shoulders burnt. Lo and behold, neither one of those places were scorched, just everything else that has not seen daylight in the past 19 years of my existence... My body, my poor, poor body...
When I got home that night, my sister (a paramedic/fire-fighter-in-training/EMT?) took me to Rite-Aid and bought me cocoa butter, aloe vera gel, and some other pharmaceutical concoction. >.<
Kennedy Center
Saturday, I was sore as heck, not hell... I couldn't bare to wear any "clingy" clothing, but I forgot that I was going out with my friend to a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Drats! Argh - meh bra digs into meh chaffed shoulder... My friend was also so with 2nd degree burns, so both she and I walked around with our rosey cheeks.
We boarded the Metro to Foggybottom and from there hit the K C shuttle. We were a tad late, but we made 90% of the concert, which was still cool with my friend. She's the one that needs to attend to some orchestral concert for her online class. ^^'
It was really well done! The performance was done by a group of students. I think the Nation Symphony Orchestra has a summer program, and they come up with a concert near the end. I like classical music. ^^
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Ok. So that was pretty much my last week. I hope to have pics of at least the mine. *crosses fingers* Alas, back to the ol' work office...
Commenting on Comments
You all make me smile when I read your comments. XD
Sessylover18 - *squeals* XD Oooo... It seems you know much about this Bleach! I can't wait! T_T TellmeTellmeTellmeTellme! Lol. Ok then. I'll wait to see more. Heehee.
lordsesshomaru - But just in case I can't wait, as Sessylover18 advises, I might have to pick up a copy or two... or 13! ... of the Bleach manga! I don't think the anime's mentioned anything about this "Bount" you speak of. Interesting... *rubs chin*
Master Hiko - It's very nice to have you come by! Thank you for such a lovely post. Goodness - you do comment on every single paragraph! Lol. You certainly don't have to unless you really want to! ^^' *hugs*
Knight Edge - Ummmm... Where did you get such a pervy side to you? *tsk tsk* Bikini. *ahem* But I'm as red as a lobster and will soon peel like a snake. I'm sure you wouldn't want to see that! Lol.
xsasuskexisxlifex - Wow! How'd you get so far ahead in the series? YouTube or DVDs? ^^
Le Kun - Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. *hugs* And as for that K.I.S.S acronym - I don't think I came up with it! Heck, my dad's taught me that, so it must come from "way back when"! XD
Magnus Lenshurr - Sweet! You got get in one of those heavy machines? That must've been real neat. ^^ They didn't let us do that, but that's okay! I probably would've caused a cave-in or something! ^^'
dark desires - I'm glad I don't have claustrophobia! That would've made things bad... real bad... O_O
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Ok then! I guess this is farewell for now. I'll try to visit later on! Take care!! ^^
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