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the rest of this month has been much better. dad got orders to take off work for a few weeks and said he's enjoying his first taste of retirement. he's gone to va beach this weekend through next. i'll be joining him for a day next week. before i go i have an interview with wichovia. i'm nervous. i haven't had an interview in... five years? hopefully i'll do just fine. before i heard back from the bank i had an offer from my new district manager to change stores and get a raise. i said i'd take it but i'm hoping i don't have to if this works out. i have today and tomorrow off. my first actual weekend on the weekend in a very long time. but gareth works this morning and tomorrow night. i opened yesterday and we went to see taking wood stock last night. besides a completely nude scene by emile hirsch, getting to see dimitri martin's large nose on the big screen and an awesome tripping scene it didn't thrill me much. we might go see ponyo tonight. i was glad to miss out on his viewing of halloween II this weekend. that and inglourious basterds were much too bloody for my taste. i think these were the last of the summer movies for gareth to review. i hope they still want him to do reviews for them. or that he can find somewhere else to do them. i think he's done really well with them. especially being his first time. he's got a passion and a talent to go with it. i hope he has more ambition or maybe just luck than i've had with those things. but even if he doesn't i know we'll be just fine. we're happy and honest hard workers and i know we'll make it through whatever comes our way.