You guys ever heard of Paula Deen? She's this chef lady on FoodNetwork. I was walking around Walmart and I noticed that she has the line of basically everything you need for cooking. On the label, she has the intro, something about cooking with her aunt Peggy, blah, blah, blah but what really got me was that nearly every sentence ended with 'ya'll'! That just tickled me, for some reason. I happen to use ya'll alot, it's one of my 'non-language' words along with ain't, but I've never seen it in print like that. 
So for my NSV: I did my own perm for the first time last night! And it actually came out okay! I was sort of depressed last night, missing my friends back in Bama so I decided to do my hair to get my mind off things. I haven't had a perm in like 4 months and my hair was looking FIERCE! And not in a good way. I was hesitant but then I was like 'fuck it!' and just slapped the perm in. Here's the result:

A little wavy but the roots are straight for the most part!
(I need to get my ends clipped >.<)
I can put a comb through it again. Yay me! Now all I need to conquer is wrapping and I will have the hair thing down pat!
I'm growing my nails too. It's so freaking hard to not bite them! They are super weak though so I'm going to try to put nail hardener on them to tough them up.
So my last official day at the VA is Oct 24th. I'm super excited, relieved, but a little nervous. I've been an employee of the VA for over 3 years. As much as I hated working in the kitchen, I always had this sense of pride working with our veterans. I loved sporting the VA patch and telling those who asked where I worked. But I just can't handle the mental stress anymore.
I knew this would happen, I said it would, and it did! Just as I turned in my resignation, I get an interview in another department. >.< BUT it was for EMS (housekeeping), the department my mama used to work in, the department that tried to screw her over, that is currently screwing over other people. I went to the interview on Thursday. I thought it was going to be the assistant chief but it turned out to be one of the supervisors and this cute guy who works in supply. My outfit was very cute but my hair was a mess and I was sweating like crazy from being outside, walking in the sun.
The interview was short, both guys already know me and see me everyday. At the end of it, Chris (the cutie) said 'this is your time to tell us why you deserve the job. Dazzle us!' and I looked at him, gave him a smile and said 'You see me everyday, you know I can do the job, and I know that I dazzle you all the time.' Theo (the supervisor) and he laughed then walked me out. Even if they did call me for the job, I've basically decided that I won't take it. See, they are so gungho to fill the position because they are trying to fire the woman who is currently doing it. She happens to be a friend of mines and she is the ONLY person in the whole damn hospital who knows what she is doing in Patient Effects. Everytime she's sick and isn't at work, who ever they have to fill in for her (other employees and even the supervisors) doesn't know what the fuck they are doing and chaos ensues. The only reason I applied for the job was because it was a higher pay, fulltime, and Joyce would be there to teach me everything. But if she's not there, what's the point? I won't be able to learn everything and do everything that she does in one day. Plus, I don't want to have to deal with Mrs.C (the chief of EMS) and her lapdogs. EMS is going downhill fast and I don't want to be there when it finally implodes on itself. If Joyce somehow manages to keep her job and they call me, I will take the job. Being fulltime will help me get into a clerical position in the hospital.
Everyone I've told is all like 'Girl, you better take that job!' but they don't know Mrs.C . I called my mama today and told her and she (pleasantly) surprised me by telling me that she wouldn't take the job. For my new readers and people who just don't know, my mama is my hero. She's my #1 source of inspiration and advice. We differ on some things but she never tries to make me someone I'm not. I always go to her for sound advice and 99.99999% of the time, I take her advice, even if I initally rebel against it. She knows what it's like to work for Mrs. C and she's always been adamant about me not working in that department. It would be essentially me jumping from a hot ass, oil filled frying pan directly into the fire. I guess we'll see by the end of this week what's going down.