resolutions, goals, ballet class

so before i get into the good stuff, shiloe no longer is receiving his horrible histories books-as mentioned previously his order was canceled by the dealer.... so great. but he is still going to be getting his photography and Shakespeare books! they should be delivered any day now :) yay! and the people finally refunded the 80 dollars for the books that they canceled. so that is a plus.
and it turns out that the car dealership only has us down as being charged once and the bank has us down as being charged twice so the dealership can't fix it unless the bank calls them. i will tackle this tomorrow.....
so i am currently in ballet at BYU two classes a week, and am going to ballet club on saturdays for extra practice and learning. and i finally got the guts to register for an actual studio. the Academy of Ballet which is run by my current byu teacher Lynne Thompson. she is so amazing! i trust that the faculty and curriculum at her studio match her awesomeness. :) i will write a report on my first class sometime next week. class is supposedly tuesdays so yeah.
ok so my goals and new years resolutions: be on pointe or very close by the end of the year, write a complete teen fiction fairytale rewrite by the end of the year (1+ chapters now finished). I personally feel that i am tackling these fairly well considering how hard it is for me to write longer than a short story, and how shy i am when it comes to dance when i'm not performing. so by taking ballet from three different sources and practicing outside of class, reading my textbook which talks about technique, conditioning, history, etc, and exposing myself to attending various performances to become more familiar i think i will be able to adequately prepare myself for what lies ahead. i have also decided on a dance major. i have to audition but that would not be until next october from what i can gather. so until then i do my best to gain as much experience as possible in different styles of dance and decide what my focus will be (ballroom, ballet, folk, modern)....i've registered for classes SP/SU all of which are dance major related. i do get nervous and scared sometimes but i just have to step back from it all emotionally and relax, have some fun. i learn easier that way.
as far as writing goes, i am working on my book whenever i have the time/energy and the inspiration. i'm finding that shiloe's book and my book are at the same point in progress but he writes a paragraph a day and i don't... i end up having a few days of pondering, proofreading and "thinking"/researching then i have this spurt of inspiration that comes in about 2 pages. so even though our style of approaching our goals is different they are both on track and are looking hopeful.
i have recently turned a partial chapter over to my english major friend for the ultimate review. she has been proofreading my stuff since we met, and she knows my difficulties and...not difficulties? lol anyway if she passes it the project continues and i seek more peer reviews including my amazing elder sister. if she doesn't pass it as having enough potential or interest then i either A-get a new hobbie, B-come up with a new story and try again. so the moment of truth approaches.

just a little frustrated...possibly even going to cry.

ok so three things that are frustrating me right now. 1. shiloe's bday order of books 2. pontiac dealership 3. people hit-n'-running our bathroom.....
ok so first off let me cover the least of frustrations.... the pontiac dealership. i took the car into service yesterday and it was fine and dandy just did an oil change. when i was paying at the cashier's the card didn't run through the first try so we tried again and it worked. today i checked my bank account and there it was... twice. so i call them immediately, to be greeted with "i'm sorry the cashier is out to lunch, you will have to leave a voicemail." of course having been a receptionist myself i know this could mean 1 of two things, 1-she really is out to lunch but that was like an hour or more ago she really should be back by now. or 2-she has been instructed to take a message so the cashier doesn't have to deal with troubled customers. she still hasn't called back when the receptionist said she would as soon as she got back from lunch. i've watched her.. there isn't much to her job. maybe every twenty minutes she rings someone up but that's it.... what could she be so busy with???
ok so next, the hit-n'-running has got to stop! there is a perfectly good guest bathroom upstairs and like nobody is home.... so why come all the way downstairs to use my bathroom when the upstairs guest bathroom is not in use???? then after run back up the stairs and disappear by the time i get there. convenient. so i put a sign on the bathroom door. maybe that'll help.
last and most frustrating to the point of tears-i finally found a seller that i didn't have to pay duties or customs on and that i could pay in usd.....so i order the books for shiloe's birthday. i receive a confirmation saying they will be sent expeditiously and that customer satisfaction is #1 priority..... well today i receive an email (not 24 hours later) that my order has been canceled, my card has not been charged and they advise that if i am still interested in the product to search it again and purchase it again. what the crap??? so i look at their frequently asked questions regarding canceled orders, which first addresses if you canceled the order yourself, then if it was canceled then they ran out of stock and you will be refunded if you were charged. ok, so i check my bank account, sure enough i have been charged but not refunded. the email lied. so i find my order id and wrote them an email asking why it was canceled and why i wasn't refunded, and asking for help in either getting my refund or getting those books. so far no answer. i am thoroughly upset and ready to cry. everything i am trying to do is not working out.... i try to get shiloe the books he has wanted all his life, and i end up getting scammed. i try to get the car serviced like shiloe asked and i get charged twice and they won't call me back. i try to get tickets to a ballet for shiloe and i end up getting them for the wrong day so he has to call and talk to a manager to get them transferred to a different day. fantastic. can i do anything right???
so here i am utterly depressed and venting so i can get on with trying to do something useful with my time. i'm sure it'll turn out i just wish it would turn out sooner.

a tribute to dora the explorer

just thought you should know that my husband now says "swiper no swiping" in several different settings, like the following: sitting at the dinner table i reach for his milk. or when he has a chocolate that i am eyeing, or.... even a modified version of the phrase is applicable when he is playing his shooter games "sniper no sniping!" as he single handedly takes down a whole army of snipers on the rooftops. LOL

just thought you should know. :)