I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's true.............I went to the interview today at Black Bear Dinner Theatre in Helen, and, I GOT THE JOB!!! I start training during there next show which starts next week. Wow, I'm so thrilled that I got this job. They pay $6.00 an hour to train and that will probably be like 2 or 3 nights, and then $3.00 an hour plus tips from there on out. BUT.....the guy who hired me told me that if you're a good waiter and know what you're doing, you'll never walk out with less than $100 for an 1 hour and 45 mins. THAT'S ALL YOU'RE ON THE FLOOR FOR.......1 hr, 45 mins!!!

For those of you who aren't servers or don't know much about it......generally, in a normal restaurant you make about $80 - $100 over the course of entire day pulling a double (depending upon the size of the restaurant). So to be able to make that much money in basically 2 hours is NUTS!! I can't wait. And all of you know that I love to sing and act and stuff, so maybe this is a foot in the door.......who knows??

But today was nuts........I did quite a bit of driving because after my interview I had to drive pretty much to Cleveland to go take a drug test, and then drive back to Helen to drop off the paperwork, and then back to Clarkesville, and then to church and back tonight. So I was in my car a lot..............And can I just say that I LOVE MY CAR!!! I was driving a truck for the longest time because some of the nicest people in the world let me borrow their truck for a couple of MONTHS free of charge and they took care of insurance and everything. I had to only pay for gas. It was amazing.

Then, after all this time, I never thought I would be able to give them their truck back just because I was having the hardest time saving money with rent and everything. So you guys are so not going to believe this, but one of the guys I sing in the choir with at church approached me one Wednesday. He said, "I heard that you had been driving the _____'s truck, and I don't know if you need one, but I have a car that I was thinking about donating to Cars for Christ because I have a new car, but if you want, I'll just GIVE you my car!!!" AAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!! What??!!???!!??!!?? Was I hearing him correctly?? He wants to GIVE ME A CAR??

Seriously guys, I broke down and started crying. It was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me. Just for someone to give up themselves so selflessly, and help somebody else out blew my mind!! So now I am the extremely proud owner of a 1994 Volkswagen Passat GLX. Guys, this thing is NICE!! It's a five speed and gets 26 MPG!!!!! OMG!!! I went from 10mpg to 26!!!!!! I couldn't believe it. It's fully leather, has a sunroof, fully loaded.........and I know you're thinking (how fully loaded could a 94' be?) Ok, seriously, this thing has more gadgets and cool stuff on it than most new cars in today's market. I'm not even kidding. When it comes to making cars, the Germans got it down pat.

So anyway, I know I kind of got sidetracked there, but I had to get that off my chest. I am so grateful, and will forever be in debt to both of those families.

Well, you definetely need to go check out my video blog at www.youtube.com/StephenHortonBlog. It's awesome. I'm still posting, but right now they're doing stupid sight maintenance or something and I can't upload my video from today, but tomorrow I will have an AWESOME video. Because every Thursday, I go to Kareoke at Sharky's here on the square. It's so much fun and I go with my good friend Debra who is HILARIOUS!! I mean, she's so funny. I'll get her to tape me singing a little bit.

Ok guys, I'm going to run, but keep checking back for updates!!

Live for Him,
Stephen

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