Mistake

I hate working here. I should have listened to my better judgement and not just started working here because I needed the money.

I hate working with my boss.
I hate working with my husband.

The only thing that I like is the paycheck and that's not even worth it.

Bah-Humbug!

Today sucks. I have no idea why, it just does. Even chocolate hasn't helped.

I keep almost crying at work for no good reason. I just hate today. Sigh.

Rest Room Rumba

So while walking around the farm show in St. Joseph Missouri, I thought a blog about a certain timeless, classic dance was in order. It tends to be a ladies' only dance, one that the male sex of the species could never appreciate.

It begins at a line dance. You move to your position in line, smile politely and nod to the person in front of you to let them know that you recognize your position in this dance, and you begin the first step of the dance - shift from foot to foot.

As the ladies in the line move forward, you bide your time, continuing to shift from foot to foot, demonstrating your anticipation to participate in this honored ritual. As you can, you step forward. Your steps form a pattern - shift shift shift shift forward. shift shift shift shift forward.

Soon you've worked your way forward and you reach the beginning of the line. Now it is time to begin the variation to your dance. Your patience has it's rewards - it is now your time to step forward and enter one of the holy rooms. You approach cautiously, still maintaining your pattern, but in a quickened fashion.

Stop and peer cautiously around the edge of the door and peer into the holy room. Check for any foulness or otherwise unholy material that might foul your experience.

Once you have deemed the room worthy of holding your experiences, enter the room and shut the door behind you, so that it might be a private ritual.

I won't go into the exact process of the ritual. It's a personal experience that must be performed as you feel the urge to do so.

When finished with your ritual, clear it of any unholy materials that may have appeared and exit the room. Move past the line of ladies so that the next lady in line may do her own version of the Rest Room Rumba and have her own personal ritual.

More...

On a seperate note.....

I got another award! Thanks to Dalton's Mommy for the Honest Scrap Award! Here's how it works...The wonderful people are to:

A) first list 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!

B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spiritof the Honest Scrap. (This I can't do, since the only person I have here is the one who nominated me. :)

Okay...
I can't stand to have the movies or video games messed up...they have to be alphabetized.
I hate doing dishes. I would rather clean the toilet than do dishes.
My fingernails curl. I don't keep them very long, but they curve down over my fingers.
I've always wanted to be a figure skater. Sequened skirts and all. I'm just too lazy.
I'm terrified of grasshoppers. The only insenct that I really am scared of.
I'm not that fond of steak. I like it and all....but I'd usually rather have chicken.
I sleep better without my husband in the bed. He tosses and turns a lot and keeps me awake. (I love him anyway.)
I don't like extras in my brownies. No nuts, no caramel or chocolate chips or anything. Plain, simple, half raw brownie.
I used to love spicy stuff and now, even mild is osmetimes a little warmer than i want, which sucks with a husband who adds curry to his salad.
I really like chick flicks, but fantasy action is my fave...for instance, I'm really bummed that I don't get to see the new Underworld movie tonight. :(

Alright, I think that covers it!

Wal-Mart = Death of Savings

So....I'm all alllooooooone and there's no one here to love me....

I am spending the evening alone. J is at a farm show is St. Jo Missouri. My friends were all busy. So I'm blogging. Whoopeeeeee......

So I stopped by walmart on my way home. My shopping list:
cerial
milk
sliced cheese
flash drive

What did I come home with?

2 boxes of cerial
1 box of granola bars
a block of sliced cheese
a gallon of milk
a $5 flash drive
fat free powdered creamer
a bra
cat food
sweet and sour chicken (it was my compromise to eating out)

I needed everything on there...exccept maybe the sweet and sour chicken. What did this total? $58.89

I hate walmart

I was looking at a $30 coat (formerly $50) too but I decided I was spending enough.

Counting my Blessings

Ok, so I grudgingly admit it. I miss school. In my over-dramatizing brain, I remember the days of yore and wonderful days full of friends and fun, very little work, terrible food, and I didn't fall asleep at 830 at night, annoying my husband. It seems so long ago that I barely did any homework and played frisbee in the rain at 2am, spent my weekends at home with my dog and counted down the days to a no-school-day with avid anticipation.

Now, I don't really ever see any of my friends, I work all the time, the food is semi-good because when I want to cook it tastes fantastic but when I don't want to but have to it tastes as bad as the caf did, I fall asleep at 830 which annoys my husband, I don't get to go home much and when I do I don't get to see my dog at all.

So my dissatisfied mind says.

In reality, I know that living in the dorms sucked. I still didn't have many friends....you just kind of force it sometimes because you live so close together. I like work better than school because I'm doing much of the same work but 1. I'm getting paid to do it instead of paying others for me to do it and 2. There is a point to the work and it is useful. I know my cooking is still better and healthier than that damned slop that they called healthy. I didn't sleep because I never felt safe and now when I go to sleep I get to cuddle up to a very warm body that I love very much instead of a cold wall.

I still don't get to go home much, but that's okay because as much as I love and miss my mother, I like myself better when she doesn't dictate my entire life.

As for playing frisbee in the rain? Well, I never did that when it was cold anyway. We'll see what happens this summer.

I really am a lucky girl.

the shadow of a rebel

Ok, so I said pictures of the new toy. Well, I can't take pictures until we get it out of the truck. Can't get it out of the truck until we get ramps of some sort.....which are at least $100. *sigh* Life is expensive, and I'm like Scrooge, hoarding my money. On everything except clothing of course. Dang it.

Anyway, this is basically our bike, only ours came with saddle bags. Ours has the sissy bar, thank GOD! We also have a little Rebel, without sissy bar, and that thing hurts my butt like you wouldn't believe. No pics of the Rebel either, but this is basically it.

Now, I would have said trade in the Rebel. We got an amazing deal on the Shadow, even I admit that, but hey, take off extra money right? Apparently not. In J's perfect world, I'm getting my motorcycle licence in april, so the Rebel will be mine to ride.....as if I'm really going to be riding without him....and if I am, my butt will be planted on the Shadow.

But, none of that can happen until we get it out of the truck.....baby steps, right?

Whew

So, it's been a couple of weeks since I posted. I'm down to working every other Sunday for KOFO, which makes me kind of sad, but I've been too busy to think about it much. I spent last weekend cleaning - as in, I cleaned out the dining room, redid the litter box, did laundry, did dishes, re-organized a couple of my cabinets and picked up the living room and vaccuumed. Not much when you figure that I still need to mop, clean both bathrooms, take out the recycling, finish staining the deck and a few other things I'm sure I'm forgetting.

So, I've only made one blog, and I'm already been nominated for an award! Its the lemonaide award, passed on from Tiffany. It's for people who have a positive outlook on life no matter what the circumstance. I'm not sure this is always accurate, but I try my best.

The rules of this award for recipients:1. Put the logo on your blog or post.2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude.3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

Unfortunately, I don't of anyone else I can nominate, so I don't quite fit the rules. Oh well, it's not like I ever do. :)

So, J and I got a new toy. More J got a new toy, but I'm staying positive and I'm determined to enjoy it too. More, hopefully with pictures, tomorrow.

Anyway, the new job is going good, but it feels weird not to be going back to school tomorrow with everyone else. I don't really miss it, but it feels really like I'm forgetting something.

Until next time......frizz ease from John Freida is a miracle product. Try it, then let me know what you think.

Hello! So, after about a 3 year absense from blogging, a friend/coworker kind of inspired me to start again.

So, first a little about me. I am K. A very recent college graduate, and even more recent newly wed. J and I have been married about two and a half weeks, even though we've been together for a year and a half now. We don't have any kids yet, thank goodness, unless you count two fat, spoiled cats. It's not that I don't want kids. I really do. But we're definitely not ready for them yet. We'll get to more of that later.

I mentioned that I was a recent college graduate. That is of about three weeks. I went to college to be in broadcast communications, mostly radio. I never had any desire to be in TV. My freshman year, I started volunteering at the local radio station to kind of help learn the ropes, give me an edge, and hopefully lead to a job. Well, it did. Eventually, I worked part time, one or two days a week, filling in at other times if needed. I started working more and more often, and eventually, here a few months ago, it led to the job I had been working for for three years. Couldn't be happier right?

Well, with our wonderful government and perfect economy, this job wasn't as many hours as it used to be and would not pay my bills, even with J's job, which pays him pretty decently for this area and time. So I started looking for other jobs, half heartedly, because honestly I've been working for this for three years, I want to stay here! J has been pushing me to work for his company for quite a while. Helping him with sales, or whatever needs to be done, pretty much. Well, they made this big deal and need a new employee to help deal with this new company. So they offer me a job as their Marketing Manager.

What can I say? On one hand, I have a job that I'm not guaranteed 40 hours per week. If I make it, I'll be working basically 7 days a week, at random hours from 430 or 5am to sometimes 10 or 11 at night. Not solidly of course, but any hours in between. On the other hand, I have a job offer of a regular 9-5, 40 hours per week guaranteed, unless I request time off or it's a holiday.

I took the job. And I regret it. I swore form the time I was 14 and started working that I would never work someplace just for money. I would do what I liked, not what I had to unless it meant starving. So now I'm stuck right? I have to just make the best of what I've gotten myself into. I hated working at the radio station too when I first started, so I'm trying to give myself an adjustment period to get used to it. Just like I've had to do with every other job I've had.

So this is a long post, right? Yeah, that happens a lot.

So Happy New Year! Sorta. I've never made resolutions before, but I heard that you shouldn't make your resolutions till Jan. 2, or you'll never keep them, so I have a few now here.

1. Keep my house cleaner. J didn't have the best time growing up and can't stand a dirty house. I don't mind clutter, but I can't stand much dirt either. So now that I'm not working and in school full time, I should be able to keep that more. Most notably, this includes doing dishes. It is the one thing J and I both hate the most and therefore, they don't get done. So, in keeping my house cleaner, I will also do my dishes before they start growing and having babies.
   
2. Keep in shape. I'm not fat, but I'm flabby and I'm back to losing my breath as fast as ever, so I really need to whip my ample ass into shape again. I want to lead an active life, not waste my time in front of the TV and computer. *uncomfortable squirm* well, not all my time anyway.
   
3. Cook more, and make it healthy. When I moved off campus, I swore I would cook more. I did, but when I started working more and didn't get home till about 7p, I didn't really want to cook much. But I should have more than enough time now, and this in theory should help with resolution number 2.
   
4. Save money. Even with two incomes that pay fairly decently, we have a lot of bills, what with a house payment and several school loans to pay. Plus, J likes things that go vroom, so there are truck repairs, car upgrades, and a new motorcycle on the wish list. I clip coupons like a fanatic anyway, but I'm not very good at planning my shopping or my meals, and that's something I can improve upon quite a bit. Note to self: buying less clothing for myself would also help with this.
   
5. Fifth and finally, not to be such a hermit. I've never been very outgoing or easy to make friends, but since all of my close friends have left and live several hours away, I really need to be more....friendly....I guess. J is gone a lot sometimes for work and when he's gone, I have two cats to keep me company and that's really it. I need to change that PDQ.

So this is my first blog. We'll get to more about me, my new job, my kids...I mean cats, J and whatever else is bothering me. For now, goodbye blogging world, hello world of I-Want-To-Keep-My-Resolutions.