I'm just sitting here tonight, watching the Mavs kick the Cavalier's butts, with kitties on my lap. My 16 pound Katrina cat stops by every now and then, to jump up and say hello. He is such a sweetie...a big ole silver tabby. We adopted him in January...he was very independant and wasn't very affectionate. His foster mom said that he usually kept to himself and didn't bother anyone. Well, he has definately changed...he has become a cuddlebug...loves to snuggle up with you and be a teddy bear. He loves to run and play with our other cats and seems truly happy. The interesting thing about Gaston...he was found in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and had a badly broken jaw. Surgery was performed on his jaw, and his 2 lower canine teeth had to be removed b/c of the dislocation. His jaw is crooked...his bottom jaw goes to one side, and his tongue sticks out the other side...he has no problems though, and is so cute with his little tongue sticking out. He makes my heart smile...I'm glad that he is happy with us. I love my kitties!
I've decided to take a leave of absence from school. I've been in Court Reporting school at night for almost the last 2 years. It is honestly wearing me out. I just feel burnt out and my heart is not in it right now. I feel like I'm just wasting my money. The company I work for is undergoing some major changes right now...being taken over by a "sister" company. This means I've become an employee of the larger company, and they offer tuition reimbursement, if you're going to school for something that will benefit your job. This has got me thinking...I may possibly go to a different school starting January, and finish my bachelor's in Accounting, b/c they'll pay for it. Accounting is not really something I want to do for the rest of my life, but they will pay for my school, give me a better position with the company upon graduation, and give me more money. I've got some thinking to do. Decisions...decisions... Anyway, I'm taking a leave of absence for the rest of the quarter, to get a break from the constant insanity...and to decide what I want to do.
El Guapo and I ran in Target the other night to pick up a few things...including 2 limes. When we were checking out, the young guy checking us out thought that the limes were avocados...how weird. We corrected him, telling him that they were limes. He then started looking on his cheatsheet for the code for limes, and couldn't find it. He then asked...are they a fruit? He really didn't know what a lime was...what do they teach kids these days???
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
back to the grind...
Well, I'm back in the swing of things, I suppose.
The new quarter at school is going smoothly...one of my teachers is awesome...love her...she will really help us to progress the way we should be. We have had not-so-great teachers the last few quarters, and were really getting depressed about it. This quarter is going to be good for me...i just know it.
As far as work...well, not even a week after I get back from vacation, my co-worker, who pretty much ran the place, told me he was leaving. Well, he attempted to put in his notice, and the owner blew up and told him to get out. So, he left abruptly, and now I'm left with no leader at all. The owner of our company is not involved at all, and hasn't taken it upon himself to hire anyone, or even show up the last few days. It's quite interesting...I'm not really sure what's going to happen there. I don't know if he thinks the company is just going to run itself or what, but I have noone to make any decisions. I'm just hoping that our "brother company" will get a clue and buy us out...that would mean administrative support as well as better benefits. I'll just have to wait and see.
I finished off my vacation week with the beginnings of a cold/allergy attack. I finally went to the doctor last Tuesday, and he said it was just allergies. I've never coughed so much in my life. It's finally getting better now, but now El Guapo has something similar. The weather/allergies are all messed up around here, b/c we've had such a weird year weather-wise...with all the rain for months, mild summer, still having warm weather. It's mid-October and the leaves aren't even turning yet.
I talked to my Mom a few nights ago...she makes me ill. She recently moved from MS to NC, to live with my brother. Shortly after she moved, my brother and his wife had their second son. Personally, I think they just wanted her to move in so they'd have someone to take care of the kids...neither of them have any patience, or a sense of humor...poor kids. It's a strange situation, and I've yet to figure out why exactly they made this arrangement. My brother has always been the golden child...never could do anything wrong. Now that my mom is living with him, of course he is all she can talk about. She's not concerned with what I've got going on at all...it's all him, his wife and the babies...UGH! Makes me want to vomit. I'm just waiting for her to start giving me grief about the holidays. I made it clear to her before she moved that we wouldn't be able to come out there for quite a while. It's a 20+ hour drive...and a $1000 roundtrip plane ticket. I'm working and in school...don't have the time to drive, and don't have the money to fly. As it gets closer to the holidays, I'm just waiting for her grief...she's so good at it, but I'm even better at being a stubborn bitch :)
That's about it...not much else exciting going on around here.
The new quarter at school is going smoothly...one of my teachers is awesome...love her...she will really help us to progress the way we should be. We have had not-so-great teachers the last few quarters, and were really getting depressed about it. This quarter is going to be good for me...i just know it.
As far as work...well, not even a week after I get back from vacation, my co-worker, who pretty much ran the place, told me he was leaving. Well, he attempted to put in his notice, and the owner blew up and told him to get out. So, he left abruptly, and now I'm left with no leader at all. The owner of our company is not involved at all, and hasn't taken it upon himself to hire anyone, or even show up the last few days. It's quite interesting...I'm not really sure what's going to happen there. I don't know if he thinks the company is just going to run itself or what, but I have noone to make any decisions. I'm just hoping that our "brother company" will get a clue and buy us out...that would mean administrative support as well as better benefits. I'll just have to wait and see.
I finished off my vacation week with the beginnings of a cold/allergy attack. I finally went to the doctor last Tuesday, and he said it was just allergies. I've never coughed so much in my life. It's finally getting better now, but now El Guapo has something similar. The weather/allergies are all messed up around here, b/c we've had such a weird year weather-wise...with all the rain for months, mild summer, still having warm weather. It's mid-October and the leaves aren't even turning yet.
I talked to my Mom a few nights ago...she makes me ill. She recently moved from MS to NC, to live with my brother. Shortly after she moved, my brother and his wife had their second son. Personally, I think they just wanted her to move in so they'd have someone to take care of the kids...neither of them have any patience, or a sense of humor...poor kids. It's a strange situation, and I've yet to figure out why exactly they made this arrangement. My brother has always been the golden child...never could do anything wrong. Now that my mom is living with him, of course he is all she can talk about. She's not concerned with what I've got going on at all...it's all him, his wife and the babies...UGH! Makes me want to vomit. I'm just waiting for her to start giving me grief about the holidays. I made it clear to her before she moved that we wouldn't be able to come out there for quite a while. It's a 20+ hour drive...and a $1000 roundtrip plane ticket. I'm working and in school...don't have the time to drive, and don't have the money to fly. As it gets closer to the holidays, I'm just waiting for her grief...she's so good at it, but I'm even better at being a stubborn bitch :)
That's about it...not much else exciting going on around here.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
little bit of this...little bit of that...
It's been a while again...what's been going on around here...
- work, school, work, school, work, school...you get the idea
- I am unfortunately not being able to transfer to online school...it is incredibly more expensive, and I was going to have to get outside loans in addition to student loans to pay for it. I'm just going to have to keep on going at night.
- Next week is our school break between quarters...me & El Guapo are taking vacation time next week. We aren't going anywhere (can't afford a trip), but are going to stay around Dallas and find fun things to do each day. It will just be nice to have a whole week without work or school.
- I've started Weight Watchers Online. I've got to lose weight...need to lose around 40 pounds. I have gradually gained weight over the last few years...especially since starting school. I just haven't had time to work out...had to cancel my kickboxing classes when I started night school. Anyway, I'm now counting my "points",and I'm really amazed at how little food I'm supposed to eat. I may very well starve to death soon. Next week, while I'm home from work and school, I've got to get on a work out plan...I'm going to have to start getting up early to exercise, b/c I don't have time at night.
Well, that's about it...just busy, busy.
- work, school, work, school, work, school...you get the idea
- I am unfortunately not being able to transfer to online school...it is incredibly more expensive, and I was going to have to get outside loans in addition to student loans to pay for it. I'm just going to have to keep on going at night.
- Next week is our school break between quarters...me & El Guapo are taking vacation time next week. We aren't going anywhere (can't afford a trip), but are going to stay around Dallas and find fun things to do each day. It will just be nice to have a whole week without work or school.
- I've started Weight Watchers Online. I've got to lose weight...need to lose around 40 pounds. I have gradually gained weight over the last few years...especially since starting school. I just haven't had time to work out...had to cancel my kickboxing classes when I started night school. Anyway, I'm now counting my "points",and I'm really amazed at how little food I'm supposed to eat. I may very well starve to death soon. Next week, while I'm home from work and school, I've got to get on a work out plan...I'm going to have to start getting up early to exercise, b/c I don't have time at night.
Well, that's about it...just busy, busy.
Saturday, August 4, 2007
catching up...
It's been a while...I've just had way too many things going on. Here's for catching up...
I'm almost half way through another quarter of school...that's court reporting school. The driving time (almost 2 extra hours on school days), distractions and stress are about to kill me. I'm constantly stressed, have no time for excercising, no time for myself...something's got to change. I think I have my solution. In the next few weeks, I'm going to transfer to my school's online program. The night program that I'm currently in is half time, and the online program that I'm transferring into is full time. This means I'm going to have to be disciplined...come home from work, eat dinner (which I don't get to do on school nights now), and get to school work. I'll have to put more time into it that I currently am, but all the time that I put into it will be productive and from home. I won't be wasting time driving, dealing with distractions from other people, waiting for teachers to get class going, etc. This change is going to be challenging, but I'm ready for it.
We've been trying to spend more time with friends lately. We've had several pool parties at friend's houses, as well as going out, and having friends over for drinks at our house. It seems like everyone has so much going on, it's hard to get people together. We spent time with two other couples a week or so ago...helping one of them move. We hadn't seen them in a while, b/c of everyone's schedules...it was really great to hang out with old friends.
My little cousin is in town this weekend. She came with her boyfriend and three other friends. They're 18, 20 & 21. It's definately strange, and the age difference is surely noticable. She's 8 years younger than me, and we haven't really spent much time together, b/c I was married and moved away by the time she was 13. It's nice to have them here for a visit, but just weird. We had planned to take them out, but they seem totally content just shopping at the mall, sitting and talking and doing their own thing. Today, they're gone to the Project Revolution concert, and tomorrow they'll go back home to MS.
Oh how I love Ann Taylor Loft! They had an awesome sale this week, and I got around $300 worth of clothes for just $100...2 pair of capris, 1 pair of shorts and 3 shirts. Didn't need to spend the money, but it was just too great of a deal to pass up.
Next weekend we'll be going to New Orleans with a bunch of friends. I can't wait...I really need this break! El Guapo and I used to live an hour from there, and spent quite a bit of time there in our college years. We even spent our honeymoon there almost exactly 8 years ago. I'm hoping we can sneak away from the friends for a nice anniversary dinner together while we're there. We'll be staying 1/2 block off of Bourbon street...I can't wait!
I have the most awesomely sweet kitties in the world. One in particular today is super clingy and being so sweet. Gaston is our Katrina kitty...we adopted him from a foster group here in Dallas that got him from New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He was skin & bones when they got him...his jaw had been badly broken...so bad that his bottom canine teeth were digging into the roof of his mouth, and he couldn't eat. They did surgery on his jaw and had to pull his canines. His jaw is still crooked, but it's cute b/c his tongue sticks out the side of his mouth now. He doesn't let it bother him though...he's a pig is weighs almost 16 pounds now. It took him about 6 months to warm up to us, but he's a cuddlebug now. He's been kind of disturbed with the cousin and friends here, and since they're gone to their concert today, he's ready for love. He's been following me around and in my lap all day. Right now, he's laying beside me dreaming...it's so funny when their little whiskers and feet move while they're sleeping! I wonder what he's dreaming of.
Well, that's about all that's been going on around here...well, except for work, school and all the everyday things.
I'm almost half way through another quarter of school...that's court reporting school. The driving time (almost 2 extra hours on school days), distractions and stress are about to kill me. I'm constantly stressed, have no time for excercising, no time for myself...something's got to change. I think I have my solution. In the next few weeks, I'm going to transfer to my school's online program. The night program that I'm currently in is half time, and the online program that I'm transferring into is full time. This means I'm going to have to be disciplined...come home from work, eat dinner (which I don't get to do on school nights now), and get to school work. I'll have to put more time into it that I currently am, but all the time that I put into it will be productive and from home. I won't be wasting time driving, dealing with distractions from other people, waiting for teachers to get class going, etc. This change is going to be challenging, but I'm ready for it.
We've been trying to spend more time with friends lately. We've had several pool parties at friend's houses, as well as going out, and having friends over for drinks at our house. It seems like everyone has so much going on, it's hard to get people together. We spent time with two other couples a week or so ago...helping one of them move. We hadn't seen them in a while, b/c of everyone's schedules...it was really great to hang out with old friends.
My little cousin is in town this weekend. She came with her boyfriend and three other friends. They're 18, 20 & 21. It's definately strange, and the age difference is surely noticable. She's 8 years younger than me, and we haven't really spent much time together, b/c I was married and moved away by the time she was 13. It's nice to have them here for a visit, but just weird. We had planned to take them out, but they seem totally content just shopping at the mall, sitting and talking and doing their own thing. Today, they're gone to the Project Revolution concert, and tomorrow they'll go back home to MS.
Oh how I love Ann Taylor Loft! They had an awesome sale this week, and I got around $300 worth of clothes for just $100...2 pair of capris, 1 pair of shorts and 3 shirts. Didn't need to spend the money, but it was just too great of a deal to pass up.
Next weekend we'll be going to New Orleans with a bunch of friends. I can't wait...I really need this break! El Guapo and I used to live an hour from there, and spent quite a bit of time there in our college years. We even spent our honeymoon there almost exactly 8 years ago. I'm hoping we can sneak away from the friends for a nice anniversary dinner together while we're there. We'll be staying 1/2 block off of Bourbon street...I can't wait!
I have the most awesomely sweet kitties in the world. One in particular today is super clingy and being so sweet. Gaston is our Katrina kitty...we adopted him from a foster group here in Dallas that got him from New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He was skin & bones when they got him...his jaw had been badly broken...so bad that his bottom canine teeth were digging into the roof of his mouth, and he couldn't eat. They did surgery on his jaw and had to pull his canines. His jaw is still crooked, but it's cute b/c his tongue sticks out the side of his mouth now. He doesn't let it bother him though...he's a pig is weighs almost 16 pounds now. It took him about 6 months to warm up to us, but he's a cuddlebug now. He's been kind of disturbed with the cousin and friends here, and since they're gone to their concert today, he's ready for love. He's been following me around and in my lap all day. Right now, he's laying beside me dreaming...it's so funny when their little whiskers and feet move while they're sleeping! I wonder what he's dreaming of.
Well, that's about all that's been going on around here...well, except for work, school and all the everyday things.
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