"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~Mark Twain
This is my new favorite quote, probably because it describes exactly how I feel right now. I decided to take the offer with the new company and I'm really excited. Part of me is sad to leave the people at this company behind and I know that I am good at this job, but I'll be doing something similar but with greater opportunities and more senior respect and responsibilities which will be awesome! So I'm sailing away from safe harbor to see where the wind shall take me! :) I have a few more weeks at this job and then off to explore the new company and situation.
I'm so excited about this opportunity and the flexibility and all of the good things that will come with it. I had a really rough day at work on Friday due to lack of help and support in the office and just a million things resting on my shoulders. But luckily having given my notice, I know that this is all going to be gone/different soon enough. I just need to get through the next few weeks and then see what is out there waiting for me! Hope you all are doing well and can't wait to update you soon on my new adventures!
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10.24.2011
10.17.2011
Cheers to the Freakin' Weekend
Yeah, yeah! Ha! We had a wonderful weekend this weekend. Mainly because I got a phone call on Friday afternoon just after I was complaining that I wasn't going to hear anything. And I GOT THE OFFER! I'm so excited!!!
I got the rest of the details on Saturday morning and reviewed everything, and I think it's going to be great. I have asked them to visit the local building and people here briefly (hopefully tomorrow) as one final check, but I think I will likely give my notice on Wednesday. They are being super kind and allowing me some extra time to give notice, and I could technically finish my big weekend event here and start that following Monday with them. It would be tiring but it would be nice to my current company and would allow me to start with them sooner than later. So I'm hoping they write back soon with plans for tomorrow and then I can get this show on the road.
I had a brief moment of panic this weekend because the insurance isn't quite as good as what I have now. But then I remembered what I had now is obscenely good, and this is still really really good and hopefully we can all stay healthier and not have to worry about it quite as much. It's also weird to think that after 6+ years I might be going to work at a different place. But the opportunities at this company are endless and I really think it will be a great move for me!
So excited - I'll let you know how the visit goes. Now does someone want to give my notice here for me? I'm dreading that part a little bit. :)
I got the rest of the details on Saturday morning and reviewed everything, and I think it's going to be great. I have asked them to visit the local building and people here briefly (hopefully tomorrow) as one final check, but I think I will likely give my notice on Wednesday. They are being super kind and allowing me some extra time to give notice, and I could technically finish my big weekend event here and start that following Monday with them. It would be tiring but it would be nice to my current company and would allow me to start with them sooner than later. So I'm hoping they write back soon with plans for tomorrow and then I can get this show on the road.
I had a brief moment of panic this weekend because the insurance isn't quite as good as what I have now. But then I remembered what I had now is obscenely good, and this is still really really good and hopefully we can all stay healthier and not have to worry about it quite as much. It's also weird to think that after 6+ years I might be going to work at a different place. But the opportunities at this company are endless and I really think it will be a great move for me!
So excited - I'll let you know how the visit goes. Now does someone want to give my notice here for me? I'm dreading that part a little bit. :)
10.14.2011
Tick tock
So....I went on Tuesday from my vacation up to the East Coast to interview with a company that I've been interviewing with for a few weeks (had phone interviews, tests(!), etc. and then they invited me in person). The position would be here where I live, but their headquarters are up there and the management is up there as well.
They treated me right - expensive air tickets, car service to/from the airport and business, meals, etc. I clicked really well with the people who would be directly above me and it sounds like a really really great opportunity where I would get to focus on some more senior level duties with support underneath me and from above as well as the opportunity to manage someone else. So now I'm just waiting to hear back...I was hoping to hear something by today but since they are on the East Coast, I'm thinking we are too close to Friday afternoon to really hear anything today. So I will try not to think about it this weekend hope that my week starts off great with a potential offer! :) Or ideally they will call me in the next hour or two instead! Either way, fingers crossed because this might just be the one!
They treated me right - expensive air tickets, car service to/from the airport and business, meals, etc. I clicked really well with the people who would be directly above me and it sounds like a really really great opportunity where I would get to focus on some more senior level duties with support underneath me and from above as well as the opportunity to manage someone else. So now I'm just waiting to hear back...I was hoping to hear something by today but since they are on the East Coast, I'm thinking we are too close to Friday afternoon to really hear anything today. So I will try not to think about it this weekend hope that my week starts off great with a potential offer! :) Or ideally they will call me in the next hour or two instead! Either way, fingers crossed because this might just be the one!
8.23.2011
Little Man
Yesterday my baby boy started kindergarten. I really can't believe that he is already big enough to be starting real school. It seems like only yesterday I was cuddling him in my arms as a sweet newborn. The time really does fly by! It makes me question a little bit what I'm doing with my life and if time goes by so quickly, am I happy with how I'm living it?
I am so very very proud of him. He has grown into such a fun, sweet, and loving boy (with the occasional temper too!). He has his own little personality and loves to carry on a conversation these days. Last night, he was telling me about how he got "green" (meaning he listened well) yesterday, and I asked him how he did that and he said "because I nailed it" in all seriousness. It was the cutest thing ever! I am so thankful for him in my life because without him and my hubby, I just really don't know what I would do. He especially brings me so much joy and I wish I could spend even more time learning from him to take life more simply and enjoy it.
Instead, I often just feel like crying. I just don't know what I'm doing with this job situation any more. I haven't heard back from the first "dream job" at all which I think is really strange and annoying. I'm okay with rejection, but just ignoring me completely is just plain rude. I have this other interview on Thursday, but I'm not all that enthusiastic about it because they sent me the benefits package with the e-mail confirmation for my interviews, and it is significantly more expensive (try double) what we are paying now and for much less coverage. So to make up in that difference alone would probably be $5k+. So I'm really bummed and feeling even more stuck than ever. I can't continue doing what I'm doing now and be happy and yet I can't really leave either. It's a terrible predicament.
I often wish I had been braver about figuring out what I wanted to do when I was younger. So maybe I could have gotten a masters degree in psychology and done counseling or maybe I could have gotten a masters degree in speech therapy or something like that. At least then I would have a career and a bit of a path of what I wanted to do and be and I could just switch jobs when I wanted to get a raise or better benefits or be closer to home. But now I am where I am and while I like what I do, it also takes me away from my family a lot (a lot more than what is made up for by the $$ or benefits), and it causes me a lot of stress (which is now showing through physically), and it causes me to miss out on things like working out or taking dance class or spending time with my family and friends. It also causes me to commute daily (and the commute is about to get longer if I switch to some jobs and/or when our office moves next year) and that's more time away from me, my family and friends. Ugh! I just feel really lost and frustrated right now...hope to feel better about this all soon!
I'm still going to go on Thursday for experience if nothing else, and I'm going this afternoon to the doctor to talk about some pains I've been experiencing lately in my arms as well as my anxiety. I know this will all get better soon and there are lots of other people out there dealing with way worse. But for me, it just feels like a very tough year and I'm ready for change to come to better it for all of us. I am trying to be patient. I really am!
For now, I will focus on the good in my life - like my son and his awesome love for school and excitement about life. I wish I could bottle it up and drink it in. :)
I am so very very proud of him. He has grown into such a fun, sweet, and loving boy (with the occasional temper too!). He has his own little personality and loves to carry on a conversation these days. Last night, he was telling me about how he got "green" (meaning he listened well) yesterday, and I asked him how he did that and he said "because I nailed it" in all seriousness. It was the cutest thing ever! I am so thankful for him in my life because without him and my hubby, I just really don't know what I would do. He especially brings me so much joy and I wish I could spend even more time learning from him to take life more simply and enjoy it.
Instead, I often just feel like crying. I just don't know what I'm doing with this job situation any more. I haven't heard back from the first "dream job" at all which I think is really strange and annoying. I'm okay with rejection, but just ignoring me completely is just plain rude. I have this other interview on Thursday, but I'm not all that enthusiastic about it because they sent me the benefits package with the e-mail confirmation for my interviews, and it is significantly more expensive (try double) what we are paying now and for much less coverage. So to make up in that difference alone would probably be $5k+. So I'm really bummed and feeling even more stuck than ever. I can't continue doing what I'm doing now and be happy and yet I can't really leave either. It's a terrible predicament.
I often wish I had been braver about figuring out what I wanted to do when I was younger. So maybe I could have gotten a masters degree in psychology and done counseling or maybe I could have gotten a masters degree in speech therapy or something like that. At least then I would have a career and a bit of a path of what I wanted to do and be and I could just switch jobs when I wanted to get a raise or better benefits or be closer to home. But now I am where I am and while I like what I do, it also takes me away from my family a lot (a lot more than what is made up for by the $$ or benefits), and it causes me a lot of stress (which is now showing through physically), and it causes me to miss out on things like working out or taking dance class or spending time with my family and friends. It also causes me to commute daily (and the commute is about to get longer if I switch to some jobs and/or when our office moves next year) and that's more time away from me, my family and friends. Ugh! I just feel really lost and frustrated right now...hope to feel better about this all soon!
I'm still going to go on Thursday for experience if nothing else, and I'm going this afternoon to the doctor to talk about some pains I've been experiencing lately in my arms as well as my anxiety. I know this will all get better soon and there are lots of other people out there dealing with way worse. But for me, it just feels like a very tough year and I'm ready for change to come to better it for all of us. I am trying to be patient. I really am!
For now, I will focus on the good in my life - like my son and his awesome love for school and excitement about life. I wish I could bottle it up and drink it in. :)
8.18.2011
Thank You
Thanks for your comments! They made me feel much better. I still have yet to hear back from them (so strange to me) and it's now one week since my interviews, but I'm trying not to think about it too much. In other good news, I received a call about another position yesterday (another good company) and did a phone interview that went well and they are setting up in-person interviews for me early next week. I don't think it's quite as an ideal situation as job #1 but still a great company and a better position than what I'm in now so it's worth a shot. Fingers crossed something great comes along for me soon! :)
Tonight is my son's "Meet the Teacher" night. I think we are all SUPER excited - I hope he/she is great! Of course I have to drive there and then back to downtown for a dinner tonight because my life couldn't get any busier/complicated if I tried! Ha! This morning one of my tires read really low so in my dress for work I filled it up and about to go check on it to make sure it's not going flat again. I'm hoping it was a random incident due to the heat!
In other good news, we tried out a church last Sunday that I've been wanting to try out for a long time, and we really liked it. I think we are going to go back again this Sunday and bring our son along this time and let him go to the Wee Worship that they have. Ha! Right now, I really need something like this in my life, so I'm glad it is starting to work out. Now I hope we can meet some great people there too because I'm getting really tired of all of my friends being crappy friends!!!
Other than that, not a whole lot else to report - just trying to survive day by day! Hope you all have a great rest of the week and hope to have good updates again soon. :)
Tonight is my son's "Meet the Teacher" night. I think we are all SUPER excited - I hope he/she is great! Of course I have to drive there and then back to downtown for a dinner tonight because my life couldn't get any busier/complicated if I tried! Ha! This morning one of my tires read really low so in my dress for work I filled it up and about to go check on it to make sure it's not going flat again. I'm hoping it was a random incident due to the heat!
In other good news, we tried out a church last Sunday that I've been wanting to try out for a long time, and we really liked it. I think we are going to go back again this Sunday and bring our son along this time and let him go to the Wee Worship that they have. Ha! Right now, I really need something like this in my life, so I'm glad it is starting to work out. Now I hope we can meet some great people there too because I'm getting really tired of all of my friends being crappy friends!!!
Other than that, not a whole lot else to report - just trying to survive day by day! Hope you all have a great rest of the week and hope to have good updates again soon. :)
8.04.2011
Where Has the Time Gone?
Time flies these days. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a not so good way. I have a lot to write about but most of it is frustration so I've been avoiding writing because I don't want everyone to think of me as a negative person. I swear I'm not! I'm just ready for a change and my patience is wearing very thin with my work situation and yet there isn't much I can do about it. So I'm trying to suck it up and move forward and just hope that a positive change comes very soon!
On the positive side, we are on vacation this week at the beach. It's so relaxing. It's one thing I miss from growing up in Florida - the sound of the ocean and the way it can instaneously relax me. I wish it was closer so that when I'm stressed, I could just listen to the waves and relax. This vacation couldn't have come at a better time and I'm thankful to have the opportunity to do it. I love spending time with my husband and son and not having to think about work too much (still have worked 1.5-2 hours each day but at least it's on my own time!). I love having time to read a good book (reading "One Day" this week and really enjoying it) and "sleeping in" a little bit until 7:30 or 8 and staying up a little later. I love enjoying all of the great seafood down here and get tanned at the beach and fishing and all of the fun things about this place.
I can't believe it but my son starts kindergarten in a few short weeks. I couldn't be prouder of him. He has learned how to swim well this summer and is not afraid any more. He is doing so well with his school stuff and is excited about kindergarten which is great. I am a nerd and always loved school so I'm hoping he will feel the same. I hope he gets a great teacher!!!
My brief comment on work is that things are pretty much the same as before but EVEN WORSE because they have hired a complete idiot to be our employee in the other Texas office. She can't even use a computer properly. It's ridiculous. So instead of getting help, we are having to babysit someone and make things take longer. Good times! To top it off, every few weeks my boss randomly decides to yell at me for no reason whatsoever and I feel like I'm constantly under so much stress yet no additional pay or career path available. It's infuriating!
Before I left for vacation, my stress level had caused my shoulder/arm/back muscles to get so tense that I was having pains in my left arm which was then causing panic attacks because I of course thought I was having a heart attack or something. Luckily, I got a massage here on Monday and she was a lifesaver working it all out. I just hate what this job is doing to my body, but I also don't know when/if I can change it any time soon. I had a phone interview last week, but found out this week that they decided to not move forward with me for interviews. So I either stink at interviewing or they don't believe that I'm capable of as much as I am because the things my current work is doing to hold me back doesn't speak as highly of me as it should. Or maybe a combination of the two. Either way, I need to resign myself to the fact that this is how things are and try to deal with it however I can for now.
We went to a church the weekend before we went out of town but didn't really like it. However, I'm really excited to try out another one not this weekend because we will just be getting home, but the next weekend I'm hoping we can go. I've heard it's great, I've watched a bunch of the sermons online, and I think it might be want we are looking for. Fingers crossed because I feel like I need that in my life right now (and wouldn't mind meeting some good people as many of our friends have been flaky lately!).
Also, if you haven't seen "Horrible Bosses" run to the theater now! I thought it was awesome. Be forewarned that there is a lot of bad language and "dirty" scenes, but it's HILARIOUS if you aren't offended by that type of thing. I think I love it so much because 1) I have a horrible boss myself! and 2) it is funny because it's so true to life on the idiosyncracies of work life.
I think that's all I've got for now - maybe I can keep up with this more by making time to write things out and hopefully that will help with the stress as well! I start traveling the week I get back (overnight trip to our other Texas office), then have one week off, and then start the next week with my heavy fall travel which will last through late October. Ugh! At least we are taking 2 days off in October for a mini-vacation with my parents during our son's fall break. For now, I'm going to enjoy the vacation - talk to you later!
P.S. Note to self - don't watch Shark Week when you're at the beach! My brother-in-law keeps putting it on and it's driving me crazy and making me scared to go into the ocean!
On the positive side, we are on vacation this week at the beach. It's so relaxing. It's one thing I miss from growing up in Florida - the sound of the ocean and the way it can instaneously relax me. I wish it was closer so that when I'm stressed, I could just listen to the waves and relax. This vacation couldn't have come at a better time and I'm thankful to have the opportunity to do it. I love spending time with my husband and son and not having to think about work too much (still have worked 1.5-2 hours each day but at least it's on my own time!). I love having time to read a good book (reading "One Day" this week and really enjoying it) and "sleeping in" a little bit until 7:30 or 8 and staying up a little later. I love enjoying all of the great seafood down here and get tanned at the beach and fishing and all of the fun things about this place.
I can't believe it but my son starts kindergarten in a few short weeks. I couldn't be prouder of him. He has learned how to swim well this summer and is not afraid any more. He is doing so well with his school stuff and is excited about kindergarten which is great. I am a nerd and always loved school so I'm hoping he will feel the same. I hope he gets a great teacher!!!
My brief comment on work is that things are pretty much the same as before but EVEN WORSE because they have hired a complete idiot to be our employee in the other Texas office. She can't even use a computer properly. It's ridiculous. So instead of getting help, we are having to babysit someone and make things take longer. Good times! To top it off, every few weeks my boss randomly decides to yell at me for no reason whatsoever and I feel like I'm constantly under so much stress yet no additional pay or career path available. It's infuriating!
Before I left for vacation, my stress level had caused my shoulder/arm/back muscles to get so tense that I was having pains in my left arm which was then causing panic attacks because I of course thought I was having a heart attack or something. Luckily, I got a massage here on Monday and she was a lifesaver working it all out. I just hate what this job is doing to my body, but I also don't know when/if I can change it any time soon. I had a phone interview last week, but found out this week that they decided to not move forward with me for interviews. So I either stink at interviewing or they don't believe that I'm capable of as much as I am because the things my current work is doing to hold me back doesn't speak as highly of me as it should. Or maybe a combination of the two. Either way, I need to resign myself to the fact that this is how things are and try to deal with it however I can for now.
We went to a church the weekend before we went out of town but didn't really like it. However, I'm really excited to try out another one not this weekend because we will just be getting home, but the next weekend I'm hoping we can go. I've heard it's great, I've watched a bunch of the sermons online, and I think it might be want we are looking for. Fingers crossed because I feel like I need that in my life right now (and wouldn't mind meeting some good people as many of our friends have been flaky lately!).
Also, if you haven't seen "Horrible Bosses" run to the theater now! I thought it was awesome. Be forewarned that there is a lot of bad language and "dirty" scenes, but it's HILARIOUS if you aren't offended by that type of thing. I think I love it so much because 1) I have a horrible boss myself! and 2) it is funny because it's so true to life on the idiosyncracies of work life.
I think that's all I've got for now - maybe I can keep up with this more by making time to write things out and hopefully that will help with the stress as well! I start traveling the week I get back (overnight trip to our other Texas office), then have one week off, and then start the next week with my heavy fall travel which will last through late October. Ugh! At least we are taking 2 days off in October for a mini-vacation with my parents during our son's fall break. For now, I'm going to enjoy the vacation - talk to you later!
P.S. Note to self - don't watch Shark Week when you're at the beach! My brother-in-law keeps putting it on and it's driving me crazy and making me scared to go into the ocean!
6.15.2011
Aha!
I think I figured it out! It had something to do with the way my Internet Explorer was randomly blocking cookies on some sites, so I put blogger.com into my Always Allow cookies part of Options and now it seems to be working! Hurray! :)
In other news, I have about zero desire to work today so I've been doing stuff and scoping around on the Internet because we are going to Vegas this weekend! I hadn't really thought about it a lot before, but I'm excited now that it's almost here. My mom arrives tomorrow night to watch our son for the weekend, and my hubby and I are off to Vegas with his parents on Friday morning until Sunday (it's his dad's 60th birthday on Saturday so we are going out there to celebrate). I can't wait! Friday night we get to have a "date night" of sorts because we are going to see "O" and they have already been before so they aren't going with us. So we made reservations at a restaurant at the Paris hotel (we get to stay at the Bellagio!) and then will go see "O" and then I'm dragging hubby over to Caesar's to go to Serendipty3 for the Frozen Hot Chocolate - can't wait! :) If you have any other suggestions for the weekend, please let me know!
Will post again soon I hope!
In other news, I have about zero desire to work today so I've been doing stuff and scoping around on the Internet because we are going to Vegas this weekend! I hadn't really thought about it a lot before, but I'm excited now that it's almost here. My mom arrives tomorrow night to watch our son for the weekend, and my hubby and I are off to Vegas with his parents on Friday morning until Sunday (it's his dad's 60th birthday on Saturday so we are going out there to celebrate). I can't wait! Friday night we get to have a "date night" of sorts because we are going to see "O" and they have already been before so they aren't going with us. So we made reservations at a restaurant at the Paris hotel (we get to stay at the Bellagio!) and then will go see "O" and then I'm dragging hubby over to Caesar's to go to Serendipty3 for the Frozen Hot Chocolate - can't wait! :) If you have any other suggestions for the weekend, please let me know!
Will post again soon I hope!
5.17.2011
Things Are Looking Up!
Things are definitely looking up these days. We have had BEAUTIFUL weather here and I think it makes all the difference in my mood. Of course, we are supposed to have storms later this week/weekend, but it's okay because we've had a week of great weather! I have the windows open now enjoying the breeze! Here's what I'm thankful for right now:
1) We just finished a wonderful weekend with my parents. We all got along really well and had a lot of fun, and I'm glad they were able to come and be part of our son's PreK graduation (too cute!). I am also very thankful because they helped us purchase our son's new bedroom furniture (now need to sell the old furniture to get some $$ for new paint and bedding!) and also bought me some new clothes for work so I will be styling when I go back to Boston at the end of the month for my training sessions.
2) If we can get ourselves motivated by this new furniture arrival, we can get our house back in order and start making fun additions to the house. My next big wish is some new flooring - not sure if/when that can happen, but I'm hoping maybe by Christmas/the new year if we can find an option where we can make payments with no interest!
3) There is a SMALL chance that something at work might open up soon in my favor. I'm trying not to get my hopes up at all because at this point it's just a rumor and I'm not even sure if they would actually be cool enough to consider me for it (even though I'm quite qualified). But I heard yesterday that the HR manager (who actually isn't all that great at her job to begin with) has fallen in love with some guy in another city down south and is talking about moving soon to be with him. Since we don't have an office in that city, she would obviously have to leave the company, but apparently she claims the reason she is out sick all of the time is due to stress at work. It is a stressful environment but I think some people are more equipped to handle it than others. I am just praying that she does decide to move and then that I can land the job!!!! Maybe this is what the plan has been for me all along?! Only time will tell...keep your fingers crossed!
4) The Dallas Mavs are in the Western Conference championships starting tonight, and I just found out that we got free tickets to go from hubby's work! I'm excited! Originally we thought we only had 2 so hubby and son were going to go but now we have 4 so I get to go too. I will be sleepy tomorrow but it will be worth it!!!
Hope you all are doing well and hope I can keep up my positive attitude. Ready for things to keep progressing! Next to-dos are to start exploring churches and keep working on the house! Life is good!
1) We just finished a wonderful weekend with my parents. We all got along really well and had a lot of fun, and I'm glad they were able to come and be part of our son's PreK graduation (too cute!). I am also very thankful because they helped us purchase our son's new bedroom furniture (now need to sell the old furniture to get some $$ for new paint and bedding!) and also bought me some new clothes for work so I will be styling when I go back to Boston at the end of the month for my training sessions.
2) If we can get ourselves motivated by this new furniture arrival, we can get our house back in order and start making fun additions to the house. My next big wish is some new flooring - not sure if/when that can happen, but I'm hoping maybe by Christmas/the new year if we can find an option where we can make payments with no interest!
3) There is a SMALL chance that something at work might open up soon in my favor. I'm trying not to get my hopes up at all because at this point it's just a rumor and I'm not even sure if they would actually be cool enough to consider me for it (even though I'm quite qualified). But I heard yesterday that the HR manager (who actually isn't all that great at her job to begin with) has fallen in love with some guy in another city down south and is talking about moving soon to be with him. Since we don't have an office in that city, she would obviously have to leave the company, but apparently she claims the reason she is out sick all of the time is due to stress at work. It is a stressful environment but I think some people are more equipped to handle it than others. I am just praying that she does decide to move and then that I can land the job!!!! Maybe this is what the plan has been for me all along?! Only time will tell...keep your fingers crossed!
4) The Dallas Mavs are in the Western Conference championships starting tonight, and I just found out that we got free tickets to go from hubby's work! I'm excited! Originally we thought we only had 2 so hubby and son were going to go but now we have 4 so I get to go too. I will be sleepy tomorrow but it will be worth it!!!
Hope you all are doing well and hope I can keep up my positive attitude. Ready for things to keep progressing! Next to-dos are to start exploring churches and keep working on the house! Life is good!
4.05.2011
Weekend Update & The Craziness of the Week
I've been a slacker for a few days and haven't posted. So here goes a quick version:
-Friday night, we went to dinner with Alli and the Architect. It was fabulous! The Architect is a great guy (and we all know how great Alli is!), and the four of us spent over 3 hours just chatting away about everything from work to friends to everything in between. It was a blast and I can't wait to do it again! :)
-Saturday, I got a lot of errands done that I really needed to do: got our son's savings account transferred over to the new bank and requested an ATM card so we could make ATM deposits, went by the library to drop off and pick up books, took and picked up a photo of what I want for hubby's birthday cake (we are doing a Hawaiian theme so I took a picture of one of his Hawaiian shirts and they are going to do a pull-apart cupcake cake in that design), picked up party decorations for the party (it's his 30th!), went to Target and did some grocery shopping (and got the new Target debit card so I can now save 5%, get pharmacy rewards, and give rewards to our son's new elementary school - love me some Target!), and then finished up the bakery/meats/produce shopping that evening after dinner. It was a whirlwind day but we got everything done! :) We also got to go out to dinner with another of our favorite couples - the husband is one of my hubby's best friends since like 2nd grade and the wife went to school with them as well and they have a daughter who is a bit older than our son and are expecting another baby at the very end of May.
-Sunday, I got up and did my 3rd run for week 1 of the Couch to 5K. For my reward in completing the first week, I purchased "E.T" by Katy Perry (the regular version, not the one with Kanye because that one is a bit too dirty for my taste and I usually don't get bothered by that stuff!) and the new Britney song (something about on the dance floor!). :) Then we headed to R2GoKids to check out some new furniture for the little guy. The main piece we are looking at is below. We love it because we think it will be functional for a long time and his room is kind of small so it will allow him to have lots of storage plus a desk and two bed options. We are going to keep looking a bit more and mainly research mattresses and hopefully purchase it in the next month or two.
The rest of Sunday was lots of laundry and trying to clean up the house although we have a lot of spring cleaning yet to do! :)
After such a fabulous weekend, I didn't want it to end and have to go back to work and yesterday started off crazy with scary thunderstorms waking me up in the middle of the night, followed by forgetting my laptop at home and having to turn around yesterday morning, and just a generally tense mood around here because it's "review" week. I'm sure I will have more good stories to tell soon enough! ;)
Other than that, I did my 1st run of my 2nd week of the couch to 5K this morning and it felt really good. We also did our workout here after work last night so I'm getting in a groove with the workout part of my life at least. ;) Looking forward to the weekend even though it's already Tuesday because this is a rough week and I'm ready just to relax and celebrate my hubby's birthday (which is actually Monday but we are big into birthday weekends in our family and his party is Saturday night!). :) Hope you are having a good week and will try to check in more often.
-Friday night, we went to dinner with Alli and the Architect. It was fabulous! The Architect is a great guy (and we all know how great Alli is!), and the four of us spent over 3 hours just chatting away about everything from work to friends to everything in between. It was a blast and I can't wait to do it again! :)
-Saturday, I got a lot of errands done that I really needed to do: got our son's savings account transferred over to the new bank and requested an ATM card so we could make ATM deposits, went by the library to drop off and pick up books, took and picked up a photo of what I want for hubby's birthday cake (we are doing a Hawaiian theme so I took a picture of one of his Hawaiian shirts and they are going to do a pull-apart cupcake cake in that design), picked up party decorations for the party (it's his 30th!), went to Target and did some grocery shopping (and got the new Target debit card so I can now save 5%, get pharmacy rewards, and give rewards to our son's new elementary school - love me some Target!), and then finished up the bakery/meats/produce shopping that evening after dinner. It was a whirlwind day but we got everything done! :) We also got to go out to dinner with another of our favorite couples - the husband is one of my hubby's best friends since like 2nd grade and the wife went to school with them as well and they have a daughter who is a bit older than our son and are expecting another baby at the very end of May.
-Sunday, I got up and did my 3rd run for week 1 of the Couch to 5K. For my reward in completing the first week, I purchased "E.T" by Katy Perry (the regular version, not the one with Kanye because that one is a bit too dirty for my taste and I usually don't get bothered by that stuff!) and the new Britney song (something about on the dance floor!). :) Then we headed to R2GoKids to check out some new furniture for the little guy. The main piece we are looking at is below. We love it because we think it will be functional for a long time and his room is kind of small so it will allow him to have lots of storage plus a desk and two bed options. We are going to keep looking a bit more and mainly research mattresses and hopefully purchase it in the next month or two.
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| Photo from Rooms to Go Kids website |
After such a fabulous weekend, I didn't want it to end and have to go back to work and yesterday started off crazy with scary thunderstorms waking me up in the middle of the night, followed by forgetting my laptop at home and having to turn around yesterday morning, and just a generally tense mood around here because it's "review" week. I'm sure I will have more good stories to tell soon enough! ;)
Other than that, I did my 1st run of my 2nd week of the couch to 5K this morning and it felt really good. We also did our workout here after work last night so I'm getting in a groove with the workout part of my life at least. ;) Looking forward to the weekend even though it's already Tuesday because this is a rough week and I'm ready just to relax and celebrate my hubby's birthday (which is actually Monday but we are big into birthday weekends in our family and his party is Saturday night!). :) Hope you are having a good week and will try to check in more often.
3.29.2011
Motivation
Since my surgery in January, I have really needed the motivation to work out since my stomach is all fluffy and poochy and not bathing suit ready. It's tough because I had to take 6 weeks off post surgery and was busy with work, etc. And then of course I ate and drank way more than usual on vacation last week (oops!) ;) But I am trying to motivate myself to get active because it will help with my health, my confidence, and my looks.
After reading a posting by Outside Oklahoma, I checked out the Couch to 5K training program online. Now my hubby is obviously good at running and enjoys it. He just finished his 3rd half-marathon this weekend and runs about 5 miles about 5 times a week. I don't want to be like that nor do I think I will ever do a half marathon. But a 5k is doable and would give me the start to run a bit each day. Each session is only 20-30 minutes long which is definitely possible, so I started the first session of the first week this morning and I SURVIVED! Hopefully, I can be like GFF and run my own 5K soon! And if nothing else, it will give me some good workouts 3 days a week.
I've also been doing videos with some friends at work 2 times per week. We start around 5:30 in the big conference room in the back and work out for 30-60 minutes to a workout video. It is pretty cool because we are accountable to each other to attend and also can b!tch and moan together while it is going on! :) I am definitely grateful for the friendships I have made here at work if for nothing else and they are additional motivation for me to get back in shape.
Last week, I wore a 2 piece tankini bathing suit the whole week which didn't look terrible but it's old and not my favorite. But I refuse to buy another tankini because I really want to fit back into my regular bikinis by swimsuit season. So here's hoping this motivation for running and videos will help me make it!
After reading a posting by Outside Oklahoma, I checked out the Couch to 5K training program online. Now my hubby is obviously good at running and enjoys it. He just finished his 3rd half-marathon this weekend and runs about 5 miles about 5 times a week. I don't want to be like that nor do I think I will ever do a half marathon. But a 5k is doable and would give me the start to run a bit each day. Each session is only 20-30 minutes long which is definitely possible, so I started the first session of the first week this morning and I SURVIVED! Hopefully, I can be like GFF and run my own 5K soon! And if nothing else, it will give me some good workouts 3 days a week.
I've also been doing videos with some friends at work 2 times per week. We start around 5:30 in the big conference room in the back and work out for 30-60 minutes to a workout video. It is pretty cool because we are accountable to each other to attend and also can b!tch and moan together while it is going on! :) I am definitely grateful for the friendships I have made here at work if for nothing else and they are additional motivation for me to get back in shape.
Last week, I wore a 2 piece tankini bathing suit the whole week which didn't look terrible but it's old and not my favorite. But I refuse to buy another tankini because I really want to fit back into my regular bikinis by swimsuit season. So here's hoping this motivation for running and videos will help me make it!
3.28.2011
I'm Back!
I can honestly say that this is the first trip in a REALLY long time where I actually enjoyed myself 100% and had a true vacation. It was so wonderful not thinking about the bs of life on a daily basis. I didn't worry about money or work or Cooper's school or any of the things that cause me stress on a daily basis. I just enjoyed time with my two guys and my family and it was great. We relaxed most days going shopping and then to the beach and pool, and the weather was awesome every day except for Friday which is pretty great! I wish every vacation and day could be so carefree and fun.
Of course, we got home on Saturday night and were slapped with reality on Sunday with cold, rainy weather, Austin injuring himself a bit (luckily just a minor sprain of his calf) on his half marathon, and the $$$!!! bill at the pet hotel from putting the dog up for the week we were gone. Oh and then grocery bills at the store and Sam's...and now this morning back to the craziness that I call work.
I tried not to think about work much while I was gone and it was nice as it has been consuming my life in many ways lately. Of course, I have come right back to the time which will be rough as I will be likely getting my review and piddly raise sometime in the next two weeks. Also, I'm just not sure what to do and I hate this helpless feeling. I don't think I'm being treated fairly here and have no opportunities for advancement and have an annoying boss who doesn't care about my career at all and lets the whole office steamroll us without ever pushing back. And yet I have some of the best benefits you can imagine with our insurance and vacation and things which will be hard to find somewhere else and are very important to our family with my hubby's Type 1 diabetes and my endometriosis. It just sucks to be stuck. I would be fine if there was something here that I can move into or some change I could consider, but as of right now, there is nothing. So I either have to just deal or try to find something else which is equally as good and will probably take forever to find. What a mess!
The weather is kind of crappy here this week, but I'm looking forward to this weekend as I get to meet up with Allison & the Architect for dinner on Friday night and some other friends on Saturday night. Lots of laundry to do too but it was worth it for the fun we had last week! :)
I need some motivation. I wonder what classes I could take and get the company to cover this year! :)
Of course, we got home on Saturday night and were slapped with reality on Sunday with cold, rainy weather, Austin injuring himself a bit (luckily just a minor sprain of his calf) on his half marathon, and the $$$!!! bill at the pet hotel from putting the dog up for the week we were gone. Oh and then grocery bills at the store and Sam's...and now this morning back to the craziness that I call work.
I tried not to think about work much while I was gone and it was nice as it has been consuming my life in many ways lately. Of course, I have come right back to the time which will be rough as I will be likely getting my review and piddly raise sometime in the next two weeks. Also, I'm just not sure what to do and I hate this helpless feeling. I don't think I'm being treated fairly here and have no opportunities for advancement and have an annoying boss who doesn't care about my career at all and lets the whole office steamroll us without ever pushing back. And yet I have some of the best benefits you can imagine with our insurance and vacation and things which will be hard to find somewhere else and are very important to our family with my hubby's Type 1 diabetes and my endometriosis. It just sucks to be stuck. I would be fine if there was something here that I can move into or some change I could consider, but as of right now, there is nothing. So I either have to just deal or try to find something else which is equally as good and will probably take forever to find. What a mess!
The weather is kind of crappy here this week, but I'm looking forward to this weekend as I get to meet up with Allison & the Architect for dinner on Friday night and some other friends on Saturday night. Lots of laundry to do too but it was worth it for the fun we had last week! :)
I need some motivation. I wonder what classes I could take and get the company to cover this year! :)
3.15.2011
It's Going to Be Okay
Update to my earlier post today - just got a call from my son's pediatrician and the xray was okay. He does have a mild curve to the right but it is only 7 degrees which isn't bad (must be 15-30+ to be considered scoliosis), and hopefully we can just watch it once a year to make sure it doesn't get worse and hopefully as he grows again, it will get better. I haven't been able to think of much of anything else the whole day, so I was relieved to get that call. The pediatrician is going to talk to his orthopod friend just to make sure that he wouldn't recommend anything else, but I think we are out of the woods for now at least! :) Thank God for everything He does great and small - we needed this good news!
3.14.2011
5 Years
Today is my little man's fifth birthday! Where oh where has the time gone? I know that before I know it another five or ten years will go by, but for now, I can barely believe he is already five. I still remember preparing for his arrival, meeting him for the first time, bringing him home to meet his furry brother and sister, and all of the many memories from his first few months and years of life. He has been a wonderful blessing to our family and has made me a better person just by being around him. I may not be a perfect mother, but he loves me unconditionally and makes me feel good even when I'm feeling down. He is the best, and he is growing up way too fast, but he will ALWAYS be my baby!
3.11.2011
Perspective
Yesterday morning, I woke up refreshed and decided I needed an attitude adjustment and that I just needed to let things take their course and that everything happens for a reason. It isn't easy for me to do because I'm a PLANNER by nature, but I need to let go and let live and just do the best I can with what we have and be thankful for that.
Yesterday around mid-day, I got an e-mail saying that our son had been approved for admission to our 1st choice elementary school. This was such a relief! We had really struggled about where to send him for kindergarten this fall because of money and multiple factors. We really wanted to send him to private school, but we just can't afford it right now, so our plan was to find an alternative for elementary because we had more options for elementary, and then by the time he hits middle school, we will either hopefully make more money/save more money to send him for middle & high school and/or move to a better school district at those levels.
We did a lottery for a charter school in the area, but he was #3 on the waiting list and we haven't heard anything further. Plus, I'm a little worried because it is located by my work which is convenient now, but if I ever change jobs or even if I stay, our office plans to move towards the downtown/uptown area by 2012 so it might be tough on all of us to have him have to commute as well. So then we started looking at options in our school district. The school we are directly assigned to is okay but its ratings have been slipping and I wanted to see what other options there might be. I found out our school district allows you to apply for intradistrict transfers, so I chose the best school that was not too far from our house and applied. And yesterday, I found out he got in! I couldn't be happier, and he will now be a "Gator" for his mascot which makes me happy since I'm originally from Florida! :)
So yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day and I know that He will provide for us when we need it - just need to keep myself more positive! Of course this morning, I woke up to the news about the horrible earthquake and tsunamis and it gave me even more perspective. I felt like a complete @$$ for complaining about my job. Life sure has ways of reminding you to make the most of each day and don't taking anything for granted because it can change so quickly. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan as well as those in Hawaii and the west coast although it seems like they have dodged a bullet some. We will see still I guess!
I am excited for the weekend because we have lots of fun activities planned to celebrate our son's 5th birthday on Monday and lots to do to get ready for our vacation in a week! I can't wait to have some time off! :)
Yesterday around mid-day, I got an e-mail saying that our son had been approved for admission to our 1st choice elementary school. This was such a relief! We had really struggled about where to send him for kindergarten this fall because of money and multiple factors. We really wanted to send him to private school, but we just can't afford it right now, so our plan was to find an alternative for elementary because we had more options for elementary, and then by the time he hits middle school, we will either hopefully make more money/save more money to send him for middle & high school and/or move to a better school district at those levels.
We did a lottery for a charter school in the area, but he was #3 on the waiting list and we haven't heard anything further. Plus, I'm a little worried because it is located by my work which is convenient now, but if I ever change jobs or even if I stay, our office plans to move towards the downtown/uptown area by 2012 so it might be tough on all of us to have him have to commute as well. So then we started looking at options in our school district. The school we are directly assigned to is okay but its ratings have been slipping and I wanted to see what other options there might be. I found out our school district allows you to apply for intradistrict transfers, so I chose the best school that was not too far from our house and applied. And yesterday, I found out he got in! I couldn't be happier, and he will now be a "Gator" for his mascot which makes me happy since I'm originally from Florida! :)
So yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day and I know that He will provide for us when we need it - just need to keep myself more positive! Of course this morning, I woke up to the news about the horrible earthquake and tsunamis and it gave me even more perspective. I felt like a complete @$$ for complaining about my job. Life sure has ways of reminding you to make the most of each day and don't taking anything for granted because it can change so quickly. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan as well as those in Hawaii and the west coast although it seems like they have dodged a bullet some. We will see still I guess!
I am excited for the weekend because we have lots of fun activities planned to celebrate our son's 5th birthday on Monday and lots to do to get ready for our vacation in a week! I can't wait to have some time off! :)
1.03.2011
Hello 2011!
Even though I have been off work for the past 10 days, we have been busy busy bees! But it has been a ton of fun! I can't wait until later this month when I can hopefully get my iPhone for work, and then I can actually post more pictures (always forget otherwise to get out the camera!). Here is a quick recap:
Pre-Christmas: Did a LOT of cooking which was so fun since I had gotten a few new gadgets as early Christmas gifts! Went to see the Peanuts Ice! at the Gaylord Texan and had a ton of fun!
Christmas: Even though we cut back A LOT this year, we had an amazing Christmas! I don't know why we have felt in the past that Christmas had to be this big production because we all had a wonderful Christmas this year, got a few great things that we really wanted, and overall had a wonderful weekend. I am so thankful that we were able to give our son and each other a few great gifts and I really enjoyed the holidays this year.
Post-Christmas: I decided to let my son stay home from school the week between Christmas and New Year's since I was going to be home anyways. We had to pay for that week regardless but at least he and I got some great bonding time which we had been missing out on from all of my travel in the fall. I am SO thankful for this time we had together because we had a blast! Sure, I could have probably gotten more done around the house if I had dropped him off for a few hours each day, but I am his mommy and I was so glad to have the extra time with him. We did a little cooking and cleaning and relaxed a lot, playing with his new toys and gifts from the holidays. We also got to go to the Armed Forces Bowl on Thursday, and even though S-M-U lost, we had a blast!
New Year's Eve/New Year's Day: We didn't do a ton for NYE, but we went to my favorite dinner spot (Tillman's) with hubby's family and then came home, got in our PJs, and had a family game night on the Wii! :) On Saturday, we were cleaning like crazy in preparation for my parents' arrival tomorrow, and then we were able to have my best friend, her hubby, and son over for dinner. It was so awesome to spend our first day of 2011 with them because we hadn't seen them in awhile, and I have known her for over 25 years! It was great to just be in the company of great friends. Yesterday was mostly cleaning, taking down the inside Christmas decorations, and trying to get the house back in order.
Things I learned on my break:
1) I am SUPER BLESSED to have such loving friends and family! We had a great holiday break and I am thankful for our health and happiness!
2) 1100 page books are REALLY long especially when it's not necessarily one you would pick on your own - I'm reading "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for my book club at work, and while it's not terrible, it is a really long book to be reading when the subject matter is disturbing and it wouldn't be my first choice in books!
3) I don't do well with being "bored" - that seems silly but the days that I didn't really get out of the house, I started to get stir crazy a bit! I guess I just like to be an active person even if that means running to the library or just moving around somehow!
4) Wii games can be frustrating to a 4 year old and can bring out a side of them that you never want to see! ;)
Up next: I am off work again today, but have to go in this afternoon to do my pre-op appointment with my doctor and the hospital so I took my son back to school this morning to get him back in his routine. Caught up on all my work e-mail and cleaned the house some more! Tomorrow will work a full day of work and then be out for 2 weeks (working from home some) for my surgery which is Wednesday morning. I'm not as worried about the actual surgery as I am the anesthesia (as usual) so when I wake up in recovery on Wednesday morning, I will be happy even though I will probably be in a lot of pain! I am just ready to get this all over with and move on with 2011!
Not sure if I will write before then, but your thoughts and prayers would be much appreciated and I will try to post when I'm home later this week (only one night in the hospital if all goes well). Hope you all had a great holiday season and let's all try to work on making 2011 the best year yet (even if we are all dealing with rough starts in one way or another!).
Pre-Christmas: Did a LOT of cooking which was so fun since I had gotten a few new gadgets as early Christmas gifts! Went to see the Peanuts Ice! at the Gaylord Texan and had a ton of fun!
Christmas: Even though we cut back A LOT this year, we had an amazing Christmas! I don't know why we have felt in the past that Christmas had to be this big production because we all had a wonderful Christmas this year, got a few great things that we really wanted, and overall had a wonderful weekend. I am so thankful that we were able to give our son and each other a few great gifts and I really enjoyed the holidays this year.
Post-Christmas: I decided to let my son stay home from school the week between Christmas and New Year's since I was going to be home anyways. We had to pay for that week regardless but at least he and I got some great bonding time which we had been missing out on from all of my travel in the fall. I am SO thankful for this time we had together because we had a blast! Sure, I could have probably gotten more done around the house if I had dropped him off for a few hours each day, but I am his mommy and I was so glad to have the extra time with him. We did a little cooking and cleaning and relaxed a lot, playing with his new toys and gifts from the holidays. We also got to go to the Armed Forces Bowl on Thursday, and even though S-M-U lost, we had a blast!
New Year's Eve/New Year's Day: We didn't do a ton for NYE, but we went to my favorite dinner spot (Tillman's) with hubby's family and then came home, got in our PJs, and had a family game night on the Wii! :) On Saturday, we were cleaning like crazy in preparation for my parents' arrival tomorrow, and then we were able to have my best friend, her hubby, and son over for dinner. It was so awesome to spend our first day of 2011 with them because we hadn't seen them in awhile, and I have known her for over 25 years! It was great to just be in the company of great friends. Yesterday was mostly cleaning, taking down the inside Christmas decorations, and trying to get the house back in order.
Things I learned on my break:
1) I am SUPER BLESSED to have such loving friends and family! We had a great holiday break and I am thankful for our health and happiness!
2) 1100 page books are REALLY long especially when it's not necessarily one you would pick on your own - I'm reading "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for my book club at work, and while it's not terrible, it is a really long book to be reading when the subject matter is disturbing and it wouldn't be my first choice in books!
3) I don't do well with being "bored" - that seems silly but the days that I didn't really get out of the house, I started to get stir crazy a bit! I guess I just like to be an active person even if that means running to the library or just moving around somehow!
4) Wii games can be frustrating to a 4 year old and can bring out a side of them that you never want to see! ;)
Up next: I am off work again today, but have to go in this afternoon to do my pre-op appointment with my doctor and the hospital so I took my son back to school this morning to get him back in his routine. Caught up on all my work e-mail and cleaned the house some more! Tomorrow will work a full day of work and then be out for 2 weeks (working from home some) for my surgery which is Wednesday morning. I'm not as worried about the actual surgery as I am the anesthesia (as usual) so when I wake up in recovery on Wednesday morning, I will be happy even though I will probably be in a lot of pain! I am just ready to get this all over with and move on with 2011!
Not sure if I will write before then, but your thoughts and prayers would be much appreciated and I will try to post when I'm home later this week (only one night in the hospital if all goes well). Hope you all had a great holiday season and let's all try to work on making 2011 the best year yet (even if we are all dealing with rough starts in one way or another!).
12.21.2010
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Not really, but I couldn't resist writing the lyrics to the song! Last night, we randomly woke up around 2 am (thought about setting an alarm but never got a round to it) and so since we were (sort of) up, we decided to go outside and check out the lunar eclipse. I think it was the first one there has been in like 172 years or something crazy and even longer since it has coincided with the winter solstice. The moon was beautiful last night as we were driving home, and I was hoping it would still be large and clear skies when we went out at 2 am. It was a little more cloudy and it had risen to the top of the sky so it was a bit harder to see but still very cool. It had a reddish tint, and we tried to get pictures but it was just too hard with the cameras we had. We got to look at it a little more up close though through the binoculars we found. Pretty cool! I enjoyed it even more because it was something fun that hubby and I got to share just the two of us while our son was sleeping inside. :) I'm a little sleepy this morning because of it but it was definitely worth it!
12.20.2010
Woohoo - Go Mustangs!
For the 2nd year in a row, my S-M-U Mustangs are headed to a bowl game! And this year, they were chosen for the Armed Forces Bowl which is normally played at the T-C-U stadium. In a random coincidence though, T-C-U has decided to do construction on their stadium this winter, and the game was rescheduled to be played in the S-M-U stadium before the teams were even picked. So they get to play AT HOME for their bowl game which is pretty cool!
It's on the 30th at 11 in the morning though which is kind of random, so hubby will still be working. I was thinking of buying some $10 general admission seats for the endzone grass section for my son and me if the weather was good, but I found out today that one of the girls I know from S-M-U and my dance class I used to take at the local community college nearby got tickets from her dad for Christmas and offered 2 of them to me! So not only are we going to get go now but we have good seats AND a special parking pass! I'm so excited to take my buddy to the bowl game!!!! :) I just ordered us some gear to wear (sadly I don't have any t-shirts from there other than old shirts from my sorority that I sleep in) and we will be all set for next week!
The last couple of days have been great on the gift giving and fun parts of Christmas. I was also surprised on Friday afternoon by a really nice card and $100 Visa gift card from one of my managers and one of my partners that I work for! They told me how much they appreciated all my hard work this year and know that it has been tough but that they couldn't do it without me. Felt really good! :)
Let's hope this holiday giving keeps on going - definitely lightened my mood since I was otherwise stressed about the $$ situation going into these holidays, but I am so blessed to have such great friends and family to make this another great Christmas!
It's on the 30th at 11 in the morning though which is kind of random, so hubby will still be working. I was thinking of buying some $10 general admission seats for the endzone grass section for my son and me if the weather was good, but I found out today that one of the girls I know from S-M-U and my dance class I used to take at the local community college nearby got tickets from her dad for Christmas and offered 2 of them to me! So not only are we going to get go now but we have good seats AND a special parking pass! I'm so excited to take my buddy to the bowl game!!!! :) I just ordered us some gear to wear (sadly I don't have any t-shirts from there other than old shirts from my sorority that I sleep in) and we will be all set for next week!
The last couple of days have been great on the gift giving and fun parts of Christmas. I was also surprised on Friday afternoon by a really nice card and $100 Visa gift card from one of my managers and one of my partners that I work for! They told me how much they appreciated all my hard work this year and know that it has been tough but that they couldn't do it without me. Felt really good! :)
Let's hope this holiday giving keeps on going - definitely lightened my mood since I was otherwise stressed about the $$ situation going into these holidays, but I am so blessed to have such great friends and family to make this another great Christmas!
12.15.2010
Baby Steps
Today I made my first step. I had a friend send my resume to her friend who is a headhunter. And the friend wrote back that she would love to look around for me because I looked great! So....we shall see what happens! ;) I am going to be super picky when looking, but I realized that if I don't at least SEE what other options there might be, I will never know and the good thing about my position right now is that it is fine and safe and I can always say no to anything else if it isn't what I want! Here's to 2011!
12.14.2010
Whirlwind
So much for blogging more regularly! ;) The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of go-go-go! I have been too busy to post and I still need to learn how to better use this thing through e-mailing in posts or posting photos and things. Rumor has it that we are going to be allowed to switch to iPhones in the new year at work, and I can't wait so I can get them to purchase one for me. I think that will make my blogging much better!
Let's see - after the fun but busy Thanksgiving weekend, we spent the first weekend of December at hubby's holiday party on Saturday and then at the White Rock Marathon on Sunday. Hubby ran his 2nd half marathon, and I'm so proud of him because he is has type 1 diabetes so this is a huge accomplishment for him. He is still training so that he can run his 3rd one at the Cowtown Marathon in February (where he ran his first one earlier this year) and try to beat his time this time!
Last weekend was EVEN MORE BUSY!!! On Friday, we had our bi-annual volunteer day at work and this year, I led a group at the Ronald McDonald House in Fort Worth. We had a great time cooking them breakfast and even though we made WAY too much food (they told us to cook for 75 and only about 12 showed!), we had a lot of fun and it was so nice to get out in the community and give back. Then I ran around that afternoon dropping off the dog at the pet hotel (ps if anyone around DFW knows of better options for dog sitting, I'd love to know - we love the pet hotel but it's way expensive!!!), picking up a few Christmas presents, and packing for our trip the next day. Then hubby got home and we got all dressed up for my company's holiday party which was a black-tie optional Black & White Ball so I curled my hair and did my makeup all fancy and hubby put on his black suit and off we went. We had a great time at a beautiful venue - great food, lots of fun, date night, etc. but we had to leave early to get our son so we could all get some rest before the next morning.
The next morning we LEFT the house just before 7 am (ouch!) to drive down to Sealy to see hubby's cousin get married. We had a good road trip, dressed in the bathroom of the church (ha!), and enjoyed the ceremony. Then we drove an hour into Spring where the rest of the evening's festivities were held. We had a good time but we were exhausted and went to bed early!!! Then the next morning, we had breakfast at hubby's aunt's house and then headed back home to pick up the dog, go grocery shopping, and I worked on our holiday cards that evening. Busy busy busy!
Needless to say, yesterday was a definite Monday and I feel like there is too much to do and not enough time before the holidays, but I also know that somehow it will all get done. I think I'm going to attempt to cook for the in-laws and us for Christmas Eve so trying to figure out a menu and hope that the house will all come together before next week! Then I will get some time off after Christmas and New Year's, go back to work for one day, and then be out for two weeks for my surgery. It's going to be a crazy month or so still but we will make it and things WILL get better in 2011 - I just know it! :)
Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season and I really do hope to post more soon!
Let's see - after the fun but busy Thanksgiving weekend, we spent the first weekend of December at hubby's holiday party on Saturday and then at the White Rock Marathon on Sunday. Hubby ran his 2nd half marathon, and I'm so proud of him because he is has type 1 diabetes so this is a huge accomplishment for him. He is still training so that he can run his 3rd one at the Cowtown Marathon in February (where he ran his first one earlier this year) and try to beat his time this time!
Last weekend was EVEN MORE BUSY!!! On Friday, we had our bi-annual volunteer day at work and this year, I led a group at the Ronald McDonald House in Fort Worth. We had a great time cooking them breakfast and even though we made WAY too much food (they told us to cook for 75 and only about 12 showed!), we had a lot of fun and it was so nice to get out in the community and give back. Then I ran around that afternoon dropping off the dog at the pet hotel (ps if anyone around DFW knows of better options for dog sitting, I'd love to know - we love the pet hotel but it's way expensive!!!), picking up a few Christmas presents, and packing for our trip the next day. Then hubby got home and we got all dressed up for my company's holiday party which was a black-tie optional Black & White Ball so I curled my hair and did my makeup all fancy and hubby put on his black suit and off we went. We had a great time at a beautiful venue - great food, lots of fun, date night, etc. but we had to leave early to get our son so we could all get some rest before the next morning.
The next morning we LEFT the house just before 7 am (ouch!) to drive down to Sealy to see hubby's cousin get married. We had a good road trip, dressed in the bathroom of the church (ha!), and enjoyed the ceremony. Then we drove an hour into Spring where the rest of the evening's festivities were held. We had a good time but we were exhausted and went to bed early!!! Then the next morning, we had breakfast at hubby's aunt's house and then headed back home to pick up the dog, go grocery shopping, and I worked on our holiday cards that evening. Busy busy busy!
Needless to say, yesterday was a definite Monday and I feel like there is too much to do and not enough time before the holidays, but I also know that somehow it will all get done. I think I'm going to attempt to cook for the in-laws and us for Christmas Eve so trying to figure out a menu and hope that the house will all come together before next week! Then I will get some time off after Christmas and New Year's, go back to work for one day, and then be out for two weeks for my surgery. It's going to be a crazy month or so still but we will make it and things WILL get better in 2011 - I just know it! :)
Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season and I really do hope to post more soon!
11.08.2010
Everything happens for a reason
That's what I keep telling myself and I'm going to keep telling myself that until the reason becomes more clear. :)
We had a great weekend - did a lot of housework (boo!) but at least I have nice clean, fluffy carpets again. I can't wait until we can get a little extra $$ saved up and replace our carpets with hardwood floors (or at least fake hardwood!). Having a cat and a dog and a child makes for messy carpets no matter what we do!
We also got to take our son to see the Dallas Mavericks play! He had a blast cheering for the team and watching basketball. We got cheap tickets on StubHub and it was so great to see the smile on his face. He even did a little dance whenever the fun music came on! Love it! :)
This week is my hell week at work trying to prepare for the weekend ahead. I am bringing 30 people into Dallas/Houston from around the country for a weekend of wining and dining. It can be fun but it's a lot of stress and lots of sleepless nights, but it will all be over soon (at least for this year). Wish me luck in surviving!
Gotta get back to work now...looking forward to seeing what life has in store for me soon!
We had a great weekend - did a lot of housework (boo!) but at least I have nice clean, fluffy carpets again. I can't wait until we can get a little extra $$ saved up and replace our carpets with hardwood floors (or at least fake hardwood!). Having a cat and a dog and a child makes for messy carpets no matter what we do!
We also got to take our son to see the Dallas Mavericks play! He had a blast cheering for the team and watching basketball. We got cheap tickets on StubHub and it was so great to see the smile on his face. He even did a little dance whenever the fun music came on! Love it! :)
This week is my hell week at work trying to prepare for the weekend ahead. I am bringing 30 people into Dallas/Houston from around the country for a weekend of wining and dining. It can be fun but it's a lot of stress and lots of sleepless nights, but it will all be over soon (at least for this year). Wish me luck in surviving!
Gotta get back to work now...looking forward to seeing what life has in store for me soon!
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