~Our official start date for P90X is next week, but I’m thinking of pushing it back to after Christmas.  If we start on January 1st we don’t have to miss Thanksgiving/Christmas dinners and our work schedules would be a lot more relaxed . . . are these just excuses or do I have legit reasons???  Hmm.

~I haven’t seen my horse in two weeks and my heart is starting to hurt.

~Judgement . . . I have more to say about that and started to write it here, then realized that there’s just too much, I’ll have to write it out later.

~I’m so ready to stop going to the laundromat.  When we buy our own washer and dryer its going to make all those overtime hours worth it.  : )

~Oregon and Washington rainy days are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.

~I still haven’t forgiven Oakridge.  Its the last on my list and amazingly, of all the things I had stored up inside, its the hardest to let go of.

~I have decided that I love my job, in spite of or perhaps because of all its difficulties, every day I’m a little more sure of the plan I’ve been hatching the past six months.

 

P90X

I’m sitting on the couch at the moment organizing our  P90X materials and waiting for Carl to get home.    We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a fun and fruitful fitness adventure! : )  Right, well anyway, we chose P90X because I tried it out at my cousin’s house in TN and it was actually fun (I have never been a fan of workout videos, aerobics, etc), the exercises only last 30 seconds to 1 minute and I can talk myself into doing just about anything for a minute and its something we can do at home, which is important with both of us working two jobs.

So, today we start.  There will be before photos and stats that we take now and we’ll take all the same info down again in 90 days.  I’ve decided to try and log progress here so that I can bring myself more into the whole project, I’ve never really attempted a regular exercise program of any kind.  So wish me luck! : )

 

Georgia on My Mind

At least it feels like I have the weight of Georgia on my mind.  This is the hardest job I’ve ever had and today I had a few especially tough calls.  My last call of the day took me right past five o’clock  to five thirty and I felt like a puddle trickling towards to the door.  Then I got in my truck and on the way home my favorite songs played on the radio one after the other; as if the universe realized I’d been pushed right to the edge and wanted to pull me back before I went over.  I want to help them all.  I don’t want to believe that there are eighty somethings who aren’t eating properly because their ancient dentures are broken and giving them sores and they can’t afford new ones and there’s no one to help them.  No children to make calls to community resources or help them set up monthly payments to their providers.  That’s what makes it hard–the limits on my ability to help.

Right now I’m putting together a grocery list and when I get back from the store I’m going to try to cook and clean myself calm again.  : )

 

 

Quote of the Day

One of my fellow associates was making a call over the intercom tonight to invite customers to have their kids pics taken with Santa for free.  It was a spur of the moment thing where someone just said hey, make a call about santa!  So he gets on the intercom and says:

“Hey everyone we’ve got Santa here in the tool dept and you should come on down with your kids and get it on with Santa!”

The poor guy didn’t even realize that he’d said it until we told him.

 

:( : ) :( : ) :( :)

~I can’t decide if it was a great weekend or an awful one.

~My first day on commission I missed my sales goal by something like two thousand dollars.  : (

~Carl and I had the best Saturday ever just hanging out.  I had to work the morning but when I got home we just got into our pjs, I got to write while he went to rent movies then we just holed up in bed with the dogs and watched movies till 2:00am!  It was one of those days where I thank God every five minutes for bringing him back into my life.  : )

~Tobo and Jason called it quits. : (

~Tobo’s b-day dinner party was all kinds of crazy fun times! : )

~I almost rang up a freezer, which is not in my area and I don’t get commission for but someone else does.  Luckily someone said something, but it was awfully embarrassing. : (

~I came home to no dirty laundry (Carl had to go to the laundromat himself and do it all) as well as an actual bed (we’ve been sleeping on a mattress on the floor until Carl could buy some plywood and get the other mattress out of storage) with clean linens!  : )

I suppose since I ended it on a good note, we’ll go ahead and say it was an amazing weekend. : )

 

 

Quote of the Day

“Hey Elena, how come women have boobs?”

“I don’t know Bobby, how come?

“Because you can’t motorboat with personality!”

 

~Bobby and Elena on stage at the karaoke bar on Tobo’s b-day  : )

 

Happy Birthday Tobo Cop! : )

 

With lots of drinks, great friends, karaoke, dancing, amazing shoes, hocky player punching/slapping, girlfriend insulting, ridiculous jokes, getting cut off and one HILARIOUS b-day girl, what more could we ask for in a night on the town!!  Happy Birthday Tobyn, it was a blast!  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the above photo makes me appear ridiculously short.  Or maybe I just am that short?  You two are going to give me a complex!  : )

 

I’ve got a feeling . . .

that tonight’s going to be a good night . . .

Carl just now took this picture and as seen here, I plan on spending most of tonight lost in thought writing with my boys close by to keep me warm.  : )

 

 

Awkward Girl Goes to Starbucks

I’d been wanting a coffee since the moment I got out of bed.  But, as always, I made it out the door just in time to get to work just in time and so I had to wait until my lunch.  By this time, I was desperate.  I don’t drink coffee regularly, so when I do drink it, its usually because of a craving and today it was real bad.  When I pulled up, I realized there was a drive through so I went ahead and reversed so I could line up properly (its an extremely difficult angle for a truck) and then quickly drove around to the window thinking coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee . . .

I waited, but no one came.

I began to get impatient.

I began to get irritable.

Then someone FINALLY came to the friggin window

to inform me that I had  driven right past the speaker box and they had been patiently waiting for me to order for the past seven minutes before realizing that I was sitting outside the pick-up window.

What can I say?  Awkwardness is the spice of my life, and my blog too.  : )

 

Awkward Girl Opens the Door (Twice!)

I was in a hurry, a couple of minutes late for second work already and trying to get in the door and punch in before my six minute grace period was up.  That’s my excuse for why I ran up to the Merchandise Pick-Up doors, grabbed the handle, yanked as hard as I deemed necessary then proceeded to run right into the half-open door . . . in front of the entire Loss Prevention dept.  I think its safe to say we can tuck another great first impression under Awkward Girl’s belt.

One short day later, in a similar fashion I was running late for first work and decided to use the door that’s closer to my cubicle.  I parked in the back lot and ran around the corner badge in hand ready to hold it up to the electronic key reader that is always on the door, just below the handle. . . but it wasn’t there!!!  I knew I’d seen many of my coworkers enter in through that very door and there had to be a way, but it was locked as locked can be and I didn’t have time to work it out so I kept running thinking to go around the other side to where I usually come in.  That’s when I noticed a fellow employee going up to the door I’d just run away from and holding her key up . . . to the key reader that was on the wall just to the right of the door.  Oops.

I ran back to the door, trying to get in as quickly as possible while at the same time trying not to look insane, held my key up to the reader and kicked of yet another great day with Awkward Girl.  : )