12.
I have 12 minutes until I get to step away from my desk for half an hour. It may not sound like much, but on days like to day, it's a life saver. Today has been so incredibly slow, I don't want to jinks myself, but I'm just getting a little stir crazy. Yesterday was super busy, now today, when I'm here by myself covering the phones...nothing. I guess it's a good omen. I don't want to me going crazy all day.
11.
So, I've been kind of slacking on my blogging lately. I think it's because Justin and I are just starting to get acclimated to living together and frankly, by the time I get home from work, cook dinner, eat dinner, do some laundry, random cleaning and make lunches for the next day - I'm beat. I haven't been sleeping very well lately either, so I just need to let my body/brain adjust to my new life.
9.
I already know there is one thing on my 101 in 1001 list that I will not accomplish... I've decided to give up selling Mary Kay. I know some of you are saying "what!? she just started"... others are saying "yeah, I'm not surprised"... Well, I'm not surprised either. It just took me way out of my comfort zone and frankly, when I'm working full-time I just don't have time to do everything that I would have wanted to do with the business. AND I would never get used to cold calling people to do pre-profiling or putting myself out there to get new clients. I'm just not that type of person. I also didn't get the friendships that I expected out of it, I honestly could have put more of myself into it, but it just seemed really "cliquey" (I know that's not a word, get over it) and seemed like I was just another one of the recruits. I didn't like that. Honestly, I could think of a million things that I would rather do on a Monday night, Saturday and Sunday then subjecting myself to something I wasn't confident in or even liked most days... So I'm just working on getting some of my investment back by selling my consultant supplies and the inventory I have left and using the crap out of my discount while it lasts, lol. Oh well... on to bigger and better things.
5 minutes...
The wedding is litterally just around the corner. 5 weeks. I will be a married woman in 5 weeks. It's just craziness. We had the shower the first weekend in March, it was beautiful. The next big event is the Bachelorette Party which is being planned by my Maid of Honor, my sister, Laura. She's been completely shocking me with her MOH abilities. She could make a career out of it :) I have a feeling she did some googling shortly after I got engaged to find out her responsibilities. Lol.
3 minutes...
I have really been feeling the need to go back to school lately. I'm just still stuck on what exactly I want to study. There are pros and cons to each arena I lean towards. Education - would have to get a second bachelors, hard to find a job, etc. MSW - not sure how I would manage the part-time internship, my full-time job and school...I'm having anxiety just thinking about it. Business - what if I end up finding out that I don't want to start my own business/non-profit OR I do start one and it's dead after a year and then I'm stuck with no job, no money and no health insurance... a lot of "what ifs".
LUNCH TIME!
While I leave you to ponder the rest of my life, I am going to go nuke my Lean Cuisine Beef and Brocoli and chit chat with Wanda.
Enjoy the rest of your day. I promise to update more soon.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Big Freaking Check!
The invites are DONE! FINISHED! SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED (well, almost delivered, Justin is taking them to the post office tomorrow).
This has seriously been the biggest and most aggravating wedding project to date! I purchased invite kits from Michaels and added different colored ribbon and a background of green cardstock behind the invite panel, so for the most part I made them. So this is what I did:
1. Printed the invite panels, RSVP cards (custom with guests names), Reception cards, inside envelopes, RSVP envelopes and outer envelopes.
2. Glued the invite panel to the green cardstock and glued that to the pocket fold
3. created belly bands with a custom monogram for the center of the ribbon.
4. put them all together (this took over a week...and about 10,000 paper cuts on my hands)
5. Put on the stamps
6. sealed them with a sponge and some water (because you know I'm not licking all those envelopes.
I started this project around October-ish and finished tonight.
Next on my list? Programs, seating chart and table numbers. Nothing earth shattering - most of them I can do at work ;)
I'm too tired to keep writing, so I will update on Saturday after Mom and I bust out some flowers.
Nighty Night Blog World!
1. Printed the invite panels, RSVP cards (custom with guests names), Reception cards, inside envelopes, RSVP envelopes and outer envelopes.
2. Glued the invite panel to the green cardstock and glued that to the pocket fold
3. created belly bands with a custom monogram for the center of the ribbon.
4. put them all together (this took over a week...and about 10,000 paper cuts on my hands)
5. Put on the stamps
6. sealed them with a sponge and some water (because you know I'm not licking all those envelopes.
I started this project around October-ish and finished tonight.
Next on my list? Programs, seating chart and table numbers. Nothing earth shattering - most of them I can do at work ;)
I'm too tired to keep writing, so I will update on Saturday after Mom and I bust out some flowers.
Nighty Night Blog World!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Oscar Worthy
Evening bloggers!
Tonight was a fun night. I went out to dinner and saw "The Blind Side" with my mom. We did our usual chinese buffet which was fun. The vegetable lo mein was fantastic like always :)
I have to say - I really enjoyed the movie though. I am already a Sandra Bullock fan, but this performace just put her on a whole other level. It was solid and completely amazing. She totally made the movie! And, as we were walking out of the theater I said to my mom "Can you imagine seeing Sandra Bullock win an Oscar for playing YOU in a movie??" -- It makes me want to research more about Michael Oher (I think that's how it's spelled) and his family. It ALSO made me think about what I want to do with the rest of my life. I've been struggling with this lately and know there are about 7 different things that interest me and I can see me doing, but I just don't know what road to take. This movie made me take notice to two things:
1. Becoming a teacher -- Elementary Education was my major for the first two years of college. I bailed after two years mainly because I didn't want to do the student teaching and take the exams in order to get my teaching certificate. I regret that A LOT.
2. Non-Profit Management -- This is something that I have been thinking about lately. It would give me the ability to help people (whatever population I choose) while still be in the office enviornment, which I have grown to love (I'm weird, I know).
I guess I will have to look into both futures and start weighing my options. I see a Gilmore Girl Pro/Con list coming on :)
Tonight was a fun night. I went out to dinner and saw "The Blind Side" with my mom. We did our usual chinese buffet which was fun. The vegetable lo mein was fantastic like always :)
I have to say - I really enjoyed the movie though. I am already a Sandra Bullock fan, but this performace just put her on a whole other level. It was solid and completely amazing. She totally made the movie! And, as we were walking out of the theater I said to my mom "Can you imagine seeing Sandra Bullock win an Oscar for playing YOU in a movie??" -- It makes me want to research more about Michael Oher (I think that's how it's spelled) and his family. It ALSO made me think about what I want to do with the rest of my life. I've been struggling with this lately and know there are about 7 different things that interest me and I can see me doing, but I just don't know what road to take. This movie made me take notice to two things:
1. Becoming a teacher -- Elementary Education was my major for the first two years of college. I bailed after two years mainly because I didn't want to do the student teaching and take the exams in order to get my teaching certificate. I regret that A LOT.
2. Non-Profit Management -- This is something that I have been thinking about lately. It would give me the ability to help people (whatever population I choose) while still be in the office enviornment, which I have grown to love (I'm weird, I know).
I guess I will have to look into both futures and start weighing my options. I see a Gilmore Girl Pro/Con list coming on :)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Bittersweet Symphony - It is my life
Welp. It's been a couple weeks since I last posted. (Sorry for that, by the way). A lot has happened and I'm going to break it up into a couple different posts because I don't want to overwhelm you with the past two weeks all in one shot. So first - Moving :)
So last you heard I was packing the night before the big move to our apartment. I have to say, I never want to move again (even though we will in approximately 15 months...), it is incredibly exhausting, frustrating, emotional and just plain crazy! We ended up moving on that Friday morning and mother nature decided to throw us a curve ball - it snowed for 24 hours straight. It was cold, wet and windy. Thankfully we had a lot of help from my parents and Justin's friend Tim. We eventually got everything inside and began to settle in. My mom had stayed with me the entire day. She brought over my first load of stuff and then we went shopping at Target for some food and "house basics", I was incredibly surprised by how calm I was, I wasn't nervous, I wasn't sad, I was just having fun. Then the time came to get my last small load from my parent's house and going back myself. I completely lost it. I didn't want to leave my room, my parents, my cats, my house, I just didn't want to leave at all. It was quite possibly the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Once I got to the apartment (longest drive of my life by the way... I ended up going through a red light because I was crying so much I couldn't see...) I cried on Justin a little bit and then went to bed. Each day was hard, each day is still hard, but it's getting a little bit easier as time passes. It's just so incredibly weird to be living somewhere else. My room has always been my room, my house, my bathroom, my bed, everything has been the same my entire life and it all changed in one day.
On the bright side, Justin and I are making a home here. It's taking some time and I'm trying not to be quite as OCD as I would like to be. It's a work-in-progress. And as we start making a home here we are getting closer and closer to the wedding. Our shower has already come and gone, the gifts have been unwrapped and put away in cupboards and closets...we've now got less than 2 months before we're walking down the aisle. YIKES!!
This is what I've got for you for now. I'm home sick from work today, but feeling a little better after getting some extra sleep. It's amazing what a couple hours on a comfy couch will do for you. Maybe I'll take some pictures of our home later and maybe post them this afternoon.
Happy Hump Day!
So last you heard I was packing the night before the big move to our apartment. I have to say, I never want to move again (even though we will in approximately 15 months...), it is incredibly exhausting, frustrating, emotional and just plain crazy! We ended up moving on that Friday morning and mother nature decided to throw us a curve ball - it snowed for 24 hours straight. It was cold, wet and windy. Thankfully we had a lot of help from my parents and Justin's friend Tim. We eventually got everything inside and began to settle in. My mom had stayed with me the entire day. She brought over my first load of stuff and then we went shopping at Target for some food and "house basics", I was incredibly surprised by how calm I was, I wasn't nervous, I wasn't sad, I was just having fun. Then the time came to get my last small load from my parent's house and going back myself. I completely lost it. I didn't want to leave my room, my parents, my cats, my house, I just didn't want to leave at all. It was quite possibly the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Once I got to the apartment (longest drive of my life by the way... I ended up going through a red light because I was crying so much I couldn't see...) I cried on Justin a little bit and then went to bed. Each day was hard, each day is still hard, but it's getting a little bit easier as time passes. It's just so incredibly weird to be living somewhere else. My room has always been my room, my house, my bathroom, my bed, everything has been the same my entire life and it all changed in one day.
On the bright side, Justin and I are making a home here. It's taking some time and I'm trying not to be quite as OCD as I would like to be. It's a work-in-progress. And as we start making a home here we are getting closer and closer to the wedding. Our shower has already come and gone, the gifts have been unwrapped and put away in cupboards and closets...we've now got less than 2 months before we're walking down the aisle. YIKES!!
This is what I've got for you for now. I'm home sick from work today, but feeling a little better after getting some extra sleep. It's amazing what a couple hours on a comfy couch will do for you. Maybe I'll take some pictures of our home later and maybe post them this afternoon.
Happy Hump Day!
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