Reconnecting

Wow, it's only Wednesday. I thought yesterday was Wednesday until I met my mom for lunch and she was like, Uh no. Dang. It has been pretty slow for us here the past 2 days. Kind of different than yesterday! But we didn't get much mail then, so we just had to finish up what we had. I've been basically messing around on the internet since, doing a bit of training at KBU, reading up on different positions at KBhome, etc. But, this isn't going to last. I'm sure we're gonna get slammed with mail today. That's fine by me, I just don't want to get so much that I will have to give work away to other people. I don't like other people helping me out becuase they usualy do more harm than good. I'm always fixing other peoples' mistakes. At least if I make mistakes I can only blame myself.

I really wanted to go to the bike shop after work today, but Ken wants to raid. Maybe I will go anyway. We'll see. I am super excited to start mountain biking. It looks like a lot of fun and its a good hobby. Ever since moving to Az, I've become quite the outdoors type. I love camping, going to the lake, grabbing a couple wave runners, hiking, biking, all that jazz. I even surprise myself. Heck I don't even really mind the bugs in the woods, as long as they stay out of my tent lol.

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I've been very excited. Myspace has actually come in handy. I was able to connect with a bunch of people I grew up with. You know, the people I've known since like elementary school. It's awesome. Moving away has made me realize how much I miss their friendship. Kinda sappy, I know, but I see all these pictures of people who are still friends, since HS, and I don't really have that here. I love my friends here, don't get me wrong. But I never went to HS with them, let alone elementary school. I want to make a trip back sometime before the winter. And now, since I can keep in touch with people, I will have something to do there.

I should find some embarassing pictures of people from when we were younger and post them .. haha .. that would be funny!

Mountain biking

Phew. This week has been a bit hectic. Not overwhelming though. I like keeping busy. It makes me feel like I am being productive. Work is good. I'm busy at work. Always something to do :)

Other than work, things have been great. I had a very relaxing weekend. Ken didn't work on Saturday (yay!) so we went to see a movie. Superman Returns is awesome btw. We were going to see Pirates2 but it was crazy packed. After the movie we went to Jenn(from jury duty)'s house for her fiancée's birthday. It was a lot of fun, and we ended up being one of the last people to leave. Thanks to Steve and Jay for coming and hanging out! It was a blast.

Yesterday Ken and I went to his bike shop to look at a mountain bike for me. I am super excited. Ken knows a lot about mountain bikes, so it makes it so much easier to pick out the right bike for me. When I do finally get one, we will be able to go biking together! It will be great exercise, and we will get out of the house and spend quality time together. Hey, perfect combination if you ask me :) I ended up getting some riding gloves and Cliff Bars (cause they are oh-so good!).

I hope I get it soon so we can go biking. I know Ken has been itching to go out again, and it will be a lot easier when we go together to go more often.

Sweet!

Yay

I ended up chatting with my financial advisor yesterday and she said that I had another dispersement of my financial aide come in on July 3rd. w00t! That means I won't have to pay for my next class, but the one after I will. That is so much better cause now I can save up for that class. Though I still might have to do some sort of payment plan if I don't have enough money, but that is fine with me.

So, tonight I am taking Ken out to dinner. I'm looking forward to that. His dad might be coming along, too. It will be nice. And then I can give Ken his b-day present. I don't think he will like it though. I'm bad at buying gifts.

Anywho, work is going well. I've been busy, but not going crazy. The day just flys by. And I learned one thing about myself at work - I don't like writing the number 5.

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Ugh! Just got slammed at work with incoming mail. Over 1k invoices received today. Normally it's like 400 at most. This sucks.

Oh well, back to work!!

Hump Day

So I'm actually kinda bummed. Turns out I will have to pay more money out-of-pocket for school than I had expected. My next classe is almost full price and the class after is full price. Totally sucks!

I don't know what I am going to do. If I can't get on some sort of payment plan, school is a no-go.

Other than that, things are going well. Spent yesterday at the parents house. We had brats and burgers. It was so good, except I overate :(

Today is Ken's Birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!


I'm taking him out to dinner tomorrow for his birthday to P.F.Chang's. It's good food and pretty inexpensive!

I still want to go see Superman soon. Thought the guys were going to over the weekend, but no one called me. Oh well.

TGIF

This has been one hellufaweek.

I've had heartburn from everything I eat. And I've been getting little sleep.

So, thank goodness it is Friday.

Although tomorrow I have to wake up at 9am, take my car for an oil change, get my hair done at 12:30 and go to JCPenney with mom so I can take back stuff.

Not too stressful, but nonetheless busy.

Oh and throwing in catching the new Superman flick.

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Saw this on KJ's blog, and wanted to repost it.

This is written in the Hebrew Talmud, the book where all of the sayings and preaching of Rabbis are conserved over time. It says:

"Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved."

So far so good ...

Ok, not really. I did my credit report. So I guess that is a start. As for anything else .. not really working too well.

I have noticed that I lack motivation for most things. I'm not quite sure how to fix that.

I've been trying to eat better, and it kind of works. Although last night I made cookies. I think that I am just trying to get rid of the bad food. I haven't bought any junk in a while. I need to go to the store and pick up some healthy snacks.

The gym thing .. well .. yeah. I talked to Jen and she said after she is done with school that she would want to partner up with me for that. But what do I do until then? Should I go get a membership or just use the 2-week pass? I suppose for right now the 2-week pass is the best idea until I see what I can do.

Getting more sleep seems easy, but it really isn't. I'm not usually tired until 11, and sometimes I just can't fall asleep. I'm sure once I get back to the gym, I will be tired enough to fall right asleep.

Not spending money is harder than it seems. I need to take a whole bunch of stuff back to JCPenny and that will give me money back as well.

I'm going out to happy hour with Ali tonight so that is going to be so much fun. Pictures to come.

Credit update

Okay, so I have an update. I checked online and was able to get a free credit report from the 3 major companies. It turns out it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I have no late payments and a few open credit cards I don't use anymore. So I will close those, or transfer my balance from my AmEx to one of those so I can pay off that debt.

All in all, this is starting to turn out rather well! Horray!