random thoughts

yes, Trina, I'm still cranky :Þ

I actually though just had a very feel good gym workout and a fun ride home. Otherwise the same as yesterday though... but track 12 tonight-- I'm sick of 6 for awhile! and no wonderful Fat Bastard Chardonnay tonight. not in a wine mood. :)

And, according to the surveys, my people love me, and since I am very happy with them as well, it's a good deal all around. Well, mostly all around, since I am very unhappy with certain other participants in my work life, but that's a whole different and not so uncommon story. Actually, the day might have been okay if not for the nasty sunburn on my forehead (or "sun poisioning! get yourself to a doctor! now! I know a good Italian one from Philly!" that my team insists on calling it). It's not so much fun to get horrified looks all day no matter who you see! ("OMG what happened???") lol.

ooow oooow ooooowoooooooooow (if you don't know, don't ask) :)

And, tomorrow starts my team's great weight loss challenge, except I forgot to pick up the play money. oops. Should be interesting. We are all crazy, but man we really do have a good time. I understand why most people in exit interviews blame management but say they'll miss the people... damn turnover classes. I have come to the conclusion that I work too much.

Steph and I also got called Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum today. I don't know which I am, but I think I like "Bobbsey Twins" better, believe it or not. And it's probably a little sad when one of our managers laughs at us for even bothering to send back that we'll room together at supe retreat... But at least we can answer "yes" to the question of having a best friend at work :Þ (I'm telling you, too many classes...)

Has anyone else noticed that just about EVERY part of our childhood is now back in stores?! I wasn't so much bothered by the Care Bears invasion, and even the Strawberry Shortcake and Cabbage Patch Kids rebirths did not so much phase me, but GARBAGE PAIL KIDS????? I mean CTFO!

Okay who's coming to Gavin DeGraw on November 1st at the Norva with me????? :)

But, working earlier now (woohoo!) so I'm off. So goodnight, sleep tight, and don't let the evil Democrats bite ;)

yeah yeah yeah...

Okay I'm still cranky. I think this day could have been okay, but I am really stressed about all this schedule stuff, and I have A LOT to do right now at work, so I'm feeling pretty loaded down. And, even getting dirty at softball wasn't fun. Actually, today's getting dirty was the wet kind of softball dirt that stains everything, never comes out, and dirties the leather in my car!
:-(

But, the one good Wednesday constant has been the sunroof and windows open bass pumped summer night-ish rendition of Maroon 5, Track 6. And, since I love it so much, I am leaving you with the lyrics of the bridge. These lyrics don't really mean anything special to me, but they get stuck in my head allll day...

The rhythm of her conversation
The perfection of her creation
The sex she slipped into my coffee
The way she felt when she first saw me
Hate to love and love to hate her
Like a broken record player
Back and forth and here and gone
And on and on and on and on

I did also find out today that after getting back from New Orleans and having my usual days off (if my schedule doesn't change), I get to go to Williamsburg for supe retreat, so it's like 2 whole weeks off! and on company money! woohoo!

ok I have to go to a class tomorrow where I find out what the results of the surveys were that my people filled about me. very weird. hope they're good! think they will be. we'll see. so anyway, back to Wife Swap (sad I know). later all :)

just to let you know...

Although you'll RARELY hear me say it, sometimes I am very thankful I have the boss I have as opposed to the alternatives. And since some of you work people read this, I'll leave it at that. But I just needed to get that out...

In other news, my sunburn decided not to bother me until last night and today, and it caused me to wake up every hour or so last night. And since Rosie does not know the difference between my moving in the middle of the night versus moving when my alarm goes off (and apparently in cat world my moving means it's fair game for her to harass me to get scratched), I am a little tired and cranky today. I will probably end up at the gym though despite really not wanting to go anywhere and having just spent all morning at work.

If you have fun happy thoughts, please send them my way. Otherwise, I should be over this mood by tomorrow. Or, if I can also find a boy that will buy me a Tiffany bracelet and engagement ring, that may make me instantly happier as well (not that I'm at all jealous or anything...) :) Maybe if I can go to hip hop tomorrow and softball gets cancelled I will be happier. Or, if tomorrow also doesn't go well, it might take the planned night out Friday night to make everything better going into the weekend. But I would PAY to have my Monday through Friday back right now just thinking about having to work 12 hours on Saturday... SO, here's to three days off again next week.

By the way, I know it's a long shot, but Steph and I applied to be on TLC's "A Makeover Story," so wish us luck. :)

Ok I'm off to try to get rid of this funk. Catch y'all later.

the girls, all very different looking :) and i just realized Al is wearing my ass jeans! (well, not mine-- I have never worn a size 0, but you know what I mean... hehehe)

sophomore year roommates... 

weekend recap

So, another weekend over, and now two more days of nothingness... Actually, as I typed that I remembered tomorrow I have to go to work almost all day (suck!), so that's not really true. Okay anyway-- well, Sonja was visiting til a few hours ago! Yay! I absolutely love seeing her. She was the responsible working girl years before I ever even thought about it, so it's funny to hang out now. And with her married and talking kids, it's such a different dynamic than when we were rooming together sophomore (her senior) year. But, it will always be fun to reminisce about GCC, the Okies, and broken intervis rules :) Hope was supposed to come too, but unfortunately because of her pregnancy (yay!!!), all the driving would have been way too much for her. But, very fun anyway. We checked out the new Cheesecake Factory on Saturday night and then went to fireworks on the beach with Trina and Bobby, and yesterday we spent the whole day at the Oceanfront for Neptune Festival. I put up some pics just for fun of the sand scupting competition, which was really neat, and a random one of my mom from a few weekends ago that I just think is really cute. :) Didn't take many other pics, but the festival itself was really cool: surfing, art show, volleyball, live music all day, good food, fantastic weather, and the plane stunts overhead from the airshow a few miles away made it a great day. I am also putting up some old pics from GCC of everyone I'm shouting out today-- Sonja and I in one and the girls in the second-- all from about 4 years ago... enjoy! :)

So, I have decided that summer definitely cannot be over if I spent all of yesterday in the waves and lying on the beach, and I have the sunburn to prove it! :) Sometimes I sit back and remember that I LIVE at the beach, and then I decide that I'm the luckiest SOB on earth. Who knows how long I'll be here though, so I figure I should enjoy it while I am! I did concede a little bit to fall this weekend, though, and bought a big pumpkin spice candle. hehehe. This was my last real weekend of plans for awhile though (for the first time since May!), so I'm thinking now summer may really be over. But, until I find my cold weather snuggle boy(or at least it gets cold enough that I have to wear PJ's to bed), I will still refuse to admit it! :)

In other news, I would like to shout out to my 3-0 EAGLES, who TROUNCED Detroit yesterday (sorry Kate! hehehe). I am also a little scared of the hurricane coming, so everyone please keep me posted if you hear any news on if it's going to hit here and what kind of storm it will hit as. And lastly, I would like to send a HUGE shoutout to AL, who moved into her apartment this weekend!!!!!!! Best wishes on decorating, bill paying, and hopefully many sleepovers to come! ;)

Ok well enough rambling for now-- I'm off to tkd in a few hours so I'll catch you all later...

my personal fave-- you can't really see the detail here on king neptune but it's amazing! 

the team competition winner-- crazy, huh?! 

my Mom hula hooping at the GEICO picnic :)

a goal!

another great day! not quite as oddly fantastic as yesterday, but still fun. and, I have a new goal for all of my working out: if I get in good enough shape, I can go backpacking with my Aunt and my Dad in New Zealand next year! How freaking awesome would that be?! So, although I'm sore from diving all over the place last night (hey, beating tags is hard work), I was back at the gym tonight. back to slacking this weekend though when company's here... :) woohoo! happy early weekend to everyone!!! gnight.

hehehehehe

Ok I have to say, I am in a ridiculously good mood. So much so, it's scary! I'm even glad I went to softball even though I was trying so hard to get out of it (I wanted to go to hip hop!) Anyway, consider yourself warned. You will see a lot of these ----> :) hehehehehe

Favorite things from today:

1) surviving taekwondo class with Master Lee without losing it!
2) the celebration today at work that broke up the Wednesday monotony-- and seeing Kirk in one of his fired-up-go-get-'em moods! (it's been awhile!)
3) the nav system on my car that found the Shore Drive fields for me and got me there problem-free (yes, I'm still obsessed) :)
4) getting dirty!!!! Nothing better than a good hard intense game...
5) beating the she-men of our league, oddly named "Spontaneous Combustion" (WTF?!)
6) "mother foxtrotter!!!"
7) Maroon 5, Songs About Jane, Track 6 (what a freaking fantastic song-- even better live-- or on the speakers in my aforementioned fabulous car) :)

Hope everybody's day was as good as mine and that tomorrow will be just as great!!! I'm addressing my schedule concerns with Randy tomorrow, so wish me luck! :) Talk to ya'll later!

...and it's back to work

Well, I was listening to Dashboard Confessional today, which means I am in a very introspective mood :) And I have to go back to work tomorrow, which makes the whole mood thing even worse. But, I can honestly say I feel more like myself right now than I have in a looong time. It's a good feeling. You know how you can get so far out of your element that you almost feel like it's not your life anymore? Maybe I'm just crazy! :) Anyway, I spent a couple hours at the gym this morning, which has been an almost daily routine lately. Between that and softball, getting back to things I have been doing my whole life is kind of refreshing (and exactly why I want my old schedule back!)
Makes me think back too-- like I wonder what ever happened to personal trainer Todd? And, well, working with him so much is what led to my senior year AP calculus teacher calling me a bitch (I'm not kidding! she now lives next to Yvonne's family. how odd.) It also indirectly led to my infamous "Muscles" nickname in high school (altered since by Michael), although I would bet most people don't remember where it really came from-- tennis class or Josh or any of that. Beyond that, it taught me discipline, which impacted my MWC softball career (which I consider one of my life's best experiences) and also still impacts just about everything I do now...

Ahhh memories... Do you ever think back about how much you've changed in the last few years? Just coming out of high school I was this youth group freak with big dreams of my perfect life after I majored in elementary education at Grove City. Now, 6 years or so later, I'm the world's biggest sinner (hehehe), currently climbing the corporate ladder and living on my own in Virginia Beach! I try not to have any regrets in my life, and I do truly believe you learn something valuable from every choice and mistake you make. For instance, if I had never dated Joel, I would probably never have felt so boxed in and ended up transferring, and there's no way in hell I'd be where I am now. Or, if I hadn't gone to Grove City at all, I never would have met the girls who are now despite distance still some of my best friends in the whole world (shout out to you-- you know who you are!) :) It's just odd to think that you can end up being a completely different person than you thought you'd be. And I'm still learning now about who I am and even how other people see me. My team at work told me a few weeks ago that they couldn't imagine me clubbing (what?!) and my new team recently told me they see me as the ultra-organized girl who always pays her bills on the first of the month (ha!) and sits around plotting how next to get ahead (guess after all these years my competitiveness won out.)

So, I don't really know where I'm going with this, except that I'm really happy with my life right now, and I am glad for all the experiences in my life that have gotten me here. And it's so nice lately to really feel like where I am is meant to be and to look forward to whatever comes next, whatever it is. I'm ready for a new challenge too, so I'm kind of excited to see what life throws at me! And, if any of you out there have had any part in making my life what it has been so far, thanks!!! And if you're reading this and that's you, post a comment and say hello. I know you are all profile spies anyway so fess up :) Anyway, that's it for me for now... Off to bed and then off to work tomorrow. G'night!

blah...

Ok guys, I'm bored. I am getting sick of the days off during the week. They were nice 8 months ago when I hadn't had any in years, but now this schedule is wearing thin. And i HATE working every saturday and havign to take time off for weekend trips! I am trying to change it, but I am already pretty sure someone else is gonna get the day schedule before me, especially with my spine partner trying to create a schedule that would negate mine. boooo. maybe I can at least go earlier on the shift i have now. that would help...

Anyway, other than the cleaning for this weekend I need to do (woohoo for Sonja visiting and Neptune Festival!), I really need new things to do! It's daytime so no one else is around and after taekwondo and gymming, I'm pretty much bored. Any ideas???????????

this may get cut off b/c the power keeps going ou* CRAP!

Ok has anyone heard the new TERRIBLE version of Sarah's "World on Fire" on the radio? Why did they speed it up? Stop the remix inasanity!!! Another fantastic song ruined :( It might not have bothered me so much if I hadn't been in the car only because my power was out AGAIN this morning (how often do transformers go bad?!) and I was escaping to both work my frustration out at the gym and charge my cell phone through my car... And it's too cold and windy to go to the beach. boo. But, I REFUSE to admit that summer is over!!! That's probably also because this has been such an amazing one... Ok so today's topic is what fun things everyone has done this summer (post yours!) Half of you reading this have probably been involved in mine:

I started it off with my very fun birthday, went home for some Phillies fun, hung out with D, Dave, and Al in Hoboken, got to spend a weekend here with my old high school friend, Adam, went to the Outer Banks to see Sonja, saw Hope & Justin when they were visiting here, visited Kate in CHICAGO, pub crawled with Brent, Zac, and Steph in Fredericksburg and shopped in NoVA with Kimmy and Trina, had the craziest night of my life at the Oceanfront with the girls on July 4th weekend, hit up the Tides with Steph and Matt, spent a weekend in Pittsburgh with Al and Lab and at Michael's wedding, went to some very fun concerts with Steph including Chicago and JM/M5, spent a week at home and walked onto Superman at GA with big bro Jeffy, and got to hang out with my parents when they were here last weekend... WHEW! I'm exhausted! wouldn't trade it though for the world :)

So, as we sink back into the horrible cold weather that will soon be here (but NOT YET! grrr), I wish all of you a very happy autumn. But hey, if my power doesn't go out again next weekend, maybe I will get out and meet a fun new boy to snuggle with in the cold weather (although the boy bar scene this summer has been way fun--maybe too much fun-- but not really rewarding... Where are all the DECENT guys down here hiding? But that's a whole different topic! :Þ) And really, Christmas is going to be here before we know it! Crazy, huh? So, enjoy the warm weather that's left! As for me, you can find me at the Beach next weekend!!!


btw check out my friend Kate's blog... gotta love these things-- can catch up on friends' weekends without having to play IM tag! hehehe

hello! :)

Well, welcome to my head. :) Apparently this is what everyone does these days so hey why not? (and if you read the comments, yes, I shamelessly stole this idea from KT! hehehe) Kind of like an online journal, except you guys don't get to read all of my innermost thoughts... sorry! But I am hoping that this will be fun and all of you out there reading will post some fun thoughts so we can have a big old Internet party! woohoo!

For those of you out there that don't know me, let me give you a little background about me: I am a 24 year-old, 2 years out of college (B.A. History), living on my own (and loving it!) in Virginia Beach and working in corporate management. For those of you who do know me, you know I'm pretty much insane, and I spend way too much time online. But, had the power not gone out this morning before I worked for 12 hours, I'd be out clubbing right now :Þ But, alas, here I am, exhausted and trying to figure out what the fuck you write on these things! hahaha.

So, if you're reading this, send a hello and maybe even a fun topic, and we can all have some fun :) Talk to ya'll soon! (yeah don't worry; I am still a Philly girl... just with a little Southern twang)