Well it was a busy couple days. Yesterday Robby & I decided to go to the fair and walk around. We got out there around 10:30 before the crowds started in. First, right inside the gate, we went on this "Toyota Trails" thing -- O...M...G...! Robby drove a Toyota Tacoma (their truck) over this near obstacle course! Up a huge hill, thru a huge mud pit, over rocks, and around turns that put you at a 30 degree angle!! That was a little scary! Our pic will be online sometime shortly so I'll have to try and link it or something. Then we went up in the spaceneedle. That's the first time I've ever been up there (and it's how old?!) It was sooo cool! You could see all of Oklahoma City from above the fairgrounds! Came home later and Robby's dad picked Robby up and they went out in the Corvette. I went to Home Depot & Lowes. Bought some flower pots and flowers, they're so pretty! We're eventually going to put flag stone rocks out in the front flower bed with a bench instead of trying to do a garden out there. Just too big and too hard to control the weeds.
Today, I did not want to go to work...but Robby pushed me out of bed and I went. Of course, I sat in a meeting ALL day! 8:30-4:15 -- that didn't leave long to get all of my messages and stuff done, more to do tomorrow. Came home and mowed the yard since 1) it needed it, and 2) the bug guy is coming out tomorrow...yay! No more bugs!
Waiting on Robby to get off (seems I'm always doing that...!) and he's going to stop by on his way home and pick up the Corvette. We'll have it for a few days. He's off tomorrow so I think he's going to take me to work and pick me up, and then also take me to lunch. We may go to the fair again tomorrow after I get off.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Productivity
Slept in this morning and finally got out of bed when Robby left for work. Showered and then went down to Mom's to have lunch and chat for a bit. Came back around 2 and started doing some house work. Plugged my iPod into the computer and started playing it through the speakers with a football game muted on the TV, lol. Got the kitchen is cleaned up and the dishes washed and put away, including our new tupperware containers. Washed our sheets and put them back on our bed. I sent the dogs outside around 3 after playtime in the bedroom and left them out until about 7 - they played in the rain all afternoon. Sonny loved it, but the other two weren't happy at first, until they realized they weren't going to come inside -- then they made the best of it. I still need to clean the gerbils cage and vacuum, but I can do that tomorrow. I cancelled the current ad on the cats and am replacing it with a different one. A little shorter, and a lesser price, hopefully it'll work. I took my 2nd oceanography quiz today, also. Didn't do so hot on it. I thought I was ready, but apparently not! Robby just called and told me to go outside and look at the sunset - it was gorgeous!! I wish our camera worked! He said there was a rainbow up by him, but I couldn't see it from down south. He's getting off shortly, now we just have to figure out what to have for dinner. Something cheap, but good. We ate out last night at Texas Roadhouse, yummy, but oh so much food!
Friday, September 12, 2008
T.G.I.F!
Went to Moore-Norman Tech this morning and took the assessment tests. The computerized version...data-entry...I scored higher than 99% of the people who take the test - wohoo! The written part was answering four questions on different situations that could arise. I think I did pretty well on them. Left the Tech center at 8:45, stopped in Moore at McDonalds (horribly long line!) to get breakfast and then started up north on the interstate to head to work. Well, as I got closer to I-40 I noticed traffic slowing down and I saw a bunch of police lights about a 1/4 mile ahead that were moving on north. It happened to be Pres Bush's motorcade! He was in town for about four hours to do a fundraising event and a conference. I ended up having to stop and park my car on the interestate for 30 minutes while he finished going through the interstate bypasses. I was going to take a short lunch, but decided to out to eat with Krissy instead. Always good conversations with her! We went to Cattlemen's for their lunch steak special, yummy! Anyhow - so now I'm waiting for Robby to get home from work -- he was early today, luckily, so he should be home soon! Later!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Thanks B!
Alright -- so Bethany kept pestering me to start a blog...and I kept insisting I didn't have time. Well - I'll make time. I think it's a good idea, especially with as much as been on my mind lately. To get caught up to speed.........
1) I'm married to the most wonderful man and I keep getting reminded of that all the time. I wouldn't have our life any other way right now even though it has it's stressful times, ups and downs...it's a learning curve and we're moving on up. Slowly but surely.
2) My dogs are awesome. Even though they get on my nerves, and I don't get in the show ring nearly as much as I used to...it's still great to have a normal house dog who I can cuddle with and talk to and play with. And!!! I have MY own dog now. Drew likes me more than Skye or Sonny do (it's the truth...Sonny adores Robby now...and we all know Skye is his dog) - so I have my dog...it's so nice!
3) Work. It sucks. This organization let me down sooo much. I was hoping for so much more when I started there, and maybe I started with my expectations of them too high, but I was sure let down. I hated the front desk, so I ended up getting promoted (talk about timing!) Well, that didn't start off too great! The office I thought I was supposed to be in (i.e. the old RHSF office before that wing flooded in June) - was passed over to a BRAND NEW employee on Monday. Ironically...my temporary desk (which I thought I was there while the carpet was replaced in the old office...) is the Youth desk. The Youth department is what this person was hired for!! So here I am still on hourly pay, my office stuff scattered in THREE different places literally across our whole office complex, I'm operating in a 2x2 ft desk area cubicle in membership services...(and people wonder why I'm always in the mail room...there's more room there than at my desk!) Oh yea...and he got a key, an alarm code, a company credit card, etc...all of which used to belong to the old RHSF person. And I'm supposed to be happy? I'm supposed to believe that "The Foundation is a very important part of our organization!" Now, let's remember...that I am the *ONLY* person who is over the Foundation in the office. Confused? I am too. So...after that spill -- I'm looking for a new start. A new job. I'd someday like to become an Academic Advisor, but I need my degree first. Working on that...! If I can get a job at a college and start getting experience, I'd love it, but that my not be possible right now. We'll see what happens.
On a good note about that...Robby loves his job. I'm glad he finally found something he likes. The only thing is, there is about to be a couple big changes that he's going to wait out and see how they go. One is that the Edmond Ford store is moving next door to Lincoln Mercury in December. The second is they are having a lot of staff changes. He really liked the guys he worked with because they were a lot older than him. But if he gets in with a bunch of young kids (which isn't likely at a L/M dealership, but still a possibility) then that may not work too well!
4) School. We're both back in the swing of things. We're on track to finish our Associates in the Spring then transfer to OU in the summer to finish our Bachelors sometime in 2011. A few years off, but certainly well worth it. We both dropped our pysch class after the first test. Too many weird things going on with that class that shouldn't have been happening.
So there you have it. Now I can just update day to day.
Tomorrow I am headed to Moore Norman Tech for some assessment testing. All should go well if it's anything like what BOk did -- and I think it actually may be easier. Robby's getting off in 30 minutes from working the fair today. I went out there to eat lunch with him, and then spent about an hour after work walking around some buildings until Robby ushered me to my car because "all the crazies will be out soon and I don't want you walking around alone!" Love my hubby!
Adios!
1) I'm married to the most wonderful man and I keep getting reminded of that all the time. I wouldn't have our life any other way right now even though it has it's stressful times, ups and downs...it's a learning curve and we're moving on up. Slowly but surely.
2) My dogs are awesome. Even though they get on my nerves, and I don't get in the show ring nearly as much as I used to...it's still great to have a normal house dog who I can cuddle with and talk to and play with. And!!! I have MY own dog now. Drew likes me more than Skye or Sonny do (it's the truth...Sonny adores Robby now...and we all know Skye is his dog) - so I have my dog...it's so nice!
3) Work. It sucks. This organization let me down sooo much. I was hoping for so much more when I started there, and maybe I started with my expectations of them too high, but I was sure let down. I hated the front desk, so I ended up getting promoted (talk about timing!) Well, that didn't start off too great! The office I thought I was supposed to be in (i.e. the old RHSF office before that wing flooded in June) - was passed over to a BRAND NEW employee on Monday. Ironically...my temporary desk (which I thought I was there while the carpet was replaced in the old office...) is the Youth desk. The Youth department is what this person was hired for!! So here I am still on hourly pay, my office stuff scattered in THREE different places literally across our whole office complex, I'm operating in a 2x2 ft desk area cubicle in membership services...(and people wonder why I'm always in the mail room...there's more room there than at my desk!) Oh yea...and he got a key, an alarm code, a company credit card, etc...all of which used to belong to the old RHSF person. And I'm supposed to be happy? I'm supposed to believe that "The Foundation is a very important part of our organization!" Now, let's remember...that I am the *ONLY* person who is over the Foundation in the office. Confused? I am too. So...after that spill -- I'm looking for a new start. A new job. I'd someday like to become an Academic Advisor, but I need my degree first. Working on that...! If I can get a job at a college and start getting experience, I'd love it, but that my not be possible right now. We'll see what happens.
On a good note about that...Robby loves his job. I'm glad he finally found something he likes. The only thing is, there is about to be a couple big changes that he's going to wait out and see how they go. One is that the Edmond Ford store is moving next door to Lincoln Mercury in December. The second is they are having a lot of staff changes. He really liked the guys he worked with because they were a lot older than him. But if he gets in with a bunch of young kids (which isn't likely at a L/M dealership, but still a possibility) then that may not work too well!
4) School. We're both back in the swing of things. We're on track to finish our Associates in the Spring then transfer to OU in the summer to finish our Bachelors sometime in 2011. A few years off, but certainly well worth it. We both dropped our pysch class after the first test. Too many weird things going on with that class that shouldn't have been happening.
So there you have it. Now I can just update day to day.
Tomorrow I am headed to Moore Norman Tech for some assessment testing. All should go well if it's anything like what BOk did -- and I think it actually may be easier. Robby's getting off in 30 minutes from working the fair today. I went out there to eat lunch with him, and then spent about an hour after work walking around some buildings until Robby ushered me to my car because "all the crazies will be out soon and I don't want you walking around alone!" Love my hubby!
Adios!
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