| What's New - April 2004 |
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| April 19, 2004 - This weekend was pretty busy. I went to a funeral on Saturday morning. It was raining, so further delayed
my timely arrival to Azusa. My greatest mistake was traveling through Montery Park. Big mistake. Never
travel that way - no one knows how to drive. It's even worse in the rain. Then, i discovered that
Alosta Avenue has an East, a West, then an East again. What THE????? Needless to say, i was 30 minutes late
to the funeral and had to sit outside the chapel, since it was so crowded. It's good to see that Aggie
had so many people who loved her & how she touched so many lives! I will really miss seeing her at New
Year's.
Saturday night, Erin & I went to see 13 going on 30. HILARIOUS!!! I really loved that movie. It's funny because I remembered so much of it!! Yesterday I decided to try cleaning my room again. For those of you who don't know, my room is ridiculous. I just can't throw crap away. My room has turned into a storage facility. So, here's my tactic...i take everything out of my room and put it in the living room, then start putting stuff back in, throwing out the stuff that I haven't used/seen in 6 months. Ok, problem #1 - i took out maybe about 1/4 of the things out of my room before my living room was completely full, and my cat is freaking out because there's just too much activity so she's tearing up the living room couch. So, i decide to try to clear out some of the stuff out of the living room, starting with my bills & mags. That's one trashbag. Out the door. The more I start pulling out of the boxes & bags, the more crowded my living room gets. I'm sitting on top of boxes & bags of stuff. Ok, there seems to be more room in my room, so I start clearing out stuff out of my room again. As I'm pulling stuff out of drawers & hidey holes my room gets more & more crowded...pretty soon all I'm doing is sitting in a maze of crap. I gave up & pretty much just chucked out a whole bunch of crap. I still can't navigate through my living room and I'm overwhelmed with the amount of stuff that I own. I'll give it another try later this week. Let's see...oh yeah. my co-worker, beth, just got transferred to a Marketing Counseler (sales rep) Position so she'll be moving back to texas. I hate her a lot right now. she's deserting me in my time of need. On the brighter side, i'm going to the bahamas next week on a site inspection. go me. :) April 13, 2004 - This weekend was pretty busy - i had shirley's wedding shower, christy's birthday party, and easter lunch! On Friday night, i was so tired from hanging out with the Paragould/OKC guys Thursday night, that I fell asleep for about 16 hours. Ugh. That's really gross. I was pretty annoyed with my boss last week - i left at 4:00pm (seeing as how I get in at 7:00am, that's about right) - she actually checked the clock to see what time i was leaving. I was pretty upset. I don't consider myself to be a slacker so I almost lost it. I just had to keep on walking towards the door. I just read a pretty good book - Angels & Demons by Dan Brown - i highly recommend it! I'm starting to read Deception Point now. Good news - i'm getting a refund on my taxes! woo hoo!! Europe, here I come!! April 6, 2004 - So, my mentor, Katie, my incentive travel meeting planner vendor person is really encouraging. Please read below for her encouragements to my whining… No really it could be worse - Take a breather and RELAX - Here are some things to think about - 1. You could be dying of cancer 2. You could be going through a terrible divorce 3. You could be a bum on the street - ok probably not that. 4. You could be a house mom with 5 kids 5. HHAHAHA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, here is my response to her: I could also: 1.) be smart enough to know that my life really does suck (luckily, ignorance is bliss); 2.) be married to a really scumbag P.Ho, living a life of anxiety, distrust & misery (really luckily, I’m fresh out of those kinds of guys); 3.) I could be sane (please refer to reasoning number 1) 4.) I could be an event planner for a crazy corporate company (oh wait…) 5.) HAHAHAHAHA April 5, 2004 - I Hey – just wanted to thank my new readers – Katie K.S., Deb B., & Will T. for saying such nice things about my postings! I can put stuff up here for the public that I can’t really say out loud. Although I wish I could!!! Anyhow…onto the update! I’ve pretty much determined that my new boss will most likely be the death of me. This is why – Upon my asking my new boss for ideas or ways that I can achieve one of my goals, her response to me was, “it’s your job to achieve your own goal, not to push it off on others.” Now, instead of flying off the handles and saying something like, ‘ARE YOU KIDDING ME???’ – my response was silence. I just sat there and stared. I stared at her because I have been told, several times mind you, by my VP that I must go to my new boss for advice, direction, & to ask her how I can do things better because she just has SOOOOOOOOO much to offer me. So when I initially offered to give this woman 12 weeks before I made an assessment (pending the need to prolong it to 16 weeks), I think I was being overly generous & optimistic. It took 4 weeks. Actually, the fact that she was an annoying human took about 5 minutes, but that’s besides the point. It doesn’t matter to me that she’s annoying so long as she gets the job done. All I’ve seen up to this point is that she’s very, very overwhelmed. Ok, I’m done for today harping on this. Let’s see – last week was pretty busy – i had happy hour with beth where we pretty much complained the whole time; had dinner with ron; went to calamigos ranch to see about a picnic site (very cool, people!!); and I thought I almost missed a dinner with Shirley, aya, & miles. Yesterday, I saw a whole bunch of folks I hadn’t seen in a while at Kaz & Chris’ baby shower! It’s always nice to see everyone on such happy occasions! Today is the first work day of daylight savings time. I woke up late. Big surprise. I hate this time of year. Those changes feel like jet lag to me except this is far worse. I just can’t get my butt into gear!!! More about me. |