Welcome to Fall! Our weather is finally cooling down. In fact today for the first time in weeks it felt like Fall. Its been cooler day and night most of them at least (we still are in our 80’s sometimes inside but cooler as it gets later and in the early morning). And it was breezy tonight a crisp fall feel. I miss TN sometimes and REAL weather including Fall where leaves fall and change color but cant go back to that time…
1. Workouts this week have been zero sadly. I had like one time to actually do one on Monday and I ended up failing on that one. I couldn’t get around to it any day otherwise. Between work and school and homework I am up to my eyeballs in businesses. I used to have a dull life and now well yeah… so yeah no workouts but one walk. I have walked to the Sprinter and I swear work sometimes is its own workout when I am in like the back of the store and called to the front of the store a lot yeah it’s a walk thing every time.
2. Work has been really busy! This next week will be very busier. I just finished my first of 5 days THIS week. Our work weeks begin on Sunday till the following Saturday. I worked today and then I work again tomorrow, then Thur-Sat. And begin again on Sunday. This past week I worked on Sunday of course I talked about that last week maybe and then I worked from Thursday till well tomorrow! Hours wise this is great I am unsure how much it will keep up. For example next week this one I am now will be 31 hours but next week is only 18. I am saving back whatever I can for the future anything necessary for that. So being so busy I am so tired. My feet are killing me. I woke up today with wobbly legs wondering what the heck I had done to them standing nearly 8 hours yesterday. And then walking to the Sprinter. Days like this make me think back to 15 years ago when I was told not only would I never be okay from my knee injury “never any better never any worse” but was told to NOT do retail EVER again. I didn’t listen and here I am 15 years later and my 13th retail job (not counting 4 food type jobs)… yeah about that…
3. School is going wonderful and weirdly odd. I mean we started out with 3 classes on Wednesdays and now we are down to 1 (each). I mean it all mine are online but 1. My sister has 2 in person and 1 meets on Wednesdays that also meets on Mondays. I finished off my 6 weeks online class and have 2 weeks left of my other one. Then I will be down to 2 online and 1 in person. BUT October 14th I will begin 2 late start online classes. Those both 3 units each will bring me back to my 13 units I had when we had English before we dropped it. And all will be at Palomar. That means in just 2 weeks I say good bye to Mira Costa till the Spring (January WILL come quickly!). Balancing school and work was never my strong suit and now that I am older and doing this again its really something else that’s for sure…
4. Wednesday was an odd ball day for me. I went to school per norm got to present to the class on like 2 hours of sleep my idea for a final show and it got picked along with 3 others. I guess I can be proud that since there is only 4 girls total in this class (including me) that mine was the only girl. I am now the producer of my show that will begin filming in a few weeks well whatever you call it wont be long or nothing. So after class I rode the Sprinter to the beach and then took a bus to the store and then another bus to the library and there for a bit even did some homework. Then a bus home. It was a lot of walking, a lot of riding and exhausting. Mostly done cause my sisters yearly visit with her case worker happened and I didn’t want to come home when she there and I knew my mom couldn’t come get me for a bit I probably got home around the time she’d have gotten me but oh well had fun. But it was EXHAUSTING! My little adventure.
5. I keep thinking about its now 2 years since I last worked for Legoland. I loved that park still do. But they hate me truly hate me. And all because of things I don’t understand. 2 years ago I was about to begin Brick or Treat I was SO excited! Sure it was just the weekends but it was a job I didn’t know I would have. But why did I have to be let back on? Why did it happen like that? I will never understand why God allows things like this. I know the song playing as I type one of my favorites “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby. And that is just the way it was. But I loved my job. I LOVED IT. And they blamed me, made up stuff claimed untrue then said I could not come back EVER AGAIN! I fought them tooth and nail and still apply when jobs come up even with my currently being employed I want back in. And they wont let me. Why did it go down like that? Why when I love a job do they hate me back? I know one day I can publish this all in my memoir but till then I have to question it to myself alone… 2 years ago never will make sense what happened…
Well enough sad stuff. Have a good week everyone! I will be busy busy busy busy. I hope I sleep some. Lots of homework tonight, new tv shows are back (you liking them so far?), gonna see a movie and work a ton plus. See you next weekend and good by September hello October.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
The Weekend 5 (Sunday, September 21, 2014)
It’s been a long week and this coming one only promises to be just as long… I am now working a lot of hours and going to school. But anyways on with the show!
1. I’d like to begin this with a small celebration of SUMMER ending. I mean it. I love Summer it’s a fun season but the last week of heat like nothing else in a while was really too much for me. I am glad to say we are finally cooling down. I am sure we will still have some warm temps till October maybe some in there too but the nights are cooler and the early mornings. So it will finally when I can sleep in be nice to do so. Yeah! But we had BAD heat for several days breaking records getting to over 100 in even San Diego. When you live by the coast as we do here (10min from the beach) and it hits 100 you can only imagine how hot it was inland where they are far from the coast. I grew up in orange county and we got very hot Summer’s all the Summer’s I can recall would be super-hot so yeah and I heard OC was getting it too the whole area up the coast and back. Sadly we have fires still burning, very little rain (odd rain caused odder flooding?) and a very drought state. And entering fire season soon? I pray we don’t get any more but no promises…
2. My youngest sister Misty turned 28 on Wednesday. I sadly owe her a gift now but got her 2 balloons which she loved. It didn’t feel like her birthday much like my dad’s birthday. We didn’t eat out, we didn’t spend much time with her they went out and we stayed home, so there you go. She might never be mentally more than 3 but I love her all the same and can’t believe she is getting so old! Time flies crazy.
3. Managed 2 workouts this week by going on days I normally wouldn’t so I could do it. Between school and work I really couldn’t find a day to do it while doing it my normal day. I am keeping this up this week doing it twice is my plans on my not normal day. Unsure about next week as its SUPER busy like more than this week (if that is possible). So workouts are great. Love them. Tired after and feel it when I work day after but good stuff all around!
4. School is going okay. I don’t mind school but boy was it nerve racking on Wednesday doing our on camera interview thing. I was kind of hoping either we wouldn’t go till next week or not at all. We have one more on camera thing but wont be till our final in December. We didn’t watch it but still. I sped up too fast and got so nervous there since we had to “rehearse” first which threw me off and caused me to be more insane. And I had only like 2 hours of sleep due to the heat so yeah no fun there. We are dropping English so that happened. Few reasons why: 1. Teacher is insane, 2. I don’t like studying graphic at times and super depressing mythology and 3. We aren’t really writing in this class just a thesis once a week? I mean after a few weeks in I was expecting to be writing more often to improve our writing and so far it was nothing like I thought. So that means next semester try again maybe online or maybe do it at Palomar unsure. Just not happening kind of disappointing. Now I am down to just 9 units and my two online classes are almost done. I have 1 week left with 1 and 3 weeks left with the other. Pretty soon I will be down to just two online classes and 1 in person. Next semester I plan more classes at both schools. I will be keeping up with just 2-3 days of and online to fill the spots but I want a lot more done next semester.
5. Work has been going okay. I am finally more into working. Last Sunday I worked and it was a long 8 hour shift and my first on register in a month. I worked again on Friday night, Saturday night and then today which was like a mini mid. I am at 23.5 hours this week last week was 16 something. And the following week (so not this week like today through Saturday but next Sunday till the following Saturday 28th-Oct 2nd) I am getting NO joke 31 hours. If they keep this up I can finally start to save for the future like the holidays, maybe for my dog taking her to the vet, fun stuff (maybe) and for things like school books in the Spring. I have no idea how long hours will keep up like this they could drop back again so I am enjoying all I can but its wearing me out too. But I am finally getting it again! Yeah!
Well that is all for now. I am now little less than 3 months till my 35th birthday. I am not looking forward to this. But making all this hours I might be able to get my first tattoo. Which excites me and scares me too. No promises but we shall see how the next few months go. Have a good week everyone. Hope you aren’t as busy and I will be. I don’t work again till Thursday than NON STOP till the following Monday! 5 days in a row :/
1. I’d like to begin this with a small celebration of SUMMER ending. I mean it. I love Summer it’s a fun season but the last week of heat like nothing else in a while was really too much for me. I am glad to say we are finally cooling down. I am sure we will still have some warm temps till October maybe some in there too but the nights are cooler and the early mornings. So it will finally when I can sleep in be nice to do so. Yeah! But we had BAD heat for several days breaking records getting to over 100 in even San Diego. When you live by the coast as we do here (10min from the beach) and it hits 100 you can only imagine how hot it was inland where they are far from the coast. I grew up in orange county and we got very hot Summer’s all the Summer’s I can recall would be super-hot so yeah and I heard OC was getting it too the whole area up the coast and back. Sadly we have fires still burning, very little rain (odd rain caused odder flooding?) and a very drought state. And entering fire season soon? I pray we don’t get any more but no promises…
2. My youngest sister Misty turned 28 on Wednesday. I sadly owe her a gift now but got her 2 balloons which she loved. It didn’t feel like her birthday much like my dad’s birthday. We didn’t eat out, we didn’t spend much time with her they went out and we stayed home, so there you go. She might never be mentally more than 3 but I love her all the same and can’t believe she is getting so old! Time flies crazy.
3. Managed 2 workouts this week by going on days I normally wouldn’t so I could do it. Between school and work I really couldn’t find a day to do it while doing it my normal day. I am keeping this up this week doing it twice is my plans on my not normal day. Unsure about next week as its SUPER busy like more than this week (if that is possible). So workouts are great. Love them. Tired after and feel it when I work day after but good stuff all around!
4. School is going okay. I don’t mind school but boy was it nerve racking on Wednesday doing our on camera interview thing. I was kind of hoping either we wouldn’t go till next week or not at all. We have one more on camera thing but wont be till our final in December. We didn’t watch it but still. I sped up too fast and got so nervous there since we had to “rehearse” first which threw me off and caused me to be more insane. And I had only like 2 hours of sleep due to the heat so yeah no fun there. We are dropping English so that happened. Few reasons why: 1. Teacher is insane, 2. I don’t like studying graphic at times and super depressing mythology and 3. We aren’t really writing in this class just a thesis once a week? I mean after a few weeks in I was expecting to be writing more often to improve our writing and so far it was nothing like I thought. So that means next semester try again maybe online or maybe do it at Palomar unsure. Just not happening kind of disappointing. Now I am down to just 9 units and my two online classes are almost done. I have 1 week left with 1 and 3 weeks left with the other. Pretty soon I will be down to just two online classes and 1 in person. Next semester I plan more classes at both schools. I will be keeping up with just 2-3 days of and online to fill the spots but I want a lot more done next semester.
5. Work has been going okay. I am finally more into working. Last Sunday I worked and it was a long 8 hour shift and my first on register in a month. I worked again on Friday night, Saturday night and then today which was like a mini mid. I am at 23.5 hours this week last week was 16 something. And the following week (so not this week like today through Saturday but next Sunday till the following Saturday 28th-Oct 2nd) I am getting NO joke 31 hours. If they keep this up I can finally start to save for the future like the holidays, maybe for my dog taking her to the vet, fun stuff (maybe) and for things like school books in the Spring. I have no idea how long hours will keep up like this they could drop back again so I am enjoying all I can but its wearing me out too. But I am finally getting it again! Yeah!
Well that is all for now. I am now little less than 3 months till my 35th birthday. I am not looking forward to this. But making all this hours I might be able to get my first tattoo. Which excites me and scares me too. No promises but we shall see how the next few months go. Have a good week everyone. Hope you aren’t as busy and I will be. I don’t work again till Thursday than NON STOP till the following Monday! 5 days in a row :/
Monday, September 15, 2014
The Weekend 5 (Sunday, September 14, 2014)
Happy Hot Sunday the 2nd in September. You know from my stand point you wouldn’t think that FALL was next week. California has one last heat spell under its wings and its spreading like wild fire. No pun intended as there are actually a few sad fires burning as we are still in a drought. We don’t need this heat we need the rain that keeps teasing us but ends up flooding poor Arizona (oddly enough still in a drought too!) and Nevada! Moving on…
1. Since I worked just one time again this week there is not much to say. I went in EARLY at 6am and worked till not even 11am. However as of next week I am back to actual hours and finally am learning to balance out school and work. Will take some time to get used to working the register again as I mostly did stock on the days I worked past few weeks.
2. Workouts this week were really really great! I worked out THREE times. And these were actual workouts where I ran/jogged some. Not just walks. Plus added bonus of walking to the Sprinter twice for school and once for work you got extra in there somewhere. This week will be harder but trying for at least twice even if it not on my usual workout days. I love working out. Its exhausting and I felt it going into work twice after working out day before. Even a small amount hurts but I know in the end it is good for me and I will do it much as I can! I miss Zumba and Wiifit and hope to put those back on the menu too this week or maybe next shall see.
3. School is going okay. Made it through 4 weeks aka a month. I have only 2 weeks left for one of my online classes and 4 with my other. Going to be odd in October when I have just two online classes. But I am doing good most of my classes my grades are wonderful and fine. We skipped English last week but I still did the homework. As of now we are still going to keep going to that class but it was a nice break. 4 hours at night is just so long I was just so glad to be off one day from that. My tv/radio is fun I worked camera this time. I am unsure if we will get around to doing our group on camera thing. I am still working on ideas for my online papers I have due. This week will be crazy as I work all weekend plus have 2 things due between all that.
4. This week on Thursday we marked 13 years since 9/11. I was just talking to a fellow student online class about it and she said she as more affected by it because of how her parents reacted making me think she is probably just a teen and didn’t experience how I did at 21 years old. It changed me it changed everyone. I will never forget. I decided to watch one of those memorial things from CNN and showing the events all over again watching those planes crash into the building watching people jump to their deaths thinking they would live just was heart breaking. One of my biggest goals in traveling to places to see is to go back to NYC and see the memorial set up where the twin towers used to sit. Sept 11th I will never forget and I hope you do not either!
5. This past week on the 12th marked 3 years since we last saw Arizona. We left around 8pm that night and haven’t gone back. I miss Arizona so much sometimes. Even with all the flooding. All we had and never got all the stuff we lost. So the 13th marked 3 years since we pulled back up in California. Of all our moves this was not a planned move it was not in our plans. Gods maybe but not ours. I have yet to figure out why it didn’t work out in AZ and why we had to move back like we did so fast!
Well there you go. End of the week. Sorry this is a day late worked all day yesterday and couldn’t get on here. Had to do homework on Saturday night or this would have been up on time. This coming weekend will be a bit easier. Have a great week everyone. Hope you all stay cooler than us! 94 as I write this at 4:30pm. I envy the people with pools and ac’s… till Sunday!
1. Since I worked just one time again this week there is not much to say. I went in EARLY at 6am and worked till not even 11am. However as of next week I am back to actual hours and finally am learning to balance out school and work. Will take some time to get used to working the register again as I mostly did stock on the days I worked past few weeks.
2. Workouts this week were really really great! I worked out THREE times. And these were actual workouts where I ran/jogged some. Not just walks. Plus added bonus of walking to the Sprinter twice for school and once for work you got extra in there somewhere. This week will be harder but trying for at least twice even if it not on my usual workout days. I love working out. Its exhausting and I felt it going into work twice after working out day before. Even a small amount hurts but I know in the end it is good for me and I will do it much as I can! I miss Zumba and Wiifit and hope to put those back on the menu too this week or maybe next shall see.
3. School is going okay. Made it through 4 weeks aka a month. I have only 2 weeks left for one of my online classes and 4 with my other. Going to be odd in October when I have just two online classes. But I am doing good most of my classes my grades are wonderful and fine. We skipped English last week but I still did the homework. As of now we are still going to keep going to that class but it was a nice break. 4 hours at night is just so long I was just so glad to be off one day from that. My tv/radio is fun I worked camera this time. I am unsure if we will get around to doing our group on camera thing. I am still working on ideas for my online papers I have due. This week will be crazy as I work all weekend plus have 2 things due between all that.
4. This week on Thursday we marked 13 years since 9/11. I was just talking to a fellow student online class about it and she said she as more affected by it because of how her parents reacted making me think she is probably just a teen and didn’t experience how I did at 21 years old. It changed me it changed everyone. I will never forget. I decided to watch one of those memorial things from CNN and showing the events all over again watching those planes crash into the building watching people jump to their deaths thinking they would live just was heart breaking. One of my biggest goals in traveling to places to see is to go back to NYC and see the memorial set up where the twin towers used to sit. Sept 11th I will never forget and I hope you do not either!
5. This past week on the 12th marked 3 years since we last saw Arizona. We left around 8pm that night and haven’t gone back. I miss Arizona so much sometimes. Even with all the flooding. All we had and never got all the stuff we lost. So the 13th marked 3 years since we pulled back up in California. Of all our moves this was not a planned move it was not in our plans. Gods maybe but not ours. I have yet to figure out why it didn’t work out in AZ and why we had to move back like we did so fast!
Well there you go. End of the week. Sorry this is a day late worked all day yesterday and couldn’t get on here. Had to do homework on Saturday night or this would have been up on time. This coming weekend will be a bit easier. Have a great week everyone. Hope you all stay cooler than us! 94 as I write this at 4:30pm. I envy the people with pools and ac’s… till Sunday!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
The Weekend 5 (Sunday, September 7, 2014)
Welcome to the first one of these in September! Wow crazy. 7 years ago at this time I was barely home as we had flown from TN to CA back again after a somewhat successful but not so much trip that would set in motion our move in November. More about that below I want to think back some more…
1. It began in July 2007 a crazy idea lets move away from home to another state! We debated between Texas and Tennessee finally settling on TN. Our first visit was in August. And our second one happened 7 years ago this week. Left on the 4th came back on the 7th. We found our apartment but with none open we had to wait. I miss everything about our tiny trips and final move. In end we as we watched our lives fall apart and then fall in place we knew it was meant to be. I miss TN and even a visit back wouldn’t be the same. The job I held for 3 years is gone. While most of our friends are still in the state they are scattered. The malls are changed and so much more. And even more so I am changed. I’d be seeing it with changed eyes. If you don’t believe me and have a chance go revisit a past life you lead and get back to me. Moving CHANGES everything. You and all the in-between. However for nearly 3 fateful year we adapted became southern girls and still hold Nashville a big place in our hearts. I miss it with every breath I breath and every tear I shed. There was no looking back once we got there and I am still sorry to this day we left that state in 2010! Cant change the past but I mourn for it still…
2. Since I only worked once again this week this will be short as they come. Had a very bad encounter with a nasty customer. I don’t want to put details out but I haven’t in so long it was so rare at my store it shocked me. Been at my job 6 months now! As of tomorrow the 8th. I love and hate my job but in the end its all I got so I deal with it best I can. My one day was fine. I have ONE more early shift this coming week and then back to the norm the following. Finally get to try to balance work and school haven’t done that yet since school began due to this mess up. Oh well. There you go!
3. Workouts this week have not really happened. 2 small walks plus walks to the sprinter for work or school is all that I made it to. HOPE this week for a few real workouts mainly well all day I can as I don’t work Saturday I have a good chance of 3 workouts working them around my work and school schedule. Wish me luck! I miss workouts!
4. School is going interesting… that is all I can say interesting… I have 3 weeks left for one of my online classes, 5 weeks the other. Then as of mid October I will be down to 2 online classes and 2 in person. I am still doing 13 units of school. I keep wanting to drop sometimes from classes online it wouldn’t be hard. All this is done in fun but I am still taking it all pretty seriously like I need and do work on getting good grades. Our ENGLISH class is still so strange and so not like I thought. Unsure what I thought but still. Mythology and all the other stuff she throws at us. My tv/radio lab is still fun. I miss CSB and its like my substitute for not going to another broadcast school around here. I might do an internship if they let me in the spring with the school not a station but still give me some experience it all counts in the end. I need to keep moving forward for my job. Unsure what I will take in the Spring but my goal is to continue classes for my dream job, fun ones and maybe music and dance shall see. Glad to keep going here at this. Its what it is.
5. Divided this last one in 2 parts: 1. Saw “If I Stay” on Friday night it was fantastic horribly sad movie that I love to pieces and will be for sure to own it someday and maybe see again. I read the book and I am working on the 2nd one. I loved it but if you go bring tissues! And 2. Today is my dads 66th birthday. I marvel my parents are so old now. Just pray they keep living for many years to come. Dad didn’t want to do any official celebrating unlike last year. So we did in-n-out Friday with him, mom, his two brothers and his brothers wife. So there was 3 girls 3 guys at a few tables. Today they are eating out, I am staying home and my sister had to work. Oh well. Happy Birthday dad!
I ‘d like to add I hate this heat and I wish it gone. It is 88 crazy degrees in this house and feels like 90 at least! One of the hottest still. Yes Summer we GET IT you are not gone yet till the 23rd and taking every single day of heat with you. I want to jump in our neighbors pool so wishful thinking I miss having a pool. I am sad we never made the beach nor a water park this summer (not even FREE Legoland one). Alas there you go Summer you were mean! Well have a good one everyone see you in a week. Stay cool and hopefully that means cooler than me!
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