The husband has been working the early shift instead of the afternoon shift for a couple of weeks. I like having him home sooner on my early days, but it means on my late days he leaves around 6:30 so I’m awake a lot sooner and sleepy all day. It also means I have to look for breakfast since I’m up so early. Our bread doesn’t look so good. I think it could knock out a small mammal if I tossed it one in an attempt to feed it. We’re out of milk, but have three different kinds of cereal. I think we may have some oatmeal hidden in the pantry somewhere in the back… Does oatmeal expire?
Tags: Boredom
I’m a crazy person. So I try to get as much done ahead of time as possible. I’m about 90% done with my xmas shopping. I’ve taken care of most of the extended family. At this point I only need a couple items for the husband and my parents and stocking stuffer stuff for friends and work. We even made a stop at the dollar store and then a cheaper store – my parent’s warehouse of free crap - to pick up gift bags, tissue paper, wrapping paper and gift labels. We’re set. For a while though, I’ve been wanting to get Kris a watch. It seems every time I get him one it’s giving a death sentence to the device itself. He either loses it or breaks it somehow. I can’t tell you how many timepieces the man has destroyed in the nearly ten years we’ve been together, and I haven’t gotten him rinky-dink watches either. The last one was almost two hundred dollars. He didn’t want the warranty on it – that’s the last time I let him talk me out of that one. Dead in less than a year because he bangs his wrist around… Maybe I should get him fifty two dollar store watches so he can have a fresh one each week. Or maybe I’ll get him a Luminox, some of those have Navy Seal right in the name. Maybe, just maybe they’re tough enough for Kris.
I haven’t written anything in here in quite awhile. Things have just been hectic, and because of the holidays, are going to continue that way for some time. Thanksgiving is next week. It’s going to be here. To avoid the stress of last year’s disorganized holiday.. I’m going to become control freak Kelly and deal with the more much manageable stress of doing almost everything myself. The husband is wonderful and is trying to help me already by making lists and wanting to hand out duties to other people. List making is good. I like lists, but I’m not relying on anyone else to get anything done. I’ve been let down too many times, recently even, to trust anyone else to help me when it’s crunch time. I’m sure Kris’ mom will want to make her desert things she always brings. My parents are each making their own dressings and maybe Priscilla will bring something as well. But everything else will be done here. I’m going to clean the fridge this weekend and raid my parents pantry and freezer as well to see what we can get a hold of before hand. I’m going to do as much as I can beforehand and we may even be doing a dinner this year instead of lunch so that’s potentially more time too. I’m nervous about the whole thing, but I have no doubt I will get everything done. Kris is with me to keep me relatively sane as well so it’ll all be ok.
I’ve been doing the avon thing for a while now and I still don’t have it as organized as I want it to be. I don’t have a place to keep my books before handing them out. I need to set it up somehow and soon. It’s time-consuming and since I’ve been shopping with my profits for xmas gifts I haven’t really seen how much I can make with it yet. After the holidays it should be a little more clear. This satisfies one of my objectives listed in my VOX journal as well, so I’m happy about that. Still working on that list.
I’m going to try to go back to school and talking to Kris, he’s thinking about the same thing. I’m working on getting my debt consolidated so that’s one less thing I need to think about. Classes start in Jan, so I have about a month to register before everything I want to take gets filled. I’m waiting on some info in the mail that should be here in about a week. After that I should be able to register.
Things have just been super busy it seems. I’ve been going out on the weekends instead of laying around at home sitting on the computer all day which take away a lot of my computer time… but i’m not complaining. I’ve been having fun. I started selling avon recently and that as well has taken up a lot of my time…
Things are just crazy. I have several things lines up for this weekend and 4 different events I’m supposed to attend next weekend on the same day, so I don’t know how that’s going to turn out. but I do think I’m going to end up switching my weekend to work to this weekend instead of next to just ease things up a bit.
I meant to blog more, but I’m just so beat. hopefully I’ll get to ramble some more tomorrow.
Tags: Boredom
Hooray for the weekend. Things are looking good this month and I hope I don’t jinx myself by saying that. I just love this time of year. The weather isn’t so overpowering.. Halloween!!!! is always fun. It’s just a good time.
This weekend we’re supposed to go out with Gilbert and Priscilla. We haven’t seen them in forever. Probably just going to catch lunch somewhere tomorrow. Maybe we’ll get to the movies again with Amanda and see Ghost Town. There’s a few things that need doing around the house as well. We need to pull out the Halloween decorations and get to work on that. Kris wants to redesign the study, which more than likely means installing a fan and moving the desks around. My new PC arrived this week so files need to be transfered and it needs to be set up. I need to print out a voter’s registration form for Ori because it needs to be in the mail by the 8th, I believe. Also, I am determined to be signed up to Avon by the end of the week. Lots of people buy it at work so it seems relatively simple. I submitted two apps online to different reps to contact me and I have my dad going to ask around the store to see if someone can sign me up too. Whoever gets here first!
Kris and I are thinking of going up to the Renfest some weekend, maybe for 1001 Dreams. We’ve never gone before so it should be interesting. I say we should go for the weekend and get a hotel and he says we should drive there and back the same day which I think is insane! It’s at least 7 hours of driving and then a full day’s worth of walking around… I want to rest afterwards! And if it’s a super cool place then I want to go back up another weekend with Amanda is tow because it just seems like something we should do together.
Speaking of things to do with Amanda, we gotta go ghost hunting!! We’ve been talking about spooky places in San Antonio and we want to go on one of those walking tours of downtown… the problem is no one ever wants to go downtown.. lol. The parking sucks and the area is sketchy.. Eh.. we’ll figure something out I’m sure.
Tags: Beauty, Boredom, Decorating, Friends, Home Improvement, PC, Texas, Travel
I finally finished The Host. That book took me freaking forever.. I just could not get into it until Tuesday night then I finished it last night. I think if you told Stephenie Meyer to write a 100 word short story and NOT use the word “chagrin” she could not do it. She would just look at you and say it’s not possible. I’ve never seen any writer use that word so damn much. It just started to annoy me to the point I would audibly sigh every time I saw it. Ugh! If you can look past her overuse of a rather obscure 17th century French noun, the book wasn’t all that bad. Like her other books, the writing style is very simplistic which, once you get connected to the story, makes for a very fast read.
I’m going to be starting Coraline by Neil Gaiman today. I don’t think it’s going to take very long because 1. I like his writing style. 2. I don’t usually have a problem connecting to his characters and 3. It’s a 162 pg children’s book. :) The movie is coming out in February of 2009.
This is such an expensive time of year. So many birthdays and holidays and this is when all the new games start coming out one after another. It’s insane, really. There’s a lot of things I still want to do for the house… like redecorate the bathrooms and the master bedroom, and not to mention landscaping. It’s just a lot. I think I’m going to try to kill two birds with one stone and sell some stuff on craigslist or ebay and clear up some space and get some extra cash.. Anyone want to buy some my little ponies? :P
Tags: Expenses
Recently, my friend Amanda moved back to San Antonio. We’ve known each other since the sixth grade and are just totally crazy when we’re around each other. We pretty much drove our parents insane because we had kind of our own language. Half the things we said to each other weren’t even real words.. like “whacado!” We’d probably even say something like Galco. She’s been back about a month or so and we’ve been hanging out almost every weekend. It’s much fun! Mindy!
It’s finally starting to cool down, just a tiny bit. At least it’s out of the 90s. I’ve been wanting to decorate for Halloween since we moved into the house last year in November! I love Halloween! It’s finally time! This weekend, we’re going to go shopping for decorations and pull out the ones we have and just go to town!
This is an expensive time of year. I need to start with the xmas shopping. As always, my goal is to be done before thanksgiving. A ton of games are coming out next month. A few books are coming out and I still haven’t finished that damn book by Stephenie Meyer that I’ve been reading forever.. it’s just not terribly interesting.. I also splurged on a big purchase that I haven’t told the husband about yet.. It was purchased with MY money… but it was expensive so I’m feeling guilty… I’m thinking of just splurging on the holidays and the house and getting a loan with lower interest than my cards..
The economy seems to be getting worse, too. I wasn’t worried about it too much because San Antonio has always been a city of growth.. even when the rest of the country is doing poorly, we have houses being built, businesses building offices here and more jobs being created instead of cut. Well, that’s changed recently. A few big companies have either closed up shop in town or scaled back dramatically. I’m seeing more “for sale” signs on houses than can just be chocked up to this being a military town and people always coming in and out. Gas prices are obscene and Ike didn’t help any. And speaking of Ike, we still have quite a few evacuees here. Almost all of them looking for handouts and food stamps.. It’s becoming upsetting to me. I know that quite a few hotels have had to cancel reservations because of the people they let stay there from the hurricane completely trashed the rooms. People are complaining about the free, donated clothes they’ve been given and thrown them away.
The past few years have just hardened me. Seriously, you know that a hurricane is a risk when you live on the freaking beach… I can understand organizations coming together to help people affected.. but those people shouldn’t be DEMANDING assistance, and that’s what I’ve been seeing and hearing around the city. We still have a lot of people here from Katrina who aren’t even working. People need help from time to time, but shouldn’t they have to do something for it? Shouldn’t they have to pay back loans? It’s just increasing annoying. It reminds me of the people I talk to at work that say they haven’t worked in years.. because they can’t work… Dude, you answered a phone.. go get a job in a call center and sit on you butt 8 hours a day doing what I do! It makes me not want to volunteer or donate anymore.. because it’s not helping them do anything but leech off people that want to help… Now I’m bitter. :P
Tags: Boredom, Charity, Expenses, Frustration, Life, San Antonio
