Until I Retrun

By this time tomorrow, Cathy and I will be on our little road trip. Two girls chatting it up in a car for 7 hours. It will make for an interesting week.

Lafoo I'm affraid I've been thinking. A dangerous past time, I know! (Beauty and The Beast) What were you doing last year at this time? Last year at this time, things were getting pretty crazy, but something really good came out of it for me. Around this time we found out grandpa was really sick, worse than I thought and could ever imagine. Through grandpa's death I gained an amazing friend. Grandpa's last weeks are a time I will never forget. How our family came together, and a friend I could rely on. I have to admit, she shocked me with how loving and caring she was with only knowing me for a short time. She kept me smiling at work until I headed off to the hospice to meet up with what ever family was there. I never wanted to miss a minute of being there. This girl was there every step of the way - at work and through phone calls. There was even a slumber party! The Lord put her there when I really needed her and I thank Him every day for that. From that point on she has been one of my closest friends, and someone I completely admire. She is the friend that lives the farthest away, but feels the closest in my heart. Julie, thank you for always making me laugh. What ever kind of day I am having, you brighten it. I can only hope I am able to be that person for someone else.

Kyle. Happy 27th Birthday! I hope you had a good night last night, and that you have a good one tonight too! I can't wait to see you, and I hope you are feeling better. You best be rested up by the time I get there.


Something to remember:
And now Dad, you leave us with this undying legacy of our Love of God, and Our Love of Our Family. In Jesus name we pray… (from Grandpa's 5 daughters - the way he ended his prayers)

Voting

I have tried to be very good this year, and pay attention. Well now that I have done that, I have found out that I will not be voting this year. When I went to the DMV to change everything over four months ago, I checked that little box that said "check here if you want to register to vote". Four months later I come to find out that the DMV screwed up. Not only did it happen to me, it also happened to my father. I was putting forth the effort to make an educated decision and now I can't even cast my vote. Needless to say, I am a WEE BIT frustrated with the DMV and a little letter might be coming their way.

Besides that. Today was a bit of a rollercoaster. I have been all excited to go to Rochester for the week, and I get to work today to hear that there a good chance that I may not be going. The girl that I am going with was in the hospital. Well she is out now, and she is okay. I think she is very stressed out. Anywho, the doc gave her clearance to work, which means Rochester here we come! Oh and Kyle, I don't care when you work. I will see you. That is all that matters. Then a month later we get to see each other again! LUCKY YOU!

Words of Wisdom:
Tell the ones you love that you love them. Tell them every day. It brightens you day, and it is good to hear.

Two Things

FIRST, camping. Yes, it was great. I forgot how relaxing it is just to sit there by the fire with a couple friends. It was great to be around Chris again. I have known him since first grade, and to be around him is just very comforting. He is a friend that will always be there, and I think I will always have that crush on him that I have had since first grade. Don't worry Kyle, you would love him, and I don't think we would ever really date. Chris had brought along one of those questions books that have thousands of questions for kids to ask eachother...so we did that since most of us didn't know each other. My favorite was: If you could have the power to see the future or talk to animals which one would you choose? Or if you could switch shoes with someone for a week, would you? It made for a good night, well that and the hot chocolate with the peppermint shnops (sp?). For those of you who were worried, we had a girls tent and a boys tent!

SECOND, work. For those of you who were little curious georges out there (like me), I am working Monday thru Thurday this week. Now if you have your math straight, you would notice that is a four day work week. But don't you worry, I am getting paid for five. You ask how, let me inform you. On Saturday, Cathy (my coworker) and I will be venturing to Rochester to work at the Penfield store for a week. (willy - a week meaning five days, i know you get confused easily - hehe) I was hoping to be there for Kyle's birthday, but I will be two days late, please forgive me! Well I just thought I would give you a warning. I will probably want to show Cathy were my BIG brother lives.

Well that is all my news. I am off to get some stuff done once again. Gotta love those days off where you still have to work. LOVE IT!

Words of Wisdom:
IF YOU EVER CALL ME MOCKING PURDUE AGAIN, YOU MAY NOT LIVE TO SEE TOMORROW (willy)
for everyone else:
what are you most proud of (about yourself)? Use that in everyday, it will make you feel good.

Camping

Okay, so I work today until 8 to come home and pack up my car. After that I need to try and get some sleep since I have to wake up at 4:15 tomorrow to be at work by 6. I get out at 2:30 tomorrow then it is CAMPING for me!!! I am all excited. I have my sleeping bad all layed out in my living room, the tent is in the trunk and now all I need is clothes. I have decided to wear my work boots with jeans and a sweatshirt. If you can't tell - I am really really really excited. I love camping. It is the sitting around the campfire with no responsibilites except to not catch on fire. It will be a bit chilly, but don't you worry - hot chocolate and bailys. (or so I have been told) Another good thing about that - I love hot chocolate! I have this feeling I won't be getting much sleep tonight, but I tried to get up early this morning so that wouldn't be a problem.

Maybe this camping trip will help me get Willy's last posting out of my head. I don't need to hear about his bathroom habits, I did have to live with it for a year. And what joy that was! (Willy I still love you) Right now I am thanking my lucky stars that I am not Molly. And if it was me, I would have killed you! Okay, time to shower and get ready for work. Oh - happy happy joy joy!

Words of Wisdom:
Purdue plays Wisconson on Saturday at 5:30. I best see some Purdue wear - or you will have to hear it from me! And memorize Hail Purdue. There will be quizes!

Three down, Two to go!

Oh yea, you know what I am talking about - work. Tomorrow I have off, then two days to go until the start of a new week. But before the new week starts, there is camping. I am not sure where, I just know that there will be a camping trip with one person I know, and others that I don't. (yea, that means I am trying to make new friends.)

One thing I realized that I really miss having at work is that person you can get a good hug from. At CP I always had a friend that when a hug was needed, he was there. And vice versa. We were there for eachother, although we faught like no other. (and now we are friends, go figure) Today was one of those days that you just needed a hug, and everything would have been okay if you could have gotten that hug to know that everything was okay. So that hug reassurance wasn't there, but I got by anyhow - just barely.

Camping will be fun...or so I am counting on it to be fun. I need it to be fun. I need that stress releaver. We all can use that at some point. Although last night I did kick major butt in Euchre and darts. Oh yes, you heard me right! My euchre partner, Tim, and I kicked butt - I won two games in a row by going alone! Then we (Tim, Joe, Brien, and I) played darts...I won with 233 points - no joke. I cleared everything out super fast except the 16's, then just got points until I finished closing out the 16's. I can never hit the 16's so I decided to rack up my points while I tried. Lets just say, Joe is not good when it comes to losing. He gets pretty punchy. It was funny at first, but then you just wanted to tell him to lighten up - IT'S JUST A GAME. All in all, it was a good night even though the Yankee's game was on. (kidding willy!)

Words of Wisdom:
Let the guy win (if you are a girl). It makes life so much easier. If they lose, all they do is grip and say you cheated or they weren't into it. (lies of course)

NEEDED:

Looking for someone who is organized, well manered and has their own place to sleep. If you like picking up clothes after me and washing my dishes - then you will be perfect. (Julie, sorry - you can't be my stalker and my nanny.) If you want to be my nanny, great, you can start today! As for pay, don't expect it!

I am sitting her in my apt thinking, I need to wash a couple dishes, vacuum, and put my folded clothes away. Nothing big right, it is just doing it. Oh I wouldn't mind getting the bathroom cleaned as well. So that would be like 45 minutes of work right there. But like I said, it is doing it, that is the only problem. Oh, I also need to go and get more black socks for work, maybe new comfy shoes for work, and another white button down. Fun stuff right there I am telling ya. Okay, well here I go. To shower and enjoy shopping for a bit, then come home to clean.

Hopfully this will end with a fun night with Mike. He has never seen Top Gun. I think he grew up on Mars. His Finace is in Rochester with work for the night, so I get to babysit. THANKS KELLY (she does have a great name though, doesn't she!)

Words of Wisdom:
When someone calls offering to invite you a dinner that they know you love, make sure you go knowing that they will be asking you for something.

Stessful day

Now today was a stressful day, it didn't start out that way, but it was. I got up and went to mom and dad's since it was my day off and a weekend day, so I got the chance to see both parents. We had egg mc muffins for breakfast (I had two!) then sipped coffee for a bit. Then we went to IKEA. Mom and Dad had never been there before and it is a pretty neat place to see. After that, we went back to Bethesda to eat lunch. Then we ate ice cream to wash down out lunches. (We only do what we have to do!) Then it was back to watch the Purdue/Penn State game. Purdue played horribly...we were hanging on at every second. But we won, we had to win. Purdue rocks, but we just weren't using all our strengths today. It was 20-13, to close for comfort. A game where you were sitting on the edge of your set thinking "come on Purdue, pull it together!" They didn't, but somehow they pulled it off!


Now let me tell you about last night. I went out with some people from work. We went to a club in DC called H2O (Kyle that is stands for water in chemist terms). This club was amazing. You had to be dressed to the nines to get in. No jeans - so I was shocked that I went. It was a $20 cover, but we had free VIP passes. Not sure how we got them, but we did. This club had five different rooms to dance in. They all had different music, so we bounced from room to room. I felt bad, I was kinda mean - but I had fun. I would only dance with the people I went with - NO OTHER GUYS. I was pretty stern about it too. This guy came up behind me and started dancing with me so I stopped dancing and turned around and told him no. The three guys I was with thought it was funny. I didn't get home till 3 - and yes I slept the whole way back! It was a long drive home. Out of eight people three drank and two were in the same car as me for the drive back and one was puking the whole way home. YUMMY! But don't worry, I still slept through it all!

Words of Wisdom:
Choose your friends wisely. The ones that are there at the end of the night are true.

You Best Start Praying!

Well it looks like it may happen. They may let a kid near me to mentor. They must not have been thinking! Incase you didn't pick it up, I had my interview today for Childhelp USA. I had volunteered to be a mentor for a year, and the lady seemed to like me. Although I really didn't say all that much. They still have to do a social work background check and a police background check on me. (Lets just hope they over look the time I went car bowling using people as the pins!) The place seemed pretty neat. Sounds like it will be an interesting year. If I completely pass all the testing stages, I will be asked to meet with the child once a week for a year. No taking the kid back and asking for a new one. It will either be an abused child or a pregnant teen. Or so I was told.
Besides that, I am exhausted. I have been up since three working on work. So now I am going to make some good eats and sit back for a bit.

Words of Wisdom:
If you could do anything, what would it be? Now, why aren't you out pursuing it?

My Favorite Name

Okay, so I know you all thought this move to Virginia would open my eyes. Well I thought I would tell you all that I have finally come across something very important. Now who it is important to is yet to be determined. As you can tell from the title (unless you are a moron) we are talking about my favorite name. I have had plenty for choose from, but I think I have norrowed it down. Now this was a lengthy process and very strenuous, as you can probably guess it lots of thought. But it is something that had to be done, and I took the time in my busy schedule to do so. Lets just dig right in and run down the short version of my long list...

First there is A. Buttolph - now how can you not laugh when BUTT is apart of a name. Okay, call me second grade, I don't care - it's funny! Next would have to be J. Jagoonana. For some reason when ever I say it I start laughing. Try it, I bet ya you'll laugh! Then there is Sum Sum. Not many people have the same name for their first and last name. So I thought that was pretty clever. Cookie, now that is a name I have a hard time calling a lady in her 40's, Cookie. It's her name...but it makes me want a cookie! But hands down, the winner goes to Khahn Dang. I LOVE IT! It makes you smile. I wish it were my name. It isn't funny, it's khahn dang, what else can you say about it! It Rocks! It just flat out rocks. But I can't say anything to him, I don't want to sound like a complete jerk and offend him. So we (about 5 of us) keep it to ourselves, well until I decided to share this with you all.

Words of Wisdom:
If you haven't jumped on the Purdue bandwagon yet, you best hurry or I will sit on you. (Just remember, my nickname is SWAMPY and I need to go to Fat Kids Camp!)

Work Trip?? Maybe

Lets see, my week. This week has been one of those weeks where I have been completely frustrated. Work. That is all I have to say. Now don't get me wrong, I love my job. I have fun...but this week I haven't smiled much. There is no communication at work, now that is no secret - EVERYBODY knows it. And let me just say, it gets annoying and frustrating and aggrivating. I am still new to Wegmans since CP (Chase) doesn't count. No one tells me information that would be nice to know. Last night, I am at my friend Matt's apt having a beer after work, and he decided to give a heads up that they might send me to rochester to get trained. Now don't you think they would have thought of that BEFORE I came down here. From what I hear, they want to send Cathy as well, she doesn't have a full understanding of wegmans either. Now let me tell you about Cathy. She could be my mom, yet she has more of a life than I do. She internet dates and meets all these guys out at bars. A great girl, she makes me laugh...but I am laughing becuase it is stuff I would never do. I really can't imagine my manager send the two of us to rochester for two weeks together - if this did actually play through. The two of us in a hotel room - I would be interesting!

Words of Wisdom:
If you are not yet a Purdue fan - then you are an idiot. HELLO! Notre Dame 16 - Purdue 41 What else can I say!! Become one fast - or you will lose out on tons of fun!