The Mini Bar

This is a picture of what I call the "mini bar" of the office. It really is just a sink, and a place for coffee. Since moving to my new desk, I have come across an opportunity to keep my days full of fun. A lady who I originally dubbed "Lady Walk-by", was recently hired. I don't know what she does, I think it has to do with accounts or accounting or something like that. But anyway, in looking at this picture this is what I see when I turn to the left. It is in plain sight of my desk. "Lady Walk-by" who is now being known as Meredith occupies her work day by visiting the mini bar and other places of the office constantly. When I say constantly, I mean almost or more than being at her desk. On my desk I have this pad of paper that every time she walks by I put a tick mark on it. Her high so far was 50 times (and that's just walking by my desk) I bet it would be higher if I followed her around. Just for curiosity's sake, I think that would be fun, but I'd feel guilty for not getting anything done. I think she is being paid way too much for whatever she does, cause she's obviously not doing it. I think she and I need to have a little talk. :)

My new Workspace not Office

I apologize for the poor quality of the picture. I took this with my phone. I will take my camera to work this next week and get a better one. But at least this gives you a rough idea of my new desk. I love it!!! What's cool is there is a light under that self on the right. I have yet to turn it on... but it's still cool! I don't know if you can tell but the computer tower is under the desk and I have been using it as foot rest. It's kind of nice to put your feet up for awhile.
All I have is my calender on the wall next to the monitor. But there is soon to be more stuff. In talking with Rachel, I have taken on a new project for the weekend. I'm going to hunt the internet for a picture of some random guy, let me rephrase. A picture of some random decent looking guy and photoshop myself in the picture with him, or maybe not, not sure yet. But I'm going to frame the picture and let people think that I have a boyfriend. I also liked the idea of a little plant. Anyone else got any ideas of stuff I should put on or around my new penthouse desk? Leave a comment and let me know.

A Year in Review

As I've been sitting here for oh about 5 minutes or so trying to come up with a topic about which to write, I decided I would just write about the one year anniversary of my blog. Has it been a Happy year? I don't know. Thinking that it has only been a year tells me it's been a long year, a very long year. That much I know for sure. I would say for the most part it has been a good year.

I did a lot of traveling. Went to Boise about four times. Drove to Utah several times, too many I care to count. Utah just isn't my favorite state. And I drove home from Idaho, a long journey in of itself. I turned the big 25. That one was hard for me. I don't care to think of myself as an adult, I tend to think when times were simpler and how I wish I could go back sometimes.

I learned that it is possible to keep a fairly updated blog. (I'm counting writing this blog as writing in my journal.) I also learned that you can be best friends with people who share your name. For some reason, I always tended to run from those people in the past. I also learned that keeping in contact is hard, but when you put your mind to it, it pays off. I'm a nerd, but that's a given. That spring and fall are my favorite seasons... I think. That I NEED alone time a majority of the time.

There have been other things that weren't the best of times as well. But for those things I am grateful, somehow, at least I should be. That's what we're supposed to do anyway, right?

Here's to a new year in recording my life how I see it. Cheers

Bored to Death

"Pam: Every so often, Jim dies of boredom. I think today, it was the expense reports that did him in. And uh, our deal is, that it’s up to me to revive him."

Thursday nights have become one of my favorite times of the week, besides "alone-time" of course! The evening starts out with The Office. Whoever is responsible for all the "one-liners" needs an award of some kind. And if the guilds won't award them with one, I'll mail them a gold star or something. They are just plain brilliant! So anyway, I was talking to Rachel last week about how it would be funny since I work in an office environment that it would be funny if I just all of a sudden died of boredom like Jim does every once in a while on the show "The Office". I loved the idea and knew I could do it without anyone see me do it. I took my camera to work on Monday, but didn't have much luck. People didn't go to lunch at their normal times. Tuesday rolls around and I was able to accomplish "mission: bored to death" while everyone was at lunch and I was supposedly working. :) Check it out. It's not all that exciting. I need to put some music to it or something, a project I can do down the road. But enjoy anyway until then.

The Office

It's the end of the week as we know it, and I feel fine! I love the weekends. It is what I live for each week. It is what I patiently and not so patiently work toward. I have been at my current job for about a month now. I can honestly say that I like my job. I work in downtown Kansas City on the second floor of an office building which means I can either take a fun ride on the elevator and oh how I love elevators, or I can be kind to my heart and use the stairs. Stairs it is. No, I really like my job because, let's be honest, who wants to deal with mean people? I don't. I've had my fair share. I don't have to talk to anyone. That phone on my desk actually belongs to the person the the right. I do however have my own cubical, I have my own desk which came pre-equipped with office stuff. Not only do I wear jeans everyday, but I wear my earphones too, all day! It's nothing fancy, but it's my space. The other picture is just showing you more cubicles. If you noticed in the first picture, there is nothing that says that it is mine, but starting tomorrow, I will have put in something that claims someone might just work here. I found an extra calendar!! How exciting is that!? I may just have to take another picture to help me remember the big event! Happy March everyone. Good night and good luck.

The Abject sails

It's about time that I update this thing, but I have no idea what to write. I do have a headache for the third week in a row from church. I don't know if it has anything to do with my new calling as primary chorister. At least this week I took some medicine before I went into the lion's den, I was able to walk away with a smaller headache. This is turning out to be an interesting calling to say the least. I do enjoy it, but today, I really didn't want to go. I just wanted to sleep. Oh well, I guess it's good for me at least that's what they say. I've been teaching them a new song the past two weeks and today we played a game of boys against girls. I made them sing the song without me holding up the words. The boys went first and did horribly. (I guess we will have to work on this song some more) and then the girls. They didn't do much better. I will have to come up with another way to help them learn the song better I guess. I've also been trying to learn their names. It has been a real challenge, and I think they get tired of me asking. I don't blame them, I'd get tired of it too, but there isn't much I can do to fix it.

I think I may try to squeeze in a nap and hopefully catch a dream with the abject and sail off to some distant land.

I claim this rock in the name of Rachael

I don't know if you can tell from this picture, but that pile of clothes is about 2 1/2 feet tall. I moved back home back in January and have been living out of my suitcases ever since this past weekend. Really what's been keeping me from doing anything about it is my sister's stuff is still in this room including the closet and dresser. So I finally cleaned out the dresser (still need to tackle the closet) and did all my laundry. The one think I hate about laundry is folding it and putting it away, so I just piled it on the one side of the bed. I have a king, it's not like I need the other side. So it is going to be my project this week to find a home for half of this stuff and get rid of the other half. And just for your information, that is my dog, Bandit in the foreground. He and I are buds, he likes to hang out with me and follow me around the house.
I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the wall color is a light pink and I got the ok to paint from the parental units. So I'm shooting for either this weekend or the next to have it ready to go (probably be next weekend).
So much for going to bed early, I think I'm going to forgo the movie tonight and just do some sudoku instead. I don't want to fall asleep in my chair again at work. What a waste of a break when all you do is sleep. :) Anyway, I am happy to report that my dvd list is up to date. I am now at 321 and counting.
Happy jean Tuesday everyone! Happy "2 more days til Grey's" day as well! I can't wait.

Last thing before I go do my sudoku for the night, I need to change my poll, but I want some ideas, leave me a comment or two on what you'd like to see a poll on. And if your idea gets picked, a special prize may be coming your way.

Salud

Before I retire for the evening I wanted to mark this day (or evening) as a new chapter in my life. Tonight while playing on the computer, like what I do every night, I (dare I say it...) got bored. I have never in all my life been able to get bored while on the computer. Because of this, and my body's desire to wake early in the morn, I have decided to go to bed. I believe this is the earliest I've gone to bed in a very long time, too far for me to even remember. Here's to getting bored on the computer, well, actually, I'm not ready for that. So, here's to going to bed early... hmmm not ready for that either. I've got it, here's to a new entry in my blog. Here, here!

Now without looking back through, how many times did I use the word "here"?

I know this picture has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with this entry, but I wanted a picture. And all the toasting pictures I found were of weddings and of old people. Seeing how I am in neither situation and wanting a picture, I decided to put a picture of where I'd rather be right now.

Church was cancelled for this...

This past weekend brought snowfall to our little neck of the woods and I decided along with my sister Jenny, to take some pictures of it. So I got out my handy dandy tripod and whipped out my camera and took some night shots. Here is my favorite ---> This is a picture of the street next to our house with Jenny standing on the side taking a picture of her own. The other picture I am posting is of Jenny and me in our backyard just messing around. I also ended up making a snow angel. We had fun, and we got some cool pictures out of it too. This was around 7 or 8 at night and not very many people were out, but those that were, looked at us like we were insane for standing out in the street taking pictures. One car even stopped just beyond our street, opened the door, got out and looked at us then got back in and went up another block. There they stopped again and a boy jumped out and gathered some snow and made a snowball. This is where Jenny and I went down our street away from the major street so they couldn't see us anymore. I did not want to have a snowball thrown at me let alone my camera. I would have had some heads. :) Luckily they never turned around. But they did make me nervous. Stupid boys, they never grow up.

Safe and Sound

My holiday travels have been a memorable one this past Christmas. As we all know from my previous posts, that my travel plans had not gone so well. I was stuck in Salt Lake City due to Denver's snow storm. I then flew back to Salt Lake City for my return trip to Idaho to pick my stuff up and visit Beth. No problems with the trip and I couldn't have been happier. I do have one complaint though, the shuttle I used had no heat directed toward the floor and by the time I got back to Rexburg and got my luggage I lost feeling in some of my toes. Never again! I arrived back in Idaho on the 2nd of January, a Tuesday. I stayed with Beth and her family until Saturday evening. Mostly just chilling and enjoying each other's company. I will miss Beth and her kids. I actually had a hard time leaving. So anyway, I left Saturday evening and headed toward Utah to visit Cassandra Cae, an old roommate. I was just planning on spending the night with her, but ended up staying until Monday morning due to weather conditions on I-80 which goes through Wyoming and Nebraska. So I took I-70. I was nervous about that because Denver still had tons of snow and I wasn't sure about driving through the mountains. So I left Utah around 9:30 or so in the morning and headed toward Denver. I would have to say that that was the best part of my trip. Not only did I not get tired, but I got to travel through not just one, but several tunnels that went through the mountains! I was tempted to turn around and go through them again, but I restrained myself. So I got to Denver a little before 6 that night and waited around until my other old roommate, Jordan, got off of work so that we could go out to dinner. I waited around for about 40 minutes and finally gave up and headed toward home. By the time I got to the other side of Denver, Jordan called and we were able to hook up. We had fun, we went to Chili's with her parents and we mostly just talked about the pranks I pulled on Jordan and how she thought they were hilarious. They really loved the story of when I stole Jordan's blades that go to her fan. I thought it was pretty funny myself. Oh boy Rachel, do you have something to look forward to when we are roommates! Anyway, Jordan's family didn't want me driving through the night so they made me stay the night with them. Which I was more than happy to do. Jordan has turned into quite the grandma, she now goes to bed around 10 every night. Sometimes I wish I could do that. I now have two grandma friends. You know who you are. :) The next stop I had was home, in good ole Overland Park about 9 hours away. I didn't leave Jordan's until around noon I think. Eh, I wasn't in a hurry. The trip through Kansas was pretty uneventful. I did however find some runners. Runners are what my family call people who speed quite a bit over the speed limit and we put some distance between us then match their speed. This way, if there were a speed trap up ahead, the runners would be caught and we could sail right on by. I should note, that I didn't speed unless I had a runner. I was very careful in that regard. I really didn't want a speeding ticket. Mostly cause I couldn't afford it and plus, that just meant more alone time for me! But the runners I found in Kansas were the best. The speed limit was 70 and I had three trucks in front of me going around 90-95 mph! I loved it. I shaved so much time off my trip. I even surprised my family by getting home so quickly. I think I saved around an hour. It was great. I'd do that more often, but sometimes runners are just hard to come by. All in all, the trip was a blast. I loved every minute of it. I even loved the fact that I was by myself. Not that I don't enjoy company, it was just nice to spend quality time with myself. It was beautiful! :) Anyway, I didn't take many pictures. But here is one of me driving while I'm in Kansas. I was bored, well not really bored, just doing something other than looking at the road. :) Oh and I've decided to name my future yacht, if I ever get one, The Abject. That's just an fyi for anyone who cares.