"Why I love you"

“Why I love you”

I love the way you make me smile when I’m sad,
I love the way you make me happy when I’m blue,
I love the way you always make me feel better when you hug me,
I love the way you try to disprove me when I say that you’re beautiful,
I love the way you kiss me,
I love the way you touch me,
I love it when you correct me when I’m wrong,
There are a million other reasons why I love you,
But please take comfort in the fact that I love you!!!


I LOVE MY BOYFRIEND! (even though he can't rhyme!)

Schmoozing

YAY! I've been buttering up to my dad about taking out a loan for me so that I can go to CNM to get my Auto Cad degree. I'm going to be an architectural drafter! I'll make twice my salary and actually have a job that I can use my BRAIN! Hopefully I can talk him into it ASAP so that I can try to get in this fall semester... if not I will ABSOLUTElY be in for the spring. I am so HAPPY and excited and hopeful. No more stinking mean bosses... HOORAY for school!
Next wednesday I will be flying into Wisconsin for my brother's wedding, some camping, and lots of visiting family and friends! ...(and some schmoozing) It feels so good to know I'm going back to school... how I miss it!

FINITO!

Shhhh... Its a secret... But... the official date I'm putting in my 2 weeks notice: August 3, 2007. I hate my job. No, I don't care about ink toner. No, I didn't get the e-mail you sent me 5 seconds ago, and I'm too busy blogging anyways! No, that fax has not been there all day... the effing machine is broken! Yes, I will change the light bulb AFTER the project I am working on right now... I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE! I am a smart, coherent individual that deserves to be treated like one, thank you very much. Maybe I'll go back to Saggios!

Hidden Treasures

Indeed, treasure has been discovered! An entire library of treasure! I just found it yesterday... a few shelves chalk full of planning/architecture text books in the back of my office. A plethora of knowledge to add to my personal studies... and just when my job was getting unbearable! Hooray! I will be a planner if it kills me! I am now learning about the motion, position, and context of townscape. ***big sigh of relief!*** A breath of fresh air in my mundane work life! Little things to make my crazy life a bit more pleasant.
My brother is getting married in 13 days! I just ordered his wedding present today, and last details are falling into order. I still can't beleive that my little buddy is getting married! It doesn't seem like that long ago I was giving a scared little middle school brother girl advise before he left for summer camp. Ahhhh, nostalgia! Speaking of cheezy, gooey memories, I need to get on writing a wedding speech!

I'm drowning slowly

Ben Folds Five-Brick

6 am day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
The smell of cold
Car seat is freezing
The world is sleeping
I am numb

Up the stairs to the apartment
She is balled up on the couch
Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte
They're not home to find us out
And we drive
Now that I have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
Than I ever have before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

They call her name at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
Then I walk down to buy her flowers
And sell some gifts that I got
Can't you see
It's not me you're dying for
Now she's feeling more alone
Than she ever has before

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son, it's time to tell the truth
She broke down, and I broke down
Cause I was tired of lying

Driving home to her apartment
For a moment we're alone
Yeah she's alone
I'm alone
Now I know it

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Littles

My poor, poor kitten must love me a lot to come home after I torture him so! Todd and I headed up to his parents for a 4th of July barbecue this Wed. It was tons of fun and I stuffed myself silly as usual circa a Taylor bbq! While we were putting some things together for dinner, Todd's mom discovered a little hat that she had gotten for their dog, Abby quite a while ago. This hat is SPECIAL! Indeed, it is a technicolor masterpiece! Todd's dad bet Todd a 12 pack of beer that he could not get our cat to wear it for 2 minuets. Needless to say, Todd won! Alas: Our little flaming kitten looking quite fashionable in his new hat:

Reality Check

Well, this is the point in time I must admit to myself that I cannot keep doing this to myself! I am working way too much. Although I should have been saving money to get back to school for the past 2 years, I have failed miserably! But, lets face it... how difficult is it to save $2,000 when you only make $10,000 a year? IMPOSSIBLE, I tell you, IMPOSSIBLE! That is 20% of NOTHING ...Now that I have a drive to do this, to save... things just get more complicated! I'm afraid I'm just setting myself up for disaster. I've talked myself, and all of my friends, into getting back into school this spring semester. This means I would have to save about $400/month in Aug, Sept, Oct, & Nov. That sounds simple enough, but I pay $600+ in bills every month (Ironically $250 of that is STUDENT loans). So, There goes the barely $1,000 a month I make every month, leaving no $ for groceries, grooming, fabulous nights out with my wonderful friends, or even food for my kitten:( As I am realizing that school by January is quite impossible, I am getting very depressed. HOWEVER... now that I have this extreme ambition, and the support of my amazing friends I will start saving money. All of the hard work I put in on the weekends reffing volleyball at my second job will pay off... literally! Thanks to the advice of my lovely and too smart for her own socks friend Kitty, I will be depositing DIRECTLY into my savings the money I make every Saturday and Sunday. As I will no longer need to make the meager extra $50 I make at my horrid job, after I take complete advantage of my medical and dental benefits I am OUTA HERE! It's really just not worth being miserable for. School WILL come. It will take time... but I will appreciate every minuet of it because I will EARN it myself! Cheers to growing up, good friends, and getting back to school.