Wow...so where do I start? It's been busy once again and the month seems to be flying by!
On the 1st, I had my annual review at work and it went very well. My boss is happy with the job I've done over the past two years and he continues to sing my praises. I was thrilled with his evaluation and I felt much better about my position and the duties that I've taken on in recent months.
The next night a group of us from work decided to stop by the Coastal for an impromptu happy hour and then I met Shell for a late night dinner at City Diner. We updated each other on the exciting and crazy stuff happening in both of our lives.
I was completely exhausted since I ended up getting home at 3 in the morning, but I had a lot of things to take care of on Saturday. So I ran my errands and did my laundry and then went out to dinner with M and a few others that night and overall it ended up being a very full day once again.
Sunday was pretty much a day of rest for me and I was glad to have the extra hour from the "fall back." I spent much of the day watching football and trying to catch up on some much needed relaxation. I did go visit my parents new house and I got a tour of that in the late afternoon. It's just about done and they will be closing on it and hopefully moving in the next few weeks. The place is huge, but it will be nice for entertaining and family gatherings. (I'm hoping that should they go out of town anytime soon, I'll get to house-sit and perhaps throw a get-together of my own. Ha!)
On Wednesday, the 7th, Derick called me on his way to Vandalia after work and asked if I'd drive out to visit him. Of course, I was willing to drive out to see him. We hadn't been able to spent much time together the last few weeks because he's been so busy and was out of town for part of the time, so it was really a no brainer for me. It was fairly late by the time I got out there, but we were able to talk and visit for a bit and I was able to show him the specs for the new house and he showed me part of the reports he has to put together for work and the downloads that come off of his handheld for the logs he buys. We finally went to bed about midnight and tried to get a few hours sleep before we both had to go to work in the morning. Around 7 am we left Vandalia and headed on our merry ways for the day - he was headed to Northern Missouri to buy his last load of logs for the week and I was back on my way to good 'ol Earth City for another day in the office.
Friday I took a day off of work and it was needed badly! I took my car in to get the heater fixed and spent most of the day with my Mom and Grandma before heading to Highland for Nicole's birthday dinner and bowling with Ryan and the guys. We went to dinner in St. Rose and wow...was that crazy. The restaurant was packed and the service wasn't that great so it took quite awhile to get our food. After dinner we went back to my Aunt and Uncle's for cake and ice cream and then Ryan and I high-tailed it back to my Dad's to pick up his car and head up to the bowling alley. Let me tell you....I had an absolute blast bowling with the guys!!! I was a little nervous that they weren't going to like me tagging along but none of them seemed to mind. In fact, they gave me trouble just like they do to one another. I ended up bowling fairly well also - 101 in the first game and 107 in the second - much better than my experience with J when we went bowling two years ago! After bowling we came back to my Dad's and I played Guitar Hero in order to strengthen my skills for the Thanksgiving tournament with my Bro. I didn't do too bad nor did I do too great, but I had fun and that's all that matters.
Saturday morning we had to get up early to make the trip to St. Louis. Ryan, Kyle and I were making lunch for my Grandma in celebration of her birthday last weekend. We grilled Guinness steaks and I made my world famous roasted potatoes and had a great afternoon entertaining over at my Grandma's house. The food turned out awesome and I think we're becoming pros at this cooking thing. (Actually Ryan is becoming quite the grill chef! And I'm just his assistant that fills in where necessary.)
Around 6:15, we left my Grandma's and I headed out to meet M for drinks. We stopped into Las Fuentes and then went to Brewskeez. We were hoping to hear a good band, but really the group that was there could have used some work. Around 11 I finally decided to call it a night and I came home to crash. It had been a long two days and I was looking forward to finally seeing my bed!
Sunday was another low key day. I called J to leave him a message and wish him a Happy Birthday and was surprised to get to talk to him for a few minutes while he was down in the country deer hunting. Later on, I went back over to my parents' new house to take a few pictures to show everyone the place and I ended up talking to them for about an hour before coming back home and trying to get everything ready for the work week. The rest of the night was history.
Today I had to try to get back into the swing of things at work. With being off on Friday and having to get financials done, I had quite a day and I ended up putting in 10 hours just to stay caught up a bit. Tomorrow I have a meeting with our Director of Sales and one of our new customers at their facility and then I have my weekly AR meeting with the managers. Hopefully everything goes well! I'm not sure what's up for the rest of the week, but like normal, something always pops up.
Have a spectacular week! I will update again soon
8 comments:
Tell your grandma I said (a really late)happy birthday, she was really nice to me.
I still have never been bowling and actually done anything since I was ten.
I didn't do well, and since then I just kind of sit in the background and watch/cheer.
I haven't even done that since I was about thirteeen.
I finished two books in the last three days, and another over last week.
I'm hoping to finish Shadow of The Hegemon soon.(It's a book in a series that Ryan introduced me to and I became obsessed with)
I'm trying to find something relatively exciting to do for my birthday, but my current "friend" options of people to hang out with includes either a group of annoying party-going drunkards whose parents spoil them or the "let's sit at home and get totally high, man" types. I could always try hanging out with Chris, but then I'd have to deal with Kelsey complaining about how mean I am and how Chris should pay her more attention than he pays me because I don't deserve it, and after all, SHE's his girlfriend.
I don't blame her much for not liking me, the monday after Ryan dumped me I was a a teensy weensy bit edgy[a period that I actually still think is in effect]and when Kelsey's younger sister mouthed off to me I kind of....didn't do the right thing. I picked up her chair, dumped her off of it and pushed her a few feet across the floor before sitting down in her recently vacated chair. She then proceeded to scream and cry and throw a tantrum, I apologized for overreacting but the damage was done. Kelsey, being the protective sister that she is, proceeded to tell Chris that he wasn't allowed to hang out with me without her around because she didn't want him "learning my habits". (And of course, sir Whipped-a-Lot has followed this order fairly well)
I even told Kelsey that I was sorry for hurting her sisters feelings, but it also wasn't really her place to bitch at me about why I was in a bad mood in the first place.
To clarify, She had said that I was only being bitchy because nobody liked me and wanted me to go away. Needless to say, at the time this was not the best thing for somebody to say to me. XD I know I overreacted, but she had been acting childish in her own way, when I had just been sitting at the table reading after not letting her take my chair. I've never gotten along with her because of her older sister's strong influence over her, so anything I did to her was taken as me just being a grumpy, (apparently)boyfriend-stealing, bitch.(Kelsey says that Chris was only ever mad at her because friends like me were OBVIOUSLY a bad influence, so being able to talk to him about music more than she can, debate viewpoints, and even movies makes me a boyfriend-stealer)
Hmm...that was longer than i meant it to be at first. o.O
oh gee thanks lindsay just forget about me. not like I did anything either ya jerky dork type person.
Thanks for the good wishes. :-P
I had an okay-ish birthday, all things considered.
Oh my, I just found something in my room that makes me chuckle. XD
I had to clean out the storage container under my bed, and when I did i found a game.
A game i bought for about $50 a few months back.
The game is Harvest Moon 64. :-P
I had bought it over the summer at Slackers, on the same trip that I bought Ryan a dvd. the game was meant to be a Christmas present for him but now I dunno what to do with it. o.O
I should still give it to him, mainly because I'd feel greedy keeping it for myself. XP
I had put it in the container to keep myself from playing it, now it's staring at me saying "play me! play me!"
Get them something they'd like(electronics or whatever)and fold it into a sweatshirt or something. That way when they open it they'll be sad then even happier when they see that the shirt isn't the only thing they got, they'll like whatever else you got them more just because of that. XD
I doubt Ryan would still get me anything, he seems like he's having a good time only having to buy stuff for himself again.
I keep thinking I should keep the game, but every time I do I get that stupid guilty feeling.
I can't stop it from showing up, it's like a relative that you don't like. They always show up and nag at the worst times, no matter how much you don't want them too.
Apparently, my cousin Christa and I are on the same wavelength, though she is in another part of the country. She decided to go into a branch of nursing a few weeks ago, so she's applied at schools for next year for it. XD
Won't be long and I'll be heading to South Carolina to watch Glenn's graduation. :D
Poor guy hurt his knee in his most recent leg of training.
Hey Lindsay, I know you and Tom were talking about possibly going to a hockey game tomorrow. Have you decided if you wanted to use that Christmas present I bought you yet?
I already know what I'm getting Dad (two options, actually). Did you have anything in mind or did you want to chip in with me?
;-)
Oh, and I also thought I'd let you know that any time you want to come back out and bowl with us, I'll pay for it.
And I bought Dad's present. Still trying to figure out what I'm gonna get for the guys though.
;-)
Most of my schoolwork can now luckily be done at school, the rest requires internet access that isn't restricted. They've gone nuts with the site-censoring so it's getting hard to do much research at school.
The school librarian is friends with the Public Library staff, and she's giving me her contact info so that I can use her as a reference when I give them my application.
That would be my dream job, mainly because I love being around books, but if that doesn't work out(though I'm really hoping it will)I have other application's that Mrs. Gentemen said I can use her as a reference on. I help finding lost books(tracking students down and all that)and I help put away returned books and all that, so she knows I can help with library-related work.
I rarely actually talk to people on msn, though I'm usually on due to being automatically signed in when opening my laptop. :-P
I never start a conversation, and by the time I finish school-related stuff nobody else is on.
On to the last portion of my writing project!
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