It’s Amazing how quickly people grow up.

Steven is in town visiting from Georgia.  I was able to visit with him yesterday!
I had such a great time!!  I can’t believe he is 21 though!! I remember when he was a baby!! I guess that makes me feel old. 

 

The cool thing about him visiting here was I spent a lot of 1 on 1 time with him.  I love going to GA and visiting but there are so many people to see that I feel like I don’t really get to visit with anyone!!

 

Well we had a great time!   Thanks Steven for hanging with me!!

 

Today the weather is really crappy here.  They say we are under a Tornado watch!! UGH!!  Of course you know what that means?  People can’t DRIVE!!  Why is it when the streets get a little wet everyone forgets how to drive?  I can’t figure it out!

 

Oh and the best way to start off the weekend is with an increase in gas prices!!  By my house it is not $4.25 a gallon for the cheap stuff!!  Are you kidding me?? I put $20 in my gas tank and that leaves me with less than ½ a tank!!  I don’t know how I’m going to make it this summer!!

 

Birthday Wishes

 

May 30

Happy 30^th Birthday Karyn!!  

 

May 31st

Happy 30^th Birthday Stephanie!!

Happy 2^nd Birthday Michelle!!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!
Not too much planned on this end!! I am working on Saturday and need to clean the house!!

Going back to work has made me realize the things I did and did not miss!!

I missed
Interacting with people regularly
Having things to write or talk about.
My morning phone calls! I really enjoyed chatting with Stef, Danielle, Penny & Sara on my way to work.

I didn’t Miss
Traffic…it takes me about an hour to drive 24 miles!!
Gas prices:  $4.19 a gallon here!!
Getting up early!!
Seeing Danny!! We are on opposite schedules now I feel like I never see or talk to hthis

So since I am still very new here and don’t know many people I have been eating most of my lunches alone.  This has actually been a good thing.   Since so much has been going on in my life its nice to eat in peace and People Watch!!

I’m noticing that a ton of people here eat frozen lofat lunches (aka: Lean Cuisine, Smart Ones..etc).  So today at a table near me 2 ladies heated up their lean cuisines and sat them on the table then then walked away and came back with a heaping plate of salad and other things from the cafeteria.  Now I know salad is very nutritious but why not just eat the salad? Why spoil the low calorie meal by piling on salad dressing?  I don’t get it.  When I worked for the State of TN there was a girl who would drink slimfast with her meal!!  Umm HELLO for some reason she didn’t understand that she was using it to supplement what she was already eating instead of replacing it!!  Hmm I wonder why was it she gained weight?? HAHA

Our dresscode here is very laid back business casual & Jeans on Fridays.  For the most part people are dressing appropriately but there are a few things that have caught my eye:
1) a lady with her boob completely hanging out.  I’m not talking showing a little cleavage.  Her shirt was so tight and the girls were popping out so much that you could actually see the wrinkles!! Come on people!! We aren’t at a club!!

2) a lady dressed in complete black from head to ankle because she was wearing WHITE shoes??  I don’t get that why wear all black and then think it’s ok to put on what shoes?? Isn’t that just as bad as wearing all black except white socks??

Ok so it’s time to get back to work.. More to come soon!!

Ok So I am a slacker, but hey I’m sure most of you guys already know this!!

So a recap of last month!!

 

Let’s see I finally received a job offer!! I started working on 5/5/08 for a University where my role is an Admission Advisor!!  This is only my second week but I am enjoying it very much!  Everyone I work with is extremely nice!!

 

On a more depressing note this last few weeks has been extremely hard!
Danny’s Father:  Thomas Brennan passed away on April 16, 2008.  He was an amazing man who raised a wonderful family of 8!  RIP Tom.

This really hit home for me.  I think knowing how Danny & his siblings must be feeling. 

His father was very ill and had been suffering for quite some time.  He told Danny a few days before he passed away about how much pain he was in!!  Of course this doesn’t make the loss any easier. 

Last week on May 6, 2008 my Aunt Passed away.  RIP Sandra Sanders –  I Will Miss you Greatly!!  She had been fighting Leukemia for roughly 6 years and was really sick over the last year!  Her Brother donated Bone Marrow and she had a transplant in December.  The sad part is the leukemia was gone!!  But other complications arose and she was suffering greatly.  It’s great to think she is in a better place but very hard to know that you will never see her again, laugh with her, hug her.  She was truly a wonderful & Fun Aunt.  One of the things I remember most about her is the birthday cards she sent.  Every year I would receive a birthday Card for my birthday, it was always humorous and signed in a number of different colors. 

 

My Dad, Many & Brayden, Wendy & Jeremy were in over the weekend for my Aunts funeral.  As always it was very nice to see them and hang out!!  Wendy is definitely showing (she’s pregnant in case anyone did not know!)  She is expecting a little girl in September!!  That’s all my family needs is another girl!!  I’m excited for them and hope that everything continues to go well!! 

 

The last few weeks I have been kinda down. I guess with all the things I had already listed above and knowing that my birthday and the birthdays of many of my friends were soon.  I do miss my family!! I am pretty used to being away from them for my birthday but I usually am surrounded by friends!  I have been very lonely and wishing definitely missing my ETSU Friends.  I do speak with a few of them regularly but I would give anything to hang out!!  We should totally plan a trip to meet in JC and have a reunion!!

 

So guess what?? I’m 30!!!  

Yesterday I celebrated my 30^th birthday!! 

I was planning on having dinner with my Aunt Dar, Sabrina, and her kids (Dominic, Markos, Isabella, and Adriano).  When I arrived my aunt said she was too tired to cook so we were going to eat Pizza!! To my surprise when I arrived at the restaurant there were many family members waiting to celebrate with me!  Those who were there:  Aunt Terry, Uncle Dan, Chrissy, Aunt Diana, Mike, Mary & Michael, Uncle Howard, Tommy, Aunt Diane & Uncle Lloyd!  It truly made for a wonderful birthday!!  Thanks to all who attended and made my 30^th Birthday Wonderful!! 

 

So I guess this is enough for now. I should actually do some work!

Hopefully with work and other things going on I will actually have interesting things to write about for the future!! I will do my best to Update Regularly!!