Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, November 07, 2011

Day 7

I almost forgot! Whew, just in time.

Anyway my job interview went really well. It wasn't quite as formal of an interview as I was expecting, I mean she didn't ask me the annoying questions like "what is your biggest weakness" or "describe yourself in 3 words" etc. But there is a second interview with one of the higher-ups which if I get that (and it basically sounded like I am getting that) then I'm sure he will ask me those things.

Went out for some friends' birthdays tonight to Mellow Mushroom. They have really good food! I liked their mushroom soup.

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Day 6

I am excited about my job interview tomorrow! I just need to find my suit jacket and iron some stuff and then I'll be good. And I have to print out my resume and references. Holy cow, it took me no less than 7 tries to type that word correctly.

My friends (a married couple) just bought their first house and I got to see it today! So exciting. I helped her move a giant desk into their office. There was much disassembling and reassembling.

Now I am tired and I should take a nap but it is already almost 6pm and I feel like my window of napping opportunity is pretty closed so I'll just stay up and be really tired and then sleep super well tonight, maybe go to bed around 9pm or so.

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Day 5

Why is it that when I search for jobs within a 10 mile radius of Tampa, it gives me postings from Lakeland? There is no part of Tampa that is within 10 miles of Lakeland. Fail.

I am going to post about movies today. Over this past week I have rented 2 movies that I had not gotten the chance to see when they first came out, and am now thankful to have only spent 99 cents on because they both sucked.

-Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
-Adventureland

FAAAAAAAAIL. N&N got better towards the end, but Adventureland was just stupid.

I was a bridesmaid recently and my friend whose wedding it was just got back from her honeymoon. They went to Key Largo. She said it was lots of fun and they got to do lots of cool things like snorkeling, jet skiing, etc. She posted some pics too. Hurray!

Friday, November 04, 2011

Day 4

I always get confused and thing "Create Blog" means "create a blog post in your blog that already exists" but it really means "MAEK NEW BLOG NAO PLZ."

I was going to go see my friends' band play a show tonight but like nobody is going so I am not going to go either. I've been to like 325907235 of their shows so they will not be sad if I miss one lol. Instead I am going to stay in and watch a movie and figure out where on earth my HRA reimbursement check from September went.

My parents got their power back at 9:30 yesterday morning, and their cable/internet back around 6pm today. Yay!

I have a job interview Monday. Yes, I do already have a job, but I don't really like it and if I'm going to leave I know I should have something else lined up before I do. So we'll see!

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Day 4 - Death

Wow what a topic I chose for today.

I react very oddly to death. If you knew me in real life, you would realize I'm a huge cry baby about absolutely everything. I do not think I have ever truly cried over someone dying. I cry over people dying in movies but not when someone I actually know dies. I cried for 2 days when a friend of mine attempted suicide and it didn't even work, but if it had worked I probably wouldn't have cried at all. Obviously I am still sad but the whole crying thing just doesn't really happen. I guess because death is so final that there's nothing I can do about it. Whereas other stuff I cry about I still have to deal with in every day life. Like, "Suzie killed herself" is much more final than "Suzie tried to kill herself." (My friend's name is not Suzie, I just picked a fake name to protect identity and such.)

This past year I have had three friends of mine pass on. They weren't all current friends, but they certainly were part of my life and mattered to me. One wasn't really a surprise because he had a terminal illness, although he was the youngest. Wow, I don't mean to discredit his death by saying it wasn't a surprise. See what I mean? I am retarded about this aspect of life. ("Life's not fair, and neither is death, but that's life!" - Mr. Belding) I don't know, I think something is wrong with me for just being like "oh, okay" but that's just how I am and I wish I knew how to, like, grieve properly.

Rest in Peace - TB, SS, RE

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Day 2 - Birthdays

I clearly do not remember all 27 of my birthdays, because who has room in their brain for all that. But here are some that I do remember:

4: OK, to say I remember this is a lie. But there's photographic evidence of it, and I remember the pictures. I know that my preschool class was invited as well as a couple of neighbor kids. We played Pin the Tail on the Donkey. And that's where the memory ends.

6: I had my birthday party at the Burger King off exit 8 (this is how my 6-year-old mind described locations) because it had a play area. I don't remember most of the guests, but I do remember that the boy I was in ~luv~ with was there and this was the day I learned what it meant for someone in your own grade to be older than you. His birthday was in March and mine was in September so he was trying to explain that he was older than me and I was like "no you're not, we're both 6! we're the same age!" Once I got that all straightened out, my next question was "if Meghan is older than me, then why am I taller than her? She should be taller than me because she's older!" Ah, being 6.

7: My party was at El Torito! This was a Mexican restaurant that was also off exit 8, and closed a couple of years later to the dismay of Danburians everywhere. (Or, well, perhaps just in Danbury.) The main thing I remember about this was that my mom got a little hungry while baking my cupcakes and ended up with some food poisoning. Don't eat raw eggs, kids!

8: Hahahaha. Check this out... I got in trouble for talking back so my dad sent me to my room! At my own birthday party!!! And then when he finally let me out, everyone was chanting "Traci! Traci!" and I did not like that so I tried to run back up to my room lol.

13: This was the year I decided to have my first boy-girl party and then no boys came. I think this was also the year that one of my friends played a prank on me by dipping her napkin in some salsa, and then going into the bathroom and trying to show me that she got her period. I will be nice and not identify this individual. (This may have been at my 14th birthday, though.) This was also the year that Erin screamed every 5 seconds because she felt like it, and my parents were not happy. But most importantly, this was the year that I received a stereo for my birthday (with a CD PLAYER!!!) and my friend Rachel kept playing the Macarena song and rewinding it and playing it again like 15 times.

14: I think I tried to do a boy-girl party again but have the girls sleep over. Again, no boys came. Dang, I was a loser lol. The more I think about it, the more I think this was the year of the salsa prank. IDK. So it was late at night and I don't know if USA still does their "Up All Night" thing where they show an, um, adult film but of course it is highly edited. So a couple people wanted to watch South Park (this was the first year it was on!) and everyone else was trying to watch the ~bad~ movie and I was like YOU GUYS NO. MY PARENTS WILL KILL US. So finally I did probably the most uncool thing that 14-year-old Traci managed to do: I turned off the tv and told everyone that if we cannot decide what to watch, we are not going to watch anything. I think a lot of people thought I was lame after that. TOO BAD. It was still a fun party though.

19: A bunch of my college friends threw me a surprise party! I had never had one before, and I had absolutely no idea it was coming. It was in my friend's dorm room. My friend Matt planned it and what happened was, he had some pictures that my friend Angela had from some Campus Crusade event so we were looking at them while he took me to the campus food area and bought me a smoothie because smoothies were my favorite thing ever at that time. So then Angela was like hey come bring me my pictures. And I was like why can't she just come down here and get them, because she insisted that we had to go up to her room. And so we got there and of course everyone was in there and yelled "surprise". It was so much fun! Also there was a group of 6 of us that lived in my hall in our dorm, and we all went out for each other's birthdays - actually I guess my birthday started that tradition. So we all went to Bennigans and it was a great time. We even found a stray cat that we wanted to take, but of course you can't have pets in the dorms.

21: This was actually not very exciting. The actual day of my 21st birthday, I was in Jacksonville evacuating from a hurricane. I had Sangria!... flavored soda :( Yes, my 21st birthday meal was a burrito at the now defunct Southwest Burritos. But I celebrated when I got back. Dinner and drinks with one group of friends at Bennigans - my first legal beverage was a Malibu Breeze. And then dessert with another group at Fridays.

I do not actually remember anything about my 23rd or 24th birthdays. LOL.

25: IHOP and bowling. Just an amazing group of people and a lot of fun times. Despite having the least words, this was my favorite birthday ever.

I just had my 27th and I went to Splitsville w/some of my girl friends, and shared my birthday with Julie a few days later (hers is a few days after mine so she let me invite some friends to her party). So now to plan my 28th... :)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I'm alive!!!

I haven't posted since Nablo ended... A LOT has happened!

Work has been ridiculous. Our team of 7 is now a team of 3. I am still one of those three. One of the four who was laid off was my supervisor, and he is the only one who was not re-hired in a different department. If anyone is actually reading this freakin' thing, please pray for him to find work soon. It has been a crazy transition going from 7 to 3, but for those of us who work there it's really a blessing. Not just because we still have jobs, and we certainly miss MOST of our former coworkers lol, but we actually are now kept busy doing what we are all good at, so it's a good change albeit a rather hectic one!

I have now been a youth leader for almost 6 months - it's a very bumpy journey to be a youth leader! There are days when I ask myself why on earth am I doing this, and even question whether it's really what I should be doing. But then there are moments - big ones and even small ones - that make me say, "This is why I'm here." That makes it worth it, though I still struggle to see this much of the time. I actually went to a youth ministry training event today and learned SO MUCH! I saw things that I need to work on as a leader, things that my youth pastor could use a little bit of work on (and we will share this with him out of love hehe), and things our ministry as a whole can work on. By work on I don't necessarily mean "improve" in all cases - my definition includes do better, enhance, and even start doing in the first place! I am excited to share all this stuff with our youth pastor and the rest of the leaders. I went with one of the other female leaders - the only other one who is remotely close to my age actually, and I think she is about 6 years older than me. So it was good to spend some time with her! We always bond at training events, lol.

There is nothing exciting going on in sports, politics, or my apartment. How exciting.

Evos "crispy thai trout" wrap is amazing.

That's all for now! I really just posted this because I just added someone to my followed blogs who probably could have really used an update on my life, haha. So there ya go!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

day 27 - cheater cheater pumpkin eater

What? I had pumpkin pie this weekend.

So it's 2:36am which means I lost again. It takes a lot of talent to lose Nablo twice in one year. I have skillz.

Thanksgiving was great. Lots of great food and great people. I had fun and wish I didn't have to come back for like a month haha. But I did and went to my friend's birthday party and that was pretty cool too.

I am really ridiculously tired and am going to sleep for the next bagrillion hours :)

Thursday, November 26, 2009

day 26 - turkey time!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving :) Today I am going to the same place I went last year, and probably eating a lot of the same food as last year, and hoping to have at least the same fun as last year :D I baked my cookies last night and they are good and they were a success last year so they better be all gone at the end of tomorrow. (I am staying overnight.)

I am already starving but like the past 3 days I've been randomly waking up with this hollow feeling like I'm super hungry. I'm not sure why but I'll sure fill that hole today! YUM!!!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

day 22 - your face

This post has nothing to do with your face.

I went to church this morning and we took a spiritual gifts test. (By "we" I mean the new member class I'm part of. We are joining officially next Sunday.) Unsurprisingly, my top 3 were music, exhortation, and hospitality. I actually had a five-way tie for 4th place, only half of which made sense. That test was weird, not gonna lie. After church we (this "we" is myself and the guys) went to McDonalds and played ultimate frisbee. It was fun.

I tried to go to the fitness center and it didn't work. Long story, haha.

I don't want to go to work tomorrow!!!!! But at least I only have to work 3 days. :)

Saturday, November 14, 2009

day 14 - what!?

I woke up this morning with a huge headache... it gradually got worse and I ended up throwing up!!! I feel better now though. My head still sorta hurts but whatever.

I went to help do something at church this morning, and when I got there they were already done. It was supposed to start at 8 and I got there at 7:59. Um. But the youth pastor still bought us Denny's :) We played ultimate frisbee after that but I didn't play the whole time due to (see above).

I am going to a bridal shower now... yay.

Friday, November 13, 2009

day 13 - text post

Day 13. At chilis with friends. Not sure when i will be home. We are talking about squirrels. Yay girls night! Work was slow all week - glad its over :) bye!

ETA: 11:46pm. Woulda barely made it! =P

Saturday, November 07, 2009

day 7 - epic fail, epic win, and just plain epic :)

Last night after the pottery painting, I went bowling with a couple of the girls. When we got to the bowling alley, the craziest thing happened: I saw a girl I graduated high school with! Now keep in mind I went to high school ohhhhh 1200 miles away from where I live now. She had flown into town for a wedding and had seriously just gotten picked up from the airport. CRAZY!!! I've known this girl since elementary school and we were in girl scouts together and everything. So we called each others moms and talked to them, haha. Even though it was like 10pm.

The other crazy thing that happened is that myself and one of the other girls tied all 3 games of bowling!!!! LOL.

This morning was Buddy Break and it was a lot of fun. It is great to bring out my inner child once in a while :) OH, there is this thing that you sit on 4 seats and bounce up and down, and I thought that the 2 seats across from each other were connected, so I tried to sit down and bounce my friend since I weigh more than him, and not only did my fat self plummet towards the ground, but I totally just fell off onto the ground, flailing everywhere and such. It was hilarious. I ended up getting a wood chip stuck in my hand.

Friday, November 06, 2009

day 6 - fail

Work was exhausting today. We are rewriting (more accurately "writing in the first place") our department's Policy & Procedure, and how we're doing it is that each person writes up the P&P for what they're responsible for, I proofread it for various things such as details, accuracy, SPELLING AND GRAMMAR!!!!!, and then it goes to the team lead to get added and also she makes sure we make sense and/or didn't leave anything out. Some of my coworkers have very bad grammar which makes my job much more difficult than it has to be. Overall the P&P project is very tiring and fries my brain, especially when it's Friday and I just want to go hoooome.

The reason this post is called "fail" is because I tried to post from my phone earlier to see if a picture message would work, and it did not. Oh well.

I have a very busy weekend coming up, which I'm grateful for since most of the "busyness" is due to me having a social life for once. I have friends!? :) Just kidding. This is what my schedule is like, without going into too much detail:

Tonight: Girls night - pottery painting; was going to go to a carnival to see some improv and my friend play some music, but it's too far away and I'm tired.
Tomorrow: Buddy Break, possibly my friend's business grand opening, and definitely going to the carnival.
Sunday: New member class at church (more details in a sec), the actual church service, a fundraising dinner for my friend who is going on a mission trip. Maybe biking, I probably should since I haven't in a few weeks.

So as you see from my schedule, I have decided to join my church officially. I've never done that before, so I'm really excited! The thing with the church I went to where I used to live is that I went as a youth, so I only connected with the youth and never really got involved in much else. But now that I am an adult, I am connecting with people of all ages and doing a better job of avoiding the cliquey-ness that befalls many churches. It's still there, but I'm bouncing around enough that it's not affecting me too negatively. Anyway I can't wait to get involved in more stuff there.

I am going to call a lady on Craigslist about buying a bicycle. If that happens, I am definitely not going to my friend's business thing. I probably won't go anyway, haha. It sounds boring but I am happy for him.

This is a really long post! Yay. Win :)