Oh right, I have a blog.

I never write in here because I have another blog that I mostly post in, but here are some updates on my life.

My apartment is pretty much not any more unpacked than it was the day I moved in. Whoops! But I still love it and I am so thankful that I live here not only in an apartment that in and of itself is worlds better than my previous one, but that I am in the city where my heart already lived without my body. And I think that's the most personal I've ever gotten in this blog! LOL.

My job is also continuing to go well. We are back to only 6 people but it works. I actually have some semblance of responsibility at this job, and that's awesome. OH! And I got a raise :D Without going into details, my boss has had some major health problems that have caused him to miss a great deal of work, but we proved to be strong as a team and it's been a good experience professionally. I would love for it to not have happened under the circumstances of my boss having health problems though but he is a real trooper.

I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO GET PERSONAL HERE. Well there is a first time for everything. I don't think I can write the next paragraph without getting personal, so here goes:

I've been going to a church near my house for the last 5 months. It's where several people I already knew go, so I figured I'd go too. It had been a LONG time since I'd attended church on a regular basis, and there have been a lot of ups and downs but it has been completely worth it. One thing that's happened is that I hang out with the youth a lot, since the people I knew outside of church were the youth leaders, so I gravitated to them and the youth kids were kinda part of that package. Even before I started going there I started to develop a desire to be a role model. As these months have gone on I find I really have a heart for the youth girls. I kind of want to be a youth leader but I'm kind of afraid to do so. I feel like there's still so much that I need to make right with God before I do something like that, but I don't know if that even makes sense or if I'm just being irrational. CONFUSING!!!! So I will continue to pray about it and see what God wants me to do. Because I don't know!!! So on the off chance that anyone is reading this please can you also pray for me on this one.

My cousin is getting married so I am going up to CT soon. Well first I'm going to VT for the wedding and then I am going to hang out in CT. I can't wait!!!

Oh, I write about music in here too. Well I'm really hooked on this band called Owl City. Except "band" is probably the wrong word because it's just one guy. But he is awesome! Also a lot of my favorite bands are releasing new stuff and/or playing shows here in Tampa soon. So this fall appears to be an epic season for music and I am completely looking forward to it!

That is the latest and greatest on my life... I hope you are all doing well :)

Moved! LOL

Wow, I haven't written in here in a ridiculously long time. So as you may have noticed I was moving on February 28th and I am all moved and I love it!!! My apartment is still a bit of a labyrinth of boxes, but I love it sooo much. It is way nicer than my old apartment but that is not even the best part. The best part is that I live so close to everyone I hang out with! Also I went to the church that a lot of them go to, since it is right down the street. I will have to go back, it was fun :)

My job is going well, there are various stresses that one thing gets resolved and then something else is crazy, but hey it happens! We finally have 7 people again so that's good.

Not too sure what else to write about!

Moving!

I ended up getting an apartment in Tampa! It's even at the complex I looked at that one time. Good rent too :) I move on February 28 and I cannot wait!!! :D

Been a while... happy new year!

Sorry I forgot to write anything in here for over a month. I have other blogs I've been filling with more personal stuff, and aside from that there's not a whole lot going on!

My new job has continued to be crazy. We started with 8 people, then 2 quit, but we hired someone else and are in the process of hiring one more person to get back up to our original 8 people. We are very behind on scanning. I had been doing a lot of the scanning, but I haven't had time to since I do have to do my own job too! And I'm sure that anyone who's reading this really cares about scanning, lol.

I went home for Christmas and had a wonderful time! I saw some friend and spent a night in New York City with all of my cousins. It was amazing. It was so good to see everyone! And there was snow on the ground on Christmas Day, w00t! :D

Oh and a couple weeks ago I went to my very first Tampa Bay Lightning game! I've been down here for so long, you'd think I'd have gone by now. It was a lot of fun even though the Bolts lost. Oh well :)

I tried to do handstands for you

(That iPod commercial with that song was just on.)

So, week one of my new job has ended. It's going well so far. I mean I'm not in love with my job or anything, but I'm definitely in love with having benefits for the first time ever. I have to go to AT LEAST 4 doctors. (Regular doctor, ~girly~ doctor, eye doctor, and teef doctor. LOL.) So now I can do this without breaking my bank! Anyway the job is kind of overwhelming because we learned A LOT of information this week and we have to apply every single bit of that information every day to these GIANT files with like 214907234 things in them. It's kind of scary but at least it will keep us busy, unlike my previous job where we sat around a lot and wondered why they were paying us $12/hr to sit on our butts.

The apartment that I mentioned in my last post is not available anymore :( But hopefully something else will open up with that floor plan since I can't move until at least February anyway. We'll see!

Also, I am going home for Christmas! Yay!!!! :)

Lastly, Boston Market has squash casserole again. The last time I went to a Boston Market that had squash casserole was in July of 2003! You should have seen me at Boston Market..... Actually, maybe you shouldn't have ;)

ABCDEFOMG

I am officially done with the temp job! We spent the entire week alphabetizing the files from 2008. Why couldn't the 2008 enrollment temps have done it themselves? (We are the 2009 enrollment temps.) And I thought Friday was going to be the longest day ever, but it flew by. I'm glad my last day was a good one!

I looked at an apartment today that I kinda fell in love with. Yay!

I am a NaBloPoMo 2008 winner!

This post seals the deal! Whew! I will definitely not be posting every day for quite a while, it was hard enough to do so for a month!

I am actually kind of mad because it turns out I got home last night anyway so I totally could have posted without borrowing someone else's computer, but what can ya do. Actually, there was even a guy at the campsite whose computer received wireless signal, but I decided not to bother him and plus he left early.

Camping was fun, we were in the middle of a swampy area down a ridiculously long dirt road, and admittedly I did not like the site that much but I was with great people and that is the important thing.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend and a successful run at Nablo for those of you who attempted. :)

VICTORY!!!!!

I am at someone's house! Score! I win! I do not lose! NABLO WINNAR 2008 BABY!!!!!

Camping has been fun so far... the site was in the swamp lol and also down the longest dirt road EVAR. I am glad I chose to go Friday night and not this morning because now we are no longer at the campsite.

That's all for now, don't wanna impose on other people's internets for too long!

OMG YAY I WIN!!!!!!! WOOOOO! (Well, I win tomorrow, but you get the idea. :D)

Blogger sucks

I am trying to set up Blogger Mobile and it is NOT WORKING. Halp?

OK, I started this post at work. I SERIOUSLY CANNOT GET BLOGGER MOBILE TO FUNCTION so screw it. I'll either write on paper and backdate it, or send a link to an LJ voice post. Ugh, this is so retarded.

Well, I'm going camping now. Bye!

P.S. Thanksgiving was good, and they liked my cookies :D

Operation: Baking = success!

I am SO proud of myself, it's not even funny. I don't bake often, so every time I do I fear burning down my apartment =P Also, I took a recipe and substituted a couple of things so it would be vegan, so I didn't know how that would turn out. (I am not vegan, and I'm sure many of the people I'm eating with today are not either, but one girl who might be going is, plus the family I'm going with is into health and such.) Fortunately, my substitutes worked out. I used Earth Balance instead of butter, and applesauce instead of an egg. Also I used a tablespoon of Simply Apple juice for an egg white, lol. Here is the recipe: Whole Wheat Snickerdoodles II. A couple things that I did different were that I also added a pinch of baking powder, I flattened the "walnut-sized balls" into 1/2" thickness before baking, and I found that 10 minutes was the magic number.

So now that I've yammered on about these cookies for a bit, I suppose you want some. TOO BAD! But I will frustrate you even more by posting a picture of one:



Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! :D

Longest day ever!

Work was so stupid. Yeah, we finally got in a good amount of work, but we were done by 3:45 and just sat around until 5. It was so dumb. Meanwhile, the real employees got to go home early... we are clearly at the bottom of the totem pole, and they remind us every chance they get :(

I am going camping this weekend and I am trying to set up the blogger mobile thing on my phone but it is being a tard and not working. So I guess I will just have to keep trying. It took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to even send an MMS message from my phone, and I haven't gotten the token claim thing back yet. If worse comes to worse, I'll write something on paper on Saturday and post it backdated when I come home. But I may also not even be leaving here until Saturday, in which case I'll just post that morning. I are confused!

I will try to remember to post tomorrow morning before I leave for my Thanksgiving dinner, since I'll be gone all day. Preview of coming attractions: I attempt to bake! Will I succeed? Stay tuned...

La la la.

I got my official offer letter from New Job today! I just have to fax some dumb thing in and then all done! Yayyy. I'll do it at the UPS store or something. (That would be funny if I faxed something to New Job from Current Job, haha.)

Current Job continues to be boring as heck. If I open one more claim (which is not our job), I think I will go crazy!!!!

Spaced

Just in case you wanted to know... season 1 of Spaced is WAY better than season 2. =P But I still had fun last night.

That's all, haha.

Boring weekend.

I have absolutely nothing to post about! I'm not at work. Nothing's going on in sports. No exciting musical discoveries today. The election's over. Pop culture is lame. And I said I wouldn't get personal. So what the heck is left?

I guess I'll post about how I'm going to watch season 2 of a show called Spaced tonight. It's British which means there's lots of smoking, drinking, and swearing... and it's hilarious. You should watch it! (It's on Surfthechannel.com, if you're into the whole illegality thing =P)

You would break your neck just to keep your chin up.

That is a lyric from a Copeland song. The show last night was really good! I also liked the opening bands. I missed Lights, but Copeland had her sing with them on a song.

Man, I am excited about my new job! It starts on December 8 and I get BENEFITS!!!!

Can you tell that Nablo is getting to be a chore for me? Only 8 more days!

Good news, everyone!

(Apparently I'm professor Farnsworth now, lol.)

Guess what? I GOT THE JOB!!!!! :D :D :D :D

That is all I deem necessary for posting today. Oh and tonight is the Copeland show. Yay!!!!

Checking in.

Posty posty post.

Me and my coworker were so bored, that we drew pictures with highlighters for like 45 minutes. I had made a happy birthday sign for my friend whose birthday is today, and so she decided to make this big elaborate sign (as elaborate as you can be w/highlighters and a Sharpie, lol) for her boyfriend who is flying into town. I am glad I have someone there who is close to my age and will color with me.

That makes no sense.

I forgot to mention this, but we are doing our data entry jobs on laptops. Um, what? First off, it is clearly more difficult to type on a laptop keyboard than on a desktop keyboard. Second, the laptop keyboards do not have the 10-key pad (unless you hit the "function" key but who wants to do that???). Fortunately they also gave us USB keyboards and mice so we can do this stuff normally. Whew!

By the way if anyone knows where I can find the Chloraseptic allergy shield that I keep seeing commercials for, please let me know. I could not find it at Publix or CVS.

NO WAY

You are not going to believe this... we actually did our JOB today! You know, the actual task we were hired to do... amazing. But there were only a few applications, and only 4 people have their computers hooked up anyway, but still we actually did our job! It was awesome, lol.

Also I ate at Five Guys today! You should eat there if there is one near you :) Nom nom nom!

Work was boring.

They finally hooked up our computers, but we still haven't done any data entry! *Facepalm*!!!!!!

Also, I am going to a show this weekend. Yay!