A Side Comment and My Horror Movie Moment

Before I get to my super awesome post that I know you are all so excited to read I want to say that the Yankees have been eliminated by the Texas Rangers!! I'm stoked because frankly I hate the Yankees, almost as much as I hate the Jets.

Now on to the awesome.

Last night as we were closing up shop to go to bed the phone starts ringing, but not like a phone call ring, it's like a pager ring. I found this odd so I picked up the phone. I hear noises and stuff. I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

In my imaginative watch too many moves mind the first thing I think of is some crazy killer took my phone and paged the other one to mess with me. If you've ever seen When A Stranger Calls you'd understand a little bit why I might be freaked out.

Anyway, I go check on kids under the guise that I thought maybe the kids had the phone and fell asleep with it and were rolling around with it in bed. When really I was scared that this crazy psycho who in my mind now has a hockey mask, knives for finger nails, and every other cliche horror movie villain has my kids held captive using my cordless phone as bait to kill me too.

Good news and bad news though was that my kids were fine, but I was no closer to finding where the phone was.

Here is where it gets funny. Derek goes outside to look for the phone. Turns out he took outside when he was working out there in case Kellogg's called and offered him the job (which they haven't done yet). Any who, Dubs grabbed the phone and had been chewing on it and had paged the inside phone! When Derek brought the phone in it had all of these little teeth marks on it.

I had a good laugh, hopefully you did too.

Things I love

I thought I'd copy my sister (cause she's so smart and all) and write about some of my favorite things as they come to me, not in order of importance.

1. My husband and everything about him. I'm truly blessed.
2. Sticky hugs and kisses from the 3 cutest kids in the world.
3. Puppy kisses and snuggles from Dubs.
4. Coffee. Lots of it.
5. E-mailing Sarah again. It's wonderful, I missed her.
6. Talking to my Mom and Meg again. I missed them too.
7. Snow, we need some by the way.
8. Rain and thunderstorms.
9. A nice rare steak with sauteed mushrooms (now I'm hungry!)
10. Movies-funny ones, romantic ones, sometimes sad ones.
    
11. Jamming out in the car while people stare at you like you escaped from the "special" hospital.
    
12. Technology of all kinds. Seriously, I could go bankrupt.
13. Reading, I get lost doing it. Derek says he calls my name for like 5 min and I don't hear him (thanks Mom!)
14. My new Skis, again I need snow so I can use them.
15. My blanket, pillow, and sheet. I've had the blanket and sheet since I was in 7th grade. It will stay around forever.
16. My new video game. It rocks.
17. My $6 pack of french tip nails. They are way cool.
18. My new purple Roos.
19. Football (nothing else needs to be said)
20. Christmas, oh how I love that time of year.
21. Cooking and baking for my family.
22. Listening to Ashley sing, that's all she does; seriously.

I could go on all day. I'm going to stop there. I will be posting more. Stay tuned since I know you are on the edge of your seats!

Sweet Funny Boy

Here is my Grizzie bear yesterday morning. This picture absolutely brightens my heart. I kinda need it right now too.

Day Off? What Day Off?

Today is supposed to be my day off. I had a whole plan in place. I was going to thoroughly enjoy my children, bake, and overall relax.

What happened instead is that I got called by two customers and my boss. My boss called twice and I called her back once to clear up an issue. She was not happy and told me as much on the phone. I'm apparently not doing my job well enough.

This saddens my heart. I try very hard at my job and take pride in my work. I try the hardest I can to take care of my customers and get them what they need. The problem is that I've been there a year and have had various co-workers come and go. People whom take no pride in their work. People who lie, cheat, and steal. While I'm left to deal with angry customers who have no trust in our branch. I try the best I can to assuage their misgivings. Sometimes it goes over well sometimes not so much. We should have 3 consultants, there was usually just me. The last girl had no idea what she was doing and didn't care. She was a warm body. I was doing her work and mine. So have I made mistakes? Yes. Have I overlooked some things? Definitely. Should I be chided for it? I don't think so. Especially when I'm doing the best I can.

I love my boss. She's great. I get that she's under tons of pressure from her superiors to get numbers. Do I blame her? NO. I do, however, blame the people at the top who have no idea what it is to be the salesperson in a crumbling economy when the unemployment rate is at an all time high. I'm trying to sell a product that let's face it is a luxury and in hard times the first thing people get rid of are their luxury items. I'm doing the best I can. I can put it out there, but in the end it's their decision.

I can't wait until Derek gets a job and I can do what I'm meant to do, what I'm good at. Being a stay at home wife and mother. At least Derek won't call me up to chide me and if he did he'd be eating cereal for dinner.

There is my venting about my non-day off and my current work situation. Thanks for listening.

Stupid Jets

I'm peeved. The stupid Jets won. I can't describe the distaste that leaves in my mouth!

Overtime While Exciting Causes Me Issues

So yesterday UW went into double overtime with Oregon State and won when Oregon State's 2 point conversion failed. It was a very good game, but so so stressful. That's two ranked teams UW has beat this year, while everyone refuses to acknowledge just how good they are. Take that BSC rankings!! Jake Locker won't win the Heisman trophy, but he is easily the best quarterback in college football. I think him not winning the Heisman is a good things. There aren't many Heisman winners that are doing exceptionally well. I won't go into it. He should go in the first round of the draft next year. I can't wait until rankings come out tomorrow morning, Ohio State was knocked off by Wisconsin which means Boise State SHOULD be #1. It probably won't happen though because everyone refuses to acknowledge that Boise State is the best team in college football. Oregon (the criminal team) will be ranked #1 even though they had a bye yesterday. BCS rankings are crap and not at all a good indication of how good a team is.

Just now the Pats beat the Ravens by 3 in overtime. I didn't get to watch the game though because television execs only want to televise the garbage teams!! Makes me angry...anyway I had to keep up on the game with an ESPN app. Constantly refreshing it and waiting, hoping they beat the jerks that eliminated them in the playoffs last year. Take that Ray Lewis!! They play the Chargers next week, not saying it's going to be an easy one because you never know what could happen from week to week. I strongly dislike Philip Rivers, they talk that guy up like he's on the same playing field as Brady when clearly he's not. How many Superbowl titles has Rivers won? That'd be a big fat 0! The Pats are 4-1, pretty good record. They just need to hold on and play their game. When the Pats play the way I know they can play they are unstoppable. The Jets are playing the Broncos today. While I'm not a huge Broncos fan I hope they crush the Jets. I despise the Jets. If they lose the Pats take over the conference. The Jets are so overrated. They disgust me.

Blockage

No, not that kind of blockage. Get your mind out of the gutter! A life blockage.

As you can see I haven't posted in a year. My life the last year and a half or so has been to put it mildly, stressful.

(Not in chronological order) My husband got cancer, my beloved grandmother died, I went crazy (for a short time), I was separated from my husband for two weeks, things were stressed with my family (it's getting better now), I lost my beloved dogs, No church family for a time, started a new job, moved etc... (I'm sure I'm missing stuff and yes I love parenthesis).

So now that I got that out I'll expound on it. Derek is in complete remission and looking for a job. He made the top 3 and has an interview with the big boss next Wednesday. I'm dealing with the loss of my grandmother, but it's still pretty hard. I'm no longer crazy (well a little, but in a good way) Derek and I are doing wonderfully thanks to God. My family and I are talking again, I'm confident things will be fully restored-again thanks to God. I have a new dog named Dubs and while he doesn't take their place he does help heal my heart where my dogs were concerned. We found a church and the people there are great. My job to put it frankly sucks, but at least I have one and God provides and is teaching me through it. We are very happy in Butte. I love it here and unless God moves us (pauses in fear) we will raise our kids here and live happily ever after with a lot of stuff in between.

So there you go. A reintroduction to my life in it's current state. Since I now have you thoroughly enthralled I will make sure to keep you informed on all the going ons.