Okay, it's official...I am no longer a pet person..

Lauren gave me a kitten. It's a cute little thing. It's also a vicious little thing. No, not really. But he does like to play and nothing like being woke up as a kitten pounces on your face at 7am in the morning. I think I would do better if he were declawed but he's too young for it yet. Plus, my nose has been stuffy since I got him so I think I don't do well with cat dander. Vicky hides in her bedroom so he can't stratch her as well. He's going back to Lauren, today. One way or another. Lauren owns about four cats and he'll have someone to play with there. Instead of my feet, legs, arms, face, etc... : )

Committment team

I'm supposed to take a test at work today. Applying for position on the Committment Team. It's not a raise in pay but I'll be off phones. We follow through on resolving customer's issues and call them to let them know their problems have been resolved. We don't sell anything : ) Kind of looking forward to doing something different. Wish me luck!!

UPDATE!
Didn't get it : (

Took the kidlet to the movies today. We saw Kung Fu Panda. I thought it was cute! I still want to see the new Narnia movie but don't think she'll sit through it for two hours. If sitter will watch her on Thursday, her sister and I might go. That's my exciting Sunday! How was your's?

Catch up time...

Life is good.
Making A's in school. Job is going great. Love the new car. Kidlet is healthy. I'm healthy (least I think I am). Not much else going on right now. No time to blog, get on AOL much, or think. I pretty much just go to work, come home and write papers for school, tend to kidlet, and if I have time, do something for me. I am off this weekend and hope to take kidlet to movies. I want to see the new Narnia movie but don't think she'll sit through it all. We may go see Kung Fu Panda instead. I'm suppose to put an alarm in my car this coming Thursday. Small town to be needing it but with being new, I want to do it.

Dona,
I swear I'll get to post office soon! Hopefully by next Thursday when I have the whole day off : )Hang in there!!!

Meme

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning

Each player answers the questions about themselves.

At the end of the post, the player tags 5 people and posts their name, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they've been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1.What was I doing 10 years ago? Going to college. (the first time)
2.Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world:

ANYTHING chocolate or covered in chocolate...hahahaha

3.Five snacks I enjoy in the real world: Still anything covered in chocolate. : )

4.Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Give money to charity for kids who are mentally disabled. Find a secluded place on a hilltop and build a home. Quit working, maybe. Build my own library. Give my family some money and say, "Once it's gone, it's gone". : )

5.Five jobs that I have had:

Cook in a diner, waitress, clerk in a convenience store, manager of a convenience store, and ROI clerk.

6.Five of my habits:

Wake up too early afraid I'll be late to places. Check email every morning first thing I wake up. (I'm sure there are other habits but my mind is a blank, I'll come back to this one)

7.Five places I have lived:

Satellite Beach, FL; Little Rock, AR; Newport News, VA; Meridan-Wallingford, CT; too many places in TX to count.


8.Five people we should all get to know better: (A nice way of saying TAG!)

Dona and Two-Dollar Productions : )
Sorry, I don't know five people on here I can really tag.

Sorry for the delay, Bill. Been busy : )

A friend sent me this...feel free to post your's ...

1. Where is your mobile phone? Pocket or purse

2. Your significant other? No-one

3. Your hair? Brown with red tints : (

4. Your mother? Deceased

5. Your father? Deceased

6. Your favorite thing? My new car!

7. Your dream last night? I was supposed to dream?

8. Your favorite drink? Ice tea

9. Your dream/goal? To finish online schooling without losing my mind.

10. The room you’re in? Computer Room

11. Your ex? Is this for a boyfriend or husband? I have no ex-husband. He died. I do have an ex boyfriend though.

12. Your fear? I'll die and Vicky will be here at house alone with my dead body.

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Not sure, I'm really happy where I am now.

14. Where were you last night? Bed

15. What you’re not? Mean and judgemental

16. Muffins? Occasionally

17. One of your wish list items? To win the lottery of course : )

18. Where you grew up? Is this a trick question? I am an Air Force Brat, does that say anything? haha

19. The last thing you did? Drove to Waco to Wally World

20. What are you wearing? Clothes

21. Your TV? Off

22. Your pets? I have a kidlet, I don't do pets

23. Your computer? H-P

24. Your life? Constandly moving

25. Your mood? Pretty spiffy right now

26. Missing someone? Not at the moment

27. Your car? Yaris

28. Something you’re not wearing? Umm, that's a bit personal : )

29. Favorite Store? Book store

30. Your summer? HOT

31. Like someone? Most everyone

32. Your favorite color? Hunter green

33. When is the last time you laughed? Today

34. Last time you cried? Friday night, I was stressed over something.

35. Who will/would re-post this? Have no clue

There you go, Bill : )

Isn't she pretty? : )

I got my new car today!!

It's sooo pretty. I'll post pictures of it later this weekend. It's a blazing blue Toyota Yaris : ) I love it!!

Oh, and I graduated today! I'm a full-fledged call center agent! : )

Life is good...

Time to play catch up...

Let's see...
I started the new job on April 21st and tomorrow, I graduate my training!!! I will officially be a call center agent. I am somewhat nervouse because I've only taken live calls twice and never by myself yet. We are suppose to take calls tomorrow by ourselve. I'm looking forward to it (some) haha.

I finished my first class at school and received an A. My second class started this Tuesday and already had to write a paper! I have another one due next week but I think that is a team project. We have yet to know our team mates though.

I went down to the Toyota dealer today and talked to them about buying a new car. I should know tomorrow about financing. My ex is going to buy my pickup for 1250.00 which will help with any payments I may have for a few months.

Between school and work, I'm just too tuckered to do much else.

Enjoy Memorial Day weekend!!!

I need a new nose...

Ooooh, I hate this! On Monday, my nose started it's annual.."I'm not going to let you breathe without pain and I'll constantly drip" stage. Whatever is in the air needs to go AWAY!

On a brighter note, I think Lauren and BJ are going to help me buy a new car. My pickup is a 1992 (with a new motor) but it's slowly falling apart. I've been looking at Toyota Yaris's and I may get that. One, it's cheap. Two, it has good gas mileage. Today I have to go to tax office and apply for a lost title on my pickup. I have yet to figure out what happened to that thing so need that before I can trade mine in. I might call my ex bf and see if he wants to buy it from me, he loves mazdas!!! We'll see though. First things first..off to tax office after work today!

Happy Birthday to me!

Doing the Snoopy dance!!! : )

Whew...I'm done! Sort of...

I had three papers to write for my first class. The first one has a 350 word minimum and I wrote a little over 400. Second, a 1500 word minimum and I wrote exactly 1507 words! haha The last paper is a team paper and I wrote over 1300 for that one so leaving it up to my teammates to write the balance we need for 1750 to 2100 words. Two more weeks of class and the first one is finished!!

( I noticed on here that I didn't even mention I did get a job! The place I applied to in January) Maybe now the following paragraph will makes senes, eh?

I survived my first week of training at work as well. I am a little annoyed because a few of the people have done call center work before so they joke, laugh, and talk while our trainer is talking. I really want to learn how to do this and do it well but I can't if they don't SHUT UP! My neighbor sitting next me to today, kept getting aggravated because she felt we were going TOO slow for her. Every time we asked a question, you could hear her sigh. Oh well, maybe she will be the first one to quit or be fired due to not being trained well enough because of inattention. I don't really know. I just know I want to learn it. It seems fascinating and you get to work with a computer, which I love. I'll let you know how week two goes...

We had some severe storms in our area this evening. Fortunately nothing in our town but Waco and Belton had some tornados or at least, high winds. Have to love tornado alley, eh?

It's Official...

As of 3 pm tomorrow, I will be unemployed. That's right, I'm being let go..FINALLY! I am so ready. We were in the last stages of closing anyway and I just don't want to deal with the headaches from it. The boss is bossy, the secretary is bossy, and I don't want the added stress. I called the company I applied for in January and they are supposed to give me a call back. If I don't hear from them by Monday, I'll go up there personally. I'll also apply for unemployment online tomorrow when I get home. May as well cover all the bases, eh? I am supposed to get at least 6 weeks worth of pay on my last check. Severance. That will be nice. I'll pay ahead on all my house bills I can so I won't have to worry about them for a few months. So far gas and electric haven't been over 100.00 together. I plan on trying to keep it that way. Now if I can just fit into my dress clothes (the few ones I have). : )

2 Dollar Productions..MEME

I've posted my responses to another bloggers MEME...what is your's?


1. Where is your mobile phone? Pocket
2. Your significant other? No-one
3. Your hair? Thin
4. Your mother? Dead
5. Your father? Dead
6. Your favorite thing? Reading
7. Your dream last night? None
8. Your favorite drink? Tea
9. Your dream/goal? Career
10. The room you’re in? Home
11. Your ex? Stupid
12. Your fear? Spiders
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Retired
14. Where were you last night? Bed
15. What you’re not? Hateful
16. Muffins? Rarely
17. One of your wish list items? Lottery
18. Where you grew up? Everywhere
19. The last thing you did? Blog
20. What are you wearing? Clothes
21. Your TV? Off
22. Your pets? None
23. Your computer? Mine
24. Your life? Sedate
25. Your mood? Optimistic
26. Missing someone? No
27. Your car? Old
28. Something you’re not wearing? Shorts
29. Favorite Store? Bookstore
30. Your summer? Brutal
31. Like someone? Often
32. Your favorite color? Green
33. When is the last time you laughed? Yesterday
34. Last time you cried? Funeral
35. Who will/would re-post this? Dona

School work, school work...

I've been really busy doing a lot of school work lately. I think I found out how they do most of your testing. They make you write PAPERS!!! So far I've written two papers, well, wrote one I'll turn in. The second paper still has problems with it but I'm working on it. I'll be starting up a team paper this weekend. It has to be around 1,750-2,100 words between three people. I'll write up a tentative paper and turn it in to my team. They can add/subtract whatever they don't like. We also have to do a power point project but fortunately one of my team members knows how to do that so she is in charge of building it off of our highlights. Wish me luck!

On a more personal note, I received some pictures in email yesterday of my Grandsons. The youngest I've yet to see in person! Sarah, my daughter, has lost sooo much weight. I guess chasing after two boys will do that to you. I'm posting them for your viewing "oohs and ahhs".

This is Caleb : )


This is Ryan : )


This is skinny Sarah!



I am hoping Sarah will bring the boys up here this summer since it's so hard for me to get down there. If not, I think, when I'm laid off I'll see if Lauren wants to ride down there with me to go see them. We will see! Toodles...

Still hanging in there...

I've been able to write a 350-400 word essay that is due during week four of class so I am glad that is out of the way. I now have to write a rough draft for my Individual paper on team dynamics. I am going to write about conflict resolution, I think. I started writing it only to find out that I have no clue how to cite or reference the documentation I wish to use. It is off our school web site. I've looked at numerous examples and finally just decided to change the format of my paper and use other sources. I will ask my teacher how it is done so I will know in the future. For now, I don't want to overstress myself about it and I found other resources that will work just as well. Now if I could only figure out how an Introduction differs from a Thesis statement. Any clues, anyone?

All day affair...

Whew, I've spent all day looking at upcoming class assignments and working on those I can do ahead of time. I've had to download articles, ebooks, and syllabus. So far I know I have to write a 350-page paper on Effects of Technology (which technological change has had the largest effect on life in this country). They sure believe in having you JUMP right in. It's been ages since I've written a paper. ACK! There is also a team effort to write a 1750-2100 word paper on Ethics in Academic Environment plus a Powerpoint presentation. I'm so glad I stil have Office 2000 for my PowerPoint because I heard 2007 is a little hard to manage. That is, I'll have to uninstall 2007 and put 2000 back on my old computer. I think I won't be on AOL too much for the next five weeks. Any extra time will be spent reading, writing, and trying NOT to lose my mind. Back to the books!!

Okay...how to time budget...

I have to figure out how to budget my time more wisely. I am required to log into class and post something twice a day for at least four days within a week's time. Doesn't sound too difficult. I will also be in teams to do some of my work. Joy Joy. I'm not so good at depending on others. I am going to try though!

Busy Busy Busy

I've been so busy lately. Trying to get all the paperwork done for school financials. I found out today that each year will cost me around $12,456 to attend. So far I am eligible for loans up to $10,500. This is not counting the possible Pell Grant I am also eligible for but have to wait at least a month for them to decide if I am going to get it. If that happens, it should be for about $4,310 which leaves me more than enough for school and some leftover. Yay me!

I am currently doing a Student Workshop at the site in hopes to prepare me for becoming familiar with online teaching and discipling myself to find the time to log on to access the site. I set up my laptop last night to share folders and my printer so I can be lazy if I want and lay in bed to work. My feet have been swelling too much lately so laying in bed is a good thing.

I'm so proud of myself for setting up my Home Network. It was easy to do and so far, no glitches.

I hope to officially start my first class on April 8th. Wish me luck!!!

For good or bad..

Well, I made a major decision with my life this week and it's only Tuesday!!! I decided to go back to school. Doing the online courses thing this time though. I am going for a BS in Health Adminstration/Health Information Systems. I would still need to go to school here locally to take classes for Medical Technician but I will do that after I get my BS. I figure I need to have a career instead of a job and since I am familiar with hospitals, I think I will go apply at some local ones after we shut down at my present job. Should look good that I am working toward a BS, yes? I will be putting myself in debt though : ( Anyway, wish me luck!

Took kidlet to the movies, out to lunch, and toy store for her birthday this past weekend. She had fun! Talked Lauren into going with us as well.

That's it for my life at the moment. : )