After another exhausting week at work, it's finally the weekend! Not much has happened this past week. Adam was out of town on business from Monday-Thursday so I spent most of the work week working late.
On Monday night I stuck around the office until 8:30pm and vowed to leave ON TIME Tuesday.
Tuesday night Mason and I went to see Ghost Rider for free movie night. It was good to get out of work a little early and be able to vent with someone who understands my frustrations at the office.
Wednesday was Ash Wednesday so Diana and I got cheese pizza together since both of our significant others were traveling. After dinner we went to 7:30pm mass at our local church. I was planning on giving up swearing and soda for lent, however, after a very rough work week the swearing was ruined within several hours. The soda would have been easy but I seemed to forget and had soda with my pizza. I'm not really sure if there's anything else I should try to give up, or that I would be willing to give up. I'm going to try to attend mass each Sunday as it seems that the more hectic work gets, the more I want to sleep in on the couple days that I can sleep in. I will try to go to a later Sunday mass or maybe even a Saturday evening mass. I'm also going to try to hit the gym 2-3 times a week. This was my new years resolution and after being sick for over a month I haven't been there since before the holidays!!!
Thursday night I was asleep after Grey's Anatomy and didn't see Adam until 11:30pm when he woke me up with his kisses and hugs... I just wanted to sleep! It's crazy though how much you miss someone when they're gone. Our small apartment felt empty without Adam around, and our HUGE bed feels too big without someone to share it with. It's times like these that I wish we were able to have a dog in our apartment... at least it would be someone to cuddle with.
Last night I babysat after work and made it home by 9:30pm to have a small dinner with Adam and crash by 10:30pm.
This morning I got up at 6:45am and headed into work for a couple hours. It's amazing how much work you can get done without meetings, emails and other people to interupt you. I don't want to make it a habit of going to work on Saturday but since I was out by 10:30am, it didn't make for too long of a day.
After work I came home, showered and Adam and I headed into the city to meet up with Kendra and an old fried of mine from high school, Michelle. Since I had to babysitt tonight, I only stuck around for lunch and then headed back to NJ for what I'm hoping will be a relatively relaxing night. I could certainly use it!!!
Oh, and on another note I finally had my follow-up X-ray for pneumonia and I'm back to normal! YAY!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
I love coffee, I love tea, I love the boys and the boys love me...
The title of this post was a little song my grandma and I use to sing when I was young. As I grew up it stayed true for me and I LOVE coffee and tea and I've definately liked my fair share of boys...however, this Valentines Day my boyfriend Adam suprised me with a new coffee maker. Initially you may think of a coffee maker as a lame gift, but if you had any idea of how badly I've wanted a Keurig Coffee maker you would appreciate the thought as much as I did.
I was able to hook it up this weekend and enjoy my first cup of coffee this mornin before work.
YUM!
I was able to hook it up this weekend and enjoy my first cup of coffee this mornin before work.
YUM!
Sunday, February 18, 2007
3rd Times A Charm!
I won't bitch about work in this post, although I will say that after working the most crazy week of my life I was desperately looking forward to this weekend! For the first weekend in 2007 I didn't have to baby-sitt, fly back to MI, etc. so I was looking forward to kicking back and enjoying myself.
After reading "Bringing Down the House", I've had "the jones" to gamble for a couple weeks. I decided to toss the idea out to our NJ friends Fink and Sarah and see if they'd be interested in making a day trip with Adam and I. So yesterday morning the 4 of us headed 2 hours south to the best gambling on the East Coast...ATLANTIC CITY!
This was my 3rd visit to AC and I was geeked to try my luck on the nickel and penny slots. We started off at Cesars where I didn't have too muck luck and blew through $15.00 within an hour. Next we walked over the Tropicana for more gambling and dinner at P.F. Changs. I blew another $20.00 at the penny slots with Sarah while Adam and Fink went to put our name on the wait list for dinner. After dinner we decided to hit Wild Wild West because it was close to the Claridge where we parked. I immediately found the penny slots and was pleased to find one of my favorite games, Catch A Wave. Adam and I discovered Catch A Wave at the Finger Lakes Casino in upstate NY during a visit to his parents house. Since then I've always looked for Catch A Wave because it has great bonus rounds and I've always seemed to do pretty well.
So I sat down, put in my last and final $20.00 and started playing 20 lines, betting either 1 cent or 2 cents per line depending on my gut feeling. I wasn't having very good luck and started to bet 2 cents/line because I felt I would hit a bonus round soon. Within a couple spins I was in a bonus round, and within no time at all I had somehow gotten 20,000 credits on 1 bonus spin. I screamed over to Adam and Sarah who were playing on the machines behind/next to me. We all tried to figure out how much money 20,000 penny credits was as I immediately hit the cash out button. Out came a voucher for $220.70!!! I was estatic! The people around Sarah and I must have thought we were crazy. I mean I'm sure more than 90% of the people around us had blown through $200.00 in several hours, but I was just so excited to finally be up for the day.
I managed to blow another $20.00 hoping that maybe I could turn that $20.00 into another $200.00 but ended up walking away $165.00 richer than when I arrived. The $165.00 was really a pleasant suprise after recieving a $350.00 bill (that's what I STILL owed AFTER my insurance paid their portion) from my trip to the ER last month. Needless to say I'm pretty stoked for our trip to Vegas...45 days to go!!!!
Sarah, Matt (Fink), Adam and I in AC
Adam and I on the boadwalk in AC
After reading "Bringing Down the House", I've had "the jones" to gamble for a couple weeks. I decided to toss the idea out to our NJ friends Fink and Sarah and see if they'd be interested in making a day trip with Adam and I. So yesterday morning the 4 of us headed 2 hours south to the best gambling on the East Coast...ATLANTIC CITY!
This was my 3rd visit to AC and I was geeked to try my luck on the nickel and penny slots. We started off at Cesars where I didn't have too muck luck and blew through $15.00 within an hour. Next we walked over the Tropicana for more gambling and dinner at P.F. Changs. I blew another $20.00 at the penny slots with Sarah while Adam and Fink went to put our name on the wait list for dinner. After dinner we decided to hit Wild Wild West because it was close to the Claridge where we parked. I immediately found the penny slots and was pleased to find one of my favorite games, Catch A Wave. Adam and I discovered Catch A Wave at the Finger Lakes Casino in upstate NY during a visit to his parents house. Since then I've always looked for Catch A Wave because it has great bonus rounds and I've always seemed to do pretty well.
So I sat down, put in my last and final $20.00 and started playing 20 lines, betting either 1 cent or 2 cents per line depending on my gut feeling. I wasn't having very good luck and started to bet 2 cents/line because I felt I would hit a bonus round soon. Within a couple spins I was in a bonus round, and within no time at all I had somehow gotten 20,000 credits on 1 bonus spin. I screamed over to Adam and Sarah who were playing on the machines behind/next to me. We all tried to figure out how much money 20,000 penny credits was as I immediately hit the cash out button. Out came a voucher for $220.70!!! I was estatic! The people around Sarah and I must have thought we were crazy. I mean I'm sure more than 90% of the people around us had blown through $200.00 in several hours, but I was just so excited to finally be up for the day.
I managed to blow another $20.00 hoping that maybe I could turn that $20.00 into another $200.00 but ended up walking away $165.00 richer than when I arrived. The $165.00 was really a pleasant suprise after recieving a $350.00 bill (that's what I STILL owed AFTER my insurance paid their portion) from my trip to the ER last month. Needless to say I'm pretty stoked for our trip to Vegas...45 days to go!!!!
Sarah, Matt (Fink), Adam and I in AC
Adam and I on the boadwalk in AC
Go Blow!
Last weekend Adam and I made a last-minute trip back to Detroit for a suprise party for my Dad.
My Dad has worked at his current job, Detroit Air Compressor & Pump Co. since I was 9 months old. He's known some of this co-workers for 19+ years, so when he told them he was leaving DACO, they were sad to see him go. At my grandmothers suggestion, my mother decided to have a suprise party for him and invited friends, family and his co-workers.
Before I go on to tell you about the party, I should probably explain why my Dad has choosen to leave. It wasn't an easy decision and for my mother and father who HATE change, it came as quite a shock when my Dad was offered a position at The University of Michigan. My Dad had worked on their air compressors for years, and when a position opened at UofM they requested that my Dad apply. After several interviews, tests and beating out 5 other applicants my Dad was offered a position at one of the colleges I despise the most. The benefits, pension and 401k made the position pretty appealing and he accepted the job on the spot.
Adam and I arrived into Detroit on Friday evening, just in time to go back to my parents house and crash for the night. On Saturday morning my mom went off to her quilting class while I took my sister to her Dr's. appt. Getting out of the house allowed Ashley and I to pick up balloons, the cake, and a handfull of other goodies we needed for the party. After an afternoon of running around we went home to prime my dad for the party. I gave him a haircut, made him switch out of his MSU sweatshirt (at any other time I would prefer he wear MSU over UofM, but tonight was an exception), and told him that we were meeting mom at a restaurant around the corner from our house. What my dad didn't know was that not only were we meeting my mom, but 50+ people who came out to wish my dad farewell, goodluck and congratulations.
Of course I couldn't let my dad get away with going to work for UofM without giving him some shit for it...
More pictures from the party:
SUPRISE!!
He was pretty happy!
The happy family
The happy couple :)
And I have no idea what they're doing...I guess everyone was happy!
My Dad has worked at his current job, Detroit Air Compressor & Pump Co. since I was 9 months old. He's known some of this co-workers for 19+ years, so when he told them he was leaving DACO, they were sad to see him go. At my grandmothers suggestion, my mother decided to have a suprise party for him and invited friends, family and his co-workers.
Before I go on to tell you about the party, I should probably explain why my Dad has choosen to leave. It wasn't an easy decision and for my mother and father who HATE change, it came as quite a shock when my Dad was offered a position at The University of Michigan. My Dad had worked on their air compressors for years, and when a position opened at UofM they requested that my Dad apply. After several interviews, tests and beating out 5 other applicants my Dad was offered a position at one of the colleges I despise the most. The benefits, pension and 401k made the position pretty appealing and he accepted the job on the spot.
Adam and I arrived into Detroit on Friday evening, just in time to go back to my parents house and crash for the night. On Saturday morning my mom went off to her quilting class while I took my sister to her Dr's. appt. Getting out of the house allowed Ashley and I to pick up balloons, the cake, and a handfull of other goodies we needed for the party. After an afternoon of running around we went home to prime my dad for the party. I gave him a haircut, made him switch out of his MSU sweatshirt (at any other time I would prefer he wear MSU over UofM, but tonight was an exception), and told him that we were meeting mom at a restaurant around the corner from our house. What my dad didn't know was that not only were we meeting my mom, but 50+ people who came out to wish my dad farewell, goodluck and congratulations.
Of course I couldn't let my dad get away with going to work for UofM without giving him some shit for it...
More pictures from the party:
SUPRISE!!
He was pretty happy!
The happy family
The happy couple :)
And I have no idea what they're doing...I guess everyone was happy!
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Hectic Work Week
Its a Saturday morning and I'm sitting at the computer eating cocoa puffs thinking about how much I LOVE the weekends. This past week of work has made me appreciate sleeping in on Saturdays and Sundays.
It all started on Monday. I was supposed to find out from my Dr. if I was cleared to fly the next day for a last minute business trip. After two phone calls to my Dr's office I was good to go, only to find out that the trip would have to be postponed to Wednesday and there wasn't any more room on the corporate plane, so my boss would "think about it and get back to me." After not hearing back from him on Monday, I figured I was off the hook. On Tuesday I got a call from him that he would need me to go, but I would have to meet him in Columbus, OH, meaning I had to take a commercial airline and somehow be there by 9:00am the next morning. I found a flight on Continental airlines that left Newark at 6:50am, which meant being up at 4:00am the following day.
I woke up at 3:00am, afraid I wouldn't wake up in time and tossed and turned until 4:00am when my alarm finally went off. The car service was picking me up at 4:30am so it was a good thing I choose to shower the night before. The flight out of Newark was suprisingly on-time and I landed into Columbus at 8:30am. I ended up hanging out at the airport, reading, making a couple phone calls, etc. until my co-workers landed at 10:00am.
As I mentioned before I recently got a promotion to handle one of our largest accounts, and after fighting pneumonia last week, I wasn't sure I was in my top condition for my first meeting with the customer. I managed to pull myself together and somehow make it through the day.
The flight back to Newark was delayed and I didn't end up getting back home until shortly after 9:00pm. The rest of the work week was hectic as well, and I've put in my fair share of time at the office, not leaving until after 7:00pm on both Thursday and Friday. It seems to be I'm finally getting the hang of my new position, and for once, I'm actually enjoying what I'm doing. I feel accomplished at the end of the day, and really hope that my employer notices the extra hours, and hard work I've been putting in to this account.
Anyways, I've been awake for over an hour and have really done nothing. I went to bed at 9:00pm last night after we lost power at 8:00pm. I woke up at 10:00pm to Adam who was playing video games on his ipod and also noticed the power was back on. I fell back asleep and slept more soundly than I did all week. I'm thinking about curling up in bed, opening a good book (I'm currently reading "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich and it's AMAZING), and doing NOTHING the rest of the day... I think I deserve it.
It all started on Monday. I was supposed to find out from my Dr. if I was cleared to fly the next day for a last minute business trip. After two phone calls to my Dr's office I was good to go, only to find out that the trip would have to be postponed to Wednesday and there wasn't any more room on the corporate plane, so my boss would "think about it and get back to me." After not hearing back from him on Monday, I figured I was off the hook. On Tuesday I got a call from him that he would need me to go, but I would have to meet him in Columbus, OH, meaning I had to take a commercial airline and somehow be there by 9:00am the next morning. I found a flight on Continental airlines that left Newark at 6:50am, which meant being up at 4:00am the following day.
I woke up at 3:00am, afraid I wouldn't wake up in time and tossed and turned until 4:00am when my alarm finally went off. The car service was picking me up at 4:30am so it was a good thing I choose to shower the night before. The flight out of Newark was suprisingly on-time and I landed into Columbus at 8:30am. I ended up hanging out at the airport, reading, making a couple phone calls, etc. until my co-workers landed at 10:00am.
As I mentioned before I recently got a promotion to handle one of our largest accounts, and after fighting pneumonia last week, I wasn't sure I was in my top condition for my first meeting with the customer. I managed to pull myself together and somehow make it through the day.
The flight back to Newark was delayed and I didn't end up getting back home until shortly after 9:00pm. The rest of the work week was hectic as well, and I've put in my fair share of time at the office, not leaving until after 7:00pm on both Thursday and Friday. It seems to be I'm finally getting the hang of my new position, and for once, I'm actually enjoying what I'm doing. I feel accomplished at the end of the day, and really hope that my employer notices the extra hours, and hard work I've been putting in to this account.
Anyways, I've been awake for over an hour and have really done nothing. I went to bed at 9:00pm last night after we lost power at 8:00pm. I woke up at 10:00pm to Adam who was playing video games on his ipod and also noticed the power was back on. I fell back asleep and slept more soundly than I did all week. I'm thinking about curling up in bed, opening a good book (I'm currently reading "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich and it's AMAZING), and doing NOTHING the rest of the day... I think I deserve it.
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