ATTENTION! TH IS WILL BE MY LAST POST IN THE YEAR 2008!!!

Have a happy New Year everyone! Love n' hugs.

-Monica

Just a short entry (probably) for the sake of writing something down. I'm sorta wondering why I haven't seen new entries from some ppls on here (coughs: Jessicah & Cassie: coughs). Damn...think I have something in my throat.

Anywhoop...Tom and I are trying out a new mmorpg together. It doesn't look like it's nearly as good as wow...but it's free. ^_^ I'm waiting for it to finish installing...should be soon. (waits patiently)

I work 4 nights this week, the first 3 starting tonight, then we (Tom works all the same days I do) have new years eve off (Yes!!) and work again on Thursday night. I'm also back working on plano as of this week so I'm pretty psyched about that.

So how was everyone's Christmas? Mine was pretty good. I loved all the gifts I got. ^_^ Well, I'm out for now. PEACE!

Happy Christmas Eve!

Well, Tom and I will be waking up in...oh about 6 to 6 1/2 hours and heading to Grandma's house shortly thereafter for Christmas Eve dinner. We usually go to Aunt Jennifer's (Grandma's sister) but she was having trouble really getting herself going at home so it's at Grandma's this year.

It's really weird. Today is Christmas Eve and yet for the past several days I've noticed that for some reason I'm not really feeling the season this year. I mean...I know that tomorrow is Christmas...but it doesn't 'feel' like it should be. Almost like it's just the cold time of year, but not the Christmas time of year, if that makes any sense.

I'm also finding that I'm missing my family more a lot lately. I dunno, maybe that's why I don't feel so into the season. It's possible. So I just want my family to know (and I assume Jess can relate to everyone ^_^) that I love you all so very much and even though I don't get to see (or sometimes talk to) you very often I think about you every day and knowing that you are all there and love me totally keeps me going day to day. (Damn, that was sappy...but it's how I feel so I guess that's okay.)

I know I need to be getting to bed, but I'm waiting for Tom. Grrr...hopefully he'll be ready soon cuz I'm tired and I really should get up a little earlier than planned to take a shower since I slept in last night and couldn't get one in before I had to go to work. If we didn't have plans I might just say screw it. I guess if I'm tired enough I might do that anyway...but I shouldn't *blushes*

Okay so incase I don't get on again until after Christmas...MERRY CHRISTMAS! You are all in my heart! <3

Well, I'm finally just about through with my last (5th) night off work. Damn. Well, if I actually did more with my time than sit on my ass at the computer I might not mind only working a couple days a week (also assuming I could AFFORD to only work a couple days a week), but I don't do much else so the time gets to be rather boring. That's one reason I'm excited to go to Utah soon cuz I know I'll actually be doing stuff! Hey it might not be more than a trip to Walmart or Costco or even watching a show with Jess while she babysits someones rugrat(s), but it'll be something different than my norm! ^_^ So it's 6am now and I start work at 11:45 tonight. When I checked the schedule again Monday night it had shown that I picked up one extra day so I should be working 3 days instead of 2. That's not as bad. It still leaves me with 4 nights off, but really having 4 days off doesn't stretch as far as 5 does. I am rather upset with myself though. I should have used this time off to really get down n dirty with cleaning my trailer. In my (little and pathetic) defense though we DID do a lot of spring cleaning out in the yard over this week and I think it looks a lot better! Now we just need to get the inside going, get our old trailer fixed up and get that damn thing sold! I swear the manager has been so patient with us by not complaining that the old trailer is still on park property (just not in a space...it's out in a field).

I found another bite sized piece of heaven for you ladies to try. It's Hershey's kisses: Mint truffle. Mmm...Yes...I love mint. ^_^ Once again. Buy it, try it, love it! And if you can't love it, send it my way in a pretty package for Christmas!

I need to remember to have Tom re check his schedule for this week. They had put him working Christmas eve into Christmas morning even though he had said he couldn't work that night (they let us choose which of the two nights we wanted to work if we were scheduled)...so he talked to the O/N manager and he said apparently there were some ppl who got put on the wrong night and that he would fix it. ((sigh)) I hope that got taken care of cuz Tom's NOT going in on Christmas eve and it will just be easier on my stress level if he doesn't have to call out.

Okay, I'm really going now. Seriously, you can't stop me...I've nothing more to talk about... So... Goodbye... *turns around* ... *peeks back over shoulder* Dudes! It's over! Leave a response! ...YOU'RE FREAKIN' ME OUT! *runs away screaming*

New love <3

Yeah, there's a new love in my life. *heart flutters* ...It's the Ande's mints (peppermint crunch). I kinda think it's a holiday thing and oh my gosh. Yummy. I think everyone I know should go out and get themselves a box (or bag as I have) and eat them. It's a small piece of minty heaven, I tell you! And should you not agree with my analysis after trying one no biggie. Just put those small pieces of minty heaven into a box with shipping and send them my way so I can appreciate them the way they deserve!!! ^_^
I work tonight...which is my second night for the week and also my LAST night for the week. Yep...5 nights off this week (and next actually). ((sigh)) I think plano is supposed to get back to actually doing PLANOS about the first week in January though so hopefully hours should pick up then. Maybe I can use my very long weekend to get a jump start on some real spring cleaning. That or...play wow...one of the two I'm sure.
Well, I guess I'm off as I've not much to talk about right now....I'm gonna go eat a couple more of those mints before I get ready for work. ((Humdy dumdy dum...))

A little bit a' what???

So, I was sitting here pondering the universe and decided 'what the hell...let me put my thoughts into typed words on the site that everyone probably thinks I've forgotten about?' Okay okay...WoW is down for maintainance and I was bored so here I am! I'm downloading a game to play with Ro-chan, but it's taking a while. ((sigh))
Well, work has been pretty slow lately becuz of stupid economy stuff goin' on. I only work 4 nights this week and Tom only works 3. I know...YIKES! I guess for the situation we live in we'll actually be okay, but we're going to have to cut back on stuff since right now it's basically more like only one of us has a job, but we'll get through it somehow. The only thing that sucks is that I was hoping to be able to save up a little money for our Utah trip, but who knows how that's going to go...also I had hopped to be able to go for about 2 weeks, but now if Tom says we can't afford to take that much time off I really can't argue since hours are already so slow. I guess we'll see how things go though, and if I only get a week with my family I'll just have to make it one damn good week!
So, did anyone go shopping on Black Friday? I did my usual and hid at home where it was safe. Seriously, 2 men shot each other dead in a toys are us cuz their lady friends were fighting over a stupid toy! Yeah...DEAD! Funny thing is, both the men who pulled the guns were shot dead, and no one else in the store was hurt! I tell you people are freakin' insane on Black Friday! Not even worth it if you ask me...I mean, yeah, those are the best sale days (1 or 2 days after thanksgiving), but there are still really good sales all over (that are almost just as good) all throughout the entire holiday season! A little extra % off isn't worth the health hazzard in my opinion.
Tom and I helped Grandma put up her Christmas tree yesterday. We still need to finish decorating it though, but it's looking good so far. I can't wait till Christmas. ^_^ Well, I'm going to go find something to do while I wait for me thing to finish downloading. Peace out all.

Oh yeah.....

Just for the record and if I don't say it enough....

I love you guys. You all make living life worth it. -hugs to all my friends and my family- You are the stars that I adore gazing at.

2 Nights down. 2 Nights to go. Then Utah?

So, I'm scheduled to work a 4 day week this week. 2 of which I'm over and done with. So I have to go to work tonight & tomorrow night and then the plan is for me to go with Dawn (and possibly Rorie) to Utah to get Dawn's car from my parents' house. Don't know exactly how we're going to be bringing it back, but I guess I'll let Dawn worry about the details. I'm guessing that if things go as planned that we will probably leave here sometime Thursday evening so that we can do our driving at night when there's less traffic (which is preferable to both Dawn and myself). I feel really bad that it's going to have to be such a quick trip, but if we really don't leave here till Thursday night, and the latest we can stay in Utah is really Saturday night, that's not a whole lot of time. (Yeah, I work Sunday night so that's why Saturday is the latest we could stay in town).
I was thinking that maybe on Friday Jess and I could make some pound salsa. ^_^ Tom and I made it yesterday and I just ate some left overs. Mmmm...if you haven't tried pound salsa before you're so missing out. It's NUMMY!
As bad as I feel though that I'll only have a couple days to see my family it's not so bad since Tom and I intend to take a week off of work after the whole Christmas rush at work ends so that we can BOTH go for a visit. I honestly think I'm more excited about that than just going this weekend. Well, I'll have Tom with me then (duh), and I half imagine that Dawn will complain about something or other during the trip, whether it be her allergies in Utah or whatever else.. Eh, it'll be okay. Dawn and I have been getting along pretty well. In fact...I think it's been quite some time since we've had a spat over anything. *ponders this* Maybe she's just forgotten that I intend to marry her little boy. (Heeheehee, Just joking.) Dawn has also been really good about being there for Grandma since Grandpa passed away. Yeah, FYI: Dawn and her mother haven't gotten along since practically the day Dawn was born. So, Tom and I are both pretty proud of her that she's still showing her mom a bit of humanity.

Anyway...how'd I get all Dawn topic'd?

So, like I said, I'm excited about going to Utah for a week visit soon. I'm not sure exactly when we'll ask off for, but I do know that it'll be AFTER January 15 (as that is the last day that is labeled as "NO TIME OFF PERMITTED DUE TO THE BUSY SEASON" sign at work. I guess I'll just have to survive until then. Thinking of you all and missing you.

Monica

Been a very long week. -sigh-

Well, to start off Tom's grandfather (who we lived with when we first move to California) died of (apparently that I know) a heart attack. He and Grandma were on a camping trip at the time. I guess he hadn't been feeling at all well the whole day and as they were getting ready for bed he collapsed. Tom and I found out about it on Saturday afternoon when Grandma and Uncle Darrin came to our trailer. So we then followed them to Grandma's house to tell Dawn and Rorie who were there doing laundry and such. Needless to say we didn't get a whole lot of sleep that day, and the week as a whole as somewhat dragged on from that point.
Thankfully though I'm now finished with my work week so I don't have to worry about waking up early tonight. Right now I'm just waiting for Cost-Co to open so Tom and I can go pick up a couple things (and get some nummy lunch while we're at it).
Grandpa's memorial service is supposed to be tomorrow at 3pm. So....I know we're both going to be tired as hell, but there's no way we'd miss going to that.

It was so sad...we were over at Grandma's the other day discussing some dinner plans. Well, her sister Jeniffer was over (just to be there with her) and we were all looking through photos cuz I guess there's going to be some kind of slideshow with Music that Grandpa always liked. Well Jeniffer was scanning through an album when she suddenly came across several pictures of Van and Tom when they were little. (Van is her son who was killed a short while ago while in Germay...he and Tom were about the same age.) Tom saw the pictures and gave her a hug and then she started to cry. :-( It was so sad. Too much death lately....that's what I think. Way too much death. :-(

Well, I guess that's all I have for now. I think Tom wants some help with a quest on WoW so I should probably go be on assistance. Ciao for now.

Ho Hum....

I think I'm really only writing something right now because I haven't in a little bit and I don't want to get back into the habit of getting out of the habit of writing. Hopefully that makes sense....and if it doesn't...who gives. The voices are telling me it sounds okay so that's all I care about. ^_^

Yeah, I was the one who finally gave up on that whole kissing bet a while after I finished my last entry. It felt good to have that be over. What gets me though is that after I lost Tom was content with giving me a peck on the lips to (I guess) celebrate his ability to kiss me again. Yeah, that was it. No serious makin' out for this girl. *sigh* I swear I love that boy to death, but sometimes I wish he acted more like he did when we were still fairly new dating.

Well, he's napping right now and I'm actually supposed to be getting him up about now so I guess I will call it an entry here. I'll try to write again soon if I have anything worth posting. Hope everyone has a great day.

Monica

^_^

Well, it's been about a week, but I'm back at long last. First off for anyone who doesn't know about the game I went to last weekend....the score remained 0 to 0 for 10 (yes...10) innings. Finally in the 11th inning the OTHER team finally got a run in. The dodgers failed to tie it again in the bottom of said inning. *sigh* But what the hell...it was a lot of fun just being able to be there with Tom and my parents so I guess I'm not too disappointed. My parents both showed up in their brand new dodger hats and shirts (like Tom and myself) and Dad rooted like a trooper for the men in the blue. ^_^ I was really very proud (you would've been proud too, Michelle *if you happen to read this*). I only worked 4 days this last week as Tom and I both got Sunday night off so we wouldn't have to worry about going in after spending a good chunk of the day with Mom and Dad. The week wasn't too bad, but I was glad to invite the weekend. This week I'm scheduled to work a full 5 days / 40 hours so I expect that next weekend will be even MORE welcome than the current one was.


So...Tom and I have had this sort of pointless bet going on as to who could (or couldn't rather) go the longest without kissing the other person. So it's been about 3 days since we've kissed. Earlier I was seriously actually about to give up and just kiss him on the cheek, but he pulled away and when I said I was trying to give up and kiss him the punk didn't believe me! Then when I told him to come back so I could he said he didn't believe that I would and left the room. Good God he's such a dork sometimes. Grrrr...well, I need to head into the restroom soon so maybe I'll make a detour across the trailer and give him what's coming to him. *gets sneaky looking eyes*

Well, I think I'm going to go for now. Not sure what I'm going to do...maybe I'll log onto WoW for a while...we'll see.

Much love!

I have a new blog for jokes and funny stuff I fet in emails and such. check it out if ya want.

http://ilovethefunny.blogspot.com/

LA Dodgers

Well, I finally got this stupid site to let me log in again. Geesh! I don't have a lot of time to write anything though today. Tom and I are just getting ready to head out the door. My parents are in town for their anniversary so we are taking them to an LA Dodger game today. ^_^ Hopefully now that I can get onto this site again I'll start writing again at least as frequently as I was before (which I know wasn't a lot, but still...) Hope everyone who reads has a great day! Oh what the hell...tell people who don't read to have a great day from me too! \(^0^)/ (Yay!)

Monica

Update

Well, I figure that I should probably do at least one entry here in Utah even if I'm already in the same house of one of the (maybe) 3 people that could read this post. -shrugs- Oh well! Just a quick update on the vaca. So far I'm having a pretty good time. I miss Tom like crazy and I know I'll be so excited when I get to see him on Saturday, but I'm having a great time with my family. Jason has come over a couple times and we played Mario Party 8 on the Wii. Okay...ADDICTED! I'm so buying that game when I get home. Yeah...Tom's not gonna have much say in the matter. *big cheesy smile*
Of course we've done our usual family thing of going to both costco for lunch and to walmart to browse around, but I'm sure we'll do both again at least once before Rorie and I go home. Other than that not too much is going on. Jami hasn't been here for most of the time I have cuz she and her kids went up to Salt Lake early Sunday morning to surprise her mom for Mother's day. Hmmm...mother's day. I wonder when facing that day will be easier for me...-sigh-
Well, I better get going. I think Jess might start to think I love her computer more than her. (I don't...don't worry ^_^)

Going to Utah today!

Well Tom, Rorie and I will be leaving today to meet Mom, Jess and Jason in Baker so that they can take Rorie and myself the rest of the way to their house in Utah. That's....in about 6 1/2 hours (that we'll be almost leaving here). Then it's a few hours on the road (give or take) and I get to see them! Yay! ^_^ So, we just got home from work a little bit ago as we stopped by the grocery store on the way so that Tom has something to eat after he gets home later tonight. We have about 6 1/2 hours (as I said) before we really need to probably be about ready to go....and we are (for the life of us) not at all tired. -sigh- I am a bit hungry though....I'm contemplating making myself some ramen...I just haven't decided if I want to wash the dishes right now in order TO have some ramen. N E way...I'm going to try to think of something boring to do to get myself tired.
Jess if you read this before you guys get on the road, I can't wait to see you!!! -hugs-
If you read this after you've picked me up and we're back at the house...I'm sure I was too polite to say, but you hugged me a little tight when we met up in Baker....just sayin.... ;-)

5 Nights and Mother's Day. I couldn't have planned that better!

Okay, so I was at work last night and all the sudden it hits me like a ton of bricks. (Not hard bricks...big huge soft plush bricks). Since I got my time off request in later than planned and therefor had to ask the week after I had originally planned, that means that I'll be in Utah on Mother's Day! You have no idea how seriously happy that makes me! I don't think I've seen my mom on Mother's Day since I moved to California! Woohoo! That does mean though that I'm going to talk to Rorie about the situation because as much as I'd love her to come I think that she has the right to not come if she doesn't want to miss that with her own mom. I could totally relate! I even bought Mom a small gift since I realized I'd be there for the occasion. It's not much, but I saw it and thought, "Mama! That's for my Mama!"
Also I'm going to end up working 5 nights this week instead of just 4 because plano was scheduled to do about 13 more hours worth of work than what people who were going to be there are scheduled, so the manager okayed Sherry to ask those of us who have it off to come in. I figure the extra day won't kill me especially since I'll be taking the entire next week off.

I wonder if I can convince my mama that we need to go to dinner on Sunday for Mother's Day. I'd probably have to include Dad on the deal too...and the rest of the bunch =p Heehee!

Well, I'm off. I have to run the rent checks down to the office and head to bed. Tom and I are going to his grandparent's this afternoon to do some laundry and we'll go to work from there. Hope everyone who reads has a great day. And those who don't read...well deep down I hope you have a great day too, but chances are you won't cuz you didn't read and you've jinxed yourself!

Monica

Hoping for a fast week. *crosses fingers*

Well, I made it through the first night of work for the week. It wasn't so bad. We didn't have any planograms to set so we actually spent the night helping out in soft-lines. First we actually did a bit of zoning in kitchen while they did their truck unload and then we went and pushed out baby world (damn that never gets easier...grrr) and then I spent the rest of the night taking hanging clothes out of boxes and sorting them onto z-rails for the softlines ladies to push.
I now have 3 nights left of work before my night off and my week vacation. I'm hoping that the rest of the week will continue to go by as fast as last night did ....and not as slow as inventory was. Aye!
Yeah...inventory on Thursday night...well let's just say that I can't even get myself to lie about enjoying it. I swear I was there for 8 hours and it felt like about 30. I was definitely glad when that night was finally over and done with.
Currently we are at Tom's granparent's house because we had to print out something for getting financial help for getting our car fixed up since we didn't pass our smog test. (Ouch!) We did get a 60 day extension on our registration though so since we are getting that sent out asap I do believe we'll be okay on that.

I'm getting really excited about seeing my family next week. Like I said before...I'm hoping that the rest of the week continues to just fly by! LoL!

I think I'm going to go now in case Tom is ready to leave soon. We only got 4 hours of sleep yesterday so I'm quite tired. I can't wait to get home and go to bed!

=(

Yeah, real short post today. Work was pretty stressful last night which has gotten me a bit worked up. I still have to go in for inventory tonight, then I have 2 nights off and then I work 4 days next week. Next weekend can't come soon enough...damn, right now I wish that I'd gotten my time off request in a few days earlier so that I could be leaving for Utah tomorrow afternoon instead of a week from tomorrow. I think me going for the week is much needed right now for my sanity. -sigh- Yeah, like I said...it was just a stressful night.
Hope everyone is having a better day that I am and thanx for reading if you find the time.

Woohoo!

Well, the schedule for the actual week I'll be in Utah isn't up yet, but the week before that is and both Friday and Saturday night are listed as 'time off' for me which means I actually know now that my request was in fact approved and going to Utah won't be any sort of problem. (I knew I'd get it, but the extra reassurance is always nice.)
I work 3 more nights this week before I have a 2 day weekend. We worked Sunday night finishing up electronics and then last night we set up mini seasonal with summer stuff. I think the next real big change there will be when we set up back to school, and then after that Seasonal will be set for Halloween with Mini taking the roll of storing the candy...and then both set for Christmas. Damn, that's weird to think about.
I work 4 days next week so I'll actually have one night off work even before I leave for Utah. Tom had said that if he'd only been scheduled 4 nights as well that he'd take me to Baker a day early (providing that someone from Utah's way could make the drive that day) unfortunately he's scheduled Thursday night...one day isn't going to kill me though. I'm just excited as hell that I get to see my family again. Call me crazy but I can't seem to get sick of being with them. Especially my sisters...I didn't notice as much when I lived in Utah, but it really does amaze me at how (when I think about it) Jessicah and Michelle are 2 of the very dearest people in the world to me. I really do mean that. I don't know where I'd be without my sisters...^_^
Well, now that I'm pored my sappy little heart out I guess I should go get ready for bed. Tom is going to go pick up food at KFC when we get up cuz we haven't had it in forever and I'm SOOOO excited! CHICKEN IS GOOD! Bwahahahaha!
Oh yeah! On World of Warcraft (this info mostly for Jess since I know she plays) I got my epic flying mount before work last night! I got the nether-ray as I'd planned and I love it! So fast! Heehee! Okay, I'm really going now. Have a wonderful day to who ever may read this!

work

-sigh- I just had the past 4 nights of work and I almost feel like I'm gonna go crazy. Weird huh? Ah well, I work 5 nights this week, altho the 5th night is the stores 'inventory' night so it won't be a regular night. Basically that night I'm only going to be there to assist those doing inventory when necessary. Finding upc(s) when needed and of course going along after and making the shelves look somewhat presentable (cuz lets face it...those inventory folks don't exactly tidy up after themselves).
As far as next week goes, I'm not sure what my schedule will be. I'm rather hoping that I'll manage to get 5 days again...but I'm kind of thinking that it's more likey to be 4 at most with plano's work plan for the month. I'm sure that if it weren't for inventory on Thursday night that we'd only have 4 days this week. I'll have to make sure to check upstairs tonight to see if next weeks schedule is in fact up.
The following week of course I shouldn't be on the schedule at all as that's the week I asked off in order to go visit the family in Utah. =) I'm thinking there's absolutely NO reason for that to not work out right so I'm not even going to let myself worry about it.

As for right now..I'm just being lazy at the computer until it's time to get ready for work. I hate going into work after having such long weekends, but if we are working on what I think we are this week (the first 4 nights) then the week shouldn't be too bad. At the very least it's not a very hard area of the store to set. The biggest thing will be stocking it all when its said and done, and likely the overnight manager will have a lot of flow team members help with that part. As they usually do with these kinds of sets.

Well, have a great day everyone. ^_^

I guess today is as good a day as any to post and update just a little bit. Well, not too much is going on. Tom and I missed work on Thursday night due to the fact that his wallet suddenly came up missing and while searching for it we managed to lose track of time and weren't able to go in to work. (They aren't allowed to let anyone in after 12:30 and by the time we knew where his wallet was it would've gotten us there around 10 minutes late of that.) Turned out that Tom had finally remembered that he'd taken it out at his Grandparents house earlier that day to take care of an old credit debt and we'd completely forgotten about it. So, we had a 3 day weekend, but I think we are going to fill out paper work for sick leave to make up the hours we missed. Also this week I'm only scheduled 3 days. Tonight and the next 2 nights, followed by a long 4 day weekend. I imagine I'll probably have quite a few weeks like this from now till at least around June as hours in May are always very slow for my department. So, money is going to be very tight the next little while, but I think we'll manage...we just can't spoil ourselves in some ways we normally do...Don't fret or anything though Jess...I AM still coming to Utah. Tom knows that sometimes I really do need to be there and be with you guys. Like I said...we'll just have to be more careful about other stuff (like eating out and such).
I have no idea yet what Plano is going to be working on this week, and while I'm a bit upset at the sudden cut of hours so soon, I am looking forward to having some time off. I figure maybe I'll play some on WoW on a character that's not bound to Tom...maybe horde side...but I haven't decided for sure yet.
Anyway....it's now 9:11am and I think we are going to be actually getting up in about 6 hours, so I guess I'll end this and head to bed. Goodnight...or....goodday I guess to all you day dwellers....XD

Ugh.....

I'm getting frustrated. I supposed to be going to Utah in a couple weeks and for whatever reason I haven't been able to get any time away at work to fill out my time off request form. My team lead said that any week in May would be okay, but I don't know now if it's actually too late to request that off and actually be scheduled as off. Grrr..so now I'm not sure what to do....if I ask for the first week off and don't get it, then I'm basically just screwed for the rest of the month. Damn it! I so just wanna cry right now. =(

I dunno...maybe I'll just end up asking for the second week or something. I know you don't wanna wait that long, Jess, but I think it'll be worse if I can't come at all. -shrugs- I dunno....

***

Just a quick post before I head to bed...hopefully pretty soon here. Tom and I both work the next 5 nights so I'm hoping that between work and other stuff that I still have time to do at least short blogs. If not I guess I'll get to it when I can and hopefully I don't get too out of the habit again. Guess Jess would get me back into it again eventually. ^_^
Well, Tom just got home from picking up our laundry so I think I'm going to get ready for bed. My eyes are tired and my contacts want to be out. Have a great day! Goodnight!

Monica

Cost-co = Pizza and a hot dog baby!

It's kinda weird. Tom and I end up sleeping in way later than our alarm goes off normally (by a couple hours usually at least). Today we were in bed for I kid you not....5 hours maybe...a package comes for (not even us but) Dawn next door. And the next thing we know we're wide awake. -sigh- Oh well...at least we don't work again tonight so we can be up and dead to the world here instead of on the job. ^_^ So, I guess we are going to be going to Cost-co soon cuz we have to do a bit of shopping and it's time to renew the membership. And of course Cost-co means (of course what else) LUNCH! ^_^

Oh yeah, Dawn bought Tom and me new ipod shuffles yesterday at work. They're the little bitty ones that you can clip on. Can we all say 'adorable'? ^_^ I think it's cute! Okay well, I'm going to go so I don't start blabbing like in my last message. I'm hoping to actually update here somewhat regularly to give an update on life, but knowing me...who knows. Alls we can do is hope for the best.

Much love,
Monica

COOKIE MONSTER!!!

Yeah...I have no idea what to even write about or where to begin since it's only been about a million years since I last wrote. Well, a month at least. Hmmm...so any way...sorry I haven't been around. I really did have every intention of logging on the moment I got home from the cruise and telling about it in great detail. Guess I just kinda forgot. (My bad!) Now, however, I'm not really in the mood to write about the cruise...especially since anyone who might read this probably already read about the cruise on Jessicah's blog. Oh well!
The biggest reason I'm here right now is because I haven't been in forever and Jess sent me a message demanding that I post...on another site I hardly ever visit anymore. As it is my whole social life is work, world of warcraft, Tom, and the occasional phone call to/from my Mom and/or Jess. Oh well...at least I still talk to my favorite ppl! ^_^
So, I'm just hanging out at home right now cuz Tom's at work and I'm off tonight. Rorie came over to hang out, but atm we're just kinda doing our own things on the comp (she's on the lappy).
OOOH! I just watched (well a while ago) the youtube videos that Jack posted of him doing stuff like DDRmax dancing, guitar hero jammin, and uber rubiks cube solving! Damn does my little brother have some serious talent! It almost makes me want to get a digital camcorder....but I have no idea what I'd record since I can't do anything cool like Jack does. -sigh- Oh well!
Oh yeah...I'm planning on going to Utah sometime next month...not exactly sure when but hopefully I'll talk to Mom or Jess soon to find out the when school gets out there. I'd actually like to go BEFORE it gets out cuz I'm not sure how long Jack will have afterwards before he gets sent out to where ever it is he's getting sent out to. (sings: "He's in the army now! He's not behind the plow! Get out of the ditch, you son of a bi...uhhh.....HE'S IN THE ARMY NOW!!!!!") Yeah, my brother does it all it seems. XD

Okay, I'm going to go now I have no idea what to say again and I'm just sort of puttering along as it is. Later!

Monica

Cruisin' Baby!

Well, my mom, Jessicah, Nathan & Jack (aka: car #1) should be arriving here in...oh I'd say within the next couple hours and today we are at long last leaving on our family cruise! Yay!
Okay, so I have to apologize that I haven't kept up with writing here. I know that there are one or 2 of you who actually take the time to see what's up in my life. ;-)
Work has been going okay for the most part. We got a bunch of new people on the presentation (plano) team a while back. One of them seems to take the role of "princess" and tends to argue a lot when you try to teach her something new. According to her I bark orders at her and whatnot. *rolls eyes* Mmmhmmm...cuz you all know what a total bitch I can be. :-P
Oh! I got myself a few new outfits for the cruise courtesy of Tom's grandmother. Yep. A woman I'm not even related to yet by marraige took me out and bought me clothes! And lunch! It was really nice! Also Tom and I are taking a camera on the cruise so I'll finally be able to post more pictures on my myspace page. ^_^

Well, I'm going to get going and see what last minute things I need to do to get ready to go. I'll try to write again after the trip. Much love!

Monica