after i took an hour out of my crazy day to have lunch w/ danielle at the bandito...
and i'm going to blog.
about getting things done at work: it makes me feel like i actually deserve to be paid. that is a good feeling.
about the fact that sometimes i'm happy that i don't live near too many of our employees because they would surely want to hunt me down and kick me in the uterus after some of the e-mails i send them...
about summer...because today is the kind of day that i would play hookie and leave everything to go lounge by the pool.
about financial peace, because someone is going to have to restrain me this weekend...cause i want to go shopping.
about trader joes and sushi and fresh raspberries and about the fact that i need to do some sort of master cleanse and part of a master cleanse is eating right in the first place, and part of eating right in the first place is shopping at Trader Joes and not food maxx.
about star trek, because never once have i wanted to travel in space until i saw zachary quinto and chris pine and thought, "well, if that is in space...its my final frontier" be still my heart.
about beth moore...because she certainly is angry that i've neglected my bible study lately.
and about harry potter, because that dang 2nd book is occupying the time that beth more should be occupying. boo harry. but, mandy's making me read them in time to see the next movie with her, so i can't let mandy down. i just have to find more time in my day. my priorities are so out of whack.
like why i'm taking time to blog and not to work. boo shelb...boo.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
the most preciousest moments
are stolen moments with the babies. today, derrick and danielle are doing stuff around town and so i'm hanging out w. the kiddies, watching alice in wonderland. (aside: i was never a big fan of alice in wonderland...there are parts which are so scary!)
just as the movie began, zoe finsished her juice, came over to give it to me, and as she walked back to her bean bag, i said...
me: hey zoe
zoe: what?
me: i love you.
zoe: mry mub you.
i love her english right now...you can tell she's trying so hard. she gets the phonetics of words correct...i liken listening to her like playing that game where there are all those common phrases but they are spelled differently (obviously i can't remember the name of the game, or else i wouldn't have felt the need to ambiguously describe it...). when listening to zo, you have to just imagine what she'd probably be saying in the context and then just go with what seems most probable.
life updates:
nothing much to note. i'm excited for the summer...if only i could get paid without having to work. payday is my most favorite day. i love spending a few minutes with my budget binder figuring out how much i need to put into savings (sidenote: i'm getting super frustrated with myself...its almost like i view my savings as my neverending clothes fund. "i can always pay my savings back next paycheck...i really need summer clothes or a month of tanning or insert-must-have-item-here" really?!?! really, do i really need everything that i think i do? no...that's what got me into this mess in the first place.). so...savings has almost been completely replenished from the failed trip to Seattle...and now its back to paying off the scooter. I almost think it may be wroth it to get it in semi-running order, drive it out to RYS and get them to fix everything that needs fixing and then sell it...instead of fixing everything myself. i'm not much of a mechanic...although i like to think i can do anything, sometimes i just can't. with roommate and D&D reminding me this is the season to sell it, i really do need to get it done asap.
I'm always surprised by my procrastination in my personal life. Usually i will put something off if i feel like the thing i need to do is too difficult, or put off talking with someone because i feel like i've failed them...its totally a personality flaw. As i found with registering my car after it hadn't been registered for a while, things usually are not as difficult as I make them out to be in my mind. I just need to get to the point where i just go ape and attack my problem. And that's when i find that my problem isn't that bad...no reason to be scared...just do it.
I just sneezed two times. Do i have allergies? I wish. That would be fun. Sneezing always has been my favorite activity...its just so fun to sneeze. I wonder...does anyone feel the same as i do about sneezing?
Rodeo these past few days...i think i'm glad that the rodeo is done for the year. Its fun when it comes to town, but in the grand scheme of things, I can only deal with too many rodeos. Its always funny to me that you don't see any cowboys at these things who come from New York or Seattle or San Francisco...its all rural Oregon, Cut Bank MT (which is near Shelby MT, in case you really wanted to know...), Cottonwood CA, and all the other UT and ID rural areas...I wish above all that there was just ONE cowboy from Seattle. I would maul him. Well, as long as he's tall and blond and has been around enough Southerners to have a little bit of an accent. I would die.
I wish Sun Oaks was free. And i wish that tanning was free and good-for-you i.e., no chance of premature aging of the skin or skin cancer. And I wish toucan tans had longer hours and more parking.
This is quickly becoming a "things Shelby wishes for" blog:
zoe will always talk like she does now
an emergency fund that won't let me withdraw any money from it
a fixed scooter
a sold scooter
allergies
a cosmopolitan cowboy
free gym membership
tanning with the promise of enough parking and no negative ramifications
Ok, this blog is slowly getting out of control. I'm going to stop now before i start rambling about truly random things, as if everything prior hasn't been random enough.
ALthough, one more random thing: can i just say...i love paying cash for things...Not using my debit card as much anymore has been a budget saver. And, i love when i get change back and then roll my change. If i've learned anything about myself in the past few years, its been that i'm a true nerd. Gotta love it though...
just as the movie began, zoe finsished her juice, came over to give it to me, and as she walked back to her bean bag, i said...
me: hey zoe
zoe: what?
me: i love you.
zoe: mry mub you.
i love her english right now...you can tell she's trying so hard. she gets the phonetics of words correct...i liken listening to her like playing that game where there are all those common phrases but they are spelled differently (obviously i can't remember the name of the game, or else i wouldn't have felt the need to ambiguously describe it...). when listening to zo, you have to just imagine what she'd probably be saying in the context and then just go with what seems most probable.
life updates:
nothing much to note. i'm excited for the summer...if only i could get paid without having to work. payday is my most favorite day. i love spending a few minutes with my budget binder figuring out how much i need to put into savings (sidenote: i'm getting super frustrated with myself...its almost like i view my savings as my neverending clothes fund. "i can always pay my savings back next paycheck...i really need summer clothes or a month of tanning or insert-must-have-item-here" really?!?! really, do i really need everything that i think i do? no...that's what got me into this mess in the first place.). so...savings has almost been completely replenished from the failed trip to Seattle...and now its back to paying off the scooter. I almost think it may be wroth it to get it in semi-running order, drive it out to RYS and get them to fix everything that needs fixing and then sell it...instead of fixing everything myself. i'm not much of a mechanic...although i like to think i can do anything, sometimes i just can't. with roommate and D&D reminding me this is the season to sell it, i really do need to get it done asap.
I'm always surprised by my procrastination in my personal life. Usually i will put something off if i feel like the thing i need to do is too difficult, or put off talking with someone because i feel like i've failed them...its totally a personality flaw. As i found with registering my car after it hadn't been registered for a while, things usually are not as difficult as I make them out to be in my mind. I just need to get to the point where i just go ape and attack my problem. And that's when i find that my problem isn't that bad...no reason to be scared...just do it.
I just sneezed two times. Do i have allergies? I wish. That would be fun. Sneezing always has been my favorite activity...its just so fun to sneeze. I wonder...does anyone feel the same as i do about sneezing?
Rodeo these past few days...i think i'm glad that the rodeo is done for the year. Its fun when it comes to town, but in the grand scheme of things, I can only deal with too many rodeos. Its always funny to me that you don't see any cowboys at these things who come from New York or Seattle or San Francisco...its all rural Oregon, Cut Bank MT (which is near Shelby MT, in case you really wanted to know...), Cottonwood CA, and all the other UT and ID rural areas...I wish above all that there was just ONE cowboy from Seattle. I would maul him. Well, as long as he's tall and blond and has been around enough Southerners to have a little bit of an accent. I would die.
I wish Sun Oaks was free. And i wish that tanning was free and good-for-you i.e., no chance of premature aging of the skin or skin cancer. And I wish toucan tans had longer hours and more parking.
This is quickly becoming a "things Shelby wishes for" blog:
zoe will always talk like she does now
an emergency fund that won't let me withdraw any money from it
a fixed scooter
a sold scooter
allergies
a cosmopolitan cowboy
free gym membership
tanning with the promise of enough parking and no negative ramifications
Ok, this blog is slowly getting out of control. I'm going to stop now before i start rambling about truly random things, as if everything prior hasn't been random enough.
ALthough, one more random thing: can i just say...i love paying cash for things...Not using my debit card as much anymore has been a budget saver. And, i love when i get change back and then roll my change. If i've learned anything about myself in the past few years, its been that i'm a true nerd. Gotta love it though...
Monday, May 4, 2009
here's my shout outs:
to...
- walks home in the rain from survivor night, smelling the asphalt because it had just rained.
- bagels and amazing race yesterday: i loved seeing my friends. derrick and danielle and crazy kids...nothing made me laugh more than dressing judah and zoe up in my scurve (judah-speak for "scarf" waaaay back in the day) and having them run around manhattan like crazy kids with turbans and darth maul masks on. oh man, i love you guys.
- the rain yesterday. torrential downpours. nothing like a freak-act of nature to remind me that 1. i'm ready for summer and 2. i really do love winter and the rain, even though sometimes i complain about it. the best part about it...opening your door and watching everything, all the old crap, just wash away.
- my roommmmmmmate. I'm sorry i give you temptations that you can't resist (peanut m&m's). the reality of it is, you have to be stronger. if you can't take my bringing peanut m&m's in the house...what are you going to do when i graduate to almond m&m's...or what is worse...almond kisses! omg...stormy seas ahead.
- abbreviations. someday, i'll just write 1 letter sentences and people will have to know that "t" means "thanks for keeping me in the loop on that." for now, i'll settle w/ omg and btw and ptl and all the other ones that i keep locked up in my crazy head.
- cute bff necklaces. which one to choose? which one to choose???? just kidding...i lvoe them both. There is room in my heart, and around my neck for two necklaces.
- golfing. Toot, Nathan told me that you want to go golfing!!! When?!?! I do too...mini golfing totally, aqua golf, maybe...Any sort of golf, definately. :) Let's suck at golf together!!!
- The idea that in 8 hours, i get to go home, clean up the house and just relax...that, dear ones, is what is keeping me going.
- my outfit today. i'm usually not a very vain person, but my outfit today is a total throwback to my wardrobe 1.5 years ago, and while i wear versions of this outfit every other week, i'm just so happy with the outcome this morning. it just works. if you are lucky, you'll see me around and be amazed at it.
- being back on the fpu wagon. not going to seattle was a good choice...at least financially. (and in many other ways, but better to save that discussion for my big day) i have no extra money right now, but i rest in the assurance that everything is paid, things are getting paid off, and that i really do want for nothing. God is good in that i haven't had a late fee for ANYTHING for the past 8 months or so. and to come from a place of everything being late, to God providing for my needs in such a tangible way...it just makes me grateful. and, God-willing, i'll have the determination to get all debt taken care of in a year or so. and then...who wants to buy a house with me??? oh, ok, i know, that's crazy. but, i'm thankful. and really, i don't know that my first big purchase would be a house. it'd probably be a tv that's as big as my living-room wall...like i've heard Jared Belden has...and then we can give Tyler's back to him. Oh well...
Here's my non-shout out:
- to my uterus. stop. just stop.
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