The Ball is Rolling.

I applied to a job in Salem, OR yesterday afternoon! I am excited in a way, but also a little bit pained. I love the job I have here, it's been the most fun and it does have its challenges. No one picks on me for the most part, which is really great. Getting the respect that I received here has turned my whole attitude around. I live ridiculously close to work so I am able to ride my bike or walk if I wanted. My boss is laid back... what more could I ask for?

Change needs to happen in life though, even if it is only temporary. Whether or not I get a call back about an interview, I am glad I took the first step to completely alter the comfort of my life. All of my family live here, and I have thought about how sad it would be not being able to celebrate birthdays together, the holidays, and playing games. It's not like I will never see them again, it will just be hard for a little while... uncomfortable. BUT, life does go on and we will see where life takes us, comfortable or not. We can't go anywhere without taking the first step.

Boss is gone today, so I suppose I will browse more jobs. Feeling pretty tired today.

Mornin' Ya'll

Good Morning!

I am here at work, not working as usual. I have everything all caught up, and no events coming up really that I need to prepare for. So far, I have caught up on my Season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race... LOVE that show!

Other than that, I haven't done Jack. I am thinking of browsing jobs though, my husband and I are constantly talking about change so even though I love this job... I can't stay here forever. I've been here a year back in March, but it feels like I have been here longer. They decided to give Classified employees such as myself a raise (COLA). I guess that's nice. :)

Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! I am going to continue to browse the interwebs to devour the rest of my time here.

Are you Alive?

Why yes.

Yes, I am quite alive. Unfortunately I have been completely neglecting my blog. A bunch of events had happened whilst I was away.

We finished Weekend 2 of Coachella just recently, it was fun but I don't think it was worth the small fortune we paid to attend. We very much enjoyed Jack White (from the White Stripes), AWESOME performance. Of course while my husband and I were down there, I caught the common cold on the 2nd day of festivities. Big Ol' Bummer for sure. I am pretty certain I got the cold from one of our passengers riding over with us, but who knows. I've been catching up on stuff here at work while feeling under-the-weather, tending to the wants and needs of fellow employees.. and NOW I can finally take a moment to update you all on life! Isn't that just so exciting?!

Yesterday was a nice day! My husband has been researching bicycles for purchase. Since he hasn't found his yet, and I just got a new bike, it seems only fair that he could purchase a bike for himself too. It's a little bit frustrating I guess though, because we are trying to pay off debt, not rack up more debt. Although, it is worth it to see him be happy. He's been down in the dumps about it for a VERY long time, I am excited for him to decide on one. While he was researching bikes for purchase (as he is sick as well), I decided to take that opportunity to play a little bit of my Zelda: Ocarina of Time game on the Nintendo 64. It was SO much fun! I miss playing games every once in a while and I have gotten pretty far on it compared to any other game I have started. If that wasn't enough, we also got to step foot outside for once! It was glorious!

We went to get some groceries for dinner, then ended up going to Costco for some essentials we would need for the month. After Costco, we decided to go to Victoria Secret so that Ryan can buy me a new bra as part of my Birthday present. Not only did he do that, he also ordered the 'Cards Against Humanity' game that I have been dying to get! Although that was supposed to be a surprise, I always somehow manage to ruin all surprises. (Sorry boo-boo) After VS, we drove back, and I wanted to stop at Target to look at some shirts (LOVE their clothes!). We picked up a couple shirts, a new pair of wedges and he got a couple pairs of pants!

We had a great day, and I am so happy! Love that man to death!

Let the Crazy Party Begin!

Coachella 2015!

These past couple of days have been a whirlwind of events, trying to pack everything up and making sure we didn't forget anything. To add to the mix, is cleaning up the house before we leave and to do some deep cleaning in the kitchen. However.. I have a meeting after work today, and I am not sure how long this meeting is going to last... I really hope that everyone just keeps it short and sweet... not so I can go home as quickly as possible to do my 'womanly-duties', but so I can try to take a nap! It has been quite busy, and with us leaving for about a week to do this Coachella experience again, there is a lot here at work that I need to make sure is complete before I can leave anywhere. Blah.
I am hoping cleaning the kitchen will be a breeze, I should think how lucky I am that I don't have children to tend to as well... I should be fine! haha!

Hoping everyone is having a fabulous Monday, I need to get back on track with my blogs.

It's a Wonderful Life

My.

This weekend was wonderful! Yesterday morning, the hubby and I, we went to breakfast at our favorite breakfast joint... Hog Rock Cafe. Although there was only one waitress (owner) waiting on tables/taking payments/taking orders... the food was worth the 45 minute wait. Unfortunately for her, she had the cook pump out at least 20 full breakfast orders to go. Those of us waiting at our booths patiently to be waited on were glaring at the 2 men who ordered all of that food to go. I mean.. it's good business for her to have them order all that food, but this is a cafe... not a big fancy restaurant. Plus, if those guys ordered that much food, that means that they know it's good and they have been there before... so they should KNOW that it was rude to all of us there waiting to eat at her cafe, to order all that food and make her patrons wait.

There are other places like this in town that we know it's a no-no to order to go from because we know that they don't have the staff to go out of their way to make food for those who aren't in line. But oh well... I guess if it came down to it, we could just eat at home and save the money.

Later yesterday evening, we went to my family's home to partake in Easter dinner. The hubby and I found a really good recipe online for baked green beans with bacon and OOoooOO GIRL! It was so good. The family loved it too! It was nice to be with Family on Easter. It made me think though that I shouldn't take these moments for granted one bit. To soak up all of this experience with my loved ones means the world to me.

Saturday, I spent the day really lazily kicked back watching episodes of 'That 70's Show', and 'Bob's Burgers'. That evening my friend Jenni invited me to go to the Hockey Game, she had 2 free tickets! Of course I couldn't say no, so I traveled up there an hour before the game started so I could spend more time with her. She took me to this auction place which was cool, I've never been to one before. We didn't bid on anything, but it was cool to experience. When we got to the Hockey game we had the greatest seats! We were three rows up from the glass! Jenni treated me to a margarita mixed type drink (AMAZING) and later on she got a corn dog and pop corn that we shared. After the 2nd quarter, we noticed 2 seats below us which were right up to the glass so we took that opportunity and moved down. It was so much fun having the puck hit the glass right in front of us, and feeling the wind of the hockey players whooshing by after the puck. There were fights, and a shoot out at the very end, and our team WON! Woo!!!

Overall! It was a very nice weekend!

FRIDAY!

I am so glad that it's Friday!

I have been dang tired since Wednesday. I can't wait to take a nap. haha!

Today will be nice in the office though. There is a softball game going on here so my boss will be out of the office from 1:00 pm onward. I can pretty much come and go as I please at that point. Thinking I could go visit some old coworkers or something. We'll see! 

Coachella is coming up SO quickly! Although my husband and I aren't as excited as we were last year, I still think we will have a good time with great friends. I am excited to make new friends too and to mingle with the party-goers! The installations will be awesome again this year I am sure, so that will be another thing to look forward to. Love all the ART! We are going to Weekend 2, so we plan on leaving either the eve of my birthday on April 14th, or the morning of the 15th. We are all going to be headed to Las Vegas first to spend the night, maybe go to a 'Club'? Idk, my husband is more excited to get a really good parking spot at Coachella to really care too much about Las Vegas, but I am excited to finally be in Vegas. I've never been! 

Ta-ta for now my friends!

Success!

I am happy to report that I have gone to see my eye doctor, and turns out, they had given me the wrong prescription (again) so I was wearing contacts that weren't the right prescription. Of course. I am glad that I can see a little bit better! That's always awesome!

I also had received a phone call from my Doctor finally regarding my blood pressure and the test results of my kidneys. They let me know that when viewing my ultra-sound of my kidneys that I do have some small cysts that have formed, but it's not enough to diagnose me with Poly-cystic Kidney Disease. He gave me a different blood pressure medication to protect my kidneys better as well! I do still need to take an updated record of blood pressure readings though, my bottom number has been above 90 consistently, and it's supposed to be below 90.

I finished my book (recommended in a previous blog post) 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' by Caitlyn Doughty. It was AWESOME! Loved every bit of it, and I am very proud to say that I finished it. I have read and finished Harry Potter books fairly recently, but I don't consider those as beneficial to my life and interests as much as this book was.

My volleyball match with our team last night was a SUCCESS! Still trying to mesh with the chemistry of the team, but overall, I had the MOST AMAZING TIME! Had my serves like they were in high school, but my passes and sets could use some work. I didn't realize the Men's net was so freaking tall though! How the hell am I supposed to spike it?! haha! I did tweak my knee a little, a bit of hyper extension.. I hope to have it feeling better in about a week. :)

Today so far has been great, been babying my knee and trying to delicately stretch it and getting up more frequently to walk on it.

Yesterday was a bit unfortunate though in one way... my husband unfortunately lost his wedding ring. At first I was thinking he text me that as an April Fools joke, but no, he was dead serious. He was very upset, as was I. I tried to think though that 'Life' happens, things like this are going to happen... is it the end of the world? No.... is it annoying, of course it is! It was a lot of money, for me anyways, to get it. But what are we going to do now? All that the both of us can do is just try to move forward, and have high hopes that someone will find it and turn it in. Things will work out in the end. :) We will figure it out.  

What Do You Get, When You Guzzle Down Sweets?

Eating as much as an Elephant Eats.

I have been trying so hard to lose weight for Coachella coming up. Exercising, getting hives, eating healthy... the norm. The hardest thing is how to eat though. Sometimes I will skip meals, sometimes I will eat a muffin, and MOST times I eat lean meats and try to throw in some vegetables. (My god, I make it difficult throwing in the vegetables.) My weight is 180 approximately, it fluctuates up and down, but I haven't hit under that yet. My GOAL was to get to 165, that is a healthier weight being 5'7 with an athletic body type.

Sigh... I have to realize though, that going 7-8 years of not doing anything close to what I used to do... it catches up with you and in return, will take me longer to lose it. I just need to keep positive, and even if I don't make my goal by Coachella on the week of April 14th... I am going to be okay! I will keep making healthier choices and watching my portion sizes. Time will pass, and so will the fat. Hooray!

I am currently wanting to eat as much as an elephant eats right at this moment... but I will not cave! I have a banana near me and will chomp on'it to make the hunger pains go away. I REALLY need to drink more water... like seriously. It has been the last thing that I have been wanting to drink lately, I need to force myself to drink a certain amount per day I think to get myself to drink it consistently.

On a side note! My first Co-Ed Volleyball game is TODAY! I am super excited for it, just wish it wasn't at 9pm, and an hour away from where I live... Hoping it will all be worth it. :)

Oh Happy Day!