seems like anything I order comes in all at once. La Bouquetiere finally sent my my Jasmine body mist and laundry powder and Amazon.com sent books. Whee! It's Christmas in June!
Now I'm all stocked up on reading. Lots of books on dogs and puppies and dog training, a book on 40's hairstyles (courtesy of my trip to B&N last night) and a book called "The Pursuit of Wow!" that I hope will get me fired up on being the best of the best at work again. Heh. Which I say as I sit here updating my webpage from work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And if you're working on dog training, I highly recommend http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/spt. They have lots of great information!
Oh yeah, and I'm trying to move. Why can't I just leave an apartment complex on good terms? I'm having to write another nasty letter because I'm scared to even walk from my apartment to my car. I don't think a safe place to live is too much to ask. *sigh*
i skipped class this morning. i had an excuse though! i didn't feel too well - something about eggs benedict at ihop late-ish in the evening...
huh? what am i doing? oh! that's the sound of me beating my head on the wall.
why? why do you think? i've been dealing with m$ office newbies again. that's right. you can put more than one page in a word document. you don't have to send me 20 different files...
*arggggggh*
i can't believe that yesterday is already over...and that it's almost noon now. where does the time go? i guess time flies when you're busy at least.
on a happier note, with the new educational release program at work, i get three "free" hours a week to go to class. i might actually get to eat lunch at lunch time and not at my desk a few days a week. how wonderful! it's great to get a little bit of sun now and again...
last night i went to bed early. nick (the bf) was studying at my place and someone tried to open the front door. it was locked, doubly, but still. i can't help but wonder whether they were just at the wrong apartment (this person acted like he expected it to be open - just turned the knob and pushed) or whether there was an ulterior motive. sheesh. now i'm *really* ready to get out of this complex. anyway, nick twisted the knob back and heard the guy run down the stairs. this morning when i left, there was a teenaged guy that walked to one of the apartment buildings that faced mine...and watched me get in my car. i watched him back for a while and then he knocked on the door he was standing next to. *sigh* i think i'm going to call the complex office.
ah, they have a security officer starting on the first. at least she said the maintenance guys were going to start keeping an eye out.
oh, yeah. me and my slow internet connection posting from home.
i feel like such a heathen - i haven't been to church in about two months. then again, may was the month of company (tm). june, well, let's just say i'm burnt out on life. i haven't been swing dancing since the middle of may, haven't been to church since the beginning of may...i've just been sitting at home and vegging. not that there's anything wrong with that. i think i needed a vacation from my extracurricular activities. i think it's worked too. i'm starting feel the hints of swing dancing withdrawals and wanting to go to church again.
at least the cross stitching that i've been working on since....oh, 1997 or so is finally starting to make some progress. i might actually finish it by the end of the year! (heh. and give it to my mom for christmas like i'd planned back in 1997 or so.)
oh! i'm also starting to be not-burned-out re my computer. a miracle!
hey, i warned you about the redesign. ;)
at least today's class was interesting. oh, look! my first phone call of the day! hm. a hangup. does that really count? ...yes. it's slow. there are five of us here in the office, including the student worker. that's four out of nine full-time peoples. yeesh. why didn't i get the day off?
anyway, i feel a redesign coming on...though maybe i should get some work done. maybe...then again...
here's what the temperature readings are at the bottom of the page currently. which one is correct?
(a.) According to the Meteorology Department, the temperature at Texas A&M University is: 46.0 F
(b.) According to the Engineering Department it is 187 F
(c.) Neither
*ding ding ding* that's right, folks! door C! thank goodness for my caveat "either are equally likely to be wrong at any given time." maybe if you averaged A and B together you might get the correct temperature reported further down by both the weather channel and weather underground of 94 F.
sheesh. and we wonder why people make fun of aggies! ;)
y'know, people don't believe me when i say that i'm really doing two jobs while i'm in transition to my (unofficially, hopefully) new position of communications specialist - multimedia, a.k.a. webmaster. heh. our student worker just turned to me and said, "Kendra, you're the busiest person." uh, yeah. duh. :)
it almost isn't worth it to leave the office. i was gone for an hour and a half for an iabc lunch meeting and i come back to a box of supplies that isn't ours, supplies that others have decided we don't need...and someone from accounting to ask me to update their webpage. three phone calls and a long discussion about waiting for the redesign in a month and a half later...on with life.
help! i'm drowning! *blub*
...and those communications people seem so polite and nice. who knew? then again, those communications people have plenty to gripe about - heh - the stupidity of the world sometimes...
i've switched to blogger in hopes that it might make my posting more regular. at least i don't have to upload.
ah, my last 8:00 class. forever. and i've never been more ready. actually, i'm just ready to be out of school. it's amazing - i've never been this sick of school before. there was even a point when i thought that i might want to be a professional student. then again, maybe that was because i really just didn't want a job...anyway. i'm ready to get out of a small town and go to a place that has culture. yes we have operas and ballets here, but we don't have an opera company, or a ballet company. yes, we have a symphony. i confess i haven't been to one. but still... all i ask is for a m*a*c counter. is that too much to ask? i think not. ;)
so, yeah. life is going ok. i finished (finally) my scrapbooks from my israel, jordan, and egypt trip only two years later. i got san francisco done in an afternoon, now i'm working on my college book. funny how the stuff i save kinda thinned out after my sophomore year. i guess i finally started living life instead of saving it.
six more months and i'll have a little one. no, i'm not pregnant. i'm getting a puppy! a warm, fuzzy, stubborn, cuddly, smart bichon. now to keep my fingers crossed that the breeder i've applied with has lots of females in the one-two litters between then and now...since i'm the fourth one in on the waiting list. now before i get reamed for getting a purebred, i've thought a long time about this and have my reasons. and yes, i wanted to get a rescue, but they wouldn't have let me have one with where i am in life.
heh, i swear, even getting a puppy is worse than adopting a kid. i filled out a three page questionnaire, talked with the lady for three hours, answered questions like 'what is your training philosophy?', and need to give her two letters of recommendation and a $300 deposit. yeesh. it's to the point where i hope she finds me acceptable for her puppies! but she tests for everything and socializes, and i'm confident that i'll be getting a heathly, happy puppy. for agility, which is what i'd love to do. :)
yeah, ok. so back to work, i guess.