I hate when the bottom of my foot itches. It always happens at work or in church where its not exactly appropriate to take off your shoes. Today it was at work and I had my knee high boots that I had to unzip. I started just itching but my nails were not doing it so I grabbed a pen. I hate how it feels deep down in the foot like you can't reach it.
It's Monday! Over the weekend I was informed we are doing another "Open House" for Cookie Crock Family (employees). Thankfully I am not involved, I just have to show up and enjoy..... well that's what they tell me now anyway. This morning I drove straight to Morro Bay and decided to get coffee through this new drive through, its so cute looking. So I pulled in and the lady was SO friendly (and not in a fake, I want to get a good tip kind of way). She noticed my car had no license and so asked me about my new car and just was super friendly, I definitely will stop there again. But my nice coffee lady buzz was slightly diminished when I unintentionally slaughtered a bird :( he just flew right in front of me. I looked back and all I saw was swirling feathers. I forgot to see if he is still on the front of my car. Kind of worried actually. Course I am probably scaring children if it's poor little body is still there. I feel so bad, I hope you died quickly
The stores soft opening starts wednesday. It's super exciting but also just a crazy mess. Our tech people that were SO great and made us all kinds of promises have become flakes. Suppose to be there tomorrow so fingers crossed!
Ok so I'm going to make a confession, I'm not wearing any green (no cyper pinches please). I just totally forgot, it came up so quick. And me being the oblivious person I am didn't figure it out until I got online to look something up and noticed google all done up in clovers. Oh yeah, St. Patrick's day, that explains the girl with the green antennas... well sort of.
Ok, breaks over, hope everyone has a good St. Patrick's day. Oh and in case you were worried my foot has been itched and is no longer annoying me
Monday, March 17, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Rambling
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/2008/03/theyre-thrilled.html
Ok so I am TERRIBLE with grammar (among other things) but it's fun to see I'm not the only one that makes mistakes. There are some pretty funny ones. The thing is a lot of these are at job sites..... I am in charge of writing signs and flyers and such but I always have them reviewed before going out (and not by my dad, he is worse then me).
The new store is doing a soft opening next week! It's so crazy! Every day I get another thing added to my list of things to do. There are two of us in charge of PR, Grand Opening, and our community outreach event. I'm more on the lines of making sure we have people to work things, getting decorations, facilitating stuff, answering questions, etc. Today I got another job task. The scan coordinator is having a hard time so now i get to go and be her shadow and see what she is not getting, hopefully help, checking over her past work and fixing stuff. And if that's not enough I'm having issues with our price change system. Its frustrating me and of course when you call the help desk its "someone will be in contact with you someday" ok so they didn't say some day but last time I called they didn't get back to me until lunch time, which doesn't work because i have to go to the new store..... bla. Ok so yeah its crazy and every day getting calls and its just insane. I would enjoy it more if I had more of an idea what I'm doing but there are times where I feel like I am trying to find something with my eyes closed.
Yesterday was fun I went to the Other Boleyn Girl with Leanne. I know, I can't believe it took me this long to see it either. It was good, it of course strayed from the book which the book also strayed from history so it was more of a interesting story then really based on fact. I heard someone say it was a depressing movie.... I guess they didn't know the story before because I really didn't think any story about Anne Boleyn would be anything but dark. I won't say anything in case someone reading this isn't familiar with the story. I will just say it's super interesting and if you ask me a question about Henry the VIII and his court be prepared for a long conversation. It's just all so interesting and crazy how things were back then.
Anywho, tomorrow Tom and I will have been married for half a year! I can't believe it, at times I feel like we have been married for only a month and then other times its like forever (in a totally good way). The wedding seems ages ago. It's been so fun though just getting to know Tom more and more every day and just building our marriage. I feel so blessed and God just blessed me so much by having us meet when he did. God's timing is perfect. The last year has been so full of things and I don't know how I would have got through it without Tom to hold on to.
Bla, just waiting for the dude to call me back. That's the hard thing at work is so much right now is hurry up and wait. I can't move forward on what I am working on until he calls, which means I also have to stay at my computer until he calls. But the only thing I have to work on here is the problem I am having. It's a catch 22. Oh and another good news Tommy is taking today off! His second week in a row with two days off! It's so awesome to know that we have all night together and tomorrow we can sleep in! Yippy! Anywho hope everyone has a great weekend!
Ok so I am TERRIBLE with grammar (among other things) but it's fun to see I'm not the only one that makes mistakes. There are some pretty funny ones. The thing is a lot of these are at job sites..... I am in charge of writing signs and flyers and such but I always have them reviewed before going out (and not by my dad, he is worse then me).
The new store is doing a soft opening next week! It's so crazy! Every day I get another thing added to my list of things to do. There are two of us in charge of PR, Grand Opening, and our community outreach event. I'm more on the lines of making sure we have people to work things, getting decorations, facilitating stuff, answering questions, etc. Today I got another job task. The scan coordinator is having a hard time so now i get to go and be her shadow and see what she is not getting, hopefully help, checking over her past work and fixing stuff. And if that's not enough I'm having issues with our price change system. Its frustrating me and of course when you call the help desk its "someone will be in contact with you someday" ok so they didn't say some day but last time I called they didn't get back to me until lunch time, which doesn't work because i have to go to the new store..... bla. Ok so yeah its crazy and every day getting calls and its just insane. I would enjoy it more if I had more of an idea what I'm doing but there are times where I feel like I am trying to find something with my eyes closed.
Yesterday was fun I went to the Other Boleyn Girl with Leanne. I know, I can't believe it took me this long to see it either. It was good, it of course strayed from the book which the book also strayed from history so it was more of a interesting story then really based on fact. I heard someone say it was a depressing movie.... I guess they didn't know the story before because I really didn't think any story about Anne Boleyn would be anything but dark. I won't say anything in case someone reading this isn't familiar with the story. I will just say it's super interesting and if you ask me a question about Henry the VIII and his court be prepared for a long conversation. It's just all so interesting and crazy how things were back then.
Anywho, tomorrow Tom and I will have been married for half a year! I can't believe it, at times I feel like we have been married for only a month and then other times its like forever (in a totally good way). The wedding seems ages ago. It's been so fun though just getting to know Tom more and more every day and just building our marriage. I feel so blessed and God just blessed me so much by having us meet when he did. God's timing is perfect. The last year has been so full of things and I don't know how I would have got through it without Tom to hold on to.
Bla, just waiting for the dude to call me back. That's the hard thing at work is so much right now is hurry up and wait. I can't move forward on what I am working on until he calls, which means I also have to stay at my computer until he calls. But the only thing I have to work on here is the problem I am having. It's a catch 22. Oh and another good news Tommy is taking today off! His second week in a row with two days off! It's so awesome to know that we have all night together and tomorrow we can sleep in! Yippy! Anywho hope everyone has a great weekend!
Friday, March 7, 2008
any suggestions?
I'm trying to think of a new name for my car, anyone have suggustions? It's so cute, I'm thinking maybe something hippie like Daisy, Dawn, or something like that. Any ideas? Or anyone like either of those two names?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
New car!
We picked up our new car today, it's a honda fit sport in Tidewater blue! So cute! Good timing too, I have been driving the van since my car died and yesterday it was giving me issues. Got to sit on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere at 8 pm and wait for my daddy to come rescue me!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v668/puppyfeet5/?action=view¤t=FitTidewaterBlueMetallic.jpg
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v668/puppyfeet5/?action=view¤t=FitTidewaterBlueMetallic.jpg
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Daylight savings monday
Yesterday someone in the office mentioned that daylight savings is this Sunday coming up. So I was completely surprised and responded with much more feeling then necessary "WHAT?!?! THIS SUNDAY?!?!?" well needless to say everyone in the office looked at me in shock. It was still early morning and anyone that has been near me in the mornings knows its hard enough to get me to speak at all, but to have any emotional response is out of the question. In attempt to save face I shrugged nonchalant and said "oh that's cool." Sometimes even I think I'm weird. But honestly already daylight savings? And this is the evil one where its light later so you have a hard time going to sleep and then you have to wake up earlier which is just sucky.
But I have good news, next week (fingers still crossed) I will most likely be driving my new car! HURRAY! After tons of research and test driving I decided on the Honda Fit Sport http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/exterior-360-view.aspx in Tidewater blue (basically as sky blue). Apparently I tend to pick the least common color. I had done the same with my bug but settled for the blue but this car, nope, getting the color I want, YAY! It also comes in the blue of my bug but my mom was already making fun of me because we all had to agree that this car is basically my bug with four doors. But what really sold me is the seats. They lay down for the large trunk, which is common, but they also flip up so in the middle you can put stuff.... I know my dad asked me when it would ever be necessary but who cares it's awesome! http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/interior-photos.aspx?num=FT7-26 He also kept calling the car color sea scum, pond water and the like. He is getting closer though, at least he is no longer calling it pond or sea scum. So tomorrow if all goes well Tom and I will go pick it up! I'm so excited!
In other news, the store will probably be doing a soft opening in about two weeks. Grand opening plans are going great, keeping me busy but I realize I definitely enjoy coordinating events, well fun ones like grand openings and weddings. It was frustrating last week though, a friend of my grandparents got a News letter from the elderly community center in Morro Bay that mentioned the store.... in a bad way. Its so frustrating that they can attack us and on things that are so far off from the truth. What happened is they wrote us a letter asking us to donate to them. Well at the time we were still not in possession of the store and not 100% sure if we would ever be. And with over 1000 applications, hundreds of interviews and not to mention just all the legal hoops one has to get through to open a store we were all pretty busy. Well we never responded to the letter and once we were in the store, busy cleaning and getting it up to health codes (yeah Vons was missing the mark on multiple health codes.... never shopping there, at least Albertsons is clean) they came in and rudely addressed our new store manager Randy, and anyone who knows Randy knows what a great guy he is.
Randy told them that the food scraps that are left and not fit for humans goes to a pig farmer. So in the News letter they mentioned how Cookie Crock has a contract with a pig farmer and we only give to them and we have no community spirit..... what the? honestly if they did one step of research they would see we donate to more charities and in more financial amounts then any of the chains here. Its so frustrating, I mean our whole grand opening is also being a community service exhibition. We opened it up to local non profits to have a chance to talk to people, give handouts about what they are about and just become more recognized in the community. We have joined the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce and hopefully the Los Osos one as well. Our Cambria store has donated since its beginning to Rotary, Coast Union Boosters club, Camp Ocean Pines and many more. Our list grows yearly! Ok enough venting but its just so frustrating to see people so dumb. They are trying to screw us when we are really the ones that could have been a large supporter of them. My dad wrote them a letter that was much nicer than I would be. He is so calm and collected.
My mom always told my dad you have to toot your own horn and she was right. If you see an article about a large company donating, that is exactly what they are donating, no more than that because if they can't get press on it, they wont do it.
But anyways I'm sorry for the word vomit. It's been awhile since I have posted. We have had networking/internet problems. Finally got everything put back together. The Morro Bay store is looking so great, and the grand opening is going to be awesome. I am really looking forward to it.
Oh and how could I forget, some great news, my mom got an inheritance from her mother when she passed away and since she didn't need the money she wants to do a trip. Nathaniel of course is not interested but Tom and I are stoked. 2 weeks in Egypt! Egypt is in the top 2 of places I have wanted to go! It's not until November, but I can't wait! We are doing a river cruise on the Nile for 7 nights and then the rest of it is spent in different parts. It's put on by the travel agent downstairs and he is really about getting his tour groups to get to do things different and fun. My parents went with him for the first time last year. Also when we are on the boat, each night after dinner there will be an Egyptiontologist which will tell us some history but also have plenty of time for questions.
So exciting! I had hoped to go to Egypt but thought it wouldn't be until much later. It's very exciting. And Tom got a raise when we got married and with that he gets 3 weeks vacation time so it's perfect. Also exciting is this week will be his first week with two days off! He is for the most part going to have two days off from now on and we are so incredibly blessed that they are two days in a row and even more so that its a Friday and Saturday! We are so excited. It will make trips to visit his family much easier (before he had a kids program until 8 friday so we would be able to leave until after then would have to come back saturday night so he could work sunday).
It's pretty exciting, and in 2 or 3 months my cousin from Florida is coming out and will be living with my parents for the year! She will be interning with Tom which is so exciting, she is really just such an awesome person and I am excited about getting to spend more time with her.
I need to get a link on here for this site that has a really cool resource for reading the bible. It has different translations, commentaries and a dictionary, I will try to remember to get it, it's pretty darn cool. Anyways, to whoever is reading this, hope your week is going great! God bless
But I have good news, next week (fingers still crossed) I will most likely be driving my new car! HURRAY! After tons of research and test driving I decided on the Honda Fit Sport http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/exterior-360-view.aspx in Tidewater blue (basically as sky blue). Apparently I tend to pick the least common color. I had done the same with my bug but settled for the blue but this car, nope, getting the color I want, YAY! It also comes in the blue of my bug but my mom was already making fun of me because we all had to agree that this car is basically my bug with four doors. But what really sold me is the seats. They lay down for the large trunk, which is common, but they also flip up so in the middle you can put stuff.... I know my dad asked me when it would ever be necessary but who cares it's awesome! http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/interior-photos.aspx?num=FT7-26 He also kept calling the car color sea scum, pond water and the like. He is getting closer though, at least he is no longer calling it pond or sea scum. So tomorrow if all goes well Tom and I will go pick it up! I'm so excited!
In other news, the store will probably be doing a soft opening in about two weeks. Grand opening plans are going great, keeping me busy but I realize I definitely enjoy coordinating events, well fun ones like grand openings and weddings. It was frustrating last week though, a friend of my grandparents got a News letter from the elderly community center in Morro Bay that mentioned the store.... in a bad way. Its so frustrating that they can attack us and on things that are so far off from the truth. What happened is they wrote us a letter asking us to donate to them. Well at the time we were still not in possession of the store and not 100% sure if we would ever be. And with over 1000 applications, hundreds of interviews and not to mention just all the legal hoops one has to get through to open a store we were all pretty busy. Well we never responded to the letter and once we were in the store, busy cleaning and getting it up to health codes (yeah Vons was missing the mark on multiple health codes.... never shopping there, at least Albertsons is clean) they came in and rudely addressed our new store manager Randy, and anyone who knows Randy knows what a great guy he is.
Randy told them that the food scraps that are left and not fit for humans goes to a pig farmer. So in the News letter they mentioned how Cookie Crock has a contract with a pig farmer and we only give to them and we have no community spirit..... what the? honestly if they did one step of research they would see we donate to more charities and in more financial amounts then any of the chains here. Its so frustrating, I mean our whole grand opening is also being a community service exhibition. We opened it up to local non profits to have a chance to talk to people, give handouts about what they are about and just become more recognized in the community. We have joined the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce and hopefully the Los Osos one as well. Our Cambria store has donated since its beginning to Rotary, Coast Union Boosters club, Camp Ocean Pines and many more. Our list grows yearly! Ok enough venting but its just so frustrating to see people so dumb. They are trying to screw us when we are really the ones that could have been a large supporter of them. My dad wrote them a letter that was much nicer than I would be. He is so calm and collected.
My mom always told my dad you have to toot your own horn and she was right. If you see an article about a large company donating, that is exactly what they are donating, no more than that because if they can't get press on it, they wont do it.
But anyways I'm sorry for the word vomit. It's been awhile since I have posted. We have had networking/internet problems. Finally got everything put back together. The Morro Bay store is looking so great, and the grand opening is going to be awesome. I am really looking forward to it.
Oh and how could I forget, some great news, my mom got an inheritance from her mother when she passed away and since she didn't need the money she wants to do a trip. Nathaniel of course is not interested but Tom and I are stoked. 2 weeks in Egypt! Egypt is in the top 2 of places I have wanted to go! It's not until November, but I can't wait! We are doing a river cruise on the Nile for 7 nights and then the rest of it is spent in different parts. It's put on by the travel agent downstairs and he is really about getting his tour groups to get to do things different and fun. My parents went with him for the first time last year. Also when we are on the boat, each night after dinner there will be an Egyptiontologist which will tell us some history but also have plenty of time for questions.
So exciting! I had hoped to go to Egypt but thought it wouldn't be until much later. It's very exciting. And Tom got a raise when we got married and with that he gets 3 weeks vacation time so it's perfect. Also exciting is this week will be his first week with two days off! He is for the most part going to have two days off from now on and we are so incredibly blessed that they are two days in a row and even more so that its a Friday and Saturday! We are so excited. It will make trips to visit his family much easier (before he had a kids program until 8 friday so we would be able to leave until after then would have to come back saturday night so he could work sunday).
It's pretty exciting, and in 2 or 3 months my cousin from Florida is coming out and will be living with my parents for the year! She will be interning with Tom which is so exciting, she is really just such an awesome person and I am excited about getting to spend more time with her.
I need to get a link on here for this site that has a really cool resource for reading the bible. It has different translations, commentaries and a dictionary, I will try to remember to get it, it's pretty darn cool. Anyways, to whoever is reading this, hope your week is going great! God bless
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