our florida family arrived safe and sound yesterday. My cousin immediatly started setting up her new room and took her new car for a test drive, not a new car but new to her, it's my grandma's old car..... it runs so shes not complaining. I'm so happy to have them here! Tomorrow we are going to the valley for the day, my other cousin just graduated high school! YAY so my mom rented a 15 person van to get us all over there in one car, so that will definitly be fun! Hurray for the weekend! Ok I'm going to start listing prayer requests and praises at the end of my posts. Feel free to email me or comment your praises and prayer requests. I'm not super good about praying consistantly but I'm working on it and I like praying for others better than praying for myself. I have really enjoyed taking prayer requests at bible study, anyways gotta get back to work, not the weekend yet :/
Prayer Requests
Praise: Family made it safe and sound! Cousin Kody graduates! I have a wonderful family and an AMAZING husband!
Keep Tommy in your prayers he is preaching at big church the second and third weekend next month and pray for my cousin Dora as she settles into her new home here and starts making new friends and getting involved.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Fun if your bored
Found a fun webpage where you put in your name. The first part didnt fit me well but the second half was dead on. Kinda fun, check it out if your bored http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp
A Soul Urge number of 7 means: With a number 7 Soul Urge you are very fond of reading, and retreating to periods of being alone and away from the disruptions of the outer world. You like to dream and develop you idealistic understandings, to study and analyze, to gain knowledge and wisdom. You may be too laid back and withdrawn to really succeed in the business world, and you will be much more comfortable in circumstances that are tolerant of your reserve, your analytical approach, and your desire to use your mind rather than your physical being.
You are very timid around people that you don't know very well, so much so at times that casual conversation and social situations can be strained. You tend to repress your emotions to the extend that some people have a good bit of difficult understanding you. You tend to be very selective with friends and you don't easily adapt to new environments or to new people very quickly.
The negative traits of the 7 include becoming too much the introvert and isolated from others.
An Inner Dream number of 6 means: You dream of guiding and fostering the perfect family in the perfect home. You crave the devotion from offspring and a loving spouse. You picture yourself in the center of a successful domestic unit.
A Soul Urge number of 7 means: With a number 7 Soul Urge you are very fond of reading, and retreating to periods of being alone and away from the disruptions of the outer world. You like to dream and develop you idealistic understandings, to study and analyze, to gain knowledge and wisdom. You may be too laid back and withdrawn to really succeed in the business world, and you will be much more comfortable in circumstances that are tolerant of your reserve, your analytical approach, and your desire to use your mind rather than your physical being.
You are very timid around people that you don't know very well, so much so at times that casual conversation and social situations can be strained. You tend to repress your emotions to the extend that some people have a good bit of difficult understanding you. You tend to be very selective with friends and you don't easily adapt to new environments or to new people very quickly.
The negative traits of the 7 include becoming too much the introvert and isolated from others.
An Inner Dream number of 6 means: You dream of guiding and fostering the perfect family in the perfect home. You crave the devotion from offspring and a loving spouse. You picture yourself in the center of a successful domestic unit.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Chris Simning
Tom and I got to go on a college retreat at Mount Herman and listen to a speaker named Chris Simning (check out link below). Such an amazing guy, he was just so honest and real and has a great sense of humor. It was cool getting to hear him speak.
http://www.obscureministries.com/home.aspx
So I helped start a new bible study that meets at my house every tuesday, we have only had 2 meetings but it's been really great. We do an appetizer, salad and dessert and then study the book of Daniel. It's a massive group of.... 3 lol. But it's all good, I think we have one or two new people this week. It's neat to be small though you feel like everyone is more comfortable to really talk.
Oh and please keep my cousin in your thoughts and prayers, I think I mentioned in an earlier post that she was pregnant, she lost the baby a few weeks ago. I couldnt even imagine what she is going through. My mom who endured miscarriages said the hardest thing was that noone understood that for you it was a baby. And not just a baby but a perfect baby, one who had never messed up or done wrong. In the movie Juno one of the characters say "A woman becomes a mother when she becomes pregnant, a man becomes a father when he holds his child the first time." So just keep her in your mind and she mourns the loss of her child. Thank you
http://www.obscureministries.com/home.aspx
So I helped start a new bible study that meets at my house every tuesday, we have only had 2 meetings but it's been really great. We do an appetizer, salad and dessert and then study the book of Daniel. It's a massive group of.... 3 lol. But it's all good, I think we have one or two new people this week. It's neat to be small though you feel like everyone is more comfortable to really talk.
Oh and please keep my cousin in your thoughts and prayers, I think I mentioned in an earlier post that she was pregnant, she lost the baby a few weeks ago. I couldnt even imagine what she is going through. My mom who endured miscarriages said the hardest thing was that noone understood that for you it was a baby. And not just a baby but a perfect baby, one who had never messed up or done wrong. In the movie Juno one of the characters say "A woman becomes a mother when she becomes pregnant, a man becomes a father when he holds his child the first time." So just keep her in your mind and she mourns the loss of her child. Thank you
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Lonely
Its been a long few weeks with TONS of overtime, this week though I think I should be back to all 8 hour days (enough of this 12 hour crazyness). Bla with me working so much Tom and I hardly cross paths in the beginning of the week, me having to get to work at 6am (meaning a before 5 am wake up) and him working till 8 or 9. I'm just so grateful that it's done and it went well. The grand opening turned out great, and training is going well. I somehow managed to pull off two jobs at once.... ok I know how God blessed me SO much by giving me a great scan coordinator to train and tons of other amazing people who helped me pull it off. We had tons of great people who had lots of great things to say about us..... we also had some bad tomatoes..... well a guy stole a tomato, before store hours, and a few complainers. Nobody is perfect and they definitly let us know where we were flawed... at least in their books. And I don't know what is hard to understand about "put it in the box" I had more people asking where to put their entry forms as I stood literally right next to it (actually a little behind it) and it had signs and balloons, I'm not sure what people were expecting..... something bigger I suppose.
With my odd hours it has been common for when I am home, I am alone. Its weird how you can feel so lonely after being surrounded by people all day. Of course all that talking was questions and instructions, not much personal, emotional talk. I have been having weird dreams and missing my grandma so much more then I thought I would. I don't know if I mentioned in my last post but my mom, Doreen and I were out to lunch and mom was talking to her some about my grandma's final days and how it was so hard to watch her slowly deteroate. She mentioned how she realized a while before my wedding that my grandma wouldnt be able to go. My mom stopped mentioning wedding stuff around my grandma unless asked. Well about two weeks after my wedding my grandma said to my mom "I missed Nicole's wedding didnt I" and when my mom told her yes, she cried. I had never heard that and almost lost it when I heard it, now as I write it I can't help but cry. I miss her and I wish her end could have been different. I remember growing up she would stay one night a week with us, in my room, I would read aloud to her until she stopped correcting me because she feel asleep. She loved to swim and many nights we would go to a local hotel to swim. More recently I remember her showing my cousin and I her old college yearbook and a picture of her and a group of friends, they had invented a club to get a picture in the yearbook..... and if the dean knew what the initials of the club stood for, he would have never allowed it to be in there. Sorry to go off, this has been one of the hardest years of my life, there was a few weeks that each week I heard of another person I knew who passed away. One day my dad had to leave right after my great uncles funeral to go to a longtime friend and business associates funeral. Perhaps I am still morning them all and everything else that has been going on. I can only thank God that he blessed me to find Tom, I don't know what I would have done without his arms to fall into.
At least the stress and responsibility of work will be shrinking some. Next month our office manager is going out of town for 3 weeks and I will be picking up some of her duties for that time but it shouldnt be anything too huge.
lol so I meant to make a short and light post but where better to vent all your emotions then online right? Expecially when the only other living thing in the house is kitty cats, well and if you want to count the bamboo, it's still hanging on, but forget about the spidar plant and funky catus. The new scan coordinator told me I will teach her what she needs to know and she will teach me how to not kill a plant. I'm training her for one of the hardest jobs at the store (the other being store manager) but I still think she will have the harder job of teaching me to keep a plant alive. Oh and Tom finds it cool that I am training her because she is currently running for honorary mayor of a local town, he said if she wins I can say "I trained the mayor!" But truley she is such a blessing, and training has been going great. She went to my alma mater and her daughters are currently attending, kind of fun.
Anyways I babble. I guess I'm going to bore you all since I have no one else too..... he he. I have the CUTEST nephew. And saturday I get to baby sit! He is such a ham, he winked at me the other day..... well he closed one eye at me and I thought something was wrong with it then realized and asked him if he was winking and he did his smile and giggle that reminds me so much of his mama, adorable. He is just growing up too fast.
ok enough chattering. feeling better now that I talked about my adorable nephew. :)
With my odd hours it has been common for when I am home, I am alone. Its weird how you can feel so lonely after being surrounded by people all day. Of course all that talking was questions and instructions, not much personal, emotional talk. I have been having weird dreams and missing my grandma so much more then I thought I would. I don't know if I mentioned in my last post but my mom, Doreen and I were out to lunch and mom was talking to her some about my grandma's final days and how it was so hard to watch her slowly deteroate. She mentioned how she realized a while before my wedding that my grandma wouldnt be able to go. My mom stopped mentioning wedding stuff around my grandma unless asked. Well about two weeks after my wedding my grandma said to my mom "I missed Nicole's wedding didnt I" and when my mom told her yes, she cried. I had never heard that and almost lost it when I heard it, now as I write it I can't help but cry. I miss her and I wish her end could have been different. I remember growing up she would stay one night a week with us, in my room, I would read aloud to her until she stopped correcting me because she feel asleep. She loved to swim and many nights we would go to a local hotel to swim. More recently I remember her showing my cousin and I her old college yearbook and a picture of her and a group of friends, they had invented a club to get a picture in the yearbook..... and if the dean knew what the initials of the club stood for, he would have never allowed it to be in there. Sorry to go off, this has been one of the hardest years of my life, there was a few weeks that each week I heard of another person I knew who passed away. One day my dad had to leave right after my great uncles funeral to go to a longtime friend and business associates funeral. Perhaps I am still morning them all and everything else that has been going on. I can only thank God that he blessed me to find Tom, I don't know what I would have done without his arms to fall into.
At least the stress and responsibility of work will be shrinking some. Next month our office manager is going out of town for 3 weeks and I will be picking up some of her duties for that time but it shouldnt be anything too huge.
lol so I meant to make a short and light post but where better to vent all your emotions then online right? Expecially when the only other living thing in the house is kitty cats, well and if you want to count the bamboo, it's still hanging on, but forget about the spidar plant and funky catus. The new scan coordinator told me I will teach her what she needs to know and she will teach me how to not kill a plant. I'm training her for one of the hardest jobs at the store (the other being store manager) but I still think she will have the harder job of teaching me to keep a plant alive. Oh and Tom finds it cool that I am training her because she is currently running for honorary mayor of a local town, he said if she wins I can say "I trained the mayor!" But truley she is such a blessing, and training has been going great. She went to my alma mater and her daughters are currently attending, kind of fun.
Anyways I babble. I guess I'm going to bore you all since I have no one else too..... he he. I have the CUTEST nephew. And saturday I get to baby sit! He is such a ham, he winked at me the other day..... well he closed one eye at me and I thought something was wrong with it then realized and asked him if he was winking and he did his smile and giggle that reminds me so much of his mama, adorable. He is just growing up too fast.
ok enough chattering. feeling better now that I talked about my adorable nephew. :)
Monday, March 17, 2008
Itchy feet
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
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
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?
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