Cutting Suspenders

"This makes me wanna cut my suspenders and go into orbit" That right there is a quote from my grandma and today was definately that kinda day for me. To start it off, I was 45 minutes late for court and had about 5 minutes to catch my breath from running to the courthouse before they called my case. My testimony lasted about 5 minutes then C and the girl who took my place had lunch at our usual court day spot. New Girl is a bit of an airhead and C and I were unsuccessful in sneaking off without her.

After court, I came home and sat around since my subpoena getting me off of work all day. Today is Moo's 1st birthday so I decided to take him to get a toy and some treats. We stopped off at the vet's first for flea and heartworm meds then went to Petco and got tennis balls and treats. He managed to steal a few from the treat bar and rawhide bar. I decided to stop at the gas station on the way home. I parked in the front and left the Yukon running. Bad idea. When I came out, I couldn't get the door open. Damn Moo! I never renewed my Onstar because I have navigation and all that so I didn't see the need. After waiting 20 minutes on Pop-A-Lock, I came home and renewed OnStar ASAP. I'll pay the $20 a month so next time, they can just unlock the damn car over the phone. Thank God I left it running or else I would've broken a window so poor Moo wouldn't have overheated. He knew he did something wrong but I couldn't get mad at him.

Tonight will be a low key domestic evening of washing and tv.

Lesson of the day

"The toes you step on today may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tommorrow" I had firsthand experience with this yesterday. It felt pretty good to see the look on this person's face when they realized who was going to make a major life decision for them. You truly never know who's watching especially in a small town.

Thirsty Thursday

I just got in from a restaurant opening and honestly, the food wasn't that great. I had a duck breast that only made me miss the ones my old boss used to cook. The potatoes were ok and the salad wasn't too fresh but it wasn't terrible. I went with H and she got a fruit stand salad that was pretty good. Alcohol would've made the situation better but they haven't got the liquor license yet so that wasn't an option.

I'm considering going out tonight because I'm in a bit of a mood. I had to end a friendship because of my friend's spouse and it just sucks. It's hard to watch someone you care about sit and get cheated on and drug through the mud by some asshole that thinks every woman is fair game, including his wife's friends. I also don't understand how many times someone can hear "I'm not interested" a 100 times and still not get the point or care about what they're doing. I know, it's easier to see the solution if you're looking at it from the outside, but what more would someone need to realize it's not going to work.

The 5 year plan

Ugh. My Google reader is not working properly nor is my camera so the My Favorite Things edition will have to be put off for another day. It's probably time for a new digi cam anyway since I've had this Sony for awhile now. I don't really need anything fancy, just something good for snapshots since I'm no photographer.

I went to my parents today and did a little cleaning that my daddy overpaid me for. Now that I've graduated college, gone are the days where I just get money handed to me. My family still does help with some small petty things but it's mostly been schoolbooks, a Dr. visit (specifically my $150 eardrops, that was with insurance!) or something major. I know they'll all be so glad when I finally get done with school for good and start working somewhere permanent. I've decided to go ahead and finish the teaching certificate, teach for a year or 2 then start the Counseling classes since they are all at night anyway plus I'll have my summers free. It's so nice now that alot of classes are offered online, they've started Saturday classes, each summer has 2 mini sessions, the mini sessions between Fall and Spring semesters now offer more classes so I should be able to get alot of classes out of the way pretty quickly. I'm going to try and start my pre-reqs the first summer after I start teaching so I don't get spoiled to having the entire summer off.

Crack of dawn

Why am I awake at 7 am after working until 3 am pray tell? Because we have a meeting at work this morning. That is the one thing I don't miss about the service industry, early meetings on weekend days all because we're serving a new drink or changing something small and unimportant that they could've told us about before a shift one night instead of getting us up at the crack of dawn. I'm so exhausted I don't know if I'll make it to church this morning but I can hear my grandma saying, "Jesus was tired too when he died for your sins now wasn't he?" "There is no excuse for missing church."

I do love working in a place where everyone in town goes though because I always end up running into someone I needed to get in touch with. That also has alot to do with the fact that this is a small ass town. I saw Moo's trainer last night. She taught us basic obedience and is the best ever plus she owns bully breeds so she knows what's up. On our last class, she said she was moving but ended up staying and working somewhere else. So Mr. Moo will be going back to class ASAP.

Since I've made amazing money this weekend, I think I'm going to spend a bit this afternoon if I'm not taking a nap. I made the mistake of friending a cute little local boutique on Facebook and their new stuff is tempting me every time I log in. I have done great so far with my "Frugal Summer" and wearing what I have, but everyone needs a little reward every now and then.

For my next post. I'll be showing some of my favorite things from around the house.

My old job

I figured I'd finally sit down and explain what my job at the non-profit was before I decided to do the teaching/counseling thing and it's impact on the rest of my life aside from it being my first professional/college graduate job.

Anytime a child needs to be interviewed for any law enforcement reason (sexual abuse, physical abuse, witness to a violent crime, neglect, abandonment) they are interviewed at a special place specifically designed for children by a neutral 3rd party called a forensic interviewer. The interviews are videotaped for court purposes but the child may still have to testify in court. My job was to support the interviewer while the interview was taking place by running the tapes, making sure paperwork was in order and so forth. I was being groomed to actually start the interviewing myself before I left. Most of the time, we interviewed victims of sexual abuse. There is always little to no medical evidence despite what people think and it's often a he said, she said type of case. The interview goes through all the details step by step of the abuse and the interviewer must remain neutral, not showing compassion, anger or shock. Typically these interviewers work for non-profit agencies and are not compensated enough (in my opinion) for what they do.

The job was emotionally tough and was a huge slap in the face for me because growing up, I thought my family was dysfunctional but now I realize I am blessed that I never had to go through some of the things these kids did growing up and what a spoiled brat I was/am.

FB vs Myspace

I tend to stay off of Facebook because well my Southern Baptist grandmother is on there and I don't think she'd appreciate pictures of me boozing it up on the weekends. I was browsing Myspace and noticed a girl that was in my "people you may know" area. So, I go check her profile out and I ended up not knowing who she was. However, she had posted pictures on a slideshow on her main page of some guys funeral. The pics showed him in the casket and everything with little kids hanging over the side and crying. WTH? I just find that terribly unappropriate on so many levels. People are crazy.

Tonight, I'm going with K to get her hood peirced. She's been wanting it for a long time and today's the day. She and I both went through a peircing phase when we were younger. I had my tongue and nose pierced, she had her tongue, nose and eyebrow (not all at the same time). Now that we're older and don't want things that show, her peircing choice works for her. Would I ever do it? That's a big hell no but I'll be there to support her. We're going to cap the evening off with a nice dinner at O'Charley's.

Summer Fun

I love summer. I have done absolutely nothing lately and have loved every minute of it. The rest of the week consists of work, going with K to get a peircing, and Friday night dinner. I just realized that it's almost August and I have about a month left of this nothingness before school and work consume me. Bleh.

I helped my cousin cut a mohawk after dinner tonight and I must say it looks pretty good. I also made sure he knew where to go and get it fixed if he needed to. Now I'm doin the housecleaning thing and washing the clothes and towels.

Thank You

The BFF posed a question that utterly confuses me. What do you do with a guy that says thank you after sex? The backstory is: she met this guy and he came over the other night to watch movies and one thing led to another and after they were done and going to sleep he says "thank you". Just out of the blue. Then she gets a text today saying "thank you again for the other night". WTH?

Furkid Friday

The Skank

I've enjoyed my little 2 day break before I go into my full weekend of work. Last night I went to K's for dinner. Her husband cooked some amazing catfish couvillion and we ate outside since it was cooled down after the rain. Tonight is domestic night, I made spaghetti and started washing towels and sheets so I don't have much housework to do over the weekend. I went to the library and checked out a few books for poolside reading so I may do that tommorrow. I can already feel summer slipping away so I'm trying to enjoy it as much as possible while it's still here.

My younger brother seems to be enjoying the company of some jobless, older skank that already has a child and the women of the family are up in arms about it. First of all, she slept in the bed with him at my Southern Baptist Great Aunt's house (need I say more!) It's not the child thing, it's just that my brother hasn't always made the best choices in life and we'd prefer him seeing someone who has some sort of direction. Bff and I have already offered to make the trip to Houston to have a word with the young lady and my mother and sister have already offered to come along. I do realize that is quite overbearing but if I was God forbid, with some terrible loser of a man, I'd sure want someone to keep me in check.

Rescue me

I have done absolutely nothing lately but work. My house looks like a bomb went off and I'm seriously considering calling up Merry Maids to come take care of it for me. I worked both jobs on 4th of July weekend. I have decided though, that job #2 has to go. I have a special place in my heart for this place, it put me through college and was like a 2nd home to me for almost 4 years. I met my bff there and I considered everyone there family. Things there have changed so much and not for the better. I will be done with school soon and juggling the two isn't worth the stress.

I realized that I need to get out more when I was washing 2 weeks of clothes this weekend and all the clothing consisted of were t shirts, tanks and soffe shorts. Pathetic. The highlight of my day today was remembering there was ice cream in the freezer. I'm putting together a wild weekend ASAP to get me out of this funk.