Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
What I'm Thankful For!
So Thanksgiving is going to super crazy, we are going to Ana's aunts house (eyeroll, wasn't told this until about Saturday...that's for asking me what I want to do mom and dad), I'm thinking i'm going to be taking my own car so that I can leave to watch the football game and pack to head back up to Austin for the dreaded Black Friday and my 10 hour shift with a 30 minute lunch =\
But on a much happier note, I've got lots of things to be thankful for and just for fun here they are in picture a fun picture show (well most of them =p):
my parents and the rest of my family!
my awesome friends
the crazy pups
school, it might be taking me forever to finish, but I'm thankful for the education I'm getting
The best 4-legged friend a girl could ask for, love my little baby ^_^
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Finally a break!
I've been going non-stop since Wednesday of last week. I picked up an extra shift at work on Thursday so that was nice. I opened at work on Saturday, after a very exciting morning when on my way to work! Saturday night drove down to San Antonio to watch Mom and Heather complete the San Antonio Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon, then drove back up Monday morning for work that afternoon, so crazy!
Saturday: So Saturday morning I'm headed to work when I get flagged down by a poor little old lady walking around in her pj's and no shoes. I roll down my window, because I had to see what was wrong with her and if I could help, and she says that she thinks that someone has broken into her apartment and she didn't want to go back there because she was afraid that they are still there. So I tell her to get into my car and I'll drive her to the front office so that she can sit in there and they can send one of the maintenance men to go over to her apartment and check it out, because 1-there is no friggin' way if there is really someone in her apartment that I'm checking it out by myself and 2-I'm not sure if she's completely sure and I want a more "grown-up" person to help her out. So I drive her to the front office, knowing it's close but hoping that someone is at least there. Luckily one of the main maintenance men is coming out right as I drive up and I flag him down and give him a cliffs notes version of what the lady needs help with and if he could let her sit in the office while he goes and checks out her apartment because I need to get to work. She's already started to get out of my car and walk to him for help when he says "Sorry but the office is closed, I'm only here working on the pool" and basically that I need to drive her back to her apartment. I tell him she refuses to go back to her apartment because she is afraid that someone is in there and there is no way that I'm going to go over there and check it out myself, plus I SERIOUSLY need to get to work, by now the old lady has figured out that he's probably not going to help her so she starts getting back into my car 0_0. I plead with the guy a little longer and he finally caves and says that he'll take her into the office and check out her apartment and then call the police. So I have to hall ass to work, not run on any coffee because I didn't get a chance to drink it and we can't take it out on the floor. I get off at about 4, run some errand, get home pack laundry and Harley and then head down to SA.
Sunday: Wake up at butt crack of dawn, I mean the sun ain't even warm yet =p Get up at 4am, get dressed and catch a ride with mom and dad downtown to meet with their running group and get ready for the "start" of the Marathon at 7am. Took mom less than 30 minutes to cross the start line this year, awesomely better than last year when it took forever, they were hauling ass this year, minus the short stop when an unexpected train coming through stopped corral 10 from going. Then me and dad walk over to the Alamo to watch people pass mile 3. Got to see Heather and wave and scream at her while she went around the corner to make her second pass infront of the Alamo, screamed and cheered for my mom as she did so to, but she was in her zone so she completely ignored us. Then we met up with Brittany at the Starbucks in River City Mall, holy crap it's been FOREVER since I've been in that mall, and decided that we were going to walk over to mile 8 to see Heather and mom. So with out coffee we walk over there, wave to Heather and see mom and get her gloves. Then me and Brittany head to the finish line while dad goes to catch mom in the King William district. Get to see Mom, Heather and Heather's dad cross the finish line, no pictures though, we were on the Full entry side, which was ok, the half side is a pain in the ass to get over to. Mom beat her goal time by about 5 minutes and set her own personal best 2 hours and 40 minutes!! I'm seriously worried that my mom keeps asking me if I want to train and do a half marathon with her I will actually say yes! Got some good pictures afterwards, still waiting for Brittany to post some of hers, but for your viewing pleasure her are a couple:
You can't see it in the one of my mom but she was so cold that her lips were literally blue! Heather's mom was the awesomest, she "finished the full" in under 4 hours, actually they apparently ran out of half marathon metals so they gave her a full metal.
Sunday night we went to a running group member's house for a "OMG WE SURVIVED" kind of get together where they fed us, very good Rudy's BBQ! Then we got home and I had decided that me not falling asleep on the way back up to Austin was preferable and waited until the next morning to drive back up to Austin.
Monday: Get up, finish the rest of my laundry and pack it all up to head back up to Austin for work at 12. I was off all day, dunno what was wrong, but it was just one of the Garfield 'I want to crawl back into bed and pull the blanket back over my head' kind of days. So I get back up to my apartment by a little after 11, had to stop and get some lunch. The cops were out in full swing too, I kid you not, I saw at least 10 cops and state troopers out just in the Austin city limits! So I get home, bring everything in and start getting ready for work, look at my watch a couple times and say to myself 'I have a few more minutes until I really have to leave' I must have zoned out or something because the next minute I look at my watch I have 5 minutes to get to work! I freak out and haul ass out of my apartment and call Ruthann to tell her I'm running late. (Luckily no cops as I speed to work!) I get there about 10 minutes late...stupid lunch traffic! And it's pretty meh the rest of the day, I had a midshift 12-6 so it wasn't too horrible, I went and got my charm bracelet polished at James Avery, one of the awesome perks to working in a mall with a James Avery in it my jewelry is always shiny clean!
Tuesday and Today: Last night I closed at work with Susie *ugh* we only said probably 10 words max to each other the entire night *double ugh* Today I had off, so I went and used todays coupon to a cute little dress for this weekend, only payed $13 woot woot! I'm almost finished with my Christmas shopping, I have like 3 people left to buy for and I'm completely done! Now I'm just chillin' on this BEAUTIFUL day in Austin finishing up "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and getting ready to fix Broccoli-Cauliflower Cheese soup for dinner! Can't wait until next week! I have Monday off so I will be taking down all my Halloween/Fall decorations and decorating for Christmas, yes it's a couple days early but I have to work a 10 hour shift on Black Friday so it's the only day I will have the energy and time to do the decorating. Wednesday Harley has her annual vet appoinment to get all her shots, she's going to love me after that! Then Thursday is the day that I will infuse the smell of sage into my hands and eat until I almost explode, and then the UT v A&M game, we NEED to win this game, I don't care if we loose this weekends game against Florida Atlantic, I can't deal with Katie and her "ha ha my school is better than yours" attitude and stupid remarks...plus we seriously need to win at least 1 more game this season!
Ok loves, it's about that time for dinner to be started, I'll be sure to post more pics from the marathon once I get them from Brittany!
XOXO
T
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Where are peoples brains?!
So Sunday I got to assist our Loss Prevention guy with catching a shoplifter. So I go out to the mall to be with Ben and Terrance when they "catch" her (not like she ran or anything, she came willingly...and very calmly for someone who just got caught). So basically I'm a witness because the lady is being talked to by 2 guys and you know stuff can happen with guys =p. Anyways so they go through the ladies purse and find the dress that she had neatly folded and put in her purse. They fill out the paperwork, saying what she stole and all her info, and she asks: "Well can't I just pay for the dress now because I could loose my job over this?" Ben asks her where she works and she say she works for APD! She works for the Austin Police Department and she thinks it's ok to steal, where the hell are peoples brains these days?! So Ben says no she can't pay for the dress because she'd technically left the store with the stolen merchandise, and that they'd have to wait and see what the police say. So about 5 minutes later Kathleen, my boss, walks in and says that I need to get back out onto the sales floor and that she will stay with the lady and them until the police show up. I'm completely heart broken because I want to know the end of the story, but I go back out. So today I saw Ben and he said that all the police did was write the lady a ticket...for now, but she will probably be loosing her job.
I'm pretty sure that the lady thought I was completely stupid or immature...I mean I was wearing moose antlers and a tail, but hey it was Halloween, it's ok to look kinda stupid ;)
I mean what would you think of an employee if they were dressed like this =p
Monday, November 1, 2010
All Hallows Eve
So at work we got to dress up for Halloween, lots of fun. I crocheted moose antlers and a tail, I was very proud of myself. Harley of course didn't want to be in a picture last night with me in her costume, so individual pictures will have to do ^_^
Harley was a mounted moose head this year, she loved her costume as you can see =p
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