It's been a while ....again

So I am a slacker when it comes to posting on this thing. But I am at work, it's the last week of the month and I don't have much to do today other than make a few phone calls and pack up some of the rap in my office becasue we are moving to a different building.

Work is...well.....okay I guess. I was offered a job with the state, btu I am not sure I wnat to take it. I haven't been formally offered the position becasue my background check hasn't been completed yet, I have to do that on Friday, but they can't tell me what shift it is. but I know it is not going to be Monday through friday and I know that it will not be first shift. I know some people out there would tell me to take the job in an instant, and I thought I would too but here are some pros and cons:

Pros
Benifits-good ones!
Pension
Better pay-fo sho!
hopefully room for advancement!


CONS
weekends
nights- for who knows how long. sure I could work my way up the ladder, but that could take YEARS people!
back to the bottom of the ladder.
Most likely would have to cancel vacation this year if they wanted me to start right away.

now I have some options. Because I only have an A.A.S. in Human Services, that limits my options with the state. but If I suck it up with this job for another 2 years or so and get my bachelors degree my opportunities with the state would increase big time, plus I would have 5 years experience with billing and what not, a valuable asset in deed. so I guess we will have to see what they offer.

They could throw a curve ball and offer me a part time position, and if it worked with my current schedule I could have the best of both. oy.......who knows, I guess I will have to go with the flow...I am a firm beleiver of "everything happens for a reason" so I am just going to let it happen you know?

On to better news. I joined weight watchers online today. I am so serious this time. I say it all the time, but Michelle ( yeah ) will be there to slap the cookies out my hands and hoe slap me if I try to go astray. and when I say "hoe slap" I mean I want her to hit with a garden tool.......hehehehe...Logan is suportive of it too, as long as it doesn't cost too much...lol....

so I want to loose weight and be healthy body and mind. we shall see...

opperation "penelope freedom"

so I haven't written in a while but I thought this story was "blog worthy"

And before I begin. The cat above only LOOKS sweet and innocent.....

The story begins on a lazy Sunday. I bunker down on the couch around 4pm for a nice nap. My husband lets the cats out and I sleep. I awake around 6:30 ( good nap) and see that Chupa is in, but Penelope is not, which is unusual as I am usually chasing Chupa down when it gets dark not my sweet Penelope. So it is starting to get later and later and colder and colder and I start to freak out a bit because I am worried about my little fur baby. I annoy my husband to the point where he walks up and down the road to insure she hasn't met the cruel fate of a cars tire. He can't find her and there is no sign of her. She has done this type of thing before but usually shows up around midnight. So we went to bed.

Not being able to relax, get up every 30 or so minutes to see if she has on the porch waiting to come in. No dice. So I sleep for like and hour and then the upstairs neighbor got home and I woke up to see if she was in the hallway, still no Penelope. Now even Logan is a bit worried, so he throws on his shoes and goes out to see if he can find my kitty. He is out there for about 20 minutes and he comes in. He calls me into the living room and informs me that he has found her, but he doesn't look happy. He tells me she is locked in the neighbors shed.......WHAT?? He said he heard her distinct meow.

She somehow got into the shed across the street. So we arm ourselves with a flashlight and head over there to free the cat. Mind you it is now 2 a.m. ,and we look like 2 robbers, and there is no one home at the house and question. So we look around the shed and there is no obvious entry point. I have no Idea how she got in there. I hear her sweet little meow and the bell on her collar, I am now determined to get her out. We go back in the house and try to call the police department to see if we can get someone to cut the lock on the door, but no one is on duty in out ho-boken town so we would have to call the Sheriffs department, not a chance in hell I am calling a Sheriff to save me cat from a shed. so I go over and try to free her myself.

needless to say, after some careful searching, I found a weak spot in the shed and pulled one of the panels back. She eventually found her way to the hole and was freed! sweet freedom! she jumped into my arms and dug her claws in hanging on for dear life. I was pissed that she had gotten into this mess in the first place, but happy to have my kitty safe and sound. we went inside and I gave her some canned food, and went to bed. She joined us moment later and was cuddled up in her normal fashion.

What an ordeal. I am glad my husband understands how much I love these stupid cats.

And just in case any of Penelope's friends read this...she's grounded for a while.

it's been a few weeks...

and life continues. it's been boring around here.....yeah right!

So last week my boss told me she has to cut my hours, ouch. I am supposed to do all me work in 35 hours a week, doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is. I hate my job! I took the state test yesterday and I think I aced it, it was a lot of common sense stuff. I have to wait 6WEEKS for my score, and then I can apply my score to other jobs that I see posted, hopefully I get a high one and get put at the top of the list, it would be nice. I really don't know how much longer I can do the job I have, i hate it more and more everyday. I feel bad that I might have to leave the consumers, but they will be left in good hands I am sure.

Logan is good. I love him very much. He has been supportive of all my hissy fits and declarations of hate for my job, I hope he knows how much that helped me. well, back to work....blah!!!

getting older.......

I feel better today. My tooth hurts, but until I decide to spend $800 to fix it, it will continue to hurt. I got a letter from Empire state Collage yesterday; I am officially enrolled in the May semester. Fun fun, Bachelors degree here I come! Of course in all my planning for this I did not think about the trip we are supposed to take out west at the end of June, and since I am guessing these semesters last more than a month, I am going to have to work something out, whether it be a wi-fi connection, or if I can get my work done before I go, who knows, but I don’t want to delay starting in May, I want to get this done and over with by the time we either build or buy a house. I want to have a good job and make decent money by the time we want to have kids. I will get it done, and so will Logan as soon as he decides what he wants to do with himself. He will find something that grabs his interest. Getting older blows……..

I feel like.....

CRAP!!!! my head hurts, my neck aches,a nd my throat and ears are all ick.....I thought I was just tired this morning but it would seem I am having my first sickness of the winter. that past few years I have somehow dodged a bullet, I haven't been all that sick, but I think it's headed towards an illness. I hope I can hold out for the weekend, I really don't want to use any sicktime, I need to save it up for out vacation this summer. Oy....

the super bowl SUCKED!! the cardinals blew it!!! they had it and they BLEW IT!! i always try to route for the underdogs, but they played the second half like pop warner players, it was ridiculous! and that last touchdown!! 3 GUYS CAN'T STOP ! FROM CATCHING THE BALL!! what the hell! oh well. football gets me all fired up....

other than that, it was a good weekend.

Twilight

...that sexy vampire....he has sucked me into the book...damn....

I have to say, I saw the movie before reading the book, normally I would try to avoid this, but I had no intention of liking the movie, let alone wanting to read the book, but here I sit AT WORK trying to keep my nose out of it!

props to the director of the movie. so far, I am about half way through, and the movie stayed pretty true to the book. of corse there are some scenes missing and what not, but the story is right on the mark. the intensisty between Edward and Bella is greater in the book than in the movie, and as you can imagine the movie had a few parts that were pretty cheezy. I beleive in one part Edward says to Bella "hang on spider monkey" seriously, I haven't gotten to that part in the book yet, but I pray that the author of this book did not write that in there and it is just a bizarre flourish of the movie director. But I digress.....

So I acctually have some work to do, so I will put down my book and start doing it *sigh*

time stamp on my blog

it's about 4 hours off, and I dont know how to fix it...heeeeellllppppppp!