Quite a few things have happened recently. So, heres my top 4.
#4- Derek and I went to Suntrust yesterday to talk to someone about the whole house buying process. We just went for information so we aren't clueless when we're ready. The guy who we talked to was very helpful, and gave us a lot of great advice. Once I get a job, we're definitely going to get this whole party started.
#3- I am finally seeing results from my laser hair removal (Apparently I was confused when the lady told me about the time line). The hair grew very slowly and not too long and now it is falling out, and there is very little left. I asked the lady at the office again, and she said that once its completely out it'll stay gone until 2-3 weeks before my next appointment. SWEET!!
#2- I got my certification in the mail the other day. It was very exciting and confusing. Exciting for obvious reasons, but confusing because I'm not technically supposed to have it yet. You see, the state has no interest in giving certifications to criminals or sex offenders, so they require you to be HIRED by a school and fingerprinted in order to get your actual certification. All I was supposed to get was a "Statement of Status Eligibility" until I got hired. I even asked if getting fingerprinted for my internship and substituting would count (because they won't fingerprint me again anyways), and I was told no. So I'm not sure whats going on. I'm thinking maybe since I applied to the county and they had my fingerprints already on file for subbing and whatnot they went ahead and sent them to the certification board thinking it would speed up the process if they did hire me. I hear that they do things like that. I just never heard of someone getting their certification without having a job... its strange.
And now, the reason for the picture and in a slight relation to #2...
#1- I've been thinking a lot about my future work situation, and here are some things I've considered.
(1) If I get a job teaching before school starts and the school I end up at has a lower than expected enrollment, I am the first to go. My job won't be completely secure until about 3 months into school.
(2) If I get a teaching job this year and manage to keep it, the situation won't be any better next year (both Orange and Seminole counties have already pushed some of the lost $$ aside for the following year... and who says by then the economy will be magically better), and I may end up losing my job then and not have all the opportunities that I do now.
With those facts in consideration, I have decided that it is not in my best interest to continue searching for a teaching job. And in light of new information, I now believe that working at the neurologist's office will be my best bet (I recently discovered that I have the potential to make more than enough to pay for my masters and then some). So tomorrow I will tell Nick and Birdie, shown in the picture, that I am ready to accept their offer and work for them starting in August. It was a bit of a hard decision to give up the dream, but right now I need to think about what is going to best for Derek and I financially, and with the lack of job security in teaching right now, its best that I put the dream on hold for now.
And thats this week's top 4.
TTFN
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
3 Years, 6 Months, and 20 Days...
According to my new issue of Cosmo, this (the title) is how long into a relationship most men pop the question. Upon reading this I jokingly informed Derek that I am expecting big things in 26 days (July 14th), when we reach this point. I then read him this factoid, and I could almost hear his inner dialogue (invision a thought bubble here...) "Are you kidding me? Is there a way I can cancel her subscription to this crap without her knowing it? ...Shit! Never mind. Thats where she learns all those hot moves she brings home. .....Hey, I know! I'm the one who checks the mail. Perhaps I can go through it first and rip out any pages with crap like that... yes! That will totally work."
Sorry I figured you out Derek. I guess 3 Years, 5 months and 26 Days with you was the magic amount of time it took me to be able to read your mind, at least partially.
Here is where I'm curious. Where the hell did they come up with this factoid? I mean if it simply said 3 and a half years, or 3 years and 6 months, I would be going for it, but to add the 20 days? Where are the hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds? Does this mean that they gave people a stopwatch when they got together and asked them to press the stop button the moment the question was popped? Well, all I know is that in 26 days, in all likelihood, no one will be getting frantic and ecstatic phone calls, so don't free up time or anything. It'll happen eventually, but I'm thinking in more than 26 days.
TTFN
Monday, June 16, 2008
Photo Savvy...ish
So I'm getting the hang of this; however in uploading my pictures I have discovered that my camera has been fairly dormant since my grad party. In fact its only been used once since then. Well anywho, this is Melanie and Wayne... the Musum's they are my Orlando family and I don't know what I'd do without them. In fact they helped me out even today. The weather was bad and I needed a place in the neighborhood I do lessons in to hang and hope for the storm to pass. I called them up and they knew exactly why I was calling and were totally willing and welcoming. In fact before I even asked Wayne said, "Yes I'm home and you can come over. I'll see you soon." Its good to know I'm loved!
Is there a way to post more than one picture in a single post? Well, since I don't know how to or if I can yet, I'll post about my possible future bosses later.
TTFN
Is there a way to post more than one picture in a single post? Well, since I don't know how to or if I can yet, I'll post about my possible future bosses later.
TTFN
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Testing 123... Testing 123...
Ok. So I finally got a Flicker account, so I'm going to test it out. I'm not sure if I'll like it, so if not, I may end up using photobucket because I'm very familiar with it. Well here it goes... lets hope it works. Do you see a picture? If so, this is Ryan. He is one of the loves of my life. Do you like his little graduation hat (or as he would pronounce it galeration hat)? It was off of my cake. =)
Goin' with the flow...
Alas, with the help of my loving boyfriend, I have become flexible. As you may recall, I didn't have any plans for this weekend, but that was the best thing ever. Friday night we visited our friend Ashley at work and brought our friends Brodie and Sarah with us. It was a night filled with fun and booze... 2 of my favorite things (with the third part of the trio being gettin it on).
Then yesterday Derek woke up and decided he wanted to go to Blue Springs for a day of canoeing, swimming, picnicing and good old fun. Now the old me would have said hell no to this last minute, not planned way in advance idea, but I was all for it. So, we packed up the car, got ourselves ready and went to Blue Springs... only to find out that it was closed due to overcrowding. Shit. We were all the way in Orange City with not a clue of what to do. Now the old me would have cursed alot, pouted, and then demanded to just go home because the day was ruined, but I'm a new gal. So I called the ranger station at Blue Springs and spoke to a very bitchy lady who told me there was another state park with similar amenities near by--Hontoon Island. However, her and her counterpart at Hontoon Island were unwilling and/or unable to give me directions. So we looked at a map and figured we'd wing it, but that wasn't working out so we stoped at a gas station to get a map. As were looking at maps this guy asks us where we want to go. When we told him Hontoon Island he said, "Well why the hell do you want to go there?" We explained our story, and he said, "OO Well theres another spring thats much closer and nicer called DeLeon Springs." He then gave us great directions (that included where the cop was hidden out on the way), and informed us that hes a scuba diver and was just there and that it wasn't full or very close to full.
So we went to DeLeon Springs and had a great time. We had a picnic by the spring, we went canoeing, we dipped our feet in the arctic spring, and we headed home. It was an awesome. We also discovered the state park springs are really just redneck waterparks. They're cheap (only $5 for both of us to get in), no one cares if you swim in clothes instead of a suit (and there were people testing this theory), you can pack a lunch or bring some charcoal and have a BBQ, you can fish, theres a country restaurant available, and, well the main point is that its cheap. If you're ever in the mood for prime time hill-billy people watching, a state park spring in the summer is the place to go.
As for today, well this Sunday is like most. Laundry, cleaning, organizing--all the things I love the most packed into one day a week. And all the while Derek gets to hang on the couch and catch up with his long list of GREEN DVRed shows.
This is the life!
TTFN
Then yesterday Derek woke up and decided he wanted to go to Blue Springs for a day of canoeing, swimming, picnicing and good old fun. Now the old me would have said hell no to this last minute, not planned way in advance idea, but I was all for it. So, we packed up the car, got ourselves ready and went to Blue Springs... only to find out that it was closed due to overcrowding. Shit. We were all the way in Orange City with not a clue of what to do. Now the old me would have cursed alot, pouted, and then demanded to just go home because the day was ruined, but I'm a new gal. So I called the ranger station at Blue Springs and spoke to a very bitchy lady who told me there was another state park with similar amenities near by--Hontoon Island. However, her and her counterpart at Hontoon Island were unwilling and/or unable to give me directions. So we looked at a map and figured we'd wing it, but that wasn't working out so we stoped at a gas station to get a map. As were looking at maps this guy asks us where we want to go. When we told him Hontoon Island he said, "Well why the hell do you want to go there?" We explained our story, and he said, "OO Well theres another spring thats much closer and nicer called DeLeon Springs." He then gave us great directions (that included where the cop was hidden out on the way), and informed us that hes a scuba diver and was just there and that it wasn't full or very close to full.
So we went to DeLeon Springs and had a great time. We had a picnic by the spring, we went canoeing, we dipped our feet in the arctic spring, and we headed home. It was an awesome. We also discovered the state park springs are really just redneck waterparks. They're cheap (only $5 for both of us to get in), no one cares if you swim in clothes instead of a suit (and there were people testing this theory), you can pack a lunch or bring some charcoal and have a BBQ, you can fish, theres a country restaurant available, and, well the main point is that its cheap. If you're ever in the mood for prime time hill-billy people watching, a state park spring in the summer is the place to go.
As for today, well this Sunday is like most. Laundry, cleaning, organizing--all the things I love the most packed into one day a week. And all the while Derek gets to hang on the couch and catch up with his long list of GREEN DVRed shows.
This is the life!
TTFN
Friday, June 13, 2008
My Shirt should read "I Survived the First Week of Lessons 2008"
One week down, 2 months to go! So I got CRAZY lucky this first week (knock on wood) and didn't have to do any make-ups today (Fridays are my designated make-up days). In fact, I only had to cancel 55 minutes total. One lesson the last 10 minutes got cut off, so I showed up early to their second lesson, one had 5 minutes cut off and I did the same, and one had 10 minutes cut off so I stayed late. There was only one lesson that got completely canceled and I was able to make it up on my lunch break yesterday, which was extra long anyway. Woo Hoo!!!
The job hunt: I applied to 5 more jobs yesterday. That totals 10. They're all in Orange County because they're the only ones that have anything posted. The first 5 I applied to I heard no from right away, and I just heard no from one of the ones I applied to yesterday... ooo well! Plus I applied to 2 jobs at that school, so I'm assuming its a double no. At least I tried.
I'm not really sure what were doing this weekend, but I'm totally ok with that. I've really come to love weekends. For the past 4 years I had to work on the weekends because of school, and now I finally have them to myself! Perhaps I'll just lay around and relax..... nah! Thats just not my style. I'm sure I'll find something to do!
TTFN (Ta Ta For Now!)
The job hunt: I applied to 5 more jobs yesterday. That totals 10. They're all in Orange County because they're the only ones that have anything posted. The first 5 I applied to I heard no from right away, and I just heard no from one of the ones I applied to yesterday... ooo well! Plus I applied to 2 jobs at that school, so I'm assuming its a double no. At least I tried.
I'm not really sure what were doing this weekend, but I'm totally ok with that. I've really come to love weekends. For the past 4 years I had to work on the weekends because of school, and now I finally have them to myself! Perhaps I'll just lay around and relax..... nah! Thats just not my style. I'm sure I'll find something to do!
TTFN (Ta Ta For Now!)
Sunday, June 8, 2008
12:13 am
It is 12:13 am and I am awake. This really isn't my style... I'm an in bed by 10:00 type of gal. All I want is sleepiness... sweet, sweet sleepiness.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
And now the post you've all been waiting for...
But first, things you didn't even know you've been waiting for but you totally have...
* Movies on the plaza last night was fun! The movie was super cute, and the whole evening was great.
* I got my new laptop up and working thanks to hours on the phone with my dad (who is a techie guru), and cursing at hebibs in India (outsourcing sucks). I don't have to use my old one for anything anymore, and that it so exciting. All that is left to do with it is swipe it and box it up for my brother's birthday in October.
* We had to take TC to the vet the other day because he had been attacked (we think by a squirrel). The attacker bit his tail and took a good chunk out of it. Because of fear that the attacker could have had rabies or some sort of yucky disease, he is now on antibiotics and is doing fine. But, the joke is on the attacker. TC has feline AIDs, so now there is a POS squirrel (we think) out there with more than he bargained for.
* Next week I start full time lessons, so my life will be non-existent. The schedule will be as follows: wake-up, swim, get puked on and screamed at, repeat steps 2 and 3 11x, go home, sleep, repeat all. Tis the summer!
* Finally, I thought Jill was the only one reading my blog, which I was ok with because just putting my thoughts down is settling--this is not for any sort of fame or glory; however due to comments I have discovered 2 things. (1) Jill is not the only one reading my blog! Rob has too! and (2) when I went to his blog I discovered that there are people who don't know you who respond with poorly written English and then try to sell you crap... who knew! I hope he doesn't mind, but in order to provide an example, here is a comment from Rob's blog:
" Omar Cruz said...
* Movies on the plaza last night was fun! The movie was super cute, and the whole evening was great.
* I got my new laptop up and working thanks to hours on the phone with my dad (who is a techie guru), and cursing at hebibs in India (outsourcing sucks). I don't have to use my old one for anything anymore, and that it so exciting. All that is left to do with it is swipe it and box it up for my brother's birthday in October.
* We had to take TC to the vet the other day because he had been attacked (we think by a squirrel). The attacker bit his tail and took a good chunk out of it. Because of fear that the attacker could have had rabies or some sort of yucky disease, he is now on antibiotics and is doing fine. But, the joke is on the attacker. TC has feline AIDs, so now there is a POS squirrel (we think) out there with more than he bargained for.
* Next week I start full time lessons, so my life will be non-existent. The schedule will be as follows: wake-up, swim, get puked on and screamed at, repeat steps 2 and 3 11x, go home, sleep, repeat all. Tis the summer!
* Finally, I thought Jill was the only one reading my blog, which I was ok with because just putting my thoughts down is settling--this is not for any sort of fame or glory; however due to comments I have discovered 2 things. (1) Jill is not the only one reading my blog! Rob has too! and (2) when I went to his blog I discovered that there are people who don't know you who respond with poorly written English and then try to sell you crap... who knew! I hope he doesn't mind, but in order to provide an example, here is a comment from Rob's blog:
" Omar Cruz said...
I like this blog is fantastic, is really good written. Congratulation. Do you want to see something more? Read it...: Great investment opportunity in Costa Rica: real estate for sale by owner, rci jaco lodging, rci jaco lodging. Visit us for more info at: http://www.jaco-bay.com/"
The funny thing is I am way more bothered by the bad English than by the selling junk. Anywho, if you're reading this comment, if you don't have an account you still can comment, I'm interested in seeing how many readers I have.
And now......
Yesterday, I had my first laser hair removal treatment. It was quite interesting. I had to shave everything being treated beforehand, so there isn't a difference to see yet. And right before she got started she said she had to take pictures of the treated areas... like my girlie parts. But she kept it covered and took a picture of the skin right above... interesting. As for how it felt... well there were some spots that hurt and a lot that didn't. Apparently the more hairs you have in the area being lasered, the more it hurts. I can't tell if it felt like a burning or if that was just in my head. You see a split second before the laser comes, a cold gas comes out so that the feeling is supposed to be neutral, but you can still smell burning, so I think I thought it burned but it didn't. Who knows! It just kind of stings a bit. I have friends who said that their friends who have gotten it took pain killers before going, but I thought I'd just see how it goes the first time and then go from there. So it wasn't super pleasant, and they said that he laser gets stronger with each treatment, so I was prescribed a numbing cream to put on the treated areas 2 hours before my next treatment, and I mite also take a pain killer. They said that in a few days (3-5) it will look like hair is growing in, but its really all the hair that was below the skin when I was lasered shedding. After a day or 2 of that I will be hairless until about 2-3 weeks before my next appointment, which is August 20th. SWEET!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Does anyone know how to help me?
UUURRRGGG!!! So I've had my new laptop for a week or so now, but its basically a paperweight. I have transfered everything over to it, but because of my swim business, I cannot use it solely until I have all my Outlook crap transfered over. I have hundreds of contacts, and even more calendar appointments (I use the calendar to schedule all my lessons so in the summer, outlook is my life). Now my old comp has outlook 2002, and my new one has xp (my comp has vista, but my office disc was a bootleg courtesty of my dad).
I followed these (http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm#Locating_the_pst-file) directions, and copied and pasted the .pst file into the right place. When I open up my outlook on my new computer I can see in the Outlook Today thing that my calendar dates are in there, but then this box pops up and says "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus and you should choose no." I keep clicking yes, but more and more boxes just keep coming up, and it won't let me do anything.
Does anyone know what this crap is? How do I make it stop so I can use my pretty new purple laptop? Help!!
I followed these (http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm#Locating_the_pst-file) directions, and copied and pasted the .pst file into the right place. When I open up my outlook on my new computer I can see in the Outlook Today thing that my calendar dates are in there, but then this box pops up and says "A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus and you should choose no." I keep clicking yes, but more and more boxes just keep coming up, and it won't let me do anything.
Does anyone know what this crap is? How do I make it stop so I can use my pretty new purple laptop? Help!!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wonderfulness
Hello world! Several awesome things have happened/are happening:
* My new laptop came and its super pretty--pictures soon to come.
* My professional graduation pictures came in, and I look smokin'! (and no, Bob Knight didn't take tons of my hard earned mola, I went to Walmart where the pictures are cheap as hell and still look awesome!)
* This week is really slow for me, so I have down time to organize, relax, and catch up on my DVRed shows, and.....
I am getting laser hair removal!!!!!!! I have wanted it since I first knew what it was, but I always figured it was out of my reach. Since I'm pretty slow right now, I decided to just go for a free consultation and find out what it costs. Now it is a bit pricey, but they have CareCredit (so does my dentist). CareCredit is an awesome program that will pay your bills for you and will give you 18 months interest free to pay them back. So it makes the whole thing reasonable. Because I'm a dumbass and shaved right before I went (I apparently wasn't thinking), they can't tell if they'll be able to do my legs (the laser doesn't work on blonde, white or gray hair and my leg hair is kinda blonde), but they can do my girlie parts and my pits! Woo Hoo!! I am so excited!! I go for my first treatment on Friday, and I will have a total of 9 treatments 10 weeks apart. Now I looked thru a calendar and figured out that I won't be finished until Jan 2010, which sucks, BUT I will see results instantly. The lady who consulted me said she just got her first treatment on her pits and hasn't shaved in 7 days and still doesn't need to... SWEET! OMG! I'm just so excited, especially for my girlie parts--it sucks shaving there! So there will be posts to come about how it feels and the results. Yay!
Fun thing to do:
On Friday night UCF is having this "Movies on the Plaza" thing, where they will be showing Horton Hears a Who for FREE. Now I LOVE free, and I haven't seen and want to see the movie, so Derek and I will be in attendance. I have copied and pasted the infor I got from the email below:
Hope to see you there!!
* My new laptop came and its super pretty--pictures soon to come.
* My professional graduation pictures came in, and I look smokin'! (and no, Bob Knight didn't take tons of my hard earned mola, I went to Walmart where the pictures are cheap as hell and still look awesome!)
* This week is really slow for me, so I have down time to organize, relax, and catch up on my DVRed shows, and.....
I am getting laser hair removal!!!!!!! I have wanted it since I first knew what it was, but I always figured it was out of my reach. Since I'm pretty slow right now, I decided to just go for a free consultation and find out what it costs. Now it is a bit pricey, but they have CareCredit (so does my dentist). CareCredit is an awesome program that will pay your bills for you and will give you 18 months interest free to pay them back. So it makes the whole thing reasonable. Because I'm a dumbass and shaved right before I went (I apparently wasn't thinking), they can't tell if they'll be able to do my legs (the laser doesn't work on blonde, white or gray hair and my leg hair is kinda blonde), but they can do my girlie parts and my pits! Woo Hoo!! I am so excited!! I go for my first treatment on Friday, and I will have a total of 9 treatments 10 weeks apart. Now I looked thru a calendar and figured out that I won't be finished until Jan 2010, which sucks, BUT I will see results instantly. The lady who consulted me said she just got her first treatment on her pits and hasn't shaved in 7 days and still doesn't need to... SWEET! OMG! I'm just so excited, especially for my girlie parts--it sucks shaving there! So there will be posts to come about how it feels and the results. Yay!
Fun thing to do:
On Friday night UCF is having this "Movies on the Plaza" thing, where they will be showing Horton Hears a Who for FREE. Now I LOVE free, and I haven't seen and want to see the movie, so Derek and I will be in attendance. I have copied and pasted the infor I got from the email below:
Movies on the Plaza- June 6th
Comfy seating is provided including padded chairs and sofas, and the movie will be screened on a 26-foot screen with surround sound. Show up early and enjoy a live DJ, interactive entertainment, prize giveaways and more. Food will be available for purchase from Knights Plaza eateries or bring a picnic of your own. For more information including directions visit http://www.ucfarena.com
Hope to see you there!!
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