Finally, a chance to relax.

Today is my day off, and really the first chance I have had to relax in few weeks. So I am going to take full advantage of it. It's not really that I have been all that busy. I've just had some stressful things come up that have been weighing heavily on my mind. Recently they have started to resolve themselves, and I now feel like I can relax a bit.
First thing that was stressing me out was that I was trying to refinance my house. I had tried to last year, but everything seemed to go VERY wrong when I tried last year. Long story short (VERY long story made short). I had tried to refinance through the people I had my current mortgage through, which was Bank of America, which is a huge, sucky company. Anyway, they keep needing more and more stuff, and money, from me. Dragged the process out for 8 months, and then it ended up not going through in the end. Part of the problem last year what that our appraisal had come back very low, and thus we needed to bring a lot of money to closing. So I had been very worried about the appraisal with this refinance. Luckily it came back on Wednesday, and came back higher than when we had bought the house in 2006. Which means I don't have to bring any money to closing (which I had planned on bringing $2000 - $4000 to close), and there really is NO reason for the loan not to go through. All that stress I was feeling has lifted and it feels great!

Another sucky thing that stressed me out is that I was in a car accident last week... which was my fault. So that sucked even more. I've been driving around with my front bumper in the back of my car. Dealing with insurance, and getting estimates, and all that crap was no fun. But I think I'm taken care of now. I drop my car off on Monday morning, and my rental car will be waiting there for me. So, I feel like that stress has been lifted too. Thankfully my insurance is pretty good at taking care of things without being dicks about it (I have Progressive and would recommend them to anyone).

Work has been going ok, but it is summer now. So our busy season has begun, and there is much less time for me to sit and think about how much I don't like my job. I am planning on enrolling in my online course here soon for Travel and Tourism... super excited about that. I've also been looking beginner jobs in the field, to kind of get my foot in the door before I finish my course.

Other nice things going on. Last weekend was Kelly and Todd's wedding, which was tons of fun. Sunny came up (which always makes me happy), got to hang out with lots of fun people, drink and dance a lot. It was a great time.

That's pretty much all that's been going on. Don't really have anything to exciting on the horizon. I'm thinking about booking a vacation soon. We've got some money saved, and now that it doesn't all have to go to the refinance, why not put it toward a much needed get away. Right? Anyway, I'll leave you with some fun pictures from the wedding. :)

Me and my best lady, Robin.

I love how Jason's face is the only thing in focus in this shot. It makes me laugh.

My favorite shot of the bride and groom. :)

Ooops! Sorry.

Not that I really believe that I have too many loyal readers out there, but I do apologise for the LONG lapse in time between blog entries. Life happened, and this got pushed to the back burner. Plus, there really hasn't been anything all to interesting to report on.

My other blog continues to gather more readers, but even it hasn't been getting the attention I would like it to have. I think maybe the nice warm weather makes it very hard to sit inside and tell the tale of delicious food. Anyway. If you still haven't check out the other blog, please do... it's much more interesting that this one. http://www.hungryinomaha.blogspot.com/

I'm trying to think of what all happened in the last month and a half... I finally decided to stop thinking about it and take the online corse for my Travel and Tourism Certificate. I haven't enrolled just yet, because I needed to get a new computer first (apparently all the stuff is for PC, and I've been an avid MAC user for the last 10 years). However, the new computer has been purchased! Also, just this week I started the process of trying to refinance my house. Since my house dropped so much in value when the economy crashed, I am going to have to bring quite a bit of money to the table when we close. So, that has put a halt on all unnessisary spending. Once we're all refinanced, then I will get enrolled and start down a new career path. I just hope it's a good decision. I already know that it's not a career that I'll get stinking rich off of, but I think it's something I could enjoy... and if I could like what I do a little bit better, than I think that's a good life choice.

I did get to take a mini vacation with the girls last month, and that was a ton of fun! We went to Branson, MO. Deep down I think we all thought it was going to be SUPER lame. However, we ended up having a blast. We really didn't do anything all that special either. We just hung out, had a spa day, and then went to bars with silly names (ie: The Rowdy Beaver and The Hill Billy Inn). There was a good time had by all and was super fun. We've discussed the possability of making this an annual girls get away.

Let's see, let's see. Nothing else really too exciting happening on my end. Got to go to my first drag show a couple weeks ago. That was lots of fun. Last night I went to my first Omaha Royals baseball game. That wasn't all that exciting for me. I just ate a lot of junk and drank a bunch of $1 beers. We left before the 7th inning.

Well, I guess my life just isn't all that exciting at the moment. Kelly's wedding is next weekend. That should be lots of fun... Can't wait!! Now I think I'll leave with with some fun photos from Branson...

Our super sweet cabin we stayed.

Fun with fake mustasces!!

Getting down with old people!

All of us in the car together... ah memories :)

and finally... Us with Rowdy the break dancing cowboy from the Hill Billy Inn.

Spring has sprung!

Too bad my yard is more weeds than grass. Although it's kinda pretty since my lawn is pretty much purple.  I can't wait to get our yard fixed up. We have plans for the back yard, but they change every year, and I'm starting to thing nothing will ever get done back there. I hope I'm wrong.

I've kind of been neglecting this blog a bit. Work has been kind of busy and a lot of the time once I get home, I really don't feel like doing much of anything. Plus, my other blog is finally getting noticed. I've been getting lots of positive feed back, and I'm up to 4 followers (granted I know them all, but it's still nice). This is all super exciting to me, so I've been pouring most of my writing and creative energy into that blog. I've been trying to cook more and trying to do more write ups on the restaurants so that I have more to post on that page. It's kind of a lot of work, but I'm still having fun with it. This week after I do the two write ups I have planned I'm going to work on giving food blog a face lift. I don't think it's very visually appealing, so I want to work on that, then hopefully spread the word a little more.

In other news, Eric has been working for the last 3 weeks. Which is good because he's happy to be back at work, and he feels useful again. However, he's been working 12 hour days, 7 days a week. So he is SUPER crabby and tired all the time. He's not much fun to be around. This job is only going to last a few more weeks, so I guess it's not that bad. Then he'll be back to incredibly unhappy unemployed Eric. I kind of can't win in this situation.

My work has been a lot busier since the weather got nice. Some days I feel like I'm just running all day. Which I guess is ok, since my days go by really fast, but it does take it's toll on me. Although I've been sleeping SO much better than I used to. The property that they gave me as "my baby" is doing really well. We leased up all the vacant apartments, and I only have one person on notice. Which is great. Hopefully that says a lot about what I could accomplish if they gave me more responsibility. Maybe one day, although right now I'm still not even sure this is what I want to be doing... I just want more money, which of course would come with a promotion.

I think that's about all that is new. Today I did a little bit of spring cleaning, but my house really needs a full over haul. It needs the real deal, top to bottom spring clean... I kind of doubt that will happen, but a girl can hope right?

Got my hair done today :)

YAY! I decided to get bangs cut in again. This cut is similar to the cut I got the last time I had it done (over a year ago). 

Nothing too new to report on. Got a mock promotion at work. Basically, I'm going to do all the manager work for one of our properties, but not going to get paid anything extra, or a title change or anything. I guess they're looking at it as training me to take over as a manager for a property eventually. Still kind of sucks getting more work, with out more pay. I guess I should just take it as a good thing and go on with my life.

Other than that... nothing has changed. Been a pretty boring week in my personal life. Planning a fun weekend road trip with the girls down to Branson, MO in May. That way we can meet up with Sunny and hang out a bit. Should be a grand time. Can't wait!

Yesterday it was 65 and sunny??

This is today :(

I guess that is to be expected here in Nebraska, but it's still frustrating.

Thought I'd do a post since it's been a couple weeks again. Still not much too report on. The afore mentioned funk I was in during my last post has started to lift a little. I had several talks with Eric about our relationship... and I think he's trying. We've actually been getting a long pretty well lately, and having fun together again. It's been nice. Last week I just kind of decided I wasn't ready to give up on my marriage. We've still got some things we need to work on, but it's a start.

I'm still being super bipolar about my work. I'm in the "I hate my job" mode again. I wish I could just make up my mind and figure out what I want to do. The fact of the matter is, right now I really don't have a choice. This is paying the bills, and right now, that's what we need most. We really need to get Eric back to work. I'm starting to get really frustrated with being so poor all the time. However, I am going to treat myself next week and go get my hair done. It's been a year since my last hair cut and I feel like I deserve it. 

I guess that's about it. I spent most of today being a bum. We have gone out the last 3 nights in a row and stayed out till bar time all 3 nights. Got to sleep in today for a while, but still don't feel like I've caught up on my sleep just yet. I do have a couple posts I want to get up on my other blog. I have a great tuna pasta recipe I want to share, and the dinner we had last night at Urban Wine Company was out of this world. Playing catch up again. I really need to be more disciplined about posting right away. Oh well. Guess that's part of being a procrastinator. Need to work on that. 

Been a while

Sorry I've been kind of MIA lately. In all honestly, I've been in kind of a funk. I don't want to go into too much detail, but just to sum up.

Last time I wrote, I had the bowling party for my work the following day. That was the day it was made very clean that I need a prescription for Zanex. I had a full on panic attack due to my social anxiety. This had never happened to me on such an intense level. I just freaked the fuck out. I think I managed to hold it together enough while there so no one from work saw my freak out. But the second I was in the car, I just started bawling... It was pretty bad. I've been a little off ever since that happened.

Sunny got into town last Thursday night. So that's been fun. We hung out most of last weekend, and some time during the week. So that's been distracting me from being so damn depressed.

Thus, the funk previously mentioned. I've just been really down lately. It's hard to say exactly what my problem is... well, that's not quite true. Eric and I have been having some issues. He's depressed from not working, and thus, he acts like I don't exist. When he's down, he's a real dick. I really want to get too specific, but that has a lot to do with why I'm so crabby/depressed lately.

And, that is a very quick summary of what's been going on in my life. Sorry to be such a downer. Hopefully I'll start to cheer up here soon. Maybe I am just bipolar. My moods to seem to go up and down a lot lately... who knows. Hopefully I'll have something more interesting to report on in the near future.

I guess I lied

My last post I though I really didn't have much new to report on in the work department. That was totally not true, lots of things have been happening. I don't know how exciting they are to the rest of the world, but it's been making work tolerable for me. Which is a really good thing, because for a while there I was really in a funk.

Our office took over another small property last week. Just a tiny little 36 plex that had been pretty much neglected by the previous manager. We took it over with six vacant apartments last Tuesday, which is like 83% occupancy (in apartment management this is really bad). By this Tuesday we'd leased two of them and even managed to get one of them moved in already. This makes us look really good, and our boss even said we looked like "heros" for leasing them so quickly. We still have a long way to go, but it's defiantly a start. I think I need a challenge at work to really be happy.

Also, we've had lots of fun little things going on at work. Last Wednesday we had a "Spa Day" for all the management/leasing staff. I got to get a massage and we all hung out and did a little gift exchange. It was a lot of fun. Tomorrow we're having a bowling party thing. With all these fun little outings during work hours, and the busyness of the new property, my work weeks have been flying by. Which again, makes me very happy.

I guess I just wanted to share a little bit of my rekindled excitement for my job. I'm so bipolar about my work these days, you just never know how I'm going to feel about it. Still thinking about the travel/tourism class... I think I am going to give it a shot, just need to get a little extra money before I can. Which could take a while.

Well, I'm getting sleepy and I think I'm done ranting and raving. Good night.

P.S. finally got a follower. :D It made my day. Thanks Sunny!