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!

It's Valentines Day!!

Not that I'm a huge fan of the holiday, but I think I did a really good job this year. I managed to get us reservations (at the last minute) to Hiro, a great Japanese/sushi restaurant here in Omaha. Plus I got Eric a gift, that #1). I'm sure he's not expecting because last year I didn't get him anything and #2). I'm sure he's really going to appreciate. He's been complaining about how much his back has been bothering him lately. So I got him a gift certificate for a 1 1/2 hour massage... He'll be stoked!

Let see... I don't think I have much else to report on. I've kind of been taking it easy this weekend. Not so much by choice, we just really didn't find anything to do. I hung out with Robin again on Thursday night, and that's it. Eric and I spent the last two nights at home.

Work's fine. Really, nothing exciting has happened at all this week. Oh, except my other blog got it's first post. It was from my buddy Alicia, but hey, it's something. It's very rewarding to know that someone has read my ramblings.

I guess I'll wrap this up. For those of you in love have a great Valentines Day! For those of you not in love, may the booze flow freely and may you enjoy the single life while you can.  :)

Old movies are fun!

Yay! It's something so silly to get excited about, but I just got my first comment from someone I don't know. Now at least 2 people have read my blog. HA! If I ever get a "follower" I may just crap my pants! Thank you random person for making my night!

It's been a busy couple days at work, so I haven't been as bored... or crabby. My boss got back from her vacation today. I managed not to screw anything up on Monday, so that's a good deal. Actually, I think I did a pretty good job while in charge. I really didn't screw up anything major, and got a lot of stuff done that she didn't expect me to. I like to exceed expectations... it's a good feeling.

I did get my evening at home on Saturday night (although I didn't make it into the bath tub). I actually had a great time. TMC is currently playing pretty much ever been nominated for a oscar, and Bonnie and Clyde was on. I'd never seen it all the way through, but my mother always talked about it. She saw it in the theater when it came out, and always talked about how at that time they had never really shown violence in a movie like that before, and how it left her stunned. For me Bonnie and Clyde was awesome! I loved it! In fact the movie may have spawned a little mini obsession. I spent all of Sunday morning reading all about Bonnie and Clyde on the internet. Here is real life Bonnie Parker posing with her pistol and cigar (they recreated this pic in the movie... it was pretty cool).

**It drives me crazy that I can't get text to wrap around pictures on this site! If someone can tell me how to do it, you will forever be my hero! **

Anyway. Bonnie and Clyde was a great fricking movie. It left me a little stunned, although not so much for the violence of it (even though there was a scene that even made Eric yell "He shot him in the face!"). I just found the ending so upsetting. How they were just ambushed and gunned down. They were given no warning at all. The cops just opened fire and unloaded on them. It hit me hard, and really left me saying what my mother had always said. "That was awful." Really, if you've never seen it. Take the time, it was really good.

Sunday of course was the Super Bowl. I made a fun new recipe (don't forget to check it out on my other blog Hungry in Omaha ), and it was a total hit. I don't want to say it was the best thing there, but it was the first thing to disappear... and it disappeared fast! We went to Kelly and Todd's house and had a lot of fun. They have 2 living rooms, so there was kind of a girls room and a boys room. So I think everyone had a pretty good time. :)

Got a little bit of good news. Yesterday, Eric got called for a job. So he started working today. The job may only last a couple weeks, but it'll still help out a lot. Money has been SO tight lately, and his couple weeks of work will be quite a bit more income than his unemployment. Plus, since his insurance ran out last month, every hour he works goes toward getting insurance back... which we REALLY need, because we just can't afford it through my work. Yeah, financially things have been pretty shitty in our house hold the last few months. Hopefully things will start to look up soon.

Well, I better get myself to bed. Tomorrow my work is having a "Spa Day". It's really not a day. It's just a couple hours, but I get paid to not work and get a short massage on the company buck.   :)

Still being social

However, I hope I'm allowed to have a nice quiet evening at home tonight. I could really use a night to unwind and relax for a bit. Not that I'm stressed or anything, it would just be nice to be at home for a bit. Maybe take a bath.

 I've been pretty busy all week. After the art show on Tuesday, I spend Wednesday night with Robin. We went out to eat a La Mesa (my favorite mexican place) and had some margaritas, and then just hung out at her place for a while. Thursday, I guess we took it pretty easy. Just ate out at Smash Burger (which was super nasty! See my other blog for details) then rented a movie and went home for the night.

Yesterday felt like a really busy day even though it was my day off. I went to lunch with some of my work buddies from my old job. We caught up for a bit and talked about how awful it was/is to work for The Peterson Companies. Even though I'm still not sure I love my new job, it's still so much better than the old one. Much less stress... most of the time any way.

For the evening, I had gotten free tickets the UNO hockey game at the Qwest Center. So we took Josh and Sarah along to repay them for the tickets to the Bugs Bunny show. That was a lot of fun. It was a really good game. It was a tie game, that went into over time, and came down to a shoot out. It was pretty crazy actually. After that we went back to their place and hung out for a bit. So, good times.

Other than my new found social life, really not much has been going on. My in office boss is out of town till Tuesday, so I'm in charge. Trying not to completely screw up every thing. Although, I have been screwing up a few small things... which sucks. I was really hoping to do everything perfect and have no issues and really just like rock it. You know? I guess I want to show the higher ups I could handle more responsibility. Since maybe if I had more stuff to do, or got promoted, I would be a little happier at work. Eh, who knows.

Tomorrow is the big game. Super Bowl Sunday! I will be spending the evening at Kelly and Todd's house with friends. Which is sure to be a good time. I'm also going to try a new recipe to bring a long, so that should be fun too. I'm sure you'll get to hear all about it in my next post (probably too much about it), so I'm gonna wrap this up. ta ta.

Blood red bathrooms freak me out.

I don't know why, but it must be a new trend to paint bathrooms blood red, and it creeps me out. I always feel like I'm in a horror movie waiting to be slaughtered. This is the bathroom at the Nomad Lounge, and I will get to this a little further down in the post.

I've been a little down lately, so I haven't been posting much. I've just been in a real funk with my job. Still just unsure how I feel about it, and as a result, I've been unsure how I feel about my life. So, yeah, that kind of sucks. However, works gotten a little busier this week so I don't have to sit and pretend to be busy while staring at the clock the entire time. Which gives me less time to think about my situation and I am starting to feel a little better.

I've decided this blog is a good thing for me. Not only is it allowing me to write more and "express my self" and what not, but it's kind of forced me to get out of the house and have social life. I feel like if all I have to write about is that I spent another week lying on the couch every night, well, that's just depressing. And really, who wants to read about my incredibly boring and depressing life? As a result of not wanting to subject any readers who do stop by my blog to that, I've tried to spice up my life a bit more... and I think it's working.

Last night we went to a student art exhibit at the Nomad Lounge. I hadn't been down to the Nomad and it was a SUPER swanky lounge, and a very cool venue. It has lots of great little lounge areas with curtains all separating them (I guess you can reserve those on the weekends and you get your own little bar runner person). Really, it looked like a place we really couldn't afford to go on a regular basis, but it was still really cool. Maggie (Eric's younger sister) had invited us to come. She was basically helping to put the whole thing on, plus she did have some of her work in the show as well. Of course there was free wine, which I took advantage of, and fun artsy people to talk to. I had a great time, and drank a touch too much. Thankfully, I'm feeling great today. I think going out just helped to lift my spirits a bit. I'm going out tonight too. Well, maybe not out, but I'm doing something with Robin. Which could just be going over to her place, but at least I wont be home. Plus, Robin is one of my all time favorite people, so I'm always happy to spend time with her. :)

Anyway, I'll wrap this up. I guess I never did get back to the blood red bathroom... oh well. It was red and creepy. Here's another picture from inside Nomad. It didn't turn out great since it was kind of dark in there, and I took it with my phone, but whatever.

Just not sure.

Hello all... or none as it would appear. I don't think anyone reads my blog, but oh well. It's just my vehicle to write and vent to the world. At least Sunny read it once and commented. That's the best I've gotten so far.

I think I'm having a little bit of a crisis at work. I'm not sure I like my job. It's been a slow week, so every minute there just drags by. I don't know if I'm just irritated because it's slow, and it's making me question everything. Or, if I am really just done with the apartment management scene.

I've been rolling around the idea of getting my travel and tourism certificate online. Really if I could do anything, I would just travel the world all the time. I do realize though, even if I can get a job in the travel industry, it's not all travel. I'll  probably just end up at some desk job, or some airline job, that wont hardly pay the bills, let alone pay for excellent vacations. The one perk is, I would get discounts on travel... which I could use even if I don't get a job in the industry, so that's nice.

I just question myself. I have a history of being all about something, then one day I wake up and I'm totally over it.  Hell, my poor parents paid for me to go to a very expensive art college. Never did anything with that degree. I threw myself into a Mary Kay career and dedicated two years of my life to it, then one day was just done with it. Now I've been in apartment management for 4 years, and maybe the appeal is starting to wear off. I'm just not sure what I want any more... it's a little frustrating.

I keep going back to the travel thing in my head. It's been a few months and I keep going back to it. It's been about 6 months actually. Eh... Maybe I'll just keep rolling the idea around a little longer.

Busy weekend!

This weekend was a nice change of pace, considering I really haven't had much of a social life in the last few months. I've been trying to go out as little as possible, since I really don't have money to spend on going out at the moment. Yeah. We're pretty poor these days. :(

Saturday was a great evening! After work and a nap we met up with our friends Josh and Sarah. Josh works for the Omaha Symphony and managed to get us tickets to "Bugs Bunny on Broadway".  It was a really great show! They had a huge screen that they showed old Looney Tunes cartoons on while the symphony played the music. It was really an impressive merger, and actually way cooler than I had imagined. I would totally recommend any one to go, it was so much fun. Plus it was in the beautiful Holland Center, which is truly one of Omaha's great gems and I love to go there whenever possible.

Afterward we all went to the Marly Bone for drinks. It'd been a while since we'd all hung out together. So it was nice to visit and catch up.

Today was the Auto Show down at the Quest Center. We went with our friend Shana and her two little boys. They were a lot of fun to watch run around and react to things. What I wouldn't give to see the world through the eyes of a child again. Where everything is new and exciting. I've started to really like being around children just for that reason. It was a lot of fun.

The rest of they day Eric and I have just been taking it pretty easy. We went and shopped around for a little bit, and then just pretty much spent the night on the couch. So I think I'll go a head and wrap this up. Here are some pictures from the weekend. Enjoy.

Inside the Holland


Sarah and me at the Marly Bone

The boys with the Bat Mobile at the car show (sorry it's a little blurry but they are just too cute!)

My body hates me.

I think I must just be getting old. :(

I woke up hung over again this morning. Again, I feel I was way more hung over than I should have been. I guess my body just really can't handle alcohol any more. That sucks, because I enjoy having a few drinks from time to time. I guess I'm just going to try to control my drinking a little bit more, because this is the second time in under a week I've been miserably hung over. Plus I can't get anything done when I'm like this. I was in bed till 2 today, because I thought if I moved I was going to throw up. No fun.

Any way. This week seemed to go really fast. I was pretty busy at work, so my days went by quick. Which is always a good thing.

Last night I went over to Robin's house. We just hung out and drank wine all night. This time I spent the night at her house due to my over drinking. Robin is so funny. She finally just got on face book, and is super paranoid that people are going to stalk her online, so she wont approve hardly any one as her friends. She's so cute.

Trying to figure out what we're going to do tonight. I could go for movie, haven't been to one in a long time. Tomorrow night we have a double date with Josh and Sarah. The symphony is have a Looney Tune show. Where they are showing old Bugs Bunny cartoons and the symphony plays over them. Josh works for the symphony, so he got us all tickets. It should be a good time.

Don't really have much else to report on. It's been a pretty uneventful week. I think I'm going to at least try to accomplish something today. Maybe I'll go through one of the basement boxes.

Don't have much to say today...

Other than the news that I started another blog. My goal to write more may have taken over my life... I doubt it. This may just be like so many things I get "all about" for a couple weeks, then completely forget about. Oh well. I really needed a hobby.


Anyway. The new blog is about my food adventures, and local restaurants and all food related whatnots. Check it out at http://www.hungryinomaha.blogspot.com/. My first post is a recipe for a Mediterranean hummus pizza. Good stuff.


Eric did make it home early Monday morning. I'm very glad to have him home. Although I think he's already getting annoyed with me since I want to cuddle and touch him constantly. I think that's about it. Too tired to have any deep thoughts or conversations with myself, so I'm gonna wrap this up. G'night!

I was totally worthless today :(

Yes, it is true. I woke up this morning hung over. Which I thought was weird because I really hadn't drank that much. Alicia came over last night and we watched movies and drank a couple bottles of wine. Really I feel my hangover was disproportionate to the level of alcohol that I drank. I just don't understand my body any more. I can't gauge my level of drunkenness, or how bad my hangover is going to be, and it is really starting to suck. Maybe this is a sign that I shouldn't drink any more.

Anyway, I sat on my ass ALL day, except for the last 20 minutes when I did a load of dishes. I was really, really worthless today.

Eric was supposed to get back tonight, but his flight was cancelled. So now I have to go get him in the morning. I was really excited to have him back home too. When he left, I could hardly wait to get him out the door, and now I can't wait to get him home. I think I just needed a little time to myself. I'm sure he could use the time away from me too. I think our relationship dynamic works a little better when we have some time apart. It makes me appreciate him more when he is around.

I have a hibiscus that decided to sprout out one little bud and bloom... I thought I'd killed it. It's lost almost all it's leaves, so it looks really funny. It's like a bunch of naked sticks with a flower on top. See.

For now, I'm taking it as a personal message not to give up. Since, even though it looked like it was about to give up and die, it put in a little effort and popped out something beautiful. I haven't talked about it too much on here, but work has been a little iffy lately. I just can't decide if I like what I do any more. I've been doing the apartment management thing for the last 4 years, and I did really like it, but I'm just not sure any more. I keep rolling around the idea of getting my travel and tourism certificate... but I know how I am.

I have a tendency to get all about something, and throw myself entirely into it. Then, out of nowhere. One day I'm just done with it. I've always done that. With work, with hobbies, with people. I don't know why I can't just stay interested in things for longer than a couple years. It kinda sucks.

Eh, anyway. I didn't mean to go into all that, and I really should be getting to bed. I have to get up earlier than normal tomorrow to go pick up Eric from the airport... but I'm really don't feel tired. It's not like I  used any energy today. Oh well. I think I'm going to wrap this up. Good night all.

Worn out!!

Well, I did manage to get some of my list done.

 I did get a new profile picture up (it's of me cuddling my kitty on the floor).

 Once I started to clean, things kind of went a stray. You see, I started cleaning off my dining room table and things snow balled. I know cleaning off a table sounds easy, but in our house the table catches everything we don't want to do anything with at the moment. So it catches a lot of crap. I took a before pic for you.

So I started cleaning the table and I noticed the my wood floors were filthy. So then I had to clean my floors since they hadn't been REALLY cleaned since spring time. Since my wood floors go into the living room, I needed to vacuum my area rug and clean that room too. Also, since my chairs were upside down on the table I thought I'd replace some of the little pads on the bottoms of my chairs that keep them from scratching up my floor. After all that, I was about done cleaning. So I never did make get the kitchen good and clean (I did still do a load of dishes though). Here is my after pic.

I love it when my house is clean. Even though right now it's just the living and dining room for the moment, I just feel so much happier in here. Anyway after that I was exhausted and decided I should really have taken a before picture of myself, because while my house looks nice, I look like hell. Here is my after pic.

Also, I did go through 2 boxes from the basement. And! Even though I really didn't want to move much after all that cleaning, I still worked out with my Wii fit for 45 minutes! All in all I still feel like I accomplished a lot today. I'm actually really happy Robin woke me up kind of early today, otherwise I probably would have slept till 1, then been useless the rest of the day because I slept too long.

Sucks I did put off my 401k thing again... I really need to get that taken care of. :(

The kitchen will be my project for Sunday.

Now, I think I need to go to bed.

An ambitious day off...

Ok. So I didn't get to sleep in as much as I wanted, but it was for a good reason. Robin selpt on my couch last night due to a little too much to drink and this morning she got a call back for a job she had interviewed for. She came bounding up the stairs to my bedroom yelling "Angi! I got the job!" Then jumped on top of me. It was really cute. So we went out to breakfast to cellabrate.

So now, I kind of want to go back to sleep. However, I feel like since my husband is gone, I really should do some stuff around the house. You see, my husband has been out of work since May (he's union, and they just ran out of work), so he is here all the time. And I find if very hard to get stuff done when he's around, not really sure why.

So, I figured I'd make a list and post it. So that maybe I'll feel more accountable. Here is what I would like to accomplish today... We'll see how this works out.

1). Call about rolling over my 401K (I switched jobs 4 months ago and keep putting it off).
2). Clean the kitchen.
3). Clean off the dining room table.
4). Go through at least one of the basement boxes :(
6). Find a more recent picture for my profile... that I like. (this could be a hard task)
5). Do a little work out with my Wii fit (which I love!)

I'll let you know how it goes.

--on a side note, I just noticed I've started every paragraph with "so".--

Wow! My hair is getting long again.

You really can't tell from this picture, but I just noticed and felt cute today. So I figured, what the hell, I'll take a picture of myself. Not to mention, my profile picture is like 3 years old. Just need to find a newer one I like. That's all for now.

It's a sun shiny day...

I am in a surprisingly good mood today. Strange since I bearly slept last night, had to go to work early for a mandatory company wide meeting, and have only had one cup of coffee.

Just thought I'd try blogging via my BlackBerry. It's pretty easy. This may help me keep up my resolution to write more. :)

The sun is shining brightly today, and it's going to be above freezing today for the second day in a row.

All feels right in the world today, and that makes me smile.

Today is my Friday, so I'm looking forward to spending the evening with my good friend Robin, and sleeping in tomorrow. Good times.

my right hand smells like gas...

Hi there.

This is a blog that happened, sucked, and so it has been reborn.

Really, this blog is just for myself. I'm not going to go into a huge back story. All you need to know is that my name is angi, I recently turned 27, and I live in Omaha. I'm married to a great guy name Eric, who I like most of the time, and I have a cat named cat.

As I said, this blog is really for myself. You see, years ago I always kept a journal, and I was always writing. I have volumes of journals, but nothing from the last 5 years (give or take). So this blog, is really going to be more like a online diary of my thoughts, feelings, life happenings, blah blah blah.
Oh. So why the title. "little lost Omaha"? That hasn't changed. You see, I feel a little lost in my life. Not really sure what my plans are for the future, or hell, even tomorrow. I feel like I just don't know where I am headed in life. I have lots of things I would like to do, but either don't have the ambition to get there or just don't have any idea how to get there. I'm not sure I like my job, but I'm not sure I don't like it either. I have lots of friends, but often feel like I don't have any, or don't know who my friends really are. As far as my "lost" feelings go, I'm sure those listed are just the tip of the iceberg, but I feel like I'm done talking about that.

Anyway, since it's a new year, I felt the need to make some resolutions (not that I've ever kept one). Writing more was one of them. My other resolutions are to get some kind of physical activity at least once a week. Have more sex with my husband and get our basement cleaned out so we can get it finished.

My husband is currently on a road trip with my 89 year old grandfather. He's taking him back to West Virginia, were most of my family lives. There is a super long story behind this trip, but I don't feel like going into. But the plus side is, I have the house all to myself for the next 4 days. I really love my husband, but sometimes we can really get on each other's nerves. We've been spending a lot of time together lately, and it's lead to a lot of stupid little quarrels over really nothing. I think we're to the point that a little time apart would do us some good.

Well, I suppose this is getting pretty lengthy, so I'll wrap it here. Oh, and the title of this entry, has nothing to do with anything in it. Just stating a fact of the moment.