I'm not very good with a camera, (point and shoot is about all I can figure out), but I had Joe show me a couple of functions on our facy camera, and I went out and practiced a bit.
Here are the results.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Snow Flakes
Yesterday it snowed a good portion of the day. It wasn't quite cold enough for anything to stick for long, but the flakes were huge and gorgeous, like God had torn open a down pillow and feathers were falling to earth.
I'm not very good with a camera, (point and shoot is about all I can figure out), but I had Joe show me a couple of functions on our facy camera, and I went out and practiced a bit.
Here are the results.
I'm not very good with a camera, (point and shoot is about all I can figure out), but I had Joe show me a couple of functions on our facy camera, and I went out and practiced a bit.
Here are the results.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
it's a toss up...
Oh, which to choose? But one thing is for certain: nothing tops off a night of Tudor scandal better than this:
An Addiction
So Jen and I are addicted....
its devistating. It creeps into your thoughts,
and you can't get enough....
I see an intervention coming.
The object of our addiction, you ask?
After getting hooked on this show we have been reading all the novels from this time period we can get our hands on. Its absolutely facinating. We have already set a date tonight to have a Tudor marathon. We are going to eat at this little Italian place 'Napoli's' and then come back to watch the 8 or so episodes I have saved on my DVR. Man I love Showtime.
God help us.
its devistating. It creeps into your thoughts,
and you can't get enough....
I see an intervention coming.
The object of our addiction, you ask?
After getting hooked on this show we have been reading all the novels from this time period we can get our hands on. Its absolutely facinating. We have already set a date tonight to have a Tudor marathon. We are going to eat at this little Italian place 'Napoli's' and then come back to watch the 8 or so episodes I have saved on my DVR. Man I love Showtime.
God help us.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
ranch nuts
so i'm sitting here again reading our blog, compulsively eating these damned kettle roasted ranch peanuts! i knew at walmart when i bought them for "Ben" i would be the one ending up eating them. on another depressive note, ben is losing weight left and right! i won't even say what his weight is because it just plain pisses me off. i haven't been motivated to lose weight like last year, due to a number of reasons. so here i sit, eating nuts, mad at myself.
J.
home today
yes i was sick today with woman symptoms, so i called in. i spent most of the morning laying around, watching Stepford Wives and sleeping on and off. Ben was actually home today so after i let him sleep in we actually got to spend a few hours together! we opened a savings account finally, and settled our debt with the IRS. after Ben left for work i mowed my giant onion field of a yard, and MB came over with Mr. Steve to let him play with Finley. They did great together, and got along better than we could've hoped for. we walked them around the lake and then turned em loose in the back yard. They just left now, and Fin is plopped down on the floor by my feet here, exhausted. Now all we need is Miss Rip and we'll be set:) i loved having our boys play together and wear themselves out. hopefully they will sleep good tonight.
i feel weird when i'm not at work during the week, i kind of don't like it. i get depressed when i'm left alone too much...
i feel weird when i'm not at work during the week, i kind of don't like it. i get depressed when i'm left alone too much...
Sick day
Jen took a sick day today.
So I'm bored out of my mind at work today.
Not that I don't have anything to do, its just that jen and I use the work email like texts or IMs.
We are constantly talking without being in each other's offices.
I'm pretty busy today. Not unusual.
Jen and I could pretty much single handedly run this place. We've both worked our way up from the bottom of the food chain here.
She started at the front desk, and I started at Filesupport.
Jen's working in Engineering now, doing Bill of Materials, she can also fill in for order entry, and coil entry, knows a lot about CAD drawings, and can go out to the stockroom and pick her OWN bills!
Now, I'm the guru for excel documents, administrative assistant to the VP of Sales, Parts Salesman, Sales Support, Service Support, Travel Scheduler.
Between the two of us, we cover nearly all the positions in the office part of the business.
We will be managers/VP's here at the rate we are going.
:)
On another note, I passed my test last night at my Conceal Carry Class.
So after I shoot 50 rounds through my semi auto pistol, I'll have everything in order to finalize my license.
So the next time you see me, I will be packing...
This:
On top of Jen and I deciding to take Karate here coming up soon, we are going to be some BAD ASS chicks...
Climbing the corporate ladder with nunchucks.... and black patent leather 4 inch pumps.
Watch out world.
Friday, March 20, 2009
also
we are so freakishly BFFF that today we both wore grey sweater/sweatshirts, wife beaters, and ball caps. people thought we did it on purpose!!!
Jen
Jen
Meeting Mel
Mel is probably one of the coolest chicks you will ever meet, certainly the coolest person i know. she carries herself with quiet poise and a bit of coolness, so at first you think she doesn't like you.
at least that's what i thought the first month or two we worked together at RAE Corporation. but i got her to laugh at my dumb jokes, so i figured that was a start. once we broke the ice over our mutual annoyance and disgust of a summer coworker, we discovered we actually had a lot in common. we both married pretty young, so we bonded over similar embarassing and funny situations we'd encountered in our marriages, and we were also able to lift eachother up whenever one was going thru a particularly hard time. plus, neither of us really had any close friends, and deep down we both were kinda lonely, so i think that cemented our bond even more. at any rate, we have gotten to the point where at least for me i don't think i could function without her in my every day life, or else i might fall into a deep severe depression. is that healthy? probably not.
Jen
at least that's what i thought the first month or two we worked together at RAE Corporation. but i got her to laugh at my dumb jokes, so i figured that was a start. once we broke the ice over our mutual annoyance and disgust of a summer coworker, we discovered we actually had a lot in common. we both married pretty young, so we bonded over similar embarassing and funny situations we'd encountered in our marriages, and we were also able to lift eachother up whenever one was going thru a particularly hard time. plus, neither of us really had any close friends, and deep down we both were kinda lonely, so i think that cemented our bond even more. at any rate, we have gotten to the point where at least for me i don't think i could function without her in my every day life, or else i might fall into a deep severe depression. is that healthy? probably not.
Jen
Meeting Jen
Mel:
I figured I would start out the Journal with the Story of how I met Jen. She and I will be writing this journal simultaneously. Try to keep up.
My husband got his first job out of college at a plant in Pryor, Oklahoma, in the industrial park. He is an engineer. RAE Corporation makes industrial A/C and Refrigeration Systems. We left everything behind and moved out here to start our lives as newlyweds.
The first time I saw Jen she was the receptionist at RAE, and I was coming inside to use the restroom (no joke). Joe had his final interview that day and we were running late, so instead of dropping me off, we only had enough time to go straight from the Norman Campus to the RAE job site. I stayed in the car. I knew it was going well when I had fallen asleep in the car and awoke 2 hours later and he still was inside at the interview.
But there was a problem, I had to pee.
I waited as long as I could, then rushed into the building, stopping at the reception desk.
I was mortified about asking to use the restroom in the middle of nowhere, and was afraid of making a bad impression for my husband with his wife in tow, waiting in the car.
It didn't make the situation any better when I come up to the reception desk and I see this really attractive women in serious business attire sitting at the desk. I was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and flip flops. I was just short of hoping up and down with the need to urinate. Jen was very polite though, and gave me directions to the bathroom.
Thus begins a beautiful friendship.
With urination...
Ha...
Its tough finding a job in a farm based community when you have a Psychology college background. I couldn't find anything worthwhile. And ended up interviewing at the same company my husband works.
I saw Jen again when I came in for the first interview for File Support.
I was nervous, I hate interviews.
I asked to see Shelly, the HR manager at the time. She was in the middle of answering the phone, so I bit my tongue. Then when she asked for my name, I mistakenly thought she meant Shelly so I told her again, 'Shelly'. But she really meant 'my name'. I realized this after the word slipped out and corrected myself, but I was blushing like an idiot at that point.
I'm really shy, and I have this awful tendency to blush when I'm uncomfortable.
I interviewed and got the job regardless, but sometimes you dwell on the little things.
File Support was at the desk next to Jen. So we had a lot of time to get to know each other, but it didn't happen for quite some time.
I'm shy remember?...
The current girl at File support was ridiculous, she trained me. She had one of those personalities that never stops talking, and doesn't take hints. She once explained the layout of a 'parking lot' at her college campus, complete with a drawn out diagram. Who the HELL CARES where you parked at school!? Mindless ramble. Oh GOD, make it stop. In the middle of the drawings and ramblings I look over at Jen and roll my eyes, shes giving the same look.
We bonded from then on.
I figured I would start out the Journal with the Story of how I met Jen. She and I will be writing this journal simultaneously. Try to keep up.
My husband got his first job out of college at a plant in Pryor, Oklahoma, in the industrial park. He is an engineer. RAE Corporation makes industrial A/C and Refrigeration Systems. We left everything behind and moved out here to start our lives as newlyweds.
The first time I saw Jen she was the receptionist at RAE, and I was coming inside to use the restroom (no joke). Joe had his final interview that day and we were running late, so instead of dropping me off, we only had enough time to go straight from the Norman Campus to the RAE job site. I stayed in the car. I knew it was going well when I had fallen asleep in the car and awoke 2 hours later and he still was inside at the interview.
But there was a problem, I had to pee.
I waited as long as I could, then rushed into the building, stopping at the reception desk.
I was mortified about asking to use the restroom in the middle of nowhere, and was afraid of making a bad impression for my husband with his wife in tow, waiting in the car.
It didn't make the situation any better when I come up to the reception desk and I see this really attractive women in serious business attire sitting at the desk. I was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and flip flops. I was just short of hoping up and down with the need to urinate. Jen was very polite though, and gave me directions to the bathroom.
Thus begins a beautiful friendship.
With urination...
Ha...
Its tough finding a job in a farm based community when you have a Psychology college background. I couldn't find anything worthwhile. And ended up interviewing at the same company my husband works.
I saw Jen again when I came in for the first interview for File Support.
I was nervous, I hate interviews.
I asked to see Shelly, the HR manager at the time. She was in the middle of answering the phone, so I bit my tongue. Then when she asked for my name, I mistakenly thought she meant Shelly so I told her again, 'Shelly'. But she really meant 'my name'. I realized this after the word slipped out and corrected myself, but I was blushing like an idiot at that point.
I'm really shy, and I have this awful tendency to blush when I'm uncomfortable.
I interviewed and got the job regardless, but sometimes you dwell on the little things.
File Support was at the desk next to Jen. So we had a lot of time to get to know each other, but it didn't happen for quite some time.
I'm shy remember?...
The current girl at File support was ridiculous, she trained me. She had one of those personalities that never stops talking, and doesn't take hints. She once explained the layout of a 'parking lot' at her college campus, complete with a drawn out diagram. Who the HELL CARES where you parked at school!? Mindless ramble. Oh GOD, make it stop. In the middle of the drawings and ramblings I look over at Jen and roll my eyes, shes giving the same look.
We bonded from then on.
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