Life has been quite the ride for this girl as of late – but I think everyone can say that these days…

I’m assuming one of these days I’ll wake up and POW! the inspiration to get my electronic act together will return and I’ll sit at my keyboard every day blogging away. But for now it’s gonna be like getting into a cold pool, stick the big toe in, pull it out and then take forever to just walk into the water.

This month I’ve turned 25 years old – or young – whatever floats your boat. And with this change comes many more – mostly for the good. If I didn’t have to get my ass to work I’d sit here and fill whoever still reads this thing in on all the gory details – but I digress.

So, all that said hello to the world -I’m still here and kickin’ – and I hope you have a lovely day

So, nothing really new around here. Yep, still alive so that’s a good thing.

What’s new with you?

I’m excited and optimistic about the whole thing and I know I can really do it…stubborn that way yaknow

I don’t have cable. Television has never been a major part of my life and making the choice to unplug the cord has saved me on average $70 a month. When I let my mom in on this little secret she immediately followed suit and cancelled her service. When I did have cable I only watched about 4 channels out of the 100 that came with the basic service, which calculated out to $25 per month for each channel…and although the life cycle of the sperm whale on Discovery Channel is fascinating to me I couldn’t see fit to spend that much money on that sort of information. It’s amazing how much entertainment can be found for free on the internet or using one of those Redbox movie rental stations.

I firmly believe that home phones are a thing of the past if you own a cell phone. After moving out of my parent’s house I never bothered to get another landline. It stands to reason that I was already paying for a cellphone so why double down with the spending on a home phone that I’d never even use? Not to mention the cost of a basic phone package anymore is a bit absurd, so the jack was finally unplugged at my mothers house although saying goodbye to “Ma Bell” was a little scary for her at first. The only down side I’ve found thus far with not having a home phone is when I lose my cell phone in the house if I’m alone then there’s no phone to pick up and call it to locate the damn thing. But it’s a chance I’m willing to take

Now, I’m not sending her into the dark ages with me or anything even though that’s how this may sound. It’s just a couple simple ways to cut out spending money on things that don’t really add value to our lives. I just hope one day my mother is sitting at home and the sudden realization hits her and the newly invented cliché is uttered – “I’m turning into my daughter!” HA!

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It’s scary that I’m supposed to be a part of the tech-savy generation…

Dragging along all your old emotional baggage, insecurities and issues tend to add a bit of strain to a new relationship. Things that happened to you in the past can easily dictate your response to what is happening in the present. Shit that had nothing to do with the new person you’re with can wrap it’s hands around the new life you work to build and begin to choke it out. Problems like this have to be kept in check and in perspective.

I honestly have difficulty with this very thing, but I’m working on it. I don’t want to be gun-shy, I don’t want to have pre-concieved notions about how people are. But I do. I just wish there was a bellhop somewhere in my head that I could check my old baggage into and just never come back and get it. I guess the key is learning to carry it without it weighing you down in the here and now.

I feel more at peace in a place where I know I can find what I’m looking for and my eyes aren’t going bonkers trying to take in my surroundings. I know lots of people love “orgainzed chaos” and can function well in that kind of enviroment…but I can’t. This side of my personality is most apparent at my job. Among other things my position requires me to process large amounts of data and consolodate it into simple and easy to understand reports and graphs as well as accounts payable duties for the entire department.

I deal with A LOT of paper every day. It’s only apparent how much crap crosses my desk when I take a day off because I’ll come back and the inbox is overflowing (and scary)…I think this may be a tatic by my bosses to ensure I don’t take days off *chuckle* I have multiple stacking paper sorters on the desk that will hold all invoices from their reception into the office through the entire payment process (gotta love corporate red tape) to end point of filing away in a clean and organized file drawer that comes complete with a self created self-archiving system. Yep, I’m a nerd.

But before I took over my position the payables process was a wreck. The person that had the duty before me couldn’t keep up with the work load, things got lost or misplaced all the time, it was impossible to find anything and was just a completely frustrating job. When I took over the main goal was to whip things back into shape. I hate for my desk to have unnecessary papers on it and I only keep out what I’m working on at the moment. It makes it way easier for me to focus and remember what I’m doing.

My desk stays clean looking all the time because at the end of each day I take a couple minutes before closing time and straighten up my papers and put everything away. Every Friday at 10 til 5 o’clock I stop what I’m doing and dust my desk, make a quick sweep of any unnecessary papers and make sure my little cubie is completly clean for the week ahead. I don’t keep a giant cup full of a thousand pens and pencils on my desk, I have a small pen cup that holds one nice black pen, a red pen, one nice mechanical pencil, two highlighters and a sharpie. The bigger stuff is stashed in a side drawer and I only keep the bare minimum supplies at my desk to avoid crowding. These simple things make it nice to come into the office in the morning, I don’t feel as though I’m being bitchslapped by my work as soon as I walk in.

A lot of the people at work keep forty thousand pictures of their families on their shelves that get mixed in with outdated training manuals, stacks of papers, knick nacks, half dead plants and god knows what else. The space under their desk is filled with boxes of papers that could easily be stored somewhere else (like the huge row of open file cabinents they gave us). There’s a couple desks at work where I get truly clostrophobic sitting at due to the amount of shit and dust they have in their cube. My shelfs are simplified for functionality, I keep one plant, a decrotative candle our boss gave us for Christmas last year, one picture that means the world to me and only the most recent version of the training guide for my desk. The three binders I use daily on the shelf have matching lables and are kept clean looking. The only thing under the desk in my cube is a trash can.

It makes me wonder if my OCD has anything to do with why I love my job so much and managed to have great production times. The people around the office that bitch the most and hate their jobs the most are the ones that are drownding in clutter. Some people there swear by how their do their work but when it comes down to it their work is as sloppy as their workspace. I think at least your office should be kept well, no one else wants to see a wreck-desk during the day and you’ll be so much more productive in the long run. *steps off soap box*

I’ve been researching this dream trip of mine for quite a few years now, everytime I find a new website of something I want to see I have a special folder in my bookmarks call ‘The Sex and the City Trip’ that holds all the links. Last night while messing around online I found something that totally fits right into my trip itinerary which I didn’t even know existed. Walking Food Tours NYC, you actually pay someone to take you out into the city and they show you the best food spots the Big Apple has to offer!

I fell in love with this idea because well, I like love to eat and they have a Greenwich Village Food Tour that includes a stop for cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery made famous from Sex and the City! Can you say AWESOME!?!

Vacationing vicariously though a t.v. show may be a little nerdy but when the day finally comes that I’ll step off the plane and step into Manhattan I know it’s gonna be one helluva trip! I just did a little evaluation of all of the links I have saved and if I tried to do everything that has caught my eye my vacation there would have to be for 3 months *chuckle* A girl can dream though can’t she?

The position is in another department but if I could just get in I could care less where in the place I work because when the cards are on the table — it’s a great freakin’ place to work! Most people hate their jobs/companies/bosses/whatever but I’m that rare breed that loves what I do and who I work for. The place treats it’s employees like royalty and is damn good to it’s temp workers like me. I know at the end of the day no matter how stressed I am or frustrated with issues I still have a job that lots of people would kill for in this day and age so I thank God every. single. day.

If I don’t get it that really isn’t a huge deal, don’t get me wrong I’m hungry as hell for what’s being offered but I know that I’m great where I’m at too. But send on the good luck vibes dudes!

In other news, I finally got the letter from the Rodeo Parade Committee for our first meeting…and am STOKED! I volunteer as a grand-stand Marshall for our local Rodeo Parade and it’s a blast. I can hardly wait for the meeting…but they scheduled the damn thing on Valentine’s day…wft?

This weekend is going to be great, Saturday the new boyfriend and I have a BBQ to go to. And Sunday night we are going to see Heart in concert (the tickets were my xmas gift to the new boyfriend)!

C’mon everyone sing “You’d have me down on my knees Wouldn’t you, Barracuda?”

Ok….got that out of our system *chuckle* All in all things are going good…I have zero complaints about life right now in spite of the everyday problems Life is good!