So not much new to report. I'm so excited about moving!!! Only 2 more weeks!! Unpacking is one of my favorite things because then you can put things away wherever you want. We went the the Bite of Seattle yesterday and it was so much fun!! I ate a ton of food though! My menu consisted of:
Alligator on a stick
Coconut prawns
Chicken kabob
Chocolate dipped strawberries on a stick
Seafood wrap (crab cake, shrimp and ceaser salad) DELICIOUS!
Margarita
Mike's hard lemonade
(i think that is it)

It was crazy though because it was so HOTT out! Everyone was sitting in the shade or running through the fountain! Even we all ran through, well everyone but Ray did. The Blue Thunder was there (drumline from Seahawks) and we listened to a couple of bands. Ray and I got a cartoon drawing of us done. It's so cute! We're a pre-historic couple and I'm dragging him behind me from the shirt, very cute! It will be framed in the apartment! We also got a beautiful blown glass candle holder to put on our coffee table. I just got the corner bar I ordered the other day! I can't wait to put it together! I'm so excited! :D So all we need now for the apartment is a computer and dining chairs. :D I'm already planning what to make to eat for our house-warming party! Well, back to work I go.

It's OFFICIAL!!!

So, big news now is that Ray and I are moving in together. We'll be living at the complex where I work. It's a great two bedroom apartment, lots of space. I would have lived with a girl but I have no girlfriends to live with so Ray it is! ;-) I am very excited! We move in on the 6th of August. I told my parents. They of course didn't take it very well, wasn't expecting them to. But I am excited and it's my choice, that's how I feel. We went shopping at IKEA and got a bookshelf, some mirrors and a kitchen table! The table was only $50 because it was their 'Only Happens Twice A Year Sale!' It was definately crowded!

So work is still going really well! I fell down while taking someone on a tour the other day and fell on the same knee that I always seem to fall on. Didn't feel too good. And it was very embarassing! I seem to fit in very well here and that's nice. All of us get along well in the office. I'm not quite over how I was treated before so I still take some stuff a little too personally but I'm working on it. Ray has been meeting me for lunch a lot which is a nice break in the middle of the day.

My cousin Jaime got engaged over the weekend of the 4th!! How exciting!! They will be getting married next summer! We've been waiting for him to finally pop the question. He asked Tammie & David's permission first (of course they were going to say yes, he's already part of the family!) and I guess he asked over dinner. I haven't heard all the details yet. Erica turned 13 in June, I can't believe she is so old already! A teenager! I can remember when all of them were born!! Janae graduated high school and will be going to WSU in the fall. She is leaving on August 13th so I'm hoping to have her over before she leaves. It was a big couple of weeks for our family but definately exciting!

Didn't do much on the 4th. I couldn't go to Moses Lake because I had to work Saturday and Sunday. Ray and I played mini-golf at Willows and I won! I got a hole in one also! :D Then we hung out at a friend's for BBQ and fireworks. Sad that it isn't what I'm used to for the 4th and not having Jess here to celebrate her bday on the 3rd made me sad too. Wish she was here.

Anyway, that's about it for today. Just wanted to give you the big updates. And, I need a computer so I can start downloading some pictures. So until then, I won't be posting any pics. So sorry.

New Job

Hey everyone!! So, my new job is going GREAT!! I absolutely love it here! I fit in really well which is nice. Misty and Tiffany (asst manager & manager) seem really happy with me and with the hard work I've been doing. They keep telling me that I'm a fast learner. I definately want to learn as much as I can. I got my first paycheck yesterday and it was more than I was thinking it would be so that was nice. My goal is to eventually move up in the property management field. If I am a property manager that doesn't live on site then I will need my real estate license so I can go and get that now that I'm done with school!!! I took my test on Wednesday and I only got one answer wrong!! Yippee for me!! I feel like I'm the only one out of all my friends that works. Everyone is always going out and everything but if I don't get enough sleep I can't function the next day, kinda annoying. I really wish I could go out, I miss everyone but I would rather concentrate on my job. I work Wednesday through Sunday so I have Monday and Tuesdays off. It is definately different but I'll get used to it. It's been so hot over here the last 2 days and is supposed to continue to be so on Tuesday my plan is to sit out by the pool and get some much needed color in me!! I think we're going to Rhonda's tonite to watch UFC, I guess it is the finale of the reality show and Ray is super excited about it. So I was really excited because I got my pink razor phone. Well the thing was being retarded and I talked to probably 8 people employed by Tmobile and I finally talked to someone today that told me I could get a new phone on warranty!! About time! everyone was trying to tell me I needed my original sales receipt from when I bought it online (on the 10th) but it has been less than 14 days (well today is the 14th) so there was no reason for me to have the receipt. (the battery wasn't lasting more than 5 hours before dying and I got a replacement battery and that still didn't work) So, Michelle at Tmobile helped me this morning and is sending me a new (or refurbished) pink razr and I should have that in 7 days. Yeah!! No more dead cell phone! :D

Short Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that my new job is going great! I love it! So much better than my old one! I actually love my boss which is a new concept for me!! ;-) Anyway, I will definately be writing more later, just wanted to let y'all know what was going on. xoxo

Just felt like typing about life

So I've made it this far, let's see if I make it all the way to Thursday. Bruce took me to Subway for lunch on Monday and Kim is taking me to lunch tomorrow, not sure yet what I want though. I wrote a little goodbye email to people today just to let those know that didn't already that I was leaving. I got a lot of nice emails back which made me feel good. I'm doing my best trying to train both Juli (new admin assistant) and Amy (new receptionist). It is hard to train two different people on two different jobs. Apparently Adrienne didn't believe that I really showed them how to do everything and asked them if I did or not. Whatever, she needs to stop being such a witch.

I still have some shopping to do for some new clothes. I need a blazer and it is definately not the right time of the year to go blazer shopping. The cheapest one I found was for $66.00. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to spend that much but I guess I will. I'll have to try that one on and the $80 Alfani one at Macys. Long term investment there. I did find out that I will be getting a discount on rent, not sure yet what percantage it is yet. I will probably be moving in around September. I went back on Friday to get some paperwork and it was nice to see Tiffany (manager) and Misty (asst manager) so excited for me to start. Makes me feel wanted and needed. I am definately excited to start. Nice to be getting my career started.

The teacher gave us our final test to study so that we will actually pass the real thing on the 21st. The first time I took it at home I got a 63%!!! How horrible am I! So I studied some more and she gave us some study time in class yesterday so I took it again and got an 84%! Much better! So I studied the answers that I got wrong and I now understand why I got them wrong so I will take it again tonite and hopefully it will 100%! So our final test is on the 21st and our final class day is the 26th. The time just flew right by!

I was telling Ray the other day that I can't believe it has only been a month since we went on vacation! It seems like it has been so much longer than that! I got all the pictures printed and got them the other day. Some turned out just beautiful! The sky is an extra bright bright blue in some of them and it looks so gorgeous! It was a fun trip and I hope we can take another one soon.

Jessica called a little bit ago. It was nice to talk to her since we both are so busy lately. I really want to go down and visit her in September but with moving out I'm not sure if I will have the money. And with starting a new job I'm not sure about the vacation time yet, if I get it before my first year...I think they will be up here in August, not positive though. I sure hope so because I miss her!

Oh, and the best news of the weekend...I got a pink phone!!! I got the pink razr through Tmobile and I LOVE it! So freaking cute and so fun and so exciting!!! Ray was laughing at me because I was so excited, I was like a little kid on Christmas!

So that is life right now, thought I'd share it since I don't have much to do right now. Have a great day!!!

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Well, Carl took me to lunch today since he won't be here for my last week, that is if I am here next week. The way things are going today I'm not too sure if they want me to be here next week. Juli is taking my place, funny that it's another Juli. We hired a new receptionist, her name is Amy. I guess they have everything figured out and ready to go...I don't have a clue what is going on or what to do, just going with the flow.

I'm so excited to start my new job. I'm going out there tonite to start filling out some paperwork so that I don't have so much to do on the 16th. And Tiffany (my boss) is going to show me around the property some.

I was supposed to get my new pink razor phone today but UPS hasn't delivered it yet, not sure why not and I'm kinda annoyed about it. My mom was going to bring it to me but if she comes now she'll get stuck in traffic.

That's about it for today, not much to tell.

Duvall Days

Saturday was Duvall Days!! Good times to be had. I personally drank way too much and made a fool of myself. I was so excited telling Randy and Shawna about my new job and standing there in front of me is Scott. I haven't seen Scott in years!! He's still friends with Cory and he's married now. (I met Scott through Cory, Cory at Taco Del Mar) So anyway, it was great to catch up with him. Him and his wife are friends with Randy and Shawna. It's crazy what a small world it is! So in the pictures it's me and Ray of course, then Jason, Julio (who you can't see because Jason is rude) Ray and Marlis (Jason's girlfriend who I love) and then Ray and his brother Randy. I didn't take too many pictures, I was too busy drinking! ;-) I also got to see Aimee Hern, soon to be Knudson. It was fun to see her. She seems to be doing well. Her and a bunch of other girls I went to high school with had a booth down at Duvall Days.

So I went by my new job the other day and the manager, Tiffany, is just as excited about me about working there! I really think this is going to be a great move for me and a great way to gain experience in the field I want to work in. And then I will be able to move out of my parents house and have my own place which I'm so freaking excited about!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!

It's Official!!!!

YEAH!!! I got my new job today! I'm so freaking excited! I just gave my two weeks and it actually went better than I had expected. I was asked over and over and over again if there was anything that would make me stay and there isn't. I am starting my new job on June 15th, the day after I 'graduate' my real estate class. I will be working as a leasing consultant at Piedmont in Crossroads. Hopefully I will be able to move up in the company and work in property management which is a great starting place for real estate. I love the manager and assistant manager of the site. I met with them for an hour on my interview and we got along great! I really am so excited for this opportunity to try something new!! Thanks to everyone that has put up with my crankiness the last couple of months due to my current job, I'm hoping that will change with this new job. Hope you all have as great a day as I have!!

Venting on our long line of temps

Ok, so this is getting really ridiculous! Apparently I am the problem and that is why we can't get a person to stay at this position. I have no idea why our first girl left but out of the 3 temps we have had we have rec'd the following feedback...

"Julie was condenscending towards me. She had a bad attitude."

"I was not trained on the phones, was not given a break, was not given a regular lunch."

So basically this is all really baffling to me. So the first girl, basically her issue was that she didn't want to work here so she was telling the agency whatever she wanted to get out of it and was happy when I complained about her...Still I don't understand how I was condenscending. I've asked people up in this front office as they can hear me training and they have no idea where that came from either.

So the second girl we had come in on Friday. The first comment out of her mouth was that she didn't like the traffic on 405 and never wanted to make the drive again....ok, so basically she doesn't want to come back right? Well, I trained her on the phones and the mail, it was a slow day on Friday and I knew that she didn't want to be here so why show her how to do a lot of stuff? So I was up here for an hour in the morning showing her how to answer the phones and believe me, she had every piece of paper she could that had to do with the phones so I don't know why she had no instruction on this...got me on that one. With the breaks, I told her to let me know when she was going on a break and I would take the phones, nobody else had a problem with this but her. So since I didn't come up and tell her to go on one, she says we didn't let her. So at noon, I show her how to give the phones to Adrienne, which she does, and I invite her to come back and join everyone for lunch and she declines and says she has errands to run so I tell her to be back by one. So don't know why she is saying that we forgot about her so she got a short lunch...

I just dont get this. I don't think that I'm talking rude or not showing them something. What the hell am I doing wrong?

So now Adrienne says this is a problem and she will probably start doing the training. HA! That's funny. That will definately not go over well. But fine with me, then I can actually get my own work done seems how I've been training in addition to my regular job...

Ok, so this was my venting post. Hope you all enjoyed it....Hopefully this will make me feel better. Everyone here is telling me to not let it get to me but kinda hard when it's more than one person saying something and your own boss takes their word over yours...

No new receptionist

Ok, so what I thought was going to work out really isn't. We really don't get along. Guess we have to keep looking....

New Receptionist

Ok, so we finally found a receptionist that I like. She is only a temp-hire but hopefully we will hire her. We've had such a hard time finding people! So much stressful stuff here at work. My shoulders are rocks right now!! The one thing I wish is that I had money so I could get a massage, I so need it! Not much to write, life hasn't really been exciting. I almost fell asleep in class yesterday, I have a mid-term tonite. No plans for the long weekend because of that whole money issue. Anyway, just thought I'd write a quick update.

Pictures

Ok, starting at top from left to right:
The view of the water from our hotel
Me and Ray in our room
Me and Ray on the beach at sunset
Beautiful Haystack Rock
Sunset

Cannon Beach

So Ray and I got back on Wednesday from our trip down to the coast. It was absolutely beautiful! It was such a nice and relaxing trip that I think we both needed a lot.

Ray's surprise was balloons, cake, candles, a mug with taffy set up by the hotel. It was actually a surprise which was great because I usually can't surprise him. He even searched the car for it because he wanted to know what it was. The cake wasn't that great but he enjoyed everything else.

We left on Sunday and the plan was to go to a mall in Portland because of a store I wanted to go to but we changed our minds. We stayed in the Hillsboro/Beaverton area and ate and did some shopping. You know Kohl's? Well here we always see commercials for all of their great sales, well there isn't one in Washington. Well, we were on our way to lunch at Carl's Jr....so yummy by the way, and we passed Kohl's so we had to turn around and go in. I found some cute skirts but they looked funny on so I passed on those. But I have been looking for a basic black purse forever and I found one there. It is perfect. We then went to PF Chang's for dinner. I know there is one in Bellevue but Ray had never been and that sounded good to him. He loved it of course. We got mongolian beef, sweet & sour chicken and asparagus. It was delicious!

So on Monday morning we set out for the beach. It took a little over an hour to get there, we were in the mountains most of the time and it was raining off and on which was annoying. But as soon as we got past the mountains and started down the coast it was beautiful. We got a little lost when we got into town because the main road through town was closed so we had to get back on the freeway to get to our hotel. Our hotel was a little ways from the downtown area, probably 2 miles but it was perfect. The hotel is more like a cabin type place. So nice, so there was a bunch of buildings and probably like 2-5 rooms in each building. It felt more like a cabin than a hotel room. We had a jacuzzi in our room so that was lots of fun. We had a small view of the water but the room was great. We had dinner the first night at Bill's Tavern. Just bacon cheeseburgers but good. I had a sample of some blackberry beer. It was ok. I'm not much of a beer person but the blackberry definately made it have a different after taste. For Ray's bday we did some shopping. We still had to get his mom a mother's day present and we found a store that she would've loved. We got her some stuff there and I hope she enjoys them. We went to dinner at a local place. It was ok, they almost didn't serve Ray a beer since his license expired that day. We both had halibut and chips. Kinda skimped on the halibut but there were more than enough fries.

We left on Wednesday morning. We stopped in Seaside to see what it was like and we definatley like Cannon Beach more. Seaside was older and more touristy and more dirty. Same with Astoria, just didn't really appeal to us. We know that we will definately be going back though.

Here are a couple pictures. I can only put so many on there. I have them on www.kodakgallery.com if you would like to see the slide show.

Ok, so no pictures. It is being retarded and not letting me add any pictures. I even tried to put them on a new post and that didn't work. I'll try again tomorrow.

MARY KAY TIME

Ok, so work is still crazy. We still don't have a receptionist and I am on vacation next week. So besically if we don't hire someone in the next three days, which would be very fast, we're going to have to bring in a temp to help out while I'm gone. Jo just had great timing huh? Decides not to come back to work and doesn't let anyone know. That's just really really rude and I think immature. You would think a grown woman with 3 kids would have a little more work ethic.

Anyway.....Just three more days of work and then we're on our way to Oregon!!!! :D We're so excited! It will be a great birthday for him! I have an extra surprise set up for him while we're down there. We're leaving on Sunday morning and going to spend the day in downtown Portland and then stay the night in Hillsboro. Then on Monday morning we'll head over to Cannon Beach and stay there until Wednesday. It kinda stinks because I have school and it would be good to come back in time for that on Wednesday, just kinda cuts into stuff. We're not really sure yet what we are going to do while we are down there but we'll figure it out. We're excited either way.

Well, I should get back to work, been busy. Check out the links on the side, my MaryKay website is now up and running! You can go online and place an order and pay with a credit/debit card! Would love to see some orders from everyone. My favorite product is the Satin Hands set for $28. This stuff is amazing! It makes your hands (and feet if you choose to use it on them) so soft and gets rid of all the dead skin. Take a look at the website and contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so this week has been interesting. Jo (the receptionist) didn't come in on Monday. She was supposed to be in at 12 but called and couldn't come in I guess. Then on Tuesday she left at 11:30 and was gone for 2 hours leaving Adrienne along for an hour and a half since I left at noon that day. Well then Jo's daughter calls yesterday and says that Jo won't be in...Jo never calls. Then 9:00am comes and goes this morning, now it is almost 11 and still no phone call from Jo. This week has been absolutely crazy! I'm already doing enough in my job to have to do the receptionist job too. So Adrienne (my supervisor) and I have been sharing the answering of the phones but her daughter got sick and she had to leave to go and pick her up and take her home...We had some other major stuff happen this week, kind of confidential but just know that I'm going crazy this week. I had to take a little break because I couldn't do any more entering. So just had to update y'all on my week. :D

Administrative Professional's Day

So I was joking around on Friday and reminded everyone that today was my special day since it is Admin day and my two year anniversary. So Since Carl doesn't get his wife flowers he didn't think he should get me flowers. So he got my FLOURs. (as seen in the picture) Everyone else sent me an e-card, got me the pretty bouquet of flowers you see and a card with a $85 gift card to Target! $85!!! I couldn't believe it!! That is sooo much nicer than I had dreamed. Well, Bruce insisted on taking a picture of me with my flowers and flours so here it is. Today is a good day. :D oh, and Ray just emailed me to tell me that they forgot to tell me that lunch is included so Ray is picking me up whatever I want for lunch today. :D I love it when it's my day! :D

Jordan is now 12

So I had another good/busy weekend. We went over to Randy and Shawna's because they said they had something to show us...THEY GOT A NEW PUPPY!!! Here is a picture of little Zach. He is an all black pug. He is 11 weeks old and full of energy. I had so much fun playing with him on Friday night. Then they had me watch part of the movie 'Birds' because I'm so scared of them. It was a freaky movie. Psycho birds! Not as realistic as movies now but definately would freak me out!


On Saturday we had Jordan's bday party. It was his 12th bday. It was supposed to be a boy/girl party but he broke up with his girlfriend last week so it turned out to be a total of 7 boys. So Olga, Ray and I took them to Red Robin and to see the movie 'The Benchwarmers' I'm not too sure if I want any boys now! The movie was actually pretty funny. Dinner was crazy with all of them and then opening presents. As soon as presents were done they went straight to the XBOX, totally skipped the cake and ice cream! Jordan was having a blast though! I can't believe how old he is getting! One of his friends gave him a razor for one of 'presents' as a joke. Pretty funny. He's so tall too! Matt and Parker ended up stopping by too and it was great to see them again. Especially Matt. So after the boys started playing XBOX we adults hung out and talked until I started falling asleep on the couch.


On Sunday it was so beautiful out so Ray and I got Quizno's and ate outside at Marymoor Park. It was so warm and a totally clear sky! They have a rental there called 'Calise Mansion' and I decided that if I ever get married that is where I want my reception to be. It was beautiful! It was an older style house but it is kept up really well along with the landscaping. Out back there is a gazebo and a large area so that guests can mingle inside and out. I took lots and lots of pictures of all the pretty trees. We also found the dog walk they have there. We went over to check it out and there were soooo many dogs! I can't wait until I get another one next year!!! We did a little shopping at Target, I think I shop there every weekend! And then I made Honey Dijon Chicken with salad and rice for dinner. We had his mom over since Jason is out of town. That was nice, nice to have the apartment to ourselves too. So that's my weekend. We'll see how this week goes. I'm exhausted today and I have school tonite.




School is going ok so far. I hope I start to get into it more. I'm more interested in Mary Kay now and that's not good since my parents paid for me to take this Real Estate class. Let's hope I understand stuff a little more tonite then I did when I read the chapter.

What If It's True....

So my weekend...I stayed home on Friday night to rest up some more from being sick just so I wasn't too tired for my weekend. Ok, so on Thursday when I was home I got bored in the afternoon. I've always been one of those people that didn't understand the whole thing with myspace.com but I went there to see what the fuss was about...and I set up an account. I actually have found a lot of people from high school and what not that I haven't talked to in so long. It is so nice to see how other people are doing and what they are doing and to be in touch with people again. So now I'm hooked......

On Saturday I made a pickle and olive plate...even though Ray and I don't eat olives...to take to his mom's to for an early Easter dinner and to watch the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship for those that don't know) pay-per view fight. Two of the fights were great! The Forrest/Tito fight was good. Tito should not have won by split decision but I guess that's life. The Adrei/Sylvia fight was awesome. Ray was so into he was clapping so hard his hands turned red! We had a nice ham dinner around 3. I brought stuff to make guacamole to have while watching the fight around 7 but one of my avacadoes was moldy and so then I didn't have enough and it was disgusting!! I was so disappointed! I've never made gross guacamole. Rhonda (ray's mom) gave us some Easter buckets filled with all sorts of candies. That was so sweet of her!

On Sunday I went to church with Olga, Tom, Jordan and my Matthew. I ran into Jessica's parents there and got great news! Sarah got engaged and will be getting married next year! The sad part is that her and Kloey will be moving to Montana. :( I got more sad news from Jess that day too. Her and Steve are moving to Florida now instead of back up here. I am sad that I won't have them around but at least I have a nice place to go and visit!!! Well, the message on Sunday was "What if it's True?" Perfect since I'm always asking what if questions. It was a good service and it was so nice to see Matthew again! He is doing better now. He's working and has a nice Audi that he got with his own money and is making the payments on. He's going back to school to at Everett CC. I'm proud of him that he is working at getting his life back in order.

After church I went out to my aunt's house for some more ham dinner and family time. Everyone was there but Melissa. She will be home in May though so I'm super excited to see her! We had an egg hunt for the younger kids, not that young anymore. Jace is the youngest and he is almost 5. We got to see pictures of their trip to Disneyworld. My mom brought me back a cool cookbook from Disneyworld and a pink apron that has a picture of Minnie and says 'kiss the cook' I love it! Here are a couple pictures of the kids. All the kids under 16 and Jace with his bucket of eggs and my cute cousin Janae.

What if...we were never sick

So yesterday was a sick day. I hate those days. I really don't like missing work when it isn't planned. Then I just worry about who is doing what and if they are doing it right. And plus, throwing up is never anyone's favorite thing to do. So today I've been told that I still look pale. I'm still not 100% but hopefully will be tomorrow morning. Going to Ray's mom's on Saturday for Easter dinner and to watch a UFC paperview fight. Then on Easter Sunday we're all going to my aunt's house for dinner after church. Can't be tired for all that...and on Monday I start school....oh boy!!! I should probably go by tonite and find my classroom huh?

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So after such a fun weekend the week isn't too great. Work is crazy right now and it is giving me a major migraine. Second one in the last two days. I hate what this place does to me.

I did get my first college book last night. It is 500 pages and wow! So much info in there! I read half of the first chapter. There is so much to real estate that I never knew about! I start on Monday and I'm so nervous.

Last night I ordered a pizza but they messed up. Long story short. It went out for delivery when I asked for carryout so I got a free pizza! :D ISn't that nice. Tonight is another boring food night. One of my favorites but I make it so often that it isn't special. French dip sandwiches with shoestring french fries and a nice fruit smoothie for dessert. LIke how I throw something healthy in after those fries? And tomorrow night I want to find a recipe for either sweet & sour chicken or for almond chicken and then I'm making another new cheesecake...#5!

And I just found out from Julie today that I'm getting my bday and Christmas presents! I'm usually the one that is 6 months late but I was actually on time this year! I like that my bday can last into April! :D Aren't I special! :D