I have changed my theme for this year. I’ve decided to adopt Kristy’s theme from last year, “I Can Do Hard Things…” Since that saying has popped into my head at least a couple of times a day since the beginning of the new year I guess God is trying to drop a hint. So at the beginning of each blog I will write about something hard that I did.
So much has happened in the past two weeks and I just do not know where to begin.
Last week jasmine’s house caught on fire and she missed three days. I was trying to keep her job caught up as well as the important aspects of mine. I ended up working about 13 hours a day. I also had finals last week and I did not even get started on them until Saturday morning and they were due Saturday night.
On Thursday I believe it was, of last week, my dad called and told us that Diane had decided to plea bargain and she is giving my grandma back her house and paying back some of the money that she stole from my grandma. In addition, our entire family was granted the restraining order against Diane so she is no longer allowed to make any contact with us. Such a relief and I now feel like I don’t have to be as guarded as I have been.
Last Friday on my way into work I got pulled over for having my headlight out. The cop was nice but also kind of a jerk. Instead of just giving me a warning he gave me a fix it ticket. Okay I could deal with that I just needed to find time to go in and have someone sign off on the fact that the headlight got fixed and I wouldn’t have to actually pay the ticket. Well after the cop sat in his car for 15 minutes he finally came back out and also informed me that my driver’s license had expired and he ticketed me for that as well. I had no idea my license had expired and I started to cry because it had already been an overly stressful week. That ticket is going to cost me about $200. Money that I was saving for other things.
When I got to work I was still a little upset and one of the managers here told me he would show me how to fix the headlight if I bought a new one on my break. I had Jordan go pick me one up. We could not get the headlight to work and we thought they had given us the wrong one. I did learn how to change a headlight though and I also learned where the fuse box for my car is and how to check the fuses. That is going to come in handy I can just feel it. Anyway found out on Monday when I took the headlight back that it was the correct headlight and that we were trying to change the bulb for the brights not the regular light. Oops. I still have not told the manager that yet. I did tell some of my friends at work though and they got a good laugh out of that.
Jordan also informed me that I am going to be an aunt. Super excited about that but was terrified for when he had to tell my mom. I had to force him to tell her on Sunday and he wouldn’t even come to the house he just told her over the phone. The only reason why he told her was because she was planning a trip the same week that the baby is due. We don’t know yet what they are having but it will be nice to finally have a little one running around.
I went to the Singles Ward with Camille on Sunday. It wasn’t too bad. Of course it is not the ward we are supposed to be in. We are going to continue attending that ward for a couple weeks though until Camille can get Sunday’s off. She has to wait until they finish training new people. I also went to the home ward so that means I had 6 hours of church on Sunday.
This week I’ve been working late again trying to get all my reports and what not caught up. I found out on Wednesday that I was getting a bonus. That will be really nice and help pay for that stupid ticket.
Yesterday I got up bright and early and made it to the driver’s license place around 7. There was still quite a long line but I was able to get my license renewed and made it to work only 1 minute late. There was a cute guy sitting behind me and I should have started talking to him. That’s a little too hard for me right now though. There was also a lot of high school students there getting their drivers license. I guess parents wanted to take them to get it before school or something. I lucked out and got the fast guy and once my number got called I was only in there for 5 minutes. What a blessing!
Last night I went out with Kristy and Rachel. The first time in about a month that I have actually hung out with anyone besides my family. It was nice just to relax and chit chat. We ate at Red Lobster, I am not a fan of seafood so I got the only thing I knew I would eat...clam chowder. It wasn’t that great LOL.
Afterwards we went to Kristy’s house and watched Rigaletto. I zoned Kristy for the first part of the movie and then we cuddled for the second half. We both love to talk during the movie and add our own thoughts about what is going on and what people are thinking. We were also trying to keep tabs on how many life lessons the movie tries to teach. I think we made it up to 9 or 11 I forget.
At the beginning of the movie we looked over at Rachel and she was trying to take a picture of herself with her camera phone. She was sitting there with her mouth open, I guess she was trying to look like she was singing. Then she stopped the movie and went over and took a picture of herself standing next to the TV screen. Don’t really know what was going on there. Sometimes Rach is very random.
I just got word that Jasmine it quitting. My friend at worked asked for her job but they want to keep her on the phones so they are going to hire someone from outside the company. That really stinks. I hope they find someone fast because I do not have time to train a new person on jasmine’s job. My new person starts next week and he will be working evenings so I get to stay late next week as well to train him. I’ve also been told that we are hiring another new person to run our databases and I am supposed to find time to meet with him and go over the reports that I currently do but are supposed to be turning over to him. Those would be the reports that I am 2 weeks behind on. Oops.
Lots of hard things in this one. The one that comes to mind right now, though I haven’t blogged about it, is that one of the guys I used to date wanted to start dating again. I told him no. Saying no has gotten a lot better. I’m finally strong enough to go after what I want and to say no when I don’t want to be with someone. In the past I just go along with whatever because I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
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