Anyway, there are days that Stitch is the best behaved dog, but here lately he is more like his alter ego Experiment 626.....
Friday, February 28, 2014
Look at those ears
I got Stitch aka experiment 626 the week before Christmas. He was 4-5 weeks old, and a tinnie, tiny little thing all of about 4 or 5 pounds.
He is now 16 weeks old, and boy oh boy has he grown. He now weighs 15 pounds. He is also earning his name every day. He pushes those buttons to see what he can get away with and then he looks at me with those eyes and those ears all flipped back like this.
Now it is cute as cute can be. However his sad puppy eyes do not compare to Flash and Coppers. Flas and Copper were 2 of the best basset hounds a person could have. I miss them both daily.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Should I be nice?!?!
So I am at my friends house.. This is a friend I have known since I was 16 and I am also friends with his siblings, he has become my best friend since I moved to TX. He listens to me complain about work, my famiily, and school. He offers to help when he feels I need it, whether its money, or just a place to escape reality from...
Anyway, he is at work getting ready to come home. He drives a heavy duty tow truck ( tow truck for semi's) I arrived a few hours ago and his house is a absolute mess, his children have not done thier chores as well as they have made an absolute disaster out of his bedroom, the bathroom, and the living room. The glorified babysitter (AKA baby momma) has done no housework either. Now I would normally warn them when he is on his way home. But they totally pissed me off, so now I am not telling them to do anything. I know that my friend is going to blow a gasket when he gets home. He will be tired, hungry, and well pissed when he walks in the door.
OH the deliemma... Wait its no deliemma, I am not saying a word... When I leave to go pick him up they will get it... In the words of my daughter Kylea... Bawwhahaha....
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Impatiently Waiting...
Had a job interview Tuesday... I think it went well, it lasted for 2 hours, and spoke with 2 HR and the department supervisor. So now I wait... The department supervisor said that she had a couple more interviews to do but would let me know either way. Not only do I feel good about the job, but I know I have all the experience that the are looking for. It is the same industry I have been working in for 15 years. Fingers and toes are crossed.
Also waiting to find out if my friend got the house they applied for to make sure I have a place to live if I get the job. The biggest obsticle with that is the dogs. The pet deposits here are out ragous $500 per pet.. so that's 1000 for the 2 dogs... ugh!
Oh the patience I need...... If someone works at a bubble wrap factory can you please tell me how you have the patience to not constently pop the bubbles
Well wish me luck...
Smile
Debbee
Monday, February 10, 2014
Happy Monday!!!! I would like to be all.... It's Monday, I don't wanna go to work. The weekend wasn't long enough... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. But I'm not, and it has nothing to do with the fact I am still looking for work. I am normally pretty happy in the morning, it doesn't matter what day of the week it is. Some days are happier than others naturally and some are happier based on my amount and type of caffeine I have. Today was just a good morning naturally I got up, ran my friend to work, came back got coffee, took a shower, made a couple of calls, . It's been a productive 2 hours I think. Hopefully the rest of the day can be productive. I have a 1000 word paper to write, do look at a rental. Yes, not only am I jobless, I will be homeless in the matter of two weeks if I don't find either one soon.
I also had a productive weekend... looked at rentals, and got to spend a little while with two people I became friends with when I was 16. That is one positive thing I can say about Facebook. We hadn't all gotten together and chatted in almost 30 years and thanks to Facebook, we have been able to reconnect. It is funny how you can not speak to someone in a very long time and after an hour of catching up it's like you never spent time apart. I have a theory about friends there are 4 types, there are the acquaintances, you know them and are glad you do but you don't necessarily spend much time with them. You have Daily Friends, friends that are part of your daily life you know the ones that you work with, have happy hour with, and just hang out with. Then there are the friends that are social only friends. You know the ones that you only see when you go out somewhere, whether that is to an event big or small. Finally you have the best ones of all, the ones that you meet they are all of the above and you can not imagine your life without them. You can speak every day or 29 years later and it's like you just talked to them the day before. I call those Life Friends. I have been very fortunate that I have a small handful of those friends. There are a few like these two that we met in high school when we were all 16, and there are a couple that I have met along my path in life. Now a few of my Life friends are also daily and social friends. I can't imagine not talking to or spending time with them on a regular basis. A couple of years ago, I decided I needed to take care of my mental health and part of taking care of that meant I evaluated my friendships. Evaluating them, included admitting that some of them were creating a negative status in my my life and causing stress on my health. I tried to just back away from social events that involved the negative people, but unfortunately that didn't work. Next I just stopped doing things I loved to do like scrapbooking, going to happy hour, girls night out, and home parties such as Pampered Chef. That helped, but the negative people always found a way to involve themselves in my life. I even deactivated my facebook page. The problem with that was, I was going to loose contact with some family and friends that were not in my area that I didn't want to loose again. Solution became start a new page and only allow those people have access to it. It has been a little over a year, and that is working great. I still get to chat with my cousins, aunts, uncles, and life friends. My final step was to move away from all those negative nelly's. Now I did not move to Texas just for that reason. But it truly let me know who are those who honestly care about my well being. I won't say its easy to be here away from everything in my little Phoenix world, it is very hard. The hardest part is being away from my children. WAIT, wait.. I have to clarify this.. My children are adults themselves. Well physically, but all three of them have jobs, friends, and lives on their own. So while we are important to each other, I do not need to take care of them daily anymore.
Alright then, I should stop typing... I know no one is reading this (except my daughter) I guess that is why I can go on a rant like this and not worry about it...
Smiles,
Debbee
I also had a productive weekend... looked at rentals, and got to spend a little while with two people I became friends with when I was 16. That is one positive thing I can say about Facebook. We hadn't all gotten together and chatted in almost 30 years and thanks to Facebook, we have been able to reconnect. It is funny how you can not speak to someone in a very long time and after an hour of catching up it's like you never spent time apart. I have a theory about friends there are 4 types, there are the acquaintances, you know them and are glad you do but you don't necessarily spend much time with them. You have Daily Friends, friends that are part of your daily life you know the ones that you work with, have happy hour with, and just hang out with. Then there are the friends that are social only friends. You know the ones that you only see when you go out somewhere, whether that is to an event big or small. Finally you have the best ones of all, the ones that you meet they are all of the above and you can not imagine your life without them. You can speak every day or 29 years later and it's like you just talked to them the day before. I call those Life Friends. I have been very fortunate that I have a small handful of those friends. There are a few like these two that we met in high school when we were all 16, and there are a couple that I have met along my path in life. Now a few of my Life friends are also daily and social friends. I can't imagine not talking to or spending time with them on a regular basis. A couple of years ago, I decided I needed to take care of my mental health and part of taking care of that meant I evaluated my friendships. Evaluating them, included admitting that some of them were creating a negative status in my my life and causing stress on my health. I tried to just back away from social events that involved the negative people, but unfortunately that didn't work. Next I just stopped doing things I loved to do like scrapbooking, going to happy hour, girls night out, and home parties such as Pampered Chef. That helped, but the negative people always found a way to involve themselves in my life. I even deactivated my facebook page. The problem with that was, I was going to loose contact with some family and friends that were not in my area that I didn't want to loose again. Solution became start a new page and only allow those people have access to it. It has been a little over a year, and that is working great. I still get to chat with my cousins, aunts, uncles, and life friends. My final step was to move away from all those negative nelly's. Now I did not move to Texas just for that reason. But it truly let me know who are those who honestly care about my well being. I won't say its easy to be here away from everything in my little Phoenix world, it is very hard. The hardest part is being away from my children. WAIT, wait.. I have to clarify this.. My children are adults themselves. Well physically, but all three of them have jobs, friends, and lives on their own. So while we are important to each other, I do not need to take care of them daily anymore.
Alright then, I should stop typing... I know no one is reading this (except my daughter) I guess that is why I can go on a rant like this and not worry about it...
Smiles,
Debbee
Friday, February 7, 2014
Work in progress
Since I am currently out of work for 3 weeks now and I'm starting to get a little nuts my daughter says I need to start a blog.. It will be fun she says...
Personally it seems like homework and I currently have enough of that. I am a full time student at University of Phoenix. Which means you go to class 1 night a week, and classes are 5 weeks long. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG! There is enough work for a 14-16 week course crammed into 5. Lots and lots of writing oh and reading most of which are very dry and boring. Did I mention that you also have to work with a team to do additional writing each week? No? Well let me tell you about that. Every 5 weeks you get 3-4 people to work with, if you are lucky you get to work with the same people each class. Now most of the instructors will allow you to choose your teams. So once you get into your core classes you have the chance of finding people you work well with and can stay as a team each class. However in my experience over the past year not everyone has the same view of quality work as you do nor do they have the same work ethics as you. I have been involved with teams that people don't show up to class, or they are there long enough for the first break. Then they have no clue what is going on, and expect those of us who sit through 4 hours of incoherent lecture and death by powerpoint to hold their hand through that weeks work. Worse yet they expect you to do the work or at least most of it. So as you can see I do enough homework that I don't want anymore.
Besides looking for a full time job IS a full time job. Check this online site, then check another, another, and yet another because not all listings are the same on each site. If you are lucky you can apply at more than one company on each site. I think my record for one day is applying at 12 places. Over the past 4 weeks I have applied at 75 places. Yes I know the number because I keep the emails in a folder so I know where I have and haven't applied.
I know no one is reading my babbling right now because this is the first post. But if you found me 6 months from now and you have gone back to read the archived posts, providing I haven't deleted the blog I hope you are enjoying it. Or at least I have posted something that is helpful to you. I haven't decided what direction this blog will go. Kylea, the for-mentioned daughter, says I should make it about my photography. But I don't know yet. So stay tuned and we will find out together what is going to happen.
Smiles,
Debbee
Personally it seems like homework and I currently have enough of that. I am a full time student at University of Phoenix. Which means you go to class 1 night a week, and classes are 5 weeks long. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG! There is enough work for a 14-16 week course crammed into 5. Lots and lots of writing oh and reading most of which are very dry and boring. Did I mention that you also have to work with a team to do additional writing each week? No? Well let me tell you about that. Every 5 weeks you get 3-4 people to work with, if you are lucky you get to work with the same people each class. Now most of the instructors will allow you to choose your teams. So once you get into your core classes you have the chance of finding people you work well with and can stay as a team each class. However in my experience over the past year not everyone has the same view of quality work as you do nor do they have the same work ethics as you. I have been involved with teams that people don't show up to class, or they are there long enough for the first break. Then they have no clue what is going on, and expect those of us who sit through 4 hours of incoherent lecture and death by powerpoint to hold their hand through that weeks work. Worse yet they expect you to do the work or at least most of it. So as you can see I do enough homework that I don't want anymore.
Besides looking for a full time job IS a full time job. Check this online site, then check another, another, and yet another because not all listings are the same on each site. If you are lucky you can apply at more than one company on each site. I think my record for one day is applying at 12 places. Over the past 4 weeks I have applied at 75 places. Yes I know the number because I keep the emails in a folder so I know where I have and haven't applied.
I know no one is reading my babbling right now because this is the first post. But if you found me 6 months from now and you have gone back to read the archived posts, providing I haven't deleted the blog I hope you are enjoying it. Or at least I have posted something that is helpful to you. I haven't decided what direction this blog will go. Kylea, the for-mentioned daughter, says I should make it about my photography. But I don't know yet. So stay tuned and we will find out together what is going to happen.
Smiles,
Debbee
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