Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

So completely exhausted please excuse typos

I am so tired I did not even sleep last night . I staye up all night excited about making a new source of income and thinking about my mini shopping spree today . I had so much fun . I got dressed up went ad cashed my check then i went to get gas ad ciggerettes Got my nails done then went all over dothan finding the best deals around. I baught alot of new stuff . jeans slacks shoes , tops a purse some hair care products . I feel special I needed it . I am so excited about my new job . I have no worries . I am going to do my best and make sure that I put my best effort forward. well only 5 more days to go . Gotta work tomorrow . I iroed my clothes for tomorrow . They look good . reorganized my new purse. helped clean up the house . doctored the dog he has an ear infection . heading to bed see y later

Sleepless nights

So it is early in the morning . Payday of course . Should be getting some sleep but cant so excited about all the upsoming events . Today is my last day off for 8 days and I have alot to do . I have to get gas and ciggs pay rent get groceries wash car get nails done go shopping for business casual clothes have a lunch date with lacie . clean teh house iron clothes wash clothes . All the ordinary things one should do crammed into a few hours with no sleep . Ate waffle house with Shawn and cody . had the server cracking up . drank 2 or 3 cups of coffee probably another reason i cant sleep and Im rambling unusually . anyways bout to hit the sack . till later days yall peace out .

well its finally coming together...

Its that thrilling moment when your on a roller coaster  and you know whats happening all you can see is the sky .  and people  around you are excited  screaming with their arms raised above their heads . Well I know what comes next  but I dont want it to happen yet . Im at the very edge . My heart is racing . I know we are reaching that hill right before the first spiral . It can be a good thing  or bad. Im hoping good. My career is  taking off for the better. In this past year I have learned  alot . I know that in some ways i've matured and in some ways  I have remained stagnant. I am a married woman with a great sense of pride and learned from slight hardships in life not to let ANYONE walk on me . I am just that a WOMAN in the strongest form of the word . Do not underestimate the power of a woman . Its like the LOVE of a mother . The power of a woman can change the ocean tides  and draw the moon closer .  It can move mountains and inspire people to do things they never dreamt of doing . It can make  this horrible world a bright sunshiny place and make oscar the grouch come out of his everloving garbage can .  I have that POWER.   I stand behind my Man . In front of every man is a powerful woman .  And I mean that as a a true from of speach not a figure . Because It is the woman who makes the financial decisions . The decisions on  what to buy for the house or what move to make next . If a buddy calls to go out for drinks what do you do . You ask your wife . She stands before you because before you move you must go through her . I dont want to offend anyone  Its not that Im  saying women have complete and udder control in life . But in a sense they do . Even  if men dont realize it .  Think about it . I am so very proud of my man . I gave him the  initiative to move forward to stop remaining stagnant and to move forward with his plans .  had 4th of July night not happened  we would still be sitting here  in the same situation with the same  goals not  moving like clockwork hoping and dreaming for a better life . Instead we have moved on them . I helped him enroll in college  and i continue to help with his studies . Thats my JOB . I love that JOB . Because before long we will be looking back at this as a stepping stone not a stone wall .  In my case this new job is also a stepping stone . I have bettered myself and  created a future  that is bright . I will learn skills essential to live by  in life . Not just open a box and stock a shelf .  The skills I will learn are universal . You can apply them in everyday life.  They will open new opportunities. Its like on christmas morning  you see the large present under the tree . You  unwrap it and cut open the box .  Theres another box .   you unwrap that box and cut it open theres another box .   Its like unfolding life .  In life you have to go through the many peels to get to the prize .  A year from now we will be completely different people . A year ago I lived life conformed to what I thought life was supposed to be .  Settle down, get married, live to work,  have babies ,and stop . I no longer live by that .  I  still make plans to make the transition easier . I have opened an IRA . A checking account  a savings account and  Mint.com  so that I can see the big picture and  become financially stable .  But  I will no longer live by what step I should take next . I watch out for the hurdles coming at me and strategize how we will  jump over them .   After the research ive done  on what its like and stories Ive read of being an Air Force Wife I've learned you never know what to expect  and to be prepared for them as they come .  Nothing is ever going to turn out the way you expected .  and if you expect or assume something is going to happen that way you set yourself up for dissappointment .  

Been a little while

So everything lately seems to be going really well . Last Monday I was called in to do the Pre-Employment on Thrusday test  for Vantage Sourcing a call center for Verizon wireless. They specialize in Inbound-Outbound calls  and Tech Support . After Acing the Pre-Employment test I was asked to come back for a job interview on Monday . So I came We socialized a little , The  interview proceeded . Questions asked and answered. Then more questions asked then answered . Then Details given about the position  and salary, promotion oppertunities, training  and what it entails. She told me to come to the front to fill out some additional paperwork about the background check, the drug test, and everything else.  She wrote yes on top of my resume'. She told me that Friday I would know something once the drug test and background check came up clean. I shook her hand , Thanked her again then went and peed in a little cup . Now I'm sitting here and Friday cannot come fast enough . I'm more nervous now than I was at the interview . I am anxious . I sent a Thank you Email back to the company. I  am so confident and hopeful that I  get teh position. Every one please pray for me . I need this to work out for me right now . I am keeping a positive attitude.  Usually if someone send you for a drug test then your hired right ?  I hope so .

A wonderful day over the rainbow

So today was very good . Shawn and I had the day off even  though he was  so sick . i babied him  giving him food and drinks and his precious PSP lol I love him so much . So he got his financial aid accepted by the school and  it should be more than enough to take care of what he needs to get done . Maybe the extra we will pay off some  bills that we dont want to deal with monthly anymore. Well I am surrounded by loving family and friends . I feel like nothing can go wrong right now . I'm not even letting work get to me . I love my job rephrase  I love the department I work in and I love  most of the people I work with . Theres a couple of bad apples  but they will be weeded out Im sure of it .

well its been a couple of days

So its been a couple of days and  I was starting to think that maybe the bad stuff was about to happen . I  was late to work because of the road work on westgate . then my department manager i swear  has been ill or something is wrong with her . It seems to me  that when i do everything im supposed to according to my job plus some except for one thing  then i did nothing right .  but if shes the only one upset at me and customers are complimenting my customer service then whats the problem .  I think maybe its an underlying  issue . It  may not be me at all . Today went well . I got off a little late . I changed my filing status at work  and man i like it  not only that . I must be doing something right because I dont have to work in the deli anymore around all those premenstraul women and  i  been getting full time about every other week . Maybe they will make me permanant full time . Maybe they will  promote me when my attendance coaching falls off .

Filled with so many emotions but my brain cannot process them all

Shawn and I filled out all the necessary paperwork for his schooling the FAFSA and the enrollment application to try and get a step up . Well I went to bed at 4 am to wake up at 8:30 am we both got ready got all of our paperwork together I went to the Social Security office and changed my social security card then rode by the tag office and changed my ID got back home and Shawn had already made his trip to the college and preregistered . So Dothan drivers LEARN TO DRIVE ! if you are at a 4 way stop , and you stop at the stop sign then the person to the left goes and its your turn to go and you go why would a redneck ass truck honk right in your ear thinking it was their turn . I didn't see a red light . I'm going by the DMV and getting a stack of drivers manuals every time a jackass is doing something jackass like im going to throw one at their vehicle . Either way the purpose of this blog is that im so amazed about everything that's going right right now . could it be my prayers were finally heard after 22 years . That maybe something may be working out in OUR favor . Life has thrown so many curve balls . Weve overcame them as if they were ghosts but now its real and its happening . We have so much left to do this is just the beginning . We are now husband and wife . My name is changed . Hes enrolled in college with the financial aid out of the way . steps left to go through are study for placement testing . take the placement test . start classes study for and pass classes . finish college credits study for asvab take asvab do pre physical training to get prepared for basics . Go to Basics then me move in with my mom and pay off some bills like furniture and credit cards Him graduate from basics and go to tech school . Him come home from tech and get ready to move . Me find a job in our new town we will be moving to . apply for on base housing . then move . its a long process something is bound to go wrong but me being a not so religious person saying this If GOD wills it to be . If it is the right decision everything WILL work out in our favor .
signing off tonight Katie SMITH

if i could tie 20 red ribbons around my pointer finger

So many things happen through out the day . So im going to tell you about a basic work day for me . Anyone else who is a current walmart employee oops associate excuse me . they will understand .
1. Wake up 9 minutes till i have to walk out the door have eyes open searching in the dark to find my pants my shirt my underwear bra socks and shoes oh don't forget the belt .

2 brush teeth don't forget the mouthwash close customer encounters

3 go through the list in your head and verbally to make sure you have the essentials cell phone to check time on break to make sure you don't go over even if it doesn't have service on it cigarettes because most associates are smokers have to be
wallet or at least a couple of bucks to get a 40 cent drink on break
keys cant forget those
badge a must
box cutter
pens
lunch if your lucky enough to get a lunch that day

4 grab a bag of chips or snack to eat going down the road along with something to drink
5 spill the drink on your hand while juggling everything and drop your snack after you've locked your door
6 get in the car realize you've left something behind and have to go back up
7 finally leave for work rushing no matter what time it is to make sure you clock in on time
8 as soon as you swipe your badge have a coworker or manager asking a question or asking you to do something of course the answer is yes or OK .
9 check cbl's
10 go to your department and check the TMAT and or notes
11 start doing bread if it was layed properly the night before no problem start baking . if it wasn't then start baking what you have while you go in the freezer to pull more for the day
12 check dates and pull reduced rack check on bread
13 start making a list to fill floor and drag everything out of the freezer to put out on floor
14 someone has to go to lunch cover the front and the back and the freezer and the floor
15 realize your going to be behind and ask for some help from a kind coworker
16 about time for managers to come through and ask whether the breads coming out or if the front wall needs to be filled
17 by this time everything you touch doesn't go right you drop cookies on the floor or the bread is over proofed or undercooked realize your out of something and that's the only thing the customers want today .
18 time for lunch yes you've made it through the first half of the day
19 lunch ends damn it wasn't long enough
20 go back to work something went wrong or somethings come up that's going to put you 30 more minutes behind
21 breads done baking time to bag it tag it and put it out on the floor oops missing labels or sell by dates.
22 get told production is not up enough do more of what your doing right now for tomorrow .
23 get all the breads put out on floor time to do the lay still stuff to put out on the floor plus you cant walk in freezer and a truck is coming . there's seafood and deli and frozen's stuff in your freezer what do you do down stack 3 pallets 5 l carts and 2 rocket carts as fast as you can while filling the floor and making a cart for the bread to be layed
24 lay bread . your out of half of what you need
25 fill floor again everything is sold and everyone mad because its sold
26 finish bread lay time to pull the reduced rack off the floor do throwaways and recycle it at least we don't have to wash trash anymore
27 finish bread lay
28 floors full
29 realize you didn't finish the cleaning list and now have 5 minutes to take trash and clean close
30 at the last minute a whole family comes up and wants to order a wedding cake 138 dollars of income for the bakery why would we turn down a wedding cake order we wouldn't not to mention a good word on the north side bakery
31 take the trash and plastic and organics throw them in the proper bins
32 take the trash cans back to the bakery do a once over to make sure everything that can be done has been done
33 get to the time clock and see your 30-45 minutes over clock out
34 go home
35 get home and clean up
36 start dishwasher
37 lay out dinner
38 wash clothes
39 cook dinner and clean up after dinner mess
40 watch a few minutes of TV or get online
41 set alarm and go to bed
42 start all over again

so there's my usual day at work and once again im sure any other walmart associate can relate to this no matter what there level is . had to get it out

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Well Shawn's foot is Fractured in 3 places his foot is black and blue . he has nothing to take for the pain and stuck on light duty for a week . Apparently fractured bones must heal very very quickly . especially when a 2000 pound pallet gets stuck on your foot . anyways that's among one of our issues right now, But other than all that life is OK . I baught Shawn a book to study his ASVAB . Hopefully everything will go well and he will get a very good score .

Life is Grand right now

Im so unbelievable happy . Shawn and I are married and its been amazing ever since . Shawn will be going to college this fall semester to get 15 college credits then to pass the ASVAB test then on to basics I will be leaving our apartment and moving in with my mom to save money till we get moved to a base then I will be Mrs. Smith airforce wife . We will possibly be joining our extended family Mannon and Ashley depending on what career shawn chooses . Im so excited a lot of hard road ahead of us .