Hello 2013. I hope everyone had a nice holiday season. It seems like they take forever to get here and then zip by as fast as a mongoose. Curt and I finally took our Christmas Tree down so the holiday season is officially over for us. I hope you enjoy this blog post. Happy Sunday!
For the first time in my working career I was going to get 12 days off from work. Thank you Christmas for landing on a Tuesday. Curt also was going to have the same days off as me. We weren't going to make any plans and just go with the flow. I was pretty excited for this vacation. Curt kept calling it our break but I had to remind him we weren't getting a Christmas break from school but a vacation. I'm pretty sure if my work gave me a Christmas vacation then I would be a much more productive worker. Anyway, Christmas came and throughout the day I noticed that I had a small sore throat but didn't think much about it. I woke up the next day without it so I thought I was magically cured. This was just a small joke my immune system was playing on me. It is like when you have the stomach flu and you empty your stomach once and think you just ate too much and you are fine because you feel so amazing and then about five minutes later you figure out that you are definitely NOT okay. I was feeling better until that evening when my sickness hit me like a tsunami wave. The amount of sneezes that came out of my body was unbelievable. I spent the rest of my vacation laying in bed trying to figure out how I could possibly manufacture so much snot in my head and why my body hated me so much. I had no idea people everywhere were sick so I guess the one good thing is that I got the sickness out of the way and I watched about 3 seasons of Gossip Girl... I told Curt that if I ever feel like that again then he should take me out back and end it.. He laughed and thought I was joking..... I was... kind of...
Since it is a new year I should join the millions of other people who make resolutions. Of course I should I should eat healthier, go the gym more and of course lose weight. I did go to the gym four days in the last week, which is better than my two months gym attendance combined.. Oops. Curt Byrd refuses to eat healthy at home. I really have no idea why he is 100% against having a somewhat healthy diet but he is. Pick your battles I guess. I'm trying to eat a healthy two meals before I come home to eat fried animals with Curt. My new idea is to eat cereal for breakfast with fruit. Thus far it is working well but who knows how long it will last. My only other resolution was to help more in the kitchen. I am not a fan at all of cooking. If I had to cook for myself everyday then I would live in PB&J and hot dogs and I wouldn't complain. Unfortunately Curt hates both. I'm hoping this year I will be a little better than a helpless duck in the kitchen. Who knows, we may come to your house and show up with a plate full of baked pizza rolls. :)
Curt and I have been having an ongoing debate over online dating. No, no we are not divorcing or in an open relationship. We have been debating whether or not we would get matched together randomly by a website. I keep joking that we would sign up for the free trail the website are advertising now for Valentine's Day. I think we would get matched together but Curt does not think we would get matched together. He would probably hope to get a nicer girl. I think it would be interesting to be a single girl on a website for dating. It would be like window shopping for men. Hello that would be fun! Fun until you actually have to go on a date. There would be no way I would want to go back to the dating world. Hello I am well past my prime. Besides, I usually like my husband. For all of the irritations we have with each other, we still have a special connection. I realized a couple of weeks ago that we really did have a special connection when I made a smart butt comment and he laughed really hard and no one else got it. This means we have to stay together because no one else thinks I am funny. :)
Thanks for reading my post today. Hopefully it wasn't too boring. Enjoy the rest of your day and stay away from germs.
H
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Thursday, December 20, 2012
One Last Post Before The World Goes Boom
I'm pretty sure I start every post apologizing about how I have neglected my blog. I am just going to skip over that fluff today today in my introduction paragraph. I have desperately missed blogging. My life the last few weeks has been so busy. I learned that 5am exists on a Saturday... twice.. I've been doing overtime at my work (about 30 hours to be exact...) to get everything accomplished for the year end. It is one of those awesome things about working in insurance. I can't complain too much, a job plus a Christmas bonus isn't too shabby. I hope you enjoy the post!
I guess I should start off saying thank you to everyone who decided to spend their last day on earth reading this post. I'm sure hope we meet in our next life.. I have come to the realization that if the world really does "come to an end" then I am just going to roll with it. People are out buying supplies trying to outlast the end of civilization as we know it. I have nothing. Not even a single bottle of water at my house. I'll backtrack and tell you that Curt Byrd does not allow us to have bottled water because he says it will make him female and it should be outlawed. Pick your battles. I picked this battle to let him win and stop drinking bottled water. Hello, how can it hurt me?! I already have a uterus! Anyway, I like to analyze my situation about not really caring about the end of world like this.. Have you seen/read (the book is always better) The Hunger Games? If I were in this scenario I would be the first one dead. I have accepted this fact.. I have accepted the fact that if civilization ends how we know it that I am royally screwed. I don't even camp! I don't know how to built a fire other than by flipping a switch on a fireplace. I would eat every horrible berry out there that would instantly kill me. I have accepted the fact that I would be a goner and really I have no qualms about it. However, Curt Byrd, he would live forever. I really should have been nicer to him........ Hmmm..
Speaking of crazy events, I am going to have a short rant about school shootings and Facebook. I am by no means downplaying what happened last Friday at Sandy Hook. It is an awful, awful thing and I will never be able to understand how someone could do such a horrible thing. I don't have a mental health problem and I thank God everyday that I was created how I was. Obviously the killer had a problem. It is unfortunate that we don't really place more importance on mental health in our society. This may be a little political but bear with me. It is very awesome to see people so concerned about everyone involved in the incident. It is very not awesome to see so many people turn a complete tragedy into a political war. I watched Facebook statuses pour in everyday about gun control, The President, school safety, etc.. It was seriously like the election all over again. I was saddened by the amount of statuses that would rip apart someone and then end the status with something about prayer. I HATE this.. Are you seriously going to throw in prayer after you just ripped someone to pieces.. Bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry... Enough on this subject. Moving forward to lighter and fluffier topics.
Showers.. Not the type with water but the type with estrogen and weddings/babies.. I have never thrown a shower before for anyone before Tuesday. One of my favorite people is having a baby and I volunteered to throw a baby shower for her at work (we work together). Let's back up. I am not a great event planner by all means. It is seriously a miracle of Jenny Clack that my wedding wasn't a disaster. I went to my friend Kristin's wedding last summer and it was one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. I have no idea how people can throw stuff together and make it presentable without a miracle of a wedding planner. Some people just have that awesome gene, I am not one of them. Luckily, I know lots of creative people who are always jumping at the chance to plan events. One of my sister-in-laws has a wonderful friend, Sarah, who is pretty much the planning master of events. I am pretty sure I scored there when we have to throw her a party. :) Anyway, I had no idea where in the world to even begin throwing a baby shower.. My advice to any novice party planner, consult Google. I don't know how anything got done without Google. Luckily the shower went pretty well and my friend got lots of needed items so I will mark it as a success.. I hope this paragraph has detoured anyone else who wants me to throw a party.. Joke.. Kinda.. :)
My work has wonderfully exciting insurance classes they offer to us employees. It really isn't a bad deal. They pay for the test/class, which can count for college classes, it makes you look good and they throw in some money (that's the kicker) for passing the classes. I signed up to take a test on 12-13-12. In September I started reading a book they shipped to me which consisted of 11 chapters with each chapter consisting of about 30 pages.. Plus they give you an online website to take practice tests to help you.. Not too bad right? I mean a few years ago I used to take 5 of these a semester.. WRONG! I have only been out of school a few years but I have found it almost impossible to study again. I have developed a large case of ADHD. I have no idea how people go back to school at a later age. I now have way, way more respect for this group of people. Luckily I passed my test and I can now go back to reading five books a week and blogging again.. Yay!!
My final thought for the day will be about the weather. Today in the wonderful state of Missouri we got snow. Snow is not my best thing. Honestly any sort of weather is not my best friend. I HATE driving in the cold white powder (not cocaine, Nick... Geez..). I pretty much refuse to do any sort of driving in it actually.. Curt gets the lucky task of driving me around in snow. When I came downstairs at about 7:15am this morning there was no snow falling from the sky. I was in a good mood because I didn't have to worry about driving in the bad weather.. I was going on my golly way by making my breakfast so we could leave in about 30 minutes. Half-way through my Cheerios of the multi-grain kind, I looked outside and realized there was snow.... I suddenly became a bitchy drill Sergent.. Poor Curt. He thought he was going to get to enjoy his breakfast in peace because we were avoiding the snow. I started to firmly demand he abandon his mission and put his shoes on (he takes forever to put his shoes on.. It will be the death of me) so we could immediately go to avoid sliding to our death because of slick roads. This is a great mixture of an insurance career and anxiety.. He was sitting at the table and then suddenly I became a crazy.. I feel bad for him a little.. Marriage is so fun.. :)
I hope everyone enjoyed the post and has a great Christmas. After tomorrow I don't have to be at work until 2013.. That is my Christmas gift to myself. Everyone be safe on the slick roads. If you need a reminder on how dangerous they are and how you will die if you drive on them, call me. I'd tell you free of charge!
H
I guess I should start off saying thank you to everyone who decided to spend their last day on earth reading this post. I'm sure hope we meet in our next life.. I have come to the realization that if the world really does "come to an end" then I am just going to roll with it. People are out buying supplies trying to outlast the end of civilization as we know it. I have nothing. Not even a single bottle of water at my house. I'll backtrack and tell you that Curt Byrd does not allow us to have bottled water because he says it will make him female and it should be outlawed. Pick your battles. I picked this battle to let him win and stop drinking bottled water. Hello, how can it hurt me?! I already have a uterus! Anyway, I like to analyze my situation about not really caring about the end of world like this.. Have you seen/read (the book is always better) The Hunger Games? If I were in this scenario I would be the first one dead. I have accepted this fact.. I have accepted the fact that if civilization ends how we know it that I am royally screwed. I don't even camp! I don't know how to built a fire other than by flipping a switch on a fireplace. I would eat every horrible berry out there that would instantly kill me. I have accepted the fact that I would be a goner and really I have no qualms about it. However, Curt Byrd, he would live forever. I really should have been nicer to him........ Hmmm..
Speaking of crazy events, I am going to have a short rant about school shootings and Facebook. I am by no means downplaying what happened last Friday at Sandy Hook. It is an awful, awful thing and I will never be able to understand how someone could do such a horrible thing. I don't have a mental health problem and I thank God everyday that I was created how I was. Obviously the killer had a problem. It is unfortunate that we don't really place more importance on mental health in our society. This may be a little political but bear with me. It is very awesome to see people so concerned about everyone involved in the incident. It is very not awesome to see so many people turn a complete tragedy into a political war. I watched Facebook statuses pour in everyday about gun control, The President, school safety, etc.. It was seriously like the election all over again. I was saddened by the amount of statuses that would rip apart someone and then end the status with something about prayer. I HATE this.. Are you seriously going to throw in prayer after you just ripped someone to pieces.. Bigotry wrapped in prayer is still bigotry... Enough on this subject. Moving forward to lighter and fluffier topics.
Showers.. Not the type with water but the type with estrogen and weddings/babies.. I have never thrown a shower before for anyone before Tuesday. One of my favorite people is having a baby and I volunteered to throw a baby shower for her at work (we work together). Let's back up. I am not a great event planner by all means. It is seriously a miracle of Jenny Clack that my wedding wasn't a disaster. I went to my friend Kristin's wedding last summer and it was one of the prettiest places I have ever seen. I have no idea how people can throw stuff together and make it presentable without a miracle of a wedding planner. Some people just have that awesome gene, I am not one of them. Luckily, I know lots of creative people who are always jumping at the chance to plan events. One of my sister-in-laws has a wonderful friend, Sarah, who is pretty much the planning master of events. I am pretty sure I scored there when we have to throw her a party. :) Anyway, I had no idea where in the world to even begin throwing a baby shower.. My advice to any novice party planner, consult Google. I don't know how anything got done without Google. Luckily the shower went pretty well and my friend got lots of needed items so I will mark it as a success.. I hope this paragraph has detoured anyone else who wants me to throw a party.. Joke.. Kinda.. :)
My work has wonderfully exciting insurance classes they offer to us employees. It really isn't a bad deal. They pay for the test/class, which can count for college classes, it makes you look good and they throw in some money (that's the kicker) for passing the classes. I signed up to take a test on 12-13-12. In September I started reading a book they shipped to me which consisted of 11 chapters with each chapter consisting of about 30 pages.. Plus they give you an online website to take practice tests to help you.. Not too bad right? I mean a few years ago I used to take 5 of these a semester.. WRONG! I have only been out of school a few years but I have found it almost impossible to study again. I have developed a large case of ADHD. I have no idea how people go back to school at a later age. I now have way, way more respect for this group of people. Luckily I passed my test and I can now go back to reading five books a week and blogging again.. Yay!!
My final thought for the day will be about the weather. Today in the wonderful state of Missouri we got snow. Snow is not my best thing. Honestly any sort of weather is not my best friend. I HATE driving in the cold white powder (not cocaine, Nick... Geez..). I pretty much refuse to do any sort of driving in it actually.. Curt gets the lucky task of driving me around in snow. When I came downstairs at about 7:15am this morning there was no snow falling from the sky. I was in a good mood because I didn't have to worry about driving in the bad weather.. I was going on my golly way by making my breakfast so we could leave in about 30 minutes. Half-way through my Cheerios of the multi-grain kind, I looked outside and realized there was snow.... I suddenly became a bitchy drill Sergent.. Poor Curt. He thought he was going to get to enjoy his breakfast in peace because we were avoiding the snow. I started to firmly demand he abandon his mission and put his shoes on (he takes forever to put his shoes on.. It will be the death of me) so we could immediately go to avoid sliding to our death because of slick roads. This is a great mixture of an insurance career and anxiety.. He was sitting at the table and then suddenly I became a crazy.. I feel bad for him a little.. Marriage is so fun.. :)
I hope everyone enjoyed the post and has a great Christmas. After tomorrow I don't have to be at work until 2013.. That is my Christmas gift to myself. Everyone be safe on the slick roads. If you need a reminder on how dangerous they are and how you will die if you drive on them, call me. I'd tell you free of charge!
H
Monday, November 12, 2012
I'm Sorry Thanksgiving
Hello and Happy Blogging Monday! I am so, so glad to be able to watch television and not have to be hounded by political ads. I have blogged enough about politics so I will spare every one's eyes of having to read about this for the third time. I am glad to have my friends back again and I will have to overlook some bad behavior statuses from my friends based on politics. Bad, bad behavior statuses.. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this blog post.
If you remember back in my previous posts I discussed my dislike of Columbus Day. Apparently a lot of my friends read my blog (yay for having nice friends) and now like to bring up my hatred of Columbus Day.. I have noticed that I am very particular about my holidays.. I did not realize this until Curt pointed it out to me. I happen to LOVE Thanksgiving. I have no prejudice against the pilgrims. Heck, I am very greatful for their non-murdering, raping, std giving contribution to society. Thanksgiving is a holiday based around a few of my favorite items. One of my favorite cooked birds is definitely turkey.. It is so delicious! I think my favorite cooked bird may be chicken of the fried kind but I can work with turkey. One of my favorite jellies is jellied cranberries! One of my favorite potatoes are mashed. My first potato choice is definitely fried but a girl can settle for second. I love pies especially chocolate, cherry and I am warming up to pecan. I do not like stuffing at all but I can't be completely greedy. A holiday all about eating is one for my heart. Plus with Thanksgiving you have football, shopping, family and naps. One can't go wrong with this holiday.. However, it seems more and more of America wants to forget Thanksgiving by going straight to Christmas. Everytime I see a Christmas tree, decorations or lights I must tell Thanksgiving that I am sorry. Unfortunately, I have said this frequently this year. I am sure I drive people (mainly Curt) completely crazy with this behavior. I don't know why I feel that it is necessary to apologize to Thanksgiving but it makes me so mad that people forget the pilgrims. Like Curt said, I have a problem with holidays..
Speaking of holidays, November had three extra holidays this year that most people do not realize. First, as mentioned earlier, the end of the political ads on television. I think both parties together can be thankful for this ending. Maybe I can somehow weave this into the Thanksgiving list of thanks this year.. This year I am thankful not to see anymore Todd Akin political ads. I am seriously considering sending all politicans letters about my friend Kristin who can shape their politican butts up.. Second, daylight savings time ends. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know we lose an hour of daylight at night but hello, we get an extra hour of real sleep in the morning. It is like a little piece of heaven until your body adjusts to the extra hour. Third, college basketball startsm this month. Curt and I purchase Mizzou basketball season tickets each year so we are particularly excited for the season to begin. We both love, love going to the games. It is nice because it gives us something to do in the winter and really the tickets are not the expensive. We have been grandfathered in with rates so that is especially nice. I have noticed we suddenly get more friends during basketball season so people can use our tickets. I will tell you that we can be bribed.. :)
Anyway, thanks for reading my blog. I hope you don't think i am anymore crazy than you thought I was before this post. If I don't post before Thanksgiving, enjoy your holiday! I am going to go Black Friday shopping for the first time ever this year.. I am excited and super scared at the same time. Come on big deals!!!!
H
If you remember back in my previous posts I discussed my dislike of Columbus Day. Apparently a lot of my friends read my blog (yay for having nice friends) and now like to bring up my hatred of Columbus Day.. I have noticed that I am very particular about my holidays.. I did not realize this until Curt pointed it out to me. I happen to LOVE Thanksgiving. I have no prejudice against the pilgrims. Heck, I am very greatful for their non-murdering, raping, std giving contribution to society. Thanksgiving is a holiday based around a few of my favorite items. One of my favorite cooked birds is definitely turkey.. It is so delicious! I think my favorite cooked bird may be chicken of the fried kind but I can work with turkey. One of my favorite jellies is jellied cranberries! One of my favorite potatoes are mashed. My first potato choice is definitely fried but a girl can settle for second. I love pies especially chocolate, cherry and I am warming up to pecan. I do not like stuffing at all but I can't be completely greedy. A holiday all about eating is one for my heart. Plus with Thanksgiving you have football, shopping, family and naps. One can't go wrong with this holiday.. However, it seems more and more of America wants to forget Thanksgiving by going straight to Christmas. Everytime I see a Christmas tree, decorations or lights I must tell Thanksgiving that I am sorry. Unfortunately, I have said this frequently this year. I am sure I drive people (mainly Curt) completely crazy with this behavior. I don't know why I feel that it is necessary to apologize to Thanksgiving but it makes me so mad that people forget the pilgrims. Like Curt said, I have a problem with holidays..
Speaking of holidays, November had three extra holidays this year that most people do not realize. First, as mentioned earlier, the end of the political ads on television. I think both parties together can be thankful for this ending. Maybe I can somehow weave this into the Thanksgiving list of thanks this year.. This year I am thankful not to see anymore Todd Akin political ads. I am seriously considering sending all politicans letters about my friend Kristin who can shape their politican butts up.. Second, daylight savings time ends. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know we lose an hour of daylight at night but hello, we get an extra hour of real sleep in the morning. It is like a little piece of heaven until your body adjusts to the extra hour. Third, college basketball startsm this month. Curt and I purchase Mizzou basketball season tickets each year so we are particularly excited for the season to begin. We both love, love going to the games. It is nice because it gives us something to do in the winter and really the tickets are not the expensive. We have been grandfathered in with rates so that is especially nice. I have noticed we suddenly get more friends during basketball season so people can use our tickets. I will tell you that we can be bribed.. :)
Anyway, thanks for reading my blog. I hope you don't think i am anymore crazy than you thought I was before this post. If I don't post before Thanksgiving, enjoy your holiday! I am going to go Black Friday shopping for the first time ever this year.. I am excited and super scared at the same time. Come on big deals!!!!
H
Monday, November 5, 2012
Voting
Omgsh.. Two posts within a month.. Hell must be freezing over soon.. :) First off, I must say I won't be calling out any political party that much.. So all of my extreme liberal and conservative friends can keep reading if you desire.... I hope you enjoy!!
Who reading this is extemely happy to have their regular tv commercials back after tomorrow. I never thought I cared much about commercials but now I know to never take these 30 to 60 second ads for granted again. I am literally sitting here watching Wheel of Fortune (I am so old) and I have not seen one single commercial that is a political ad. Why we are on the subject of political ads, how do some of these make the air? I sometimes watch an ad for a candidate and feel like it was an attack ad on the person it is supposed to be for.. I will watch the whole ad and say there is no way in hell I am voting for this person.. Bad, bad advertising.. My friend Kristin needs to tear into these ads and make them acceptable. I am a HUGE believer in a separation of church and state.. If you mention your church, I am not voting for you.. This is my new decision. There are thousands of people in the USA who are NOT Christian and that makes me mad to leave people out.. Also, if you are a male politican and you look like you are wearing more makeup than Lady Gaga, strike two.. If you air a commercial being a meanie butt to someone then I am not voting for you.. If you are named Todd Akin then I will never ever vote for you.. Enough ranting about him..
Speaking of voting, I think everyone needs to take a second tomorrow and honestly understand how important it is that we can have a free election. (If you are reading this outside the USA, first off, you rock and secondly, sorry about this blanket statement.). There are so many countries out there who do not let people choose what "douchebag" candidate they have as a leader. We/I do not get in any trouble for posting our opinions on the internet/Facebook/blogs or even speaking what we believe in. Democrat/Republican/Blue or Green we can all agree that this is one of the many freedoms we have and we shouldn't take it for granted. Whomever gets elected tomorrow will still be by a free election and a whole heck of a lot better than so many other places. Just remember that tomorrow..
Curt and I for the first time ever in our relationship will be voting for the same person for the main event tomorrow. In years past we both took great joy in canceling out each other's vote. It gives you a little more incentive to vote. We started thinking about a month ago how to make our vote "count" a little more this election since we aren't voting different. We have decided that tomorrow when we cast our vote we will be casting our vote with a little bonus of canceling out that one person who has annoyed the crap out of you this political season. I have been joking with a very conservative co-worker for the last month that I will be canceling out his vote. He doesn't annoy me so I am not sure if tomorrow he will be my wild card cancel vote or not. I may have to "cancel" out his vote just because he gets so worked up about my slightly liberal views. Curt has his person completely nailed out to cancel tomorrow. I suggest you try this little trick.. It adds a little bonus to voting and I bet you have a little chuckle about you win..
Speaking of friends, I am ready to have mine back. I think some of my friends may not like my views on certain subjects just as they do not like mine. Luckily after the election (give people a few days to cool off either way..) we will start having lollipop/rainbows/puppies statuses because Christmas is coming up soon and people will start getting days off of work (thank you Thanksgiving). I love that Facebook/media forums gives people a voice to be heard. I honestly have been surprised about how intelligent some of my friends are on subjects even if I do not agree. On the other hand, I have been surprised at how some people blantantly ignore/blast whole groups of people without thinking twice about it. That completely upsets me because people are still people. I once heard a person talking horribly about illegal immigrants coming into our country and I heard the best response to these ignorant comments.. The person responded by asking what would you do if you had a starving family? Don't you realize those people are unfortunate to be born in a place without wealth and ultimately they are mothers/fathers/sisters/brothers/people trying to take care of those whom they love. Wouldn't you do everything in your power to take care of your family also?
On that note, hopefully you didn't think I was a crazy person who insults the who world. I hope everyone who is of age tomorrow votes, whether you are voting with me or picking me to cancel out my vote. Just remember, only two more days until we have our tv commercials back. As always, thanks for reading..
H
Who reading this is extemely happy to have their regular tv commercials back after tomorrow. I never thought I cared much about commercials but now I know to never take these 30 to 60 second ads for granted again. I am literally sitting here watching Wheel of Fortune (I am so old) and I have not seen one single commercial that is a political ad. Why we are on the subject of political ads, how do some of these make the air? I sometimes watch an ad for a candidate and feel like it was an attack ad on the person it is supposed to be for.. I will watch the whole ad and say there is no way in hell I am voting for this person.. Bad, bad advertising.. My friend Kristin needs to tear into these ads and make them acceptable. I am a HUGE believer in a separation of church and state.. If you mention your church, I am not voting for you.. This is my new decision. There are thousands of people in the USA who are NOT Christian and that makes me mad to leave people out.. Also, if you are a male politican and you look like you are wearing more makeup than Lady Gaga, strike two.. If you air a commercial being a meanie butt to someone then I am not voting for you.. If you are named Todd Akin then I will never ever vote for you.. Enough ranting about him..
Speaking of voting, I think everyone needs to take a second tomorrow and honestly understand how important it is that we can have a free election. (If you are reading this outside the USA, first off, you rock and secondly, sorry about this blanket statement.). There are so many countries out there who do not let people choose what "douchebag" candidate they have as a leader. We/I do not get in any trouble for posting our opinions on the internet/Facebook/blogs or even speaking what we believe in. Democrat/Republican/Blue or Green we can all agree that this is one of the many freedoms we have and we shouldn't take it for granted. Whomever gets elected tomorrow will still be by a free election and a whole heck of a lot better than so many other places. Just remember that tomorrow..
Curt and I for the first time ever in our relationship will be voting for the same person for the main event tomorrow. In years past we both took great joy in canceling out each other's vote. It gives you a little more incentive to vote. We started thinking about a month ago how to make our vote "count" a little more this election since we aren't voting different. We have decided that tomorrow when we cast our vote we will be casting our vote with a little bonus of canceling out that one person who has annoyed the crap out of you this political season. I have been joking with a very conservative co-worker for the last month that I will be canceling out his vote. He doesn't annoy me so I am not sure if tomorrow he will be my wild card cancel vote or not. I may have to "cancel" out his vote just because he gets so worked up about my slightly liberal views. Curt has his person completely nailed out to cancel tomorrow. I suggest you try this little trick.. It adds a little bonus to voting and I bet you have a little chuckle about you win..
Speaking of friends, I am ready to have mine back. I think some of my friends may not like my views on certain subjects just as they do not like mine. Luckily after the election (give people a few days to cool off either way..) we will start having lollipop/rainbows/puppies statuses because Christmas is coming up soon and people will start getting days off of work (thank you Thanksgiving). I love that Facebook/media forums gives people a voice to be heard. I honestly have been surprised about how intelligent some of my friends are on subjects even if I do not agree. On the other hand, I have been surprised at how some people blantantly ignore/blast whole groups of people without thinking twice about it. That completely upsets me because people are still people. I once heard a person talking horribly about illegal immigrants coming into our country and I heard the best response to these ignorant comments.. The person responded by asking what would you do if you had a starving family? Don't you realize those people are unfortunate to be born in a place without wealth and ultimately they are mothers/fathers/sisters/brothers/people trying to take care of those whom they love. Wouldn't you do everything in your power to take care of your family also?
On that note, hopefully you didn't think I was a crazy person who insults the who world. I hope everyone who is of age tomorrow votes, whether you are voting with me or picking me to cancel out my vote. Just remember, only two more days until we have our tv commercials back. As always, thanks for reading..
H
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Abandoned
I have been the worst little blogger over the last couple of weeks. If you are reading this for the only purpose of Curt and I's blog questions, I will stop you right there, no questions in this post. Curt and I are about halfway through our questions. We received a 100 different questions for our friends/family.. I was shocked at the willingness to participate by people. This also means that if you have questions to submit, have at it. Curt and I promise.. Well I promise for me and I'll make Curt do it...
Speaking of Curt.. We celebrated my birthday this month and national boss day! We celebrated boss day because I am just so dang good at bossing him around.. Haha. I told him that I was expecting a present.. Sadly, the big boss day holiday is the day after my birthday so he said he combined the two holidays.... I now understand what it is like to have a birthday by a major holiday. You would so get cheated if you had a birthday around Christmas or Columbus Day... Here is my short rant about Columbus Day.. This should not be a holiday. Columbus first did not even discover America! He came to America and took land from the Native Americans, who obviously found America first hence them I dunno.. living on the land.. Second, he raped, killed and passed stds to the Native Americans.. Yay government for making this a holiday! No way can government workers get the day after Thanksgiving for a real holiday off, Black Friday, but we give them this holiday.. Grrrrrr!! I also had a birthday mixed into this month.. 25 years old... I am now closer to 30 than to 20.. This hurts my heart a little.. I was a little emotional about this new age.. I don't want to really get older.. 24 honestly was my best age.. After some serious thinking, I have decided 25 will have to be my best year.. If not, I will drink a looooot of wine.. I am also going to have my friend, Kristin, who can get anything done with letters send a letter to the Cardinals to stop losing on my birthday! Hello.. Don't they understand it is my birthday! Ugh, leave it to men to mess things up..
Back to major events in my life.. Curt and I got up the courage last weekend to talk to our bank about getting a mortgage. Luckily, the loan officer was an old family friend and she made everything really, really comfortable and easy. First, figuring out what to wear to an interview for money is a little confusing. It is kind of like a tamer mullet.. Do I go business or do I go for a more relaxed look. Curt and I seriously had a debate about our clothes. We went for a relaxed look because it was Saturday and with someone we knew.. Otherwise, we would have went business. I will later have the debate to what you wear for looking for a home.. Man, the thoughts that go through my hair.. A random fact about Hannah is that I have pretty bad anxiety. I can literally think of all the horrible outcomes we can hear from the loan officer in about 10 seconds.. While in our "interview" I think we both started to feel like big time adults. We were asking about fees, monthly payments, insurance (I rocked this section) and escrow payments.. The officer once told us we could save about $50k in interest if we go for a shorter mortgage..... Not $50 dollars... $50,0000... Omg! Fortunately it all worked out and Curt and I are almost ready to make the big boy and girl decision of a house.. I hope we don't divorce..
My final thought for my short blog tonight is about Halloween. I am on the "fun" committee for my work this year so I am getting in the Halloween spirit.. I have decided after many hours of Pinterest creeping (I wish I was kidding) to be the beanie baby duck, Quackers. I have to give a shout out to my sister-in-law, Heather, and my sister, Emma, for making my sign and lending me duck clothes. Stay tuned for pictures. I ordered a sweet duck hat that quacks and has flapping wings.. Emma has nicely let me borrow some yellow rain boots. I am stoked! I like how adults act like they don't like Halloween at all but I think they may like it just as much as the kids. We had a cubicle decorating contest at work and so many people actually seemed to be in a better mood because of the silly little decorations. I wish I could trick or treat still and no get looked at silly. Getting free candy is amazing! Going door to door is a little creepy but you can't win them all. I need to find a little kid to be friends with for trick or treating in a non-molester kind of way. I also don't like men in masks.. Normally to me that would be robber but for one night I have to overlook that.. No way! 20/20 on WE has taught me otherwise.
Thanks for reading my quick blog. I promise soon to have the questions completed. I hope everyone has a nice Halloween. I am secretly going to creep on every Halloween picture people post on Facebook.. Don't hit any trick or treater with a car, this will make your car insurance go up and have bad results for the superman/batman/princess/animal you hit.
H
Speaking of Curt.. We celebrated my birthday this month and national boss day! We celebrated boss day because I am just so dang good at bossing him around.. Haha. I told him that I was expecting a present.. Sadly, the big boss day holiday is the day after my birthday so he said he combined the two holidays.... I now understand what it is like to have a birthday by a major holiday. You would so get cheated if you had a birthday around Christmas or Columbus Day... Here is my short rant about Columbus Day.. This should not be a holiday. Columbus first did not even discover America! He came to America and took land from the Native Americans, who obviously found America first hence them I dunno.. living on the land.. Second, he raped, killed and passed stds to the Native Americans.. Yay government for making this a holiday! No way can government workers get the day after Thanksgiving for a real holiday off, Black Friday, but we give them this holiday.. Grrrrrr!! I also had a birthday mixed into this month.. 25 years old... I am now closer to 30 than to 20.. This hurts my heart a little.. I was a little emotional about this new age.. I don't want to really get older.. 24 honestly was my best age.. After some serious thinking, I have decided 25 will have to be my best year.. If not, I will drink a looooot of wine.. I am also going to have my friend, Kristin, who can get anything done with letters send a letter to the Cardinals to stop losing on my birthday! Hello.. Don't they understand it is my birthday! Ugh, leave it to men to mess things up..
Back to major events in my life.. Curt and I got up the courage last weekend to talk to our bank about getting a mortgage. Luckily, the loan officer was an old family friend and she made everything really, really comfortable and easy. First, figuring out what to wear to an interview for money is a little confusing. It is kind of like a tamer mullet.. Do I go business or do I go for a more relaxed look. Curt and I seriously had a debate about our clothes. We went for a relaxed look because it was Saturday and with someone we knew.. Otherwise, we would have went business. I will later have the debate to what you wear for looking for a home.. Man, the thoughts that go through my hair.. A random fact about Hannah is that I have pretty bad anxiety. I can literally think of all the horrible outcomes we can hear from the loan officer in about 10 seconds.. While in our "interview" I think we both started to feel like big time adults. We were asking about fees, monthly payments, insurance (I rocked this section) and escrow payments.. The officer once told us we could save about $50k in interest if we go for a shorter mortgage..... Not $50 dollars... $50,0000... Omg! Fortunately it all worked out and Curt and I are almost ready to make the big boy and girl decision of a house.. I hope we don't divorce..
My final thought for my short blog tonight is about Halloween. I am on the "fun" committee for my work this year so I am getting in the Halloween spirit.. I have decided after many hours of Pinterest creeping (I wish I was kidding) to be the beanie baby duck, Quackers. I have to give a shout out to my sister-in-law, Heather, and my sister, Emma, for making my sign and lending me duck clothes. Stay tuned for pictures. I ordered a sweet duck hat that quacks and has flapping wings.. Emma has nicely let me borrow some yellow rain boots. I am stoked! I like how adults act like they don't like Halloween at all but I think they may like it just as much as the kids. We had a cubicle decorating contest at work and so many people actually seemed to be in a better mood because of the silly little decorations. I wish I could trick or treat still and no get looked at silly. Getting free candy is amazing! Going door to door is a little creepy but you can't win them all. I need to find a little kid to be friends with for trick or treating in a non-molester kind of way. I also don't like men in masks.. Normally to me that would be robber but for one night I have to overlook that.. No way! 20/20 on WE has taught me otherwise.
Thanks for reading my quick blog. I promise soon to have the questions completed. I hope everyone has a nice Halloween. I am secretly going to creep on every Halloween picture people post on Facebook.. Don't hit any trick or treater with a car, this will make your car insurance go up and have bad results for the superman/batman/princess/animal you hit.
H
Monday, September 24, 2012
Mexico 2012
Hello! This post could have been titled Hannah doesn't want to study for her Insurance test. I have been very motivated to be unmotivated to study for this test.. I'll give you a little background on this test thing before I move forward with recapping my awesome Mexico vacation.. My work pays for us to take insurance tests to better ourselves at our jobs and when we get a designation, they pay us some moolah for doing a good job.. I have told myself that I am now allowed to check out anymore library books until I have taken my test.. This is a big rule in my life considering I successfully have read 5 books in the past 10 days.. I have to now focus my reading on insurance concepts.. Yay... I did discover a new author the last time I went to the library though.. Her name is Kristin Harmel (this just goes to show that I love all Kristins).. She incorporates Hollywood along with humor and a love story in her books. I read How to Sleep With a Movie Star, The Art of French Kissing and The Blonde Theory.. Definitely check her out if you want a fluffy read.. Okay so as promised, a post about Mexico.. Enjoy!!
I was so excited to go to Mexico for 5 days but I must admit I was a little nervous too.. I am sometimes a glass half full kind of girl and I was a little worried that something would go wrong.. I mean, I was spending 5 whole days with another couple and I have to admit, that I may not be the best person to hang out with for 5 continuous days.. The other couple we went with were one of our best friends and I didn't want anything to jeopardize this. Heck, sometimes I may not want to spend 5 continuous days with my own husband. What if sometime crazy happens on vacation and we can't be friends anymore? I am such a worrier.. I am sure I am going to have a heart attack at the age of 50.. Luckily, we all got along perfectly and had a great time. Curt and I laughed because after about 24 hours of being separated from Michael and Kristin, we had to admit we missed being with them everyday. I just think we need to plan another vacation soon. :) I will give a little plug for our travel agent/agency, they were amazing! We had a little problem with our bank on Thursday morning (the only real issue we had for the entire trip.. Make sure you always double check that your bank knows you are going to be out of the country...) and our travel agent called us and helped us through everything. Also, they told us to travel the week we did because it would be way cheaper and the hotels would be empty because it was right after Labor Day and they were spot on. We were told that the week before the hotel was at full capacity and the week after they would be at 80% but our week they were at about 40-50% capacity. This was amazing because we didn't have to wait for anything and fight through a crowd for anything..
This is the view from our room. It was absolutely amazing. I honestly wish I was there currently. The sand was so white and the water was an amazing blue color and was pretty clear. What this photo doesn't show you is that it had about 2054278792% humidity. We had a note in our room stating that Riveria Maya (where we were) has one of the highest percent of humidity in the whole Caribbean.. Boy was that true.. The first night I did my hair all pretty and walked outside and it was completely ruined and wet in about 3 minutes. It was pretty amazing really how humid it was. I kept a pack of gum in my room and took it back to Missouri with me and now the paper is glued to the gum because it got so wet in the room and then dried.. We got so lucky because it only rained for about an hour one day at about 9pm. We were in the lobby which was completely open when the rain poured down. The hotel workers had the lobby closed up in literally 2 minutes. It was like watching a Nascar pit crew (this will probably be my only Nascar reference as I hate this awful "sport"). Otherwise the weather was a beautiful sunny and 85 degrees. Perfect weather for every white person on earth to get scorched by the sun. I luckily didn't get to sunburned.. However, we all were very amused by the sunburned patterns on our fellow resort goers.. Some people did not believe in any sunscreen and looked like a red Christmas light and some people used sunscreen but only it patches.. I couldn't help but wonder what their crazy peeling will look like later.. Man I am a weird person...
We did venture off of the resort to a snorkeling/zipling resort called Xel-Ha. See photo below :)
I was a little hesitant to go off of the resort.. Hello, I could get kidnapped and die! Okay really, I have only tried snorkeling once before this time and it was an epic fail. Random fact about Hannah, I do not swim well and I do not float well and I do not breathe well. All of these combinations do not bode well for snorkeling and spending all day snorkeling did not sound too wonderful... I only got talked into it because Curt was so, so thrilled about going snorkeling.. This was one of those pick your battles moments.... If we traveled to one of the best snorkeling places in the world and I didn't make Curt feel like he and I wanted to go then I may have failed as a wife.. Plus I was excited about zipling. So on Friday morning off we went to this park. It was actually really cool. It was a 60+ acre through a rain forest with a river leading into the bay plus you could eat and drink all day long.. This was definitely an added perk.. We started about by snorkeling in a freezing cold river.. We saw some neat fish but I was a little scared because there were all sorts of tree over hangs and rocks that made me think snake.. I would definitely not swim in these waters if we were in Missouri... It didn't help that on our way to the park our tour guide told us that we may see a few pythons on the paths and if we do, just to alert a park ranger.. They would be alerted by my screaming... Thankfully we did not see any snakes. We also did some cliff diving at this park. You would snorkel up to these marked off cliffs and go up the stairs and jump off. I believe the cliffs we jumped were about 15 feet up.. It was weird because after you jumped, you had enough time to think about hitting the water before you did. I was very scared to do this but I am glad I did because it was a ton of fun. I think the European guys snorkeling next to us were glad I did too because I totally lost my swimsuit top... in crystal clear water... Oops..... Zipling was a ton of fun too.. We ziplined over water and then we would have to let go. It was cool because you could see all the fishies while you were flying over them.. It was definitely worth the money.... Snorkeling was fun too.. We saw some really cool fish/jellyfish/shells. We saw a school of fish when we were snorkeling.. That was so amazing to think that a group of animals could swim so in sync. (It was so hard not to write N'SYNC... My 90's boy band obsession is coming out here....). We saw a really big rainbow sherbet colored fish. It was by far my favorite.. We saw a manatee from afar.. They may be my new favorite animal.. They are a sea cow! How awesome! I call myself a manatee and Curt tells me to stop but hey, I am drawn to these weird animals! I will admit that I got very tired of snorkeling at the end.. I held on to Curt and he told me when to look down.. My snorkeling routine was looking at the fish for about 20 seconds then come up and remove my mouth piece and cough out all of the water I swallowed.. I have no idea why but I am terrible at breathing through my nose.. I had to laugh because I am pretty sure Michael had the same routine as me.. Apparently only Kristin and Michael could comprehend the basics of snorkeling.. Go Figure!!
The rest of our trip was spent eating, drinking and relaxing by water. We happened to go to Mexico on their independence day which was a very big deal to them and rightfully so. We went to Jamaica on their independence day also. Apparently Curt and I have a knack for going to other countries when they are having a huge celebration.. It was cool to see another county's patriotism.. The food was so good. We had a pretty normal buffet for breakfast and lunch. The omlet they made for breakfast was amazing. Dinner though was amazing. We sampled all of their dinner restaurants. We ate at a Mexican, French, Seafood and Steak, Italian and Japanese restaurant. We had an appetizer, main course and dessert at every place we went. The resort also had a coffee shop with delicious cakes and pastries.. I had a mocha frappe every day with dessert.. It is safe to say that I gained about 10 lbs or so.. Don't worry, my friend Kristin ate just as much as me but she ran 10 miles each day...... I didn't even know where the gym was... I will give you a short overview of the drinks.. They were so delicious.. I can't ever order a margarita again but they can't touch how amazing they were in Mexico. I drank about a million of these delicious drinks in 5 days.. My liver is thanking me for being back into my normal routine of not drinking tequilla everyday. :)
We had to be dragged out of resort after five days.. None of us wanted to go.. We did have a little laugh on the way to the airport.. We had to pick up this very tall man at a different hotel to take to the airport with us.. Apparently the bellman was having trouble/was slow at getting his bag down to the lobby after the man gave him the bag.. Our little driver was upset because we were going to be late (he must be on a strict schedule because we were plenty early..) and told the very tall man that he was going to leave him.. The tall man told the driver that he couldn't do anything and nicely asked him if he wanted him to superman the bag to him.. We couldn't stop laughing about supermaning the bag.. Luckily we got the airport in plenty of time and had a nice flight.. We went through Apple vacations and they chartered DirectTv and 4 movies on the plane of us so the flight we quick. I watched Brave and Dark Shadows and Curt watched the Avengers.. I'm highly recommending Apple Vacations as they were awesome....
I'm sad to say that I think this may be our last big vacation for awhile. We are expecting some changes in our life hopefully soon that will probably leave us with less disposable income to travel for awhile but I am going to go back sometime.. I have placed this on my bucket list.. I will leave you with photos of Curt and I and Kristin and Michael on our vacation. Notice the sweet tan as it is now sweet white.. As always, thanks for reading!
H
I was so excited to go to Mexico for 5 days but I must admit I was a little nervous too.. I am sometimes a glass half full kind of girl and I was a little worried that something would go wrong.. I mean, I was spending 5 whole days with another couple and I have to admit, that I may not be the best person to hang out with for 5 continuous days.. The other couple we went with were one of our best friends and I didn't want anything to jeopardize this. Heck, sometimes I may not want to spend 5 continuous days with my own husband. What if sometime crazy happens on vacation and we can't be friends anymore? I am such a worrier.. I am sure I am going to have a heart attack at the age of 50.. Luckily, we all got along perfectly and had a great time. Curt and I laughed because after about 24 hours of being separated from Michael and Kristin, we had to admit we missed being with them everyday. I just think we need to plan another vacation soon. :) I will give a little plug for our travel agent/agency, they were amazing! We had a little problem with our bank on Thursday morning (the only real issue we had for the entire trip.. Make sure you always double check that your bank knows you are going to be out of the country...) and our travel agent called us and helped us through everything. Also, they told us to travel the week we did because it would be way cheaper and the hotels would be empty because it was right after Labor Day and they were spot on. We were told that the week before the hotel was at full capacity and the week after they would be at 80% but our week they were at about 40-50% capacity. This was amazing because we didn't have to wait for anything and fight through a crowd for anything..
This is the view from our room. It was absolutely amazing. I honestly wish I was there currently. The sand was so white and the water was an amazing blue color and was pretty clear. What this photo doesn't show you is that it had about 2054278792% humidity. We had a note in our room stating that Riveria Maya (where we were) has one of the highest percent of humidity in the whole Caribbean.. Boy was that true.. The first night I did my hair all pretty and walked outside and it was completely ruined and wet in about 3 minutes. It was pretty amazing really how humid it was. I kept a pack of gum in my room and took it back to Missouri with me and now the paper is glued to the gum because it got so wet in the room and then dried.. We got so lucky because it only rained for about an hour one day at about 9pm. We were in the lobby which was completely open when the rain poured down. The hotel workers had the lobby closed up in literally 2 minutes. It was like watching a Nascar pit crew (this will probably be my only Nascar reference as I hate this awful "sport"). Otherwise the weather was a beautiful sunny and 85 degrees. Perfect weather for every white person on earth to get scorched by the sun. I luckily didn't get to sunburned.. However, we all were very amused by the sunburned patterns on our fellow resort goers.. Some people did not believe in any sunscreen and looked like a red Christmas light and some people used sunscreen but only it patches.. I couldn't help but wonder what their crazy peeling will look like later.. Man I am a weird person...
We did venture off of the resort to a snorkeling/zipling resort called Xel-Ha. See photo below :)
I was a little hesitant to go off of the resort.. Hello, I could get kidnapped and die! Okay really, I have only tried snorkeling once before this time and it was an epic fail. Random fact about Hannah, I do not swim well and I do not float well and I do not breathe well. All of these combinations do not bode well for snorkeling and spending all day snorkeling did not sound too wonderful... I only got talked into it because Curt was so, so thrilled about going snorkeling.. This was one of those pick your battles moments.... If we traveled to one of the best snorkeling places in the world and I didn't make Curt feel like he and I wanted to go then I may have failed as a wife.. Plus I was excited about zipling. So on Friday morning off we went to this park. It was actually really cool. It was a 60+ acre through a rain forest with a river leading into the bay plus you could eat and drink all day long.. This was definitely an added perk.. We started about by snorkeling in a freezing cold river.. We saw some neat fish but I was a little scared because there were all sorts of tree over hangs and rocks that made me think snake.. I would definitely not swim in these waters if we were in Missouri... It didn't help that on our way to the park our tour guide told us that we may see a few pythons on the paths and if we do, just to alert a park ranger.. They would be alerted by my screaming... Thankfully we did not see any snakes. We also did some cliff diving at this park. You would snorkel up to these marked off cliffs and go up the stairs and jump off. I believe the cliffs we jumped were about 15 feet up.. It was weird because after you jumped, you had enough time to think about hitting the water before you did. I was very scared to do this but I am glad I did because it was a ton of fun. I think the European guys snorkeling next to us were glad I did too because I totally lost my swimsuit top... in crystal clear water... Oops..... Zipling was a ton of fun too.. We ziplined over water and then we would have to let go. It was cool because you could see all the fishies while you were flying over them.. It was definitely worth the money.... Snorkeling was fun too.. We saw some really cool fish/jellyfish/shells. We saw a school of fish when we were snorkeling.. That was so amazing to think that a group of animals could swim so in sync. (It was so hard not to write N'SYNC... My 90's boy band obsession is coming out here....). We saw a really big rainbow sherbet colored fish. It was by far my favorite.. We saw a manatee from afar.. They may be my new favorite animal.. They are a sea cow! How awesome! I call myself a manatee and Curt tells me to stop but hey, I am drawn to these weird animals! I will admit that I got very tired of snorkeling at the end.. I held on to Curt and he told me when to look down.. My snorkeling routine was looking at the fish for about 20 seconds then come up and remove my mouth piece and cough out all of the water I swallowed.. I have no idea why but I am terrible at breathing through my nose.. I had to laugh because I am pretty sure Michael had the same routine as me.. Apparently only Kristin and Michael could comprehend the basics of snorkeling.. Go Figure!!
The rest of our trip was spent eating, drinking and relaxing by water. We happened to go to Mexico on their independence day which was a very big deal to them and rightfully so. We went to Jamaica on their independence day also. Apparently Curt and I have a knack for going to other countries when they are having a huge celebration.. It was cool to see another county's patriotism.. The food was so good. We had a pretty normal buffet for breakfast and lunch. The omlet they made for breakfast was amazing. Dinner though was amazing. We sampled all of their dinner restaurants. We ate at a Mexican, French, Seafood and Steak, Italian and Japanese restaurant. We had an appetizer, main course and dessert at every place we went. The resort also had a coffee shop with delicious cakes and pastries.. I had a mocha frappe every day with dessert.. It is safe to say that I gained about 10 lbs or so.. Don't worry, my friend Kristin ate just as much as me but she ran 10 miles each day...... I didn't even know where the gym was... I will give you a short overview of the drinks.. They were so delicious.. I can't ever order a margarita again but they can't touch how amazing they were in Mexico. I drank about a million of these delicious drinks in 5 days.. My liver is thanking me for being back into my normal routine of not drinking tequilla everyday. :)
We had to be dragged out of resort after five days.. None of us wanted to go.. We did have a little laugh on the way to the airport.. We had to pick up this very tall man at a different hotel to take to the airport with us.. Apparently the bellman was having trouble/was slow at getting his bag down to the lobby after the man gave him the bag.. Our little driver was upset because we were going to be late (he must be on a strict schedule because we were plenty early..) and told the very tall man that he was going to leave him.. The tall man told the driver that he couldn't do anything and nicely asked him if he wanted him to superman the bag to him.. We couldn't stop laughing about supermaning the bag.. Luckily we got the airport in plenty of time and had a nice flight.. We went through Apple vacations and they chartered DirectTv and 4 movies on the plane of us so the flight we quick. I watched Brave and Dark Shadows and Curt watched the Avengers.. I'm highly recommending Apple Vacations as they were awesome....
I'm sad to say that I think this may be our last big vacation for awhile. We are expecting some changes in our life hopefully soon that will probably leave us with less disposable income to travel for awhile but I am going to go back sometime.. I have placed this on my bucket list.. I will leave you with photos of Curt and I and Kristin and Michael on our vacation. Notice the sweet tan as it is now sweet white.. As always, thanks for reading!
H
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
F to the Riends
Happy Wednesday which feels like Tuesday which is a week from Hannah's Mexico vacation! I'm so stoked about my vacation. I can't wait to spend a week not thinking about insurance, housework, grocery shopping, laundry or what I am going to eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner for an entire week.. I have to admit that I may be a little stressed about having to go through an airport but since I have some company in this journey and my journey ends at the beach, I think I will survive this time. I won't be bringing my phone or computer for a whole week so that will be a little bit of a shock. I know everyone will be so sad that they can't read any blog posts probably for the next two weeks but hopefully my next post will be so awesome that you will forget. I do have some more sad news to report before I get into my topic...... Katy Perry and John Mayer were reported being back on after they were reported to be done... Boo! Hopefully my future girlfriend makes the right decision and leaves him.. I wouldn't mind being one of her friends! (Nice transition into my next paragraph.. My English teachers of the past would be happy by this transition.. However, they would not be happy by my troubles with commas..)
Friends bring me some of the best moments in my life. I can't resist being in a good mood/happy when I am surrounded by a group of people I love. However, I can't help but being in a terrible mood when something isn't right with my friends.. I was thinking today about all of my different groups of friends that I have in my life. When I started thinking of my different group of friends I immediately thought of my old friends.. Not my old friends age wise but my friends who have been in my life the longest aka Vienna friends. I have girlfriends that I remember being in kindergarten with way, way back in the day. Since I don't live in Vienna anymore I don't see my old friends as much as I really should. I know a lot of this is my fault.. I need to make a better effort to see them whenever I go home to see my family. I was home for 2 days this weekend and didn't have go see some of my best friends back home.. This scenario = bad job Hannah. It is funny how we all used to in high school all get together on the weekend at parties or friends house and now we see each other at class reunions or weddings. I do have about 2 really good girlfriends that I still see on a regular basis. I love when we get together we tell tales of all the crazy/fun times we had in high school. I realize that if I told these stories to non-Vienna people then they wouldn't understand or think it is funny but we tell the stories and are almost in tears because we think it is so funny. I guess it should have been told earlier that since I am from a small school that all the kids a few years older or younger than me could be considered my old friends. Curt and I have some of our best friends right now that we knew growing up but we were never super close until the last couple of years. I guess that goes to show people that you should never lose contact with people because they may end up being your best friends.
College... College is kind of a weird time for kids. It was weird for me because I was one of the few people in my group of friends that was actually going away to college. Most of my friends were staying in Vienna and just commuting to school. I found that most of my friends who stayed behind actually became better friends while I was drifting away in a far away land called college. I literally got dropped off at my dorm without a car and maybe knowing two whole people on campus, both of which were older. If that doesn't motivate you to make friends, I am really not sure what will. Luckily, my roommate in college was awesome and was in a similar boat as me. We had to become friends or we would spend a lot of time alone.. This is a prime example of how opposites attract. We had the same morals but otherwise we were completely opposite. I have no idea why her mom made her join a freshman sports interest group as I get texts from her on a regular basis on all sorts of sports questions but I am glad she did it. I kept making new friends at school but it still felt weird because I had all of my friends back home. I found myself having less and less to talk about with my old friends and spending more and more time with my new friends. I think this is a cruel joke that someone is playing on 18 year old girls.. It's not like they are confused/emotional enough much less adding this new scenario of balancing friends. In the end, I just had to find a balance between both of the groups.
After college.. I remember a little bit after I graduated college going through my phone and wondering what I should do with the phone numbers of my college friends/classmates. I knew that I would probably never need their numbers again but I felt like deleting them would be like a wiping them out forever and closing a chapter of my life.. It is like you aren't old but you aren't young anymore. What do you do with these old friends? Most of them were moving on and leaving you behind. Do you really want to do a long distance relationship with people who were your friends but not best friends? Sadly, I didn't put the effort in for a long distance relationship and deleted most of them out of my phone.. Luckily, most are my Facebook friends so they are never far away.. I can always creep on them when I want to keep up with them. How did people keep friends before Facebook? I stayed in the same town in which I graduated college. I can drive by all the places I used to go to hang out with my friends but not have the same friends to go with me. It was depressing. I was in a familiar place but all alone. I watched all of my friends pack up their belongings and years of memories and move off to their new lives while I was still here. Luckily my senior year of college I scored an internship at an insurance company in the same place as my college. I was offered a job before I even graduated college so I didn't have to deal with the finding a job stress. I didn't realize that when my college life was over and my college friends were leaving me that I would find new friends through work. I seriously work with some awesome people and they have become my new core group of friends. Curt happens to work with awesome people too and they have became my friends by default. I honestly don't know how people don't work because I would go crazy. I miss my co-workers and social interactions when I am gone from work.
I think I am kind of a weird girl. I love sports and bluntly talk like a man sometimes but I follow celebrities and like fashion/makeup.. I used to be a huge tomboy but I guess I realized that in order to communicate with 99% of the female population I would have to expand my knowledge of clothes/makeup/shoes. I always joke with Curt that I hate it when we go to our friend's house to watch major sporting events because all the wives/girlfriends like to sit and chat while I actually want to watch the complete game. I want to hear the commentary while the other girls like for it to be muted. It is hard for me to find girlfriends because we don't have a ton in common. We do have a couple friend where the girl, Nikky, likes sports a lot also. I told Curt that my new rule is that I will only go to major sporting events at other people's house if Nikky is going also. A friend of mine once joked that we are friends because we hate the same people. This made me laugh so hard because this is probably true.
Politics.. I need the November election to be over quick as I am not sure I can remain friends with some of my friends after I see their political statements/views. Curt tells me that I am a confused voter so my beliefs are all over the dang place. However, I cringe sometimes when I see a friend's/spouse view on politics posted all over Facebook. People probably think this about my views too which is fine. I think November needs to hurry up so we can all remain friends. I sometimes have to stop the urge to comment on people's posts because what they posted drives me nuts.. I have to say, I am doing pretty dang well. Please remember this in the future if I post something you dislike, don't blow up my status bashing people/ideas/things that I am obviously in favor of.... That is all I am going to say on politics.. Next topic!
Facebook... I can't type a lie on this blog so I must confess that I creep often on the Book. I feel like if you put it on a public site for my eyes to see then I won't feel bad about reading it. I have decided that I like some of my friends way more because of Facebook. I didn't know some of my friends could be so insightful/humorous/awesome because of Facebook. I feel like this about blogs too. I read a couple of blogs and it makes me like people way more than I did before.. However....... This goes both ways.. Facebook sometimes makes me dislike my friends.. I am not the best with grammar but I don't think I am horrible either. My Nazi grammar friend, Kristin, may disagree though.. Kristin and I have a game where we screen shot a status that someone posted on Facebook and text it to the other person and the other tries to top it... One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use the incorrect form of your/you're and there/their/they're... Look over there and you will see their beautiful new house. I bet they're happy with it......... I bet you're happy with your new Ipad purchase so you can creep on my blog....... If you struggle with these words, please use the last couple of sentences for references.. Facebook needs some spell check so I don't judge you.. I am a horrible person..
Family.. I normally thought of family as just that, family. However, the older I have gotten the more I am seeing family as my friends also. I remember severely disliking my siblings growing up. They were not my best friends to say the least.. I couldn't wait to leave the house to get away from them.. Now they don't live in my house but 2/3 live in Columbia with me. We now get together about once a week as friends to play games or just to hang out. Someone makes dinner and we all sit around a table and eat-something we used to hate doing. My family/friends have expanded as my brothers are now married. I'm really glad I have siblings now that I am older even though I hated it when I was younger. A great part of getting married was I also inherited Curt's sibling to be my family/friends. He has a great sister whom I love hanging out with as a friend as opposed to a sister-in-law.
I must confess that I really started thinking of the friends topic at a BBQ with friends on Labor Day. We hung out with 2 other couples and honestly had a great time. We all got along and actually enjoyed each other's company. One of the couples was an old friend from high school and his wife and the other was a couple who was friends with our old friends and then we became friends also. Curt and I were discussing this on the drive home and decided that we are finally extremely happy with our friends situation. We feel like we have surrounded ourself with positive/happy people. I am done having friends who are negative. When I am around those people I find myself conforming being two faced and not the person who I want to be. You can never ever have too many friends but you can have too many negative friends. Actually one negative friend is probably one too many. I am now to the point in my life that I am not striving to be accepted by people and will do whatever it takes to be someone else's friend. If those peole don't want to accept me for me then I don't need to change to be their friend. This is one of the reasons I enjoyed the group of friend we were with at the BBQ. I didn't feel pressure to dress up, act like a normal girl or be someone I am not.. It is a really good feeling to finally be in this place in life..
I know this post wasn't a normally fluffy Hannah post but I will promise one of those posts soon. Say a little prayer that I don't get kidnapped in Mexico like my father-in-law is sure will happen. As always, thanks for reading my rambling!
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Friends bring me some of the best moments in my life. I can't resist being in a good mood/happy when I am surrounded by a group of people I love. However, I can't help but being in a terrible mood when something isn't right with my friends.. I was thinking today about all of my different groups of friends that I have in my life. When I started thinking of my different group of friends I immediately thought of my old friends.. Not my old friends age wise but my friends who have been in my life the longest aka Vienna friends. I have girlfriends that I remember being in kindergarten with way, way back in the day. Since I don't live in Vienna anymore I don't see my old friends as much as I really should. I know a lot of this is my fault.. I need to make a better effort to see them whenever I go home to see my family. I was home for 2 days this weekend and didn't have go see some of my best friends back home.. This scenario = bad job Hannah. It is funny how we all used to in high school all get together on the weekend at parties or friends house and now we see each other at class reunions or weddings. I do have about 2 really good girlfriends that I still see on a regular basis. I love when we get together we tell tales of all the crazy/fun times we had in high school. I realize that if I told these stories to non-Vienna people then they wouldn't understand or think it is funny but we tell the stories and are almost in tears because we think it is so funny. I guess it should have been told earlier that since I am from a small school that all the kids a few years older or younger than me could be considered my old friends. Curt and I have some of our best friends right now that we knew growing up but we were never super close until the last couple of years. I guess that goes to show people that you should never lose contact with people because they may end up being your best friends.
College... College is kind of a weird time for kids. It was weird for me because I was one of the few people in my group of friends that was actually going away to college. Most of my friends were staying in Vienna and just commuting to school. I found that most of my friends who stayed behind actually became better friends while I was drifting away in a far away land called college. I literally got dropped off at my dorm without a car and maybe knowing two whole people on campus, both of which were older. If that doesn't motivate you to make friends, I am really not sure what will. Luckily, my roommate in college was awesome and was in a similar boat as me. We had to become friends or we would spend a lot of time alone.. This is a prime example of how opposites attract. We had the same morals but otherwise we were completely opposite. I have no idea why her mom made her join a freshman sports interest group as I get texts from her on a regular basis on all sorts of sports questions but I am glad she did it. I kept making new friends at school but it still felt weird because I had all of my friends back home. I found myself having less and less to talk about with my old friends and spending more and more time with my new friends. I think this is a cruel joke that someone is playing on 18 year old girls.. It's not like they are confused/emotional enough much less adding this new scenario of balancing friends. In the end, I just had to find a balance between both of the groups.
After college.. I remember a little bit after I graduated college going through my phone and wondering what I should do with the phone numbers of my college friends/classmates. I knew that I would probably never need their numbers again but I felt like deleting them would be like a wiping them out forever and closing a chapter of my life.. It is like you aren't old but you aren't young anymore. What do you do with these old friends? Most of them were moving on and leaving you behind. Do you really want to do a long distance relationship with people who were your friends but not best friends? Sadly, I didn't put the effort in for a long distance relationship and deleted most of them out of my phone.. Luckily, most are my Facebook friends so they are never far away.. I can always creep on them when I want to keep up with them. How did people keep friends before Facebook? I stayed in the same town in which I graduated college. I can drive by all the places I used to go to hang out with my friends but not have the same friends to go with me. It was depressing. I was in a familiar place but all alone. I watched all of my friends pack up their belongings and years of memories and move off to their new lives while I was still here. Luckily my senior year of college I scored an internship at an insurance company in the same place as my college. I was offered a job before I even graduated college so I didn't have to deal with the finding a job stress. I didn't realize that when my college life was over and my college friends were leaving me that I would find new friends through work. I seriously work with some awesome people and they have become my new core group of friends. Curt happens to work with awesome people too and they have became my friends by default. I honestly don't know how people don't work because I would go crazy. I miss my co-workers and social interactions when I am gone from work.
I think I am kind of a weird girl. I love sports and bluntly talk like a man sometimes but I follow celebrities and like fashion/makeup.. I used to be a huge tomboy but I guess I realized that in order to communicate with 99% of the female population I would have to expand my knowledge of clothes/makeup/shoes. I always joke with Curt that I hate it when we go to our friend's house to watch major sporting events because all the wives/girlfriends like to sit and chat while I actually want to watch the complete game. I want to hear the commentary while the other girls like for it to be muted. It is hard for me to find girlfriends because we don't have a ton in common. We do have a couple friend where the girl, Nikky, likes sports a lot also. I told Curt that my new rule is that I will only go to major sporting events at other people's house if Nikky is going also. A friend of mine once joked that we are friends because we hate the same people. This made me laugh so hard because this is probably true.
Politics.. I need the November election to be over quick as I am not sure I can remain friends with some of my friends after I see their political statements/views. Curt tells me that I am a confused voter so my beliefs are all over the dang place. However, I cringe sometimes when I see a friend's/spouse view on politics posted all over Facebook. People probably think this about my views too which is fine. I think November needs to hurry up so we can all remain friends. I sometimes have to stop the urge to comment on people's posts because what they posted drives me nuts.. I have to say, I am doing pretty dang well. Please remember this in the future if I post something you dislike, don't blow up my status bashing people/ideas/things that I am obviously in favor of.... That is all I am going to say on politics.. Next topic!
Facebook... I can't type a lie on this blog so I must confess that I creep often on the Book. I feel like if you put it on a public site for my eyes to see then I won't feel bad about reading it. I have decided that I like some of my friends way more because of Facebook. I didn't know some of my friends could be so insightful/humorous/awesome because of Facebook. I feel like this about blogs too. I read a couple of blogs and it makes me like people way more than I did before.. However....... This goes both ways.. Facebook sometimes makes me dislike my friends.. I am not the best with grammar but I don't think I am horrible either. My Nazi grammar friend, Kristin, may disagree though.. Kristin and I have a game where we screen shot a status that someone posted on Facebook and text it to the other person and the other tries to top it... One of my biggest pet peeves is when people use the incorrect form of your/you're and there/their/they're... Look over there and you will see their beautiful new house. I bet they're happy with it......... I bet you're happy with your new Ipad purchase so you can creep on my blog....... If you struggle with these words, please use the last couple of sentences for references.. Facebook needs some spell check so I don't judge you.. I am a horrible person..
Family.. I normally thought of family as just that, family. However, the older I have gotten the more I am seeing family as my friends also. I remember severely disliking my siblings growing up. They were not my best friends to say the least.. I couldn't wait to leave the house to get away from them.. Now they don't live in my house but 2/3 live in Columbia with me. We now get together about once a week as friends to play games or just to hang out. Someone makes dinner and we all sit around a table and eat-something we used to hate doing. My family/friends have expanded as my brothers are now married. I'm really glad I have siblings now that I am older even though I hated it when I was younger. A great part of getting married was I also inherited Curt's sibling to be my family/friends. He has a great sister whom I love hanging out with as a friend as opposed to a sister-in-law.
I must confess that I really started thinking of the friends topic at a BBQ with friends on Labor Day. We hung out with 2 other couples and honestly had a great time. We all got along and actually enjoyed each other's company. One of the couples was an old friend from high school and his wife and the other was a couple who was friends with our old friends and then we became friends also. Curt and I were discussing this on the drive home and decided that we are finally extremely happy with our friends situation. We feel like we have surrounded ourself with positive/happy people. I am done having friends who are negative. When I am around those people I find myself conforming being two faced and not the person who I want to be. You can never ever have too many friends but you can have too many negative friends. Actually one negative friend is probably one too many. I am now to the point in my life that I am not striving to be accepted by people and will do whatever it takes to be someone else's friend. If those peole don't want to accept me for me then I don't need to change to be their friend. This is one of the reasons I enjoyed the group of friend we were with at the BBQ. I didn't feel pressure to dress up, act like a normal girl or be someone I am not.. It is a really good feeling to finally be in this place in life..
I know this post wasn't a normally fluffy Hannah post but I will promise one of those posts soon. Say a little prayer that I don't get kidnapped in Mexico like my father-in-law is sure will happen. As always, thanks for reading my rambling!
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