perfect timing

Today is a good day. actually, today is a great day! i am getting a new job! saturday, i am going to go through some one on one training with my new boss. and i am getting a substantial pay increase! let's just say i am going to make over $5 more an hour! oh yeah! way higher than i thought i would ever get! but i am not going to complain at all! and i can wear jeans any day that i want! how awesome is that! and t-shirts (without print) whenever i want! and sandals, and and, i can come in any time before 8:30 as long as i work 8 hours. and and the environment is going to be awesome. i already really like my new boss. i am so excited! still waiting on the offer letter, but i will be getting that this week! and she is letting me have the 31st off so i can move into our new house! now we can get cable! big deal for us! we now don't have to stress as much about financials! it is a good day. my fiance is very proud of me. i think i am still shocked! even getting the house is still surreal! probably even after we are already living there! and i am working the new totally awesome job! oh yeah! so excited! things are finally starting to turn around for me since being out here! i can't wait to tell my old boss that friday will be my last day! i don't have to work for crazywoman anymore! no more nausous stomachs, dreading going in, stressing over sneezing wrong! oh yeah. did i mention today is a great day? just checking!

TP on the roll!

alright boys. i'm putting the question out there that every woman wants to know. why is it SO hard to put a new roll of toilet paper on the roll? it's right there, you are just sitting there anyway, not going anywhere till you need it. why not make it easier on yourself! here's how you change it.

1. there is a tube that holds the toilet paper. it's spring loaded. push in one end. this should free the tube from the holder. pull towards you.

2. take the empty cardboard roll off the tube and put it in the trash. the trash should be conveniently located next to the toilet, for such an occasion.

3. take the new roll of toilet paper (you will find this wherever your TP is stored. varies per household) and slide the tube through the hole in the middle.

4. put one end of the tube into the holder.

5. push in the tube just enough to fit into the hole on the other side of the holder and release. this should pop it right in.

there! 5 quick easy steps on how to change the TP! what else are you doing just sitting there besides pooping and stinking up the place? so what provoked me to write such a blog? i got up to go to the bathroom, and my fiance had taken a roll out and placed it on the counter. NOT on the roll. HELLO!! right there! really? is it really that hard? come on now boys! my friend's husband does this as well, so i know it's not just my fiance. and the way boys are, i'm sure 99% of you do this as well! really. it won't hurt you. i promise!

tides of change

boy do i have a rollercoaster of a life right now! hopefully the ride will be ending soon, and i can get off. so yesterday, my cell phone was non stop at work. i obviously didn't answer any of them. don't need to piss the boss off. so i would check my messages when i could. the first call was from a job that i had interviewed with about a month ago. they gave the job to someone who had a lot more experience in their pay system (i had none). i found this out yesterday too. however, something came open and to give them a call if i was still interested. so at lunch i called and left HR a message. then after lunch, the payroll manager called and wanted to talk to me when i could. then my boss needed me to go to the post office. it's close enough to walk to, far enough to take a while. and it was so hot! anyway, so i took advantage of being away from any co-worker and called as i went to the post office! and she told me that there have been some changes in the dept and some people are not able to handle the extra workload, and so something has come open if i was still interested. this place is awesome to work for, so i of course said yes i was. we talked a little more, and i will be making at least $2 more than i am now an hour. she still had to talk to HR and see what they could do, and hopefully get an offer letter out that day so i can start pretty soon! oh yeah, and i was her second pick for the first job, which is why she gave me a call for this job. i am so excited. not that i want to keep doing payroll, but i will have a more secure job, full time, more money, benefits out the wazoo if i want them, cafeteria, better environment, oh the list could go on. then later that afternoon, i got a call from the place that wanted to hire me temp with potential to hire if i could step up to the plate. well, she wanted to let me know that the person she needed to talk to was at a seminar which she forgot, and will talk to her on monday. so i should hear something monday. pretty cool that i will have two job offers. but i am going with the full time one. i need to wait till i have the letter though before i tell the other place i got a new job. i can't wait to get out of the hotel. and what is even better is my boss here thinks that with my experience, i won't get more than what i am making now anywhere. HA! showed her! she's good at busting your ego and making hers HUGE! anywho, so i hope this tide is flowing in the right direction and doesn't take another turn. i can't handle any more of it! YEAY!!!!!!!!

sigh

yes, this is two in one day. if i wrote about aspen and my life on one blog, i would probably crash the computer. so my fiance was very mad at me for not telling him about losing my job. it took about three days for him to finally talk to me. yeah, that was fun. slept in the other bedroom two nights. then we saw pirates and it was all good. as good as it could get i guess. we are still getting the house. i am still at the hotel, unfortunately. i am so miserable there. she asked if i could stay a little longer. make up your mind woman! see, the AR guy quit and so there was just her, if i left. so i stayed on a week to week basis. then two weeks ago, there were two temps that i had to train. yes, the whole accounting dept was temps. not going to go there. the one that was supposed to do payroll was so slow at picking up at things that it really frustrated me. although i shouldn't care if she gets it or not. won't be my problem. but i'm not like that. so she lasted a week. she then didn't come in on monday, and apparently got a job that started monday. i don't know how much of it i believe. she didn't want to work there i don't think. so monday i had to train the girl who was learning AP. oye. she picked up on it though very quickly. and now they are going to hire her full time. i want to tell her don't do it, but she needs to learn for herself. she's even taking a paycut. not the best move. so i am still there. i talked to the woman from the other company today, and i really hope they decide to hire me on. it will be more pay, more my style, more sane! i won't have crazy woman as my boss! and i don't think this other woman will be like that. i hope not. i don't think i can go through that again! although i have felt much better since i'm going to be leaving anytime now. my boss isn't so hard on me becuase she knows she needs me and all she has to do is piss me off again, and i'm out of there! that, and i'm just helping her clean up some stuff, so i don't really do payroll anymore. just train! although the AP girl is going on vacation fri-tues so i will probably have to do payroll. i'm hoping i will get a call tomorrow saying they would like me to start monday, and then i just won't go in anymore! i've been debating if i should tell her or just not come in. we'll see though. think happy thoughts for me! i need to give my fiance some lovin' (aka, cuddle on the couch) before we go for a walk. we like to watch so you think you can dance. and i just sigh and wish i was that skinny and could dance like that. OH! and i broke my cell phone. the spring. so now i have to force it open. so i will eventually be getting a new phone, and probably change to a CO # so beware my friends! miss you!

Aspen

last weekend i went to aspen to enjoy my birthday present from my mom. to go see my favorite opera in Aspen at their music school. it was pretty good. the singing was awesome, but the acting and blocking were not a favorite. i saw many backs of actors who were not singing, and they were blocking those that were singing upstage. yeah. the one thing that bothered me the most was the guy that played the lead male's dad. the lead looked older than this guy. they didn't do so well on the age thing. but his singing was very good. the only one that really impressed me was the male lead. he was excellent all around! we stayed in snowmass, which was 20 minutes from aspen. we were right next to the ski hill! obviously we didn't go skiing. but there was still snow patches! aspen is a really pretty town, but so very expensive. it was about 4 hours from us. i got burnt. yeah. see, my fiance wanted more power through the mountains, so we didn't have the air on. which was fine because it wasn't tooo hot in the mountains (denver 102 degrees, aspen 85) however, the sun was beating down on me. you can see where the seatbelt crossed my chest. yeah. anywho, it was a beautiful drive. went by vail. can't wait to ski there! passed lots of slopes! hopefully we will be able to go skiing this year! $$$ on our way home, we took independence pass, which is pretty much a scenic drive. talk about beauty! sorry, no camera this trip, but we will be back. we stopped at one of the pulloffs and climbed on these massive granite rocks by a creek (creek, river, who knows what it was) and the water was so clear! it was beautiful, rolling off the rocks, half expecting to see a bear come get a fish. the water was still cold, but felt good! and we even drank some! it was pretty good! i can't even explain it! then we drove on a little further and found a ghost town! no, not haunted, just abandoned. it's in this valley where it is constantly windy, and in the winter has major blizzards and brisk winds. according to the sign. it was during the late 1800's when everyone was mining for gold. there were about 500 people living there, 4 groceries, 3 bars, a hotel, a boarding home, there used to be a three story building along the hill, but we couldn't find it. most of the buildings were just holes in the ground. they rebuilt some homes, but mostly just fallen wood. there were still nails and glass and cans everywhere! the town was only there for about 30 years, till everyone started to move to aspen for the better climate. and you won't believe the name of the town. independence. hmmm... insperiation for the name of the road? so then, after walking around that, we went further up the road. and i mean up. we stopped at the outlook (AWESOME) and we were over 12,000 ft. it didn't effect us a whole lot since were were at 10,000 the whole weekend. anyway, it was a beautiful drive. aspen is beautiful, the opera as pretty good. it was just nice to get away for a little while. could live without the burn, but now i have a nice tan! =) have to look good in that wedding dress! =) that is my trip to aspen. i'm sure i will be back again, and this time i will take pictures! even if i have to get a disposable again! (blech)

dog house

i am in the dog house. i told my fiance tonight about my last day of work being this friday. he told me after some silence that he will support me in my decision, and i told him, i just couldn't work for her anymore. he asked me if i heard from the other place, and i said no. and that was the last word he has said to me all night. now he is in the bedroom, and i just can't be in the same room as him. it just hurts too much. i think i will be sleeping in the extra room tonight. my choice. i'm sure eventually he will want me to come in, but i'm not going to. i have 15 days to find a new job. that's when they will do the employment check on us. i just don't know what to do. i really think i have this new job, i just don't have a start date. i hate that this is moving so slowly! it's not even a full time job. it's a temp to possibly hire if she gets her way job. i hate that we have to work to survive. i am so miserable right now. i've hurt my fiance. he probably wants to back out of the house, which hurts even more. i hate my job. i feel like a loser. i'm probably going to end up working in some retail store with a bunch of teens who will drive me crazy. and i won't even be making probably 8 an hour, which would mean i would have to get two jobs, and that might, might get me close to what i work now. i feel so low right now. so ... oh there's a word. i just can't think of it. but it's not a happy word. i'm almost 30 and i feel like i've gone no where with my life. except to colorado, and it even sucks here. the only thing holding me together is my fiance, but right now, i don't even have that! i am the worst person in the world.

red white and boom!

so today is July 3rd. every year for the past 6 years i think, i have gone to red white and boom in columbus ohio. the best time to hang out with friends, soak up some sun, eat really bad food, and watch an amazing fireworks show. i would always take half a day off, get a good seat with either my love, or friend, or brother, and claim space for all the other friends who will join us later that evening. by the time the fireworks go off, we find our borders have fallen, people are on our stuff, the streets are PACKED, and an amazing show starts. then we walk through trash to get to our cars, and drive home satisfied, burnt, stuffed, tired. then the next day, we are off to find another fireworks show, which won't compare to columbus, but it's not as crowded and more calm. now that i am in colorado, we have no idea what to do. there's no really big river going through downtown denver. even though we have had some rain for about a week, longmont has canceled their fireworks about a month ago due to the dryness. all the really good places are far away, and unfortunately, they are tomorrow night which means we would get home really late and have to work the next day. what makes it worse, there are no close friends to hang out with while we wait for the show. it's events like these that really make me homesick. i've got to get into some theatre. i need some crazy theatre friends to hang out with! and a gay one so i can go dancing and get all grindy with him and it means nothing. won't see my fiance doing that! we might go into the mountains, which will be a whole new way to see fireworks. no one in columbus will know what that's like. it's just not the same. yeah, i'll be all cuddled up the man i love, and get kisses in the hair (which i LOVE by the way), but i don't have the other people dear to me there to share in the experience. anyway, i'm really bumbed today. homesick yet again. how i miss red white and boom. one more hour, and columbus will be celebrating. and i will be sitting on the couch watching some reality show, and eating ice cream.