Freaking out!

Ok so I am pretty sure I am not going to survive April. It is not even officially here yet and I am freaking out! April is the culmination of all of my classes. Once April is done I can pretty much just stop going to school. I would much rather have a week full of tests than a month full of papers and presentations. The hell starts on the 11th. I have to do a 30 minute presentation over a 15 page paper that I haven't even started and that I don't even have a clue how to do. On the 11th I also have a Risk Audit due in which I have to tour to facilities and write a paper about the risk in each. That means I will probably have to take an ENTIRE DAY to find and tour these places. Then the hell continues to the 18th. I have to do another presentation on yet another paper that I have not started and a test which I have yet to study for. Finally on the 25th I have yet another paper that I need turn in and thank god it is for an online class so we do not have to do a presentation. I don't think my brain can handle all of this at once. I think over the next month I will have written over 50 pages for all of these ridiculous papers, made over 100 powerpoint slides for presentations, and finally I will have 4 facility tours under my belt. ugh.

Happy Valentines Day

Today is a day that half the world (well the world that actually acknowledges the holiday) hates and half the world loves. Today was for the most part just a normal day. My boyfriend went to work and I went to work. Luckily for me (well kinda) I got to come home at lunch and stay home the rest of the day. I only worked half a day today because I had a test! YAY! I procrastinated all week last week and all weekend and finally took half the day off today to study. I left work at noon and came home to make my boyfriend lunch. Of course today he ended up getting off for lunch later than usual so by the time he got here the food was cold.. very very cold. Oh well he ate it and said it was good! I think he was just glad he didn't have to cook. After we ate I we took a nap! Best day ever! After he left I studied like a crazy person.

Something I have also been working on the past few days is getting my printer hooked up to my new computer. P.S. if you have Windows 7 an old ass printer isn't going to work with it. After trying with no success to connect it with my computer I tried my boyfriends computer. His is compatible with it and it should work but for some reason it still did't. But when I actually tried to print it worked. I printed all my notes and my study guide.

Well.. back to my original story... I went into my room to print my notes for class today and my completed study guide and for some reason it doesn't work. The printer wasn't even available. SUCK! I have to get all of my stuff together to go to the business center and print everything. After this I am just praying that there is paper in the printer. After printing successfully I walked outside and my bus was leaving the stop. SUCK! Luckily for me there are two different buses that come near my apartments so I knew the other one would be coming shortly. Surprise Surprise Surprise it didn't come quick enough. I was late to class. My first class went by fast and my test in the second class literally took 15 minutes to complete. I can honestly say that was the EASIEST test I have ever taken in my entire life. weird. Luckily, (word of the day) when I got out of class my boyfriend was on his way home from work so he was able to pick me up. When I walked through the door of our apartment there were flowers and a very sweet card waiting for me. :) He had also gone to the trouble of getting all the ingredients to make BLT's! Yes, I know it is not the most glamorous meal ever, but I have been craving them for weeks. After we ate we went and got some frozen yogurt! As Fergie would say Delicious!

Anyways... The whole reason I wanted to write this post was about one the most interesting thing I saw today. You always here people talking about sewer rats. Especially on Aladdin where that turbanized guard is constantly putting Aladdin down. So today I saw sewer cats! I never thought I would see that. I mean you would think a cat would stay away from a place that usually contains large amounts of water. I was waiting for my boyfriend to pick me up I was watching this cat running away from these people. It was running along the curb and all of a sudden it just disappeared!

Here one minute...

Gone the next...

I know the pictures are bad but you get the point.

Fun with food!

Recently I noticed that I take picture of my food. It just so happens that my food always look like faces. How freaking weird is that? I only posed one of these pictures!

What is up with all the kayaking??

Let me start out by saying I like my new job. I have however realized that working with people who are all around 5+ years younger than I am sucks. They are all so into themselves that they expect me to be into them too. This week we started teaching kayaking lessons in the pool, and having a staff kayak session every Tuesday. Not only are we teaching these classes almost every single person I talk to is obsessed with kayaking. I worked two shifts this week and on Wednesday I was hounded about why I didn't come to staff kayaking. Then today I was hounded again because I didn't go to kayaking lessons. Don't get me wrong I really enjoying kayaking but on my owns terms. I really like ocean kayaking and river/creek/lake kayaking. However, I want to do it when I want to do it. If I am tired I want to sit at home rather than go kayaking. I work every day 8-5 and they want me to go home and put on a swimming suit and come kayak in a pool. All of these people are at least 3 years younger than I am. That means they are almost all freshmen or sophomores which means they probably aren't working to pay for their housing, food, school, and other expenses. This means they have on average 2 classes a day and the rest of the day they do whatever they want except for the 2 hours they work every other day. I am by no means a morning person and at night it is hard to go to bed early so by the time the work day is over I am exhausted! On Mondays I am busy with work/school from 8am to 9pm. Tuesdays I work 8-5 but I am still tired from Monday. Every other Wednesday I have a 6am meeting so if I wasn't tired already I am doubly tired after the meeting. Later on Wednesday I have class and I work until 10pm. When they call Wednesday hump day I have to agree because after Wednesday it is all down hill! Thursday I work 8-5 and Friday I work back to back jobs from 8am to 7pm. As you can guess when the weekend comes around I don't want to do a damn thing. I want to sit and do NOTHING! I want to let the numbing effect of TV wash over me.

Today while I was on my way home for lunch I received an email informing me that there would be a kayak polo game on Saturday morning at 10am. I knew immediately that I would not be attending because it is early and it is on one of the only days of the week that I can get away with not leaving my house all day. It just wasn't going to happen. After I got done working my first job I headed over to my second at 5:00. My shift leader that I really like had switched shifts with this guy that is OBSESSED WITH KAYAKING! Of course the first thing he asks is "Why haven't you come to kayaking this week??" and then "Will you be a kayak polo Saturday?" I of course told him that I didn't have time because I had homework and every other excuse in America and he wouldn't accept it. I also informed him that I would not be at kayak polo. He just wouldn't drop it. Then he talked about how he loves kayaking and how he has gone on all these trips and then he asked if I was going on the lower canyons kayak trip blah blah blah.  I am almost at the point where I just want to say SHOVE THAT STUPID KAYAK UP YOUR... well maybe not. He's a nice guy (some of the people I work with are douche bags) so I don't want to be a jerk but its kinda getting to me. After an hour he asks us which one of us wants to go home and I immediately volunteered. I thought I was free and clear until this happened:

Alex: I will only let you go home if you promise to come to kayak polo on Saturday!
Me: OK I guess I am staying because I cannot promise because I wont be there.
Alex: Well what about coming to one of the sessions on tuesday or thursday?
Me: Ok I will try to be there on one of those days.
Alex: You have to say which one.
Me: Ok I will try to make it on Tuesday.

Then I ran out of there faster than you can say SEE YA WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA!

Too much of a good thing?

I say yes! Can you believe this! I didn't even know these existed until my short trip to the grocery store. How could they ruin a good honey bun by adding chocolate! Don't get me wrong I loooove me some honey bun and I loooove me some chocolate! Together? NO WAY! I think it would be totally discussing!

The dilemma.

No I am not refering to the stupid movie with Vince Vaugh.

Why do things always happen like this? When I try to plan my life I am always hesitant to make long-term plans because things always jump up and change my plans for me. A friend of my boyfriend just turned 21 so we are taking him to Vegas for his birthday. There is a large group of people going so the plans have changed about 200 times. At first we were going around the time of his actual birthday (September) but that didn't work out. Then it was going to be in mid February and that didn't work out. Then he decided it was going to be later in the year. I decided that I would just make some plans to go visit my sister in the deep south. I bought plane tickets and set the date. When I sent my sister my itinerary she ask me why I booked the same flight twice? Apparently I had booked the 2 flights home and no flights down there. I called American Airlines and for once they were awesome! I told them I wanted to change one of my flights and they said ok its done. I was in shock! I couldn't believe it was that easy.

Everything was great until yesterday. I was so excited to go see my sister and meet her new puppy. We were on our way home from school and my boyfriend got a phone call. I heard him said, "Ok I'll ask her. You said the weekend of the 26th right?" I knew at that very minute that there was going to be a problem. It turns out that all of the Vegas plans decided to rear their ugly head. Turns out that all my plans were now screwed up. I really want to go see my sister but Vegas really doesn't come up that often. I really need to try to win some money, because I could use a financial push right now. It's at a good time too. It is right after both of my midterms and school wouldn't get in the way. Ugh I hate when things like this happen!    

HRH of Sanitizer!

Being sick sucks but I can guarantee that sounding like a man sucks worse! At work all day today I looked around at my poor coworkers knowing that my disease was going to spread like wildfire through each and every one of them. I really don't want to make anyone sick! I was the queen of hand sanitizer today! I cloroxed the phone after I used it every time, but I must admit it was really annoying trying to keep others healthy! So many times today people called and had no clue who I was. Several old men thought I was a guy.

At first I thought I was having and identity crisis. Then I realized its not me its everyone around me! Almost everyone I work with at my new job thinks that I am this girl named Emily. She seems like a really nice person but WE DON'T LOOK ALIKE AT ALL! The only things we really have in common are that we are girls, white, with brown hair. UGH! Anyways while I am at my other job people on the phone either think I am a guy or that I am the office manager. Her name is really similar to mine but she has a very deep southern accent so I don't know how we get confused. The on top of everything tons of people think I am my sister. At least 75% of the people we meet either think we are the same person or that we are twins. Neither of which is true! I wish I could just be me and not be confused as someone else! gez!

On a random note... The other day I complained about being an over-sharer... UH every single person that has a blog is a over-sharer! BAHAHAHA I feel better now.