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29th October 2008

Live For Weekends!

I am just realizing my life is totally boring on weekdays.  I wake up, get in shower usually, get on computer an hour.  Kyra wakes up.  I either make her breakfast or not depending on if she going to her dad’s that day.  Get ready for work and we are off…

Work all day.  My work is exciting at times, but for the most part very dull to the onlooker.  I type and do paperwork all day almost fruitlessly.  Randomly calling someone or hugging someone who just hit a deer.  I listen the the crazy stories of the lives of my customers.  I am the person that knows a lot about them, but they hardly notice that I do.  I see them once a month for the most part, try my hardest to remember every name. 

It is funny because I remember working so hard at remembering the kids on my school bus names too.  It is ironic how similar these completely different jobs are in the details.

I get home from work, I used to always have to cook something.  Now, Stephen is already home, so I either cook, help cook or eat what Stephen has cooked.  Play with the dogs, read with Kyra, Kyra gets a bath, watch Curious George and go to bed.

That is a typical work day right there.

composite triple beatonline casinoWeekends though, they rock.  We change everything up.

This past weekend on Saturday we went to a rock show in the morning.  It was raining, so we didn’t go to fall festival like we had planned.  We came home and worked on sorting toys.  I am cleaning out Kyra’s baby toys so we have room for new bigger kid toys at Christmas time.  We cleaned for quite a bit on Saturday.  In the evening, Kyra went to play with Hannah and Gage and Stephen and I went out to a band.

It was really fun. Brad came out from Philly.  It is good to be back with my friends.

Sunday, we went shopping.  Stephen got 2 new cell phones.  Yeah, weird I know.  His Verizon one died and it was under warranty, so he got a new one from them.  I hope to sell that one on ebay and make the money that he spent on the other one.  He then got onto my AT&T plan, so it would save us some money.  I think that instead of spending like $160 a month we should save about $40 a month by being on the same plan.

We ate out at Bonanza where Kyra is free.  Free is really a draw for that place, but they really do get ripped off.  Kyra eats more than I do usually.  I guess I paid $10, so they make out in the end.

Anyways, that is my typical day and my last weekend.  It is all a really great life.  I am so happy to be me.  I am one of those people that don’t envy others who loves being right where I am at right at this minute.  It is truly great.  I used to not be at this place mentally and this is truly way better.

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22nd October 2008

Haunting, Family, Restful, Beachy Weekend…

Well, this was another exciting weekend gone by.  Friday night, Stephen and I went to the haunted house in town.  Yeah, that is correct Stephen and I.  It was really quite cool.  I wasn’t real scared, but all the details in the house were pretty great.  They put a lot of effort into it having some great cobwebs.

After the haunted house we went and got Kyra from her dad.

I ended up staying up really late. 

_DSC1145 Saturday, my grandmother, aunt, and 2 cousins came to visit.  Everyone says I look like my aunt Janice, I don’t agree but with this photo somehow I do see where they get it.  I never used to have a clue what people were talking about.

_DSC1139 _DSC1140 Kyra played with her cousins a little bit.

They didn’t stay very long.  It was a good visit though.

After they left we went to Tarin’s to discuss Stephen and I and to play with Hannah and Gage.  Stephen and I still weren’t back together…

I was at Tarin’s, Kyra was playing.  Tarin had to cook like a million pounds of stuffing (really she had 3 crates of stuffing) for a charity dinner event thing, so we were in her kitchen.  I laid on the floor talking to her and bam.  I fell asleep, goodness…. they let me sleep right there on the floor for 2 hours.  LOL…

I woke up well rested.  I went and chased and caught all her loose chickens. 

We left and went home.  Kyra was playing and I was on my computer nothing unusual. 

I wanted to go to Purse before winter came, so Stephen popped up online and I asked him about going to Purse with me.  Well, I had talked about it the night before.  Well, he was like lets go, so our adventure began at 8 or 9 pm from out of the blue.  We are going to the beach.

_DSC1156 We stayed in a Holiday Inn Express somewhere close to Waldorf, MD.  We woke up and went to beach.  The beach is at the end of this long trail through the woods…. The beach was so high tide that there was virtually no beach.  There was no chance of Sharks Teeth findings and it was really cold.  We stayed only a short while.

We than headed to York, to the Nixon center where Geology Weekend was about to end.  That is a pretty neat little museum if you haven’t visited it….everyone should go there once.  More than once though is overkill…unless you like the trails.  The trails are the only thing that really change any.

We left the environmental center and went to a friend of ours who lives in York.  They have a little boy that Kyra likes playing with, so we stayed there until pretty late.  We left and came  home.  Our surprise weekend get away. 

We are back together afterwards of course.  We never really had a good reason to be separated as we never really fought.  It is really bizarre to me because it seems like we didn’t even skip a beat.  I always like being with him.  He makes me laugh.  He still does. 

Now we are back to deal with things I never dealt with before, that is his parents.  I never really dealt with in-law per say parents, so I am a bit more awkward than I usually am.  I am nervous even though I haven’t seen them again yet.

All in all it was a really great weekend.  I am really happy and my family visit was really nice.

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14th October 2008

Famous at The Park….

Well, life is busier now that I work all the time if you can’t tell that from the reduced posts.  There you have it.  I feel like I want to get away when I get home from work.  I am on a computer all day…how remarkable though never thought that could happen.

_DSC1094 Kyra is of course perfect, especially when she is asleep as like most kids.  She is a real joy awake though too.  She is so smart, puts things all together.  She asks smart questions and always wants to play.  She helps me cook everything.  She enjoys being able to do things herself…for example today she opened a single serving bag of Oreos.  She makes you laugh because she says I squeeze it and they come right out all the while laughing hysterically like it is the best thing to ever happen.  It gives you a whole new perspective on opening Oreos though that is for sure.

My last week was pretty standard…my weeknights are get home late, cook, play outside an hour, get bath, watch TV, and go to bed.  It is the weekends we live for here.

Hatch We went to the fish hatchery with Tarin and her son.  It was so fun although her son called it boring…blah on him.

butts We had fun taking photos after.  I don’t have many photos of myself because I am always the one taking them, so I got about 5 new ones of me.  Look at that big butt…

Sunday we went to a friends house and picked up some stuff I left there.  We went to the Legion though after and had burgers.  There food is yummy and well for me and Kyra to eat it was less than 8 dollars… I can’t do burgers with the fixings for that price at home.  There was another man and his daughter in there eating, Kyra and her were playing.  I told him we were going to the park after, he was like could we tag along.  I don’t know where the parks are around here.

So…off we went to the park.

When we got there…it was like I knew everyone there.  Laura was there with her kids, so Kyra played with them and I got to talk with them for a bit.  We walked around the trail to the other side and who shows up… Lyn and her kids, so Kyra was playing with them.  It was really cool….all the while I am with this strange guy whom I have no idea even his first name.  It was a bit strange.  LOL…. 

We went walking around the trail back to the other side of the park, we had been there like 2 hours.  There is Stephen’s gram walking around the trail, so I give her a hug.  She is actually nice to me and hugs me.  I loved her… I miss some of his family a lot.  She would be tops of the list.

The guy I’m with his name is Clark and he owns a body shop in Chambersburg.  He turned out to be pretty nice.  Our girls played pretty good together. 

It was none the less an interesting time at the park way more entertaining then my usual chase Kyra which I still got to do of course.

Monday was really good.  I like sleeping in.  I changed my work hours, so I don’t have to get to work until noon.  I got up and cleaned the house for about an hour.  Adam came here to get Kyra and took her to get her almost last vaccination.   I think she has 2 left now.

She went and played at Laura’s today instead of Tom’s house because he was taking Brittany to Pittsburgh.  She did really well though, so everything is all good.  We cooked ham with Pepsi glaze for super.  It actually turned out yum.

Deuce has fleas, again…I swear if I am a day late on that Frontline thing he gets them again.  I think I am going to get some of those disgusting bug bomb things for in my house…. I don’t really like the idea of poison going in the entire air of my house, but I also don’t like the idea that fleas never die.  That maybe something that happens sooner versus later though, we will see.

Have a great time…..

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5th October 2008

What a GREAT Weekend…

I worked dead tired Friday from going out Thursday.  How I did it no idea….  that nothing though.  Friday, we never even came home.  A bunch of my customers said “Hey!  We going to races, you should come!”

I was like okay, so off me and Kyra went with 3 of my customers.

I never watched the little cars race.  It was a blast.  We ended up being with like 20 people when we got there because the uncle to my one customer was an actual driver and had his whole fan section.  It was great.  Kyra had a blast.

Saturday, we took one of my friends Brad to the apple festival, so we were there like 6 hours.  We watched Indian Dancing.  We ate apples.  We went through there petting zoo area.

Today we went to Walmart.  I got photos printed, so that I can have actual pictures of Kyra in my office.  We went to the park for a few hours.

All and all….it was a really great weekend.

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3rd October 2008

Insurance

I went to training to learn how to tell people about price increase that is coming up.  Darn, it sucks.  There is nothing I really pulled out of the meeting though, which sucks.  I mean I get why the raise is occurring and we do want to be financially stable as a company.  That doesn’t make it great to tell the thousands of people that you are going to get in increase more than usual, in fact more than triple what you would normally see.  There you go….you have it first from me.

If your homeowners go up, just think all your buddies will have there’s going up too.  We are just the first to step out and do it.  I truly believe if you are my customer and you get this increase, you can leave and get cheaper.  If you suck it up though, I believe you will notice that where you would have went price goes way up within the next year or two…. and mine will become more competitive with that.  Possibly even beating that price because we stepped out first…

I sold 2 policies today at work.  I got a lot of work done.

Anyways….  Kyra is doing great.  She spends Thursday with her dad though, so I don’t have much to say here.  She enjoys being with her dad.

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