Just Simply Jennifer!

Well, today was a typical day in insurance.  It was not extremely busy, but my phone rang steady all day.  I didn’t sell any policies…which sucks.  I mailed over 60 marketing postcards though and got another 20 ready for tomorrow.

Kyra had a busy day.  She went shopping with Tom at like 4 stores.  She wore her pants inside out all day until she got a bath tonight.

When we got home we dug up fresh potatoes from the garden and cooked them up with a meatloaf.  It was probably my most complete meal in a whole long while.  I tend to lean towards partial meals here as I don’t eat that much.  So tonight we had a whole rounded healthy meal.  The garden potatoes though were definitely a highlight.  They were go yummy.

They were so good.  I think they put Kyra right to sleep.  She was out within 15 minutes of super.  She didn’t even watch Curious George first…she was just out.

Now, I’m on here and also dead tired.  I have left overs though for lunch tomorrow that I will probably actually eat.  Good Night….

Insurance is a really crazy business.  I hate insurance somedays.  I think it is basically good though, don’t get me wrong.  It is something everyone should have and really does help a whole lot of people.  It ticks me off when people complain about just simply it being a requirement.

Well today was generally a great day for me.  I was busy all day with lots of stuff to do and will probably have a great day tomorrow too as I left enough to keep tomorrow interesting.  My filing is getting so behind as well.  I need another 10 hours to catch up for the week.

Today though I got cursed out.  It wasn’t directly at me, but just about insurance.  I was really uncomfortable though because this person was going against a lot of what I believe with insurance.  I was polite though and let him leave.  I even did the count to 10 under your breath thing.  LOL…

I do have some really crazy clients sometimes.  I’ll pass on some of the bizarre things that happen on here sometimes.  I only saw about 4 customers today though, so nothing much happened besides the cursing which happened early in the day.

I came home tonight, cooked super.  Kyra and I played in the sand for about an hour.  We are making a giant dog from sand out there.  It basically looks like an ant hill right now, maybe it will look more dog like soon.  Kyra has a great imagination though and to her it looks like the perfect dog shape.  She was hugging it and telling me to hug the dog.  LOL… 

We called and talked to my grandmother on the phone tonight.  Kyra is pretty good on the phone but still thinks the caller can see her, so instead of answering yes, she shakes her head yes and hold up her fingers to say she has 2 of something.  It is sort of comical to watch and know what is going on from this end, while the caller at the other end has no idea what she is doing or saying even though she is very articulate for her age.

Well, that was my day…pretty boring huh?  That is why I sort of disappeared for so long.  My days are now occupied with almost only work.  I don’t do nearly as much playing nor have nearly as much adventure in life as I once did.

September has been a trying month pretty much.  My work has been steady and great though it has sort of held me together a little.  I absolutely love my co-workers even though we are each uniquely different in personality and we would never choose each other as friends, I don’t think without work.  We find commonality in work though and each have a unique take on that even.  Dave is the sales person, all about the sale.  Tarin is sinical, she likes sales.  However don’t think marketing is a ton of mostly fruitless work.  Me, if you haven’t figured it out.  I like sales.  I think our product is as good as it gets for insurance.  I am overtly honest though and sometimes this drives the sales away, but when it doesn’t I think I have a client for the long term.  We will see if that is true though next year.  I am overly through at explaining things going into to much detail sometimes.

My break up with Stephen happened on the 7th.  The month up to that was about as stressful a time as I ever had in my life.  I did something or something changed in his parents either the end of last month like when we went to the corn festival or shortly after…I honestly not sure what happened.  At one point though his parents recommended to him that he break it off we me because we weren’t a good match.  They started to put a lot of pressure on him about it, as if he had to choose me or them.  Honestly it was heartbreaking to me that parents would do this.  I got to watch them rip his heart out and I probably wasn’t helping it.   I mean I get it at the one month point, but we are at the 11 month point….this should be done in my opinion at this point.  Oh well though…. Stephen was extremely torn as anyone would probably be.

When we broke up, it was almost a stress relief for me though.  I would have broke under the pressure of his parents.  It was affecting me.  I was crying a lot and that is very unlike me. 

We broke up with him having officially made the break up decision.  He kissed though and he was crying his eyes out.  It was sort of one of those surreal moments in life where you almost don’t believe what is happening.  Oh yeah, and in addition we went out the night before and had like the best time.  I rode the bull at Hot Pointe.  It was so much fun.  We definitely went out on a bang….

We have been text messaging since, so we will end as friends.  I imagine him as always being my friend, but we will see on that.  I definitely love him and part of me always will.

The realistic aspects though…we probably not a great match.  I think we would have worked though stuff though.  He drinks too much.  I would have been annoyed by that at some point and he probably would never admit it.   He also doesn’t like a lot of things and only would go because I dragged him. I think this would have stopped at some point.  I think I need someone that will willingly go to anything, do anything and make huge efforts to have fun.  My interests are very wide….  I can go dancing one night and to the goat show the next.  I love computers and home improvement shows.  Heck, I went to a garden show.  I like nature and bowling.  I wouldn’t mind going to play ping pong or something dumb like that.  I think I can have fun at anything. There is nothing that I totally don’t like.  Stephen probably wouldn’t have enjoyed a lot of these things and when he isn’t enjoying himself….you know. That sometimes annoyed me about being with him.  His interests are so limited.

Kyra has taken all this so great.  She basically understood what I was telling her.  We did walk one day and she wanted to go to Stephen’s house, so we did walk that way.  I told her we couldn’t stop there anymore and she was okay with that.  We just walked by, we walked about a mile.

We have learned what happens when you put your toys in the oven without telling mom.  This is an ABC game.  It used to be pretty cool and it was helping Kyra learn her alphabet.  It no longer will serve that purpose.

We also practiced taking out own picture together.  I look like a fuzz head.  LOL…  I got my hair straightened right after this photo.  LOL….

Everything is calm again now.  I miss Stephen definitely, but it is calm.  I guess I am relieved that all that stress has been taken off of him. I think he is slightly stressing about if he did the right thing or not, but I can’t help him with that. I do sincerely hope he comes back around as a really great friend, but like I already said time will tell. 

I went out to the Hardware Bar this Friday night.  I danced on the bar for the first time.  I always wanted to do that, so I did.  It was fun, it is scary dancing and looking out at all the guys and realizing there are so many more guys than girls in this place.  I met a couple people who will probably turn into long term friends.  I was dancing with some crazy guy, who had so much energy I have no idea how he was jumping like that honestly.  We were dancing though and it turned 2.  It was like he was going to turn back into a pumpkin and he said “gotta go” and literally sprinted out of the place.  I got hit on by a cop, which is weird.  He was like a bodybuilder guy the whole bald just big look going on. He danced, but stiff like.  It was sort of comical.  The band Asking Andy was great.  I knew almost all the songs that they did, which is remarkable for a band honestly because my musical knowledge is a bit lacking. 

Saturday we went to park.  We walked a full two miles.  We ate lunch at Wendy’s. We came home and Kyra laid on my belly and fell asleep like she used to do when she was really little.  I sat there holding her for a full 3-hour nap, I wouldn’t trade a minute of that time in to have been doing something else.  Man, do I love this kid.  I am so glad to have her. 

Today we went to Henrietta Lake and walked around that two times.  It was pretty fun.  I try to do fun things with her that don’t cost a lot or cost nothing.  My budget is really tight.  I am making it though, all my bills are paid.  That is the important thing and my income can only go up as I will start to get some renewals in 2 months and that will really help me and affect my pay.  I should sell more insurance too, so…I’ll give my work phone number here 717-486-7777 if you are in PA and would like a free quote.  Why not give me a call…. I might save you money and you will be helping us do more fun things.  LOL….  I would like to go to Sesame Street Place here before it is cold for the winter.  I doubt we do that one though.

Like I said before though….I am going to start posting to my site again regularly.  Probably daily again….  I also am trying to get that google warning junk off my site.  I don’t know what originally caused it.  There are no viruses here.  They are in people who commented here’s pages, so I deleted all the past comments. 

Well, I am going to get back into writing on my site.  I’ll tell you about August though in one big swoop.  August was over all a great month.  The weather was summery and hot.  It was a beautiful month.

Kyra grew a little during the month.  She is growing in her mind at an alarming rate.  She learns so much now, she is like sticky paper with her mind.  She picks up on so much stuff.

Work was great.  I am getting more and more confident in my insurance knowledge and I feel liked at work.  It makes me very happy.

Stephen and I were together the full month of August…we broke up here in September.  August though was great. 

We met with Jason, Missy, and Haley and went camping during one of the weekends in August.  We went to Possum Lake. We went to the Lebanon Rock Show in August.  The Corn Festival is the last weekend of August and Kyra and I went to that with Stephen’s mom.  All those things were great fun.

The whole month just flew by.  Here are some of the photos….  The first 6 are from the camping trip.

We went to Possum Lake.

If you have watched this site awhile.  You will have seen Kyra sitting in this shopping cart as a baby all the way up.  I think she is almost done being able to sit in it now.

We learned that playing under the empty pool is just as fun as playing in the water filled pool.  Turtle is a fun game all over the yard.

I had to disable comments. I think that should solve the google error that is coming up. I am sorry I have been absent for so long. I am back now. I probably won’t disappear again. Life has been crazy though with work and just everything.

I can’t believe she is 3 already.  I never believe people when they say time goes fast, but when you have a kid it is like time multiplies in speed.  I am not sure if that is a good thing or not.  LOL…

Anyways, Kyra is 3.

We went to a tuperware party at Stephanie’s house and we left early and went to Red Robin for lunch with Tarin, Kevin, and Tom.  It was good food.  I like Red Robin anyways.  Tom got Kyra this magnetic face book, which she really seems to like.  I wonder how long the pieces hang around.

We went miniature golfing afterward, but it was too hot.  I really should know when to say no.  I can’t handle the heat at all.  I got sick, so I came home and essentially went to bed.  I couldn’t sleep though, so it wasn’t like going to sleep.

I think my problem with heat is that I don’t sweat.  Yeah, Stephen, Tarin, and Kevin all had like wet shirts from sweating so much and I almost didn’t have a drip of sweat on me.  It was 92 degrees out and I should have been sweaty, but I wasn’t.  I never have been a big sweater, but less sweat is one of the side effects of the medicine I take for my bladder.  I think I am going to talk to that stupid doctor about it.

I not sure how but I got feeling better, got back up and went for a walk and got my car. It was at Stephen’s.   Kyra stayed up until like 11:30 which isn’t a bad thing because that means she would sleep in and she did.  We slept until almost 9.

Anyways, Kyra is now a big 3.

I like horse pulls.  I totally enjoy a good fireworks show.  Well, they have a horse pull followed by fireworks in our local town here every year the Friday after the 4th.  It is the best fireworks show I have ever seen and each year it is equally good.  Well, I took Stephen.  I didn’t know that he totally doesn’t like fireworks and really isn’t interested in horses. 

He was grumpy the whole time.

Kyra is scared of the loudness, but she did really well.  She didn’t cry.  I held her for about 10 minutes and then she wanted to watch them from in the truck, so she was in the truck doing fine.  We were in the bed of the truck, so every few minutes.  I would stick my head in the window to see how she was.

The whole evening kind of sucked though.  Next year, Stephen can stay home.  LOL…

We do all the things that normal people do!  However, I went camping in a tent for the first time.  Yes, I had been camping in my life.  My parents had a “pop-up” camper when I was a kid and I have slept many a night in that.  I went to summer camp with the 4-H and slept in large canvas permanent structure like tents, but this was my very first time sleeping in a little zippy tent.  We had an air mattress, so we may have yet been cheating.

Anyways, we went to Curwensville Lake Recreational Area and met Jason, Missy and Haley for the night.  It was great.  Both our girls are so cute, but so very different.  Haley is a little ball of energy, can’t stop.  Kyra like sitting in your lap and relaxing a bit.  She is so much more calm and easy going.  It is amazing the differences.

She was with her dad than over 4th of July.  I got her back late at night.  We went out to dinner and stuff on Thursday night the 3rd.  We went fishing in the rain the morning of the 4th.  I caught about 8 bluegill and 1 perch fish.  We put them back of course.  Stephen caught a couple little bass and some bluegill too.  Steve caught about 9 little bass.  We were using different baits.  I used worms.

We went and saw fireworks after that and then went to the club with a bunch of friends.  It was fun.

I got Kyra after that in the evening.  She came and Saturday we went to a party.  She rode her trike around and we had it so she could watch TV upstairs in peace if she wanted.  She is all about other people though.  She was held by a girl named Lea a lot that day.

Sunday we went bowling and out to lunch.

See, I am doing things everyday.  That is why my site here is getting less action.  I don’t sit at home all that much anymore.  My life used to be overtly boring and it is much less so now even though I have much less money.

Everything is going good at work, I think I had a record day here last week.  I sold 9 policies in one day.  I didn’t get to eat that day, too busy.  LOL…  There is always work though in my office.  I am way behind on filing.

Anyways, that is what is going on.  I have photos, but still in camera.

Well after having yesterday off, going back to work was sort of a welcome thing for today.  I do like my little office.  Well, I got there like a tornado hit.  No there wasn’t paper every where, but work everywhere.  I had 80 or so e-mails which I get usually about 15 or so in a whole day.

I got things all put back together about noon or so. 

I had leftover Caledonia Bistro food, from yesterday.  That place is so good.  It is such a treat even to have left overs.

I got Kyra back at 5.  We came home and she woke up which sure is welcome.  We walked to Stephen’s while she told me about her trip to Lake Tobias today with her dad.  We got her tricycle back, she fell asleep last time we were there, so I carried her back and left her bike there.  She played for a while.

We got our stuff ready for our weekend trip we are planning.  We are sleeping in the tent tomorrow night, so we are ready now.

Here is my small photo catch up.

The top one is a picture of Kyra about a week ago, when we had a picnic outside.  The next one is her at the fire station with here babysitter.  This is the other little girl that is with her (Emma), aren’t they cute.

Here is the before Stephen’s hair cut.  It was like midnight and he had a hair appointment before I got home from work, so I got him up to take his picture.

Here is the picture of him falling asleep, but with short hair. I need some better photos of him.  I am always taking them of Kyra.  I ignore him with my camera.  LOL…

Anyways, that is that.  Have a great weekend.

My face is better, so that is good news.  I had an eye appointment the week before I had my teeth out and got new prescription and put my contacts in backwards, so thought my teeth were causing a headache for the month, but it was really my contacts.  Wow!  Do I feel better now.

My Kyra is doing so good.  I don’t think she could be doing better.  She makes everyone she sees smile.  She says so many funny things that it is like every other thing out of her mouth makes you smile.

She is riding her tricycle now that is her newest thing.  She likes playing teeball and soccer in the yard too.  She always wants to be outside.

My job is going good.  I like my job, so that helps.  I am busy as heck with the other agents work, which I really want to be busy with my own work.  I have been putting flyers up that have my information on them.  I got my business cards today, but am pretty disappointed with them.  They have the other office numbers on them besides mine which I don’t like.  I probably won’t give out many of them.  I am having him order new ones.

I have off tomorrow to go to the doctors.

I have hundreds of photos since I have posted previously.  I still have a full card on my camera as well.  I’ll put some of those up here soon too.  Stephen got all his hair cut off, so I have the before and after of that as well.