Yep you read that right. I am now officially engaged. It happened Friday night and was the most exciting thing ever. Chris just makes me feel like a princess and goes out of his way to make me happy and take care of me. I am just so happy and excited and a bit overwhelmed trying to figure everything out as there is only a couple of months till I plan on moving up there. Oh I can't wait! He was here for the entire weekend and just left this morning and I miss him terribly. Man have I got it bad :-)

Well that is all that is new with me....but it is something pretty exciting for once.

Many many thanks to owensboro_hope for all my cool new icons. They rock my world. And she should be super proud of me because with her uploading 101 post I was able to do this all by myself. I am such a big girl.

Hooray for me!!!

So work was crazy! 10 people called in today on a crazy sale day. So we were super short handed. So me being my crazy self volunteered to work an extra hour or so to help out. I did it completely for selfish reasons, ie my checkbook would like it not knowing there were other benefits to it. Like candy! Just for staying the manger on duty gave me a candy bar and you know it was a darn good candy bar. Then to make a happy say even happeir just for doing my job and soliciting credit apps I got 5 dollars to spend in the store plus the $ that goes on my paycheck.

I really should be in bed as I am going to church at 9 with Bethany again but instead I am talking on yahoo to this guy I met at Christian Mingle. So for now I will go talk to Chris.

Well that was super boring. I am talkinga bout Kohl's. I hate when we stay open extra hour because no one knows we are open and there are no customers. I was the only one on the men's side registers and in an hour I had a total of 1 customer. YAWN! the only good thing is we got out of here early. So that was nice.

On a happy note. I have next Sun. off from work, and I didn't evan ask for it!!! I am so excited as I will hopefully be able to watch the Nascar race and cheer my Carl on to victory.

Well I am bushed so off to bed. Kohl's time comes much too early.

Well my internet banking account is all set up for internet bill pay. One minor problem. There is currently NO money in the account. So....while I was being productive in setting up the account info, I technically didn't pay any bills. I gave the HR person my new account info so hopefully next week's payceck will be deposited into this new account. I would be so happy if that actually worked out for me.

In other news owensboro_hope is making me some super fun icons that I am really excited about having. The ninja turtles ones rock my world. Maybe if I beg here she will make me a skippy cow one. That would be just fabulously awesome!

This weekend is going to be crazy busy as I have to close at Kohl's Fri. Sat. and Sun. night. YUCK!!

Well I am going to go get myself ready for work tomorrow. I have to iron clothes to wear to work tomorrow night and get them ready for morning, as I have to take them with me and change in the bathroom at work.

Yeah!!!!

Now I can 100 icons!!!!!!!!!! Because I SOOOO need that many icons. So Miss owensboro_hope you can have lots of fun beefing up my icon selection!

I love this playlist. They are such great songs and I am so enjoying it. I haven't heard it in a long time.

Today was a typical day at work. The child who I try with all my might to keep from getting hurt, because the slightest scrape sends their parent's over the edge, falls and gets a huge bump on their face, runs a fever and I hadto talk to the hysterical mom several times. NOT Fun! I hope that when I have children I am not that mom. Children fall they get bumps, bruises and they run fevers. It is all completely normal but this mom flips everytime and makes my days crazy!

Nothing else new to report. I am thinking about looking into getting my masters in special education, but I am not sure where the money to go to school will come from. Just a pipe dream right now I think.

But something for me to pray about and see if it is something that I could do. Not sure I want to start a program here when I don't know how long I will be here. Will probably wait and see where I am next school year. One can never tell with me. I could be in Chicago for all I know. That would be absolutely awesome!!!!

Also thanks bunches to owensboro_hope for the awesome Carl Edwards icon. It so rocks my socks off!!!!

So my day off is coming to a close but it was great!! I really enjoyed myself today and I think it was just what I need to get back to working again. I went to Owensboro and saw my babies. Boy have they all grown up sooo much. I hardly recognized them for how much they have changed. They still are the little pistols I remember though. They haven't changed that much. I also saw all the peole that I worked with and it was good. I enjoyed myself a great deal. Patty and Ginger really think that I should come back and work for them again, but they are the first to admit that things on the business side are the same way they were. So that is not likely to happen. Besides, as I told them I already have 2 jobs here why would I want to move back. But it was definitely nice to be missed.

That is about all I accomplished today. Well that and dishes. Tomorrow it is back to the real world. Bring It On. I am ready!

Well that is about it. I got internet here at home now and I am super excited. I am eating a light lunch then will head to see "my babies" Can't go for a bit as it would be naptime when I got there and that just wouldn't work. So I will play here for a while and then head out.

Well it has been a while since I last wrote in here for lots of reasons. Couldn't write Thursday because on my lunch break the internet was down and I had to work after work so no time. Fridays the library isn't open after I get off work and I had to work Saturday and Sunday so couldn't write then. So that brings us to today.....not that there is too much that has happened since then.

Thursday nothing exciting happened. Worked then went straight to work. Got home to a spider infestation on my front door.

Friday I went out with Valerie. It was lots of fun but she is going to corrupt me into spending $$ that I should not spend! We went to Applebee's, the mall and then to a movie. We saw the movie Red Eye. It was super good but super scary as well. It was so scary for me I had nightmares that night.

Saturday I worked all day. Nothing too exciting there. Sunday I went to church with my friend from Kohl's. I really enjoyed going to church with her and think I am going to continue going there even though it is a few more miles away.

After church I planned on watching Carl Edwards race his way to victory lane but the race was of course on cable and so instead I napped all day till it was time to go to work.

Today I worked all day. But it was a good day at work. My two year old friends were fairly happy and nice to each other. We had lots of fun together.

Tomorrow is my happy day. My phone will be hooked up, I will have internet at home and I am going back to see "my babies" I am sooooo excited for a day off!! It has been a long time since I have had a whole day off.

Well I am off to pay a few bills, and check out a few communities.

So today has been boring. Not a thing new or interesting to write about, but since I vowed I would make an attempt to write in here every week day I wanted to write something. I am searching everywhere for a different job that pays better. I would love to work for Head Start but can't find any information about the Head Start programs around here. I am beginning to think that perhaps I made a mistake in deciding to stay here once my roomie moved away. I am lonely and sad and most of all confused but hopefully soon some of that will change. Atleast tommorrow night I don't have time to be bored I go straight from the daycare to Kohl's then home to bed, to start all over again the next day. Oh what a boring life I lead. But anyways, my venting is over. I must head home now to do laundry because I have pudding all over the only pair of "clean" pants that I have.

I am more than likely going to have next Tuesday off. That will be such a happy thing for me. I may go back to the old daycare and visit my "babies" No they are not actually babies but to me they will always be "my babies" I really miss them and would love to see how they are all doing. But we shall see with gas prices as high as they are I may not be able to afford it.

It is absolutely crazy how much I just spent on gas. For about 2 weeks worth of gas I just spent $36.00! That is insane! There is no way that gas should actually cost that much and if it should then I am going to need a raise because I can't afford to drive 10 miles one way to work everyday for the measley amount that I am making. There is just no way.

After 35 min on the phone with the phone company (27 on hold) I am getting a local phone and internet! Not till next Tuesday and I have to take at least the morning off from work because the person signing up for the phone line has to present the entire time while they "flip the switch" and turn my phone on. So I was thinking that I may (if I can use one of my paid days) take the entire day off next Tuesday. Since I have to work this coming weekend both days it would be nice to have a day off. I could spend the entire day bumming around on the internet. That would be so much fun. But I am dreaming, I don't even know if that is a possibility or not.

So yay, I will have my own computer access and not be limited to this little bit that I can get while I am at the library each day. And I can be at home rather that at the library all the time. That will be so nice!

Well, it was one really long weekend. Usually I am not ready for Monday to come but this week I was. I haven't work so many hours in a week in a long time and it was very hard. I worked my regular 40 hour job last week and then this past weekend another 16 hours at my part time job. It was crazy busy, but that is good. Since my roomate moved home, my apartment is very lonely and boring and it makes me sad to be there. I know she is better off at home where she will be working and making good money but it still makes me sad to know that she is gone. We were roommates for 6 years. That is a long time and we were more than just friends. We were as close as sisters. Closer than me and my sister are for sure so it is hard. So I just had to vent and let her know that I do miss her. But I understand and support her decision.

Today 155 National Guard troops from the area were deployed to Iraq for a year to year and a half deployment. It is the largest deployment of troops from this area since WWII. Along the route that the Guard took to the airport were hundreds of people waving flags with messages of support for all our troops. With all the negative comments about the war and the soldiers out there, it was nice to see such a wonderful declaration of support for our brave men and women who serve.

Thank you to all those past, present, and those yet to come, who serve to protect our freedoms!

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