February.

8 months. A person’s life can change drastically in 8 months. A person’s life can change over a single night. Fortunately I'm not that person. My journey thru life hasn't changed drastically, or overnight. It has changed though, and it has become increasingly more frustrating.
In February around the time of my last post I was probably stressing about my calculus 3 class, which I had every right to... I mean, come on, it was calculus 3.... 3!

Referring back to the last post my (ooo, now then) boss took over the contract as I stated and I took over billing and credentialing. And I was rocking it! I was doing so well..... Or so I thought. Well I was doing perfect, but that only lasted for 2 months. At the end of March she gave me BACK the contract but this time didn’t take anything away from me... So I had LESS hours, TWICE as much work and one day off a week. I was still expected to have everything done in the same amount of time. Then the end of April comes around and the boss has a mental breakdown and disappears for over a week. Doesn’t respond to emails, doesn’t respond to text messages, and doesn’t answer phone calls. So when the coworkers had problems that we couldn’t fix we didn’t even have a way to get them the answers the desperately needed. It was worse when the customers need questions answered and we couldn’t help them. When the boss finally comes back she gave me ANOTHER big project to get started on and still doesn’t take any other responsibilities off my hands. To her everything was a priority one, so since she couldn’t prioritize what I needed to do, I did it for her. Things I felt were less important got done if I got around to them. Then after all that, I GET THIS:



Uber super suck. I got this letter two weeks I finished my final for my Cal 3 class. One of the reasons she verbally told me she was firing me "laying me off" was because they just couldn’t afford to be working around my school schedule..... Which they knew when they hired me. I even took OFF a semester of school to give them more time during a transition period. AND I turned in false time cards showing I worked fewer hours than I did. I was too loyal. But funny thing, I totally called it and stuck around like a retard and waited for it to blow up. I, no joke, legit came home one day in march and said to my dad big changes were coming to the company and informed him that I for sure had the job until May and then who knew.... well had the job until may then fired "laid off." At that point I was mad and asked her to pay me for all the things I bought for the office. She said to give her the receipts. It took me a few days but when I got her copies of the receipts, sent via email, she said "who authorized you to make these purchases, who said they would refund you" so I went back and collected my office supplies.

I feel like I don’t give a shit about her financial problems, and that she owes me. But nothing that I can do about it, but she is on the list of people I never want to talk to again. Even though I did offer to help out with billing if she needed it, but now she is promptly blocked from contacting me... so suck it.
After I got fired, call it what it is, 4 of coworker contacted me to start credentialing applications for their private practices. So there are at least 4 of them that are leaving in the next year, and one that started looking for a new job the day I got fired (and found one).

Help me thru the things I cannot change, help me forgive those that don’t deserve, help me get over the anger.

Say one thing and mean your mother

I re read my post from August. AUGUST. I sucked so bad at that contract I was assigned to my boss asked if I wanted to trade her contracts. I said yes. She them told me to take a while to think about it. I said "okay. Umm. Yes. You've never complained when I help you with your contract but I get talked to weekly about how I'm working on mine. You can have it back."

Now I'm working on the new contract and I think she just likes picking fights becuase now I feel like she is really looking into every detail to pick at something weekly with the contract im on now. For reals??? Get over your menopause. How do you nicely tell someone to back off?

Also same job since I'm takin off Tuesday's she was nice enough to ask if financially I'll be fine with having less hours? I said I don't know but I'll let you know if it becomes a problem. Now on top of motivating myself to do my homework and tests I have to penny pinch. 

I also did not do as well as I gave myself credit for on paying off my loan. What I made all last year was enough to pay off my loan in its entirety with a bunch extra to spare!! How could I have been so stupid?

What happened

I use to write on this often .... Now, not so much. Hummmm. I'm not really super busy, not as much as I'd like to think I am anyway. I have a huge list of things I need to accomplish at work. It seems like seems like anytime I complete a task on my to do list from work four more things or added, so I always feel like I'm drowning our over whelmed. This semester I'm taking calculus three ... again. Online this time, because I don't like getting up early early in the morning and so I didn't want to take a class that was earlier than 10 o'clock and across town because I didn't want to drive in the traffic. Bleh. so it's online and I feel so far the homework is pretty easy, I just have to get motivated to sit down actually do it. My first test is coming up as well on February23rd. It's online as well although it's time that I have to turn in my "proven work" via scan the same day the test is due, so I have to probably take the test ealry,then go to my work and scan it in to my teacher. I should to take the test early anyway because I'll be in South Carolina on the day that it's due and it's no fun to do homework on vacation. I'm doing my best to motivate myself in every way possible to get all of the homework done and the test taken before I leave for vacation. I've decided to start taking Tuesdays off from work so that I can get this done. Tomorrow being my first Tuesday off I have hours of homework planned. I hope to accomplish more than I have on my to do list. And at the end of my day as a reward to myself my dad and I have screening tickets to see "kingsman". Just have to get to the screening early and sit around doing nothing for a few hours to make sure we get a seat. I'll bring my homework to that as well. Might as well it'll give me something to do while waiting for two hours for the movie. :)

My friend recently sent me this picture on messenger.

Woah is life

So my ex sent me a message on Facebook last week.

At my job I got promoted to full time so that's exciting. Now I have two full time jobs. One I do during the day from 1030ish to 7ish M-F. And the other I do from 730p-10 or so pm, and on the weekends. One I get paid hourly and the other paid by sale.

At my hourly job I've been so swamped lately with contracts I've broken the habit of chewing on my nails. Woo-hoo! So now they don't look like nasty nubby things. 

School this next semester, I'm taking it off. I need to focus on paying down my loan which means I need to focus on working. Which is why when I told my boss I was taking the semester off she promoted me. There are ar least 7 projects that we want to get accomplished by the end of this year and have all the counselors on by Jan 1, no exceptions. It is possibe but will take time. So we are pulling them in in chunks. 

It only took forever

I passed Cal 2 with a B, my hiring boss is no longer my boss and my favorite boss is my whole boss.

So with cal 2 I got an 80 on my final which made guaranteed me an 80 or better in the class. I'm the crazy one that wants to get this calculus stuff over with, so I am taking cal 3 during the summer. I must be crazy. Once the calculus is over with I get to move onto things actually matter in my degree plan which I do need to check on again to make sure that they haven't changed classes around. Yay. 

With the bosses, the boss that hired me sold her 50% of the business to the other partner... The boss I like! Which is good cuz now x-boss has no say in my pay or if I get fired... Lots of changes are happening now. Like expanding the office and opening a new office in town. Everyone is getting a pay RAISE! 

Aaahh. Also my sister may have an opportunity to come and work with me to help out with office work and such. So that is exciting. 

In a small room with some family

This was suppose to post 11/5/13, and never did. So 5 month ago:

This past Saturday, my family packed up and flew to New York. Spent the night in New York together and got on a boat the next morning. Not just any boat but the Norwegian cruise line "Breakaway". For the first day we were out at sea. Currently
we are in Florida going on a tour of NASA 's Kennedy Space Center. Then over night at sea and we'll be in the Bahamas !! So far this has been an amazing trip.

It's better than my first try

Aside from trying to get my concealed handgun license by the end of the summer, I'm less busy in my daily life. 

During tax season I went back to work at H&R Block so I had two jobs and school. 

Even with all my time being spent at two jobs with nearly no time off for 3 months I am still passing my class. So far. I just took test 3 of 5 this past Wednesday. My grade without the test posted is currently a 77. Highest grade for this point in the semester that I've had. Cool thing about the blackboard that the school uses is that you can put in "what if" grade, and even with the "what if" grade of a 46, I'd still be passing the class. 

Felling hopeful for this semester. 

We're not in Kansas anymore!

But what happened before the house landed on the witch?!

A whole heck of a lot ! If you have the time and the dime go see Wicked!

Join me this Saturday in NEW YORK, to see Wicked! On BROADWAY! No? Too bad that's where I'll be this weekend.

For realz!

After that amazing show I'll be setting sail on a CRUISE with some of my related peeps. I'm looking forward to it so much that I'm getting a touch lazy at work cuz I don't want to be there. I want to be on vacation already!

But I will get to see one if my bosses before I leave, which means tomorrow I have to bust my ass to get people assigned and out of my referral log so it doesn't look like I'm slacking so much.

But I'll be good. It'll be a nice last min get everything together pass over my book and phone so that she can have everything with her while I'm gone. 

I also still need to pack. Bleh! But I'll be ready. I realllllllllly can't wait. This will be amazing!

Happy Halloween everyone! Peace yo's. 

Busy

My dad says I never blog anymore. Which is true. I don't.

Some updates since graduating. 

I went back to school. Only taking one class at a time because math is harder now than it was in high school.

I completed cal 1 in the spring and took cal 2 over the summer. Which was realllllllllly stupid. More stupid than that is I started a job a job near the end of the semester.

The job is amazing. I really like it, but I think my bosses demand more of me than I think I can give. They know how to do the jobs and tasks of three people, I don't. I know how to be one person. So the job is very challenging at times because I have 2 main people and 5-20 lesser people pulling me in all directions and expecting everything to run perfect.

 :(

At least my bosses really like me and think I'm very good at my job. They just don't like they I show up late sometimes. They even changed my hours so I could go in later meaning I have to stay later in the day and are now forcing me to take a break. So instead of going in 9a-3p which was great, now I have to go in 930a-4 and take a 30 min break which sucks. Because even on my break I'm still working since I can't complete the massive todo list that is set out each day. 

It's very very very overwhelming. And consantly busy. 

I ended up talking to my boss today who informed that they were on the verge of letting me go because of the few times I've been minutes late. Which is lame but understandable. But they decided not to because I'm good at my job. Which makes me think... If I'm that good at my job let me be late. It's shouldn't be that big of a deal.

But back to cal 2. I didn't get get a good enough grade to take cal 3 this semester so I'm taking cal 2 again. At night. Which isn't too bad. But it still isn't an easy class. Calculus sucks cheese balls. 

And I got a babysitting/care giving job for Tuesday/Thursday nights which I'm thinking is now a mistake but I need the money to pay off my loans.

Work sucks. Responsablities is a pain in my butt. :(

so many plans

Between now and walking the college stage and after graduation into the summer there are so many things that are on a list of at least 10 things that I'm attending and probably 5-10 that I'm forgetting or that haven't been planed yet.
Oh memory, why do you fail me so?

On another note about 3 weeks ago there was the start of a new tradition at Texas A&M San Antonio started a new ring ceremony. They invited me to go, and I thought 'Sure why not?' I told my parents and family about it and they said that should be able to get there after work.
I took my sister and brother with me up to the school waited for my mom and dad to arrive.
My mom arrived shortly before the ceremony was to start and we waited for my dad as two very mono-toned speakers spoke about how much the school had done for them, future events that will be held at the school, and how they plan to have a new annual ring ceremony starting with that day.
During these two speakers my mom and myself were looking for my dad as he hadn't shown up yet. The third speaker announced that everyone who already had a ring could stand up and make a line with a family member that will present your ring to you over the seal of the college. As I got up to stand in line, I was still looking for my dad and asked my mom to come with me to present my ring, cuz I didn't want to be up there alone, and my sister to take the pictures. Talk about cutting it close! Just before it was my turn I saw my dad and my mom was ushering him over to where he needed to be to present me with my ring, and she took some pictures.
I'm glad that he showed up just in time to present my ring. I would have been just as happy if my mom presented me with my ring since she has been just as supportive in my college career. Either way it worked out and it went smoothly. :)

Next step in my college adventure take some math classes, and start paying for my loans.


Also on another note, there is a a jewelry store that I walked into today to see if they would re-shape my rings for free since I didn't buy anything from them, and they rings I asked them to re-shape were also not purchased from them. Well they re-shaped the rings and the rings are awesome now, I really like them! They even polished the rings for me.

Thats all for now.

Tax season

Between January and April I work in a tax office. During the season I see a lot of people in a LOT of different situations. This year was no different, many of the same situations occurred, and some new ones. I don't do anyone's taxes in the tax office, I'm the receptionist. Each year the tax pros tell me to take the classes and become a tax pro, which isn't something I'm interested in doing right now. I like my job and I like my co-workers, for the most part. This year was a little different. There was actually a co-worker that I and I think 8 other people didn't like, fortunately about half way through the season she moved offices and my office didn't have to put up with her nonsense anymore.
I'm sad that the season is over for a number of reasons: I'll miss my co-workers, I'll miss my friends and most of all I'll miss my money!

But there is always next season which I hope to get hired back for, cuz I have college loans that I need to start paying back starting in the summer.
Good thing I saved 90% of my paychecks, hopefully it'll last me til the next season starts up since I don't really want to have to get another job right away or anytime soon if I don't have to.

Graduation- restated, Math, Work, Irish

I already stated in Feb that I have a degree and ring, but I have yet to hang my degree, maybe I will this weekend. I had to send my ring back and get it re-sized because it was too big. I just got it back yesterday. Tomorrow I am going to attend a "honoring the ring" ceremony at the college.
Even tho it was "official" December 18th, 2012, I put off walking the stage until May so that whatever family wanted to come out they had more time than a month to plan for it. And more time to think of and possibly send me gifts. :D My mom is thinking either an Alaskan Cruise for her, dad and I (BTW dad, get your passport. :P) or a trip to Austin to see Barry Manilow. And as much as I love Manilow, and some stops in Austin I think I'd rather have the Cruise... or ya know, Both.

I am still in college this semester taking Calculus I. We have taken two tests and have two test and final to go. I did awesome on the first test (90) and okay on the second (79). I can do test corrections to get back 20% of the grade lost I might do them for the second test. But the lowest of the four tests gets dropped at the end of the class. So I just have to get more than an 85s on the next two and a 90 on the final to get an A in the class without having to do test corrections.

Other than my math class the other thing to talk about for this semester would be my Job. This season we got a new Office Manager, and no one likes him.
My office manager sent me a text yesterday telling my I have a meeting that I Have to attend with my District Leader tomorrow. When I asked both my Office Manager and District Leader what this meeting was for, my Office Manager said "dont be late" and my District Leader didn't respond to my email. -- Awesome. I'm totally getting fired tomorrow. I hope not, but my Office Manager has just been terrible to me all season and probably spewed off some bullshit to my District Leader.
I hope I get hired back next season, and if I do and the current Office Manager is the manager next season almost everyone including me will not be going back to our current office. Almost all of us with try our best to transfer out and leave him with new people who cant do anything.

Oh, and for the last three weeks, twice a week Ive been going to Physical Therapy for my neck because its been causing me tons of pain since the car accident. once its better I'm submitting all my Co-Pays to the insurance company for reimbursement. $12 a visit twice a week adds up.
So far in 4 visits my neck is doing much better. I just have to keep doing the exercises and hopefully it gets its range back.


Last The High Kings are probably my new favorite band. I like all of their songs and they are the only band on my phone. They are an Irish band, so if you listen to the song, I've included the sad lyrics below the video.



In the village of Kilgory, there’s a maiden young and fair
Her eyes they shone like diamonds, she had long and golden hair
Then a countryman came riding, up to her father's gates
Mounted on a milk-white stallion, he came at the stroke of eight

Chorus:
Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Step it out, Mary, if you can
Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Show your legs to the wealthy man

I have come to wed your daughter, Mary of the golden hair
I have gold and I have silver I have land beyond compare
I will buy her silks and satin and a gold ring from her hand
I will buy for her a mansion, she'll have servants to command

Chorus

Kind sir I love a soldier, I have pledged to him my hand
I don't want your gold or silver, I don't want you house or land
Mary’s father spoke up sharply, You will do as you are told
You will marry him on Sunday and you'll wear his ring of gold

Chorus

Near the village of Kilgory there's a deep stream running by
They found Mary there at midnight, she had drowned with her soldier boy
In the village there is music, you can hear her father say
Step it out Mary, my fine daughter, Sunday is your wedding day.

Chorus twice.

Who is Tracked viewing my blog?

Blogger has changed its layout and tracking methods a lot since last summer.
I can now see who my "aduience" is. More like, I can see how many people are being tallied as viewing my blog.

This is what Blogger has tracked for "Jan 11, 2013 – Feb 9, 2":
Entry Pageviews
United States 33
Russia 13
Germany 2
Indonesia 1
Italy 1


and for the "life" of my blog "May 2008 – February 2013":
Entry Pageviews
United States 5511
United Kingdom 284
Russia 199
Germany 150
Canada 89
Poland 81
Netherlands 50
Australia 49
China 46
Brazil 41



Interesting to say the least.

Aaaaaaahhh

Last semester was my last semester for my bachelors degree. It was really crazy and busy so I forgot about this blog. I only remembered recently when my Dad asked if I was ever going to post in it again.

Last semester I took 4 classes: Research methods and design, ethnic literature, health psychology, and abnormal psychology.

My research methods and design class was taught by a new professor whom was super good looking. His good looks made him very easy to pay attention to basically everything he was saying. The class wasn't hard anyway, cuz it was basically all statistics which is easy. My professor for this class Knew he was good looking, but he is married. Passed with a 92.

My health psychology class is the only one I was worried about. I had taken it in the summer but then I got into a car accident and ended up failing the class cuz I missed a test. But I retook the class and passed with an 80.

My abnormal psychology class was MEGA boring!!! It did not help that the class was a once a week from 7p-10p. I could Not stop yawning in his class. I didn't much care for this professor. I took him once before in my very first semester at Texas A&M and vowed never to take him again cuz he is the most monotones professor in the world. He also goes off on useless uninteresting tangents, and does not return grades in a timely manor. In this class we had 5 grades and by the end of the semester we only know the grade of one of them leaving people completely clueless to what they were making in the class. I ran out of that class with an 81!

My last class of the semester was ethnic lit. I really like the professor teaching this course. This was the fourth (fall 11 / spring 12 / summer 12 / fall 11) class I've taken with her. So I'd been sitting in a class of hers every semester for a year. In the beginning of the semester I told her it was my last English class and she told me I'd pass. As the semester went one she graded one of my essays that was a week late as if it wasn't late. And I'm not even sure of she looked at my final essay cuz I asked for comments to be returned with it. On the last day of class she sent me an email time marked at 12:46p asking me to resend my email cuz she couldn't open it. And on black board the time stamp for my grade on the essay was 12:48p for an 80... I didn't respond to her email until after 3p. Either way I pass her class with an 84!

THIS CHICK IS A COLLEGE GRAD!

Summer one

I had a womens study class that I took in the fall of '11 and failed, that I needed to take again in order to graduate on time. I was rely nervouse about taking it again. I didn't want to fail again. So this time I read the required readings more in depth, and participated in class more, and tried a Shit-Ton harder on the essays and tests. When I went in for the "final paper conference" my teacher and I thought I would get no higher then a D, but I didn't want to take this class again because of the "3-peat" rule. So I tried even harder o. The final paper and quiz and received a C!!! No one in the world would care if it is a 79 or a 70. A C is a C. :) I felt accomplished!

In other news because of the car crash that happened, I missed a test in my online class and my teacher wouldn't let me make it up. All my friends told me to go to the head of the department (well, it's the teacher that is teaching my online class.... So im screwed there). But she had no sympathy, and told my try harder on the 4th test. I'd had to make a 115/100 in order to get a D, because we only have 4 grades in the class (being the 4 tests) lame. So now in going to fail this class just meaning I'm going to need to take it in the fall And pass everything in order to graduate.

So close, so Many obstacles!

The exciting adventures

Of a car accident.

The picture is/was the end result of a hit and run accident, caused by a bunch of illegals.

So far the case is still "open" and they are still looking for them. We were fortunate enough to have Dom with us cuz she got the plate number.


In other news, I finally got my license last month.

Random things

So I saw the snake when y mom and I were coming back from SupaWifes house. I was cat sitting while she was in Porto Rico.

The box of things were free sample backs of pads and tampons that my school was giving out as some promotional thing. So in the course of a week I managed to grab about 30 boxes. I know I'm lame, but shit pads and tampons are expensive! And it isn't stealing cuz they were free for the takin. I even waited until the last day of school to take most of them cuz they were getting rid of them anyway.
Well THAT box. I took and and when I got home realized that they were all empty containers. Hahahaha. I guess that's what I get for being greedy.... I get to take out the schools trash. At least I know they were recycled boxes cuz that's where I put them.

The kitty cat. War is so cute, well any cat is, when he sleeps in bags or boxes with his paws curled up. I had to miss with him though.

And we planted these plants in early April and something is eating them. I'm not sure what but its only attacking the leaves on these plants and not the bushes or other flowers. .... Hum?

Nails are did

A couple weeks ago, SkittleHair, the not newly named yet SupaWife, and i never named her -so Lanky? All went and got our nails done. We all got pedicures and manicures as a "yea us for passing the semester!!!! And surviving!"

So the pictures are of my figure nails before and after the mani. And SupaWife has her hand in one picture and her foot in the other. My nails are all orange -ish... And hers are fully painted redish and blue. :)

pics of R. L. Stine

the one in the box is after i took it home. :)

the book is a copy of "It's the First Day of School... Forever!"

he is holding the unfinished puzzle piece at some H.E.B. somewhere in Texas (back in October).

and the last picture is the puzzle piece finished before being sold... to me!

R. L. STINE!

Guinness World Record 8th Annual Walk for Autism. Saturday, April 14, 2012. AT&T Center –

Congratulations San Antonio for breaking the Guinness World Record for the Largest Charity Walk!!! www.anybabycansa.org


So i went to this Walk with my dad, mom, sister, and brother. For those of you that read and don't know my Brother is a "Functioning Autistic," which basically means he has some developmental delays but for the most part should be able to hold a job, can eat by himself, clean and dress himself, can memorize everything (oh wait, thats not normal, that his autistic thing) and he also has the reading level of about 5/6th grade.

We did this walk just for the hell of it. while where at an hour that No Human should ever be awake at, they had a silent auction going on. The action piece were puzzle pieces (the symbol for autism awareness) that were made mostly by people with some degree of autism (or people that have autism in the family like tony hawk).

One of these pieces was realllllly awesome looking, so i bid on it. and WON!
The person who made it wanted R. L. Stine to sign it before s/he painted it, and R. L. Stine did! And a book to be given away with it!!

i thought it was the most bad ass one there! (if it wasn't i would have bid on another...) i won it for $65. Fortunately for me the ended the action early because it was starting to rain and the auctioneers didn't want the pieces to get rain damaged.
my sister bid on a piece that would have been nice if she won, but she was out-bid by 5 bucks.

The picture uploader is NOT working. I will try to upload them in a different way, or tomorrow.