This week...

Was a long one. I felt like I didn't really get anything done at work until Friday.

Monday I was preparing for a training that took place Tues afternoon and Weds morning. The Weds afternoon and Thurs morning I spent in a management meeting taking minutes (can you hear the joy in my voice!). So then I had to clean up after all that and the training that I never got to really clean up after on Thurs afternoon. And Friday was catch up day. So all in all a very busy and long week at work. I did get a nice dinner Tues night out of it though so I was happy because I wasn't going to go :)

And in job news, I officially have the job. I have been reluctant to say anything because I haven't been able to announce it at work yet. They had to notify the other internal candidates that they didn't get it as a courtesy and I was told that wouldn't really be able to be done until Friday. So I am hoping on Tuesday they make the announcement. A few people do know for sure because they knew i was interviewing and that they were making an offer. I so can't wait!! It isn't effective until Sept 10 and even then I will still be doing a cross of what I am doing now with my new position because a lot of stuff I do now just can't go by the wayside. So hopefully my boss gets his butt in gear and gets the position hired for. He did congratulate me Thurs before he left for a business trip. He then asked me what I was most excited about with the new position and of course I couldn't give him the real answer :P So I just said everything that comes with the new position - different responsibilities, working with different people. So now I'm very excited to start this new position. I do need to move a bunch of stuff though to a new desk...

This afternoon we are going to Ben's families house to see one of his cousin's from Arizona that we didn't get to meet while we were out there because she lives in CA. I am excited to meet her and see the rest of the family. I have no clue what we will be doing tomorrow - Ben mentioned something about going to his Uncle's house but I don't know if that's for sure yet.

So I guess that's enough of my rambling boring update!

A few pictures..

Just wanted to post a few pictures from recent times that I haven't gotten to post yet...

Birthday Girl, Tiffany (Ben's cousin) blowing out the candles on her cake.

The "Boyd Boys" singing karaoke (don't know who the dude in front in the white shirt is...)

Now this should be a good laugh...my co worker and I (excuse my mess lookin self) in "bunny suits" in the hospital that we were checking dispensers in Chicago. Couldn't go into surgery areas without these lovely lookin suits, very fun though hence the picture. Good times.

Me and the lovely Liz out on the town...yes, we were plastered.

Another night on the town, again...plastered.

7 things about me

Again, to enjoy being cool like my fellow online friends I will now tell you 7 things you may or may not want to know about me...

1. I love my dogs...like seriously I do. My puppy Duke (see page right) sleeps with me every night. I know this may sound weird and most people tell me once I have kids he will be just a dog to me but he seriously has a way of always making me feel better and knows when I need a pick me up. Oh..and he doesn't talk back :P

2. I have a phobia of touching things when my fingers are water logged. Strange but true. It is especially true with paper. I can't touch paper without wanting to throw up when my fingers are water logged. I sit there and wait for about 10 mins after I take a shower before I do anything, slightly annoying. Don't ask me where this came from since I used to be a swimmer...but my friend Liz also has this phobia which I recently discovered so I don't feel like a weirdo anymore.

3. From previous post, I'm a twin. Sometimes I love it, sometimes I hate it.

4. If I could afford it I would start my own photography business. I love taking pictures period. I probably have over 15,000 pictures on my computer and yes I have taken all of them mostly. I take my camera everywhere I go. Just a few thousand dollars and some practice away from my dream :)

5. I love to scrapbook - I have about 4 albums...it's just too darn expensive between printing the pictures and buying all the stuff. But I still get in my moods where I do it for a while and get all caught up, like right before the wedding.

6. I love Coldstone Creamery Ice Cream and Chipotle. I miss my days of living at my old house where the two were within walking distance of each other and it was so easy to go to both....

7. I could live in sweat pants and flip flops no matter what time of year it is.

Leavin on a jet plane...

But I'll be back Thursday :) I found out today they needed some volunteers to go to Chicago at work to help inspect some dispensers at a hospital and since most of the actual support staff will be at a training on Thursday I get to go. I leave out of Cleveland at 7:30 am Weds and don't get back until Thurs at 11:30 pm. I am hoping my boss says I can come in a little late on Fri but I doubt it :*( This will be my first time going to a facility for work and my first time flying without a friend/family. Kinda nervous because I've only flown 2 other times but it's a short trip and both of my others were longer. I'm pretty excited but at the same time nervous!

Let's see what else is there to update on....oh the job situation. I am not 100% sure what is going on there...I did hear from someone in that group that the hiring manager is working on scheduling second round interviews but is having a hard time managing schedules. So we will see when those happen but I'm not counting on it in the next two weeks because I manage my boss' schedule and he will be out of town and/or booked solid the next two weeks and he is a part of the whole thing. So again I go back to being as patient as possible...

This past weekend we attended Ben's cousin Tiffany's 18th birthday party. I guess a lot more people were expected to be there but it was still a pretty good time. There was karaoke and Ben and his cousins sang a song which was pretty neat. I left early to go out with my friend Liz as is our now normal Saturday tradition :) and I guess Ben sang a few more songs after I left.

Nothing else new to report on...except the fact that I am currently torn about wanting to have kids right now. We are not financially ready and I completely know that. I also know that there are a few things (like a few more vacations) that I want to do before we have kids, just some more "us" time. But then I do want kids now and I feel like I'm surrounded by pregnant people! I'm just torn but I know in the end now is just not the right time...it will come eventually though....

Happy Birthday Mom!

So Saturday was my mom's birthday - we worked at her job together though so we didn't get to celebrate. So Sunday we went to Luigi's for dinner - it was packed though but overall good. Her birthday present finally came in on Monday (and I can finally post it now!). I made her a book from blurb.com of our wedding pictures...she loved it of course! There are a few pics below of what it looks like - overall good quality, pages were a little purple vs. my navy blue that I was going for but only in certain lighting. But as any typically Mom she didn't care at all...:) HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM I LOVE YOU!

Nick and Lydia's Engagement Party

Just wanted to come back and post a few pictures from Nick and Lydia's engagement party on August 1. It was at a church in Cuyahoga Falls...can you guess what their color will be?? :)

25 things that inspire me

Most of my fellow fallen knotties have taken to doing this as will I :)

1. Roses - especially when they are given to me :)
2. Pictures
3. My mother
4. My puppies - Harley and Duke
5. A nice warm day sitting on my deck
6. A new recipe for dinner
7. Saturday nights out drinking
8. New Clothes
9. A chipotle date with Diana
10. A good new show on TV that I fall in love with and scramble to find all the re-runs :)
11. My twin sister and our randomness
12. Comfy new shoes that are cheap :) (I'm good at finding these)
13. New hair cut or color (thanks to my sister that happens more often then not when I go see her at work)
14. Arizona
15. My wedding pictures
16. Vacation days with nothing planned
17. Good phone calls from friends
18. Dinner with friends
19. Putting new pictures up in the house
20. Holidays with the family
21. Reading a good book
22. Giving away old clothes
23. Going bargain shopping and actually finding something
24. New jewelry :)
25.My husband

And time passes by...

Not much going on right now that I can think of.

I am still waiting to hear on the job. I am not sure who has and hasn't interviewed yet but I know I haven't gotten a second round interview yet so no news on that front.

Just today Lydia asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding next year (July 11). I gladly accepted :) Her engagement party is tonight and we are having lasagna...yum! She was in my wedding so I'm excited to be in hers! Her and Nick make a cute couple! I will post pictures from the party.

My mom's birthday is next Saturday :) Me and her will actually be working together though...the Wellness Center that she works at part time needs some extra help catering a served wedding reception. Just a word to the wise...any party/wedding planning people....never do a served dinner. It's a horrible idea - it's very hard to get everyone served at the same time so then you run into cold food issues. So please everyone do me a favor and inform all friends that this is just not a good idea...at all. So I will earn a few extra bucks next Saturday and work with my mom and it's her birthday so at least I will get to spend some of the day with her! I ordered her a present but she might read it on here so until I get it (which might not be until after her b-day) it shall remain a mystery. But I will post pictures once I give it to her...

Me and Ben are doing good. He is still busy working away and so am I. Nothing specific going on there either. I am working on our wedding book from Blurb right now but I am waiting on a good coupon because I'm getting the big deluxe one that's like $60. But it will be worth it considering photographers charge over $300 for wedding books. So hopefully I will have that done in the next month and a good coupon will come along.

So there is my boring life with nothing of real significance going on :)

Time for an update

So I literally thought this week would never end!! The annual mid year meeting at my company (GOJO) was this week and I am so exhausted but glad it is over. It's nice to see everyone gathered together but it makes for long days. I was gone from about 6:45-7 every morning and not home until after 7:30 each night - sometimes later. So I got some overtime but I'm just happy it's done and over with!

Now about my interview - I don't know what's going on. Someone was supposed to interview on Friday but I don't think it ever happened. I hate not knowing! But what can you do? I figure if it's meant to be, it will be! So now I just sit back and wait. My boss is on vacation this coming week so it should be kind of a slow week for me. It seems like I don't have much to do when he's not around. So wish me luck on that! Hopefully I will find a few things to do besides play on the internet all day!

Not much else going on...went to Olive Garden (my favorite!) last night with Ben and my parents then we went to the movies and saw batman. It was a good movie - I really liked it. Ben said he wasn't too fond of it though but oh well. It was a long movie and we didn't get home until kind of late so hence more sleepiness has ensued. If I could sleep for the next two days I would :)

All right I best be off to try to accomplish something around the house, maybe some laundry or cleaning....

Interview

So I got my interview - it's Monday. I found this out yesterday (Fri) morning. So I had to go shopping today at Macy's to find something decent to wear. I think I got something but it's not a full suit. I would hope they would judge me on what I am wearing though :) I am excited but nervous at the same time. I want this job pretty bad so here's to hoping...

Down Day

Well I can honestly say this whole week has just been a down week for me.

Let's start with the job situation. I honestly like my job that I currently do - for the most part. I do feel that I kind of get the "extras" everything everyone else doesn't want to do - and being the Unit Admin Coordinator (yeah yeah it's jsut a fancy name for Admin Assistant!) I get most of that slack. There are a few things that I feel fall out of my job description that I kind of helped out once and everyone assumes that since I helped out once I become the keeper of that item. Usually I don't mind but it gets to me sometimes that my time seems expendable to them. I know that is some of my job, to help out where needed, but it gets really frustrating at times. But I do it with a smile on my face and gladly accept because I know I am helping them out because I am hoping that wouldn't ask unless they really didn't have the time - which I know some of them don't. Now I did apply for another job in my dept, I feel like I could do a good job at it because it was a position created at the beginning of 2008 and some of the duties that I did got transferred to the person they hired (and some that were supposed to never did because she wasn't there long enough). I also feel like it's time for me to take a step up, not saying that it would be a step up pay wise but the UAC postion is always a starting point within the company. I figure it would be a good way to build my knowledge in other areas of our business.

So I applied...and I haven't heard anything really since. I did ask the hiring manager about the interviews being set up and she told me this week. I do believe I should be given a shot but I know some else has interviewed for this position and yet nothing has been set up for me. And I keep asking myself why and I'm full of doubt...is it because they don't need to interview me because they know my skills because they work with me already? Is it that they feel this other person is more qualified and don't think they need to interview anyone else? I am hoping for the first but not really quite sure since I haven't heard it mentioned nor do I know our company policy on that sort of thing. I don't know what to think at this point and I really am not sure that I will get it. I mean if they wanted me wouldn't they set me up for an interview around the same time as the other person so they can compare? I just have no answers and that's more frustrating then anything. I would just love to make the move to another position and be away from my boss. I feel like he can be so negative sometimes and I hardly ever feel positive about the work that I do for him. There are times but very few and far between. That is no means why I applied for the job but I just feel that there are MANY positives for me to make the move to this other position. I'm sure I would still be working with my boss because there are things that with my accounting background I'm sure I will still handle but I'm ok with that.

As for everything else, well I'm kinda consumed by the above issue :) Money sucks in general (what's new) and I am all banged up between mosquito bites, some kind of unknown bite on my finger that hurts like a mother trucker, and a charley horse in my leg last night that has my leg killing me. I'm just falling apart! I've really tried to start eating better - my biggest issue...portion control. Let's just say I haven't been doing much of a good job at it still but I'm trying. I wanted to go walking around the neighborhood tonight but with the previously mentioned charley horse issue and a very uninspiring large hill outside of my house I am not particularly up for it tonight. I want to start walking though, but maybe not up the hill. Last time I walked up that thing I had an asthma attack, just wonderful! So yet another thing for me to work on!

My other half...

And no I'm not talk about my hubby, I'm talking about my twin sister. I figured I would put this out here because it seems like the thing that shocks most people when they find out. People are just so intrigued by twins and I've always found it so funny. They want to know if we are identical and if we look alike. They want to know how we get along.

Me and my sister have always had and up and down relationship. She is my best friend but at the same time we fought constantly growing up. It was always nice to have someone to play with though. We did look a like for a long time. I can remember in either 2nd or 3rd grade getting called down to the office because they couldn't tell whose school pictures belonged to who because we looked exactly alike and had been dressed the same. One of us was wearing a necklace - that's was the only way to tell us apart in that picture. My mom has always been able to tell who is who but I have to admit that sometimes I don't even know looking back at the old pictures. We have always attended Twins Day in Twinsburg until recently. It is a blast and nice to actually be "normal" for a day, and neat the see the multiples (more then twins ie triplets). I've never known how my mom put up with the both of us seeing as how we were TERRORS but she did and I love her for it. We were soooo bad (ie. drinking cough syrup together and getting REALLY sick when we were younger). So here's to my sister and my best friend!

Going Crazy

This week has been not so good. Lots of things going on but nothing I really want to talk about.

I am patiently waiting for the interview to be scheduled for the position I applied for. I really wish they would just do it already so I know. I wanted to know before that mid year meeting but I don't know if it will happen now since we it's less then 2 weeks away. We will see!

Not a whole lot else going on right now. Just work work and more work.

I will update when I have something more interesting to talk about :)

Happy 4th of July!

So another 4th of July has come and gone. This year we had an awesome time! We decided to cook out here at the house - my parents came and so did Liz and Kyle. I had hoped that some more people would come but oh well! It was just as fun. We had hot dogs and hamburgers and all kinds of sides. We headed to downtown Akron at about 8:45 pm for the fireworks. We park in the same lot every year and sit in the same spot. This year though Melanie and Brian wanted to go sit with Melanie's sister which was about another 15 min walk from where we normally sit - wish I would have know because we should have parked some where else. Poor Liz wore heels not knowing it was that far and her feet are still killing her today! The fireworks weren't too bad but I wish the finale would have been better. After that we just came home and hung out with Kyle and Liz a little bit longer. Over all a very relaxing and fun July 4th...see pics and a video of the fireworks finale below...

Oh and congrats to me and Ben - 3 months married today! :P