Where've you been all my life?

I'm way bad at remembering to write in this thing, although I do read other people's blogs quite reguarly. I just don't feel like my life is interesting enough, heh. Weird to think about how I used to write in my LiveJournal all the time back in high school. But here are a few updates:

- Job is going well, a little slow right now. Just need to hit the streets and be patient and persistent and everything else will come around. We just had a pretty successful BFD and now I need to start selling for Freakers Ball, which is a Halloween themed show and I can't say the line-up because it's not confirmed yet. But it will be good and I have a ton of prospects I'd like to sell into it. More on that as October 23rd approaches. Side note- my boss moved our sales meeting to Jake's Hamburgers to drink instead of in our conference room. Woohoo.

My boss and coworkers and I at Medieval Times. Clear Channel took us out there just because. Loved it!

Richard and I at BFD

- Busy months coming up!! I'm going to Houston this weekend to celebrate my friend Richards birthday. He's having a party at Ei8ht in the Heights with bottle service and the such. I'm way excited to wear the new dress I bought but a little nervous because I TOTALLY don't fit into that scene. Oh well I'm there to see him not anyone else... :)

- Panama City Beach in a week and a half with my lovelies! I can't wait to see Kendall in Lafayette on the way there and then spend 5 days drinking and laying out. I haven't had a real vacation in God knows how long. It makes me a little nervous to be away from the office for that long (3 days) but hopefully it won't have too bad of an impact.

Going to PBC with her in 1.5 weeks!

- Cowboys home opener is September 20 against the Giants and Richard and his friend are coming back up here to go to that with me and Sara. TCU/Texas State is the night before so I'm looking forward to one awesome weekend even if I don't really care for football...

I should probably get back to work, I'll update later (and by later I mean around Christmas time... only partially kidding). Funny side note: they might block FB at work because someone wrote "bored" on their status at effing 10:45 in the morning. What an idiot.

It's Just Another Manic Monday

Okay so it IS a little after midnight and I should be in bed but oh well. I wanted to write.

I'm moving in a little under 3 weeks and my current complex is in the process of renovating all their units. I moved into my apartment about a month before they started the renovations. Go figure. So, I was thinking that I wouldn't have to do THAT strenuous of cleaning since they're just going to replace all the appliances and replace the carpet with berber carpet and the such. Partially wrong. I don't need to worry about shampooing the carpet (thank God, my rowdy guests have managed to get everything from Miller Lite to rubber cement stained on my floors), but my fabulously frugal complex is going to attempt to sell the appliances and wants them detailed. Lord knows why, those things are so outdated that even non-profits would turn them down. Apparently I haven't been doing as good a job of cleaning the one burner I do most of my cooking on because I can't get it clean to save my life. I bought these scrubby pads (it really does say scrubby pads on the box) and they are AWESOME. I think it's going to take another 3 rounds of cleaning to truly get it pristine, but at least its making a dent in the cleaning process.

Wow that was a really long tirade about cleaning. Anywho last weekend was fun, it all started on Thursday night with bike night at Twin Peaks. My clients have been building custom motorcycles for our morning show Lex and Terry and they were on display. I am so happy for them, the process has gone smoothly and they are auctioning off the bikes for charity. Go to KEGL.com if you know of someone who has $10k just sitting around to bid on motorcycles. They're really cool looking... see below. They are Yamaha Road Stars. Friday night I went out with Krista and her roomie Justine... yummy sushi dinner and drinks at the Liars Den after. Good times. Not too much on Saturday and Sunday but sometimes that's just what the doctor ordered.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the Columbine school shootings... make sure you say a prayer in rememberance of those lives lost.

I had more to write but I'm tired and Blogger takes a really long time to load images. Night!

I'm really lucky I still have a job

Clear Channel Communications laid off over 1800 people yesterday nationwide. And Dallas was hit pretty hard. I count my blessings that me, my two bosses, my assistant, every one of my fellow Eagle reps, and most of our on-air personalities got to keep their jobs. My heart goes out to my fellow Clear Channelers, here and elsewhere, who are out on the streets today. I can't imagine what it's like to be in that situation.

I.like.to.eat. It's pretty ridiculous how much I can eat. I had the entire pizza in one sitting at California Pizza Kitchen the other day. It sounds bad but fruits and vegetables and eating right just doesn't taste as good as a nice, cheesy, grease filled slice of pizza. Yummy. I'll never be skinny again :(

I hosted a Pure Romance party on Friday and it was AWESOME. I had so much fun, and I really think/hope everyone else who came had fun too. I haven't gotten to test out all my goodies yet, but I think I just might tonight ;)

Okay enough of my break from working. Maybe more later :)

I should be in bed right now

I've basically had a nice little two week vacation from work, and am so not looking forward to going back tomorrow. My sleep schedule is completely off. And back in my waiting tables day, if I went on vacation my income was essentially halted until I went back, which was good motivation for slipping back into work mode. With my regular salary/commission where the paycheck still comes regardless, it's so bad for inspiration to go back. I hate how my job is so tied to the economy, and since its so bad, no one wants to spend money. Advertising and marketing budgets are the first to get slashed. On paper, that's the worst mistake you can make as a business owner but many times its difficult to get the average Joe running a tattoo parlor or bar to see the value in advertising. Boo.

Part of my New Years resolutions is to wake up at the same time consistently and be on time to work. I'm sooo bad about that. Now that I'm thinking about it, I need to refill my thyroid medication at Walgreens. I have the most ridiculous time fighting with myself to get up every morning. It's so horrible, and I really don't think its normal to struggle as much as I do. The sad part is I average over 8 hours of sleep a night, and it still doesn't help. When I'm on vacation, I'm averaging close to 11 hours of sleep a night/day.

I also need to get back into the gym mode. Now that I'm not going on trips to Houston for long periods of time, I can finally get into an uninterrupted routine. I'll write down my weight and pants size tomorrow and then we'll see my progress in February 5th when I don't have holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving to interfere with progress. Hopefully my sleep thing will get better with exercise, too.

Another goal is to start eating breakfast everyday. We'll start tomorrow with that one. I really need to do the bills and then head to the grocery store tomorrow. Unfortunately, my mom left a 12 pack of Coca Cola Cherry in my fridge and I'm constantly battling with myself to give up soda. Argh.


Random post, I know. Time to attempt to go to sleep.

New Movies in 2009!

I'm ridiculously excited about the new movies coming out in 2009!!!

1. New Moon!!
2. Watchmen
3. He's Just Not That Into You
4. Confessions of a Shopaholic
5. Transformers 2

And coming to DVD...

TWILIGHT.

I'm on Team Carlisle. Wuahaha.

Time to go. More later.

Holiday Season is Upon Us...

Ohhhh I'm at work, bored outta my mind. In the world of media sales, this week and next are two of the deadest weeks of the year. Since I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to try to make a ton of cold calls just to schedule a meeting for... sometime after the beginning of the year? Yeah, didn't think so either. Except that my January sales aren't exactly phenomenal, so I'm getting kind of antsy about that. In the meantime, I need a break from Myspace, facebook, and trashy celebrity gossip sites.

My New Years resolutions:

- pay off the rest of my credit card debt by June and start saving for a house. Not necessarily a house, I would rather own a condo, loft or townhouse so I don't have to deal with a yard. So I guess the better way to phrase that is to start saving to invest in real estate property, so I don't waste money on renting each month.

- start studying for the GMAT and try to take it by this time next year.

- I also want to start taking continuing education classes, like cooking classes and French and whatever else my nerdy self wants to learn.

- Stop engaging in stupid drunken behavior that I'll regret later. That's not to say I'll stop having a good time, I just won't do stuff to completely embarrass myself the morning after.

- Kick some serious ass at my job. I want to work 10 million times harder and reap the rewards. I want people to say "wow you're only 22/23??" It's time I really stepped it up.

- ...and now for the obligatory weight resolution. I want to lose 20 lbs (btw, as I write that I'm finishing the last of the Reese's peanut butter cups at my desk). I'm not really overweight, like everytime I tell someone this they're like "wow you really don't look like it..." But I know that I used to be a lot skinnier, so off the pounds need to come. This shouldn't be too hard, right?


I'm going home tomorrow to Houston, and my boss is letting me leave early enough to be home in time to watch the Poinsettia Bowl, a.k.a. the "TCU is going to upset Boise State" Bowl. Toodlez till next time!

Hey, how've you been?

I have been absolutely horrible at keeping this. I've been busy, and I'm not quite sure that anyone other than Tricia reads it ;). Plus I really want to take the time to put pictures and designs and make it look pretty. Maybe sometime this week, I'm too poor to support my drinking habit until I get paid next week.

Plus, reading about other people's families makes my own life seem trivial. Sure, I pour ridiculous amounts of love and attention and complete adoration onto my two kitties. But that's nothing in comparison to the love you pour onto your own kid, and I don't know what that kind of unconditional, love with all your soul kind of love is.

I will say that I've been a lot busier at work, but I need to be pulling in more sales if I don't want to be living on the streets at the beginning of next year. I wish I could have a job where I made just as much as I have the potential to make with this one but it was more stable. As in, I would know exactly how much I made each month. Still, I feel like God blessed me to find my calling in life at a pretty young age and provided me the skills and knowledge to be really great at it. That kind of stuff you don't take just for granted.

My parents survived Hurricane Ike just fine. Their fence was completely torn up, but that was about it. Their trees are still intact and they got their power back pretty quickly. Next time I would still feel a lot better if they packed up and came to stay with me in Dallas. I didn't sleep at all the night Hurricane Ike blew in. There's a channel that broadcasts CBS new stations in Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas and rotates them every 30 min. Well due to the storm they kept it on Houston's CBS affiliate and I was glued to the TV watching the coverage. I kept all the lights on and the TV and tried to get some sleep, but I woke up right at 2:45a when the storm was passing over the city and watched the live coverage. That's some scary stuff. My heart and prayers go out to my friends and family and the people seriously affected by the storm.

And the animals! I watched a clip on the Houston Chronicle's web site about IDIOT people who evacuated and left their pets in harms way! If I couldn't take my kitties with me, I would risk my life to stay in the storms way to be with them. I seriously started crying when I watched the SPCA saving countless dogs and cats. If I had money to donate to the relief effort, it would go straight to the Humane Society to help out the abandoned animals. Those jack asses shouldn't be allowed to get their pets back.

To keep up with the random nature of this blog post, I think it's incredibly retarded that John McCain picked a woman who didn't even have a passport until a month ago. Seriously? She's not very well versed in international anything. She hinted that she thinks we should go to war with Russia over the Georgia invasions. Yeaaahh... b/c we have the manpower to supply troops for an undertaking like that. We would have to start the mandatory draft again. I don't know if you've made the connection, but the reason there's so many loony psycho Vietnam vets running around is b/c we forced men who didn't want to be in the military to go to war. So I think it's hypocritical for the McCain campaign to blast Sen. Obama's inexperience and then pick the least qualififed candidate possible to be his running mate. I'm not a Republican or anything, but I think it's a huge slap in the face to Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Plus it's pretty scary to think that Sen. McCain is 72 yrs old and if God forbid anything happened to him we have... a MILF who tries to pass her experiences of being a mayor in a town the size of my college and the Governor of Alaska still in her first term to be President. Oh but she supports her pregnant daughter. That's gonna help me sleep better tonight.

AAAnd... looked what happened last time we elected a man who's only government experience was being Governor of Texas. He's going to go down in history as the sorriest excuse of a president we've ever had. Oh wait, that's already in history books.

Okay I'm done with my rant. I'll post pictures this week from being fabulously single in the city. Until next time, you know you love me... XOXO Gossip Girl.