I got written up on my birthday..I don’t know if things could get any worse.

edit: Patrick remembered me..I should’ve known he wouldn’t forget hehe. I got starbucks, nice sappy card and stuffed talking puss in boots from Shrek 2 delivered personally by him to work. I have something good today in my life…my friends and him.

Heather

Without doing my usual ranting about work or about the house or the wedding or whatever else people say I always write about. I’ll just keep this short and sweet.

my birthday is today and it sucks…hell even my fiance I think forgot about it.

I’m leaving for Oregon tomorrow, no laundry done, don’t know if i’ll get off work early so it may be an all niter drive making for a very long weekend.

Heather / Sav

I think i’ll call it a nite soon…

heather / sav

Today has been marathon movie day let me tell ya. I didn’t really feel like going to see a movie today but watching Patrick get ready to go see Shrek 2 alone, well got me in the mood to go. I wanted to see it, just not neceessarily today. Saturday’s being my sleep in, lazy day!

Anyhow, we went to see Shrek 2..first making a stop at Starbucks. Off to the worst theatre in history. I can’t imagine any theatre being as bad as this place we have in town. Carson City isn’t exactly a bustling metropolis, although we did finally get Best Buy, Borders, Old Navy, Michael’s and more all in the past year!!!! Talk about town excitement. If we want to go to a nice stadium style theatre we have to head into Reno, which we do for big releases at the theatres. So back to my story….off to this scum theatre and there are HERDS of children. But really, what did we expect at a 2:30 Saturday showing? We got there so late that we found seats 3 rows from the beginning all the way on the side. Lots of children screaming, yapping, whatever. Don’t take me wrong I LOVE KIDS but theatres i’m not to fond of them. This is why we went to see Harry Potter at like a 10pm show hehe. Anyhow, Patrick looks at me and goes “i’m just breaking you in” so I laugh and tell him that’s a few years off yet.

Shrek 2 is an awesome movie and i’m convinced it’s better then the first and now i’m itching to have a Puss and Boots stuffed animal. That lil guy cracks me up not to mention I love cats. The movie itself was hilarious almost nonstop. I’m happy I did go see it in the end and recommend it to everyone.

Yesterday, we rented “Open Range” with Kevin Costner. It’s been a while since i’ve seen a good western movie and Costner seems to fit into that role well. We watched it this afternoon when we got home from Shrek. Lots of good gunfights at the end. Some sappy romance in there too admist that rugged tough Costner character. All in all a good movie. I’m a huge fan of westerns though so i’m easily amused by this type.

Lastly, Patrick picked up …almost embarassed to say this…”you’ve got served”. He just got it so I’ll go watch and then i’m sure i’ll report how cheesy of a movie it is but heck I could be suprised. I just like the whole dance, music type of movies. You’d think I was like 16 or something watching some of the movies I do but hey i’m easily amused.

I think today i’ve been just trying to keep my mind off of things bothering me or things I should be doing by watching all these damn movies. I had this list of things to do on my computer and around the house this weekend but yet to do them. I told my mom i’d have some done by tomorrow nite so we’ll see. I have to go into work at some point this weekend and set up the new girls computer. I’ll probably do that after looking at the house tomorrow.

Anyhow, off to watch the movie..so until later ~heather/sav

Can’t even explain how happy I am for it to be Friday. It’s been a very long week involving too many hours of work and other mishaps along the way.

I have been itching to redo some of my web page for a long time now, especially unhappy with my photo pages but every gallery thing I liked, either was too difficult or cost money to even use. Finally, the founder (Jen) of this awesome board for EQ players had a link to pics on her “gallery”. I loved the setup and clicked on the little link figuring it had to be a pay type of one but was shocked to see it’s free. Only one thing was stopping me from using it. The setup on the webserver is a bit much for me, although I have confidence I could do it I get lazy and rather have someone do it right away! It didn’t look any more difficult then when I first had set up a greymatter blog. Thankfully, Bryan offered to help me out and set up my gallery. It is up and working wonderfully and SOOOO easy to use to say the least. It’s much better then what I had before. I’m slowly adding pictures to it now and you can see my slow progress here:

http://www.endlessimaginations.com/gallery

House news: Basically, Patrick talked to Patty (the sales office lady) yesterday about our house only to find out that they just started working on it this week. FINALLY! He asked her when we could expect it to be done, in which she finally told him end of July or so. He explained that our wedding/honeymoon was at the end of July and it wasn’t exactly great timing in which she responded with “we’ll just close after you get back”. Oh LOVELY! Now we get to stress over our honeymoon about closing, moving, buying all the stuff we need for our house aka refrigerator after putting money on the credit card for the honeymoon. I can tell this is stressing Patrick out some and it has been stressing me out for a while. I wanted to call her up and give her a mouth full yesterday but knew that wasn’t smart so I’m just chilling for a few days before I call and get some answers about justifying our delay when other houses have progressed further along. We’ll go out this weekend and actually see what they have done to start fixing things.

When it rains, it pours and I mean pours.
Start work rant

We had a new girl start with us on Monday to finally fill the dispatcher position. I spent most of Monday training her, bits and pieces of the rest of week. It’s just a difficult situation and not to mention the attitude behind some people here at work sometimes just sucks. I try to take things and move on, but honestly work has become a place of grouchiness. Little things like work hours not convenient enough for others or the issue of who’s supposed to be answering phones can spark some serious emotions it seems with people, including me.

I’ve been here for over a year now, working my 7:30 -4 / 4:30 depending on whether I took a lunch and yesterday it was brought up that (I’ll call her L) L wanted to work earlier hours. I’m looking at everyone in this meeting going “who’s going to stay until 5”. Our new girl “S” works Monday- Thursday 7:30 – 4:30 basically. I start school again in the fall in which I’ll have 5:00pm classes again and no way can I work until 5 with that schedule. Hell, 4:30 is pushing it for me to get across town and settled into class fine. So, we are trying this new schedule out where L works from 7-4 so S and I work until 7:30 – 4:30 then we’ll turn the phones over at 4:30 and close down the shop. I’m sure this won’t fly with the office in San Jose but we’ll see and if they do want someone until 5 ..good luck.

I just don’t get why people come in to a new company and start basically demanding everything be changed so it benefits you and not being respectful of the employees that have been here for a while. I felt so bad for “S” to sit through the meeting yesterday and see “L” basically demand her work hours change so she can get home earlier and miss traffic. Also, the phone issue. Sales Manager basically says that I (accounting) shouldn’t be answering the phone unless they need me to help out. This is fine, but I also have never had a problem answering the phone and will not just sit and let it ring expecting someone to pick it up. I’m a very helpful person, in fact so much that I end up having to stay late to catch up on my own tasks. Anyhow, “L” threw a fit about the phone ordeal basically and then proceeded to literally yell at me later in the afternoon after making a comment about her answering the phones and not getting any work done. I replied nicely back with “I’ve been answering the phones all morning” in which I got the nice loud response in return. I pretty much decided I would go in my office, shut the door and proceed to work away on things without the attitudes and grumpiness.
~ends her usual rant about work…I’m really sorry if it seems I rant about work a lot…honestly I love the people I work with, I like my job for the most part but this transition thing is a bit rough.

Wedding News:

Onto some happier news though, RSVP’s are rolling in! *bounces around* I get so excited checking mail just to see if another one has come in. At the same time I’m starting to get worried about how much I have yet to plan and get in touch with people to plan. This weekend I’ve got to buckle down and deal with some of this stuff.

I finally picked out the girls jewelry to buy and although I’d love to show a picture of it on here I can’t. I found the earrings I want to wear but alas they are $150 and we did look at cross necklaces a week ago at the mall but still not sure whether I like the ones they had so we’ll see.

Next Friday we drive off to Oregon and will be visiting Patrick’s parents along with a visit to my Aunt and Uncles who live in Salem. My grandparents will be up there visiting them also so it will be nice to see everyone. It just happened to be lucky timing that they’d be up there and none of them have met Patrick yet. I’m just not looking forward to the drive, even though it’s beautiful country (minus the northern part of Nevada YUCK). I have my money saved up in the bank for the wedding ring and actually all this overtime this week will be nice to pad that some.

Today is a rough day and I think that’s why I’m ranting so much instead of talking about good things. I just wish sometimes I could spill out everything I’m thinking and feeling here ..instead of bottling it up. I can’t say half what I feel or think sometimes. I can’t please everyone and I know this but sometimes when I think of hurting someone with my writing it just rips me up inside. At the same time, I know writing is my outlet and it does make people smile sometimes.

It’s funny how in starting this journal, people tell me “I see a different side to you in that thing”. This was started as an outlet for me and also for a place people could come to find out what is new with my life. It wasn’t meant to make everyone happy or make anyone sad so I hope that people just can understand and appreciate my writing for what it is. It’s easier to write when you have things built up inside. It’s harder to write about all the good things. I guess my goal from now on is always write some good stuff that’s going on with my ranting.

Well back to work as I hear my name being whispered off somewhere. *sighs*