Sunday, August 22, 2010

Bad timing

I need to write a blog, but I also need to go to sleep so I can get up at 6 in the morning.

If I promise to actually blog later can I go to sleep just this once?

Please?

Yes?

Awesome.

But before I go, here is another Logan picture:

Logan gets pitiful when he has to take a bath.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Being unproductive

Today has been a very unproductive day.

While I did get up at 7:15, the majority of the day has consisted of lying around doing nothing, which I guess is what days off are made for. But I can't help but feel like I'm wasting my day off when I don't do anything productive with it.

Right now I'm fighting off the urge to take a nap. I rarely let myself take them because I can't sleep for 10 or 15 minutes. It turns into a 2-3 hour ordeal. And since I have to be at work at 7 in the morning, I need to be as sleepy as possible at 9:45 tonight when I attempt to go to bed.

(I'm taking bets right now: Over/under on when I actually manage to get to sleep)

Tomorrow will mark one week left at WalMart. 7 more calendar days after and 7 more work days including Thursday. I'll be so glad to get the heck out of there. I'm thankful that I've been able to work there while I was trying to find a good job, but my blood pressure really couldn't handle it much longer. Between the customers and the co-workers who weren't worth a damn, I was struggling to stay sane. So. Next Thursday, I'm gone. And I'll have a lovely three day weekend before starting the new job.

I really need to be cleaning out my closet and looking for appropriate work clothes, so I guess I should wrap this up.

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So. I saved this blog as a draft and then took a nap.

Fail.

Oh well. I cleaned up the dishes from dinner with my parents and have made plans to do laundry so I'll have work clothes for tomorrow. That's about all I can say for today. Is that pitiful? Yes. But at least it was a day that I didn't have to work.

I'll write something more substantive later. I'm still getting back into the swing of this blogging thing.

But before I go, I think I'm going to share one adorable picture of Logan with each post. He's my baby.

So here's my favorite:

This is Logan. He likes coconuts.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ah, blogging. So we meet again.

After talking with a dear dear friend tonight, I have decided to return to the blogging world.

"Why?" you ask.

Well, friend(s), it's simple, really. I'm about to start a new chapter in my life, and I want to document it.

"What chapter is that?" you ask.

Well, friend(s), I GOT A REAL JOB!

And I'm excited about it. 

As of Friday, I accepted the position of "layout specialist" for the advertising department of the Opelika-Auburn News. I'll be making dummy pages (FOR THE ENTIRE PAPER), double-checking color processes with the press, and double-checking insertion orders. Plus a bunch of other stuff! It's a significant pay raise, better hours (Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm), paid vacation, benefits, and best of all, I'll be using my degree.

Actually, that is second best of all.

Best of all, I AM QUITTING WALMART IN 11 DAYS. My hatred of WalMart is a whole blog entry in and of itself. So I'll save that for another time. But suffice to say, I'm really really really really really really really happy that I got this job.

Lots of other stuff is happening in my life. Exciting things, tragic things, things that take time to work out. I'll spare you the middle school diary details, but I'm moving forward a little each day. But I still struggle.

In other news, football season is right around the corner. I mean, like 20 days. And I'll have that day off due to the amazing work schedule of the aforementioned NEW JOB. So if I can find some student tickets for the boy and myself, we'll be right there in our orange and blue, screaming "War Eagle!" and loving our Tigers.

Yes, student tickets. We're young, and the student section is more fun. Real people seats are for people 30 and over who like to sit down. Not there yet.

My plan is to do a "Last few months of Peggy's life that she hasn't blogged about: In pictures" post eventually. Not tonight. I have work at 7 am and need to sleep. But it's coming.

Regular blogging is coming. I promise. For real. Furreal, furreal.