I'm super stoked. Yesterday, Greg got a job at a Vet Hospital! We were worried for a little bit with just me working, but now that he's gotten a job, it definitely takes a little bit of stress off of our shoulders. We've been here for about 3 weeks, looking for 2 weeks and he scored something.
I talked to B, my old co-leader in SD, and it made me a little sad. The girls are going to Build a Bear today and I think tonight is the sleepover, I'm not sure, but it made a bit sad. I wish I could be there, but life moves on. On an interesting note, Kiana is interested in Scouts for Trenadi, so maybe I could work on some try-its with her this summer, we'll see.
I've started to think of some activities to plan with Trenadi on the Saturdays I'm with her all day. I don't want the poor girl sitting in front of the t.v. all day. Tonight we're going to baking a cake and decorating it. It's something for starters, but we'll see what we can create. I'd take her to the park, but so far the weekends have been in the mid-nineties. Don't want to subject her to that.
This coming week, I get to check out Liz's morning schedule before I start sitting her next week. She was so cute and precious. So far, 2 didn't seem THAT terrible, but we shall see...
I'm looking forward to tomorrow, Greg wants to see this exhibit at the Museum of Natural History or Science and then have Greek for lunch. It's nothing for sure cause we have to see about the prices of tickets. If not, it'll be our date day. It's been awhile and friday and saturdays I work, so sunday is date day. Who would have thought..
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Life is Beautiful
I officially have 3 babysitting jobs and it's nice. I had the third interview yesterday and her little girl, elizabeth dug me. Hopefully that'll bring in some dough over summer. And right now, my arms are killing me! I took a power sculpt class yesterday and my arms are still sore. I've just been sore now. Greg bought me a wii and we've been playing that too! Combined with that, the gym, swimming...i'm a tender one right now. That's it for today.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Definitely looking up
This has been a good week for me and apparently most people I've talked to as well. The event planning with Heidi is definitely picking up. She decided to compensate me for the first event I was on. That definitely made me excited. She was singing me praises telling me I was the most hard working and she loves me common sense. She also added me onto her other project, I have a feeling, I'm going to be able to continue working with her even when I move to Austin. Plus I'm actually making progress on both events with finding a charity, sponsors, and now working on a few venues. The even better part? We're going to go out next friday, maybe karaoke or something, with her and Jaime from Krunch Thyme Records. And then maybe next week, I get to meet the guys from InOurSity Film. I made a friend. =)
The other happy part is I got two babysitting jobs and working on the third one. Yay, summer work, that makes me feel so much better. The first job is kind of easy. Its for Kiana and she's awesome, love her already. She's got three adorable babies, Trenadi who is 7, Darius aka DJ who is 4, and ms Justic who is 3 and apparently can be a bully. Oh man, when she told me that, I automatically thought of Bernie Mac when he was talked about his bad neice. Hahaha.
The other couple is Tara and Ryan whom are such a gorgeous couple. She's this sweet, natural beauty and he's the all american guy. They have twins, 2 years old. Peyton looks just like her mama, with the sun kissed skin tone and the matching sun kissed hair. And Preston looks more like his dad, just on the paler end. He's quite and shy and she is a talker. They have so much energy, days will definitely be at the pool and or the park.
Greg hasn't found anything yet, and it frustrates him, but he goes around the house helping his mom and she's looking for work for him as well. The good thing is at least I'm working now, so it's not like both of us are being bums. His mom is definitely sweet to me, so i'm glad to be working now and maybe I can pay to take her to dinner. She gets me little odds and ends like half and half for my coffee or lotion. The nicest part was she bought me a cabinet for the bathroom to put all my girlie stuff in cause she noticed it was all sitting in my bags still.
I miss my mom and dad. When I talked to my mom she actually got off the phone saying, "we love you." I know she misses me dearly, but she knows I have to start my own life and if the beginning of that life was in texas, then so be it. I think she'll be ecstatic one day when I'm back for good and I'm doing amazing. I feel so blessed. God really did do some things in my past for a reason and he's continued to bless me. Things aren't always going to be easy or how I want them, but as long as I'm getting somewhere...I'll be happy.
Oh, and for the record, the weather isn't that nasty. I actually don't mind the heat and taking Daisy for walks in the evening is kind of fun....
p.s. Bug Bites exsist and they suck
The other happy part is I got two babysitting jobs and working on the third one. Yay, summer work, that makes me feel so much better. The first job is kind of easy. Its for Kiana and she's awesome, love her already. She's got three adorable babies, Trenadi who is 7, Darius aka DJ who is 4, and ms Justic who is 3 and apparently can be a bully. Oh man, when she told me that, I automatically thought of Bernie Mac when he was talked about his bad neice. Hahaha.
The other couple is Tara and Ryan whom are such a gorgeous couple. She's this sweet, natural beauty and he's the all american guy. They have twins, 2 years old. Peyton looks just like her mama, with the sun kissed skin tone and the matching sun kissed hair. And Preston looks more like his dad, just on the paler end. He's quite and shy and she is a talker. They have so much energy, days will definitely be at the pool and or the park.
Greg hasn't found anything yet, and it frustrates him, but he goes around the house helping his mom and she's looking for work for him as well. The good thing is at least I'm working now, so it's not like both of us are being bums. His mom is definitely sweet to me, so i'm glad to be working now and maybe I can pay to take her to dinner. She gets me little odds and ends like half and half for my coffee or lotion. The nicest part was she bought me a cabinet for the bathroom to put all my girlie stuff in cause she noticed it was all sitting in my bags still.
I miss my mom and dad. When I talked to my mom she actually got off the phone saying, "we love you." I know she misses me dearly, but she knows I have to start my own life and if the beginning of that life was in texas, then so be it. I think she'll be ecstatic one day when I'm back for good and I'm doing amazing. I feel so blessed. God really did do some things in my past for a reason and he's continued to bless me. Things aren't always going to be easy or how I want them, but as long as I'm getting somewhere...I'll be happy.
Oh, and for the record, the weather isn't that nasty. I actually don't mind the heat and taking Daisy for walks in the evening is kind of fun....
p.s. Bug Bites exsist and they suck
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A new place...sort of
So it's been awhile since I've touched my blog and I've felt deprived! Things have been in a whirlwind these past two weeks. I knew it was going to be fast, but I didn't think things would have been hectic. Packing wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was very freeing to be able to finally go through stuff and decide what's really important to me and what other stuff I could go without or even dare I say, depart from.
When my baby arrived in SD, it was definitely non stop from there once again. I was so excited to see him! I didn't have to be away from him anymore and being away from the one you love for 2 months is NOT easy, props to military and other long distance love. When he got in, the race began. We had dinner with my parents and my sister and her wife. It wasn't too bad, they got to meet him and we celebrated mothers day, mom's birthday and my going away all in one shot. The family definitely loves him and that is always a blessing. The night didn't stop there, we headed over to B's house (my girl scout co-leader) and we had a few drinks and played a few games. Her coworker Mabel was there and we had met her before at B's birthday. It was such a good time, i loved it and hated it at the same time. Bittersweet. We had such a good time, but it would be the last time for awhile.
Saturday wasn't too bad though. We went up to Temecula to see his Great Aunt Anita and meet his Uncle Bruce. Uncle Bruce was cool and Anita was a dear sweet old women who has a cute dog, Sherman the German as they called him. She had a cool house with a nice layout that I wouldn't mind living in myself. After that we took off home where we relaxed for a bit and then headed over to Billy's house for his dad's birthday/going away. We were there kind of early and it was a good time. We had a little BBQ and then the games began. Oh man, Greg played Survivor, which starts off as a race. The first player has to bounce a ping pong into their cup, chug it, and then flip it. There are always 5 cups and 3-5 players per team. Which means, some players may have a few cups. Here's the kicker, whichever team loses, has to "vote" someone off and in the end, it's 2 people going against each other chugging 5 cups...It ended up being Crystal vs. Greg. Greg won...but he also puked a bit. No one gave him hell cause he did win, but poor him couldn't keep it down after throwing back about 6 beers in ten minutes. It was our cue to exit after that. We went home so we could be well rested for the drive the next morning.
On sunday, the car was pretty much packed and by 11 a.m. we were ready to go. I said bye to my parents, which I was on the verge of tearing, and then we took off. The first day driving wasn't bad, we made it to El Paso, TX. The next day just plain sucked. Anyone who has ever driven through Texas knows how much of a pain it is to drive through about 10 hours of just plain land. It even rained a bit, which was definitely not fun. That's one thing I'll have to adjust to again is learning how to drive in the rain. Memorial Day night is when we arrived. It was about midnight and boy was it good to be home and out of the car. We knocked out and the next morning I thought it'd be lazy days..not so fast.
When I woke up, his grandparents were already awake (they get up at about 6am or so) and I met them..in my pjs..at 8 am. They're so sweet, but grandpa is definitely a talker. Now I know where Greg gets it from. The week with them was fun. We cooked dinners together, went out to dinner together, went on a sailboat and celebrated his moms birthday too. The funny thing about that, our moms share the same birthday. Thank goodness my mom doesn't care for hers or else it could be trouble in the future. I got his mom a quilters bag which is very cute and it has special pockets for their tools. She loved it. =)
They left on Saturday and it was sad to see them go, but now I could unpack my car and get things situated since they were staying in gregs room and I couldn't unpack my clothes or anything. The weekend was lovely to be lazy. Greg did some work for a friend and made some dough and we got to relax, just him and me..and my future mother in-law. ;) We want to get married, but no ring yet. I'm not worried. I have all the time. Plus he doesn't believe in being engaged longer than a year. It's his belief people won't get married or it'll cause more problems. But to each their own.
Monday rolled around and things definitely settled. His mom was heading back to work and we would be able to start job searching which is hard in this bad economy on top of looking for short term work. I still have my internship that I'm resuming now that things are settled and the best part? I'm actually gonna get paid. Sweet, my boss loves me. So, to a normal schedule I go of going to the gym in the morning and then doing some work and searching for more work.
I'm off to watch some Jon and Kate plus 8 with my baby.
When my baby arrived in SD, it was definitely non stop from there once again. I was so excited to see him! I didn't have to be away from him anymore and being away from the one you love for 2 months is NOT easy, props to military and other long distance love. When he got in, the race began. We had dinner with my parents and my sister and her wife. It wasn't too bad, they got to meet him and we celebrated mothers day, mom's birthday and my going away all in one shot. The family definitely loves him and that is always a blessing. The night didn't stop there, we headed over to B's house (my girl scout co-leader) and we had a few drinks and played a few games. Her coworker Mabel was there and we had met her before at B's birthday. It was such a good time, i loved it and hated it at the same time. Bittersweet. We had such a good time, but it would be the last time for awhile.
Saturday wasn't too bad though. We went up to Temecula to see his Great Aunt Anita and meet his Uncle Bruce. Uncle Bruce was cool and Anita was a dear sweet old women who has a cute dog, Sherman the German as they called him. She had a cool house with a nice layout that I wouldn't mind living in myself. After that we took off home where we relaxed for a bit and then headed over to Billy's house for his dad's birthday/going away. We were there kind of early and it was a good time. We had a little BBQ and then the games began. Oh man, Greg played Survivor, which starts off as a race. The first player has to bounce a ping pong into their cup, chug it, and then flip it. There are always 5 cups and 3-5 players per team. Which means, some players may have a few cups. Here's the kicker, whichever team loses, has to "vote" someone off and in the end, it's 2 people going against each other chugging 5 cups...It ended up being Crystal vs. Greg. Greg won...but he also puked a bit. No one gave him hell cause he did win, but poor him couldn't keep it down after throwing back about 6 beers in ten minutes. It was our cue to exit after that. We went home so we could be well rested for the drive the next morning.
On sunday, the car was pretty much packed and by 11 a.m. we were ready to go. I said bye to my parents, which I was on the verge of tearing, and then we took off. The first day driving wasn't bad, we made it to El Paso, TX. The next day just plain sucked. Anyone who has ever driven through Texas knows how much of a pain it is to drive through about 10 hours of just plain land. It even rained a bit, which was definitely not fun. That's one thing I'll have to adjust to again is learning how to drive in the rain. Memorial Day night is when we arrived. It was about midnight and boy was it good to be home and out of the car. We knocked out and the next morning I thought it'd be lazy days..not so fast.
When I woke up, his grandparents were already awake (they get up at about 6am or so) and I met them..in my pjs..at 8 am. They're so sweet, but grandpa is definitely a talker. Now I know where Greg gets it from. The week with them was fun. We cooked dinners together, went out to dinner together, went on a sailboat and celebrated his moms birthday too. The funny thing about that, our moms share the same birthday. Thank goodness my mom doesn't care for hers or else it could be trouble in the future. I got his mom a quilters bag which is very cute and it has special pockets for their tools. She loved it. =)
They left on Saturday and it was sad to see them go, but now I could unpack my car and get things situated since they were staying in gregs room and I couldn't unpack my clothes or anything. The weekend was lovely to be lazy. Greg did some work for a friend and made some dough and we got to relax, just him and me..and my future mother in-law. ;) We want to get married, but no ring yet. I'm not worried. I have all the time. Plus he doesn't believe in being engaged longer than a year. It's his belief people won't get married or it'll cause more problems. But to each their own.
Monday rolled around and things definitely settled. His mom was heading back to work and we would be able to start job searching which is hard in this bad economy on top of looking for short term work. I still have my internship that I'm resuming now that things are settled and the best part? I'm actually gonna get paid. Sweet, my boss loves me. So, to a normal schedule I go of going to the gym in the morning and then doing some work and searching for more work.
I'm off to watch some Jon and Kate plus 8 with my baby.
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