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I just got home a few minutes ago from my interview with the Fire Department.  I think it went very well and I really liked the three people who sat on the oral board.   One of the people on the board is the person I would be working with if I get hired.  He was really nice and we hit it off pretty well.

Before leaving, they had me fill out a polygraph booklet.   I sure hope I remembered all the correct answers cause they’ll ask me again at the polygraph and I don’t want it say I’m being deceitful.  LOL

I was going to go to the doctor’s after that, but I found that it was raining so hard I could hardly see where I was going, so I came straight home.   I’m sure the rain will let up soon and I’ll be able to go back out.   Right now, I’m going to find some food and then probably take a nap.   I’m hoping I get my Alias season 5 discs today cause I finished season 4 yesterday.

Until next time…

One of the many dreams I have concerning the New York Yankees is that one year I can obtain some New York Yankees Spring Training tickets.

I would love to travel to Tampa, FL anyway and this would give me the perfect excuse to do it, don’t ya think?

The Yankees Spring Training camp is something of legend with Yankees fans (as I’m sure it is with all baseball teams) and I’ve dreamt several times of going to Legends Field located at 1 Steinbrenner Drive for several years.

How cool would it be to travel to see A-Rod, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi, Robinson Cano and all the other Yankees play at Legends Field? Legends is basically a miniature Yankees Stadium, from what I’ve read. I’ve heard the outfield fences are the same dimensions as those in Yankees Stadium. I’ve also read the decorative elements ringing the grandstand is exactly like those found at Yankee Stadium, a Monument Park honoring former Yankee greats is located behind the grandstand, and there are 12 luxury suites.

Ahhh a dream that I will continue dreaming until the day I can afford to make this trip to see my favorite baseball team during Spring Training.

I woke up this morning, four minutes before my alarm went off at 8am.   I have to say I slept better last night than I have in awhile.   I woke up once or twice to pee (due to all the water I was drinking yesterday trying to flush this crap out of my system).   I was in bed before 10:30pm and asleep before 11pm.   It was awesome.

My throat does not hurt as badly as it did yesterday.  Although I’m feeling quite congested today, I’m feeling much better and that’s a good thing.   I’m still planning on going to the doctor on my way home today.   I just want to make sure I’m not supposed to be on more antibiotics or something, ya know?   I’m also going to talk about the flu shot.  I’ve never had one, but I think living in this area of the country, it could be a good idea to get me started on getting them yearly.   With as sick as I’ve been the last month, I know my immune system is taking a beating and I really can’t afford to get any sicker than I already am.   Especially if I get that job I’m interviewing for today.

Speaking of that, I get to find out if using connections work.   I’ve never asked anyone to help me get a job.  Actually, I’ve never used a connection for anything before.   However, my old boss (God love him), contacted someone for me and that person has made some phone calls regarding my interview today.   Cross your fingers it does not blow up in my face and hurt my chances for the job.   I know that in some places, it’s not what you know but who you know.   I’m hoping that is the case with this because I would really love this job.

I need to call the college today and find out about registration.  Need to cement my plans for Christmas and if I can’t early or late register for classes, I’m screwed and will have to spend Christmas by myself here in this strange city.  And that my friends, would depress me greatly.

OK, off to get more coffee, find out what Chloe has chewed up for me again today.   I left a bra down at her level last night and she chewed the shit out of it this morning.   I beat her ass.   I’m hoping I don’t have to do that again anytime soon.

Until next time…

Beginning December 7th and 8th, St. Augustine, FL will start hosting First Friday Artwalk Weekends. The Artwalk will begin at 5pm and end at 9pm. There will be free shuttles starting at 6pm from San Sebastian Winery.

The St. Augustine Artwalk sounds like something I would be very interested in attending. I love music and I love art. They will have all kinds of art exhibits from paintings to photography and architecture to music. How fun would it be to spend a Friday night walking along the streets of the oldest American cities, St. Augustine, FL.

St. Augustine is home to many artists and artist lovers. The First Friday Weekend Art Walk will begin with the first weekend in December and be a monthly event thereafter.

Every month, you will be able to enjoy the latest exhibits, music, entertainment and refreshments at about 20 different galleries. The tours begin at Rembrandtz Fine Gifts for Fun People. Now that sounds like an interesting place to visit, doesn’t it?

There will be Sightseeing Trains and Old Town Trolleys offering you complimentary shuttle service to most of the galleries that will be participating in the ArtWalk. The shuttles will run on a continuous, 30 minute loop.

Or you can do it the old fashion way and walk to each gallery, it will really be your choice on how you get to see these awesome and interesting galleries.

A few of the featured artists from St. Augustine will include:

Beau Redmond
Jean Troemel
Peter O’Neill
Trip Harrison
Jan Miller
Sydney McKenna
Ray Brilli

If I lived anywhere near North Florida, I would definitely take a trip there to experience this monthly event.

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OK, I’ve made a decision to go to the doctor again. On my way home from the interview and possible lunch with Miss Laci (if she’s not too busy at work), I am going to the Immediate Care Clinic again. I’m hoping I get the same doctor I got last week, but if not, that’s OK.

I’ve made a list of all of the symptoms I’ve had since I got here. It’s a long list. This is not going to get me down. I will find (with the help of the doctor) a cure for whatever is ailing me. Several people have mentioned mold. I’ll be bringing that up with the doctor as well. If it turns out to be an allergy to mold or just mold making me sick? I’m breaking my lease and the apartment can eat the fee for it. I’m hoping it’s NOT mold because seriously? I don’t want to move again anytime soon. I will if I have too though. And since I don’t really like the apartment, it won’t give me heartburn to do it.

I’ve been away from the computer most of the day, sitting on the couch watching TV. There is nothing on TV. Oh, and I just found out today that I have Showtime. GAH! I’ve been suffering with regular cable and not knowing I had a movie channel. LOL I’m such a dork.

I have a popup blocker that works pretty well, but some pop ups still get through and that annoys me when I bring up certain websites. The Yankees web page is one of the ones I keep getting the pop up ads for. Irritating really, but not enough of a deal breaking to make me stop going to their site, ya know?

Off to watch the football game some more and try to get sleepy. I’ve set my alarm for 8am. This gives me 3 hours to get ready for my interview and one hour to get there. It’s downtown, so it’ll take me about 20-30 minutes to get there. And since I don’t know the area very well yet, I’m leaving earlier so I have enough time to find myself if I get lost.

Until next time…

I’m going to hurt myself with all of these thoughts I’ve been having.  HAH!  Not really.

I woke up this morning, after finally falling asleep around 12:30 or so and realized my life is not so bad.   And then the comment on my previous post got me to thinking this morning and I seriously don’t have much to complain about.  I have a roof over my head, I have food in my cupboards and I have money in the bank.  Enough money to last me for a few months actually.  And I’m no longer living in Las Vegas – which is a huge plus.

I realized it’s not so much that I hate the apartment, I just feel it’s entirely too small and it’s old old old.   I’m not quite comfortable here yet.  I’m hoping when I get a job, that will change.  I’m still going to think about moving to a new place, after the first of the year.  I’ll see what happens and how I feel then.
I have my job interview tomorrow for the fire department, which is the job I REALLY want.  Also tomorrow, I need to start the car registration process AND get my new driver’s license.

After those two things are started and/or done, I need to get the girls licensed; take the college entrance exam and try to finish unpacking and getting settled in here.   I also need to find out if there’s an early or late registration available for college, because if there is not, I’m stuck here for Christmas by myself.   Registration is December 26th, so that means I wouldn’t be able to drive down to my family with enough time to get back for registration.

I’m still going to try to find the origin of this fucked up nasty smell in here.  I can no longer tell if it’s a mix of musty old dust and something unknown or what.  It’s disgusting really.  I burn my candles, trying to mask it; I spray Lysol disinfectant all over and it doesn’t help.  I’ve vacuumed, dusted and sprayed; rinse and repeat.   OY!

It’s like 37 degrees out right now and I’m feeling the need to get my Christmas decorations out of storage.   Fucking shit, I just put them there!!!  I’m going to wait for a few days and see how I feel about dragging them out and decorating.   If I have to stay here by myself for Christmas, I will definitely decorate; otherwise I’ll be super depressed.

Until next time….

I went to bed 45 minutes ago.  I can’t sleep.   I can’t find the origin of this funky, musty smell in my apartment either and it’s driving me batty.

I was laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, repeatedly saying my grateful list in my head.  While repeating it the fourth time, I burst out in tears and suddenly I was talking out loud to God.  I told Him how miserable I am in this place.

I haven’t even been here 8 hours and I’m miserable again.  I need to write down how I’m feeling and I need to meditate through it.   I fucking dislike this apartment, a lot.  I didn’t realize how much I disliked it until I went to mom’s for the holiday.  I knew I disliked it, but after being away from it for almost a week, I realized it’s much stronger than dislike.

Tomorrow, I’m going to be busy vacuuming, cleaning and try to air this bitch out.  I noticed a musty smell before I left, but didn’t really concern myself over it.   Now I’m here and my headache is back along with my nose being stuffed and my throat and eyes all scratchy.

I resumed taking my d-phen as soon as I got home today.   Hopefully it helps.  I need to go to the grocery store tomorrow to get some more milk, bread, butter and what not.

Have I mentioned it’s fucking freezing in here?  Yeah, that makes me miserable too.  I’m going to go watch some Alias.  I’ve been watching season 4 since I got home and planted my ass on the couch.   I haven’t even unpacked yet, there’s always tomorrow.

Thanks for letting me bitch and moan about how miserable I am.  It kind of makes me feel better.

Until next time…

As I was driving to Georgia, I was on the I-24 getting near Chattanooga, TN.   I stopped at a rest stop because I was on the phone with my brother and he was giving me exact directions.

After I got off the phone with him, used the bathroom and walked the girls, I grabbed my camera.  All the other pictures are up on my Flickr badge AND some are over on Shutterbuggin.

I think Tennessee is by far the most beautiful state I’ve been to in the last month.  In the last month, I have seen more of our great country than I have in my entire 38 years.   I’ll post about that later when I get home.

I’m drinking some coffee and trying to get the energy to get dressed, pack the car and head on back to Kentucky.   I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed, but I’m not looking forward to leaving my mom and my brother, SIL and nephews.   I got teary eyed when I hugged the SIL yesterday when we were leaving their house.

Hope ya’ll have a great day.   Until next time….

What a day!  I feel exhausted like I did a lot of stuff, but I really didn’t.   I dragged my butt outta bed around 7:45 or so this morning.   I haven’t been sleeping well while I’ve been here.  Mom has been sick since I got here, so she sometimes (OK, every night) has coughing fits in the middle of the night.  It upsets her, so she gets up and comes out to her computer.   So when she does that, I go into her bed and try to sleep.   I then toss and turn the rest of the morning until I wake up and get outta bed.

After we got up, we sat around until about noon and then I got a shower and we went to my brother’s to hang out and have some left overs from last night’s dinner.  I had to make sure I got to see them today since I leave tomorrow.  Which sucks.  I like being able to go over there and hang out.  I love my brother, SIL and my nephews.

After we left there, mom and I decided to brave the “crowds” at Walmart down the road in another small town.   We drove out there and the parking lot was fairly empty.  We, of course, were comparing it to how busy they get in Vegas.   I guess comparatively speaking, it could have been considered busy.   But for us, it was awesome.  Not a lot of people in the store and only a few irritated me by not watching where they were going with their carts.

We got a coffee maker for the next time I visit and at least I’ll get some coffee in the morning before hitting the road here.   They carry my coffee at the Walmart we went.   From now on, when I’m out of coffee, I’ll ask my mom or brother to go to that store, get my coffee and ship it to me.  It’ll be cheaper than getting it off the website for Don Francisco.

We came back to mom’s and I’ve been playing these addictive games on Facebook and feeling funky.  My head has been throbbing all day long and I just feel totally spent/exhausted.  I’m sure my sinus infection is trying to hang on, which irks me since I forgot my meds up in Kentucky.   I’ll start taking them as soon as I get home tomorrow.

I’m going to start decorating for Christmas when I get home.  I don’t have a lot of room (which I fucking hate) for stuff, so I don’t know how I’ll get it in there.  But I’ll do it.

I’m considering looking for a different apartment after the first of the year.  I really dislike the one I have.  It’s cute and I think it will work for now.   I don’t feel comfortable there, I don’t feel safe there.   And it’s entirely too fucking small for the amount of stuff I have.   I’m going to journal, pray and meditate on it for awhile before making a final decision.

I’m going to go watch Ghost Whisperer and then Women’s Murder Club.   I’ll do the Moonlight recap for Fluff when I get home tomorrow night.   Mom likes WMC, so that’s what we are watching tonight (it helps I like it too!)

Until next time…

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