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As this relaxing Sunday is coming to a close, I realize that the entire weekend, I was obsessing over the work schedule this week.  Tomorrow is payroll Monday, which means I have to be to the office at 6am.  Which is normal for every other Monday.  However, for some reason I’ve been obsessing over payroll this week.  Manager Lady and The Trainer are always saying how crappy they sleep the night before payroll.  They also complain about how it gets in their head and all they think about the entire weekend is doing payroll and getting it done.   I has made fun of them in my mind.  Sheeesh I’ve never obsessed over a duty at work like that before.  Ummm yeah.  Here I am, realizing I’ve been obsessing over payroll all weekend.  I’ve thought about it.  I’ve even dreamed about it.  *le sigh*

I went to church this morning and thought I was going to cry like a baby throughout the service.  It was just awesome.  I haven’t been able to put my finger on why it touched me so much.  I also signed up for the 30’s singles club and I’m looking into the New To Louisville Women’s club.  I need to see what their schedules are and make sure they match mine to where I can go at least once a week.

I came home from church, took a nap and then went and pick up Miss Laci at her work.  We headed over to Louisville Slugger Stadium to watch the Louisville Bats take on the Columbus Clippers.  Now, let me just say I got really excited cause it was the Clippers!!!!  The Clippers are a Yankees farm team.  Ummm yeah, not anymore!  The Washington Nationals stole them from the Yankees!  boooooo

We left at the end of the 6th inning, so I could get her back to her car and me home by 8:30.  I just took a shower to get the sticky hot sweat off of me.  It was sooo hot and humid at the ballpark.  It was gross.  Just gross.  One good thing about feeling a little dehydrated at the ballpark?  I have not gone pee since I left the apartment earlier to get Laci.  Very odd for me, to say the least.

I found out today to be as active as I should be, I should be taking 10,000 steps a day.  Ummm I’ve only hit 5k once.  I guess I need to work on this getting active thing.  Maybe when I’m in Georgia, mom and I can take the girls on a few walks around her complex.

I’m going to go lay on the couch and try to get sleepy now.  Tomorrow is the beginning of Campaign 19 that has all the Halloween knickknacks on it!!!  Check it out!

Until next time…

Last night about an hour after I went to bed, some people were in the parking lot right below my bedroom window, screaming at each other.  Oh how I love living in the hood.  I have no idea who they were, what they looked like, but I can tell you two of them were men and one was a woman.   They were arguing about something.   They weren’t speaking very clearly, but one of the guys kept asking “why would you do that?”

I finally went back to bed at around midnight and slept like shit the rest of the night.  Which is not a bad thing since I’ll have to get up at 4am tomorrow for payroll Monday.   Actually I’ll be waking up that early all week.

I’m kind of sad the Olympics are ending today.  This means that if I wake up in the middle of the night, I’m going to have to find something else to watch until I fall back asleep.  Bummer.

Don’t forget the look and feel of my Avon website is changing tomorrow or Tuesday.  Campaign 18 ends tomorrow and the Halloween-centric Campaign 19 begins!

I gave my 60 day notice to vacate yesterday to the apartment manager.  I also told her I’ll be taking Chloe to Georgia this next weekend, so my rent will be a little less for the last two months I’m living here.  YAY!

I woke up with a sore throat and stuffy nose this morning.  Allergies have been bugging for a lot of people around here lately.  I think it’s the humidity.  I was fine for a week when we were dry and cool.  Now that we are hot and humid, I’m suffering.  It sucks.

I’m feeling better after that disaster of a movie I watched last night.  Whew.  That movie was horrible for me to watch.  And to think someone in GA recommended the movie because it was “recovery related.”  What?  They were on crack when they watched the movie.  I could see how it could relate to some of our relationship troubles in the past and what not, but nothing recovery related as far as I could see.

While I still feel the loneliness I felt last night after watching that movie, it is NOT palpable this morning.  I can no longer taste the bitterness on the back of my tongue.  I go through these little phases and I can taste it and then I pray and meditate and it goes away slowly.

Four working days and I’ll be heading south to Georgia to see my family!  WHEEEEEE

Until next time…

I just finished watching Definitely Maybe.  I love Ryan Reynolds.  I like Rachel Weisz.  I figured it would be good, considering I heard some really good things about it.

I’m going to start with the positive things and stick to the movie itself.  It was touching, cute and heartbreaking.  It was very well made and well acted.   It was a great chick flick.

Now for the bad feelings it left me with.  I felt lonely.  I felt alone and I felt envious of movie characters.

The movie is about a man served with divorce papers at the beginning of the movie.  His daughter some how talks him into telling her the story of him and her mother.  In a roundabout way.  It involved three romances in his past.

She took the information he gave her in the story and ended up guessing who her mother is.  She was right.  And then she helped her dad find happiness with one of the women from his past.

I left a lot of it out because seriously, I don’t want to relive it, kthxbai.  I will not ever watch that movie again.   I don’t like the emotional roller coaster I let myself go on while watching it.

It took me about 45 minutes of the movie to finally start “getting” it.  I was at first thinking people were smoking crack when they said they really liked it, etc.   I can see why people liked it.  Really, I can.  I guess I’m just too cynical when it comes to romance right now.

My emotions are very powerful and this movie evoked some horrendous emotions within me.  I do not like that.  I’ve been ignoring the loneliness.  I’ve been pushing through it and not letting myself wallow in that darkness.  It’s, at this moment, palpable.  I can taste it on the back of my tongue.  I hate the taste.

I’m going to watch some NFL football now, to get rid of these fucked up feelings I’m feeling.

Until next time…

I was just going through my lease for this apartment, making sure I’m hitting the 60 days notice to vacate on the nose.  And I noticed something horribly disturbing.  The security deposit for this place was $600.  Are you fucking kidding me?  How did I not notice that?  Did I notice that and ignore it?  Oh, this $600 did NOT include the pet deposits of $250 for the first pet and $200 for the second pet.

How did I NOT pay attention to those?  How did they NOT matter to me??  Oh that’s right, I had lots of money when I first moved here so it wasn’t that hard to part with it.  Now that I am hurting for some income, those amounts make me sick to my fucking stomach!

I’m going to be walking this letter to the office in an hour or so.  I’ll take the opportunity to walk the girls while I’m at it.  I also noticed in the lease that I have to give notice by the 24th (tomorrow) and not the 25th like I thought.

I so can’t wait to get out of this place.  I’ve decided that the work on do on the spreadsheets for GB and the money I make from that, whether from the hourly base rate or the 10% commission from sales he makes, will go towards the new apartment.  My income from Avon will also go towards the apartment.  This way I’ll be able to secure the funds for both the deposits and the first months rent.  If I collect that money fast enough, I’d be able to get outta this dump before the lease even expires in October.

I went to bed at midnight last night.  I was up fairly late for me, even on a weekend.  I slept halfway decent, only waking up once when the girls started barking at Big Daddy and Miss Gold Tooth when they left for work this morning.

I’m now going to relax most of the day, walk the girls and take the letter to the office and then do some laundry.  The only other place I need to go is the bank to deposit the money GB gave me last night for some work on the spreadsheets.

Until next time…

I was thinking about every single swimsuit that I’ve ever owned. I used to like my body in a swimsuit, after I lost some weight and got into shape. Currently, I’m wanting to get back into shape so I’ll be happy with my body in a swimsuit again.

I had a great meeting tonight. Heard a lot of good stuff. I need to map out a plan for next week when I’m working 10 hour days and will be dead on my feet. I need to make sure I make my meetings, no matter how exhausted I am.

I watched the Yankees do another come back win with lots of home runs. I love when they do that. Even though they’ve been playing like crap most of the season, I love them still and will continue loving them.

I’ve been really focused on making money from home or from the Avon stuff. I’m trying to avoid several things with this. I’m trying to avoid going out of the apartment and working a retail job 4-5 hours a day after I’ve already worked a 8-10 hour day at my regular job. I’m trying to avoid having the creditors take me to collections and/or garnish my wages and I’m trying to keep the roof over my head, food in my belly and clothes on my back.

Oh and I noticed my left turn signal is burned out. I need to figure out how to change it myself. Or find someone to do that shit for free. I’m thinking of asking some of the firefighters. They rescue people, right? I need rescuing from my ineptitude with fixing things.

Until next time…

I’d like to thank those of you who have ordered something from my Avon website.  And I’d like to thank those of you who are considering it.  I really appreciate the business.   I’d also like to let ya know that the current campaign ends on Monday, so the website will have a different look with new products on it.  I was checking out some of the new products coming out for this next campaign and it’s very Halloween-centric.  If you like Halloween (or any holiday for that matter), Avon has some awesome holiday stuff!

OK, now that I’m done with business there.  My day has been horribly long.  I went to bed at 9pm last night, after setting my DVR to record the 4 hours of Olympics.  I wanted to make sure to catch the men’s beach volleyball gold medal match between Dalhausser and Rogers of the US and the Brazilian guys.

Instead of having to watch it right now, I got to catch it live.  I woke up at 11:30 p.m. and sat in front of the TV until I watched my crushes win the gold medal.  It was an awesome match.  Dalhausser was killing them at the net and the Beast was released.  6 foot 9 beast.  That’s what he is.

I then went back to bed and slept through two of my three alarms.  Thank goodness for that third one.  Work went by really fast, but that’s because I’m still working on this hellish project that doesn’t seem to ever end.  Thank God there’s no deadline on it.  Yet.

I have seven days until I get to see my mommy!!!!  And my brother!!!!  And my nephews!!!!  And my SIL!!!!  I can not wait!  It also marks 7 more days of having Chloe around to snuggle and cuddle.  Josie doesn’t do all that much cuddling unless she’s sleepy.  Chloe likes to cuddle all the time.  While I will miss that, it’s going to be very peaceful in this apartment for me and Josie.

Next week at work is going to be a little tedious, if I let it be.  I’m working 6am to 4pm on Monday (I may end up having to go in early cause of all the problems we’ve had with payroll the last few times – I’ll find out Sunday), 7am to 5pm Tuesday through Thursday.  This will give me my 40 hours for the week and Manager Lady was nice enough to let me flex my time this way so I can have Friday off and drive south.

I think after this, I won’t ask for anymore time/days off for quite awhile.  LOL  I’m the newest kid on the block and I’ve taken all this time off already.

I’m going to go lay on the couch now and relax until it’s time to leave for my meeting at 7pm.  Oh, I guess I should eat dinner first.

Until next time…

I’ve been struggling to sleep through the nights the last few weeks. During the Olympics, this has actually turned out pretty well for my Dalhausser/Rogers obsession.

Who knew there would be a day that I scream at the TV during a Beach Volleyball match? LOL This is the match for gold and silver medals. Either way, they don’t really lose. However, I will be very very excited when they win the gold. It’s in the 3rd set now.

Back to the insomnia thing. Right now, tonight is the only night I don’t mind so much not being able to sleep. I just hope the insomnia goes away when Dalhausser and Rogers are done here at the Olympics.

Until next time…

edited to add:  Less than 10 minutes after posting this, Dalhausser and Rogers won the gold.  First time ever for the US doubling up gold medals on the women’s and men’s beach volleyball.  SQUEEEEEEEEE

I had a problem with my bank (Chase), they charged me a fee for something that would not have occurred, had they credited the deposit before the fee.  I called them as soon as I got home from work and I was credited the fee back and no longer have to worry about that shit.  I was ready to change banks but then figured I’d give them a chance to fix it before being hasty.

I had a pretty crappy day at work.  Someone was just giving me a hard time all day long and telling me how to do stuff that totally contradicted the way I was trained.  I was ready to punch them in the face.  But I figured since that would be a GREAT way to get fired, I’d just ignore them instead.

I’ve had a few people sign up on my Avon website as customers and even had a few orders!  You guys are the best!  I even got a few orders from the girls at work.

In the meantime, I’m working on another spreadsheet for GB and hoping to get paid a little money tomorrow.  He’s sold two things to two people off of my list and so I’ll be having some more income flowing this way.  These are good things!

I need to call the credit counseling people, I filled out the online forms and they emailed me to set up a telephone interview thingy.  I’ll be calling them tomorrow after work.

I’ve become addicted to 90210 again (the original).  SoapNet plays two episodes a day starting at 5pm.  *le sigh*  the HAIR!  Oh my GAWD, it’s so tragic!  But I’m loving it!

Back to the grind on the spreadsheet!

Until next time…

I set up my Avon website today.   It took me about 10 minutes (if that) to sign up for the e-representative side of things.

After setting that up, I sent out a few emails, Twittered it and I’m about to go put the information on Facebook.

While some people will be a little (OK a lot) bent out of shape that I put that link there and plan on pimping this out?  I believe they will get over it.  And if they don’t, I believe that’s their problem.

On the front page of this website, you’ll see a beautiful picture of Reese Witherspoon.  She’s the latest celebrity to have a product through Avon (think Derek Jeter!).   We are going to be having another celebrity this Fall signing up and he is sooooo (Mc)dreamy!!!!

In my “starter” kit I received yesterday, I was given some samples of the Ungaro line.  I can tell you that the perfume on the front cover of the website is wonderful.  I really like both the men’s and women’s scents.  I have a few sample that I’m going to be passing out soon.

I have 7 days left in this campaign (meaning I have 7 days to get some sales from in person sales.)  The internet sales can happen at any time and they are shipped directly to you (I made that the ONLY option for shipping.)

I’m really excited about taking on this new venture and seeing how I do.   I’ve not had the greatest history with sales and what not, however, I’m going in with an open mind, a positive attitude and a “can do” thought process.  I can do this.  I can do this.  I can do this.  I don’t just think I can do this.  I believe I can do this.

I did some online training on the website and they TEST you!!!!!  Can you believe that shit?  I had to take a test at the end of each course.  LOL  You know I printed the certificates of completion.  I’m getting ready to tape them up right here by the computer.  To remind me to stay active with this.

I’m going to go play around on the website and make a “wish list” for things I want.  I figure I can’t sell the product if I don’t use the product.  I have nothing Avon related in this house.  Unless you count all the brochures and paperwork I got yesterday.  LOL  After I start making some money and sales, I’ll look into getting some inexpensive items for myself to “display.”

Until next time…