Week in review

So my week in review is kinda of boring but thought I would let you all know. So I don't know if I put in my last blog but I have gotten a job. I am not going to put where on here. I don't need the whole world looking for this company, trying to find out more info etc. Right now I have training for 5 wks M-F from 4 pm to 12:45 am. That is the part that is killing me. The time I leave work I am so worn out but I am not tired enough to go to bed so then I am up later and then I sleep later. The other day was till 12:30. Then after we get done with training we have a transition period and right now they aren't sure if it is going to be 2 wks or 4. With that we will be on the normal hours of the company which I will be glad to go back to. The only thing I don't like is that they are open on Sunday and I have been looking forward to finding a church down here and start to get involved in that church. So I am just going to have to work my butt off so I can get Sundays off!! Well I am planning to work my butt off so I can move up in the company. This is a place where I can easily move up in the company as long I do well and do not mess up my attendance. With this job I get benefits again, which I really need in case something would happen to me I am not getting screwed by paying an arm and leg, 401k plan, tuition reimbursement. I am planning on going back to school in the spring semester and so that way I start working to finish up my degree. I really would love to work for NASCAR doing public relations but if not public relations for any company. With this job, I am really enjoying the 20-25 minute drive I am having. Where when I worked in Missouri it was an hour drive and sometimes longer if there were any accidents and rush hour traffic. Here there is not a lot of traffic at all!! Other than that I haven't been doing much else. With the training class I am making some new friends. Hung out with one last night out in the ex-presidents home town of Crawford. I can see why he is out there, hardly nothing at all. Tonight I am hanging out watching movies and catching up on laundry. Well thats it for my week I will try and finish up the last couple posts I want to make on here and then I need to work badly on my other blog. I still need to send the rest of you the invites who said they wanted to read it so please don't think I have been ignoring you.

Happy Birthday

I just wanted to take this time out to wish a very special special woman a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! That woman is my mother!! My mother is someone I look up to and been a great role model for me growing up. She is such a strong, loving, caring, giving woman who has been there for me no matter what. Especially this past year she has been such a great rock and support for me. She has been with through all of my doctor appointments, helping me through my divorce, just being a shoulder to cry on when I couldn't take it anymore. Sometimes I don't know what I would do if I didn't have her not only in my life but also if she wasn't my mom. I am a little disappointed I could not be there to help her celebrate. I know there will be other times. I love you MOM!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Week Review

So a review on how my first week went in Waco. The first thing I did was got to know there area and how everything is connected. It is very confusing and drives me nuts. Luckily I have quickly caught on how to get to most places and have only gotten lost a few times. I still need to go downtown and find the library. I also need to get a Texas id. I am waiting to get my Texas drivers license till I know I am going to be down here awhile. I have been looking for a job and applying to places like crazy. So hopefully something comes soon, I hate not working. I have been trying to help out around the house by cooking dinner, doing dishes, and doing laundry/ironing. Then this past Saturday I got to meet up with my second cousins and my third cousin who are living down here. Jonathan had called them to ask them about church Sunday since my 2nd cousin is a pastor of one of the local Methodist churches in the area. It turns out they were going to dinner at Chipotle, which I like the Chipotles up norht better, and I met up with that night. Later went over to their house and hung out and caught up. I haven't seen them in forever and it was so nice to see them. Then Sunday we went to the church and enjoyed listening to him preach. He reminds me of how my dad preaches. They originally were not going to be able to lunch with us but were able to pull some things since they also had old friends in town so we went to a place called Rosie's, where it was cheap but decent Mexican food. Later went back to their house and hung out some more. It has been good week and hoping this week goes even better. I am hoping I get a job here soon! Night all

Divorce Cakes

Divorce cakes are now becoming a popular thing to have when women get divorced. More and more are having divorce parties celebrating their divorce and having funny cakes. I got an email with some pictures of divorce cakes and thought I would share with you.










Some of these are really cute and I could think of some other cute ones!

Looking for Love

So another post for today and it is all about love!! No I am not in love, I wish I was in love again. It is something I keep dealing with daily. I lost love earlier this with the divore. I will always love my ex, he was my husband nothing can ever change that. Now I am starting to heal and at a point that I am ready to at least start going out with new people, start to get them, and just really start to become friends with them. I think for right now I need to take it slow. I don't want to date someone and realize I wasn't ready to date and hurt them in the process. But if something down the road were to happen I wouldn't object to it. I hate seeing all this people with someone and I long for that day when I have someone again! After being married, I miss coming home to someone, cuddling in the couch just watching tv, cuddling in bed, talking about our day, someone holding my hand, the simple kiss, romantic moments. Now it is just me, no one else. I miss that and fine it really hard when I see my brother or friends with their signficant others. I know when I do start dating someone I am going to start looking at them as can I get serious with them. I know I will want to get remarried again and I am 26 I am not at a point that I want to date a ton of different people and just happy dating. I want to get married and start a family. Ready for my parents to become grandparents and my brother to be an uncle. It's just hard and I know I will find that man who make me happy, ready to start a family and love me for me. It is just been a hard road right now and I am ready to get off. Maybe one day it will come but I guess for now I will just stay on it.

On another note, I will posting blogs, PROMISE, on the personal blog, and sending out some more invites for that one. Also will try this weekend to finish getting the layout right on this blog. So hopefully I will get this all accomplished!

Song of the day

So driving home from turning in applications, I heard a song I probably have heard since 8th grade. It is by a group Freak Nasty and the song is the Da Dip. This immediately reminded me of all the 7th & 8th grade dances we had. I remember all of us girls making sure we had a date for the dance but then when it came time a few of us had our dates there and the rest of us would just be by ourselves for some reason. I think out of the dances I had a date there twice. Anyways most of the time, we would all just group dance and when the slow songs would come on we would get goofy and dance with each other too. I wish I had pictures from these days. I had great group of friends and loved those dances. So hopefully this video will bring up some memories for you!!

Another Dislike

So another dislike I have about Waco. Back on home and if you are on a side street, cars can go both ways. In Waco, nope the two lanes are for cars going one way only. It drives me nuts that I have to figure out a way to get to the side of the street I need to be one. Sometimes I have loop around a million different streets!! Why can't you make things easier!!! So there is my rant for the day!

I wish....

I wish I had more hours in the day. Right now there is so much I want to write but just don't have the time or easily get distracted. Maybe tomorrow night I can get all the blogs I want done done.

New Home and Church

So finally the post about my new home. The city of Waco is crazy on how the homes are set up in areas. The house that my brother bought is in a really nice area and the less expensive homes then the street behind has some really expensive homes. It is crazy, my brother said some of the homes behind us are half a million dollar homes. I couldn't believe it, at home they would be in a neighborhood all in itself. Here are the examples of the homes I am talking about:



Now for our house, it is really cute!!

It is a 3 bedroom home with 1 full bath and 2 half baths, then we have of course a living room, dining room, laundry room and I think it used to be the garage but it is a den. I have the smallest room out of the lot, which is fine by me. I needed to learn to live with less. In my old house I had a ton of stuff but alot of it was just junk. I mean when I moved out of my house I took what I thought was less to my parents house since I didn't know if I was going to be there or not. And even then I still had to purge things and I still have a storage shed with some items. There are some cons about this but that is because it is an older house. I am having to relearn that I have to actually wash my dishes, this place doesn't have a dishwasher. Then the other thing is the full bath it doesn't have a fan so we have to open the window to help the steam go out. The thing with that is if you are in the shower and the water is running or there is water in the tub then you get shocked opening the window. It drives me nuts and I hate getting shocked. Other than that things have been great. I am getting to learn the area.

Then Sunday I went to church with Jonathan, more of this I want to talk about is the Catholic church we went to. I am not Catholic and neither is my brother but he helps tape their service. It was the St. Louis Catholic church and this church was gorgeous!! I forgot to get pics of the outside but I did of the inside. The architecture of the church was amazing and they have such gorgeous stain glass work. Here are some pics of it.







I wish I had a better camera so you can really see how beautiful the stain glass was. If I was Catholic I would love to get married in this church. So it was nice just looking at the church while the service was going on. Well I hope that I will have more adventures and stories for you guys here soon!!

Song of the day

I was watching 27 Dresses the other day and I love the part where they are in the bar and start singing Benny and The Jets. It has been stuck in my head and for some reason I keep wanting to sing along to it. So I hope you all enjoy it!!

My Trip

So I am finally on my computer and uploaded my pictures from the drive down here. On Wednesday we left my parents house in Shiloh. My mom did most of the driving on our trip down there. And I like when I was a child did alot of napping in the car. Most of the car ride I was asleep, there is something about a car ride that makes me extremely tired. And with me napping I didn't get a lot of photos but I did get some. To head to Texas we headed through Missouri first.

The hills of Missouri, I saw alot of it. I don't know I liked seeing all of the different formations and how they just came out of no where.

The hills of Missouri, if I would ever retire I think I would retire in the hills. The views are amazing and I would love to watch the colors of the leaves change throughout the seasons. Also you can see the truck that we took to bring my and my brother stuff down to Waco.

Another view of the mountains

This was a BBQ place in Missouri. It was just a little trailer sitting in a parking lot.

The sign for the Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, MO. I wish we had time to stop.

One of the many churches we passed along the way.

The McDonald's in Oklahoma you go under it. It stretches across the entire highway.

The Hard Rock hotel and Casino in Tulsa, OK.

Now the rest of the pics are from Thursday. We stopped outside of Oklahoma City, OK and Thursday morning we woke up to thunderstorm and lots of rain.

More rain!!!

Moore, Oklahoma, home of Toby Keith. I didn't take the pic in time to show that on the water tower.

The casino ran by the Native Americans.

Saw lots and lots of flat land through OK. I slept through most of it.

In OK, there were some hilly parts and they had a little road that you could look out. It was just a little small road and they called it a Scenic Turnout.

We stopped at an outlet mall in Texas and they had a food court. Well you can tell by this picture what was there in the food court, nothing!!!

The sign for Texas MotorSpeedway. I was so excited to see this!!





I took a lot of the speedway, Can you tell I love racing?? I can't wait to go to a NASCAR event here!!!

Downtown Fort Worth, my hometown!!

Sorry for all of the pics but I was having fun along this trip. We got down to Waco around 4 pm on Thursday and unloaded the truck and got things set up. Went out to dinner with my brother and our roommate. I will post pics of the house and about going to church tomorrow.

I'm Here!!

This post is going to be another short and sweet post till I can get my computer online. Right now I am borrowing my brother's until he can get me on their wireless server. I took some pics on the drive down and they are on my computer to help tell my story of my trip. We got down to Waco around 4 pm on Thursday afternoon. Got the truck unloaded and my room set up. Then yesterday did some running around town and today had lunch with my parents and took them to the airport. That was very very emotional!! It is weird being down here and I feel so out of my place. More coming later with more details!

Song of the day

So this song I heard on the drive down to Waco. And it just struck a cord with me, I don't know why but it just did. It is a Patti Loveless song.

Update from the road

Just wanted to quick update, we left for Waco this morning around 9 am. We got into Oklahoma City around 7 pm tonight. We made extremely great time for all the construction and traffic we ran into. Had dinner at Cracker Barrel and now just relaxing in the hotel for awhile. I will post this weekend with some pics I took driving and all about my trip.

Busy Busy

So my world has been crazy crazy crazy!! I will hopefully be able to post a longer blog post about some things. Tomorrow I have to be packed well at least everything that I want to go on to the moving truck since that will be here on Tuesday. Tuesday we are packing the truck and then Wednesday morning we are leaving for Waco!! I can't believe it. I am right now more scared/nervous than ever. But watch for more later about things!!