Today was slooooow.

Today was abysmally slow. I felt like I was in quicksand the entire day. It didn't matter what I did or how much work I tried to accomplish, the day just seemed to drag on and on and on and on. I'm surprised my sanity last as long as it did. Top that off with trying to get fitness time for today, which didn't happen and my day was blegh.

I'm looking forward to my last day of work tomorrow though and have plans to hit up the movies for the next four days/evenings.

Today blows.

Today blows....

I don't even know where to begin to try to explain so all of you are on the same page with me about why today, sucks, for me. I'm going to try to find a way to explain though so please be patient.

It all started in a land far, far away....

Just kidding, it all happened here, locally.

This morning started off as any other. I woke up, let Minnie out, took care of the necessities that I had to before work this morning and then took off on my drive. Got to work safely and early. Nothing bad really happened until I get inside, log into a computer and load up my email.

What's the first thing I see in my list of new emails? A complaint from a co-worker about something that happened the prior day and a question about another. I wanted so badly to call them out on being late to work themselves; but, I wanted to be the better person and so I held my tongue, kept myself in line and responded in a cool, collected manner and answered the question to the best of my ability and with what knowledge I had available or on hand at the time. Then I had a second email asking about the cleanliness of my work station and I replied that I had no idea what they were talking about and that it could very well have simply been from when I had rice for lunch as the origin of the cause.

Then the day just continually went downhill. I got a message from a girl that our friendship wouldn't work; but, never gave an explanation as to why or the cause. I messaged her back, explained I understood and wished her the best.

Then the weather sucked and we were busy but yet not busy. I was continuously bugged by my co-worker about buying a bag of potato chips for a bet I never fully agreed to.

Anyway, that's the sum of why today sucks.

No transfer....yet.

Got to work today after my six day weekend and discovered that none of the transfer requests went through and those that I did put in for, my name had dropped to fourth or lower on the list which means my chances of being able to get out of this state are small to slim to none, depending on how many of the people above me put in for other places and were accepted there. Today was alright at work, not too busy, not too slow so that the time passed by quick enough; but, I still managed to have time to breathe and think.

Last night brought about a shitty discovery.

My A.C. unit in my bedroom doesn't work. You know what the first words out of one of the leasing office employees were when I mentioned the work order? You should wait till the weather warms up more. My response: "It was 60 degrees and raining so I couldn't leave my window open; but, it felt closer to 70-80 degrees. I can't sleep when it's hot." Their response: 'Oh.' Thankfully it happened now rather than one of the days where it's like 70 degrees and humid at night. They put in the work ticket and it should hopefully be fixed in the next week or so, preferably sooner.

Also, asked about renewing my lease since I haven't heard anything on my transfers yet. They asked me about whether or not I knew about their online renewal process to which I said, no. We chatted for a bit about it, they gave me my registration code so I could register and I'm probably going to sit down and renew my lease sometime within the next few days, if not this weekend.

Other than that, nothing really remarkable happened today.

The end of my days off.

Sadly, today marks the end of the six day mini-vacation I had this week. I managed to get my credit card payment done today, it was supposed to have posted and now I'm just eagerly looking forward to this weekend to see how my pay increase is going to look each paycheck. I'm nearing the end of the nine seasons available on Netflix. I'm not sure when they're going to make season ten, since there apparently is a season ten, on Netflix. I've been stalling on finishing this current season because I don't want to have to wait forever to see the newest season.

I managed to be somewhat productive today. I made my lunches for the week: chicken, rice and broccoli for this week.

I'm not looking forward to trying to catch up on everything I missed while I was gone at work. It's probably going to take me a good thirty minutes or more just to try to go through all the emails I've accumulated. Then, I have to stop into my apartment leasing office and ask about when my lease renewal is due and then try to figure out for sure if I'm going to renew or not. As of right now, it's looking like I'm going to be here another year.

We'll see what happens with the emails tomorrow, maybe I'll get lucky and get a transfer request.

Just another day.

Today started off okay, woke up way earlier than I would have liked because Minnie decided she needed to go to the bathroom and to hell with the time of the morning it was. I guess it's to be expected with the fact that she's so used to me having to get up for work during the work week at 4:15 in the morning. Anyway, managed to drag myself out of bed, got a good workout in and then proceeded to go about my day as if that was my intentional time of awakening.

Then I had some leftover pizza for lunch, worked on some episodes of Heartland (I'm nearly finished with all of the final season :( ). I only hope that it ends on a good note! I don't want to have to worry about drying my eyes if I'm bawling. Anyway, nothing too exciting happened other than that.

I did however get lucky enough to start talking to a girl. We have a lot in common and have been chatting away the past day or two. It's a lot of fun to talk to her and she's gorgeous to boot, has a great smile and seems to really enjoy talking to me. I'm curious to see where things go and just go with the flow.

Oh and it rained today, Minnie hated it and made it really fun trying to take her outside to go to the bathroom this afternoon/evening.

It's been a few days...

And I know I haven't made any new blog entries...

There's a perfectly valid reason for that. I only have one laptop and it's screen is broken so I can't fold it closed. This makes it impossible to travel with it and so I'm forced to leave it here. So that made it to where I was unable to make any new blog entries for the past three days.

Thursday started well with me getting up around 4:15 and on the road around 5:30 AM or so. Then, I managed to make it down to Ohio by about 9:30 or so. I went straight for my grandparents, visited with them till about 10:30ish and then I went ahead to my dad's work to have lunch with him and see some of his buddies at work, who ask about me all the time from the time I worked there as a seasonal laborer. Then it was back to my grandparents for dinner and finally went to see Black Panther with my best friend.

Black Panther was a good movie, don't get me wrong! There was just something about it that felt like it was missing and the movie seemed or felt incomplete. It started off slow and then sort of just meandered along until the ending. I managed to get through it and I can finally look forward to Avengers: Infinity War.

Then Friday I went to do my taxes with a family friend, found out I have a decent refund coming this year which will be extremely beneficial and I can pay a few things down. Then I went to have lunch with my grandparents and stayed the night at my dad's. It was a lot of fun, we watched a few movies, had fajitas for dinner and my step-mother made me these pickle treats where she takes pickles, cut them into slices and then wrap them in cream cheese and slices of ham. My brother and his wife, who's pregnant with my niece, stopped by and hung out with us and watched Wonder, a great movie by the way that everyone should watch!

Saturday saw me back at my mom's and we went to see Black Panther while she went to see Fifty Shades Freed and then we went to dinner at a Mexican place. Since I was paying for my own dinner and I wasn't driving, I had a lime margarita. Turns out I haven't drank enough in awhile and that one drink hit me harder than the others I usually drink. I spent the rest of dinner drinking water. Then we went home, I passed out and woke up today.

My mom made me French toast and then the drive up was uneventful. Which brings me to now! I ran some errands to put some gas in my truck and then picked up groceries. Now I'm just relaxing and spending time with Minnie on the couch trying to get caught up on episodes of Heartland so I can finish the final season.

I'll also try to do better about keeping up on the blog entries.

It's my Friday!

Guess what guys, it's my Friday!

You know what that means, right?

It's time to lay back, relax and let my non-existent long hair down. I get the next six days off from work and let me tell you, I could use the freedom from stress that brings me. Things have been hectic at work lately because of how short-staffed we are and on top of that, two co-workers went away on training for the week, further stressing the coverage.

Anyway, I'm supposed to see Black Panther tomorrow night with my best friend and that's after visiting with my grandparents I haven't seen since around Christmas and even then was only for a short visit. This time is sadly going to be very similar. I'm only going to be down until Sunday and then I'm coming back up to give myself a few days for me and to prepare mentally for work again.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the critters on the farm, especially my horse, the big turd.

Another busy day at work.

Not really sure what I'm going to talk about today...

Just another busy day at work and tomorrow is going to be even worse. I'm hoping that I can make it through work without going crazy or tearing out my hair because my six day vacation begins Thursday :) I'm super excited to head down home and see my family, dogs and horses. I'm also excited to hang out with my best friend of 27 years! Haven't seen him in nearly a year and we're both busy with work and always seem to have conflicting schedules to where we can't get together.

He wants to go see Black Panther, which is ironic because that's the same movie my step-father wants to see Saturday while my mom and sister-in-law see Fifty Shades Freed.

Anyway, one more day of work to go guys! Hopefully I'll have some more interesting things to talk about on my days off. I'm hoping to see a movie tomorrow night before I leave at the buttcrack of dawn on Thursday to drive down.

Busy day at work!

That's right, you heard me! Today started off slow and I was hoping it would continue to be that way. Not so lucky in that regard. It slowly started picking up and pretty much remained consistent throughout the day. By the time the end of my shift arrived, I nearly ran out the door haha.

Luckily once I got home, I managed to get the most important task completed: making sweet tea! I also managed to get the necessary stuff done on my loan refinancing and paid my truck payment for the month. I can't wait till I can get it paid off and free up that money as extra funding to pay on other things.

Then I started watching The Chamber of Secrets and realized I'm not going to be able to finish it today because of the time.

Gah, this blog entry feels like crap.

It's hard to write about anything exciting when I haven't done anything exciting today. Made plans with my family to see a movie this weekend. My mom and sister-in-law and her friend are seeing the new Fifty Shades movie while myself, my step-father and possibly my brother are going to be seeing Black Panther.

Snow keeps falling down, falling down.

Hello everyone!

Today marks the third day of the snowstorm here in Michigan and I think it's finally finished. I watched today as the snow went from snowing to sleeting during the day. I did not enjoy any of the times I had to go out and then come back inside. I was glad when the work day was finally finished. I was hoping for fitness time today; but, I understand that I can't get it all the time because they're paying me to be at work and not at home, working out.

Anyway, nothing really exciting happened today so this'll be a shorter blog than usual, sorry everyone!