Nightmares from Working Retail!

We have this woman who comes in regularly and always brings her son. Normally, that wouldn't bother me, except this kid is the spawn of Satan. And I like kids, so for me to say he's that, means he's AWFUL! Anyway, he regularly moves rounders, and tips over manequins, and climbs the candy tower, and stands on top of the tables. He pulls things off the tables and strews jewelry and candy around the store. We tell him not to, but he just pretends not to understand. He drives us crazy! Anyway, this week, he started fiddling with the fire extiguisher. Why we have it down where kids can mess with it, I don't have any idea!?! Anyway, the girl working that night told him not to mess with the fire extinguiser, he could get hurt, make a mess, etc. He takes one look at her, smiles his evil little smile, pulls the pin, and squeezes the trigger. Sandy, nasty chemical foam goes everywhere! All over clothes, candy, jewelry! Thankfully, it missed the registers. It would have completely ruined the registers. We've been cleaning up foam and sand all week. I got a horrible sinus headache the next day, because of all the dust flying around! Anyway, one of the many nightmares I live through at work!

Birthdays!

Tomorrow is my 22nd birthday. I have no idea what Darrin and I are going to do. We've been trying to decide what sounds like fun, but there's not really much going on in Indy right now. I'm kind of apathetic about my birthday this year. This is the first birthday I've spent away from my family and the first birthday in almost ten years that I've spent away from my friends back home, so I'm a little weirded out about it.

Anyway, Darrin have been looking to buy a house. With the housing market the way it is, we've been able to find some really good deals. Our apartment lease lasts until September though, so we still have a few months to find the perfect house! I'm very excited about that!

In Like a Lion

March has come! And with it has come a few 70 degree days! Roxy is over the moon! Good weather means mom will take her for walks and open the balcony door so she can sit in the sun and smell the outdoors!

Anyway... Darrin leaves for his D.C./New York/Philadelphia trip tomorrow. Roxy and I will have a whole week by ourselves, and then we go back to Grove! I am very excited!

The main point of this post, however, is that I am opening an etsy shop.I need a possibly paying outlet for all the things I make! The problem, though, is that I have no idea what to call it! I've considered Phoenix Designs, but I think that might make people think I'm in Phoenix... and that could cause some confusion. If you have any suggestions let me know!

Super Stressful Sundays!

Sometimes Sundays stress me out. Most Sundays stress me out. Getting up at 6 am always starts me out on the wrong foot, becuase usually I haven't gotten to bed until 12 or 12:30 the night before. Then you throw in the fact that sometimes I feel completely invisible. At church this morning, a man Darirn knows pretty well sat down in the row behind us... and preceeds to ask who I am. I have been introduced to this man at least two or three times, and he told Darrin he didn't even know Darrin was married. We've been married 8 months! It just frustrated me.

Anyway, I haven't written anything in weeks! I keep sitting down to try to write and it's just not coming, which is majorly frustrating. I just can't force it. I have 324 words so far.

Anyway, I am VERY EXCITED to get to go home in almost three weeks! Darrin gets to go to Washington D.C. and New York City the week before, so Roxy and I are gonna spend the week before packing and getting ready. Darrin gets home late on Thursday the 12th and then we're leaving early on the 13th and staying for a week! I'm SO excited to get to see my friends and family! And it will be interesting to see how Roxy does with cats. My mom has three and Roxy's never met a cat before!!

Anyway, I guess that's about it!

Blah... Blah... Blah!

I have made no progress on anything recently. I've just been really lazy. My apartment shows the signs of my lack of modivation. Everything needs to be vacuumed. I have written nothing in weeks and I have to go back to work tomorrow after three days off. I had a list of 16 things that I wanted to get done this weekend and ya know how many of those things I got done? 5... yeah... 5. It's great!

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

So... the best laid plans... I don't know the end of that expression, but I do know that my big plans for my three days off really didn't turn out all that well. I did NOTHING yesterday, but consoled myself that I still had two days to go. This morning I awoke with a list of errand that I needed to run, but consoled myself that I still had Wednesday. Well, a few hours ago I got a call from work saying that my schedule got switched and now I have to work tomorrow. I don't really mind, because now I get Saturday off to spend with Darrin, but it does mean that I have managed to write a total of 0 sentences this week! It's snowing like crazy here in Indy. About three inches so far today and it's not supposed to stop until noon-ish tomorrow. But at least it's not ice. My mom lives in Oklahoma and she got a few inches of ice last night and this morning. Ice is way dangerous. Snow doesn't knock out power lines and make people freeze to death like ice does. Plus, my mom lives in what my friends like to call "the boonies of the boonies" and if her power goes out... it's a long time before it comes back on. Last year, she was out of power for ten days and living at my grandma's because she, at least, has a fire place. Anyway, no tales of power outages there yet and I feel very secure in my power... living in a suburban area like I do.

So.... Facebook sucks!

One quick little rant here! I've been trying to access my facebook page for the last few hours and every time I open the page, I'm told that my page is down for site maintenance and will be back up shortly. NOT TRUE! It's driving me crazy. I know I have messages and I can't get to them! Anyway, I've gotten nothing done today, on the book or in my life. I wrote a whole five sentences yesterday, so I'm very excited for tomorrow! I watched the Miss America pageant this evening (I recorded it!) and was very excited to see that Miss Indiana won (yeah!) but what was with that dress? Like Dolly Parton goes to a renaissance fair! Anyway, I've seen several blogs of the "post a new picture everyday for a year" variety and I'm seriously considering doing something of the sort. I'm going to start on my 22nd birthday (April 24th) though because I'll never be able to remember for the entire year. I guess I'll have to find my camera cords though. I have no idea where they are. Darrin probably knows. Anyway, off to bed!