Work Work all week long!

I am now part of the world that has a full time job with benefits the whole nine yards. I have been working at the local newspaper in my hometown doing the classifieds page and being the receptionist since about the 2nd week of February. I was totally nervous about it, but now I get up every morning excited to go to work! 

I am the second to youngest girl that works here. There are about 20 people that work here but around my desk are some pretty amazingly crazy ladies Catherine, Carolyn and Kathy, (yes, I definitely got their names mixed up a lot in the beginning but hey I mean wouldn't you!)and my desk is right in the middle of all 3 of them. The have all been here for many years and could probably do their jobs blind folded! There was so much information and things that I had to learn to do and they were always so nice and willing to help me! Well now that I pretty much have everything under control now, we all gossip and goof around and I absolutely love it! 

There is Catherine, in charge of retail advertising who is the type she is always up for finding the best deals on anything and everything. We always know how she is going to sound when she answers the phone, it never changes from her upbeat happy voice, we mock her all the time and she just laughs. It seems she is always going somewhere with her hubby on the weekends so on Monday morning we are all dying to hear what adventure she went on the past weekend.

Next there is Carolyn, also in charge of retail advertising. She is the one that I consider that I can ask her advice on anything. We always know when her hubby calls up here to talk to her he has a suducing type tone to his voice and we always talk in that voice when he calls and she just laughs. She just bought a new Lake house so she is really excited about getting her house all fixed up, said she was going to have a party once it is so we can all come see it.

Catherine on the left and Carolyn on the right

Then there is Kathy, she has a column that comes out every 2 weeks. Her last column was about all the pollen thats been going around and she made it into a poem that was so funny! She has one daughter that looks JUST like her it is crazy! You can just tell how close they are and how much they love each other. She also is one that always has an interesting story to tell about her past weekend.

Thats Kathy for ya!

I consider these ladies to be my 3 mom's at work. They are always making sure Chelsea and I are acting right and staying sweet. 

There is one other girl that I work with that is a year younger than me, thats Chelsea! We have never really talked before I started working here, but if someone just walked in and saw us you would never know that. It seems we are ALWAYS talking weather its about our guy problems, fashion, or when we are gonna go out for a girls night! Our desk are right across from each other so we are constantly looking to the side of our computers so we can talk and gossip!

And my girl Chelsea! She would kill me if she knew I put this on here! :)

In the end I absolutly love my new job and I cant say that for alot of my past jobs. Everyone is everyone's friend and there is no drama and thats what I LOVE!!! I can't wait to see what else is in store!

Live every moment as your last!

For about a year now I have had a bucket list and it seems like I add something to it everyday! All my friends say "your only 23 you don't need a bucket list right now!" Yes I know this, but its still fun! So here is my bucket list:

*Take a self- defense class

*Go to a Reba concert and meet her

*Vacation to a big city with friends

*Plan a big event~Done (wedding shower)

*Take a cake decorating class

*Take a cooking class

*Visit every Sea World:San Antonio~done, Orlando, San Diego

*Ride an Elephant

*Go on an African Safari

*Visit Sydney, Australia

*See a psychic

*Get a tattoo~Done

*See a Blue Angel's Air show

*Go to a celebrity wax museum 

*Record a Demo

*Finish Massage Therapy School~Done

*Read a whole Nicholas Sparks book~Done (Dear John)

*Visit Mt. Rushmore

*Go on a trip withOUT a camera

*Stand on the 4 Stat corners

*Ride a Clydesdale

*Touch an Orca

*Hot air balloon ride

*Be part of an Acapella  Praise team

* Work on a cruise line

* See Northern Lights 

My Girls!

This week has been nothing but awesome nights with some of my favorite people in the world! My Girls! I really don't know where I would be without them! I have some of the most amazing, beautiful, loving girlfriends anyone could ever ask for! Here recently I have been able to spend a lot more time with them than I have in the past and it is crazy how I ever went on without seeing them all the time! My best friend in the whole entire world is my girl Leslie! We have been friends for as long as I can remember! We were in the same dance class when we were little girls went to the same school, live in the same neighboorhood, worked at the same place in the summer. We didn't get really close until we graduated high school, but ever since then we have been as close as close can get! We try to have lunch at least one time every week, sometimes we are both so busy that we don't have time for it, but believe me we find time and make up for it! Yesterday, we had dinner at a place here in Magnolia we stayed there for what seemed like hours after we were done eating just talking and catching up on everything that has been going on since we last actually got to sit down and talk. Leslie has been my rock and gotten me through ALOT of tough times. There is no way I would ever be able to repay her. I always know that she will be there to laugh, cry, and listen to anything and everything thats going on in my sometime drama-filled life. When we are together you never know what will happen. We are able to finish each other's sentences and even know what each other will say before we even say it! I am very protective of her and she is very protective of me, but not in a creeper way like that girl in the movie Roommate haha we just don't want the other to get hurt and if they do we will hunt down the person that hurt us and hurt them! haha.

Graduating High School!

Les Graduating College!

 I can honestly say I have the most amazing best friend in the world! 

Love you Les!

Taste of the Real world!

Well, its spring break this week, and its my first time that I have not been able to go anywhere! In the past years I have gone to Memphis multiple times, Colorado three times and New Mexico last year.  Memphis is where some of my family lives so when I was in High School that's always where my family and I went. We would go shopping, to the Zoo, have a family dinner out on Beale Street, do something different everyday. When I got to college, I started going with my church's college group at SAU on Mission trips to a Mountain States Children's home in Longmont, Co. We stayed with the kids in houses and had so much fun playing football and whatever else we could think up. We would stay at the children's home the first part of the week then the last part we would drive to Glenwood Springs to go Skiing at Sunlight Ski Lodge. This year instead of going to Colorado we were going to Chicago to work with the homeless, several different food banks and then for a day go shopping and do the whole tourist thing. Last year I went to see my boyfriend at that time's parents place in Logan, New Mexico. It was so much fun, we went and rode snow mobiles which was so much fun!

 Then we went snow skiing which would be my 3rd time to go and I loved it! Also I had an opportunity to go with my group of friends from ULM in Monroe to St. Louis, also a mission trip. Did I get to go on these trips though? Nope! I am in Magnolia, Arkansas! Waking up to a house, normally, very active in the morning, to no one up other than myself, all the lights still turned off just like if I had woken up early on a Saturday. I am the only one getting up and go to work my 8-5 job which I do love, but I'm not going to say that being in Chicago or St. Louis would not have been a lot better. I am coming to figure out that being in the real world is not what it seems and does suck sometimes. I have to keep thinking though that I'm making that money. When everyone else is trying to get all the money back that they spent this week on their trips I'll be there just getting paid. I will say this though, I am SO ready to have all of my friends back in town! When you live in a little 14,000 population city that has a college, it almost becomes a ghost town. So to say the least I am ready for Spring Break to be over!