2023 Is almost over!

 Well, again I totally forgot about this blog. Tumblr I'm forgetting as well from time to time, but that one still has more up-to-date stuff than this blog does. Good luck finding my Tumblr haha!

Weather:

So this has changed drastically since the last 2 years. We had 2 ice storms and one the whole city of Austin was at a halt. Roads were icy and not able to drive through to them. We had a weeks worth of not able to go anywhere and a couple of days of our power going in and out. We made it, obviously, but we are fearing it might happen this coming winter. We literally had to make or warm up some food by candlelight and stay wrapped up in blankets. Most of us couldn't even work since the power kept going out every 5 minutes or more. After this happened, well the weather went back to normal for Texas... which means heat. Then we had another somewhat ice storm the year after, but not as bad as the last one. Texas has or still is working on "fixing" the power grids since we're only are attached to our state alone and not with another near us. Back home, we never had to go through those type of issues when a blizzard hit, so I found it kind of strange going through it here. Then 2023 summer here was extreme. We're always extreme with our summers or just weather in general, being in the heat. We hit records of consecutive days straight in a row of being over 100 degrees, sometimes even 110 degrees, but that's humidity for you in the mix. My husband is worried we might get another harsh winter and so we have prepared as much as we can.

Work 

Not sure how far back you guys know of this subject with my husband and I. So was working for a call center and in 2019, we got laid off, my whole department. Been there for 5 years and it was a pretty easy job, but it became boring and no calls were coming through from time to time, speaking from my experience though only. Was treated like crap by my supervisor and she kept an eye on me and one time even placed me to sit right next to hers. Talk about very supervised and under the microscope. I think she did it to use me of the information I knew in how to run the team, since she was new to that type and any aspect of it and what we dealt with. Got written up several times for stupid things and I fought for it. When we got the news of laid off, I was happy and yet sad at the same time. Most of the people there were just there for me, not really friends and others were friends. At that point I decided to take some time off and not work for however long it took me to find another job. Took about 6 months honestly and during those 6 months, it was relaxing, but at other times hell since I had to find things to do and keep up with a list of jobs I applied for. Yes, I went into unemployment. 

Currently I work for the same company that let me go, but direct with them. They bought or joined with another pharmaceutical company and became one. I have been with them now for 3 years and under 2 different departments by now. I was happy when I got hired since the pay was way more than I was being given in the last one and yet almost quit this one. There was so many different things to learn and retain that, till today, I am surprised my brain can keep everything in and remember it all. After things were changing in that department and I kept being dismissed with other tasks, I decided that I didn't want to stay there for another year in that same department and my skills and talents being overlooked and so I applied for a different department. A department that I knew of and knew that they took more responsibilities for the company and yet I told myself that I didn't want to go to another department that handled calls. I wanted to be offline and taking emails; there's too many people out there that think they are privileged and should have everything then and there. That's not the case and not how the real world works by the way. So I took a risk, applied, and got the position. I was stunned, but happy. I told myself I will try my best to not snap at people on a call when it came time to do that or how the call went. I got my training and when training was close to the first end of the week of it I got good news. I was going to be in the offline team; I was ecstatic yet again. After training was over and I was handling cases, even more good news, the whole department was going offline. No matter if I got moved to a different team or what I was going to do, it was going to be offline and purely answering email requests. I have been doing this since February of this year and hopefully I will stay here for another 2 years or more.

Projects/Photography

My photography has been steady, if you would like to call it that. With this new position at work and bonuses they were giving us while we were catching up on tons of emails, there were tons of incentives that they were giving us and so I treated myself with a new camera and a drone. I grow nervous when working with the drone, but my husband will be the one using it more since it feels and looks like he can handle it more than I can. Since I bought myself this new DSLR camera I decided to make a project which includes photos of bridges. This project is almost complete and why bridges you may ask, well the first photo of a bridge that I took got me more into photography. Yes, this project includes that first bridge I took in it. I will possibly announce the completion of this project in my Facebook Digital Blu page. Another upgrade I did was that I bought a domain and created a website with GoDaddy. The last provider I was using for that started to become more restricting, lack of storage and I was unable to add more content without removing and buying a plan of theirs. I know I have a blog dedicated to my Digital Blu page and website here in Blogger, but I'm not sure anyone else in the world really keeps up with updating those type of things and I don't think others bother to read/see mine honestly. If you would like to see my new website, go here. I may try to find a 30 challenge that consists of using my drone, but there's very few to none of those type for drones currently. Currently I am only focusing on landscape and automotive photography, but I might dive back into Product photography and my other project I was starting with my The X-Files items I have collected throughout the years, but we shall see when and if I have time for these. Plus I need to figure out how to use a new program my husband bought me to edit my photos with.

Slice of Life

Well, besides the obvious from what I already mentioned above, there's been tons of new things in our lives. We moved out of our first home we bought and are renting it out currently. We moved in with my mother-in-law and then they moved out into another home. I believe we lived with them for 2 years after moving out of our home. The taxes and them fluctuating and the city growing rapidly with meaningless stores just killed it for us to live there any longer. I miss my first home, that's all I can say that. Yes, I did cry when we had the last of our things out of it and into a storage unit, but we do visit it from time to time to check on it and if there's anything of repairs wise to do to it, from the outside of course. I got a new job, liked the department I was in, but rapidly grew to hate it due to seeing others that make mistakes or don't look into the finer details and them getting more tasks or responsibilities that come with being observant and looking into details getting these tasks. I was being overlooked in my opinion and didn't think it was fair and just and so, I decided that I needed to get away from it all and onto another department. That happened and I'm glad I am offline and working from home remotely ever since I got hired by this company.

During that time I finally decided to visit a doctor to check on my health due to a time period, while unemployed and before I got let go, that I wasn't myself and I do believe depression hit me very hard. The hardest it has ever hit me and the last time I felt close to the same way was when I was in high school, but this one wins a trophy. I never want to get back to that moment and feeling the way I did and I haven't since then. Yet due to this episode I decided to visit the Doctor for regular checkup and was told crappy news. This is why I never wanted to visit them by the way; barrels of bad news at times. I have fibroids. I got recommended several doctors which lead me with more recommendations of others and finally, I had the time and guts to do something about it all. I am scheduled for surgery on Oct 13th. There are so many rules and restrictions I need to follow for it prior to the surgery day that I understand why they are in place, but my goodness there's a lot. I fear the surgery since I've never had any general surgery and me being put to sleep, but it has to happen. I need to feel better from it all. Hopefully all goes well that day, for me. I'm just glad my parents will be visiting the week after my surgery to help us since I will not want to be walking around, full of pain.

So, we took over my mother-in-laws house and they moved out. Basically we like to look at it as we kicked them out; just kidding! We bought the house that one of my sister-in-laws was living at and they decided to move back to another state. That did not work out well for them at all and they had to move back home. They moved in with us with the children having their own rooms and their parents in an RV next door to us. That lasted about half a year and well, not well. My husband mainly has PTSD from this experience now and has lost the relationship he had with his nieces. Before that happened, the husband and son decided to go to another state and figure out if living there will be best for the whole family. I think that lasted less than a year and everyone, besides the son, moved back here, but with my mother-in-law this time. The son decided to get his life together by getting an education and degree in Job Corps. At this point, I know the parents both have jobs (miraculously for the mother) and the kids just stay put most of the time. Our relationship with them has been severed and we just don't speak with them cause they don't with us. I just wish this didn't happen for my husband's sake mainly, but it's all we can do, nothing.

During these times living with my in-laws and then gaining their home we added to our family, with furry children. We first found 3 kittens in our property next door during some rainy weather and decided to keep them. Then about a year or 2 later, we gained two more little kittens. They both were in bad shape and with colds and so we decided to keep them as well. The momma now has had 2 litters and this most recent one, she had 4 and they are all running and living around our property. Their older siblings, the first litter, the ones that we rescued from batch, are still coming around as well. At that time she had 5 kittens in that litter. We had other adult cats come and go and some we got enjoy their company with, but we haven't seen anymore and may have passed. We do have a tom cat that comes daily and let's us pet him, we named him Tom. Get it? No, well we're sometimes not clever with names haha. We also seen some racoons and opossums come by; sometimes they are a nuisance since they eat all the cat food we provide. I'm not sure what else has been new to add here besides the obvious, if you have me on Facebook, but I'm just nervous for my surgery and hopefully it goes well. See ya all!

Reflections

This post is going to be a different type than the usual. I still haven't found a title or name for my "Alex's corner" deal I wrote and did in my last post. I'm usually good with naming things, but this time I'm just in a halt with it. I'm sure sooner or later I will bump into something clever. I guess this is also a disclaimer for what I'm about to write about and most times my title to my post is what I would be talking about. I figured I would give you guys a clue as to what I would write about, so that way you can determine if you even want to read it or not. I know some of you or majority of you don't care and don't want to waste your time reading my crap. I'll be blunt at times too with myself. I'm sure you figured that out by now.

Alas, this past weekend I had a lot of things that bumped into me and literally slapped me in my face. I felt as if I was in a rut, kind of like a pet mouse running in place in its spinning wheel. A cycle that never ends or goes back to square one and repeats. I guess I can break up what I want to talk about into sections here and it might be easier on me and you the audience to understand. Let's see what the easy approach would work. As I write this I am listening to Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" album. It's helping me and the set mood I'm currently in, if you want to jump in with me.

Work
I guess the best thing to start off with would be work. It is a part of everyone's life, if of course you do work. Mine revolves around a call center for a Pharmaceutical company, if you didn't know that already. When I started in this account it was easier, simpler and of course scary, but I overcame all the fears that came with it in time. Looking back at it and comparing to it now, it has changed a lot! Not only did the program, but the medication, the people, the "location" (ironically, haha) and well the customer service vibe. Our new clients want us to follow each and every script verbatim. Basically be like robots and mainly do transfers. I get it, I get why all these changes and precautions, but it seems to me to be also like a cover-up for something bigger or less, depending on how you see it. We've been getting a bit more of emails regarding other job positions here and a coworker did bring up a thought on it.. it was what they were doing when the other account I was in shut down. The same actions were happening then but now and almost in the same months, October through December. They were, in their own creepy way, telling us to get away or a heads up and of course I didn't listen to those warning signs. At the time, I couldn't take the new position I was offered earlier. The shift didn't fit well with me at the time and well the big ball dropped and the account was closed by the end of December.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that a lot of things have changed in this account. Some for the good and others for the bad. Mainly, I am not happy here anymore. So many restrictions, lack there of communication, and well lack of calls I'm getting that all this is making me bored. It's time to move on, where I need to get challenged, especially my brain. It's turning into mush and well I don't like that. We've been offered a new position in a new account here and I have been contemplation on applying, but what holds me back is the shifts and no guarantee of which shift I'll get. I know it won't be there forever to apply, so I need to really consider it somehow and quick. I have been looking around the job marketplace, but it's hard to find the right one in the sense of good location and pay! My husband tells me to wait it out until we get the boot and collect compensation on it. I'm not sure if that's the route I should take. Although I can have a vacation away from working until the right one comes along. I just know that I'm not happy here anymore and I need a challenge.

Social-ness or lack there of..
I always loved being outdoors in any shape or form. Whether it was a trip, walking outside, playing outside, or just walking around a mall without needing to buy anything. It's a way to escape and see new things while at the same time getting exercise! I like hanging out with people and just socializing as well. Yet, in this department I was never good at with people sticking around in my life. I would try to hang out, keep close friends or best friends, but things just tend to slip away for many reasons. As I posted in my last post, it was due to someone else at the time. Even though I don't like blaming people on my actions, but at times they do tie in with it all. Also I do remember one time trying to hang out with some of my high school friends and they either cancelled the event or they just bailed on me. I at times tried to make an event and invite them to it, of course, and well boom none of them can come. As an adult, I've gone out with coworkers and those events too backfired on me. While away on PTO preparing for my wedding, I was told after that a lot of people talked about my wedding and well my list. They laughed at it and wondered why I had such items on my list. I was told this by someone who again is no longer working here and not in my life anymore. It made me sad that a lot of people felt the same way with my wedding and well bring things that happened into Facebook land and into work-land light as well. People just like to put other people down it. I have learned that these type of people just don't like themselves and the path they're in in their life. They like bursting people's bubbles and light for it to shine on them more or plainly they're just jealous.

Anyways, nowadays I don't have many friends and I try not to hang out with anyone from work outside of work for all these other reasons. Yes, they're all different people now and attitudes/personalities, but you take a risk in finding out all this and by the time you do, you may be screwed and be too late. The only friends I have are the one's I gain through my husband and in which have been a lot since I moved here. Yet, I only see these people once in a while and none of whom I met on my own through work at all. I don't hang out with either crowd away on my own. Upon realizing this, it made me sad. I wish I had friends I can go to and hang out with them in their place or a social setting, but I don't. I was never good in this department and I think it's because I'm holding myself back due to driving. Don't get me wrong, I was never like this with driving. I wanted to learn so bad and be behind the wheel. I don't know what happened that made me step back and not care for it after getting my license. I guess it was the flexibility of my dad being there and always offering to take me everywhere... comfort and security. He was always there and never hesitated to give rides to his family. Why would he? He would rather take his children to wherever they needed to and know that they would be safe. Plus I'm sure he always enjoyed the ride and exploring new places or just simply sight see, even if it's the same views daily. I wasn't going to take that away from my dad and never did. I grew comfortable in relying on him for rides and driving me around. I guess that's where the mistake happened for the future, which is now. Yet, if my dad wasn't around for a ride, I relied on public transportation. It is everywhere in Chicago, whether trains or buses, it's there. They may have public transportation here, but it's so limited on how far it goes. It's not convenient at all for me. So this goes with the part in needing to learn to drive and then I won't be limited and also get independence. Other than that, I need to find ways to be social on my own and hope for the best on this.

Love thyself
I can openly admit to this, I do not like myself. Why? Because of first all the things people have said to me and all the actions I have seen done to me either by the universe or by others. And there is one grand golden rule that everyone has heard once in their life: "You need to love yourself in order to love others". Let's reflect on this quote with me. I do believe in this because how can you express this to someone else if you couldn't express it to yourself? I have a lot of flaws, as anyone in this world does. Nobody is perfect! Virgo's, my zodiac sign, are known to want to be perfectionists. So everything we touch, it has to be in our way and well done perfectly, almost like an OCD like trait. This I have noticed with myself. I don't mind it, but others around me do! So back to loving and such with yourself. I have had a lot of things said to me and well I would easily dismiss them. Actions are a different story, they speak louder than words. Most of these actions were done to me when I was little, in elementary, in the forms of bullying. Other actions were inside your home, but that is all I would say in this subject matter. Summing this up is basically is that whatever happens to you growing up or the actions is how it can mold you to be when you're older. It may hurt others in the process in how you can love them in return. I sound like a therapist now ironically, but ultimately it ties down to everything I'm saying. I'm sure all the actions that I have encountered is why I am the way I am now. It sucks with some aspects, honestly. In other points, it's society's fault with how women should look like. Slimness all the way baby! Or needing to have a butt or boobs, the works.

Sadly, I was not blessed with either that I have mentioned and at other times, I do feel like I need to personally loose my small gut I gained. Happy life Happy wife they say. You'll gain pounds once married, etc etc. All this is true since I witnessed it. I was once a size 0-3 in pants and XXS/XS/S in shirts and we you can say that it's nice being there cause of cheapness. I was those sizes all throughout my high school years and college as well. I actually wanted to gain weight then and now that I have, I just want to loose the small gut I gained and get tone/definition of muscles.... that is all, folks! I have done small things here and there to get where I'm at, but then other things slip in my path that leads me to square one again. I'm annoyed when that happens, but it happens to all! During my breaks at work I do exercise by walking outside, if the weather permits. So I guess I'll keep doing this to my heart is content. My mind in the other hand, wanders to want to do a lot of things and yet none get accomplished. I need to get back to what I enjoyed doing, which was art. Painting, drawing, digital artwork that is what I like doing including Photography. It seems that I just jumped into many different topics, but they do all revolve around the word love which is the topic in hand.

I need to get to things that I once enjoyed on my own. It's almost therapy time for me since I need to focus on one thing and one thing alone and alone. Everyone at times needs their space. This space would be good for me in so many ways, so that way I can discover myself and see what I do love about myself. I literally googled "how to love yourself?" and the first link that came up was a very informative one. Once I finished reading it, I just needed to know more to start the process. Within that article I saw another one that I needed to click and most of the points it provided I do currently or used to do. Here is the link! I am still currently going through this long list and still check the ones I have done in my mind. I just never thought that they were considered self care ideas, but they are. They better and improve you in the process of doing other things. It just seems I need to add more to this list that is more personal to me and what I like doing. I have stopped spoiling myself since I realized that I needed to go on a budget for other things, other goals in life. So I'll see what I can get myself that isn't clothes or shoes. Also I will research more sites and articles in the topic of loving myself.

Goals
Speaking of goals, I do have some for the new year. These mainly go in the subject of money. I know I have maybe mentioned this in another post. I'm slowly getting rid of debt or things that take my money. Bills will always be a part of anyone's life, but you can simplify it. I already have assisted in getting my parents their own phone account and I'm on my own. The plan was for me to merge with my husbands account, yet if I do this along with another goal I'll mention shortly, I won't have any credit in my name growing. So we decided for me to stay solo with the phone bill. My other goal is to get rid of my student loan. Once the new year hits, sometime in January or February, I will pay that sucker in full! That would ultimately leave me with one bill and more money for other [fun] things. With this in mind, I will follow through with looking into extracurricular activity that will fill my time. I mentioned Fencing in one of my previous posts and also kick boxing, but one is cheaper than the other ironically. I'll look into this Fencing classes I found out that happened close to home. They look fun and interesting since they offer a variety on them. Another thing I've been thinking about is to change my hair color. Nothing to drastic so I won't have to keep up with it. I just want something lighter that will compliment my natural color.

I got a lot of things I want to accomplish! From driving, to be actively fixing how I look, to figuring out how to love myself and the things that I used to love to do. Seems to me that I need to bring the old Alex back with some improvements of course. I will research in the love myself part as I stated earlier since I feel a lot better now since I spilled all of my feelings and guts in this long post. In the long run, then I can spread more love than what I have to my husband and our "children", our dogs and love myself and my decisions along the way. Sorry to have been a nuisance, sorry if I have offended you before in any shape or form, sorry for the lack of communication, and I'll see what I can do to better myself with all.

Back to square one!

Weather
Well good day to all. It has been a good while since an update in this old blog. Well, the weather has been crappy here. The last time I posted about it, it was bipolar, but now it has remained steady and sadly over 100 degrees. We did get a "cold front" over night from Monday night into Tuesday morning, but they tend not to last around here. It might stay like this for another month or 3, but we shall see.

Fredericksburg, Texas
So for our 4th of July, my husband and I took a trip to Fredericksburg, Texas. It was only a 2 1/2 hour drive from our home and we decided to stay a couple of nights over there and explore the city and the surrounding areas. We got there on time for the parade, have breakfast, drive around and then storms came to ruin the evening. With that being said and done, we thought that there wasn't going to be any fireworks happening anywhere, ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant and then we decided to stay in our hotel room and watch tv while keeping ourselves company. The next day was still a bit cloudy, but no small rain or clouds was going to stop us. We explored Enchanted Rock and then downtown Fredericksburg, with all their small shops on their strips and had our leftover food from the Mexican restaurant we went to the day before. Our last day, Friday, we left our hotel and continued to explore all around other areas. I have heard and read about Stonehenge 2 in Ingram, Texas and it was about a 30 minute to 1 hour drive from where we were staying. I thought it would be in a big open field with its own parking and well not near a busy road or highway. Oddly enough the area worked where it was at, but there shouldn't be any baseball field or any sports field next to it or at least no fence near it for better picture taking. Then we had more time in our hands and tried to find other tourist spots and one was recommended to us by google called The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden, a mouthful isn't it? This attraction is in Kerr, Texas and throughout our trip there were pictures taken for sure.

We did have some mishaps during our trip, like Eric falling in Enchanted Rock, our camera stand to record our drive didn't work, the hotel blaming us for selecting the room we did, construction going on in the hotel and the rainy weather. We got all of them fixed in one way or another or just didn't bother with it and we still had a great time in our mini vacation. For sure next year, we will decide to go to Niagara Falls again and spend a good long time there and more pictures. We do have other trips planned for the rest of the year and already have one planned for the next year, so we're hoping to have many small road trips at least one weekend every month. We shall see if that can be pulled off and what photos I can take!

Photography
Speaking of my photography, I have been improving it in other possible ways. I might enter into having a "side gig" of product photography and already have been practicing. I think this genre of photography will best suit me since there's no one to hassle with, settings are basic for the camera and you don't need to second guess yourself on the settings or lighting. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't turn down an opportunity for someone to book me for a session, that is still offered and available especially a genre that I have never done.. like Newborn or Real Estate photography. For now I will focus the best that I can with Product Photography and there aren't many of people doing this genre in my area, so if someone notices my work and website, then I don't mind. I almost had a session with someone I didn't know at all, but they backed out due to "money problems". With any session, I have a discussion with the potential client in asking them if there's a theme, a location in mind and so on and once that is all covered or when they ask, I tell them my fee. You're lucky if we set this up a week or more prior, gives you time to prepare for it or gather the money if need to, but when you seal the deal and money is not an issue then, then it's set. Do not come to me once I sent you an email reminder of this session and say you don't have the funds for it and yet you still want the session. I'm sorry, I might be practicing in this field, but I need something in return than experience. If I am going out of my way to make this happen for you and I'm talking about traveling wise, distance, then I need at least the money we agreed upon for gas. Other than that, I am glad you came to me to help me out and yourself out in having a session with me. I appreciate your time and business!

I almost had the chance to change my path or career twice recently. In both occasions, I did not accept the offer. A lot of cons instead of pros were given to me and the only 2 pros were the monetary amounts that were offered with the positions, but it will be  a set back for the both of us in many different ways. We travel a lot and like travelling, so the offers given weren't going to be paid, ever, and  I couldn't settle for contract. I need something that is stress free, worry free, and that will benefit me in the end. It may look like I took a step back or back to square one, but this chance is giving me time to reflect and actually study for something or a career that will benefit me in more ways than one. So we shall see what I read up on to move forward and get a better job or so. Until next time!

Everything's bigger in Texas!

Wow, I haven't posted anything in this since the beginning of the year! We are already half way done through this new year, as I type this and I still can't believe it is so. Well, a lot has changed since that last post.. and I do mean a lot. As always, it's easier for me to just categorize it all. All this, new nonsense, I mean.

ACA aka MMAI/ICP aka Work
Well since my post, I did mention of some events we were creating and well going to be in. Some were a success while others were a downfall. Hey, you try your best in them and if people are not interested on stopping for a couple of minutes, then its not worth their time and possibly ours. After the March 31st deadline came and went, we embarked into the second phase of this mess. The second phase is Medicare Medicaid Alignment Initiative aka MMAI and Integrated Care Program aka ICP. What do those big words mean? You might ask and well, there is a special population in the great USA. These populations revolve the people with disabilities and Senior status or those carry Medicare and Medicaid insurances. Basically they were going to get changes as well, in the form of a letter and responding to the letter regardless. The letter consisted of enrolling themselves in this program, letting them still stay with their PCP (Primary Care Physician) and a relate-able private health plan their PCP is affiliated with. Like I said, its a mess, and if they don't reply to such letter by deadline on it then the STATE will choose a different random PCP and health plan. I was not liking how it was going, ontop of that, my boss did add a quota to this assistance for us. What were we, or basically, my role in this? Educate them in this mess, the letter and assist them in the enrollment phone call process. Do you know how Seniors react to strangers talking about changes to their insurances? Not well and above all, this quota was not realistic.. 10 enrollments per day! After so many loop holes and setbacks showing up randomly for us, I got fed up and basically gave up. Yes, I tried my best every day, but no one cared and those few who I did, I appreciated cause they do care for their lives and the changes that will come with their insurances. There were more changes coming ontop of all those, backtracking who we helped get enrolled with insurance in general. Once I heard of this fiasco, I knew I had to get out soon, because sooner or later it was going to go down. I think I left in the right time and glad I wasn't the only one who left or transferred from that job. So yes, I did leave the job if you were wondering.

Texas, Texas, Texas!
Since I was not liking the changes at my work and have been thinking of making several changes in my life, personal one mind you, then I decided to dive into finding a job in Texas. Yes, that's not the only reason and of course the real reason was that my boyfriend was beginning to miss me and need me, so I guess it all landed in great timing. As I told my parents, I am not doing this major move for my own benefit, but for them as well. I know they don't like living in Chicago anymore, so much headaches, violence and all of the above bunched up, so someone needs to venture out and plant a seed somewhere. Why me? Because I've been to Texas already. Why Texas? Its a nice more calming place to live in... bigger too mind you. So decided to job hunt, almost got one with a great computer company, but failed. Got another offer only to have noticed that it was an agency. Never liked them, but I guess we can try it again right? So I have been in Texas since the beginning of June, literally. I don't enjoy the weather, but the scenery, the calmness and this weird guy friend I'm living with I call my boyfriend, sets the mood right and balances it all out. Sure I do miss my family and my little one, but I will see them soon.. very soon!

As far as work, well.. I would like to get one soon, but then not so soon as well. I do need some time to relax, collect myself and figure things out around here. Hopefully soon, I get to meet new people and call them friends, get to see some nice tourist places around here and yes, take photos and post them up. So we will see what will happen. I just like my boyfriend coming home early to spend time with me while still working, literally, from home. A nice little perk from his job obviously.

Well, hopefully I keep my bargain of this posting stuff more now.. since I do have more time.

The Oddities

Well, I won't go into lots of detail here with the title of this blog post, but I will try to explain it as best and simple as I can without heavy details. There are some oddities with the recent situation that has happened in my end of my work career. Too many confusion and well blame, in a sense, but I won't go there since it shouldn't even be there. Some people would like it to be investigated, but I rather not waste time and money on that and just collect my money. I did leave a letter/note to a co-worker there, sealed, and hopefully he will receive it and hopefully it wasn't a bad idea to do so, now that I think about it. Other than that, I know who to blame if something occurs there with that note/letter and it won't be pretty...trust me. It already isn't pretty in my mind, oddities and confusing as I said. Anyways, today was my official last day to say goodbyes and well, pick up some of the stuff I left there that I forgot about on Friday.

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"Puss in Boots"

So I recently, as in Sunday, I saw the movie "Puss in Boots". It was very funny and great way to show his life and how he got the name, Puss in Boots. I won't go much into detail, spoilers, but I do recommend seeing it. If you like to laugh, like 3D movies, and well like the series in which where this kitty came into, aka Shrek, then go ahead and watch it. I really hope there is more like this coming out in the future.

                                           Happy meal toy and...mini fries?!?!

But alas, I got into this movie so much that I wanted to get a Happy Meal from McDonalds, since they were giving away Puss in Boots toys in their Happy Meals. This round I got Puss when he was a baby (i.e. picture above) and this toy, as soon as you push a button in the back of it, his eyes get bigger as in this picture: 

                                                       Isn't he soso cute XD??

I'm so glad I was able to get the meal and well this toy. What fascinated me about the meal wasn't the toy, but the size of the container for the fries. It is as big as the actual toy and it made me laugh, then thought it was very cute. Oddly enough, the meal came with sliced apples as well, in which I thought they were an option of a side instead of fries, but both came in the meal. Now my goal is to get more of those toys from the Happy Meals and well, hopefully find a big stuffed toy of him with the boots and hat included...that will be a nice toy to give to myself recently, lol...plus my Kindle Fire, XD. So I will show my collection, once there are more than 1 or 2 in it lol.

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Darn you sore!!

Don't you hate it when you are sick and get sores in one way or another? What if you were never sick, like with a fever or a cold? I got myself a bad canker/cold sore right on the side of my tongue. The worse part is where its located it at, right by it meets your teeth when you talk and eat. No matter what you say or do/eat, it will bother you. I really hope it goes away soon, since I can't do much about it.

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Weather, bah!!

Short and sweet, it will constantly rain here from Monday night until Wednesday evening I presume. Lighting will come into play sometime tomorrow morning until the afternoon and well, possibly the night. It seems this rain is stretched out all the way south, into Texas. We might get hit with some flurries/snow possibly Wednesday evening, if not sometime Thursday and well....it won't last long. I know Texas has been in dire need of rain and well, my boyfriend even misses it at times lol, so enjoy it while it lasts Texans/southerners!!