I did NOT ask for a mullet!!

So I have this grand idea to go and get my hair cut at Great Clips this morning before work. Yeah, I know not the greatest place to go but who can pass up a shampoo and cut for $20. Well I tell the lady, I wanna keep the length, just trim it and shorten my layers a little so they will lay down better. Let me mention that I have VERY naturally curly hair. So it was looking a little short but she says no, it's still long, these are your layers. Ok, whatever, she continues. I go home and I swear I think I have a mullet! I shit you not! It is not very nice. I managed to style it a little but I am very unhappy. Next time, I will fight my urge to go to that stinkin' place! Man, what a start to the weekend. At least tomorrow I can drink until it looks good!

Rude SOB's

The agency I work for is located in an office building with about 10 other companies. There are only 2 bathrooms, one of each floor so everyone has to leave their suites to use one. Ok, here's the thing. Everyone in this building seems so rude! I don't know if it's just me, or what. I say hello or hi or how are you to people when I walk past them or see them walking by, I do this even outside of work, I don't know why I just think it's a nice gesture to say hello as you pass someone, especially if when you look right at the person. It seems most people do not agree. Most of the time my hello is met with a stare - like they too good to respond. Every so often I get a hi, or a nod or maybe a smile, but most of the time NOTHING! It is really starting to piss me off! And if I don't say anything, they just stare as I walk by, like the smokers out front, I usually say hello as I walk in and they will sometimes give me a hello back, but if I decide to wait and see if they speak to me, they don't. I don't know why I find this odd, especially in today's world but it bothers me. I think people should speak to each other in passing, especially in an office building when we see each other everyday. These people are such snobs!!!

I don't wanna grow up......

I'm not sure what is going on lately but I am feeling "weird". I don't really have any other word for it. I have been very emotional lately. Not really depressed, just a little sad. I don't feel like I am going the right direction in life right now. I moved home with my parents supossedly for a few months until I saved up for a new apartment. Which I have found is harder than I thought it would be. Even though I am not paying rent or utilities, I still have my other bills and it has been hard to save. Now, I am rather bad at saving money, but I thought I could save SOME. So I have been there 2 months, and guess how much I have saved $150! Yep that is it. I don't make that much money but still. Which brings me to my second point. I don't make much money! I'm a secretary, I'm 26 and still do not have a career. I can't even make a decision on what I want to do for the rest of my life. I have started to register for college a few times, but always talk myself out of it, reasons like I already work full time, who would watch my 6 year old, and so many more. Instead of just doing it, and letting things work themselves out or worring about it when the time comes, I talk myself out of it all together. But I have to do something. I can not stand my job, and it barely supports me and my son. I thought of nursing, they are always needed, it's a job where you see new things everyday, and help people. All things I would love. BUT, I keep second guessing myself on if I could do it. I know I could do it, the only thing that worries me is my weak stomach. I don't want to be working on a patient and they start to bleed, and BAM, I hit the floor. Then I tell myself, you will get use to it, I'm sure everyone is a little queesy at first. Yet, I still have not registered. I have wanted to be a nurse since as long as I can remember, medicine has always interested me, yet I have just been slacking. I have been thinking about this so much lately, and I think I have finally decided to just make myself start taking classes this fall. Just the pre-reqs and I can go part time. It would be at least a year before I could apply to get into the nursing program anyway. I just have to make myself do it. I think about struggling to make ends meet but we struggle now and at least I would be doing something to help the situation instead of just living paycheck to paycheck hoping we have enough money for what we need this week. And with a 6 year old who grows out of clothes and shoes every other week, it seems, we need alot. Ok, so I have sat here and had this nice little conversation with myself and I feel a little better now. The last thing I have been thinking about is finding a husband! This is the biggest challange. Finding someone who is not only good enough for me but good enough for my son, and willing to be a step-dad. And since my son's father is not in his life, this is very important to me. I haven't done so well thus far. And wonder if such a man exists, or if I'm just looking past canidates b/c they don't fit the catagory I usually go for. I don't know. It seems I have so much to worry about I don't have time to find love too. Maybe someday. Who knows. Right now I just need to focus on school. Hey maybe I can find me a man at school. At least he would be in school so I'd know he was doing something with his life......I guess we'll see.....

Crystal

In the closet

Ok, this new song with many parts that R. Kelly has come on with this time is funny.....first he needs to leave other people's women alone! Second, for as many songs as he has written about getting caught cheating, he should have it figured out by now, how NOT to get caught! Anyway, not the point of this post. This just reminded me of a conversation Gigi and I had the other night in the car when this song came on....

Gigi: What man do you know that when they think there is another man in the house would say "there's a mystery going on and I'm going to solve it"......
**laughing, laughing***
C: I don't know but if someone said that to me I would be like "Scooby Dooby Dooooo"!!!! Quick grab Scoob and Shaggy, lets go!

Oh, good times.

Believe me it WAS funny in the car, just doesn't seem as funny as I read it. Oh well.

We don't want any.....

They are having a blood drive today in my office building. After hours of trying to decide if I was brave enough to donate, not because I am scared of the pain, but I was afraid I might pass out afterwards. I am prone to nearly fainting. So I got over that feawr and went down to donate. I get there, register, do the screening and get my finger poked, then over to the lawn chair I went. But they couldn't find a vein big enough so they said they wouldn't be able to do it. Darn! Does it still count toward my good deeds list? I tried anyway. But hey I got to keep the t-shirt......

In other news, I am so glad it's Friday!! I have been waiting for this day since about last Sunday night when I realized that I had to get up for work in the morning. I really need I job dread less. I'm sure I will never find one I love, I just need one I can tolorate.

I have to start looking for daycare for Ant again since school when be ending soon. Not sure where to look though, since I don't know where I'm going to be moving. I still haven't decided where to move but it will probably be out of the town I'm in now so I don't know. But they fill up quick so I guess I better get on it.....
That's all for now....
Crystal

Mmmmm......doughnuts

along with cakes, chips, candy and anything else that is equally fattening and full of sugar. I have been craving nothing but junk food all week, thanks to Aunt Flo who should be arriving in a few days. What is up with PMS? Not only do we get the joy of cramping and bleeding for damn near a week, but prior to that we get to be tired, bitchy, and HUNGRY!! This is not fair! **Note to Nina, I was going to name this thread "big hungry"....hee hee hee***

Crystal

Weekend Update....

Weekend started off nice. Went to lunch with Chrissy, Nina, and the kids. Then to Grant's Farm. It was nice, crowded but still fun. That night Chrissy and I went out with Laurie, Tree, and my sister, Jessica. We had a good time, went to Woodys, then Pops. Got pretty tipsy, but it was fun. Went to bingo Sunday, didn't win but Gigi did. Came outside from bingo and had a flat tire, Damn! Called my Daddy to come help me out. He put the spare on and this morning I went out to leave and the spare was flat. So I drove up to the tire shop on a flat, got a new tire put on and off to work I went. Great start to the day huh?

In other news, I keep having this feeling that Gigi is having twins. I even had a dream she gave birth to twin boys!! She, to say the least, is not happen with my predictions. For one, she wants a girl, and for two, she only wants ONE baby. So, I guess we will see when she gets her ultrasound if I'm right or wrong.....

Crystal

**Warning**This post contains bragging!

Just wanted to say how proud I am of my 6 year old Kindergartener!! He just got his 3rd quarter report card and his reading level was the middle of 1st grade!! He is such a genius! He takes after his momma!!! No, really stop laughing. Ok, I'm done. Just wanted to say
"WAY TO GO ANTHONY"!!!!

So the landlord people still haven't called me back. I left a message and still not callback. I think I am going to go up there on my break. I planned on going Friday but I forgot all about the all day meeting I have for work. Oh, joy oh, joy.

Well Georgia from the property management place just called back and now I am pissed. For one, she didn't even work for the company when we moved into that house so I do not know how she can tell me what condition the house was in. They are so trying to screw us, but I got a trick for them too. I'm just going down to the legal aide office and explain this situation and see if they can offer any advice. Oh, I am so mad right now. I am done being nice to them. They don't want me to get ghetto on they ass!!! Cause I will clown.......and they especially don't want me to send my sister up there........

Crystal

MIA

I have been gone a while. But fear not, I am back. So, what has been going on.....lets see....Anthony was sick with the flu last week, fever finally broke after 3 days and he is feeling better. I FINALLY won at bingo!!! Yay me!!! It was so exciting. Nothing else has really been happening.

I am still looking for another job. I have sent out probably 10 resumes so far and have not heard a thing. Job hunting is not so easy. Good thing I am still working, I would really be in trouble if I wasn't working and things were going like this.

Still fighting with the former landlords for them to refund our deposit. They are a shady company and they are really getting on my nerves. First of all one of my best friends lived in the house before me, and they took money out of her deposit for repairs that were still NOT made when we moved into the house. The house was a nightmare to begin with, things always breaking, and it wasn't in very good shape but we needed a place ASAP, and we moved in without seeing it first since we knew what it was like from when my friend lived there. Well they are trying to charge us for ALL kinds of stuff that we didn't do. Things that were there when we got there and all kinds of stuff. Then they are saying they are waiting for the owner to send money to get repairs done that he is responsible for....uh, hello, what the hell does that have to do with OUR deposit money? NOTHING. So I have been arguing with them, and trying to keep my temper, but the lady does NOTHING she says she is going to do and it is really bothering me. This all has been going on for 1.5 months, and they only had 30 days to refund our deposit or show paid repair receipts. We have got nothing. I asked or a list of what she felt was our responsiblity over a week ago and still have gotten nadda! So I will be trotting my happy ass up to the office tomorrow and will not leave without a check! Ok enough ranting for the day......

Crystal

Those were the days......

I have been thinking alot of the days of my first apartment......way back in 2001, I moved into my very first, very own apartment. It was great. I really loved that place, I realize now more so than I did then, the whole "grass is greener" thing. A little while after I moved in, my favorite Nina came to live with us. We were the best roommates. We had so much fun at 30 Notthingham Lane, AKA "Drama Lane". There was always something going on, even if it was just me, Nina and Ant laying on the couch watching TV. I miss living with my Nina. We used to get "hype" for our nights out by turning up the stereo and dancing around the living room. Or "exercising" by running around the living room into the kitchen and back again.....I know our down stairs neighbors just loved us. And then there was the neighbors, Gigi, Chrissy, Nina and I enjoyed a good many night, with our ears pressed against the floor to hear what they happened to be fighting about on that particular night, or the middle of the night wakings to the pounding and yelling of "c'mon, baby, open the door", after he had obviously stayed out past the set curfew. So many things happened there. All the New Year's Eve parties, and the "just because we wanna drink" parties. The girls nights where we just sat around eating junk food, and watching TV, or laughing or whatever we decided to do that night. Even when my sister and I decided to move into "the house" together, thinking it would be so much better to have more room, and a yard, etc. it just wasn't the same. We had some good times at the house but nothing like the memories of Drama Lane. Maybe it's just that we are all getting older or that it was the newness of being on my own, or whatever, I don't know. All I know is that I miss that place. Even with the FBI raid, the US Marshalls coming, and every other crazy thing that went on, those were the days.......

Just for Nina

I was just reminded that I haven't posted in a few days so although I don't have anything really to talk about, I'm just going to babble......ok? I am really, I mean really tired of my job. I am so burnt out, I dread coming here EVERYDAY!!!! I have sent out severel resumes in the past week so hopefully something comes of that soon. Tomorrow is my Momma's birthday so "Happy Birthday Mom"!!! Also here is a link to a picture of my cousin Amy's beautiful new baby, Andrea, http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/hospitals/6923/babypage.asp?URLID=0O3T3P7L9D
I know she is so cute isn't she........
Plans for tonight:
Going to dinner at Jamie R.'s
Going to let Ant pick out something for Gramma's birthday
That's it, pretty exciting life I lead huh.......
Gigi's first prenatal appointment is tomorrow.....we are all hoping for a girl.....although we won't know for quite some time since she is only 8 weeks along.....
Let us see, what else is new......hmmmm, well nothing else comes to mind so bye bye!

Crystal

Monday already????

I can not believe the weekend went by so fast. I don't know why I can't believe it, because it always seems to go that fast. We should really change the way the work week goes I think it should be 5 days off, 2 days work. Sounds good to me......

Anyway this weekend was pretty fun, went out with the girls, and Dave. Who although is not a girl, is darn fun to party with. Got home way to late, or early if you count the fact that is was morning, due to the time change. Yeah, that is where we are placing the blame, the time change. Not the fact that the Final Four is in St. Louis and there were tons of people here, and since Pops never closes, it is easy to get in there and have no perception of time.

Sunday was bingo day and Chrissy, Gigi and I all went and none of us won. Damn the luck. But hey, there is always next Sunday. I am bound to win one day!!!

Ok, not too exciting today but there it is.....

Take care

April Fools~

So far so good this April Fools Day, I have yet to have a prank pulled on me, good thing because I like to be the puller, not the pullee, yes I know that is not a word but today, it is. So I have no plans for the weekend as of yet, surprise surprise as if I EVER has plans for the weekend, kindof just happens as it happens. Although I do know I will be playing Bingo Sunday baby! Wish me lots of luck!!!!!