I am starting to see a trend here.

So my roommate... or about to be former roommate got laid off from his job today. His company is suppose to be responsible for the new campus of Austin Community College and apparently they don't have anything done. Keep in mind they are suppose to break ground in March.

I have to admit. I don't feel so guilty now. You'd think that him now not having a job OR a place to live that it would be a bad thing. BUT it's not. Now he can leave and go where ever he finds a job and not have to be locked down in Austin. It was almost perfect timing.

How can you forget to eat?

Well apparently if you are going on adrenaline your body doesn't even notice until you stop moving. I hadn't had a bite to eat (cause coffee and water doesn't count) all day. Well when your job is a whirl wind and you have no time to breathe let alone eat... it's bound to happen.

On a side note. My BF thinks he is SO FUNNY. He sent me a text today that a certain movie was really helping him get inside my head and see why I was so emotionally disabled.

The movie you ask... How to lose a guy in 10 days. STOP LAUGHING. He is not funny.

I am not emotionally disabled I am just not good at sharing my emotions throughout the course of a day, week, or month. I bottle everything up and spurt it all out at one time. It's just how I work.

Well as funny as he thinks that is... The couple stays together in the end. SO HA! Oh and Kate Hudson is HOT so I am taking that as a compliment. SO THERE!

More changes at work... Take two...

"The only thing constant is change."

Keeping that in mind... I am keeping an open mind. I will be traveling to Chicago at 6:00am Monday morning and flying back at 8:00pm Tuesday night. It will be back to back to back meetings and lunch's. I know I will be overworked and under paid but it will get me the experience and knowledge I need to move forward at work and hopefully my career.

I have to admit there is a lot of pressure on me to succeed but if I keep motivated and organized I should be okay...

Pray for me people... asa lama lakem (Derek and Bryan can you name that movie)

Making Christmas presents! (thrifty christmas)

So I decided with everything going on I needed to concentate on something positive. SO.... WHATS MORE POSITIVE THAN CHRISTMAS!!!! First Victim - Momma. I knew what I was going to get her just wasn't sure where I was going to get it. UNTIL I found a store that was not only having a sale on those items BUT had a coupon on a certain dollar amount off. Score... Way under our $30 budget. Second, third, fourth and fifth victims - The Bryan and Natalie Clan. This one has probably been the most fun. I bought Michael and Isabel back pack sleeping bags. (that I hope are big enough) Michaels is glow in the dark camo and Isabel's Pink with a cat theme. With them comes a flash light and a water bottle. Then I decided they may need an extra blanket too. SO I went to my garden ridge down the street and bought 2 (one pink one blue) Fleece blanket and iron on letters. Now michael has a blanket just for Michael and Isabel will have a blanket just for her. I think that will work out well for on the way back to Michigan too. For natalie and Bryan I will have to be vague in case they read this. I got them a theme present. They are all very similiar but fun! Dad I still have to go pick up and Derek is so difficult this year I may give up and call it a day.

Over all I have stayed under budget of our $30 per person.

Changes at Work

It's interesting how you think you are so aware and comfortable in your surronding and in one day all that changes. Yesterday my AE was let go from Dell. Like that the circumstances of my job, life and any extra activities that I had where changed. I now have to do my job and hers. Can I complain...nope. The reality is that the are 100's of people out there right now that would take my job in a minute and for less pay. It has become a time of the pharse "suck it up." You don't like your job? you have to take a job that is below you? you have to work extra hours to get the work done? Well "suck it up" because at least you have a job.

So... The laziness of Carolyn ends today. I will now wake up at 5:30 every morning to get to the gym before work. I will work my ass off and stay at work late if need be AND I will be super girlfriend. I will be there for my boyfriend during this though holiday season with his mom still recovering. I have the thought in the back of my mind... "carolyn can you do all this?" The answer is simple... I can do anything I want, need or is required of me.