5 Months Later, WOW!

Wow! So it has been a long time since I added a new post. So much has happened in the last 5 months or so! How time flies and how things change! No pictures were ever posted of the photo shoot that was taken back at the end of February. I continue to be friends with the bar tenders there and continue to visit the bar. There are a couple people I have met there that definitly will be friends of mine for years to come!

This summer has been a whirlwind! I had a family reuinion in June, went to visit friends in Nashville in July, and had family come out to visit in August. This month is going to be the craziest though! This next weekend I am going back to Iowa for a friend's wedding. I haven't seen her in about 10 years! It will be a lot of fun to see her and other people back in IA! It will be a very quick trip but it should be lots of fun!

I'm excited I am finally going to Journey concert. I have been trying for a few years with my friend Joy but now finally am going! I am sad that she will not be able to join me but I know I'll be txting and calling her periodically through out to tell her how much I miss her and wish she was there and remember great times of karokeing to them!

There are so many more stories, and adventures that I have had the last 5 months but I don't have time to explain and tell them all but I will try not to let another 5 months go before I write again.
Some highlights that I have learned:
- Live is very random and entertaining
- Boys are weird
- I really does take about 2 years of living in one place before you start to get a good group of friends
- I have been blessed with great friends from all over the different places I've lived and visited!

Photo Shoot

So far 2008 has been one of the most interesting years in my entire life. Not only did I get a charcoal sketch done of me in Starbucks but this last Sunday, my cousin and I went to check out this bar near the house she has been living at and got roped into doing a photo shoot for the bar. We almost didn't even stay but my cousin decided we should just go for it and try the place out. It was one of the best decisions! Not only did we get free drinks and food but coming soon you wil get to see her and me on a website holding up our drinks and pretending to be best friends with people we met 5 minutes earlier. It was definitly a memorable night! If 2008 can be this amazing and uncomfortable in the first 2 months, I am interested in seeing how the rest of the year goes!

(I know you are dieing to know, and I'll let you know when the pictures are up :))

I'm ready!

When did I become old? I knew it was coming and have been fighting it in a way but today I officially felt old and think I might actually be ok with it. I came to this realization when I read an email from a friend of mine. She had a meeting with a guy and said that he was young and couldn’t be over 31. I totally agree with her that 31 is young and that’s when I realized that I am officially old. I know I am still 5 years away from even turning 30 but to view 31 as young, I think that makes me old. Besides that, I can’t drink like I use to any more. I figured that one out a couple weekends ago when I went to visit friends in LA. I always thought that when I turned 25, that would be when I needed to figure out when I should start worrying about wrinkles and start using an anti-wrinkle cream or something. I am turning 25 in 36 days. I can’t eat anything I want like I use to and when I do I can get the pounds off but they don’t come off as easily as they use to. I still feel young in some ways though. I can’t imagine being married right now. I know people who have gotten married at 19 or 20 and cannot imagine being married for 5 years at my age. My Mom already had 2 kids at my age. I haven’t even changed a dirty diaper. My cousin just had a baby a month ago and I am totally content being the “fun cousin Beth” for at least a few years. I watched my cousin’s baby for about an hour a few weeks ago and that was the first time I had ever baby sat for a child under the age of 1. I have been out of college for almost 3 years now as well. I think I am finally ok with turning 25 though. I have been struggling with it for the last year but today I finally feel ready. I’m ready to put all the dumb decisions, bad choices in boyfriends, and bad choices in friends behind me. Take the things I have learned in life, the person I have become and step forward into the unknown world of adulthood. I still have a long ways to go but I am slowly learning what I want out of life and what is really important to me and the type of person I want to strive to be.

Uncomfortable Morning

I had a really weird day today! My boss who is also one of my cousin's wife called me this morning and asked if I would watch her about 2 week old baby, Rocklyn, while she ran to a meeting. Her monther-in-law is coming in to town today and she was thinking that she would be around to watch Rocklyn while my boss went to the meeting but her mother-in-law wasn't going to be in town soon enough. So I went down to where the meeting was with her and just hung out at a Starbucks and watch Rocklyn while my boss went to the meeting. I walk into Starbucks and place Rocklyn down and not even 30 seconds after I place her down and start thinking about how I was going to work the whole juggling her and my purse while I go get a drink when this random guy comes over to chat with me about Rocklyn. He is definitly older than my dad and starts chatting with me about Rocklyn and asks if he can get me a coffee. I tell him I'm ok, I'll get myself a drink in a minute. He insits and I give in and he goes to get me a coffee. He comes back and starts chatting with me. I first think he is just a nice man and think nothing of his chit chatting with me. The next thing I know he is telling me that I should come down to Renton sometime (the city we are currently in) and he would show me around which is a little odd to me. He is an artist and the next thing I know he decides he wants to do a charcoal drawing of Rocklyn. I was a little annoyed because he was trying to get better lighting and was more concerned about getting the right angle than keeping her asleep. My main concern was obviously to keep her asleep because I knew the moment she woke up she would start crying. The next thing I know he decides Rocklyn is kind of hard to draw so he wants to draw me. I'm trying to focus on Rocklyn and keep her asleep while he is telling me to look at him and turn my head certain ways. Then he starts joking with me about how I am going to pay him for the drawing and suggests maybe I should go to lunch or dinner with him. Very uncomfortable at this moment, I just laugh it off and say that he was the one that wanted to draw in the first place. Thankfully Tarelle came not too long after this and rescued me and Rocklyn. He drew 3 pictures and gave them to Tarelle and I. Needless to say I don't think I have ever been so uncomfortable in my entire life.

Please just listen and think people!

I know I complain a lot on here and it's probably annoying to read but I am going to again anyways :) I'm not sure anyone reads my blog anyway except for maybe my sister, but that's ok.

I know I have complained about the radom people who come into our office asking dumb questions like "What floor is suite 250 on?" or those people who don't take their time to figure out what the address is of the building they are in but decide to take my time and ask me. Well, today one person asked me if any keys had been turned in to me. First off, if you take one second to look at our front office door you will know that we are not the property management but just your typical business. Second, I know the people don't know me but do they really think that I would take some random keys that were left laying around? If there are keys laying around they would probably be turned into the propery management, or I would tell someone to turn them into the property management but they still decide to ask me anyway.

For some reason information is giving our phone number out as the phone number for Lowe's so I will occationally get the phone call asking me if we sell refrigerators or if we have received a certain package. Well, this week a chick called to see if we had received a package. Having had this question asked to me before I knew right away that she was trying to reach Lowe's. If she would've just listened to me when I picked up the phone she would know right away that it isn't Lowe's because I answer the phone with our company name and my name right off the bat but of course they never listen. Well, I went on to explain that we are not Lowe's and that they put our number down as Lowe's but I don't know the actual number for Lowe's. Again she did not listen to me and said, "Oh, well I have the right number" and hung up. I knew that she did not actually listen to me or understand what I was trying to say so I knew she would probably call back. Sure enough, about 5 min. later she called back again and I had to explain the whole thing over to her again.

One last one I promise :) A few months ago we had a guy come in wanting to use our phone to call long distance. Well, we don't have long distance on our phone, we just use our cell phones so I told him that we don't have long distance. He persisted to try to get me to let him use the phone and he would pay for it. I don't know how much it would cost and I don't have the time to sit there and figure it out and then let him use the phone. Eventually he got the idea that we weren't going to let him to he left. Well he came back in this last week and wanted to fax something to China. Again he said he would pay and again I said, well I don't know how much it would cost and it would take more than just a few min. to figure out how much it would cost and I don't know if our fax machine would even be able to. This time at least he didn't stick around and try to convince me. What business is going to let some random person off the street fax something to China? Go to Kinkos or something.

All these things wouldn't be so bad but when it happens at least 2-3 times a week and at times twice a day they really start to wear on you. Maybe I should look meaner as I sit at my desk. Maybe then people won't want to come in and ask me questions. I've been tempted to put a sign up with all the answers to the questions I get asked all the time but you know they wouldn't read it and would come in and ask me anyway.

being yourself vs. being who you want to be

So I have heard more than one person tell me through out my life to act like the type of person you want to be and then you will be come that person. (i.e. act like you have confidence and you will eventually have confidence) Does that ever really work or do you start to loose who you are? The last year I have tried to push myself to do things I am not comfortable doing and take a step out of my compfort zone. The last few weeks I have started wondering how beneficial all those things I have done really are. I find myself feeling like I have to give excuses for not doing things that I don't feel comfortable doing. I don't like doing things by myself but I do when I really want to do something and there isn't anyone to go with me. I was also taught that there are certain things that girls shouldn't do by themselves but I feel like there are people who are contantly asking me why I don't go do those things. I don't know, I feel like all this pushing and trying for a life that is the typical "Washington Life" is making me loose part of who I am. I feel that way with my parents and their pushing for me to get a boyfriend and get married. I am loosing my care free relaxed nature about my life and gaining a critical voice that keeps telling me that I should be out doing all these things by myself and should have a boyfriend. I'm ok with my life, why can't everyone else be too?

(Sorry, I am just frustrated right now)