Random thoughts

Today is day 6 of my 13 day stretch of work.  The hotel has been picking up lately and they have needed me almost every weekend for the last 3 or 4.  Then of course I'm working my full time job at the bank during the week.  Lets just say that I am really looking forward to next weekend in Racine!!!  It is going to be so nice to sit with friends, unwind, and eat TOPPERS!!!  Hint Hint!

Still no job for Ben yet.  He had an interview yesterday but we aren't very optimistic about it considering there were a ton of other people being interviewed too.  Still waiting to hear from any of the others he's applied to.

Waiting to get my Turbo Tax in the mail so we can get those lovely taxes done and get our refund!

Might go see Wolfman tonight.  Haven't decided yet.

My mom bought me the Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie.  HILARIOUS!!!

Kim

Spring is teasing me.

I haven't updated much this week because it has been pretty dull.  We had decent weather for once and it has actually felt like SPRING!  The snow could melt just a little faster though. I've been itching to start opening windows and doing some Spring cleaning.

Ben has been applying for jobs like mad, but not a single one has called him back.  We are both highly sick of the whole process.  I've been working as much as I can.  The hotel has been calling me to work the last weekend or so, and I'm going in tomorrow for what will probably be another long day.  I'm also already set up to work next Sunday.  I'm hoping that by working these couple of weekends my boss will be cool with me taking off March 6 & 7 for our Racine visit.  She's pretty awesome about stuff like that.

Once I get my butt in gear and get going for the day we are heading to my parents.  Ben has been getting some cabin fever and wants to go do something that doesn't cost any money, = spending the day at their house playing wii, and getting fed free meals.  Mom is so excited that we want to some spend a few hours with them.

Alright, alright I better get going.  There's a bathroom to clean, laundry to start, and dishes to put away.  I asked Ben to do them but he "forgot" as usual.  I love him but he can be really lazy when he wants to be.

Kim

Yeah alright.  Yesterday I posted that Ben and I weren't doing anything for Valentine's blah blah blah.  I must humbly take it back because he was very sweet today.  I had to work and ended up putting in 6 1/2 hours, on my feet the whole time.  So naturally I was tired, and sore when I was done.  I got home and he had the two lovely roses you see here, the card, a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's, and cinnamon stick dessert.  He even bought a chick movie for us to watch together.  It was perfect and made me feel all mushy.  *sigh* He can be so cute when he wants to be.

OK mush fest over.  Just had to share.

Kim

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day.  I think this is probably one of the few years that Ben and I didn't do something for it.   Normally we at least get dressed up and go to dinner, but we didn't even do that.  We never make a big deal about it, it is just too commercialized. This year I have to work anyways so it just feels like another day. 

I haven't worked at the hotel for a little over a month now so tomorrow should be interesting.  There's going to be a lot of "you still work here" and similar comments.  I'm hoping I'm there for at least 4 hours, fingers crossed!  Otherwise it sucks driving the half hour to get there. 

Since it is going to be Valentine's tomorrow, I do have to say that my two friends in Racine are sweethearts.  I posted last about selling some of my bears on Etsy.  Well they were so nice and bought one of them.  It made me feel all giddy. :-)  Love you guys!

Kim

Things I do when I'm really bored.

I don't think of myself as being terribly creative or talented.  Every now and then I get a brainstorm to try and sew something or I get in the mood to do some cross-stitching.  Before I started my current job, I was working part time at a hotel. My hours got cut way down so I was doing a lot of sitting at home.  So I was inspired to make some "Scare Bears" as my Mom calls them.  She would make them for us when we were little.  They were meant to be kept under our pillow at night so that we wouldn't have bad dreams, but if we did we could take it out and hold it until we either went back to sleep or felt better.  These were good for the scary first day of school too.  They are about the size of your hand when layed flat. So long story short, I made a few and I've listed them on Etsy to see if anyone might want these.  They aren't perfect or spectactular, just handmade and with good memories attached.  Here is my listing on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kristow22
I had no idea what to price these at, so we'll see if they sell or not.  I might lower the price in a few weeks if not. 

Fingers crossed!

Kim

Big Cheese

So because I have about a half hour drive to work, I do a lot of listening to the radio.  Also at work, I have a radio playing all day because all I do is sit at a desk shuffling papers.  I've gotten hooked on 107.9 Big Cheese.  The morning show is awesome and they actually play decent music.  Throughout the day they also give you bonus codes to enter into their website.  You can build up points to possibly win stuff.  Which is pretty sweet considering it is free.  Their website it pretty cool too: http://www.bigcheese1079.net/

Here's to the weekend!!!
Kim