Flying

Its been a busy past week and I seriously can't believe its already Friday but thank the Lord for miracles! J comes home tonight after a seriously long week at the beach job site, I can't wait to see him!

Work has been pretty nutty this week and has stressed me out way more than normal. My boss says I need to learn to let stuff roll off my back... I'm learning, slowly. We calculated it and I think I have made my 3rd quarter which is truly a blessing because I am in serious need of the commission it will bring!

I found this in my York office last week and it came on a day when it was much needed, seems like God didn't let me find til just the right time! I love little surprises like this from J. He's very, very sneaky sir.

I bought a cute little purple Nine West bag from Ross to carry all my crap in instead of asking J to hold everything. Plus with the new huge phone it helps as well. I was so proud of my purchase, it was even on sale!

The roomate and I went to meet Nicholas Sparks but were turned away since we have already purchased our books previously from Walmart. The people at the Barnes and Noble at the Arboretum were jerks.

Short

So, it seems I've started to only blog once a week. I'm going to try to change that, key word is try. How have you been? Its Wednesday again and I can't believe we are already on 'hump' day. Few things to sum up the past week:

1.) Praise the Lord for Labor Day and the long weekend, much needed and appreciated. We went to the Cabin this weekend and shot guns and rode four wheelers. I felt like a true red neck but we discovered I'm very much the sharp shooter with a .22 and a scope, ha.

2.) My Slim Fast diet, not going so smoothly. I get hungry a lot. And I cheat on Slim Fast, a lot. Ugh, I'm praying for dedication and perservation.

3.) I got a new roomate yesterday, my roomate Stephanie got a dog. He's a teacup chihauhau and she has decided to name him Mr. Big.

4.) Work has been a little discouraging. Mary told me that our publisher thinks I'm being spread too thin because percentages are down. After looking at everything its only because some of our big hitters have pulled out and I'm not even handeling those. Oh well, there's a reason they've given me this position and I'm trying my hardest. Mary and I figured out that I need to make 18% more in September in order to make the 3rd quarter, prayers are much appreciated!

5.) Finally, J's company has rented their workers a beach house to stay in for the specific job sit they're on and each of the guys has their own room.I'm taking a half day on Friday and a half day on Monday and heading to the beach on Friday at noon and coming back on Monday morning and coming straight to work! I'm so excited to see him and get a little bit of time away from home, otherwise I wouldn't see Jeremy for over 2 weeks, which would stink really badly.

Ridiculous...

Happy Wednesday to everyone! The past week has literally flown by and I can't believe its already the middle of the work week, but praise the Lord for that.

Work: I didn't end up meeting my August goal, which stunk. But Mary and I think I can make up for it in September, its looking that this month is going to ROCK! I'm very excited and its got me really pumped up to work as hard as I can to do it to make my entire quarter goal. Its been a process getting used to working in Lake Wylie AND York/Clover but I'm slow but surely adjusting and its been incredible so far. The Best of the Lake is coming up and I'm hoping to get $4000 out of it for the paper!

Home: I had a make up consultation last night with Angie Hawkins, a Mary-Kay consultant. She does wedding make up for the bride and brides mades the day of the wedding at a pretty dicounted rate as compared to others that I've talked to. She's a great sales(wo)man as well and I realized that there is a lot I can learn from her as well as show Mom with her jewlery business. Rachel and J's Mom came over and it was a lot fun just to hang out, I haven't been doing that enough recently with people. I've become quite the homebody in the past few weeks. Amber invited me over for dinner tonight and I am so excited to see her as its been a few weeks!

Love: J is working near Wilmington, NC this week on an army base and he has been in the heat a lot, he's been exhausted all week especially since he's been going into work every day at 6am. Hurricane Earl is approaching where they are pretty quickly but we're praying that the storm goes away completely so he can get in some good overtime this week. I'm also not sure when he's coming either, which really flat out sucks especially since Labor Day weekend is this weekend and I get Monday off. Earlier this week, he had me go and look at some rings that Stacey suggested we go and look at and I think I've found THE RING! I've also decided I'm tired of looking at rings and that from here on out he gets to decide, ring shopping is very overwhelming for me. I gave him two options and I've left it in his hands, I know that he'll make the right decision!

Doldrums

Its Tuesday mid afternoon and I am experiencing the worst doldrums of the work week ever.

This coming Sunday ends our August for revenue and our weekly sales meeting this morning was not the most encouraging, but lets face it what sales meeting is encouraging? I've had at least 4 ads cancel for this week and even one that cancelled this morning. No one is calling me back for Stand By's for this coming weekend. A Stand By is when we have extra space in the newspaper that needs to be sold quickly so we price it just right and add color for free. For the first time since February I do not think I'm going to make at least 90% of my goal and this frustrates me to no end. I knew when I took on the new position that it was going to take some time to get things to run smoothly and to get new clients to trust me. What I did not account for are my regular customers cancelling on me. So, I'm ill motivated to even try for this weekend because of all the rejection I've been receiving over the past two weeks, ha.

J left this morning for the job site at the beach instead of leaving last night, which was a wonderful surprise! This is also contributing to my doldrums. Last night, I made Spicy Chicken Salsa Pasta for dinner and we watched Cop Out which completely exceeded my expectations. I'm trying to convince J that playing card games that do not involve having to drink after you draw a card are fun too. All we really have been doing lately is watching movies and eating so I want to find something that will break up the ordinary for us. I miss him already, since I know he won't be home tonight to cook for or to cuddle up on the couch with or laugh with about my day. I know God has a plan and He won't give you anything you can't handle!

Big Blue Tractor

This past weekend has been one of the best weekend's for me in a very long time! Jeremy has been home since Thursday night and we've gotten to spend a lot of much needed time together. I haven't realized how much I've been missing him until he comes home for longer than two days and with him leaving today, this has been the hardest time yet. We're praying and searching hard for him a job here at home or atleast somewhere where he is stationary and we can make a home for us. We're so thankful for his current job but being away from each other really stinks :(

Friday night we went out with everyone for Brian Eves Birthday on Friday night and has a really great time! While we started out at Black Finn we were quickly informed that girls could drink for free at Suite so we headed over there to drink for free til 11 and had a great time, I even got a hot pink coozie out of the deal. Happy Birthday Brian!

Also its apparent that the bouncer taking the below picture- sucks.

Finally got the camera cord from Jeremy so I could upload some pictures from the past few weeks. I've decided we haven't taken many pictures in the past six months and this needs to change, he is not so thrilled about this.

Saturday we ended up at Carowinds with my little brother Carson and his friend Justin. I was outnumbered for the whole day and discovered that little boys like to hit each other a lot. We got some pizza and hung out with Mom afterwards and watched Furry Vengence, ha.

Sunday was church day and we went to the early service where Pastor Steven talked about what it really means to invite someone to church. Very powerful message and a really cool theme for the next few weeks. We cleaned up at Jeremy's house and Jeremy did a lot of cleaning in his room while I lounged around :) We played out on his Dad's new tractor in the way back part of the property. Apparently its a man thing to knock trees down? I don't know but I rode along for over an hour and had a blast just hanging out and basically doing nothing, ha. Jeremy even said, "I hope when we're old you'll still do things like this with me." I pray that we will!

Its getting closer

Holy cow, can football season get here already?! Its become my favorite time of the year :)

Saturday, September 4 at 3:30 Clemson vs. North Texas

I went to Grams for dinner last night. She made pot roast, cole slaw and squash casserole (yuck) obviously I loved everything but the casserole, ha. My unlce and his newest model of a girlfriend was there. I think they're engaged, she had a diamond ring on her left hand on her ring finger-- Grams and Mom laughed when I asked and they both said he was dumb. Ladies and Gentlemen, if he gets married this will fourth marriage. I just don't understand, I only want to do it once with the best man I know.

Grams talked to me a lot about stages of life last night and how I need to savor every moment of the next stage when Jeremy and I get engaged. She says the time flies and then its on to babies, etc. and we need to cherish the time we have as just us. I'm so very excited about becoming Jeremy's wife one day :) I'm also cherishing the time now where we aren't engaged and we're just dating, I didn't realize before but this is so much fun! Just being with each other is all we really want. His job has really made me realize that the only thing I want is to be close to him all the time and whether we get married tomorrow or two years from now I'm just thankful that I'm with him.

7 hour drive...

This past weekend I journey, literally, to Trenton, GA to see Sheila D. Moore become Sheila M. Price. I was the guest book attendant, ha. We played Flip Cup, even the bride and groom played a few rounds and as always, I was CHAMPION :)

Work has been wierd this week, I haven't been really motivated which sucks when you're a sales rep. I scheduled my FIRST ever Direct Mail piece for Carolina Dance, its a cute little Post Card for their Registration and Open House this week and next. My goals have gone up since my semi promotion and I'm a little nevous to see how this month comes out honestly. I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed but I don't think its anything I can't handle, I just have to get a grip on Lake Wylie and I'll be fine. I really need to work out of only one office, the double office thing is kind of confusing. I'm going to try to clean up the office at Lake Wylie today and maybe move some stuff over there during this week.

My sweet boyfriend is gone to NY for the week for work. He'll be back at some point on Sat. I'm missing him a lot, the traveling thing has really started to sink in with me in the past week and it's no fun. We're so thankful to the Lord for the job but we're praying he'll reveal his plan for Jeremy's work life in His time!