GOAL!

Today I've been looking over my list of 101 Things in 1001 Days, and checking out my progress. A few that I completed at least part of:

6. Crochet 2 garments for myself (a sweater, skirt, etc... something big) (0/2) - White shrug finished in September

32. Take one dance class or buy another dance video - Finished Cha-Cha classes 10/28 (By the way, these were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fun!!!!!! We've already signed up for another class next month, East Coast Swing!)

78. Make a budget - Done 10/3 (For all the good it did us... with the job changes, that did NOT go well!)

A few that I've made progress on:

1. Read the entire Bible - On Deuteronomy 22
2. Memorize one scripture from each book in the Bible (3/52) - Genesis 1:1, Exodus 14:14, Leviticus 26:13
30. Complete Spanish the Easy Way - On Chapter 21 (I was on 20 when I started back at it... slow progress, but better than nothing!)
42. Make and keep one e-mail penpal for at least 6 months - Started chatting on Oct 23 (And in Spanish, even!!!! Does this make up for my lack of progress on #30? lol)
45. Go to 10 community events (for fun, not business) (2/10) Farmers Market, Asian Cooking Class, (I haven't been to either of these in over a month, but they are both excellent things to do.)

So, yeah. I feel like a bit of a loser for not doing more, but I have had a lot of other things going on in the meantime.

In other news, my work is going better... James's schedule for work may be changing yet again (we'll see) now that one member of management there has been suspended w/o pay after being arrested with marijuana, and another was fired today for sexual harassment... I'm loving dance classes and life in general... looking forward to Halloween weekend at Kim's house, which is always an adventure lol.

Okay, I'm off to bed now... love to you all, and apologies for not bloghopping at the moment... sooner or later I'll get back in the swing of this!

Wierd...

(I posted this earlier, but accientally posted it to the foodie blog! Oops.)

I just had the wierdest dream...I was Sonic the Hedgehog.

I did the flips, the running, everything! I jumped from one little train track to another, felt the track on my chest when I landed..The scene was dark night, and the tracks glowed in bright colors...

So cool. SO. SERIOUSLY. COOL.

I'm going back to bed now... but when I wake up, I am SO playing Sonic.

Happy Job Thoughts!

So, I decided to give you all a quick list of the great things happening at my job (the not-great things will remain unspoken, due to legal issues concerning work & blogging), because to be quite honest, the perks ROCK!!!!

I composed a top 5 list!

Top 5 Reasons Why Jana Loves Her Job:

5. Nerds!!!! - One of the student workers is a fellow OCD nerd!!!!! We are having fun chats! NERDS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!!!!

4. Databases - After 8 years not being able to play with databases (which I dearly love doing), I now have the task of making a majorly awesome database!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

3. Spanish practice - my supervisor is from Spain, and as soon as I get my courage up, (I'm shooting for tomorrow) I plan to start speaking Spanish to her some each day!!!

2. Classes - Today I officially applied to take two classes next semester, which I receive at an 80% discount! I declared my major as Social Work, and my minor as Education (haven't decided what ages yet.) Monday I'll know if I'm accepted!

And the top reason I love my job is.....

*dramatic drum roll*

1. THE LIBRARY!!!!!!!! - The campus library not only has a ton of books by J.D. Robb, my current fave author... it also has SEASON DVDs of shows like MASH, Law & Order, and STAR TREK VOYAGER... AND it has computer games and video games (PS2, PS3, not sure what else)!! It even has 2 Law & Order computer games... HOLY CRAP. I think I'm in love. Can I just live in the library, please?

Life Update

For those of you who are wondering how life is going here... a few quick updates:

*My mother-in-law had a dream that we are having a baby boy... getting pregnant sometime within the next year, judging by the ages of my nieces and nephew. We'll see how that works.

*Everything is making me sick yet again. Before you get all excited, this has happened time and time again with no baby resulting. *shrug* Weird stuff.

*I feel wrong putting job rants on here... if you want updates, you can ask me in e-mail... but I feel very weird ranting about it in the blog, so I won't be anymore. So you know, a lot has been going on... A lot that as I stated in my last post, which I am removing, I felt like I shouldn't put online. Soooooo... before you judge me as ungrateful or whiny or whatever, please keep in mind that I haven't told you any of the facts lol

*I accidentally taught my friend's 6-year-old boy to say "douche-bag". Again. *sigh* Really gotta watch my vocabulary around that kid.

*Cheese sticks = Heaven I'm sure of it.

*My sister-in-law's baby shower is next weekend, and I'm so excited! I bought a car seat for her, the infant kind with the base that the seat detaches from so you can carry it easily, a Graco brand seat, for $14 at a yard sale today. I also bought some baby clothes... and since my mother-in-law has accurately dreamed her other 3 grand babies, including genders and even one name, I indulged myself and threw some newborn baby boy clothes into the fill-a-bag-for-twenty-five-cents bag. :o)

*We're trying to get some activities started for "My Kids" again... I'm excited. (For those of you who don't know, My Kids are what I call a kid's ministry we do in a poorer town near here... we'd like to start some tutoring and other things like that for them eventually, but for the moment we mainly reinforce moral basics -don't steal or kill your siblings, etc. - and give lots of hugs and try to boost their self-esteem. I also randomly teach them to crochet, which makes them feel happy inside... and makes me feel happy inside. Warm fuzzies all around!!!!!!! lol)

Now it's bedtime, and I need to get some sleep... adios everyone, and a wonderful night to you all.

Recap of the Debate

*Announcer asks a deep question*

*Obama answers semi-appropriately*

McCain: "But Joe the Plumber.....

*Obama asks McCain a question*

McCain: "blah blah blah Joe the Plumber"

*Announcer asks McCain a question*

McCain: "Joe the Plumber blah blah blah"


And so on, and so forth.... *yawn*

The only break I noticed, in the first 35 minutes or so that I watched before my patience snapped, was for the dirty politics question: (I will sumarize their responses.)

Announcer: Obama, you have said these things about McCain *insert list here*. McCain, you have said these things about Obama *insert list here* Would you be willing to say these things to each other's faces? McCain, you answer first.

McCain: "Well, I challenged Obama to town hall meetings, and if he hadn't denied me *whine whine whine*, and then I was accused of being a racist and blah blah blah *insert injured tone and poor pitiful me whining*...

Obama: Political races are tough. Suck it up.


McCain... McCain... I really wanted to like you... I tried SO HARD to like you... but you have no personality, you plan to keep giving tax breaks to companies exporting American jobs, and you just really annoy the heck out of me.

Dude. You suck.

I HAVE A NEW JOB!!!!!!

I start Monday at the job I interviewed for... I'm so excited!!!!!

I'll have more details for you all later! Right now, I need to get back to work.

Thanks Tammy V.... you rock.

AMAZING!!!!

My husband has found the basic template on which all political debate answers are formed:

Something something something his fault....

Something something something economic bailout...

Something something something vote for me.

All I have to say is McCain, Obama, YOU TWO FREAKIN' DISGUST ME!!!! I felt like I was watching a tennis match instead of a debate... "it's HIS fault! No, it's HIS fault!"

C'mon guys... basic kindergarten skills say it doesn't MATTER who hit first... if you're in a fistfight, you're both in trouble!!!! Now our country is the one in trouble, so stop passing the buck and passing the blame, and START SOLVING THE FREAKIN' PROBLEMS!!!!!

GROW. UP.


In happy news, I have a job interview tomorrow, for a permanent job!!!!!!!!

Political Rumor?

I heard a rumor that one reason this presidential race is so critical to our nations future is that several Supreme Court justices are waiting for a Democrat to come into office so they can retire. Does anyone know how exactly I could verify this?

In other news...

*I'm exhausted. Like, the "how am I gonna stay awake til bedtime" kind of exhausted, where you just wanna nap wherever you are at.

*My hair is thinning really badly... like, the front part, that people first see when they look at me. I'm trying some new vitamins for it, we'll see how that works.

*My ear infection from May is still around, and gave me another bad dizzy spell on Friday. HOW ANNOYING! Can't wait to get medical insurance again.

*Tomorrow is my next dance class, and James is supposed to be going with me! We'll be learning the Cha-Cha!!!!!!!

I'll have more updates at a later point in time...