ready for some rest

so this past weekend was the third weekend in a row I came home. Luckily this was a longer weekend because I took Friday off for Ashley's rehearsal dinner so I got to come home Thursday night and then Monday was Memorial Day so I didn't have to head back until then.

I got my first big paycheck today. Not as big as it could have been due to taxes of course. I always forget that the bigger the paycheck, the more that gets taken out. Oh well. The main thing that stinks is the big chunk taken out for Social Security because I know this is money that I probably will never see.

Anyway, this past weekend was great although very busy. Friday I had went to my dad's school to help him out in his classroom, then of course afterwards went to the rehearsal dinner for Ashley's wedding. Saturday started bright and early because we all had to be at Maggie's shop at 8am. Around 10:30 or so we went to the church to get pictures taken. Wedding was at 2. After the wedding was more pictures then the reception. Didn't get to the reception till a little after 4. Didn't get served dinner till close to 6. Didn't get home till close to 10. All in all a very tiring day in a dress and heels. Sunday was church, helping my brother prepare his livingroom for paint, potluck at the church, and an evening full of catchphrase and daisy of love. Then Monday I slept in till 9:15 (first time I've been able to sleep in since before finals the last weeek of april), saw my nephews, at lunch with my parents, and headed back to ol' missouri.

I'm looking forward to this weekend to relax. It looks like one of my roommates will be working all weekend so I should have some nice time to myself to relax and do whatever. I can't wait! Not that I don't like spending time with my roommates, its just I haven't had really any time in the apartment to myself. I'm going to sleep in and clean and read and watch movies and maybe put together a puzzle.

In other news, normally I am freezing in the office, but today I'm sweating. I guess the people in charge of the air either know how to turn it on full blast or off completely. I guess there is no happy medium.

more tornados

So last night during the lost season finale there were tornado warnings for the counties next to the county I am in. Luckily we didn't get the storms till after Lost ended. At that time, our neighbor who goes to Evangel got off work and decided to come over incase the sirens go off and we decide to venture off to the first floor to see how are first floor neighbors are doing. Aimee and I didn't want to go down there alone since we have never met these people and as Aimee puts it, "we are just girls." Anyway, its 10:30 and I want to go to bed since I have to wake up early and I'm worn out. But before I do, Chad (our neighbor) comes over. I have never officially met him before. Within the first couple minutes he is inside our apartment, he breaks my siscors. Don't ask me how.... but this guy already bugs me within the first 5 minutes meeting him.

Anyway, I get in my bed and after about 15 minutes of lying there, the tornado sirens go off. So Aimee comes in and gets me and I go into the livingroom so we can decide on our action plan. We all decide that we are in agreement we don't have first floor neighbors because even the other buildings don't have the first floors filled yet and we are the newest one. So then Chad decides to say "I think we'd be just as safe by going into the most interior room of the apartment." I'm thinking "no...we'd be safer at ground level in an interior room....4th floor bathrooms are about as safe as any 4th floor room during a tornado. we will be blown away if a tornado hits the building" Of course I don't say anything because I'm really tired and anything thta comes out of my mouth will be something not nice.

So 5 of us (Aimee, Kim, Terence -Kim's boyfriend, Chad and I) go into Aimee's and my bathroom. And when I walk in I told them that there is no way we'll all fit so I walked right back into the bedroom turned on the tv and plopped back into bed. They all came out and sat down on the floor to listen to the tv. Terence goes out to the deck. We hear where all the funnel clouds and tornados are which luckily was on either side of us heading away from where we live. So we all join Terence on the deck to watch the lightning. There were crazy lightening strikes. It was fun to watch, but then it was after 11 and I wanted to sleep so I bid them all a goodnight and got back into bed praying that no more tornados come.

I'm thinking in the next week or so I am going to develop a tornado safety plan. If a tornado does hit our building, I do not want to be sitting in the bathroom of the fourth floor. No one likes to listen to me when I say that even the bathroom is not a safe place during a tornado if its not on ground level.

Let me just say, I'm tired of tornados already....we've had too many in the past week.

I would like it to get warm outside without tornados the next night or morning. Of course we are supposed to have scattered thunderstorms all day today. If a tornado does come, I'd like it to come while I'm at work so I could go to a basement instead of a 4th floor bathroom.

Great Weeekend Home

So I went home over the weekend. Got to see Will's first teeball game! It was so cute to watch!!!

I got to spend some time with my nephews on Sat and time with my brother Friday night and Saturday morning. Then Sunday I spent with my brother and parents playing Bible Trivia. It was fun.

I wish I had more time to hang out with other people...maybe next weekend. I will be home again because of Ashley's bachlorette party and nichole's baby shower and will's preschool graduation.

Things seem to be falling into routine here in MO which is great. To bad this routine consists of getting to bed early and waking up early....oh well!

Tornado Time

So this morning I wake up and get ready for work. It was so hot, humid, and muggy in the apartment. Yet it was still pretty dark outside. Its kind of stormy. Hear just little bits of thunder. Get my car loaded up (cuz i'm heading home for the weekend right after work) and the sky isn't the normal color. Get to work. Its drizzling a bit. Get into my office and I hear tornado sirens go off. Luckily in this new building at work there is a basement (well we aren't allowed to call it that....its the 1st floor). So everyone arriving goes down to the basement. I hear that there was a tornado spotted in Republic which is on the west side of Springfield. My apartment is also on the west side of Springfield. I text my roommate to make sure she and our other roommate are awake. They are to hearing the sirens. Since we are in a new building and pretty sure we don't have neighboors on the first floor just yet, they ended up staying in the fourth floor in the bathroom. I was slightly glad I was not back there. Their power ended up going out too. Meanwhile everyone in the office is trying to figure out what exactly the storm is doing. When we get back upstairs, there are a couple of big trees down in the front parking lot. It is still really windy and I watch out the window and see another tree had fallen down. Its crazy to see uprooted trees. The odd thing is there were new trees planted a month or so ago and they did not blowover..... Anyway, there were cars parked under some of these trees that fell. I think three all in all got smashed. Only one I think may be drivable. Poor people. I'm just glad I park in a lot with no trees.

Now the sun is shining and my lunch is almost over. Time to get back to work. Hopefully this afternoon goes by fast because I head home when I'm done!!!