Random for Break Sake...

This weekend allready seems like I've done a TON - assure you, I really haven't... but it feels good to be a little accomplished.

It's 12:30, I'm taking a break. I've been at the library since 10 studying Options, and my brain feels a little leaky. I almost feel like if I remove the earplugs that I use to drown out the sound I will end up cleaning my brain off the carpet. I'm sorry that's pretty graphic. It doesn't really help that the people I talk to about Options say ... "you wont' need to use them past the Series 7 exam". Thanks! That makes this so much more frustrating!

I left work on Friday a little frazzled. I have a whole "to do" list to accomplish when I get to work Monday, which is both kind of riveting, and defeating considering I had just spent 8 hours there and didn't manage to complete much of anything off that list. Oh well. The world turns, and really? My complaints are null in comparison to some of the others I've heard about THEIR jobs.

My furry ones have been getting along a little better every day. Fractionally, but I'll take what I can get.

We went over to Tim & Kat's and had some good food and conversation. With all the busy in our lives we hadn't gotten together and it was good to be back!

I need to get back to the books... but I'll share with you my desktop background right now....

And what is covering my computer and desk area.... Ugh!

If I'm lucky - Eric will be here soon with a snack! Yeah!

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The Wreath

It all started with Pinterest - yes, that rant about Pinterest still stands, but this was inspired from there. I wanted to recreate a wreath of bulbs, I hate buying wreaths since they expire year after year, this one will hang in my home for a LONG time, possibly till I die... that is how much I love how it turned out! So, being my crafty (and somewhat frugal) self, I set off to find the materials to make it. Finding that bulbs are not quite as cheap as you'd expect, I found them for 80% off. This wreath, at cost would have run me about $125. ACK! I made it for under 35%! So pretty! So pleased! Many have asked me to make one for them - my answer - you buy the bulbs and materials and I'll glue it together!

My Happy Place

I have a lot of happy space in my world - but the happiest of all is Marvista Park in Normandy Park, just a few short miles from my house. It's the one place where I can go, be a kid, and then feel completely refreshed afterwards. Vacation is coming... T minus a few weeks now, and I feel like I've earned the crap out of it this year! But until then, a weekly trip to my happy place with the furry one should do it! I love his little feet trying to take on the leaves! So cute.

8 Years Ago Today...

8 Years ago today... I was in the Kent/Des Moines Park and Ride puking in the bushes because I was SO Nervous about my first day at KMS. I didn't know If I could hack it in the big city. I didn't know a thing about being a Receptionist, and I didn't even know what a Broker/Dealer was, but I swallowed the lump in my throat and decided to take it head on. I've learned SO MUCH - an Immeasurable amount of life and work lessons from my 8 years at KMS, and I could muse all day long about the Farm Fresh 22 year old you see to the left and how naive she was. KMS has given me a gift of balancing a work life and a home life and still being able to give my 110% when I'm at work without losing my balance. When I walked in the door this morning, my co-workers had created this celebration from me, and after they arrived, it got bigger with gifts, and notes, and cards, and decorations. They wanted to celebrate me, and my achievements here, though If they would have kn...

R is for Ronnebeck!

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