Since my last entry I have officially been hired on as a full time loan closing assistant at National American Savings Bank. This is the place where I was working as a temp for 3 months. Apparently I was good enough to get hired on full time. I still doubt my abilities at work but I must be doing something right...I guess. I definitely don't have any close friends at work. Some of the loan closers have quite the attitude problem which tends to piss me off a great deal. My job is to help them and try to make sure that their loans don't get suspended (bank lingo...I won't go into detail. Suspensions are a bad thing in the world of mortgages). There are certain people I work with that just don't care about what I do and to them I say "screw off!" while giving a middle finger salute. I'm slowly learning to tolerate them and let things roll off my shoulders....very slowly. I guess there are worse things I could be doing and as a whole my job isn't THAT terrible. I'm slowly chipping away at my student loans with each pay check and it is a good thing that I have a job. I also have health insurance now which is a wonderful thing.
I've been feeling better recently. I still have issues with my gallbladder from time to time and I should probably go back to the doctor just to make sure that I'm most definitely not dying. The hypochondriac side of me has settled down for the time being but it is only a matter of time before a mere stomach ache turns into a stomach tumor which turns into cancer which turns into a brain tumor and so on and so forth. It is exhausting to live with this brain of mine sometimes.
Not that I'm planning on dying soon but I did recently cross something off of my bucket list. My mom, sister and I went to see James Taylor in concert and it was frickin' phenomenal. I've always loved his music and being at one of his concerts was a great experience. James Taylor is a very good story teller and he makes the audience feel like they're all his best friends by the end of the evening. Also, the guy is like 69 years old and still performs like a 20 year old. The concert was a truly amazing experience and, even though it was an outdoor concert and that day the high happened to be a million degrees, I would do it all again in a heartbeat. It was also very nice to spend the weekend with my mom and my sister. I don't get to see them enough and I miss all of my family quite a bit.
Life in Shawnee is pretty great. We've been discovering different restaurants recently and I'm ashamed to say that we've been living here for over a year and just recently visited downtown Shawnee. I think we will be making more trips in that direction in the future. My little furry son is doing well. He had a UTI for awhile and some S.O. crystals in his urine ( I still don't know S.O. crystals are but the doctor says they are not a good thing). I had to give Fezzik medicine for two weeks and he was on a different (more expensive) prescription diet. I'm very proud to say that after Fezzik's last vet visit he had a clean bill of health. It's been a tough year for my little bastard child healthwise but now I'm hoping that the trips to the doctor will be few and far between. I'm going to stop talking about this now because I don't want to jinx things.
Cody and I are headed on vacation this coming weekend and I am super excited! We're going to the pacific northwest and we leave on Saturday morning. We'll be in Portland on Saturday evening and then we're going to make our way to the redwoods with a few stops along the way. We're also going to be hitting up VooDoo donut in Portland. I've been wanting to go there since I saw it advertised on the travel channel a few years ago. I hope it is everything that I'm imagining it will be. The next few days of work need to go by very quickly because I'm growing very impatient.
After our vacation I am going on a diet. I've been saving money out of each paycheck and my plan is to buy an elliptical trainer. I'm growing very tired of my jeans leaving judgemental little pink teeth marks around my Thanksgiving belly (as Marshall Erikson would say). I'm hoping to continually blog about my weight loss and hopefully that will keep me on track. I think that losing weight may be very difficult because tailgate..ummm...I mean...football season is coming up and we have Chiefs season tickets. Our seats are ridiculously close to the Jack Stack BBQ concession stand and I LOVE me some cheesy corn bake. If you have never had Jack Stack's cheesy corn bake you should drop everything you are doing right now, drive to KC, head to Jack Stack and order some because it is pretty much the best thing ever. At the Chiefs game the give you the cheesy corn bake in a lovely little portable container...did I mention it goes great with a cold Bud light? Alright, enough with the food talk. I'm getting hungry.
Well, I believe it is time to bid you all a sleepy farewell. I had a restless night of sleep last night and I am in need of some serious ZZZZ's. Goodnight all. It was a pleasure talking about myself for awhile :)
