Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A Fistful of Misguided Anger
Straight up... I have been angry at EVERYTHING for the past 48 hours and I DON'T KNOW WHY!!! It's killin' me, because I realize that my current state of anger makes absolutely no sense. The events (if you can call them that) that set me off are quite minuscule in nature and should warrant nothing more than an exasperated sigh. But the past few days, I have flipped the bitch switch into high gear. I apologize to anyone whom I have come in contact with and promise to make a concerted effort to gain composure and control.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Big Scare
ACCIDENT VIDEO
Please note the Honda Civic. This is the vehicle of one of my oldest friends, Megan (Melissa) - we grew up together. Our moms are best friends and we used to live around the corner from eachother. Firefighters used the jaws of life to extricate her from the vehicle. She passed out a couple of times because of the trauma that her body went through, but her vitals remained steady, and she came out with just a bunch of broken bones. She is in another surgery as I type. I found out about the accident yesterday afternoon and couldn't watch the video. I started watching a different clip from another news site without sound, and without realizing yet what I was watching, I saw her being rolled away on a stretcher by the paramedics and I had to stop watching. She was in pretty bad shape. My mom talked to her today and I will go to the hospital tomorrow, but she seems to be in good spirits.
After graduating with her Master's in social work, yesterday she was on her way to her first day at her new job. Her "dream job". My wish is that she heals quickly to start her dream job soon because an excellent social worker she'll be. She's had her ups & downs in life, but she has a heart of gold and is one of the most generous people I know. We have a lot of memories together... here's to many more.
Please note the Honda Civic. This is the vehicle of one of my oldest friends, Megan (Melissa) - we grew up together. Our moms are best friends and we used to live around the corner from eachother. Firefighters used the jaws of life to extricate her from the vehicle. She passed out a couple of times because of the trauma that her body went through, but her vitals remained steady, and she came out with just a bunch of broken bones. She is in another surgery as I type. I found out about the accident yesterday afternoon and couldn't watch the video. I started watching a different clip from another news site without sound, and without realizing yet what I was watching, I saw her being rolled away on a stretcher by the paramedics and I had to stop watching. She was in pretty bad shape. My mom talked to her today and I will go to the hospital tomorrow, but she seems to be in good spirits.
After graduating with her Master's in social work, yesterday she was on her way to her first day at her new job. Her "dream job". My wish is that she heals quickly to start her dream job soon because an excellent social worker she'll be. She's had her ups & downs in life, but she has a heart of gold and is one of the most generous people I know. We have a lot of memories together... here's to many more.
Monday, June 30, 2008
The Home Stretch
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a scathing blog that vented about everything wrong with the world today. It was so bad that I had all kinds of warnings to preface the blog. "If you will judge me for bitching - STOP HERE!" I had to vent. Writing that blog was a therapeutic necessity. What happened to that blog, you ask? Well, I actually wrote it in Microsoft Word rather than straight into the blog, and would you know? I pressed the big X in the upper right hand corner, and without thinking, said NO to saving it. $^%(&$^!!!!!!!! I suppose it's best that way. Here's a brief synopsis, in case you are still curious: Men are idiots, women are bitches and everyone I seem to come in contact with has the mental capacity of a toddler. I can have a better conversation with my 2 and a 1/2 year old nephew than most folks. So played out, right? Right. Thank goodness for small miracles and brainless deletions.
Although my stance on these issues remain somewhat static, I have a slightly lighter felling about everything. I feel as though I'm finally on the home stretch and ready to be done with the negative "phase" of this year. It's a terrible feeling to be so negative. I'm over it.
My motor is being delivered tomorrow and Ryan will replace the old with the new - YAY - and I might ACTUALLY get to drive my own vehicle again before August!! *FINGERS CROSSED*
Last week my friend Cynthia left for Europe and I couldn't be more excited for her! She asked me when she first had the idea if I thought she was crazy and I told her - HECK NO! If I could swing it, I totally would! Here's some pics from our bon voyage celebration: The first is of me & Cyn and the second is me, Jordan and Cynthia. I love these girls so much!!
One last thought for the evening: I hate when people lie to you and think you don't know that they are lying - and the worst part is when it's over something trivial. I'M SO OVER IT!!
Although my stance on these issues remain somewhat static, I have a slightly lighter felling about everything. I feel as though I'm finally on the home stretch and ready to be done with the negative "phase" of this year. It's a terrible feeling to be so negative. I'm over it.
My motor is being delivered tomorrow and Ryan will replace the old with the new - YAY - and I might ACTUALLY get to drive my own vehicle again before August!! *FINGERS CROSSED*
Last week my friend Cynthia left for Europe and I couldn't be more excited for her! She asked me when she first had the idea if I thought she was crazy and I told her - HECK NO! If I could swing it, I totally would! Here's some pics from our bon voyage celebration: The first is of me & Cyn and the second is me, Jordan and Cynthia. I love these girls so much!!
One last thought for the evening: I hate when people lie to you and think you don't know that they are lying - and the worst part is when it's over something trivial. I'M SO OVER IT!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Happy Birthday to ME!
The big birthday weekend came and went, and all in all I had a nice weekend. Dinner & a movie Friday night with Heather - SO fun, minus the obnoxious teeny bopper crowd... Saturday I woke up early for a conference call, then went and did super girlie things with myself like go get my eybrows waxed and tinted, get a pedicure and get my nails done, go shopping - those sorts of things... It was great! My Uncle Dan and I share a birthday and it was his 50th, so I went to their house to begin my celebrations. Later on I headed down to Tempe to this cute new little place called La Bocca Pizzeria & Wine Bar where I met all of my friends for a birthday celebration of my own! Josh's birthday was on Thursday, so we decided to have a joint party. Delicious food & wine... Loved it. AND they gave both Josh & I a birthday tiramisu!! I LOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVE tiramisu!
Yesterday Paige brought me breakfast from our fave spot - La Grande Orange - of which I ate only half of due to the state of hangover that I was in, and took me back to my car. My mom threw me a little birthday BBQ at her place. I got to swim with the kiddos (Jonathan & Anika) and we ate tons of food and had a blast. That was also a joint bday - Jonathan's dad's bday is today!
All in all, I had a great, fun weekend! Thanks to all who shared it with me!
Yesterday Paige brought me breakfast from our fave spot - La Grande Orange - of which I ate only half of due to the state of hangover that I was in, and took me back to my car. My mom threw me a little birthday BBQ at her place. I got to swim with the kiddos (Jonathan & Anika) and we ate tons of food and had a blast. That was also a joint bday - Jonathan's dad's bday is today!
All in all, I had a great, fun weekend! Thanks to all who shared it with me!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Do I still have a blog??
So I see that this URL still exists, but have I lost all my readers? Sorry folks. I have been on blog hiatus for a) lack of energy and b) lack of time. Mostly lack of energy though - and when I say lack of energy, I may as well tell it like it really is - sheer laziness. When I HAVE sat down to write a blog in the past month, my brain has been pure mush and I felt like all I would do is write something dumb, so I just didn't write anything at all. I promise to get better.
UPDATES:
1. New job - it rocks. I'm loving it. I love the challenge of learning new things and i love even more that no day is the same. I've learned SO much. Each day I'm exhausted at the end of the day - but in the best possible way. And can i just tell you how much the past month has FLOWN by? SO crazy. Plus, I work with some of my best friends - how bad can that be?
2. New 2nd job - I'm selling jewelry. I let people talk me into doing it because they say I'd be good at it...I never thought I'd ever do something like this, but part of me is kind of excited. I've already gotten a whole wardrobe full of jewelery (that I EARNED!) and it's kind of changed my life. I don't walk out of the house without it now - SO weird. Besides that, it's also a new income opportunity. My first jewelry party is on Tuesday night. Check back. http://www.liasophia.com/katieburau
3. New Realization - I'm totally NOT 21 anymore. I went out a couple of weeks ago with my friend Jordan and we played bar golf...it's this little bar-hopping game where you have a score card with you at all times, and much like golf, at each hole - or bar - you have to give yourself a score. Next to each bar is the name of a drink. If you drink the drink listed, then you are PAR for the course. If you have an ADDITIONAL drink, then you get a -1. If you choose to NOT take a drink at that bar, then you have to add +1. The person with the lowest score wins. I think I at least tied with the lowest score. What did I win? A RIDE HOME & A MASSIVE HANGOVER. Truthfully, it was a night full of tons of fun, and I really should have been doing a lot of puking, but I did not. I woke up the next morning at 7am, fully clothed, lying sideways on my bed, with my keys in one hand and my cell phone (open, no less) in my other hand. Then as I was starting to "come to" and figure out what was going on, I also realized that there was a bag of Jack in the Box next to me and a full drink sitting on the counter that I hadn't even touched. I had come home and LITERALLY passed out. While getting ready for the company picnic, on the hottest day of the year so far, I repeated the mantra over and over in my head - I am NOT 21 anymore. I am NOT 21 anymore. I am NOT 21 anymore. What was I thinking?!
4. New Hair Color - not sure that I necessarily "love" it, but I needed a change and I didn't want to cut it. Unfortunately I decided to save money and rather than go to just go to Carissa and have her do my color, I decided to attempt it on my own. HOLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. 3 boxes of hair color, more money than I had set out to spend, and some tears later - my hair is now dark brown. Yep.
Well that's the low-down on the life of me for now. Check back soon, I promise to be better.
UPDATES:
1. New job - it rocks. I'm loving it. I love the challenge of learning new things and i love even more that no day is the same. I've learned SO much. Each day I'm exhausted at the end of the day - but in the best possible way. And can i just tell you how much the past month has FLOWN by? SO crazy. Plus, I work with some of my best friends - how bad can that be?
2. New 2nd job - I'm selling jewelry. I let people talk me into doing it because they say I'd be good at it...I never thought I'd ever do something like this, but part of me is kind of excited. I've already gotten a whole wardrobe full of jewelery (that I EARNED!) and it's kind of changed my life. I don't walk out of the house without it now - SO weird. Besides that, it's also a new income opportunity. My first jewelry party is on Tuesday night. Check back. http://www.liasophia.com/katieburau
3. New Realization - I'm totally NOT 21 anymore. I went out a couple of weeks ago with my friend Jordan and we played bar golf...it's this little bar-hopping game where you have a score card with you at all times, and much like golf, at each hole - or bar - you have to give yourself a score. Next to each bar is the name of a drink. If you drink the drink listed, then you are PAR for the course. If you have an ADDITIONAL drink, then you get a -1. If you choose to NOT take a drink at that bar, then you have to add +1. The person with the lowest score wins. I think I at least tied with the lowest score. What did I win? A RIDE HOME & A MASSIVE HANGOVER. Truthfully, it was a night full of tons of fun, and I really should have been doing a lot of puking, but I did not. I woke up the next morning at 7am, fully clothed, lying sideways on my bed, with my keys in one hand and my cell phone (open, no less) in my other hand. Then as I was starting to "come to" and figure out what was going on, I also realized that there was a bag of Jack in the Box next to me and a full drink sitting on the counter that I hadn't even touched. I had come home and LITERALLY passed out. While getting ready for the company picnic, on the hottest day of the year so far, I repeated the mantra over and over in my head - I am NOT 21 anymore. I am NOT 21 anymore. I am NOT 21 anymore. What was I thinking?!
4. New Hair Color - not sure that I necessarily "love" it, but I needed a change and I didn't want to cut it. Unfortunately I decided to save money and rather than go to just go to Carissa and have her do my color, I decided to attempt it on my own. HOLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. 3 boxes of hair color, more money than I had set out to spend, and some tears later - my hair is now dark brown. Yep.
Well that's the low-down on the life of me for now. Check back soon, I promise to be better.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Hooray for Change!
So tomorrow's the big day! I finally start the new job. I couldn't be more excited! Last week was quite the roller coaster of emotions. I've been excited to get to the new job but I was also more sad that I had anticipated to leave my old job. There were more layoffs the day before my last day and one of the people that was laid off was a very good friend of mine. So needless to say, Thursday and Friday were a rough couple of days. They are over now, though!
Onward and upward.
Onward and upward.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
So umm...
I don't really know quite how to tell you guys this, but as they say, a picture's worth a thousand words:
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