hello everyone!

     well it's been a while once again since I've written in here, but it's always when I stop writing for a long time that I lose that passion for writing about what's been going on in my life, and then I don't usually find anything to write about. lately I have had a lot of changes happen for me not only emotionally but changes in trying to figure out where to start with the program that I've decided to go into. I was hoping that it would slow down for me at work in hopes of getting an extra day off for the next couple weeks, but I don't believe it's going to slow down at this point anytime soon since thanksgiving and christmas are coming up so fast, they always need as many people as possible during the holiday season.

     speaking of the holiday season, every year it always seems to be the most difficult time as well as far as how I might be able to go to both my grandmother's and to my boyfriend's house. I'm hoping that it works out well (and that's also crossing my fingers hoping that I get the earliest shift possible... but I'm not too worried about that considering that every year since 2009 I've gotton as early of a shift as possible, and I came in with the rest of those that have been there since the store opened, so I think I'll be okay on that ). Sam's family is wonderful, and I'm looking foreward to spending those 2 holidays with him along with his family, but I also don't want him to have to choose between my family and his family as far as who he's going to spend the most time with on either holiday. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to work it out, it's wonderful that Sam is so understanding of whatever obstacles come about, but my goal is so spend time with both my side of the family & his side as well, even if that means really squeezing in some time, but I don't want to feel rushed on the 2 holidays that should be relaxing instead of rushed, so it will work out well, I know it will .

     in the past week I've been able to get my midterm exam for medical coding in, my midterm project for Health Technology class all done, and my Health Statistics class midterm exam done and out of the way, but now I got my other medical coding class to have to tackle with online next. I just started that class last wednesday, so that has been a lot easier than what I was expecting. I'm looking foreward to a good semester.as for the rest of the semester I have about 6 more weeks to go, and I'll have a few weeks off for once (but not from work though) .

    but as far as how my adventures have been going for Sam and I, the past couple of weeks have been truely nice as far as being able to see him more. for a couple of weeks in September/October I had weeks where I had no chance in being able to see him. our times were just too tight, but starting around the beginning of October we were able to see each other more. we were able to see the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra together (which out to be wonderful as always with their concerts), we were able to travel to Midland to deliver birds to one of Sam's customers & had a wonderful night eating out & spending time at the mall. then we went to Johnson's pumpkin farm a few times where we got to drink apple cider, launch Pumkins & I was bitten pretty hard by a huge emu (which I have learned my lesson about having your food around birds). we also went to the Renaissance festival, have gotton into reading one of Sam's comics, took a few trips to Saginaw with him & was able to watch Sam play Fallout New Vegas where I've been able to enjoy the old music that comes with it ^_^. This year has been wonderful for Sam & I. I can't believe how fast the year has gone by, and it's hard to believe how many things we were able to do as well from only dating for 10 months. I have grown more as a person from being with him, not only with being more open in getting to know people, but getting to know someone from a different perspective than how I see things. sometimes I'm so quick to make an opinion or judgement & then closing the book without giving that something some time, and Sam has not only shown me a whole new side, but I believe we've both grown more together as a couple. Sam is such an enjoyable person to be around, he makes me feel important, and he lights up my spirit whenever he's around or when we talk on the phone. I'm looking foreward to many years to come with Sam

hello,

    well it was a very good end of the week for me. I got to go see the symphony concert with Sam, and it was wonderful :o). I know that my main goal is to go through a whole year ('10-'11) of going to every concert, but I'm just a teeny bit afraid that someday I'm going to be bored with going to the same place, yet I'm still going to go to the last concert come heck or high water :). I keep forgetting though that I missed the very first one because the person I was going to go with ditched out on me, so oh well, I've been able to go to the rest of them, so we will see how it goes! the violinist was just as amazing as she was when I first heard her, she was excellent. I was even suprised that Sam liked it even better than I thought. I had gotton the CD for him, but oddly enough it was so crowded getting to the CD's and she was signing each one, so I decided to get it regardless of whether the lights were going up or not. it was $1 extra to get an autograph, but I was bound and determined to get it, so I did, and I got to talk to her in person, she was really nice :D. it was funny, right at the beginning of the concert when the conductor was out there describing the first song he'd have the orchestra play segments of the piece and describe what each segment symbolized and/or meant, but he had pieced out the song so much that it was almost unnecessary and for me if it weren't for the beautiful chime sounding instruments that held up the song so well I would've lost the feeling of the song, lol. it was kind of interesting at first though when he was first describing it, then it was pretty funny after about 3 times that he had stopped the piece to talk, almost to be silly or funny, but then by about the 5th time maybe I was starting to get a teeny bit flustered, as sam was too, but all in all it was very good. next year's goal I'd like to try and see if it's possible to get tickets to see the flint symphony orchestra. I went there once with my mom, Ed and Nana at the time, and that was absolutly amazing, especially with so many people and it being the christmas concert and it being on live television. I'm not so sure it will happen again when I go back, but that would be a nice thought :o).

     and a couple weeks ago my boss called me into his office regarding suspended orders. aparently I had 19 of them, and he was asking me how I would've had that many, and I told him that one of the main reasons I had suspended because I had gotton kitty litter or other things off the bottom of the carts for people, and i did that because I wanted to save my productivity, but apparently he said that not suspending it doesn't hurt a thing, so that was good. that was the only thing that I could really think of that day that I would've suspended an order, so I kept a better eye on that afterwards, but then last week he came to me again and asked me exactly the same thing but a little bit more frustrated and started comparing me to other employees that have a certain amount of customers but very low to none at all suspended orders. the way he compared me kind of got to me a little bit, but what made it more frustrating was that I know that after the last time we talked I suspended very little if any at all, and he said that I had up to 20 now in suspended orders. he was like "well can you think of anything that might've caused this? is there something you're not telling me?" but in all honesty I was just as confused as he was, maybe even a little different confused than he. I felt like I was in the interrogation chair for a crime I didn't even commit. and almost literally too, because he wanted to take me pretty much to the scene of the crime, the register. he wanted to go through the whole process and see what I normally do to help figure out why so many, but without a customer I couldn't really show him a whole lot, so it was kind of a mystery why we were up there, lol. even as I was up at the register he continually asked me the same question over and over again, and I told him with just as blank of an answer as I did in his office, I had no idea how i had so many other than when I scanned things at the bottom and when somebody had to go back and get something. he said to think it over the next few days and tomorrow we'd go back and see how I did. now that I kept an even better eye on it I shouldn't have had more than 2, but we shall see.

     well I found out a week ago that they are hiring at a water park nearby, so I'm going to go apply for it asap. I am so excited because that would be the perfect job for me, everybody knows I love to swim and water in general. Splash Village was fun a couple years ago. my fingers looked like complete sponges, but it was worth it. my favorite part is the huge bucket that comes down when it's all filled up, so hopefully this place will have one like that. I've never been in there, but I had heard it through mom, so I hope that it works out :oD.

     well for the next few weeks I'm going to be busy getting ready for the end of the term, so not too much fun for me yet, but the light of my week I'll be able to see for just a little bit, so it will be good :o).

I need to get my sleep pattern back, so I better get to bed.I'm starting to stare at my computer screen and my eyes are screaming for me to go to bed, but I can be stubborn for some of the wrong reasons sometimes, lol. goodnight!

*Sara                

hey everyone!

well it's been kind of an awkward week. happiness mixed with not quite sure how to feel to pretty much everything else except for pure insanity, lol (although I'm suprised I don't have that, lol ). but it's been a good ending of the week for the most part. can't wait for this next week to come up so that I can  finally be done with this online class by the end of the week, yay! seems like I have so much to update on and yet not so much. so lost right now, but I'll be fine, just got to get the confusing things out of the way so that they don't make me even more confused...

      well since time I wrote, I went to the valentine's symphony concert. to be honest it was a good concert but not nearly as good as I thought it was going to be. all the songs were pretty slow and only one song I had known, and it was a song that I had sung in my college choir back in 2009, but it was a little faster. still, I absolutly loved the way they had it arranged, they had all violins doing that song, and it was neat to watch the whole group together for the first song with a rhythmic spanish beat to it, and then between th 1st and 2nd piece most of the symphony moved offsatge so that the violins could do the next piece, that part was just rich and elegant. overall even though I was a teeny bit disapointed in the song selections, the symphony concert was beautiful on the whole because it fascinates me at least to watch all sorts of different instruments come together, and I am going to the next symphony orchestra concert on March 26th to hear a violin soloist that I heard from a few years back, she was absolutly excellent! last time I was there she had a 12 page piece (can't remember what song it was), and it was all in 32nd notes or something like that. anyways it was amazing in the way she played, I'm still suprised her hands didn't fall off in the middle of the piece it was that fast, lol, but it was still very very good :). hopefully me and my date for the evening won't have to buy pop and a candy bar $6 like we did last time, oh it was so funny but still can't believe it would be that expensive to buy refreshments at a symphony concert....

    then on Feb. 20th we had a complete whiteout, and as I was driving home at 10:00 at night I was driving home as carefully as I could but could not see a thing, and I ended up in a ditch. I was scared to death because I didn't think anybody would come for a really long time. luckily there was a bar nearby but I didn't want to go in there being that I just went into a ditch and meet up with some drunk peoples, so I waited until there was somebody nearby. luckily it didn't take very long before somebody come by. it was a horrible time for me not to have my cell phone, and I normally have that thing attach to my hip, but this time I completly forgot, so I left my emergency lights on all night to see if maybe some officers would be able to see my car and come pick me up, but what I didn't know was that you had to be at your car for them to pick it up. I wasn't at my car at the time, so I had to wait until the next day. my neighbors came to pick me up and we were waiting on one tow truck to come pick us up, but by the time he came he said that he wouldn't do it because he didn't have his water boots or something like that -_-. so that bothered me a lot, on top of the fact that our car just died right across from where my car was and he wouldn't even bother to help us then, so we called another towtruck guy, but at that time there wasn't anyone to help us because they were taking care of everyone else, so we decided to wait until 5:00 that day for them to come pick it up. it was almost $100 to have them tow it out, but I'm glad it's out at least. now I just have to send in the paperwork to get a reimbursement on the repair they made. they had to wait to open my hood because it was completly covered in snow. they were suprised that it was still driveable, so I was very thankful for that...

   then on March 8th, the day before my birthday we went to Zehnder's. i got the chicken dinner, I was so stuffed at the end, but it was worth it. I still got a pickle at the end just because I knew I wasn't going to be full forever XD.  but for my birthday I got Golden Girls season 1 (I got seasons 1 and 3, but I just need seasons 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to go :D), a celtic cd, a pair of socks, a jar of pickles, a bar of scented soap, a gold dress, a tank top, a pair of shorts, some earrings and a necklace to go with it. it was very nice, even if I had classes that day, I still wanted to have my neighbor friends over and have cake and ice cream.

     then just yesterday I found out that somebody ripped off my license plate tab. it's bad enough that I have to park so far away late at night, but it irked me more when I found that out through my store director and one of the managers. luckily one of the greeters caught him in the act, but couldn't get too close because he had a knife. I got the police information, so it should be all set to go. I'll be getting a call back soon, hopefully it never happens again. the funniest thing was was that the store director asked me if I had some stalker or something. it was funny to think about just in the way he said it, but I figured that if he was trying to stalk me he probably wouldn't be taking my license plate, more like finding out where I lived or something, lol :op. I'd be kind of boring to stalk anyway, lol.

    well it's almost 2:00 am so I better get going, but have a goodnight everyone! sweet dreams!

*Sara