I'm Homeless...

... at work.

Today we had to completely pack up our office and break down our computers.  It was really weird to know that I will never again walk into my office and actually do anything productive.

This is part of what my 1/2 of the office looked like.  Yes obviously the one on the left.  I will have to post my panoramic picture of my ducks at another time.  It was very impressive.

 This is what it looked like when everything was gone.  Very sad and lonely looking.

This is what happened when the furniture movers came.  Yea the painters totally painted around the overhead part of the desks.

And this is a shot of my new desk (a major downgrade from what I had before).  I must be very creative with my ducks because as you can see I lost the length of one and a 1/2 of the overheads in this picture.  And yes, all of my ducks will be heading back to work.  Don't you worry.

Hopefully they will let us move into our new offices tomorrow since we have absolutely nothing left to do at the old place...

More news to come tomorrow I am sure!!!

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Sister Time Confirmed!!

I almost wasn't able to take the course with my sister.  I didn't know that you had to apply to to the school in order to take it.  I didn't find that out of course until the time I was supposed to register.  Some frantic phone calls later and I learned I was quite possibly screwed.  As you already know, I had bought my books already.

I spend the weekend trying to decide what to do.  I was sad and so very disappointed with I wouldn't be able to take the class.  I did however, cook up a plan.

Monday afternoon I emailed the professor from my work email.  I explained my sob story and at the end asked if there was any way I could just go and sit in on the course.  Being that it was the first day of school I didn't expect a reply until at least 24 hours later.

I checked my email later that evening.  And I had an email.  From the professor.  SAYING I COULD SIT IN ON THE CLASS!!!!

I was so excited that I started yelling.  At 10:30 at night.  In my apartment.  With others sleeping upstairs... I think.

I am so excited, obviously.

The first class is tomorrow night. 

Now I just have to figure out what I am going to do about dinner... I can't wait until 10 pm to eat...

Happy day!

Peek Into My Life: No Longer too Cool for School

As an employee of UCF I am lucky enough to have the ability to take a class to two for free each semester.  I have not taken them up on this offer until now.

This is my sisters last year at UCF and I am devastated.  I have loved having her here and wish UCF would have had a program for what she wants to major in.

With her leaving soon, she got an idea in her head that we should take a class together.  Now, I have not taken classes since I graduated in 2009.  That is a long time.  I am not sure how I will deal with having another thing listed on my daily checklists.

But I am going to do it.  Especially since it means that I will have a guaranteed 3 hours with her each week.  I mean she is even picking me up from work and driving me to class!!

We went and bought our books this past week.  It was weird being in the bookstore again.  And apparently they are letting you rent books now.  I am not exactly sure how I feel about that.

I even treated myself to a new composition book to take notes in.  Staci thinks it is crazy that I want to take hand-written notes because she does everything on the computer.  I will just have her send me the notes.  :)

I have about two weeks till classes start and I am getting excited.

It may cause me to want to continue taking classes to explore if I really do like accounting...

Hope everyone's second day of school is going great (or teacher planning days)!

MIA = Mostly Invisible Amanda

So I had mentioned a few times that I have been busy and what not.  It makes me really sad that I missed out on my blog for over a week!  I had been so great about making sure I posted each and every day (besides Sundays) since I started in January.  Was it really January?!  That is hard to believe.

Anyway.  I have been dealing with an upset tummy and a mini vacation.  When my tummy was all upset blogging was the last thing on my mind.  I just wanted to eat without the gut wrenching cramps.  I dealt with them for almost a week before heading to a doctor.

Now I am one of those people that believe that all parts of the body are interconnected and that "regular" western medicine is not the best option to actually find out what is wrong with and heal your body.  I totally believe in homeopathic and eastern medicines.  So much so that I paid a ridiculous amount of money to be checked out by an eastern friendly medical practice.  They found out that I was basically running on "e" and I was deficitent in a bunch of very important vitamins and what not.  They got me on a round of supplements and I was feeling 100 times better within a week and a half.  I don't think I would have made it through the New York trip if I hadn't been taking them.

So going in to see the "regular" doctor I already knew he would not be too keen on my taking supplements and trusting "those doctors".  Sure enough the second I had said that I had been taking supplements he blamed all of my issues on the supplements.  I insisted that was not the case since I had been taking them for almost two months and not had a problem.  He didn't believe that I had stopped taking them that week and kept telling me not to take them.  Well HELLO!  I could barely even think about drinking that much water let alone taking pills with it!  UHG.  I left there two viles of blood less with no helpful information about why I was feeling so horrible.  So I deemed the visit a complete waste of time and money.

Oh and those blood results?  Super waste of time because the letter literally gave the medical short hand name of the test, the normal ranges, and where my results fell.  It didn't even tell me what the hell they tested for!!!  All they wrote was that I was all within normal ranges.  So stupid.

I had gotten home and ate bland, plain, boring foods and I eventually got better.  I mean I had a deadline of Tuesday to get better so that we could go to the Keys!  I still have no idea what happened and why I couldn't eat anything, but I am better now and plan to stay that way.

Although once I was better it was time to get everything ready to head out of town.  That meant a trip to Honda to get my poor little car checked out (no crazy broken things YAY!), a meeting with the loan officer for the house, a failed trip to JoAnn's with Staci (I think I'll be posting about that later), and a crazy busy night of packing for the Keys!  I hope that my hiatus from the blog is over.  I must start planning better, I was doing so well beforeI know I can get back to it.

I will be sharing our whirlwind trip to the Keys and back this week along with a silly little trick I discovered.  Plus, I will be starting a college class with Staci near the end of the month.  That will be interesting.  It will be the first college class I will have taken in three years.

I think I have caught you all up enough.  Especially since I didn't have any pictures for this post!

I hope to have a more interesting and funny post tomorrow. :)

Peek into My Life - (Almost) Family Lunch!

So I had planned on writing a recipe post today and I know that I just did a peek yesterday, but my plans changed once I found out my parents were going to be in town to help my littlest sister move.

I got super excited because that meant they could maybe meet me for lunch.  Well... it happened!

We met at the super amazing and delicious HummusHouse.  I love their salads (you know, cause I can't eat pita bread and all).  We were just missing Jill.

We visited for a little bit before the parents and Staci had to go back to packing.

I was able to snap a quick shot of my super great parents before they left.

Sadly it was back to work for me.  With the knowledge that work was going to drag because I will meet back up with them after work.

Happy Weekend y'all.

Peek into My Life - Red Sauce is my Addiction

I have to share what I had for lunch today.

I love me some red sauce.  As you can see from this picture I pretty much drank my lunch today.

I will share the recipe with you later.  I promise it doesn't call for as much red sauce as I used.

Also, some great news!!!

Do you see that??!!  The status of the house is pending.  Up until today we would be so disappointment to see a house we liked change to this.  BUT NOT TODAY!!!  We are the chosen ones the bank is working with.  Keep your fingers crossed that the home inspection goes well and that the estimates for A/C/plumbing/etc isn't too high.

Other than that not much going on except I need to pin up some burp clothes for my momma.

Much love.

Peek into My Life: Lunch

I giggled when I saw my lunch all laid out at work and I thought it was interesting enough to share.  (Oh and I love my new banner for this random new post theme and yup that's my family).

Super healthy you say?  I agree.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to find out the results from all of the tests I had done in the last month.  I am not expecting anything serious and I have a feeling that I know much of what will be said.  I'll catch you all up on that tomorrow.