I couldn’t think of something witty to write…

…for my title. Lame, I know. Hell I’m just happy to be able to focus two seconds to write that. So we all know what happens when Kim becomes scatterbrained…bullet post.
*Yesterday I met up with my mother to do some pre-beach shopping. I love shopping with my mom, she’s hilarious. She has a phobia of prints; not the small barely noticeable print. Just the large mumu wannabe prints. That just so happen to look good on her. I will not let her live it down. Ever.

*Did I mention that I now have two new shirts and a new pair of capris from the said shopping excursion with my mom?

*Also yesterday my mom visited my place of employment for the first time in the three years I’ve been working here. Is it bad when people automatically know she’s my mother? Sort of scares me.

*I have begun the packing process. It seems not many understand the “packing process”, such as my room mate who thinks I’m insane for being half way packed already. We’re leaving at 5am, do you think I want to be up late on Sunday trying to throw crap into bags? That’s when you forget important things…like razors or toothbrushes…or clothes in general. 

(sidenote: Why is it called a toothbrush when in fact you are brushing your “teeth”?)

*I realized today is Wednesday and I have yet to find a swimsuit yet. Eh, oh well…guess I’ll go naked. I was kidding. Maybe…

Hope you have a great day!

Much Love,
K

P.S. Everyone like the new header/banner I made?

Ok I give…

I would like to give you all a taste of what my work day is like. In the company(ies) that I work for I handle various projects; however, my main “job” is the tax programs for all 6 or 7 companies. Yes, you can wince at that. Apparently they thought I enjoyed dealing with the IRS so much I should handle completely different branches of the taxes tree.
Well that’s part of my everyday normal…boring…tasks. And as I have stated in a blog or two before, I am the front line for the claims department. If you call one of our companies, you are going to talk to me. Joyful, I know. Contain yourselves for one moment while I share my latest stupid person of the day call.

Me: Claims department, this is Kim how can I assist you?
Caller: Hello?
Me: Claims department, how can I help you sir?
Caller: Is this the claims department?
Me: Uhm..yes sir, what can I help you with?
Caller: So is this the place I call for claims?
Me: (beginning to hit my head on my desk) yes sir. WHAT can I HELP you with?
Caller: Well OBVIOUSLY I need to file a claim, what about that can you not understand?
Me: (gritting teeth) Sir, are you certian the claim has not already been set up?
Caller: How am I supposed to know that?
Me: What is the policy number?
Caller: I don’t know.
Me: Ok…what is the name of the business?
Caller: I don’t know.
Me: Sir. How am I supposed to help you without any information?
Caller: Can’t you look it up by the address?
Me: No. Only by Policy Number, Claim Number, Claimant Name, or your Name. Do you have one of those?
Caller: I wouldn’t have a claim number yet!! I haven’t turned it in.
Me: (silently mouthing WHY?! to the sky) I understand that, have you contacted your agent yet?
Caller: Why would I contact the agent? I am the agent!
Me: Are you kidding me?
Caller: No. I’m with Mr. SO and SO Company
Me: And you mean to tell me you haven’t a single bit of information regarding OUR insured?
Caller: Uh I have a policy number…?

As you can expect, it got uglier from there. I do NOT get paid enough.

Also, I’m counting down the days until I am going to the beach! I took the entire week off even though I’ll only be at the beach for 3 days. Hopefully I will not come back burnt to a crisp.

Yesterday (apparently) Hilary Clinton decided to come to our extremely small town. Much to the chagrin of many here. (Hi, we’re in the south guys) But she didn’t tell anyone until Oh I don’t know SUNDAY NIGHT. So suddenly after the news everyone was freaking out. Shutting down roads and what not. For all of you who read this blog that think someday you’ll be doing this…how about giving some small town folks a little bit more of a warning. I barely got off of my road before they started shutting down everything. Insane. Absolutely insane.

Hope you all have a great day!

Much Love,
K

Yay Cap’n Crunch and this is my I’m lazy post…

It’s a sad day when you get excited about eating Captian Crunch. Yes, I’m very well aware that it isn’t good for me and full of sugar…but I wanted it so I had it. Lol. It’s better than going to get a biscuit or something fried, right? Ok I’m just trying to make myself feel better. I probably should have made my packet of oatmeal or had my yogurt. But it’s Friday that makes it excusable, right?

I was pleasently surprised when I arrived home from work yesterday, my room mate had already mowed the entire yard (Yay). I probably should have right then and there put on my running clothes and went for my walk. But I didn’t, instead I got on the laptop and she got on her desktop and we proceeded to play WoW like nobody’s business. Why? Because I’m lazy, OH and she ran down my ipod…so it needed to be charged.

So I figure if I go ahead and get my BS excuses out in a post I couldn’t use them any longer. I’m not sure when tested if this theory will work, but it never hurts to try. Maybe if I were actually doing this for me I’d feel differently and actually care. This is because I was tricked into joining this stupid contest. Knowing well that I will be able to lose it faster I have quite a few advantages over the others. And being that I used to be HUGE, I’m fairly content with where I am.

However, dispite all of this I have already lost 2lbs!! Go me! Without even trying. Sort of makes you wonder how much I would lose if I were trying.

Hope you all have a great Friday and have a safe weekend!!

Much Love,
K

So what if I want to be a critic…

So I have to say how upset I am that I missed American Idol last night. Apparently it was Sir/Lord (depends on how you look at it) Andrew Lloyd Webber night. However, thanks to the magic of YouTube I did see the finalists singing to some interesting song choices. 

And I am willing to admit that David Cook nailed “Music of the Night” until the end of it. Then again I’m a traditional person :-). Is anyone else tired of Randy’s rambles? “It’s lava YO!” Whatever. Lol.

And I’m surprised that David Archuleta (or whatever his name is) decided to sing ”Think of Me”, and I didn’t like it. But hey he did a good job considering it’s technically written for a woman to sing in the top range of vocals. Then again maybe I’m partial to a woman singing it, which is the likely case.

Carly Smith was pretty good at “Jesus Christ Superstar”. If Mim was watching this she would have been happy someone did that show  Lol.

Brooke White- eh. No I don’t think I’ll comment on her. Then again Evita isn’t one of my favorites anyway. The stop/sudden stop distracted me and I lost interest almost instantly. 

Syesha Mercado- Holy Cow. She did really good. I predict she’ll be on Broadway

And Jason Castro- Really…”Memory”? Not so much…ugh!
Anyway, I guess it really doesn’t matter what I think. I didn’t vote
I just wanted to change up my posting a little bit, sue me

Hope you all are having a great day!

Much Love,
K

If it walks and talks like a duck…

…it’s probably a freaking diet. So let me set this story up for you all a bit. In my line of work, we get a lot of goodies very very often. People like to be on our good sides, considering…you just don’t want to screw with the Insurance Company…now do you? So needless to say, the lot of us are as big as cows…with lots of cavities. Me being one of those dairy queens with my teeth rotting out of my head.
Well apparently someone has picked up the ball and has decided we all need to lose weight. So this brilliant person has started “The Biggest Loser- Claims Department Edition”. Technically they had started this last September, and the orginial group failed miserably. So this round more of us have joined, including yours truely. Root for me! I need to download more songs on my ipod to get myself ready for this. This should be interesting.
Especially considering in two weeks I will be going on a trip with my Mom. Oh, I neglected to mention this before? That would be because we didn’t decide to do that until last night. Lol. We’re thinking Wilmington, just not sure when and where we’re going to stay.
I may need a guest poster or two, it’s looking like it may be on May 3-7th. Any takers?

How are all of you doing today? 

Much Love,
K

TaDaaaaa *poof*

Annnddd I’m back. Hi! It’s me my dear freaders. The person I left somewhere a few weeks ago, apparently those “LOST” posters really do work.
No actually it was a movie I watched yesterday that prompted me to look for a song that snapped me back to reality. And before I even let you all know it…I already know I’m a nerd, so no need to remind me. I was watching “Meet the Robinsons” along with many many other dvds yesterday. And a song came on that I never really paid attention to when I’ve watched it before. “Little Wonders” by Rob Thomas. Anyone familiar with this song?

 

Have a great day.

Much Love,
K

Someone sound the fog horn

I’m inching towards the end of this “fog”. Still in it, just moving forward. Anytime a financial dilemma rears its ugly head, I think everyone gets to that point. Especially when it isn’t your fault…but someone you depend greatly on. That’s all you guys get. It isn’t me per say, but it very much so affects me and my mother (being that she’s my landlord and all). And it just seemed to be one thing after another, pushing me closer and closer to the edge. There’s only so much one person can humanly take on, and finally I fell.
Though, after talking about it and figuring out what this person needs to do to fix it. I began to feel better. That is until Wednesday night. Apparently God was trying me again (I think I failed the first time…though I think I handled it better than most would) and decided to get a laugh while he was at it. Promptly giving myself and my room-mate slight food poisoning. Here’s an FYI to all of you out there that is not familiar with using Turkey meat, if it looks and smells funny DO. NOT. USE. IT. I was not home with T started dinner (mom is in Nebraska with my step-father, I told you guys everytime she goes out of town I get sick!), I happened to be feeding their animals. When I came home dinner was ready to go, so we sat down with our tacos (I’m beginning to notice a trend with my now 2 cases of slight food poisonings…both time tacos) and I ate 2 of them, I noticed they didn’t taste right and stopped eating. But I didn’t notice in time to stop Tara from eating hers…she actually ate all that was on her plate. about an hour and a half later…we came to the speedy conclusion that we’re definitely building another bathroom. I will not add the details, however, if you’ve ever had a stomach virus…amplify that by about 20. Needless to say we wanted to die…
When I woke up yesterday, I still didn’t feel right but I decided to go to work anyway. Still having a mini pity party for myself, I passed in front of a church I go by everyday but never really paid any mind to, their marquee read “Everyone deserves to be appreciated” instantly sending me into tears. In the mist of my hysterics two geese passed overhead.

Everything’s going to be ok. 

A common belief in my family is that my grandmother is around us to comfort when we see geese. At her funeral as they were lowering the casket two geese flew over…but only we saw them.  It was amazing. Not enough to convince you? On my first day going to the job I have now, I was driving to work and I looked beside my car (on the driver’s side) and a goose was flying along with my car. Staying with me until the next intersection.
Take it as you will. But I like the way my family and I are comforted in our hard times by the rare occurrence of these sightings. Always during an extremely hard time. To remind us that God is with us and she believes in us. 

Hope you all have a nice weekend, and don’t eat tacos.

Much Love,
K 

Break Downs….they’re overrated.

I have a feeling I’m going to have one of those days where I need to just go back to bed and start over again. I feel so overwhelmed right now. I can’t explain why…well I can, but I won’t. Some things are better left unsaid. Sadly the out-of-sight and out-of-mind thought process is not my forte, I’m too much of an overanalyzer.
I need to get away from everyone and everything. Just be by myself and reconnect. Somehow I’ve lost myself along the way. Last night was my breaking point. It’s not like I had any reason to crack, I just did. Seems that so many small things had began to build and I cracked. If it tells any of you anything…the cracking started over cheese…I mean really? About the same time that happened my step-father called me and asked me to go feed their dogs, they weren’t back from visiting my sister in Concord yet. Snowball effect…totally happened. I lost it. I don’t know why, it isn’t a big deal. By the time I got back home I was still very aggressive and just went to my room. Isn’t it amazing how your mother seems to ALWAYS know when something is wrong with you. Even if you haven’t spoken to her.  Even if you’re pretending on the phone to be ok. And that’s when I broke. I haven’t cried that hard in a very long time. And I wish I could explain my actions, but you can’t explain something you don’t know.
Tara sat beside me after my fury had passed, just sat there. Not sure what to say, I guess she was afraid of setting me off again. Rightfully so, I wouldn’t want to be on the recieving end of my wrath. That’s for damn sure. And being she was the proverbial straw that broke the back of this proverbial camel…I wouldn’t have said anything either. Even if she didn’t mean to.
Right before I went to bed my step-father called me back. Wanting to make me better (he’s like that ), when he comes back from his next run we’re going fishing.

I can’t wait, it’s exactly what I need. Even if I don’t catch anything…

How are you guys doing today?

Much Love,
K

Aha, now I remember…

Why I hate spring. 1- North Carolina has the jumpiest weather EVER. Yesterday was only 53 degrees,  Friday…yeah it was 79.  2. If you have extremely bad allergies where you live now, North Cakalak is a reaaaaaaaalllly bad choice to move to. My head feels as though it’s going to explode if I blow my nose again.
Last night we had lots o’ house guests, and it was great!! Dana came over about 5:30ish and hung out until nearly 9:30, and Mim and her hubby came by to pick up the Oz-man…he was so excited! However I have a few candid pictures of before the three of them came over.
This is one tired pup…

And I finally caught my cat Oreo giving Ozzy some love…even if she trys to pretend she hates him…

Yeah it’s a little blurry because as soon as the flash went off he jumped down.

Hope you all have a great day.

Much Love,
K

Oh the joys of being a puppy auntie….

So as most of you are aware I am puppy sitting for Mim as she and her husband are on their way to LA. However, the part about the puppy sitting you guys do not know is how lively Ozzy really is. I would like to share a pic of him that I took this morning as evidence of just this.
This would be Mr. Ozzy at 5:35 this morning:

Wide awake and ready to go. And this was about two seconds before the onslaught of puppy kisses. Do not let the cuteness fool you, he is quite a handfull and very lucky he is so cute. Lol.

And btw: It’s
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Everyone keep Margarita in your thoughts and prayers as she goes on her trip to Dubai (along with Mim and her Husband on their trip)!! Be safe hun and have a great time!

Much Love,

Kim