Wacky Wednesdays....

We'll since I last wrote in my blog.. I've moved out of my mom's house, in with my friend Crystal and had a family blow out plus some. Work has been interesting... Monday I was late because of a migraine, yesterday I left early due to a headache that was stellar and today well i'm here... thats all I can say... Jennifer and I had it out 2 weeks ago tomorrow and we still haven't really talked much. She defended Scott and totally chewed me a new butt hole. Janellie, well thats another story. She says she is so overloaded with work, but when someone tries to take it off her hands, she wont give it up. GRR... I dont understand what the point of bitching is then... do you? Maybe you can give me some advice. Today is the day before the fair and I'm totally exstatic. I can't believe it is here already. Just seems like yesterday I was running in on the last day of the fair to get a corndog. If you know me, you know I love my state fair corndogs. I was sick last year and did not make it to the fair, so my mom found a free ticket and drove me to the main gate and dropped me off and I ran in and got a corn dog and ran out. That was my fix of corndog for the year. I actually got 2. They were 2 for the price of 1 since it was the last day of the fair. WHOOT WHOOT. The things parents will do for you..

Nick got out of the looney bin today. I haven't heard from him since he got out, but I was told he left with his ex Braedi. Oh wells. Doesn't really matter now does it? Anyways. Its 3:47pm and I just want today to be over. I'll ttyl.

I Know.. I'm Slacking... Please Forgive Me!!

WOW what a last month. I am down to 19lbs total on my diet. Don't know that I'm there anymore, but I am going to get down more. I know I can do it and I will do it. Work has been hectic as you can tell because I'm slacking... lordie lordie lordie. You would think that I am deathly busy but in realiy I"m not.. I'm just really busy if that makes sense hah hah. We got air back last Tuesday. The 5th of July the air went completley out and didnt get back on until last week. They had make believe air conditioners in here but that did not do justice to our issue. It was hot hot hot. Words cannot describe how miserable every one was. We could hardly hear our phones ringing over the noise of the fans and air conditioners. So were back to peace and quiet now, thank god. Anywhoos.

What else has been going on here, you may ask!! I will fill you in :) Last Thursday we got here and it was plenty busy. I was getting call after call and Jennifer wasn't here and it was 8:15 and Janellie was up running around and Scott well he was sitting on NOT READY!!! I was like WTF ever so I said something after 45 mins of answering my phone non stop. He said Oh I forgot to hit ready, BULLSHIT Scott!! You knew what you were doing because you were blogging on the internet and messing around. Several people saw you. GRR!! I was like whatever so then I went over to tell Jennifer what happend and she totally took Scotts side and told me to stop trying to get him in trouble. I flipped out on her and told her whatever and walked away and haven't talked to her since then. Its been pretty work oriented for me the last few days because I haven't been away from my desk talking. That could be a good thing I guess.

Anyways, its 4pm and I got to go get Robyn from work and take her to get her car so ill try and blog more tomorrow.

Happy Early Holiday!

I've been slacking in my blogging the last few weeks. Been really busy at home and at work. Today is the 3rd and I am supposed to be on Vacation. But no, one of my co-workers needed it off worse than me, to work in her damn garden!! UGH! I was not about to leave Janellie here alone with Scott. So I worked yesterday and today both. I was supposed to have both off!! GRR.
I am supposed to have Thursday off but I dont know what I am going to do yet. Tomorrow is the 4th. Finally. This year has flown by but yet the holiday has came upon us so slow. I need a good day off work where its during the week and things are actually functional. Make sense?

Anyways. Work here has been going good for the most part. A little on the stressful/annoyingly stressful side. Jennifer has been good but not so good lately. Does that make sense? Everyone is getting fed up with her attendance, dependability and work ethic. Its kind of hard to work in an an environment where everyone is mad at just one person. I just keep my mouth shut and stay out of things so I dont get myself involved in there game. :) First for everything right?! :)

Well im going to finish getting work done so I can go home for the holiday. Enjoy it everyone who reads this, if anyone reads this :)

*H*

What a Weekend... And What a Start to a Mopey Monday

Wow, thats all I have to say. This weekend went by fast and so much happend, I cant even keep my head on straight. Friday night I went to Crystal's and hung out with her and her family and her sister and her husband from South Dakota. That was fun. Shooting the crap and relaxing and what not. I left about 11ish because I had to get up early Saturday for pictures with my sister. Pictures turnt out great. Can't wait to get them back July 5th. Saturday afternoon I kinda just lounged and relaxed on the couch and surfed the net. It was impossible hot outside to even do anything without feeling really really hot. Saturday night I met Crystal and Kathy, Lee & Jake at BK for dinner. I was really bad, I had pop. Whops. Anyways. After that Kathy & I went to Wal Mart. My friend came to visit me so I needed to stock up. I was walking into Wal Mart and she made the comment that her and Crystal thought I was stupid for wasting my time on Nick and what not. I totally got mad, because Crystal talked to her about this stuff. How else would she have known? Kathy is his flippin ex for god sakes, its none of her business anyways. Ugh Anyways. I totally blew up, got mad and went home. I was irritated with everyone cause they all had attitudes anyways. So Saturday night I relaxed and stayed up late and chatted with some friends online. Sunday I woke up and went with my sister to lunch with my dad @ Red Robin. It was really good. I had a crispy chicken salad. It was huge. I took over half of it home. Then my dad got a call that his Wendy's in Fort Dodge was out of buns, so I road with him up there to take the buns up there. That was a fun trip. We talked, laughed and what not. I was mad and was biting my finger nails and got it stuck in my tooth and I couldnt get it out so I used a piece of paper to get it out well the paper broke off and was stuck in there too, so that was fun. I was sucking my brains out to get it out and it still wouldnt come out. My dad thought it was hilarious. Anyways. Afterwards, I went over to Crystals to help her make a blanket for Joe for father's day. I finished that up, Joe got home and Nick didnt even come in to say hi. Just dropped Joe off and then sped off. So I sent him a text that said Hello 2 you too. He said sorry I have stuff to do before tomorrow. There leaving for Minnesota today for 2-3 weeks. Thats understandable, but it would have taken less than a minute to say hi and gave me a hug. So anyways that led me to send him a text message telling him I was sick and tired of trying and not having him give a rats ass and I told him that I hope some body else can make him happy and it led to a big fight and we are no longer talking. He wants to be left alone and thats fine, I will leave him alone, but mark my words, the next time I see him, I will slap him. He did nothing but lie to me and lead me on and I will the last word!!! Trust me!!! UGH!!! I hate men right now. The bright note, is Nate has been there for me. He has been trying to get with me for months and now he might get his chance, who knows. We'll see what happens. Everyone has to have heart breaks at some point in there life right? Ugh. I will live. Anyways. I got to work today and everyone knew something was wrong. My eyes are blod shot from crying so much over the idiot. His shirt and patches will be here tomorrow and I am still debating on whether or not to send them back. I could care less either way. I just want him to know where I was coming from. He never listens to what I have to say without getting defensive. Its for the best. I feel bad it had to end this way. We should of at least been friends, but I dont forsee that happening in the future. We'll see though. Anyways. Everyone here is crabby today. Crabby with a capital CRABBY. Guess the weekend was to short for everyone including me. But I gotta get back to work. Break is over. Have a good day if anyone is reading.

Terrific Thursdays!!!

Today has been the best Thursday in a long time. First off, were not very busy here, we got air now!! They finally fixed the air. I sit right underneath the air vent and it feels good now. I'm not sweating to death. Yesterday everyone stunk cause it was hot in here!!!

Janellie and Jennifer are at odds right now. Jennifer is very inconsiderate of others feelings and Janellie has finally had enough of it. So thats been an interesting day listening to those two. Jennifer's birthday is tomorrow and I am making tuxedo brownie squares for her, so she doesnt have to buy a cake, instead she's paying me to make them. Extra mula $$$....

What else is new?! Ummm... Nick and I are done officially. I told him I couldnt put up with his antics anymore and that I didnt want to be anything more than friends. Thanks Crystal and Janellie for your advice. This guy thats been talking to me for awhile found out that I was done with him and asked me out for this weekend. I am like heck ya!! So he's going out with us this weekend to the downtown bars since Kathy will be in town from Sioux Falls.

We'll its 3:40 and I didnt even know it yet! Today is flying by. I gotta finish stuff up so I can go to the gym with Janellie and then were going to the farmers market in Valley Junction and then I gotta play Heather Homebaker :)

Peace out chumps!

Leave comments!! Thanks to those of you who do!

Love yall.
Heather.

~*Marvelous Monday's... La La La...~*

Its Monday.... Theres nothing exciting about that except for the fact I only have to work a few hours today and that I spent a wonderful day with Nick yesterday. I have to go to the Digestive Disease Doctor today so I get to leave here at 1:30pm. YAY!!! :) BOO for having to go to the doctor though. It sucks!!! Anyways, on to my weekend... still no net at home. Thats okay though cause Im going strong right now from myspace, so were all good. I can at least get on here at work. Anyways. Friday night I went home after work and I was talking to my mom and we got into a huge fight not to mention that Nick was drunk in Clear Lake and at the bar, so I had alot of stress on me. Well I finally laid down cause my head couldnt handle anymore and then Crystal & I got into it, and then finally I had enough to boil my blood. I couldnt see straight, I was dizzy, I had a headache, my head was going to fall off my shoulders, etc. Crystal texted and said we need to move on and get over it and have fun tonight, so I went there, saw her sister Angie and then me and Crystal headed to Okoboji. I was going to drink my headache away. It only got worse to the point I begged Crystal to take me to the ER to get a shot of pain medicine. I got there and they gave me some GOOD drugs. But the downfall, both shots were in the butt. Didnt bother me none cause I was in so much pain. Crystal drove home and we stopped at Wal Mart so I could get some toilet paper and some other stuff. We ended up getting cards for the guys for when they got back. Well I finally got home and got into bed. When I woke up on Saturday morning I was still in a lot of pain. I called and made an appt. to get into my family doctor cause they see urgent care patients on Saturdays. Well Dr Danielson gave me some Midrin for Migraines. It has a tranquilizer and tylenol so it would calm me down. Saturday afternoon, me and Crystal were out shopping around and she talked to Joe about 1ish and they were on there way home. The guys got another call before they came home. They had to rerail one car in Hampton, so a 2 hour set back, not bad. Well we were at Target and Joe told Crystal about the events from the night before about Nick and the Bar. I overheard it and flipped out. How could I put my heart out there to someone and have them rip it out by fooling around with the bartender. Nothing to serious, but still, he was "in" her!!! I flipped out. I took that card I got for him and I toar it to shreds. I threw it and said I'm done. I ignored him for the better part of the afternoon until I just had to ask... did you do it. He said no, it was a joke Heather. I didnt know what to say or believe at that point. We'll we were supposed to get together and talk after my step moms birthday party Saturday night and we didnt. He didnt answer his phone, he didnt do anything. I was getting mad and I went over to Crystals. Come to find out, his mom was in the ER with chest pains. I offered to go sit with him while he was up there and he didnt want company, which in turn kinda hurt me that he didnt want me to come up there and sit with them. First off he wouldnt even tell me where they were because of confidentiality EMS reasons, whatnot. So i went over to Crystal and Joe's and watched Pursuit of Happiness. Its a really good movie. Went home and went to bed Saturday night. Woke up yesterday morning, went to Village Inn with Crystal and Joe and then went over to Nick's apartment. I met his mom, we went shopping, we talked, I screamed, I cried and I vented to him on how I felt... got it out in the open. Friends is what we are, and will always be. He's a good guy deep down but I cant handle the drama. Ugh. Anyways. That leads me to today. Its been an interesting morning already to say the least... more details later.
*H

Fumming Friday...

I have a lot to fume about today and I mean alot. First off its bored here at work, slow and boring. No one is here but yet we all have to be here until 4:00p.m. Sucky!!! Next off, Nick is supposed to be home tonight, but Crystal just emailed me and told me that she talked to Joe and there all meeting up in Albert Lee and will head home in the morning. Why not drive the last 3 hours home damit!!! I am sick and tired of this driving partial way and sleeping, driving more and then coming home. Why can't they just get it straightend out and drive the last 3 hours. Hell Ill go up there and get them. UGH!!! I am so irate right now. I just want to be with him damit!!! My luck they'll get a flippin' call and wont be home for another week. I cant take this anymore. I think im going to have to get over it or get on with my life. The stress this is causing me is killer. Anyways. Scott is annoying as usual today. Piping in on conversations that he doesnt need to be in. I almost said this is an ABC conversation, see your way out. DAMIT!!! Anyways, have a good weekend.

Wacky Wednesday, Terrific Thursday's...

Wow, last night was interesting to say the least. I got home and my mom needed me to go with her to get her car from being fixed at my Uncle Jeff's shop. We went and did that and then when we got back home I went for my walk before Crystal came over for Girls Night/One Tree Hill night. We fixed pigs in a blanket, they were really good. I ate 3, didnt help my diet, but I was hungry. Its like all catching up to me now and Im doing really good. One Tree Hill was awesome last night. They graduated, Lucas got a sister, among other things. I thought it was a good show. I started crying at the end when Hailey gave Lucas the book from his mom. :( Ahh tear. Anyways, after that, I talked to Nick a few times. He was heading from Hibbing, MN to Fargo,ND for a coal wreck that was 30 cars long. I got to talk to him and if he's here Saturday, hes going to go with me to my step moms surprise birthday party. Yay! Then I went to bed after Crystal left. This morning I woke up at 5:15 and I went walking. It was awesome outside this morning. I didnt even put my earphones in to listen to my ipod until after the first lap. It just seemed so peaceful and I wanted to take it all in. I got home by 5:55 and was in and out of the shower, put hot rollers in and sat and played a game on the computer until I had to leave for work. I left about 6:45 today and got here about 7:15 I wasnt in a mad rush hurry and it felt great. I got here early enough to get my stuff done, like potty, get my water and be on the phone by 7:30ish. Not to mention I feel better today with alot more energy than normal. So thats good. What else is new? Oh Nick just texted me and told me he got another call out that he will not be home by Saturday night for the party. Andrea made me think about a good point.. Do I really want to be in that kind of relationship? What if it was serious, how would I handle it? Crystal is having a heck of a time dealing with Joe being gone and what not and I can imagine myself if Nick and I were serious. I have gaven it some thought and I think its time to back down and back away because I cant keep worrying about him and wondering if he's ever going to come home for more than 8 hours at a time. I mean come on. I know its selfish to think about myself, but I really cant get involved in the relationship if I'm not comfortable. It will just lead to heart ache in the long run.

Anyways now about work!!! Its going great. Phones are a good experience for me. But I gotta go. Ill ttyl

Long Time No Blog!!!

So today is the first day in a long time that I have been able to blog. I finally have a few minutes to myself where I can breathe in and out :) I am officially on the phones full time now. I sat through 2 hours of torture training yesterday learning the phone system and the basic questions that will be asked. I have been here a month processing correspondence, just never taking the phone calls. So I'm a full blown construction services rep now :) Finally. Scott is gone today and its really slow so thats good cause it would have been even slower had he been here to take calls with me. Janellie has been up since 2:30am puking cause she ate some bad turkey. She is feeling a little better. I havent heard much from Jennifer today. She trained me yesterday and it was torture but it was good training. What else?! Its so quiet here today, I can hear myself think, its SCURY!!!

I've been emailing Crystal back and forth today. *(like we do everyday!!)* We are hoping our guys make it home today or tomorrow. We want to see them. There in Cotton, MN which is north of Duluth, MN. Ahh I miss Nick :*( Sunday night was the most magical night I coulda asked for from him. He got back from a call in Muscatine about 2:00pm ish and he stayed at Crystals the whole afternoon, evening with me watching movies, and we all went to the park. It was a blast. We left Crystals house about 9:00ish and we stood outside and talked for about an hour. It was awesome. I got a hug :) I was in 7th heaven. I really really like him. I hope things work out.

This week, Andrea has been keeping me company :) Thanks girlie. She rocks at emailing back and forth. We always talk about basic stuff and its good to get a feel for whats going up in good ole' Waterloo. Thanks Andrea!!!

We'll im outie for a bit. I have nothing really to blog about. I am so bored, its scary!

*Heather*

~* What a Day...~*

What a Day What a Day (shaking head). Its been a good one so far. Can't say the same for last night, but it has been good so far today :) This morning I have been keeping myself busy with perm and temp power hook ups and doing some billing so we can get our billing caught up. We are officially caught up! YAY :) I have tomrorow off so this mad working woman can take a break and sleep in for once :) Surprise Surprise! Then I come back to work and Jennifer is gone on Friday, so it will just be the three of us. Mr Mc "noy" me :) Get it... Scott..... hasnt said a word to me today since I told him to mind his own business yesterday. I think he gets the point. Thats my new nickname for him btw. I kinda like it like that, then I dont have to hear his annoying voice. One clue kid, BLOW YOUR NOSE. Nothing is more annoying than someone who sits there and sniffs and then doesnt even blow there nose when its congested. UGH!!! Blow your damn nose! What am I going to do when I have kids? I have no clue. Lately Jennifer has been keeping her holy comments to herself. I think she kind of gets the hint that I dont listen to her. Um what else is new. Oh hay if you gise ever wanna email me at work my email is hmrichards@midamerican.com. Feel free. I get bored during the day, hints while I am out here blogging while I could be working. :) Anyways. I better get back to work. Ill ttyl.

Monday Morning Madness

The last place I wanted to be this morning at 7:30 am was here. I wanted to stay in bed today. I had a good nights sleep last night but still, I didn't want to get up knowing that I had to come to work :( Oh well!! I got here this morning at the same time as Janelle so I know I wasnt late hah hah :) There werent that many orders to do today when we got in here. I am already done with mine, minus the exception of the ones Jennifer threw on my desk cause she doesnt want to do them. That's cause you sit and talk all day, duh! Anyways!! I'm in Ipod world today. Can't stand the sound of Scott's voice today. For some reason his voice annoys the Hell out of me. I think its my overall attitude of him lol. anyways. Thats all for now, I gotta get some temp orders done since Jennifer felt the need to ditch them on me.

Ill blog later peoples! If your reading, please pray for me today!

Fantabulous Friday!!!

Hopefully today will be much better in my world. I dont know what my issue was yesterday but no matter what any one or who ever did, I was bitter about it. I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. But today seems to be much better. Maybe its because I got 16 more min's of sleep this morning than yesterday morning?! Anyways. I am throwing everyone for a loop!!! I am dressed up today. I needed to wear descent shoes to see if that is what is causing my problems with my legs and hips hurting. So I am wearing my black pants and pink shell with white sweater over it. And black dress shoes That are even on the ground. So we'll see if that helps me out. I think it is the flip flops cause last night in bed, my legs didnt hurt!! My back did, well thats just self explanitory, always had a bad back. anyways. Back to work!!!

YAY! Today is Friday. I never thought this day was going to get here honestly! I am excited about Kaydence's birthday party tomorrow. I haven't seen Andy or John or Gavin or Kay since Octoberish, I think it was. Oh well. I am really excited. Um what else?

Janellie is gone today, so its me Jen & Scott. This should be interesting. Jen was here before 730 I was so surprised when I pulled in and I saw her car here already. I was 2nd and then Scott was 3rd at 745am. So anyways, I better get to work on some temp orders. I have attached a picture of a temp pole. This is what we set up to be installed in the computer. Fun job :p

Will write later if time warrents :) If not have a great weekend everyone.

Its 8:15am

Its 8:15 am and I say something to Janelle about Scott pissing me off and she went off on me, stating that today is not the day to start trouble with anyone in here because the tension is high. How do you figure, me saying I cant hear my customers, is making trouble? I am to the point today where Im wanting to go home and not come back already. Its only day 19. Usually that happens on day 50 or something lol. I just plugged my ipod in and went from there. I just logged out of the phone since I havent officially been able to be on the phones yet. They will learn I am stubborn and will speak my mind whether the tension is high or NOT!!!!

8:06am and I'm already pissed!

Its 8:06a.m. and dumb ass has already pissed me off to the point where I just want to leave. Scott cannot pick up his god damn phone to talk, he has to do everything over speaker. When my customer on the phone can hear him on the phone with his customer, there's a problem. I asked him to pick up his phone really nicely and he said I don't want to and I will try and be quieter. Thats not the point. Not all of us are on speaker phone, we pick up the phone. God!! Hello. Your the only one thats on speaker phone dumb ass. Okay so its 8:08am and I am still venting and still ready to blow this popsicle stand. Hopefully I'll be able to add more later.

Introductions

Well today is day 18 on the job!!! Started April 23rd, 2006 @ Mid American Energy in Urbandale. We're located right across the street from Homemakers on Douglas.
Anyways, I'm in the construction services dept. I set orders to connect or disconnect temporary meters and set orders to connect permanent power to new homes. Anything new, they have to go through us first.

In my dept. theres 4 of us - my dept. is the electrical dept. There is a section of 2 girls, that work on Gas Connections.

In the Electric Dept its;

Janellie- she's been training me, since the trainer I was assigned to, has slacked. She has a daughter named Shannon, I graduated from school w/ Shannon. She works at Wal Mart, I see her all the time. J is just awesome, no words describe her better. Shes very responsible but has the personality of someone my age... I think thats what I love most about her.

Jennifer- My assigned trainer. Let me tell ya, what a trainer!!! She has been gone 99% of the time i've been here. She has not trained me but on 2 tasks, Janellie has taken care of me. She takes time off and continues to. Looking at the calendar, she has the next few Fridays off. She's the Holy Roler I talk about. She gave me a pen on my first day that said "worth waiting for..." Good god, I wont go into what else she tells me... So yeah, not to fond of her.

Scott - He's a couple years older than me. He's a nice kid but very annoying at times. He likes to butt into conversations and for christ sakes pick up your phone and get yourself off speaker. I cannot hear my customers on the phone if your on speaker phone dude. UGH! But then again he's funny and helpful at the same time.... I'm undecided on him.

That's the Electric Dept.

Then theres the gas dept. Deb & Julie work in that area. Dont know either of them very well to form an opinion, however, I do think one of them is not straight to say the least.

So those are my coworkers. Nice for the most part, when people actually show up to work. My biggest complaint is the training around here. I'm surprise I havent lost my mind yet to tell ya'll the truth. I dont know who is all reading this, but understand, I have been here almost a month on Monday the 21st, and I have learnt almost everything but they dont give you enough traning, that you will remember the tasks over time. Make sense?

So when you see me post out here, please give me some suggestions and help me out a little :) I need some encouraging words from time to time.

Thanks gise!
*Heather*