The Blonde Diaries

I find that growing up isn’t something that happens overnight. In fact, I have found that growing up and learning responsibility has been quite a long road and I am still learning. Last week, I opened my first Roth IRA. This week I am looking into insurance policies, specifically life insurance. I know that I have a small policy through work but I don’t think that would be enough to cover expenses should something happen to me. So tomorrow and through the next week or two I plan on obtaininglife insurance quotes to see what is available to me and the cost associated with it. I am hoping to find some good websites out there to explain the different types of policies, the advantages, and disadvantages so I can make an informed decision similar to when I decided on an IRA. If you have any tips please let me know.

Man, Mike and I woke up fairly early for a Saturday morning and decided to get moving. No eggs and bacon for me. We quickly went to the city municipal building (like a community center) to cast our ballots and get this year’s election over with. I have to say I was quite overwhelmed when I logged into the Houston Chronicle’s website to see the sample ballot. Our ballots in Louisiana/Baton Rouge were never as large as this one for the city of Houston was. I have to admit, I took the lazy way out and did a straight ticket vote. I wonder how many other people do the same due to the size of these things.

After that, we were off to Kolache Factory for breakfast and then to Mike’s to get things together before the movers came at 1pm. All week Mike kept telling me he didn’t have much. Well, we get over there and there is a lot of boxes and furniture he wants to move!! I got really nervous all of the sudden but decided to stay calm and told Mike and the movers to load it all up and we’d deal once we got to my place. Luckily it all fit but I am exhausted now. Between voting, moving, and watching my Tigers lose it has been a very long day.

My training is finally over and I am at home relaxing. I went out yesterday to our training happy hour then met up with some friends after and I forgot to remind myself that I am not in college any more. It wasn’t really all that bad but I am tired and cranky today. I think I might go see if Maury is on and if it is paternity test results day and just mellow out for a while. One of my favorite managers at work is leaving and her happy hour is tonight (don’t worry it will be water for me tonight!) so I need to rest up and wish her a proper goodbye. It kinda surprised me when I heard she was leaving. I knew she wasn’t going to be a lifer but then she got engaged to a partner and figured she was just going to get sucked in and never leave but apparently not. She has a great job opportunity so it should work out really well for her – Director of Financial Reporting at an energy company (ie upstream oil company). I can only hope that I can find that job in another year or two.

I have been having that feeling a lot lately.  I am not sure what happened recently but it seems like I have thrown organization out the window.  I cannot stay on top of things for the life of me and I cannot remember important information either.  Just last week, I totally forgot about the promotion lunch I was suppose to attend at work.  Today, I can’t find a magazine with a picture of a wedding cake I liked.  Neither are that important in the grand scheme of things but the timing and the sheer frustration they cause are driving me nuts.  I am trying to improve though.  At work I printed out my Lotus Notes Calendar and posted it on the wall by my desk for the next entire year.  We are using it as the “vacation calender” but honestly, I am doing it so I remember important dates/events.  I am also flipping magazine tonight in hopes of finding that picture and getting rid of things I don’t actually need to be keeping around.  I’m sure I’ll find it next week after I already have my wedding cake consultations this week.

Normally, I don’t worry about the Karma bus and where it’s stopping or for what reasons. I tend to let things go fairly quickly and move on with my life. I find it allows me to be stress and worry free. Last week I thought the Karma bus had stopped and left Mike a pretty good round of Karma, business trip to London, but that was quickly over and no trip to London was to be had. I have to admit I was a tad happy because I didn’t think it was fair to me but it would have been great for him. Instead, the Karma bus came back around yesterday and dropped off another travel plan for Mike: a six month stint working in Beaumont. Ugh! So needless to say Mike and I are trying to stay positive about this six month stint and we should be able to cash in on a night’s stay at the Hilton in Venice next year which would be fabulous. I’m hoping it’s not six months of non-stop working in Beaumont more like 4 days a week but I guess we’ll find out once this little project starts on Thursday. Some days I just wonder why the Karma bus stops here and what I have done to deserve the latest handout.