Confession

After all this time of doing nothing I'm starting to lose a little piece of my sanity one day at a time. I have so much that I want to do, but I keep telling myself it's not justified. If I had a job I could do it without feeling the guilt. Not to mention those dang student loans hanging over my head!

So I must confess, I stopped looking for jobs for about umm a month! GASP! I know! But now I've sent my resume off to a few locations. Let's hope I have a decent batting average, and I get a call soon! After having such a nasty taste in my mouth about working again (thanks to that douche bag), I'm being VERY picky in the places I'm chosing to send my resume to. Ok so now my conscious feels somewhat better, hopefully this weight being lifted is also a sign I'll be getting a job soon! Everyone keep your fingers crossed that I get a new badass job!

High Maintenance

Oliver got his "summer" cut. His hair gets really matted, so the best resolution is to shave it all off. This takes away from the "traditional" schnauzer cut, but his groomer is much more appreciative about it. We learned this the hard way when we requested it to be brushed out. We received a frustrated phone call, followed by a halfass haircut. So, without further ado, here is Oliver with his newest haircut!

Only in Oklahoma do you use Tornados as Adjectives

Yesterday it was "tornadoing" in the vicinity. We were very fortunate that it skipped right over the top of us, and hit 1 mile away. Oliver and I were home alone while all the storms moved in.
Here is a play-by-play of our fun experience.

We prepared our "safe room" and waited on the storms to pass. It started with hearing the sirens alert us, (even though at this point they were 30 miles away). So we're watching the news and tracking the progress of the storm when we hear the tornado is about 10 miles out, and west Edmond should take cover. This time was when we decided to go into the safe room.

As we're in the safe room with our laptop and live streaming video of the newscast, everything goes pitchblack! I had my iPhone so I used it as a temporary flashlight, and caught sight of Oliver's cofusion from the darkness. In the meantime I'm trying to get a call out to find where the storm might be and what we may need to prepare for. Well in Oklahoma when it tornados, cell phones are USELESS. I had no service, the network was jammed, so I continued to try to call my father, and after about 20+ attempts success! Dad was experiencing his own storm while we sat in darkness. (Guthrie received much worse hail stones than we had).

We were in our safe room for a good hour waiting on power, and the multiple tornados to pass over. After our power came back on the sirens continued to blow another 3-4 times and we still had to wait out storms. We were just thankful for power! Here is a picture of and Oliver's impatience, and our small hail in the back yard. I compared our hail to Sonic ice, while Dad's was comparable to golf balls!
So long story short, we were safe from the storms, somewhat prepared, and we were very fortunate for the tornado to pick up and touchdown a mile away from us! You never can fully predict a tornado's path of destruction. Oliver and I were just thankful for getting missed!

I Need A Job

There are too many things I want right now, but just can't justify purchasing without a steady income. My last unjustified purchase was my beloved iPhone...not saying it was a stupid decision, because it was not, I LOVE MY iPhone! It's just the rest of life is getting more and more expensive. For example, my health insurance went up $18/mo since I'm getting older...this is messed up to me. That's a $216/year increase!! Mr. President I NEED A BREAK on my health insurance! And also I really want some new clothing from AE...

Actually...this is where I'd run to!

Keep in mind, I've been to Coachella...it's not known to be in the "good" part of SoCal. When I did mission work here, I was told it was the "Mexican Ghetto", it's pretty true. Ghetto or not, this looks like one badass concert!

Everytime I Feel Like This I Want to Run Away...

But I forget how I'm unemployeed and have nowhere to go...

Day after day I pray for the pain to go away, and day after day I still continue to feel it.
Every once in a while it's temporarily numb, I'm looking for the permanent numbness...maybe someday, just maybe someday....