musings of Mother Hood

Friday January 27, 2006

leah says i have to list 5 wierd habits. apparently leah has more faith in my capacity for entertaining wierdness than i do.  let's see...

i'm sure there are those people in my life who could come up with this list (and probably a longer one) in record time, so i reserve the right to amend it when i get home-- as to reflect accuracy.

Wierd habit #1:  I eat things in multiples of two whenever possible. For example, two M&Ms, two pretzels, etc. This is to insure perfectly equal amounts of food on each side of my mouth.  In the example of the M&Ms, they must also be the same color.

Wierd habit #2:  When making lists of "Things To Do", I list things I have already done that day so that I may check them off and feel productive.

Wierd habit #3: When reading or listening to something, I look for phrases that have letters or syllables that form patterns. For example, "University of Arkansas" has 20 letters. That is two patterns of 10. U ni ver sity o fA rka nsas. You can split the letters into even clumps of 1 - 2 - 3 - 4.  That one splits up syllables so it's not perfect. I'm sure I just lost some people there.

Wierd habit #4: I fix my hair to go get it cut.

Wierd habit #5: I wear pajamas that match. Not a set, necessarily, but a shirt that matches bottoms.

the job is awesome. i'm really happy with the way things turned out.

mom-- if you don't have a copy of "Somewhere Down in Texas" let me know. it is, in my opinion, the best one in a while. (excluding the 50 #1s of course!)

Monday January 23, 2006

as of 1 February, my uark.edu email account will be closed and i will once again be using my AOL account! SarahMcow@aol.com..... that's right... the same email address i've had since 7th grade...     i'm not totally sure what will happen to emails sent to semarti@uark.edu, but it will most likely never get to me, so... there ya go.

Thursday January 19, 2006

so... the last few weeks/months' worth of drama in a nutshell-- today was my last day at Wal-Mart and I start at Saatchi on monday. pretty good story-- i'll tell you sometime. yah new job!

in other news-- i'm not going to see george strait this weekend...

Tuesday January 17, 2006

I have accidentally developed a preference for Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke.

Monday January 9, 2006

Started work today.  Very exciting! But I am EXHAUSTED! I was ready to go to bed when I got home, but I've managed to make it this far. (it's 7:05)

The odometer in my car rolled over to 193000 today. And I need a new one... we'll see.

"God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called." -- on a church sign i saw while in traffic in Bville today.

Friday January 6, 2006

So this is my last day to hang out at home during the day. I start Monday at Wal-Mart. They sent me the agenda for Orientation--

8:00am.... drink the koolaid...

Seriously though, I am really excited about doing something new and having a "normal" schedule like the rest of the world-- even if that means getting up and going to work in the morning instead of watching a few hours of E! True Hollywood Story from bed, moving to the den to check my email at my leisure, updating my xanga at 9:15 in the morning, running errands to the bank/post office/tanning bed/Wal-Mart/whatnot. I'll still be at Outback for a few weeks/months I don't know-- I went by there yesterday to let Mark know about the new job and he was really excited, which I didn't expect- he's very unpredictable- and I'll still be there on weekends for however long. We're spoiled getting to eat half-price at Outback... it'll be hard to give that up!

Wal*Mart Facts.com

P.S. I am still working out the kinks with the pictures on my new camera. Pictures soon?

Thursday January 5, 2006

Sunday January 1, 2006

New Entry! Christmas was fun. Getting to see everyone is nice every now and then . And I somehow managed to bring the San Antonio weather back with me, it's been so nice here! AND I had time in Dallas to go to the Haagen-Dazs (spelling?) place in Terminal C where I enjoyed a Rocky Road Dazzler.  For those of you less fortunate folks who have not experienced the Dazzler, it is a couple heaping scoops of Rocky Road ice cream covered in Hot Fudge Sauce and topped with Oreo Cookie pieces.  It is heaven on earth.

So, I am a college graduate. Which isn't as exciting as everyone made me think it might be. I don't have jack to do during the day anymore, I don't have health insurance, or the Health Center to go to anymore. And no job. So, now instead of being a college student/bartender/waitress I'm a college graduate/bartender/waitress. It gets a funny look from people. And all I heard from people for the last few years was that I should graduate and move on and do the next thing, yadda yadda yadda. Now that I've finished, my friends that graduated "on time" and have "real jobs" tell me how much it sucks and how I should have stayed in school. Being a grown up is no fun sometimes.

I am the current high bidder on a pair of George Strait concert tickets and am pretty pumped about it. I've never bid on anything on Ebay before but pledge not to become a junkie like Laura and Mom!

Happy New Year!

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost