Rachel’s life

I always think coupons are a good idea. I just don’t know where to get them! Tonight that is my goal find a user friendly site for coupons.

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Work is going good. I am in training right now. Its going good. I am really enjoying. I am on a green committee interesting. What are you going to doing to celebrate Earth Day? April 22, 2010!!   Today is TOMS go a day barefoot. I didn’t go barefoot, can’t at work.

http://www.toms.com/

Are you buzzing? Its new to google. It’s pretty good. I really like it from my phone. Also, we really like google chrome.

The first time I remember drinking Tazo passion teas was at Juliette’s, yummy! It was so good. It is so good. I bought some about a week ago and I am pretty sure I have had a glass everyday since I got it, so good.   In the House Bunny  one of my favorite movies, the mean girl every time she is done talking to her she say’s it was so good talking to you..so good. Yes its so rude, but when I said so good I remembered that part of the movie. lol

Sarah, Jennifer (Sarah’s friend) and I ate pizza and hung out with Max and Ian. It was so cute he loves it when I rub his cuticles with my Burt’s Bees’s cuticle cream. After I was done rubbing his finger’s he started to put the cream on mine. haha it was so cute. We watched The Blind Side. I wasn’t able to finish it, but it was so good at least as far as I got. We had Hungry Howies Pizza the Garlic crust is my FAVORITE!!!

Well I am off to bed. Sleep well!

I remember when I was little my mom would tell me that he lunch when she was a teacher was a York Peppermint Paddy! Now I understand. They are the the best they aren’t all I want for lunch, but its the perfect thing to eat after lunch!

Tonight for dinner I had a soup bowl with Amy’s Lentil with veggie soup. It was really good.

Tomorrow we are going to the Alkaline Trio concert, hopefully its fun! Then Thursday Sarah is coming over to color eggs with me!!

Work is good. Monday is always stressful with getting back to work, but I seem to be in a Tuna faze, and the cafeteria makes the best sandwich. I do have the fact that every time I use my debit card, they charge me 25 cents. Doesn’t seem like that much, but it adds up. Thats 1.25$ a week. Yes, I am cheap haha.

Well I am off to bed!

She and Him is a band that I have been a fan of for a while. Zooey-she’s so dreamy. Ben Gibbard is the singer for the bands Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie. Check them out you will LOVE them. Also, the band Owl City is a lot of fun look them up.

My mom came to visit and we had a lot of fun. Friday that she got in we wend to Davids Bridal, and she got to see my dress. Then I went and played games with some friends at work. The my mom slept over. We watch About a boy, one of my favorite. I really enjoy Hugh Grant. Saturday we spent the day together shopping and we all went out to eat dinner. Monday Mom and Sarah came over for fondue and watched Transformers, it was my dads birthday and we thought that was a good way to celebrate.

Liz!!! Zac’s sister Liz is going to come visit. Lots of fun is planned.

NEW MOON- TWILIGHT SAGA!
Have you heard the sound track to this movie, love its so enjoyable. I hope you look it up or youtube.com it. I am so excited, I cannot wait to see it!! Sigh.. team Edward!

Wedding planning. What to say. Becca, Sarah, Tami and Liz are going to come over and work on the arch, bouquets and favors. Should be fun! Colors are plump, red and ivory/white. For the centerpieces I am going to use mason jars and the rest is a surprise. We have a DJ! Yay. Food we are still working on.

Family and Friends if you are coming, please shot me an email with info about if you are driving, flying and when you are planning to come. I will now try to post so pictures of everything. Computes are getting harder and harder. I don’t know if I can do it.

Last but not least. Work! Work is going so good. I love it. What more do I need to say? I enjoy where I work and who I work with.

I feel like I am a fairly decent employee I show up to work on time, if I am late I tell on myself, and make up the time.  I get my work load done, I help others if I can and time permits, I even stay after to make sure things are done correctly.
Today I was in class and I got an email from my boss saying that I needed to come see her before I went home for the day. My trainer Lynn say’s ‘Would you like to go see Irene right now,’ I say ‘No I will be fine’; but for those of you that know me well know that for the next 17 minutes that was all I could think about I have no idea what my trainer said.  I finally said ‘Lynn may I please go see Irene.’ Tracie laughs and say’ s ‘I knew that was all you would be able to think about’. 

I walk anxiously back to my bosses desk. I wait as she is talking to a insured on the phone.. My stomach gets tight, what have I done in the past week. I had a Team Manager on an underwriting team sit with me, did I say something wrong to him, did I do something incorrectly?

She gets off the phone . I step into her office. I sit down. she pulls out some printed papers, they were an email that I got about a week ago. I deleted the e-mail right after I got it. I was told that if I get anymore I need to report them immediately. 

My mentor at work said something to me the other day “It doesn’t matter what the sayer say’, it only matters what the hearer hears”.

Anyways, I am off to eat another corn-dog!

Yesterday at work I am in a class learning how to processes some different transactions. We went on a breaks, when I got back I ask if anyone knew how much money I could get if I started to donate plasma.. Jessica say’s “Go to Goodwill they can tell you.” I then stated “Goodwill, really?” Jess “Yeah good will they can tell you for tax prepossess.” I said “Wow I can donate plasma at goodwill, who knew.” Then Tracie commented that she had no I idea about that either.
I then looked right at Jess and I said “You are telling me I can go to goodwill and donate my PLASMA, blood plasma. Jess then got bright red and expressed “Oh I we were talking about a Plasma TV.” We all laughed out loud, then today I said a idiot comment and Jess whispers.. “still not as bad as my goodwill comment”
Haha OK it doesn’t sound as funny as it was, but it was really funny!

Zac, Chris Brown and Chris from Utah (Zac’s roommates). We all of us went some of their friends house. It was an interesting night, but we had fun. Here is the one and only photo of us. Thanks Chris B for taking it for us.. Yes, I have a princess crown on. I think that means I’m gonna get a prince!

I’m pretty sure the best part of New Years Eve- kisses.  We both got a lot all of his friends, mostly older men.. I tried saying no that Zac was the only one getting a kiss from me. Two guys (I cannot remember the names) came and kissed me on both cheeks, very nice of them..
I think Zac wants me to comment about him. He does have more than one shirt.. He just looks great in this one, so he has it on for both our pictures.

Thursday night I was doing my normal nothing and my friend Tami called, she asked if her and Becca could come over for a bit. I told them yes.
Tami walks in with a very large gift. I felt terrible, I didn’t buy gifts this year. It doesn’t seem like Christmas yet, so the shopping hasn’t really crossed my mind. I start to open it. Guess what my friend Tami got me? A T-shirt, wrong. Organic toaster pastries, 36 Strawberry and Blueberry flavored ones.
THEY ARE MY VERY FAVORITE!
I am claiming my Christmas gift to them is that I waxed their eyebrows. Let’s be honest I would have done it anyways. This was just my way of making myself feel better about loving the gift I got.
They always call and want to hang out. I am lame and only go out once a month. That seems to be my limit on social ability. I don’t mind small social gatherings, but parties are out for me and have been out for the last 4 months.

Goal one, I am going to be a better friend. How will I do this you ask?
I will go out of my way and make sure I see my dear friends at least twice a month. That doesn’t seem like much, but its an improvement from my once a month activity.

Sarah always ask if I am depressed, I am not. I just like the comfort of my home. 
Photo is of my dear Tami, Rachel(me) and lovely Becca. 

First date with Zac. We met threw a mutual friend, his roommate is someone I work with. Zac had to worked until 10, so he got to my house around 11 we had lots to catch up on; it was an interesting conversation. We went to the show Seven Pounds at 12:30, I’m not sure what I thought of the movie. I didn’t know what to expect, I might have cried a little. Rosario Dawson played a main character. I am not going to lie, the movie was kind of hard to watch. I don’t think I am ready for movies or books about people that are sick. That’s all I am going to say about the movie for those of you Will Smith lovers that are going to see it.

Zac asked me to go to the lights at the Mesa (Mormon) Temple, on Sunday. I think it will be fun, I haven’t gone to see the lights yet.

Goal two for the year of 2009- I would like to volunteer more. I will find more ways to contribute to the community. How will I do this? Big Brothers Big Sisters is a start, but I will look for other ways that I can help out. 

Goal three for the year 2009- cook more.

Christmas is the time of year for family, joy, and happiness! 
(mostly family)

I work in the AUTO underwriting department, about 2 months ago I was at dinner with some friends in the FIRE underwriting department and they started talking about having AUTO play FIRE in a friendly game of softball-coed.

Well as I have talked to my friend before the game it came about that there was no change AUTO would win.. That is okay with me because it is just a fun game, right? No, they said only losers say it is just a fun game.

So Saturday we played them.

The first inner, we got ahead 5 to nothing.  Maybe we had a little luck on our side, but by the last inning we were ahead 12 to 4.. Yeah I am pretty sure AUTO PUT FIRE OUT, YAAY! It was a really fun game and a great opportunity to get to know people outside of work.. I had a couple of good hits; the first one only got caught because Nick dove for it. At least they were past short stop, but not quit into the far outfield. I played catcher and I am a little sore, but what harm is that?

I must say FIRE put a lot of work into there matching shirts, they looked great and we hardly matched. But all that matters in the end is that we won!

That night we had a BBQ, it was fun again to hang out with people from work, see them in a casual setting.

Last week I was at work. Yes at work, I was sitting at my desk enjoying working a little over time. I looked to the left and WHAT did I see? A bug. YES! A yellow bug. I emailed my friend Josh that sits close by to see if he would kill the bug. He didn’t respond because he had already left work.
I emailed Ryan and said:

“Ryan, If there was a bug at my desk, would you come kill it?”

He replied. “I would say ‘Kill it yourself, its a waste of time for me to come upstairs and kill a bug at your desk.’”

I looked at the bug for about 3 minutes and thought to myself, I’m going home.. So I got up and left work. HAHA I was not killing the bug and I wasn’t working at my desk with the bug next to me.