To Blog or Not to Blog!

So I doubt myself, to think that if I post a blog now, will I actually keep up with it? Well due to my past it looks like I post then it takes 3-6months before I do it again! So why is it so hard to open up the computer to blog just a few paragraphs about life. I guess most will say they are just too busy, but really I can't say that for myself! So here's the update!

According to my last blog I just recently moved...Well the move has happened again! If most of you maybe already know, I moved back into the parental house. I thought I was going to be going back to school, so I went part time at my job, which yes I am still employed at, a little over a year now. I realized that my life was pretty stressful from working there so moving from 40 hrs a week to about 20-30hrs a week is nice! I enjoy being home with Ma and Pa, but you know I guess as everyone might feel a lil edgy moving back in with parents, but it has gone very well! Especially now that Emily and chuck are close, and I get to babysit Allison a lot! Other than that I've just been a bum I guess. If I'm not working I'm with friends or family. Or maybe one of my favorites things to do is sleep, man can I sleep! I'm actually a zombie at night, so hard for me to actually fall asleep! anyways I'M totally getting off track! See this is what I do, ramble and more rambling! Starting this Monday I will be putting hours in at TJ's Country Store, so be working under Dad and I'll actually be working with Emily! YAY. I'm pretty excited...maybe not about the work, but maybe the fact that the pay periods are different from both jobs, so I'll be getting a pay check every week, So maybe I will feel like I always have money haha! wow..anyways that's all I can really say. I'm enjoying my life right now and things couldn't be in a better place, well besides that I wish I was in school and knew what I was going to do with that! I've debated over and over what I truly am met to do! and I think I finally might have figured out something, I've always wanted to Coach basketball or some sort of sport that I have the knowledge for, So I figured I'm gonna take a look into Physical Education also...So I'll keep you updated on that if that what I choose to go passionate about and finish school!

Oh but its 10:30pm and I'm tired, I spent the day at the mall with Allison, cause I was babysitting. Let me tell you, she can wear you out. Now I have to be up at 5:30AM cause I have to work tmr morning early in Sioux city :( sad...lets hope I can fall asleep!
So I'm not gonna make promises about keeping this up...But i will certainly try my best :) Hope all is well with everyone and hey Christmas is right around the corner, hopefully I don't have to work and can be at grandma's because I believe this year is the year where mostly everyone will be there!!!

Goodnight, and see some of you around Thanksgiving!

<3 Katie

Okay, soo finally I'm back

Hello everyone, just letting you know I am all alive..but i have 5 minutes to write this! Because I am on my 15 minute break from work, and our company put computers out here with internet access, which is amazing cause I dont have internet at my new place.. Soo quick update

- I now live in sgt. bluff in a 3 bedroom duplex with one roommate and a new lil dog, a black lab with a lil mix of pit..Named Tasha..She is adorable, its a really nice place, garage, big living room, dining room, kitchen..you know just like a house SOO excited...oh yea and a huge fenced in backyard, that Tasha loves!
-Work is going alright, yes just alright, the department seems to be falling out a little bit, because we just had 5 ppl quit in the past week, yea pretty sad:( most of the employees I knew and were friends with. Well I have almost been here for a year now, my annual review is in august, so hopefully i'll get a good raise. If I'm stil there.
-Nothing else is really going on that I can think of writing really fast since now im down to 2 minutes. Soo I will blog more! Caus I am going to sign up for internet and cable. because it has been like 2 months now since i have had internet access or cable...I'M DEPRIVED!!!!
Well Maybe ill come back at lunch and blog some more...but just for anyone my new address is

1455 Vanderburg Cir.
Sgt. Bluff, IA 51054

same cell number 712-540-1221

Anyways have a great day, and maybe when you guys have read this you'll be happy that I finally blogged, since its been few too many months!!'
Can't wait to see you guys at Camp!!! I'll be up there Weds. because i have to work today monday and tuesday...yuck!! Soo ill be up there till saturday or sunday!!!

Love you all,
KaTie

Been Too Long

Hey everyone! So I'm finally going to blog again, since its about 2 months since i have! I'm always keeping busy! Can you believe we are done with the 1st month of the new year! It's hard for me to believe it! I started school about 2 weeks ago again... I'm actually alot focus this time around and really liking my class and professors so far...I moved to Part time in work so I'm only working 24 hrs instead of 40 hours...thought i needed a break and try to get school back on track...Other than that nothing really else has been happening, work, school and friends... I've been employed at Premier Bankcard for about 5 months now, Its been a up and down battle..I enjoy working there because of the benefits and the co-workers and management is great, but talking on the phone all day does get old! We work in teams of about 11-20 reps and have a supervisor my team is amazing, we have all became really close friends and there are about 4 of us who always hang out, u know maybe go have a couple beers after a long night at work! Bowling is our new thing....Well unfortunetly we had a shift bid and now we are all spread out on different teams so tonite was our last night working together as a team, rather sad, but it is an opporunity for us to grow and meet new co-workers...So if I'm not at work, I'm with co-workers having a good time or I'm just sitting at home relaxing!

I don't know what else to write about because everything always seems to be the same....But hopefully i will not wait forever to write again, but I'm at the library right now and they are trying to kick me out cause they are closing...geesh i don't think i've ever been at a library where I have to get kicked out...usually i leave on my own WAY early or never come!!!!! But anyways just dropping in to see everyone!!!!! Hope all is well! I'm doing good and still kicking it!!!!!!!!

Hope you all are off to a great new year!!

Love Always,
Katie

Do you remember me??

Ha, is that not a good title for this blog! I know at Thanksgiving everyone was saying how much I need to blog again sine its been since like what August or September since I have the last time! What can I say I've been pretty busy. So I finally had time to just sit down and blog today, Since I don't have class this morning. Let's see not alot of updates have been happening lately...The usual of going to school and still working full time at my job I got in August. I must say I really enjoy it, except the fact i have to drive there which cost money cause you know how gas is! So in the end I was thinking I'm going to make a good profit, but instead I'm cutting it close with bills! So now I'm in the search for a new apartment thats cheaper and better than the one Im in now. I have discovered a couple weeks ago That my apartment north wall and south walls like to get moist..If you know my aparment I really don't have installation they are cylinder bricks or something sooo since I;m never here i leave my heat off cause I dont want a huge bill to pay, and when i get home its cold so i turn it on and then my walls sweat...which if i don't catch then turns to mold...which it has pretty bad this last week. Mom and Emily came over and helped me clean it up, and if only I didn't clean it up before also they would have seen how bad it was....No wonder why I have been getting sick lately....So you think that if i went to the landlord they could do something about it but noooo he tells me i need to leave my heat around 69/70 soo if it gets too cold it will kick on...or put like a fan on it or something...well did that...and hmm **looks at wall** Its still wet...I have cleaned it up 3 times last night and im about to do it again rite now! So We'll see what happens with that....NEWAYS besides that everything has been going alright, overstressed sometimes but at the same time its reality setting in for me needing to make some sort of income to get by!

I don't have alot of time for friends, which I think they are quite dissappointed in me but yet they know that this is a pritority...So I'm trying to make time! But its the holiday's and I wanna go see my family instead when I have days off!

But I did have some time to do a Lil christmas decorating! I'm excited cause its MY FIRST Tree in my own place!! Soo of course I got some pictures :) Take a Look!!

Heres just with the lil oranaments i put on.



The tree is like prelit soo here's what it looks like lit up :) its soo cool!! haha



Anyways I need to do some homework before I head off to work! But I'll try to keep updating throughout the holidays, I do have vacation days in December and Janaury so I should have time :) Take care everyone and sorry its soo late!!!

Love You All,
Katie



Hope you all had a Great and safe Thanksgiving!!

Coming to Realize

I'm coming to realize that, I'm going to be very busy....but I'm hoping I'm not going to wear myself out. Working full-time job is way different, I mean I really have only had part-time jobs in the past...working a 40 hour week is def. a change of pace for me and you can add about 5-6 hours of driving tack on the 40 of working. I actually really enjoy my job or maybe I enjoy it cause I know I am going to make good money for my age. It's very repetitive but anyone could probably tell you that if they work on phones. I'm very lucky that I've only had a couple calls where the customer has gotten angry because of something that he should just have read before he called us. Now I know how the teleservices people feel! Although my job is imbound not outbound, thank gosh! Otherwise I don't think I would like it. It's amazing how many people just call in and then expect us to tell them everything about the card...well yes I understand we still need to sell it, but we can't be on the phone with each customer for 15 mins each tryin to explain all the details, because they DO have all the information in front of them! I think they figured if we wait 10 secs to give them our "instant decision" button instead of reading right when we get it...it would cost of 70,000 missed customers each month to our 3rd party vendors! Isn't that crazy!? well neways enough about that....

I just started my first classes at USD today. I decided to move back to part-time for school and STAY there at least for this semester. Working 40 hours a week, and at nights really takes away alot of time to do school work. So I'm taking business stats and Calculus and then my online class of Accounting II...wow thats alot of numbers and math! Should be interesting! But I'm up for the challenge! Other than school and work nothing has been going on. It's great to see my friends back here! I def. missed them and Hopefully i can make enough time to see them and hang out this semester! We have a couple times already and it feels good to be around my close friends again!

Bad news...I've been feeling a lil under the weather, i think it's just my immune system trying to tell me "Whoa Katie, what are you doing to me!? I'm not use to all this" cause really I didn't do much this summer and now here I am working 40 hours and school on top of it, and my sleeping pattern is all messed up!!!

hmmm what else can i say...on random...anyone listen to Imogen Heap, maybe you heard the song "Hide and Seek" well neways, just one of my new fancies, very relaxing music to my ear. But I'm off to bed, got class in the morning and then I'm going to work for 4 hours tmr afternoon since I really don't have anything else to do!!!

Hope everyone is well! Miss you all:(

Love always,
Katie

Busy busy

Hey its been awhile since I've blog...you all might be thinking "well katie did just turn 21, she's prbly out being crazy!" well actually no i havent! But I did enjoy my birthday, I ended up going up to Mitchel South Dakota with some friends to meet more friends, we ended up getting a hotel room and went out to the bars for the night and had a little after party....I actually did NOT get drunk, my friends took me out to eat and I actually got sick from the food and was in no mood to drink that nite, but I was still forced to have a couple!! But I must say that I did go out at 12:01am right when I turned 21, and I remember everything but that was prbly the night I celebrated the most! So I came back weds and kind of caught up on sleep cause I knew I was having some other college buddies come over for the weekend to hang out for my birthday....Although I didn't know they were going to stay the whole weekend, but it was still alot of fun! I went out on friday nite to the bars and it was a good time! It's weird pulling out my NEW license thats blue (if ur not from SD, when ur under 21 your ID is red and when u are 21+ its blue) soo I finally got mine on Friday soo I totally used it that night without having to point out my birthday! Soo we stayed up late that night (go figure) and the next morning we didn't sleep in that long...soo i was sleep deprived, but that didnt make me go to bed earlier the following night...bc well I was up til 4am this time hanging with one of my good friend that we needed some catching up to do on life! Now the problem in all this was I wanted to get ahead of myself and go to bed at like 11 on saturday and wake up early sunday morning, to prepare myself for my 1st day of work which was on Monday(20th).....well ya...i had about 10 hours of sleep this weekend and then Sunday night I didn't get to bed early enough still and i had to be up at 6am...if u know me...umm I dont get up at 6am! Thank goodness I only had to be up this early one time!

Soo yes, I have started my job at First Premier Bankcard, and so far I really like it, and everyone is soo nice and the atmosphere is amazing! I'm currently have completed 3 days of training which consists of working from 10am-6:30pm....I will continue this till the 31st and the I start my first shift on the 2nd!! Im soo pumped!! But Im hoping I don't wear myself out!!!!! Right now I'm choosing to go to school full time (12credits) and work full time Sun(11am-7pm) Mon-Thurs(3pm-11:30pm)....We'll see how it works but I already know that tuesdays and thursdays are prbly going to be my a crabby days! lol I go to class from 9:30-1 and then work from 3-11:30pm... remind u it takes 1/2 hour to get to work!!! I know I am crazy! But I need a job and the money but i also want to be in school and getting done still at a decent time!!! I will def. keep an open mind and def. watch myself so I don't get burnt out! Okay well this is getting way to long and detailed!!! Soo I'm gonna go, but I promise I will make time again to blog about my progress at Premier...I'm happy to call myself a 1st premier bankcard employer! :)

Hope everyone is well!!!! and staying dry with the storms that have been hitting us lately...well we've had rain 2 straight days now!! and will have a 3rd day tmr i guess!!!

Well im off!

Toodles!!

23 hours left

its 1am on august 13th...i technically have 23 hours left till i am 21!! cause u know at 12:01am i am 21 lol...I'm so excited, so excited that im still unsure what im going to be doin!! But i think im gonna go camping this weekend with a bunch of friends, old and new! im def. excited!

Ahh its gonna be crazy, but not too crazy!! It's not like much goes on, on a tuesday! But then the 15th i told mom that her and dad can take me out to this steakhouse called Whimps, its outside of vermillion and ppl have told us before that its a good place, so i told mom thats where we better go and check it out!!! the comment she makes "are you gonna be ready" and i said in response..."mom I don't plan to get too drunk, so I should be recooperated by then"....hopefully!

Anyways im off to bed cause its late and i need my sleep soo im ready ;) hehe!!


Hope you all had a great weekend....and have a GREAT week!

ill keep you posted about the b-day!

Love all,
Katie