For the Moments I Feel Faint

Long way gone…that’s the way my life feels like currently. I
am sorry for those of you who wait and click refresh on a daily basis waiting for a new post. But let’s face it, there are not that many of you and most of you find out details about my life through the gossip mill anyway. This past month has brought about many different changes, specifically busy season.

Ahhh, busy season. One of those things that the professors
threaten you with all through school yet the actual concept seems like a silly little device that they use only to scare. This concept isn’t real…is it? While I’m not yet working crazy 100 hour workweeks, I still have a long day by the time I wake up and advance through my day. Leaving the jobsite around 7-8 and
then fighting DC traffic all the way home for 4 miles, doesn’t it sound like fun?

For all the negative sounding tones coming from that
paragraph, I really do love my co-workers and job. I may not have many friends yet but to be honest, I don’t have time for more friends than I do have, thus it all seems to work out in the long run.

Moving on to another topic for a minute, is my closet. While
those of you who really know me, you can only imagine what my closet looks like. Now that I have started a big girl job, this monster known as my closet has only gotten worse. I think back to when Liz helped me move my closet from Harrisonburg to DC and cringe thinking what the next move will look like. Yikes!

There has been many other things to happen to me during this
break from blogging but for the sake of myself, I am choosing not to disclose many details. All you need to know is that I’m healthy and safe. J Perhaps one day shall come when I feel like disclosing these items but for now, I’m sorry. Ask me in person if you really want to know.

Farah and I were discussing our plans for New Years Eve this
year last night at dinner. We talked about going to NYC but decided that a three day weekend was too expensive after looking up hotel prices. Thus, I think we are going to do it up right here in DC. Thus, if any of you are looking to have plans, you know where you can find us.

Last Saturday I went to Sam and Marissa Buck’s wedding in
Harrisonburg. It was so pretty and set in an outside setting under a giant white tent. Seeing Sam get married after spending four years at EMU with him was a great experience. I’m so happy they invited me to spend the weekend with them!

For those of you who even ate any of Ruth Smith’s cookies, I
have to let you know that I made Ruth’s oatmeal sugar cookies and took them to work with me yesterday. Everyone loved them and I got tons of compliments. The whole batch is almost gone. The team seems to find it exciting that I bake. So because I enjoy baking but always have too many leftovers for me to eat, I have become the baking genius of the room. So far I have made monster cookies, peach muffins, banana nut muffins, oatmeal cookies, and small other goodies for the room. If you ever want to figure out how to get into your co-workers good graces after just starting, bring sugary items. It worked for me! J

Anyway, there was no goal to this post when I started out writing and now I have written a bunch of paragraphs of nothingness but it was more than time for me to update everyone. As one last reminder to those of you who haven’t seen me in a while, I will post a few photos that should maybe give you a sense of who I am. Enjoy. Make fun.

Release of the scores

Well folks, the season of busy has hit my life. I am working overtime every day at work and have busy busy weekends. With that being said though, life is good! I am going to Harrisonburg this weekend for a wedding of an old accounting classmate, which should be lots of fun. :)

As for the title of this post, the CPA exam scores are being released within the next week. My level of nervousness goes up every day. Whenever I get a new email, I am pretty sure I also jump about 10 feet in the air. So the next post I write will either be positive or negative...depending on the results.

Netflix TV show: Psych. Did any of you ever read Encyclopedia Brown when you were younger? I loved reading along with him and knowing that in the last page of the chapter, he was going to solve a crime with a twist that I didn't even see coming. If you haven't read the books and have children that are of the reading age...please encourage this old series, its an amazing read. Anyway, the first episode of this show instantly reminded me of Encyclopedia Brown.

This week also marked the entrance of the Italian designer Missoni's line for Target. While I was very excited for this line to drop, I wasn't expecting the Target website to shut down and all the stores to sell out one hour right away! I went to Target right after work and they were sold out of everything!! While in DC, I was not surprised therefore I knew I needed to call upon the troops. Thus, I called my mom in Florida, Cassi in Kansas, and Josh in Nebraska. Four Target stores later, I finally had all the items bought that I wanted from the line. Keep in mind, that was like one thing from each store. I didn't even want that many things! So ridiculous to say that least.

With all of that being said, it is time for bed. I'm sorry for the lack of posting...I promise I'll do better in the future readers :)

Fraud and 18 Years

Earthquakes,
hurricanes, Chloe being put down, parents selling the business….geez louise…hello
September! After a crazy last two weeks in August, I’m ready for this next
month and all it has to offer to me. My busy season is starting to vamp up as
well at work so life should get a hectic for the next couple of months. Thus,
if you plan on me blogging a lot, well your expectation should stop right now.

Just
to catch you up with a few items real quick like. Chloe, after being with the
family for several years, was put down due to the results of a complicated
inner body system. She will be missed but I can’t say the same for her white
hairs.

The
parents signed the contract to finally sell the business after many years of
building it up into what it is currently. Dave’s no longer exists! It’s kind of
crazy to think about it being gone as many of my childhood memories are in
place thanks to that business. No matter how much heartache it was for my
parents at times, it was all worth it in the long run to get them to Florida
like they wanted J.

I
am working out my travel plans for Christmas still, but hopefully it will be a
quick stop in Kansas to say hi for a whirlwind weekend as I don’t have that
many vacation days accrued at work!

School
has started for most people at this point and after attending the institution
for 18 years, my body hasn’t quite accustomed itself to the fact that part of
my life is over. Over time I will think
of it as a long ago period in my life but as for now, I stare wistfully out the
window and think about the times that I had friends living all around me.

Today
at work I found a concern that we are following up with. It was due to my “careful
observation” that this was found. I’m sure once I’m at the job for a while,
this combing of information will go away yet it is still hard for me to look at
something and not be so skeptical about it being the truth. After multiple
classes about fraud, my mind instantly shrieks, “FRAUD”, when I come across
something such as that when in reality, it’s a simple oversight of the board.
Sigh, I know.

I
have also realized what many of you already know: I have a lot of clothes. When
picking out outfits for work, it has become a game. Almost as to see how long I
can go without wearing the same outfit twice. I am almost done with week four
and have yet to wear the same thing twice. Not quite sure if that’s a good
thing or not. I would like to say that I’m running out items, yet I still have
all my heavier sweater items to go through. Does this mean I stop shopping?
Gasp, what a thought. Instead of spending my hard earned money on myself, I could
return it to a better place. While this is the part where I insert some
grateful orphanage or nonprofit, that’s not going to happen. Sadly my extra
money is going towards keeping our economy afloat, aka the loan department.
Thus, if you think about the Government as a charity, I’m doing quite well in
the supporting department!