waiting, waiting, and more waiting

I am trying to pass the time till my next class starts. It starts in about an hour. So maybe this will help the time pass by. Today I got off early because I have to work on Saturday morning. Bummer!! I reorganized everything at my desk today. I feel so much better now. I made new files, threw away a bunch of stuff, and just made everything the way I wanted it to be. I feel so much better now that task is done! This week has been really easy though due to work. On Monday I just worked my normal day but on Tuesday I got to go home early. About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon our phones, alarms, and computers went down. The company that is building beside us accidently cut all of the wires to your bank. So for security reasons we had to leave. Which was fine with me. I never mind getting off early and being paid for it! So after I got off I went to go get Hope. Whitney (her mommy) has been really sick so I offered to take care of her for the day. We had so much fun. We went up to school so I could get my math test back and ran some other errands. I felt so bad for her because every time she would fall asleep was about the time I would have to take her back out. She is already 8 months old and I can not believe it! She is growing soo fast. When I went up to school everybody was going crazy over her. It was cute but I didn't want everyone touching her because you never know what other people do. I took her home about 6 p.m. last night and we were both wore out. She fell asleep and I wanted to but I didn't. I cant wait for the time we get to spend the day together!

Changing gears a little, I am so proud of myself. I am doing so well in all of my classes! This is the best that I have ever done in school. For once I am putting school before anything else. It also doesn't hurt that I can do my homework at work. On my math test I got a 97%! I think that is the highest I have ever made on a math test before. usually I do really bad or just passing. I am going to try to keep up the good work. I also passed my western civ test to! That is the test that I knew for sure I failed but i didn't!

I can not wait for this weekend!! Its Bikes, Blues, and BBQ! I have plans for the whole weekend but its ok because I am going to have so much fun. Jennifer (Whitney's cousin) is coming in from North Carolina to stay for the weekend. So all of us are going to go our Friday night. Its going to be crazy because all of her friends know how to have a great time. Saturday morning is going to come way to early I'm afraid. Oh well, I guess that's the price you have to pay for being young. On Saturday night another group of friends are going out! I usually am not the kind of person that likes to go out but this weekend I am. Bikes, Blues, and BBQ is a lot of fun since it only comes around once a year. You can spend the whole weekend walking up and down Dickson looking at all of the bikes and people. It gets kinda crazy sometimes. On Sunday I have to go to cookout. Whits family is having one since Jenn is in town. So I have a jammed packed weekend. I am looking so forward to it!

Since I got off work early today I planned to come up to school and do some homework. The only thing that I left to do was my math homework. So I got all the up here and I forgot my calculator! How stupid is that? Of course I cant do my math without a calculator. I even tried to use my phone but it cant do what I need it to do. That means that I have tried to waste about 3 hours before class. I would go somewhere but gas to so expensive it doesn't pay to go anywhere. Plus if I do then I would want to go shopping. That is the last thing that I need to be doing. Well now that I only have about 50 minutes I will go. Talk to you soon!

Steph

A Little More About Me

1.What is your occupation right now? Personal Banker

2. What color are your socks right now? not wearing socks at the moment

3. What are you listening to right now? boring CNN

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Arby's

5. Can you drive a stick shift? I have before but I'm not sure I could now. I prob forgot by now

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Donna

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes I do like Lora even though we never to to see each other!

8. How old are you today? 23

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Defiantly football! College or NFL

10. What is your favorite drink? sweet tea

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? yeap....most of the time I don't like it. I know I'm strange.

12. Favorite food? don't really have one particular favorite, it just depends what kind of mood I'm in

13. What is the last movie you watched? Lake View Terrace

14. Favorite day of the year? Christmas

15. How do you vent anger? I have to vent. Sorry if some of you are the ones I vent to. You guys really do help!

16.What was your favorite toy as a child? hmm....I'm not sure. It probably was a game. I loved games as a child

17. What is your favorite season? Fall!

18. Cherries or Blueberries? depends...I love blueberry muffins but I love cherry cheese cake. So I guess I like them both

19.Do you want your friends to re-post? sure...

20. Who is the most likely to respond? Yeah know, I really don't know

21. Who is least likely to respond? the same thing as number 20

22. Living arrangements? with my parents who I love to death

23. When was the last time you cried? a couple of weeks ago

24. What is on the floor of your closet? what...I have floor in my closet...no way!

25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to? Taylor

26. What did you do last night? went to the movies and played the Wii

27.What are you most afraid of? snakes and spiders

28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburger? Anyway, but I go for cheese more often

29. Favorite dog breed? I really like labs but I also like several others. If they are cute I pretty much want one.

30. Favorite day of the week? Saturdays

31.How many states have you lived in? 2

32. Diamonds or pearls? I'd have to say diamonds

33. What is your favorite flower? Gerber Daises or Lilllies

Thank you Lora for the little bit of fun!

Over the Hill and Through the Woods, To Grandmothers House We Go

So this weekend was so much fun! To start everything off I had to babysit on Friday night. I don't mind babysitting for these kids though because I have known them for a long time now. It has been a while since I have babysat them and the oldest boy was asking his mom when Miss Stephanie was going to come play again. Isn't that so cute? It doesn't hurt either that they are very well behaved. The entire night the only thing we did was play the Wii and play board games. The oldest is 6 and the youngest is 3. They are getting so big on me. Anyways they are at the age that they think you are cool if you play games with them. We played so hard that by 9 pm they were sound asleep. I made them a big pallet on the floor and we watched a movie on t.v. Not 10 minutes went by and they were both sound asleep. I don't babysit much during the summer because the families are always doing things with each other but come back to school they are calling. This is prime time babysitting time. I don't mind it at all though!

On Saturday after I got off of work at noon I went down to Alma. When I got there I got to hang out with Granny, Aunt Kathy, Megan, Joyce, Taylor, Grace, and and one of Kathy's old friends. We had so much fun. Grace was cracking me up all day. At one point I asked her if she wanted to sit in my lap and she told me, "Busy". I about fell on the floor because I was laughing so much. Another thing she did was tell Granny's dog to move because she was in her way. You just never know what she is going to go. Kathy got her a costume of a M&M. Kathy loves M&M's so she just thought she would get it for her. I have pictures but I am at work. I need to still upload them. We just had so much fun hanging out at Granny's and talking.

On Friday, I called all of the Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City, and Sam's stores in Northwest Arkansas looking for a Wii. What would you know, nobody had one. I have been wanting one for a while because they are so much fun. Several of my friends have one and I just wanted on for myself. Well, while I was eating Pizza Parlor Pizza I thought that I should call the Wal-Mart in Alma. Let me just say that I think that Pizza Parlor is one of the best pizza places ever. When I called to see if they had any they said they had two!!!! So Taylor, Megan, and I automatically went down there to get one. I sat it up when I got back home and have had so much fun. I only have the sports game right now but I'm going to get more. My parents are addicted to it! My mom last night kept saying she wanted re-matches. I am so glad that I got it. My dad now wants Guitar Hero and my mom wants the Wii Fit. I wasn't both so I'm fine with any of those choices.

Yesterday besides playing the Wii me and my parents went to the movies. We went to see Lake View Terrace. It was ok. I thought that is was going to be better than what it was. I'm still glad that we went though. We never go to the movies together. I think that it is a movie to watch but I would just rent it. I wouldn't go and see it in the theatres. Well I hope that everyone had a great weekend. I guess that I need to get back to work. Have a great day!

All the Extras

So I have not posted anything in about a week or so. I'm starting to get really bad about posting things. I need to get better. I have so busy lately with school and work. I was so ready for 4 pm Thursday because that meant that I didn't have any more tests to take. In a week and a half I have had 3 tests! Yuck! That has to be one of the worst things ever! Now I nt have to worry about school for a little bit. Why do teachers always have to schedule things around the same time? It never seems to fail that tests always happen like that.

Anyways enough about school. I'm sure none of you even want to hear about that. I am soooo excited today! I am going to Alma to go see Granny!!!! I have not seen her in forever! When Taylor and Joyce asked is I wanted to come down there was no question about it. I was going!!! She is one of the greatest Granny's ever! I must say. She treats me like I am one of her grandchildren. That means the world to me since I don't have any grandparents. Its just great knowing that you have people that you can turn to if you were ever to need anything. The Nabors family is all like that. I just can not express how grateful I am to know their family. It never hurts that they always have fun and can see the good side in everything.

Work is starting to pick up. I'm loving it. Since we are fairly new up here we don't have a lot of foot traffic in and out the door. I'm the past couple of weeks I have seen a change in how many transaction we do a day. Everyone always asks us if we are sounds and safe as far as going under and we are. We currently do not have any bad loans and accounts that are making us hurt. Metropolitan is really good about making sure you can afford something. I think that is great because so many people come in here and ask for loans and you know that they are either not going to pay them back or have know why of ever getting out of debit. Its just going to keep getting larger and larger. Some might think that its that customers fault but its partly our (the bank) fault for giving them the money. Have I ever said that I love me job. My boss is one of the most laid back managers I have ever seen but she knows when she needs to get to business to.

How about all of that rain last weekend? It was crazy! I decided that I was going to go out with a couple of friends Saturday night and that was a mistake. I should have stayed home. I left Dickson about 1:30 am and I could not see in front of me. When I was trying to walk to my car I got soaked. There was so much water that it was coming up above my heels. That's a lot of water. When I got to my car of course I was soaked and I drove home. I stayed on the main roads because I knew that there was going to be flooding. Little did I know that College was going to be flooded! There were some parts that I didn't know if I could make it through. When I got home I realized that we didn't have any power. We did not get power until Monday morning. Since mom was starting a new job Monday we decided that we would stay the night in a hotel. She didn't want to show up on her first day and not look good. It didn't bother me because I was about 5 minutes from work. Which was a good change a pace.

Well I guess that enough catching up for one post. If I think of anything else I will let you guys know. Have a great weekend and GO HOGS GO!!!!!

Fall!!

Have I ever said that I love the fall? Well If I haven't I do. Its the best time of the year. Its not to hot and its not to cold. Its perfect. There are so many things to do in the fall as well. The most important thing is football! I love football!!!! Especially my HOGS! Even though they are not going to be very good this year I still love them. This year is only a rebuilding year but that's ok because we are going to be better next year. Even though we have had two very close wins. Another thing about fall is the cooler weather and the changing colors of the trees My favorite thing to wear is a long sleeved shirts and Capri's. I don't know why but I just love it. It is so comfortable because you dont get to hot or cold. One other thing about the fall is cold weather food. Now I do love grilled burger and hot dogs during the summer but I'm just ready for comfort food. Anytime I think of comfort food its always during the fall or winter. Right now I am eating some soup my mom made for me the day I had my surgery. Its awesome! Its seven can soup even though our has eight. So I guess I will call it eight can soup. It just makes me want to crawl up on the couch and watch a good movie. Oh and I can not forget that you can roll your windows down in your car or put them down in your house and you will have free air conditioner.

I just thought I would share a couple of things that I love about the fall. Only if the weather would stay like this the entire year. That would be great!

homework, homework, homework

Could I have anymore homework??? Between working full-time and going to school at night I have no time for myself. This is why I have not been blogging as much. I have not had any spare time to do anything. I come to work and either work or do homework. I go to school after I get off of work and have to take notes. I get home from work and do more homework. That seems to be the story of my life. Homework, Homework, Homework!!! I needed to catch up on some math yesterday but I just did not feel like it. So I didn't! I some of it when I got to work this morning but stopped after a couple of hours. I just get so bored doing math all of the time. It seems like I always have something due in that class. I know I should just stop complaining but I cant. The classes I tonight are not bad because I really like my teachers but tomorrow is another story. I like my math teacher so far she just makes us do a lot. If you cant tell by now I cant stand math. I hate it with a passion. It doesn't like me and I don't like it. I should be a good student and do some homework while I have some downtime but I'm not going to. What will probably happen is that I will get more tonight and have to try to catch up this weekend. Oh well. I have done it before. If you are still reading this I am sorry for griping so much. I hope everyone has a great week!

Steph

Bunko

Bunko is something I do the first Tuesday of every month. My boss got me into the game a little over a year ago. Its so much fun. There are a wide variety of women and ages. Its a girl only thing so people just get around and talk about their husbands, kids, jobs, etc. Things that girls like to talk about. Since I have been going I have seen how the group is getting bigger. Which is great. We play for money so the bigger the group the more money you win! Its a dice game that requires no concentration.

Last Tuesday was the last time we played. I hosted it at my house. When someone hosts the party they always make dinner and desert. Us girls like to eat. I made baked spaghetti and garlic bread. I thought I was going to have lots of leftovers but by the end of the night it was almost gone. I made several things for dessert because I didn't know what people liked to eat. I loved it all which probably wasn't the best thing for me to eat.

Everyone laughs so hard when we get together. You never know what the other person is going to say. If anyone ever wants to come just let me know. New people com all of the time and its not hard to pick up on the game. If I can play it anyone can. It starts about 6 ish and lasts for a couple of hours. The latest I think it has ever latest was 8:30. This allows everyone to get back to their families and not miss out on anything. Like I said we have a blast. I'm so glad that I can be apart of something like this.

Girls Day Out!

So after I got all that sleep from having my wisdom teeth removed I decided to go shopping! I had so much energy I just needed to go do something. Saturday night I was suppose to go to Amanda's wedding and I had nothing to wear. So Taylor, Joyce, Grace, and I all went shopping for the day! We had so much fun! We went all around the promenade trying to find something to wear. I found a black dress that is really cute and it was on sale. That is always the best kind. I wanted to find something colorful but this dress was going to work. At least I can wear it to work. Taylor found a really cute skirt that I wanted. I was so shocked that we both found something to wear because it never fails that only one of use finds something that we like. Taylor I think went everywhere trying to find brown shoes to wear with her super cute skirt. Luckily we wear the same shoe size and I brought a pair of my brown heels. They looked so good on her! I would upload pictures but I'm at work and can not do that on our computers. That is why I never have pictures because I always blog at work. I know I bad for doing this!

After we spent all day shopping we had to hurry up and go back to Taylor's house so we could finish getting ready. Grace looked really cute in her dress. We left her house at 6:15. The wedding started at 6:30. I thought we were going to be so late but we made it just in time! Her wedding was so beautiful! She had some of the best ideas. In every center piece she had the word love in a different language. Another great idea was a photo booth. I would have never thought of something like that! You got to keep a copy and the couple got to keep the other. I just though this was great. They had Joe Giles and the Heartbreakers as their band. If you have never heard of them you need to. They are great. I had so much fun dancing with Grace. She was having a blast!

After the wedding Grace was ready to go to bed. After everything we put her through that day she was great. It was just a great day. It has been a while since all of us got to hang out together and do girly things. I am so excited that Taylor now has Saturdays off so we can do this more often. It always a joy to spend a day with those girls.

Wisdom Tooth

Wow it has been a while since I have posted anything. Sorry about that. My life has been crazy the past couple of weeks. I don't even know where to start. I guess I will start with Friday. I got my wisdom tooth out Friday morning. I was so scared that it was going to hurt and I was going to be in a lot of pain. That was the complete opposite. It didn't hurt at all. They knocked me out to do it because my tooth was impacted. I only have one though so that's good. The last thing I remember them saying was go to happy land. Kind of weird I know! I loved happy land. I didn't know what was going on. The next thing I know I am waking up in a strange room. The next thing I remember is being in my mom car driving to get my prescriptions. We went to Harps so we could also get a couple of things and I got to drive one of the motorized scooters. Man those things are fun when you have no idea whats going on. I ran into Courtney which I use to work with at Harps and she just her wisdom teeth out to. What a small world. I finally got to go home and I took a nap. I got up ate dinner and went back to bed. The next time I woke up was about 10 am the next morning. I had slept for 14 hours straight! I felt great afterwards. I had so much energy I didn't know what to do. All I knew was that I was not going to let my mouth get in my way of the weekend!

I am just so glad that everything went great. I just kept hearing horror stories about how horrible it was to get them out. I just knew that I was not going to be able to do anything the whole weekend and get dry socket. My worst nightmare!!