My Birthday!!!

Well, I made out like a bandit for my 25th birthday yesterday.

Brandon and I waiting for Becca and Zion to bring me my gifts....

Brandon made me an adorable birthday card, with just a little help from his mommy, of course!!

Zion got me a new 6.1 mega pixel digital camera, with 3x zoom and a 2.4" high resolution LCD screen (using points we had earned from a credit card, it only cost him $.41!!); it's awesome!! Since that didn't really cost him anything, he also got me one of the new pictures that I wanted for our new apartment!! I love it!!!

 

Jariah, Becca and Brandon got me this green, wood bowl from Off Saks 5th Avenue that I have had my eye on since Mom, Dad and Janessa were here in June! I absolutely love it!!! My new apartment is going to look so awesome!!!!! Woohoo!!

This is so cool!!!

Me with all my loot!!!

After present time, we all went out for pizza at Mama's Pizza. It was fun and the pizza was really good. (It's no Chuffer's, but it'll do in a pinch!!)

Brandon can't eat pizza, so he had fries and pizza crusts. It's not the healthiest thing to eat, but he sure liked it!!! =)

Well, it's official. I am a quarter of a century old today.

How did this happen?!?

DOG DAY AFTERNOON!

This is not what you expect when you go to Disneyworld. I've been there twice and never had an experience like this.

32 things everyone should know...

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle"
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. Oye!
6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily. (Scary thought!)
10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. (I'm not really sure who they are, or why that matters... but this list wasnt made up by me...lol)
11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
17. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ... hence, multi-tasking was invented.
18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Good to know.)
24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.. It's the same with apples!
30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
31. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
32. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.


I don't know why everyone should know these things, but I wanted to do my part and tell the 4 people who still read my blog about it.=)

Okay, so I guess it's time for an update... I have been at my job for just over a week now. It's going pretty well. Right now I am the continental breakfast girl, which consists of heating up a bunch of pre-cooked foods, keeping the juices full and the coffee hot. I also wipe all the tables down between guests, and sweep and mop the floor. (Mopping is my absolute least favorite part of the job, but I think it will have a positive effect on my abs....)

My manager, Bill, says that in the next couple of weeks he will train me on the front desk. (Shouldn't be too hard, since I have worked at the front desk in Lima for 5 years and they use the same computer system that I used there. I'll just have to learn all their phone extensions and things that are specific to this property.)

So far I am liking the job, and the people that I am getting to know. I have only ever talked to a couple of my new co-workers, because I am in the cafe by myself (except the guests). So it's basically just been Bill, the general manager, and Van, the maintenance man, plus a couple of housekeepers who barely speak English that I have met. Bill is fairly new to his position, but I think he is a great manager, (And I've had some of the best!!) and Van is the guy who trained me.

I am slowly getting used to the schedule... I have to be there by 5:30 each morning, which means that I have to be up by 4:45-5, and I am generally home by 11. (Which until a week ago was about the time I was waking up... how crazy!!!)

This is a much smaller property than what I was used to in Lima, only 89 rooms compared to 150 and only about 15 employees compared to almost 100! It's also closer to my house than the one in Lima was, if you can believe that!! (It used to take me 4 minutes to work, now, even if I get stopped at the traffic light, it takes me 2 minutes!! Isn't that awesome?!??!)

Please pray for Bro. Ron Spencer, he was pretty badly burned earlier today and is in intensive care. Thank you.

I start my new job tomorrow morning!!!

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Hopeful New Job!

I called my would-be manager today just to make sure that he had actually received my application (When I dropped it off, there were two teen-aged boys working the desk and you just never know with them... haha!) and he said that yes he did and he is going to call me sometime next week so we can sit-down for an interview. I really hope that this works out the way I'm thinking it might.

I just thought this was funny

Today, I went to the Holiday Inn Express right down the road from our apartment and got an application. The man who handed me the application happened to be the General Manager and we talked for a couple of minutes about my 5+ years of Holiday Inn experience before he shook my hand, gave me his business card and told me to get my application back to him as soon as possible. I dropped it off tonight and I am cautiously optimistic about my chances of getting a job there in the very near future. =)