full plate & i'm stuffed

Why did I think going to school and working full time was going to be a fun idea? I feel like there's never any time.. I want to go to the gym, I want to go tanning, I want to use up my yoga sessions, I want to go grocery shopping, I want to clean my room, I want to watch a movie, I want to take a nap, I want to read a book, I want to stare at the wall.... BUT I CANT. I have to wake up and watch the kids, I have to shower, I have to sit in traffic on the way to work, I have to work for 8+ hours 5 days a week, I have to sit in traffic to get home, I have to eat dinner, I have to give tuxedo attention, I have to open a book and study, I have to log onto Blackboard and see what assignments are due next, I have to school, school, school.... THEN sleep a couple hours, and do it all over again. I miss my friends, I miss taking tuxedo on walks, I miss watching tv, I miss being on the computer snooping around on peoples pages and not typing up assignments, I miss sleeping. I look at my planner and see the daily squares and all I see is black ink.. with crap to do on every day. I want empty squares. I miss empty squares.

whats mine is yours

7:30am Monday morning I hear "boomboom" on my front door.. followed by "Ashli, get down here! You're car was broken into!" wonderful. Walked outside with one eye open to find a man I didn't recognize standing by my car.. Jimmy. He looks different through one eye. I think I forget how much I love my car until I see it with a missing passenger window. The feeling you get in your stomach when you peek inside your car to see your pretty deck you loved so much, gone... I repeat to myself, no need in being upset.. there's nothing you can do at this point except fix it. NO matter how mad/sad I get, my window will still be broken and my deck will still be gone. Nevertheless, it sucks. So now I drive a Prius for $25 a day and will be driving it for a week because my car is staying a week at Murray's Collision. From this I will have a new dash (with a missing deck because insurance does not cover of course), new passenger and drivers side door, and a window again. My deck is probably sitting in a dumpster right now being rained on because the bastards that stole it realized theres a password required for it, so it's useless to them. I feel like we never had a proper goodbye.

condo for my jewelry

I went to JCPenny's last night and purchased a 50% off Jewelry Armoire. My new jewelry will need a pretty home once it arrives. With my luck, the guy that loaded it into my car from the pick up merchanise area mixed up the numbers on the item, instead of item #9400 he gave me #9004. Which is ugly. Would have been nice if it was beautiful and more expensive. That would have been a great deal. But nope.. he gave me a grandma one. So after hauling it from my car into my house, its very heavy and takes up my entire back seat, I get to haul it back into my car and back to the store to pick up the RIGHT one. Lame! Don't they know I have things to do today? No time for this nonsense. I checked it too, made sure I was picking up my ORDER #... assumed they had my ITEM number correct. Silly pick up merchandise area people.

piece of heaven, with sugar on top

Misty came over the other night and had mexican bread for the first time. The piece she had was really nothing special.. but she LOVED it. Who wouldn't love it though? Besides Jimmy. We've been friends like 10 years and this is the first time she's ever heard or seen such a beautiful piece of bread. Then I got to thinking... have I kept this a secret from the girls this whole time because I didn't want to share? because deep down I'm selfish and I hate sharing food? This cant be. When tia brought all that mexican bread over last time, I made a plate for Sara. Anyway - I will have to bring her to a bakery so she can see all the pretty bread and for sure, next gathering I'll show up with some yummy goodies to share with the girls. dang this made me hungry...

fresh squeezed

Today I purchased a juicer. I'm madly in love. I highly recommend everyone purchases a juicer, tomorrow. I don't eat fruit but I like the juice.. =]