Weddings

My mom's wedding is next weekend (the 25th). I still have yet to find some shoes. I will be going shopping, again, to definitely pick some out! I should be getting my dress back on Monday and hopefully all the alterations are perfect. I am the matron of honor (is that the correct word for it?), and that means a toast should be given. I'm ok with this. I don't feel nervous about the people, but what am I gonna say? My mom and I just talked about it last night, and that was when she asked me if I would. So, I've been thinking about it since yesterday. Not much time :)

Whats on my mind now is: I am happy my mom found someone to share life with. I have found so much happiness with my husband and I just hope they get to experience that together also. Something along those lines.

Now, I know you few people that follow this blog are my family, and I have to say, I wish you were coming! The only people from our family that are coming is Aunt Linda and Uncle Bob. Well Cheryl (cousin) is coming with her family, but I meant our immediate family. It would have been nice to see you all. On Jonathan's side, all of his family is coming. All the way from Boston. So, most of the guest will be strangers. Oh well.

This past weekend, my brother n law got married. Shea was in the wedding (this is his second wedding in 3 months) and he will also be in my mom's wedding. I am so happy for my brother n law, though. Him and his wife are perfect for eachother and I can't wait to double date with them now :)

This is Matt and Celeste having their first dance. She is such a sweet person. She told me that everyone else except me said something negative about marriage. She said I am always positive and that is what encouraged her that she and Matt can have a successful marriage. That really touched me.

Here is another picture from

Matt's wedding of Shea and I.

That is all for now. :)

Two weddings of 2010 down, 1 more to go.

Busy Busy Busy

The title sums it up. Work has been crazy and so has home. It feels like we haven't relaxed in forever (eventhough we have). I work in a small office that has room for 4 staff. We have another office in Reno, NV and they have 5 staff members. In my office, we have the highest turn over rate I've ever seen. I'm the longest employee here and I've been here for only 3 years. Right now, we have two new people and another one starting on Monday....I don't think I'm going to be able to explain the craziness of my office and what my roles are, so I'm just going to jump to the point :)
It is stressful for me always having new people. Since we work in a small office, everyone makes the office their home. I mean, we work here M-F 8am - 5pm, so thats a lot of time. Of course, you are gonna make this your home. But, everyone's idea of home is different!! And stepping on eachothers toes in inevitable. Yesterday, one of my co-workers left for an appointment to the clients home. Ok...quick break in the story for a background of this co-worker. She is weird..I mean, one minutes she seems to have everything together. The next minute she seems to have lost her marbles. So, she left for the appointment, and as usual about 5 mintues later she texts me saying she is lost. (She has GPS and a map). I pull up the map on my computer and try to help her out. Then I get a text saying the client lives in a gated community so she doesn't know how to get in the gate. Plus, she is deaf so she can't call the client on the call box. I texted her back and said "You can either wait for a car to come to open the gate for you, or you can give me the clients number and I will call her to let you in". A minute later she responds "I got in! :)". Another minute later she says "I have a flat tire". Another minute later she says "I have two flat tires". After a few going back and forth, someone pointed out to her that she drove in the exit gate and ran over the spikes.
This does make me laugh a little.
A lot more drama happens in the mean time, but towards the end of the day I have my daily meeting with my boss. She says that this co-worker is blaming me for her flat tires. I couldn't even see HOW this could be my fault. I mean, I wasn't there! So I started to ask, "what the heck are you talking about?" I guess my co-worker said "Christine told me to go in the gate". I seriously am laughing at this point. I told my boss...."SO what if I did?! It still isnt' my fault". My boss procedes to tell me "this is why it is never a good idea to give out advice". I asked my boss if she thought that this was logical and she said yes. Oh GEEZ!
Am I the only one see clearly here??? I told my boss that if I texted this co-worker to go jump in the waterfall at niagra falls, and she does that that would be my fault!?. She just didn't see my point.
So, for the sake of continuing our meeting, I say "ok", lets just move on.
That is just one example of the craziness at my work. This kind of stuff literally goes on almost all the time.

I have a goal...to become nationally certified to interpret. I'm almost there! I'm taking one test in a few weeks, then I will take the other test in spring time. After that, its time to move on from this place. Don't get me wrong...I don't show up to work everyday hating my job. No, I couldn't live like that. I do enjoy a lot of it. I just feel that I've outgrown it. Its become the same ole same ole.

Labor Day without any Labor

Well we had a good long weekend. Friday, I got off work at 4pm, so Shea picked me up and we headed straight to CA to visit my mom and Jonathan. One thing nice about living in Las Vegas is on holidays, the traffic is usually the opposit direction we are headed. For example, people usually come to Las Vegas for Labor day, but we were heading out. Then we come back home when everyone else is leaving :) Works out nicely.
Some of you may know that Jonathan, my mom's fiance, had a motorcycle accident a little over a year ago. He almost lost his foot, and since then, he has been trying to save it. He has not been able to walk really since that accident, so its been crutches. I can't imagine using crutches for over a year!!! He's a little grumpy about it, but do you blame him??
Anyways, he when we arrived Friday evening, he was in the hopsital to fix one of his IV's (he uses them at home for medicine), and my mom was there with him. Shea and I arrived at her house, and while waiting for her, we gladly sat outside on the grass in the nice cool California air (two things we don't have in Las Vegas- much grass and cool air).

Shea and I are sitting there just looking up at the sky and enjoying it, but I'm a little restless. Why??? Because I had planned a birthday gift for Shea. :) His birthday is not until November 15th, but this had to be done early! Ok Ok, since I haven't blogged in forever, I'll give you a little background. Shea is SOOOOOO OOOOOO OOOOO Hard to surprise. Every birthday, I try and think of what I can do for him. Another thing, he just isn't that big into his birthday. He grew up with mainly his sister and his mom (two women) who probably got all excited and high pitched around his birthday time that I'm sure he just got annoyed at the mention of it. So, even if I gave him a gift that he liked, I've learned not to expect this big reaction. Instead, he tends to give me a slight smile while he looks over the gift. About an hour or two or sometimes two days later, he comes to me to truely thank me for the gift. :) I love this about him. He needs time for it to settle it.
ANYWAYS, can you tell I love my husband?? So the gift I got him was a camping trip for us two to Big Sur, CA. The second part of the trip is to go whale watching. He has never been and that is the peak season for gray whales, blue whales and humpback whales. So we will be going the weekend of Veterans Day, November 11, 12, 13 and 14 and probably come back home on the 15th.
I got the reaction I'm used to and now appreciate :) He does like the camping trip, he just doens't care if it is for his birthday or not. lol. He makes me laugh.

The weekend at my mom's was good. We spent most of it outside because that is not something we can do in Vegas right now. Well, exactly at this moment it is raining and I LOVE the rain. We a few pretty good meals, one I cooked for everyone. Turkey burgers for mom and Jonathan, Veggie burgers for me and Shea.
We came home on Sunday night and then just had Monday to rest.
Well, this is a pretty long blog for me. I hope everyone else had a great Labor Day weekend.

Lets try this again.

Ok, you guys talked me into it. :) I'll let you in on the little secrets of my everyday life. :)
I'm not sure if everyone know what career I am in. Well, I am a Sign Language Interpreter. I really love it, but it can be so difficult at times. This is why I started the other blog. I really needed a place to put my thoughts and experiences out there for feedback or advice or..whatever! I think it will help me gain perspective. The job of interpreting itself is not so hard. That is something that will constantly improve over a lifetime. The part that gets hard is the mixing of two cultures!!! So, bascially I wanted a place to express.
You can read it at signinglife.blogspot.com

Where Does this get posted??

I'm trying to blog more. :) I just recently started a new one, but I'm still learning how to do this thing. I am going to post it to see where it will show up.
Hope you enjoyed reading my post. :)