September 20th - Septemba 26th... the month's almost over yo!

What to say about this week. What to say... hmm hmm hmm. Lemme get in the zone. IN THE BLOGGING ZONE! There's a spider on the wall, it's distracting, but he seems pretty far away from me so I don't think I'll kill the little guy. It's your lucky day little guy, because I am a lean mean spider killing machine. Ok, nope... creepy, now there are three spiders crawling across the wall. I hate spiders!! Death death death! OK! Whew. Lemme see.

Work: Work's well. Work's work. Highs and Lows this week at work, let's do that, shall we? Ok, hmm... a high. We got a lot of new shoes this week, and a lot of boots. Which means we have to fit them into our already crowded stock room. This week I finally snapped, our stock room was out of control. Shoes on the ground, shoes with no homes, ridiculous! So, I called my boss, told her I was staying late, told all the people working on the floor not to bother me, and I rearranged. Now all the sandals are in the back and out of the way until they're all boxed up for next year, and all the boots are together at the bottom of the stairs, quite easily accessible since they're what we sell the most in the fall. All other shoes are with brands accordingly. I felt quite accomplished. Things seem to be a little smoother in the land of Market Street Shoes. It was hard, and a pain in the fanny to boot! But it was totally worth it. The low for this week, hmm hmm, well we all seem to be bickering more and more at work. I think we spend a little too much time together. It's not bad, just a lot of gossiping, and a lot of complaining. The low for this week was having to hear everyone complain about the smallest things that really didn't matter, and then realizing that I myself have been known to complain about just that as well. So, I found something for me to work on... Complain when only REALLY REALLY necessary.

Church: This week's a good week for our Church category. Is Church always capitalized? I think it should be, so we're going with that. I sat next to a group of girls on Sunday, and they invited me over to one of their houses to watch Project Runway on Wednesday. So Wednesday rolled around and over I went. There were about 15 girls there. There are a few I think I could really be friends with! Finally LDS friends!! Sanity sanity!! I'm planning on going again this week. I love me some Project Runway. And I love me some LDS friends. It's a win win folks! And randomly one of the kids whom JT and I went to EFY with was in my ward on Sunday. It was really weird. I didn't recognize him at first, but then it dawned on me. Crazy!! He bolted with his girl friends right after Sacrament, so I didn't get a chance to say hey. And let's be honest here, I'm kinda too shy to just go say hey anyways. :) What're ya gonna do.

Yoga: I'm loving my yoga class. It's pretty intense. I sweat though two t-shirts on Thursdays class, which I've never done. I've never really sweat through one t-shirt, let alone two! This next Thursday is our last class, but I think we all decided we're signing up again for next month. It's really good, and I feel a lot better about myself too... plus call me crazy, it's been known to happen, but I actually think I stand up a little straighter. Woot woot! Yay for yoga! Yay for power yoga in 88 degrees with Nazi instructors from NY. These are the things that make me happy. :P

Ok, well, I'm listening to the Scriptures while I write this, so I'm thinking I'm not paying all that much attention to the Scriptures, which kind of defeats the purpose of listening... so I'll bow out here. Text me, email me, facebook me, call me. I miss all of you. A lot. And if you think you're not included in that, you're wrong! I love hearing from EVERYONE. So TEXT, CALL, EMAIL, serious people. I would love it. TTFN pardners.

September twelve up toooo my half birthday! (that'd be the 19th)!

Happy half b-day to me, happy half b-day to me!, happy half b-day Jen Taylaaaaaaaaaaa, HAPPY HALF B-DAY TO ME! I celebrated my day with a cupcake, mmm, red velvet. Dark dark chocolate with cream cheese frosting. Loved it. And the guys at the cupcake boutique all laughed when I said it was for my half b-day. They even gave it to me for free. I love my little work neighborhood, Ballard is awesome. Aside from work, nothing's new. I haven't even been out to take pictures in the past few months, let alone get any developed. I'm sure I'll get back into it soon enough. Always think positively, that's not my motto, but probably should be.

This week's accomplishments:
-Killed a huge spider, almost cried but kept my cool
-Cleaned my room and did ALL my laundry for the first time in pretty much forever
-Slept, a lot
-Sweat off like 10 lbs at my power yoga class
-Quit biting my nails. For reals this time. I was cured, long story, but for sure I'm now cured. (been 10 days clean)

well I guess you all can get the picture... not a lot's going on! What're ya gonna do. Ya know? It's like I do the same thing day in and out... and this just doesn't make for exciting blogging. So, don't blame me for your boredom and loss of interest in tuning in each week... blame my shoe selling job! I mean, I can only talk so much about selling boots to women in size 12 who never thought they could buy beautiful shoes, or screaming and jumping and flayling about in joy when the heels I've been waiting for for almost 3 months finally came to work, or maybe getting to shove grubby 4 year old stinky feet into shoes (don't get me wrong, love the 4 year olds, just not the stinky feet). It's just your average good ol' fashion retail job. And then I come home and sleep! My roommates are driving me up the wall, it's a constant battle as to whether it's more normal to go to bed at 11 o'clock and expect quite after around 12 or to stay up til 4 and not believe that neighbors can hear when you play the guitar. No guitar past midnight people. Comprimise. So I scold and they scoff, and now we're just getting on each others nerves! Insanity! I'm living with insanity! But, it's what you do when you're 21. You do what you can, and you smile, and you know it'll make you so much more greatful for future living situations. I'm just sad because we all were good friends for awhile, and now it seems that due to my nagging, I'm not to close to all of them anymore. Ah well, what are you going to do!?!?

Things I found myself greatful for this week:
-my car
-my mother's quiet apartment, ok and her too :)
-my shoe collection
-customers who seem to help me out with my life more than I with their shoes
-cell phones
-kind aquantances
-post office
-sisters getting home from brazil
-yoga instructors from NY
-laughing

Have a good week everyone. TTFN! Peace.

Shleptember 5th ---- the 11th yo.

Firstly, my car has been saved. It was just a dead battery, so in the end it wasn't so bad of a situation. I even got it towed for free!! So things ended up working out splendidly. As for my chest pain, the doctor diagnosed me with having tendinitis in my chest, basically, meaning my muscles were inflamed, causing chest pain. I took medication for it and it seems to be a lot better, although I have the feeling it will be coming and going for awhile. Work's still a little stressful, but it's going well. Which I think clears up all the stress causing issues of last week, and starts us with a clean slate for this week!! WOot.



Football--
My uncle Ross called me last week wanting to know if I could go to a BYU vs. UW football game with them this past Saturday. I did some pleading and rearranging at work, and I got the day off! I met Covey, John, and Ross all at the tailgate before the game. Ra ra ra. We then watched a really fun, and really close, football game! I forgot that my medicine for my chest made me sensitive to sun, so I'm still suffering from a really bad sunburn on my chest and face, but other than that it was an awesome day. We cheered, we clapped, we "ra ra ra" 'd, we rolled our eyes at the man sitting next to me who knew everything there is to know about football and could've played way better had he just been on that field, and we checked out the hot BYU players through the binoculars (ok maybe that one was just me). It was a really awesome time, and I'm super glad I got to see Ross and the boys.

I moved back to my apartment this week after house sitting for 29 days straight. My roomie next door, Brenton, moved out and Autumn moved out of my living room and into his old room, a real bedroom of her own. It's been quiet around here since she went, but fortunately she's a mere 10 feet away. Now I can sleep a little bit quieter, and have things a little bit more of a Jen way around the apartment. I'll start moving things around next week, I'm still just half unpacked. After living out of bags for 6 months it's weird actually putting my clothes away in the dresser and closet. At the end of September I will be done with house sitting and moved completely back into my own little space. Although, they do already have me booked to watch the house for the holidays this year... but other than that, I will be living in ONE house and ONE house only! I'm turning half of my living room into art space. I'll put in a few tables with all my supplies all laid out and organized. Then I'm putting up shelving for all my shoes, and I'm going to start hanging my photos along one of the long walls in the living room. By early next year I hope to have a one of a kind, Jen original, apartment on my hands! A little haven all my own. It'll be fantastic.

Good things are comin up for me! I can tell, I have a lot of plans and a lot of ambition, so now all I need's a little bit of energy (nothin my b12 vitamin can't cure) and a lot a bit of inspiration, and well... let's see what kind of a life Jen Tayla can whip out!! :) TTFN kids, Love you!


ps. pic 1: Me being bored.
pic 2: Covey and John pre game.
pic 3: Hut Hut HIIIIIKE.
pic 4: Paco being cute on the bed while I packed to go home.
pic 5: Kerouac being super cute ... and super crazy.

New Month.... New Possibilites. August 30th - September 4th

Sadly this is not one of my usual posts. Alas, times are rough, and since this is a blog about what's happening in my life, it follows my good weeks and as well as my bad. Work's still going fanstastically well. One of the girls I work with today said, "Jen, I feel like you hold this place together." So, I guess I'm just a bossy pants that's controling things while the boss' get more important matters done. As fall rolls in we're getting more and more of our fall stock. We're having an awesome sale right now to get rid of all our sandals that we still have milling about. So things have been pretty busy around our shop. It gets kind of stressful for me sometimes, I take a lot of it to heart. If things go badly at the store, my day goes badly. A lot of times I need to step back and remember that it is just a job, and I just work there, and it's not my life, and I can leave it at the end of day. The problem is, I love my job, and I love the people I work with and for. It's more like a family to me than work, so I take most of it personally. Things have been stressful lately there, so I carry most of that stress with me throughout my day.

Last week on my day home from work, 11pm, my car decided it didn't want to work for me any longer. Beef Cake breathed his last breath as I coasted into my drive way. It seems to pour when it rains. Fortunately my aunt and uncle let me borrow their car for the week. I had it towed to a mechanic my boss recommended and we're waiting to see the results. They seem compitant, and unlike most car places they didn't seem to jump at the fact that I'm just lil ol me trying to get my car fixed. They're just tryin to do a good job and send me on my way. But, seeing as I don't have my car back yet, nor the cost, I don't want to start counting my chickens too soon!!!

I've been pretty sick recently. I've been stressing about a lot of things, living out here by my lonely for a month now house sitting and getting ready to move back to my apartment, I'm taking more responsibility at work, trying to figure out how to take up another 2nd job, and figure out school in the winter. My stomach now hates me. I have what I believe to be acid reflux. My stomach and chest hurts almost constantly. Thursday I have a doctors appointment, so we'll see if I'm dying or if I'll live to see another season change at Market Street Shoes. I have zero energy now adays. Wake up, work, come home, sleep. I go to bed around 9, hit snooze a few times, which as we all know isn't me, and get up usually around 8. I'm still always tired. SO, to make a very sad and depressing blog to a summary and a close... I'm going to start working on my nutrition. My boss thinks I am malnourished. I've stopped drinking diet coke, which I was loving there for awhile, I'm investing in multi-vitamins, I'm eating more iron, etc etc. Things always get worse before they can get better, I firmly believe we all need the trying times in life to make our average day seem so much better. I'm down for a few stress' and trials now and again. So bring it on.

Some good things about this week?? I got a few letters from friends whom I enjoy hearing from, I've gotten to hang out with my family which doesn't happend all that often for me, I've got two animals who are a blast to be around, the weather has still stayed nice, I got some cute sweaters from our new H & M, I've got some killer friends, and soon I'll be moved back home and working on getting back to the nitty gritty and bettering my life.

Pray for me this week, I'm a gonna need it. I miss you all terribly.

-----Jen---------