If there is one thing, just one thing, I wish I could do right now is to be able to quit my job and to afford it. I don’t need a million dollar to quit my job. I don’t even need half of that. Not a quarter. I just want to be at peace with the decision of quiting my job.
I have no drive to work at my work place. I have no desire. I was not like this before. My job has become something I dread so much. My coworkers are people from hell. My boss is a joke. My department, as a whole, is like the red headed bastard child of the company. Whenever we have a group meeting (just my department, which only has 6 people including me), it always ends up being a pity party for everyone but me. My boss has the best knacks of turning a group meeting into some kind of this-is-the-end-of-the-world moment. Dark and gloomy.
I just moved to my new department about 6 months ago. And there are a lot of times, when my coworkers would tell me something and I’d be on selective hearing mode. I’d nod my head and pretend I was listening when my mind was elsewhere. I never care. I don’t even know how I lasted this long. I know it sounds really bad but I just don’t care anymore. And I feel guilty because I know I can do so much better job if I do what I like to do.
Everyday I sit at my desk, staring at my computer, doing nothing. Thinking. About what I could have done with my life. And I’d feel warmth all over my cheeks but I don’t want to cry. I don’t want a pity party for myself–I’ve got enough doze of that from my department biweekly meeting.
Everyday, I’d compile ideas of what I would do, say, I won a lottery. Or if some strangers handed me lots of money or a business to start.
I am trying to distract myself from the doom and gloom of my work. I am taking golf classes and sewing classes at night. And then starting in February, I am going to take a series of Adobe classes–Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc. I am trying. So far, I have learned so much from my golf and sewing classes. I love it. You never know when a hobby will turn into a fun money-making activity. My goals this year are to be able to play descent golf, be good at sewing, and learn graphic design. Oh I am also starting an etsy shop. I am trying my best to distract myself from the bad things.
I envy those stay-at-home moms. I am jealous. I wish I could stay at home. I wish I could just do it somehow. I wish. Oh I wish. There was a time when I came home for lunch. I missed my dogs so much that day so I took a lunch break at home. When I got home, my dogs were soooo happy to see me. And when I left, they looked at me like, why do you have to leave? There was an unspoken language. Something. That moment alone almost made me cry. I drove back to work with some kind of burden on my chest. I couldn’t stop thinking about that hour at home. Then I prayed. For a miracle to happen. But it never happened that day.
Call me idiot, stupid, whatever but I do hope that one day I’d win the lotto or the powerball. I know the odds are slim to nothing but people have won them. So there’s always a chance. There’s always a possibility. And I am not giving up on that yet. And if I win, I promise myself, I am going to take a year off everything. I am going to dedicate that one year to be closer to God. I will help those who are unfortunate. I will spend my year doing nothing but volunteer works. For my church, for my animal rescue group, for my community. Anything I’d do it.
I know. I wish life was that easy.
Ugggh. A thought of my job crossed my mind and I hated it. I just hate it so much. Just thinking about it makes me sick. I get grumpy all the time when I am at home. I hate that. Then, when little thing happens, I’d be screaming and yelling and do all those crazy stuff. Like I just burst out into a moment of anger. Then a minute later, I’d regret it. What I have always wanted was to let out a scream to express my frustration with my job situation.
I hate what I do. Every day I think about quiting my job. I envision it in my head. How lovely that would be. I dream about it.
Why can’t I be like one of those famous people. Like Miley Cyrus. Sing a few song, act a little, make lots of money. No worries for the rest of my life.
Oh. I feel like I need to talk to a psychologist.
God, please help me.
I am at home on my lunch break. Today I decided that I’d take my break a home with the dogs. I came home and I let the dogs out in the backyard. If it wasn’t that cold, I’d probably still be outside right now. The dogs seem to love it when I am home. I have about 10 more minutes and then I will have to go back to work. Uggh.
I wish I could stay at home. Work from home. I really wish I could do that. That would be really nice.
Well. My new Etsy shop is going to be ready soon. I might go ahead and start selling today. I have someone made the banners and an avatar for $8. That is pretty cheap. I love it though. It turned out pretty good. Once my shop has inventories in it, I will announce it here.
Today is the day this country hold the innaguration of the new president Barrack Obama. I hope he will do a good job. I guess we can only hope and pray, right?
Ok. I have to get ready to go back to work. I will be back in 2 hours. I hate going back to work. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
I would like to dedicate tonight’s blog for one of my favorite animals sanctuaries, The Rolling Dog Ranch Animal Sanctuary. They are located in Montana. The ranch is a very special place for disabled animals. You;d think those disabled animals don’t deserve a good life? WRONG. At the Rolling Dog Ranch, they get second chances. The owners/founders of the ranch, Steve and Alayne, rescue disabled dogs, cats, horses and they even have goats!!! I swear, these couple are the true living Saint Francis. They have the biggest heart and love for animals. I truly admire the works they do. If only more people are like them, the world would truly be a much better place.
Being a huge animal lover, I have a special place in my heart for this sanctuary. Each month, I donate some money to the ranch. It’s not much but at least it’s the least I can do for them. I would love to do some volunteer works for them but I live too far away. I plan on visiting the ranch sometime next year when they are open for visitors. I might volunteer for a week there. It has been my dream to come visit the ranch someday.
I encourage you to visit their website to learn more about the sanctuary and also about disabled animals. Steve writes beautiful blog where he tells stories about the animals at the ranch. I read his blog everyday.
Here are the websites. Please visit and support the Rolling Dog Ranch Sanctuary!!
http://rollingdogranch.org/index.html
http://blog.rollingdogranch.org/
Lastly, I would like to close my entry tonight with a beautiful quote from Mahatma Gandhi:
I am entering my 2 Chihuahuas to a Pet Idol contest. Yes I know. I am such a dork. I have to donate $10 per pet but it’s ok. I want my dogs to be famous. The prize is pretty awesome too. I will be mailing their photos tomorrow. I am pretty excited.
Also, I am going to replace my current license plate with Animal Friend (Spay and Neuter) special edition license plate. I think it costs $25 for the plate. I am going to place an order this weekend.
I just ate dinner. My husband is riding his bike again tonight. I told him to be careful because it looks like it might rain soon. Tropical storm Fay is coming our way now—it’s going to be come category 1 hurricane they said.
I am at home enjoying my quiet evening. I cooked dinner for my husband. I made him Mushroom Beef with 3 different sides: corn, steamed green beans, and garlic roasted potatoes. I had left over from last night (which is still enough for one more lunch and dinner for me). I don’t know what we will be eating tomorrow evening. I have a pound of ground beef and about 2 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts for my husband. I have been wanting to make a white bean and tuna salad for myself so I might make that tomorrow evening for my dinner. As for my husband, I need to make him something light. Maybe he wants to eat Grilled Chicken salad.
Found a dog. He was hanging out in my front porch.
I called my animal rescue club and we’ll be taking the dog to the vet tomorrow morning. Someone is going to pick him up from my house. We have to keep the dog in a crate in the back porch since we have 6 dogs in our house right now. The dog is in a bad condition. His long furs are all matted. It looks like he has a skin problem. Poor puppy. He is a medium-sized dog. Anyways. I am sure he will find a new home soon.
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I am tired.
I did make a cake tonight. Pineapple cake. It’s supposed to have coconut flakes in it but I don’t have any. The cake is done. I cannot wait to taste it. I am going to bring a big slice to work tomorrow to eat as dessert. Yum.
Ok time to rest.
We finished day 2 in Savannah with great success. We started the day with a sweet visit to Back in the Day Bakery (www.backinthedaybakery.com). Tell me what a better way to start your day than having a cupcake as breakfast? I had a Vanilla cupcake with pink icing (it’s basically vanilla on vanilla). My husband got the blue one. We sat on our little table next to the window. I loved every moment I spent in that place. I savored every bite of that cute little cupcake. I even had the courage to order 3 more!!!!!!! to-go of course. I had the chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing, coconut-lemon cupcake, and another traditional vanilla on vanilla cupcake. I left that place happy!!!
We then head off to downtown. The intention was to have small lunch at Paula Deen’s restaurant The Lady and Sons (www.ladyandsons.com) . I saw the menu online the night before and I already knew what I wanted–crabcake. That was it. I love crabcakes so every time I go to a restaurant that serves crabcakes, I always try one. Anyways. After several rounds trying to find a parking spot, we finally parked somewhere and walked to the restaurant. We saw a line–wasn’t that long. But it never moved. So I said to my husband, let me go to the gift shop (there is a gift shop next to Paula Deen’s restaurant–it’s owned by Paula). I was at the store for about 5 mins when my husband came up to me and said, we can’t lunch at the restaurant. I asked why. He said because we didn’t have a reservation. Ah what a bummer. We left the place.
I decided to visit a kitchen store called Kitchen on the Square. It is located not too far from Paula’s restaurant. I bought all sorts of cookie cutters, pie weigh, and some scoopers. I really took my time at the store. I just loved it.
Well, by the time I finished shopping, we felt kinda hungry. So we decided to eat at a small restaurant called Zunzi’s (http://www.zunzis.com/). We’ve always gone there everytime we visit Savannah. They have vegetarian-friendly menus. I orderd my favorite Portabello Mushroom’s sub (served on a baguette). Oh it is sooooo yummmyyy!!!! And it is HUGE!!!! My husband had the Beef Curry served on white rice. We both ordered African sweet tea (one of the owners is from South Africa). It was the perfect lunch. Affordable and very very good for your tummy.
After that great lunch, we decided to do some window shopping. We walked around downtown Savannah (Broughton street). I bought an antique gilded mirror ($60); bought two lottery tickets ($2); bought one supersize + super cute ring ($32); and bought 2 vintage wire caddies–different sizes and style ($21 and $10). I saw some cute clothes but they were too expensive so I didn’t buy them.
We also went window shopping on Whitaker street. We visited so many great furniture shops on that street. I found a cute little boutique called Custard (www.custard.com) that sells chic clothes mostly for under $100. The owner showed me a rack that filled with 40% off clothes. I found several pieces I loved and decided to buy 3 of them ($182).
It was already past 5 when we finished shopping. We deciced to go back to our hotel to walk our dogs. We spent few hours with the dogs before we headed back to downtown (River street) area to grab dinner. That evening we went to have dinner at Tubby’s Tank House (www.tubbystankhouse.com) on River street. The lines was long so we had to wait about 45 minutes. We walked along the River street to kill time. I bought some sweet goodies at The Peanut Shop (www.thepeanutshop). We visited many other shops as well. There were so many local artists showing off their talents that night and we truly enjoyed that. We had a good time that evening!!!
We left Savannah the day after in the morning. Before we left, we grabbed some breakfast. I ordered a to-go breakfast from the Firefly cafe (www.fireflycafega.com) –spinach and crab omelette and strawberry+banana smoothie. Breakfast was good but a bit pricey. My husband had some Gyro at a Greek restaurant on River Street. It was good–and affordable– he said.
While we were driving, we passed a Dog park!!! We decided to stop by. The dog park (www.savannahdogpark.com) is not a public dog park so you would actually have to have a membership but since we were visiting, they let us stay. The dogs loved it. They were running around–happy. We stayed there about an hour and a half. We continued our trip to the Forsyth park. We put the dogs on their leash and we walked around the park with them. Fun!!!!!!!! They enjoyed meeting new people. They sniffed and wagged their tails to everyone they met.
When we left Savannah, we felt so tired but very happy indeed. Our dogs were too tired to do anything else but sleep in the car. What a fun weekend we had. I enjoyed this trip as much as my other trips to this city. Savannah will always be in my heart.
I cannot wait to go back there again in the fall….
My husband and I (and the dogs) are visiting Savannah again this weekend from Friday – Sunday. We arrived today around 3PM. We’re lucky we don’t live too far from Savannah. This is our 4th visit to Savannah in almost a year and a half. I am so in love with Savannah. If I won the lottery this weekend, I am going to quit my job on Monday; buy a house in Savannah and move here!!!!!
Savannah is a charming little city. It is packed with histories and old homes–just the way my husband and I like from a city. Although I am only 30 and my husband 28, we both have true love for old homes–Victorian to be exact.
Walking through the streets of Savannah, I always feel some kind of dejavu-like-moments. Like I belong here…my past was here…
I just love it here.
Tonight we went walking down the Riverfront area. We had dinner at Huey’s. I had my favorite Shrimp and Grits while my husband ordered Crawfish Ettoufee. Sure, they are not originally from Savannah (more like Louisiana origin) but they’re still representing the Southern foods strereotype. And of course, we always drink Sweet Tea with our meals when dining out.
Tomorrow morning, we are going to visit my favorite bakery, Back in The Day Bakery (http://www.backinthedaybakery.com/) on Bull Street, to get some yummy cupcakes. The owner has been featured on Paula Deen’s show. Paula Deen is also from Savannah. We plan to grab some lunch tomorrow at Paula Deen’s restaurant, The Lady and Sons (http://www.ladyandsons.com/). Although we have been to Savannah several times, we haven’t had the chance to eat at the restaurant. People say it’s not so good but I love Paula Deen so I’d like to try her restaurant and be the judge myself!! And not far from Paula’s restaurant, there is a kitchen shop I love to visit (and I visit this place everytime I go to Savannah!!), Kitchens on The Square (http://www.kitchensonthesquare.com/). If you love to cook, this place is a must to visit!! Last time I went there, I bought a bunch of cookie cutters in different shapes and sizes!! Very cute.
Anyways. That’s my report from Savannah for now. I will be posting some pics and more stories tomorrow. I love Savannah!!!!
what makes you happy?
My husband, my families, my pets, and my bestfriends are the ones who make me happy. They keep me going everyday. I am very thankful to have them in my life.
My husband is my soul mate. I love him dearly. My families are my roots. They keep me grounded. My pets give me everlasting love. They always give and never expect anything back. My bestfriends are so understanding. My one bestfriend right now, Erica is so sweet. She listens to whatever problems I have. She never judges me. She never says anything bad to me. I am so grateful to know her and her family–who is soooo nice to me.
Today, I just want to thank God for everything I have in my life. I am so lucky. Very lucky. I have just about everything I need in life–love and good companies. I hope that I will always have them until the day I die.
What do you know.
I went to craft store today to buy some materials to make baby toys. Tomorrow, we’re going to get some stuff from the storage for the same purpose. I have lots to do. I am hoping I will be able to start tomorrow.
I need something to do to distract me from the stressfulness of my new position at work. I need something that I can possibly rely on when it comes my time to work from home. I would very much like to work from home. This is why I had the idea to learn web design. It is something that I can absolutely do from home. Life is short. I want to do something I truly want to do.
My goal for the month of February is to get my online store to open and to start making baby and pet toys to sell online. I need to advertise it too. Damn. This is going to cost me some money. My budget to make the toys is about $100. This is to include the cost of materials and initial investment on craft supplies. I am hoping to be able to make about 20 – 30 baby toys. I hope to sell each baby toy for $10—this is for the ones made of fleece material. I bought some already today (at 30% off price per yard )and they are so soft. I bought a yard in light pink and ivory color. I also bought 2 different kinds of fabrics with flower patterns on them. I also got 4 rolls of floss ($1 total). Got me a set of needles ($2.86). Scissors for $.99. And a yard of flower ribbon. Tomorrow, I need to check out other craft stores to see if they have other deals.
