Starbucks run!

How awesome is my new Team Lead. She is doing a Starbucks coffee run for our team. Mmmm.... caramel macchiato.

5k Walk.

This past Saturday I participated in a 5k walk/run for the City of Hope Walk for Hope to cure Breast Cancer. My place of work paid for each walker/runner and we could invite friends and family to join.

So I took my roommate Aaron and met up with some friends after the walk. Enedina and her bf were there. There were a lot of companies participating as groups as well as individual walkers. The local country station was present as well. The walk went through the Phoenix Zoo. Many walkers with kids stopped inside the zoo... We didn't we kept fast walking, but we did see a gigantic turtle and a lion, and few other critters. It was a great morning, like most morning on the wonderful Arizona fall weather, a little chilly then warmed up as the day went on.

After the walk, some companies had set up booths, and gave away bread, band-aids, beauty product samples, water, and other stuff. Early in the morning Sprouts gave bananas and Tully's coffee had of course coffee.

New Computer!

YAY! I am so happy I got a new computer. I have been using my old computer that uses the no longer supported Windows Me. I got that one in the year 2000. So now I have a new PC running Windows Vista Home Premium and I love. First thing I did was remove all that preloaded trial crap of aol, netzero, etc on it, then do a windows update to it. So probably 1 hour after doing that I finally started looking over the new features on vista... the gadgets are neat... I'm still keeping my old computer to play my old computer games... Can't wait to try the media center options and stream pics and videos to my PS3.

I remember the first Windows system I played with was Windows 3.1 on my aunt's computer. They used CAD programs while I played games on it. Then I got my own first computer in 1995 with of course Windows 1995 and I used that until '98, when I then got a Windows 1998 computer and then in 2000 the Windows Me computer. I only got to use Windows 2000 and then XP on work computers, and have only used Apple computers for a brief period from mid 1998 to late 1999 during school when I studied Visual Communications. I think next time I may get an Apple computer.

Anyways, hope you all have a good rest of the week!!! :)

blogging...

So I have a blog here and there and almost everywhere... well not really but I do have several blogs, here at blogger, newblog, myspace, etc. Whenever I post I do it on one then copy paste it on the others... too much hassle going from one to the other... so i decided to get rid of some... so myspace is the obligatory place to be at so that stays. I am keeping my blogspot here at blogger as it's part of google and have just started discovering all their services, docs, picassa, etc. Love that i can have all those services in one spot... those are the ones i like the most, but am still keeping my yahoo one, it's my oldest if my less visited and my xbox/livespace one, so when i have my xbox when fable 2 comes out then i'll actually start using that one... i am keeping of course youtube... Wait seems like i am keeping more than I am doing away with... oh well i am getting rid of some that are just useless, always blogger and myspace are the main ones....
everyone have a good week!!!

Woke up late...

My alarm is set to go off at 3:30am, then 3:45 am, and last at 3:55 am. I start work at 5am so I have to be up by at least 4am to make it to work right on time. My alarm is set on my Virgin Mobile phone. My first alarm song went on, so I knew I had 2 more to go. Then I wake up to see if it is just before the 3:45 alarm song and no, it's 4:30 am. So I figure I could get ready quickly I may still make it to work right on time.

Clocking in at work no later than 5 minutes past the time you are supposed to be in is still ok, a minute later and it is a tardy. Three blocks to go and it is 5:08am. So if i am going to be tardy might as well make the tardy worth it. Being up to 1 hour late is a tardy, any time after that counts as being absent.

So I kept driving past work to go get coffee. I didn't get time to pack a lunch so I decided to go to a Fry's Marketplace on Chandler Blvd. that opens at 5am to pick up an apple and coffee at their in-store Tully's Coffee.

I had forgotten how much nicer the Fry's in the Ahwatukee area is compared to the ones in South Phoenix where I live. I stroll by the apples and they are perfectly buffed to shine and look as though each one was specially placed on each of their spots. I grabbed some apples, then I figured I would get bagels for the team. They had just come out and were still warm to the touch. I pick up some cream cheese to go along and some Naked Juice for me for later to lunch with my apple. After the checkout I go get a regular coffee at the Tully's.

It is now 5:34 am and no longer feel like going to work. I could either call off and take a personal day, Still make it with a tardy, or maybe go in half day and take just half an absence. Half a day at work sounds much better so I head back home. On the drive back I kept tossing the idea of just taking a personal day. Aside from the several pre-scheduled vacation weeks I took earlier this year to go to Vegas, then when my mom and aunt visited, and lastly when Aaron had his birthday at a resort in Scottsdale, I have not been absent a single time. So when I got home 6:02 am, I called scheduling a personal day, and then phone in one of my previous supervisors, as I couldn't find the business card with the phone for my current supervisor.

So what to do constructively in the 8 hours I would have normally be working so as to not feel the personal day is just being wasted? Well, I'll be doing some errands and chores around the house that need to be done. I got a couple wood file cabinets at Target that my roommate Aaron build for me so I am sorting some files, and getting rid of old ones. Aaron is still looking for a job, so part of the day I'll be driving him to some potential employers.

After today I have 10 straight days of work so I think I'll make the most of my personal day today. Everyone have a great week!!!

Nada...

Haven't really had time to post anything... Since my last post to now I have been working everyday with one day off in between work weeks. So when my day off arrives I don't feel like going anywhere so I just kick back at home. This past Sat and Sunday Has been my full weekend off in a long time. Saturday my roommates and I signed our new lease for another year in the house we are at. So by the end of the new lease in 2008 we will have spent 3 years in the house we are renting.

Target had all seasons of Smallville on sale for US $19.99 so I got season 4 and 5 that were missing from my collection. Glued to the tv, I was watching both seasons this weekend. today is Labor day here in the US so it's a "holiday" and at work only the people who sign up for specific shifts get to work everyone one else is off. I am one of the few who pro-actively signs up to work on all Holidays so I'll be going to work in the next couple of hours.

Oh I got a PS3. I got the 60GB PS3 that Sony has decided to discontinue (you may remember them also discontinuing the 20GB Model) in Favor of the Newer 80 GB PS3 model, which does not include the Emotion engine. That's the engine that runs all of PS1 and PS2 Games, so yeah I had to jump to get the 60GB one since it is really the one with the whole package in my opinion. I can play PS1, PS2, and PS3 Games on it and those new Blu Ray movies. I never owned a PS1 or PS2 so for me this was awesome to get and is sort of like a very early X-Mas gift. Which mind you seems to be just around the corner. My has this year gone fast.

Anyways, I will try to post more often, but more than likely it may be a month from now :)

No June posts, but here's a peek...

So yeah I didn't blog at all in June, but my aunt and mom visited. They visited in mid-June. We had just a quaint of a time. We went to shops, restaurants, parks, etc. and even played Nintendo Wii Sports together. Here's a peek: