Couple-ing

First off I have to say Congratulations to Alison for getting engaged. I'm extremely happy for her, especially since I recently met her "fiance". She's one of my favorite people in the world, and I'm glad to see her happy. And yes, you can see how happy she is just by looking at her pictures of them together.

It seems like everyone is getting engaged/married or having babies right now. Its weird. extremely weird. I'm 23, according to Kim and I's plan, I should be married now, or at least engaged. But the thing is, as much as I want to have a family, I really don't think that I'm ready to start one now. My other Alison (who I'm gonna call Ali G. to try to keep things straight in this blog) and I talked briefly about this yesterday. College for me, wasn't me time. It was track time. I'm just now at the point in my life where I can do what I want and have nobody that I have to report to. I can finally go out on and not have to worry about the 48 hour rule, or having it affect my performance.

At the same time, it seems like everyone and their mother has been trying to hook me up with guys lately. It happened again last night. I was upstairs at the neighbors with 3 couples and Trevor, which automatically made Trevor and I partners for the game we were playing (not that I would have chosen anyone else as my partner) But there they were, 3 couples, all fighting and cuddling on the couches. Emilio, one of Trevor's good friends asked me "why aren't you married?" Then went on to tell me that he wanted to hook me up with one of his friends because I'm a nice girl and this guy needs a nice girl like me. I don't know how I feel about people hooking me up with other people. I always joke around about it, asking people if they have any tall friends, and its flattering when people want to hook you up with their friends because it usually means that they like you enough to want you to be with one of their friends. But along with that comes awkwardness if things don't work out. And if I went out with everyone that people wanted to hook me up with. There would be a lot of awkwardness in my world.

I know...

I know I know I know, and I'm sorry. I've been getting yelled at lately because I haven't been keeping up with my blog.

So what has happened in the last 3 weeks?

Well...

I went to Pittsburgh/Slippery Rock/IUP one weekend. It was a great time in Slip. I got to do some much needed catching up with Kristie and the boys. It was weird though, it was the first time that I have been out with the boys since they turned 21. (those babies). I miss them, all of them. I miss Slippery Rock, and cannot get over the fact that its been a year since I graduated there. It is nice every time that I go back. Especially when I get to go to a track meet and meet up with Renatta and Jill (but I do wish Miss Alison could have been there also). And Ginger Hill is always a good time. Lots of good memories there, especially memories from my last semester at SRU. Last night Boston told me that it just isnt the same without some of us there. That he had more fun last year than this year. Although I'm pretty sure that he said it just to flatter me (us), its still nice to know that I left a mark in Slip.

I also turned 23 recently. Weird, yes. I'm old. Twenty-freaking-three. Where did the last 2 years go? Seriously, I don't think its possible that my 21st birthday was 2 years ago. Our secret mission was 2 years ago? Our Hawaiian party was 2 years ago? Oh my gosh. I am old. My parent's always warned me that time flies when you get out of school, and they were not lying. Not one bit.

I did have a complete blast on my birthday. Even though we had to work, and that included going to a Funeral Home (where everyone wants to be on their birthday). Lauren spoiled me and took me to get my nails done and then tanning. Then later that night I got ready...


... and I met up with most of my favorite people, Autumn, Lauren, and my neighbors at Plymouth for some birthday drinks. I'm pretty sure that we were thisclose to getting kicked out of Plymouth for pouring salt everywhere (including everyone's heads) Yes, we are a mature group.
... I think Lauren is putting something in my hair at that very moment.

Thanks to everyone who called / texted / im'd / came out with me / sent cards on my birthday. I really do have some awesome people in my life.

Work has been going well. Lauren and I have finally "grown a pair". We've started working smarter, instead of harder. (Even though we're still working pretty darn hard) Plus, we're so damn charming that people just can't resist us (haha!?!) Our state is having a pretty big contest this quarter, and Lauren and I are both competitors, so we're determined to win at least one part of the contest, if not the whole thing. We hate losing, and by working our butts off to win the contest we'll get more accounts anyways, so its always a good way to get us motivated. So far we have 7/10 appointments that we need to make for the first part of the contest, and we still have 2 weeks left to make the other three appointments, no prob. bob.

Eric is going to be moving into my apartment complex in a month or so. He's getting a single room basement apartment. We went and checked them out the other day and its kind of hard to see what they are going to look like because right now they are all being put together, but I'm pretty sure that its just going to be a small version of my apartment. I'm happy for him. This is going to be his first apartment. Well, he had one when he was in school, but thats different. This is all him, he's a grown up now, with a real job and soon a place of his own. Again, we're all getting old.

... Ok, I just got off of the phone with Lauren, and she was out making us some more appointments when she was at Buffalo Wild Wings. Nice work, troubleshoot.

I need to use this weekend to study for my life license test. There is way too much money in life insurance to pass up just because I don't want to take another test. So please send me some encouragement (or some nasty texts telling me to get to it)

This month has the potential to be an extremely busy one. Lauren and I will hopefully find ourselves running around to 20+ branches of FNB, and also going to Vermont for work. Hopefully gas decides to go down instead of up.

I think that is enough rambling to get a little caught up. If not, I'm sorry, but if there's something that you really want to know or hear about, don't be afraid to ask. I don't bite (most of the time)