Aesop's is coming, Aesop's is coming!

Man does time fly! I feel like I'm doing so well at keeping everyone up to date and then things start happening super fast and all of a sudden it's been like 2 whole weeks since the last time I posted! Good Grief!

So what is keeping me so busy you might ask? Well, of course there is always work. Judy and I (the other scheduler) have worked out a new routine of who is on 1st phone. And we started doing that this week. It's actually working out really well. I think it will be good because this way we won't get super tired of being one or the other cause we're switching off by the day instead of by the week. So that's good.

The hotel life is good too. I really enjoy working the weekend night shift. While I am often very tired and it kinda throws off my sleeping patterns some I don't mind it too much. Mainly because I enjoy the guests who stay at the hotel, for the most part, and I really love all the people I work with. So that's a bonus. All-in-all things in the work world are all good.

So the rest of my time is devoted to Theatre! At least right now. We are entering Hell Week for "Aesop's Falables". And while it's exciting it's also a little nerve-wracking. But both Mike, the director, and I agree that we've definitely got a show on our hands. The kids had an amazing run through on Thursday night. So that's exciting. And tomorrow we get to add all the lights and sound, so I can't wait to see how that works out. I also got to help build part of the set and paint some of it as well! So that's always fun, but it meant a couple late nights for me this week. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up on all this sleep soon!

So yeah...that's what's up in the land of the Sara. I hope that you all have a blessed Easter! God Bless!

Yet Another Overdue Update

So....I totally fail at this whole keeping in touch, giving updates thing. But honestly...I feel like there's never really anything to update about. I kinda hit these moments of things happening and then I talk about them, and then that's it. Back to the monotony of Sara's life.

Anyway...Got some sad news in an e-mail from Mills today. Shirley Weishaar, the old Dean of Students died today. She was there my freshman and Sophomore years. I got to know her from working in the Office of Student Life. She was a great woman, incredibly kind and very inspiring. So very sad to hear that she died.

Ummm.... Oh! Good News! I found my camera! This super exciting cause now I can take more pictures of my animals and my life! So that's fun. So I think for the rest of this post I'm gonna post some pics that I've been meaning to put on here. So get ready! Cause here we go!

So I don't remember if I told everyone about this. But at Christmas we did Secret Santa at Rad Group. Like the Tuesday of the next week I got to work to find these flowers on my desk! All they said were "To Sara". Come to find out that they woman who I gave gifts to, had gotten like 3 bouquets of roses from her children and wanted to give some away. And she thought of me as a thank you for the gifts that I had gotten her. So here they are.
Here's a shot from above them. Aren't they pretty? You can kinda see my foot in the bottom right corner of this one. I put these on the floor of the kitchen in order to get them nicely. Yay!
So here's one of my favorite pictures of my puppy dog Blossom! This is while I was getting ready to go to my cousin's wedding in November. As you can see she's laying on my Anne of Green Gable's Sweatshirt that I then promptly forgot to take with me. Thanks Blossom!

Ok. Last for now is a picture of both of my animals. One of the seldom occurances where they are both willing to hang out near each other without tormenting each other. Oreo might be in the process of stretching. I'm not really sure when this was taken. But it's another one of my favorite pictures.

All right. That's all for now. I'll try to get better at posting more stuff. And hopefully I'll have more pictures to share later! Have a wonderful day!

An Overdue Update

Really there isn't that much to update. The only new thing that's really going on in my life right now is the fact that I am choreographing for the Davenport Junior Theatre's production of "Snoopy". It's actually been tons of fun coming up with dances and teaching them to the kids in the show. Although I do have to say that I'm still having issues with the last song of the show. I really don't want it to be too cheesy, but I'm afraid that it might turn out that way because what I have in mind is kinda cheesy. So that's very, very frustrating. But other than that song everything looks really good so far. I'm really proud of the kids. They are picking everything up really well and it's looking really good. At least from a dance perspective, since that's my area of focus.

Other than that I'm still working at both jobs and still enjoying them very much. Which is good. My animals haven't been doing anything too crazy lately, so nothing to report on that end either.

Tomorrow, or today rather I get to attend a wedding at Augustana. I've not been to the Augustana chapel, but I've heard that it is a very, very pretty chapel. So that's kind of exciting. Although I am a little nervous because I actually don't really know anyone who's going to be at the wedding. My boyfriend is in the wedding and they are all friends of his from college. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully everyone will be so focused on the couple getting married that I can be kinda inconspicuous. We'll see though. I'll have to let you all know how it goes.

So yeah, that's all for now. I hope everyone reading this is in a warmer place than the Midwest right now. Our temperature is supposed to go up though, so hopefully it will stay above 0.

Good Grief

I keep thinking that I'm going be so good at keeping people updated on my life and then time goes by and I realize it's been like 2 weeks since the last time I updated. I guess I just feel like things in my life don't really change, so I feel like I don't have that much to talk about. Which in a way is kinda sad. Oh well.

I have now been a Radiology Group employee for 2 weeks. Things are going pretty well. I'm picking up the scheduling stuff at a pretty decent pace. Luckily all the techs are very willing to answer any questions I have. Although this week, my fellow scheduler Judy is going on vacation, so we'll see how I do on my own back there. In terms of the digitizing we keep thinking that it's going to get less. And most days there are less films to digitize, but then we'll get a day that all of a sudden has a ton to do. So it's hard to really determine when it's going to slow down. But luckily I have the help of the techs with this as well. So that's neat.

Lately I've been working three nights at the Courtyard. I realized that it's actually not too bad to do Fri, Sat, and Sunday nights. It's much easier to do it that way then to do Thurs, Fri, Sat. Makes my sleeping pattern a little bit easier. I honestly don't mind working three nights at the Courtyard after my full week at Radiology Group. I do have my days where I'm very tired, but for the most part things are going rather well. Now I just have to get around to also doing some fulfilling things at home. Like my sewing projects that still aren't done. That and I have to finish cleaning and organizing my room and pack before my trip to Cal. for my cousin's wedding.

Oh yeah, I don't think I've mentioned the trip to Cal in a while. I am leaving on Friday to head back to Ventura for my cousin's wedding on Nov 1. Then my parent's and I will be staying for about a week to do some fun vacationing and visiting some of my Dad's side of the family that we haven't seen in a while. So that will be fun. Originally Samantha was going to come with me, but she has decided to go and visit her family in South Carolina for the week instead, which I think is a good idea because I know she's been missing them lately. So yeah, that's what's been going on with that.

Theatre-wise I've been doing some set building/lights for Anne of Green Gables at Playcrafter's. I've also been a stand-in body for a couple of the actors who had to miss rehearsals. That was kinda fun. Acting with no real pressure. It was just neat to be at the rehearsal and see how the show is taking shape. It looks really good. Can't wait to see it with costumes and everything. So yeah, I'll probably help with a couple of the shows and I'll for sure be there for strike, so that's how I've been keeping theatre in my life for right now. I know auditions for shows for early next year are starting to come up at several of the theatres, so I might be telling you all that I'm in another show sometime soon. Who knows? Oh yeah...I've also been asked to do lights for The King and I at Music Guild next summer. So I for sure have that to look forward to. Plus I'll also be auditioning for them as well. Although I can't be in King and I since I'm doing lights, but maybe one of their other summer shows. So yeah all kinda of stuff coming up that I might be more inclined to post about.

I think that's all for now. Thanks for reading and feel free to comment!

My Last Day!!

As a temp that is. I faxed in my last time card as an Office Team employee! It was a very exciting moment that I didn't really get to celebrate except for a little cheer for myself. On Monday I clock in for the first time as a Radiology Group employee! It's very exciting for me.

So I've been training on scheduling all this week. And let me tell you it is exhausting. I don't know what it is about learning a new job that just takes it out of you. I think part of it is that I'm also still kinda doing the digitizing at the same time. Crazy stuff, I know. But I'm actually getting a lot of help from my Supervisor and all the techs to get that job done so that I can be over answering phones most of the day. So that's really cool. We're getting it all figured out.

Other than that things are pretty normal. Not too much happening. This weekend I'm going to be helping to hang lights and do some finishing building on the set for Anne of Green Gables, so that's exciting. Yep, that and sleeping so I'm all set to go for next week. So yeah. That's all!

Staying Put And Moving Up

So, the big news is that Sam and I have decided that the best thing to do for our finances and our sanity is to stay in our apartment for another year. We talked about this at length and are both very happy with the decision. The only thing left to do is break the news to Katie. Hopefully that will go ok. I feel bad backing out on her, but honestly at this point it is the best thing for all of us. It will give her time to get more secure in her own life and maybe next year we can rethink the whole moving to a house concept. But for now this is the best thing.

Ok, on to the other big news. I will be officially hired at Radiology Group as of Oct. 13. Yay! This is very exciting for me. I've been a temp with them since the end of May, so that's super exciting. The other part of that is that my job is changing. One of our schedulers is getting a job that better suits her lifestyle and needs. So they asked me if I would be interested in doing scheduling. I said, "Absolutely". So for the last week, (about), I've been trying to see how long the digitizing for each day will take as well as starting to learn the scheduling job. I got word today that I'm for sure going to be doing the scheduling, so that's exciting. However we're still attempting to figure out if they will need to hire another person for the digitizing. So for a while I might be doing both jobs. We'll see how this goes. But eventually I'll be scheduling full time. So that's cool.

Yeah, I think that's all for now. I hope all is well with everyone who reads this!

An Epiphany

So here I am sitting at work at the Courtyard and typing up a new blog. It's actually really nice to be back at the Courtyard. I haven't been here for a couple weeks, at least not on my regular shift. And it feels like forever. While I was doing "Promises, Promises" my manager was nice enough to let me have the nights off for the show. This was good because it allowed me to fully be a part of the whole production. What with the parties and mingling after the shows, I was able to get to know and hang out with the other cast members even more. So that was nice. But I never thought I would miss work. It was kinda nice to come back. Strange feeling for me.

I was talking to my Dad today about a couple of things and one thing I told him was very, very true. I'm happy with where I am in life right now. I like both of my jobs a lot. It's not a chore to go to work everyday. I enjoy it. I mean, I do have my moments where I wish I didn't need to work so much, but for the most part I really like going to work everyday. And I don't really want to not work. That's kind of a big thing for me. To be really happy with where I am in life. I mean obviously it would be nice if my finances were a little more secure, but other than that things are all good. I'm honestly and truly happy. It's a weird thing for me to feel.

So yeah. That's kinda all I wanted to say. Tomorrow, or rather later today I get to help build sets for "Anne of Green Gables", the next show at Playcrafter's. So that should be fun. It's nice to help out and be involved in shows in different ways. I'm glad that there is such an active theatre community here in the Quad Cities. I can't wait to get more involved in all of it. Well, little by little. Have a great day!

Quick Note

Just a quick note to say hello. I am mainly keeping busy with both my jobs. As I am now back to my normal schedule of work, work and more work. Although I did stop in at Starbucks yesterday and talked to Chris, the lead from "Promises, Promises". It was nice to say hello and get the chance to catch up a little with him. He's one of the supervising managers at the Starbucks just down the street from my job. It was neat to find that out while we were working on the show.

The other thing keeping me busy is attempting to find a new place to live. Sam and my lease is up October 31st. So we need to be out of our apartment by then. However we are both looking for new places to live on opposite sides of the river. She's going to be living with a friend of her's here in Illinois and I'm going to live with Katie in Iowa. So I'm kinda sad that we won't be living together anymore, but I think it is the best idea we could come up with so that everyone will be happy. Now I just have to find a two-bedroom house to live in, in Iowa. Wish me luck!