Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Okay, so the reason I hardly ever update my blog is because Blogger changed their update interface and I hate it.

That being said, it has been a long time since I’ve updated it so once again I will resort to epic picspam with as little explanation as I can get away with.



I have a job.



I am the Final Documents Recorder (and receptionist, but that’s only about 5% of the time) for First Centennial Mortgage. We are a nationwide company that did over $100 million last year. I work at the Aurora branch, which is the main corporate office with the president and vice president and the lead loan officers. As far as my job goes, when the mortgages and final title policies are all done and signed and recorded by the various title companies, they are shipped to me. From there I do some magic voodoo with them for my company and then send them out to the banks. I also help with Housing and Urban Development cases.

This is my new home away from home.

This is my desk.

This is what my desk looks like at any given moment. The lovely spread is one HUD case file. I always have two fedex boxes at any given time, one for Wells Fargo and one for JP Morgan Chase.

My daily work.

View from my desk to the outside. It’s so nice having an office with a view. Those piles of shite are no longer there; this was my first day.

The best thing about my job is that nobody gives a crap how you get your work done as long as it gets done. I can watch youtube or watch a movie on my ipad or listen to music while I work. Featured: Red vs. Blue, an incredibly good webseries.

I’ve been there about two months now.
My first week or so I was there I kept referring to the clientele as “patients”, haha. Old habits die hard. I was talking to a loan officer on the phone and I asked “What’s the patient’s name? Oh wait, I mean client… Sorry, I used to work in healthcare.” The gal on the other end laughed and said “Well, the way they act sometimes they need to be patients somewhere.”

We had a severe thunderstorm alert last week when I was at work. We all went outside in the crazy wind and I snapped this picture of the crazy-ass weather.



And here comes the picspam.
Obligatory cute Lu picture.

Tami and Jeremy have me doin’ this baseball thing at this place called “outside”.

Also, somewhere along the line I picked up a boyfriend. I still don’t know how this happened.

One month anniversary. The scarf is from Rome, Italy. Tami got it for me when she went there with Mom and Jeremy for about two weeks. The earrings are from Mom too.

I’ve gotten a lot of good knitting done since moving up here. My friend Esther at work was wearing a knitted shrug that she got at JC Penny and it inspired me to knit my own. This is my idea of a perfect Saturday: Pajamas, doggie, knitting, and yes, Red vs. Blue marathon.

‘The Esther’ as I’ve been calling it, ironed and almost finished.

Putting the edges on.

Yeah, I don’t have a picture of the finished project since it didn’t shape quite right (didn’t make it long enough) and it was scratchy (my own fault for buying wool). But I bought new softer yarn and am remaking it.

We had a huge family get-together today for the 4th of July.

Jeremy and Andrew were the manly men in charge of the grill. And they sipped manly champagne while dousing the raw burgers in manly lighter fluid.

My family.

Vin couldn’t be at the party because he had to work. Andrew and I visited him after dinner at GameStop so at least he would have some kind of human contact. The storm we had Sunday knocked out their internet and credit card scanner line so the 25 minute drive to his workplace was worth it just to hear him use dial-up to scan someone’s credit card.
BSHHHHH BEEZZZ GRRHHH FHHHHHHHHHHHH

Terrifying. Hitchcock dog.

I’ve been looking for an excuse to use this .gif but I haven’t had a good one so I’ll just tack it on the end of this post.

Happy Higgs Boson Day!

Monday, May 14, 2012

Batavia Riverwalk

On Mother's Day mom decided she wanted to take us kids and Lumi down to the Batavia Riverwalk since it was a beautiful day.

Most the focus was on Lumi because she went crazy as soon as mom mentioned "ride?"

Wanna go for a ride Lumi?


RIDE!!!!












Fabyan Windmill, built in the 1850s.

Like a boss.








Lumi was exhausted afterwards, poor doggie

Earlier today, on the way to meet Andrew at Starbucks, I drove by FermiLab without even realizing it.

I love you, why don't you call me?



Andrew and I talked outside the 'Bux for a while untili they closed then we wandered to the only place that was open that late (walmart). Bought some Pocky and a few of those those funny little yan-yan chocolate sticks (Squirrel - Your best friend.)

Their media department has a giant Thor cardboard cutout.

It wasn't for sale.

Lu is so cute

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Andrew and I at Caribou coffee






And later, emergency iHop.






Lu <3


Andrew says he can cook but pix or it didn't happen.












It was a beautiful day so we decided to fire up the grill and cook some steaks.


My brother titles this picture "Soon".












Doing a little knitting on Star Wars Day being sacrilege by watching Stargate instead of Star Wars.






Later Andrew texted me saying he was free after 10pm and we went to go see Avengers.








Awesome movie, best one I've seen in a while. Loki has such swagger; I'm glad Tom Hiddleston has signed on for a few more sequels.






Before having a Super Smash Bros + Mario Kart + Limbo marathon, Andrew and I felt an emergency TGIFridays run was in order.






Caesar-marinated chicken with a Parmesan crust with spinach alfredo ravioli and a fresh mozzarella and tomato salad.






The next day Andrew and I went to Panera for lunch (frozen caramel not the same without you Sarah!) then went to Caribou for some coffee.
They had this poll going due to the Avengers and since someone had already written Thor (my favorite avenger) and there was no love for Hawkeye I wrote him down there in the corner.


lol @ the person who wrote "a velociraptor".


While I was at the register I remarked to Andrew "someone wrote Loki as their favorite hero". The gal at the register said "That was me." I had to high-five her. We need to be friends now hahaha








This morning I made the most perfect omelet.