With a Side of Hope

Hi there!  Happy Friday to you and more importantly, Happy Birthday to my sister and my best friend, Melissa!!!!!!!!!  I know that I normally do a Fun Finds Friday post but I am going to skip that today since we have something to celebrate.  I am going to focus my post today on someone who means the world to me.  Someone who I can proudly call my sister and my best friend.  Someone who has been there for me my entire life and someone who loves and supports me each and every single day.  That person is Melissa!

We can be silly together

But most of all, we are ALWAYS there for each other!

When I was told that I was going to be a big sister, I think it was one of the happiest moments of my life.  I spent those 9 months watching my mom’s belly, and wondering what it would be like.  I wished and hoped and prayed that the baby in my mom’s belly would be a sister and not a brother to me.  I wanted a little sister to play with.  On May 3^rd, 1988, I was at my grandparent’s house waiting for the phone call that we could come to the hospital so I could meet my sister.  I remember I was pacing the whole day until I was ready to meet you.  I remember dad telling me her name was Melissa and I couldn’t wait to hold her in my arms and see that she were real.  From that moment on, I instantly clicked with Melissa.  We were inseparable.  She was best friend I never had, and the sister I always wanted.  There were moments that we spent together tucked into my little twin bed watching Saturday early morning cartoons.  In those moments, I knew that she was something special.

Melissa and I have a bond that I just can’t explain.  We can look at each other and know instantly what the other one is thinking.  We connect on such a level that is amazing.  I am her number one supporter in everything that she does.  I care so deeply for her and want her to have a beautiful and incredible life like she deserves.  I am so proud of her for everything that she has accomplished so far and I know that she will accomplish more.

She is the one person that I can spend hours upon hours with in the supermarket just to get those couponing deals.  We are the couponing queens!  We love to bake and cook together.  We love just sitting on the sofa and gossiping or talking about anything.  We do have our moments when we bud heads but those are few and far between.  The good moments definitely outweigh anything else.

I wish for her birthday that she has the most wonderful day and gets everything that she hopes and dreams for.  I hope this 25th year is her best year yet!  I wish nothing but the best for her!  So Melissa, today we celebrate YOU!  I hope you have the most wonderful birthday yet!

I cannot wait to celebrate with you tonight!  We are going to have fun!  Happy Birthday Melissa!!!!!  I love you lots!!!!!!

I hope all of you have fun things planned for the weekend ahead!  What are you doing this weekend?  I’m looking forward to Mexican food on Sunday!  I am trying out some new recipes on Sunday and I am looking forward to seeing how they turn out!  Have a lovely weekend and a great Friday!!

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Hi there!  Happy Wednesday!  Wow, I can’t believe it’s Wednesday and the last time I updated here was on Friday.  I am so incredibly sorry for all of that!  I do have an explanation and I wasn’t planning on not updating for so long.  I’ve been extremely sick the past couple of days.  I actually missed work on Monday and yesterday.  Today is my first day back and I was wishing that I was still home because I still do not feel 100% at all.  I think everything that I was feeling last week really caught up with me and now it’s a million times worse.  I will explain further into this post.  First let me start recapping the weekend.

On Friday, Mike and I decided to go to Olive Garden.  They had a deal where two people could eat for $25 and you can eat one entrée there and bring one home.  It was a great deal and we were also able to use a $4 off coupon that I had.  I forgot to take pictures. I decided to get fettuccine Alfredo which was a big mistake.  My stomach wasn’t liking that at all.  It was what I wanted though so I suffered.  Anyway, after that we went to Sam’s Club to pick up some produce items we needed for the week and then we went to Kohl’s.  I had a coupon and some money left on my gift card from my birthday so I picked up a shirt and two nail polishes.  I was pleased with my purchases.

I decided to do some Pinterest inspired nails!  Take a look.  Oh, and don’t mind my cuticles.  They look atrocious!

Love the color purple I found!

Silver sparkles!

On Saturday, during the day I relaxed most of the day and then I did some things around the house.  My mom and I went to Pei Wei for dinner.  It was my first time trying there.

I ordered a teriyaki bowl with chicken and white rice.  My mom got the same thing but with brown rice.

My dinner

This is the point where things got really bad.  I had been having swollen glands in my throat for a while and feeling very run down and tired.  All of a sudden my stomach hit me like a ton of bricks and I was sick the rest of the night from whatever I ate.  I didn’t think too much of it and I went home to relax.  Mike and I could do anything but relax because the people above us had about 25 people over for a massive party!  Just what we needed.  I couldn’t believe it.  Thankfully, we couldn’t hear anything in our bedroom and just locked ourselves in there and went to bed.

On Sunday, I was feeling worse but I dragged myself out of bed to run some errands with Mike.  I felt like my health kept deteriorating even more to the point where I felt like I couldn’t stay awake.  I was getting sweats and chills and I felt severely nauseous.  Well, one of my most embarrassing moments in my life came true on Sunday.  I ended up puking in public!    Not my proudest moment at all.  Luckily, I made it to a bathroom but I ended up destroying the bathroom with my vomit.  Ugh,  sorry for the tmi.  I was beyond awful at this point.

I went home and rested the entire night.  I woke up on Monday and felt the same way and immediately made a doctor’s appointment.  He did a test on me and gave me some medicine.  I spent the rest of the day curled up on the sofa.  I did the same on Tuesday as well.  I still feel the same way and it’s been hard to drink and eat.  I’m trying as best as I can.  I really don’t understand what is going on with me.  It’s not fun feeling this way.  I certainly don’t want to throw up while I’m at work.  I’m hoping I will start feeling better today.  Fingers crossed.

Well, that is what has been going on in my life.  I really hope that all of you have had a much better couple of days than I have!

Have a great Wednesday!

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Hi there!  Happy Thursday to you!  I’m glad that Friday is just around the corner.  I think this week has flown by.  I guess its because I’ve been really busy and stressed this week and haven’t been feeling all that great.  I’m still feeling a little sick today.  I actually was able to sleep last night so I made progress there.  I’m still really tired though.  My throat feels a little swollen but doesn’t necessarily hurt.  I really think that it ‘s all due to the drastic changes in temperature.  It goes from being 70 degrees one second and drops to 40 the next.  It’s ridiculous!  I wish the weather would make up it’s mind so that people were getting sick or having allergy attacks.  But so is life.

Since I ate boring breakfast food for dinner last night (eggs and a bagel), I decided not to bore all of you with that because I post pictures of that dinner all the time.  I came across an article on Yahoo, that I thought would be interesting to share instead.  The company Career Cast came out with their annual poll of the Best and Worst jobs of 2013 which was posted on Yahoo.  You can find it here.  There were 200 jobs that were ranked by factors such as: income, stress, physical demands and job outlook.  The winners were in two categories, healthcare and technology.

The Top 10 Best Jobs for 2013 are:

1.) Actuary

2. Biomedical Engineer

3. Software Engineer

4. Audiologist

5. Financial Planner

6. Dental Hygienist

7. Occupational Therapist

8. Optometrist

9. Physical Therapist

10. Computer Systems Analyst

They say that Dental Hygienist make on average $68,000.  It is said to be known as a career that has a flexible schedule and low stress.  The Computer Systems Analyst is paid $78 ,000 and due to constant changes in technology, this job always seems to be in demand.

I find this to be really interesting.  My job is not on this list obviously and I’m not going to go into details about what I do right now just for privacy reasons.  I think this is an interesting list though. I think these are the things that kids entering their senior year of high school need to consider when trying to decide if they want to go to college or not and what they want to do.  You want to be able to get a good paying job that makes you happy when you get out of school.  That is ultimately the goal but sometimes in a lot of situations, that is not the case.  Take it from someone who knows.  But before we say anything else, let’s look at the next list.

Top 10 Worst Jobs of 2013

1. Newspaper Reporter

2. Lumberjack

3. Enlisted Military Personnel

4. Actor

5. Oil Rig Worker

6. Dairy Farmer

7. Meter Reader

8. Mail Carrier

9. Roofer

10. Flight Attendant

The article says that Flight Attendants always had a stressful job but now due to restructuring in the industry, there isn’t a very good hiring outlook.  The article also says with Mail Carrier’s that more of their positions are being deleted rather than created.  Since all of the technology of communication is available, “snail mail” is low.  Their salaries are said to be $53,000 a year.  They also say that Newspaper Reporters was once considered exciting, however it is now a low-paying, high-stressful job with workers not knowing if their paper may consolidate or fold at any time.  People get more news from digital media as opposed to newspapers these days.

My job is not on the worst list either.  I don’t know if I agree with that or not.  Heh.    What do you think of this article?  Do you work in any of jobs that made either of these lists?  Do you agree or disagree with the jobs listed and what the article says?

I hope you enjoyed looking at that article.  I thought it was something interesting and different to discuss.  Alright, well that is all I have for today.  Have a great Thursday!

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