San Angelo

San Angelo has frequently been listed as one of "Best Places for Business and Careers" by Forbes Magazine, peaking at 28th in 2002 as one of "The Best Small Towns". As of 2009 the unemployment rate was 5.6%. The city is 1hr 46 min south of Abilene. This means that he leaves at 1pm everyday except for Saturday and doesn't get back till 11:30pm or so. Yesterday the office spent the entire day getting licensed to work in San Angelo. Jeff surprised me by getting home around 8pm, when I was not expecting him for another hour or two. Some of the guys from the office after getting back into town went out in Abilene to go sell, Jeff would have but he didn't have any area to go to, he ran out a few days ago.

Work Random

Our experience here over the summer is very different from one another, meaning Jeff is at work all day, while I am at home- either in an apt or a hotel- trying to stay busy...

Our schedule:
9:30am- 10:30-we wake up, eat, get dressed, pillow talk, etc

12:00pm - He goes to his APX meeting, where I go along to collect PSA's (which are the agreements that the customers signed to get an alarm system) from all the sales reps

12:30pm - Jeff comes back from his meeting (this meeting is for all the sales reps, who record their numbers the prior day and set a goal for that day, of how many they'll sell)

1-1:40pm - we eat lunch together

(but now he is working in San Angelo, which is an hour and a half away, and now he leaves for his meeting at 1pm then leaves shortly after that.)

2:00pm- Jeff leaves to go out knocking

9:30-11:30pm - sometime between these times, he will come home, it depends on how far away they are working, how many guys they have to pick up, and if their guys are ready to go when the driver is ready to go

After Jeff gets home we eat (usually I cook- only on a few occasions do we go out to eat), relax by going to the pool/hot tub or watch a movie. An insight to our personal life, we could totally live out of our bed, it is our favorite place to be; whether to sleep, snuggle, play, watch movies, talk (pillow talk), stare and wonder how lucky we each are, whatever the case may be, it is by far our most used piece of furniture that we absolutely LOVE!

Ok, now for my schedule:
It is about the same except when he is in his meeting I am organizing paperwork, matching the PSA's with the SOP's (the PSA's belong to the reps and the SOP's belong to the techs) it is my job to match them up and then send them into HQ both by UPS and email by 3:45pm everyday except saturday--learned that one the hard way... I had entered about 60 matches (aka bundle) into the computer and was awaiting the UPS tracking number, however UPS doesn't pickup here in Abilene on saturdays, so it turns out that I had to redo all of the bundle again on Monday morning along with a few unmatched SOP's. (sorry if this only makes sense to me or others who have worked for APX alarm and actually know what I am talking about)

Then after Jeff leaves to go to work, I try to keep myself busy. It used to be easier when we lived in Round Rock because my work schedule was different, I worked 4:30-8pm M-F and 2.5hrs on Sat. now I work while Jeff is around and am done an hour after he leaves. So the rest of my day really is filled with keeping myself productive.

Productivity:
Breezy, the girl I used to work with in the office has got me working out with her everyday, some days we work out while the boys are in the meeting and sometimes we work out before she starts work at 3:30pm... Our workout consists of walking on an inclined treadmill for 15min, then rotating to the eliptical for 15 min, then going back to the treadmil- but walking backwards for 15min, then for the last 15min we work on our arms using weights, legs- like dips and squats, core/stomach- situps using a giant medicine ball or the yoga core exercise, and/or stretch.

Mostly I have found myself watching HBO and other retarded shows and movies while laying in bed in and out of sleep. My life is becoming quite pathetic, and now that I'm done with school, I really feel like I'm not progressing and I'm turning into a giant goo-mush of sloppy putty brainess... can you tell? - I'm making no sense and I'm making up words. eek.

In some ways I can't wait for the summer to be over, but then I realize that we're going back to Logan, UT and I think, "what the hell am I going to do with myself while Jeff is at school?" I hope I can find a job, and I hope that it has more benefits than just financial. He's got 2 maybe 3, if you count the summer, semesters left of school, and then? then what? He wants to work for someone a few years before he gets his great idea to start his own business... I don't know, I'm a little weary for our future because neither of us are really good at planning... I am, but it drives him nuts, and I don't like to plan for that kind of stuff because stuff happens, life happens, there's no way for me to plan, the way I plan anyway, for whatever might happen or not happen for that matter. (I must sound a bit crazy- It is hard for me to detail plan when you just can't plan for certain things that far in advance. However, I know that whatever happens, happens for a reason, and we will be as prepared as we can for it- the Lord will always be on our side, it is up to us that we stay on His side)

I graduated 7 months ago and I have no idea what I want to do... I never thought that would be me, I had big dreams while in college, but things change when you get married, priorities change, likes and dislikes change, I'm not sure, even though I haven't worked in Interior Design, if I want to be an Interior Designer, since my friend Stu Taylor- the massage therapist, I want to be as well, and frankly I'm quite good at it considering I've had no formal training other than being a ginnie pig for my friend to work on (can't complain about that, I miss it honestly)... but I feel bad that I want to go back to school to study massage when I haven't even given ID a chance. Going to school for Interior Design, especially during some of those retardedly long seminars, I hated it, I just wanted to quit and do something else, but everyone, my family, told me to persevere. And where did it get me?----------

Blessings:
Married! And for that I have no regrets or complaints. however, when it comes to a job and being able to help support my husband until he can get a job/career... I feel jipped. The ID program for "Design Sales and Marketing" was a joke, a made up program for the 'sorry losers who didn't "make" it into Studio' who would have something to do while the studio snobs rubbed it in their faces at every seminar and ID design class! I wish I were one of the program directors to change the course curriculum for the other track...get it into pish posh shape, make it more grandeur than those stupid studio gents that think they are all "that and then some!" Oh I'm not bitter, I'm disappointed with the cards I got dealt and feel bad that I didn't do anything to show for it, I feel like I didn't allow myself to excel or to succeed... that I was an average student, nothing special, and that I've always been average and will always be average. I'm not super amazing at anything! And it is my fault that I am this way.

Venting:
At times I vent; which gets me a little depressed at times, but overall I'm a very motivated and determined individual- just ask my husband! Sure I feel average at times, and feel unsuccessful at how things have unraveled in my life (especially when it comes to finances, schooling-education, Interior Design major) But the honest truth is I am glad it happened the way that it did because I met Jeff, and he makes everything in my life make sense. I know now, based on what I've experienced that some things just aren't for me... like ID- I'm pretty I never want to work in that industry- I don't want to have what it takes to be "successful" in it and I want to be a Mom and spend my days with my husband and future family.

Confidence:
I am exciting! I am fun! I am intelligent, brave, courageous, determined, spontaneous, dependable, independent, virtuous, faithful, interesting, humble, patient, beautiful, sexy, spiritual, intuitive, kind, lovable, and so much more!

so if you actually made it down this far, wow congrats on you... remember when they used to say, "kudos dude"... well, there you have it friend... work, it is what you make of it. It can make you or break you, and I choose for it to make me. :)

I know kind of random, it is 3:00 in the morning and I'm not tired, hence all the talking.

Our Future:
Kids? yes, someday. But I don't want military or boredom to be a reason to get pregnant. Jeff and I don't want to rush into something of this magnitude just because I might get sent overseas, or because we're getting "old", seriously we have time, we JUST got married! :)

This is a really long post... sorry to those of you who are actually reading this- hopefully I wasn't that boring!