A few weeks ago, I received an unidentified package via FedEx; I thought to myself…I didn’t order anything, what could this be? Upon opening it I realized that it was the sock monkey product that I had been offered to do a review of it. It immediately put a smile on my face.

The sock monkey whose name is Pogo is made out of soft polyester knit and filled with filling. His torso is filled with some sort of pellet filling to make him sturdy which allows him to sit on his own. He has magnets in his hands and feet which allow him to be attached to multiple surfaces. I must say, he’s the cutest sock monkey I’ve ever seen with a vibrant multi-colored stripped body, yellow detachable scarf and hat.

I decided to take him on an adventure to the daycare I work at and let the children test him out. Of course, I didn’t want him to get TOO dirty but they had fun with him. One of the kids didn’t want me to put him away! Not only is the sock monkey a great companion toy for a child, it is also a great gift for a collector with a price that won’t break the bank. You can find other sock monkies at the Genunie Monkeez site. I would highly recommend them as a gift for any child.

When I get the chance to get a personal picture, I will do so. I don’t have a digital camera to do this but I have a webcam I can use! I’m hoping to get a picture from my phone with the monkey with the children.

Father’s day is approaching fast, it’s next weekend if I’m not mistaken, and I have yet to think about a gift that I may want to get my dad. He pretty much has everything anyone could ever ask for: a nice home, nice cars, nice electronics, nice motorcycle, a pressure washers, an RV…that list goes on and on. It’s pretty much slipped my mind until now to be honest and even then I don’t know if I’ll get him anything more than a happy father’s day phone call.

probably won’t was losing some weight by the next time I saw Alan, which hopefully will be in August. Sure, I still have about a month and a halves time to lose some weight, but when I really think about all the excuses I could come up with the one that is actually true is: when will I find the time? When will I find the time to actually sit down and plan out meals and count up calories, except the weekend? I work all day and for the most part every night too. When I get home, I’m tired and for the most part hit the sack except for maybe 5 or 10 minutes that I might take to shower or eat a quick snack. Sigh, I wish there was no excuse to have excuses! I refuse to rely on diet pills like Anoretix, but at the same time it’s getting pretty tempting. I doubt that is something that I’ll ever resort too simply because I’m afraid of anything and everything that I could put into my body that causes heart rate to increase and what not.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to sign up for a tanning package so that I could achieve the summer glow that I won’t get otherwise due to lack of being in the sun this summer.  I’ve been going for about 2 and a half weeks (I think?) and let me tell you it’s an experience. I like the fact that I’m getting tan but I hate having to worry about the other things that could result from it (Mesothelioma cancer). I have to keep the package for at least two months before cancelling it which means I have to pay for it until August 15th, after that I think I’ll stop going 1) because summer will be over and 2) I don’t think it’s something I see myself keeping up in the long run. I really wanted to do it for the experience and to see what kind of results I could get and now that I know, I don’t see a really added benefit to it.

I don’t know if I mentioned before but I am staying in Kansas for the summer rather than going back to South Carolina. I made this decision based solely on the fact that I have a job and I can’t up and leave for two and a half months. I am okay with this except on days when it’s really nice outside and I wish I was at my grand mother’s house swimming in the pool. I was never a beach person, except when we lived in Hawaii and I was at the beach every day (I think it has to do with the fact that beaches in Hawaii are so nice compared to SC), so the pool was the next best thing. I also wish I was home for the summer when I’ve had a long, stressful day at work…sometimes, I wonder if I made the right decision to stay or if I should have told my boss I’d be back after summer break was over. Usually, someone in my family always rents a beach house for a few weeks out of the summer and most times that beach house is located at Folly Beach but it’d be nice to go back home and make an Outer Banks rentals just to have some nice relaxing, fun with my family.

Even though, I won’t be going home for the summer, my mom will be here the week of July 12th-18th to celebrate my brother’s 21st birthday which is July 9th. I’ll be able to make it alittle longer without seeing everyone since she is coming for the week. I think we’re going to try and go to Worlds of Fun while she is here and I’m going to take off that Thursday and Friday that she’s in town as well since I do need the hours and money and I already requested off a week and two days in August for when Alan, hopefully, comes to visit. I hope we have a good time while she’s here because the last time she was here was for Thanksgiving and it didn’t go so well. We’ll see!

In the next few months I hope to be a proud owner of the following: a XBox 360, a Macbook Pro (13-inch), and a new up to date fast desktop PC. Alan is getting me an Xbox 360 as my back birthday present since he was unable to get me anything for the last two birthdays I’ve had because of lack of money and jobs. I had talked about getting an Xbox 360 at the beginning of the year because it’s something we could do together and talk over since we’re apart the majority of the time but I didn’t have the money to get one. The Macbook Pro I plan on getting when the Fall semester starts and is something I need/want for school. I decided on getting a Macbook over a XP based laptop simply because I like the design and the functionality of the Macbook, not to mention I’ve read so many good things about the Macbooks more so than XP based laptops.

And lastly, I’ve started putting together a wishlist of computer parts so that I can build my second computer. My current PC is 5 years old and way out of date (1.83 ghz! lol) and has constant issues with locking up and/or restarting itself; I think the motherboard was damaged when my graphics card fan decided to stop working and would overheat itself. Because it’s so old there is no point in just replacing parts – I’ve already replaced the graphics card and memory in it once – so I figured why not build a new one? I like the idea of having a desktop and laptop for use because sometimes a desktop is more comfortable to sit at and work on when a laptop gets to be too much. Hopefully, I”ll be able to do all this in the next few months as I’m starting to put money aside for the desktop!

So I see that Wordpress 2.8 is available for download. I must do that as soon as I finish writing up this useless blog. I haven’t been up too much this week except my class and work. The class I feel I’ll do very well in since I’ve already taken statistics and it’s pretty much the exact same material. Screw KU for not allowing my stats class from my community college transfer in as an exact equivalent; their reason was, I didn’t need MATH 101 (College Algebra) to take the course I took previously. Well gee, obviously I didn’t need to take Algebra before taking Stats because I got an A in the class.

I’ve been playing Sims 3 quite a bit. If you have the game add me as a friend to your profile. My family, a sim named Ashley and a sim named Alan (obviously me and Alan!), had twin girls last night. I asked Alan to marry me multiple times but he kept refusing but when I switched characters over to him and proposed to myself of course I accepted. So the baby came before the marriage because Alan as being stubborn but whatever. Hopefully, I can get my launcher to behave as well as my computer to behave long enough for me to upload the screen shots and video I’ve taken in the game thus far and showcase my Sims on their own page.

My brother called not long ago to tell me that he got offered a job at a gas station here in town working full time. That’s good for him since he’s been desperately wanting to move out of my dad’s house in Junction City (an hour and a half away from Lawrence) forever now. I’m not sure what he’s going to do in regards to housing since I asked him a few months ago if he wanted to find a job here in town and get an apartment together but at that time he told me no and since then I’ve already signed a lease for a new apartment starting in August. Either way, I’m glad that he’s not living in my dad’s house anymore and that neither of us have to worry much about him or my evil step-mother. I hate that neither of us have a really good relationship with my dad but he puts his wife above us as well as his motorcycle and his motorcycle club. Hopefully, we’ll never get a call asking to search for a good accident attonery like a San Jose motorcycle accident attorney, my dad is definitely a character and there is no telling with him what could happen.

I’m off to work in about an hour, so I’ll blog later and hopefully get that damn theme finished on Saturday. I’m so tired of looking at this out of date piece of crap template I’m using now!