Me: "I can't find a place to put my soda."

Hello lost LJ world! I haven't updated this thing in almost 5 months! Crazy. Although neither have any of my other friends, so whatev. :P

Stuffs:

Career going well, although my massage advisor has gone AWOL. Seriously. I e-mailed her almost a month ago without response and I made a (dreaded) phone call last Monday and still haven't heard back. I have an appointment at the school on Monday to chat about this particular situation because..

*drum roll*

I passed my national boards on the 19th of July! Woop! Soooo.. ALL I need to be officially certified is this dumb second advisor conference. And my exit interview, but I can't get that until I have the paperwork for my advisor conference. BAH.

Recently, I've been pretty busy with work. I've been working in the Spa and in the Gift Shop (under duress). I was so used to my nice 20-hour work weeks and I think I worked.. 45 hours this week (with no overtime since the Spa is commission.. bummer) and I'll have 40 next week, I believe.

When I'm not at work, we're re-doing our master bedroom into a media room. I'm SO EXCITED. So far, we've painted the walls really dark colors (blue, purple, and a plum-maroon-like color), purchased and hung a MASSIVE television, bought a Wii (yay!), and set up a small entertainment system under the MASSIVE television. I will definitely have a bunch of pictures up whenever I get around to taking them off the camera. I'm at work at present, so that might happen tomorrow.. maybe.

Hmm.. that's pretty much it, I suppose. I haven't been dancing in awhile because our group classes have sadly been MIA for a few weeks. Very sad about that. Oh! I'll be in the great state of PA this upcoming weekend. Sadly, I don't think I'll get much visiting done. I'm coming home Friday, hopefully arriving sometime around 6-ish. More than likely, dancing will ensue. Saturday, I'll be driving to Malvern for my sister's (Jenna) bridal shower. Directly following, I will be hopefully traveling with someone to NJ to Steph's house where we will be departing (all the bridesmaids + Jenna) to Atlantic City to see a comedian at one of the casinos. We will return to Steph's for some quality hot tub and pool time, a slide show, and probably other stuff. Then Sunday, there's a pretty good chance that I'll be coming back to KY.

Well, I think that's about as good as an update as any, really. Let me know how everyone's lives are going!!! My f-list has disappeared!!

Love from the Bluegrass!

PS - any good recommendations for Celtic/Faire/Irish/etc music will be greatly welcomed. :)

.. since I gave a one-hour, full-body massage. Actually, enough days to make 5 months have passed. And yet, today, I went and took my entrance exam for my clinical internship. Wow, what a bad idea, right? Correct. However, despite almost having a panic attack within the first five minutes, I passed with.. colors, lol. Not flying colors, but colors. 94%, not too shabby for not giving a massage for 5 months. Mariesha (my Gatekeeper.. how cryptic is that?) even said the massage I gave her was wonderful and she felt great. :) Wohoo!! Today is pretty spectacular. I gave a great massage, it's not -10 outside (it's actually beautiful), and I'm leaving Lex for the weekend! I almost got New York Philharmonic tickets, but my contact failed me. *sigh* Stupid sold-out shows. The conductor is staying at our hotel, apparently.

Probably lots of other things have passed, as well. My current favorite snack (though slightly disgusting, I must admit) is cheese crumbles (pre-crumbled, how awesome?) and Italian dressing. Haha. Yummy. Hmm.. current music-obsession is the Mamma Mia! soundtrack since I saw a showing at the Lexington Opera House on Sunday. :) BJ's parents weren't feeling so well, so they gave us their tickets. Yay! I love it when that happens (not that they're sick, of course.. just when we get Opera House tickets). Current time-consuming activity: painting and redoing the house (although I had a bout of lackluster..ness when the color in the laundry room took 3 coats and it's still not done. Stupid primer. Who'd have thought you actually needed it??). I'll hopefully get a picture up soon.

This weekend, BJ and I are going to the SpringRing Handbell Festival in Somerset, Kentucky with our handbell choir, hehe. Should be fun, hopefully.





Pictures taken from a service we played a long time ago. Wow, my hair was short.. I also love how no one's looking at the conductor. We're so good, lol.


I guess my car being broken AGAIN is news. *eyeroll* Stupid same thing that broke earlier is broken again. [To my knowledge from what BJ's explained to me,] my suspension keeps detaching from the frame of the car. The links keep breaking, which is strange because they look fairly strong [to my inexperienced eye]. I mean, they're fairly thick metal bars that keep getting completely sheared off. What the heck? I don't take my car off-roading or anything. Unless the Marriott's parking lot counts. Whatever. BJ thinks they may have been tightened too much and couldn't take the pressure and I hope he's correct. When KY had that really bad ice storm, the link on the other side had broken off. Also, when one of them breaks, my car goes through periods of random BOUNCING. I'll go over a bump and it feels like my car is going to bounce into another lane or something. It's a creepy feeling. But it's not all the time. I don't get it. *sigh*

I guess the last time I posted was after the wedding. The honeymoon, in case you haven't heard, was amazing. Lots of sex, of course. ;) (Come on, you know you were thinking it.) No babies, of course. Oh, I've decided hormonal birth control is the stupidest crap ever (other than preventing me from having to go through labor). I don't know how many of you are/have been on BCP but for future reference, it's like having your period, just all the time. Symptom-wise, anyway. Maybe this is only my personal experience (and because I'm strange and non-regular and so my body's probably rebelling) but MAN, it sucks. Oh well. Hopefully it'll go away.

I've so far evaded flu season. I had a bout of.. an allergy-like runny nose, but that's about it. BJ, on the other hand, had all sorts of crap. Body aches, fever, cough, etc. Turns out it's a sinus/upper respiratory infection. Awesome. I hope I don't get it. So far, so good and he's feeling much better after being on meds.

I think this is a sizable update, no? So here's to everyone who stalks me on my f-list. Updates for the stalkers! :) Let me know how you guys are, I haven't talked to anyone in a fair while. Except Erica, but she's not on here, lol. Anyone who wants to come visit me is more than welcome to.. *cough*

Bye-bye, all.

Hello everyone!

It's snowing in the land of the horses! Finally!

Good points:
- Snow
- It's pretty
- Snow

Bad points:
- It's cold
- I lived at work pretty much all last week (I was apparently the only one who could navigate (or have someone else *coughBJcough* navigate) the scary, scary ice and snow)
- It's cold
- My car's broked (not due to snow/ice.. just very inconvenient timing)
- Oh yeah.. it's cold
- Ice SUCKS



Ok. So my list sucked. Get over it. :P

I find the comparison between my workplace and most humorous. Most workplaces say "Go/Stay home, it's icy and crappy and you'll probably die coming or going." My workplace says "Stay here overnight, we're a hotel. You'll probably either die going home or, more likely, not come back in the morning and we'll be screwed, so you're stuck here." So that's more or less what happened. I worked 6am - 9:30pm Tues & Wed with a three hour break somewhere in there and Thurs from 6am - 2:30pm when Angela finally could get out of her house/lost power so she really wanted to be at work. Hehe. Heat's an awesome stimulus.

In other news..

I miss you guyssss.. except BJ, obviously, yes, I know you read this. Tomorrow will be crazy. Work from 6am - 5pm, choir 6:30 - 8:00pm, dance 9:15pm - whenever Cody decides we've learned enough. And food and sleeping somewhere in there. Oh yes. Sleep. I think I'll do that right about now.

'Night, loves!


PS - My car's fixed!! I love BJ. Conversation we just had shortly ago:

BJ: Ok, I need your help to finish this. When I say so, sit on the trunk of your car.
Me: Ok. I can do that. (*mumbles about the garage being cold*)
BJ: Ok, sit on it now.
Me: *hops up on the car*
BJ: Go ahead, sit on it..
Me: I am sitting on it.
BJ: Really?
Me: Yes, really. It's not like I weigh that much.
BJ: Well.. apparently not.

In the way of a real update, here's an entry. I haven't looked at the date for my last one, but I'm guessing it was awhile ago.

As all of you who read this already know, yesterday (or two days ago, since it's past midnight), I got married! I had a fantastic time and it was awesome and *flail*. Since BJ worked at the church and I worked at the Marriott, everyone was uber-awesome and accommodating for us and made it perfect. We had one small behind-the-scenes problem (well, a lot of them, but only one worth mentioning): I forgot my bouquet on the way out of the church. The reason(s) this is so funny are as follows:

1. I realized about the third step down that I forgot them and commented to BJ under my breath: "Ok, don't have flowers. Too bad, let's go."

2. I didn't really know what to do with my free hand so I sort of waved at people and felt silly but completely didn't care.

and (the best one):

3. Our wedding planner, who has done a million weddings (or 300 or something), had the funniest conversation as I approached her in the back of the church..

Suzie: You don't have your flowers.
Me: Yep, definitely realized that half-way down the stairs and just kept walking
Suzie: Well, that's a first. I've never had a bride forget her bouquet.



Yeah, I'm awesome. That's pretty much it, lol. First to forget the bouquet, man. :) I got it back later though. Poor Erica didn't really know what to do with it, so she just chilled and pretended like she was supposed to have them.

In other news (without going into too much detail because I have to be up in like, 4 hours), I was SO glad I changed dresses for the reception. The dress I found (literally three days before the wedding - it's hard to find a cute, white dress that's good for dancing and looks good on me - I had actually purchased a blue one just in case but Tracey almost had a heart attack when I told her I was wearing blue at my wedding), which was one of my bridesmaid's dresses (Tracey), was gorgeous and a perfect dancing dress. I'm glad it fit, too. Tracey is a bit tinier than I am, but has bigger boobs. Quite awkward for sharing clothing.

I'm sort of sad I didn't get to see and talk to more people (for longer than I did), but there were SO MANY of them. I tried, but I know I didn't see everyone. The after-reception part was pretty awesome, as I had the best room EVER. One of my friends (who was supposed to be at the wedding) got scheduled to work at the Front Desk (in said hotel), so whenever I checked in, she could put me in whatever room she wanted. Score. We got put in one of the nicest suites our hotel had. Named after one of the most well-known breeding farms in Lex, Ashford Stud, the room definitely lives up to it's name. I'm not kidding you, this room could've been a small house. It had a bedroom (huge bed, wardrobe thing w/a tv in it, closet), bathroom (nice shower, two sinks), sitting room with a fireplace and a really big tv, and a dining room area (with a table and a sink). It was nuts.

Anyway, I really need to go because at 6:30am (today), I'll be headed to the LEX airport for a flight to an unknown (WARM) destination for 10 days! WOHOO!! Getting married is like Christmas, I tell you. Just loads better because you get to go on vacation, in addition to presents. :)

Hehehehe. I'm so happy and THANK YOU all for driving all the way out to see me! If I got nothing else for my wedding, having you guys there would've been plenty. Love you all! See you (with details) in 10 days!

Hello lost LiveJournal world!

I figured I'd update again since I'm bored and there's another girl working with me tonight so I don't have to worry about watching the register.

Saturday, I had my first experience working with the public as a massage therapist. Yay! It was exciting. I volunteered for a chair massage event for four hours at a local Walk for Diabetes. :) It was fun and I earned clinic hours for it. 4 of 100 clinic hours done. Yesss. Luckily it wasn't too hot or anything. It rained a bit when we first got there, but after that it was awesome.

Other than that, I'm not sure why I update this. My life's boring. I'm still working at the Marriott, I graduate the classroom portion of my school in August, and I'm still dancing when I can. I have a cute picture not on my computer yet of a few friends from work/school who came dancing with me. Bwa ha ha. Yay for coersion (if that's how you spell it).

I should really upload some pictures. I finally have some decent pictures of BJ and I, pictures of my kitties, and pictures of other random things. I still need everyone's addresses!!! Please send them to me (your address where you will be in July).

Love,

Malory

Therapeutic massage + stretching + movement re-education = quite possibly the best thing EVER.

Bah. Quote from tonight:

Lauren: Did you just purr?
Me: Yep, I think so.

Random update:

Looking for a new job because mine's sort of ridiculous. I can't go to the IndySwing Classic this weekend because I have to be at work on Saturday for "guest relations" as leadership. People don't want leadership or guest relations, they want coffee. If they want guest relations, they go to the front desk or bellstand. Whatever. I cringe to leave Marriott because I enjoy working there and the perks are nice (Ex - $35/night rooms for the IndySwing Classic that I had to cancel my reservation for today). One of my friends works at a hotel downtown and they're replacing her position with a full-time and a part-time position, one of which is an Administrative Assistant position I applied for today.

BJ and I changed our wedding date from May 2009 to November 2008. I had initially wanted to wait until May to make sure everyone was out of school and all that, yadda yadda. Then I realized that whomever would come in May would come in November, too. I'm sort of at the point where I don't really care who comes. Do I want the people I care about to come? Yeah. Of course I do. But in reality, I know a lot of people can't come. BJ says coming here for a wedding is different than just coming to visit me. I don't know that it is. But whatever. I don't care anymore. I've stopped trying to get people to come visit me. I know I'm the one that moved away and it's my fault no one visits me. Whatever. *shrug* My wedding's Thanksgiving weekend this year. You can come if you want. Invitations will be sent out. :)

Dance is going well. :) It makes me happy. I went social dancing for the first time in a long time this past weekend. BJ and I drove up to Cincinnati w/our swing club (which we're now calling ourselves - MBS, but I don't really know what it stands for. I'm not really sure anyone does). Cody told me that I'd better come so that I'd stop complaining about being underage since they go to clubs around here to dance and they're all 21+. Next week, we decided during my lesson we were going to go over every dance I know and set a record. We're doubling our previous record of number of dances in a lesson. We listed 20 that I know. That's crazy.

School's still going well. Accounting's still annoying (which I'm supposed to be working on right now, actually) and I still love my massage classes. I'm undecided whether I'll go back to UK next January or Sept 2009. Depends, unfortunetely, on money. Bah.

That's pretty much it for me. I'm tired and need to go to sleep so I can go to work tomorrow. Period end is this week and I'm not completely done my invoices yet like I wanted to be. I have almost all of them except for the ones that will take a long time. Probably should've done them first. Oh well.

Cheers.




Dances I know:
East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Lindy, Shag, Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Quickstep, Argentine Tango, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Samba, Two Step, Triple Two, Polka, Merengue, Bolero, Bachata, Salsa, Nightclub, and Hustle.

By the way, I've had this up for awhile, I just forgot to post it. It's not too great since I learned it in two days, but it's sorta cute. :)

Viennese Waltz to "Kiss From a Rose"

I love being busy but I hate having no friends. Except BJ. Which is nice and all, but my dear, I live with you. I need other friends every once and awhile. And friends 8-10-12 hours away don't count because I can't go out on Fridays with them.



I kinda want someone to come visit me. The only time I get to see anyone is when I go home. No one ever comes to visit me. But I know no one has time, just like me, which is why I have no friends left in the first place. I'm sorry. I miss you. :(

Haven't updated in awhile, so I suppose I should.

Work: Still takes up the majority of the time, just more profitably. I'm now supervisor of my shop which means I make more for doing mostly the same thing, just more meetings and some paperwork. This period's not going so well because J, my supervisor, underforecasted us a whole lot for hours and I'm trying to pay off past due invoices from the previous supervisor. However, I talked to the General Manager about it (which got me compliments from him (big boss) and my immediate boss) and he said we'd just have to work it out and he would take all that into consideration when looking at my end-of-period numbers (which is Feb 22nd).

Dance: Still going, slightly slower due to work and whatnot but still fun, as usual. Did Medal testing a couple weekends ago and I'm pretty sure I did pretty well. Everyone else got a bit mad about it because they didn't do so hot (or so they thought) but it was silly arguments as to why they were mad so I dunno. Got a bunch of comments about how "of course I did well, I always get everything right" and "it's just easy for you" and the like which made me mad because the test still challenged me but because they gave us a study sheet, I knew what I was supposed to and how to practically apply it. I could rant about that for awhile, but I'll just stop there.

School: Still fun and really awesomeness. The Accounting class, not so fun and not so awesome, just tedious and boring, though not so hard, luckily. Massage school is still really cool and I love the friends I've made from it. :) Coerced two of them to come dancing with me a week or so ago and they liked it. :) One of them is going to start taking lessons there. Yay! Someone to come with me!

Life: Eh, so-so. Nothing catastrophic, but just weird me-ness. I can't decide if I'm growing up too fast or not. I mean, I'm a supervisor in line to do very well and progress to a manager if I do well (which people tell me I will based on these past couple weeks), I'm getting married in a bit over a year, I live with my fiance in a house he owns (we, really, since I pay part of the mortgage), and all that. I want to work on a cruise ship for a 6-month tour. I want to live in California, take an internship at the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia. I want to be the General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California (that's my really, really, really ridiculously high ambition for my life goal - pay range is $165k - 234k salary at a ridiculously awesome hotel). I want to study abroad in Italy or Germany or Poland or Ireland for a year. But all that requires leaving my fiance (except the GM job or living in Ca - but you get the point) and well, is that.. ok? Do I do it before I get married or after? I can't take the internship until I'm a junior which won't be for another few years and I'm getting married next year.



Anyway, enough rambling. I need to go to bed so I can shower in the morning before work. Nice part about being a supervisor - I don't have to go into work until 8 or 9. Yep, niiice. Anywho, just a little update on my life for whomever still reads this. :)