Glasses :(

I used to have glasses back in the eighth grade which even then I never wore and then I got colored contacts which again I hardly wore. (sorry to waste your money, Mom!) And the reason I hardly wore either one is I can still see without the help of them. I only have one bad eye and back in the day my right eye was 20/20 so it was actually seeing for both eyes. Well, I finally broke down and went to the eye doctor the last day of my vacation since again I work during the week and don't feel like going after work to the doctor's and I hate doctors. But since I am paying to have insurance I figure I should use it.


Jason came with me and the eye doctor did the whole eye exam. She said everything was good except that my right eye is a plus and the left a negative which means that the right is over-compensating for the left and isn't 20/20 anymore. It's such a slight prescription though that she said if I didn't want it that it would be ok. She also said that my left eye is so bad that it wouldn't pass a driving test eye exam (which last year when we moved up here and got our licenses I almost didn't but did because of my right eye). She gave me a trial contact for the left eye and I ordered some glasses, and then a few days later I got the trial for the right. I just got my glasses today. Jason says I look like Tina Fey with them on. I don't see it.

Vacation!!!!

Well, Jason had his last vacation of the year Sept. 27-Oct. 6 so since I still had some vacation time and wasn't going to take it on my own I took the 1st thru the 6th off work. Our original plan was to go to Chicago and see my parents but that didn't work out. (Sorry Mom and Dad! I hope I still get to see you at Thanksgiving.) So instead I used my time to do things I haven't had time to do since getting married and working Monday-Friday. I got my new SS card with my name change on it like 3 months ago but haven't changed my name on ANYTHING else. So I was able to get my new driver's license, change my name at work, and change all my credit cards over to my married name, FINALLY. Jason was amazed how much work it was to have to change my name on everything. It really wasn't so hard, it was just finding the time since I work during the week and that's when everything is opened. So Yea! It was kind of depressing though at the same time. My mom told me that I'm still a Patterson even though I changed my name :(

Anyway, since we weren't going to Chicago I wanted to still get out of Fargo. We decided to drive down to Minneapolis and go shopping at the Mall of America. I wanted to go to a REAL mall. Not the little wanna-be mall that Fargo has. (It's sad really. The mall here is a nice mall there's just nothing I would really buy in the stores. We walk through the mall and say "Do you want to go in there?" "No" "Do you want to go in here?" "No") My goal for going to the Mall of America was to find a white hoodie. I have this thing with matching in my outfits and I just didn't have a white jacket to match. And Jason said if I found one he would buy it for my birthday. And yes the trip was a success. I found a hoodie and a new shirt. It was fun to go to the Mall and see things that we would actually buy if we had the money to buy it. And we were able to eat at Chipotle and get Cinnabon! (Neither of which we have in Fargo.) We spent a good deal of time checking out Ikea and seeing some awesome furniture that we are going to save up for, also!

We stopped at a rest stop and I wanted to take a picture of the fall leaves. That's one thing I do like to see is the leaves here change since I never had that in Arizona. I could do without the cold that comes with it but oh well.

I don't know if any of you have seen this SMART Car but I'm in love with it. If we move back to AZ I totally want one for around town driving. I am just taller than it is and Jason can almost touch it end to end. It's so cute! It was a really nice car actually seeing it up close.

Happy Birthday Dallin!

I just wanted to give a shout out to my wonderful brother. Today is his birthday and I hope that he has a really great birthday. I love him so much and I wish that I could him a great big hug. I'm so grateful to him and happy to have him as my brother. We didn't always get along growing up but I still felt like we were and are very close. Dallin, you are the best and I love you and you are going to be a great dad! Thanks for always being there. Happy Birthday!

White and Nerdy

So when Jason and I need to laugh we listen to or watch Weird Al Yankovic songs or music videos. I hope you enjoy this and laugh as much as we do! This is the White and Nerdy music video. Trust me, you will laugh!

The Grocery Store

Jason got home from the grocery store this evening and told me about his fun experience...

He had gone to pick up just a few essentials and got to the check out where he got behind, I'm sure, the most wonderful lady with 3 kids. After unloading her cart full of groceries and the cashier ringing it all thru she says "oh I forgot my billfold!"

Jason said she then gave her keys to the car to her probably 8-year-old son to go out and get it for her. After about 2-3 minutes he comes back in and says he can't find it. She decides to then have her son watch the other kids while SHE goes out to the car to look for it for about 2-3 minutes! Jason said she then comes back in and states that she couldn't find it either and says "oh it's ok" and proceeds to pull out her checkbook that was in her purse the whole time while she is in the store and flips it to the back where she takes out a $100 bill! She says "fine just use this." (Jason said she had a number of other bills in the checkbook, too)

So the moral of the story: Please don't waste unnecessary time if you had the money the whole time. Thank you.

Saggy Pants, what?

So I remembered another random conversation that some co-workers and I had. I don't really know how it went so I'll just tell you the gist of it.

One of the guys at work said one day, "So what the heck is up with guys wearing their pants all saggying below their butts? Is that the new style or something? It's stupid!"

Me: (if I had been drinking something at the time I seriously would have been spitting it out in surprise) "What do you mean the "new style"? That's been going on for frickin' years! Where have you been?"

He, of course, didn't believe me and insisted on it being a new thing that they do now. I had to then explain that that guys have been wearing pants like that since at least the late '80's and explain obviously not all guys wear their pants like but the style is NO WHERE near being "THE NEW STYLE!"

I'm telling you, some people seriously live under rocks here!

Do you have...?

(If you haven't read the post 2 down to explain this post please read it first so you understand why I'm posting this)

It's late and I'm remembering all these ridiculious converstaions and I just remembered another one. Some of the conversations that I have are kind of like "Here's Your Sign" moments that make you wonder if people thought that after they said whatever they said I hope they realized how dumb it was. Case in point...

I answered a phone call for the shoe department that went like this:

Me: Hello this is shoes. can I help you find something?

Lady on the Phone: Yeah I was wondering if you carried any dancing type shoes either tap, jazz, or ballet.

Me: No I'm sorry, we do not. The only thing that we carry are little ballet slippers for girls.

LOTP: What kind of ballet slippers are they and what size do they come?

Me: They are just cheap little slippers for little girls in dance, not the kind you can go up on point with.

LOTP: Oh ok. Well I was looking for jazz shoes anyway. You don't carry those?

Me: (thinking in my head Ok then why didn't you just specify that that's what you were looking for exactly in the first place?)

Me: No I'm sorry we do not.

LOTP: Do you know of any dance stores in Fargo that I can get those?

Me: No I don't. I'm not familiar with Fargo and their dance stores.

LOTP: (I don't know why she is still on the phone) You don't? Man I have looked everywhere. Ok thank you.

Me: You're welcome. Bye.
Hang up

So friendly reminder to all of you out there. When calling or shopping a place of business and you need something specific please ask for that instead of asking for a general roundabout thing and then actually needing a specific.

I used to get those same similar questions at Zumiez and Pacsun all the time when I worked there. People would come in looking for shoes and ask me "What sizes do you have this shoe in?" or "What sizes does this shoe come in?" INSTEAD of saying "Do you have this shoe in a size ...?" My response was the same everytime: "What size do you need or wear?"

Ok enough for tonight. GOOD NIGHT ALL!