A Girl with a Broken Smile...

Where have I been?

I have been here just not here. Since October we have gone to NYC which was amazingly fun!! We had Thanksgiving (just us two), We got a big Christmas tree, had Christmas, Rushed home NYeve to kiss in the new year, had Christmas #2 in LBC and have been working.

I am still at airport hoping that this year will be the last! Hoping that it will be only a couple more months! That all depends on Starbucks. I had an interview for Shift Supervisor and it was postponed due to me being on the same shift as a co worker who was upset and not censoring what they were saying at work and somehow i was "guilty by association" as my manager put it.

I would consider this co worker a friend outside of work, so i was listening to the rant, giving them an objective view to the situation. Because i didnt walk away while they were upset and running their mouth, another co worker assumed i was at fault as well.

I was in no way involved in bad mouthing or bashing my manager. Why in the world would i do that if i want to go anywhere in this company?!

I cleared things up and everything is well between me and my manager, he likes me, he says he is going to get my interview back but probably will not be for a few weeks. i am still very disappointed and feel like this issue i got roped into just sent me back months of hard work. Like it doesn't matter that my name is cleared i feel it will stiff be held over my head just because i was assumed to be at fault.

Because of this delay, another one of my coworkers had the interview and is now rumored to be getting a Lead position at our store.

This is like a punch in the gut. I HAD IT! it was in arms reach, there was a light at the end of this long tunnel of two jobs, and all this hard work i have been putting into this promotion was finally paying off, and it was taken from me JUST because i was working that day; just because i lent a friendly ear.

If only i called in sick that day, if only i started after my co workers rant, if only they just accepted the fact they don't get along with the manager and just keep their mouth shut at work. if only i was working with someone else that day...

So maybe this position at our store isn't the one i am supposed to get. Maybe it wasn't the answer to our prayers. Maybe there is some other lead position available at a different store and that is where i am going to be called to. Or at least that is what I have to tell myself, and pray about.
Pray that there is something else out there. Pray i get the opportunity to interview again and soon. Pray that 2011 becomes my year of dropping job #2! I will be!

p.s. thank you God for a husband with encouraging words!

♥ JB

PUMPKINS!!

Last week Rodney and I went to the pumpkin patch and picked out pumpkins to carve!!

(butt pumpkin haha)

(typical Rodney)

(rodney's NYC pumpkin!)

(my owl pumpkin!)


♥JB

Suggestions Please??

As you all know Rodney and I are heading to the Big Apple for our Anniversary. Now I have been before so i am really excited. Rodney on the other had has not which make me even more excited to show him everything!
Now we know we have to see all the Big things like ::

• Empire State Building
• Statue of Liberty (battery park)
  
• Ground Zero
• Lombardi's Pizza
• Trump Towers
• Macy's
• Tiffany's
• Times Square
• Central Park
• Rockafeller Center
• NBC Studios

We have a few more things written down I cant think of at the moment. But what we are asking of you is to suggest some not so big things that would be fun to do in NYC. My mother already suggested Stardust Cafe.

Please leave your suggestions =)

Thanks
JB♥

Picnic!

Yesterday Rodney and I went to the park on a picnic! We had some bread designated for this occasion. The last time we went to the park there were like 5,000 birds. So we came prepared this time.

We had gotten a subway sandwich and packed the rest of the picnic at home. we drove up to the park, parked, got a good bench in the shade and then all the sudden we look up and.....

There was this bird. Just standing right at the edge of the table. Then....
Two birds, and I will have you know we have decided not to give any bread to any bird until we finish eating, so that they do not eat us.... these geese are huge by the way.. very scary! So these two birds proceed to sit there until we finished eating.

As we were eating more and more ducks, geese, ect... started to show up. (still have thrown nothing to the birds)
And the minute we throw one piece of bread to the ground for them.....
5,000 birds appear. Some screaming for others to come from the other side of the park. At this point we were sitting on top of the picnic table (for safety =P) and there were birds surrounding the table. This little guy here stayed right by my feet the whole time. Beautiful white duck! But i think that seeing the color of this ducks tiny eye means that this big guy was just tooo close!
As we were throwing bread Rodney just seemed to have a Chip on his Shoulder.... Literally haha
This is my favorite, his wings were all messed up, like he didnt bathe and the greasy hair just stays however you put it. =( Poor guy hahaha

When we had finished feeding them we look up and over to the right we see like 5 birds take off flying into the water. We then saw a man with a leash, assuming there was a dog on the end we realize that is why they flew away. But as the other birds watched the birds fly away they all ran into the water...

and then we see that it was this tiny wiener dog haha. Half of these birds are like 3 times the size of this dog, but the dog had made all the birds retreat thus giving us an escape to the car!

JB♥

We Lost! =(

Game Day!!!
we started the game off right by going to Five Guys!

We park and walk to the stadium, we were running a tad late so Rodney missed pre game =(
(and that's another Fresno State.. FIRST DOWN!!)

We had a great time, we did all the motions to all the songs ( i did more than rodney) and i believe that if Rodney had done all the school spirit hand motions we would have one the game. hahaha but after everything... we lost. There were bad Ref calls and bad QB plays. it was just not a good night for Fresno State.
But a good night for The Butlers!! We had a blast going to a game with each other. We rarely get to do things like this and it was fun!! Makes me want to go to all the rest of the games! Rodney got to hear the band and the band actually faced us during half time (previous years they faced opposite where we sat). It was a little sad because Rodney wasnt down there playing and me watching him, but it was better with him sitting with me =)

Great night, Great Hubby, Bad game! haha

JB♥

and that is another fresno state... FIRST DOWN!

Tonight Rodney and I are headed off to the Fresno State game against Hawaii. This will be Rodney's First game where he doesn't play in the band. He will probably miss it. And we will probably be over talking to the band for a while! But I can not wait!! I like going to the games =) Really it was only to see my man play in the band but i ended up liking the game, atmosphere, and band. I will however, miss my mother! We would always go together... the what, like 2 times we went =P Dont you worry mom i will be saying

"and that is another fresno state.... FIRST DOWN!!!!" for you!!

and we are offf!!!

dada da dada dadadadada da da da dada da da dadada da dadadadada da da" (the fight song! haha)

photos to come!!!

JB ♥

NYC HERE COME THE BUTLERS!!!!!

That is right, we are finally taking advantage of my flight benefits and flying to New York City for out Anniversary!!!!!

I can not believe it has almost been a year since our wedding! Wow it went by so fast!

Well we just made hotel reservations and now all we have to do is make our flights. We are leaving next month!! YIKES its soooo close yet soooo far away!!!