Monday night

Hello! Just watching Jay Leno...I love "Headlines"...Wanda Sykes was just on and she cracks me up. I've seen her on Leno before and Ellen as well and she is freaking hysterical. She's in that new movie "Evan Almighty" with Steve Carell coming out in a week or two, it looks very funny.

Speaking of movies, Darcy & I went to see "Mr. Brooks" yesterday...with Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, William Hurt & Dane Cook. I love Dane Cook, he is my favorite comedian and this was a totally different role for him...he's pretty nice to look at too. It was a very good movie, Kevin Costner isn't usually one of my favorite actors but he played a great part as did William Hurt. And Demi Moore, my god she is just beautiful! I'd love to look like her. I was looking at her hair during the movie and it's about the same length as mine but parted in the middle, so of course I'm thinking since I can't pull off the way her body looks maybe I'll look like Demi Moore if I start parting MY hair in the middle rather than on the side. Nice try, huh?!

I didn't do a whole lot today aside from my Danielle Steele moment...Kari knows what I'm talking about, ha ha. Oh I did go over to my aunt Barb's house to get my mail & then invited her to go to Ted's with me for lunch. For those of you non-western New Yorkers, Ted's is a big hot dog place out here. Totally delicious but along with the rest of the food out here, totally bad for you. Had a hot dog, some fries & a chocolate shake. Love the food out here but I am giving in to temptation too often and I don't want to gain back any of the weight that I've lost, need to get myself back on track with eating better & walking every day.

I got off track...not sure what I was planning on saying. Oh, I was hoping to get a call from the HR department at Geico today but didn't. I have to keep in mind that I'm not the only person they're hiring right now...it's amazing all of the people that work there & I know they're hiring a lot of new customer service people. The only thing that needs to be done now is my background check, credit check..the credit check part makes me a bit nervous. I used to have PERFECT credit and then back in 2001 Matt went on his first of many breaks (very sore subject) as a contractor at Microsoft, I had just started at Medtronic and we had tons of credit cards that were maxed out. Long story short, we couldn't pay our bills other than rent & car payments, stopped answering the phone, opening the mail, etc., and eventually ending up going to Consumer Credit Counseling and got on their debt management plan. It took four years but we paid off every single creditor, I was proud of us for doing that because it would have been easy to file bankruptcy. Nothing against people who do, it just wasn't for me. Anyways, although we paid off all our debt it still shows up on our credit reports as "slow pay" and I had one creditor that didn't like the credit program and they started to file a judgment against me, blah blah blah, I paid the balance and the judgment didn't officially get filed but I'm so worried that this is going to be a strike against me. I really don't even know what employers are looking for when they check someone's credit report. We'll see. Also, I'll have to get a physical and a drug test...not just your average pee test, they're going to take a strand of my hair. I'm still on a pain med from my surgery (almost a year ago, can you believe it?) so I'll have to bring my prescription as I know it'll show up because it's a narcotic. But the good news is that I only take 1/2 of one a day and some days I don't even need that. I jinxed myself though, I was telling someone that the other day and today I ended up having to lay in bed for a few hours because the bones where the hardware is in my spine were just killing me. But on a typical day, I feel so much better than I have over the past year or so. Yeah, I'm totally rambling aren't I?!

While I was laying in bed resting my back earlier I dozed off and had such a stream of bizarre dreams. Most of them were around Geico and either my first day or a day of orientation, it was so bizarre that I can't even put it into words but I woke up thinking "where in the hell does this stuff come from?". Funny.

Oh, thank you to Kaelee's/Erin's friend Lorrie for your message on my blog, I appreciate it! It's funny that you mentioned that the NY state insurance test was hard, even the HR gal that interviewed me mentioned the same thing. I'll have to do a lot of studying! Thanks again!

I think I'm going to go finish reading my latest "Marie Claire" and then go to sleep.

Goodnite & sweet dreams to all :)