Always Eat Dessert

Well here we are over halfway through the year, and while some people are sticking to those new years resolution.... I have not Some of us have not. Let's face it I we are human, and those diets and thoughts of giving up something are slightly inhumane.

Recently I went through a spurt of trying to eat really healthy and cutting out  all of the sweets.It was my goal to eat completely clean, and eat more fruits to take care of my sweet tooth. But when I would eat a piece of chocolate I would beat myself up for cheating. I simply underestimated my sweet tooth. Well I have decided to stop beating myself up about those tiny things and go by a basic motto. 

So I guess that you could say that my guilty little pleasure is that I always eat dessert. After dinner, when someone brings in homemade, from scratch chocolate cake, or that chocolate bar you need just because it keeps you sane in that chaotic office. The key to always eating dessert, is moderation in how much dessert you eat. Because although you love that homemade, made from scratch chocolate cake; eating the entire thing is frowned upon in most establishments. 

 Life isn't worth the ups and downs if you can't enjoy the little things in life. And the little things in my world the little things take the shape of cupcakes. 

What is your guilty pleasure?

Link up with Helene and Sarah today for Total Social! 

All Time Favorites- Total Social

Guys and gals..... It's Thursday. Pretty much the best day of the week, especially this week because I just bought enough Monster to keep me wired for a week and because I get to link up with Helene and Sarah for total social!

The topic, favorites! And although my mother likes to refuse that she does not have a favorite child, we all know that I am by far the best of her three children. So as the favorite in my family, I thought I would give you a list of my all time favorites.

Favorite Color: Kelly Green, like St. Patricks day, bright obnoxious green.

Favorite Meal: Beef Stroganoff. It is one of those items that I can actually eat left overs for,and I really hate to eat left overs.

Favorite Place to Eat out: Anywhere that has pizza. Lately that place is known as The Humble Pie. They have one of the best roasted mushroom pizza's ever! Plus the guys there know to give me an extra glass of wine BEFORE happy hour is over.

Favorite thing I have Baked: I would have to say that that would be my Caramel Machiatto Cheesecake.

Favorite Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's; I can watch that movie at any time and be perfectly content with life. I know all of the words but refuse to recite them because my voice would ruin the movie.

Favorite Book: I am a total re-reader so this is hard. But I have to go with the book that I have read the most and could still read today. Ella Enchanted. I mean the movie killed any form of joy I had in this world, but I still love the book.

Favorite Song: The Dance by Garth Brooks (Honorable mentions: Kicking My Heels by Tyler Hilton, and Earth Angel by The Penguins.)

Favorite Musical Artist: Keith Urban

Favorite Holiday: My birthday is slowly fading from the top spot,  but I always love a great traditional Christmas.

Favorite Grocery Splurge: Talenti Gelato. Ok well any ice cream is a splurge because I shouldn't be eating too much of it.

Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Classic Margarita on the rocks with salt.

Favorite Blog Post: I'm the kind of girl who... 

Favorite Picture I have taken: Not sure why, but this is my favorite. Maybe it was just because of the trip, but it would be amazing to be on the side of the Smoky Mountains right now.

Favorite Place: A beach, any beach will work. Just a place to put my but in the sand, soak up the sun, and clear my head.

Favorite Hobby: Scrapbooking and drinking wine, or sometimes both.

Favorite season: Summer when there is NO HUMIDITY! This 100+ degree weather with 20-40% humidity is killing me.

Favorite Teacher: 2nd grade, Mr. Chavez

Favorite Flower: Sunflowers!! (Honorable mention: Hydrangeas)

Favorite RAK:Paying for the person behind me when getting coffee. You never look for the thank you, but somehow it feels gratifying knowing that they might appreciate it or pay it forward.

Favorite Smell: Lemongrass (honorable mention: puppy breath)

What are some of your favorite things? 

#9to5totalsocial - My 9 to 5

I will not lie, it took me quite a while to decide to do this post today. In fact I had a separate post that went out today as well. So my readers you get two.

The  reason why it has taken me a while to actually decide to create this post and be a part of the link up is because I have wanted nothing more than to burn my 9 to 5 to the ground the past three days. I have gone from having a good hour to silently sobbing at my desk for two hours straight. But in an effort to remind myself why I should not quit, I thought I would share what I do.

There is no easy way to describe what my actual 9 to 5 is but I will give it a try. I work for a moving company/ broker that specializes in vehicle shipments. In other words, my company moves cars. We arrange moves for  individual corporate cars for employees of places like Nvidia, Hasbro, and US Airways when they are moving one of their employees. Our company also works closely with Jaguar Land Rover of North America to help the move and management of their  event shows. Thus why I was able  to play with fancy cars in Austin.

Exhibit A: Fancy car. 

New Jaguar F-Type Coupe- Photo By Manny Mendez Photography (aka one of my coworkers who is a bad ass photographer)

My company has a total of 4 Employees. Thats right, only 4! At one point we had five but that guy was a moron and we haven't re-hired for that position yet. I report directly to the President of the company, who happens to be like an adopted dad to me. And we have two employees that are offsite working from other states. But in at any given day if I need to work from home, I can. Which makes it nice when I am off housesitting for someone with a special needs dog. 

Here is my little cubicle that I call home for 40+ hours a week. Yea it is messy, but this was during the two hours of silent sobbing. 

My job title is technically "Logistics Specialist" but it has never really been just that for the 5 years that I have worked here. I actually tried to change it to "Director of Internal Affairs" but decided that my $15 or so an hour was not enough for a director title, and "office biatch" apparently is too inappropriate to put on a business card. So are peasant and peon, by the way. At my company I handle all of our corporate account moves which average 80 vehicles a month during the slow season, pretty much everything accounting related, I act as the liaison for the HR company, and pretty much anything my boss does not want to handle. So there are a lot of hats placed on this head, and none of them are a freaking tiara.

But that is not all my friends. I know by now you are thinking one of three things: 
1.) Wait that's it? She complains way too much on Twitter for this? 
2.) HOLY COW GIRL! Do you ever get days off?? (The answer is no for the record.) 
3.) I still don't know what you do, but I really don't think that there could be more than this. 

Well I am also a part of two committees with our sister company. They are the Culture Connection (we do all of the fun stuff for birthdays, potlucks and random holidays) and the Community Involvement Team (community service and other do good/volunteer items). These take on a lot of time, and participation. Right now my focus is to put our Community Involvement Team back on track since we were forced by the executives to take a break. But together both committees take on an additional 20-30 hours a month. 

As much as I have bad days, low pay, and negative attitudes around me. I still don't think I would trade it for another job. I have thought about it once or twice, and even went as far as starting to take education classes to become a teacher. But I never have. There are always benefits that keep me coming back. 

-I get a bonus every year (whoop whoop) that is always given at the most opportune moment. 
-My boss takes me out to lunch at least once a month, and it is always somewhere good. 
-I get to see two of my best and closest friends every day! To me they are practically my cool older sisters that I never had. 

Plus we all love mustaches and making up reasons to drink. 

- My boss always is amazed when I come up with a cool Idea or app that we can all use. And I am often applauded and praised by him when I do. 
- I get to work a flexible schedule. Which means if I want to need to work I can, and sometimes from the comfort of my house. But if I have a 3 hour appointment during the middle of the day, I have no problem going to it. 
- I can work from anywhere I have phone access and an internet signal. Which allows me to go see my mom at least once a year.

So there are a few things that remind me that in the end, it can all be worth it.  I just have to work hard, and remind myself that the bad days are only few and far between. I can go places here , and better yet create where I go.

What is your #9to5 ?