Do the pretty girl rock. in 2014

Since I've been at my parents house, I've taken to using the Olay Regenerist Regerating Syrum my mom uses. I noticed quite the difference within just a couple of weeks. Smoother skin, the blackheads on my nose have gotten smaller and easier to remove, and they seem to stay gone. Needless to say, I've been using it every day since.

Last Friday, while Ben and I were at Walmart, I was looking at skin care items trying to decide on a face wash and happened upon the Olay Regenerist area. They are a bit more expensive than I normally would buy, but thought, why not, I'm having good luck so far with it. I picked up the Regenerating Cream Cleanser and the Regenerist Night Resurfacing Elixir. I noticed a difference after two uses before coming back to my parents, so I picked up the Regenerist Thermal Mini-Peel on Friday.

Ho. Lee. Cow!

Just using that peel once has made a dramatic difference in my skin. The blackheads on my nose, which I've been battling since early adolescence, are all but gone. The few stragglers are so faint even I can barely see them. I am in awe of how well it did. I wasn't even thinking it would help with the blackheads. Even the white heads on my chin, which I've also battled since early adolescence, are smoothing out. I'm going to do the baking soda wash and egg white toilet paper mask next weekend to pull them out and see how it looks afterwards. That always clears my up a little bit, but they would come back after awhile. Maybe this time they will stay gone!

I may be getting far too excited about this than I should be. But, damnit, no blackheads! It's exciting! I feel bad about twitching at the price now. I won't be twitching at it in the future. It was worth every penny.

I'm going to try the Regenerist Microdermabrasion & Peel System and the Regenerist Anti-Aging Eye Roller next.

I got Technical Support Employee of the Month for February, making me Employee of the Month for two months running and three times total. Most likely, this will be my last month since I'm only on the phone for about four hours a week now. Most of my quality for March was taken from the first week of the month, except for the last two. My supervisor and I were laughing about those two since one was a 13 minute call and the other was 18 minutes. Typically, for tech support, they only listen to 10 to 12 minute calls at max. You know they are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they listen to the long calls. And all were 100's.

Work is going great. I'm so proud of all the people on our team. They have improved dramatically since coming under us just under a month ago. One person we've already moved back to their normal team and are looking at three more to transition back. I always used to think when supervisors said, "I am so proud of you all" they were just trying to sound encouraging. But no, you really do feel it when the people under you are doing well.

One of the ladies, Charlene, made me blush the other day. Her supervisor came over to tell her how good her quality was now, Charlene pointed at me and said, "It's all her, right there." I was too taken back to respond, but I would have denied it. As they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. All I'm doing is leading them to water. They aren't so much horses as they are sponges. They are taking everything I say and show them to heart and applying it in their calls. That is all them.

Our kitchen is now completely clean. Woohoo! I can;t stand having a dirty kitchen. It is my pet peeve. I've been known to wash dishes at friend's houses just because dishes in a sink annoys me.

Between having Ben haul boxes upstairs Friday evening and me sticking stuff in the Cupboard Under the Stairs on Saturday, everything is in its proper room. At least, until we clean out the storage unit completely. Ben's gaming stuff will probably stay in the boxes as we don't have the space and he doesn't hang out up at Game HQ anymore. He was pretty well fed up with the players and owners up there, and he doesn't paint miniatures anymore due to his hands. We have a big walk in closet in our room, so the boxes can just be stacked in a corner.

Clean kitchen!

Sink view. You can kinda see the washer and dryer at the far edge of the photo.

View of the dining room from the kitchen.

View of the dining room from the living room.

That is all the pictures I took since the kitchen is the only room fully unpacked and put away. I went through two Swiffer wet jet pads getting the floor clean. That also includes the bathroom floor and the tile just inside the front door. I'm thinking about getting some antibacterial fluid for it. It probably wouldn't hurt to go over it again with that just to be sure.

The cleaning also included the inside of all cabinets and drawers. As a result, I think I have a mild chemical burn in my nose. But I wanted them sparkling. The last tenant obviously had a roach problem and homie don't play dat. I sprayed a bleach and water mixture in every cabinet and drawer on Friday night to sit overnight. And when I say a mixture, think 50/50, if that much water. It was STRONG. I was pretty amused to find dead roaches in drawers where there were none previously.

I don't care what it takes, that place will be roach free.

While cleaning, I found holes in the wall underneath the sink and the cabinet next to it. Ben had to call maintenance to look at the refrigerator since it wasn't cooling and had him look at that while he was there. We had a different fridge within an hour, they just took one out of another make ready, but a dry wall guy has to come out to fix that. Now if they would just take the dryer out of another unit, the banister guy would get there and they would replace the wax ring on the toilet in the downstairs bathroom, we would be all set. I called them about those two things on Friday and the lady in the office was going to have the manager call me, but I never heard back.

They seem a lot more willing to get things fixed than our old apartments. With how much work they are having to do to all of the units, I am understanding about how long it is taking.

Only one more week, possibly two, until Robbie and I can get moved. Ben is calling OG&E to get the electric bill or proof of service from them so we can get Robbie's address and bus transportation with the school changed. That's all we are waiting for now.

Ben and I watched a bunch of trailers on YouTube on Friday. He is fairly excited about this one.

While it does look good, this is the one I really want to see.