Worldly Things I LOVE...that I hope are in heaven!

1. NERDS...put them in a mug and I will eat them continuously...but I hate eating them out of the box!

2. SHOES...any kind really...I love tennies...converse,vans...any kind of cutsie flat...flip flops...slippers...shoes are so my weakness!

3. GOOD MUSIC...anything that can really get me going I will listen to over and over and over to!

4. CHEESECAKE...my boss guy made me some raspberry cheesecake today so its on my mind...I LOVE raspberry cheesecake!

5. SOFT BLANKETS...my softest one does not cover me...it is bunched at my head!

6. PICKLES...enough said!

7. LOVE SACS...the most bestest thing to ever sit or lay or drown in!

8. CHOCOLATE MILK...it has to be the good kind that comes from those gallons...they are cheap and the best tasting...yuck to Nesquik and Ovaltine junk!

9. SWEATERS/JACKETS...you know the cute ones with cute buttons...and racer jackets...they make every outfit better(these however might not be needed in heaven because in my ideal heaven it will be 78 degrees all the time)!

10. TWEEZERS...because goodness my face looks nasty nast when I don't pluck!

All Work and No Play makes for an annoyed Ashlee!

So, for the past month or so I have been working for a company called Halliburton...if you have not at least heard the name you probably don't get out much...but if you know what it is they truly do then you deserve a pat on the back. cuz I sure as heck didn't when I signed myself up for the torture. Don't get me wrong sometimes its fun to sit at work and chill on the computer...like I am now. Or even watch a full season of Greys Anatomy..like I did last time I worked graves for 11 straight days. The problem is when there is work I am the only competent one here to do it. Sometime in the next few days I will give the cast listing of the sandplant...yes they are like characters, which is why my bestie Destry(she also works here) and I are seriously contemplating making a show loosely like The Office (which we love love)...called The Sand Box. So my job pretty much entails a whole plethora of duties. I do sand sieves-where I take a sample of sand from each truck and put them in shaking machines in sieves(frisbee shaped strainers) and then I weigh the sand from each sieve and make it equal a certain...might I add impossible combination of numbers. Therefore I am very good at making up a bunch of numbers to make it equal what it is supposed to, because if it doesn't then you start all over. It's loud, it gets your hands greasy and oh yeah there is sand everywhere. Destry and I are very efficient at "creating " these sieves because no one else will do them. I also make packets...3 for each stage. None of the guys can do them right so I would rather just do them to begin with(this cuts out alot of time and annoyance). There is 3 packets for each stage. About 20 -25 stages per job. About 3 jobs every 3 days for different companies and anywhere from 6-50 pages in each packet, depending on the company it is for. So I kill a tree ,and all the animals that lived near it, every day at my job. It makes me feel really good about my life. Then there is truck loading and train moving. I do these less because if I leave the office area every guy runs around screwing things up and then I have to fix it which makes them angry because I am new and of course guys don't make mistakes. You have to climb on top of semis and from the silo and load the truck with sand...then do all the weight stuff and then press the green light for the trucks to exit the silo. I did this in the beginning a few times but now I rarely leave the office. I have spotted rail cars a few times and this is just me talking into a walkie talkie saying how far the shuttle wagon driver needs to go before the rail car is above the big hole where the belt to the silo begins. Then you open the compartment door and the sand falls on to the belt and goes up the silo. This is an ok job but kinda pointless when they make me do it just because they think I should learn. SO that is a few of my jobs and now that I remembered that I have this blog and it gives me something to do when its slow or I just don't want to do packets there is much more to follow. Now I must do 3 more packets and then I am out of here till 530 am tomorrow...where it all begins again. Tune in tomorrow for more sand tales.


ps.. Des is competent...she would be upset if I did not clarify that. haha