Thank you for calling. How may i help you today?

Have you ever gotten so mad about the service you were getting that you were going to call that place and the first person that answered was going to hear just how mad you were? Yeah i have too. But did we ever feel bad about it? Most probably haven’t. Today i do.

I recently started working for a call center. Call centers are everywhere. Almost every business has a call center somewhere. A call center is not like you see in the movies. We are not having wild parties and throwing paper airplanes. We are in cubicles, in front of a computer, taking call after call.

Plenty of my calls are fixing problems that other people caused whether it was the customer or someone the customer previously spoke with like a person in the store or on the phone. So I’m here to help. I’m always as nice as can be. Let me tell ya I’ve had customers call in snapping on me then feel bad because i fixed the problem and put up with their shit.

But why snap on me? I didn’t do anything to your services. First off if you went over on your data and are now paying the overage, not my fault! Monitor your usage. For all other issues, it was not me that did anything wrong and quite frankly calling in to me pissed off and rambling so much that i can’t understand the problem is not going to help.

And what do our mothers have to do with this? And no sir I’m not really an ignorant bitch. I may burn in hell. By the way my family doesn’t find me worthless.

That’s what we hear. Yet we ourselves have done nothing to you. I have seen representatives cry. It is hard on people like myself who are striving for perfection and here you come and ruin all of our hard work by asking to speak with a manager because you’re ticked off and that manager is going to tell you the same thing i was. But thank you for that.

So here’s my advice. Next time you’re super pissed and want to call and yell at me, put the phone DOWN!!!! How about you wait til you are calm and can explain the situation in clear detail to me. That will get your service fixed easier and faster.

Thank you for allowing me to vent

Recipe of the day: buffalo chicken salad

I came up with this at random. I wanted a salad but not just any salad. Something good. I found leftover wings and thought, ” why not? We eat wings with dressing anyways.”

So here’s the recipe for the wings. I’m not going to give you the salad recipe because it’s self explanatory…. lettuce, veggies, bam!

Buffalo chicken salad
Get ya some boneless frozen wings. Toss them in your favorite sauce of your choosing. I like frank’s buffalo sauce. Then pan fry them. I like to use my George foreman. Once they are done , toss them in the sauce again. Pan fry them once more.

Of course i recommend using olive oil for frying. Then you will chop up your wings and throw them onto your salad. I like to also add pan fried vegetables.
But it is your creation. Enjoy!

Healthy tip of the day: i won’t say ;-)

Sorry for my leave of absence. Remember, single working mom here. But lets get to it! Another tip! I didn’t mention it in the title because i know you wouldn’t read it then. But don’t exit too fast! The tip is……. exercise! I’m not saying go get a gym membership and some expensive equipment.

What I’m asking is for you to do just slightly more than what you normally do. Once you start eating right you will feel a bit more energetic. What shall you do with this energy?

Do simple things. Instead of looking for the closest parking spot at work or the store, park farther away. You’re less likely to deal with door dings, cart bangs, fender benders, fighting for a spot and yet getting a bit more exercise. And when you are in the store, instead of walking at a slow pace, speed it up a bit. Just to a brisk walk. Increase your blood flow.

My favorite kind of exercise is cleaning. Heck yeah it counts!!!! And if you really want to get into it, plug in those head phones, pretend you’re on a stage and get into that cleaning!

As you’re noticing simple things you already do are considered exercise. As long as you’re walking 10,000 steps a day you’re exercising. So get out there and find what works for you. Whether it’s dusting, jogging out to get the mail or playing with the kids. Exercise can be simple and fun. You just never thought of it as so. As always love and healthy living wishes!
Kaylee<3

Hey I found your nose. It was in my business again.

A very long time ago (because 23 is freaking old!) I made the decision to exclude a lot of negative people from my life. That was the best decision I ever made. However I have learned that you cannot just decide not to come into contact with negative people. But you can choose how to let those negative people impact your life. I have often questioned Karma. Does it really exist? Yea it does. It just likes to take its sweet time.

I have noticed that the people who are constantly complaining about how life sucks and they are depressed and blah blah blah….thats Karma. Look at some of the individuals and how they have led their lives. Are they caring and giving to others no matter what they feel towards them? Are they only willing to help people who will help them? Are they rude? Have poor attitudes?

Your life reflects how you have lived. If you have lived only caring about yourself, well you can have all the money and fancy things you want. But does that make up for the love and happiness that material things cannot buy? I have often heard money cannot buy happiness. That is false. It can buy a certain type of happiness. A material happiness if you will. Some people are fine with that.

I am not one of those people. To me you can take away everything I have. Just give me my kids, family and few close friends. I will be fine. If your life isn’t going how you planned, maybe take a step back and think of what you need to change in it. The best advice you can hear is get the negativity out. Whether it be people around you that feed off drama, your attitude that needs a fine tuning, family that needs put in their place or anything else. Take care of it.

If you don’t get the negativity out of your life, you will only stress and worry and cause more damage to your life. Life is meant to be a ride. Enjoy it.

I want to leave you with this little saying. It is my favorite ever!

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

New recipe for Today!

Wraps. I am not talking about the dresses. I am talking about the portable food that I have fallen in love with. You can literally add a combination of things into a tortilla, call it a wrap and eat it whenever and where ever! Speaking of wraps, I may make one for work tonight. hmmm….Oh yea! Here’s a recipe for a wrap that I came up with awhile back. I eat it for any meal!

Turkey Bacon Wraps

1. Cook you up some turkey bacon over the stove. Make sure you don’t over or under cook it. It can be tricky to get it to the right spot.

2. Select some veggies of your choice and chop them up as needed. For this purpose I will use what I put on my wrap.

3. Now we are going to assemble the wrap. Take some fat-free ranch dressing (or french if you prefer) and spread a tablespoon onto a whole wheat tortilla. In a line on the tortilla (like you”re making a taco, pile each ingredient on each other) put on some baby spinach, shredded carrots, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, add on the bacon, top with tomatoes and shredded cheese. Add a bit more ranch if you would like.

4. Roll it up and enjoy!

Healthy Tip of the Day: Knock it out sweet thang!

Oh no! Here it is! the one part of healthy living we all hate the most: what we are expected to give up……crap! Ah but wait my friend! Before you click that back button i have news for you! I will never ask you to give something up without trying to replace it. And quitting cold turkey? pleeeeeeaaaaase!!!! Sorry folks but that is only for those super strong unhuman like willed people who have only found kryptonite to be their downfall. Back on topic. Here is  a list of things I am only asking you to TRY! I don’t expect this to be exactly easy. But I would like it to be as painless as possible.

Sugar…..I will wait till you are all done cursing at the screen before I explain……OK! I am not asking you to give up sugar. Women all over the world would consider the loss of sugar a global catastrophe for at least one week out of a month! So why did i bring sugar up? Because too much sugar is where we go wrong. Almost everything you touch has sugar in it. We have this idea that here in 2012 sugar is the only substance that can sweeten something up.

Quick Fact: Did you know that a Hershey bar and an apple contain the same amount of sugar??? Not saying they have the same affects but when looking at it from the aspect of ingesting too much sugar it sort of can put this into perspective.

Back to getting rid of sugar….I mean cutting back on it Dont kill me. There are simple steps that can help you cut back on sugar. The number one guilty pleasure is pop, soda wtf ever you want to call it! (not having that argument again!) What if you considered cutting back on how much pop you drink? I cut back to one bottle of mountain dew a day. Or if you want to take it another level diet pops are sweet as well. Or hey! just get rid of the things!

Staying along the line of drinks, drinks seem to be the largest way we take in sugar. From juices, tea, coffee, pop, kids drinks etc. Think of how much sugar is in every drink you drank yesterday. Holy Cowbell right?! Simply by cutting back on the sugar in our drinks you can drop a ton of weight and get healthy.

When making tea, coffee or kool-aid, consider using sweeteners instead of sugar. each sweetener is different and can taste slightly different from sugar. I personally prefer splenda and i actually buy that off brand walmart kind. I prefer splenda because I think it taste the most like sugar and is zero calories. My first experience with splenda was thanksgiving I ate a pumpkin pie made with it…..OMG it was delicious! Best pie EVER! I have used splenda in my tea and my sisters can’t notice a difference. But if the difference is too noticeable for you, just remember you can mix sugar and sweetener. That would still be cutting back.

Another thing to remember with drinks…..WATER! I mean how many of you actually even think about how much water you’re drinking? Are you drinking the recommended amounts? yea me either. But i still drink it. I’m not monitoring how much. But while im at work that’s all I drink. Tip to drinking plain boring water: water flavor enhancers! You’ve seen the things called Mio advertised and they even have an energy one (do not use the energy one in excess….i learned that the hard way.) Now they have the off brand ones that are about a buck cheaper. I am telling you now they are delicious! I’ve tried a variety of flavors and havent found one I don’t like yet!

My final suggestion, buy a reusable cup you can take with you everywhere. We have seen these giant plastic cups with the industrial strength straws. Truthfully the entire cup is tough as nails. I’ve dropped them plenty of times! But by getting this cup (you can find them all over including dollar tree) you can bring your own drinks from home in exchange not hitting up the gas station for a pop….yes a pop….not a soda. POP!

I hope these tips can help and if you can really stick with them you will see improvements in how you feel and weigh in no time! Once again Love and healthy living wishes!

Kaylee <3

Mommy I want to be an axe murderer when I grow up!

You ever sit and ponder where Jeffery Dauhmer’s parents went wrong? Or Charles Manson’s? Or John Wayne Gacy’s? Could it have ever really been the parents fault? Or were these guys just psychos from the beginning? What are the chances our kids could adopt the mutated psycho gene? Could we have had a special great great great great aunt  Lizzy B. somewhere up the family tree who might have passed on her crazyness to my children?

Makes ya really stop and think right? or maybe thats just my crazy gene acting up again. But did it ever occur to anyone that instead of investigating the killer themself, maybe to investigate their upbringing and see if there are any connections so I can make sure to not raise the next serial killer? Are there signs to be looking for? If my child holds his fork a certain way should I be concerned? If he laughs in a creepy low tone should we seek therapy? If he seems to be walking towards the cat in a slow hesitated way as in an old 70s thriller should i alert the authorities?

I bring all this up because I was raised in what I consider old ways. I know my manners, I hold the door open for other folks, i say yes ma’am and no sir. I accept responsibility for my actions and know when to put my pride aside to say I’m sorry. I dont take a thing I didnt work for and above all I am teaching my kids the same. So since I turned out ok then they should too right? Not exactly.

Ya see I know quite a few people in my generation who were raised the same. Then some how society got ahold of them and next thing ya know they are screaming YOLO as they are being put in the back of a cop car. Are we to simply trust our kids to steer clear of this behavior that society says is ok? hmmm…..

Now I have recently moved to Terre Haute, IN from small town middle of no where, IL. One thing I can tell you is the level of stupidity goes up as the population climbs. My first week here i seen “bottle girl” on the news….if you dont know about her DO NOT YOUTUBE IT! She will actually be on Dr.Phil soon. Lets just say it involves a bottle and some places a bottle shouldnt go. Did her parents go wrong somewhere?! Where do people learn that this kind of behavior is acceptable? That question for bottle girl’s scenario i dont want an answer to.

You have any idea how many “gangsters” I see walking around here? Not even just here but back home and on facebook as well. Hey congrats on gangsta status! but wheres your education, job, car, home, life and production for society? Oh you live with your mom, sell drugs and live off welfare and have never had a real job? huh….YOLO!

And these “bad bitches”…..really? Women spent how many years fighting for our equality to men just for you to accept being treated like a piece of garbage again and think being called a bad bitch is acceptable? You want a sugar daddy when our mothers before us fought for the right to work so we could be independent? You want to show off your tatas to anyone that will look and then wonder why no one has enough respect for you to call you anything more than a slut? Get a job, stop riding the coat tail of every man that comes along, take care of yourself by yourself. Respect yourself enough to find a man that doesnt consider you the next bad bitch in his music video.

So back to the original question…..how the hell do we keep our kids from acting like this? Because if I’m doing all this work just to raise the next up and coming thugs I QUIT! Bet ya’ll never thought of how ashamed your mama’s were. Hell I’m ashamed and neither of my kids can even tell me what a Gangster is and hopefully they will think of Al Capone when they do. Now there was a real ganster. To half of my generation and the generations to come….see ya in 5-10

YOLO