Where have I been you ask? My work has been consuming most of my time. When I get home at the end my day I am too exhausted to do anything. I get home shower, eat dinner, and watch some TV. The next thing I know its time for bed. I get three days off for my weekend but I spend them catching up on my life. Last weekend I spent taking care of Mike. He had his surgery on Friday to remove a cholesteatoma from his right ear. They had to rebuild his ear drum and a bunch of other weird things to make it work. He was out of it for most of the weekend. I was getting everything for him. I even had to clean his wounds. I took a bunch of pictures though out his healing process. I keep telling him I am going to save all his things from the hospital and make a scrapbook page out of it. I am just glad that the worst part is over. He still can’t hear because of the packing that was placed in his ear during the surgery. He has to get tested for sleep apnea next week too. I guess he stopped breathing while under anesthesia. He is all messed up on the inside.
I am looking really forward to Thanksgiving. We are expecting a bunch of people to show up this year. We have 2 turkeys to cook totaling 43 pounds. I am going to have turkey sandwiches for lunch the next two weeks. We don’t have enough tables and chairs to seat everyone. So we are going to serve everything buffet style, people can eat when they want. I also am going to enjoy my 4 days off from work. It is nice to have a short week but I usually work 9+ hours on Thursdays and I really can’t afford to not have my hours. I am going out of town the following week and missing that Thursday again. It is going to be a short few weeks.
I have been by myself for the past 3 days of work. There are usually two of us up front. The other girl is sort of my boss. I ask her about things that I don’t know. She is newly pregnant and is having a hard time between morning sickness and the flu right now. I can handle everything with her not there but I don’t know how much longer. I keep putting off things until she gets back. I know these things are going to come back to bite me if I don’t take care of them soon. If she is going to be out much longer I am going to have to figure something out.
Things keep breaking and it makes me want to cry. My cell phone has been slowing getting worse ever since it was drenched in soda back in May. I was waiting until my phone plan allowed me to upgrade and get money off a new phone. Well that time came and went and I still don’t have a new phone. I might as well keep my phone than waste the upgrade when I could get a new phone for Christmas or my birthday in the next 2 years. Then my laptop is gone. The monitor only shows half the screen and both hinges are broke so the top just dangles. It’s not even worth my time and effort to turn it on. My laptop was not even two year old. I am thinking I may need a new connection cable or inverter board. But those do me no good if I don’t have hinges. Either way that’s money I don’t have. I am just hoping nothing else breaks on me.
I hate to be such a downer talking about all me trouble but this is all I can think about. It is not a good time right now. I just want this year to be over.
I have spent the last month easing my way back in to the working world. I must admit I missed it. It is nice to get up every day and have something to do. I get to interact with different people and it is a completely different atmosphere than I could have ever imagined. It is usually me 2 other girls and the doctor. Sometime we have an extra girl or two but no more than that. It is nice quiet and friendly. The two girls I mainly work with are a delight. They are so helpful and easy going. The doctor loves to teach so it is perfect for me to lean new thing. The hours are good and the work load is just right. I feel like after spending so much time looking for a job I finally found the right fit. I am Goldie Locks and I found the right bed to lye in. Lets hope that it stay that way.
I attended my one and only Halloween party this year. I still have the excitement of passing out candy I have a fog machine by the door and whole candy bars to pass out. I will wear my wig and use creepy voices to answer the door. Most of that is for the kids. Halloween is over for me. I can’t help thinking about thanks giving and Christmas. There are so many events coming in November not even counting December. I have things to plan, gifts to make, decorations to hang, and it’s all coming way to fast. It took forever to get to Halloween no it’s flying by. I am ready for the New Year and new start. Mike has planned to have his surgery in January so we are enjoying the holidays and preparing for a great year.
The last major thing tormenting me is that I was offered the job at the second dentist office. I already worked one week and I am supposed to return Monday morning. I can say I love this place. It is close to home, nice hours, great people, and over all I feel ok about being there all day. I feel like I have a since of freedom and I like that. The doctor is fantastic he is very patient and willing to work at my pace. That is had to find. Then benefits are unbelievable. Now I know what you are thinking sound great so why not take it. They are even giving me more money than the other place. I just think if it’s too good to be true. Something has to be horrible wrong somewhere. I also like the days I work. I just have to call the other place and tell them. What if they then offer my more money? They want to have me work 20 hours a week. The day s are 9 hours so let me work 2 days and call it at that. I just don’t want to get myself burnt out on working right now. This is the perfect opportunity to ease back into work. I need to think about it. I am giving myself until Monday night because Tuesday morning I need to call the other people and tell that sorry or try and work something out.
Either place I get buy new clothes. One place wants me to wear scrubs and the other place I can dress up and look nice. I would need to wear black scrubs so I wouldn’t even be able to use all of my use scrub tops and jackets.
I have been trying to sell some stuff on eBay. I made $20 so far only a few more and I can get my flickr account. I know I should be spending money on shit I don’t really need right now but that is money I earned from putting my old things I don’t get to have anymore up there. So mike said I can use the money how I want. I want to buy my flickr account and then I will take the rest and transfer it to my bank account. I need to put more actions up I just have taking pictures and setting up the actions on eBay it tends to take for every for me.
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I have a job. I was hired to start work on the 15 at a dental office. I will be working in the front office. I am excited and I am not. I am getting paid the bare minimum in my eyes. The way things are going I am not one to turn down any job that doesn’t leave me asking if you wanted fries with that. The office manager said I might get more money and full time status once I get in there and get comfortable. She said November but I am not holding my breath. I will be working 20 hours a week for next to nothing. When all said and done I will be making less than I was on unemployment. All my money is gone and now I have to take what I can get. I am not turning down dental experience either. It took me forever to find a place that would even look at me. I did keep applying for places on the off chance that after 4 interviews the place didn’t hire me. On Monday I was filling out application and I forgot to attach my resume. I got a call back later that day asking for a copy of my resume since they only got my cover letter. Then I was told on Tuesday that I had a job at the first place and Wednesday the other place called me and asked for an interview. I went they liked and now I have a working interview on Monday. It is all a little bit overwhelming. Both places want to hire me part time. I think that I might be able to work both places if I tired hard enough. One office is open at the end of the week and the other is open at the beginning I really might have a shot. To go from not working for 8 months to working 2 jobs eek. The new place is offering me a few more dollars to work there. I want to choose the office I will like more in the long run. I don’t want to make the wrong choice either. This will give me the chance to buy my house sooner than I thought. I think about what it might let me do if I had more income coming in. I go back Monday and will find out if I have a job there too. Then I will need to decide what I am going to do.
My life is stuck between that sad state and that blah state. I have been sleeping in late staying up even later and no doing anything productive. I have applied for jobs. I am sick of cleaning, there are to many new projects I have started and never finished. I feel like I am in a slump.
I have been interviewing all week and not one place wants to hire me yet. I have applied to every job that would do for the time being and nothing. Am I that bad of a person? I didn’t think so but now I am having my doubts. I had 2 working interviews with one place and I still haven’t heard back from them yet. My unemployment is on its last leg. I am starting to get anxiety from the thought of my bills not getting paid. How long until they repossess a car? Yea times are getting bad. I want to upgrade my flickr account but I just don’t have an extra $25 lying around. I have been begging my sister to put it on her PayPal credit card but she says it’s not something thing useful. They are offering 3 months free. Wish I had the extra cash. My sister’s best friend told me if I don’t have it by Christmas she would buy it for me. She is sweet.
My sister’s friend is having a themed party tonight. She has random parties where everyone dresses up and has a great time. If I had a house half as nice as hers, beer pong, casita, vaulted ceilings, beer bong to say the least. She is always fun to hang out with. This is the first time I am going to one of her parties. I will hopefully have pictures. I have to go get ready and I still need to stop at the store.