Alright. Last week when I agreed to sit with the Owner about this job offer he wanted to give me, I stopped doing the countdown of how many days I have left to drive 75 miles one way!
Today? The countdown begins again. I have four more days that I have to travel 75 miles one way to work. Four more days of driving a total of 150 miles to and from work. Four more days.
After sleeping on my decision, I know I’m making the right choice. It feels good. On Todd’s birthday, I’ll be going to my orientation for the FD job. I’ll sign up for the medical insurance, whatever type of retirement they have, most likely a 401k or a deferred comp program. I’ll get my personnel number assigned to me and I’ll find out my exact schedule.
Although the letter I got said I’d be working 8am to 4pm, I realized there were no days listed there. I’m fairly certain I was told it is Monday thru Friday with an ocassional Saturday or Sunday in there to complete payroll. If I can help it? I’ll complete the payroll stuff before the weekend, so I don’t have to work on a weekend. LOL However, any weekend I work will be overtime.
Is anyone else obsessively checking their bank accounts for the tax stimulus check? I’m checking in the mornings and then again in the evenings. I need that money! I got some bills to pay! I also need to make sure I have money to last the first week or two at the FD cause I won’t get paid right away. Which will hurt me even more financially, but I’m sure I’ll be OK.
I have also been looking for a gold chain for the gold cross I was given the day of my baptism. Once I get settled into this job, I’ll keep looking and I’m sure I can find something.
I now need to go get ready for work. I’m exhausted. I got to sleep at around 11pm, woke up with a pounding headache at 2am and wandered the apartment for a bit. I went back to sleep and then woke up at 6:11, right before my 2nd alarm went off. I got outta bed and here I sit.
While I’m not feeling like going to work, I’m going to go with bells on. Seriously. This is the LAST Tuesday I will have to make this drive. This is thrilling to me!
Until next time….
After spending most of the day, wondering if the Owner would talk to me today about a job offer, I finally marched into his office and asked him what was going on.
He looked a little bewildered at me and then said he needed to “find” the papers he had printed out, get something to eat and then would be upstairs to talk to me. That was at 3pm. At 5 minutes before 5pm (end of my shift) he came strolling in.
We talked for about 40 minutes. He laid the offer out for me. I told him I would have to think about it, pray about it and get some counsel. I then left a few minutes later, feeling very insulted.
I’m going to lay it out here, because I need to show you why I was insulted (in case you don’t understand.) I’m currently making $12.50 an hour (with no benefits, perks or reimbursement of gas costs) to do the jobs of three different positions: Marketing Assistant, Admin Assistant and Marketing Database Analyst. I do data entry into this database, I maintain this database and I analyze the reports that *I* generate from the database. I am currently the only person in the office that KNOWS the database.
I asked the Owner for a hefty price after researching said three jobs online at salary.com. I averaged the three of them together from the average (for Lexington) of the three salary base. I figured it was a fair negotiation to start at. Right?
The Owner today almost had me laughing in his face. While he DID offer me some great perks, there is no dental and no vision coverage. He offered to either a) help me get out of my lease or b) pay the fee to break my lease for me. That was nice. He also offered to reimburse my gas costs for the last two months AND until I could relocated. That was nicer. He offered me a company matched 401k and great medical benefits, that’s nice.
He then offered me $14.00 an hour to continue doing what I was doing. Or….I could stay at the pay rate I’m on, get the benefits AND go back to just basic data entry into the database.
While I knew immediately in my gut, heart and mind what my decision would be, he asked me think about it. I told him I would let him know tomorrow. I’ve put it on paper. I’ve put all the pros and cons on paper. I’m going with the Fire Department. I start there a week from today.
This week at work is going to be hectic because not only do I need to do the job I’m doing, but I need to finish that instructional manual I started last week. I’ll get it done though.
I went to my meeting right after work, then talked to GB for an hour after the meeting and ended up driving home with the WORST cramping in my right foot and toes (yeah, the right foot is the one needed to drive. At least, for me it is.) I was DYING. I was actually screaming in my car. I put it on cruise once I hit the freeway and tried to stretch it out while driving. Don’t try that at home kids.
The cramp finally subsided and went away when I got home and was able to walk it out barefoot. Oh man that sucked!
I am quite happy right now. I just did the LAST 12+ hour Monday that I will have to do. It actually ended up being a 15 hour day for me. I left the house at 7:30 and it is now 10:30. I’m exhausted.
Until next time….
I slept halfway decent last night. When I actually slept. I woke up a lot. I wandered the apartment a few times. *le sigh*
I’m now sitting here thinking I need to jump in the shower before it gets too late and then I’m running around like a mad woman to finish getting ready for work.
It took me forever to upload all those pictures to my Flickr badge. Holy cow! I finally made it to bed at about 10pm.
I’ve got Angel going on in the background, the girls are sleeping on the couch and I’m dreading my drive to Lexington.
However, today is it. Today is the day I decide whether I’m going to move to Lexington soon or if I’m going to start that FD job next Monday. Owner is supposed to present me an offer today and we shall see what it is.
I did a lot of praying over the weekend and a lot of thinking. I’m leaning towards the FD job, but if the Owner comes up with something fantastic, we’ll have to see what I decide.
If I decide on the FD job, it will give me this week at work to finish up the instructional manual on all the crap I’m doing. I’ve got some of it done, but there are still a few things I need to finish and put in there.
I am off to get ready for work and take that trek to Lexington. It’s supposed to be partly sunny today, thankfully! I had to turn the heat on yesterday when I got home. It was cold in here and it was like 50 degrees outside. Ugh!
When I was younger, I always wanted to try diet pills similar to Phentermine. I did dabble in one or two. I have not taken a diet pill in close to 20 years.
Until next time….
Post title from Best of You by Foo Fighters
First, let me say Happy Mother’s Day to my mom and all the other moms out there. I called my mommy this morning to say just that too.
I just got home from my weekend in Indy/Detroit/Plymouth. Thursday after work, I raced home, finished packing a few things and threw it all in the car. Neatly, of course. I then headed up north to Miss Monique’s.
I arrived at her place at about 9pm. There was a crazy guy across the street walking his monster of a dog and he actually had to put the dog between his legs to hold him back from running across the street and eating one of my furbabies. I told Miss Monique that I would kick the crap out of the dog if it came near us. I was ready for a fight!
Chloe and Josie were out of their element on Thursday evening, so we both woke up a little stabby and cranky Friday morning before heading towards Michigan. Once we got some breakfast and coffee, we were in much better moods.
We arrived at her family’s house around 4pm or so. I could be wrong on the times LOL. We then went to dinner at a Chinese place that was just YUMMEH. I had the Mongolian Garlic Triple Super hot and spicy meal. It had shrimp, chicken and beef in it. It was loaded with garlic and spices. YUM!
Saturday morning we went to a little crafty store type place with Miss Monique’s mom, which BTW, I can TOTALLY see where she gets her snarkiness from LOL. I PPH’d her mom. Actually, I really liked her whole family. Mommy Monique loved on the girls something fierce. We wore them out on Friday evening/afternoon. I walked them, she walked them and then they slept like logs Friday night LOL.
Saturday afternoon, we went back to the abode so we could get ready for the Yankees/Tigers game. The game started at 3:40pm and I (being the Yankee dork that I am) wanted to get there a little early so I could see their batting and field practice.
The seats were worse than I had thought when looking on the seating chart online. *le sigh* Actually, I thought they kinda sucked. However, to save the day of the sucky seating, we had a group of 8 people in front of us. One provided some SERIOUS eye candy. He was yummeh to look at. There were four women and four men. Yeah, they were married to each other. Even the eye candy was taken. *le sigh* Owell, I looked at him anyway.
We then found that our seats were DIRECTLY in the sunlight. Sun right in our face. Oh.my.fuck. I told Miss Monique and her friend J that as long as we got to see the 4th inning, I was good if they wanted to leave. It was kind of miserable sitting there in the sun. Good thing I had taken some 30 spf sunscreen. OH my. I’m sunburned on my arms, chest and face. And YES, I used the sunscreen.
I lasted until the 6th inning, when I’d finally had enough and asked them if they wanted to leave. We went downstairs, used the restroom, J and I smoked a cigarette and then we headed back to the car. It was 5 to 1 already, so I figured I could watch the rest of the game on my phone. I did and of course, the Yankees won! WHEEEEE
We got back to her mom’s house after dropping J off fairly early, and just kind of plopped onto the chair or couch. We ate some of our leftovers and then watched some cheesy Sci-Fi channel movie with Ian Ziering from 90210 playing Cortez. LOL It was quite the cheesiest movie I’ve seen in awhile. It was entertaining though, I do have to say that.
Josie and Chloe didn’t let Miss Monique sleep much last night, they were jumping between the air mattress where I was and the futon where she was. They had me up and walking them at 6:30 or 7am this morning. After walking them, I laid on the couch downstairs and slept until my alarm went off at 8 (which was about half an hour) and then called my mommy.
We then went to breakfast with Mommy and Daddy Monique and then headed back south. We got to Miss Monique’s place and transferred all my stuff, including the dogs, into my car and then I headed back here to the Ville. It rained the entire way.
As I got closer to the Ville, the wind really picked up and it was hard to handle the car. It could have been that difficult cause I was getting sleepy and I was/am exhausted from the weekend whirlwind trip.
I had a great time each day, even when we woke up stabby and cranky. I do have to say though, in Detroit? Don’t travel by yourself. Make sure you are in a group of people. Always. Frightening place. Seriously. I think I’d rather get lost in the Bronx or Harlem.
I took lots of pictures, and will be starting the downlaods soon. I promise!
Until next time….
You Are Downtown |
 You’re a funky spirit that requires freedom to live. Your city girl persona needs adventure, diversity, and great pizza. |
Your 1996 Theme Song Is: Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something |
 And I said “What about Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” She said, “I think I remember the film, And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.” And I said, “Well, that’s the one thing we’ve got.” |
Your Love Number is 9 |
 You are a peaceful person, and you tend to have calm, stable relationships. Connecting deeply is another skill of yours, and you tend to know lovers well. Trusting and laid back, you are an easy person to love. Love can be a little blinding for you, so open your eyes a little more! |
Hmmm… Maybe He’s Interested! |
 He seems to be giving you mixed or muted signals Which may mean you’ve been giving him the wrong messages When he pauses to notice you, give him a little more attention. A little encouragement may go a long way with this guy! |
You Have Good Karma |
 In general, you like to do the right thing when it comes to others. Your caring personality really shines through. Sure, you have your moments of weakness - and occasionally act out. But, all in all, you’re karma is good… even with those few dark spots. |
It’s my Friday! Well, it’s my last work day of the week! Very shortly, I will be jumping in the shower, getting ready for work and then making sure I’ve packed everything I need. I need to remember a sweater or two as well. I hear it’s about 10 degrees colder where I’m going. Which is fine, I don’t mind wearing a sweater or sweatshirt.
I am so bloody excited for this weekend, it’s unreal! I am going to be doing some Blogthings and post dating them for the weekend. Just in case I don’t get to a computer and cannot blog. I do not want to miss my Blog365 thing.
I’ll be back to the Ville on Sunday sometime, most likely the evening. The girls know something is going on cause I have our two bags in my room all packed up and ready to go pretty much. I’ll just be adding the toilettries this morning.
I have their leashes and harnesses ready to go too, sitting on the dining room table. They will not only go batshit cause I get home from work tonight, but will go batshit cause as soon as I get home, I’ll be putting on their harnesses hahaha
Wang finally has a loss for the season. He was 6 and 0 last night and then the Indians beat the Yankees and now he has a loss on his record. I believe he was the only starter for the Yankees with a perfect record up until now. If the schedule goes how I’m thinking it’s going to go, I’ll get to see Andy Pettite pitch the Tigers on Saturday. YAY!
I hope ya’ll have a great weekend. I’ll see you on the other side of it!
Until next time…