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….
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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…
It’s raining a bit right now. I can hear rumbles of thunder in the distance. I’m sitting here eating some chips and drinking some water.
I’m not going to that meeting tonight. I decided I have too much to do and I want to sleep early tonight. I have to finish packing for me, pack for the girls and then go downstairs and put their car seats back together and secure it there in the car.
I’ve been home for about 30 minutes. I’m just exhausted. I really need to get to work on getting that packing done, so I’m not running super late tomorrow night when I head up north. I want to be able to come home, grab my bags, put them in the car and then get the girls, put them in the car and hit the road.
My BFF in Vegas and I got into a bit of a tiff this morning. She really hurt my feelings. She called me a bit ago and apologized for coming down on me as hard as she did this morning. We talked it out and we are right as rain.
I had called her this morning to let her know Owner was wanting to give me an offer, so that they do not lose me where I’m at. She went OFF. I mean. She talked to me like I was one of her children and basically left the impression she did not believe in me and my decision making processes. It was a horrible conversation. As I stewed on it most of the day, I got more and more upset. But I’m glad we got it worked out.
OK, I am going to go start packing and drive my dogs batshit crazy. YAY!
Until next time….
I slept last night. I mean. Seriously. I slept straight through, waking up only once to go potty. I slept from about 10pm until my alarm went off at 6:15 (yeah, that’s the second alarm). WHEEEE It felt great. I wish I would have woken up feeling as great as I slept, but I’m taking baby steps here! Baby steps, my friends!
I’m about 75% packed for my trip tomorrow up to Indy. I packed one pair of shorts (I do NOT wear shorts all that often) a pair of jeans (I’ll put another pair in there before leaving) and a fuckton of tank tops. I also threw a few of my Yankees shirts in there. Of course. Did you doubt that?
Tonight, when I get home from the birthday meeting, I’m going to put together the bag for the girls and a few more items for me (shoes, toilettries, etc). I’ll be ready. I may have to pack a FEW items here when I get home to pick up the girls tomorrow after work. I’m sooooo excited!!!! I’ll be packing my kick ass camera and 300 zoom lens as well.
I emailed the information I promised the owner last night. And I also looked at that website he gave me. I’m going to keep looking at that. I found a few cute little places. But one of them is cute on the outside and parts of the inside. And has a hardwood ceiling. WTF is that about? I understand hardwood floors. As a matter of fact, I LOVE hardwood floors. But a hardwood ceiling? Someone needs to explain that one to me LOL
For the last several months, I knew something would “pop” eventually. I just had to keep walking forward and doing what I was doing. Never in a million years, did I expect to be where I’m at right now. One definite job offer, one possibly BETTER job offer and another one wanting an interview with me. WOW! That’s all I can say.
Before going to sleep last night, I thanked God profusely. I thanked Him for walking with me, guiding me and I thanked him for all the love and support I’ve gotten from my friends and readers. I believe in the power of prayer. I believe ya’ll who prayed for me and sent me positive energy helped me get to where I’m at right now. I love you and I appreciate every encouraging word you’ve ever left in my comments or in email when you’ve emailed me to show your support.
What I find ironic (not really tho) is that in my real life circle of friends there were (besides GA people) two people constantly praying for me and sending me positive thoughts, as well as calling me regularly to check on me. In the blogging world? I had countless people supporting me. Emails, comments, prayers, even posts on their own blogs. How blessed I am to have you people in my life. Thank you.
Until next time…
When I got to the office this morning, BOC came to me and said that Owner wanted to meet with me today. I snarkily said “yeah? I’ve been hearing that for two weeks now.” BOC laughed at me and said, no, it’s definitely happening today.
Whatev. I went to work. I then realized I left ALL of my research materials here at the apartment. I had stopped carrying all that stuff with me when I gave up on chasing the owner down. CRAP!
I went online and did some research and printed a bunch of stuff up.
Of course, he made me wait until the end of the day. I finally sat down in his office at 5:15 (he had asked me to wait). I did not leave his office until 6pm.
I did research on Marketing Asst II, Admin III and Marketing Database Analyst. I took those three salary averages for the Lexington area and averaged them out. This is what I was going to ask for.
I highlighted the job duties that I am currently doing within each section of the thing I typed up. At the end of it I wrote “I believe I’m doing a mix of all three jobs. Since I don’t technically have a job title yet, I figured I’d research all 3″
He LOVED that. He thanked me for doing research on it and coming in prepared and knowing what I need and want. I guess he’s not used to that in his employees.
We talked a bit about what I’m currently doing, some other stuff he would want me to do in the future and then what I did in Vegas. he was very impressed with my history at Metro. We talked about how I’m currently doing up an instructional/procedure manual for the database I’m using, just in case IF this does not work out, someone can come in and follow my book and be able to do what I do. He looked shocked and said “You’ve done these manuals before?” And I said “Oh yeah, I did them all the time in Vegas and since being here I did three emergency procedure manuals for three different office buildings in Louisville.” His response? “Very impressive!”
They offer medical insurance wherein the company pays 50% of the premiums and what not, a company matched 401k and time off whenever I need it. He said he was struggling with the amount I asked for though and would need to think about stuff, although he said he thinks I’m worth even more than what I’m asking for - the only problem is finding the money to pay me what I’m worth.
We then discussed the job duties and I let him know I have a document here at home, listing everything I’ve been doing and as BOC and Papa Grumpy give me more, I add to this list. He asked me to email it to him tonight, so I’m going too.
He asked me for a drop dead date on getting this offer. I told him Monday morning, that would give the FD time to find a replacement if I choose this offer over them. He said OK. He also thanked me for giving him the weekend so he can sit down and come up with a great offer for me.
On my way out of the office, I saw a folder that said “Owner Properties”….OH he does property management too!!! so I turned and said “You do real estate stuff too, right?” he said “Yes I do.” I said “Do you have any houses available that are NOT in the hood and would you accept animals?” He said he has 2 available right now, in good areas. Dogs are not a problem. I then asked him if he had patio homes and he said….are you ready?
“I don’t currently, but I could go out and buy you one.”
I almost fell over. And I said “uhhh” and then said “Oh I do that all the time. I buy an investment property for a family member or friend and then rent that house to them. They do a lease option and end up being the owner of it.” and then he said “ooooh, maybe I could help you out that way too?”
And I said “possibly!”
So he gave me his email address, asked me to email the job duties and my resume and then gave me a website to go find a patio home that I like ROFLMAO
I think the meeting went very well and I’ve never had this feeling before “I’m in demand. People WANT me to work with them!”
And then I got home and there’s a message from some place I sent my resume too and they want me to come in for an interview. I’ll be calling her in the morning. ROFLMAO
Until next time….
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