All these changes!
It ends up, I couldn't stand living away from the man. And he wasn't too fond of being away from us, either. So, we packed up and moved yet to ANOTHER state to live together again. Deployments be damned.
Now, the issue is finding a job. I haven't been called into ONE interview. I am getting kinda worried. I even got turned down for a job at Target. Really? I can't really understand why I am not good enough to work at the Target. But, it is what it is, I suppose.
I have resumes out at a few places here, including the school district for an administrative support position. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
In the meantime, I am going to go get all the paperwork done in order to be a substitute teacher. It may not be everyday, but any little bit of income will really help us out.
And although the money issue IS stressful, it is nice to be all together again. Even though he has to leave in a couple months for this deployment, it is much better to be at "home".
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Stay-Cation
Well, the man and his son came down to where the girls and I are last week. For them, it was a vacation (meaning they had to travel to get here!) - for us, a Stay-Cation.
OK - so although it is obvisouly cheaper to have a vacation in your own hometown (I don't know how this works in a small town - but where we are is pretty big) it still ended up costing some $$ bills ya'll!!!
I think the average was $150 a day for the 5 of us. Which I guess really isn't that bad - and it did include food, beverages and some touristy souveniors for the kids.
$150 x 5 days = $750
Holy Cripes!!!!!!!!!!
But, we had a lot of fun and did things that the kids will remember FOREVER. Like PLAYING with baby ALLIGATORS. Literally picking them up out of their baby pool and holding them. Yep. That was fun. Those baby alligators felt like really terrific purses. :)
But, the man and boy had to leave, which involved a lot of crying on my part. LOTS. Enough for me to consider packing up the car and going to where they are.
I mean, it isn't like I have a job yet. I am still waiting..... I can wait anywhere, right?
And, I miss them. I miss him. I am really sad without him.
I was sad before, but them coming here for a week made it worse. So now, I am thinking about spending another couple hundred in gas and an overnight hotel to go to where they are.
Even if the man will be at work ALL DAY.
Even if realistically I will see him for about 3 hours a day, IF I am lucky.
Sigh.
OK - so although it is obvisouly cheaper to have a vacation in your own hometown (I don't know how this works in a small town - but where we are is pretty big) it still ended up costing some $$ bills ya'll!!!
I think the average was $150 a day for the 5 of us. Which I guess really isn't that bad - and it did include food, beverages and some touristy souveniors for the kids.
$150 x 5 days = $750
Holy Cripes!!!!!!!!!!
But, we had a lot of fun and did things that the kids will remember FOREVER. Like PLAYING with baby ALLIGATORS. Literally picking them up out of their baby pool and holding them. Yep. That was fun. Those baby alligators felt like really terrific purses. :)
But, the man and boy had to leave, which involved a lot of crying on my part. LOTS. Enough for me to consider packing up the car and going to where they are.
I mean, it isn't like I have a job yet. I am still waiting..... I can wait anywhere, right?
And, I miss them. I miss him. I am really sad without him.
I was sad before, but them coming here for a week made it worse. So now, I am thinking about spending another couple hundred in gas and an overnight hotel to go to where they are.
Even if the man will be at work ALL DAY.
Even if realistically I will see him for about 3 hours a day, IF I am lucky.
Sigh.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Happy Happy Birthday America!!!!!
In honor of this wonderous birth, the girls and I went to a friend's house for the customary bar b que. (Yes, it is a day early, but it is what it is)
I have kept in touch with the friend throughout many many years. Since like, the 6th grade.
She has kept in touch with many many people from high school. Because, well, she never moved away.
I never kept in touch with hardly anyone from high school. And a whole bunch of them were going to be at this bar b que.
Funny how time changes people. People who I never got to know really well (because of our different social status' - and trust me, my status was not the lowest, but certainly lower than many of these people) are actually NICE now! Who would have thought!?! I mean, maybe they were nice back then.... ha.
Then there were the people I didn't like back then. Some of them have improved, some of them I still don't like, but I think that is just personality differences.
It was nice to get to know these people a little bit. Even if I went to school with them, I never really knew THEM. It was nice to see them with their husbands and wives and kids - to see the human side of them and not the vision I see of a bunch of High School kids high on ego trips.
It was a nice day. But I will say, even if they were the most popular and all that jazz, I am skinner than all of them!!!! HAHA!!!!!!!!
I have kept in touch with the friend throughout many many years. Since like, the 6th grade.
She has kept in touch with many many people from high school. Because, well, she never moved away.
I never kept in touch with hardly anyone from high school. And a whole bunch of them were going to be at this bar b que.
Funny how time changes people. People who I never got to know really well (because of our different social status' - and trust me, my status was not the lowest, but certainly lower than many of these people) are actually NICE now! Who would have thought!?! I mean, maybe they were nice back then.... ha.
Then there were the people I didn't like back then. Some of them have improved, some of them I still don't like, but I think that is just personality differences.
It was nice to get to know these people a little bit. Even if I went to school with them, I never really knew THEM. It was nice to see them with their husbands and wives and kids - to see the human side of them and not the vision I see of a bunch of High School kids high on ego trips.
It was a nice day. But I will say, even if they were the most popular and all that jazz, I am skinner than all of them!!!! HAHA!!!!!!!!
Friday, July 2, 2010
YOU SUCK letters, well, SUCK
I have decided that I am slowly going insane. (Or, maybe I am just slowly realizing that I AM insane. Either way)
And I think it is because I still do not have a job.
Oh, I know it isn't as easy as, "Hey! I graduated college and now I am living here! Hire me!" (Although I really really really do think that it should be!)
But really - I shouldn't get the nice version of "YOU SUCK" letters at this rate. Really. I shouldn't.
Like, really, Dollar General SHOULD NOT have sent me a nice version of "YOU SUCK AND WE AREN'T GOING TO HIRE YOU" letter. They should have sent me a "OMG! YOU ARE THE ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS" letter, because really, I AM.
So, for every "YOU SUCK" letter I am receiving, I have decided that it is more like a break-up letter. A break-up from a relationship I never had, but still. So I can tell myself things like:
Its their loss
They don't know what they are throwing away
I am too good for them anyway
I didn't like how they (insert whatever here)
They get all their crap from China anyway!
or whatever else fits the bill.
One day I will find the one (job) for me. Until then, I am stuck trying to find SOMEONE to go out with me on Friday nights. Without looking TOO desperate.
Because LOOKING desperate might actually be worse than BEING desperate.
And I am getting desperate.
And I think it is because I still do not have a job.
Oh, I know it isn't as easy as, "Hey! I graduated college and now I am living here! Hire me!" (Although I really really really do think that it should be!)
But really - I shouldn't get the nice version of "YOU SUCK" letters at this rate. Really. I shouldn't.
Like, really, Dollar General SHOULD NOT have sent me a nice version of "YOU SUCK AND WE AREN'T GOING TO HIRE YOU" letter. They should have sent me a "OMG! YOU ARE THE ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS" letter, because really, I AM.
So, for every "YOU SUCK" letter I am receiving, I have decided that it is more like a break-up letter. A break-up from a relationship I never had, but still. So I can tell myself things like:
Its their loss
They don't know what they are throwing away
I am too good for them anyway
I didn't like how they (insert whatever here)
They get all their crap from China anyway!
or whatever else fits the bill.
One day I will find the one (job) for me. Until then, I am stuck trying to find SOMEONE to go out with me on Friday nights. Without looking TOO desperate.
Because LOOKING desperate might actually be worse than BEING desperate.
And I am getting desperate.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Networking
Either I have the best mother in the world, or she is tired of my being in her house. (I'll go with the best mother in the world!!!!)
Today she was talking to a woman she knows. A woman who works for a politician. A woman who works for a politician whose assistant just gave notice.
Momma said, "Oh, so you are hiring? Because my daughter just graduated college and is looking for a job."
Politician worker lady who is about to lose her assistant asks what my degree is in. Momma says Communications. Worker lady gives momma her card and tells her to have me call her Monday morning.
Of course that doesn't mean anything. But it is a contact. It is a possibility. It is SOMETHING, and it is all thanks to my wonderful momma mia. I heart her!
Today she was talking to a woman she knows. A woman who works for a politician. A woman who works for a politician whose assistant just gave notice.
Momma said, "Oh, so you are hiring? Because my daughter just graduated college and is looking for a job."
Politician worker lady who is about to lose her assistant asks what my degree is in. Momma says Communications. Worker lady gives momma her card and tells her to have me call her Monday morning.
Of course that doesn't mean anything. But it is a contact. It is a possibility. It is SOMETHING, and it is all thanks to my wonderful momma mia. I heart her!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Good Intentions
As I am cleaning out all the crap - I mean, wonderful things - out of what used to be my bedroom, I am finding all sorts of good intentions.
Baby shower, Christmas, Birthday, Christening would be gifts are all shoved in whatever place my mother managed to find. And then forgotten that they were even purchased.
Organization can really save someone the time, money and hassle of purchasing items multiple times!
I am happy to report that I probably only need about 2 more weeks in my old bedroom to make it completely organized and user friendly.
But it may take me another 10 years working on the entire house. Maybe I should call in "Clean Sweep" or "Hoarders" - except my mother would never forgive me if I invited cameras into her house to show the world.
She keeps making the excuse that there just "isn't enough room". Well, no, there isn't. There is NOT enough room to keep everything. I mean, I found a babywipes container (it had sewing needles and thread in it, you know. She was green before green was cool) from when I was a BABY. That was over 30 years ago! She hasn't sewn a thing in the last 25 YEARS. Time to GET RID OF THAT CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Baby shower, Christmas, Birthday, Christening would be gifts are all shoved in whatever place my mother managed to find. And then forgotten that they were even purchased.
Organization can really save someone the time, money and hassle of purchasing items multiple times!
I am happy to report that I probably only need about 2 more weeks in my old bedroom to make it completely organized and user friendly.
But it may take me another 10 years working on the entire house. Maybe I should call in "Clean Sweep" or "Hoarders" - except my mother would never forgive me if I invited cameras into her house to show the world.
She keeps making the excuse that there just "isn't enough room". Well, no, there isn't. There is NOT enough room to keep everything. I mean, I found a babywipes container (it had sewing needles and thread in it, you know. She was green before green was cool) from when I was a BABY. That was over 30 years ago! She hasn't sewn a thing in the last 25 YEARS. Time to GET RID OF THAT CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
8 years later....
the state actually starts garnishing for Child Support payments!
Yipppeeeee!!!!!!!!
My ex-husband has never been what you would call timely, current, or even concerned about his child support payments. Some months he sends full amounts, months go by with lessor amounts, even more months go by with zero amounts. But finally, the State has heard my call to enforce the child support order! (I bet they finally cashed that flashy $25 check I wrote them to actually ENFORCE the order as well! Imagine that! Have a deadbeat dad? Not on welfare? You better pay up some money to get the State to enforce that court order! Just be prepared to wait 8 plus years!!!!!!!)
The good news is that not only am I now getting weekly amounts, I also got what would have been his federal tax return - all 638 wonderful dollars of it!
I should be feeling so bad for him, losing out on his federal return and all. Except I am not. He is over 60 thousand dollars behind on child support payments, so excuse me if I don't give a rip whether or not he gets his federal tax return.
I just hope the State doesn't send him to jail for being so far behind. If they do that, we go back to nothing. I pray that he doesn't quit his job because they are garnishing his wages. He would be one to do something like that.... especially now that he has himself a new girlfriend who just moved in who, in his words, "has a really good job and is going to help pay the bills".
Lord help her. At least I can say I was 19 and stupid when I hooked up with that guy. I can say at 23 I thought maybe I needed to make it work for the kids. But at 31? That's just plain RETARDED.
Yipppeeeee!!!!!!!!
My ex-husband has never been what you would call timely, current, or even concerned about his child support payments. Some months he sends full amounts, months go by with lessor amounts, even more months go by with zero amounts. But finally, the State has heard my call to enforce the child support order! (I bet they finally cashed that flashy $25 check I wrote them to actually ENFORCE the order as well! Imagine that! Have a deadbeat dad? Not on welfare? You better pay up some money to get the State to enforce that court order! Just be prepared to wait 8 plus years!!!!!!!)
The good news is that not only am I now getting weekly amounts, I also got what would have been his federal tax return - all 638 wonderful dollars of it!
I should be feeling so bad for him, losing out on his federal return and all. Except I am not. He is over 60 thousand dollars behind on child support payments, so excuse me if I don't give a rip whether or not he gets his federal tax return.
I just hope the State doesn't send him to jail for being so far behind. If they do that, we go back to nothing. I pray that he doesn't quit his job because they are garnishing his wages. He would be one to do something like that.... especially now that he has himself a new girlfriend who just moved in who, in his words, "has a really good job and is going to help pay the bills".
Lord help her. At least I can say I was 19 and stupid when I hooked up with that guy. I can say at 23 I thought maybe I needed to make it work for the kids. But at 31? That's just plain RETARDED.
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