oh yeah i forgot to mention the uhh... car thing.

Friday (mar 28), I had a car wreck. "What happened?" you ask. "I'm an idiot and I was on the phone and I stopped at a stop sign to pull across a street with no stop sign and I swear I looked, but I ran right into someone in the farthest lane and smacked my car into hers good enough that the front bumper was a good 8 inches separated from the car and there was some manner of fluid leaking from the right front area of the car." I'm not as much an idiot for talking on the phone because it impairs me (I personally have never noticed a problem although data suggests that talking on the phone is as bad as driving drunk), but because if I am on the phone and I am in an accident, there is no way for me to prove that it wasn't me being on the phone that caused the problem.

So anyways, my neck was sore Friday and Saturday, but it's fine now, and the car is reportedly reparable, so everything will be okay. Although, I don't know if my diet is ever going to be fixable. I've had too much fun with all my old bad eating habits such as multiple large desserts per day, snacking on junk just because the food is there, etc. I probably gained 3-5 pounds since Friday. Oh well... it will all be okay somehow. :)

the new job (the first non-archive post)

So far the new job has been very interesting. We have a lot of very sweet clients and then some who are not so sweet. I haven't come across any that are truly hostile, but I have come across a few who have tried to get extra gas vouchers ("I always get 8 for my Dr's appt.", and if I look it up, they always get 2) because they know I'm the new girl. Luckily it's easy to look up what they usually get, and what they've been told in the past.

The big ugly thing about the job right now is paperwork. I tend to get way behind on it and there's not much I can do other than stay late like every night and that's no fun. Today it had to be finished because it's the last day of the fiscal year, so my supervisor helped me. We started doing nothing but paperwork at 3 and we still both left around 5:45.
My ability to stay at this job is going to depend on my ability to either a. get a reasonable system going whereby i don't get behind (or too far behind) on my paperwork (that doesn't involve too much in the way of nights and weekends) or b. come to peace with the fact that I will be behind.

So far I actually really like the job because I deal with all adults, so I don't have to worry about a lot of the nit picky nonsense that I do when dealing with children, and because it's a very diverse, beautiful and accepting crowd--- including clients, volunteers and staff. I think it's definitely worth the effort to figure out how to be comfortable with the paperwork and the general insanity ("oh, btw, that thing we told you you're working at 7 in the morning? it's on a saturday... this saturday.") to be able to work in that environment.

march 2008 archive #2

Friday, March 7, 2008

yum

i forgot to mention that Tuesday there was peanut butter chocolate cheesecake consumed in celebration of the new job. YUM!!!!!

archive from March

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

"No! I don't Accept This!"

...Is the reaction I got when I turned in my two weeks notice and told my boss I was going to a new job. What I wanted to do was put on my best Cartman voice and say "screw you guys, I'm going home", but I was gracious and told them how much I would miss them and the babies (I definitely will) and answered questions for the next 10 minutes about why I was leaving and if there is anything they could have done better, etc.
I spent the rest of the day working up the nerve to tell people I was leaving. I actually have left jobs where only a handful of people knew I was leaving and all but one of them was staff (this was at another daycare). So, i decided it would be bad if that happened here. I didn't realize how many people would be really upset by it. know i work hard and i try to be nice, but i know i can be a little umm overwhelming or plain out obnoxious sometimes.
A couple of people when I said "i have news" said "you're pregnant?" to which i politely said no instead of going "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" and proceeding to gag for the next ten minutes, which is what my true reaction really would be if I wasn't trying to be polite to all those lovely people in the building who have children.
I promise you that when i tell Tina (who used to work in my room with me), this is going to be her first reaction, even if she doesn't think it's true, just because she likes to see me get my feathers all ruffled. Actually, I love Tina and i have no concept of how I'm going to say this to her.
I will definitely miss my co-workers and my babies,
but seriously, screw them, I'm going somewhere where I can act like an adult.

Archive from February (after valentine's)

Friday, February 15, 2008

update

i feel compelled to update. I don't know why because it's only been a couple of days and there's not much to say, but I'll attempt to say something in my half-awake state. Then I need to go to bed.
Last weekend I cooked dinner for Chris as his Valentine's present. The piece de resistance was Molten lava cake sundaes. The "meltdown" or "lava" style cakes are ridiculously easy to make, and I personally think mine was as good as any you can get at a restaurant (good quality ingredients are the KEY in that recipe). Afterwards we watched a very well done french "romantic comedy" type movie called Love me if you dare. Actually, that description makes it sound really cheezy, and it's not. It's not an art film, but there was definite attention paid to the artistry and creativity, I wouldn't call it a comedy but it's very funny in some places, and I wouldn't call it a romance type movie, but it's definitely a love story, albeit a complicated one. I had never heard of this one before I picked it up from the library just based on the description on the box, but I'm glad I took a chance on it.
Whitey's Valentines present to me was to go out to the village tavern Wednesday. I had grilled tilapia with chardonnay butter sauce MMMMMMMMMMMM mmmmmmm. I love that place.

In other news, I have a second interview for a social services position at an aids outreach place on monday. How, I'm going to swing this, I don't know. I have time off from work to do it, but the interview is in the middle of the day. I am taking an extra long lunch that day for a "doctor's appointment". The difficulty is that I need to leave work in jeans and sneakers and return in jeans and sneakers, but somehow get into a suit and mary janes and look professional in the middle... not to mention fitting lunch in there somewhere.

That's all for now.

archived post from february 2008

join the BANDwagon (i'm clever)

My friend Adam posted a thing about a "meme" to make your own fake band. I'm too lazy to explain it all, so you'll just have to look it up on wikipedia or something. Anyways, I was just going to look and see what the randomness would create for me and wasn't planning on posting about it or doing anything with it, but the combination I got was too good to pass up.



Btw, I should give
this guy the credit he is due for that incredible picture.

December 2007 Archive (after Christmas)

Saturday, December 29, 2007

crazy but good

This week has been a little hectic. Chris had 3 migraines in the 5 days immediately after we got here, but now he has had 2.5 migraine free days in a row and he seems to be doing well. On the day after Christmas the dog decided to get so sick he couldn't keep down water. We rushed him to the vet and luckily the vet seemed to think he was healthy and probably just got overexcited due to the changes in scenery and diet. She gave us a little tummy medicine for him and he was better the next morning.
Despite all the insanity, we managed to get through christmas eve dinner, christmas breakfast, opening presents, seeing my family and seeing most of our friends. We got a great haul this year because our parents (especially his mom) spoiled us entirely too much. I can't possibly remember everything we got, but here are a few of the more notable things:
Tons of restaurant gift cards from my aunt
a nice blender from my aunt
a new George foreman grill from mother in law
Lots of kitchen things (pans, measures, etc.) from various sources (mostly my mother in law)
and umm... tons of other crap that I'm too lazy to go in the front room and look at.