I want my AC Now!
OK, in the last couple of days I have applied at fifteen different stores, five are not hiring. I have been emailed back by one of them already. They couldn’t open my resume, so I resent it and I’m waiting to hear back from them again. I am hoping desperately that I will get hired by one of them. I don’t want to have to go back to working in an office setting again. I need the flexible hours of a department type store right now.
We only have one car at the moment, the kids are going back to school in a few weeks, and Angus’s work schedule is crazy hours. So I need to find something that I can work from 9 - 10AM to 2-3PM. Which is still going to be crazy trying to pick everyone up in the afternoons that Angus gets out at 3PM. He doesn’t always get out on time if he is in the middle of a potential sale. (I waited for about an hour the other night for him) Sophia (oldest daughter) gets out at 2:30, Zoe(middle child/daughter) is out at 2:45, and Aidan(3rd child/son) gets out at 3:15. Sophia and Zoe walk to Aidan’s school and I pick them all up at 3:30.
Well, that’s the way it did work, when we had two cars. The one car we have only seats 2-3 people, one has to go without a seat belt. Which I will NOT let any of the kids go without. So that means four separate trips to pick everyone up. Guess I need to rethink the 2-3PM and leave it at 2PM! Oh, and did I mention that Aidan has a modified day every other Wednesday? So Wednesday’s are out too. Ya I think I could find a nice office job working around that schedule, don’t you?
I am going to try and wait until the end of next week before I apply at anymore. The only thing left is food chains or stores in the mall. I could handle being a Hostess, but not waiting. And the mall is open on Holidays, that is NOT an option with small children. So I have been making an attempt to find a job. You would think that would allow me to have my AC on at least while I am cooking dinner! Right?
Posted on 07/22/04 at 02:50 PM
Busy, Crazy Week!
Boy it has been a busy and crazy week around here! Angus started a new job last week, with crazy, crazy hours. With only having one vehicle at the moment, his crazy schedule, and one child in summer school, I have been doing a lot of driving back and forth at gawd awful hours of the day and night!
I have managed to miss two Doctor appointments in all this craziness. Which is not good. It means, that much longer for this stupid insurance thing to be settled. Angus has laid off with all of his demands on getting it settled quickly, he now gets that it is out of my control I guess. Took him long enough.
As far as the “Part Two: Dinner Party” goes. Well, lets just say, this household was not a fun place to be at for a few days. Nasty, bad things were said. On both parts. Angus is not a talker when it comes to discussing the aftermath of such things, at all. He sweeps them under the rug so to speak. I however, would rather apologize and find out what was behind the nasty things said. I know I shouldn’t try and analyze some things. But I hate fighting. I get very insecure when bad things are said, even in the heat of anger. I try very, very hard not to say things I don’t mean, or that have nothing to do with the argument at hand. Which I did not in this argument. Angus however, did. We haven’t talked about it, at all. Unless you count saying, lets not fight about any of that anymore. I am going to do both of us a favor, and just let this one go. Or take a deep breath and find one more tiny piece of corner in my head and tuck it away.
But with all that said, it has been a pretty good week around here. Angus has been much more pleasant and happy to be around. Which makes me easier to be around. What having a “Real Job” can do for a guys self esteem and ego, hey! Now if he would stop telling me I can turn the AC on when I find a job, it would actually be blissful around here. He actually has disconnected wires in the central air unit. Is there no trust I ask you? Guess when it comes to me and AC, he knows me down to the core! I am a wimp, I admit it. Now if I could just get the guts up to connect those two little wires. Hehehe
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Two Part Post
Not sure what I want to divulge of my self today. The dinner party was pretty fun, in the beginning. The food was great and the wine flowed. My neighbor Pat was in rear form and had us in stitches laughing. Tears running sown your face, gut aching funny. And all of a sudden it went bad, and somehow I was involved with it. I said something Pat didn’t like I guess. I don’t know what it was. He just stood up made a comment to me (can’t remember what it was) and stormed off. I looked at everyone else, blank looks from everyone. And said I would go see what was wrong. Big mistake. Pat got even more pissed. I tried to tell him I had no idea what I said to offend him. He walked off and sat back down at the table, leaving me baffled. It was late and we had the children with us so I thought it best to say good-bye to everyone and thank the hosts, even Pat. Collected the kids and scooted off. Angus stayed behind. Which was fine with me.
Got the kiddo’s all tucked in and get, when is dad coming to tuck us in, did you have a fight? Reassured them that we hadn’t. Half hour passes, When is dad coming home to tuck us in, are you sure you didn’t have a fight? Did he maybe fall asleep?
So I told them I would go make sure he didn’t. (it wouldn’t be unlike him to do so). He was just fine when I got there and told him the kids were concerned. Rene, the hostess, tells me to sit back down for a few minutes, so I do. All seems fine, other than the comment Sally makes. “ Are you sure its the kids and not you?”. I ignored it. She has been very hard for me to be around lately. For lots of reasons I will get into at some other time.
Mike and Sally say their good-byes and Angus leaves to go tuck kiddo’s in again. I stayed behind for a few minutes. Everything with Pat seems fine. He didn’t even seem to remember what it was that I said that pissed him off! (I told you the wine was a flowing.) So all seemed to end well after all...... so I thought.
Part two later.
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Dinner Party
Uhhhhg, we have been invited to a dinner party, tonight. Now normally I would be excited and happy for the adult interaction. I feel panic. I didn’t give a strait answer yes or no. I used the excuse that Angus isn’t home and would like to confirm with him before I commit. It is the polite thing to do, right? Now, I know he will be all for it, and I am the one in charge of out social calendar. And other than one of us is sick, there really is no reason I can give them not to go. The live next door. Not sure who is going yet. Probably the usual crowd of all close friends. But I still feel panic. I will have to be my usual witty, upbeat, never at a loss for words self. I don’t feel like that person lately.
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Touch of Cold Feet
I think that is what I have had in the past several days! As I was writing a email to a friend it hit me, it will all be real! Really all be happening, in my life, if I write it down. I had a friend and E just recently tell me I needed to take a good look at reality, I was quite offended let me tell you. As I have always thought of myself as always having a great big grip on it, even in my sleep.
Before I moved 3,000 miles away from all family and friends, I was the one everyone came to to, vent, cry, and help solve their problems. And I think I was pretty damn good at it too! Then I ran away, 3,000 miles. I always took the bumps in my life head on and just dealt with it, shoved it into some corner of my mind, and moved on until the next one came along. I think I have used up all the corners.
Sounds Promising
Well E’s job interview went well. Pretty much has it in the bag if he wants it. It’s a start up company. He has done this a couple of times in the past, and made the company literally millions more in the first year in each company. The man was very impressed with his back ground and Resume. The guaranteed money is OK, but just OK. The commission and the car allowance is very, very good! He doesn’t need to get back to the guy until after the job interview of the job he would like to get. So that is good. He also had two calls for job interviews while he was gone yesterday. Boy,when it rains it pours!
My day however didn’t go so well. I HATE INSURANCE COMPANIES! They pretty much gave me the run around. I just want this thing over with and my back better. When E gets a new job it means I am out of a job. So I would like to find something at least part time for when the kids get back to school. But it doesn’t look good going on a job interview hunched over in pain!
The kids have been surprisingly good the past couple of days. They are obsessed with the game Clue. No fighting about who lost or who won, and very polite with each other. (during the game anyway) But alas, this will all end late this morning. Mom is going to give out a big chore list. (things are falling behind in this house since my back started bothering me) This always brings out the demon in them. The she/he has less than me, how come I have the harder things to do ect. will go on for at least fifteen minutes before I can get them to actually get started. Better get going on that list.
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Wish Him Luck!
Well wish E luck today, please! He is on his way to West LA for a job interview! His second one this past week. He has had a couple so far this month, but kind of a waste of his time really. This one at least the money sounds like it would be worth while. He has another one next week, which is the job he really would like to get.
Oh and you can also wish me luck today too if you would like. I have to deal with the insurance company about a settlement from the car accident I was in. E and the Doctor have both tried to reassure me that I am not a horrible person for asking for compensation for my injuries. ( well actually they made me an offer first but, it was pretty lame ) Why are these things so hard for me? I feel so guilty, as I sit here with a ice pack on my back so that I CAN sit here long enough to type this out. Why? OK time limit is about here and I still want to fetch my email.
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