HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wishing everyone a year of health and happiness in 2009!

Stop on by

Feel free to visit the new group I have started to ring in the new and pass the word around I am currently the only member, pathetic I know haha!

http://newyou09.multiply.com/

Tuesday

Howdy Ya'll! Another beautiful day, the weather was absolutely gorgeous, couldn't have asked for better weather. Today was my first official day of training. A lot of stuff I already knew because I have worked in the industry for several years now and a lot of stuff I didn't know. Interesting none the less. I am ever so thankful to have a job! I now can only pray that my husband too finds work soon.

I am going to try my best this evening to make it to bed before 1am I think I am going hit the sack and read some more of my book Good night all!

Tis the Season

This would be the extent of our exterior holiday decorations sad I know!




This is what happens when you have a large family and leave your Christmas decorations in storage when you move out of state and have to buy new stockings then move back and get your stuff all out of storage :)


Our poor tree has got it's gansta lean on YO!


My neice needed a costume for the Kindergarten Christmas play this is what we managed to come up with just a few hours notice!

TGIW

Yes weekend! My first week at work went well as could be expected. I do not yet have a computer or access to any of the systems until I have my formal 3 week training, which starts next week, so I just did busy work awful, awful busy work. BUT work nonetheless so I am not going to complain about getting paid for anything.

I too slept in 8:55 I have not slept that late in quite a while so it was nice! I then managed to get some xmas shopping done well the only shopping ive done so far this year. I got my youngest daughter concert tickets to see Taylor Swift OMG OMG OMG.! Yes my daughter is head over heels for the young Miss Swift and she is coming to the Plant City Strawberry Festival so I spent the money and am going to make one little girl very happy on Christmas Morning! She is going to be so happy and I just can't wait to see her face when she realizes that the printed out piece of paper she got for christmas is a ticket to see her very favorite singer! Well I'm off to Micheal's to see if I can find a few things. One would be a wreath and/or the makings of one and 2nd would be a creative way to wrap said piece of paper :) Great weekend to all!

GOOD MORNING MULTIPLY!

We woke up this morning to ice on the cars and frost on the ground chilly start for sure. I got up put the dishes away, switched the laundry and hope to get the carpets cleaned before I "go to work" wow! That sounds weird, here I've had 4 weeks of no schedule and happy go lucky do what I want, when I want. I wasn't happy with that though, I was extremely bored.

I am on my quest for crafty things to beautify the home and have spent half the morning looking for <-----------what this thing is called..... a glass cloche or english bell jar in case you might be wondering yourself :) I wanted to know so that I could post a wanted ad on freecycle, hopefully someone will come through :) I'm off to get these carpets done and get ready to head to work Happy Monday All!

Merry Chirstmas

This weekend was a great time. We went to 2 christmas parades and had a picnic with the kids. Both parades were small but fun none the less.

Tomorrow is the big day, my first day of work. Well not really tomorrow is just 4 hrs of paperwork. I was told to be there at 1pm I hope that's right and I didn't write that down wrong. I have orientation at the HQ building must be important stuff :) I am so happy and Thank God everyday for my finding work and such a great job in this awful economy. All I had to do was put it in his hands and he took care of it for me. FAITH, it's a beautiful thing.

Tonight I made a few dozen cookies and discoverd a few websites of crafty, home decorating ladies and oh boy let me tell you I was sucked right in. 5 hours had passed and I had no idea! Yes that drawn in. I have a huge case of scrapbooking supplies, jackpot from Freecycle! a wonderful woman gave me about $1000 worth of stuff she no longer used I was in heaven. Well a lot of the amazing deco ideas and creations these ladies made using scrap booking supplies so I have found a new hobby since I have so much free time now that I have had to drop out of school. So when money gets better and we get back on track I can not wait to hit the thrift stores and Michaels and Hobby Lobby! Until them I have stared a book of projects I want to do for the house! I can't wait to show you all with pictures of my projects.

I hope all had a wonderful weekend and have an even better Monday!

Rant.....Warning just venting you may not want to read this one!

It's been a strange week for me emotionally. I got a call back for an interview for the company that I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wanted to work for based on the type of work they do and the size and stability of their current business. I have, over the past 3 weeks, submitted a total of 17 applications for just about every available position listed on their website. It finally paid off! I got a call back, went to the interview, which I felt went very well, and the said they would let me know something either way in about 5 days. Waiting.....Waiting.....Ring......Ring the next day they called to make me an offer. Lower than I wanted but much more than others in this flailing economy so I took it. I think I am so numb from all of this I am unable to feel at this point? I was so excited when they called for the interview and now I'm just blah. This move has been very emotional. I (hiding face) almost think I might miss NC? I know what the hell, I complained about wanted to come back to FL and now I wonder if it was the right choice or not. My husband is not working (not by choice) there is NO work and when I say no work I mean NO WORK anywhere. There are so many people out of work and companies are laying off not hiring! It's scary. We applied for food stamps because there was a dire need we had no income and not for lack of trying. It has been over a month and still no word on those, we go so desperate today that we went to a local food bank for a family of 6 they gave us a can of tuna, box of rice cripies (can't afford milk), box of bow tie pasta, 2 boxes of mac and cheese (again cant afford milk to make it) and a can of green beans. Don't get me wrong we are thankful! I said all of that because even charities are hard off right now. I think all of this combined with watching the news and seeing all the war, job loss, economy woes, death and destruction just has me in a funk to the point I can't even rejoyce in the fact that I got a job! Not only did I get a job I am going to get a paycheck before christmas! Why in the hell am I so blah? I'm just scared I guess, scared that I am not going to have food to feed my kids next week, scared my husband might not find a job for a long time, lord knows we can't make it on my salary alone we would be homeless or car less in a matter of months if it's up to only my salary. I had to drop out of school because I could not afford to make my student loan payment! SIX------6 classes to go to finish my bacholers and I had to drop out because I couldn't afford to make a $98 student loan payment. I cried oh I cried about that. I will go back, I will start working and slowly pay off my balance at school and finally finish up those last classes, so maybe instead of graduating May 2009 now it might be May 2011? I know I know for the love of all that is Holy stop whining and be happy for what you do have. I am, feel truly blessed that I have a roof over my head, a beautiful, healthy, happy family that now includes having my 5 year old niece with us now and a wonderful husband who has come so far and is now the husband I always wanted him to and knew he could be. Please take a minute to read the words to this song I LOVE IT and yes it's the new Sears commercial but it really is an amazing song that inspires me to do great and wonderful things everytime I hear it!

Back Home

So here I am finally back home just as I wanted to be. Not exactly home I wanted to be on the East coast of Florida but hey I'm in Florida and that is all that really mattered to me. I spent the last year in coastal North Carolina and while it was beautiful there I was beyond homesick and needed to be back on my home turf. It all sort of worked out Hubby's plant shut down in NC so he searched all over FL for a job and found 1 here on the West Coast (WC) so we spent every penny we had moving our family back down to FL, I quit my fabulous job and we came back. Well here we are both unemployed in a horrible economy! My hubby never even got to work 1 day at his new job before the entire company was laid off you live you learn never depend on anything! We have spent the last week endlessly searching for jobs. I don't know what we're going to do if we don't find work soon? I am doing my best to stay optimistic and know it will all work out. Becareful what you wish for right? Needless to say I am happy to be back home and that was evident last night when I walked outside and watched the shuttle lift off I missed that! I missed wearing shorts in November!