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12 Jan 2008 Working Saturday
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Jeremy, Job, Me, Mumbo Jumbo, Work |  Leave a Comment

Well, I guess Jeremy has a job tomorrow…on Saturday. That kinda sucks just because it’s the weekend. However, it is good for so many other reasons. For one we will have to wake up at a reasonable hour tomorrow, and we will be out and about. Last weekend we slept in until about 1pm, both Saturday and Sunday. We didn’t even get out of the house until after 2pm. I hate that! Jeremy also only worked 3 days this week, so we need the money. So it is something to do where we are making money and not spending money.

So, I will be his little assistant. Let’s hope nobody asks if I’m pregnant this time.

01 Dec 2007 Rainy Day Friday
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Excited, Job, Me, Mumbo Jumbo, Thought |  Leave a Comment

It was rainy and cold all day today! I was in heaven! I really don’t know why I love the rain and gloomy weather so much, but I do. It makes me happy, and I get all kinds of bummed out when the sun comes out. I’m so strange. So, I went to get the kids from school, and it was pouring. I have no windshield wipers. Ha! Luckily the school is super close. I need to get some of that Rain-X.

I know I wanted cold weather, and have been looking for it since summer. However, I realize I don’t dig the cold at night. Well I don’t mind if I’m home, but if I have to go out in it, I get so cold. I am grateful though that I don’t work at the last job I was at. They used to have the A/C on in the winter when it was super cold outside. The mornings were in the 40’s last year, and the A/C would be going. They wouldn’t even turn it off during the day. Then they took the space heaters away, because someone left one on one night. So, I would literally have to wear layers. Most days I’d where a shirt with a hoodie, and then a sweatshirt on over it, zipped up. I contemplated bringing in gloves, and a little blanket to throw over my legs. It was that cold inside. Anyway, glad they fired my butt!

08 Dec 2006 God Hates Me
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Holiday, Job, Me, Mumbo Jumbo, Work |  One Comment

So how do I know God hates me?

Well we are having a Christmas luncheon for work at a restuarant and are doing a secret santa gift exchange. I guess everyone got their name put into a bowl and someone walked around and everyone picked a name. Who did I get? Oh I got the one and only person I absolutly cannot stand. The tattle tale lady who has told on me no less then like 15 times since I’ve worked there, and told my manager there was tension between us, when I’ve been nothing but nice to her. How lucky am I? The best part is I have no idea what this lady would want! I was thinking about getting her a big chunk of cheese to go with her whine! If I knew she drank wine I’d get her a nice baket with wine and cheese. A nice little tongue in cheek gift. I’m lost though. I don’t know.

THEN!!!

Jeremy’s little family christmas get together that I talked about a week or so ago that I was not going to attend. Well apparently his sister called him and told him that she was buying for me, he has to buy for her, and I get to buy for……..

HIS DAD!!!!!!!!

HaHaHaHa! God hates me!

It’s cool I am included this time, and I guess that means I have to go. HaHa! Jeremy told me tonight he asked his Dad what he wants for Christmas, and he said a Starbucks Gift Card. So Jer said I could just get him that for Christmas. Phew!!

Now to buy for whiney, tattle-tale, annoying as hell lady at work. Ack! Think a swift kick in the ass will do? Maybe I should buy her a blow up doll that she can talk to at work, so I don’t have to listen to her talk to me about all the shit I could careless about. I mean because there is so much tension between us and all. It’s obvious by how she approaches me all the time to talk about her stupid life.

20 Sep 2006
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Jeremy, Job, Kids, Me, Mumbo Jumbo |  2 Comments

Work on Monday went well, I suppose. I mean it was the first day at a new place with a million tasks & passwords thrown in my head. The place I work at is alright. There is the office I work in and a warehouse. They make electronical componants for airplanes. Not exciting stuff, but I like that I am busy all day long. There is always something to do.

I explained my situation Monday towards the end of the day and my manager was very understanding about it. He told me it was okay to come in at 8:30-12:30, until Thursday. So I got the kids signed up for daycare yesterday evening…and they start tomorrow. So a day earlier then I thought.

The great things about this job is that they are pretty freaking casual. I mean some people wear jeans and tennis shoes. Some dress very business casual. So dressing up jeans is fine. So that is awesome. Another thing is I get out at 4:30 everyday. I love that!!!

So that means that I get out in time to get the kids by 5 so I get the cheaper daycare. Also Jeremy is going to take the kids to school for me every morning.

It all worked out just fine.

There is this lady at work though that is going to bug. She sits fairly close to me, and she’s the type that sits and listens to what you are saying and doing, and then goes and tells the manager. She’s already told on me for asking someone if they would like to leave a voicemail on my first day. Luckily the old receptionist is there all week with me, and was there and stuck up for me…and said it was my first day…I obviously don’t know the ins and outs yet…which my manager agreed with. The old receptionist said when she started 6 years ago, this lady would tell on her all the time. Like everyday, to where the manager had to talk to her and tell her to lay off! So luckily everyone there knows how this chick is! Today she was bitching about a fax missing…that she faxed. She kept coming up front saying “I don’t know where it could have gone!!!” I know she was blaming me for it. I’ve been watched doing everything by the old receptionist. She checks me stuff, because she is training me. So that chick can fuck off! She’s also the type to come up and talk to you like she likes you, but you can tell she’s a bitch…and then go tell on you 5 minutes later. She was telling on one of us today too. Whatever, though. Sad to be a 50+ year old woman and tattle like a little bitch! Sucks to because people like that I would rather ignore them, and although I can pull it off…I fucking HATE being all fake and act like I like you when I don’t like you at all.

Also what is funny is that every job I have ever gotten I have been trained (except the last one) and out of the whole office, I’ve always liked the recpetionist training me. Like could talk to them and even be their friend ya know…and they always are moving away & not working there.

Oh, I have to page people too!!! Like throughout the building, so I hear my voice yellingout from all the phones “Alicia 101, Alicia 101″. I hate my voice. LOL! 

18 Sep 2006 Job
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Job, Mumbo Jumbo |  One Comment

So, I guess I am going to go to work tomorrow!  Chuck is keeping the kids tonight. They will miss school tomorrow (ACK!)!

I will go in, because I think it looks better that I go in and then explain to my temp agency and the manager there my situation. I will go on my lunch break to sign the kids up for the other day care, and see if I can come into work from 8:30-12:30 until the daycare starts. Which I think will be Wednesday or Thursday. So at least I am in for 4 hours everyday until the kids start their daycare. If that doesn’t fly with them and they aren’t understanding of that…then well I don’t want to work there anyway.

I personally don’t think it should be a huge problem, because it’s not like they don’t have a receptionist there already. I think it would be easier to overlook me and just say forget it if I didn’t show up, then if I showed up and explained the situation. Plus, I’m a nice girl and people usually like me…soooo I think that will help also.

Now to figure out what I am going to wear??? It’s business casual. Or as the temp agency said the manager wanted me to know it’s very business casual. What’s VERY business casual?

18 Sep 2006 I Got a Job…BUUUUT…
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Irritating, Jeremy, Job, Kids, Me, Mumbo Jumbo |  4 Comments

So I got a job. The one I interviewed for on Thursday. I found out on Friday afternoon! I was so excited and went to set up daycare. So I go to the YMCA since they are located at the kids school. Which would be convenient for not only the kids but myself since it is 1 minute down the street from my house.  I go in and fill out all the paperwork and I sign up for financial assistance. I turn it in and the girl looks over my stuff, and tells me I need to turn in check stubs or a bank statement & pick out the times I need the kids to go. There is a plan and a category. So your options are:    

 

  1. 4 Hours of after school care  
     

  2. 6 hours of after school care  
     

  3. Before school care and I think it is 6 hours of after school care. 
     

So I need the 6 hours of after school care and before school.  Then the categories are:    

 

  1. M-F 
     

  2. M-F & all school holidays  
     

  3. M-F, all school holidays & winter & spring breaks. 
     

I obviously need #3. So I realize I grabbed the wrong bank statement, and need to go home to find the newest one not showing I am getting an income. I ask what time they are open till. She says 10pm. So I go home and I think my newest bank statement is in Jeremy’s truck. So I wait for him to get home. 

Then at 5:45 I go to turn my stuff in. I go in and they are looking at my stuff. A bunch of teenagers who are complete idiots. So since I was turning in a financial assistance application I get sort of a discount. I only have to pay 1/4 of the deposit for each kid (which why do I have to pay a deposit when I am paying for the care that day???) Then they waive the $35 registration fee for both kids. Okay whatever. For a month of care of each child they want $468!!! That is $936 a month! That is almost $300 more then I was paying in OC, for the SAME service! So these idiots tell me that the person who does the prorating for the month is out so I will have to pay the full amount and they will credit me. Well I don’t want to be credited. I want to pay what I owe. So, the little nimrod cant’ figure out a 1/4 of $936, and I have to tell him how to do it. Then they tell me I owe $1170!!!!!!!!!!! Then they tell me that they kids will start on TUESDAY!!!!

When I was in there earlier that day and the chick in charge looked over my application she didn’t say they would start Tuesday. I wrote on there the start date would be Monday! When I called before I came in the first time I stated I need to get them started for MONDAY, and no one told me that they need 24 hours to process the paperwork and the kids wouldn’t start until Tuesday. Had they done that, I could have called my temp agency and told them, I wouldn’t be able to start until Tuesday. So I lost my temper, and I told them they needed to get there shit together, and they have literally just fucked up a JOB for me!!!! I know I shouldn’t have cussed, but I wanted to leap over the counter and beat the shit out of these little dipshits! 

So I leave and am bawling. My temp agency is closed, the company I am supposed to work for tomorrow is closed. I cannot call anyone and let them know I have no day care for Monday. I cannot let anyone know I can’t show up at 8am on Monday. I NEED this job more then anything right now. More then anything, and these little fuckers at the YMCA just totally fucked my shit up!!!! Not to mention I do NOT have over a thousand dollars just kickin’ it to pay for day care for the remaining 9 days of the month that I need day care. In Orange County I never had a problem. I was a little over $600 a month, and to get started it was like $150, and I could pay every week a little bit. I hate the YMCA now. What a fucking SCAM! 

So I call the Boys and Girls club, and they don’t have morning day care. They do have after-school care though, which cost $135, plus $135 for bus transportation from school to the club. So that is only $270 for each kids. Which is do-able! Although I need morning daycare. So I am SO fucking fucked. I don’t know what to do about tomorrow morning? I don’t know who I am supposed to call, or what I am supposed to say? I am so mad, and feel like I am back at square one now, and I’m sick about it! 

My boyfriend isn’t much help either. He hasn’t’ spoken to me since Friday evening. So I’m sick of him to and I hate being in Simi Valley right now. At this moment I wish I didn’t live with him, as it is apparent that he doesn’t want to extend himself to helping me out when it comes to my life with the kids. I mean he watched them for me for Back to School night, but he’s not offering to drive them to school in the morning for me. He’s not throwing anything out there to help me out. So I’m wondering, if he loves me, and he wants to be with me seriously for the rest of our lives, wouldn’t that mean he’d jump in there and be involved in every aspect? Now I wonder if I made a mistake moving here. I have kids, I have responsibility, and if I moved here to live with you…then you need to jump in and help me out with the things in my life. Otherwise, I don’t want it. I’ve resented him for the past 2 days. Yay! Love living together! Love living with someone who supposedly loves me, yet we have our own separate lives and problems and those are ours, and ours alone. Good relationship! Apparently it was better 90 miles away from each other!  

***EDITED***   I just want to clarify why I am so pissed off at Jeremy. I asked him if he could pick the kids up from the YMCA at 5 everyday. Mind you most days he is home well before 5pm. Some days 12:30 and he is home. There are however days he is still working at 5 or sitting in L.A. traffic. So that is not really realistic of me to ask him. I guess what I was asking for was some help somehow. He tells me to ask Chuck for more money to pay the difference. Chuck pays me a lot of money a month. I’m not going to ask for more money. So J says he will pay the difference then. It wasn’t convincing. It sounded like he would but didn’t want to. So I’m not taking him up on the offer. In the mornings he doesn’t even roll out of bed until 8:30. I could very well get the kids ready for school in the morning, and he could drop them off for me at 8:10. Yet instead of him saying “Hey lets figure something out here, where I could help you out!” He just is being a complete unhelpful asshole! So I got to pissed off. Then I left to take the kids to my brothers to meet Chuck and didn’t come home until midnight.  I just don’t understand why he was being so unhelpful. I mean he usually is really helpful. He interacts with my kids, helps them with homework, helps me with money when I need it. I just got the feeling though on Friday that he wasn’t being helpful to me. He wasn’t doing anything to help me figure things out and ease some stress for me. Isn’t that what you do for someone in relationship? We live together now, and supposedly will get married one day…so shouldn’t he share in my burdens? Or does he think that should only happen once we are married or maybe never? I feel like although we are together and share our life together…there is still this separation between us. Like I have my life and he has his. Things are still divided. I don’t want it to sound like he is this jerk that doesn’t help me out either, because he does. He has no problem watching the kids while I run to Back to School night or to coffee with a friend…but I still feel this separation.   

I still don’t know what to do about that job either. What do I do???? Time is ticking, and my stomach is knotting with every passing minute. Chuck said he would watch the kids for me Monday, but that would mean missing school for them, then I could at least go in…and then explain the situation to the manager and temp agency. Then hopefully they could give me a couple days to figure something out. Maybe I could come in every day until 12:30, in time to get the kids after school. The old receptionists last day is Friday. So that way she could train me still…I don’t know what to do??? Anyone????  

  

09 Sep 2006 Job Hunting
Author: Stephanie |  Category: Job, Mumbo Jumbo |  Leave a Comment
Today, I went to a temp agency. I was dissappointed when I got there because it was a temp agency where they test. I really hate when they do that shit. I don’t understand the testing. One was 15 minutes to answer 50 problem solving questions. Lame! I’ve never had to answer any problem solving questions being a receptionist. It’s dumb. Interview me, and you can tell if I am a smart girl or if I am a complete moron. Then the Word & Excel tests. I am not super on either of those programs. I don’t know the ins & outs of either of them really, really well. I am much better at Word then I am at Excel. I actually kind of hate Excel. Yet everytime I have been given a task to do on either, I work it out. I figure out what I need to do and I make it work. So I find those dumb. Same with the typing test. I can type fine. I remeber when I was looking for a job in OC and I went to this temp agency that tested for 2 1/2 hours!  It was INSANE!! Then she said I failed the typing test and I need to type at least 35 wpm. I was shocked I didn’t type at least 35 wpm. Then she said I needed to do the practice exercises on this certain website for Word and Excel, before they would find me work. Ha! 

So, today I guess I tested average on both of them and typed 50 wpm! I didn’t beleive it and came home and took this typing test, and I was averaging 45 wpm. So, yeah me. LOL! Then I got all into it and downloaded the program and started taking typing lessons, since I tend to glace at my fingers a lot. I want to be super typer. Ha!

I’m hoping I will be working sometime next week!!! Unfortunately they don’t find work in Escrow. So that sucks. I have experience there, and I would like to further my knowledge of Escrow if at all possible. I also had contact with another temp agency specializing in Escrow placement. So hopefully she will call me back on Monday, before this other place gets me a job…because at this point I will not be able to turn down a job.

Financially I am so fucked right now. I can’t even tell you how much stress will be lifted off of me once I am working and making money. I will be so, I don’t know. Where I’ve always wanted to be in every spectrum of my life for now. Content.