February 9, 2007

• Well, well, well.  Well. When it rains, it pours.  And that's OK...if it never rained, flowers couldn't grow, right?

  I think I told ya'll I quit that job, right?  My husband saying it's OK, we make enough for me to find a job I enjoy and all that?  Guess what?  My hubby got canned last Thursday.  My old position got filled, and they're not hiring anymore.  Ouch.  Can't blame 'em. I wouldn't hire me either, if I quit after 2 weeks of working somewhere.  SO, for now, we have what's left in the bank (not a whole lot, but we can survive for a month, with all bills paid, so long as no one gets really sick and requires a visit to the dr, 'cause we have no insurance either!!!!)  and what I make teaching swim lessons at the Y.  Which isn't alot, let me tell you.  Right now he's out selling meat door to door with my BIL...hopefully he does well...talk about a huge ego pop.  Poor guy...he was defining himself by his job something fierce.  He's trying to get a contract opened up on base come April 1....so we just need to survive until then and pray to God that contract gets awarded. The scariest thing is the no insurance bit.  What if something happens to the kids?  Jason's already sick...had a fever off and on for 2 weeks now, and missing 2 weeks of school.  Doc wants to do lab work today, I'm waiting for a phone call so I can explain our situation right now, and see if we can get any help with it, if it's major bucks.  Never operated without insurance before...scary stuff. 

   Did I mention this happened on my daughters 13th birthday?  We still lived it up for her...that's a special one, becoming a teenager.  Thankfully, we had already spent all the money that was going to get spent on her before the big firing.  We redid her room, painting it soft pink, with lime green dots on the 2 major walls.  The biggest dots being green corkboard, so she can pin in pics of buddies.  Found a green fabric shower curtain with hot pink holders at Target...looks WAY cool in there...need to somehow get a pic...we also got her a cell phone.  Yes, this is something we swore we wouldn't do until she was much older.  However, with crap happening, and her having to make a few emergency phone calls from other people's phones, we got her one.  It is one of those where you have to buy your own minutes, however.  We bought the first 166 minutes.  She has to keep 30 on for emergency only, when she gets down to 30, she's to consider it dead, and then she has to BUY HER OWN MINUTES.  I love that.  I was afraid with a planned phone that she couldn't make the payments herself and it would turn to good ol' mom and dad to pay or pay the huge cancellation fee.  SO, this way she learns the power of paying her own bills.  Very cool. She had a great birthday...my little baby is 13.  Sigh.  2 years and we teach her to drive, 8 years and she's free.  13 years ago, I would have said I"D be free...now I"m not quite so looking forward to it. 

  That incredible hag.  I'm referring to the wench who fired my husband.  He had worked at the hospital for 2 years as a contractor, then got hired on in November as the IT lead man.  New director got hired on Jan. 2.  He had heard her m.o. was to come in, fire the heavy highest paid power players, and bring in her own guys.  He went to her the day after she came in, asked if this was true, and if it was, please let him know, he'd start looking now...he's got a family to support and all.  She said, no, of course not, that's just silly...I don't fire anyone, they just usually quit, 'cause I make life hard.  Well, she sure did.  A was working easily 80 hours a week and longer, doing these f'ed up tasks she'd assign.  On his 90 day eval day, where they can still fire him without notice or benefits...she did.  Bitch.  Oops.  Sorry. I do try not to curse whenever possible, but I really just want to kind of want to run her down with my car.  Oh, did I type that out loud?

  BUT, it isn't all bad.  A was killing himself working that job.  He was hating it...miserable every day, when we got to see him, anyway.  Kids were missing him horribly, Jason acting up in school.  We didn't save money very well, spending it like water.  This is going to be a training program for us.  Dad gets to learn how NOT to work himself to the bone (he's a workaholic), kids automatically benefit, and also learn that money does NOT grow from trees, and we learn how to budget.  Kind of like learning to swim by being thrown into the ocean.  Forget the nice calm pool...we're swimming with sharks. 

  OH WELL....on to the Queen's writing challenge:

  Our favorite romantic movies:

  1.  Say Anything:  LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie...so romantic, and one of my feller's is in it...can't beat it.  I think this must be the number one.

  2.  Phantom of the Opera:  Come on...who doesn't love the "Point of no Return" scene?  That's just hot.

  3.  For Keeps:  When he goes running looking for her at the end, with the ring in the flowers, I just sob every time.

  4.  She's Having a Baby:  comedy, tears, and reality...awesome movie

  5.  Fever Pitch:  I like Drew Barrymore...even though she's a tad annoying with the same pitch of her voice every time...her movies are sappy just like I like 'em.

  6.  Ever After:  Yup, another Barrymore production...let's just say all of her movies. 

  Ya know, I pretty much like ALL the romances, 'specially if there's comedy thrown in...the only ones I DON'T like is when they decide it shouldn't end happily...case in point, My Best Friend's Wedding...yes, he married the girl, and good for them, but let's face it, we wanted Julia to get him back.  Unsatisfying ending.  Oh, Far and Away also an awesome flick with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman...very good. 

  So that's it...if you want to take a look at the challenge and who participated go to Kween_of_the_Kweens...also in my sub list to the left...Have a great weekend folks!

  

  One day Mr. Smith, the president of a large corporation, called his vice-president, Dave, into his office and said, "We're making some cutbacks, so either Jack or Barbara will have to be laid off." Dave looked at Mr. Smith and said, "Barbara is my best worker, but Jack has a wife and three kids. I don't know whom to fire."
  
  The next morning Dave waited for his employees to arrive. Barbara was the first to come in, so Dave said, "Barbara, I've got a problem. You see, I've got to lay you or Jack off and I don't know what to do?" Barbara replied, "You'd better jack off. I've got a headache."

  

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