I'm sure it seems like I have fallen of the face of the earth, but I assure you, I haven't. SO much has gone on in the last few months, that I don't know where to begin.
1st, I left the cushy job at the airline HQ back in April, for several reasons. The biggest 2 being that my teamlead didn't like me so he pushed me out and the 2nd because I didn't like the job enough to fight for it. I liked the schedule, but not so much the job. I transfered back to the airport and looked for another job. Unfortunately, I had to quit the job at the HIS. I wasn't really happy witht the crap that was going on there anyway. I had told them I only wanted to work 16-20 hours a week by working 8 hour shifts on the weekend and 1 MAYBE 2 4 hours shifts during the week. They agreed to this when they hired me. By the time I left I was working 30+ hours a week there and the last week they had me scheduled for was completely during the week without ANY hours on the weekend. It was unfortunate, because in the end it was their inablility to keep to the schedule I needed that caused me to quit. Because I didn't like what was going on over there made it easy to quit.
Anyway, it took a few months, but I finally replaced my fulltime weeekday job. I am currently a contract administrator with a large IT company. It is only a temp job, but I don't care. It is work and it is work I want to do. If nothing else this job will get me experience and a paycheck until the paralegal market opens back up (I hope). I really like my new job and my coworkers. They are great and they love me because I am doing what I am so good at doing, cleaning up someone else's mess. :)
2nd, I moved in with my friend and it was great. One of the best roommate situations I have had in a long time. The lease is up at the end of October and we are moving, but not the way we planned. My roommate was promoted in the company she works for. The hitch is that the position is in Costa Mesa (Orange County), CA. The movers are getting her stuff out this week. Once her stuff is out, I'll begin packing up mine. I sign my new lease on Friday, work at the airport all weekend. My movers are coming Monday morning.
I am happy and sad at the same time. I have really enjoyed living with my friend and will miss her. BUT, I currently live 23 miles from work and my new place is only 1.7miles. I am SO looking forward to that. I don't commute and I will go from taking 40 minutes to get to work to 6. I am going to get an extra hour and a half of sleep every night! This is important when you have 2 jobs. :)
3rd. This is more of a point of clarification. When I went back to the airport, the only positions available were full-time. Yes, I am now working 2 full time jobs. The IT company is my "weekday" job. I work there Mon-Fri 8-5. The airline is my "weekend" job. I work there Sat and Sun 6am-10:30pm. Yes, I work 7 days a week, but it really doesn't bother me. I prefer working every day than working long days and getting days off. Don't get me wrong, I am very much looking forward to getting to the point financially that I won't have to work 2 jobs, but for now, this works. This is also why I am so excited about living closer to work and getting more sleep. :)
4th. Chloe is now 6 and in 1st grade. Lucy is 3 1/2 and wants to go to school SO BAD. Hannah turned 1 yesterday. I was in SLC for Hannah's birthday party on Saturday. I really enjoyed seeing my nieces.
5th. The guy is no more. He freaked out a few months ago and accused me of accusing him of lying and told me he didn't want to date anyone who called him a liar. I wasn't calling him a liar, he was just looking for a reason to stop seeing me because he thought I was more attached to him than he was comfortable with. I was very hurt by what he did and the way he treated me, but okay with the not seeing each other part because when he freaked out I was trying to figure out when I could see him again to let him know that I wasn't okay with his smoking and he could call me when he quit. We didn't talk for several months, until he made contact with me to apologize for acting like he did. We talked things out and everything is cool. We have been talking again lately, but I realized today that I am still not okay with his smoking, so we need to have the conversation I wanted to have before all of this happened. It sucks, because I really like him, but I have to admit that I like my lungs and not watching someone I care about kill themselves more. Call me selfish.
6th. One of the other good things about where I will be moving to is that I will be living only a few minutes away from a friend I made while I was at the airlines HQ. She and I are going to start going out and doing stuff so we can meet people. We are both tired of being single and use each other for support. It will be a lot of fun. :)
Well, that is the last 5 months in a nutshell. I am intending on updating this regularly again. Sorry for slacking off these last few months.
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