Screw Risk!
Is it just me or has this year flown by like no other? Granted at times it didn’t seem like it when I wasn’t working, but the fact that it is already November is CRAZY! I’m excited though. Even though the year is almost over, I feel like I have a lot to look forward to in the coming year. I start my new job tomorrow!
Oh yeah… forgot to mention that I already quit the other job. LOL I started the training last Monday, and I quit on Thursday when I found out that the credit check was sufficient and that I would be starting my preferred job on Monday. I’m SO excited!!!
Not only am I starting the job that I wanted more, but now I won’t have to worry about getting up at 6 in the morning to take Jacob to work so that I could have a car to get to work in. Although I’m pretty sure that I would have ended up on a pretty early schedule at the other job since that is what I had requested. Needless to say, now Jacob will get up bright and early for his job while I sleep a little bit longer. Then I’ll catch the bus to go to my job. Tomorrow I don’t have to be there until 9:30, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll probably start earlier than that most days.
I’m also pretty glad that I won’t have to dress up every day at this new job, whereas I would have been dressing up everyday at the other one. I’m not a dress up person. I really think that I’ve been given a job that I will fit in with just right.
Other than that, not much else is new. This month is going to be a month of catching up. It probably wouldn’t have been quite so bad if we didn’t have to pay $400 for a ‘traffic award" that Jacob got. *sigh* It is what it is though, and everything will be fine. Like it always is.
I can’t tell you enough how much I’m looking forward to having more than just the bare minimum that we’ve been getting by on for so long. It’s been a really long time since both Jacob and I have had steady jobs that pay decently. In fact, when I think back on it, the last time we both had jobs where weren’t constantly chasing our ass from paycheck to paycheck was five years ago when were first got here to California. We were here for a few months, and then Jacob proposed to me. After that we started putting money towards the wedding which we had in Nebraska. After we got married, I was laid off from my job. We were doing okay, but things were tight. I got my job at Portamedic and was there until this last February, but during this whole time Jacob was also in an out of jobs quite a bit that took a toll on our finances. Once we were both working steadily we were still only living paycheck to paycheck and we had racked up a number of loans that we were constantly trying to pay off and get away from. THEN I was laid of from Portamedic, and we were really strapped from month to month. Which brings us to now. We will both have steady jobs. We don’t have any stupid loans to pay. We will be bringing in a nice chunk of money each month to where we can plan for things in the future. Definitely looking forward to it.
Gotta say that right now I’m a bit agitated. Jacob brought home the game Risk yesterday. I had never really played it before, so I was trying to learn the strategy of the game. He is a total strategy game type of person though, and has played this game since he was a kid. He wouldn’t even give me a flippin’ chance to try and figure out how it works really before he just outright starts whoopin’ my butt at the game. Then he wonders why I don’t want to play any games with him when I don’t even have a fair chance at winning. We started the last game over because I had mentioned that had I known a couple of the rules, I would have done things a little different. However I still was doing semi decent. When I mentioned not knowing about the rules though, he was real quick to offer to restart. I’m beginning to wonder if I was doing well enough and he thought I might have had a real chance at doing well in the game. GAH! Regardless, Risk has just been added to the list of games that I refuse to play with him. I HATE strategy games.
And now I’m just outright irritated, so there goes my Sunday afternoon. Think I’ll go ahead and make some cards and make sure I have all the paperwork I need ready for tomorrow.
HAPPY NOVEMBER!