I’m Alive

Hello everyone!

I know it’s been a few months, and I apologize.

The good news – I was unemployed for a total of four days. I managed to get another job with one of the NJ registrars that I’m still working. K also found me another contract that offers OT, so things have been busy and hectic, to say the least. I’ve been working 7 days a week, 10+ hours a day.

The money is fantastic, and it’s going towards paying down a LOT of bills and not financing Christmas for a change. It’s also being tucked into my savings account in case I get towards unemployment again.

Although I’m hoping that’s not the case. I have a HUGE interview next Tuesday, the 27th, with a major cancer center. I’d be able to work from home. I am…so nervous, but so exhilarated at the same time. I’m very hopeful. I have ALWAYS wanted to work for this place, since I was a medical secretary. It’d be a dream come true. However, I need to figure out how they’d work things out, because I’ll either have to be on-site for training for a month (!) or work as a consultant prior to being hired FT, which means no insurance.

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. In the meantime, I’m going to try to get myself in the right mindset and the right presentation. I’m going to be wearing a business suit. Me. A business suit. I don’t wear pants most days. How the hell am I going to pull this off??

I just know I can’t stay with K any longer. I have mentally checked out from that company. I worked my ass off for them to only be told I worked myself out of a job. They took my health insurance on my birthday, and didn’t tell me – I had to call and ask, which – thankfully – I thought of prior to my doctor’s appointment, so I was able to cancel it.

They also took my retirement. Awesome. I’m not contributing to it for the rest of this year. I’ll wait and roll it over into my new plan.

Otherwise, things are going decently. We were relatively missed by Sandy, although Manhattan and NJ were hit very, very badly. Clean-up is still happening. It’s crazy.

Things with Sean are going well. We had a very bad rough patch – his anti-depressant strength needed to be upped, he dragged his feet and fell into a very, very rough depression. I tried so freaking hard, but working so much I just couldn’t take the strain of trying to do and fix everything. Thankfully, we worked through it. We started going to the gym. His medication started working. Things have improved.

We’re talking about buying a house in the next year or so. My great-aunt is looking to sell soon, and it’s a nice house in a good neighborhood. So we’re working on getting our debt down and our credit scores up, as well as saving some money for a down payment. It’s a good feeling. I would love to get out of the rental market and into something a bit more permanent.

…I totally hit save, thinking this was like GMail draft saving. Good God. I need to get my shiat straight.

The weight loss efforts have stalled. I love going to the gym, try to do it a few times a week, but with working so much my food intake has been insane. I haven’t had time to enjoy anything, it feels like – but there is an end in sight, thank goodness. I’ll be returning the NJ laptop on the 28th, if not earlier. Also, K’s contract may be ending at the end of the month. They’re not sure if they’re going to extend or not. I hope they do, as it would make things a bit easier than having them fumble through finding me another contract before leaving. If I leave. I need to stop acting like it’s a done deal.

So, that’s all that’s really going on here. Lots of work, not a ton of play, but the money helps. Hopefully it’ll get me to a good financial place with less worry soon.