Almost another year gone…

My birthday is tomorrow…I will be 38. I can’t quite believe it…sometimes it hits home I am going to be that old. Yes I know it isn’t old but sometimes I still look at my life and feel like I am living like I did in my 20s.

So I left my job and was supposed to be getting put into full time employee mode by the company I used to work for and have still been doing contract work. They freaking backed out…oh I can work as a contractor and work as many hours as I want but they aren’t going to make me an employee.

That being said, we are going to have a meeting to discuss my pay rate. They have to increase it to compensate me for the health insurance and vacation time I won’t be receiving….I mean seriously. I left a job with a ton of benefits for this and then they decide it is too much hassle to get the approval from the board of directors. I had asked before I gave notice if they were going to need approval and they had told me no but apparently the more he thought about it the more he decided he did. I am not sure if he brought it up in the executive committee and it didn’t go over well or something….

The good news is I have more control over my schedule. I can work whatever hours I want. It gives me flexibility to work with N to get his catering business going….we should receive his business cards next week. I have to get his website done before we start marketing. Him and his dad want to start doing the bbq business they used to run back home…they were quite successful and get all excited when they talk about it.

We went to his parent’s farm last week to help cut firewood and pick up some furniture. It was a lot of fun as always. His parents love me. We always have a few drinks and sit around talking. They have an anniversary coming up – they have been married 39 years…and they are so cute together. I don’t remember ever being around a couple who are as happily married as they are. I am sure they had rough times here and there when they were younger..they actually remind me of what me and N would be like. They still have these little arguments…not bad ones just little ones that remind me of the ones N and I have but on a quieter level lol.

So we will see.   March 3 we will have been living together 6 months.  So far so good.  He still tells me he loves me more than anything and he doesn’t want anyone else ever….he wants to be with me forever so hey…I can go with that 🙂