Stepping Up to the Plate

Okay… time for an update.  Be prepared for an off the wall entry.

So in my last entry I mentioned that as of the end of July, I will no longer be working at my current job.  Basically what happened is the company that I work for is an onsite vendor at Cisco. The people in the my group are basically the telecom managers for the corporate paid mobile phone accounts that Cisco has for their employees with Cingular, Verizon, Sprint, and Rogers.  We work our asses off for that company.  Well evidentally they think that they have found a company that can do the job better than STS (my company). 

Funny thing is that the company that is taking over our role SUCKS!!!  We already work with this company to lease PDA devices from them, and they can’t even do THAT right.  There is no way in hell this company will be successful in doing what we do.  I’m hoping to keep some sort of connections with the people who will still be at Cisco… so they can tell me when this other company fucks everything up.  And the Cisco manager that is behind all of this… well he is going to regret it and completely fall on his face because of it.

So they told us on Thursday what happened.  Talk about a kick in the gut.  Real nice timing too.  I basically have a week to figure something out before we leave for the wedding, and two week after we get back if I don’t have a resolution before the trip.  They are telling us that they are going to try everything they can to help us find a new job and hopefully reassign us to another position within STS.  I’ll know more about that later this week I guess.

In other news, we are slowly but surely figuring out our money situation.  We are going to be just fine now thanks to my dad.  He has yet again sent me money to help out with the wedding.  Surprised the hell out of me.  I talked to him earlier today to tell him Happy Father’s day, and we talked for a few minutes about everything that is going on.  Later on I checked my email only to find that he had transferred money to my paypal account AGAIN.  Because of his help, we are now going to be sitting good!  I’m feeling like much more of a happy bride than a stressed out bride.  LOL

I talked to my mom today too.  Here is the off the wall update that I mentioned earlier.  While I’m talking to my mom she tells me, "Well, I have something I have to tell you."  Oh great… what now??  She then proceeds to tell me that my aunt got a phone call the other day… from my dad.  WTF!!!  Not my Dad that I wrote about up there.  But my sperm donor.  So I’m 26 years old now, and have NEVER had any contact with my dad.  I never even really knew his name until today… at least not his full name.  I couldn’t really ever remember it.  Talk about a shock.

So not only did he call my aunt, but he ALSO showed up at my mom’s HOUSE!!  HOLY SHIT!!!  I’m so glad that my step-dad was home when that happened.  Bob answered the door evidently (I would have loved to see that.  LOL).  So Vince (sperm donor) tells my mom that he wants to meet me.  My mom tells him absolutely not.

When she was telling me all this, I wondered why she didn’t want him to meet me.  And then she explained that the guy is not exactly the best role model in the world.  He has been in trouble with the law numerous times… in and out of prison a couple of times… for extremely unacceptable behaviour.  So when it comes down to it, I probably don’t want to meet him anyway.  But my mom is leaving it up to me regarding if I meet him or not.  At this point I’m not really going to worry about it.  I’ll decide later on when I have time to really think about it.

So that’s the update folksies.  I started writing this entry at 6 this evening, but got interrupted and it is now 11:30.  I am exhausted and heading to bed now.  Only 6 more days of work before we leave for Nebraska.  Woo hoo!!!  Only 20 days until the wedding… okay we’ll say 19 now since today is pretty much over.

Laters,
JamieLynn  =)