Up and Down

It’s hard to remember where I left off writing.

Monday was mine and Sean’s two-year anniversary. We had a pretty good day, although we did have a spat. I honestly barely want to talk about it, because I feel silly. I overreacted badly to something pretty minor. But we ended up finishing the day out strong. We had ice cream at Coldstone. Coldstone ice cream makes everything better.

Tuesday was relatively uneventful. I just worked.

Yesterday, we had a very busy day.

I went for a drug screen for the new part-time job I picked up. It seemed to go OK. Then Sean and I went to my parents’ house and picked up our new bed and the kitchen cart. Before I get distracted, can I just say how nice it is to upgrade from a full-sized bed to a queen-sized bed? Oh man. The space we have. We can comfortably sleep with Zoe taking up her corner of the bed. It’s also great to actually have some back support, as we now have a box spring instead of two mattresses. My only complaint is that we need a mattress pad, because it’s not as cushy as I’m used to. I’m spoiled. 🙂

In ANY event, I was able to work for a few hours Wednesday. The facility in Virginia made a formal offer to buy my contract out. I was excited, as I was looking for a FT job anyway, and the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.

We had friends over last night to play Munchkin. I was able to meet Tim’s new girlfriend, Abby. I really liked her! I also really liked Munchkin. I managed to win, and it was fun.

That night, after everyone left and work was done, I needed to install some updates and restart my computer. So I turned it off for the night.

I went to bed, rolled around, couldn’t sleep. Got back up. Figured I’d do some browsing for another set of sheets before the melatonin I took kicked in. Went to turn on my laptop…

…

I had to try to boot it three or four times. I finally booted it in safe mode and did a system restore. I checked my VPN for work and my Citrix applications, and it all worked. It was very frustrating, but I went to bed feeling better that I could at least work.

I got up this morning and went to go log-in to my applications.

They don’t work.

I contact IT. I contact Wanda. I contact Gary. I hear back from nobody for two hours. I contact Laura. I finally hear back from Gary four hours later, who goes through a bunch of stuff and tells me it’s something with my VPN settings, that he can’t help me (he’s super nice and tried really hard to help, so this doesn’t bother me). IT contacts me and tells me it’s not their problem; it’s Elekta’s. I say no, it IS your problem, it’s with my VPN through you guys. Wanda finally contacts me to tell me to put in a ticket (thanks, I did that) and that she’s leaving in 10 minutes. Srsly? Thanks.

IT’s been trying a few things, but they leave at 4:30. They started working on my problem at like 4.

In the meantime, I had a conversation with the hospital’s recruiter. I can already tell that their pay rate is going to be substantially less. And after today…I know I won’t take it. I will go through the motions of "considering" their offer so I don’t sour relations with the client, but I am not taking a FT permanent position there. There is a lack of support, obviously. There is tension between the woman who would be my supervisor and the woman I would work with, so I’d be monkey in the middle. I’d lose my vacation time. I’m not going to do it.

I did consider it. I was excited. But I don’t think it will be a good move for me, and I think I would be in even more misery, making less money.

Laura finally got back in touch with me. I can use my own time to make up for the hours I didn’t get in (I had like 14 before today, now I have 15…I can’t afford that). I’m hoping that they figure it out and fix it tomorrow, but I’m not optimistic. I can make up hours if they do and use no time, but knowing that I won’t have a huge money shortage helps.

I also asked Laura what happens if they can’t fix it. She said she’d never had that happen. I pressed her, because with my luck with this company’s IT….I can’t afford not to work. She said if they didn’t have me up and running soon, if they couldn’t fix it, they’d get me on a new contract ASAP.

I felt better. Because, again, the way this contract has gone…

In other news, I’ve decided to take a hiatus from Facebook. I found myself checking it waaaaaay too often, and I found myself sucked into the temptation to be negative and whiny. So I deactivated both accounts I had tonight. I keep being tempted to log-on to check it, and I stop myself. I’m going to try to stay deactivated for about a month, and hopefully the habit is broken.

So, in the meantime, I’ll be on Pinterest. 😉

I am going to babysit Little Man (Adam) tomorrow. I’m not nervous, really. I just hope they don’t need me to do a ton of IT stuff, because I’ll probably have a crying baby.

I think that’s all I’ve got for now. Need to find something for dinner…