Not meant to be a woe-as-me...but damn.. this year has sucked.
Rob and I were having this conversation a few nights ago..for him, with the exception of getting married.. this year as plain out blown crusty goat balls. for me, i got out of retail and got married, and that's..um..pretty much it. If the year would have been boring-hum drum and forgettable, than that'd be ok..
but no..
it started off well enough with us getting engaged, but the shit hit the fan jan 30, when Rob found out everyone on his task at work was pretty much getting boned by having their sub-contract recinded. After a month of looking, no avail..so i would work every hour that i possibly could at Target, even though I hated it, to help out with the smaller bills. Unemployment helped out. There's still a roof over our heads and he still is insured to drive a car.
We considered postponing the wedding then, but we decided not to.
I start looking for other jobs and finally get a new one in july at the bank. Better pay, better benefits, and heinously better hours and I adore my co-workers. Things start looking good. Then Rob gets a jobin August and things look much better..considering that he got a letter saying his unemployment just dried up. We celebrate. Rob enjoys his job alot; it is a happy time.
Fast forward to October. He gets his walking papers - which were filled out on his birthday. Joy. He gets let go before 90 days passed because he couldn't make deliveries for half a day, and then come back and learn 2 dozen complex printing machines during the busiest time of the year, with no one available to really train him how to use them. His ex boss is now under the "prick" classification of my shit list.
Gable offers rob a job at kinko's.. awesome! He took the test and..oh shit, our system hates you, so we can't hire you.
On top of that..no unemployment checks, since it dried up already. I feel like banging my head into a wall at this point, Rob feels worse, since he'd rather ME be unemployed ad at home rather than him.
but it's ok..for richer for pooer, jobless or a millionaire, i still married him. it went off without a hitch and i had the most awesome people there to help me.
..and Shonda didn't laugh too hard to my rendition of "like a virgin" in the dressing room. It was the bra i tell you.. it brings out the tacky 80's madonna in me.
Honeymoon was awesome, though Rob's mom has no clue how to work an alarm, and no sense of boundaries. I have the feeling that she will piss me off many times in the coming years, but that's ok. If she didn't exsist rob wouldn't..so I'll just smile, nod, and bite my tongue.
Life is good as a married couple, thanksgiving is eneventful with the exeption of a tummy ache or two. Destro enjoys the turkey leftovers. Christmas is coming soon, so we need a tree.
we come home middle of december with a tree and poor destro gets hit by a car and is killed. everything else i just kept bottled up.. but losing Destro was the absolute final thing. I'm overwhelmed by the year at that point and the day after he died i got sent home by my suporvisor because "i looked like I needed to stay in bed". I catch a stomach virus that morning too..so i had the dry heaves and had many trips to the bathroom.
Rob and I have discussed about getting another cat, which there is no replacing destro-he was one of a kind, but it feels odd for the house to be so quiet that i feel sort of lost. If we can afford it, we'll discuss the matter again around my birthday about getting a new kitten.
so..yeah..stressful year..I'm ready for it to be over. I know others have it worse, i still have a roof over my head, a wonderful husband a great family (both sides, even the crazy ones) and everything i need and a few things that i want.
but damn..sometimes you just have to let it all out and breathe..
/inhales
/exhales
okay.. i feel better.
on a lighter note..
amanda farmer made billions from creating a pill that makes people be happy constantly.
... afterward, amanda farmer found 10 bucks under the couch.
'How will you be remembered in history books?' at QuizGalaxy.com
I wish I had that 10 bucks now!
but no..
it started off well enough with us getting engaged, but the shit hit the fan jan 30, when Rob found out everyone on his task at work was pretty much getting boned by having their sub-contract recinded. After a month of looking, no avail..so i would work every hour that i possibly could at Target, even though I hated it, to help out with the smaller bills. Unemployment helped out. There's still a roof over our heads and he still is insured to drive a car.
We considered postponing the wedding then, but we decided not to.
I start looking for other jobs and finally get a new one in july at the bank. Better pay, better benefits, and heinously better hours and I adore my co-workers. Things start looking good. Then Rob gets a jobin August and things look much better..considering that he got a letter saying his unemployment just dried up. We celebrate. Rob enjoys his job alot; it is a happy time.
Fast forward to October. He gets his walking papers - which were filled out on his birthday. Joy. He gets let go before 90 days passed because he couldn't make deliveries for half a day, and then come back and learn 2 dozen complex printing machines during the busiest time of the year, with no one available to really train him how to use them. His ex boss is now under the "prick" classification of my shit list.
Gable offers rob a job at kinko's.. awesome! He took the test and..oh shit, our system hates you, so we can't hire you.
On top of that..no unemployment checks, since it dried up already. I feel like banging my head into a wall at this point, Rob feels worse, since he'd rather ME be unemployed ad at home rather than him.
but it's ok..for richer for pooer, jobless or a millionaire, i still married him. it went off without a hitch and i had the most awesome people there to help me.
..and Shonda didn't laugh too hard to my rendition of "like a virgin" in the dressing room. It was the bra i tell you.. it brings out the tacky 80's madonna in me.
Honeymoon was awesome, though Rob's mom has no clue how to work an alarm, and no sense of boundaries. I have the feeling that she will piss me off many times in the coming years, but that's ok. If she didn't exsist rob wouldn't..so I'll just smile, nod, and bite my tongue.
Life is good as a married couple, thanksgiving is eneventful with the exeption of a tummy ache or two. Destro enjoys the turkey leftovers. Christmas is coming soon, so we need a tree.
we come home middle of december with a tree and poor destro gets hit by a car and is killed. everything else i just kept bottled up.. but losing Destro was the absolute final thing. I'm overwhelmed by the year at that point and the day after he died i got sent home by my suporvisor because "i looked like I needed to stay in bed". I catch a stomach virus that morning too..so i had the dry heaves and had many trips to the bathroom.
Rob and I have discussed about getting another cat, which there is no replacing destro-he was one of a kind, but it feels odd for the house to be so quiet that i feel sort of lost. If we can afford it, we'll discuss the matter again around my birthday about getting a new kitten.
so..yeah..stressful year..I'm ready for it to be over. I know others have it worse, i still have a roof over my head, a wonderful husband a great family (both sides, even the crazy ones) and everything i need and a few things that i want.
but damn..sometimes you just have to let it all out and breathe..
/inhales
/exhales
okay.. i feel better.
on a lighter note..
amanda farmer made billions from creating a pill that makes people be happy constantly.
... afterward, amanda farmer found 10 bucks under the couch.
'How will you be remembered in history books?' at QuizGalaxy.com
I wish I had that 10 bucks now!