Quitting, moving, marrying... Oh, boy.
Well. So, big news yesterday. Good news, but news that brings great upheaval to one's life. So many decisions to make...
Chris will be going away for three months, in less than two months' time. He was told he will only be making about $600 per month once his room and board for boot camp is subtracted from his earnings. And once an additional $200 is subtracted again ('cause that's what we owe to Memorial University via collection agency each month until May), that only leaves $400 for me to add to my earnings to pay for everything while he's gone. That's not enough.
So... I will be leaving my job come the end of next month and moving back home with my parents at least until the end of March. My job has been driving me increasingly crazy for the past while, as many people already know. I've been on the brink of quitting lately. Obviously the need to make money to live was an important reason to stay. But now I won't be making enough to live, so I'm going. It's kinda funny, really. Now I have to figure out when to give them my notice for. On the one hand, Chris will be leaving on the 7th of January (even sooner than the 8th -- they called to change it today), so we'd both like it if we had two weeks or so together before he leaves, especially considering that will be right over the Christmas holidays and his family will be wanting to spend time with him then, too. On the other hand, a perverse part of me still has some company loyalty and doesn't want to leave them screwed over the busy holidays without a rec. programmer. Why, I don't know. I mean, if I put in my notice tomorrow, they technically have enough time to hire someone in plenty of time to cover my leaving, no matter if I leave before or after Christmas. But they never do it that way. They always wait till the last possible moment, which means that by the time they actually hire someone else, I'll have probably been gone for a month or so. That's just how the company works. And I shouldn't care, since they don't care about me. But, well, I worry about the residents...
Anyway, so yeah. We also have to put in our notice by the end of the month that we will be leaving this apartment at the end of December. That's sad -- I love it here, and we were both so excited about our first home together. But it has to be done. And thank heavens for having a month-to-month lease so we can actually do that! And then we have to tell the recruiting office ASAP that we will need movers and when we need them. So I also have to factor in packing and cleaning up this apartment into the time I give Shannex as my last day. Oh, boy.
Then, the plan is that I will try to get a job in Truro while Chris is gone, since my mom works there and my parents travel there everyday anyway. If I can't find anything, I will try to set up a portrait-selling business on eBay to make some extra cash to cover my remaining bills (Rogers, Dell, student loans and of course, my Mastercard). And to save for the wedding. We'll see what happens...
Oh, yeah, and speaking of the wedding... We've decided to get legally married as soon as possible, before Chris gets sworn in on December 13th if we can help it. We figure that will be much easier in the long run, having me already down as his spouse before we start the whole official process, so I can be covered under his benefits right away and so, if anything happened to him (gods forbid), I would also be covered under his will that they're going to make him before he goes to boot camp. Man.... this is getting scary.... But we're both happy to be getting married sooner rather than later. And we'll still have the wedding in July, if it's doable -- he'll be asking about this among other questions next week. That part is just fine. The trouble is, we have to get our marriage licence ASAP, in order to have enough time to wait for it, get married, and then order and receive our official marriage certificate all before December 13th. So we're going TODAY to get it. Whew!!
So, we both took the day off work to figure all this stuff out. Because the only day off we officially get together is Sunday, and you can't do anything on a Sunday. And of course, as I mentioned, we STILL have to figure out what date to give my work and his as our last days. It's a lot to deal wtih all at once. But apparently, according to my boss when I told her I was taking the day off to figure all this out, this is not really a good enough reason to take an emergency vacation day!! WTF???? Changing around my ENTIRE life in two months -- my living arrangements, my job, my marital status even -- is not a good enough reason to take a day off from work? Well, don't pay me then! For the freaking love of all things holy, I hate my company's retarded politics!! Grrrrr!!! Can you see why I can't wait to leave? ;) Oh, happy day!
So, that's about it, for now. Just had to get this all down, again for posterity's sake. I can look back on this next year and remember how hectic and crazy this time was. Who knows where we'll be then?
Chris will be going away for three months, in less than two months' time. He was told he will only be making about $600 per month once his room and board for boot camp is subtracted from his earnings. And once an additional $200 is subtracted again ('cause that's what we owe to Memorial University via collection agency each month until May), that only leaves $400 for me to add to my earnings to pay for everything while he's gone. That's not enough.
So... I will be leaving my job come the end of next month and moving back home with my parents at least until the end of March. My job has been driving me increasingly crazy for the past while, as many people already know. I've been on the brink of quitting lately. Obviously the need to make money to live was an important reason to stay. But now I won't be making enough to live, so I'm going. It's kinda funny, really. Now I have to figure out when to give them my notice for. On the one hand, Chris will be leaving on the 7th of January (even sooner than the 8th -- they called to change it today), so we'd both like it if we had two weeks or so together before he leaves, especially considering that will be right over the Christmas holidays and his family will be wanting to spend time with him then, too. On the other hand, a perverse part of me still has some company loyalty and doesn't want to leave them screwed over the busy holidays without a rec. programmer. Why, I don't know. I mean, if I put in my notice tomorrow, they technically have enough time to hire someone in plenty of time to cover my leaving, no matter if I leave before or after Christmas. But they never do it that way. They always wait till the last possible moment, which means that by the time they actually hire someone else, I'll have probably been gone for a month or so. That's just how the company works. And I shouldn't care, since they don't care about me. But, well, I worry about the residents...
Anyway, so yeah. We also have to put in our notice by the end of the month that we will be leaving this apartment at the end of December. That's sad -- I love it here, and we were both so excited about our first home together. But it has to be done. And thank heavens for having a month-to-month lease so we can actually do that! And then we have to tell the recruiting office ASAP that we will need movers and when we need them. So I also have to factor in packing and cleaning up this apartment into the time I give Shannex as my last day. Oh, boy.
Then, the plan is that I will try to get a job in Truro while Chris is gone, since my mom works there and my parents travel there everyday anyway. If I can't find anything, I will try to set up a portrait-selling business on eBay to make some extra cash to cover my remaining bills (Rogers, Dell, student loans and of course, my Mastercard). And to save for the wedding. We'll see what happens...
Oh, yeah, and speaking of the wedding... We've decided to get legally married as soon as possible, before Chris gets sworn in on December 13th if we can help it. We figure that will be much easier in the long run, having me already down as his spouse before we start the whole official process, so I can be covered under his benefits right away and so, if anything happened to him (gods forbid), I would also be covered under his will that they're going to make him before he goes to boot camp. Man.... this is getting scary.... But we're both happy to be getting married sooner rather than later. And we'll still have the wedding in July, if it's doable -- he'll be asking about this among other questions next week. That part is just fine. The trouble is, we have to get our marriage licence ASAP, in order to have enough time to wait for it, get married, and then order and receive our official marriage certificate all before December 13th. So we're going TODAY to get it. Whew!!
So, we both took the day off work to figure all this stuff out. Because the only day off we officially get together is Sunday, and you can't do anything on a Sunday. And of course, as I mentioned, we STILL have to figure out what date to give my work and his as our last days. It's a lot to deal wtih all at once. But apparently, according to my boss when I told her I was taking the day off to figure all this out, this is not really a good enough reason to take an emergency vacation day!! WTF???? Changing around my ENTIRE life in two months -- my living arrangements, my job, my marital status even -- is not a good enough reason to take a day off from work? Well, don't pay me then! For the freaking love of all things holy, I hate my company's retarded politics!! Grrrrr!!! Can you see why I can't wait to leave? ;) Oh, happy day!
So, that's about it, for now. Just had to get this all down, again for posterity's sake. I can look back on this next year and remember how hectic and crazy this time was. Who knows where we'll be then?