Tonight, in my frustration, I asked the Mc why he was still with me. We were having a fight and it seems like we've been fighting all week. We hung up and I went out. A few hours later, I started getting texts. 14 in total, a list of the things he loves about me. I needed to record the list somewhere, so here it is ( Read more... )

I got an email today that my dad's father passed away on Friday. It was the strangest sensation: I haven't seen or talked to him since probably junior high, so at first, I was just shocked. It's not that I necessarily have anything against my dad's parents, it's just that they always seemed to prefer my cousin to us, and when my parents got ( Read more... )

Wow. Has it really been 4 months since I've written? So much has changed! I'm back in NYC, and my heart is finally home again. I think I spent the better part of the last 3 1/2 years being homesick. It's a really strange realization because I've always considered myself fairly brave and adventurous. I went to NY, then Boston, for college, I stayed ( Read more... )

I got a job!!! It pays more than I was making at my previous position, I get a signing bonus, and the benefits are outstanding, including half day Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I'm ecstatic to finally be rejoining the workforce, almost exactly a year to the day that I left ( Read more... )

Did I really just wait around an extra week and not even get a second-round interview? Wow. And I lost the job to someone with more experience. For a job I was overqualified for to begin with. I know things happen for a reason, and I'm glad I stuck around and was able to see the boy and spend some time with the family, but I really really need to ( Read more... )

I'm at my mom's in South Jersey with crazy mad insomnia. I've been home now about a week and a half, back and forth between NY and here. Flew in for a job interview, but after an almost 3 hour interview, they said they'd probably be calling me back in for a 2nd round. Good that I'd done well, but bad that I have now been sticking around to see when ( Read more... )

Today was a very positive one on the emotions roller coaster ( Read more... )

So. 7 months unemployed. I'm having problems once again with the unemployment office, and it's impossible to get through to them. At the risk of letting my negativity get the best of me, I just feel like the universe is screwing with me. Never in my life has my inner strength been tested like this and I just don't know what I ever did wrong in my ( Read more... )

So I'm still unemployed. And after unemployment messed up my paperwork and stopped paying me in the middle of September, I finally started getting paychecks again this weekend. I was feeling really down trying to figure out how i was going to survive on no money, but ( Read more... )

I have been so busy, and today it occured to me that I hadn't been on eljay in forever, so here I am. Trying desperately to catch up on what's been going on with everyone ( Read more... )