Things are looking up slowly but surely! I still have no money and an electric bill that is to be shut off next week, but I remain expectant!
I received my reinstatement of admission letter today for school! YAY!!! What a blessing that has been. Again, I will not let anyone or anything screw this up for me again. I don't care WHAT my personal relationship situation is, it's not bad enough for me to forgo my goal of a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration. Period.
Also, the onsite evaluation went so well yesterday that they set up a phone interview same day. The phone interview went so well that they set up an in person interview for Monday. They wanted today but I couldn't do it for two reasons: 1) Dante and I had an important lunch date planned (our first in a long time); and 2) I am riding on FUMES in my van and getting to the office is a LONG way away! So I insisted on Monday late morning. I also have an orientation with a temp company first thing Monday which I hope will have me working within days.
In the meantime, I need to seriously re-evaluate my standing and position with my online chat work. I've been so depressed and dejected still that I have been neglecting that more than I should. I had a great online conference with a group last night and, after seeing someone real check from working about 40 hours a week, I should be bringing in WAY more than I am. I'm doing what I usually do, not taking this seriously enough.
Better starts immediately. If I do not handle the minor things well, how can I expect God to bless me with the major ones?
AMEN!!
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August 18, 2010
I got a Nibble
It's not the one I want, but I will take what I can get. We do what we can until we can do better, right?
RIGHT??
Noooo, not a guy (remember what I said this blog would be about?)! I'm talking about a job. With pay in the 2 digits per hour and actual benefits. BENEFITS. Medical, dental, paid vacation.
So why am I not more excited about it? Because its a 45-50 minute commute...WITHOUT traffic. Each Way. AND I probably wouldn't be working first shift hours, more like first and second shift mixed. That would suck, because I like to be able to pick up my kids. Period. SoloMommy gets very cranky when she can't tend to her own children.
We shall see. I will go there tomorrow, be early, and be my fabulous self. I will do well on the assessments they'll have me do and great in the mini-interview also. Then I'll wait. Not-so-patiently but I will wait. I NEED a job like a month ago, seriously. It's really bad right now.
My power bill is about to shut off in a few days and I have NO WAY to pay it. They also won't give me any type of extension either. Disconnect date is on or after the 19th and payday is the 22nd. I overdrafted my account (again) just to save my storage unit, so I can't bounce it for this. I need a miracle. Heck, I had to cash in our last bit of coins today to afford the bare minimum on the kids school supplies.
Yep, it's that bad. But my faith is not wavering. I am actually in a VERY expectant state right now. I know that any day now, God is about to blow my mind. He never lets me down, He is -as the Marine motto goes - Semper Fidelis!
Who knows, it could be the place I am going to tomorrow. There may be a package so good that I just can't pass it up, even for a 30-40 minute shorter commute. If I remember correctly from a few years back they were starting off at maybe $12-something an hour. Even with this economy, that starting rate should have gone up, and I am a lot more comfortable with the prospect of negotiating that starting rate, since I know it's usually a little flexible. Learned that the hard way a few times.
I would love to be more in the $14-17/hour range. Combine that with the child support that I expect by October or so, and I would be paying off bills left and right. I could still get some stuff done with maybe $13.50...but seriously for that drive, that's the lowest I can really go. I'm hoping though that the benefit package is great enough with them being a healthcare provider that that could kind of act as a raise too, over another job.
Family health premiums, even through employers are outta this world! At CWT, my health premium deducted every pay period was about $170...just for the medical! That didn't include dental and vision! Out of an 80 hour paycheck, that was like making $2.13 LESS than what I was making, just for medical insurance. Those are the things you have to look at. Never just get hung up on the number. There's more to it than that!
In other news, I got my Financial Aid Suspension lifted. YAY!!! Now I just have to get my Academic Suspension lifted and get me reinstated in school so I can start classes again by Fall 2 Term in October. The email was sent as requested today. I am now awaiting the reply...
Lots to pray and believe about right now!
RIGHT??
Noooo, not a guy (remember what I said this blog would be about?)! I'm talking about a job. With pay in the 2 digits per hour and actual benefits. BENEFITS. Medical, dental, paid vacation.
So why am I not more excited about it? Because its a 45-50 minute commute...WITHOUT traffic. Each Way. AND I probably wouldn't be working first shift hours, more like first and second shift mixed. That would suck, because I like to be able to pick up my kids. Period. SoloMommy gets very cranky when she can't tend to her own children.
We shall see. I will go there tomorrow, be early, and be my fabulous self. I will do well on the assessments they'll have me do and great in the mini-interview also. Then I'll wait. Not-so-patiently but I will wait. I NEED a job like a month ago, seriously. It's really bad right now.
My power bill is about to shut off in a few days and I have NO WAY to pay it. They also won't give me any type of extension either. Disconnect date is on or after the 19th and payday is the 22nd. I overdrafted my account (again) just to save my storage unit, so I can't bounce it for this. I need a miracle. Heck, I had to cash in our last bit of coins today to afford the bare minimum on the kids school supplies.
Yep, it's that bad. But my faith is not wavering. I am actually in a VERY expectant state right now. I know that any day now, God is about to blow my mind. He never lets me down, He is -as the Marine motto goes - Semper Fidelis!
Who knows, it could be the place I am going to tomorrow. There may be a package so good that I just can't pass it up, even for a 30-40 minute shorter commute. If I remember correctly from a few years back they were starting off at maybe $12-something an hour. Even with this economy, that starting rate should have gone up, and I am a lot more comfortable with the prospect of negotiating that starting rate, since I know it's usually a little flexible. Learned that the hard way a few times.
I would love to be more in the $14-17/hour range. Combine that with the child support that I expect by October or so, and I would be paying off bills left and right. I could still get some stuff done with maybe $13.50...but seriously for that drive, that's the lowest I can really go. I'm hoping though that the benefit package is great enough with them being a healthcare provider that that could kind of act as a raise too, over another job.
Family health premiums, even through employers are outta this world! At CWT, my health premium deducted every pay period was about $170...just for the medical! That didn't include dental and vision! Out of an 80 hour paycheck, that was like making $2.13 LESS than what I was making, just for medical insurance. Those are the things you have to look at. Never just get hung up on the number. There's more to it than that!
In other news, I got my Financial Aid Suspension lifted. YAY!!! Now I just have to get my Academic Suspension lifted and get me reinstated in school so I can start classes again by Fall 2 Term in October. The email was sent as requested today. I am now awaiting the reply...
Lots to pray and believe about right now!
August 14, 2010
The (job) Hunt Begins...
OMG...I have never been so ready to get back to work in my life!!!
No, no, no...don't panic. I'm still not a big Corporate America or j.o.b. fan, but I'm even LESS fond of being this damn broke! So the acronym for j.o.b. (ie, Just Over Broke) will be a STEP UP for me at this time!!!
I have plans for the next few months. Those plans involved getting a few thousand dollars a month in income, getting a lease option on this house, getting my Denali XL (finally), getting almost ALL bills paid off, raising my GPA back to acceptable levels, and getting my FICO over 600. Yep...all before next Spring.
How, you ask? Well, it all starts with a job, making more than $30K a year. Mix in the part-time income working with AT&T, then sprinkle in about $700/month in child support (most from my selfish ex-husband hopefully) and we should be in a good place. Then top with supplemental income from a part-time Amway online business and some revenue from StarrDom Travel - relaunched and rebranded as a destination wedding/honeymoon/group getaway only agency - and I should be bringing in a nice chunk of change per month.
All to get me to the aforementioned goals. I was originally hoping to have my Denali by my birthday this year but, unless I do something wreckless and stupid...or win the lottery...I won't. That's okay, I'm aiming for next year, around tax return season to be specific. My bills should be in such a good place by then that I could afford to split my return between that and a good down payment on a certain surgery I've been wanting to have.
That's the general plan, now it's time to narrow it down some to more specific goals. It's gonna happen, I no longer have a doubt. God promised it to me, and He does not break his promises.
No, no, no...don't panic. I'm still not a big Corporate America or j.o.b. fan, but I'm even LESS fond of being this damn broke! So the acronym for j.o.b. (ie, Just Over Broke) will be a STEP UP for me at this time!!!
I have plans for the next few months. Those plans involved getting a few thousand dollars a month in income, getting a lease option on this house, getting my Denali XL (finally), getting almost ALL bills paid off, raising my GPA back to acceptable levels, and getting my FICO over 600. Yep...all before next Spring.
How, you ask? Well, it all starts with a job, making more than $30K a year. Mix in the part-time income working with AT&T, then sprinkle in about $700/month in child support (most from my selfish ex-husband hopefully) and we should be in a good place. Then top with supplemental income from a part-time Amway online business and some revenue from StarrDom Travel - relaunched and rebranded as a destination wedding/honeymoon/group getaway only agency - and I should be bringing in a nice chunk of change per month.
All to get me to the aforementioned goals. I was originally hoping to have my Denali by my birthday this year but, unless I do something wreckless and stupid...or win the lottery...I won't. That's okay, I'm aiming for next year, around tax return season to be specific. My bills should be in such a good place by then that I could afford to split my return between that and a good down payment on a certain surgery I've been wanting to have.
That's the general plan, now it's time to narrow it down some to more specific goals. It's gonna happen, I no longer have a doubt. God promised it to me, and He does not break his promises.
August 7, 2010
Eclipse...the cat not the Movie
"Ahh, the common bond for man and cat!"
She's actually SLEEPING like this!
"Night-Night for all!"
"No more photos please!"Isis even lets me photograph her sometimes too!
August 6, 2010
Guess Who?
Let's just pretend the last 2+ months didn't happen, shall we?
Here's the Cliff Note version:
Still with Dante. Situation is the same. I screwed up my grades and schoolwork after the helluva year I had, so now I'm on academic and financial aid probation. My ex-husband flaked on our lump-sum child support deal. Unemployment ran out. My mother had to cover my rent for July out of her disability check. I've started a new work assignment doing online chat with AT&T, and have had my cable internet turned off 3 times now during. My admin business website no longer exists, after several years. My travel biz is currently defunct...especially since I can't keep my cell phone on which is the business number. I have no money.
Yep, that pretty much sums that up. On to new things then.
Tired of living this way. I know I have said it so many times before. SO. MANY. But I have to get this preprogrammed thought of lack and struggle out of my self-conscious. I even listen to a motivational mantra on my iPod while sleeping sometimes. Ok, not sometimes. Basically every night I sleep alone. I want to change. I need to change. I believe I can change. I will change.
Most importantly, I will learn to shut the hell up! I can't tell everyone about the things I dream and believe are for me from my Heavenly Father. Honestly, I can't tell most to be frank. My family thinks they are being encouraging, but they come from the same FEAR-laced cloth that I do. When they talk to me about "reality", they actually think they're being helpful rather than the detriment they actually are. Sometimes to the point of "dreamkillers", and who needs that?? I can talk to the BFF about these things, but that's about it. Dante will listen, but even that only goes so far. It's a strange relationship, but he definitely has my back when I need him, and vice versa. It would all be so much simpler if he just allowed that to be enough, but he is a man and 'simple' only describes their mindset, NOT the way they make their situations!
Anywho, I'm on a desperate and determined, focused and fantastic path to get to the life and to the financial level I want to be at. It is not down here where I am now. That will be the focus of most of my blogs henceforth. Me, the Delightful Children, my financial health, this house, my business and/or employment ventures and of course my faith...and for the most part, that's it. I'm all about the positive and progressive directions right now.
Just wanted to put that on the record.
Here's the Cliff Note version:
Still with Dante. Situation is the same. I screwed up my grades and schoolwork after the helluva year I had, so now I'm on academic and financial aid probation. My ex-husband flaked on our lump-sum child support deal. Unemployment ran out. My mother had to cover my rent for July out of her disability check. I've started a new work assignment doing online chat with AT&T, and have had my cable internet turned off 3 times now during. My admin business website no longer exists, after several years. My travel biz is currently defunct...especially since I can't keep my cell phone on which is the business number. I have no money.
Yep, that pretty much sums that up. On to new things then.
Tired of living this way. I know I have said it so many times before. SO. MANY. But I have to get this preprogrammed thought of lack and struggle out of my self-conscious. I even listen to a motivational mantra on my iPod while sleeping sometimes. Ok, not sometimes. Basically every night I sleep alone. I want to change. I need to change. I believe I can change. I will change.
Most importantly, I will learn to shut the hell up! I can't tell everyone about the things I dream and believe are for me from my Heavenly Father. Honestly, I can't tell most to be frank. My family thinks they are being encouraging, but they come from the same FEAR-laced cloth that I do. When they talk to me about "reality", they actually think they're being helpful rather than the detriment they actually are. Sometimes to the point of "dreamkillers", and who needs that?? I can talk to the BFF about these things, but that's about it. Dante will listen, but even that only goes so far. It's a strange relationship, but he definitely has my back when I need him, and vice versa. It would all be so much simpler if he just allowed that to be enough, but he is a man and 'simple' only describes their mindset, NOT the way they make their situations!
Anywho, I'm on a desperate and determined, focused and fantastic path to get to the life and to the financial level I want to be at. It is not down here where I am now. That will be the focus of most of my blogs henceforth. Me, the Delightful Children, my financial health, this house, my business and/or employment ventures and of course my faith...and for the most part, that's it. I'm all about the positive and progressive directions right now.
Just wanted to put that on the record.
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