When you are working the time speeds by- but I’m sure that will change.<\/p>\n
Time was already going quickly before I came back here – now its been a week.<\/p>\n
Lets talk about work. Okay then.. so I walked into work on Thursday and surprised a lot of people. I guess nobody expected to ever see me again – Jennifer and a few others gave me a hug. She was the most surprised of them all…<\/p>\n
It turns out that the day before I returned someone in our team moved into my desk. He rummaged though my stuff and other people took what they wanted. I walk in to work missing a phone. Haha, I am still borrowing someones while they find out where mine is. If they ever find it – if not then I suppose I will just have to get a new one.<\/p>\n
What else.. I returned to a ring of 500+ emails. I took me practically all day to go through them. Then on Friday I returned and started finding out about the new systems they had rolled out (in the months I was gone). It was easy.. I expected as much.<\/p>\n
Then the weekend- ah yes. I got a surprise by having Michelle talk to me for the first time in months. Among that my car was barely making it through the few days I was going to work – she was in bad shape. It would be quite costly at this point to repair her for anything long term. I decided to go car shopping. My family and I went to check out a few and after finding out that we couldn’t see all of the one’s we had planned on – we went to the one that was probably the least likely for me.<\/p>\n
It was at a Chevy dealership. I know. Two things are like smoke alarms. First it’s at a Chevy dealership- second.. its at a dealership. No bueno- at least not when buying used. I met the saleslady, she looked at my parents – looked at me and said “is this going to be Your car?!” I told her it was. She said “how exciting, your first car!” and I looked at her and asked her to guess my age “maybe 16?” haha. So anyway my dad checked out the car and said it was very good mechanically- worth what they were asking. So I asked them how much I could get for my car (if anything). After spending what became most of the day in the dealership – at about 4:00 on Saturday we left with my new-ish car. A Ford Focus.<\/p>\n
Yep, she is a 2005 two door zx3 SES edition. It was a car that I had been looking into for well over a year. This one happened to be a great fit and had everything I was looking to have in a car. Reliable, good on gas and not stripped to the bone. I got it, and I am pretty impressed with her. She is a nice car – leather seats, sun roof and a sound system I like listening to music on. haha. I am done with sports cars for now – Probes are not in my future (the car)..<\/p>\n
It has been a highlight in my otherwise kind of drab week of being back. It’s been hot – and work has just been unloading bad news. What bad news? Well I won’t have any vacation time at all until next year. Any time I take off for the rest of the year will be unpaid. If I leave the company anytime before next year I will have to pay the vacation time back – and that would be quite costly. <\/p>\n
They are transitioning our team for Customer service more than the back end administrative work we had been doing for the whole time I’ve had this job. The past four days everyone on my team has been on the phones- and it is only a matter of time before I’m on them as well.<\/p>\n
I went for a new position within the company – on my second day of being back I learned that they had an opening. I would have the same director (hold that thought), different manager – and a slightly different job function. It would be further away from the phones. More of being a liaison between the legal department, sales, and member services. I think I could handle that- now it is just a matter of time. If I get it – great. If not? Well.. then I have other things in store for me.<\/p>\n
The director. Ah yes, I was at the corporate office checking out the job on Friday when she stops and looks at me. “its great to see you!” and I smiled. She said “but I have to ask, can you get any skinnier?” I said “no, probably not” and she said “do you eat anything at all? I mean really – look at you” and I just smiled and nodded. She then said “oh.. maybe its because I’m not wearing my heels so I am looking at a different part of you than normal” yep – that’s probably it…<\/p>\n
I got a letter from an very close friend which ended “I realize that life is better off without you in it..” and that wasn’t nearly the worst thing said.<\/p>\n
And I was planning on visiting Leah but ticket prices went up this week. I was planning on visiting Hyun but there is a likelihood I won’t be able to do that – depending on how far north in Cali he will be.<\/p>\n
Things are always changing. JJ is still looking out for a job but I have probably talked to him a few sentences through text since leaving…<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I will resume the rat race. The hustle and bustle is here.. *sigh*<\/p>\n
Se la vie…<\/p>\n
just Pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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