Real Life Tidbits

Real life has been running me ragged lately.  I am job hunting in Virginia.  Doing that long distance by email and/or telephone is extremely difficult since I am not allowed to use my cell at work, except at lunch time, and recruiters work the same hours I do.  I am STILL dealing with my accident from November.  The car is fixed, I received the check, and now I have to have the car "inspected" by my insurance company to make sure it was actually fixed.  WTF?  I asked if she could talk to the people that fixed it.....no.  Can she take my word for it?...no.  Can they come to me?....no.  So, here I am, Saturday morning, and I have to go to someplace and get my car inspected before noon.  Boooooo

I have been called to the "principal's office" to be reprimanded for my absenteeism.  Oh, yeh, she has only been with us since January, and she was looking at the past year.  Two deaths in the family, a car accident, a court date, and some other things of that nature had me taking unscheduled time off.  And I leave early a lot, cuz if my work is done, in the past, we were supposed to get the heck out of Dodge.  Not any more.  It is confusing.  Whenever you get a new manager things change, and I had to take the hit for different management styles.  And I am not the only one.  Ah, well, hopefully not for long.

I found a "life stressor" test on the web that was interesting.  It gave points for things that have happened in the last year that are likely stressful.  There were things like, divorce, loss of a family member, moving, job changes, new relationship, old relationship gone, etc.  The score that was considered bad and cause psychological problems and even physical illness was anything over 300.  Eek!  I guess I am one sick puppy, cuz my score was 533!  And I really don't see any end in sight.  Good thing I am tough!

Other than that, life is good!  My man is here for the weekend.  We are planning a lot of good things, including a cruise in October.  Dinner at Maggiano's and a movie (Alice in Wonderland) today.  Good stuff.  And, he takes out the garbage and kills bugs that Keesha finds for us.  My hero!