Jobs???? We gots to many stinkin jobs!!!

I am off the next few days. Hanging out with the monster while partner is in Manchester at the RGS. Mustly just chilling the first two days. Friday I am taking her to see the Hannah Montana movie, just pray for me.

Daughter starts school back on the 3rd, which is next Thursday, she is kind of luke warm about it.

I picked up what amounts to another job, being that it is nearly the same number of hours I work now, just at another store. I will be working 6 days a week, having every Sunday and every other Friday off. Since it nearly doubles my hours, this will be a considerable amount more income every month. It will allow me to work towards getting a trainee dispenser job that will hopefully lead to a full time dispensing position. I will also try to maintain the warehouse job during the earlier part of the day. My new hours are 1-530 on Monday and Tuesday (except Tuesday's that partner goes to London) and depending on whether or not I work on Saturday for my regular post, either 830-430/530. Having good paychecks regularly will be quite nice. On the chance we do not get the option to stay, we would like to be able to do stuff while we are here.

Also, at the end of November another staff member, at my regular store, is going on maternity leave. My manager has requested that I fill that void, unfortunatly I do have the gaps in the other store to fill, so it is possible that I may get a pile of daytime hours also. Partner has cautioned me against trying such a schedule as it would undoubtably lead to fatigue, she is probably right.

I am working on planning out daughters next school holiday, maybe a trip to the aquarium, some other things close by. If we can do good money wise over the next couple months we may be able to do a bit more.

Peace... One Love

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WALES???

Well,

We got back from Wales yesterday. We had fun. When we got back into town we were stopped by the mother of one of daughters classmates to set up a playdate for Tuesday. I was then trapped by co-workers asking if I was supposed to work last (friday) night. I said no but, when looking in the diary the other girl had crossed her name out. So, with an hour until time, I was informed I needed to be in. We still needed to go to the grocery store to get some meals for the week. So we did the grocery shopping went home, got a bit unpacked, and was still only like five-ten minutes late.

Wales was beautiful, I have pictures that will be uploaded later. We enjoyed staying with the king of Hay, he was very fun and charismatic. Some time ago he had lost his hearing in one ear and as such mis-heard daughters name, kept calling her Becky. The town was tiny, 1500 residents, but was quite alive. King Richard had turned the town into a bit of a tourist spot when he declared himself king and Hay an independent country. His way of making the economy was by being a second hand book town, along with the tourism and it has worked. The king himself is hilarious. We had a bit of good food, breakfast with the king and daughter of course got some treats. I got lots of pictures.

I will be getting more hours, I do not know if I mentioned it, the manager of another store needs a trainee dispenser for at least Saturday all day and maybe Monday and Tuesday during the day also. I will see on my next paycheck on Thursday what my pay raise was from me getting Healthcare Assistant. The other manager said he could have me done with my dispenser training in nine months but, he finished another girl in about three months on just two days a week so I am sure I can get done just as quickly. Maybe by next year? That would be cool, two promotions by the time I have one year in.

Partner goes to Manchester in about two weeks. We are going to prepare better for her trip than we did for the one to Hay. I am now seriously thinking of getting my liscence switched over. It would probably be easier and cheaper to just rent a car next time, than taking a train and cab.

Peace... One Love

the more things change

Well an interesting week since my last post. I started my new job, I got it on the day of the interview, but it will not be the hours I was hoping. In fact I only worked about six hours for the job this week and may not work any next week. It pays better and I like the place and the people all seem cool. I think I will still have to look for something more. The place sells parts for HIGH end sports cars, I will provide a link in the sidebar for people to check out the site.

I have worked every night this week, as the other night person is on holiday. I will be working tonight also and tomorrow, sunday. The sucky thing is that on Tuesday evening I started coming down with something, I was thinking Spanish Influenza or SARS, lol. Wednesday I had my first day at the shop and did not drink enough. By the time I got back up the hill, it was kind of warm that day too, and home I felt like Hell. I did not want to get out of bed but, as money goes, I was not sure if I was eligible for sick leave and could not afford to miss work so I went. I was hopped up on Excedrin and vitamins so I could function but was so beat from my walk up that I took the bus down. When supper time came at work I decided I was not going to be a wimp anymore and went to the kebab shop and got a burger with some of their very spicy chilli sauce, I was going to sweat it out. Within a couple hours of eating it, I felt better and by the next day was much improved. I still have a sore throat and am not 100% but, am a lot more comfortable.

I was however bummed that I decided to get sick right when starting a new job and having lots of extra hours at work, but that is how it goes.

Daughter is happier as my mother kindly sent us, ie her, some puzzles and coloring supplies. She finished the puzzle the first day, so we may get her some more over time. My mom also had some gardening soil sent to us so that daughter could do some potting and planting, which she was happy with.

peace... one love