Fall, please visit California

So I can rock this bad boy:

RD yay!

Thank God for dietitians, that's all I'm gonna say!!

Opportunities

A part from a song that actually inspires me...
Thank you Pet Shop Boys!

There's a lot of opportunities

If you know when to take them

You know?

There's a lot of opportunities

If there aren't you can make them

Make or break them.

And then it goes on to talk about making lots of money, which is a little less inspiring to my soul.

Ode to my dog

I just sang to Dakota:

You are my doggy

You are my puppy child...

Pretty sure it's going to go viral and then go platinum!

Peace

Peace will come to me

Peace will come to me

I'm leaving bitterness behind

This time I'm cleaning out my mind

There is no space for the regrets

I will remember to forget

...

Depeche Mode, Peace

Jobs II

The company I interviewed at emailed me yesterday and told me they'd like to proceed with the hiring process! Now they are going to be contacting my references. Assuming that works out well, I think I can expect an offer. So maybe I'll be working again in a couple of weeks! I haven't worked in sooooo long -- it's going to be quite a shift. No doubt I'm going to be exhausted. Better keep taking those iron supplements and get those levels up!

I'm looking forward to this new chapter in my life. It's time.

Where babies come from

Well I think a stork, he drops it down and then a hole goes in your body and there's blood everywhere coming out of your head and then you push your belly button and your butt falls off, and then you hold your butt and you have to dig, and you find a little baby!

-- from Knocked Up

Jobs

Yeah it does

It's Monday

I'm pretty sure companies (specifically HR) like to put people on hold just to torture them. Still no word back from TP, the company I interviewed with last week. So, you guys will need to continue crossing everything you can for me. ;)

All sorts of slacky

I learned that it really isn't wise to drink a Starbucks Doubleshot at 7pm. It really isn't all that conducive to sleep. Maybe in the past when I was taking a horse-sized dose of Ambien to sleep it didn't matter, but now that I'm just relying on Trazodone to help me doze, it really does make a difference. Point taken, body.

I am also learning that if I don't take a shower almost as soon as I get up, it becomes nearly impossible for me to shower. I don't know why this is, but it is.

Also, I really hate sleeping in and I need to stop doing it. It was actually good to wake up by 6:30 every day for 5 weeks. I don't know if I'm going to go back to getting up quite that early, but I am going to start forcing myself up before 8:30 at the latest. Oh, and if I get this job then I'll definitely be getting up before that time.

Should hear something back from HR on Monday. EEEEEEK. I'm scared. But excited, too.

She is mine

Welcome home, sweetie darling!

Interview

I think my interviews went well yesterday... I don't want to jinx things. I'm hoping that there are no further rounds of interviews, and of course I'm hoping an offer is extended. If that's the case, I will take it.

Still ill

Wow, I'm still sick! Turns out I don't have strep, so that's good. But now in addition to the cough and scratchy/sore throat, I have a sinus infection. I've been antibiotics since Sunday though so that should go away soon... unless I have some sort of antibiotic resistant jerk bacteria.

My interview is tomorrow and I'm not prepared at all. And it's stressing me out. I was feeling excited about it but now I'm just stressed. It really doesn't help that I'm sick.



Please wish me luck!

Couch rest

I've pretty much had myself on couch rest this whole weekend. I'm feeling really terrible. My throat is killing me. I went to urgent care when they opened this morning and I might have strep. It's really awful, whatever it is. :(

Hodgepodge

I've been sick since Monday. It's no bueno, but it's just a cold. I got some cough syrup with codeine yesterday so I can at least sleep. Although I woke myself up at 2 coughing and had to dose myself again. The cough syrup is not making my car fly, which is disappointing.

I had a phone interview today and it went very well. So well in fact that 30 minutes later they emailed me to invite me to interview in person onsite next week! My doctor doesn't think I should be working yet (he wants me to continue sitting on my butt for a few more months!) but I feel up to the challenge (I think). This job is different from what I left because they seem to care about getting your work done, not judging/scoring people so they can cut out people and hire in new grads for less money. If I get the job, I'm going to make significantly less than I was making at G, but I expected that and it's OK. Hopefully though with my experience they will offer me the high end of the range for the job. But I'm not going to get too ahead of myself here. It's all IF I get an offer not when. Never count on anything, right?

I'm typing this on my new Inspiron Duo which came today. It is very beautiful in its red splendor. I should have named it Big Red, although that was the name given to my red Ford Tempo back in the day. What a piece of shit that car was!

My kitty cats have adjusted back to living with me and are now happy and content. Tig just got her hair all up in my business so on top of my coughing and all that, my face itches from hair all over. But she's totally adorbs so she can get away with it (and pretty much everything else, too!).

Wish me luck on the job. If it's meant to be, it shall be. If it doesn't work out, I'm going to continue taking some time off as my doctor has suggested and try not to go crazy from boredom.

I need to work

Dear Company I Applied To Last Night,

Hello! The job I applied for sounds so interesting and your company sounds pretty rad. Please contact me and even better, think I'm awesome and hire me.

Love,
Erin

Sweet justice

My ex-director at work no longer reports to the CFO. Apparently they hired in some young dude as a VP and now M--- reports to him.

HAHA. I am sure -- absolutely sure -- that this is not a move that could possibly be good for M----. And I find it freaking hysterical.

I guess it doesn't look good when a few of your employees need to take medical leaves due to stress-induced illnesses. (Or when one hires a lawyer because of unjust treatment. Ahem.) Take that, douchebag. Karma's a bitch.

Support Etsy

Etsy.com is awesome if you've never checked it out. A friend in St. Louis had this awesome bag that I coveted, and she told me her friend made it and sells bag on Etsy. Well, I bought three of them from her. And now I'm having her make the same one my friend had. Awwww yeah.

Really, Erin? Really?

So, I didn't have enough laptops so I had to go and buy another. Well, I ordered it. I should get it in the next week. It's a tablet/laptop thing which looks pretty badass. And it's RED. Jealous? Yes, you should be!

And I'm off

I'll be on my way to the St. Louis airport in 40 minutes. I am going to miss all the wonderful people I met here. I made great friends and I have absolutely loved it here (even when having a rough time). On the bright side, I'll be seeing Dakota in a few hours! And hopefully she will sit on me. :)

Bungeeeeeeee!

No, I didn't bungee jump (oh helllllllllllll no!) but I did bungee trampoline yesterday at a mall. It was insane. I went as high as the 2nd story almost. It was scary and I'm surprised I didn't pee myself. (Although it did give me diarrhea! TMI? Too bad!) I'll post a picture of me mid-flip when I get back home next weekend. I only managed to do 3 flips. It was so hard! You don't really get any spring from the trampoline...it's all hydraulics I think. So without getting to get a good push off, it was really hard to get moving into a backwards ball. Today I'm a little sore but I also have bruises on my arms from the cords (ow!). It looks like someone grabbed my arm and left marks. I only lasted 3 minutes and gave my remaining 2 minutes to my friend (who screamed, which was hilarious -- while the 3 year old on the other trampoline just giggled). We 30 year olds just can't handle it I guess!

 

Acceptance

I'm coming to peace with the fact that I'm leaving St. Louis on Tuesday. I don't think I can buy into the whole "everything happens for a reason" thing, but I'm not kicking and screaming or crying that it's not fair. I will be filing complaints with the state/department of insurance against my insurance company. I doubt I'd hire a lawyer but who knows. I've been known to do that before. Google, anyone?

So, I'm accepting this. Time to move on and try something different. Obviously things weren't working for me before but I need to try really hard to make it work differently now that I'm going back. It will be a challenge, but that's OK. Maybe I'm more up for it than I thought.

Rocktober

Whoa, how is it freaking October already? This is the million dollar question!

I've had bad dreams the past two nights. I always have night sweats (which I hope just means my metabolism is kicking in). Am I ready to go back home to my regular life? Not in the least. :(