Well, I finally did it! I GOT A JOB!! It's going to be awesome! Two and a half years without health insurance, I finally land a job that has awesome health benefits. So I'm thinking, what kind of job has awesome health benefits and is something that I would love to do?? Work in a hospital would be perfect. Okay, so I put in 20 job applications to work in the hospitals that are close to home. Well, none of them worked out. My resume wasn't the best...although, it looks awesome, if I do say so myself...But that's just the asthetics of it....not the meat and potatoes...the job history. See, in Tulsa, the only way to get a decent paying job is to go through a temp agency. Now, while that's not a bad thing, it doesn't look great on a resume. It looks like you were desperate to get a job...which I have to admit, I was! Anyway, I decided to expand my job search and see what was in the city. I'm not crazy about the drive and I'm not really comfortable in the city but well, I needed a job and if the pay was enough, I was okay with drive enough to take the job....Okay, so to make a long story short, I got a call center position for BJC!!! Oh, that's Barnes Jewish Hospital for those who don't know that! Anyway, it's a job that will not only give me the best health benefits that I have EVER had!!! It's also enough money so that Tony and I might be able to move out of my mom and George's rental house basement and get our own place!!!! I'm soo excited!!!! I think Life is starting to get a little better. I'm so tired of things not going our way. I have learned a lot from this experience though...not only does it pay to have patience...I am not the type of person that should be a homemaker. I am not homemaker material...I HATE it! I have also learned where i stand with my family. It's hard to explain what it's like to be the cause of some contention in the family especially when they really don't understand what is going on in our lives...but when you think about it, they really don't need to know what's going on in our everday lives. They just need to accept people for who they are and love them for who they are....not be so blasted judgmental. They know who I'm talking about and thats all that I'm going to say on that subject. All I really want them to know is that they can just leave me alone and leave my mother alone as well. Okay, I've said my piece and now it's time to move on.
So I'm thinking about doing a RAK...you know, a random act of kindness....See how many people are actually reading my blog!!! HEHE!!! So I have a ton of picture frames and right now I have a few days where I can actually make one. Now, I don't know how many of you have seen my picture frames, but they are pretty freakin cute! So, leave a comment on my blog and I will randomly pick someone and make them a picture frame. It's that simple! Just leave a comment and then we will chat a bit about what you want your frame to look like. I will then make it and send it to you or bring it to your house! I think I will give you until Feb. 28th. So that's what, two weeks! ENJOY!!!
Okay so I'm gonna run now. I promise that I will blog more when I have time!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
30 Applications and still nothing
So today I will fill out my 30th application for a job and still nothing has come of it. I did contact the county....that's the job that I really want, and they are just now looking at applications this week and next week. Oh, I hope I get that job! Not only is the pay perfect, but I get to get the heck out of Grandma's house. We love staying here and don't want to hurt Grandma's feelings, she already thinks that we aren't happy here because my mom told her that Tony and I are going to move out, but we are ready to be on our own again. I guess we kind of are here. I mean, we live in the basement and I rarely go upstairs. I have everything I pretty much need downstairs. I pretty much go upstairs for food and water. That's pretty much it.
You know, I don't really have much to say today....shocking isn't it! I think I'll just go on my merry little way today. Going to go and look for more jobs to apply for!! Wish me luck!
You know, I don't really have much to say today....shocking isn't it! I think I'll just go on my merry little way today. Going to go and look for more jobs to apply for!! Wish me luck!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
A funny!
Okay, so I know that I already blogged today, but this is just too funny! I found it searching for beading blogs....Hope you enjoy it! Oh, I found it on http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/
Have a great night!
Tiffany
Well basically it's barely past Christmas and you haven't even gotten your act together in ANY way...the paper is probably still on the floor and, as in this photo I borrowed from myspace, you still have friends hanging out at your izzle'. HOWEVER! That does not mean you don't have to fulfill your duties etiquette-wise! One of which is writing proper thank you notes! You really ought to, don't you agree?
Here is a handy guide to help you out if you are, in any way, confused as to the proper way to thank your friends and relatives for those cool gifts they sent your way just last week or so.
First:
What a proper thank you note is NOT:
1) A phone call wherein you remark briefly upon the nice statuette/bank made of some strange paste, depicting Benjamin Franklin holding a kite which your cousin Alfred seemed to think was right down your alley. Making this a really short phone call is even worse when you say you have to go and you are really busy doing the laundry, "goodbye". Rudeness personified!
2) A piece of line paper raggedly torn from your kid's school notebook, which you then write upon using a crayon or a pencil stub thanking your great aunt Irma for the ribbon candy she sent which you actually gave her last year (recycling is "big" in your family-- sometimes too big!--oops). Adding stickers or stars to the paper and an A+! sign doesn't make it all better, either.
3) A store bought card with "Thank You" printed on the front in tacky script, wherein you have written : "Thank you for the gift" and signed your name. This is way too generic and a good example of what NOT to do , in the sense that it is suggested that you always name the present which you have received, and describe why you like it, even if it is a check. If it is a check, you can tell the person who gave it to you what you plan to buy with it. Or how you plan to save for something special with it, like for example college, or that cool car, the DeLorean from the movie "Back to the Future". We ALL want that car! Frankly some of us want it more than we want college!
The above are all good examples of incorrect ways to thank people who have actually made the effort to send you something.
Here, in a form slightly similar to a Mad Lib (by which I mean, I filled in the blanks, where the blanks would appear in each sentence of a Mad Lib, by darkening the nouns and adjectives which I chose arbitrarily for my example, so that all YOU have to do is remove them and substitute appropriately) is a perfect thank you note, with extra explanations as well, where necessary.
Dear Uncle Harry, substitute YOUR relative's name: get it? This isn't even my relative; I just made Uncle Harry up for the heck of it
I was so delighted to receive the fabulous green wastebasket from you for Christmas!
note what I have done here:
1) I have "celebrated and honored the gift by calling it "fabulous"
2) I have actually identified it specifically by naming its color, "green", so that Uncle Harry knows I actually admired it closely enough to notice the color
3) I have named what the item is, a "wastebasket". All too often people make the grievous error of not naming the gift which they have received. This is actually really naughty in the world of etiquette. I don't know why, but if you got a wastebasket from Uncle Harry, you must name it--speak the word or you have really blown it!
I know that I will use this great wastebasket a LOT, as I cannot help but make so many spelling errors while writing my novel about "Pirate Joe", the most scurrilous Pirate ever to ride the High Seas!
note what I have done here:
I have extolled the wastebasket's purpose. You are allowed to lie a bit (white lies are all right in situations like this, as you did not request this wastebasket--possibly you don't even like green, or you use spellcheck all the time, or you already have a paper shredder or a different wastebasket you are unnaturally attached to, and you have no intention of using this green wastebasket at all, ever). You MUST praise the intended purpose of the gift in your thank you note. I have added extra interest, for Uncle Harry's benefit, by making up a novel which he can then imagine I am writing, about "Pirate Joe".
Now that I have done this, I actually think may write this novel because I don't have anything else I am doing. So hey, why not? Don't steal my idea. I will be checking up on all of you periodically.
Now you insert what the family is doing. This is the "general part" of the letter and an excellent addition to a good thank you note. A person who has sent a gift may or may not want to have to read about your family, but it is polite to write a brief sentence or two about the recent goings on chez vous.
We have been enjoying really weird weather here. It's so gross! I was just beginning to think we were going to have to dig a tunnel through the snow to get to the grocery store when all of a sudden it rained a ton, and now it's just a big pile of muddy grass and pools of water! What's the deal with that?!!!
note: As you can see by the last paragraph, I have lost interest with this entry. Maybe you can do better. I think you get the idea, at least. Just blather on a bit.
Uncle Harry (repeating name is optional), You are just the BEST! I just LOVE this great green wastebasket!
Repeating the name of the item which you received is really important, right at the end of the letter.
I hope we get to see you very soon,
you always add something along these lines even if you don't mean it, even slightly
love,
or
Very Truly Yours,
or something along those lines to finish the thank you note, because that is imperative,
Jeannie
note: Use the name the person knows you by, not your new name you have been using for the last 15 years, such Meredith or Rafe or whatever you changed it to, because you thought it sounded classier not that that is wrong or anything. It is just confusing for the people who knew you before you changed it
And there you have it! Voila! A great thank you note, all hand cobbled and then smoothed over to perfection for you! Use it with my best wishes! I swear I did my best for you. Any questions? All will be carefully considered and great attempts will be made to explain.
Have a great night!
Tiffany
Well basically it's barely past Christmas and you haven't even gotten your act together in ANY way...the paper is probably still on the floor and, as in this photo I borrowed from myspace, you still have friends hanging out at your izzle'. HOWEVER! That does not mean you don't have to fulfill your duties etiquette-wise! One of which is writing proper thank you notes! You really ought to, don't you agree?
Here is a handy guide to help you out if you are, in any way, confused as to the proper way to thank your friends and relatives for those cool gifts they sent your way just last week or so.
First:
What a proper thank you note is NOT:
1) A phone call wherein you remark briefly upon the nice statuette/bank made of some strange paste, depicting Benjamin Franklin holding a kite which your cousin Alfred seemed to think was right down your alley. Making this a really short phone call is even worse when you say you have to go and you are really busy doing the laundry, "goodbye". Rudeness personified!
2) A piece of line paper raggedly torn from your kid's school notebook, which you then write upon using a crayon or a pencil stub thanking your great aunt Irma for the ribbon candy she sent which you actually gave her last year (recycling is "big" in your family-- sometimes too big!--oops). Adding stickers or stars to the paper and an A+! sign doesn't make it all better, either.
3) A store bought card with "Thank You" printed on the front in tacky script, wherein you have written : "Thank you for the gift" and signed your name. This is way too generic and a good example of what NOT to do , in the sense that it is suggested that you always name the present which you have received, and describe why you like it, even if it is a check. If it is a check, you can tell the person who gave it to you what you plan to buy with it. Or how you plan to save for something special with it, like for example college, or that cool car, the DeLorean from the movie "Back to the Future". We ALL want that car! Frankly some of us want it more than we want college!
The above are all good examples of incorrect ways to thank people who have actually made the effort to send you something.
Here, in a form slightly similar to a Mad Lib (by which I mean, I filled in the blanks, where the blanks would appear in each sentence of a Mad Lib, by darkening the nouns and adjectives which I chose arbitrarily for my example, so that all YOU have to do is remove them and substitute appropriately) is a perfect thank you note, with extra explanations as well, where necessary.
Dear Uncle Harry, substitute YOUR relative's name: get it? This isn't even my relative; I just made Uncle Harry up for the heck of it
I was so delighted to receive the fabulous green wastebasket from you for Christmas!
note what I have done here:
1) I have "celebrated and honored the gift by calling it "fabulous"
2) I have actually identified it specifically by naming its color, "green", so that Uncle Harry knows I actually admired it closely enough to notice the color
3) I have named what the item is, a "wastebasket". All too often people make the grievous error of not naming the gift which they have received. This is actually really naughty in the world of etiquette. I don't know why, but if you got a wastebasket from Uncle Harry, you must name it--speak the word or you have really blown it!
I know that I will use this great wastebasket a LOT, as I cannot help but make so many spelling errors while writing my novel about "Pirate Joe", the most scurrilous Pirate ever to ride the High Seas!
note what I have done here:
I have extolled the wastebasket's purpose. You are allowed to lie a bit (white lies are all right in situations like this, as you did not request this wastebasket--possibly you don't even like green, or you use spellcheck all the time, or you already have a paper shredder or a different wastebasket you are unnaturally attached to, and you have no intention of using this green wastebasket at all, ever). You MUST praise the intended purpose of the gift in your thank you note. I have added extra interest, for Uncle Harry's benefit, by making up a novel which he can then imagine I am writing, about "Pirate Joe".
Now that I have done this, I actually think may write this novel because I don't have anything else I am doing. So hey, why not? Don't steal my idea. I will be checking up on all of you periodically.
Now you insert what the family is doing. This is the "general part" of the letter and an excellent addition to a good thank you note. A person who has sent a gift may or may not want to have to read about your family, but it is polite to write a brief sentence or two about the recent goings on chez vous.
We have been enjoying really weird weather here. It's so gross! I was just beginning to think we were going to have to dig a tunnel through the snow to get to the grocery store when all of a sudden it rained a ton, and now it's just a big pile of muddy grass and pools of water! What's the deal with that?!!!
note: As you can see by the last paragraph, I have lost interest with this entry. Maybe you can do better. I think you get the idea, at least. Just blather on a bit.
Uncle Harry (repeating name is optional), You are just the BEST! I just LOVE this great green wastebasket!
Repeating the name of the item which you received is really important, right at the end of the letter.
I hope we get to see you very soon,
you always add something along these lines even if you don't mean it, even slightly
love,
or
Very Truly Yours,
or something along those lines to finish the thank you note, because that is imperative,
Jeannie
note: Use the name the person knows you by, not your new name you have been using for the last 15 years, such Meredith or Rafe or whatever you changed it to, because you thought it sounded classier not that that is wrong or anything. It is just confusing for the people who knew you before you changed it
And there you have it! Voila! A great thank you note, all hand cobbled and then smoothed over to perfection for you! Use it with my best wishes! I swear I did my best for you. Any questions? All will be carefully considered and great attempts will be made to explain.
Happy New Years!!
Wow!! I am so glad that the new year is here. This year will definitely be better than last year. I don't think it could get worse...although mom says that it can. I'm trying not to think about that.
We had a fun New Years Eve. Probably more fun than I've had in a long time. Grandma went to spend the night at Marty and Cindy's. We don't know how that went but judging Grandma's attitude....probably not that well. But alas, the Farhners had fun at least. We were all going to go to a church members house for the night but decided that we just wanted to stay home and veg. And that's just what we did. We went out and bought a bunch of junk food and snacks and drinks and shrimp...all kinds of goodies!!! We watched movies, ate pizza from Papa Murpheys, and just chilled. It was fun though. It was a no stress holiday!!! I like those!!!!!
Ah!!! Before I forget I got another great deal that I am just thrilled about!!! We were at Walgreens last night...George was trying to find his Wild Cherry Pepsi...his worst addiction....and I noticed that Redbox sells previewed movies for like $7. I decided to check out what they had....Tony and I are slowly rebuilding our movie collection...they had Hancock!!! Tony and I really wanted to see that...we love the action/superhero movies. Needless to say, I snatched that sucker up! It was awesome! A great movie.....not what we expected by any stretch but it was great! We liked it anyway.
So back to the New Years eve bash! Yeah...whatever. Tony and I were going to go to First Night in the City but he had to be at work at 7:30 in the morning....I'm not one for going out on new Years anyway but we wanted to go but ended up doing exactly what we wanted to...spending time with each other and our parents. Trying to figure out how this year is going to completely rock!! We have come up with some resolutions that I think will totally make this year better than last. But those resolutions are not going to be listed on this particular blog entry...maybe tomorrow!
So I'm going to go and read some more...tomorrow is going to be an early day...I have to go and meet with Workforce Development about my applications and stuff....shouldn't take to long and then we get our food stamps renewed....so that's a positive thing! Okay, well Good night for now!!!
We had a fun New Years Eve. Probably more fun than I've had in a long time. Grandma went to spend the night at Marty and Cindy's. We don't know how that went but judging Grandma's attitude....probably not that well. But alas, the Farhners had fun at least. We were all going to go to a church members house for the night but decided that we just wanted to stay home and veg. And that's just what we did. We went out and bought a bunch of junk food and snacks and drinks and shrimp...all kinds of goodies!!! We watched movies, ate pizza from Papa Murpheys, and just chilled. It was fun though. It was a no stress holiday!!! I like those!!!!!
Ah!!! Before I forget I got another great deal that I am just thrilled about!!! We were at Walgreens last night...George was trying to find his Wild Cherry Pepsi...his worst addiction....and I noticed that Redbox sells previewed movies for like $7. I decided to check out what they had....Tony and I are slowly rebuilding our movie collection...they had Hancock!!! Tony and I really wanted to see that...we love the action/superhero movies. Needless to say, I snatched that sucker up! It was awesome! A great movie.....not what we expected by any stretch but it was great! We liked it anyway.
So back to the New Years eve bash! Yeah...whatever. Tony and I were going to go to First Night in the City but he had to be at work at 7:30 in the morning....I'm not one for going out on new Years anyway but we wanted to go but ended up doing exactly what we wanted to...spending time with each other and our parents. Trying to figure out how this year is going to completely rock!! We have come up with some resolutions that I think will totally make this year better than last. But those resolutions are not going to be listed on this particular blog entry...maybe tomorrow!
So I'm going to go and read some more...tomorrow is going to be an early day...I have to go and meet with Workforce Development about my applications and stuff....shouldn't take to long and then we get our food stamps renewed....so that's a positive thing! Okay, well Good night for now!!!
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