So, maybe it was wrong to get happy about my week and think it was going to be a good one. Of all the news this hits me hard. This is something I posted on another board earlier.

I don’t get it with some people at all. This lady i’ve worked with since last year (she started a month after I) has been interviewing for a new job only months after starting with us when she didn’t get the raise she wanted after 90 days. I’ve pretty much known about her interviewing despite her saying she just had “appointments” at lunch etc. I kept low key about it and then as time went on and it was obvious she didn’t like working her she became pretty vocal about it. Dressing up on the days she has interviews, saying she had an interview to me and that she had to leave at her LUNCH to go interview then take longer then her normal lunch should leaving me stuck at the office alone. I’ve told managers etc and finally this morning I was told they were going to look for someone starting now and just get rid of her and get someone new in before our busy season which is fastly approaching.

Welp, she had an interview today and got the job. Our manager flew out this morning along with one of our salesguys for the beginning of the week. I am out of town for the end of the week. She is thinking of giving her notice now for 1 week, not 2. This would put us until next Monday to get the ad out, interview and train. I’m the only person here this week and not even a full week. I have too much to do then think about even having her train me on the few things she does, that I don’t know fully how to do. I guess I will need to make the time now. I had to leave a voice mail for my manager and then called privately to our HR gal to find out how we should handle this. She knows very well this isn’t good as that will leave only me to handle 2 jobs when my one takes a lot of time.

Our office is VERY small currently, although we are expanding fast. We have a main office in San Jose with the controller, owner, HR, sales etc. This office has our project mgr, 2 salesguys, dispatch/receptionist (kathy) and me (accounting, miss computer fix it and odd jobs that are too many to name). Most of the time it’s just Kathy and I here. There are many days our phones ring almost nonstop and I can’t get any work done when helping her with them, let alone me handling them alone.

I don’t get it. This is the 2nd person we’ve had leave (our marketing gal quit in August) that have left us up the creek. What happened to people being respectful? I’m sorry but I would never have the guts to be vocal about job interviewing like she did or leave us screwed like this. The job market here doesn’t pay like she got in California and she should get it through her thick head. Oh well, she got her lazy ass new job where she’ll make a whopping 50 cents more or some shit when she could’ve probably been vocal and got more here if she was really persisitent.

I just know that my life is soon to become chaos and hell, even more so then it currently is. I’m in school in the evenings and finals are in May, we are building a home and that is supposed to be done in June and lastly we are getting married which is in July. I’m having a week and 1/2 - 2 weeks off in July for that. I just don’t know how I can pick up more work and keep up with everything else.

/sighs
I just want to cuss her out and let her have it.

(ps. leaving out cusswords if at all possible due to the family and possible younger sisters viewing pleasure hehe)

You ever have one of those Monday’s where the week just seems like it’ll be a good one? It’s quite unusual for me to be even slightly happy it’s a Monday but for some reason this week just has started off good already and maybe I should say it started on Sat.

The weekend was kind of busy for a nice change. Sat. we drove in to Reno and got working on Justin’s computer (patrick’s brother)and found viruses galore. Patrick got that all working and home we went. That evening we were invited over to a BBQ thing at his boss’s house which was a nice break and good to meet everyone finally. I played some poker that night and yes I do suck at it. I never knew they were so many different versions of it. Think i’d have been fine but everytime a new dealer came up, it was a new game and then i’d have to get explained the rules.

Everyone asks me if living in Nevada means I gamble a lot. Actually it’s quite the opposite. I went to casinos more in Colorado then I do here. I think once you live here a while you start to forget about the casinos everywhere. I mean we have slot machines in our grocery stores, our gas stations, on our bars at the restaurants..you name it! I just don’t get sucked in and think it’s best that way. I don’t see how people can spend hours losing money in hopes they win the big one. I can see many other things i’d like to do with my money. I do understand there’s a chance to win big but that’s not tempting enough for me to risk things. I think the only time I do enjoy it is in Vegas with friends. It’s a bit different of an atmosphere there also. Reno isn’t Vegas by any means and if anything it’s a slum compared to it.

We drove by our house lot on Sunday and they are showing more progress. We now have the boards laid down and the plumbing poking up out of the ground for them to pour our foundation! Supposedly, they will have our house done 120 days after they pour foundation! God that’s fast. We are going to head out there after we get back from Colorado and take pics ..most likely we’ll have our foundation by then! We are trying to take pics of the building process and I imagine i’ll put it in album of sorts someday.

Well back to work for me..hi ho off to work I go
~heather

I don’t know where that heading came from but it just popped in my head. I’m finishing out my week, sitting here bored at work wondering how fast my new clock (one that actually shows the right time) can tick the last 45 minutes away. It has the loudest ticking noise ever and sometimes I find myself lost looking out the window at the snow capped peaks with just this tick tick tick in the background. All the other noises just seem to fade away in those moments. It’s actually very peaceful but then the phone will ring or my voice will be yelled across the office pulling me back into this reality.

I’ve been busy trying to get my thoughts and plans in order for my trip still. Finding a babysitter (koby-his best man came up with this name) for patrick so he’s not bored with the trip. It’s going to be very productive i’m hoping.

So with technology today you can register and have it show up online for people to order gifts from online. Long gone are the days where you have to venture to a store to buy gifts for someone or even to register for gifts. It’s cool but at the same time takes some fun of the shopping out. What I did find out that is exciting but could be in a way taking the fun out of the suprise is that you can view what gifts you’ve received. Of course you don’t know who from until they arrive but you can view and add more gifts or take gifts off etc etc. I was updating our registry when I noticed some things were bought so I got all giddy and called Patrick. I guess people are buying things for the bridal shower next weekend. I just thought it’s wierd yet cool. I mean I don’t know if i want to see the gifts /shrugs until they arrive but at the same time I do get a little excitement from it.

I just am hoping that in all of this we get our dishes I mean we need new dishes so bad ..and of course need some of the other things but i’m in love with our dishes. In the end though, the day is all about Patrick and I getting married and sharing that special day with our friends & family. I don’t want to seem like it’s about gifts or whatever else people sometimes make it out to be. I love this man with all my heart and soul and can’t wait to celebrate a day where we become one even more so then we are now. *end of sappiness now*

We are going to order our invitations next week also so that is a bit exciting.

Beware of the big pictures!

This week has been lasting forever. Maybe it’s because I haven’t had class or maybe it’s just that i’m stressed somewhat over the wedding stuff and making appointments for our trip to Colorado. All I know is I wish it would go by faster.

Looks like I got the whole weekend trip to CO scheduled and hopefully figured out. Thurs. we’ll arrive in the evening and either we’ll end up relaxing at my mom’s or end up at The Church because some DJ is playing there that evening and Koby mentioned it. 

Friday is an appointment in Estes Park with Kim & Co. to pick out our cake and flowers. That afternoon I am doing hopefully my hair trial for the wedding.  I found a great lady that will come to our room and do our hair & makeup and at a much better price then most of the women I had talked to.  She has been wonderful at emailing back and forth to set up the appointment.  Still amazes me that they charge so much to put your hair up or whatever for a wedding when last night I paid only $32 for my hair and eyebrows waxed.  (thankfully she didn’t burn me this time and they look great although I didn’t get my highlights redone and that is schedule for March and then again right before the wedding…luckily for me my hair doesn’t look like I dye it and she does very natural highlights)

Saturday i’ll be meeting up with Sarah and ditching Patrick with Koby.  We are going to hopefully finalize the bridesmaid dress ideas so we can get those ordered asap.  Once done we’ll head to the boys and get them off to try on Tux’s and get fitted.  That evening Sarah is throwing me a bridal shower which is pretty cool since I didn’t really think i’d end up having one. I figured with me being out of state that i’d just be out of luck really until she asked me about it.  (btw Sarah is engaged as of Valentines Day!!!! So happy she found a good man that treats her as she should be) 

Sunday morning we’ll head back to Estes Park and meet with a couple that does wedding ceremonies and go over the details of our wedding.  The lady I talked to seems wonderful and after playing phone/ email tag we finally talked last night and got something set up.  I still don’t understand why people don’t like to rehearsals..I mean if you don’t know the couple already and they are having a bigger wedding wouldn’t you want to do one?  This lady was the FIRST one that was all for doing it and says it’s almost a necessity.  Considering we are doing some of our own vows and such I think it’s needed.   Maybe Sunday after that we can find time to look around for the rehearsal dinner spot since I kind of need to find some info out for Patrick’s mom.  I’ve looked some into it but not enough to decide where yet without looking at some places. 

Need to start typing up a list of the fees and who checks will need to be made out to and by when for all this stuff.  I’ve been paying some of the deposits myself lately to cut costs and keep our budget down but most of the things will hit 30 days prior.

ok- have to take a break from entry to respond to an email about female oppression..very interesting!

heather

The weekend was pretty uneventful and actually quite disappointing in some ways. My dear fiance got stuck working pretty much the whole weekend. He left Valentines morning and headed into work and finally got home around 1ish-2. We headed into Reno to go browse through the mall and then get some lunch at Claimjumper (which I love!). During our lunch he got a phone call on his cell (damn us for getting new cell phones) from a guy at work and yep, he had a problem and needed to get it fixed as soon as he got home. /sighs We drove over to his brothers house to drop off the bday card and away we went back home. He ended up working last night until 11 or so and then woke up this morning to proceed to work until noon or something. /sighs I know he loves his job but sometimes I hate it I deal with it just fine but wonder sometimes how the other guys handle their wives on Valentines Day or if they even want to be with them on that day. I’m not that needy to where i’ll say no work but I do enjoy spending a weekend with him without the phone calls from his work.

We did manage to get out after and head to Target for socks and then Maurices (my favorite store here in this no-nothing town). I bought some new jeans, green cargo pants, green t-shirt and my outfit for my bridal shower. It is a cute black with pink stripe, kind of retro skirt and a pink button down fitted blouse. I just wanted to wear something girly for the shower and cute. Who knows, we may go out in Denver while in town and i’ll need something to wear out to the clubs, in which case the pink blouse will have to be swapped with something a little more danceable. Oh, picked up some cool earrings while there because they had some sale thing so they were free with my jeans and tops.

This week is going to be a nice break with no school tomorrow (although I have to work /sighs), no school on Wed. with my web teacher out of town and welp I do have class on Thurs. Not a bad week! Next week is the trip to Colorado and 2 of the guys from work will be out of town for half the week so probably will be a nice quiet one at work before I fly out.  That weekend is going to be nutso but hopefully productive. 

Our save the dates finally went out to guests and they I guess are arriving.  I should finally post the pic that I took of them…maybe this week.  Looked at rings for Patrick while shopping at the mall.  Found one we liked the design of but not sure if we like it better then one we saw at his parents jeweler in Oregon.  I just want to make sure it’s something he’ll like and will of course wear.

Well, i’m going to head to bed soon after cleaning up a few things around the house.  Thinking that maybe this week i’ll start my workout phase.  God do I need to get in shape. 

niters~

heather