no bitching, no whining..just some good ol’ cute Kitten pictures and new pictures of our great room as I got some cool new shelves.

all lit up with our new candles …wierd picture

~heather

Yesterday, one of our sales guys came in and let me in on some news. Mrs. L wants to / is coming back to work for us. As much as I like her and think she does a great job. I was kind of excited to get do new things, such as sales coordiinator things instead of just my accounting. Not to mention, we had discussed getting a part-time accountant and me switching to sales coordinator. I was stoked to say the least. I get nothing but shit on being an accountant. There’s a lady from our San Jose office who is constantly making me feel like shit, putting me down, telling me I do nothing right etc. The funny part is, I had mentioned switching to sales coordinator and she quickly said no way. Now, i’m so horrible yet I can’t switch? With Mrs. L coming back I guess it’s a non-issue though because i’m stuck. I cried yesterday at my desk on and off all day. I had my door closed for most of the day. On top I found out that Miss. Q won’t be in on Mon/Tues. leaving me to work all next week except Wed. by myself from 7-5. I have a midterm on Wed. so this is just great timing for me to be putting in OT and not having any time to study etc.

I think what bothers me about this whole situation is the fact that everyone is jumping up and down over Mrs. L coming back and here I am doing her job, my job and then Mrs. Q’s on Thurs/Fridays. She’s coming back as if she never left, with a higher pay scale, gas card and Office Mgr. title. That office mgr. thing ticks me off since I trained her and have been here longer plus all she does is type letters and coordinate the sales guys schedules and bids etc. That doesn’t take rocket science imo and i’ve been doing it while she’s gone. No one seems to appreciate jack shit that I do here. My pay raise still isn’t handled so Ms. Q and Mrs. both make way more then me, yet I trained them both. It’s been brought up but nothing done about it. I’m just fed up and tired of being taken advantage of. I thought maybe that with Mrs. L gone I could get my raise, step into the sales coordinator spot and finally get out of this accounting stuff that everyone likes to take advantage of me and bitch at me constantly for. I’m told “well accounting is going to have some of that slack because in the end you are the last person to deal with everything.” Well I get tired of babysitting others and making sure it’s done right before I get it.

When I was gone for the wedding/honeymoon. Mrs. L was supposed to be doing my job. She didn’t touch my work or anything for 2 weeks. When I came back, all hell had broken loose and our cash flow is still screwed up by this matter. She wasn’t talked to, written up, nothing. It was just shrugged off. Yet, when I do something bad it’s a huge ordeal and if you read my LJ back in May, I was written up in May for something that entirely wasn’t my fault and they knew it. I even got a slight apology over it but it didn’t take away my write up. I just am tired of that hypocritical shit. I’m tired of being taken advantage of and someone else praised when I’ve done a lot here and do a lot everyday. I’m more then willing to help out when needed, yet i’m the one that just gets overlooked.

I made a comment yesterday to someone along the lines of “if I walked out right now, no one would give a shit about me and be cheering that I came back”.
(Our project mgr yesterday was literally dancing and cheering in my office at hte news of Mrs. L coming back..now how should that make me feel????)

~sighs~
heather

Yep, my long hair is now gone. I went through shock after for a brief moment. Still think it’s a tad too little short but hey Patrick likes it and it has so much more character then my straight boring bleh hair that required curling every morning to look decent. The general consensus is that I look older and more professional but i’m not sure honestly if I like that comment yet Oh well, it’ll grow out fast as usual. My eyebrows finally are waxed and aren’t taking over my face! Thank gosh for waxing, I HATE plucking!

Here are some pics that Patrick took…I look kind of bleh figuring it’s after a long day at work and not getting home from the salon until 8ish. It looks a little more sleek and smooth then piecey and jagged which i’ll do it up like.

Snow lays gently over the mountain peaks
winter slowly showing its grace and power
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Thank god for Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte
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Hard to get ideas out when people are yelling at you to see if things are done or to not schedule them etc etc. I’m taking a me break right now drinking my Starbucks to ramble a bit because i’ve been so busy lately and haven’t. My job is draining me. I had a few hours OT last week, which makes my paycheck a little nicer but in the end it’s just a sign that I am being pulled every which direction. I have to work on Fridays by myself which isn’t fun, especially when the guys go out to lunch and say they’ll bring you back something then don’t and say how it would’ve gotten cold.(meanwhile i’m back here by myself typing up HIS quote letter and making it looks all professional) Even Thursday i’m here from basically 7:00-9 and then again from 2:30-5:00 by myself. All the while, i’m doing Ms. Q’s job, Ms. L’s old job and of course my job. Still no sign of a raise or a solution to the problem with just having 2 people here. On top of that, Ms. Q managed to get 40 hours in last week (with little sign of anything done or cleaned up) by working 12 hour days (which isn’t supposed to happen) and then coming in on Sunday. I’m just shocked why they still let her get away with that. I can’t just work 12 hours one day and say oh I want my Friday off now but that seems to be her schedule *sighs*. I just feel totally screwed and taken advantage of.

Our house warming party is this Saturday, which i’m not sure if that’s really a good day after all with people having all sorts of things going on. Our 2 project mgrs are going to a wedding *sighs* and I really wanted both of them there. Our friends from Laguna Beach can’t make it but said they will come visit sometime in Nov./Dec. instead. I have to get food ideas thought up still and grocery shop for stuff.

I did go shopping this weekend though. I have this problem with getting bored on Saturdays and feeling the need to “nest” as my mom calls it. This weekend was stuff for the living room. I have been going room by room for things here or there. I hit up Pier One for some new pillows and candles. I also hit up Michael’s for art supplies. I decided I wanted to paint. I’ve seen all these great ideas on HGTV and TLC so wanted to try my hand at something. They turned out ok but I’m sure i’ll eventually decide I want to make them better and replace them with new. For now, i’m getting compliments (or they are just being polite).

Anyhow, here’s the latest pics of our great room. We have yet to order our new living room furniture. It’s a couch and love seat (both double recliners) from Lane. It has the softest coziest material on it but we have to custom order them. Patrick said once we hear whether I get my raise then we’ll order them. I want them here for Thanksgiving *sighs* It looks so big and empty to me still since we just have our one sofa sleeper couch in there. The 2 couches will fill the room up MUCH better. Plus, I keep getting comments about our tables so I feel I must explain. Patrick’s parents were more then nice and gave us a lot of things for the house. The end tables, coffee table and couch table (up against the wall) were gifts from them. They have a Queen Ann style yet we are more modern. However, I think they are beautiful and have been with his parents for a long time. I just think our room will be a bit eclectic with both modern and old style elements. Our guest room has the 2 twin beds his parents gave us also. Eventually i’ll replace the quilts on them but for now they work.

Well enough rambling and on with the pics.

teazer before the cut - god we need to paint …..I hate our white walls BUT i’m waiting for some nail pops and the house settling some before. We are thinking maybe i’ll paint the kitchen before Thanksgiving and then more during my xmas break from work.

His brother is an AMAZING watercolor artist (he doesn’t paint any more and chose law over art *sighs*) The one over the fireplace is one of his. He does many different types besides landscapes. His parents place looks like an Art Gallery when you walk in. I wish I had more pics of his work. Our living room is going with an outdoorsy theme. The candle holders I have are leaves and then of course our flower stuff on the walls. I’ll probably blow up some of my pictures at some point also.(pardon my Desperate Housewives show on the tube while taking pics hehe)

Tonight after yet another long day I found this picture. I took it while packing to move to our house. I had the magnets all over our refrig. and despite Patrick making fun of me at one point for buying them, he is the one that made these sentences with them. They were done long before we were even married so it’s just one of those lovey sappy things.

Today I rushed out of the office around 3:00 to get my hair off chopped. I’m running late and realize my cell phone isn’t in the car so I pull over at a payphone to call my coworker. I asked her to call my hairdresser and tell them I was running late so my appt. wasn’t cancelled. Welp, my appt. was yesterday not today so I had already missed it. I drove all the way there to find that out since no one could reach me without my phone. I did show her my wedding pictures that she wanted to see tho. Now she can’t get me in until next Monday at 6:00 which conflicts with my school schedule. I’m scheduled to get my hair highlighted again, eyebrows waxed (they are seriously out of control now) and well most of all …my hair is being CHOPPED!

This is the style i’m going with. I grew out my hair for the wedding and told my hair stylist that it was going away once all was said and done. I just don’t like the way my hair looks once it gets long and straight and boring. It seems to go flat but yet i’m hot rolling it every morning so I can have curls. We’ve layered it around my face for the last year while growing it out but i’m convinced I need a little shorter of layers and think this may be what i’m looking for. She always gives me such a hard time and teazes me because I have gotten to the point where I can go in and just chop it without much hesitation. The thing is, I went to her when I first moved to Nevada, after a good recommendation, and at the time I had my hair way past the bra strap line. We chopped it all off to above my shoulders and near chin length. I donated my hair to “locks of love” even. What a shock that was and she was worried that Patrick was going to hate it. She told me to call her and let her know what he thought but he liked it suprisingly. He loves my hair long but does like the way shorter hair looks on me as long as I don’t go too short. Keeping it around medium length / shoulder length seems to keep him content. Every guy at work was flipping out that I mentioned chopping it off but once I showed them this picture they loved it. It’s just hair to me now (I used to flip out over more then an INCH trimmed when in high school) and grows out so damn fast it’s not funny (chin length to down past my bra strap in a year is plenty fast for me to change my mind later hehe) So anyhow, once I get it off i’ll take a picture.