Hanging on to hope...
 

...one fingernail at a time.

I, too, hate everything. I fight that feeling seemingly every hour of every day. CBT tells me to take those negative feelings and hide them in a chest somewhere...remember to breathe...focus on the positive. So that is what I do, albeit with a megaton of effort.

I love my new job. I wish a body could live on 24 hours a week, but I can't. So I'm searching for a second job. I have an interview at the Home of Pot on Tuesday, a stocking shelves at night kind of thing. I think it would be a nice change from the Public Of Fenders day job. (See what I did there? Replaced 'de' with 'of' in two convenient places. Too clever by half.) :rolleyes: Helping criminals by day, keeping all your home improvement needs stocked by night. Da da daaaaaa...it's Crazy Girl!

And I passed my Note of Republic test (clever again)... only missed one question, which law library lady said was the best she'd tested. Granted, it wasn't that hard but there were questions where the answers required a paragraph as to why you picked a certain answer. I'm a good test-taker, though, got through four years of college by being able to compose a semi-reasonable essay answer and multiple-choicing my ass off.

Car and house expenses, and my own lackadaisical (crap, I just learned something from auto spell check. I always thought it was lackSadaisical...huh) approach to money management have left me in a not so comfortable place, but I'm doing OK. One foot in front of the other. Repeat. Fall on ass. Get up. One foot in front of the other. Repeat.

I cancelled cable and interwebs for the time being. Luckily, I got my sister in law hooked on The Walking Dead so I've been able to hang out there on Sunday night and watch. I'm going to miss the last of Mad Men...but I'll just try to avoid spoilers until I either get netflix back or it's on DVD or something.

Well, that's all the news that's fit to print. I'm keeping up and keeping on despite that nagging little voice in my head that keeps telling me to quit trying. Little fucker. One of these days I will kick that little fucker right in the face and then laugh and laugh. Now THERE'S hope for ya! ;)

Yes, like that!

I hated everything first. And more.

:eyebrow:

I would never presume I could out-hate you. That's why I wrote "I, too, hate everything." It was more homage than contest. :D

I could give you people lessons on hating.

It was more of a joke than a contest.:p:

Hate loving company ... right there with you. I am trying to keep my head up and eyes open for a new job. Gotta do it before this one goes poof. Fucking fuck.

I got the other job!

I'm really excited.

Great news!


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holy shit! WTG!!!! That's **wonderful** news, congratulations!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking A, grrl!

Awesome news.

Yeah IM.

:)

The Home of Pot shelf stocker?

Way to go! More money!

Like there was any reason to doubt! You are on roll! :)

Thanks everybody!

Yes! I think I'm really going to like it and the money will be sweet.

Heh. I was disappointed so much in my job searches over the past year that I wasn't too sure, even though the interview felt right and all that.

I mean, the movie store never even called me...despite me going back numerous times to check on my app, and despite the fact the sign "now hiring all positions" is still up, and has been for months. Me? Miss Movie Freak? I think I'm too old. I probably didn't want to work for a 21 year old manager anyway. Don't get me wrong, I like the young folk and get on great with them but I think I'll be better off in the Home of Pot. :D

Oh, and this way I'll be off weekends.

Work at the courthouse Mon-Thurs 9 am to 3 pm.

Work at the Depot Mon-Fri 9 pm to 1 am.

Set schedule, weekends off, plenty of time for a nap between and to get a decent night's sleep.

Great to hear. If the nuts get to you, you can bolt, so you don't get screwed.;)

and if you get board, you can get hammered at work.

you tools.


yay Infinitissimo! thou rocketh.

Tanks!

I was looking for concrete evidence that some of your statements were home-o-phobic but I didn't want to eavesdrop.

Congrats. :) Happy for you.

I don't have a lot of time, but wanted to say I survived! Full time Legal Girl is/was on vacation this week and I'm trying to cram everything into my part time hours...and it was busy and I'm not as fast (I don't recognize all the paperwork and am still learning all the intricacies of the differences in each case) and it was a LOT but I think I've done OK, considering. Doing a couple hours today and I'm hoping I tie up most of the loose ends. Hopefully I won't get so many manic criminals and/or manic criminal parents this morning.

And I started my other job, which made for a couple 12 hour days. I wasn't on my normal schedule as I was supposed to be doing the computer training but yesterday I jumped right in and helped unload a million skids onto the carts for taking out to be stocked later that night. I'm not used to the physical work and was exhausted. I went home, took a hot bath, and straight to bed. One of the draws of that job was the exercise and I can see I wasn't wrong there!

Gosh, I really CAN do it! ;)

Wait a second, so you have advanced so far in the legal job that you boss is taking vacations and leaving you alone? If that's the case, it's freaking OUTSTANDING. Do you know what a big deal it is to find somebody so good that you can take off work and leave them to cover for you?

Some bosses recognize quality faster/are unintimidated by quality than others...

She apparently has one. Hopefully she has two.

wtg IM. :thumbsup:

That's great to hear, infi!

This is the ultimate cheer-up thread now. I read it and I feel groovy.

Well done Infi - you've totally won the game.

Good on you, IM.

Yes-sirreee-bob! I was all by my lonesome. I started at the end of January, so I guess it is a bit of a compliment to me. But boy oh boy it was HARD. They didn't want to pay me for full-time that week because, well, budgets and all, but I worked 6 1/2 hours more than usual and I will get to use that as a comp day sometime. They're really flexible about hours.

Yes, Legal Girl is a wonderful person, and so are the 4 lawyers in the office. Just really great people.

I'm not sure about the depot. I like the job, but like any job like that there sure are some, um...different sorts of folks! I've already had some laughs with some of my cow orkers though, and I think it's going to be good even with the scattered weirdos. ;) My supervisor is pretty cool, and the dude who hired me is really cool. I think I'll like it even more when I'm on my normal schedule and it's just our crew getting the work done.

I finally finished all the computer training last night at 8:45. Now I have the weekend off. I went home and drank a bottle of wine and finished the fourth season of Six Feet Under (for the third time) and slept until 11:30 am! I'm at the library catching up on da intrawebz and then going to my nieces' softball games. I had the lid down on my car and I'm feeling so happy right now I could SCREAMMMMMM! ;)

Gosh it feels good to be working again.

So thanks all of you...it makes me happy that you're happy for me.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The weirdest thing: I get an email out of nowhere from the lady I talked to at the trucking company where I was applying to work a third shift data entry job. It was realllllly good money, but they wanted me to be Pope and I'm not the Pope and I aced the assessments and all that but it just fell through. She was like "hi, I know it's been a while but are you still interested in the job...blah blah blah?" THEN, last night she called me and left a message! WTF? Yeah, no, really, but thanks for thinking of me after ALL THIS TIME! I sure do want to leave a job I love that's nearby for a job that's far away, graveyard shift, and with a bunch of union folks who wait months to be like "hey, do you want to work with us pretty please?"

Oh, and one more thing. I did get a raise at the legal job. They didn't have to give me one, they divvy up the allotment basically, so I was really pleased. And it was retro back to when I started. Wow! I feel so lucky! :)

I'm buzzed that you're buzzed. And you totally deserve this good stuff.

Way to go im ... VERY happy for you. Glad that others are finally seeing your worth.

:)

hope on a rope- you won't lose it in the shower.

So glad you're finally getting the breaks you deserve, Infi!

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Thank you! :)