remember me?

Hi Gang!

So, I know that I have been absent lately.  Sorry.  I wish I had an excuse other than that I am just plain lazy.  But, I don't .  I think part of not writing is also that I don't think anyone wants to hear about my boring life...but I'm sure all bloggers feel like that to some extent.
I had a job interview last week and was just sure, when I went in, that they were just gonna love me and be falling all over themselves to give me the job.  You know, demanding to know why they hadn't seen my resume long before and how had the company survived without me.  After the interview, I was sure that they were wondering what they had ever done to deserve having to interview me.  I was told that they would be done with the interview process in about a week and that they would let me know.  A week is tomorrow.  I have been trying to figure out how to get some kind of inside scoop since I left the interview (my sister works for the company, just on a different floor) so far, nothing has worked.  I hate waiting.  Patience has never been one of my more prominent virtues.
While I have been waiting so impatiently, I have joined a swim team.  I used to swim competitively (okay, 20 years ago, so what) when I was younger and it was something I always (mostly) enjoyed.  I need a way to lose some weight and most exercise makes me feel stupid.  (Maxine said it best "Exercise is natures way of making you look like a dufus.") Today however, I felt so out of place when we were swimming under water from one end of the pool to the other (except for those small breaks for breathing)  when everyone else was gliding along under the water, I just kept popping up to the top.  Can you guess why?  That's right class, my fat butt and front floaters (most people call them boobs, but mine are apparently water safety devices)!  I just kept floating.  I didn't know what to do other than just smile at the lane full of thin guys I was swimming with. (oh, and wishing myself in a dark room somewhere)  Oh, well, I plan on keeping with it so maybe I will eventually get some muscles.
Good night everybody, see ya soon!

That was it?

I can't believe how worked up I was over the testing needed for this potential new job.  I sat home doing timed typing test, I severely burnt dinner and had to take my daughter out to eat, I had trouble sleeping...I got to the testing facility about 20 minutes early, I had never received the promised e-mail from the testing guy, so I didn't have his name.  Luckily, the receptionist was nice and willing to help me figure it out.  I started the test.  It was something that had absolutely nothing to do with medical anything.  No timed typing test (thank you God!), just some weird program that no one has ever seen before and a set of earphones.  The program was supposedly a windows type (or windows based, I don't remember), but I had the hardest time getting to where I needed in it.  But, I was good with the supposed customers.  I was also fast.  I failed the test the first time I took it.  I was so bummed, then the guy told me that I would just take it again 'cause he was sure I would pass.  So, took the test again, It was the same pretend customers in the same solutions so I was able to go a bit faster.  This time when I was finished, the guy had this huge smile and says "do you see this smile, this is a big smile!"  I passed, he said that it was one of the highest scores he had ever seen.  How exactly does that happen?  you go from failing the first time, answering the questions the same way, still having issues with the soft ware, but somehow, magically, now you have a super high score?  Totally crazy!  So, now I have a job interview next week!  Yeah me!

Nerves

I am trying to get a new job.  I work in the medical field doing customer service and insurance billing.  One of the largest medical employers in the area is Kaiser.  My sister works there and I have been trying to get a job there for over a year.  My sister called my last week saying that I needed to fax her a copy of my resume' "right now", she knows someone who is hiring and she has told them about me.  I got so worked up I had trouble sleeping for two days after I sent it to her.  Then it was time to go to FOOOORRKKSS!  So I didn't think about it anymore.  Then, while in the holy land Forks, she calls me again and wants another copy.  Understand that I had called her every day before I left, more than once, and left voice mails asking if she needed another copy.  No response.  So I scrambled and worked out getting a copy to the person who needed it.  My sister told me that the hiring person would call me on Friday.  No call Friday.  No big prob, I was almost in my happy place (Edward wasn't there with me).  So I talked to my sister and she told me that I would most likely get a call on Monday (but I would be at work then ...). No call Monday.  I decided to just not worry about it, there would be other jobs.  So imagine my surprise yesterday when I got a call at about 2pm from the hiring manager at Kaiser. Who proceeded to do a short phone interview.  Who then tells me that he wants me to come in as soon as possible for customer service testing (?).  Now, I am totally nervous again. I got a call today to schedule the testing.  I go in tomorrow.  Wish me luck!  I will let all y'all know how it goes tomorrow!

Forks, the day after...

So I got home last night from an awsome weekend in the holy land  Forks and right away Hubs is wanting me to go pick up something for dinner.  My little one wants to hang the poster of Jacob right away and of course we don't have any poster putty, so while I'm out getting dinner, could I "please get some of that Mommy?"  What can I say?  "No" comes to mind, but did I deny either one? Of course not, I needed/wanted to go find more of that amazing hand sanitizer that one of my roomies brought that smells so good I want to eat my freakin' hands!  It's called Vampire Blood and it comes in plum scent.  I found it at Bath & Body works.  They have it 8 for $5, that's right, for once you spend less dollars than the number of items you get.  I've never had that happen there before!  It only comes in travel size though, I bought 16... It's awsome, remember?  I did share, I gave away 3 to co-workers and told them it was from Forks, lol.  They'll never know.

So, I'm at work today and everyone wanted me to actually do work type stuff! What were they thinking?  I am still mentally in my happy place, how can they expect me to call on authorizations and denials when all I want to do is talk about what a wonderful time I had.  So, needless to say, little got done at my desk today.  I did have everyone laughing at pics from the trip and gasping in horror at the crazy driving of my fellow travelers on my way home though.  That counts as work, right?

Back from FORKS!

What is it about coming back from a vacation that is always such a downer?  I just spent several days in an area I absolutely love with a bunch of the best women I have ever met.  I was in Forks, WA with the Twitarded group.  Now I am home, having to deal with rl stuff, has my daughter done her homework, washing clothes for work next week, blah, blah, blah.  I honestly want to just go back to Forks.  I'm sure that eventually my rl would catch up to me even there, (especially if I brought the fam with me).  I'm still sure that rl would be better in Forks than it is here, right? Right?  (Lie to me)