Seems I’ve barely had the time to blog. But honestly I think its just Facebook sucking all my need to express myself. I have tried to find time to write but getting in the mood for it with only 1-2 hours to devote is SOOOO difficult. Particularly with even MORE DVR t.v. to watch now that I’m working more.
Yup! That’s one of the big things that happened recently. I got a seasonal job at Costco!! The store I’m working for hired 90 employees for just the season (Nov – Jan). They might keep 10 when the season is over… maybe. So I have 2 months to impress the hell out of them and BE one of those ten. I’m busting my ass to do it.
The ironic thing is taking the part time Costco job is a pay cut for me. Going from $21/hour to $11:50/hour doesn’t make MY life easier but it makes my mother’s life easier. Not that I can give up working for her company because she’d be lost trying to run it without me, but with sales in the toilet thanks to YouTube she just cannot afford to pay me the hours I need to feed and clothe and house 3 teenage boys. She CAN afford me part time which is why the Costco job is sooooo perfect as a lifesaver for Geddes. (Do not know what I’m going to do if they let me go.)
And I will say, I’m loving the job! The people to work with are wonderful! The job is so physically demanding I have to skip the gym the next day!! The energy of the place is off the chart positive, the staff is addicting and its bringing a whole new side out of me that I’d forgotten. The Energetic Employee. I wish my kids could see me hustling around the front end, packing carts, running to get boxes, being the assistant to two cashiers… moving so fast I’m sweating all through most of the 4 hour shifts! They’d be amazed and probably scared shit-less to enter the work world. Haha I KNOW my Ex would never take a job like this… he always felt it was beneath his intellect, but I love packing and sorting and this job is ALL that! I’m smiling every minute of it… (and losing weight!) 😀
And speaking of Ex’s…. we had our day in court, finally. Actually it was an exercise in postponement. The Ex is asking for a Parenting Plan Assessment.. which we immediately said, “Sure, if you pay for it.” Which completely postponed this custody/child support question until the assessment could be done… in February…. so my lawyer asked for temporary child support and HIS lawyer came up with a figure of $984 to begin November 1st. Which was, honestly, a huge relief because I had to get cell phones for the kids.
See Luke went to a college seminar that his father dropped him off on his dinner night, but then either Luke misunderstood when/where the pick up was to be and had no way to reach his father to get picked up so Luke borrowed a cell phone & called me just as I was going into a movie theater. This was HIS FATHER’s dinner evening and his father should have sorted this out, which they did eventually… (he’d changed his phone number and didn’t tell me or the boys… idiot… how does he expect me to contact him if there’s an emergency. Whatever.) But it made me realize the kids needed cell phones so they’re not trying to find a phone to contact us.
So that is what I did as soon as I got paid in November… I got them ALL cell phones on my plan. Cuz the Ex was going to pay child support now. Well, November 1st came around and no check… but we were in negotiations to possibly settle. The Ex didn’t like my counteroffer so he paid the $800 PPA1 fee. He was supposed to pay me $492 on the 1st of November and $492 on the 15th and nothing… so we sent his lawyer an email with a deadline, she swore she’d take care of it and inform him… well, he missed it.. so we sent him another with another deadline… she replied with a “what was the amount again?” which is insane cuz SHE picked the number!! Anyway… he missed it AGAIN and now I’m thinking he’s trying to get out of paying the first month! Because Dec 1st is around the corner and he’ll owe me another month. Talk about ignorant bullshit. He was in the courtroom Oct 22 when the judge told him effective November 1 and we agreed on her amount so he cannot claim he doesn’t know. Then the Monday after the deadline I get a hand-address envelope so difficult to read it looks like its for LP Fran.. I almost return it but it had no return address. I open it and there is the full amount of the November child support in a check made out to a mangled misspelling of my name. I take it to the bank and thankfully they accept it but I have no idea what he is pulling? If he doesn’t want a record of paying child support that will only damage HIM not me! For a man in Mensa my Ex is sometimes quite foolish. Or he’s getting the dumbest advice from his lawyer. I don’t know.
On the naughtier front I went to a Fire Play Seminar featuring the famous Orpheus Black. That, of course, deserves it’s own posting, with hopefully a link to more information because it was amazingly informative!
Happy T-Day to you all!!