Seems I’ve barely had the time to blog.\u00a0 But honestly I think its just Facebook sucking all my need to express myself.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Particularly with even MORE DVR t.v. to watch now that I’m working more.<\/p>\n
Yup!\u00a0 That’s one of the big things that happened recently.\u00a0 I got a seasonal job at Costco!!\u00a0 The store I’m working for hired 90 employees for just the season (Nov – Jan).\u00a0 They might keep 10 when the season is over… maybe.\u00a0 So I have 2 months to impress the hell out of them and BE one of those ten.\u00a0 I’m busting my ass to do it.<\/p>\n
The ironic thing is taking the part time Costco job is a pay cut for me.\u00a0 Going from $21\/hour to $11:50\/hour doesn’t make MY life easier but it makes my mother’s life easier.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 She CAN afford me part time which is why the Costco job is sooooo perfect as a lifesaver for Geddes.\u00a0 (Do not know what I’m going to do if they let me go.)<\/p>\n
And I will say, I’m loving the job!\u00a0 The people to work with are wonderful!\u00a0 The job is so physically demanding I have to skip the gym the next day!!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The Energetic Employee.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 They’d be amazed and probably scared shit-less to enter the work world. Haha\u00a0 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!\u00a0 I’m smiling every minute of it… (and losing weight!)\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
And speaking of Ex’s….\u00a0\u00a0 we had our day in court, finally.\u00a0 Actually it was an exercise in postponement.\u00a0 The Ex is asking for a Parenting Plan Assessment.. which we immediately said, “Sure, if you pay for it.”\u00a0\u00a0 Which completely postponed this custody\/child support question until the assessment could be done…\u00a0 in February….\u00a0 so my lawyer asked for temporary child support and HIS lawyer came up with a figure of $984 to begin November 1st.\u00a0 Which was, honestly, a huge relief because I had to get cell phones for the kids.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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…\u00a0 how does he expect me to contact him if there’s an emergency.\u00a0 Whatever.)\u00a0\u00a0 But it made me realize the kids needed cell phones so they’re not trying to find a phone to contact us.<\/p>\n
So that is what I did as soon as I got paid in November… I got them ALL cell phones on my plan.\u00a0 Cuz the Ex was going to pay child support now.\u00a0 Well, November 1st came around and no check… but we were in negotiations to possibly settle.\u00a0 The Ex didn’t like my counteroffer so he paid the $800 PPA1 fee.\u00a0 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!!\u00a0 Anyway…\u00a0 he missed it AGAIN and now I’m thinking he’s trying to get out of paying the first month!\u00a0 Because Dec 1st is around the corner and he’ll owe me another month.\u00a0 Talk about ignorant bullshit.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I take it to the bank and thankfully they accept it but I have no idea what he is pulling?\u00a0 If he doesn’t want a record of paying child support that will only damage HIM not me!\u00a0 For a man in Mensa my Ex is sometimes quite foolish.\u00a0 Or he’s getting the dumbest advice from his lawyer.\u00a0 I don’t know.<\/p>\n
On the naughtier front I went to a Fire Play Seminar featuring the famous Orpheus Black.\u00a0 That, of course, deserves it’s own posting, with hopefully a link to more information because it was amazingly informative!<\/p>\n
Happy T-Day to you all!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seems I’ve barely had the time to blog.\u00a0 But honestly I think its just Facebook sucking all my need to express myself.\u00a0\u00a0 I have tried to find time to write but getting in the mood for it with only 1-2 … Continue reading