simply_blah

I've had a bad day.

My morning started off okay. I went and I talked to my old manager at Things Remembered where I had a season job last Christmas as an Engraver. Right now she's hiring for part-time positions and also an assistant-manager. For sure she's going to hire me for part-time with the possibility of being the assistant manager. I'm not going to hold my breath. They check your credit score and mine is pretty awful I'm sure. I want the assistant manager spot because if I have to work retail I'd rather be that than a peon. The bad side being that if my background doesn't check out (credit, etc.) she can't hire me period.

I'm going to remain optimistic about the part time because the job that I have right now, well I'm lucky if I get ten hours a week. It's low paying and it's barely covering my insurance, phone bill, AOL and gas. I've about used all of my tax refund in paying off credit cards and my car tags.

I don't want to consider fast food or grocery stores. I really don't but at this point I've exhausted almost all of my resources. I've tried temp agencies and going back to retail. I couldn't get a really good job at a call center that processes student loans because I got sick at my last job and had to quit. They told me it looked as if I had attendance problems. I'm dealing with a lot of that.

Later in the afternoon I went to my grandmother's, gave her some pictures of Grant, ate some pizza and went to Dollar Store to look for some really, really cheap frames.

While at the Dollar Store I happened to run into someone who I thought was my friend even if we were coworkers at Lane Bryant. I waved and said hello. She scowled at me and looked like Draco's Mom in that she had something really smelly underneath her nose and walked away. I guess when you get fired for not preventing a few associates from stealing, well I guess I kind of deserve it.

I didn't get any frames. I just went home.

Which brings me to the evening and I cannot find my glasses. I need them to drive at night and to see things like movies. I've looked in my car. I've looked at my job. I've called the mall office and see if anyone's turned in a pair. I've looked in my room. I've looked in my house. I can't find them. I had them in my purse for when I went and saw TMNT (I was entertained) and now I have no idea where they are. I do not have the $150 dollars for glasses and a new prescription and it's on my license that I have to have them to drive.

Mom is not sympathetic. She's not going to lend me the money to get a new pair. And I'm irked with her anyway.

I told her what time I would be home. I was early. Before I got there she sent out her husband for food. Did I get anything? No. Bitches.

Right now, I'm feeling very, very anxious and not in the good way either.

Thanksgiving was okay. We ate and it was good.

My sister had to work today. I don't feel sorry for her. I've had to work on both Christmas and Turkey Day (I worked for at a movie theater). She was whiny and pissy, as per usual.

Casey, my cousin, did show up with her brat kid. My god, I've never seen a baby that cries for that much and not have any reason to cry other than her mother wasn't holding her. She needed her butt busted and so did her Mom. I'm glad that she is going back to Florida on Saturday. I have purposefully not gone over to my Gram's to avoid her.

I have to work tomorrow and on Saturday. My shifts are short, only six hours and I'll be off by four. I hope I'll be off at four anyway.

I start at Jewelry Television on Monday and I'm really hoping that I'll have Sunday off from Things Remembered and next Saturday. It would be nice to have a full day off before I start full-time.

And that's about it.

Tomorrow I start at Things Remembered. For those of you not familiar, it's a place that engraves things. It's kind of pricey. I'll be engraving. It's part-time, seasonal and only pays $6.50 an hour but at this point anything is better than nothing.

Jewelry Television made a job offer to me. Friday through Tuesday, 1 - 9p.m. From 1 - 3 I'll make $8.00 and from 3 - 9 I'll make $8.50. It is full-time and I'll have benefits starting the first day of my fourth month. This is all contingent on my references checking out. If it checked out for Things Remembered, I have to hope that it works out here. I hope, I really hope. If so I start training on the 27th of November, the Monday after Turkey Day.

This leaves me with a bit of a problem. I didn't tell the lady at Things Remembered about this job. I didn't want to turn it down and then not get the job at Jewelry Television. That would be my luck.

I wouldn't mind a second job. God only knows that I need the money except the last time I worked two jobs I was pulling over sixty hours a week and I was sick and tired all of the time. I did not have any time for myself to get my chores done (laundry, picking up room, cleaning, etc.) let alone have any time where I could just sleep in

So, if I do get this job, I'm left with telling her that I still want to work there at T. Remembered. However, there are some stipulations. I can work anytime up until 12p.m. Friday through Tuesday after my training, I can work 6:30p.m. and after during my week of training. The mall can open as early as 7p.m. so that's not an issue. Ideally, I'd like to keep Wenesday and Thursday open. However, I could give her one day but for no longer than a four hour shift. There are a lot of stipulations with that.

And my Uncle, his new wife, and baby are up in Knoxville for Christmas. They'll more than likely be here until May or June because her Visa is good for six months. I like my Uncle but I do not love him. I rang the doorbell Saturday and he came to the door, glared at me and said, "Baby is sleeping." I wanted to flip him the bird and tell him that if he ever spoke to me in that tone he'd be eating my teeth but as my Gram was in the room, I could not.

He takes my Gram for granted and just doesn't care that it's expensive as hell to put him and his family up. He's supposed to get a job and help but the last time he did that he only contributed $50 and he made ten times that.

The house is too damn crowded. It'll be even more crowded when his other daughter comes up and I can't stand Casey most of the time. She's a spoiled, rotten brat who has never had to mind. She'll be brining her daughter with her too. Then my Aunt will be coming in December along with her eldest son and his wife. So I might benefit from working two jobs just as an excuse to not have to see them.

Speaking of my Uncle's new baby, Sophia, I don't feel anything for her. This kinda scares me a bit, but I don't feel any great effection for. She's cute. I'll hold her and I'll play with her but I don't feel anything. I don't look forward to seeing her when I visit. It's troubling.