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Ok this is for Treena,

Well since Treena is pretty much my only reader this one is for you.  I talk to most of my family daily since we all live right here and all so they already pretty much know what is going on with me...for the most part.  There are CERTAIN things I do not tell them all or in part but those things are left just for me anyway.  I did try posting the other night and was about 6 paragraphs into it and then tried to spell check before I saved it and APPARENTLY you can't do that because it was just gone at that point.  I tried the back button and all and it did not work either.  Ok so here goes the readers digest version and there is a lot to catch up on so !!!WARNING!!!  it could still be lengthy!

Well a few months ago I started working part time at the YMCA.  I figured that if I were there more I might actually work out.  So far that hasn't worked out.  I actually go to work out maybe every other week or so.  I just don't have time.  HONESTLY!  2 jobs and being a single mom sucks.  I do really like working at the Y.  It is usually pretty slow and then total chaos for about an hour then slow again.  It is like that pretty much all day.  I am working 2 days a week there Tues and Wed from 9-5.  Ashley has to be picked up by 6 so there is no time to work out after I am done working and don't even go there about working out in the morning.  So by the time that I get her she is hungry and wants dinner and then by the time I get home and get dinner made and we eat it is her bath time and then she is off to bed.  Then I am stuck at the apartment.  So basically I just get to watch a lot of TV.  On the days that I don't work at the Y I am usually flying or just getting home from flying all day and I am pretty tired.  I usually have every other Thursday and every other Saturday off and I just don't feel like going any where sometime.  I have been off work since Friday and we went to Wal-mart on Saturday and my car has not moved since then.  I have just been hanging out with my daughter, who it seems like I hardly ever see.  I do actually get to spend a lot of time with her but a lot of that time is now taken up by working at the Y and sometimes it take everything I have to go to work.  However, in Jan that will all change.

About a month ago, I interviewed for a recurrent (refresher)instructor position.  I had to have a 10 minute presentation prepared.  I had absolutely no direction on what to do the presentation over just as long as she learned something.  She just wanted to see a teaching style.  It took longer to decide what the presentation would be over than it did to actually prepare the presentation and I had help.  I called one of my friends who is a capt that I have flown with a few times.  She is awesome by the way and she help me figure out what I would do the presentation over.  I decided on Turbulence.  Most of the stuff came right out of our manual but I also went online and found some injury statistics and included that also.  I of course made it all pretty on paper, got my nails done and bought a new shirt.  I even brought extra copies because I didn't know how many people would be conducting the interview.  However, when I got to the interview she asked if I had prepared a presentation and said it was ok if I didn't cause there were a few of the other girls that just simply did not have the time to do because of the short notice.  (I was notified on a Monday afternoon that my interview would be early Thur morning).  I explained that of course I prepared a presentation and would still present it to her if she wished.  I would have sounded retarded because it was geared towards a group of people and it was just her.  She, thankfully, did not make me present it but I went over what I had prepared and she kept a copy for herself because she was soooo impressed!  And since I had her laughing from the moment I walked in the door, because I am funny, no other reasons, I left the interview feeling very confident.  She told me that she would be finished with interviews on Monday and would let me know them.  So I don't hear anything from her on Monday and now I am panicking!  On Tuesday I called and left her a message in the morning and then kept calling her all day and could not get her.  Don't worry I only left one message.  Still nothing from her on Wed, so again I keep calling and finally get her late in the afternoon.  She told me that she had not finished interviewing and for me not to panic.  She did not say "don't panic yet!", so I figure I am still in it.  So now I can't call her on Thursday that would have been bad, I had to just wait for her.  I was on a trip that finished Fri morning and when I got in I had a message from her telling me that I did not get the recurrent position but that she wanted to talk to me about an initial trainer spot.  So I finish up what I had to do and called her back because I didn't care what spot it was as long as I was in training.  So I am telling her that yes I am interested and trying to figure out what I will have to do (IE interview again) and she says "ok I will call you in Dec to get your schedule switched over for Jan".  My eloquent response was "What?, You mean I got it?"  Apparently, she HANDPICKS the initial instructor spots and she picked me!!!!  So I will start that in Jan.  Usually the person in the recurrent position ends up in management and hopefully it will be open again soon and I will reapply for it them.  Meanwhile, I will be home every night and won't have to worry about whether my daughter's bi-polar father (he hasn't been diagnosed but he sure acts it) will take his daughter on his weekends or whether he is going to be an ass and use my job against me like he has done a lot before.  I may or may not be able to find a life but at least if I don't it is my fault and not because of my job because that has been my excuse for a very long time.  It is about $500 more a month so I won't HAVE to work the 2nd job!!!!  And did I mention that I would be home every night????!!!!!!!

So that is it.  That pretty much sums it up.  I wish that I could have told you that I met this really great guy that adores me and I spend every waking moment with him but I would have been lying.  Come on this is me we are talking about.   I only meet guys that want to drink all the time and are with me so I can babysit their kids or guys that are with me so that I can house sit for them or guys who cant commit.  You know the drill.  I know my guy is out there but man is he hiding or what?  However, there is a lot to be said for independence.  So no guy just been busy!!!  A guy would take more of my time with my daughter and I am really not okay with giving any more up.  So in the long run it IS better this way!  I'll just keep telling myself that!!!  HAHAHA I kill me!!!

Comments

[ammogirl]

Lisa! That is FANTASTIC! You were made for this job, I bet this is your door to everything better. I'm so happy for you. More time for you, AND more money? Fabulous.

And with all my single friends out there, I'm beginning to realize that I just got extremely lucky with John. You'll get lucky one day too. Get your mind out of the gutter, you know what I mean :)

Love you!

[Lisa M.]

Man I haven't gotten lucky in QUITE some time!!! Thanks for reading all that!