Archive for June, 2008
pool party!
Yesterday we had a birthday party to go to, which resulted in me not getting a nap in before my first NIGHT of work. This is not a mistake I intend to make again anytime soon, so I will be off to take a nap very shortly. Even though I didn’t do anything physically exhausting, just having to stay awake involuntarily exhausted every bone in my body. I will get used to it, I’m sure. I definitely like the atmosphere of the night shift much better, it’s way more my style. I am just still intimidated by the job, and feel like it’s an overwhelming amount of information to learn. I don’t have a choice though, so I will get it.
I’m not very talkative today. I’m way tired, but I got some great shots of N and his cousins at the birthday party yesterday, so I’m going to share those with you for now. I took so many, these are just a select few, because it’s almost nap time….
The birthday girl at her pool party. Being cute.
The other cute cousin, being cute.
My cute kid, obsessing over bubbles.
Is he a frog? Or a pirate? Ask him. He will growl. You figure it out. He’s still cute, and that’s all that matters.
I love how fearless he is in this picture. His mom and grandma didn’t love it so much, but I did. I wish I could be as fearless as him. He’s 3.
links for 2008-06-29
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Former Meet the Barkers star and Dancing With the Stars contestant, increased awareness of such parties when she held one, complete with a three-layer cake featuring a
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Letting Go with Panache
shooter sings to my soul
my latest and greatest obsession… Shooter Jennings. When he sings, all I can do is close my eyes and sing loudly along with him and get lost in his music… I just love it. Look him up on YouTube and Myspace. Great stuff, I promise. If I ever have another boy, I might name him Shooter. Yep. I might.
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=ud_hZ2VDd5k]
wittless?
I miss my computer. I miss my friends in my computer. Dealing with people in real life is a strange, strange phenomenon… I’m not sure I can cope!
Just kidding.
I am actually loving it, however it is different to have to build relationships with people outside of my circle, and I find that in some situations I am a little lacking in the social skills department. It’s really ashame, because the people around me are missing out on a ton of wit and charm because I lack the skill to deliver it to them. You know, the way I deliver it to you. Here. Now.
But seriously, there is not a lot of time in this job right now for wit and charm. As a matter of fact, all of the knowledge gained feels a little bit like it’s shoving the wit and charm right out of me, and it’s scary! I went to Barnes & Noble and bought 4 books (all literature, too!) on the 2nd day of the job because as much as I was learning, my brain felt STARVED for knowledge!! However, I can’t stay coherent for more than one page at a time when I get a moment to read because I.AM.SO.TIRED.
What I hate most about this week is training during the day, because dadgum I miss my kid!! I caught myself buying him things today and realized it was because I feel guilty for leaving him. I’m glad I decided to work nights. While I will miss at least 3 nights a week with him, I will only miss a couple of hours of awake time as opposed to nearly ALL awake time. I don’t know how people do that… or how they can afford to – you know, to buy things for the kid out of guilt and still manage to profit from the job! ha. I am kidding, I would never do that. No really. I’m just hoping I won’t have to, because I totally would… Retail therapy gets me EVERY time. Hands down.
I miss taking pictures too. I don’t think that photography on the job would be very conducive to maintaining a positive employment status. That sucks. I would so document the job via photography if I could. You would love it, too. Trust me.
That won’t happen though, so I leave you with this.
My Boy. Happy. Playing in the rain in Disney World. August 2007.
Full-time, baby.
Today I stepped back into the world of “productive citizens”. I’m now officially a working single mom. Wow. That’s weird, typing it out… Today is the first day I have gone to a place of employment and worked a full day in approximately 8.5 years – I am completely, physically & emotionally, drained.
I spent the first half of the day in Orientation, and the second half OTJ training. The best part was when the guy that hired me asked me if I wanted to take the full-time position that just opened up today – um, what? Did I hear benefits and paid vacation? Hellz yeah. I’m on it like white on rice, brotha!
Did I mention that I might be a tad delirious? Yep. It’s very possible. I was afraid I would be late this morning because you know, it was my first day in a thousand years working again, so I woke up at 3am, 3:30am, 4am, 4:30am, 5am, 5:30am, and finally… at 6am when my alarm went off. That’s not necessarily what I call “good sleep”, if ya know what I mean.
The job is quite intimidating. I’m anxious to learn everything because it’s fast paced and requires a lot of attention to detail, and I’m scared I’m just going to mess something up and ruin the whole entire dang operation. Not possible, I’m sure, but I don’t like to screw up so I’d rather just know everything. This is my goal.
I don’t know how a full-time work schedule fits into the life of being a mom and an actual living, breathing human being… but I suppose I will find out soon enough. I hope I can balance it all, and make really great things happen for me and The Boy.
Nothing to do with anything, really. Just me and my new hair.
This is me on work, haha.
My boy… being cute.
