Just Pass Me By

I got called for a interview, and it sounded like they might actually have something good. I guess the joke is on me!!!

I got there to the interview it last maybe 5 or 10 minutes, while in the interview I find out this company doesn’t really deal with Office type work. Sometimes they get clients who need office help but normally they do not, mostly it manufacturing or machine work. So why bother calling someone who resume is clearly more of a general office type of work.

My interviewer told me she would call me if they got any position opened in my area of skill.. So what am I supposed to wait until they have a opening I think not.

I told her some of my strengths and what jobs i like the best and why. There is only one job on there that was office related that I favored and wouldn’t mind doing again. I did a variety of work, it wasn’t just the same old mundane stuff.

My husband and I have been married for almost 17 months now. His parents are older a lot older then my mom. My mom is 53 years old, she has some health problems and a couple of scares but nothing to make me say I need to leave now and get to Oregon. I better knock on wood I think.

My husband parents are in their late 70′s and late 80′s I love them as if they where my own parents. Some days I wish they where. I do not have a very tight relationship with my own mother and my father is gone. Craig’s dad is like a father to me and his mom is like a mom to me. I find it so easy to call them mom and dad and sometimes this confuses people I work with, or talk to because I talk of them like they are my own. I believe they are my own, when Craig and I got married we became one what his is mine and what’s mine is his. I feel sometimes he got the raw end of the deal. My mom had a time with drug use, and not being very trust worthy. I am proud of my mom for her overcoming, she has come a long way.

Craig’s mom is again in the hospital, she was in for a stroke over the summer. We were all scared we would lose her, so we had to rush out. Last night we received a call from dad, telling us mom was in the hospital. He wasn’t very clear what was exactly wrong but we knew it had something to do with the heart. She went first to her local hospital then was transfered to a Hospital in Rochester.

Mom heart rate was down to 15 at one point, not good and she had been passing out which is not good. Her blood sugars where also high and needed to be dealt with. We found out that she has problems with her heart beating to slowly, and needs a pace maker in to regulate her heart beat. We talked to the nurses to find out more information, and share our concerns.

Over the last month dad has gotten him self into some trouble. He still drives. I feel like a evil Daughter in law, because I been feeling like mom and dad are not able to live at home to much longer because their safety could be in jeopardy if they did. Dad does not call for help right away when mom has fallen, and they wait for to many days before seeking medical attention which could cause them a lot of problems.

We have a neighbor who is like family to us, they have done so much work to allow mom and dad to live at home safely, but I don’t feel they are safe enough. Over New Years they had an other neighbor take dad out to pick up someone in dad van. It was very snowy and dangerous to be driving in, Craig and I decided to stay home because of the weather. This neighbor had dad out for over 17 hours, and refused to pull over, when dad had told them to do so. The girl drove dad car going well over 80 miles an hour, and got lost on the way. First off you do not drive an elderly man for that long in a car, this is not okay. Secondly you do not drive 80 in a damn snow storm, you go as fast as you can with out trying to kill everyone on the road. Dad did not call us till it was all over. He and mom have a cell phone which he didn’t bother to bring with him. Had he brought it he could have called for help.

I have it in my right mind next time I see this neighbor of theirs to tell them off in not a very polite way. They come over to cook meals and then eat mom and dad food. Mom and dad do not make enough money to feed what a Family of 5 counting the adults in the house. When we go over to mom and Dad, Craig and I buy stuff for them, and if they insist we let them provide a little bit to but not a whole meal.

Dad is a very easy touch, he is very giving. This is a good quality to have, he very compassionate. If he  is asked for something he will do it even if it puts him into a bad place. Mom is kind of the same way but after her stroke she changed some.

I won’t even touch on Craig’s Sister…. That another issue in and of it self. For a few months now I been feeling like Mom and Dad need more of a assisted living sistuation they are unable to keep the house clean, grant it they have our good neighbor who helps. But our good neighbors are getting tired of having to clean up after this leeching family across the way. I am at lost of what to do because I don’t want to say this to my husband and I don’t want to have his parents thinking I just want to put them away. I am so scared that something very bad will happen to mom and dad and we can’t protect them.

To top everything off Craig and I are both with out work. My grandma also fall this week. Hopefully that all that will happen for a while maybe it’s the power of three taking effect. I don’t believe in superstition but some days I wonder.

Not sure they know what really determines a rated R movie or not.  My husband and I got a few movies the other day. We watch 2 of them 1 was unrated and the other one was Rated R. Okay I can tell you what the unrated one should have been. Probably rated R18 or something where only adults can watch it.

Today we watched a movie that was rated R, it didn’t have any real sex scenes unless you want to call the guys bear bottom a sex scene. The movie received one strike which is pretty good because normally when it warns about language by the middle of the movie it being pulled out of the DVD. I was surprised that neither movie got pulled out. Last night I do have to say I was tempted to take it out because there was just a little to much of flesh scenes.  I think that unrated should have been rated some how. I just don’t get how the movie industry does not rate some movies that really do need ratings. We did fast forward through a few parts of the movie.

I have been working on the same assignment since the middle of October. When we first started we had plenty of hours and overtime. We where still playing catch up. Last week, we found out that there was not enough work because we had gotten ahead of schedule. My team works very well together and some of us have fast or very fast as our pace of work. I am one of those who does not have slow, my pace is either very fast or fast. I have been told many times to slow down, but even my slow with talking to people and stopping between stuffings of mail pieces, I was still finishing my bucket within 30 minutes or less.

Yesterday I went in before 7am, hoping they would have work for me. My other team mates got their a few minutes before me, we had to seat there for 2 hours to wait for our other supervisor. Then she had us waiting for another 3o minutes before she told us there was no work. I am so frustrated, I need to be working at least 35 hours at this job just to met basic needs for Hubby and I. Yesterday I was told to call in at 830, I called and lift both supervisors a message which is yet to be returned.

I am frustrated because they will not end our assignment with the temp agency that hired us, it would be nice if they did, because then my company would maybe be able to place us in another position sooner. Last week I worked 16 hours, which means I lost holiday pay for New Years because my company policy is that we have to work 24 hours the week of the holiday. I explain this to my supervisor on site, and she was unable to find me more work. I called my company and they to where unable to find me more work.

Here’s what burns. My husband received a email asking if he had any friends who needed work. We both work for the same company, it a good company, but why on earth would they try to hire more people when they can’t find us work quick enough. It normally takes them up to 10 days to find us assignments. I am hoping the phone call I received from another temp agency will pan out for me. I need a new job, I been looking but seems like either they think I am over qualified or I need my 4 year degree completed.  How can I be over qualified, should it be my decision if I want to be paid less for my work, and not their decision.  I show up to work everyday early, I give it my all and it like they treat us like we are disposable people. I guess most companies see their employees as disposable people, they could hire someone with less experience, which means less pay, and maybe they don’t have to cover insurance cost.

I love the way companies say they are restructuring, it just a nice way of firing a person.

Tonight I had a friend come over. She has a baby that is 2 1/2 months old, I believe. Otis has never been around babies as far as I know. I have always worried about how Otis would respond to a baby. Would he be careful and gentle like he is with my smaller pets I have had, or would he be jealous and try to lay on the baby. Never can tell with cats.

I have a blanket that I don’t use to often, my older sister gave it to me and it has the L-rd’s prayer on it. I don’t like laying it out because I do not want Otis to attack the fringes on the blanket, and it is looks like it is netted or something. My blanket is blue and white, it more of a throw blanket to go over a chair or the coach. I figure it be one of my softer blankets for the baby and it was probably one of the most clean ones, with no cat hair on it.

My friend laid the Baby down on the floor for a few minutes, and Otis was very good.. He smelled the little one then laid on the top of the blanket and just watch the little one. I was very proud of Otis, he just smelled her head and her little hand and then laid by her but not to close to her. To be honest in the back of my mind I was thinking about when Craig and I have a baby how worried do I need to be about Otis. I am not saying I will not be worried and not take caution with the cat, but I know I should be able to keep Otis after having a baby.

As a pet owner I do not think it would be right for me to just give Otis away after making a commitment to keep him and care for him. It is funny sometimes when I am talking about Otis I have to clarify that he is actually a cat and not a kid. Anyways who would name their kid Otis.. The only thing I had to get after Otis for was after the baby was moved playing with my blanket and scrunching it up. I was proud of him tonight.

Normally, I stack all the mail on the counter and take out the important mail. I give my husband his mail, and then the advertisements and general junk mail I leave on the counter. I will go through it normally the end of the week, anything I find to be junk I throw it on the floor and pick it up after it all been sorted.

Yesterday I did my weekly go through the junk mail, I got side tracked. Normally Otis is fairly good about leaving my stack of paper alone. Today we came home from church and then meeting a friend, we where gone since 9am in the morning so long enough for Otis to become bored.

The first thing I do on Saturday when I come home is look at his food and water, make sure he well feed. He is a 20 pound monster. Otis is a sweet cat, but if he does not have food in his dish all day, he gets piggy and then throws it all up. Otis was a rescue kitty when I got him, I have grown attach to him, he long hair and thinks he should have his way. When I looked at his food dish he had shredded most to the papers I forgot about, and buried. He lift the papers all night long last night.

I have magazines setting underneath one of my tables, that i thumb through sometimes. Grandma gave me them they have different recipes, but I tend to be adventurous in the kitchen and never seem to follow directions well. I wonder how long before Otis feels the need to cause trouble to those.

This morning I was watching Chef Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare, my husband and I enjoy. I don’t think I would enjoy it as much if they were not peeping his potty mouth out. Ramsey was dealing with a restaurant manager who didn’t have a backbone. So Ramsey took him out to a field or something like that with no one around. I almost felt bad for the manager, I am a strong believer that you can say something with out swearing that will get your point across. The guy needed to gain a bunch more confidence and to be honest he needed a education in how to manage a restaurant properly. The cook had no business being a cook because he made everything from all-ready prepared foods. Yuck, talk about a bunch of preservatives and MSG.

Ramsey got the cook, cooking real food very important in a restaurant. If people wanted to eat out of prepackaged stuff they would just do it at home, no need to go out to eat. I know most restaurants  get precut meats and maybe veggies. I know when I worked at a pizza plate we got pre-made pizza dough but as far as our veggies went we had to cut them up.

One thing I do not care about Rasmey is he tries to get those who he helping to curse and have a potty mouth. You can make a person feel stupid, with out cursing at them. You can get a point a cross that sounds like a slam with out swearing at them. I know I do it, there are times my husband and I will argue, and I will tell him off. You know I normally get his goat easier if I don’t curse at him.

At my current assignment one day I had someone decide to yell at me. He choice to curse at me, he is lucky I didn’t feel the need  that morning to put him in his place.. I could have very easily made this person feel stupid and about the size of a ant if I really wanted to, but I really try not to do it.  A couple days ago, a group of us at work where talking about how many kids our parents had. My mom had a total of 5 kid, one of them didn’t make it through birthing. I still count that as one of her children… One of the men had said oh but to me it sound like whore. I turned around to him very quickly. What did you say about my mom! I was about ready to tear him a new one and believe me I wouldn’t have needed to curse at him to do it. He was actually scared of me, my eyes and face say a lot especially when I am about to get temperamental. He said  I said Oh meaning that a lot of kids, the guys has a accent, so I probably miss heard him and plus everyone was making some kind of noise.

There is a way to get a point of across and make a person feel like a bug, it has a lot to do with tone of voice, and how the sentence is structured.  I won’t explain how to do this because I don’t think we aught to be tearing down one and other to begin with, even though sometimes it easier to do then build them up. Now I will say most of the time when Ramsey is doing what he does, he has a good reason and it because those people are stubborn and don’t want to listen.

I am not sure what has happened, but it seems like lately the apartment complex where I live has allowed some very disrespectful people to move in. My husband and I have lived here for 17 months. We never have had problems with loud music, car alarms, loud cars engines and garbage being strolled out everywhere. The Pool and exercise room is for the most is always kept neat. When there are problems our apartment managers are normally quick to respond and they listen to what their resident say to them.

I have called in maybe 3 work orders since living here and hubby 2 work words. 1 was for a bug problem, we live on the first floor, so sometimes we have the invasion of little buggy things. I don’t mind it easy enough to kill and deal with it, but buggy problems need help of management. They responded and got pest control out here a couple of times until it was dealt with. This is important they have kept me very happy.

The swimming pools are both keep clean and when there are concerns management closes the pool, sometimes they use just a little to much chlorine in the water, and the water is as cold as ice. My hubby and I enjoy swimming and using the exercise room. Lately we have had to leave because of some foul mouth young adults. I am sorry I just do not need to hear G-d’s name used in that manor or need to hear other words. I am starting to wonder if the young adult realize their swearing and cursing is not adding anything to what they are saying it actually takes a way from their point.

Over the last couple of months, I have been woke up or kept up because one of our resident’s who has a big ol’ truck wants to run it and play his bass 10 times louder then it needs to be. So it not just his engine that wakes me up it his music to. He parks in front of the only walking path onto the sidewalk after snow has freshly fallen which makes you have to go around his truck and then over a mound of snow. I think my neighbor over head must have a dog or something, because sometimes my glasses rattle from the cabinet this I can deal with. I don’t like dealing with Mr. Truck driver loud engine people are trying to sleep!

Today my husband and I decided to walk over to Lunds, it was warm enough to even through it a little cold. I prefer walking to Lunds unless we need a lot of stuff from there then I will drive over. We lift the back door of our building, and got onto the sidewalk and there was Beer bottles, pop cans, and fruit and a bunch of other garbage on the sidewalk pretty much spread out. I am sorry but I do not think it is nice to make our Grounds keeper clean up after a bunch of pigs because they are to lazy to clean up after theirselves. If you make a mess do not leave it up to apartment maintenance to clean up.

Often times we develop this idea of we live in a apartment building, and the caretaker takes care of vacuuming the hallways, and they shovel our snow, so if we make a mess they will clean it up. People your Mother probably don’t live with you, and I know the Maintenance or caretaker aint your mother and I am sure they don’t wanna be neither. If you make a mess clean it up, do not leave it in the middle of a sidewalk so that other residents have to work around it or find a new path.

I have a T-Mobile Cellphone I been with them for several years. I like them, have never really had any trouble. A few month ago my best friend started texting me a lot. I was being charged for each text because I didn’t see any point in getting the Texting plan because I find texting to be a pain in the neck.. I would rather talk to the person then text on the cellphone.

My husband will also text me, he is with a different company which I do not like at all… He has a impossible time to get through to a live rep, and their stupid automated system is frustrating I think it would probably find my last nerve very quickly. I am normally a very patient person, but I hate having to fight to get to a live rep. At T-Mobile When I ask for Text Support it actually sends me  to a live person. I can ask for Customer Service, and get to a live person with out bring grilled about why I am calling by some automated fake person.

My husband recently got a new cellphone from his cellphone company, we never had issues with duplicated texts on my cellphone before getting the new phone. The first time he texted me we found very quickly my text plan was going to be ate through quickly, because it was sending each of his text at least 6 times each and each time it was taking from my cellphone text usage.  I received one of his texts that day a total of 11 times, at first I got mad at my hubby because I was trying to figure out why he was saying the same thing over and over again. He called customer service and was told it because they’re network is not compatible with my company, and told him he would need to power down his phone eventually, after I had called T-Mobile and talked to a friend who works for a cellphone company. My friend told me to have him power down the cellphone to stop the flow of texts before his company even thought of it..

T-Mobile as always was happy to help me out and give me additional texts for free which helps. The frustrating thing is my hubby has to power down his cellphone in order for me not to receive his text message more then once. I do not think I will leave T-Mobile because frankly I like their Costumer service, I don’t always like the cellphone options I have. I don’t like a 2 year contract but it sure bets the need to scream at some stupid automated speaker to get to customer Service.