Great news...

Well I got the word about the job and I GOT IT!!! I'm so excited you have no idea. I didn't get to talk to the HR lady who left a message and told me that I got the offer. I have to wait until tomorrow to talk to her and find out about the pay and when I start. I am hoping I won't start until either the week of July 11th or the 18th. I will be on vacation the 2nd to the 6th so this has came at a good time. I think I will put my two weeks in next Monday so my last day will be the 24th and I can have the last week in June to do what I want without worrying about work. I'm just glad after my vacation I won't have to go back to this job because I'm sure I would come back to a mess being gone for a week. I'm just glad to get away from that place. I can officially say that I am retiring from my department after 6 1/2 years and now I get to do a job where it will be the start of my future career. I'm so glad I won't have to work weekends anymore. It's just a happy time for me. I also got a call about a job interview for a front office job that sounded like a good opportunity but after that message was the message about getting this job so looks like I don't have to call back to schedule that interview. The crazy thing is I had just applied to this job two weeks ago today. So in two weeks, I applied, scheduled an interview, had my interview and two days later I was offered the job. That has never happened to me before. I have had 4 calls for an interview in the past month that has never happened to me before either. I hope this is the beginning of good things to come for me. I think once I start my new job my focus will be on figuring out where me and my kids are going to be living once the lease to this apartment is up. I am ready to get my own place finally and hopefully I will be able to do it. I paid off all but one of the collections I had on my credit report so I hope my credit score will eventually start going up I just don't know how long that will take. I just don't know where I am going to go. Am I going to rent a house, buy a house or just find an apartment to go to? I wish I knew what I am going to do but I will start to figure it out next month and have it figured out before we have to start getting ready to move. I hope I will be able to make a little more than what I am making for my new job then I can figure out what my budget is if I have to rent. If I can buy a house, I would like to try and get a foreclosure. I see that there are some decent houses that are being sold for cheap. I would like to find something that is in decent shape and fix it up as I go. I honestly would not want to go to an apartment because I would like for my kids to have a yard to play in and somewhere they can ride bikes. All I can do is hope and pray for the best and that everything works out the way I want it.

I think I have good news...

First, I want to start out by saying that today is Prince's birthday. I'm mentioning it because I'm watching Purple Rain right now on VH1 which isn't really a big deal because they are always playing this movie between VH1 and VH1 Classic but after Purple Rain they are going to play Graffiti Bridge and I am excited about it. I like watching that movie. One of the movie channels played it a couple times and they would play it late but I haven't seen it in probably about a year now and I been waiting forever for it to play again. It just sucks that Prince had to die for the movie to get played. They are playing it late at 11:30 so I'm trying to stay up and watch it, The next time it's coming on is tomorrow at 4:30 and I won't be here to see it so I'm trying to stay up and watch it tonight and hopefully VH1 will keep playing it since they usually play the same movies over anyway.

Now for the good news I think I have. I think I may have got a job!!! I'm so excited. I had a job interview today at a place across the street from my job so I got my work done for the day and headed over there. The job is a HIM Clerk position and it's a great opportunity since that is what I am going to school for. So it will definitely help me get my foot in the door in the future. I had my interview and then I got to meet the lady that I would be working with. I also got to shadow her for about a half an hour just to see what she does and its totally a job I want to do. The lady I would be working with is an older lady which is cool she seems really nice plus she reminds me of another lady I worked with at my last job. After I finished with her, the lady I interviewed with showed me around and introduced me to everyone there so it was pretty cool and everyone seems really nice. It seemed like the lady I interviewed with pretty much said I had the job because before I left she said HR should be contacting me soon and she didn't say anything about having anyone else to interview first before she made a decision. So I think it is my job. Now I am just waiting to hear from HR. I hope to hear from them by no later than next Wednesday and I can put my two weeks in by the 20th. I want to put in to take some days off so during my last week which I hope is the end of this month I can take PTO and only work two days of my last week. From what I know, we can wear business casual, no jeans, it is Monday-Friday no weekends or holidays which is what I have been wanting and I am pretty much keeping the same time. The only thing I don't know about is the pay. I assume that I will find out about it once I hear from HR and I hope I'll make a little more money than what I am now maybe at least 2 or 3 dollars more. All I know is that I will be the 5th person leaving my department this month. One guy is suppose be leaving this Friday, another is leaving on the 15th, and another guy said he was getting ready to put his two weeks in to leave by the end of this month and another guy is planning on leaving by August. So it is a lot of us leaving at one time which is going to be weird but hopefully they will be prepared. I'm just glad to be getting away from there and that work. We'll see what happens soon...

Hoping for good news...

Well things are looking good so far. I'm not doing so good on my diet. I am taking the pills everyday which is 6 sets of 5 pills. So that is 30 pills a day. I weighed myself yesterday and I have lost 6 pounds in 4 days which is awesome considering I haven't been following the diet. I am suppose to be only eating fruits and raw vegetables. That lasted a day and a half and I couldn't do it anymore. I went back to eating my regular foods but I am still eating fruits and at work I am still making my salads and all I drink is water so I am still doing good on that. So I will see how much weight I will lose once the cleanse is officially over. I still have 15 more days to go.

I think I might be close to getting another job. I have already had two interviews so far, one last Thursday and one the Thursday before last and I have another interview this coming Tuesday. So I hope that means one of these jobs will hire me and I can put my two weeks notice in. I am just ready to get a job that is related to the career field I plan on going into after I graduate. Also, I am ready to get out of the job I am doing now. I just hope I can get a job with a little more pay than what I am getting now and I will be working Monday-Friday and no weekends. It seems like everyone in my department is leaving so far, two more people are getting ready to leave. One guy put his two weeks in last week and it sounds like he was offered a great job. Another guy is leaving in August so I hope I am the next one to leave. We'll see if any of these jobs gives me an offer. My deadline to have another job is the end of July but I might be lucky enough to have one before this month is over and that would be amazing considering my last job took years for me to get out of. It would be so nice to not have to go through that again.

Weight loss goals...

I am attempting to lose weight. So far, I haven't been doing much exercising besides the walking I do at work but I have been eating more fruits for breakfast and I have starting eating a salad more regularly for lunch. I also have been drinking more water and I usually do not drink anything other than water. I try to make sure I drink 2 big cups everyday at work. A couple of days ago I ordered a full body cleanse kit. It is from DHerbs and they talk about it all the time on The Steve Harvey Morning Show. So since I had the money and I am trying to lose weight I decided to give it a try. So I can't wait until I can get started. I hear you can lost between 20 and 30 pounds from it so that would definitely be a good start for me. I just have to figure out what I will do once the cleanse is over. It is only for 20 days so after that I will have to find something to help me keep the weight off. I downloaded an app that someone recommended to use for exercise so I plan to use that when I exercise. I should start by Tuesday since I still have to get it from the Post Office. I plan on recording my starting weight and taking before pictures so I can compare my progress. Hopefully I can lose enough to look somewhat decent in a swimsuit.

No luck so far....

Well the week is over and I have not received any calls from any of the jobs I had applied to over the weekend so I'm hoping I will get some luck next week. I haven't been job hunting since the weekend so I am going to start looking again to see if anything new has been put up in the past couple days that I can apply to. My goal is to find something by the end of July if I can. I would like to be able to have another job before the Fall semester starts since I have a class I am taking on Saturday, it will be nice to get a job where I do not have to work weekends so that way I won't have to worry about having to explain to my boss that I can't work weekends anymore and if I do I can only do Sundays. I hope everything works out for me. I have about two and a half months to find something. I hope I can get what I want in that time frame. Wish me luck!!!

Summer semester...

Summer semester is going along smoothly. I am doing a good job getting all of my work turned in on time. You would think that it would be hard to keep up since there are assignments due every other day. This half of the summer session is only six weeks long so everything is due back to back. I am ready to get to the Fall semester. I am hoping that I will be able to keep up with my Fall classes as good as I am with my Summer because I will be taking five classes.

The job search continues...

Well I am officially getting serious about job hunting again. One of the girls at my job just got hired at my old company for an administrative job and I am jealous. Why couldn't that have been me? As long as I have been trying to get an administrative job and I wouldn't mind going back to my old company. I still miss it even though I have been gone for over a year now. With her getting a position that I want, it gives me hope that I still have a chance to get something. I just need to start applying and try my luck. Hopefully I will be able to get a job offer in the next couple of months. I am so ready to get out of the job I am doing. I have been working in the same department for over six years now and its not something I want to do for the rest of my life so I want to get something in administration. Something that will be closely related to what I am going to school for that way I won't have to wait until after I graduate to get experience. I just hope I can get something and of course I hope I won't have to work weekends and I can get paid a little bit better than what I'm getting paid now. Wish me luck...