Simply Charmed

I know I said I was gonna update everyone yesterday, but it was so busy at work that I didn’t get the chance. Thursday night I was counting down the hours til midnight, and just being generally annoying because of the excitement. I was fidgiting and checking the clock about every 10 minutes or so before Jimbo took the phone away from me and wouldn’t let me check.

When midnight finally came around he was already asleep, so I spent the first few hours of my birthday doing dishes, and laundry trying to exhaust myself so I could go to sleep. I finally went to sleep around 3:30 in the morning, just to wake up at 7:30 to have birthday breakfast at IHOP.

I got to my mom’s around 10 in the morning, and as soon as I go there I opened up the bottle of Malibu Rum I bought myself and started making pina coladas for everyone. We started swimming around 11, and just generally dicked around until everyone else started to show up for the BBQ.

Around 3 my sister called me and told me a birthday wish had been granted, that Nikki had gotten fired. Nikki is a pain in the ass technician at work that nobody likes. So I giggled like a school girl and stated that was the best birthday gift I could have gotten all day. Sure I know that sounds mean, but I really don’t care, you’d just have to know the girl.

So around 5 everyone who was going to be there showed up and I was finally able to open my birthday gifts. I got a set of Huggable Hangers which I had been dying to get. My mom got me a really nice floor lamp for our living room (we don’t have a ceiling light). I got a bunch of fuzzy socks, and a few movies (Cellular, Anywhere But Hear, & Autumn In New York.) My mom’s roomate also got me a bunch of outdoor decorations to hang on my front porch.

We grilled out steaks for dinner, and my mom made a home made cake, and we all went swimming for a few hours, and drank some more. I didn’t end up getting home until about midnight, and didn’t end up crashing until about 3 in the morming.

All in all it’s one of the best birthdays that I’ve had in years. Normally I get a shit ton of presents, but just spending time with the people that matter the most to me was really better than any gift I could have gotten. Hopefully next year will be just as fun.

Question: What was your best birthday? What did you do? Why was it the best?

Things have been going so well the past few days. Sometimes it feels like I’m waiting for the bottom to drop out and it doesn’t actually happen. There really isn’t much to report today. Things have been quiet at work, and quiet at home. I’ll be gone the next few days. My birthday is this Friday, and I’m leaving tonight after work to go to my mom’s for a 3 day celebration!

I’ll be back on Saturday. For my Despair and Exentrique sites, I’ll do all of you guys on Saturday when I’m at work! Be back soon!

It just doesn’t seem like I can catch a break. Things had been going really well. Jimbo and I moved into the new apartment, and the minor issues we were having have been fixed. Work started mandatory over time, which was a bonus because we were looking for extra hours anyways.

That’s when things went downhill. Saturday, we went into work, and they told us that the internet was down here, and to go to our old building. So we drive to the old building which is about 15 minutes away, we get there and our boss tells us the internet is back up, to go back to the new building.

We get to the new building, log into the phones, and start taking calls. We’re there for less than an hour when my supervisor tells me that the manager needs to see me. I walked in there, and our assistant manager is in there, and he says we’re waiting on the manager.

Our manager finally comes in, and they’ve got this almost smug look on their faces, and I have NO clue what they are about to tell me. My manager says to me, we had to fire Jimbo, but I wanted to let you know that this doesn’t affect your job in anyway.

I couldn’t freaking believe it. So now, I’m short one income, and I’ve got no clue how I’m going to make my bills. So I came into work on Monday, and asked for a raise. I figured they would turn me down (and they did), so my next step was to ask for more overtime. I’m officially going to work 12 hour days, 5 days a week.

Hopefully I won’t have to do that for too long, just until Jimbo finds a new job. He’s got a couple of interviews already lined up (thanks to my brother in law). I probably won’t be blogging much the next few months, but you can always email and send me comments

EDIT: 08/08/08 Jimbo got a job! It’s only 10 hours a week, but it pays 15 bucks an hour, and there is room for him to get more hours, and bring in his own clients. He’s basically doing home networks, setting up routers and basic pc maintenance. I’ll still be doing over time til he gets at least 20… but at least it didn’t take him several months like it did last time!