Early Christmas for me too

Okay, so to recap, I accepted a job back in August.  The background check took forever.  I finally got cleared, and then there was some issue getting a start date.  Meanwhile, I had arranged to leave my previous job near the end of September (giving 4 weeks notice) on word that I would likely start in October, soon after my background check (which would take "about two weeks") had cleared.  I have been unemployed since October.

Well, during all that time, I applied for, did testing for, interviewed for, and was offered another position.  The interview was Monday.  They called today to tell me if I accepted the position, they wanted me to start on January 3rd.  HALLELUJAH!

So I have a new job--I'm a statistical analyst now.  The position is with the state, it's full time regular employment, and I will get to manage and maintain a lot of information and databases, so that's all pretty darn cool!

Alula

Christmas Came early!

So little mans Christmas present this year is this absolutely adorable black lab puppy! We had some friends send us the little puppy for Christmas. I even have trouble getting mad at him when he pee's on the floor. That will not last but right now I can live with it. Pictures to come if I can get him to sit still long enough to not be blurry. His name is Leo right now but that might change.

Sale!

Hey all I have decided to sell my Harry Potter stuff. Not the books the other stuff figurines, toys, games and random stuff. Currently it is all sitting in my storage unit and I am in need of money so I might not get much but I thought I would try. If anyone has any ideas about where to sell these items let me know. I have pictures of everything but I don't know how to price these items. All well I just hope to get something for the stuff.

Ever have that kind of day......

Did you ever have that kind of day when you are just in a bad mood and the stupidest things that normally wouldn't annoy you on that day are annoying the heck out of you? Well today is my day I am in a bad mood and am and snapping at the stupidest thinks, like my friend who is staying with us right now put a soda in a glass bottle in the freezer this morning and forgot about it so I get home to an exploded cream soda bottle in my freezer. I text my friend saying I don't want to clean it up and she said she will. But I still have glass and sticky soda in my freezer and it is bugging the heck out of me because I don't know when she is going to come and clean it up. Mr man told me to leave it alone and let her clean it up but for some reason it is bugging the heck out of me right now. See bad mood, hopefully tomorrow is better. And the fact that I don't have any money because of the storage unit management from hell that even after I pay the balance and wipe out my account still haven't changed the lock back so that I can get into it until I called today but I don't have a car to go get my Christmas stuff. Why am I so completely ignored? I will be in a better mood tomorrow. I need a drink.

Caffeine by a Thousand Quarters

Girlfriends, I will now continue my streak of posting about the only exciting thing in my daily life since I have not yet been allowed to start my new job.  Actually, I also wanted to give some credit to Mr. Borealis, who forgot our anniversary this year, but then made up for it by taking me to The Melting Pot for dinner, where he had roses delivered to our table.  :)  That man makes me smile.

This month (so far, knock on wood), I have had record sales of my books.  That's not a lot--about 4 books in the last 5 days across all the venues it's sold in--but it's a continuing trend of rising sales across the last several months.  I haven't been paid for any sales yet because most of the places I am selling the book have a minimum earnings threshold for issuing a paycheck.  However, looking at all totals together, I've earned over $10, which is kind of an accomplishment when I'm only earning about $0.30-$0.40 per book.  It's not a ton, but it's enough for fancy coffee once a month.  It's enough to look forward to checking my sales figures.  It's enough to justify writing more books.