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i am in demand!

i have an interview today at 3pm, i have an interview friday at 3:30 pm, i work tomorrow and friday (i dont think it will work out cause i hate the hours 8-5 m-th and 8-3 on fridays)....wow, im in demand.
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ITS RAINING TOO DAMN MUCH

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I have a new job (even before the last check from my old job and my 1st unemployment check arrived!) It is with an insurance agency in Elm Grove...the work hours kinda suck (but I get an hour for lunches) 8-5 M-Th and 8-3 Fridays and its business professional (no biggie) but I make only a liiiiittle less than I did at Rausch & since it's through the temp agency I can quit whenever I want if I don't like it.

Today Owen and I did errands (bank, library, coffee, etc..) and we went and ate lunch with Toni (thanks for the Burger King) & its like 94 outside (cant mow the lawn)...shannon hit a deer in her car (ouch!) and I lost 3 lbs since last week...

and Ryan is here this weekend (hooray!)



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job day

so I had an interview this afternoon with a law firm remarkably similar to my last job (except about 50x smaller) I really like the (one) attorney who interviewed me (she owns the firm) and liked the work duties etc....it was wierd that i had an hour interview and then they put me on the phones to see how I did....that was kind of odd....turns out a woman I worked with at M&I about 8 yrs ago works there too...

its salary + comission and she gives great perks....so I guess we shall see what we shall see, I think I would like to work there, its right on Barker behind Perkins...great location and she has young kids about my kids age and everyone there has kids (terrific!) its only one night a week late (7-7:30) that doesnt bother me and on saturday every 6 weeks for 3 hours (wooo kill me!)

anyways, thanks for the PHC links shannon and jen!

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MARY HARTMAN MARY HARTMAN

SO I HAD MY 1ST INTERVIEW THING OF THE DAY TODAY AT A PROFESSIONAL AGENCY...I HAD TO DO SOME TESTING. I NEVER REALIZED I KNEW AS MUCH ABOUT EXCEL AND WORD AS I APPARANTLY DO. I REALLY LIKE THE CONTACT PERSON AT THIS FIRM AND I GUESS SHE WAS ALREADY TRYING TO PLACE ME ON THURSDAY AFTER I LEFT, ODD. I FIND AFTER MY WEEKEND BITCHING ABOUT MY OLD JOB WITH NATE AND CARRIE AND MANY CALLS ETC...FROM OLD COWORKERS I AM VERY RELIEVED(?) TO NOT BE THERE. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I HAD IT MADE (MOSTLY) WITH BEING LEFT ALONE AT WORK AND KNOWING MY JOB, BUT I GUESS TO SUM UP WORKING THERE, YOU COME TO WORK EVERYDAY WITH THE FEAR THAT THEY COULD FIRE YOU AT ANY TIME FOR ANYTHING, AND HONESTLY THE SINKING PIT OF YOUR STOMACH BIG BROTHER FEAR WAS REALLY KILLING MY SPIRIT OR SOUL OR KARMIC BALANCE (WHATEVER.)

I FIND I AM HAPPIER WHEN I GET UP IN THE MORNING. I HAVE THINGS I WANT TO DO, MY HOUSE IS CLEANER, MY LIFE FEELS MORE IN ORDER AND CONTROL AND I DUNNO, I JUST FEEL MORE POSITIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING. I GUESS I DIDNT REALIZE HOW MUCH THAT PLACE WAS BRINGING ME DOWN TILL I LEFT.

MY INTERVIEW THIS AFTERNOON IS RIGHT ON BARKER RD BEHIND PERKINS. MY MOM THINKS NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO/OFFER FOR $ THATS THE PLACE FOR ME (SINCE ITS LIKE 5 MIN FROM THE HOUSE) I TEND TO AGREE....

ON THE ONE HAND, I KIND OF WANT TO NOT WORK FOR AWHILE (MONTH OR TWO) ON THE OTHER HAND IM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO PANIC ABOUT SPENDING MONEY WHEN NO (OR LESS) MONEY IS COMING IN...

THANKS FOR EVERYONE WHO CALLED OR TEXT'D OR EMAILED WITH WELL WISHES..AND KEEP THOSE "I FOUND THIS JOB YOU'D BE PERFECT FOR" LINKS COMING MY WAY (THANKS JEN!)


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neat o

so today had a surprize, jeff and alanna and kiera and grandpa bob and beemer came to visit...jeff and family are up from the new digs in Iowa...my kids had fun running around chasing the dog. also talked to NW for awhile...hope things at the ol firm get better for you (but they wont)....today we are going to hardees for the carnival and the cheep food....i also have about 10 more hours of cleaning to do before draft day tomorrow!
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yippie!

so im unemployed as of tuesday...and as i said elsewhere, im not too upset or unhappy about it....have been looking for a career change...it would be nice to get into prohealthcare, but no matter when or what i apply for they never seem to call me back. bah.
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Foggy

rehab is for quitters

so today is Thursday which means it is my late night again...Ive been
at work since 7am and Ill be here till 5pm. I hate working these 10
hour days. By about now (2:30) im shot...eating chocolate to stay
awake, reorganizing my desk, checking my appt. book for stuff to do,
making lists of crap i have to do at home (then discarding them as
useless as I will not do the stuff on there anyways) and wondering
(again) why i didnt just sleep an extra hour this morning. My boss and
I had a meeting this morning behind closed doors...he basically
offered to take the majority of my workload away from me and have me
write the process manual for the department and focus on internal
auditing of files....since he knows this is what i like to do anyways,
he was dangling a big carrot in front of me....its not like i had a
choice in the matter, but its nice to know my boss likes me enough to
try and make my work day more palatable.

today was food day at work. im too full to move, how can i type after
eating sweedish meatballs and cake? i ask you....

i bought chocolate gum today. its like chewing chocolate frosting. mmmm frosting

i may have to spend my afternoon doing the work "pretend" so i can
sleep (essentially i toss my ipod ear phones on, put my hands on the
keyboard, slink down low in my chair and nap)

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WELCOME TO THE WORLD BABY GIRL!

WELCOME AYA MARIE MIERZWA 6 LBS 11 OZ born yesterday to my friend (and old attorney) craig mierzwa in NYC.

aya chan and mom are doing well!

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no feelings

you know, i sometimes think i would have more free flowing information
if i worked for the military than if i worked here...it is about 2:30
and my boss still hasnt sent the email out letting us know our
coworker is "sick" (read: too drunk or hungover to come to work). why
not just email everyone, in fact, why not just have that email set up
as a daily occurance since she is always sick?

I guess that lately I have been dealing with a lot of addicts in my
life. I think you have two kinds of addicts, one the ones that can't
stop what they are doing and try to get help, and try again, and try
again...and the ones that don't think they have a problem, until they
get in a drunk driving accident and kill someone. I had a long
discussion today about the debate over is alcoholism and disease or
not. Me, Im firmly in the NOT. Drinking is a choice you make, you
may not choose to become an addict but you did choose to start in the
first place, you don't choose cancer (Thats a disease)-although if you
choose to smoke 4 packs a day and get lung cancer, you cant really be
shocked can you?

Im divided because someone I really care about is trying to work through their addictions (and 10000 kudos for that) and someone I dont really like at all is totally denying theirs.

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Candy overload

i shouldnt have to state the obvious

shouldnt have to state the obvious.

you know lately there has been a rash of obvious stating going on around here. like "if you take the shred bin key, you should put the shred bin key back where you got it...instead of throwing it out in the parking lot." (really) "if you dont work here anymore, we stop paying you." (unless you are milton in office space) if you get yourself fired from your job, and don't pay your Cobra, you don't have health insurance when you break your ankle falling down the stairs when you are drunk, which is why we fired you in the first place, since you didnt show up to work for a week cause you were on a bender" (really)

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door county

we head to door county this weekend for the baumer family reunion, i have to bake two cakes, get everything together to frost and decorate and pack, and get food, and pack the car and yell at dale for forgetting to do something and generally get stressed as we make our way 4 hours north

mary
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