Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Niece No.2 and Nany No. 2?

Yesterday was a wonderful day for my family, we welcomed another little girl into our family. My sister had her 2nd daughter around 8am. She is healthy and happy and she couldnt be more blessed.
I am proud to say that I am an auntie and a mommy, but this leaves me wondering if what I say I want is what I really want.
I have been going back and forth of whether or not to have another child. Kaiya is 2 and if we were to have another she would be 3 by the time the baby is born. We have finally gotten Kaiya potty trained to the point where it is diapers only at night and she is a total mommies girl. How do I go from one loving (terrible) 2 year old to 2 under the age of 3, work full time and everything else that I do.
I started off saying I never wanted kids, then I met my husband and what was meant to be was meant to be and we have 1, I rack my brain at the fact how rough that pregnancy was one me and the time that was spent in bed with morning sickness and everything else... Do I really have what it takes to have another one?
Only time will tell, for now, I will bask in me Auntie sense and see what life brings me.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Birthdays

Today is Cody's 23rd birthday. I cant beleive it, we were talking last night and he stated that when I say that I sound like his mom.Not that its a bad thing, we love you Kera.
I met Cody when he was 19 almost 20. The first thing I said when he told me how old he was was "thats my brothers age". Now we can laugh at it but before it was shock to me. I love my husband but to my surprise I didnt know that that day would have changed my life. I am 2 years older then him and at times it can be a challenge, but that is what I signed up for.
I can only hope that he has a wonderful and amazing birthday and I love him dearly. I cant wait to spend 23 more birthdays with him and hopefully many many more.

Yay for getting older!

Jessica

Monday, April 15, 2013

Frustrations at Work

As I sit here and read over my e-mails at work, I have this one person who works for one of our clients and  who just so happened to work where I work now, I cant help but wonder how people get off talking to others the way she does.... Well let me back up here and start from the beginning..

So I started working as a temp last July at a survey company (I absolutely love my job), it was only supposed to be for 4-6 weeks, that turned in to 8 weeks and upon me being here for 3 weeks I was asked if I would perhaps like to stay on full time if it could be arranged. I went home and thought upon it and talked with my husband on it and decided that if the offer was right I would love to stay and we could do so many more things with the dual income.... Well the girl who I was temping for made it clear that I was just a temp and so on so forth, so did the girl who I could absolutely do with out on a daily basis. Well 10 weeks later the girl decided she could "finally" come back to work. The arrangement I had made was that once she took the settlement offer to leave that I would come back... It took roughly 8 business days for this to be worked out.... Well lord and behold both girls are friends, go figure.

The first girl who used to work here hired the new girl who, well lets just say didn't tell the truth about her being pregnant and what not to the owner, was working for not even 6 full months before she took maternity leave and in I came as a temp. Which is was I fully intended on being until I was approached with an offer I couldn't have refused.

Ever since the day her friend left it has been a nightmare... everything has turned from being her fault to somehow being mine and she is trying to deliberately get me in trouble with my boss and lets just say she has a very terse tongue that is going to ultimately get her into trouble. I have received e-mails monthly about my inadequacy of doing my job and being unprofessional to reply to her demeaning e-mails. Well after the first 10 of them our boss's had a sit down and it didn't end well for her. She had a un-paid day off to think about her attitude and could return with an apology and to not let it happen again... Well the apology e-mail was more of a blame it on her boyfriend and her "personal" issues... Blah Blah Blah...

Here we go into round 2 of the countless demeaning e-mails and now slamming other people we do business for and using her knowledge gained in our office to slam our customers and make her company seem so much better... well with attitudes like that, your company made a HUGE mistake in hiring you (personally saying). If I ever dared to talk to a client/customer the way she talks to just me, I would be fired no questions asked. I don't know what I have done besides take her friends job, which was given to me, I did not make the decision to let someone go I was simply doing my job and apparently it was better then the job she had been doing, apparently that has made her blood boil so bad but I am over it. I want to write her the most horrible e-mail and send everything to her boss and say look what she is saying and how she is saying it. I am ready to take a personal day at work and go home and de-frustrate before I call over and have a little talk myself with her boss and out her for all her B.S... Not to mention countless times I have saved her so called "ass" with thing she forgot or ordered doubly.

As some point I can understand that you may feel like you have "domain" over such a positions or company but if you no longer work there and have no intentions on returning why do you care and put so much effort into making someone look bad when they have done nothing wrong? I have had talks with my boss over this and he handled it the first time and I am certain he will handle it again. I don't want to get people fired or in trouble but when you work for a company and you are nobody important there then you shouldn't be doing this, you make that company look horrible and you just are plain ugly your self.

A word to the wise, the welfare line will get one person longer in the near future and it wont be me.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Quotes

Today has to be one of those days where I was meant to be at home sick, its 78 degrees outside and I am stuck in an office dealing with not so nice "customers"... All I have to say is if the company was not happy with my work ethic or me, then I wouldnt have replaced someone who was already here...
Today I think I am going to post some of my favorite quotes- most of which a customer we work with has under their signature block on their e-mail. Its always nice to see them.
Enjoy
“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas 

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.” Andrew Vachss

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.” – Chris Colfer