many days have past

I haven't blogged in months. The main reason was I had no internet at home and I didn't feel like writing blogs at the library or Barnes and Nobles. I feel like both of these reasons are just poor excuses. I'm here at a library on a Friday night writing a blog, sure it's the library Allison works at, but it is still a library. The main reason I haven't written in so long is I have had no good news in such a long time. I didn't want to write about not having a job or my job search. These things both just took so much out of me.

Well the job hunt is on hold for a couple of months. I just got a job at UPS! I'm going to be a seasonal driver helper. I don't get to drive the truck, but I help the drivers on their routes. It's an on call kind of job, so I only work if they call me and need me. This means I don't have a lot of work this month, but a lot more after Thanksgiving. If I'm lucky after Christmas they might hire me as a full part-time employee. I would have set hours and after a year I could get benefits. I'm hoping that comes through, because I don't know if I could find another job in January.

On the home front Allison and I are doing well. I've taken a more domestic role. I make dinner more often and try to clean the house. I still do all the laundry just no little rugrats to hang out with when I do it. I miss that a lot. I loved seeing my nieces and nephews when I did my laundry. It made doing laundry an event to look forwards to every week or two.

Well life keeps moving fast. Soon I'll be eating turkey in Iowa, I hope to have more thoughts by then written in my blog. Maybe I'll have my short story I'm working on done by then. Hope all is well with everyone.

one week in

My first official week at my new job is done. I’ve been there for four weeks now, but the first three were all training, really boring training too. I never thought we’d actually open the doors for business. This last week was interesting, we had my normal manager and then three more managers helping us on our first week open. We also had two clients watching over us as we processed our inventory. Now we only have seven employees in my area where everyone was. On top of that we only have about four employees working at a time. So we had a manager for each employee. Each one was telling us different things. This first week of business was a crazy one. At the end of the week I was suckered into closing so my co-worker could do something with his fiancée. At close I counted down the inventory and came up short by a lot. Enough to put everyone in a fuss. After two hours of searching we couldn’t find it anywhere, so we called it a night. We called a couple of our carriers to see if we might have shipped out extra inventory to them. Luckily after a couple of hours one of our carriers called us back to inform us they did indeed have our missing inventory. What a week. The rest of the week sailed smoothly except for that last night. Tomorrow begins week two. What adventures await me? Only extra two managers to keep me in line.