Sept 23-Oct 6, 2006 - Two week trip to Eastern Europe (Germany, Poland, Chech. Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria)
March 18, 2008 - Made final credit card payment for the trip!
(I opened a card with an 18 month interest-free period, and only used it to pay for this trip.)
I am a resident of Ohio. Ohio, a state that, in the primaries, normally wouldn't matter, but this time it does.
I will be voting for Hillary Clinton.
No matter who eventually wins the Democratic primary, I will support them in November.
Well, the title of this post pretty much says it all!
I started with the company on March 26, 2007 as an Office Assistant. I once found this job description on Metaquotes, but it describes my Office Assistant position perfectly: Establish and maintain safe distance between shit and fan. Sort paper clips as necessary. If you added, order office supplies, and do random projects you’d pretty much describe my normal daily routine.
Now, I will be an Accounts Payable Clerk. While I know I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life, it at least gets me the experience that I can take elsewhere. Sooner or later, I’ll get my butt into a grad program, and then on to bigger and better things.
The raise isn’t huge, but it will hopefully allevaite some of the financial strain I’ve been under. I usually stick to a pretty tight budget, but for the last two months, I’ve completely blown it. December I was $400 over budget (obviously some of that had to do with Christmas presents), and so far this month, I’m about $200 over budget. Oy! My rein in that spending urge! I was also told that usually around March/April time is when the company does it’s reviews/raises, and that I should expect a little more at that time! Sweet!
x-posted HERE
Dear Blog,
I feel like I’ve been cheating on you in the last few weeks. You see, I’ve found something new that’s been holding my attention. I’d like to call it a new habit that I’m forming, but it’s really to early to call it that yet. You see, I’m trying to change my life. I’m trying to make a healthier, happier me. If you’d like to keep track of me, you can find me here. If you’d like to join me, I’d love that even more!
I don’t mean to ignore you, Blog. As the saying goes, it’s not you, it’s me! I still see you in my future, but perhaps not as often as in the past. I’d rather offer you and my readers something more fulfilling, some reason to actually want to check back, but lately, I can’t come up with anything of much interest. I haven’t left you completely; I still visit you, and use your links. I occasionally even make posts, but I’ll admit those have been pretty sparse lately.
Blog, I remember when we got together back in October 2001. We were together daily, sometimes more then once a day! We had a following even! I think at our highest point, we had about 50 unique readers a day! I know that doesn’t sound like much to some, but for a lonely girl in college, that was pretty heady stuff! To know I had people reading what I said, and looking forward to the next post was fun and even felt slightly powerful. Now, Blog, we’re lucky if we get 10 unique readers a week! I obviously still have ideas and opinions that I’d be interested in hearing what others have to say about them, but since I left college, I feel like I’ve lost the ability to construct a proper argument or essay. (This might also explain why I haven’t ventured off to grad school yet!)
So Blog, it comes to this. I am not abandoning you completely. I am just focusing on something else right now. I may cross-post a few thing here, but I doubt the few readers I have will be interested in reading much of what could be cross-posted. I won't say goodbye, but I suppose I should say, don't expect much here any time soon!
