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| Just a quick note to let you know that I posted some new pictures to my Yahoo pictures site. It's under 06 Uncle's Anniversary, some pictures of my family. Dad was telling me over Easter/birthday dinner yesterday that there is not a single picture of my maternal grandmother... that she was an only child, and they checked with any known family they had at some point. He said that in response to us taking pictures at the dinner table, mentioned how it's good that we take more pictures now than we used to.
Anyhow, go check it out here. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| I forgot to mention, on Saturday we celebrated my uncle Jorge's 50th wedding anniversary. We didn't make it to the ceremony because I had to work (it was the last day of a class I was teaching) but we went to the reception. Everything was very nice, my aunt looked gorgeous. For some reason, I didn't get a picture of the two of them with my camera. There were disposable cameras on each of the tables, so I took pictures of them and their kids and such with the disposable, and only pictures that wouldn't interest them as much on my camera, like my husband with baby Angel. The baby really likes him!
I'll post those later, right now I'm (as I type) uploading pictures from the conference I went to the first week of this month. I'm just a little behind in the picture area. (Partly because my computer doesn't auto-magically bring up the camera as a hard drive, so I make my husband get them for me. =P)
I will post pictures later though, I promise.
We spent the night at my mom's house and drove back up in the morning on Sunday. We picked up the car, which we still owe money for. It's gorgeous too! It's shiny, much prettier than I've ever had it! (I bought it used from a neighbor who bought it new, I think.) We've rejoined the world of the two-car households! Which is why I'm here blogging and uploading pictures instead of at work waiting for it to be time to clock in.
So, for now, go to my yahoo pictures site for National Aquatic Conference 2006 pictures. I'll let you know when the other ones are up. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| We went to see the baby today. He's so tiny... 5 days old. So when she had Lexie, Cyndi used two middle names- Cynthia (herself) and Beatriz (her maternal grandma). With this second child, she used Juan (her dad) Raul (her maternal grandpa).
So, meet Angel Juan Raul Sanchez, born January 24th, 2006.
I think he's reaching for the camera. O.O | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I had this strange dream last night, and Charles said that I should blog about it. Like I told you earlier in the week, my niece had her second baby. We've been planning to go meet the new baby today. Then last night I was doing some genealogical research. When I found out that my grandpa was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park, I looked up his grave location. That also gave me his death date. Last night, I searched the Social Security Death Index and picked which of the 11 people with that name he is based on his death date. That gave me his social security number and birthdate. Cool.
So anyway, last night, I dreamed that when we went to visit, we were meeting them somewhere. We met up in the parking lot and started walking toward the building, looked like a mall. It was Cyndi, Irma... I think Martha was there but I'm not sure. So as we're walking, I was like "where's the baby?" and they told me they left him in the car. So I go back and get him and I'm carrying him. The one thing that struck me about him was how white he was- Irma told me (in real life) that he's whiter than Lexie was, but he was more white than I expected... Then they say something about how they have the other baby, she's going to give this one up for adoption. I thought for a split second that Charles and I should adopt him, but then I remembered that my friend Jenny wants to adopt. So I was telling Cyndi about her, and Cyndi was asking questions about if she had a good job, if she liked kids, etc. I also asked where the other baby is (who in real life passed away when she was two months old) and they said they left her at home. I thought that was pretty strange, I couldn't think of who was watching her, and they didn't mention who was watching her- if it was my baby, I would have said something like "at home with grandma," ya'know?
So then we get inside the building, and everyone scatters, leaving me and Charles with the baby. So we're walking around, and the baby is looking around all curiously, like he's trying to figure things out. He's obviously a smart kid! So then we end up at a room with some benches and a big screen, and some pre-teen kids are playing video games. Charles put down his credit card (much like you put down a quid at the pub when you're playing pool next) and we sit down waiting for his turn. Then the baby starts making like he wants down... you know, reaching for where he wants to go... So I go to sit him down on the ground in front of me, and he stands up! He tries to walk, and I take him by the hands and hold him up as he moves his feet like he's walking. I'm impressed!
Then I guess he's walking between me and Charles or something, because Charles tells me that we need to change his diaper. But I don't have his diaper bag, so I pick him up, Charles gets his credit card back, and we leave the room, trying to find whoever has it. Thinking back on it, I don't think any of them have it, being that they were going to leave him in the car. =P But we try anyway... We end up walking straight into a room that looks like either a big bedroom or a really nice hotel room. There's a bunch of stuff in the room, including luggage, and shopping bags, and of course the baby's diaper bag. So I get a diaper out and put the baby on the bed. As I take off his clothes to get his diaper off, I notice a note taped to his stomach- it says something about him being born on said date on board the Queen Mary. Then suddenly it makes sense, that we're in a hotel room on the QM. It goes on to say his name, his parents' names, and so on... His name is on the top and there are columns below it with more names. On his dad's side, it was just the dad's name and grandparents, on his mom's side (my niece) there were the paternal ancestors but the maternal ancestors (my sister's family) it only went to my parents. I was a little shocked, and I remember thinking "we know more than that, they could have at least put my grandparents' names." Underneath the family lineage, it says something about who purchased that report or something... and it was my dad, which also surprised me, because he's been ordinarily not pro-baby. I didn't really think about why he would have such a note taped onto his stomach until my husband told me (in real life) that it was probably for the occasions where they left him somewhere, like in the car! His beanie either slipped off or I took it off, I'm not sure, but I noticed at that point that some of his scalp was peeling, above his right temple. I couldn't quite place it, it was thicker than a sunburn type peeling, and he was far too white to have been sunburned. I was concerned about it, and wanted to figure it out without touching it excessively, but that's about when I woke up.
So, that's it... a combination of what I was doing the night before, a trip my husband and I went on last weekend, what we were planning to do today, and who knows what else... Weird huh? I also wonder if the baby was growing up right before our eyes... he went from being in one of those rocking carseat things to walking around with some help. Hope that doesn't mean we adopted him after all! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Okay, as promised, here are some pictures. :)
My husband attempting to fire WWII era guns on the bow of the Queen Mary, or "Grey Ghost" as she was known then.
Look, no windows! (On promenade deck.)
My husband and me inside Scorpion submarine.
Me sliding through a submarine hatch!
Unsatisfied with earlier attempts, Charles tries to start WWIII with the big guns. (Torpedo tubes on Scorpion submarine. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| My niece Cyndi had her second baby today, at 10-something in the morning. I didn't get notified until after 8pm, but such is my family. They complain I don't call enough, but I've always been the last to know anything. =P Even when dad was in the hospital, no one told me until like 4 hours later even though I was at home.
Anyhow, the baby's first name is Angel, but the last I heard she hadn't decided on a middle name. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Hey, I just found out while looking at the QM website that we were entitled to the Ghosts and Legends tour. It didn't say that at the ticket booth, but both the QM and Scorpion website say it. Bah, I wanted to do that tour too, but I suppose it's okay... we looked at everything so carefully that it was closing time by the time we got out of the Scorpion, so I guess we wouldn't have had time for anything else... But it's still annoying. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| We went to the Queen Mary yesterday, my husband and I. It was a lot of fun, we took some cool pictures that I'll post tonight after work (they're still on the camera, and I need to re-size them before uploading).
We originally went because we saw a television commercial that they were having a Titanic exhibit. It was fascinating, well worth it in my opinion. An excellent location for it too, during the walkthrough of the exhibit, we walked outside of the ship and saw the QM's propeller, and realized that we were outside of the ship, over water. That was awesome. We also learned a lot about how the cruise ships of old were set up and about how it would have been to be on one, which made our tour of the QM more relevant. Unfortunately, photography wasn't allowed in this exhibit. There was a book that we could have purchased with photos of the items, as well as additional information, but we decided against it.
There was also a WWII exhibit that I thought was a little more fleshed out when I visited many years ago. But I could be wrong, I don't remember it much. That was pretty cool too, just a bit small.
When we went to the bow of the ship on the promenade deck, there was a Carnival cruise ship getting ready to leave. Another person told us that it wasn't leaving until 10pm that night, but the passengers were already wandering around with their lifejackets on. We were speculating as to whether that's a requirement for them to be on deck while the ship departs. Anyone know? We've decided that we'll take a cruise one day, probably for our anniversary next year (our 2nd). I put it in his PDA. ;)
The last thing we did before we left was tour the Russian Foxtrot class Scorpion submarine. Another self-guided tour, this one was led by (presumably motion activated?) speakers throughout the sub. It was really cool, we went through the whole sub alone, since it was almost closing time, so we stopped to take pictures in several places. We even turned the periscope a little! Shhhh, we weren't supposed to operate anything. It must have been really interesting to live on a sub like that. I'm not sure if modern ones are any better, but some of the bunks on the Scorpion have just a couple of inches of clearance before pipes, and the tour guide voice said that sometimes the men put a blanket on a torpedo and slept there. I can't imagine 78 people there... there were maybe 8 individual bunks for officers, and the rest hot bunks. But even besides sleeping arrangements, 2/3 of the people are awake at a time, that's a lot of people around in not a lot of space! They say that a former resident of the sub is there 5 times a week, but we obviously missed him.
Again, pictures to come later. =)
Oh, I forgot to mention, my employer is paying for my conference after all. SCPPOA paid for $250, my employer picked up the rest of the registration, plus my airfare. All I need to pay is the hotel and food! In a one-on-one with my supervisor, she did tell me that there wouldn't be a full time position in the next fiscal year, and almost certainly not in the one after that. That's okay though, they pay for conferences and professional meetings, so I'm happy with them! | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yesterday was a day of such extremes that I didn't want the two parts of the day to share a post. So they're not...
It took me a little over two hours to get to El Monte in the morning. There was a four-car accident on the 101 that slowed us down in what's normally a pretty quick stretch between freeways. As soon as we recovered from that, we hit the next interchange. When I got to my sister's house, mom was next door. Dad chose not to come- my sister called him un-paternal. I'm not sure why he didn't come, but it's okay. I know we all deal with things in different ways, and I guess his is not at the cemetery.
I found out while we were waiting for everyone to be ready to go that Irma had "investigated" and found out where my paternal grandfather is buried- in the same cemetery as my great-niece Alexis. Until yesterday, I didn't know that he was there. I didn't even know for sure if he died before or after I was born, only that I have no memory of him. (My paternal grandmother died when my dad was a child.) It just came up in conversation that dad didn't want to go even though Irma had found out where grandpa is.
I asked if we were going to go visit him too, and the answer was something along the lines of "well, if your dad's not going..."
The drive up was okay. We talked about Lexie, and about the new baby... (Not sure if I mentioned, but she's pregnant again, and due the 20-something of this month.)
I asked again about visiting grandpa, this time adding that I would like to do so. The answer then was "well, your sister left the paper with his grave number at the house," to which I of course replied that if we stopped at the information booth, they could look it up for us. We stopped to get flowers. When we were going through the main gate, I reminded them that we should stop at the information booth to ask where grandpa is. The answer then was "well, we didn't even bring him any flowers." That bugged me... this was no more than 2 minutes after we left the flower place, and there's a flower place inside the cemetery as well. Besides, it wasn't about the flowers, it was about our grandfather. =(
So we went up to the Garden of the Innocent, where Lexie is buried. There was a detour due to the construction going on. They're building a lake in what they're calling the Sycamore Valley. It's going to be really nice, actually. Lexie's in that valley. Once the lake is filled, we'll drive by it when we go visit her.
The girls and I went to see the new neighbors since we last visited. I know it's not necessarily the case, but I like to think that those other babies and children she's buried by are her playmates now. Unlike with adults who have children and grandchildren to visit them, once parents stop visiting a baby, few will come afterward... so it's personally important to me to find out about the babies near her. Whenever I visit her I try to talk to whoever else is there visiting their kids. Apparently, many of them are SIDS cases, or died the same day they were born. I'm always drawn to the quadruplets a few rows up. I hear that their parents tried for a long time to get pregnant, and they were on fertility treatments. They all died within a day of being born. That must be so hard, after they got their miracle...
Mom and my sister started taking cleaning Lexie's stone and arranging flowers. Mom was pressuring us to leave as soon as they were done with that, which I didn't like... I wish we had gone in two cars so I could have stayed longer and reflected a little. We sang happy birthday to Lexie, and then mom gently prodded us back to the car.
We're talking about getting a fence for her... some of the gates look much like cribs. So we went to the administration building and Carynna and I got down to ask... the lady at the counter said that they're not allowed at all, and they're removed immediately except for during certain holidays. That puzzled me, because although you don't see them in most places, 80% of the graves in the baby area do have fences. I think we might have to find someone from maintenance to clear that one up... She called someone on the phone and asked about it, and said something like "oh, only carousel?" That must be another baby area. The Garden of the Innocent is in Sycamore Valley, the new area, so it might be a new thing and still puzzling. More on that if we hear more.
I was thinking of going back again to spend some time there and find my grandfather... but I had other things to take care of. Some of the paperwork that the lady at the counter gave us said something about a grave locating feature on their website, so I used that today. It was interesting, because using both first and last name turned up nothing, but using only the last name brought him up as one of the hits. (The problem was I didn't realize it wanted last name first. The search was broken when I did first name first.) I'll go see him the next time I'm in town.
I also found out that my cousin lost a baby. I never knew that. Apparently, they didn't want to bury her in Arizona where they now live in case they move back. So she was cremated, and my aunt has her ashes. I haven't seen this cousin for years... I'm so behind on the family gossip, huh?
For the record:
Salvador A Aceves- Died January 11th, 1980 (three years before I was born)
Garden of Affection, section 23, lot 7705, grave 1.
Alexis Cynthia Beatriz Sanchez- Died Sunday, March 13th, 2005
Garden of the Innocent, section 1, lot 17, grave 1.
I'm reminded again that I want to pre-plan my funeral arrangements, and I want my husband and sisters to do the same. I want us to spare each other the pain that we had to bear in planning Lexie's funeral. I know my parents won't do it though. They've pre-purchased their places in a mausoleum, but I doubt they'll discuss funeral services. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Oh, Friday (the same day that my friend is getting married, so I had gotten the day off work for that) also would have been Lexie's first birthday. Not sure yet, but I think we're going to go visit her together as a family. I don't think more than 2 of us have gone together at once... I've only gone alone. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This computer isn't jiving with my ADD here... It frequently closes programs unexpectedly, sometimes expectedly but not wanted. (Like every time I try to run a certain report from a database, when the same report with a different central entry does work.)
Then I try to SFTP to somewhere, and it stalls. I really want to go home now and watch a movie with my husband, but I'm here trying to get something to work that I should have been able to do fast... It's frustrating. :( I normally have 6 or so tabs going in firefox and I do work in one while the other one loads. I can't even come close to that tonight, I'm scared to have more than my two terminal windows and one logjam window open. Almost makes me wish I had IE.
Short story shorter, go here: http://www.thewybles.com/~patti/family/index.html
That's what I've been working on over the past week or two. If you have any information to fill in, please help me do so, I'm hooked now. I have to find out more about more people!
I tried turning my yahoo pictures of the wedding, but it didn't work. I'm not sure if the functionality is gone or my pictures are too big, but I'm going to have to rotate them on the computer and re-upload. Not going to happen this week, sorry, not till Charles makes the computer all better. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm really really upset right now because I spent a long long time writing a post to account for the past week or two, during which alot happened, and when I was scrolling down to find the submit button, my screen went black with a cursor (I think it was blinking, I'm not sure) and after a few moments went back to my desktop but without my firefox window. Grrrrrr!
I was on the phone with Charles at the time, and he tried to remind me that it can't be the first time a program has crashed on me and I lose my work. Well, it's not, but normally I save my work every couple of minutes and a webform has no capacity for that, so I lost a lot more work. That and I normally don't have so much to say at once.
So you get the short version.
New wedding photos from the photographer are up. The CD was cracked, but Charles got them to send another one.
http://photos.yahoo.com/calliope320
Click on "Wedding" for sister's pictures, "Wedding Cont" for photographer's pictures.
Charles got a new job, making more than he did at his old job and liking it better.
I need to buy work pants, because my new work is navy blue and my old work is khaki. Luckily, we got a new policy last month at my old job saying we can do either navy or khaki, well timed with my new job.
I went through a downward spiral with my credit card... You see, I carry a $500 balance, not by choice but because of inability to pay it off. So every month, the cell phone bill was taken out of there and I'd put a corresponding amount back in when I got the cell phone bill in the mail. Maintained my credit, met the minimum payment each month, paid my cell phone bill on time, and so on. All was right with the world, or at least my finances. Then I didn't have enough money to do that, so a bill got declined the following month because I was maxed out. So I got the auto-debit changed from my credit card to my check card. Now, I used to have a nice little ritual of putting money in every time I got a bill. Moving without setting up forwarding (I'm not on the lease yet), not having that payment come out of my credit card, and not having money all lead to me just about forgetting I even have a credit card. All I ever used it for since it was nearly-maxed was the phone bill, and now it's not. So I have two $29 late fees as well as over-limit fees. I paid them off tonight, brought the balance back down to $40 under my max. Probably wrecked what credit I did have though. Two consecutive months of missed payments, can't be good.
I wanted to, at one point, put the car on my credit card. Have it auto-debit from there, cycle the amount through my credit report twice. Two on-time payments for the same $350 each month. I thought it was a good plan, but I didn't have $350 of credit to spare at the time so I had it auto-debit from my check card instead. I may re-consider that (once we zero the balance) to re-build from this blunder.
Someone at my new work is a control freak, and it's keeping us from getting our jobs done. This person takes work home (which is expressly forbidden in the new hire paperwork we all signed) rather than share responsibility or delegate, which is not only unfair to us and to that person, but it leaves us without critical information because they take home the only copies of very important forms. It's very frustrating. This person has the "if I delegate this, it'll get screwed up" syndrome that I think new managers tend to suffer from. That's theory 1. Other theories include job security, getting credit for doing all the work (since there are advancement opportunities, but not for all of us at once), or not wanting to admit they can't do it all. It better get fixed by summer, or we'll have big problems (not inter-personal ones, but operations problems). I've scheduled 40 guards over 4 bodies of water, I've scheduled and run an instructional program of 17 instructors, 3 lifeguards, and 104 students AT A TIME for half hour a day TWELVE times per day. I can handle it, put me in coach.
Work stuff:
I'm setting up an inventory tracking database, that's been my latest project.
The name tags I made for the employee lockers came out great, the graphics department does all of our color printing for us since we all have laser printers. Wow, am I impressed. Whatever they're using, I want it. The colors are SPECTACULAR. My supervisor laminated them and I put them up today, I love them. They're pictures of the pools with people's names incorporated in word art. I'll post pictures of that at some point, I'm quite taken with them. I'm going to do them at both pools, but at my new pool it'll be prettier because of printer quality. I have peoples' names climbing the ladder of the high dive, jumping off the board, coming down the slide, dropping out of the drop buckets... Can't wait to get mine, it's in the second batch.
I want to use my PDA to get files from my old work to my new work, because it has a 1 Gig SD card. But the computer at my new work recognizes it as a PDA and then tells me I have to be an admin to install it. Haven't tried on old work's computer, but they're on serious lockdown so I doubt it'll work there. Really, Mr. IT dude, I just wanna use it as a hard drive. I promise I won't try to synch with Outlook or anything silly like that. Just saving CDs and increasing productivity! Now, it does let me connect my mp3 player and recognizes that as a hard drive without me having to install anything. But that's no bigger than my thumb drive anyway, that'll take me ages to transport all my files!
Have I ever told you that IT at my old place wouldn't install drivers for either my camera or the department's shared camera on my work computer? Again, I just wanted to pull files off it like a hard drive, I didn't want any software or anything. But it's a "have your division manager talk to my division manager" shop, and the idea didn't get past my immediate supervisor because she said they wouldn't allow it due to licensing. Now, really, I know better than that. If you buy a camera, nowhere in your receipt does it say you can only connect it to one computer. Now your license for software, that I may have believed. Does she know better than that? Probably not. That's what's wrong with the system, people who know better aren't allowed to talk to each other. So I got into the habit of doing it the long way: upload to computer, upload to website, download from website. What do you mean, we're using more bandwidth this week than all last month, mister IT dude? Ask my division manager about it.
Charles is doing laundry, we still haven't gotten the dryer looked at so we wash at home and dry at the laundry-mat place. He dropped me off here at Starbucks and went there, then we're going to go home, have dinner, watch a movie while sorting dry laundry.
Tomorrow, I'm going to the November SCPPOA (Southern California Public Pool Operators Association) meeting. I was going to go representing my old job, was I did all last year on my own time and in my own vehicle. Then I found out today that my new job will pay me to go. Guess I'm wearing blues instead. =) I still have to drive my own car, but that's because it's complicated to drive city vehicles to other counties, that's not unusual really. If my supervisor was going (she normally does) I'm sure we could get a car. I'm just a part time manager though. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the meeting. It's at the headquarters of my home chapter of the American Red Cross, and the speaker is the person at ARC that we call when we need stuff. All my once-a-month aquatics friends will be there!
Back with another post some time by month's end. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| I now know what my friend David feels like. I've been working 9am to close (8:30/9:30) on Monday and Tuesday at my old job, then I work 8-5 Wednesday and Thursday at the new job, 11:30-8:30 Friday at new job, and 8:30-4 Saturday and Sunday at new job. I think I have this upcoming Sunday off. That's good in a way, but I'm concerned because that pool is really short on people available Sunday. Sunday was a be-on-tower day, not an office day.
So, the new job is going really well. I've been working on a Cashiers' handbook with FAQ and important information on our programs at a glance. It's kind of like turning my mom into a cell phone retail person, they have to learn a lot of things they probably never thought they had to know.
I think the highlight of the week has been getting the garbage disposal fixed. That not working made the sink back up when we tried to use the dishwasher. Oh, that and getting keys to work, that was nice too, we've been waiting for a while. Hmmm, what else is new this week...
My husband made a plan of action for getting through the next month. He has a THIRD interview tomorrow with a company, they told him that he's meeting the president and chief operations officer, and he's already been told that his background check cleared, so I think it's looking good there. It'll help us out a lot when he starts working full time again, in a lot of ways. A lot of them financial (like being able to fix the car, get a land-line phone, etc), but a lot of them emotional too. Him being under-employed has been very stressful on us both.
On that note, we've been doing better. I think he was surprised when he read the last post about my depression, and us talking about it in depth and resolving some things made our situation with each other better. You all know a little fighting doesn't mean there's not as much love, it just means there's something there to be discussed.
People at my old job are so devious. It's strange the difference from my Tuesday to my Wednesday. On Tuesday I had to write up one of my senior guards (lowest level of management), and on Wednesday one of my assistant managers was making a lunch run for everyone because we looked a bit groggy. On Monday I walked in to find a meeting agenda in my inbox saying there's new procedures but not outlining what they are, and on Wednesday another manager and myself sat with the Aquatics Supervisor and discussed possible solutions to the same issue and came to a compromise plan drawing from all of our experience in four different aquatic centers (two municipal, one college, one military). It's like moving from a downtown ghetto to Pleasantville USA where the cheer captain dates the quarterback and everyone turns out for the big game (speaking of which, I missed homecoming again). It's a bit of a culture shock.
My mom suggests that I don't burn my bridges at my old job, and that if Charles does't get this job he can look for work in the San Gabriel Valley or in the Los Angeles area and I can continue at the old pool. I'm not so sure that'll work for me anymore though. I've gotten a taste for this real world thing where people treat their peers with respect and behave at work as though they could get fired. Not that I want to fire people, but when they know that no one who cares to do so has the authority to do so, things get bad. Trust me on that one.
But yes, I'm tired. My depression doesn't help that, but I do feel just a tad overworked. I'll be okay, though, I'm enjoying myself. :)
Apologies for the ADD-style post, I can't help it, just having a bit of a rant. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I've been going through a period of depression, starting at least a couple of weeks before the wedding. I have no car, it wouldn't start when I tried to leave work on Saturday. So now Charles drops me off and picks me up at work. Not too bad for when I work in El Monte, because there's a Taco Bell / Pizza Hut within walking distance. Only thing within walking distance of my work in Ventura is a gas station though, so that means I'm not eating lunch. Then we moved my tv/monitor to the bedroom so we can watch movies since we have no tv (because we don't have cables for it) so now I have no computer because I have no monitor. And I still have no tv because I have no cables. And we have no money. Luckily both of our families gave us generous wedding presents in the form of checks, or else we'd really have nothing. We had to pay a $1,000 deductible to get our Focus out of the shop, paid $500 in repairs on our Explorer which now once again doesn't work. I had to explain to my boss that my car would sit there after closing until I had money. That kind of sucked... So yeah, no car, no computer, no tv (I know that sounds vain, but I'm used to watching the news for two hours in the morning and one in the evenin five days a week, so this is a shock to my system), no music, no internet access from home (which would do me no good since I have no computer, but it's still a big change for me), no money...
My new job has been going well. We had a little tiff over not doing things by the book on my first day with my guards. My boss didn't tell me she wants things done a certain way (which is not what's in the textbooks) so it really threw me off when she interrupted my class to "correct" the guards on their deep water spinal injury management. It's a change in technique that requires there to be two guards at all time, because she has them ditch their rescue tube, so that throws off our Emergency Action Plans too. I have to have two guards jump in, one to get the victim and one to get the rescue tube and re-position it. That leaves no one on deck in the deep end to clear the pool out. We'll see how it works, we get real people in the pool tomorrow. the city's having a donors party (people who donated lots of money toward construction) at 3, then a city employees (and immediate family, so I invited Charles) party at 4. Being invited to a party where I have to work kind of sucks, but someone has to make sure no one drowns, right?
Well, anyhow, Charles is at home and grumpy and has work to do on the computer, so I'm going to go now. I haven't touched the computer since my last update, and probably won't again in about as long. But I'm still alive, that's part of my contract. I'd say someone call me, but we have no phone either, and I have zero cell phone coverage at our apartment. :( | | comments: Leave a comment |
| First batch of wedding pictures are now uploading (online by the time you read this =P though). This is the first disposable camera we used, the second one is still half done so we'll have that developed after it's finished. The third batch will be the photographer's pictures. Keep you posted.
http://photos.yahoo.com/calliope320
Click on wedding, I'm not feeling snazzy enough to grab you a link straight there. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Still alive, anyone reading. Just busy! Got back from honeymoon and in the process of finishing up moving and starting new job.
My boss at old job questioned (to the other manager, not to me) why I am now only scheduled for twice a week. She doesn't know I got another job. That'll be interesting when I go to work on Tuesday. :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yesterday morning I went to sister's house and printed out our wedding announcements. We have close to 90 of them in two sizes with the same text. Sister's going to translate into Spanish so we can do a batch to go to the uncles and my grandma in Mexico.
I have to go through the "guest list" we had worked on when we were going to spend lots of money and see if I need to buy another box of announcements.
Today, after work, I'm going back to sister's house to work on at home cards and how to combine them with the announcements- we're thinking gold ribbon. Now, I know that ettiquite states that I should hand-write the addresses, but I apologize in advance to those who are getting them - I probably won't have time.
Charles came over this morning to help me pack up my clothes, my non-clothes stuff is going up tonight... Tomorrow, Friday morning, I get to go have my fingerprints taken for my new job, I have a 10am appointment with the Ventura PD, so I'll be staying at the apartment tonight. Then after that I'll be un-packing, possibly making another trip for more stuff. It depends on how much we can stuff into our two cars tonight. Ack, I haven't even tried on the dress mom got me yet. Feeling overwhelmed. Luckily, Charles and I talked about stuff last night and worked out our problems, so that's one less thing to stress about | | comments: Leave a comment |
| My fiance turned off comments on his blog, deleted or hid comments I'd made, and still hasn't added me to his friends list. He also says in his blog that he's going to a race on our honeymoon weekend. He mentioned it as something he'd like to do when we talked on the phone, but that was after he told the world he'd definately be there.
Should I be upset? Hmmmm. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| Oh, apparently I've now ruined the wedding by wanting to have my dad walk me down the aisle... go me huh?
I don't know what to do, give up on every little girl's dream and risk my dad not being able to do it down the line if/when we renew our vows, or ruin the whole event for my fiance because his family can't go and mine can. What can I say, I'm crushed, between the two men in this word I love. :(
But there's no going back now anyway... I can't tell my parents they can't go now... They thought they couldn't, then Charles and I talked about it and invited both families, and today his family said they won't be able to attend and he's mad at me because my parents can go. I'm the baby in my family and my dad's retired (after 4 years on disability, he's now old enough to be officially retired), his parents are still working and raising kids, and yes it was short notice. I'm sorry. Charles, I'm sorry. Mr and Mrs Wyble, I'm sorry. Everyone else I can't please with our wedding, I'm sorry. What am I supposed to do? We already figured out that it would cost about $10,000 to even come close to pleasing half of the people in our lives and decided against it. But now Charles is mad at me and there's nothing I can do...
Even when we weren't leaving the state, we couldn't make everyone happy... My dad can't drive because he never regained use of his left hand after his stroke. My mom is terrified of driving on the freeway. Both of his parents drive, but they have 11 kids still at home to pack up. How were we supposed to even pick a location when our families live an hour apart??? Someone has to give. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| By the way, I'm getting married 2 weeks from today!
Transportation, minister, photographer, videographer, flowers, music, and rings paid for. Champagne flutes (engraved) and present for Charles arrived yesterday. Rings and marriage license safely put away.
To do: Hotel reservations, his tux, my dress. (I like this dress I have, but mom wants to get me another).
Now I just wish he'd make some mention of it or me on his blog. =/ (And yes, I've told him repeatedly.) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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