Is there a doctor, I mean, a piercer in the house?

Shortly before picking Sky up at his weekend class at the college, John was letting the dog out of the side door, pushed the glass and his hand went right through it. Oops. We half-ass cleaned up the gushing wounds so he could work that night at the restaurant but wondered if stitches were actually needed. Dawn picked me and Sky up to go to her house for dinner and hanging out and I told her what had happened. She got all excited and said “Oh, Jeff can do stitches and he likes it!”. Problem solved. John met us over there after work and Jeff hooked him up with some medical care which involved a bit of super glue. It has healed up nicely.

I got an “A” in my Finance & Appraisal class. It’s been a long time since I have gotten an “A” in a class so I am pretty proud of myself. Let me bask in the glory for a little bit. I needed a confidence booster. When the instructor had 3 of us alone in the room during the final, he said “Well, now that I have my best 3 students here…”. I said “I’m one of your best students? Sweet!”. Onto Real Estate Law now then I’m done.

Did someone say "get a crappy job"?

It’s funny how when you’re going through some rough times, friends seem to disappear. Being that I felt worthless, obviously I really was. Well, to make people happy, I sold my soul to the devil and took the job I said I would never in a millions years do and for next-to-nothing pay. It’s better than nothing though and I’m getting used to it. My slave pay-free training was pretty bad. I counted how many times I got yelled at for things I was just learning…7 times. With tears welling up in my eyes, I toughed it out then went home and completely broke down. After being told I was too old at an interview for a different job (isn’t that against the law?), I had no choice and had to go back. The next day I only got yelled at 5 times so that equals praise in her book. After all, her “dog is smarter than me” since she only has to “beat it twice and it learns”. Let me know when the dog learns the entire Chinese menu and I will concede. My 3^rd day I didn’t get yelled at really at all so that must mean I am doing a good job. I am making a little bit of money now too so that is good. I stress the phrase little bit. Overall, it’s not that bad if you ignore the fact that I am busting my ass for hours to make what I made in a laid back hour in my pajamas at my old job. Ugh. Gotta do what ya gotta do!

What is sad is that we now have 4 jobs in the family and still can’t pay the bills and if I eat one more expired food in this house I’ll scream! Ah, memories of buying groceries…good times.

We went over to Dawn & Jeff’s weekend before last. That was fun. Dawn ordered tons of Chinese food and the kids got to play. We spent hours exchanging crazy stories from the past that Jeff’s teenager daughter probably didn’t need to hear. Dawn kept saying “earmuffs” to her but she wouldn’t do it so she’s got plenty of ammo to blackmail us with in the future. I didn’t realize we had so many of the same friends/acquaintances from back in the day. John joined us after he got off work at the Chinese factory with an empty stomach and ended up consuming too many of Jeff’s beers. After some aggressive Kung-Fu sparring with Lilith, I finally ushered him out before he got any sloppier and possibly peed on one of their neighbors’ houses or something.

Pretty funny stuff...