Artemis

The new job is going really well. It comes with some amazing benefits (not just health, but other special ones). Nice people, cool building, okay work. Not too bad at all. I am in a huge filing room with three other people. They are pretty great to work with, they seem to like me and I like them. There are two older women, 62+ I would say, that really seem to love being able to help me with all my questions. The more I ask, the more they like it. I love hearing their life stories, they are great ones. And they are interested in my life stories too. Then there is one guy that is a year older than me. He was slow to warm up, but is already more chatty and friendly, we get a long well too. My boss is nice, but sometimes a little annoying. She means well and I do like her, so that is all that matters. All the hundreds of other people are nice too, but it bothers me that I can't remember any of their names yet, when they all know mine. Granted, they had one to learn, I had tons. One wom...

I started my new job on Wednesday. No, it is not a third job. It replaces the first job I had here. It has health benefits and many other great perks. Things are going well, although I haven't learned too much yet, except for filing and alphabetizing. Since I have to wake up earlier than before, it has left me exhausted all week, especially since I am still working at job number 2 with kids in the evenings. So the week has been stressful, and adding to the stress is that my car has had smoke coming from under the hood, which means no driving it and paying money I don't have to get it fixed. And all this stress leads to mistakes, such as going to babysit, getting a ride home from the mother of the baby that cried ALL NIGHT, then finding out I don't have the right key to get in my house. Lovely. Good thing my sister has a great friend (who is my friend too) that rocks and drove over to let me in. I am glad tomorrow is Sunday, which means the start of a new week. Things can on...

Today is my birthday, the big 2-6. As someone so kindly pointed out, I am on the downward slope to 30. When did that happen? I always get excited for my birthday, and then the day itself always ends being not as exciting as the actual anticipation. It's not like when you are little and you have a birthday cake with candles and presents galore on the actual day of your birthday. As an adult, it always seems more spread out, with things arriving in the mail early or late and celebrations happening on other days than your birthday. And that is nice in some ways, because it drags it out. But I would like one year of it being condensed all into one day, on my actual birth day. Don't get me wrong, today was still a nice day. I actually enjoyed work and received birthday wishes from all the people I really wanted to hear from. And I am in a great mood and am looking forward to the celebrations to come on Saturday with my sister. So for now, I am off to celebrate my birthday in some wa...