Yeah, I know...
It's been awhile since I posted...but I've been B-U-S-Y!

The job is still interesting. I'm starting to get a feel for things and procedures are starting to flow easier...but there is still so much for me to learn and digest. I know that eventually I'll get the hang of it, but I'm not a person who is used to having to work this hard to learn something new. But it is a challenge, and there is nothing I enjoy more than that.

Let's see...what else -- Oh! Lou is about to quit his job. I can feel it in my bones. He's taken about as much crap as he is going to take from his boss, and as much as his timing STINKS... I don't fault him for wanting out. I just hope he at least has a lead on a new job before he quits this one. Actually, I'm hoping he gets fired. At least then he can collect unemployment. Oh, no doubt his ..... of a boss will fight it, but she has taken what should have been a dream job for him and turned it into a personal lacky position...and Lou is a lot of things, some good, some bad...but he's no one's lacky. Honestly, it's a wonder he's lasted this long. If it had been me, she would have had to fire me several weeks ago, cuz I would have told her off. But that's me.

Um..in other news...we're still trying to get pre-approved for a mortgage. The lender we were working with has completely flaked out on us. I have faxed the same forms to this guy THREE times, and he still can't keep track of them. So, we are working with an additional lender...just in case.

The dream house that I talked about before, is still first on our list, but we have added two more houses that we really like. You would think that I would be panicked, desperately trying to make things work out so that I can have my house..but I'm not. If we are meant to buy a house, then we will buy one, and no amount of worry or manipulation on our part will change that. In a way, I really see Lou's looking for another job as the solution to the "yeah, we can afford the house, but it's going to be really tight" delimma. If he could get a job making what he SHOULD, then buying any of the houses on our list wouldn't be a problem. So, I'm convinced that there is a higher power at work here....the same one that cleared the way for us to move here seven months ago.

Hard to believe we've only been here since June. Seems so much longer to me now. But our lives have changed so much since we've been here. We're still broke, but we are a better class of broke. LOL Hubby doesn't see it that way, but personally, I think that if I'm going to be broke, then I should at least have something to show for it. Back in WV, we were broke and had nothing. Here at least, I'm broke with cable tv, a telephone and a car that I can drive around without worry. I know that probably makes no sense to anyone but me, but that's okay, I'm used to it. LOL

That's about it. There really isn't much new to report...did I mention that Lou is going to try and make it onto the pro pool circuit? Got a new pool cue on layaway to prove it. We'll pick it up Thursday after work, and Lou will officially begin practicing this weekend. There's a tournament he wants to enter at the end of February, so he needs to get some serious practice time in between now and then.

Okay, that's it for real. I'm off to do some crocheting or beading..or something.

You may all go about your lives now...
- posted by Kim @ 11:39 PM