Posts Tagged ‘Work’

Happy Birthday Rob!

// November 7th, 2002 // No Comments » // tagged:

Happy Birthday Rob!! And a HUGE thank you to Addie for a great birthday card .... the celebration never ends!! Woohoo! I also can't wait to see Jeff's new digs ... which should be sometime soon. Thanks for the peek! We did a major systems upgrade yesterday at work ... I was on the phone with the tech support people for like 4 1/2 hours. It was unbelieveable. We had those wonderful corrupted files, blah blah blah everywhere. The upgrade finally completed around 1:00 yesterday on the server -- and then all the individual workstations had to run the upgrade. It was a LONG day!!! Today I spent most of the day showing everybody how to do things with the upgraded system .... another LONG day!!! OK - thats about all I have the energy to blog tonight. I'm going to watch CSI in a bit :) Later!!

Ovary Switch & The Judgges Pick

// September 18th, 2002 // No Comments » // tagged: > >

Hey cool .... I'm the "Judge's Pick" Winner for the Apex Awards: Love the graphic they made for it -- -yummy yummy strawberries! It's been a super-busy week for me! My new job is turning out to be pretty time-consuming .... but I think once I get a handle on the database I will be cruising! I have a huge meeting on Friday with my newest client, Word Records. I am super excited about this project -- because it could lead to so many more clients and projects. Most of my clients are from Knoxville and Cookeville (2-3 hours away), so it will be great to have a new LOCAL client! Neat poem written by Promo Guy. Sadly, there are plenty of people out there like us who know exactly what he's talking about in the poem. A few silly movies on this site. Some more stupid than silly .... Curiosity Question for the Commenter .... what type of birth control are you gals on out there? I'm Ortho-Cyclen all the way .... and I'm trying to convince my doctor to let me take them continuously for 3-4 months at a time (as in skipping the sugar pills). (Either that --- or I want to become part of a research team that develops a procedure where the pre-puberty girl is taken into surgery -- and a "switch" is installed. That switch is turned off until she is about 25, married, and able to provide for children. That way - no teenage unmarried pregnancies - and no horrible PMS and cramping every single month for all those years of junior high, highschool, college, and young adulthood. It's a great idea. It's unbelieveable that the medical industry hasn't figured out a way to do SOMETHING like this.)

New Job & Thoughtless Friends

// September 10th, 2002 // No Comments » // tagged:

I started a new job last week .... I'm still doing my web design business but I decided I wanted some steady income and more importantly I wanted benefits like INSURANCE. Sooooo I'm doing some database work for one of the downtown churches here in Nashville. It works out ok because I only have to work four and a half days a week .... and it's always during the day -- so I have plenty of time to do whatever after work and on Fridays. And I get paid every two weeks (instead of every 2-3 months when I decided to send out invoices to clients .... LOL). And I get insurance. Big plusses. It's also been kinda cool --- because several of the people there have referred people to MY business. Just this week I've already gotten one new client .... which is always excellent. It's all about networking .... who you know that knows somebody else that knows somebody else ... that might want to hire you to do some web design. The more people you know, the more people they know, the more jobs you get. So I figure this is a good thing. For a little while anyway. We had put another bid in on ANOTHER house Sunday afternoon (that was simply beautiful & perfect) .... and whaddya know another person bid on the house an HOUR after we did. The sellers chose their offer because it was like $2000 more or something. Grrrrrrr. I'm really becoming disenthralled with the whole 'buying a house' thing. It's soooo frustrating to get all hyped up about a house and only get disappointed every single time. However, we have to have somewhere to live --- so we've both been online looking for something else. I'm trying to remain detached this time. I have a minor gripe now. I was supposed to have lunch with a friend of mine on Saturday. We were going to meet at 12:30 at Logan's. At 1:30, after I had already finished my lunch and was trying to reach her for the fiftieth time on her cell phone, she finally decides to call and let me know she's running late. I just told her to go home and I'd see her some other time. Argh. It made me so mad, but at the same time, it didn't surprise me. I mean -- hello -- an HOUR later she calls to say she's going to be late??? Why couldn't she have called at 12:40 or even better 12:20 and just reschedule. Grrrrrrrrrr. I think I'm getting back into the "blog" of things ...... you just log on, type whatever is in your head, and post it. Why did I have to drag myself on here tonight to do it? It's not THAT hard. Anyway ..... later! Oh and what is up with the freaks on my tagboard? ??: 함테스트 쯔압-0- ???? What the crap is that???

Moving On ….

// August 1st, 2002 // No Comments » // tagged:

I can't believe it's August already. Wow -- time has really flown. Our lease is up on our apartment in September -- and we are supposed to start seriously looking at houses. I don't think either of us really feels READY to become homeowners, financially speaking. Now if we were rich and had no problems there, we are definitely ready to have a house. We want to paint and redo things and have our own yard, etc. We are doing pretty good with everything now -- but I guess we know that a house payment will probably be at least $300+ more a month than what we're paying now for rent. Plus we'll have all the expenses of a home that we didn't have in an apartment -- needing to buy appliances, a lawnmower (lol), etc, etc. So, I have started looking for a "second" job. I currently work from home with my own business -- but lately it has been more of a part-time thing. I'm still pulling in clients and such -- but I am needing a full-time income. Sooo, yesterday I sent out a bunch of resumes for jobs. I got a response from Vanderbilt Hospital about a position -- and that would be perfect. I still can't even believe I'm considering working in a hospital again. It's also a bit strange because Vanderbilt is where Amber had her chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. Every time I drive by Vanderbilt, I think about her and it brings back all those memories. Perhaps everything works out in the end ... and maybe if I get this job, it will help me finally get over her death. I don't know. I am excited about the possibility of working there -- so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm not too worried about keeping up with my business if I do take on another job. The good thing about your own business is you can work anytime -- which I do a lot now anyway. I get bored at night when nothings on TV, so I go in and work a little bit. Also, I've just completed several projects, so I've got some down time. Anyway - lots going on in my head today.
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