(no subject)
things are going much better since my last post..kinda. i'm back to being better about this whole moving away thing. i've stopping being emotional about it, which is good. i got turned down for my 2 2nd interviews last week -- i didn't think it would be this hard to find a job with my qualifications. everyone says i have great experience so i'm wondering what it is about the people they DO hire that is better. personality? experience? excitement? luck? i really have no idea. i've got a couple of interviews next week: one informational, one for a "worst case scenario" job at the casino in retail, and the last at a b-to-b agency in cincy. i've interviewed there before, and didn't get hired for that position, but i was obviously good enough to be recommended for another position. so we'll see how that all plays out.
the second thing that has been continuously causing issues is jeremy's mother. jeremy is an only child also, but unlike my parents, his self-proclaim that they're "helicopter parents." and they are. he's 25 years old, and they still tell him what to do. his mom cries to him over the fact that he's moved away (among other things) and that he's not in WV to help with their family farm and to be around. she's told him about friends from his high school that are getting married to other country people like themselves, and how she wished that he would come back and do the same. they're insanely frugal with money, so the spending he tells them about, they consider to be wasteful. needless to say, he doesn't tell them much. they thought it was wasteful to visit me while i was still at OU. they also don't know that jeremy or i drink. if they did, i think they would cut off ties to jeremy. open bar at our wedding would not even be a consideration if it were up to them haha.
needless to say, all of these things make dealing with his parents rather difficult. he tells me that i just don't know them well enough. but when an opportunity comes up for me to get to know them (ie going home with jeremy), i later find out that they "really just want to see jeremy" and that i'm not invited to their little sobfest over all the decisions jeremy has made in his life. the whole situation is just rather rediculous, and i don't think i've ever felt more unwelcome in anyplace than their presence.