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I think I like my new job, but I guess time will really tell me if this will be the "career" for me. I had some additional training on Monday and Tuesday...so by the time I am done with my meds training next week (and after I *pass* the certification test) I should have everything I need to be certified under the required state certification. It's going to be a long week, and a long three days of schooling again. It's not that I can't do it, but it really sucks when you work the late hours I do - and then have about four hours of sleep - just to be in a classroom for eight hours straight just to focus on one subject for so long. I think what worries me the most, is the fact I talked to a girl who went through this classroom training already - and most of the class failed the testing afterwards. THAT part just sticks in my mind....
I DID like having off two days this weekend though. It was especially nice that I got to spend at least ONE night doing something with Ken - even though it started to rain when we were out and about.
On Saturday, I gave away my two parakeets and the huge cage I had them in, to a neighbor that lives on my block. Truth be told, I didn't care for them all that well (at least not as good as my puppies!) and I really felt it was best to give them to someone who really wanted them and would care for them the way I did when I first got them. Besides, they really mess up the place when they flap their wings and spread seed all over the place - covering a partial radius of my house including my chair and floor. Seed everywhere....and every time I closed or opened the blinds in the front window, I'd either have bird seed on the floor, the window sill, or somewhere else. I think it just got too out of control..and Ken thought so, too. He wanted me to give them away awhile back - but I just wasn't really listening...
I have to say, I was so pissed today when I stopped for gas at the Sunoco station on Spring Street. Seems every time I go there - my card says it's invalid. I went inside to tell the attendant. She says I can use the card inside the store, but it comes up invalid in there, too. I tell her I'm going to go use my bank card instead, so I go outside. I run my card, and it says the same thing. I go back inside. Now extremely pissed, I run my card through the machine IN the store. It works, and I tell her to get the pump outside fixed. WTF? I didn't owe any money to the card company at Sunoco...it shouldn't be invalid...but every time I go there at that particular place - the same thing always happens. It's just aggravating...and I guess it's time to go up to 13th Street instead.
I'm glad I work in a house close to the Goodwill. I thought I'd leave early and do a bit of shopping before work. Didn't have as much time as I had hoped for (see above gas station problem) but managed to look around for a bit anyway. I found a small kit for placemats where you can weave colored yarn to form a pattern in it (something I had done at one time as a kid in Girl Scouts) and a tote bag in a black canvas that has nine pockets on the front side to hold 4x6 photos. I thought that was kind of cute, so I got them both. Spent less than six dollars for the pair. Maybe I'll take the tote and fill it with puppy pictures before it's time to say goodbye to them. Part of me doesn't want to give any of them up, but I know it has to be done as I can't keep a house going with seven dogs to care for. It's just too much for any person to handle. I am happy to say I know one of them will be with me, and another one will be with my daughter. I KNOW she will be the best puppy "mom" ever - and that which ever one she picks will have a good home. It's also possible that she has found a home for yet one other puppy, and then all I will have to do, is advertise the sale of one more.
So it looks like things will work out the way they are supposed to. I'm still having conflicting thoughts on whether or not I will have Elle fixed when all of this is over. Right NOW - I'll just be happy when I don't have to climb over gates in my house....
I DID like having off two days this weekend though. It was especially nice that I got to spend at least ONE night doing something with Ken - even though it started to rain when we were out and about.
On Saturday, I gave away my two parakeets and the huge cage I had them in, to a neighbor that lives on my block. Truth be told, I didn't care for them all that well (at least not as good as my puppies!) and I really felt it was best to give them to someone who really wanted them and would care for them the way I did when I first got them. Besides, they really mess up the place when they flap their wings and spread seed all over the place - covering a partial radius of my house including my chair and floor. Seed everywhere....and every time I closed or opened the blinds in the front window, I'd either have bird seed on the floor, the window sill, or somewhere else. I think it just got too out of control..and Ken thought so, too. He wanted me to give them away awhile back - but I just wasn't really listening...
I have to say, I was so pissed today when I stopped for gas at the Sunoco station on Spring Street. Seems every time I go there - my card says it's invalid. I went inside to tell the attendant. She says I can use the card inside the store, but it comes up invalid in there, too. I tell her I'm going to go use my bank card instead, so I go outside. I run my card, and it says the same thing. I go back inside. Now extremely pissed, I run my card through the machine IN the store. It works, and I tell her to get the pump outside fixed. WTF? I didn't owe any money to the card company at Sunoco...it shouldn't be invalid...but every time I go there at that particular place - the same thing always happens. It's just aggravating...and I guess it's time to go up to 13th Street instead.
I'm glad I work in a house close to the Goodwill. I thought I'd leave early and do a bit of shopping before work. Didn't have as much time as I had hoped for (see above gas station problem) but managed to look around for a bit anyway. I found a small kit for placemats where you can weave colored yarn to form a pattern in it (something I had done at one time as a kid in Girl Scouts) and a tote bag in a black canvas that has nine pockets on the front side to hold 4x6 photos. I thought that was kind of cute, so I got them both. Spent less than six dollars for the pair. Maybe I'll take the tote and fill it with puppy pictures before it's time to say goodbye to them. Part of me doesn't want to give any of them up, but I know it has to be done as I can't keep a house going with seven dogs to care for. It's just too much for any person to handle. I am happy to say I know one of them will be with me, and another one will be with my daughter. I KNOW she will be the best puppy "mom" ever - and that which ever one she picks will have a good home. It's also possible that she has found a home for yet one other puppy, and then all I will have to do, is advertise the sale of one more.
So it looks like things will work out the way they are supposed to. I'm still having conflicting thoughts on whether or not I will have Elle fixed when all of this is over. Right NOW - I'll just be happy when I don't have to climb over gates in my house....