News on the Job Front

So I had a meeting with the Director at my new job....I was sooo incredibly stressed going into it. A friend of mine, the one who referred me, called on Friday to tell me that he had been approached and asked several questions about me. Well needless to say, all weekend I stewed, wondering why would a Director want to meet me? I am so low on the totem poll...why?
My friend and I figured that perhaps someone in my current environment must have said something and now they wanted to retract the offer...

Anyway, long story short, it apparently is this Director's policy to meet all new people and he just wanted to put a face to the name and discuss possible future opportunities for me.

I am also starting May 18th (but really the 19th due to the long weekend).
I was sooooo excited last night, yet terrified and stressed about it all at the same time. I couldn't sleep and had a migraine all night, still feel lousy.

I really hope I don't screw this up....I need out of this current job permanently and would hate to blow that chance.

Well here's to a new chance to move onward and upward!

:)
Later Days

Heartburn

So I have had this awful heartburn for weeks now...nothing seems to work. It bothers me so much I am afraid to eat now.

I started REALLY feeling the pain Saturday night, so much so that I had to leave my son sleeping at 4 am just to go to the store...I hadn't been able to sleep from the pain.

So Monday I decided to start weighing myself every morning and keeping a log of it. It turns out obesity is one of the contributors to heartburn, and well I have put on ridiculous amounts of weight over the last year, since my ankle broke (yes, as one of my sister's says...I'm bringing THAT old chestnut out again!).

So I am going to try to beef up the exercise...and by beef up I mean, actually do SOMETHING/ANYTHING...and eat a bit better, which is a little easier to do with my son being on a high fiber diet these days.
:)

I am also going to wean myself off the brown pop...COKE IS EVIL....but it tastes SOOOO GOOD!!!!

I think I will head to the Dr today, or this weekend and have them take a look at the heartburn thing.

Later
Annie

Worried...

So my eldest of 12 is a bedwetter. In general, doesn't really bother me as I know it can't last forever.

That being said, I decided to take things a step further and bring him to a pediatrician. Our family Dr is great, but his resident thought it might be time to escalate the situation to someone who may have a bit more experience in the area and suggest other things to do for him.

As it stands, he currently takes a 'melt' every night prior to bed and that helps keep him dry. Apparently it acts like a 'sponge' for a few hours and by morning has worn off. We have tried alarms and short of waking him up twice a night this was the best solution at the time.

So anyway, on Thursday I take him in to the new Dr. who decides she wants to give him a physical on the spot. She asked a lot of questions, and when I answered 'yes' to the constipation question, it prompted the physical.

She just wanted to see if she could feel if he was blocked I guess. So whilst palpating his abdomen she decided to go a bit further south. anyway, long story short, she noticed he was missing a testicle.
Now I am pretty sure he USED to have 2. however it's not something I check on a regular basis. She let me know that it was a cause for concern that they both should have descended by now, and that even if it had and then decided to go back up, which does happen (retractile testicle), she couldn't even tell that it was there (nonpalpable testicle). Between her looking and mini Phil a lookin' the testicle was nowhere to be found. He also complained of a lot of pain when she was poking around, which was apparently not normal.

So now he has to wait a few months to have an ultrasound done as well as he has to see a urologist. I did some reading and apparently sometimes when it goes back up it can get twisted, which requires medical intervention to be corrected.

Apparently, after doing a bit more research, the nonpalpable testicle is the most cause for concern, as it may be in his abdomen ao simply may have vanished, The ultrasound is key here, he may even require surgery.

The worst part about this, is that this little 'incident' has just upped his chances for testicular cancer as well as infertility....

:(

News on the job front!

So WOW, I really didn't expect it...but I got the secondment. It's a 6 month deal with the hopes of never returning to the hell hole I call my current job!!!

YAY ME!!!!

So apparently I start June 1st...it ends November 30th.
Oh I simply can't wait to leave!

Onward and upward!!!

Annie
:)

April is near it's end...

Wow...where has this year gone already? I feel like when I spend tons of money and look back and have nothing to show for it...only this is my time...not money.

I have been pretty diligent about keeping the house up, since I moved. For some reason it seems easier to do here. I am not entirely sure if it's the fact that Lolly isn't around creating more work than usual, or if the fact that there is no carpet makes it easier to spot mess and have to clean it up.
Speaking of Lolly, yesterday would have been her 6th birthday, I didn't remind the kids as I didn't want Little Miss to cry. She still does from time to time and writes stories and creates little works of art all in the name of her puppy, Lolly. I feel like such a schmuck for having her put down.

I applied for a job that a friend hooked me up with, and have yet to hear back on. Apparently, according to him, I came in first on the technical and in the top three overall. There are 2 positions to fill and one of the other people apparently was signed on already. Which leads me to believe that I won't be getting the other position. Apparently they are interviewing one more candidate this week and they aren't too thrilled with having to do a boat load of paperwork in order to bring me on for a 6 month secondment...still...here's hoping...
Maybe I'll move to Calgary and see if I can find a new job there!?! :)

I am almost ready to get a permanent scrapbooking area set up....I have only completed 8 pages since the new year started...That being said, I have been incredibly diligent digitally speaking. I have kept all newly imported pictures organized, edited, cropped and purged through...so they are ready to be added to a digital scrapbook shortly. I plan on doing 2009 completely digital- probably 2007-8 as well...maybe even earlier than that...we'll see.

Anyway...that should be enough to get me back into the swing of things...

Later,
Annie
:)

Stalker?

So how do you know when you are officially being stalked? What is the criteria for stalking in Canada? Is it a provincial law or a national law? I really need to look into this. If I don't have a stalker, then I am at the very least, being harassed. It's starting to scare me. That being said the last time I received a call from this guy was last night, saying he would be at my work again today. He muttered something that sounded like voodoo doing me some good until I give him back his $40. I don't know what scares me more, the fact that he is obviously crazy or that he knows voodoo!! :)

Anyway, better he stalk me at work than at my home where the kids are.

Later, Annie

Work Work Work....

Well, it's Saturday and I have to do so much work around this house...just to get it in living order. Laundry is nowhere near the same task as my dryer broke the day we moved in...so I have to hang everything, which means it takes much longer to dry my clothes...that sucks because then I can't wash as much at any given time. If I could afford a dryer, that would help...I guess I will have to look for one on Kijiji or something.

As Ma Petite Soeur put it in her previous comment...I have also been a huge slacker with my scrapbooking. And well....with the new place in such disarray, it doesn't look hopeful that I can get much done any time soon.

The kids can mess this place up faster than you can say "clean this mess up!" And there is only one me and two of them...it gets discouraging..I hate always barking at them to pick up after themselves. I don't want them to remember me as some kind of housework Nazi. This leaves me torn, because I need to teach them responsibility and such...but I am trapped between that and guilt. It sucks...in an ideal world none of us would have to clean up or spend ridiculous amounts of time doing tedious crap! Alas, we don't live in that ideal world now do we?

Tomorrow I am going to my son' s Dad's place for supper and to wire some internet connection and stuff...it seems I am always doing other stuff first. I wonder if that is a procrastination tactic?

I have to call an insurance adjuster as well, some woman backed into my car in the parking lot at work the other day leaving a small dent in the bumper. Not a big deal really, but I would like it fixed, which takes time away from something else I could have been doing.

When does it ever end?

On a more positive note...I actually didn't have a bad week at work this week. I was there every day of the week and was actually productive, which is kind of cool...I haven't felt productive in a long time. I can't wait to find out if I get to move anytime soon...where I will actually be appreciated...well here's hoping I will anyway! :)

So gotta run...trying not to make this my life's work and I have pictures to hang around the house to get the stuff off the floors..not to mention, boxes to unpack.

Later Days,
Annie
:)