Stupid Freakin Job.

Since we are moving in just over a month, I had to tell my boss about our plans. A 2 hour drive to and from work just isn't in the cards. Bossman took it well, all things considered. He emailed the district manager for the Jersey South district on Thursday. On Friday he did not have good news. According to the DM, she does not have any openings until the middle of 2009. WHAT??? Are you SERIOUS??? I've been with this freakin company for FOUR YEARS. I worked in FOUR different stores when I was VERY pregnant because they didn't have "room" for another daytime manager in a single store. I worked the overnight shift BY MYSELF on NEW YEARS EVE when I was 19 weeks pregnant. I NEVER call out sick. I go to work when I'm sick. I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've called out in nearly four years. And yet, they don't have a place for me??? This is just beyond stupid. Let me find out that they promote ONE person to assistant manager or hire ONE assistant manager "off the streets." There will be hell to pay.
/rant.

Moving.

So. It has come to this. We are broke. And by broke I mean on Saturday we had -$400 in the bank. Drastic times call for drastic measures, right? After much deliberation and weighing the pros and cons, after January 1 we are moving in with my parents. Certainly the situation is not ideal, but it's really our only option to be able to save money and buy a house.

One of the upsides, though, is that we will be super close to my family. This includes cousin Katie, aunt Mary, cousin Teri (who is getting married in just under 2 years), etc. So I might actually get to *see* my family more than once in a blue moon.

We have a lot to do over the next month and a half. We need to pack things up...again...it feels like we JUST unpacked things. We have to find a cheap storage place for the stuff that we can't take with us, which is most of what we own. We have to decide on an exact date so that I can tell my boss and get transferred to another store. We have to let the leasing office here know that we are leaving. Luckily we only have to pay 1 months rent to get out of our lease. So even though we won't be living here in January, we still have to pay. Not a big deal, really, most places charge much more to break a lease.

I'm really sad to leave my friends at work. I've developed a really great relationship with most of the people I work with. I wonder if they would bend the rules just a little and let me work in the store that my aunt Mary works in? I doubt it. We'd run a kickass store together, though.

So, there you have it. Starting in early January 2009 our residence will be Casa de Mom & Dad. Hopefully we won't regret this decision, especially since we will be there for at least 12 months, possibly closer to 18.

2008 Holiday Card Exchange. You Know You Wanna.

Click the picture. Follow the instructions on cousin Katie's blog. C'mon it'll be fun!! You know you wanna.

TJs Professional Pictures

Since I have nothing better to blog about at this time...here are some of the professional pictures we had taken of TJ a few weeks ago :)

Maybe I need professional help

Ever since I got pregnant last year my...intuitions....have been SO much stronger than they ever where before. My mommy friends know what I'm talkin about, right? Case-in-point: Sometime last year/early this year we had gone to my parents' house and got home very late. After we went up to bed, I layed there thinking that *something* just didn't feel right. I couldn't tell what it was, but something was off. I said something to Tommy, which prompted him to get up, grab his handgun, and proceed to check the house. I layed there in bed waiting to her a gunshot. Luckily, I did not. He did, however, come back to bed and say to me "I will never doubt you when you say something is wrong. The back door was unlocked." Weird.
So, now you are probably wondering what "mommy intuition" has to do with needing professional help, right? Don't laugh at me here. We were at my parents' on Halloween this year. Once the tiny one was in bed, we (myself, Tommy, my mom, my brother, and my brother's girlfriend) decided to watch a movie. Our movie of choice was The Strangers. Now, I don't know if any of you have seen this movie so I won't go into too many details. But, it was based on a true story. And it scared the CRAP out of me. I hardly got ANY sleep that night, even though we watched Baby Mama afterwards. Seriously, the movie traumatized me.
Here's where I think I may need professional help. If I go to bed before Tommy does, I have to keep the hallway light on and keep my bedroom door open. If I go to feed TJ in his room in the middle of the night I have to check behind me 90000 times and uncover his nightlight (the thing is SO bright, he won't sleep if it isn't covered). If I'm downstairs by myself at night, I turn on as many lights as possible and make sure that all of the window blinds are shut and that the front door is locked.
Last night TJ woke at about 2:30am to eat. I went into his room and didn't shut the door all the way. A few minutes later, my cat decided she wanted to nudge the door open a bit. Which scared the CRAP out of me. And of course since the whole house is completely silent I can hear every little noise that houses make (you know the ones). Then, the stupid cat goes into Kaitlyn's room and jumps on her bed. Then off the bed. Then on the bed. Then off the bed. Which made a series of loud banging noises and shook the whole floor (stupid cat is VERY fat).
I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I sat there, with TJ still nursing, staring at his half-open bedroom door trying to figure out if the shadows in the hallway were a person standing there watching me or just my imagination getting the best of me, almost waiting for some weirdo to come into my baby's room and do God-knows-what.
Which also reminds me...every time I am in my kitchen late at night (and this happened before I watched that freakin movie) I feel like someone is watching me. Even if the blinds on the back door and the window in the kitchen are closed.
You all are probably sitting there laughing at me now. That's ok, I try to laugh at me too...sometimes it makes me feel better. I definately won't be watching any movies like that any time soon...if ever again...and if this paranoia keeps up I may consider seeking professional help.

RIP LeRoi Moore

Sorry to start my blog on such a sad note, but this is the first one from my Myspace to be worthy of moving here.

LeRoi Moore 1961 - 2008

We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

Date: Aug 20, 2008 12:58 AMAs Reported By People Magazine:
The show went on for the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday night, with Matthews paying tribute from the stage to saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who died earlier in the day."We all had some bad news today," Matthews told the sell-out crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after the first song. "Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave his ghost up today and we will miss him forever."Fans shouted Moore's name in tribute as the band resumed playing. Two songs later, Matthews once again made reference to Moore, saying: "It's easier to leave than be left."Moore, a founding member of the band, died Tuesday afternoon of complications from an all-terrain vehicle accident in June, the band's rep announced.Moore, who had recently returned to his house in L.A. to begin a physical rehabilitation program, died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, according to the rep.