I've been wanting to post about my new job, but i've keep putting it off. I have so much less time to myself considering i work 40 hours a week now. =)

Okay let me describe what my job entails. In the embroidery room there are 5 different machines that embroider. There is the 4 head, the 6 head that they use a laser and tackle twill on, a single head, a 6 head that is set up for hats and a single head for hats. So what we do is get an image on the computer that the customer wants, put it on a jump drive, stick it into the machine, find it on the jump drive, set the colors that it will sew in, trace it out to make sure that it will fit in the hoop. Oh you have to hoop the clothes that are being embroidered. And there are certain locations where you can hoop them. I'm still getting used to hooping the clothes. It's hard for me to tell if the hoop is crooked or not. Hooping bat bag flaps can be really satisfying if i can get it centered on the first try or a real pain if I can't. Okay so back to the machine so you load it up, program it and press start. While the machine is sewing it may stop periodically because the thread came out of the needle or the bobbin needs changed, or for no apparent reason. So then i'll have to fix whatever needs fixing back up the machine and start it again.

I really like the job because i'm doing so many things, i never get bored. I get satisfaction out of completing orders, oh which when an order is complete I get to go into the next room which is the room where Andy and Miah are working. I write information about the order on the clip board and turn the file into the bin near Andy's desk. I like being able to see the working side of Andy, I feel so proud and lucky that i get too.

Today was especially enjoyable. I got to go through a list of pictures of the different mascots that embroidery will provide and save the files on the computer to a central location, and save them on a jump drive to be sewn out. I was also organizing the book of embroidery pictures and binders of already sewn out mascots. I felt kinda like i was scrap booking them cause i was gluing them onto paper and putting them into the binder. I also got to listen to my zune most of them time, which really makes my day better. Any time i can listen to music while I'm working it makes the day better.

I feel so lucky that I have a job and so thankful for it too. With that said i do miss my free time. I thought that i would be able to keep up with the house work and laundry during my hour lunch, but i've come to realized that an hour lunch is not long at all considering 15min of transit time10 minutes of letting Wally out, then time to make food and eat food and by then I have to go back to work. 

With this job i have notice that I am acting like my normal self again. I'm no longer the stressed out, can't do anything because i have to be home and in bed by 10, don't talk to me because i have to plan lessons and grade papers Christina. I never thought that i would have a job where i didn't quite have to worry about getting to bed at a decent hour. Granted it doesn't pay as much as my last job, but it's more than i would be making subbing, and it's down the street, so i save money on gas. I love it, i just hope and pray that all my unemployed friends and family find a job like it, something that they enjoy.

Andy pointed this song out to me today. The band is called Stars.  The lyrics are lovely. =)

Lyrics to The Aspidistra Flies :
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on Thamesside
Couldn't stop shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you

Run to the window and call out my name
We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain
From the rain, from the rain

All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you
When everyone else is hiding
Rainy Sundays drunk at two

You'll whisper sweet lies to me
And one of them will be true
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you

The gloom of the city at evening is still
You whisper come to me
And I always will
Always will, always will

All the rain in this town
And still the sky is blue
Saint James Square is teeming with doves
And that sunset they flew

Across the darkening city
To an attic room for two
All the umbrellas in London
Couldn't hide my love for you

I counted all the lights
They don't shine as bright
They don't pierce the night like you do
Like you do, like you do
Like you do, like you do