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.

Yesterday was my 10 year high school reunion. I didn't go. Between not having a job and the cost of the reunion being $100 per person but was then reduced to $60. I didn't feel like it was worth the money nor did i have much to talk to people about. Besides looking at who would be there not many people I would actually want to talk to would be there. So i didn't go. Looking back to high school when i would picture going to my high school reunion it was kinda like the movie Romy and Michelle. I would come in looking impressive with a wonderful husband, very successful, just wow everyone there. It was a huge graduating class like 900 students, and I didn't talk much in high school. So i didn't have that many friends. And those friends that i had in high school I don't really talk to now. I dunno I just feel kinda blah about the situation and wish it was different.

If i'm not making much sense it's cause i'm tired and my head hurts and it's hard to make a string of words make sense like i want them to.

Speaking of head aches. I do not have health insurance. I have not had health insurance since August. This scares me, a lot, so i try not to think about it. It's not like i haven't tried to get health insurance either. I filled out the paper work with blue cross blue shield of il and they rejected me. I sent them an appeal with a dr's note from my chiropractor and they rejected me again because I was attending a chiropractor for mantainence for my whiplash that happened when i was like 10. I haven't gone to the chiropractor since for 2 months now. I've been doing pretty good and haven't been getting many head aches. With this job that I just got at Boombah after 4 months I will be able to get health insurance I'll have to pay which is fine but at least they can't deny me.Then after a year it is free.  Andy is going to try and get me on his plan until I can get my own. Ugh just so annoying.

So I work at Boombah starting tomorrow. I'm nervous cause it's new and I don't know what to expect. I know that it won't be as stressful as my last job and that I won't have to take work home, which will be nice. At least i know most of the people that work there already. =)

Ugh tired. 

Here is the usual after interview me trying to remember everything that was said for later reference...

So I walk in he looks over my resume with me asked if i was currently working and says so you were a biology teacher, what school did you go to ...st. francis... Says this is a little different from teaching why would you want a job here besides getting paid. (mutual smile and laugh) 
I said I would like a job with less stress than teaching.
He asked me if i knew what Boombah was about. I said you sell softball uniforms.
He asked if i knew anyone that worked there. I said my husband, Oh who's your husband...er Andy Clark. Oh Andy...I thought you looked familiar, (i could see him turning a little red, i can't believe he didn't know that I was Andy's wife. and later he asked if we were married.....hmmm,) he asked if i had met him at bowling....could have don't remember.  
So then he explained what I would be doing there. I would be entering inventory, they need someone reliable to enter the inventory coming in and I mentioned to him that, that is similar to entering grades and that was actually the part of teaching that I enjoyed. He asked if it was the kids i didn't like, i told him it was the classroom management, he asked what grade I taught, Freshman, he understood how that would be difficult.
He also said i may be moved around doing different tasks when it is slow which is fine with me. He didn't want someone that would then complain "this isn't what i was hired for and etc".
He also said that there are a lot of people that work there that have family members working there also and if you have a problem with something, I am to go to him. He is my boss. I am not to go to my significate other in a different department and complain to them and then they complain to a different department and then he is the last to hear about it. He said he talked a lot about that because it has happened frequently.
But besides that they are a very teamwork oriented business and he wants someone that would say what ever is best for the company and not complain. He said they want to get as big as Nike or Underarmer. He also asked if i would want to go back to teaching I said not for a while. 
I asked him about benefits. After 4 months they will pay half and then after a year they pay all. He said he liked the data entry on my resume.
He asked my age, which i was a little taken back about but told him. He said so your wild years are over (wild years? I don't think i had wild years) and you're like me settling down and focusing on your goals. That's when he asked if i was married and saw my ring and said he should have known, I told him that Andy doesn't wear his ring so that might be why he didn't know he was married. He said that he wasn't a ring guy either.
He said that he knows people in interviews don't like to ask about price. But he said that the price will not stay the same. Depending on the season, and how good a job I do it can change. He told me it was $10. Is that what i was expecting. I said yes i knew that was how much but that the other jobs that i've been looking at have been $9, $10 and they were farther away, not in Morris, and then he was like oh you live in Morris, oh i see here...(looks at resume, see's street name) So this job would be close to home for you.
He said that he was interested in me and that he will interview a few more to get a sample size and he will let me know in a week or so.

So there it is. I can't believe that he did not know that I was Andy's wife...similar last names? I'm not sure how he still has my resume if i sent it in May and he put an ad in the paper recently and had a small pile of them. He also mentioned that some of the resumes he was looking at were people saying that had like 25 years warehouse experience and that they are going to be expecting a certain wage, that they are not going to be able to give them, he said he doesn't put the wage on the ads in the newspaper because of that. 
Also when i mentioned that Andy was my husband he said well you won't be working with him, which is good, and that his wife works in another department in Boombah.  And that it didn't mean we couldn't go out to lunch or drive in together.
When i was leaving he said that maybe he should do more research on the people he's interviewing. I think he was a little embarrassed about not remembering I was Andy's wife.

I guess Andy saw me leaving Tony's office, i felt like a bobble head in there, just nodding to everything he said, which there was nothing else i could do. And there were windows so i felt like people were watching me.  I'm sure I did fine. I hope I get a call soon! I should have asked about dress attire but i think i can get that info from Tim....oh and what are the hours.