Well after three-plus months of looking I found a new job! FINALLY-and just in the nick of time as I was informed after I gave my notice my job was going to be phased out at the end of June. (Talk about cutting it close.)
I am now a will call coordinator for Nicholas and Co. Who are they you ask? (Don't worry, I get this question a lot actually.) They are the largest food service distributor in the West. Still don't know who they are? Oh come on. I know you've seen this little guy around town and (hopefully) in your favorite restaurant:
I am now a will-call coordinator. In a nut shell I'm the person you come see when you forget cases on your order, your order isn't big enough to get on a truck, or just because I'm just that cool. I LOVE the company and the people I work with. It's night and day compared to the circle of hell I was in before.
Then when I thought I was done with change I went and made a seemingly rash but actually well-thought out decision. I also said bye-bye to Joe's. The money has been garbage for a while and thanks to the morons at BP it's a matter of time before seafood costs are even more ridiculous, thus making it even harder for people to eat out than it already is, but most importantly I miss having a life that isn't 90% work. So I'm just a one job girl for the next little while, and we'll see how that goes. Although I don't need the extra money and I make enough at Nicholas to live I'm USED to having cash all the time, and so far that is proving to be the hardest pill to swallow of the whole thing.
Also the oddest yet happiest thing of the summer was my little Jenny getting married-now for those of you who don't know (and seriously, WHERE have you been?), long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away I had a fiancee' named Chris and he has a little sister named Jenny. Now back in June 2000 when I met Jenny she was an adorable 12-year old girl. Because it was just her and Chris she allowed me to play "big sister" to her and we became incredibly close. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we aren't as close as we once were but she will always be my sister and I'm SO HAPPY she found her eternal companion in Zane, but it's so weird to think that my little Jenny is married-I will always see her as my little 12-year old, but she is now a beautiful young woman-you can see for yourself here.
The most important thing that has changed this year is my ATTITUDE. I knew it was bad, but now that I'm no longer in the seventh circle of hell and I'm finished with a particular show that I allowed to give me an ENORMOUS chip on my shoulder Scott never fails to tell me how bad it REALLY was. And that makes me feel bad, but happy. Mostly bad because no one-especially Scott-deserves that-but happy because I can say with a surety he loves me enough to stick through everything with me-the good AND the bad.
