One Down

I had my interview with Express Personnel today. That was loads of fun. I filled out paper work, watched a really pointless video, took a drug test, and got my information so I can take my proficency tests online. Then on Monday they will call my references and I will be contacted sometime next week and informed that I have been put on the availability list or not. I am not super thrilled about the whole process or the odds of me working alot. Apperently there has been a low in the amount of Clerical positions that are available. We will see what happens. On the plus side I have my other job interview on Tuesday morning. That one I am looking forward too, I would really like that job. Again, I can not get my hopes up too high I must stay realistic about this and remember that I might not get the job, and if I don't that means there is something better for me out there and I just have to find it.

A Twist

So I finally caved as I said before and I have that interview with Express tomorrow. After submitting many applications with no response in a few weeks I really was getting a bit concerned and frustrated...I hate job hunting...but low and behold today I got a phone call from one of the jobs that I really would not mind having. If I understand the job right it would be Full-Time, in town, near Faith's daycare (like within 3-5 mins deoending on traffic) and decent pay (not great but decent and great under the circumstances...the circumstances like any pay!!!) So, now I am struggling with not getting my hopes up too high and run the risk of having my spirit thoughly crushed if I don't get the job. Currently the biggest problem is our 2 week trip to Cali. If they want me to start soon I may be in trouble and I could risk not getting that job as a result. Bummer!!! Now I am in the worst place to be...between a rock and a hard place!! HELLLPPPP!!! Oh, well I guess it is in God's hands and he knows where I am suppose to be and he will put me there when the time is right! Til then I will just be in limbo...the interview is on Tuesday (7/1/08) at 10 a.m. for those of you that are on my bandwagon and praying for me. Lots of love and grat appriciation to all of you for all your love, support and prayers...I could never fully express my appriciation.

Pool Fun!!

For those of you that truly know my husband you will truly appriciate these pictures. We have been taking Faith to the pool as often as we can to get her used to it so she won't be scared of it...which she is not she loves it. Garratt decided to get a water camera to capture some good shots of Faith, while we did do that, I also caught some fun shots of Garratt playing in the pool. ENJOY!!!

A foot in the door!

After a numerous amount of application subbitting with no response I finally took my mothers advice. I submitted my application the an employment placement company called Express, you may have heard of them they are all over. Anyways, I submitted my resume on Sunday night. Monday night I had an e-mail from the company saying they wanted to set up an interview. I emailed back that I was intrested in doing the interview. This is not the job I wanted by any means, actually it is not even a job. Basically, if you don't know how it worls, they look at your resume when you initially submit it and decide if they think that you have the skills to be placed in a job, then they interview you just like a company would, and then they place you in a job in their listings if you match the criteria, and if they have something in your area of expertise so the speak. If they do then you could start as soon as the next business day, if they don't there is no guarantee when they will have something. Once they recieve something they go through their "waiting list" to determine who best fits the job and they call them the day before they need to start. The problem lies in that these jobs they place you in can be Temporary, Temp-Permanent, Permanent, Full-Time, Part-Time, or Per Diam. This is very unassuring. This is the stuff that really gets to me. This is when I really start to doubt myself as a person, as a wife and as a mother. With Garratt in school I have to be the main source of income how can I do this if I can't get a guaranteed full- time permanent job? How can I pay bills and know that we will make it the next month if I am a temp or part-time? All these things keep me up at night tossing and turning. Please be praying for me. My interview is this Friday(6/27) at 2p.m.

She's In

On Thursday Garratt and I took Faith to the daycare facility. We went over all the policies and procedures and they got to meet Faith. THe director thought she was adorable. Then we took her into the infant room. It was musical instrument day. She sat on the floor with another little girl and they played with bells and had a wonderful time. Faith laughed and talked and made a new friend. She also responded really well to the infant treacher. She got in. She isn't going to start until the end of July because my sister is coming to visit for 2 weeks and then we are going to be in California for 2 weeks so we decided it was probably better that we didn't start her then pull her out and them have to put her back in. I think this is going to be great for her. Thank you mommy feelings!!!

Just a feeling

As a mom I have found that there is this innerr gut feeling that you get when you are in the process of making a decission regarding your child. The big decission that I have just recently faced is where to place Faith for daycare. I got the refferal listing from the local childcare resource and refferal center. I then went through and picked out the places that actually had space for Faith. Then I decided that being in a new town, state and lots of miles away from any familiarness that I wanted her to be in a childcare center not an in home care facility. With this decision being made that left me three places in town. I immediatly decided I want to start by checking out the Pullman Christian Childcare Center which is linked with the Pullman Christian Schools and the Living Faith Fellowship Church. My fisrt step was to call over and get some information from them as soon as I started to talk to the director I got that feeling that this was just right. So I made an appointment with her to come down and check out the facility. Upon arrival I got that same good feeling, and it lasted the entire course of the tour. I took the registration information and I set up the registration meeting with the director. All this time feeling that this is going to be a great place for her. Sometimes it is amazing how decissions just come to you from the GUT of your mommy inside. So as soon as we want her to Faith will be starting daycare at PCCC.

Ha Ha Funny Story

Once we decided that we were moving to Washington at the end of May I started looking for a job. One of the jobs I applied for was an HR assistant position at WSU. (This is just a little background for you) A week or so ago when I was having issues with our computer and was up at WSU's IT office waiting to pick up the computer I was talking to a couple of the people in the office and one of them told us this story.
Apparently the head HR lady was called into her bosses office about a month ago and told that her title would be changing. She said that she understood that it happened sometimes and asked what her new title was and why it was changing. Her boss answered telling her that her new title would be ESR which stands for Employee Services Rep. The reason is because they don't feel that she works wth humans. The lady left a little confussed. She later went back to her boss and asked, if she doesn't work with humans what does she work with. The boss replied with you don't work with Humans in general you work with Employees.
Can someone tell me what that is all about? How are employees not human?? I just thought that this story was funny and that a few of you might get a little chuckle out of this, being as how many of us have worked with HR in one way or another.

SNOW IN JUNE

After spending about a week in California in the 90 degree temperature we expected to come home to a little cooler weather but not this. We arrived home at 6:30 a.m. and it was raining with a little bit of a hail. We thought nothing of it other than that means it is going to be a cold rainny day. We all went in the house to get a couple of hours of sleep. When we awoke and opened the windows we found SNOW!!!! It was full out snow sticking to the groud...WHAT!? This is so not suppose to happen. Anyways, here are the pictures of WSU in the snow in June. (By the way it is already starting to melt off and has returned to straight rain.)

Our Place

Now for all of you who have been waiting to see the new place here are some pictures to show you around a bit.

We Made It to Washington

After much anticipation and many long stressful days. We are almost settled. I am 90% unpacked and our townhouse is finally starting to look like a home. So far in the time we have been here the biggest adjustment for me has been getting used to the weather. I love it, don't misunderstand me, but it is nothing like Turlock. As if moving is not stressful enough we had problems with our computer. Thankfully it was fixable and we now have a working computer. YEAH!!
We are getting ready to travel back down to California for the weekend for my brothers birthday but as soon as we get back I promise to give everyone a tour of the townhouse and a tour of WSU.