Shannon's Ramblings

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Seriously I have moved my LJ....did I post this already...crap. Oh well. I moved.

New url: http://tiltedgravity.livejournal.com/

The Vagina Blog....Job hunting part 2

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:49:17 GMT

I GOT A JOB!!!!!!!

Ok it royally sucks and I will NOT be keeping it when something better comes along but I GOT A JOB!!!!
I'm working at Olan Mills Portrait Studios. I am....and watch this LONG title....an Aquistions Sales Representive.
Short term...I'm the dork that stands at the door at K-Mart )where Olan Mills are located) and says "Hello, Olan Mills has a special going on would you like to hear about it?" To which most people either ignore me or say no thanks. I make a commision of 5 bucks a coupon only IF I sell 2 an hour....don't do that no extra money. This was not explained as such when I was hired. It was explained I would get the 5 bucks if I sold the package....crap eh? It's 20 hours a week...weekends only natrually. I trained this weekend in a store 1 1/2 hours away. I'm wiped from all of the driving I tell ya. But it's over. On Friday I start at my own store here in Watertown.

I'm still waiting to hear about the Verizon technician job I told you all about. They had hired someone the day they interviewed me...bummer. But they have another position coming available in the next week. Apparently I am next on the hiring roster. I want this job so bad. I love the cell phone business...plus I like gadgets...working with them gives you the inside edge...lol

I'll have another update on life coming. I got home from work 45 mintutes ago and I need to pee and I think my feet smell cuz there is this order in here that cannot be normal....lol STINKY FEET GIRL!!!!

Ok off to changed and wash the feet...

Love to all
Shannon

And yes....I have read all of your responses and tes I will respond....just haven;t been on here for much more than job hunting.

The why?

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:30:55 GMT

Upon talking to jenny I realized that only she and I would understand why I called this The Vagina Blog....lol

As things got worse in my house my husband would get all pissed off at us and call us the vagina conspiracy. Apparently he thought that we all hated him and as we were female we bonded together against him. I suppose we did. We had to. What else could we do but bond together, us vaginas HAD to stick together.

I have also thought that some of you may or may not know the entire reasonings behind me leaving. As much as I would LOVE to post all the gory details I won't. I can put it into "legal" terms if it will help.
Mental, verbal abuse...me and Jenny
Verbal abuse...Kaylee
Physical abuse...Jenny. Me to a lesser degree. Hers the judge calls "significant"
We were berated in private and public. Treated as slaves. We lived under shadow...said in my best dark voice...lol

With that I am off to get the kids ready for bed. Jenny and I are off tonight to Borders to hang out with all the other Harry Potter freaks and get our book at midnight...lol

Love to all.
Shannon

The Vagina Blog....Job hunting

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:21:01 GMT

hunting is fun. Seriously. I sit on my ass and wait for my e-mails. I get up to date jobs from all those funky job places online. Way easier than way back when when you had to pound pavement...lol

Ok I have TONS of customer service experiences, retail and sale. I can sell anything....and I really do mean anything!
i have a job lined up.....at least I think so...working for a company called Soletron. They populate cellular stores with their technicians (yes I can fix electronics too...lol) 11 bucks an hour is HARD to find around here. That is their starting pay. I could be up to 13 bucks in the first year. The recruiter says I basically have the job in the bag. He keeps telling me I am going to be hearing fromt he regional manager...all week I have been hearing this and still no call. I called again today, go tht regionals number and put a call in. I WANT THIS JOB! Hopefully it will pan out.

I interviewed with Rent A Center. The managers is a frickin' joke. He told me about the job and then put me on a computer to do their personality test which I aced. He didn't take any notes, didn't ask me any questions on what I can do...ridiculous. As much as I am not in a position to turn jobs away...I wouldn't work there is they offered me 20 bucks an hour. Not worth my time.

Had an interview with Sears. They offered me PT Sales in appliances. Problem is it;s straight commision. They're supposed to call next week. Doubt I'll take it unless something else pops up.

I have an interview on Monday with a real estate company for office work. Only part time...but my foot in the door in the industry I really want to work in.

Real Estate. I have always had an interest and I know I would do well in it. A lot of money to start....like 1200 bucks! So yesterday I had an interview with a broker from Exit Reality. OMG...she was AWESOME. We hit it off really well. She obvioulsy cannot hire me as I haven't taken the class yet but if I had, I'd have a job right now. She's even asking her agents if they need a personal assistant...lol I even told her I would do office work if she needed help. She said she was going to check her budget. My whole goal yesterday was to meet her and make a good enough impression so that in a couple of months time she could bring me on. Mission accomplished...lol

So I still have no job. But there are prospects. Oh crap...need to make a call on one that called me yeterday and then we played phone tag...lol

Ok I'm off to do that.

Does anyone reading this do good resumes? Or cover letters? My resume is weak at best and I don't have a cover. I would love some help if anyone has some to offer. THANKS

The Vagina Blog

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:19:36 GMT

Well I have had to set my MySpace blog to private due to wandering husband eyes...but the SOB doesn't know about this one....hehehehehe.
So from now one when I blog I will post here as well and send this link out to family and friends not on MySpace. WOO HOO, I can still blog without him knowing....lol
Ok this is a long one...

I think I need to write a book on how to divorce a waste of skin. Call it the Vagina Diaries...lol

Ok onto this week's update....kinda full so we're going to do 2 parts. One with all the legal crap. One with the job front....yes it is starting to look up....not that it was hard considering I am looking up from the bottom half of my barrle...but I'm stilllooking up...lol

Legal Crap
THE KID FRONT
-->>Kaylee
Roy should be arranging with our friends to see Kaylee. As much as I hate it right now I know it has to happen and am not fighting it. I know my friend willtake good care of Kaylee and not allow Roy to whisper crap about me or hurt her. She's so tender about things right now. We were upstairs in the bedroom this morning for over an hour playing and talking. She misses her house and stuff and even said when she took a nap that she wanted her "Daddy Pillow" <<--a while back she couldn't sleep so we gave her Roy's pillow so she could "smell" Daddy. She has slept with that pillow and case ever since...even though it's been washed she says it still smells like Daddy.
-->>Jenny
Yesterday in court it was agreed upon by lawyers and the girls law gaurdian that Jenny and her Dad need to go to counceling together to repair the damages done in all of this. Jenny is really upset by this. She's just not ready to face him yet but I cannot stop this no matter how hard I try. I'm silently hoping that it will help. Regardless of my personal contempt for Roy I still want them to have a relationship. You cannot pick your family, only your friends and maybe Jenny thinks she doesn't need her Dad now...but she will need him at some point in her life. I hope they can start to work on something.
Jenny's Mom, Meike is suing me for custody now. I kinda knew this would happen. Can't trust them woman as far as you can throw her anyway. She has until August 15th to get her petition into NY Family Court. We're gonna fight. Jenny doesn't want to live with her. She wants to stay here with me in NY where she has friends. This is her home.
No one seems to care what Jenny wants. it's kind of like she's a kid, I made her therehore I get to screw with her life. My point is this....at what point can a kid say stop screwing with my life? She has had such a crappy childhood that all I want to do is try and make her high school years memorable. Is that so wrong?
-->>Me
I have a meeting with my lawyer next week. I think he finally likes me...lol Or actualy care about the case. I swear he read the petition for the first time yesterday....lol But there is a bond now with us...we're both Canadian. And in the land of the Americans, that is a bond. Us Canuks have to stick together...lol
I still go to court playing the abused housewife. I have learned that in order to play this stupid game I have to play a part. I have to play meek. Most of you know me either in real life or in my online life...I AM NOT MEEK!!! But I can act it.
I'm still not getting any money in all of this. I brought it up yesterday and that is when I was told to make an appointment to see my lawyer. How can Roy possibly expect me to feed and clothe the kids with no money? Or the animals for that matter? My Mom has my cat, Sarah and my puppy, Sam (7 months old and about 45 pounds...but still a pup). It costs money and she has been paying for it. I have Sadie with me...luckily she's small and doesn't eat too much.
I can't wait until this part is over. I haven't even begun to deal with the divorce. The kids were my first priority

Love you all and I miss you all something terrible. I look in on my Yahoo Groups from time to time and wish I were there. I've had to quit so many of them. I've only kept the ones I own or mod for....and Mare's (can't leave my girls) One day I hope to be back but who knows when that will be.

Off to write the next blog...job hunt!

If you're reading this...say hello, comment...come one you know you want to...lol

My Internet Obsessions

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:04:27 GMT

When I first started on the Internet many moons ago I was intrigued by the whole search thing

Then I got bored and discovered Chat Rooms. Obviously that went well as I met and later married my husband through a chat room.

After I got married I goofed around just chatting using ICQ. Was kinda fun but boring.

Then I discovered The Sims. Well there went three years of my life I will never get back.
During my Sims phase I ended up moderating a Sims yahoo group.
Enter the new obsession of the moment...Yahoo Groups.

Yahoo groups got me in touch with otherss with the same interest as me. That was cool.
But they got me hooked on Doll siggy tags. So I started making dolls....you got it...new obsession.
This led to PSP and Photoshop
Which led to Incredimail
Which led to making personalized stationary
Which led to me starting my first Yahoo Group, Shannon's Playground; I HAD to have a place to offer it up.
Which led to a new Yahoo Group for my "special" people. My Always List started
And now three years later I own and operate 6 yahoo groups and two moderator/tagger groups. Plus I moderate for a friend and I am a tagger for another.
My world sure has changed now hasn't it.

Vacations

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:48:08 GMT

Alrighty now. Vacations...what a pain in the ass. It's all about sleeping someone else's bed with bad pillows and Bambi. Ok so that was mine...lol

The beginning.

Left at 2:30AM...we were to leave at 9pm. Roy pissed around all day and we never got things organized. I fell asleep at one point. I was exhausted. Roy assumed leaving int he middle of the night would allow Kaylee to sleep...YA RIGHT! The little bugger talked to herself until 5 am. We arrived in Tennessee at Roy's aunt's only to find out that we would be living with Bambi for a week....yup you heard me, Bambi. Lala ( his aunts name) had a 2 month old deer leaving in her house. Momma was dead. So we had to dodge deer piss and poop! Dam thing tried to poop on my head the first morning we were there...aaaahhhh! But Kaylee loved it.
Dropped Jenny off at her egg donors. We left her with the hopes that their relationship would be repaired....

The Middle

Spent a few days visiting reletives and meeting up with Roy's old school friends. Debbie is really nice. Loud, but I like her. Hated staying in her house though. Her husband smokes and it really bothered my asthma. Naturally Roy didn't think about that...gggrrr Robin....uuuhhh not sure. Maybe I didn't spend enough time with her but she hardly talked to me at all.
Took Kaylee to the Tennessee Aquarium. OMG she loved it. We still can't take her in the car without her asking to go see fishy's....lol Went to a cave thing called "The Lost Sea" They really need to let older people and those with breathing problems know that the air down there is BAD! It was only a mile walk but we were down a long way. In the middle of it though you had a little boat ride on an underground lake. That was cool! Going back up was not fun. I could barely breath...dam asthma! But I kept going and am here to talk about it...lol Saw some really cool modular homes there too. Too bad we can't ship one up here. Fell in love with one in particular...lol

The End

Picked Jenny up Friday from the egg donors. Stupid bitch said she was going to take Jenny to all these cool places and do stuff with her all week. She had her for 6 days and took her out once to Target where she had Jenny spend all her money on clothes that won't fit her longer than a couple of months...aaahhhh The whole point of thios trip was so that Meike and Jenny could get to know each other again. Roy and I have had Jenny since December 1999. Meike has only come to see her twice and we have taken Jenny there 3 times. But this was the first time we left Jenny. And the last. Meike had Jenny doing all the cleaning and the cook ing while she slept to 1-2 in the afternoon. Kept telling Jenny that they would do something adn then would blame it on her boyfrind or some friend. COme on, MEike lives in Atlanta. There are all kinds of things to do there. Even if she took Jenny on a car tour and poiinted out points of interest. Jenny was sooo bummed. I was pissed. Each night when we talked to Jenny you could hear it in her voice that she was upset. But she's back where she belongs now. She won't go back. This one was arranged by us. She didn't even want to go. We kinda forced the issue. Won't happen again. If Jenny wants to go again she needs to tell us and then we'll arrange it. Someonhow I doubt she will. Meike showed her true colors. After we left Georgia and Tennessee we went to Virginia to visit Roy's Mom. What fun! She gave Jenny the new HP book for her bday next month but didn't bother to get anything for Kaylee. The girls bdays are a day apart. I was so glad to get out of there. She doesn't even talk to Kaylee at all. Looks at her as if she's gonna break something. On our way home we went to this drive through Zoo. What a blast. I'm gonna work on the pictures and hopefully get some posted. Well I'm off to do other things. Will try to remember to post here more.

Shannon

bored ramblings

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:36:59 GMT

I wish the rain would stop....makes me depressed.

Dora
My husband, Roy wants Kaylee to have a Dora backpack...aaahhhh Can't find one here. My have to do the e-bay thing.

Why do I keep forgetting about this thing. Man oh man could I have used this a couple of weeks ago. Oh well it appears that the problem child has been dealt with. Never heard back from her ISP. Guess they don't care if goes around harassing people. Next time...LEGAL ramifications.

Off to do tags.
I know...boring!
Shannon

Walmart

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:26:18 GMT

Why is it one trip to Walmart always ends up being at least 100 bucks!!!!
We went there for a little toy golf set for Kaylee....lol aaahhh
Off to catch up on mail...and this time I need to answer it.
Shannon

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:47:58 GMT

Well I'm heading out to gardening hell. All I want is to play in PSPland...gggrrr

See ya later

Goodnight

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 05:05:15 GMT

Off to bed.
Night all.
Shannon

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:44:32 GMT

Ok I've been looking around LJ...instead of doing what I should be doing....lol

Need to experiment...so excuse me as I do so.

My Yahoo Groups

Shannon's Playground

Now how do I add images....

Memorial Day Weekend

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:12:24 GMT

Hi Everyone
I'm back from my trip home....other than I was able to visit Tim Horton's it was a horrible trip.
Thursday morning I took Kaylee to the ER. Her eyes had been swollen a couple of days, well that morning you could hardly see her eyes. So I took her in. They put her on Benedryl (sp?) Doctor said it would make her sleepy...perfect we had a 5 hour trip. She slept 30 minutes and screamed and bitched the rest of the trip. Roy can't handle her screaming and had worked the night before so he was miserable with her screaming, I was miserable cuz I had to deal with him yelling at her....aaahhh And poor Jenny was stuck in the middle...well back seat really. She deals with more crap from her little sister than anyone wants to admit.
So we gave her the meds twice Thursday thinking she would adjust...nope. She had two more doses on Friday and then I gave up. Screw it. So we waited for the symptoms of the medication to go away....never did...gggrrr I swear this crap kick started the terrible two's for her. I want my little girl back. She is nasty. She screams at everything and never seems happy. Even when she is getting her own way she is miserable.
We ended up doing no visiting at all. We haven't been home since Christmas....I was not happy. Sure Kaylee got to spend time with my Dad and all but she was so miserable that even he was getting annoyed. Oh and to top it off. She isn't sleeping through the night. Mind you this always seems to happen when Kaylee goes away....aaahhhh
Not a happy camper as you can tell.
Oh and Hamilton, the city I am from. Holy crap it is sooooo dirty. I understand it is a steel town and all but is it necessary for it to do be that dirty. My poor dogs are Cocker and both are buff...Joey is actually buff and white. Well their bottom halves look almost black. We had to give them a mini bath just to be able to take them home. And naturally the groomers can't get them in this week so we have to wait until next week....aaahhhh
Enough rambling.....aahhh

Terrible Two's

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:37:08 GMT

Well I guess Kaylee has entered them....early! She is horrible to be around. She's miserable no matter what we do or say.
Pissed off right now....be back later.
Shannon

Ramblings by Shannon

Tue, 31 May 2005 04:33:40 GMT

Ok so I keep hearing about LJ so I decided that I have to jump on the band wagon...dam follower...lol

Not really sure what to do with this thing so if anyone happens to read this and happens to feel sorry for me....by all means guide me! Teach me! Or shoot me cuz I really need to go to bed....lol

Love to all
Shannon