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A job! A job!
Aug. 17th, 2002 10:29 pmJeff has a job! Can I shout it loud enough? JEFF HAS A JOB! It's in Waco, Texas. It starts the middle of September. We are looking for apartments online and will be touring beautiful Waco and surrounding suburbs one day next week (hopefully) to find a place we can live. We'll be moving a few days before he starts work. He has a job. It's a good job. It pays well. He can support us. We can move out of my parent's house. I can move back in with him. I'm very happy about this. He works for Dell in the sales department, and makes a base hourly rate plus commission. The great thing about Dell is the people call you, and when they do, they are already 98% certain they will buy a computer. All Jeff has to do is tell them what's right for them. :) He knows computers and what programs and software/hardware to have for what a person wants to do on said computer, so this is the perfect job for him! I'm so excited.
I am, however, one of the few who is. Jeff is excited. My friend B is excited. I'm excited. Alex doesn't know what's going on, but she'll be excited to be around her Daddy again. My father is very happy but a little worried about the move. He knows I don't handle big changes well. I've been through, and still battling, a major depression this year. He's worried that I will spiral down the way I did when we moved to Texas when I was 12. Of course, there were things going on then that he didn't know about, but that's okay. It's sweet that he's worried. And he is very happy for Jeff. My mother, on the other hand, is being mega-witch about it. She's mad at Jeff for everything, even if he has nothing to do with it. She's mad that Alex and I will be moving up there in September with him rather than wait around at my parent's house while he's up in Waco walking to work (from who knows how far away) for a few months. She doesn't want us to move. She doesn't like Jeff at all anymore. In fact, she downright hates him. And she's making EVERYBODY suffer for it... even my dad doesn't want to be home right now. Jeff's parents don't want us to go all the way to Waco (really not that far away... it's only about 180 miles, about a 4 hour drive) and have said they will find him a job here, but I don't think it will happen. He's applied at all the places they hold any clout with and has heard absolutely nothing, so oh well.
But he has a job. And we are moving. To a nice little city that has cooler (not by much, but somewhat) weather, less tornado activity, actual hills, trees, and wasn't built on a swamp. He's working a good job for a good solid company that pays well. I'm excited about this move. I think Waco will be a good place to live. The cost of living is less, the apartments are nicer (from what we've seen), Jeff will be doing what he loves to do, I will be free to raise Alex as I see fit, not as my mother or somebody else tells me I should.
One more quick rant bit about my mother- at the dinner table today, the subject of Alex's first birthday party was brought up. We mentioned she recieved a free cake from the grocery store, just a little small one, for her to demolish. Now, I didn't want to give her the whole cake in the first place, as 1. it would have been a huge mess to clean up and 2. it would have made her sick. Anyway, my mother said that "Of course we didn't give her the whole cake. I would have said no to that." And I said "Well, if I had wanted to, I could have. She's my daughter. I get the final say." and my mother looks daggers at me and replies "But Grandma would have vetoed it. And that's final. Had you wanted to, she still would not have had that whole cake to play with." My god! Alex is my daughter! I'm raising her, not my mother. I get final say in discipline and what she can and cannot have. Heck, I get final say in everything! Not my mother. My mother can make suggestions, but I don't have to follow them. I don't have to do a single thing she says when it comes to raising my daughter. But she seems to think I do... geez! I'm really not liking my mother right now. I don't know what happened to the woman who raised me, but she is definately not it. Rant over.
Good stuff now. Jeff has a job. JEFF HAS A JOB! It's in Waco which is close enough to see my friends but far enough away that we will have an excuse not to visit parents every single day or weekend. :) I'm so excited... I just... he finally has a job. They really liked him. They didn't want to take no for an answer, even if he had tried. I'm so happy!
I am, however, one of the few who is. Jeff is excited. My friend B is excited. I'm excited. Alex doesn't know what's going on, but she'll be excited to be around her Daddy again. My father is very happy but a little worried about the move. He knows I don't handle big changes well. I've been through, and still battling, a major depression this year. He's worried that I will spiral down the way I did when we moved to Texas when I was 12. Of course, there were things going on then that he didn't know about, but that's okay. It's sweet that he's worried. And he is very happy for Jeff. My mother, on the other hand, is being mega-witch about it. She's mad at Jeff for everything, even if he has nothing to do with it. She's mad that Alex and I will be moving up there in September with him rather than wait around at my parent's house while he's up in Waco walking to work (from who knows how far away) for a few months. She doesn't want us to move. She doesn't like Jeff at all anymore. In fact, she downright hates him. And she's making EVERYBODY suffer for it... even my dad doesn't want to be home right now. Jeff's parents don't want us to go all the way to Waco (really not that far away... it's only about 180 miles, about a 4 hour drive) and have said they will find him a job here, but I don't think it will happen. He's applied at all the places they hold any clout with and has heard absolutely nothing, so oh well.
But he has a job. And we are moving. To a nice little city that has cooler (not by much, but somewhat) weather, less tornado activity, actual hills, trees, and wasn't built on a swamp. He's working a good job for a good solid company that pays well. I'm excited about this move. I think Waco will be a good place to live. The cost of living is less, the apartments are nicer (from what we've seen), Jeff will be doing what he loves to do, I will be free to raise Alex as I see fit, not as my mother or somebody else tells me I should.
One more quick rant bit about my mother- at the dinner table today, the subject of Alex's first birthday party was brought up. We mentioned she recieved a free cake from the grocery store, just a little small one, for her to demolish. Now, I didn't want to give her the whole cake in the first place, as 1. it would have been a huge mess to clean up and 2. it would have made her sick. Anyway, my mother said that "Of course we didn't give her the whole cake. I would have said no to that." And I said "Well, if I had wanted to, I could have. She's my daughter. I get the final say." and my mother looks daggers at me and replies "But Grandma would have vetoed it. And that's final. Had you wanted to, she still would not have had that whole cake to play with." My god! Alex is my daughter! I'm raising her, not my mother. I get final say in discipline and what she can and cannot have. Heck, I get final say in everything! Not my mother. My mother can make suggestions, but I don't have to follow them. I don't have to do a single thing she says when it comes to raising my daughter. But she seems to think I do... geez! I'm really not liking my mother right now. I don't know what happened to the woman who raised me, but she is definately not it. Rant over.
Good stuff now. Jeff has a job. JEFF HAS A JOB! It's in Waco which is close enough to see my friends but far enough away that we will have an excuse not to visit parents every single day or weekend. :) I'm so excited... I just... he finally has a job. They really liked him. They didn't want to take no for an answer, even if he had tried. I'm so happy!
