Vicki’s Blog

Sleepless Night

So much has been going on, and I am so far behind on blog posts that I have wanted to do, but alas, time has escaped me.

I guess some of the biggest news around here is that I finally did get my mid-term exam done for my medical terminology course!!! I am so glad that that is finally done and out of the way!!! It took us 4 weeks to get it taken, because of paperwork problems, and finding a proctor that would actually show up! This would be part of the reason I don’t like relying on people…they always seem to let you down. In any case I scored an 81%, and I am onto finish the book….*LOL* I finished chapter 10, and already have a good start on 11, and there are only a total of 22 chapters in the book, if memory serves me correctly. It feels good to be studying again. I didn’t want to continue on through the book, until I had mid-terms done, so basically I lost 4 weeks of studying time!!! I am sadly disapointed, as I would be almost ready to take final exam, had I not lost those 4 weeks!! Anyway, at least I am on my way again!!!

Another big piece of news is that I quit my job. Well, actually I put in my notice, my last day is supposed to be this Thursday, but that is debateable at this point, but I’ll get to that in a moment. I have forever been wanting to be able to stay at home with my girls, but being a single mom, well, some of you know how hard that is. Anyway, I finally got some money saved up, and decided to go ahead and quit. With any luck, and a little help from God, I will be able to finish my college course before I run out of money, and be able to get a job working from home. It was time to quit that job, anyway!! They have done nothing but upset me for about the past year, but I kept hanging on….Sometimes it would seem as if things were getting better, and than things would get difficult again….I mean there was the time when they wanted me to work when I had laryngitis, which would have put the consumers at risk, had there been an emergency…Than there was the time that they canceled my vacation, even though I already had found people to cover all of my shifts. You should be able to imagine how upset the girls were when I told them my vacation time had been canceled. Lets not forget the time that they wanted me to work my 8 hour overnight shift, go to a training from 9a-4p the following day, and than work another 8 hour shift that night. There have been many problems like this, which is part of the reason I put in my notice.

Now I will tell you what happened tonight…..I called my house manager to tell her I wouldn’t be in tonight, because I had some family things come up unexpectedly. Nothing serious mind, but serious enough that I didn’t feel comfortable going in to work. So anyway, in the midst of my family “crisis” (for lack of a better term) my house manager says that either I find someone to cover my shift, or I have to work it. Now, as much as I have tried to be nice, by giving notice and working thousands of hours of overtime (yes, I mean that “thousands” literally), and what not…I am NOT going to take time away from a family situation to worry about whether my shift is covered or not!! To my way of thinking that is the manager’s job. My family has always been, and will always be more important to me than a job!!!! I am sick and tired of them trying to get me to put my job before my family!!! So in anycase, by throughly ticking off my manager tonight, by telling her that I would not work tonight, I’m not entirely sure they will want me to finish out my week. After I called her, and told her I wouldn’t be in, she started ranting and raving at me, basically, so I hung up on her….I didn’t need her crap at the moment, my hands and mind were full of other things, more important things. It wasn’t a nice thing to do, but I can’t say I’m sorry for doing it. Anyway, she kept calling me back….left me 3 voicemails, and I can’t tell you how many other times she tried to call me…Even when someone else answered the phone and told her that I was busy, she still kept calling. I can understand her being upset with me, but to continue calling me, and trying to bully me into working (if you heard the voicemails, you would deffinitely agree that it was bullying), I think that was wrong of her. I told her in our first conversation that I could not work…end of story, no if, ands, or buts about it…in my mind that should have been the end of it, unless I was to get written up, or fired, but that would happen later…..

So here I sit, wide awake, my mind too busy thinking of all that is going on right now. I have figured out that sleepless nights are good for something…I have all of my laundry caught up, at least as far as washing and drying is concerned….Folding, well that’s another matter. I have also gotten some computer work done, written this entirely too long post, studied, and who knows what else I will get done….It is 5 am though…so I think it’s time I move onto something else…and give you all a break from reading this! *LOL*

*hugs* to all my friends, keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I embark on this new leg of life, filled with new things, and old. Comforting and scary things. New relationships and old. Pray that God gives me the guidence I so desperately need!!