2007 -what a bittersweet year.
Here is my annual end of year reflection and overview of my life.
It is a shame that I am ending 2007 in not the best of places but I hope to make 2008 my year of change and happiness.
January 2007- We just settled into the home on Ludlow St. awaiting the closing, we really believed this was going to work out. We spent all of January painting and building and making it our home. A lot of money was spent but at the same time this was the beginning of 7 months of no rent/mortgage payment. I was getting restless at Scholastic and decided it was time to kick into to gear if I wanted something new. I was still working 2 jobs and loving the extra money in my pocket.
February 2007- This is the time frame I decided to quit my PT job in the near future in order to have more time to dedicate to my job search and house cleaning. Still awaiting the closing on Ludlow St.
March 2007- Seems March in my life is always a time of change. It was when I offically stopped working two jobs, Quit happily at Scholastic even though it went down in a way I didn’t like, what can you say when you have a crazy boss, I know we have all been there. I started working at Moving.com . I was happy about this move and thought Moving was going to be my long term happiness of work. It was a small office and everyone was pretty awesome. We still awaited the closing on the condo, just as a note, the closing waiting was never uneventful it was full of letters. emails and calls between lawyers, mortgage people and our realtor. By this point 3 1/2 months into the none closing factor we start getting irritated.
April 2007- seems like a good month, no craziness except no movement on the home closing date. Promised many days that the closing was around the corner, the seller was close to foreclosure which started to worry us a great deal.
May 2007- The month went by ok except at the end of the month my boss let me know I did not have enough contracts and he felt I was not the best match for the job. I am sorry Movers are assholes and they do not return contracts. I started April 1st needing 10 contracts a month, please tell me how with no pipeline are you supposed to get that many back from irresponsible moving companies. So here I was unemployed and all of a sudden scared to death about not having a job for when the closing finally arrived.
June 2007- what a friggen month…. Spent this month unemployed- SUCKS! At this time we received a letter stating that sale could not go thru on the condo due to no documents for condos and we must vacate in 48 hours. What the fuck were we suppose to do now? So we speak with our lawyers and agree that we would pay to stay until the end of the month, we then hightailed it back into the real estate market. We went back to University Park Lofts, because we loved the concrete floors and openness like no other loft in Worcester. We put in an offer, go back and forth and accepted offer moves towards closing. I am still nervous because of no job, so I an interviewing like crazy.
July 2007- We spend the first 2 1/2 weeks of July in my folks in law apartment in Putnam. I get a job at Acme Wholesale in Needham and Neil is all the way in Canton. We make these horrible drives for 3 weeks until we close. Acme Wholesale has to be the worst job I have ever had in my life. The boss is a crazy fuck with control issues and a complex. Within 3 weeks I hate the job and make it known to people I am not happy, but I needed a job for when we closed on the loft.
We close on the 22nd of July and move in. What a damn hot summer in no window fixture windows. The day we moved in it was 98 degrees inside our unit. The first two weeks of living there was filled with thunderstorms that were quite enjoyable to watch from our panoramic windows.
August 2007 – end of this month brings me making my boss hate me enough to let me go with the one last thought ” You are not happy here, so you can leave” I then said “thank you I will do so.” That place took my soul and I needed it back.
September 2007- being the nervous girl I am, I took the first position that came my way, not always the best bet I tell ya. I took a temp to perm position that did not become perm. YIKES.
October 2007- So yeah the job for me ended the week of Halloween. Damnit…..what a year with jobs. At this point I regret ever leaving Scholastic, especially since they let the evil witch go and then they made the jobs work from home. Talk about saving on gas…..
November 2007- I decide I can not take one more shitty sales job. You know the kind they tell you is Account Management and you end up calling out of the phone book for the 1st 6 months to build relationships. Or the kind were you need to talk sports with your customers for them to like you. I started collecting unemployment and doing my homework. The Career Centers have all the resources you need to find a good solid position. But I seriously have applied for some odd 80 jobs and nothing came of it. I was told on one of the interviews that I needed to sell myself better, maybe I just stopped caring. So I started the process to get myself into the Medical Industry as I have stated in the past wanting. I did everything in my power to get a grant towards school from the state and also to apply for Section 30 which makes it possible to go to a career based school and not have to look for work while collecting. Been tricky as I took a very PT position the last week of November to help supplement my income and the position was bunk. So I left after 3 days of not being trained and twiddling my thumbs. Now this may haunt me …..damnit
December 2007- With little income and 4 weeks completed in school so far I am ok. A tad stressed and a bit weighing more than I would like. The stress of the year made it very hard for me to worry about my physical health but that will all change.
So my thoughts on the year, Good Riddance.
I am so done with 2007 it is not even funny. I wouldn’t have made it thru without the best of friends my Neil. This year was a year of finding out who my real friends are and deciding that I do not need half the people I use to hold dear. Less bullshit that way and less aggravation when they keep letting you down.
My brother and his girlfriend are expecting their first child together and I am very much excited for that. My sister moved back from Florida which is nice that we are all around again.
The stress of this year makes wishing it a long goodbye even sweeter. I am in desperate need of a vacation as I sit here and watch the snow fall outside my big beautiful windows. I think we just hit a record for snowfall in December.
So here is to the end of 2007 and welcoming the 2008 year with all I have. This year will be better.