this is where I really have issues with Xanga, it is really Friday evening NOT Saturday ….

ANYHOW!  my post today …

I GOT THE JOB!!!

This afternoon I got the call that offered me the Administrative Assistant position with an Oil & Gas company here in Calgary called Vantage Engineering.  While they are in the industry, Vantage is more a facilitator company doing the engineering, project management, and contract work in getting the product from the site to the processing plant.  I start Monday week.

” MAHHH – MEEEEEE! I did a pooh for you!” 

That was my greeting this morning as I walked out of my bedroom after a short but luxurious lay in.  This is also Wee Blonde Childs way of letting me know that she has just had a bowel movement.  Yes I get informed of these.  Mostly because WBC has been having issues with them of late and not going altogether and lucky me I get to track them so I know when I need to give her a laxitive to make her go.  Not kidding, the kid holds on to the stuff for whatever her own reasons!

So today I get to deal with phlemy coughs (Oldest Large Child  is home from school with that hacking chesty cough that is going about and the other two have also), but at least WBC found it in her self to take care of that business first thing this morning…

We’re having a Chinook.  The temperature is forecast to reach 16 celcius today and tomorrow.  And think of the muck that is going to be about from all the snow we had!

However it did mean that we were able to get out of the house with the monsters with out having to put on layers and layers of warm clothes.  We did have a lovely walk through Fish Creek Park and got to realize how diverse the area is geographically.  We typically start our journeys in the park (all of twice that we have been there!) at Lake Sikome and wander the trails about there (there are paved and gravel trails) and down by the Bow River.  This time we went down a different path and found our way in to a small valley the just seemed to open up as we came a across a bridge and around a corner.  I should say that each area of the park is as different from the others not only geographically, but for its historic significance.  The area we had come upon was once the Bow Valley Ranch.  I have to say, while there was not much left of the ranch and the info centre was closed, it was still an awe inspiring view and to know that people had tried and succeeded to have a working ranch in such an area.  Now logistically speaking, it would have been a profitable ranch as the Bow River is not far so there would be little concern about drought in the hot summers, but I know about living with the frigid temps we have, and there would not be exceptional shelter to aid against the wind and blowing snow.  Nor the burning hot dryness of the scorching summer sun.  But the early pioneers perservered and suceeded and now we have a great city that has its own diverse life.

Something that has made me go “hmmmm”….

So what now … I have an interview this afternoon and I will hopefully get it.  Haven’t a clue how much it pays and I really should have “qualified” that information before agreeing to it,  but then again, if I don’t “get out there” I’m not going to “get outta here”!  I am trying to not be nervous about this as I really do need to “nail it” and this morning has not been the smoothest I have ever experienced   so I am very much hoping that things start looking up and go better from here on out.  On all fronts. 

There are times when I feel that I am not being faithful to you who come here on a daily basis to get a chuckle, read something thought provoking, or just plain get out of your own world for a while.  I feel like I have nothing to offer the internet at this point, and what I do have really isn’t very much.  I am not a stay at home person even though I would consider my self a “home body”.  I still need to get out and see the world and interact with people and things ~ more than the hoover.  But I enjoy coming home and knowing there is comfort and safety in that.  Yes I enjoy being social, but a butterfly I am not, a bumble bee, and a worker bee at that.  But one that gets out of the hive.

And now here we are on the morning of an interview, for a job I need, and some of the little things in life are not going as smoothly as they could …. so a sign of what is to be later today or just one of those mornings?  Either way its frustrating!

… well maybe not quite the right description, but it will do.

So I’ll be giving up the childrens that are not mine (any takers on the ones that are mine?).  If it were a matter of not needing the income it would be fine, but realistically, right now we need the income.  So out come the suits, dress shirts and blouses, then I’ll have to dust off the heels, and take the moth balls out of the tights in the drawer.  And oh yeah, go buy some make up. ~ Lucky me! I get to start wearing make up everyday … woo hoo, so excited already, can’t you tell?

So. Well.  It has been a long few weeks of many many ups and downs.  Christmas was quiet and so was New Year’s for that matter.  Now we are at the point of looking for new direction, for both of us.  The Husband is not exceptionally pleased with the current company he is working for as it was the very last minute an extended lay off happened and not long after he had been assured that no lay offs were going to happen for the machine operators.  And minding children has become an effort in exasperation for me.  The children are not the exasperating part it is getting them here!  And then with the economy being as it is, it is then keeping them here as parents employment fluctuate.  Personally I am thinking that I should just give the whole gig up and find a “real” job!  This roller coaster of having more than enough children and then none is really playing with my mind and my heart.  We need to know what money we have coming in so we know what to do with it.  So, I feel it is time to look in another direction … now to find that other diretion.