Just thought I'd take a minute and lay out my week. All week I have been talking about the "Bail Out" - this has drove my head into a tail spin, my thoughts were torn both ways. On the one hand I think the economy has grown faster than it should have and this was due to people living outside of their means, living on way too much credit (that now bit them in the ass), the dishonesty of people and government and this could go on and on. The banks should not have gotten a bail out, they are a business (unfortunately for a lot of us we have forgotten that, choose your bank wisely) and if business is bad, it's bad and you either find a way to fix it or you go out of business, why should they get a hand out from the tax payers and why should I have to pay for the debts of others. I get frustrated that I have lived within my money and will now be penalized for those who have not, way to go people in the world - people feel way to much entitlement these days for my comfort - we are not entitled to "stuff" or really anything - work for it and you can have it, it does not come from the silver spoon. Enough said on that, but it has been my gripe for the week.
Monday I also signed paperwork at my own bank to modify our mortgage payment to a 15 year fixed rate (our 5-year arm was up next month so I had to do something). I am glad that I did not wait and locked my rate last week, all is well and we have knocked 10 years off of our pay-0ff date. I did tell Dan though if I am 45 years old and still living in this house I may have to shoot him at that point, just something to keep in the back of thoughts dear (aren't I kind?!)
Work of course is work and I've been trying to finish up projects so that I can free up some of my time. I have gotten approval to start training to become a Business Analyst I for the county - yeah for me! I will need to focus on training on 3 different areas, one will be Project Management (which is the piece I think that I will be the best at and enjoy the most, I'm sure everyone can see that, me in charge! watch out people), the 2nd will be doing stuff with databases (this is where I will need the most training), and 3rd will be to become a Crystal Report writer ( I am hoping the learning curve will not be too bad and I can pick up on it quickly). The county is coming up with some specific time frames and realize that I will be on leave for a couple of months, but they are willing to pay for the training and willing to pay for my time during work to complete the training. They figure it to be about a 6 to 9 month transition/training time. It will be interesting to see what our new Compensation / Classification employee and HR feel about this, it has not been looked at to highly when they have done this will a couple of other employees - they feel it unfair because not everyone is given this opportunity and I won't have to sign a contract to work for the county for any given amount of time and can apply for other Business Analyst positions within different departments if I were so inclined. I am looking forward to using my brain, getting out of the clerical work and getting a nice big pay increase at the end of all of this! Ya - let's see if I can make it through the schooling pieces that will need to be done - ugh - school classes and on-line classes? One question the Senior Business Analyst asked me about my experience is how I have handled and what I've thought of on-line classes and I had to tell him, "never taken one, haven't been in a class setting for over 10 years" - he's a pretty easy going guy, which will eventually also be my supervisor, so I will need to watch my tongue a bit, I guess I can be a bit abrasive (or so I'm told - ha ha).
Kids - I have cleaned out Katelynn's entire closet except the clothes that she is wearing now and will wear for this winter. Everything must go is my new philosophy. I had 4 huge totes of clothes that I went through. I took out anything that I can re-use for Junior (or Junebug as Dan and Katelynn are referring to him, this was Dan's idea, not mine). I have sorted everything into size piles and gotten rid of the 12mo and 18mo. I have sold all the 24mo clothes on our "trading post" at work. I have listed her Mickey mouse toddler sheets for sale and today posted her old crib sheets and crib bedding set for sale. I am going through the 2T and the 3T this weekend and those will also be out of the house soon. Tomorrow Katelynn and I are going to one of my friends houses to play and then we are going to Osh Gosh for some new clothes for Katelynn since her closet is so empty now and then looking for a Halloween costume. She has said that she wants to be Cinderella this year and I am thinking we better get out there now and we may already be too late to find that one - damn, people really start early on this stuff.
I started decorating the house for Halloween tonight and will make Dan pull out the rest of my decorations tomorrow for Halloween/Thanksgiving/fall stuff to do on Sunday - no football until Monday night so it's a good weekend to Git R' Done. I watched the VP debate the other night and thought that Palin did a pretty good job. I like that she is a straight shooter and can really relate to people. My gripe on Biden or even the democrats right now is they want to tax the so called "rich people" and let everyone else off the hook. I have a serious issue with this (and we do not fall into the "rich people" category). It seems that people that are making a ton of money, a majority of them have a lot of schooling or have worked extremely hard to get the money that they have or the jobs that they have that earn that kind of money and why should they be penalized for that? While the people who just sit in the middle have to pay nothing - the rich pay for the poor who do nothing, doesn't seem "fair" as I see, which is what the democrats are about "being fair to all". It seems to fall into the same thing as in the workplace - don't work too hard because you will get more work than the person sitting next too you without any additional pay - same deal - work harder and make more money and they will take the extra away from you to give to someone who isn't working hard enough. Many people have argued this with me and definitely do not feel that I even probably know what I am talking about, but those are my thoughts - goes back to - why am I paying for someone else's house that went under foreclosure?"
On a brighter note, my family and I have booked a trip to Deadwood, SD in November - this will include, my family, my brother's family and my parents. So I will finally get to meet my new nephew the first weekend in November. I am excited to that we are doing something different than us driving to Minnesota, since I pretty much said I wasn't going to and my mom really wanted to meet us somewhere have way then at some time. It'll be good for all of us and I hope that everyone is as excited as I am.
That is my week in review - whew, maybe now I can get a full night sleep after getting all of that out!
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