Well, from my last post...A LOT has changed! Let's see how well I can condense it:
I got a job from the staffing agency (May 2012)
Josh and I moved in together! (October 2012)
They brought me on full time (November 2012)
Our townhouse was broken into...TWICE! (Nov and Dec 2012)
I got into an accident and was off work for over a month (August 2013)
They fired me (October 2013)
I had shoulder surgery from the wreck (October 2013)
Got another job (that I loved!) (February 2014)
Got my settlement from the wreck (April 2014)
Josh and I got engaged! (May 2014)
Then we bought a house! (August 2014)
We started to plan a wedding in Louisiana but God has other plans.
Josh was offered a position within his company to run a branch in California (January 2015)
We accepted and put our house up for sale ( January 2015)
Josh's cousin buys our house and we drive a uhaul to Cali! (February 2015)
We scrapped our wedding in Louisana and get married on a yacht in Cali! (March 2015)
Honeymoon in Mexico!! (March into April 2015)
And to tie everything together, for some reason I had much better luck here in California, I found a really great job at a fertility clinic. (April 2015)
Whew! If that was exhausting to read, try living it!
But honestly, Josh and I are so incredibly blessed. I can't believe everything that has happened in just the past 12 months! As much as I get homesick sometimes, I try to remember that we are exactly where we are suppose to be.
I can't wait to see what else God has in store for us here!
Hopefully I'm a little better with keeping this updated and you can follow along, whoever does...if they want. Or not, you know..whatevs.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Where's my head...
This past week has been crazy. I feel like I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Remember in the last post I said I had dropped my phone...check it out:
So, here is where the story gets interesting. As I said, they were overnighting me a phone. I waited around until 5pm on Monday to get my new phone in. I've activated one of these phones before by myself before so I thought there would be no problem. Oh was I ever wrong. I couldn't get this thing activated, so I called verizon customer service. They couldn't get it done, so they transfer me to technical support. Guess what, that didn't work! They said it must be a defective phone so they overnight me another one. Luckily, the week before my boyfriend had given me his old droid incase I ever needed it, so I was able to use it for the night. It's a regular Droid btw. So, Tuesday it comes in around 1:30. I open it up and it's not even an Incredible 2, it's a Droid 2. To say I was pissed off is the understatement of the year. I call Verizon and ask wteff their problem is and how they sent me this phone. (My only assumption is that we activated the Droid and they got some wires crossed.) Anyhow, I talk to a couple people at Verizon and I'm being as polite as I possibly can, which is getting increasingly difficult as the minutes tick by. Verizon tells me that a company called Asurion is who I did my original claim with and they sent me the first one. When that one was "defective" (I'll explain the quotation marks in 2 shakes of a lambs tail) I should have called Asurion not verizon to get another phone. At this point, steam is coming out of my ears and I just want my dang phone to work. So, the gentelman I was speaking with asks me to grab the original phone and try again. And "surprisingly" it doesn't work. Then he asks me a question no one in my previous 3 phone conversations asks me. "Is the back on the phone?" I now feel like a complete dumbass but at the same time, how was I suppose to know that had to be on there to activate the dang thing?! Needless to say, my phone was never defective and I've sent back the Droid 2.
In between all of that mess, I got phone calls and e-mails about some job opportunites. One of the staffing agencies called Tuesday and said a Medical Supply company wanted to interview with me the following day at 10am. I was super nervous, but I'm awesome so I held it together. The next day as I'm walking out I get a phone call from a company called Suddenlink asking if I can come in for an interview at 1:30. 2 interviews in one day? Don't question my badassness....
So, I go to both interviews and everything seems to go swimmingly. I didn't expect to hear anything back soon, so I just went home to relax. At about 4:50 I got a call from the staffing agency telling me the Medical Mart was offering me the job. I was excited!! The only question I had was on the pay, I had heard 2 different pay rates and was curious as to which it was. Staffing agent says she'll check it out and let me know, but to come up to the office at 8 the next morning. I went, she told what the pay rate was, I did the drug test, filled out paper work and went to the Medical Mart. This is where things get even more interesting.
I walk in and the employees are looking at me like I have a third arm growing out of my body and ask if they can help me. In my mind I'm thinking, You're all dumbasses, I got hired here...stop looking at me like that. I actually say, "I'm looking for Charlene, she gave me the job." Charlene walks out giving me the same look and this is where I begin to think, I must have something on my face, why didn't I look at myself in the mirror before I got out of the car. Here is the conversation(My thoughts are in italics):
Charlene: "Ummmm...the staffing ageny made it sound like you didn't want the job so we gave it to someone else."
Is this real life?
Me: "Are you kidding me?!"
C: "No, I spoke with her at close to 5 yesterday and that's how she made it sound."
M: "No, she asked what the pay rate was, because you nor I were sure what that was."
Bitch, I'm about to punch you in the face for either lying or being a complete dumbass.
C: "Well, we already called someone else in."
Tiffany, do not punch this woman, do no punch this woman.
M: "So, what, I just go home then?"
C: "Yea, I guess so."
I take my purse, set it on the ground and tackle Charlene. I call her all kinds of nasty names and tell her how much of an idiot could she possibly be to confuse a conversation on money with whether a person wants the job or not! I start ransacking the place and then leave with both middle fingers up and say "I'm out, bitches!"
I wish I had done that...it would have felt much more rewarding. I actually just turned around and walked out. I did slam the door incredibly hard. I had to have some kind of justification! I called the staffing agent and explained what happened, she was very apologetic and said she would get to the bottom of it. Around 4 she calls and tells me what I already know and apologizes again and tells me of a few of other jobs, another sales job a pt receptionist and a full time receptionist. I tell her which ones to send my resume to and we will go from there.
I did however, on the way home from the Medical Mart, get a phone call from another company wanting to interview with me, so I have that set up for Monday at 9 am. I also got an e-mail from an insurance company wanting to know when I'm available for an interview next week. So, not all is completely effed up this week.
Friday, I help my sister out in her classroom, just helping her take stuff down and get organized for next year and then went and picked up my nephew to stay for the weekend. We made cookies, watched movies, played for hours and slept a little in between all of that. Here are some cute pics below:
The cookies say I love Tee Tee, according to Landon :)
Ice mustache you a questions...
We had lots of fun, it was the first time he'd ever spent an entire weekend away from his parents and the only way I could get home to go back home without bawling his eyes out, thus making me feel like the worst aunt in the world, was to trick him. BUT it wasn't a bad trick. His horse had a baby Saturday so when I woke him up this morning I told him that Mommy and Daddy had a surprise for him at the house, we gotta hurry up and get ready! Her name is Mya!
I also downloaded an app called PicsArt on my phone. It's a really cool app that allows you to make collages with photos on your phone, and I'm sure your social network sites if you have them. Look at a couple I made:
And last but not least, my sister and I finally decided on an invitation for our dads retirement party. I think it tured out really cute:
Anyhow, that's been my crazy week. The only thing I've missed in all of it is Josh. He's working 7 12's for a while and I only get a couple hours to see him...it makes me sad. I miss him ridiculously.
I gotta go get ready for my friend LeAnn's baby shower. Little Khloe will be here before we know it!
Until next time! :)
So, here is where the story gets interesting. As I said, they were overnighting me a phone. I waited around until 5pm on Monday to get my new phone in. I've activated one of these phones before by myself before so I thought there would be no problem. Oh was I ever wrong. I couldn't get this thing activated, so I called verizon customer service. They couldn't get it done, so they transfer me to technical support. Guess what, that didn't work! They said it must be a defective phone so they overnight me another one. Luckily, the week before my boyfriend had given me his old droid incase I ever needed it, so I was able to use it for the night. It's a regular Droid btw. So, Tuesday it comes in around 1:30. I open it up and it's not even an Incredible 2, it's a Droid 2. To say I was pissed off is the understatement of the year. I call Verizon and ask wteff their problem is and how they sent me this phone. (My only assumption is that we activated the Droid and they got some wires crossed.) Anyhow, I talk to a couple people at Verizon and I'm being as polite as I possibly can, which is getting increasingly difficult as the minutes tick by. Verizon tells me that a company called Asurion is who I did my original claim with and they sent me the first one. When that one was "defective" (I'll explain the quotation marks in 2 shakes of a lambs tail) I should have called Asurion not verizon to get another phone. At this point, steam is coming out of my ears and I just want my dang phone to work. So, the gentelman I was speaking with asks me to grab the original phone and try again. And "surprisingly" it doesn't work. Then he asks me a question no one in my previous 3 phone conversations asks me. "Is the back on the phone?" I now feel like a complete dumbass but at the same time, how was I suppose to know that had to be on there to activate the dang thing?! Needless to say, my phone was never defective and I've sent back the Droid 2.
In between all of that mess, I got phone calls and e-mails about some job opportunites. One of the staffing agencies called Tuesday and said a Medical Supply company wanted to interview with me the following day at 10am. I was super nervous, but I'm awesome so I held it together. The next day as I'm walking out I get a phone call from a company called Suddenlink asking if I can come in for an interview at 1:30. 2 interviews in one day? Don't question my badassness....
So, I go to both interviews and everything seems to go swimmingly. I didn't expect to hear anything back soon, so I just went home to relax. At about 4:50 I got a call from the staffing agency telling me the Medical Mart was offering me the job. I was excited!! The only question I had was on the pay, I had heard 2 different pay rates and was curious as to which it was. Staffing agent says she'll check it out and let me know, but to come up to the office at 8 the next morning. I went, she told what the pay rate was, I did the drug test, filled out paper work and went to the Medical Mart. This is where things get even more interesting.
I walk in and the employees are looking at me like I have a third arm growing out of my body and ask if they can help me. In my mind I'm thinking, You're all dumbasses, I got hired here...stop looking at me like that. I actually say, "I'm looking for Charlene, she gave me the job." Charlene walks out giving me the same look and this is where I begin to think, I must have something on my face, why didn't I look at myself in the mirror before I got out of the car. Here is the conversation(My thoughts are in italics):
Charlene: "Ummmm...the staffing ageny made it sound like you didn't want the job so we gave it to someone else."
Is this real life?
Me: "Are you kidding me?!"
C: "No, I spoke with her at close to 5 yesterday and that's how she made it sound."
M: "No, she asked what the pay rate was, because you nor I were sure what that was."
Bitch, I'm about to punch you in the face for either lying or being a complete dumbass.
C: "Well, we already called someone else in."
Tiffany, do not punch this woman, do no punch this woman.
M: "So, what, I just go home then?"
C: "Yea, I guess so."
I take my purse, set it on the ground and tackle Charlene. I call her all kinds of nasty names and tell her how much of an idiot could she possibly be to confuse a conversation on money with whether a person wants the job or not! I start ransacking the place and then leave with both middle fingers up and say "I'm out, bitches!"
I wish I had done that...it would have felt much more rewarding. I actually just turned around and walked out. I did slam the door incredibly hard. I had to have some kind of justification! I called the staffing agent and explained what happened, she was very apologetic and said she would get to the bottom of it. Around 4 she calls and tells me what I already know and apologizes again and tells me of a few of other jobs, another sales job a pt receptionist and a full time receptionist. I tell her which ones to send my resume to and we will go from there.
I did however, on the way home from the Medical Mart, get a phone call from another company wanting to interview with me, so I have that set up for Monday at 9 am. I also got an e-mail from an insurance company wanting to know when I'm available for an interview next week. So, not all is completely effed up this week.
Friday, I help my sister out in her classroom, just helping her take stuff down and get organized for next year and then went and picked up my nephew to stay for the weekend. We made cookies, watched movies, played for hours and slept a little in between all of that. Here are some cute pics below:The cookies say I love Tee Tee, according to Landon :)
Ice mustache you a questions...
We had lots of fun, it was the first time he'd ever spent an entire weekend away from his parents and the only way I could get home to go back home without bawling his eyes out, thus making me feel like the worst aunt in the world, was to trick him. BUT it wasn't a bad trick. His horse had a baby Saturday so when I woke him up this morning I told him that Mommy and Daddy had a surprise for him at the house, we gotta hurry up and get ready! Her name is Mya!
I also downloaded an app called PicsArt on my phone. It's a really cool app that allows you to make collages with photos on your phone, and I'm sure your social network sites if you have them. Look at a couple I made:
And last but not least, my sister and I finally decided on an invitation for our dads retirement party. I think it tured out really cute:
Anyhow, that's been my crazy week. The only thing I've missed in all of it is Josh. He's working 7 12's for a while and I only get a couple hours to see him...it makes me sad. I miss him ridiculously.
I gotta go get ready for my friend LeAnn's baby shower. Little Khloe will be here before we know it!
Until next time! :)
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Gary Herrera for City Council!
We also had some bar-b-que links courtesy of Ronnie Herrera, Gary's brother.
Landon's mustache and multi-color hair!
Heather thought she was a princess and Landon wanted to be a blue tiger!
Sexy unibrow/mustache, right?!
This was Landon's handy work!
The only problem I ran across was as I was trying to take pictures with my camera phone, I dropped it and the screen shattered into pieces!! I was sooo mad. Verizon was pretty close so I went and spoke with them and I have my new phone coming in on Monday. My deductible was $100...effin lame. Other than that, everything went off without a hitch. Plenty of donations, lots of people came to support not just Gary but a couple of other candidates for some different wards.
Yesterday, my friend Jess had to go to Austin to pick up something for our trip to mexico so I wound up watching Kendall and I brought Landon over as well. They mostly ignored me and played with each other, but I was able to catch this picture:
Why she looks scared, I have no idea. I said smile and they had a complete blast riding around.
Keaton got home a little later and about flipped his lid when he heard Landon was there so Kendall wound up just hanging with me watching a movie while the boys played.
While the kids were playing I was on a website called indeed.com. They have a TON of jobs on there so I was posting my resume to every possible place I could. So I'm crossing my fingers something good comes from either that, or the 2 staffing agencies that I met with Thursday.
Other than that, nothing else much interesting has happened. So I'll leave off with a funny video I'd like to share! Enjoy!
For some reason it wont just show, copy and paste it and watch it, its hilarious...at least to me!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Well, I guess someone was listening on my post yesterday because I've had a busy couple of days! Yesterday, I had a staffing agency call me with an opening, so I went and had a meeting with them. Hopefully something comes of it! Then today, I was on my way to pick up my nephew and another staffing agency called wanting to have a meeting with me. I don't know whether to be excited or ridiculously nervous...probably both! I'm sitting in the office right now waiting to meet with the woman who called, so if anything happpens within the next couple days I'll update! Wish me luck! :)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
1st Post!
I'm Tiffany, I'm an almost 27 year old girl just trying to figure out her way in the world. I have some amazing people in my life that keep me sane and I don't know what I'd do with out them.
Here's my Boyfriend and me
My very best friend Jessica
My sister and me being silly at DisneyWorld
My amazing nephew who can brighten up my darkest day
And a few of my other friends
Jennifer Lindsey
Jess again! My girl Rachel is on the left
LeAnn Traci
I just LOVE this picture!
I've got tons more pictures and probably other people I could talk about, but we'll keep it at that. I've got a VERY busy couple of months coming up and I'll keep this blog updated with it. Like, My dad's Retirement party, My 27th BIRTHDAY!!, Jessica's Bridal Shower, her son Keaton's birthday party, Jess's Bachelorette Party, Jess and Dustin's Wedding in Puerto Vallarta!! and my brothers wedding in New York! I hope I can make time to breath, sleep and find a job somewhere in there!
Some things about me that will probably creep up is how much I love to read, bake and I'm trying to become a little more crafty. If I could drink wine everyday without it becoming a problem, I definitely would! I enjoy exercising, and I'm becoming a lot more healthy in what I eat. I'm sure Josh loves it, I make him try to eat healthy whenever I do.
Anyhow, I'll leave it at that for the first blog! I'll update whenever something interesting comes up!
Here's my Boyfriend and me
My very best friend Jessica
My amazing nephew who can brighten up my darkest day
And a few of my other friends
Jennifer Lindsey
Jess again! My girl Rachel is on the left
LeAnn Traci
Dedra
I've got tons more pictures and probably other people I could talk about, but we'll keep it at that. I've got a VERY busy couple of months coming up and I'll keep this blog updated with it. Like, My dad's Retirement party, My 27th BIRTHDAY!!, Jessica's Bridal Shower, her son Keaton's birthday party, Jess's Bachelorette Party, Jess and Dustin's Wedding in Puerto Vallarta!! and my brothers wedding in New York! I hope I can make time to breath, sleep and find a job somewhere in there!
Some things about me that will probably creep up is how much I love to read, bake and I'm trying to become a little more crafty. If I could drink wine everyday without it becoming a problem, I definitely would! I enjoy exercising, and I'm becoming a lot more healthy in what I eat. I'm sure Josh loves it, I make him try to eat healthy whenever I do.
Anyhow, I'll leave it at that for the first blog! I'll update whenever something interesting comes up!
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