Long time away

Well I hope that everyone who had been reading my blogs hasn't totally lost faith in me. I  have been away for what seems like a long time. In all honesty it's been almost a year. Wow where does time go?

Back in August I had blogged about my son breaking his knee cap in half. After a lot of xrays (I think he glows green from radiation every now and then) and Dr. appts his knee is 100% completely healed. No surgery and no physical therapy needed! Guardian Angels and Healing Hands have helped along the way. :)

Life still has it's curve balls in store for me. Hubby is STILL unemployed! This is no fun for any of us. He did not receive calls for the Engineer position but with a TON of prayers maybe a call will come through for Firefighter II position.  Unemployment is stressful, depressing and just down right CRAPPY. Tensions are much higher and life over all seems more stressful. However, my Hubby decided to take on a good amount of Firefighter courses! Here's to hoping that those courses and a revamped resume may catch someone's eye and rank him better then before.

I have had fun time working in my position as Client Service Manager. While that doesn't mean a lot to anyone outside of the company the fun came to an end not but a few months back. One of my dear accounts have tragically come to an end. I think someone could write a mystery novel with all of the suspense and issues they had in their program. Well this particular incident really became the pin to my happy lil' bubble.While working with this account though I had the wonderful opportunity to show my talents in training folks. With that came an opportunity that just makes me smile. I just can't wait to get all set up and going in this new position.

Photography for me during these stressful times also came to a halt. Sadly, when something I enjoy so much and should be used as stress relief I just let it go. Well I'm getting back into the swing of things. I'll post some pics in another thread. So watch for those pics to start rolling in again. Oh and of course it's baseball season. My son is back to playing ball and there of course are the Angel games. Watch for those pics too!

Good to be back!

Labor Day Weekend...

Here I sit once again today thinking about how I'm going to spend my weekend and Monday off. Well what exactly does labor day mean. Why do we get a day of the week off for it? So I did a bit of reading on this. For some it signals the end of summer. Well that doesn't mean much in CA since many schools have been back in session for about a month now. The other reason is to pay tribute to all the working men and women. Now there is an idea. To quote TLC Family: "Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women. It has been celebrated as a national holiday in the United States and Canada since 1894." Again this being the economy that our dear Mr. Pres. has decided to jack around it holds little meaning to many. So many are out of work, living on the streets, living in other family members homes just trying to get by.

Why am I rambling on about this..? I really don't know.

I guess since so many things are going on between my husband being laid off  and my work being incredibly busy and stressful right now. One point of burden is that since the State would rather hire a firefighter with zero experience and book work vs. keeping the trained (but not a degree) experienced Firefighter who has well over 10 years of experience. The State ranking system is a joke for Firefighters to get hired permanently. The rankings are secret, you don't know where you stand, you don't know why you stand where you do and no one will explain. Last I checked the State doesn't know how to budget it's own money, has a "management" system for training, hiring yet holds no one accountable to make sure that all firefighters on staff already are adequately taken care of with updated trainings and signing off the necessary items to prove they have had the training. The "system" is BS.

So what am I going to do about it? Well other then annoy the crap out of my husband to be more pushy not much I can do. (Sure as hell don't want to Gov. this state of a mess).

Instead I'll be spending my Labor Day weekend with my loving husband and amazing son sitting in the HOT So. Cal sun watching Americas all time favorite sport! BASEBALL!!! I can live in this dream world all weekend and Monday. Then someone will have to give me a good hard swift kick in the pants to make me walk down the hall to my office and begrudgingly turn on my laptop.

Just a few 2011 pics of baseball games we've been to so far. More to come on Tues...or Weds...

 Patience is a virtue and my son has it down. Doesn't scream out the players name just waits his turn.

 He was making fun of someone who was asking over and over for an autograph

 Mathis

 ...and stretch... You're up next batter get ready

Not a bad pic... would have been better had it not gone straight up... >.<

Have a safe Labor Day weekend and be grateful that you...yes you have a job in this whacked out economy!