Ch-Ch-Cha Changes...

Wow, this has been a crazy year! This is the year that I FINALLY got full time employment.
O-M-G it's been sooooo long!!! Long story short: My old boss left, they moved some idiot from another department into mine to help cover his old duties, said idiot gets caught stealing company property on camera and gets fired a few months later. I have never been so happy for someone else's failure; if it weren't for this moron, I would still be only part time with no benefits. :)  Now I have all the holidays paid, I have personal/sick time and vacation time. And here's the kicker- they even gave me a RAISE without my asking for it. So this has been a win win overall. I am actually ALMOST at the same rate of pay I had at the first company that laid me off, starting off this chain of unemployment and underemployment. I finally feel like I have emerged from the dark and into the light. I am finally happy in a job. I am beyond thrilled and grateful. Thank you GOD!!


Now on to the baby boy update: My little one is 3 years, 4 months old now. He goes to preschool, and this whole summer he is attending summer camp 3 days a week all day! He is finally getting the hang of the potty training, it's been a very long process encouraging him to go poop on the potty. I had to take all of his favorite toys away, "The Potty Fairy" swooped in one night and cleared out his playroom and got him thinking that if he could go on the potty and not in his pants, then he could get toys back one at a time.


This has been going on for 3 weeks, and this week it finally clicked and we have had 5 days of no poop accidents. I am not ready to declare him "trained" yet, I'm trying not to tempt fate here... ;)


As for the bad friend situation- I can honestly say that I have had no contact with her for months. I had one or 2 text exchanges and left it at that. It's pointless to call her, b/c she will never answer or return the call, so I just let it be. I am not going to participate in this one sided friendship any longer. I am not going to feed her ego by always being there for her when she finally feels like calling me to "catch up".  She called a few weeks back and I ignored the call. She didn't even bother to leave a message, so I wasn't about to call her to find out the reason for her call. I think I have finally realized that I don't need to have her friendship to feel like I have a friend. I have many friends that I have put up a "wall" with and not become close to in order to preserve her BFF status. The problem is, she never did that for me, and I was always someone expendable to her. It is much like a breakup or a divorce. Call it a friendship divorce, only without the acrimonius exchanges in an actual marital divorce. I have downgraded  her status literally (on FB) and figuratively (in my mind) to acquaintance status. If I run into her on the street, I'll be polite and say hello, maybe have a little catch up session, but under no circumstances will I allow her to worm her way into my life again. I am through with the dysfunction. I have enough of it in my own family that I can't get rid of as easily.


So to sum up- I am pretty happy with the career, mothering and friend front. I am still a work in progress on the weight loss thing. I need to get on that one, stat!


One thing at a time...


That's it and that's all....