So, yay

My husband got the job! Took 3 interviews, but he got it. Lol. He is now doing editing/video archiving at Intel (*Ba bum ba bum!) and he starts in a couple weeks, so thank God. Seriously. Idk how we would have been able to make it much longer, you know, mortgage and all that. So that's all good. Now I just need my hours back from work and it'll be peachy again. Lol. This weekend was a good one. Went to church yesterday morning, went out to lunch with friends, went home and took a nap, went shopping with my sister and got a cute dress, friends came back over, and we watched Finding Nemo (always a classic), and then today we're going ice skating. Short post, I know, but at least I finally got a post up. Toodles!

Permanent Nail Polish

What is it with dark nail polish and never actually coming ALL the way off? I guess that's what I get for attempting to paint my own nails. I suck at it. Lol. Now I have these dark purple rings around my nails. Hey, it could be the new trend!

This weekend went by pretty fast. Friday night there was a mass gathering at my parents' house and we had some yummy burgers and watched Surrogates which was basically I Robot. Went to church on Saturday and spent the rest of the day snuggled with my husband watching SG1. We went over to my parents' house and watched Young Victoria, much to Evan's dismay. Lol. He does not like period pieces, but then, most guys don't. It was a pretty good flick. It's always nice to see historical stuff end happily. They're usually so depressing! Evan's snide comments through the "chick flick" made it funny. On Sunday we went to my uncle's house for my cousin's birthday party/Mother's Day and he rented one of those blow-up slip and slides and I didn't have my bathing suit, but I didn't care. Lol. I went in my clothes. Man, am I sore today! One of the nurses asked if I hurt myself on it, and I was like, "Um, no. I repeated a motion over and over again that I never do....?" Lol. Yeah, I totally run and slide on my stomach on a regular basis on the carpet/cement.

Evan got a call back from a prospective job. He had a phone interview with them last week and now they wanna have him come in and do a second interview with them. I'm so excited! Man, I hope he gets it. I'm so tired. We've been on edge for over a month. Evan says that he's still going to try and get out to California, but it's nice to have him with me a little longer. :) Blaaaaah, this summer is going to be INTERESTING.

Ciao, dudes.

Update, UPdate, UPDATE

So I know all of you were just PINING to know what's been going on with our APRIL problems, so here's the sitch.

Evan is still unemployed. Poor boy has applied everywhere, and the only callback he received was from Fry's Electronics. :P He had an interview there today where, come to find out, Fry's has this new policy thingymabob that states no hiring people who have worked there before. Evan worked there briefly when he first moved to AZ. I guess the guy who interviewed Evan liked him so much that he's going to try and bypass the new policy and see if they can hire Evan, but we'll see. Evan is a little depressed to say the least. He got the callback, from Fry's of all the places he hoped to here from, on the day of his graduation. "Here's your Bachelor's Degree and now go work at Fry's." I would've cried, personally, but that's me. I am so unbelievably proud of Evan. It just plain sucks that useless ol’ me gets to keep a job when the talented one gets tanked. Anyway, regardless of whether he gets the job there or not, Evan is now working to get a new demo reel together so he can find a job in LA. Yep, you heard me. Los Angeles. His friend is working on Justified right now and says Evan has a good chance of getting hired on any project he applies for. I guess the TV show V is hiring a lot so Evan's gonna try for there first. So there's a good chance I'll be stuck here alone for quite some time. The plan is for Evan to stay at his cousins' for a bit and later maybe get an apartment with some friends in Burbank. It's gonna suck so bad living by myself. We discussed the possibility of renting out a room in the house, but I don't know anyone looking for a place to stay for awhile. I do NOT want a stranger in my house, thanks. If Evan makes it out there in a permanent position (TV jobs are temporary), then I will make the journey out there, but I gotta make sure that I can find a job with my not-so impressive marketable skills. I have a lot of medical office experience, but so do a lot of other people, and a lot of people are vying for those jobs. I have a lesser chance of getting hired over others who are older, damn me for being in my early 20s. But yeah, that is the mess I call, "APRIL." Hopefully May will bring something good. It's already doing a pretty good job ending my classes for me. I could do with less stuff to STRESS over. Bah. Toodles, readers!

Unfailing Unfairness

So my husband was laid off yesterday. Yep. No warning or anything. That was it. Shall I break it down a bit?

My husband has been working for this company for over a year. He was so talented with what he can do; they opened a whole video department with him as the head. He was bringing in business himself and wowing his bosses like crazy. He was being paid CRAP because the company was just starting out, but for months he was promised a raise come his yearly review. It was a long wait, but we were optimistic that we would get that raise and everything would be okay when we had to begin paying off Evan's school loans. For a year, Evan has not received any PTO or any overtime. And they made him work A LOT of overtime. 15 hour days. Those are always fun. This past weekend with the start of the Phoenix Film Festival, for which Evan did the logo/opening to every screening being shown there, he was there ALL weekend. Thursday night, after having worked all day at his office, he was sent to North Scottsdale for the Festival from 4:30 - 10:30PM, came home, went to bed, got up the next morning for work at the office, went to Scottsdale, came home Friday night about midnight. Saturday, got up at 8AM, shot another gig at 10AM for some BBQ thing, went to the Festival, and came home at 10:30PM. Went back on Sunday and worked at the Festival from 10AM-5PM. All. For. FREE. You betcha. He went in Monday morning to work, worked all day, and was brought in by his boss and his sister and told that there was no more work for him. They couldn't afford the pittance salary to keep him on staff. Evan asked if they could just keep him on for a week or two to give him time to find a new job. NOPE. Is he getting payment for all the overtime this weekend alone? NOPE. Is he getting reimbursed for the gas we spent getting him to North Scottsdale from Gilbert for the past four days? NOPE. You know what he's getting? A recommendation letter. No warning, completely caught off guard, not even allowed to finish out this week. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. NADA.

This post is a little all over the place, so sorry about that, but you can tell it's mostly cuz I'm upset. There's no harder worker than Evan. He's one of those talented, dedicated workers that could go so far and yet keeps getting screwed over by everyone. It makes my heart hurt. But anyway, I thought I would share and get it out of my system. You can see how amazing Evan is on his website: evansprague.com. Hope everyone else's luck holds in this crappy economy. It always sucks when you get to be a statistic on the news......

Death of a Crockpot

Being angry at Mondays is a good thing. It's like some sort of voodoo karma thing that bites you in the butt if you happen to be in a good mood on a Monday. And there I was yesterday, happy as can be, on my way home from work looking forward to some scrumptious chicken cacciatore I had made that morning in my crock-pot. My mood was so fine that I failed to notice my dog slink under the table as soon as I came through the door, my thoughts wholly centered on the fact that I have class on Monday nights and I get home long enough to eat really quick before diving out the door for the next three hours at COM100 so using my crock-pot on Mondays and Tuesdays works quite well. As I put down my purse and started to turn towards the stove to start boiling some water, that's when I saw it; this horrible thing. Shattered glass everywhere, the remains of my crock-pot flung about in disarray, tomato sauce all over the counters and floor, and the horrid lack of chicken cacciatore. I quietly let my dog out into the back, who escaped outside with a sigh of relief, and I turned back to the mess. I could physically feel the seconds counting down to when I had to rush back out the door again. Let's just say that for the rest of the time I was at home, I was pretty angry, and Molly was scared for her life. My crock-pot had been a wedding gift and I just wanted to sit down and have a good cry. Dratted dog! But anyway, I thought I would share my little movie with you all. Someday I will have a movie on how exactly she gets on the counters and knocks stuff off, so there's that to look forward to.

Furniture?? YES!

My in-laws are coming down at the end of April so we have been madly scrambling for bedroom furniture for our third room. Beds are expensive. While the frames are not too bad, buying a mattress for cheap is close to, how should I put it . . . ? IMPOSSIBLE! And that's where my friend helped us out. She just moved here from Michigan and has a lot of her stuff in storage and needs to get rid of some stuff, and when she started listing off what she needed to get rid of, I shouted, "SCORE!" So thanks to her, we are getting a bed, a MATTRESS!, a dresser, and a night stand for a GREAT price. The only downside is figuring out how to get everything over to Gilbert from NORTH Scottsdale in the back of our truck. Lol. Yay puzzles!

Anyway, I'm super dooper excited about getting to decorate yet another room in my house and it's going to be super sweet, and YES I will be putting up before and after pictures up on here, so do not fret my loyal blog readers. Stay tuned!

Conservative Moment

Today is a historic day for America. Today President Obama signed the healthcare bill, this bill that goes completely against what America stands for. Today another freedom was signed away to the roar of applause, and this is the day that every American will remember and know the name Obama as the one who took our nation farther away from greatness and closer to socialism. Closer to communism.

“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands." Nikita Kruschev, Russian Dictator, 1959

"For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers, they just are not easy ones. The time has come for us to decide whether collectively we can afford everything and a...nything we think of simply because we think of it. The time has come to run a check to see if all the services government provides were in answer to demands or were just goodies dreamed up for our supposed betterment. The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is NOT ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only ONCE to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, HAVE NEVER KNOWN IT AGAIN." ~Ronald Reagan

Scared yet?