Snow Storm 2/5/10
I hate to get all weather lady up in here. But there is a major winter storm event that will strike parts of the Midwest, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic per the weather channel over the next few days. I remember last year I was like “I just want it to snow one time”. Well now I change my mind, partly because its snowed many times since my initial request. And everytime it snows, I gain a pound.
I think that is so sad, especially about all this snow on a weekend.
But the silver lining is, I’m getting tons of personal projects done. And I’m grateful that I can always find the silver lining.
I was NOT looking forward to this upcoming snow storm. I had MOFO plans. But then I just changed my mindframe, and now I’m looking forward to it…well as much as I can. I’m just going to have a party in my house. I got up this morning and started the party early. Well at least the dancing part of it. Ha!
I wish we were getting some snow up here, but it appears the Noreaster isn’t going to slam the Northeast. Go figure.
I am grateful for beer, football food, and the Super Bowl. Go black coach!
I dont’ know where it was, but I’m listening to Russ Parr and the lady was talking about 24″ somewhere… LAWD bless it.
I’m grateful that I keep appointments, even when I am exahusted.
So, this morning I’ve been researching my criminal justice field and have found that nothing exists in my city (right now) that can even pay me what I make as a legal assistant now (no degree- crazy, right?)
So, I think in my career, I want to be a compliance officer which is with the Department of Justice (I think)… and I emailed them for information. Thing is, I looked at their jobs and everything is in Virginia/ Washington!!!!! Wonder if a move will be in order for me?
Wonder if a move will be in order for me? .
Whoop whoop! Lol
When do you graduate?
“Whoop whoop! Lol
When do you graduate?”
I was looking on the website and the jobs are in Washington, D.C.
Honey, I still have two years (12 claases)…. but if I lose my job (pending review- cutting costs), then I will just collect unemployment and go to school full time and knock it out way faster. I wonder if I’d have to do internship though so I need to send an email to my advisor.
Good morning folks!!!!!
I didn’t even know we were supposed to get snow too so we’ll see what happens… They’re go my plans for running in the morning.. .I’ll just do a workout inside my apt I guess….
@Sunny… Is losing your job a possibility right now???
“@Sunny… Is losing your job a possibility right now???”
@80s: It sure is. He said we shall see at the end of this month how business goes, but I don’t wait- so I’ve already been looking. lol.
He said working here cutting hours could be an option… but no, not for me. I needs my money.
So after talking to both Mik and my Mama, I may just do the unemployment thing for a while so I can finish school.
@Sunny…Hey lady, on LinkedIn there is a Regulatory Compliance discussion group that you can network with….join LinkedIn now and start networking…call me over the weekend and I can tell u how to work it..heck that is where I’m getting interviews, advice and connections.
Hopefully you won’t get laid off but if you do get all the grants you can and get an internship while you go to school.
Glad that I’m not in the snow area right now.
Grateful that I got my health.
Grateful that I have the sense enough top be flexible whiel looking for a job
Grateful that I went ahead and got that M.S. even with the financial sacrifices and drama because no one can take that away from me…..
“@Sunny…Hey lady, on LinkedIn there is a Regulatory Compliance discussion group that you can network with….join LinkedIn now and start networking…call me over the weekend and I can tell u how to work it..heck that is where I’m getting interviews, advice and connections.
Hopefully you won’t get laid off but if you do get all the grants you can and get an internship while you go to school.”
Thanks B! Ok, I’ll join up. I know zero about networking, btw.
@B: Is your profile public on here- I’m so cautious about people knowing my info. lol.
Did you put a picture on here?
They’re go my plans for running in the morning.. .I’ll just do a workout inside my apt I guess…. .
Ummmm YOU were running in the morning??? Forreal?!?! LOL
@Sunny-no I don’t have a pic on here at all
@B: Thanks lady! none for me too.. gotta keep a lil piece of security. lol
It sure is. He said we shall see at the end of this month how business goes, but I don’t wait- so I’ve already been looking. lol.
@NiK… Oh okay.. .Good luck with whatever happens but I don’t blame you for already looking.
Ummmm YOU were running in the morning??? Forreal?!?! LOL
@V… Ummmm are you asking as in have I been running in the morning. And the answer to that is HELL NAW!!!!! I seriously think something is wrong with me because I cannot get up in the morning. But anyhow since my gym is by my job then I ain’t driving back up here on the weekends so I decided I would just go running instead. And my first day was going to be tommorrow. But due to the weather that may not happen.
Disclaimer: My morning on the weekends is what some may consider the afternoons. I get my sleeping on
@Sunny
“So after talking to both Mik and my Mama, I may just do the unemployment thing for a while so I can finish school.”
I got a few friends doing this now while they go to grad school. If this non-profit puts me out then I will be doing the same thing if I can’t find work.
“@NiK… Oh okay.. .Good luck with whatever happens but I don’t blame you for already looking. ”
@80s: Thanks doll!!!!
“I got a few friends doing this now while they go to grad school. If this non-profit puts me out then I will be doing the same thing if I can’t find work”
@humble: I don’t blame them… it certainly will take some stress off. It’s hard working part time and going to school.
@Sunny
“I don’t blame them… it certainly will take some stress off. It’s hard working part time and going to school.”
I feel you. I worked 2 jobs and went to school for 3 -4 years. It was a lot of stress.
Working FULL TIME. oops
“I feel you. I worked 2 jobs and went to school for 3 -4 years. It was a lot of stress.”
@humble: WOW, I couldn’t imagine 2 jobs. J worked a lot while in school too. See me and rest and sanity are best friends.. we don’t let anything come between us. lol
“I feel you. I worked 2 jobs and went to school for 3 -4 years. It was a lot of stress.”
@humble: WOW, I couldn’t imagine 2 jobs. J worked a lot while in school too. See me and rest and sanity are best friends.. we don’t let anything come between us. lol”
That is why I say F– It and get the loans/grants and go to school full time and get it over with. Plus a lot of grad programs are full-time only anyway. I say do it now because folks are tightening up on the school loan money
I seriously think something is wrong with me because I cannot get up in the morning. .
ME EITHER!!!!!
Seriously I battle for d@mn near an hour trying to get out of the bed. It just be calling me calling me. My job forces me to be a morning person, but at my core I just am not one AT ALL.
“That is why I say F– It and get the loans/grants and go to school full time and get it over with. Plus a lot of grad programs are full-time only anyway. I say do it now because folks are tightening up on the school loan money”
@B: How do you go about getting grants??? I’m not eligible for federal ones ever- or is that because I am working?
I’m grateful to live in Texas where we are crying because Sunday will be cloudy and in the mid-50’s.
I’m also grateful my sister was selected for an all-expense paid workshop on phd studies (i.e what to expect, the GRE, potential research subjects..etc..). She was one of only 10 candidates selected. I am so proud of her! It’s at UNC in Charlotte, NC which she might actually select as her alma mater for the actual program. Jada lives in Charlotte,right? I need to hit her up.
Also grateful to have friends who can indulge my quirks. I am dragging them to the Bollywood theater to see 3 Idiots tonight. The movie reportedly grossed more than Avatar! Can’t wait.
How is everybody doing?
Hey, LP…
I’m doing great… how are you? Bollywood seems like it’d be fun- they use some great color combos.
I’m also grateful my sister was selected for an all-expense paid workshop on phd studies (i.e what to expect, the GRE, potential research subjects..etc..). She was one of only 10 candidates selected .
This is AWESOME!!!!! Go Sister LP!!!
I am dragging them to the Bollywood theater to see 3 Idiots tonight. .
Hmmmm. Never heard of it. Going to google.
And oh yeah, you and your Houston weather report can KICK ROCKS
I know a little something about working full time (a stressful job) and going to school full time… It’s not it. But I didn’t want any loans so here I am, I have to deal with it… which is a whole other level of stress.
*sigh*
” It’s not it. But I didn’t want any loans so here I am, I have to deal with it… which is a whole other level of stress.”
@LP: But this is great… because although working full time, I have hella loans.. so I am proud of you for being able to do it… in the end, you won’t have to worry about Sallie Mae beating down your door.
Hi Sunny *waves*,
I do think if you can subsist on unemployment, you should go for it and focus on school. You get so much more out of school when it’s your only focus.
@V,
… And yeah sister LP is really on a roll. Proud of them buggers. 
You know you want to be in Houston right now.
Don’t tell anyone, but I would love to be in Houston right now. LOL
“I do think if you can subsist on unemployment, you should go for it and focus on school. You get so much more out of school when it’s your only focus.”
@LP: I completely agree… because right now, all I am focused on is getting there, taking notes and leaving as soon as possible… plus I never have time to concentrate (read: take in) what I am reading.
@V: Is it already snowing there?
Hopefully unemployment would be a pretty good rate.. I’ve been working since 15 and have been on it for about a month. My mama actually makes more money on unemployment than she did on her job before she was laid off.. how crazy is that
Seriously I battle for d@mn near an hour trying to get out of the bed. It just be calling me calling me. My job forces me to be a morning person, but at my core I just am not one AT ALL.
@V…This is sooooo me……This morning I was laying in the bed just not wanting to get up and then my coworker called my cell phone… Mind you it was like 7:22 and she was on her way to work. So even though I’m still in the bed sleep. I had to pretend that I wasn’t still in the bed.. She was like have you left for work. I’m like no I’m bout to
wake upgo warm up my car… .She was calling me to tell me to avoid an area because of a wreck……But seriously I’ve been getting in the bed earlier all week to see if that will help and it doesn’t. For one I end up just laying there watching the clock and then I still can’t get out the bed before 7:30. Mind you I need to be leaving the house at 7:30.
@Sunny. If you do have go on unemployment ( i hope you don’t) remember to take out the taxes because when I was on it and lot of my friends didn’t do it and got burned at tax time.
Concerning the grants you really will haveto research but I think you can get some stuff plus look at scholorships. Since you are getting your undergrad degree U think there is more stuff available. I’m still kicking myself for never applying for a grad school scholorship because school was so intense that I never made the time to do it. Google your major plus that you’re a minority so I know things will pop up. Also check out your school for stuff because I did get a small scholarship via school.
@80s- I have one word for you…..LUNESTA!!
When I had benefits, this stuff was the bomb and you don;t wake up sleepy at all.
But seriously I’ve been getting in the bed earlier all week to see if that will help and it doesn’t. .
NOTHING works. I can go to bed earlier, doesn’t work. I can set my alarm clock earlier, doesn’t work. I actually have 2 alarms set…at different times. Doesn’t work!! I am the same as you. Technically I should be leaving my house at 7:30…and that’s usually around the time that I just rolling out of the bed.
The ONLY time that I leave my house semi on time is if I’m semi-hungover. Go figure. LOL Or if I have a meeting at 8
but I usually reschedule them for later in the day. Ha!.” If you do have go on unemployment ( i hope you don’t) remember to take out the taxes because when I was on it and lot of my friends didn’t do it and got burned at tax time.
Concerning the grants you really will haveto research but I think you can get some stuff plus look at scholorships. Since you are getting your undergrad degree U think there is more stuff available. I’m still kicking myself for never applying for a grad school scholorship because school was so intense that I never made the time to do it. Google your major plus that you’re a minority so I know things will pop up. Also check out your school for stuff because I did get a small scholarship via school.”
@B: Always, always, I will take out taxes. There is nothing worse than owing the Gub’ment.
And thanks for the grant/scholarship advice.. you offered a lot of info!
@ bGrits – Oh I can’t fool with sleeping pills.
I don’t have a problem getting/staying sleep. It’s the waking up part I have trouble with. I just need a job that doesn’t require I’m there before 10. lol
@Sunny
“@humble: WOW, I couldn’t imagine 2 jobs. J worked a lot while in school too. See me and rest and sanity are best friends.. we don’t let anything come between us. lol”
It was tough. If I wasn’t in engineering i think it would have been easier.
@Bgrits
“That is why I say F– It and get the loans/grants and go to school full time and get it over with. Plus a lot of grad programs are full-time only anyway. I say do it now because folks are tightening up on the school loan money”
This is how I feel right now. Although my grades would have been a lot better if I didn’t work two jobs and have a girlfriend at the time. The upside of me working and going to school is that I have A LOT more experience than the average recent college graduate. It is so much easier to just go to school. But I notice that a lot of these kids that just go to school can’t function on the job that well.
@LP
“I know a little something about working full time (a stressful job) and going to school full time… It’s not it. But I didn’t want any loans so here I am, I have to deal with it… which is a whole other level of stress.”
I didn’t have any loans until my job stopped giving raises, tuition reimbursement, and gave us all an across the board pay cut.
@Humble,
They cut me deep last year too, by not reimbursing tuition (not that they were reimbursing a lot anyways)… That ish cut my pockets something DEEP!
So my boss just asked me if I’d given in thought to what we talked about… and I told him that would prefer to remain full time but would start looking for employment elsewheres…
HE (noticed the caps) concluded that at worse case scenario, I’d go full time… Um, no.. at worst scenario, you are gonna have to let me go. I’m sure I can at least get more money doing unemploy, than working 20 hours here. Iz u serious?
I am so grateful its friday!
I went to the optometrist to get my contacts refilled in jc penny optical.. on the way out the door I saw a sign for 80% off shoes. I dont ever shop at jc penny, i didnt even know the sold shoes but I am going to vegas on the 15th and needed some flats.. i got 4 pair of shoes for less than 40.00! real cute versatile flats…im happy
I am grateful for my library card!
I was able to pick up the 4 books you guys recommended
free food for millionaires, a room with a view, kindred and rush home road… so I am set for the weekend!
Hi Shay!!
4 pairs of shoes for $40.00, now that’s the making of a fabulous week-end!!
And Yay for Vegas!
What LP said.
@Shay..drinking a a glass of heterade (in a good way) over the show bargain
@Humble..Yes u do have the advantage of students with no experience whic is a good thing. Ur in engineering right?(no. I’m not working undercover for V or L.P.) The obstacle I have is that with my past experience in other fields people assume that I will get bored in an entry level position and/or I’m too expensive for them. Heck I’m temping for $10/hr (commuting almost 100 miles daily) when several years ago I got $19-20/hr and I’m happy as heck to get it.
@Sunny. remind me to slap you the next time I see you
. Never tell a boss that you will start looking for another job because now he will really pay attention to your work performance because it will be easier to fire you than pay you unemployment. Make yourself indispensible to him to where you would be last on the list to be let go. Let him know that you will try to stay as long as possible and honestly see if you can work part-time like 30-35 hours instead of 20 or flex schedule.
“Never tell a boss that you will start looking for another job because now he will really pay attention to your work performance because it will be easier to fire you than pay you unemployment. Make yourself indispensible to him to where you would be last on the list to be let go. Let him know that you will try to stay as long as possible and honestly see if you can work part-time like 30-35 hours instead of 20 or flex schedule.”
@B: Here, you get unemployment at any case, except qutting and sometimes even if you quit.
“Make yourself indispensible to him to where you would be last on the list to be let go”
And girl, I’m his only employee, ya know! He’s being greedy… his fear is that if I am no longer here, that his business will pick up.
what I’m gonna suggest after I depart is, I can come back and help you, on things taht you need, depending on my schedule.
Ur in engineering right?(no. I’m not working undercover for V or L.P.) .
Okay this made me laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
@Sunny.-Ok cool. Do you get benefits now?
Because here in SC they don’t pay ish….do you know a single mom with 2 kids only gets $271 on welfare in this state.
“Do you get benefits now?
Because here in SC they don’t pay ish….do you know a single mom with 2 kids only gets $271 on welfare in this state.”
@B: I do… and that is gonna be the sucky party… because I would lose my benefits.
“Ur in engineering right?(no. I’m not working undercover for V or L.P.) The obstacle I have is that with my past experience in other fields people assume that I will get bored in an entry level position and/or I’m too expensive for them. Heck I’m temping for $10/hr (commuting almost 100 miles daily) when several years ago I got $19-20/hr and I’m happy as heck to get it.”
@B: I agree with this being an issue.. my resume spans from so much stuff and it’s hard to get into some fields without the proper experience in it… but what is so nuts is: How are you gonna get the experience if everyone requires experience?
As far as getting experience in a field you are interested in, there is always volunteering. Volunteering shows that you actually like the field that much and you garner experience in it as well. This could be good for you in case you realize you are not cut out for it.
Hey guys!!!!! Sorry I have been MIA!
@Holly..Hey lady… We missed ya!!!!
@V… Is it snowing there yet??????????
@Bgrits
“@Humble..Yes u do have the advantage of students with no experience whic is a good thing. Ur in engineering right?(no. I’m not working undercover for V or L.P.) The obstacle I have is that with my past experience in other fields people assume that I will get bored in an entry level position and/or I’m too expensive for them. Heck I’m temping for $10/hr (commuting almost 100 miles daily) when several years ago I got $19-20/hr and I’m happy as heck to get it.”
The downside is that a lot of companies want to treat you like a new graduate when you actually aren’t. I have worked and held the title of engineer. But being that I just finished a lot of places don’t treat me that way.
HEY HOLLY!!! Miss you much!!!
@ 80s – It’s just now turning to snow. Before that it was mainly just rain/WTF.
It’s just now turning to snow. Before that it was mainly just rain/WTF.
@V……. Oh okay….. I hear 8 inches by tomorrow night????? Glad I’m not coming home… Have a safe one…
We get to leave early so on that note I am out of here…..
And I’m bout to go cheat on my diet… My fav Zaxby’s is adveritising a new sandwich and it’s calling me……
http://www.zaxbys.com/mealdealz_kickin_chick.html
I’m off to get that now
……. Then to the mall then to the gym… have a good one
Hey, everyone!
I’m with @Hol…sorry I’ve been MIA, in & out all this week. I may be offered a new position soon. I’ve already had the first and second interviews and all of my references have been contacted. We’re still dickering over the salary & benefits. I’ve been unemployed & receiving unemployment since last July. This is the longest I have not worked. So…
- I’m grateful that my husband’s salary, my unemployment check & our small but blessed savings account have made ends meet.
- I’m grateful that the end of my unemployment may be in sight & I’m grateful for new opportunities. I’ll share more details later about this position & about my latest goal/decision concerning the bar exam.
- I’m grateful I’m not in the DMV for this Snowmageddon as I’ve seen it referred to on Twitter, although we are having a small snow storm here.
- I’m grateful for an eye doctor’s appointment tomorrow. Not because I love the eye doctor but because it is overdue and necessary.
Have a great weekend, y’all.
@Shawnta.. Yaaaa to the possible sight of the end of unemployment
Have a good weekend!!!
I may be offered a new position soon. I’ve already had the first and second interviews and all of my references have been contacted. .
WOW!! This is WONDERFUL!
Go Shawnta’ Go Shawnta’!!!
I’m even doing the cabbage patch for you!!
Bye 80s!! Have a wonderful weekend!!
Yay, go Shawnta!!!
Very happy to hear that!
Go Shawnta!!! That is great.
@Humble.Yeah man with this economy employers feel that they can do anything because if you don’t like it then they can get soneone else really fast.
Hey Holly!
I’m been dipping in teh breakroom waiting for Teh Rock to come on Oprah..ummm good. Funny how Hollywood can’t put him in movies where he actually has a romance and (I can see some nudity;))..I think they don’t want to know what the rock is cooking….sick of him in kiddie movies.
Sorry but I can’t type the word “The” today
Have a good weekend everyone!! Be safe!