Hey, so I bought a car.  It is a fire-red Ford Fusion.  I like it a lot.  It was the '07 floor model, so I basically got a new car with a used car price.  I still can't believe I bought a red car, I never ever wanted one.  But it is pretty and shiny and I like it.  Right now it is more yellow than red, because of all the crazy pine pollen that covers it every single day.  But I still like it.

So, that's that.  Not much else.  I might post some pics, if I ever get around to taking any of it.

Oh, I'm going to Six Flags Thursday.  Yea!

To my three or four friends who might still read this...

Hello!  ooo  oo o

So, haven't posted in a while.  Don't really remember what I said last time.  Not really sure why the lack of proper sentence structure.  Anyway, almost to the three month point at my job, at which time I will no longer be one of the pitiful uninsured people.  Instead, I will join the ranks of those paying far too much for insurance, especially since copays are still so stinking high.  Despite having worked here for almost 13 weeks, I still feel like a temp.  My phone doesn't work.  My computer works when it feels like it.  And I have no clients... well, two, but come on, I'm supposed to have 40!  For a while I was "training" by tagging along to others' meetings, but I think they have all gotten pretty sick of it.  Or at least, they no longer offer for me to come.  So now, I sit around twiddling my thumbs, doing other people's paper work, and listening to my boss continually say "soon."  Up until a few weeks ago, I didn't care that much.  I was getting paid regardless of the work I did, and I didn't yet have my license so I couldn't start counting hours anyway.  Now, I have my license but still no case load, and it is getting kind of frustrating sitting back and watching all the countable hours whittling away, knowing I could be using them to get started on my 3,000. 

In case you missed the good news in all that grumbling, I now have my license!  It is all fancy and official looking, and pretty stinking cool.  A lot of work went into that single piece of paper (plus a wallet size :).  I just hope I haven't made a bad decision in taking this job.  Though, it's not like I had any other offers.

Along with the license, I also now have a supervisor, who I really like.  And she is letting me see clients at her office, so I am picking up a few extra hours there.

Lets see... I am trying to get that $3,000 voucher for old cars, b/c it is finally time to get a new one.  I was really hoping that my car would last another year or two, at least long enough to get enough in savings.  It possibly could, if I wasn't going to be putting more than 200 miles on it each week.  So, I am out searching, and it is kind of frustrating.  I've never had to do this before, and I had no idea how small most cars are. 

Anyway, that is about it for me.  Time to stop thumb twiddling and get back to doing other's work. 

New Job

Wow, no one on my list has updated since last Sunday.  How very sad.  Or maybe, it is good, because we are all too busy leading fabulous lives to write about them on Xanga.  Hmmm  I am apparently feeling unusually optimistic today. 

I started my new job on Monday, and I think I am going to love it.  The work is complicated, but it is the type of complicated that once you get the hang of it, it is actually pretty simple.  And it's personally satisfying.  The people I work with are really nice and helpful, and I have an office with my own computer and a window!  That's more than my Dad has.  He He!  One of the best things about this job is how flexible it is, which will help combat the worst thing, which is the traffic I must drive in to get here.  The only truly not good thing is that I don't know if I will get enough direct client hours to fulfil my licensure requirements.  I have several options, so hopefully I will be able to stay here for a year or even two.  In fact, in truth this is a job I could see myself being happy in for many years.   But, I really want to be doing direct counseling, and plus I have put in so much work and time it seems like it would be wrong not to go forward with it.

Well, that is all for now.  Back to work!

I now have a job!  Yea!  It's a case manager position, not what I ideally wanted, but at this point I am just glad to have a job.  Pay is good, hours are good, and I really like the people I will be working with, which is important.  So I am happy.  I start two weeks from Monday.  Yesterday I had to pee in a cup to prove I wasn't taking drugs. 

My licensure exam is in ten days, Thursday the 8th, so any prayers or thoughts on that day would be really appreciated. 

Fall is finally here!!!! I am sooooo excited and loving this weather.  This week was my grandmother's 75th, my dad's 50th, and my other grandfather's 65th.  My dad got a remote control helicopter and is having great fun buzzing us all with it.  We got my grandmother a digital frame (pretty stinking cool) and I have become the family photo scanner.  And tomorrow my mom and I are going to Six Flags in San Antonio, which will be something fun and different for us to do together, and outside in the beautiful weather, to boot!

Anyway, that is what is new with me.  Hope y'all are having great days!