Finding a Routine

I think things  are settling down a bit around here.  Tomorrow I go to the part time job to train.  I originally took every Monday off this month to get things around the new house.  So much for that idea.  As is typical for me, I am rethinking the second job.  It is a on call position  so every other weekend nights I will be required to drive to the hospital in the middle of the night.  Perhaps numerous times.  When we were at the old house, the distance was about 12 miles.  Not a biggie.  Now the distance is 25 miles and takes me about 35 minutes.  So, if I am called out 3 times in one shift, I will be driving close to 150 miles in one night.  That will suck. But.... on the other hand, it will be financially rewarding.  From previous experience, at 4 in the morning, after being up all night... I did not  care one bit about the money.  All I wanted was to be in my own bed. Yeah.... I know.  I may have bitten off more than I can handle.  Typical.

On the other hand, I have decided to put AVON on the back burner.  Most of my customers are at my soon to be former employer.  And to tell the truth... I did not make that much money.  Whew..... there, I confessed.  I feel a little better.

This week, we are signing the lease to rent our former house.  I still have to put a lease agreement together. That is becoming harder and harder to do.  I keep changing the agreement, and updating it.  Making a mistake on that could be costly, to say the least.

I really wish I had tomorrow off.

~~~~ UPDATE~~~~  I resigned my pool position.  Money is not everything.  So often I forget that. 

Saturday Update

It takes us a minute to get ready for a picture

It seems that there is so much going on that I have had little or no time to post on a regular basis.  Let's try to get caught up for the week, shall we?  Hubs really, really likes his new job.  He works with a great bunch of guys and I am tickled to see him so happy when he comes home from work.  As it stands now, he will be on first shift and not second shift.  This means he will not be getting the shift differential, but that is okay.  In order to conserve on gas and tolls, we have decided to ride into work together. He works 7 to 330 and I work 8 to 5.  To make this work, I will be going to the gym in the morning and then to work, and after work, he will be going to the gym until I get off from work.  Our jobs are less then a mile from each other, and the gym or wellness center is part of the hospital system that he works for.

Last week, I went to an interview at another hospital system in this area for a "pool" position.  It would be every other weekend, taking call on Friday and Saturday night.  The hospital is small and call or getting called in in the middle of the night is not to bad at that hospital.  It works out that being on call, you get paid your hourly rate for every four hours you are on call.  If you do get called in, and you are there for less than one hour, you get a minimum of one hour of pay.  For example, for the two evenings that I would be on call, I would get a minimum of 160.00 dollars, even if I do not get called in.

I interviewed with the department head, and ultrasound supervisor and then I went back for a second "scanning" interview with the evening tech.  The supervisor called me the next day and told me that they wanted to hire me.  Now I am just waiting to set up the orientation and get started with becoming part of their "team"!

Short Sale Update:  No change.  Honestly.... this is the craziest thing that I have every seen.

AVON update:  I am enjoying the AVON experience very much.  I like the concept of being a business owner so to speak.  I do have to put more time into it to reap bigger benefits, but I am taking things a bit slower this time around, so I do not become overwhelmed and discouraged.  I do have one recruit already, she found me through my AVON website, and there is another lady that is thinking about joining up too. 

My profits with AVON are small right now.  I do consider this a plus, because last time I did this, I was always in the hole due to buying too much for me and or poor money management. I do have to say that I am always surprised at how many individuals enjoy buying AVON products. 

Mother's Day was a blast.  I had all of my family together and I cannot tell you how much that meant to me.  As I have said before, it was this time last year ( Mother's Day eve and two weeks after) that my oldest son was in the Trauma Unit with a cracked skull, brain bleeds and loss of memory.  Pretty much the worse time of our family's life.  The circumstances that put him there was due in some part to his own poor judgment, but when another individual sucker punches you with Brass Knuckles, there is definitely some poor choices on the other individual's part too.

I celebrate each day that J is with us.  As I do my other children.  But as a mother, it seems your attention goes to the child that seems to need it the most.  And lately, it has been J.

Eventually we do get it right.  :)

No Shortage of Fun

The stuff with the Short Sale house is ongoing.  Just yesterday, I received a call from the mortgage broker saying that he cannot get a Verification of Employment from my husband's job.  They had called his employer twice on Friday to fax back the information.  As of yesterday afternoon, it was not at the mortgage brokers.  My husband's boss tried to fax it to the Mortgage broker yesterday too, but they never got it.  After about a million phone calls between me, my husband, his employer, the mortgage people, I asked my boss if I could clock out and go and  get the Verification of Employment and fax it from my work.  She was fine with that, and in about 30 minutes, I clocked out, jumped in my car, drove to my husband's work, picked up the information and returned back to work and faxed the papers.  The mortgage people received the information and for now, I think we have everything...... but it is early yet.  :)

I have been keeping busy with AVON, and I have created a blog for that enterprise.  AVON for you is the current name. At first, I called it "Ding Dong, Avon Calling!" but after a few days, it just did not sound right. The first campaign was a break even campaign.  I repeated a few mistakes from before.  I purchased a few things that I thought I could not live without.  After receiving my invoice, I returned the items and am going to practice a bit more restraint this campaign.

I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!

Okay, So I Had This Idea.....

Does this happen to you?  Realistically, we all probably have very full plates when it comes to getting things done.  Some days you think that you cannot possibly do another "favor" for someone, you cannot pick up the cleaning at the cleaners...You are just done.  But, then in order to keep your sanity your mind is constantly going, different ideas are bouncing all around ( at least in my mind) and some point, you think you actually might have an idea that is pretty good.  Tell me what you think.......

I am going to to challenge ( yes.. another challenge... I just can't say no, even to myself:) I am going to challenge  myself to start selling AVON to pay down my CC debt (at least half) by Christmas.  AACCCKKK!   I sold AVON years ago, and did well.  It helped me pay some bills when I was in school for ultrasound.  Currently, I can't change jobs UNTIL we close on the Short Sale house.  My lender frowns on any significant changes in our sources of income, so I feel like I have to do SOMETHING!

Here is the plus side of starting back up in AVON.  Low start up costs!  Only $10.00 to get started.  So, I raided my change cup and counted out $10 in change (see above pic) and went down to the AVON store and signed up!  Things I have to watch out for..... Any signs that I will be my Best Customer.  I really have to keep that in check.  I don't want to waste money on stuff, instead of debts that need to be paid off.  The idea is to operate this business with LOW overhead.

Historically, I take on projects and go gangbusters!! And then the interest wanes and I get bored and quit.  I am pledging to commit to this personal challenge to reduce my Credit Card debt by half and I hope to do   will do just that! 

Of course, you will all be witnesses and will have the opportunity to keep me in check.  Advice and thoughts welcome.