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Name: Amanda
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Gender: Female
Interests: I love camping and fishing, and visiting with family and friends. I love to cook and go wine tasting, I'm learning to love weight lifting and working out... I love Red Wings Hockey, and I love music. I play guitar and sing a little. I've been playing for just over 10 years and I'm interested in finding my perfect band mates :)
Expertise: I've been playing guitar for 10 years, and singing/voice training for about 16 years...
Occupation: Musician
Industry: Music
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Member Since:
3/1/2006
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| I know. it's been months....but there really hasn't been much to blog about. my best OK friend had a baby....I made a new friend, Stacie, who is a recently divorced 30 something and we have tons in common...which is awesome.
I was on vacation for a whole week at the beginning of the month. we went camping, we were attacked by bees, and decided to come home... we did absolutely nothing, and it was fabulous. getting back to work was just a little bit hectic as I came back right in the middle of a very busy time. but I missed my work friends...
Cody is talking about moving back to nebraska, which I would LOVE to do... but it looks now like it's further from happening than ever... which makes me sad.
I got to see Kristen Chenoweth in concert last night and she did all my favorite songs....she was really REALLY good, and even Cody enjoyed himself.
I think we're going to see Red tonight.
That is all I can think of right now. I promise that I will blog when I remember...:) I missed you guys!
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| work has been a killer today and yesterday. candles are turning out great, just wish people would start buying them. I love making them...but I am running into the "I cna't buy more supplies if i don't start making some money at this" so far, my only two *Paying customers have been my mom and my sister's aunt. I did give a gift certificate for a wedding, and they cashed it in....so i've had three customers. I don't know what to do to make people become interested. I social network like CRAZY, I bring candles to every family function, I give candles to family and friends, I did a free candle promo on facebook, I did a 20% off sale and I've only had the two real customers....and my mom. who I'm not really counting. give me some feedback here. What would make people stand up and take notice, and more importantly, buy my candles?! alright. that lament is done. I've been doing good on the whole. I'm really ready to have a definate "we're moving" or "we're not moving" but so far I've just heard "if this thing up there doesn't work out..." I'm trying not think about it...but then, out of the blue, in the middle of the day, I'll start thinking about how cool it would be to be there as opposed to here. we're watching baseball. I really don't like MLB. but the stanley cup playoffs don't start until saturday. I'm running out of things to say. I think I'm just cranky because I'm menstral. I'm ready to go to bed. I need some rest, and some chocolate. | | |
| well, as some of you know, i've been really frustrated these past few days.... see, I've been busting my rump for this company for just two months shy of a year and a half. I like the job, i [mostly] like the people that I work with, i get to wear jeans four days a week, I can listen to my iPod all day, and aside from my office mates getting too loud, I don't have much to complain about. so, here's the scoop....
when I was hired full time out of my temp position, I was told that I would get a raise at 6 month and a raise at a year. well, there was that whole Brittney/Dee situation that happened right around my 6 month mark, and I acted like a brat, and really showed my ass.... i was less than totally non professional, and although I pulled myself together, apologized to all the people that it required, I decided it wasn't a good idea to ask for my raise just then, I would buckle down and at my year mark, they would be so impressed, it wouldn't matter that I was stupid 6 months ago. so, nose to the grind stone for me. I focused on putting in more hours, putting out more files, making sure my files were right,. my year mark hits and I didn't see a change on my check, so I waited a month to see if there was some sort of waiting period, and in November I asked Leigh, my immediate supervisor what the procedure was to ask for a review because I was told at a year I would get a raise, but wasn't green enough to think they'd just give out money, they would want to review my work and conduct. Leigh called Haley, my HR manager down, and they had a chat that very day. I was sure it would be handled. ... skip to another month after that, December. I get called into Ann's office (she's the head of my department) on another matter and she touches on leigh talking to haley, and mentioned that richard (our president) would be more willing to fork out if I waited until after the 1st of the year. Alright, I have waited this long, what's one more month... well, in January, no raise comes. I start emailing ann to ask if she's heard anything, I wait a little more, email a little more, the whole time I feel like I'm being ignored. They would read my email and not respond... which was making me a little frustrated. so finally, I break down and I ask the advice of a woman I love and deeply respect. I emailed my old boss from window world, lisa, and she said to email haley directly, so I did...and hear nothing for two days. during which time, Leigh has asked me to take on several files that were due to the investor within hours, so I buckle down, knuckle under, and get them all done with no fear of them being late.,,,there were 7 or 8 total.... and leigh, very kindly sends me an email thanking me and telling me what a great worker I am. She also copied it to ann and haley, in hopes that it would tip the scales in my favor a little, because I had mentioned to her that when they ignore a request for four months, it makes me a little nervous.... like maybe there's not enough money, and I don't want to work for a company that's going broke, so I mentioned that I would look for another job.
let me backtrack here, I had been the office manager at window world, and the well paid receptionist before that....I was making more at WW that I am making here at AMSW by $.75 as the receptionist. and when I was the office manager, I was a little over 15 and hour, but it was salary. when I left there, I knew I wasn't going to make that much in an entry level position, working in AMSW's version of the mail room. but I started at 10.00 and hour, as a temp and was bumped up $.25 when shortly after I was hired on full time, with the promise that I would be able to grow in the company....and I have...I've inherited all the shit files that no one know what to do with. If there's something wrong with them, or they have to be done a certain way, or they're a government bond that has serious restrictions, they give them to me. if it's a new loan program that they want to try out and they don't know how to do it, they give it to me, and I bumble through it. I moved to a half cubical that opens up to the hallway , right across the hall from Leigh's office, and I should have asked for a raise in pay, but I didn't think of it at the time, so I accepted the job as it was, at my regular rate of pay.
anyway, After being ignored by haley, for the critical two days after I emailed her directly, I came home at noon on yesterday and promptly set to work updating my resume. I don't think they thought I would ACTUALLY move to a higher paying job over a raise.... so I updated my resume, and I emailed leigh and let her know that I did it, and I used her as a reference, and I told her that i didn't want it to get around that I was actively looking for another job, I just wanted to keep my options open because if they can't afford to give me a raise, which is the intuitive leap my mind makes when you take into account, they gave vacation days as a bonus for christmas instead of money, which they did last year, and they cut out all over time, which to my knowledge has never happened, and now they are hemming and hawing about answering me on y review, and raise. what would you think?
so after I emailed leigh, I got an mail back thanking me for the update... then I get another email saying that Haley was writing me an email before she left yesterday. i wasn't there to get the email, but I will know 1st thing monday morning....so i emailed Leigh back and told her that i was using my updated resume as a threat, and I hope that she didn't go out of her way to make haley get back to me. She responded that she had taken no threat in my email. she just took an opportunity to walk down there, and haley was in her office alone, so she rolled the dice.
so I will know monday what the outcome of this debacle, and if it's not in my favor, I will look for higher paying jobs. I did apply to one yesterday advertising an entry level position starting at 14 an hour. I'm not messing around in the making more money game...
anyway, we've got to get going, we're finishing packing today.
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| yesterday, I had one heck of an adventure....I was going to visit my great aunt with my mom and two cousins, my aunt lives in Rose, OK which is close-ish to tulsa. We were supposed to take I-40 to highway 69 to go through Muskogee and Wagoner, to the Cherokee Nation turnpike, exiting at the Rose/Leach exit. The turn to get to Hwy 69 is in Checotah, where the fabulous Carrie Underwood is from. So my mom is driving, and my cousin Patty is navigating, because she's supposed to know where we're going...so she's talking on the phone, and talking to my mom and we blow right past checotah even mentioning that it's the home of Carrie Underwood, and changing the music on the iPod to listen to Cowboy Cassanova... so we've been in the car longer than we should have been....and so Patty calls Aunt Fanny's house and ask where the turn off is....and of course, they say Checotah....and we're at Roland...which is about 6 miles from the Arkansas border... so Patty calls again to see if it would be uicker to turn around, or go a different route.... I pull out the map and see what our options are, and we wind going into Arkansas...and about a hundred miles out of our way to go up to my Aunt's house.... needless to say, Patty got fired. We should have realized that this was a possibility, because apparently, Patty gets lost everywhere... and we heard all the stories about how she was working in New Hampshire, and missed her exite three times and wound up going to Maine...or how she was going to Topeka, and drove straight through it, and had to turn around and drive from Lawrence (about two hours away from Topeka) all the way back... it was an adventure, but we had a really good visit. I got to see my cousins Stacy and Stephanie, and thier kids, Justin (who has just been released from the marines for getting his leg blown up by a rodeside bomb in Iraq) who I haven't seen since we were both kids....and I had only seen Jordan and David (much younger than myself) shortly after they were born, but got to know them a little. it was a really nice day... I didn't get home til after 1 am...which is REALLY late for me. today we moved almost all of our kitchen stuff and my antique china... then we went to the store, and we're both relaxing watching the superbowl....Cody's a little more into it that I am... He's yelling at the TV and it's starting to get on my nerves... I just reminded him that they can't hear him yelling and cheering...and he's all like "do I need to go watch it in another room...." this could get ugly. my stupid brother in law in and his stupid bitch of a fiance are moving back to Nebraska....no, they can't afford it, yes he has a job, no she doesn't...yes, they are trading two incomes, and a lot of stability for no stability, one income, and hardly any support. Yes, it's stupid, and as much I can say I don't care, I do. I don't want Court to fail, I couldn't care less if she does. all i can do is hope that it all works out in the end...I guess. I am really tired but since it's ONLY 630, if I go to bed now, I'm a REALLY old lady and there's no telling when I'll be up in the morning. I'm really sick of my job, but there's nothing I can really do about it. I'm ready to be totally part time or no time at all....but since Court is quitting reynolds to take a lower paying job, Cody may not have the contract with them any more, so that's less income Cody brings home...so since I have the steadier job, I get to work harder and more.... but since they just cut everyone's overtime, it's a moot point. It's a vicious cycle and I'm sick of it. I really wish that this weekend was the three day weekend....but next weekend is. oh well... I'm gonna go let my dogs in and work on my iTunes playlists. That always relaxes me. | | |
| I am too tired for thr promised tiraid... just let it be known that I'm sick of my office mates, I wanted to kill each of them in ways that require slow and methodical torture... I also want to say "F YOU!!" to the people that are going to be off work tomorrow (with the exception of Leigh, one of my supers, who's taking her partner to have surgery that is much needed) but F YOU to everyone else because now I have to work all day tomorrow instead of my usual half day. I would also like to send a big F YOU to the people who ruined overtime for the rest of us that really need it, and the people that are dragging thier feet in getting me the answers to the questions I asked four MONTHS ago about my review/raise that I was supposed to get when I hit the year mark and it never happened. I am so sick of my day job...I need Cody to get a really high paying job so I can go to part time, work two or three days a week, and concentrate on building my business....I'm SO tired of working for someone else. I'm ready to be self employed Thats all I'm going to say tonight. maybe later I will have more. right now, I'm too tired... | | |
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