Tons-o-updates

*clears throat*


WE GOT THE CHURCH!!!


So that is one less thing to worry about for the wedding! Now the problem we have run into however is that the pastor is not sure he will be able to make it on that Monday. Slight problem right... well we have two back up Hungarian pastors so it shouldn't be too big of a deal but the guy just seems so unsure of himself right now that its bugging the crap out of me. This Sunday I have to go to Church alone because Curtis has work and this should be the weekend that we decide who our pastor will be and I have made up my mind that even though he is unsure of himself the guy that is there every Sunday will be our pastor. 


In other good news we found a place to live! well move to or whatever  you want to call it. I am sooo excited. We went to go look at the place on Monday afternoon and judging by the outside of the building you would NEVER guess how nice it is on the inside! (see pictures below). I absolutely CANNOT wait to move (23 days and counting) now we don't definitely have the place just yet, we gave them our application and the money for the application and we should hear back in a week (which by the way is a SUPER long time!). But I don't see why we wouldn't get the apartment. Curtis and I both have great rental histories and no crimes of any sort in our past. My mom liked the place so much she said she would even co-sign if she had to. 


Dieting has not been going to well I am at a stand still with my weight which is mainly my own fault because I keep eating junk when I am not supposed to. The wedding dress will be here supposedly on the first and the invitations should be on their way pretty soon as well. Everything is coming together nicely. We had to use some of the wedding money for our soon to be move but those funds will be added back into the account when Curtis gets his school loans. It makes me very nervous because I haven't touched that money for anything other than to pay for wedding stuff. 


And now the pictures of what will soon (hopefully) will be our new place:

Get Me to the Church on Time

So we STILL do not have an answer about the church BUT we know for sure the pastor will be there this coming Sunday. Curtis has a strong feeling that its going to work out just fine and I keep having a strong feeling like something is going to fall apart at the seams. 


I found a very affordable videographer (550-625 for 4 hours of filming) BUT this means that we now have to save up even MORE money for the wedding. We originally started this wedding trying to keep the costs at around $4000 for the whole thing, if I add up everything I have in mind so far and the little things I have bought for it here and there the total cost is probably going to be closer to  $7000 and we are still below our goal by about $1200-$1000. How in the world we are going to come up with that amount of money in the next two months (and yes the wedding is in EXACTLY two months) I have no idea. On top of it all we are also moving which so far has been a giant pain because no one wants to wait a month before they get paid for rent. (we aren't moving till Sep. 17th).


The job opportunity we thought was going to come up for Curtis we are not so sure about now. The guy said he would email him the information but nothing has shown up yet. Curtis is starting to think maybe the guy was just being nice with the offer (which to me doesn't make sense because its NOT nice to offer someone a possible job when really you don't want them for it). 


Things at the restaurant are starting to get to me a little. I am working there anywhere from 3-5 days a week which means my working hours for the week between the two jobs is now anywhere from 50-55 hours a week (sometimes more if we get slammed). Plus the fact I am only getting $7 an hour when I am the dishwasher doesn't help things. If I am the cashier and I get my 10% on a good night the hourly rate averages out to about $10 an hour. However they have this thing where if you make a mistake on the check it comes out of your pay. Now I have been there for a couple of months and it just seems so odd to me that I didn't make a mistake for months and now I have 3 mistakes in a row. I have this horrible feeling that someone is messing with me. At this point I think I have just decided that I am just not going to touch the receipts period. My co-workers won't be too happy about this but as the hostess I am not really supposed to be messing with the checks to begin with. 


I think no matter what I need to get out of there and soon. But I really like having this extra income available. 

JCPenny Online?

Anyone shop at JCP online? If so I found a deal! $20 for a $50 gift card ($25 if you don't want it to connect to your facebook account). 


http://www.plumdistrict.com/three_for_free/4133d0eca5/click

Opportunity Might be Knocking... Ding Dong (or ringing)

So finally for a little bit of good news. Because Curtis is forever outgoing and ends up making friends very easily he now may have opportunity knocking at his door. A gentleman was in the game store where he works yesterday and told him his company was hiring. The gentleman also lives with his boss so its pretty much a guarantee if Curtis peruses it. Its and IT job and he will be making just as much money as I am making now if he lands the job. The job also allows for different shifts and different work days. The one downfall of that may be that he will have to work third shift which means going in at like 10pm at night getting off in the morning and going straight to bed after. We barely see each other now so I don't know how well that would work out. I much rather him maybe work four 10 hours shifts (I don't even know if they would let him do that) and have 3 days a week off. He said he will also be able to study at this job which is a huge plus. Though if he does get it and wants to study he may just HAVE to get an Ipad2 so he can work on music while he is there. Though I am not sure what their company policy is on bringing in outside electronics. 


Either way I hope he lands the job but only if it won't interfere with school. And I also hope the job is located in Tampa so I can get the H-E-L-L OUT of pinellas county. 

I'm Still Here (at work)

So as of right now, I am still working at my current job. No one even brought up the issue which either means 1) my co-worker didn't mention it to anyone OR 2) they are going to have a talk with me later (possibly bring it up during my yearly review?). So while I am still a little on edge and have been playing "nice-nice" with everyone just in case. Curtis was right when he said it probably isn't a good reason to get rid of me seeing as the file was going to be shredded if she didn't say anything but still... I worry (possibly too much). 


Now as far as my other job goes... Not doing so hot over there. I worked with just one girl last night and I said to her "I have been thinking of a good way to ask this but I haven't been able to think of one, so I'm warning you now its going to sound rude. Why is it that you talk to me today but yesterday you didn't bother to say two words to me?" At first she seem rather flabbergasted that I asked this and then she got upset (reasonably so, i told her it was going to sound rude) and she said because you came in here with such a bad attitude and every time I tried to talk to you you just said you couldn't hear me. I interrupted and said as far as I could see it (and I tried to say that in a non-accusing tone) the only time you talked to me yesterday was when  you needed something, and no, I couldn't hear you.  


People were starting to come into the restaurant so the conversation kind of got cut off there but she did say one day your up next day your down I don't know what kind of mood you're going to be in. I retorted with why does it matter? Now seeing that yes I can be a downer sometimes I don't feel being ignored for it helps anything. Not to mention that the guy we work with is a CONSTANT downer. He talks badly about his job (which he wouldn't even have if he didn't marry the owner's daughter) while his boss is there, he talks badly about his wife (and while some of the things he says might be true I don't believe in talking so harshly about your spouse in the middle of working hours) for example, she is a bad mother... yeah... I have to wonder if she even knows all the crap he says about her. I don't want to be nosy and tell her either but it bugs the crap out of me. 


On the plus side I did hash things out with Kate and told her it bothered me when she said "Fuck You" to me last week while we were working and while she tried to brush it off that hey she was trying to say it like a joke and didn't mean anything by it I hope it hit home a little. I just don't expect to be cursed at while at work, if you are cursing in general at work (which is very common there) I don't really care, I curse too so I wouldn't expect you to just not curse at all. In the end we hashed it out and I told her I talked to you about it, got it out, I'm done with it. And I went home. 


I am going to work there again tonight and frankly... I DO NOT want to! but we are very close to reaching our first goal as far as the wedding goes ($1200 for flowers, gifts/treats for the guests, jewelry, hair/make-up, church (which we still don't know the cost of or if we can even have it there), and a limo). We are currently at a little over $800 so about three more weeks of working at the restaurant (possibly more if it keeps slowing down) and we will be set. Some other things that I need to pay for though after that expense... a videographer and we need to pay his friend for DJing. His friend is giving us a great price but I still want to talk to him about his experience as a wedding DJ. 


I know there are going to be other costs that come up along the way (garter belt, brides maid and grooms man gifts, Wedding Card Box, Aisle runner) but the essential things will be covered. I am also going to work on making some fake paper flower balls that I can put on the pews on the church (if we get in). 


Oh and did I mention we are moving soon? Yeah on top of everything else we will be moving in the middle of September right before the wedding and I am trying to find us a nice 3 bedroom place for under $750 but so far they are all in bad neighborhoods. We will probably end up in a 2 bedroom which is big enough for us I just wanted a place where we can grow a little.


My mom will be visiting us at the end of August. We will be packing and she will be staying over. She will be sleeping in Curtis' office with ALL of his transformers and old school video games are, its going to be interesting. I really hope she doesn't go through his things, or my things for that matter. I am a little worried about leaving her alone in my house. With that said knowing us we will end getting into an argument in the first 2 days and she will end up staying with George. All in all I hope it works out. 

I'm in Deep Doo Doo

I am in deep trouble at work! I am also freaking out about it but only on the inside because really no one around me should know just how badly I'm freaked right now. I found out this morning that due to my own laziness (basically I didn't look at the right stuff in one of the online folders) that when the guy that comes to shred our files shred one that I was supposed to keep! I was actually almost two files but my co-worker put it aside for whatever reason. 


Now the person that asked us to save the files was in fact told to call/email my other co-worker (same as above) before 3pm Thursday and she send the email just before 3pm on Friday (when my co-worker was not in that day). So she ended up emailing me and my boss and CCing my co-worker. I don't know what came over me to not ask questions and to not look harder for those files but now I am so freaked out that I am going to get fired because of this! I mean I know everyone makes mistakes (and I hope they will consider that if me getting canned gets brought up), and I could go on the defense and say that the lady that asked me to take care of the files didn't follow directions, but I don't want to blame anyone. 


When I asked my co-worker if I should email the lady who put in the request she just said no and when I asked her what the next step was, she just said I haven't decided yet I have moved on to something else (moved on to working on something else). 


God I hope they don't fire me over this!!!