Too much time on my hands
Mar. 28th, 2009 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI guess I will soon have a lot of time on my hands to get my house in order. Spring cleaning and all of that. I suppose that's good, except for the paycheck part. I wonder if they are going to buy out the rest of my time. That would be nice. A girl can dream.
I am going to send Punk to day care for the most part and just try to get things in order. I want to finally hang the blinds in the spare bedroom and the dining room. (We have them, they are just not up.) I want to really scrub the floors and vacuum the carpets. I want to clean up the yard. We were going to use our tax refund to get a bunch of stuff done in the yard (sod, seed, whatever it takes, and clean up the landscaping) but who knows if that is going to be able to happen. I suppose it depends how quickly I get a job. I know I /will/ get a job, even though the pessimistic, fatalistic part of myself says that I will never get a job again. I am not going to let this job ruin me.
I am saddest about not being able to transition out my clients. Most of them know I am leaving, because I started telling them when I gave notice. But there are a couple I haven't seen in person (and therefore haven't told). Who knows what they are going to think? Who knows what they are going to be told? Sigh sigh sigh.
I need to take a little inventory about what foods we have in the house because I'm guessing it would not be a bad idea to stretch out the groceries a bit. Maybe we'll be eating some creative meals. We'll have to chill on the eating out. Thankfully I already have a good amount of a spring wardrobe for Punk (and some summer).
We refinanced our house yesterday. Not much different, but a little lower. Every little bit helps, you know? Thank goodness we closed on the refi yesterday, because it meant that the mortgage company did my employment verification on Thursday. Thank goodness. And I had to close our home equity line with the old mortgage company, and they had a $200 Visa gift card buyout. Thank goodness for that, too. And extra thanks to my mortgage guy who not only did some yard clean up with us yesterday (ILY, Jeff!) but also gave us a BRU gift card as a thank you. That will buy us some day care diapers, which is good.
Time to tighten the purse strings and hope for a decent job with a decent salary soon.
I am going to send Punk to day care for the most part and just try to get things in order. I want to finally hang the blinds in the spare bedroom and the dining room. (We have them, they are just not up.) I want to really scrub the floors and vacuum the carpets. I want to clean up the yard. We were going to use our tax refund to get a bunch of stuff done in the yard (sod, seed, whatever it takes, and clean up the landscaping) but who knows if that is going to be able to happen. I suppose it depends how quickly I get a job. I know I /will/ get a job, even though the pessimistic, fatalistic part of myself says that I will never get a job again. I am not going to let this job ruin me.
I am saddest about not being able to transition out my clients. Most of them know I am leaving, because I started telling them when I gave notice. But there are a couple I haven't seen in person (and therefore haven't told). Who knows what they are going to think? Who knows what they are going to be told? Sigh sigh sigh.
I need to take a little inventory about what foods we have in the house because I'm guessing it would not be a bad idea to stretch out the groceries a bit. Maybe we'll be eating some creative meals. We'll have to chill on the eating out. Thankfully I already have a good amount of a spring wardrobe for Punk (and some summer).
We refinanced our house yesterday. Not much different, but a little lower. Every little bit helps, you know? Thank goodness we closed on the refi yesterday, because it meant that the mortgage company did my employment verification on Thursday. Thank goodness. And I had to close our home equity line with the old mortgage company, and they had a $200 Visa gift card buyout. Thank goodness for that, too. And extra thanks to my mortgage guy who not only did some yard clean up with us yesterday (ILY, Jeff!) but also gave us a BRU gift card as a thank you. That will buy us some day care diapers, which is good.
Time to tighten the purse strings and hope for a decent job with a decent salary soon.
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Date: 2009-03-28 05:49 pm (UTC)You should check out your library. I know ours has a lot of Meals for less than $5/Feed your family cheap sort of books. Would be a good way to get some new ideas. Also maybe you and the kiddo could go to storytimes/lapsits for a free way to get out of the house and have fun.
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Date: 2009-03-28 11:20 pm (UTC)I don't need to really get out of the house with the kid since she'll be at day care a lot of the time, but we're big on the free entertainment around here. Thankfully we have a big back yard with lots of sticks. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-28 08:37 pm (UTC)I'll be off in three weeks anyhow and could meet up with you somewhere closer to your place as well.
Finally, I haven't read through all the comments but do you now qualify for unemployment since they let you go instead of you just quitting?
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Date: 2009-03-28 11:20 pm (UTC)Hopefully it will not be an issue, but if it comes down to that, I will totally come out to you or meet you during your break and take some of your food, because you are an awesome cook! xoxo
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Date: 2009-03-28 10:05 pm (UTC)And yeah, I'd try the unemployment angle. You normally don't get it if you're terminated with cause, but it's highly likely they'd either find it to be retaliation since you were fired after resigning, or the job wouldn't be able to produce any sort of credible information, in which case you get unemployment if the job can't prove it was with cause. This is an at-will state, but they still have to prove that they have a written procedure in place for getting rid of people, and that they followed it, and that you were treated fairly just like everyone else there.
When I was fired on the grounds of turning in a progress note late (when it was actually retaliation for refusing to falsify records, turning my boss into the state for related sketchy stuff, etc.), I filed for unemployment, then got a letter saying the employer was contesting it on the grounds that they said I was fired with cause. All I had to do is call the number on the letter, they connected me with the attorney general person who handles this stuff, and I faxed them the stuff that said I was fired for turning in a progress note late, along with the home phone numbers of several coworkers who would attest that all of them turn in progress notes late all the freakin time. They sent a request to the employer to produce the written policy, the documentation of the steps they'd followed in disciplining me, and various other stuff. Employer didn't respond. BTW, I got to keep collecting while all this was going on and just had to sign a thing saying I'd owe it back if they determined I'd been fired with cause.
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Date: 2009-03-28 11:17 pm (UTC)What I'd really like is for my families to actively call my boss and complain and get angry about me not being able to work my last three weeks and wrap things up. But most of my clients are pretty disenfranchised and likely won't. Sad.
What's even better is that there is currently no one to take the cases. But I live in the moral high ground of knowing all of my charts are in perfect order, at least.
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Date: 2009-03-29 12:46 pm (UTC)BTW, working on the wood disposal for your tree. Stay tuned.