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Drumroll please …

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So, I know I was Amber’s Feature Career on Monday, but … I got a new job! And – I start on Monday next week!

It all really has to do with this post (let me know if you want the password). Originally, the position I had applied for was for a layout person in the advertising department. While the interview went well, I never heard back from them when they said they’d contact me. So, after a few “WTF?” emails and a phone call, I finally got some answers. Apparently the position when to a person already in the company (it’s union), but since she still wants to work her original job 1/2 time, a position opened up and they offered it to me as long as no one inside posted for it.

No one did, so now I’ll be hanging out by the phone in the classified ad department part-time! Yeah, it’s not quite what I wanted to do, but it’s a foot in the door! Plus, they asked me if I’d like to do freelance work for their special sections and inserts. Yes!

It took a lot of thinking, really, and I had a mini-mental breakdown when I received the official positioning. I was really concerned that I wasn’t doing the right thing, and that my boss at the Echo would not be so thrilled that I was leaving with such short notice (Slightly less than 2 weeks – more like 12 days). But, after thinking hard about it, I knew it would get me ahead to where I really want to be, even if it meant making a few sacrifices.

So yeah, it’s part time, but there’s so much more potential for me there. And my boss at the Echo? She seems happy for me AND she’s already found a replacement for me, which was my biggest worry. I train the new girl tomorrow and Friday.

There’s my news folks! Wish me luck! I think my biggest challenge will be finding pants to wear to work that aren’t jeans :P

Bullet Wednesday

Posted in Blogging, Jobs, Kara and Kyle, Life, Money, Pets, Photos by

While I know that I don’t have to write a post when I have nothing, I feel obligated to. So, taking the baton from Amber’s post yesterday, I present to you the random thoughts of a bored person:

– I still haven’t heard from the person in regards to this post. I’m getting worried, but plan on emailing him today. I’m preparing myself for the worst, because it shouldn’t take this long to get back to someone, especially if it went well!

– I signed up for the 20SB Blog Swap! You should too! I’m kinda looking forward to it :)

– Kyle and I were really hoping to get a decent tax return so we could buy a new mattress set, but no such luck. He had to pay a buttload because of EI and I suck so I didn’t get that much. After all is said and done, we’ll be getting about $200. Oy. At least we’ll be able to put it into our house fund. The old mattress will have to do for now.

– To elaborate more on the mattress, when Kyle first moved to Kamloops he had a twin bed. We’re both bed hogs (me more than him!) and after one night, it just wasn’t going to work, so he found a discount place and got a queen-size set for $350. That bed has seen better days by now! I did some browsing at a mattress store and the sales guy made me try the Bowling Ball Mattress. Womp womp! Now I REALLY want a new bed, but we just can’t afford one at the moment.

– I get to see my grandparents today! They were snowbirding all winter and they’ll be in town tomorrow to catch up on Dr. appointments and such, so I’m meeting them for lunch :) I’m so excited!

– I have bought about eight Tim Hortons coffees and have yet to win anything for the Roll up the Rim contest. Boo-urns. That being said, the mocha I just downed is making me feel sick.

– Actually, I’ve been feeling sick a lot lately.

– I’ve yet to contribute to the In It to Gym It site. I’ll get there, I just need to think of something brilliant to post about!

– My birthday is in a month and I’m pretty excited about it! Party my pants off? I think so!!

And now for a random picture of Tanner (my mom’s Lab) and Daphne from 2007, because they’re my favourites:

Happy Hump-Day!

WTF Friday 3.0

Posted in Jobs, Rant, Writing, WTF Friday by

I shall warn you now that this is a rant and I am writing this to just help myself calm down. It’s probably, for the most part, incoherent. Now that warnings have been issued, welcome to another edition of WTF Friday!

Image found here

Yesterday at work, a guy called my office to complain about the material in the paper. Not just any material, but my column. MY column. The column I kill myself over trying to think of shit to write about until an hour before deadline. The column a ton of people have told me they love reading. You know what, asshole? FUCK YOU. I’d like to see you try and write a column every fucking week when there’s nothing exciting going on.

I’ve realized that he’s called NUMEROUS times in the past after *69ing his ass. Once he complained because there were no photos of men in the paper, except for two ads. Are you kidding me??? This time, he called to tell me that I talk about my personal life too much and that I should write more about current events. He used the column I wrote about the new cellphone while driving ban that happened not too long ago. Well, Buster, I wrote about that because it affected me. This week I wrote about my addiction to coffee. Would you prefer me write about the inflation rates of coffee or some BS like that? I doubt it. If I find an issue boring or uninteresting, I’m not writing about it and even my boss has a hard time convincing me to.

I wonder if he understands the concept of our newspaper. We’re not political. We don’t run stories on who’s dropping out of the political race, which politician is for what policies or what kind of issues are going on at City Hall. We stay out of the “He Said, She Said” bullshit as much as we can. We market ourselves as a “good news” newspaper and we like to try and keep it that way, no matter how depressing the City may be at times.

So really, I’m just trying to say that, if you don’t like my shit, no one is forcing you to read it. Skip the page if it bothers you so much. I will keep writing about whatever I please. My boss has never told me that my writing is too self-involved and if she wanted me to write about something else, she would. Like for next week’s paper, I wrote about Kamloops’ huge Earth Hour fail after she suggested I write about it and told me some quick facts. Had I not found it interesting, I wouldn’t have wrote about it.

Okay, I’m done bitching. For now. Usually I can take criticism but apparently not at the moment. Come on skin, get thicker. If only I could actually tell him “Fuck off”.

How do you deal with people criticizing you?

On a completely different note, I’m looking for someone to create a nifty WTF Friday button so I don’t have to keep stealing the WTF kitteh from the interwebs. Email me if you want to help! :)