Been gone almost 2 years....

It has been just under 2 years since I updated this blog and alot of shit has gone down in the last 2 years of my life.

*June 2013 -- I graduated from college with 2 associates degrees, Associates in Arts and Science: Journalism and also an Associates in General Studies.

*July/August 2013 -- I stopped working at Macy's just after my 6 year anniversary there and started working as a residential housekeeper.  I was still working as a merchandiser at Michaels in the morning as well.  Also in August 2013 my boyfriend of 7 1/2 years cheated on me and we "took a break".  The break didn't last long, we were back together by Christmas.

*May 2014 -- Quit working at Michaels and being a residential housekeeper in order to work at a brand new hotel where I was supposed to be the Housekeeping Supervisor.  This was a lie, but I will get back to that later.

*July 4, 2014 -- Found out that my boyfriend cheated on me (again) with a new coworker and we broke up (again).  He then hooked up with yet another coworker...

That leads me to now.  Due to lack of financial stability on both of our parts, my ex-boyfriend and I are still living together (he sleeps either on the couch or in the spare room on a futon).  That is, when he stays here, the second coworker that he hooked up with a month ago, he has been staying at her place most nights.  We are trying to maintain a friendship but it is really hard.  Even with everything that he has done and put me through, I still love him.  I know, I'm stupid and ridiculous but the heart wants what the heart wants.  Neither of us want to push the other one out of our lives and we want to be friends but I honestly don't know if that will be able to happen.  In the last month since we broke up he has opened up to me and shown me a side of himself that he hid away from me for 9 years!!  And at this point, I don't love that side of him, I love the side of him that I have known for the last 9 years.  And I honestly don't know if I will ever love that side of him...but I need to not worry about that.  When we started dating, we just sort of jumped right in and never had a true friendship and we are wanting to see if we can build that friendship now.

And back to the work thing.  I was hired to do the construction clean of the brand new hotel.  The elevator didn't work so we were hauling all of our shop-vacs and supplies up and down 6 flights of stairs and it was very physically demanding.  Then they kept pushing back the opening of the hotel because the elevators couldn't pass the final inspection...so they ended up not having us work for an entire week!  And then they passed and we had 3 days to get the hotel ready to open.  We should have been doing all that prep work the week that we didn't work because right now we are suffering for it.

There are linen closets on each floor that are supposed to have the amenities and extra towels and sheets and such...they never put shelving units in them and so the boxes of amenities are just sitting on the floors of these closets and when we need more linens and such we have to go down to the laundry room and carry in our arms what we need back to the floors that we are working on...and they are giving us about 20 rooms a day to clean if we are working by ourselves and then if we are paired up with someone we are doing between 30 and 40 rooms!!!  And they are forcing us to work 9-12 hour days 5 days a week and then trying to call us in on our days off and getting mad when we tell them no!!!  This whole place is a disaster and I really can't stay there much longer!  I am going to talk to the General Manager hopefully tomorrow and see if  I can move into a different position that is a little less hectic until I can find another job.

What really pisses me off about this job is that I was promised things during my interview (things I said were deal breakers!!!) and she said yes to everything and then I got none of it!!  Well, I guess that is not entirely true..they are forcing me to work 40+ hours a week...but they are expecting me to do the work of 2 or more people!!  It is ridiculous!!!  I have applied for about 20 different jobs in the last 24 hours and I am getting very impatient!!  ugh!!!

But on a happier note, my sister and brother in law are FINALLY expecting their first child this winter!!!  They have been trying for about 5 years or so and it finally happened!!  So very exciting...this is the best thing in my life right now!