I’ve been fairly busy the past two weeks so I’m pretty sure that I hadn’t mentioned that I got a new job and started that job on the 23rd of August. I love it! At least I do at this point, I’ll check back in about a month to see if I still feel the same way. I work as a Family Support Worker within a social service agency that deals with foster and adoption cases. I help children in their time of need while they are in foster homes and their parents are working to get them back into the home. I do not work for SRS and I do not take kids away from their parents; this is important to point out because many people, parents and children included, think that we are the ones who take kids away. In fact, we do the opposite by trying to help the families and get the children back with their parents before it becomes an adoption issue. I work full time with benefits and get paid .50 cent more than I was at my summer temporary job. It is a business casual agency so I have to wear long skirts, black pants, nice shirts which is definitely a change from getting to wear jeans and t-shirts all day, everyday. But I love it! I know I said that once already. I also get my own office space in the cubicle with my case manager with my own computer, my own email and my own files. I get to set my schedule based on when I do visits with the children which is nice as some days I’ll work 8a – 5p but others, like for tomorrow for instance, I will work 10:30a – 8:30p. I’m really excited about this job because it allows me to gain more experience in the social service field but also gives me a first hand look into what a case manager actually does which is where I want to go next. It’ll also look really good on my resume when I apply to graduate school to get my MSW. I’ll update more as I get comfortable with the job but there isn’t too much I can really say about it due to legal and confidentially laws.

In the next few weeks, I’ll be receiving some awesome products to review and possibly hosting my first giveaway! I hope that everyone will enjoy the reviews and entire the giveaways when available. I plan on opening a separate review site in the next month or so; hopefully, I’ll be able to purchase the domain when I get paid next. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up

Yesterday morning I woke up to a frozen AC once again. This is the third time it has happened this month and the second time in a weeks time. The apartment complex insists that we are running the AC too hard and can only set the temparture between 70 and 75. Oh really? Then why were we able to set the AC to cool down to 66 degrees in a 2 bedroom apartment within the same complex without any issues of freezing? Yeah that’s what I thought. Needless to say, they are going to have a very pissed off tenant come next month when I get a very high electric bill that I will force them to pay.

Anyways, when all this happened I called my mom to let her know about it AGAIN because I just don’t know what to say about it anymore. No one is listening to me. She goes well I will talk to them in person about it. I was like, WHAT? In person? What are you talking about? She’s goes, I’m on my way there (she lives in South Carolina, I live in Kansas). I started going into the whole yeah right, what are you talking about, it isn’t April Fools so what do you mean, when she says yeah I’m on my way there just past Kansas City so I’ll talk to them in person. I say okay and hang up the phone…shocked. About 20 minutes later, she’s at my door. Surprise!

The last few weeks have been very emotional and hard for my family. We found out that one of my younger cousins (my grandmother’s sister’s son’s son), Chip, who is only 13 has a cancerous brain tumor along with spots on his pine. His mom and dad noticed that he started having difficulties walking, talking and seeing and took him to the doctor as soon as they returned home to Georgia from a vacation in South Carolina (where my family is from) and were told he had cancer. Chip went under a 9 hour surgery last Wednesday in order to remove the brain tumor, however, the doctor was unable to get it all as the tumor is interwined in his brain stem. He will have to undergo chemo therapy along with radiation in order to treat the spots on his spine as well as the parts of the tumor they could not remove. Despite the news, the surgery and only being 13, the doctors have said Chip is doing remarkably well and are surprised at how talkative and good he feels after having such an intensive surgery.

Even though, Chip is doing well, he has a long road ahead of him and the future is unknown in regards to his condition. I can only imagine how his parents feel, a mother and father to Chip, Jack and Brett – Chip being the eldest – to know that their son could have and may still possibly die in the future due to this condition. On top of all this, I found out a few days ago that my great grandmother who turned 89 in July, has started to go downhill very fast. She started to haullicate a few weeks ago but in this past week, she has only wanted to eat and sleep and will not talk to anyone. We are hoping it is just a spell and she’ll come out of it but I am perparing myself for the worst. I just took a new job and I can’t afford to go out of town so soon but of course, if it is necesarry I will.

With all this going on, you can only imagine the stress my family is under which is why we need a vacation! My entire family are beach people and many of them still live by the beach in Charleston, SC, but nothing compares to the Outer Banks vacation rentals that Carolina Designs offers. I mean, I’ve been to beach houses before, my family usually will rent one for a week during the summer, but nothing they have ever rented can compare to the 5 bedroom, 7 bed Seahawk rental they offer. This house comes equip with a private pool, hot tub, 10 TVS, 3 VCRs, 2 DVD players, video library, stereo, game room with sports bar, wet bar, gas grill and is 635 yards from the ocean. Can you imagine spending a week in luxury like that…? A place that is quiet, serene and near the ocean with everything you could need or want at your fingertips. It would be great to spend time with my family, especially my great grandmother who ispossibly in her last few months of life and cousin if he’d be able to come, and soak up the last moments with some and create new ones with others. If only…

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I miss having a desktop computer. I miss being able to sit at the desk and work. Sure, I could easily put my laptop on the desk but then I’d have to hook up my mouse and buy a wireless keyboard for it because sitting at a desk with the laptop is uncomfortable! I told Alan the other day that I would be more apt to play World of Warcraft again if I had a desktop to play on. I’ve been using my Macbook Pro for everything since I bought it last August for school. I hadn’t used my desktop PC in forever and when I finally turned it on at the beginning of the year, it wouldn’t load pass the start logo. My PC has had issues for a long time now and has needed to be replaced for over a year hence why I bought a laptop. I am hoping that I get this new job I interviewed for a few weeks ago and that it pays a little more than I was getting at the summer temporary job I had; if I do get it, I definitely plan on saving up to buy computer parts.

At the beginning of the month, Alan and I moved into a one bedroom apartment and my brother left the two bedroom and moved in with a buddy. We are on the top floor with the living room windows facing the parking lot outside. Ever since the move, Bella (the dog) has made her perch on top of the cushions of our modern sofas, that I’ve only had for a year which I am afraid she’s going to ruin every time she jumps up on them. She acts like a cat when she jumps from the seat cushions to the back cushions and walks around on the arm rests. It’s quite ridiculous, her acrobatic skills that is. She’s a smart dog and certainly acts like the princess of the house. I won’t lie as she is spoiled but jeez…I never meant for it to get this bad!