Okay, it's time I take a few minutes and update my blog readers. All three of them. Let's start with the week of July 21st.
It was a Monday afternoon. I had finished work, went and worked out, picked up Bryce and was making the usual drive home at 5:20pm. Traffic is really bad at the intersection on 45 and 1097 in the afternoons because everyone is ready to get home, I guess. The road goes from two lanes to one pretty fast so people are scurrying to get in front of someone and it never fails someone in the left lane needs to turn left into McDonald's. It happens all the time. It happened this time too and when everyone had to slam on their brakes, I was no exception either. The car in front of me was closer than I thought so I was going to swerve onto the shoulder, but when I looked in my rear view mirror, the guy behind me did that to keep from hitting me, so I couldn't swerve into the oncoming traffic so I hit the car in front of me. It didn't do very much to her car, but my poor car was not so lucky. Bryce was a little upset. Only because his blanket flew from his lap to the front seat floor board. That was all he cared about. It was so blistering hot outside. I called Matt to tell him and he immediately called his Dad, sister, Kevin, Keath and I'm sure the President too. His sister came immediately. She took Bryce home and waited for me.
The police came and did a report. I didn't get a ticket, thank goodness. He said it was an unavoidable accident. Even though it was clearly my fault, I'm thankful for not getting cited. I drove the car home and called to file a claim with my insurance. I went ahead and asked them to tow it because there was antifreeze and other stuff pouring out from the car and I didn't want to do any further damage to it. They came and got the car the next morning and I got a rental.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were pretty uneventful. I left Thursday evening with Karri and Angela to go to Kristins for the weekend to scrapbook. We stayed up until 3am talking and scrap booking. It was great getting to catch up.
Friday morning I woke up and called to check on Bryce and make sure all was well. Dad said he had a rough night because he was congested. He always gets sick when I go out of town. I guess that's his way of expressing his dis likeness of me leaving him.
The morning was going great until 11:30 when Matt called me and said he had just gotten laid off. I thought he was joking at first. Unfortunately he wasn't. He was very upset. They told him to clean out his desk, turn in his keys and give back his cell phone. My great weekend just turned to mush. I tried to be so strong for him, but it was hard. I can't even describe all the feelings that were going through my body.
After letting that information settle for 2 hours, I get a phone call from my insurance company saying the damage to my car exceeded the value of my car so it was going to be totaled. Yeah. Totaled. It still hurts me to say, let alone type that. Ugh. It was such a fantastic car and was going to be Ashley's next year. The bad part is that I still had close to a year to pay on it and was upside down when I got it so everything the insurance company was giving us for it was going straight to the lien holder.
So, Matt's got no job, I've got no car...... this made for a really bad weekend.
When I got home Sunday evening, Matt and I decided it was actually for the best he was laid off. His boss was a douche and took such advantage of him. He was working 70+ hours each week. Yes, the OT was great, but it sucked him not being home at a decent time every night.
Monday was spent with him scouring the streets and me finding potential leads for him on the internet. Tuesday was the same thing. He got a call Tuesday night from a friend of ours who needed some people at his company. It's an oil company of some sort.
Matt went for an interview Wednesday and was told to come back Thursday to meet the big boss. He went. Of course the big boss liked him and hired him. He had to go Friday morning to do a drug test and all that jazz. He started work this past Monday.
He really wanted this job with the county at a recycling plant because that's where his background is, but never heard from the people. I had emailed my friend Kristin about that job, who emailed her mom, who emailed the commissioner's wife, who emailed her husband, who emailed the commissioner of the precinct the job was in, who emailed the director of the recycling plant, who emailed my Tuesday asking to interview Matt. I was shocked at the chain of emails. Matt did go to the interview yesterday. He asked his job to take an extended lunch to go. They said that was fine. The lady loved him and said she was going to make a decision tomorrow.
When Matt got home yesterday evening, he said that she had already called his references. I guess that's a good thing. We'll see. If he did get this job, we will not have the OT we've been used to, but it's a better base salary and he will work 8-5 M-F with some occasional Saturdays. If he had to work Saturday, he gets comp time at time and a half so that is terrific. Oh, and it is five minutes from my office. We could do lunch.
Ashley is finally home. For a day. She has spent most of the summer everywhere but home. Mom's, Jenni's, Bobby's, Cody's, her dad's.... She stayed with Cody's mom while Cody was at his dad's. She had a great time. I'm glad she has been able to do it this summer, because she won't get to next summer. She is going to be working.
So, that's my update. It's been crazy, I know. Thank God I have a wonderful family and network of friends to help us during this time. I couldn't do it without them.
Wow. I have been riding you to update your blog and when you do..
I'm in it 3 sentences. Nice. Real Nice. This hurts real bad. Just so ya know.. :(