So much has been going on! I hardly can believe all the changes going on in my world that I don’t even know where to begin.
I guess, least awesome first. At my last one-on-one with my manager, I asked her what I could be doing now to position myself for a promotion when an opening came along. Basically, there are two areas I can train in to help develop my skills for the store and develop leadership skills. Today, I started training in one of those areas which give me the absolute slightest edge of authority. Once I train in the second area I will be two steps down from an assistant manager at my store, but one step down at any other location.
I’m hoping to move to another location in the next six months or so because……
We’re buying a house! My husband and I have been on the prowl around town for several months now and, barring anything crazy, we close on a house on Friday! We’re moving from a one-bedroom apartment to a three bed/two bath house with a yard for Scout-the-dog! It’s been a wild ride for dozens of houses looked at, five we liked, and one we won the bid on.
The house came on the market on a Thursday night, we saw it Friday morning, made an offer Friday night and had to wait until Sunday night to find out they had accepted our offer. Then it was a blur of inspections, appraisals, finalizing loans, and negotiations. The negotiations were a tense affair. We wanted the sellers to fix the foundation among other small things. The one thing we refused to budge on was the foundation, though. Our relator went back and forth with the seller’s relator until an agreement was reached an entire week later.
Waiting was agonizing! We had to move forward with everything, loans, insurance, time-off requests as though we were going through with the sale- knowing the entire time that this thing could blow up in our faces at any second.
Technically, something could still ruin the entire deal, but we only have to wait two and a half more days until it’s a done deal and the house is ours!
We can finally start talking paint, carpet, and furniture without hypotheticals. It’s nerve wracking and exciting and scary and exhilarating all at the same time.
This is something my husband and I have been working towards for years and its days away from being a reality!!
Another reality that I’ve been working towards for years that has come to pass is: I have my first byline!!!!!
If you spend anytime at all on my blog, you know I’m a huge Stargate fan. I now, as of five minutes ago, am a contributor for GateWorld.net with a regular column on Stargate Universe. At this very second, I am on the site homepage. I know to some people it’s “just a fan page” but for me, it’s the next step in the process. I can publish my own blog all day long and no one can stop me. But for this, I pitched an idea, wrote up a couple sample articles and got the gig!
This is the first time my writing has been judged and accepted and published by someone other than myself!
Go check out my first article while I do a little dance around the apartment.
I guess, least awesome first. At my last one-on-one with my manager, I asked her what I could be doing now to position myself for a promotion when an opening came along. Basically, there are two areas I can train in to help develop my skills for the store and develop leadership skills. Today, I started training in one of those areas which give me the absolute slightest edge of authority. Once I train in the second area I will be two steps down from an assistant manager at my store, but one step down at any other location.
I’m hoping to move to another location in the next six months or so because……
We’re buying a house! My husband and I have been on the prowl around town for several months now and, barring anything crazy, we close on a house on Friday! We’re moving from a one-bedroom apartment to a three bed/two bath house with a yard for Scout-the-dog! It’s been a wild ride for dozens of houses looked at, five we liked, and one we won the bid on.
The house came on the market on a Thursday night, we saw it Friday morning, made an offer Friday night and had to wait until Sunday night to find out they had accepted our offer. Then it was a blur of inspections, appraisals, finalizing loans, and negotiations. The negotiations were a tense affair. We wanted the sellers to fix the foundation among other small things. The one thing we refused to budge on was the foundation, though. Our relator went back and forth with the seller’s relator until an agreement was reached an entire week later.
Waiting was agonizing! We had to move forward with everything, loans, insurance, time-off requests as though we were going through with the sale- knowing the entire time that this thing could blow up in our faces at any second.
Technically, something could still ruin the entire deal, but we only have to wait two and a half more days until it’s a done deal and the house is ours!
We can finally start talking paint, carpet, and furniture without hypotheticals. It’s nerve wracking and exciting and scary and exhilarating all at the same time.
This is something my husband and I have been working towards for years and its days away from being a reality!!
Another reality that I’ve been working towards for years that has come to pass is: I have my first byline!!!!!
If you spend anytime at all on my blog, you know I’m a huge Stargate fan. I now, as of five minutes ago, am a contributor for GateWorld.net with a regular column on Stargate Universe. At this very second, I am on the site homepage. I know to some people it’s “just a fan page” but for me, it’s the next step in the process. I can publish my own blog all day long and no one can stop me. But for this, I pitched an idea, wrote up a couple sample articles and got the gig!
This is the first time my writing has been judged and accepted and published by someone other than myself!
Go check out my first article while I do a little dance around the apartment.
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