Job (s)

Hey! So sorry I've been incommunicado lately - things have been kind of hectic! (B- I promise I'll call you back as soon as I have a free minute!)

So the big news in my life is surrounding my work life. As of yesterday I am officially employed with the Culver Campaign! It was kind of a whirlwind experience to get there - and it all started with an email. and it came the same day i had been given another full time job. talk about life choices - ugh. It was last Friday that the law firm I've been working at offered me the full time job I've been waiting for since graduating. I was over the moon! Not half an hour after accepting I got an email from the Director of Finance for the Culver Campaign, asking if I was interested to come in and talk about an open position on the team. I figured there would be no harm in just going in to talk about it. So I met with the Director of Finance (Grace) at a coffee shop for our "interview", afterward she asked me for a couple references and then told me she'd keep in touch. The next day she called me with an offer!

As of February 1st I will be in politics again! I can't wait - and everyone here at the firm is being super supportive! The other bonus is that the campaign office is in the East Village so I can walk to work every day! =)

Hope you are all doing well!

Might as well do something since I've been immobile all day!

So so bored today since I've been sitting on my couch literally not moving except getting up to pee and eating. Hopefully tomorrow I can get back into life. Anyway you may be interested in what happened.

So I worked 50 hours last week from Tues-Sun, including 4 doubles with hardly any break. Sunday by far the longest - 15 hours, no sitting down. I was working a party upstairs at my restaurant with 4 other servers, it was an engagement party for our general manager's sister - 120 people and my other servers were sucking so I was reloading all of the food trays and busting my butt for hours. At about 830, we were getting ready to bring up all the different dessert plates and my other manager and I were running around looking for the last dessert to plate it. We were in the back prep kitchen and we realized we needed smaller plates for the tiramisu instead of a platter so I ran to get a bunch of them. I literally had 20 plates stacked on top of each other in my arms as I walked to my manager to ask him where I needed to put them. Mid-sentence I slipped on the floor (because the dumb busboys just washed it) and slammed my head, back and butt on the floor, obviously dropping the plates as this happened. About 10 of the plates broke on top of me, leaving me with 2 insta-bruises on my arm. Because I don't cry in public, I burst out laughing but it hurt. This was all at about 9:30pm. Everyone kept asking if my butt was ok, which I knew would be fine lol lots of padding there! But I knew my neck would hurt because I'm prone to whiplash. So I woke up monday morning in super pain and thought i might be ok but then about 2pm when I went to shower for work I was dizzy and blurred vision and so instead of work I went to the hospital where they took xrays and said I have a sprained neck and gave me valium and strong ibuprofen, which led to me having to take today off work too and I guess they gave me off tmrw also. So the funny thing is that I only have 1 shift this week after sure an extreme last week. but i think im ok. Hope you guys are good!!!

Hey girls! Sorry it's been so long since I have posted - I'll try to give you a run down of whats going on with me haha My life right now is very "In the moment" and I'm kinda liking it! lol Don't get me wrong I would love to be finished with school and have a full time job - but I keep coming back to the same thought...I'm 23 and I want to have fun! haha I'm planning on going back to school starting this summer - not sure where yet, but I'm looking around. Hockey season is done at the end of the month :) Char and I are coaching a spring team and a tournament team that starts 13 days later so not too much of a rest there. haha We are also going to CANCUN sometime in the end of feb! So if anyone is wanting to go with its only $693 all-inclusive for a week airfare included! I'm soo looking forward to sun! Char and Steve broke up before Christmas and it was tough on her, but shes getting better - he was such an ASS towards the end which makes it easier. She is working at the Biaggis near us and has met a bunch of great guys that we have been hanging out with lately.

Miss you all tons!

Hello ladies! Hope everyone is doing well. Nothing too exciting here, just wanted to say hello! Mike's friend Andy was in town last weekend and we had a good time going out and dancing like fools : )
Sad news here...Mike's dog Max has cancer : ( His parents came home on NYE and his eye was sunk into his head. Took him to the vet and they thought it was a tooth infection that was causing the nerve endings to mess up his eye. When they took him for another opinion the vet said it was 50/50 the tooth or cancer. They pulled his back teeth and the eye is still the same, thus indicating it is a tumor. Good thing is he is still as spunky as ever, just with a droppy eye. Mike's college friend Gustavo who I have told you guys about before had to go back in for another round of chemo so please keep them both in your thoughts or prayers.
On a lighter note, work is going well. I really like it and have made some good friends. One of which is a 4th grade teacher and interviewing for an assistant principal position, so let's hope I can get her classroom next year! Just went to an alumni reception for admitted Drake students here in the area. Spent 2 hours b.s.ing, but it was sort of fun haha.
Hope everyone is surviving the winter weather! I bet we could all use the Rubes right now!

highlight of my week - pulled a muscle carrying a tray

Hi girls!
   I basically just wanted to say hi because there's nothing exciting going on in my life at all. I don't know if I wrote this, but my sister-in-law is pregnant and due in July, so that is fun, and Michael and Kelly broke up right after New Years, which is fine. I was glad she actually broke up with him so that was good in my opinion since I didn't really think he liked her that much... either way, she is a very nice person, but they didn't fit well. My life consists of going to work, sometimes for 11 hours or more and attempting to make money, and then spending my days off doing laundry, going to the bank and sitting in my bed. Boring.
Still hoping for a real job to get out of spending my nights and weekends at work!
I hope you are all staying warm and having fun with work and stuff! :)

~Michelle

New Job.. New Life!!

So, I know most of you know this, but I just started a new job. This job basically fell into my lap. Somehow this studio got my resume back in august from someone (I didn't even know who until just this week. It turned out to be a random friend from KC who knew a receptionist at the company)and then they had a job open up starting in January. They called me in a for an interview at the beginning of Dec and I GOT IT!! My official title is post-production assistant. My companies name is Motion Theory. You guys should check out the website. We have done music videos and commercials for some pretty big names. I just started Wed and I'm already exhausted. I am in fact still at work now. I start work at 9am, and then usually don't leave before 9pm. Not to mention I live on the other side of LA. I work in Venice (by the beach!) which is over an hour commute to my apartment. Tonight I am actually here till 2am, and then have to be back in at 9am. I know you are probably thinking that this is the worst job ever, but I love it so much. I only started here yesterday, and they already have been on 5 big projects (including a Buick, and superbowl spot) It's just really encouraging that I actually love to work in the career I have chosen for myself. The other great thing is I'm on a salary, have paid vacations and I'm actually making enough money to pay all my bills, put money away, and see the occasional movie (I budgeted out 4 a month). I just never thought this type of thing would happen to me so soon out of college. I'm really happy and I just wanted to share that with you girls.

This all means though, that it will be almost impossible to get a hold of me on the week days haha

Love you all, and I'm happy to hear you are all doing well.

Amy- Your story about your car made me literally laugh out loud. Everyone turned to my desk to look at me

OH that the other thing... I HAVE MY OWN DESK!!

I really am I big girl.

xoxo,
S

Just another reason why I'm awesome...

So my first day back to work after the holidays, and what to do I do? Lock my keys, purse, and cell phone inside my car, with the car running. I was warming up my car and scraping the windshield when I went to actually get into it, I found the doors locked. Needless to say I let you a pretty loud "Merrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". So lucky my building has a buzzer on the outside so I buzzed my neighbor, who I have met just a few times and she let me in and let me use her computer and phone to call a locksmith service. It cost me $65 to get my door unlocked, and a little bit of my dignity when I had to explain to my co workers why I was later than usual getting into work.

But anyways... my Christmas was fabulous. Went home to MN, spent lots of time with family and old friends. Got a huge hug from my old hairdresser in New Ulm when we were downtown at the bar. Pretty sure she was a lot drunk. Haven't seen this woman in like 5 years but she comes up to me and goes "Oh Amy! I always thought you were the sweetest girl and I just wish you the best in life!" Made me laugh :)

New Years was fun too! Meghan, Lane and I went downtown and met up with some other random friends we know and did a boot plus some more drinks. Gotta stay warm somehow :)

Happy 2010!!! Miss you all!