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Jamie's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 5/31/00 -------------------- 5/22/00 5/8/00 5/3/00 3/8/00 2/18/00 2/7/00 1/26/00 1/18/00 1/11/00 1/8/00 1/5/00 12/26/99 12/21/99 12/13/99 12/7/99 11/29/99 11/23/99 11/16/99 11/8/99 -------------------- Jamie's Introduction

November 23, 1999

I had a major temp drop this morning, at 9 dpo. I guess even with the perfect timing this probably is not the month, unfortunately. But, there is always next month I guess! I have to say, I've been getting pretty discouraged and am ready to just flat give up. As soon as AF shows I need to call my doctor and find out how we're doing the post-coital. If I'm figuring right, I should be O'ing before the appointment in December. And we're supposed to work out the details of the post-coital at the appointment!

We decided to have a late Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Kris' mom, step dad, brother, and brother's boyfriend are all coming over after work. The latest we'd have it is 11:00 p.m.. We're hoping that since it is Thanksgiving, we'll be extremely slow and can all go home early. I get off at 8:30 p.m., Kris gets off at 9:30, and MIL gets off at 10:00 p.m.. And BIL got lucky and works from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. that day. Poor Kory has to wait hours to have Thanksgiving dinner after he gets off work. He's been here the longest (2+ years), and his seniority is still pretty low on the totem pole. See, the longer you've been here, and what level you are (there are 4 different levels, from associate, which is straight out of training, or senior, which I think explains itself!) determines what shift you get every 6 or so months, and if/when you work on holidays.

Since Kris and I got stuck for Thanksgiving, I decided it'd be best to volunteer to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas so we have a better chance of getting decent shifts, instead of 10 hour ones. So I just did both of our bid sheets, putting early a.m.s first for both of us on both days. Early Christmas morning most people are opening Christmas gifts and won't want to call in for help right??? Which means a better chance of going home early. Whereas by Christmas afternoon or evening, everyone is putting the new computer together and trying to figure out how to run the darn thing! Plus, we don't pick 'lil Kris up until noon on Saturdays (DH is off Saturdays and Sundays, I'm off Sundays and Mondays), and he lives with his mom just two blocks from work. This way, he'll open gifts with his momma, then we can all go home to open our gifts together.

What I find extremely silly is that Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve (OK, that one I can kind of understand!), and New Year's Day are not considered holidays, but the day after Thanksgiving is. And we work our regular shifts on the day after Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve/Day, but not on Christmas Eve. Not that it matters -- we're open 365 days a year. We just get holiday pay on days they consider holidays. We've decided that the people in corporate (who don't work holidays) don't want to have to come back to work after Thanksgiving so that they have a realllllly long weekend. The bums, hehe! That's OK, we hope to be there one of these days. Not to start off right up at the top, but at least as an administrative assistant for me, him in the technical part of it. The only bad thing is, it would involve a move halfway across the country, to the east coast. But me being sick and taking vacation days when we didn't have it (me cuz I was sick, Kris to take care of me) means we have to wait. I think I explained in the last post that I can't go to the next level cuz of that??? Well, we were both under the assumption that it only mattered if you wanted to be a supervisor or go to corporate.

Well I guess I've rambled enough for now. By the time you get this it will be after Thanksgiving (I think) so Happy Belated Thanksgiving for all you Americans out there, and a very, very belated for the Canadians.

Jamie