Work, Home, Sleep, Repeat

I'm thinking I haven't posted about my job yet.  In October I got offered an awesome job doing hair.  Yay!  I was offered a manager position at Cost Cutters which was opening in November.  I have to say I absolutely love the company.  It's a franchise so we have an owner who is the best boss I've ever had.  He invests so much into the employees.  I started training two weeks before opening and then the rest of the stylist started training the week before.  I loved seeing the salon come together.

Now I have to admit a couple of things.  First I was nervous starting the new job.  You have to understand that it is required that I work two evenings, every Saturday, and every other Sunday.  That's quite a change from my former position.  I have enjoyed my work so much that it hasn't phased me. 

Second,  I'm no longer in the manager position.  My boss decided that after seven weeks I wasn't really meshing with the stylist as much as they would've liked.  That is as a manager.  I'm not upset by this.  It's actually a little bit of a relief.  The only downfall is that I've had to take a pay cut.

Now come decision making.  Since I'm now making quite a bit less; do I go looking for a new job, find a second job, or just try to keep my head above water.  So I go look for a new job, then I'll give up on the job I love altogether and probably never go back.  :(   I go look for a second job and have to find something that I'm able to do when I'm not cutting hair.  Chances of finding that, slim to zero. : \   Can I stay afloat?  I'm hoping holding out until after tax time, maybe we can survive.

So that's my long drawn out work stuff.  It's not that interesting, but it's stuff I've been battling with this last week.

Carter just started back to school today.  I'm happy to say that after dragging him out of bed,  I did succeed getting him there.  And there was no struggle.  He was happy when I picked him up and was excited to go to Grandma's this afternoon.

We had our annual New Year's Eve party and unfortunately we had one couple missing.  :(  I'm sure next year will be a lot better.

I'm starting to plan Carter's birthday.  I've discovered that on his birthday there will be a "Day Out With Thomas" down by Kansas City.  I'm thinking that for his birthday and our anniversary, we'll make a weekend out of it.  Maybe see Thomas on Saturday and go to the zoo on Sunday.  It still needs to be discussed.

I'm excited simply because it's a new year and I'm making plans for the future.

Here's wishing everyone a wonderful new year!