I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey ya'll. This morning I was on the internet and I did not check my phone to see if I got any calls while I was on the phone. Using dial up these days....don't ask. But anyway, I did some house work and then later when to lunch to meet Maryann, Tonia, Claibourne and Harriet at Applebee's in Mechanicsville. They are my friends from my old job Dometic. We had a nicelunch discussing unemployement and job searches. We left about 1:30 and I stopped at the bank on the way home. I checked on my voice mail messages on the way home and found that Estees had called. I returned the call but got voicemail. When I got home, the HR lady called me and said I was tentatively being offered the job upon completion of a background check and drug screeening and the drug screening had to be done today. So after Steve finished in the yard, we rode down to Estees to pick up the paper work and I went to Concentra I think it is called to do the drug test. Can you believe it, finally after ten long months, I have a job. The pay was less than what I had been making but I have to start somewhere. Hopefully with raises I can get back up to the pay I am use to. But the biggest thing I will have benefits.....>YEAH!. After we left the lab, we stopped a Captain D's because Steve was hungry and then came home. Watched The Young and the Restless and then I got on the computer to start updating my blog. Could not wait until tonight. I want to thank all of you for your encouragement and prayers during this trying time for me. The blog was a way of me expressing what I was feeling and going thru during this time for me. It was much cheaper than a therapist....LOL. I started the blog precisely to keep you all abreast as to how my life and job search has been going. I will keep the blog up but will probably not continue doing daily updates once I start working. I will keep you up to date with any special things going on in my life. God has been so good to me. I thought that on October 10, 2008 when I was told I was being let go, I felt the rug had been pulled from under me and had no idea how Steve and I would make it. But you know what, that feeling quickly left me because I knew God would see me thru. Now there were days when the devil creeped in and had me depressed but I never gave up hope that God would turn my situation around. I did not always have money to pay bills when I wanted to pay them but we never got in a bind where we would lose the house or the car or could not eat. God made a way and I thank him for his grace and mercy. You see things like this happen to other people and you think you are set and your job is fine. But in this economy, you just don't know. Well I have learned my lesson. I am going back to the ways of old folks. Like my Dad, he does not believe in credit. If he can't buy it out right, he doesn't get it. He don't use credit cards, has never had but maybe one or two car loans in his life. When things get tight, if you don't owe nobody, you are in good shape. Unfortunately, I got in debt at the wrong time with buying a car and doing some renovations in my house. But like I say, God willing once I get out my debt, I am going to do a lot of things differently that is for sure. I will let someone have the upper hand on me again. Anyway, thanks again for all your cares and concerns. And to all my former Dometic friends who are still looking for a job, know that God had something for you also. Just keep on praying. Going over Dad's in a little while and will watch Big Brother tonight. Take care....Love you all!