last day of january

hey,

well there has been a lot going on lately. first off, i interviewed, was offered, and accepted a job offer to work a 16-week assignment in fallon, nevada (all was done) today. i begin work in 10 days so there was a lot of quick researching, phone calls, and filling out of paperwork. i also found out that el's grandpa passed away yesterday when he was found unresponsive. they were just here a couple of months ago in vegas. she seems to be taking it okay along with her mom. thirdly, jarrett appears to be undergoing surgery for his left shoulder next week. he will be getting a SLAP tear procedure and will be out for the season. he will redshirt and be eligible for the next two years. his pic has been used on the emails and websites for UH to promote the start of the baseball season. a lot has happened in the last couple of days...

so let's break this all down more. today is thursday. yesterday i sent out my resume to the public that i was in need of a job. lo and behold, today i have a job in nevada after searching for work for three months. i received like five or six phone calls early this morning from various travel companies. i had to tell my two recruiters that i found work. and my temp job manager too. talked to dad yesterday, he called to check up to see how i was doing. told him that i am trying to find a job to no avail but hopefully something promising will arise. i was having bad insomnia on tuesday night because i didn't have any leads to any possible jobs. monday was a bad day because i found out through email that the hospital wasn't interested in me because of my lack of acute care experience. then, the possible santa monica job was on hold. then, the temp agency was coming along pretty slowly. so tuesday i decided that i was going to give up on finding a contract position in cali and look for a permanent position in cali since there are no travel or perm jobs in vegas. even though fallon is about a 7 hour drive north of vegas at least I'm still in nevada. i begin feb 11 and finish at the end of may. our apartment lease is up at the end of may as well. so after i finished filling out and scanning a bunch of paperwork, i needed to go and look for a place to live. i found the only realty company (century 21)'s website and called them up. i filled out and faxed over the application and will mail the $40 app fee tomorrow. i decided to rent out a 2 bed/1bath unfurnished apartment for $750. it has a refrigerator, microwave, and stove. also has central a/c and heat. other than that it's unfurnished. will prob purchase an air bed and live very minimally. i looked up that they have a starbucks, cvs, walmart, and safeway. that is the essential i guess. the facility looks really new and big. I'm nervous, excited, anxious, blessed, grateful, and looking forward to the next journey. it's a bit surreal to me because i've looked for so long to no avail. and then when i give up the search and decide to open up my horizons and options, all of a sudden this position opens up. it's like everything just perfectly fell into place. God makes our lives so interesting i tell ya. i told marissa that i prayed my heart out. i do feel like a learned a lesson and more about myself when i was unemployed. more than just about how to budget and about finances, but how i need to stay positive about life even when it doesn't go the way i want or plan. somedays i really felt like a failure in life and just hated life because of the situation i was in. i was very over this month, mainly because i told myself that i WILL have a job by the end it and be working. here i was at jan 29th without it. today made it exactly 3 months of not working full-time. and the last day of january i finally secured a job.