So yesterday more details were released in relation to the murder in Mont Vernon that happened on October 4th. After learning of this information I was left disturbed and utterly disgusted that these young men could commit such a heinous crime. I do give Jaimie Cates a lot of credit for being so brave.
For furthur information to to WMUR.com
2010 New Years Resolutions
1. Excercise more
2. Write at least one story or poem a day
3. Go see shows at theatres in NH I haven't gone to yet
4. Find a job that pays decent money so I can start to pay my loans back
5. Save up enough money to take a foriegn language class at the tech college
( ihave more to add. they will be added later.)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Rolling with the punches
Today I went to Target to pick up my check. While there I met with the HR person and we talked at length about my layoff. I am less confused then I originally was and not as much pissed off about getting laid off but more so pissed off about finding another job and how long it will take me to find something else. I made some mistakes that I regret but I will only use these mistakes as stepping stones in the next place of employment whereever I end up working.
I liked working at Target and they said they will rehire me for the next holiday season. In the mean time I must step up the process in finding something else. Hopefully I will be able to find something else quicker than I did the first time. Hopefully this new leg of my job search will be full of fewer disappointments. Fewer disappointments in my opinion will only be possible if the economy turns around and who knows how long that will take.
Another recent diappointment I got was getting denied from getting services at Area Agency in Nashua. I am hoping to get this reversed because the only way I can get into the job training program at St Joesph Hospital is if I am recieving services from Area Agency. The St Joesph Hospital Training Program I believe will be a great stepping stone for me to get the training I feel I have been missing in my previous jobs in order to succeed.
I liked working at Target and they said they will rehire me for the next holiday season. In the mean time I must step up the process in finding something else. Hopefully I will be able to find something else quicker than I did the first time. Hopefully this new leg of my job search will be full of fewer disappointments. Fewer disappointments in my opinion will only be possible if the economy turns around and who knows how long that will take.
Another recent diappointment I got was getting denied from getting services at Area Agency in Nashua. I am hoping to get this reversed because the only way I can get into the job training program at St Joesph Hospital is if I am recieving services from Area Agency. The St Joesph Hospital Training Program I believe will be a great stepping stone for me to get the training I feel I have been missing in my previous jobs in order to succeed.
Update Feb 15 My denial into getting services at Gateways got reversed! I am so so so happy. This could give me more an edge and new ideas in finding places to work. I am out of ideas of places to apply at this point. :)
Over the past several months I have noticed that praying has helped me a lot to get through difficult things so I think really all I need to do is pray that everything will work out in terms of the job search and getting the job at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village this summer.
Over the past several months I have noticed that praying has helped me a lot to get through difficult things so I think really all I need to do is pray that everything will work out in terms of the job search and getting the job at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village this summer.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New YEar
First of all Rest In Peace Keith Wilson, a fellow high school classmate. He died of brain cancer early yesterday morning. I may have not been close to him but I remember seeing him in the halls and he was always nice to people. My thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.
Time to recap the holidays now!
Christmas Eve I was up at 10:00 and then went with my sister to go pick up Heather around 11:30. We spent time helping my mother bake food to bring over my uncle's house for Christmas Eve and left around 4:30. We had the typical meal of seven fishes and prime rib.. always delicious. We then passed around the prediction book and wrote our predictions down for 2010. Mone are a few entries below. Christmas Day I slept in til about 9:30 0r 9 then we opened presents and relaxed.
The goods
Money
2 itunes gift cards
The last book in Twilight series which I have already finished
Clothes
Glee soundtrack
Dreamgirls DVD
A new journal
A new calendar
Seasons 1 &2 of Full House on DVD (which I will watch in order to get inspiration for more fan fiction.)
We left around 2:30 to head down to my Aunt Joan's house in Burlington MA for dinner stopping briefly on the way at my Uncle Derek's ( dad's stepbrother) house in Tweksbury to drop off presents for his kids. I was never so full as I was after Christmas dinner. totally and completly stuffed. After dinner we played our annual Spoons Card game. I was once again eliminated in the first round. Next year I need to be quicker with my spoon retrivel. I have no trouble with getting the right amount of cards in my hands it's just a matter of reacting quickly to picking up the spoons.
This week has been boring. I have spent most of my time looking for jobs and working on the Little Shop of Horrors fan fiction I am writing. Yesterday was New Years Eve. Originally Matt Sonya and I had planned to go to Portsmouth to First Night but we heard on the news that there was going to be way too much traffic and it would be next to impossible to find any parking. Instead we went to Peacock Players to see Night of A Thousand Stars a variety show which is reviewed in my theatre blog. After the play there was a big dance party and then we rang in the new year with noise makers and sparkling cider. Quite fun!
2010! New year, yet another new clearn slate. I had the hugest issue in the past couple years moving on with stuff related to the New London Barn Playhous where I interned in the summer of 2007. IT was a mix of dealing with changes that were going on at the theatre and dealing with anxiety that I was going to be forgotten about by everyone I worked with. Clearly I am not easy to forget and though distance separates most of us the only thing that ultimately unties us is the memories from that amazing summer at NLBP! Now with that issue behind me I am a new revitalized person who is not so wrapped up in the past and can fully focus on the present and the future. Once again I am on the job search and hope to find something sooner rather than later. I have decided to bypass going back to school due to financial issues and ultimately deciding to focus on finding a job in the career I got my degree in at NEC.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Janine
Time to recap the holidays now!
Christmas Eve I was up at 10:00 and then went with my sister to go pick up Heather around 11:30. We spent time helping my mother bake food to bring over my uncle's house for Christmas Eve and left around 4:30. We had the typical meal of seven fishes and prime rib.. always delicious. We then passed around the prediction book and wrote our predictions down for 2010. Mone are a few entries below. Christmas Day I slept in til about 9:30 0r 9 then we opened presents and relaxed.
The goods
Money
2 itunes gift cards
The last book in Twilight series which I have already finished
Clothes
Glee soundtrack
Dreamgirls DVD
A new journal
A new calendar
Seasons 1 &2 of Full House on DVD (which I will watch in order to get inspiration for more fan fiction.)
We left around 2:30 to head down to my Aunt Joan's house in Burlington MA for dinner stopping briefly on the way at my Uncle Derek's ( dad's stepbrother) house in Tweksbury to drop off presents for his kids. I was never so full as I was after Christmas dinner. totally and completly stuffed. After dinner we played our annual Spoons Card game. I was once again eliminated in the first round. Next year I need to be quicker with my spoon retrivel. I have no trouble with getting the right amount of cards in my hands it's just a matter of reacting quickly to picking up the spoons.
This week has been boring. I have spent most of my time looking for jobs and working on the Little Shop of Horrors fan fiction I am writing. Yesterday was New Years Eve. Originally Matt Sonya and I had planned to go to Portsmouth to First Night but we heard on the news that there was going to be way too much traffic and it would be next to impossible to find any parking. Instead we went to Peacock Players to see Night of A Thousand Stars a variety show which is reviewed in my theatre blog. After the play there was a big dance party and then we rang in the new year with noise makers and sparkling cider. Quite fun!
2010! New year, yet another new clearn slate. I had the hugest issue in the past couple years moving on with stuff related to the New London Barn Playhous where I interned in the summer of 2007. IT was a mix of dealing with changes that were going on at the theatre and dealing with anxiety that I was going to be forgotten about by everyone I worked with. Clearly I am not easy to forget and though distance separates most of us the only thing that ultimately unties us is the memories from that amazing summer at NLBP! Now with that issue behind me I am a new revitalized person who is not so wrapped up in the past and can fully focus on the present and the future. Once again I am on the job search and hope to find something sooner rather than later. I have decided to bypass going back to school due to financial issues and ultimately deciding to focus on finding a job in the career I got my degree in at NEC.
Happy New Year Everyone!
Janine
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Worst NEWS EVER to get before Christmas
Got some news today that it absolutley sucks to get before Christmas I bet you can guess what it is from the subject heading of the entry.I had a meeting with my manager today and she basically said I am getting laid off after January 4th. One more day this week. Two days next week mostly likely one or two days the week after New Years and then I am done. When they originally hired me in September I clearly remember them telling me that they were going to keep on beyond the holiday period. Apparently the overhired can now only keep a certain amount of people after the holidays. Despite how hard I have been work they are one of the first seasonal workers that they are cutting for the payroll. I am SO pissed off. It took me so long to get this fucking job and now I'm back to the seaech process again. This absolutley sucks. So much for visiting Rae in March at this point it doesn't look like that's going to happen anymore. I am praying that it won't take me as long it did the first time around to find a job and that Matt will find a job soon soon. That way we willl both have mooney to do things we want to do together INCLUDING GOING TO VIST RAE!Gonna go now and do something to distract myself. Perhaps work on the Little Shop of Horrors fan fiction I am writing.Merry Christmas Everyone!
Predictions for 2010
1. Matt and I will save enough money to get an apartment in Portsmouth
2. Heather Matt and I will all get full time jobs
3. Go to Italy for Lucia's wedding
4. I will get a job at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village this summer
5. Kristin and Cameron will get into their top choice collleges C- Bowdoin K- Vassar
6. Go to New York in March to see A Little Night Muisc. If not then go to NY in November for the Macyy's Parade
7. All Boston sports teams (college and pro) will win the playoffs
8. Anh and Lucia will visit
9. Housing market and economy will stabalize
10. Afghanistan war will end
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Random thought before I go to work
I am honestly stil left in a lurch over the whole situation with what happened between me and Will Porter after we left the Barn Playhouse. That whole situation was a learning experience for me and taught me a lot about my own maturity. However, I often think my worry was onesided because while I forgave myself for the way I acted I am all the more curious if he ever forgave me for the juvenile way I acted toward him. I mean I'm sure he's forgotten about all that and I don't know why the ocassional thought seems to linger on me. I guess when it comes down to what I want to know even if it's sublimiarly is weather or not the way I acted toward him will affect my friendship with him in the long run. I'm sure down the line at some point we'll run into each other again and I guess I'm still sligjtly worried that things could be awkward between us. Is that a legitimate fear to have or should I just forget about it all together and see what happens?
Even two years after the fact there are still a lot of unanswered questions and it kind of drives me insane.
Even two years after the fact there are still a lot of unanswered questions and it kind of drives me insane.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The 11 days til Xmas Update
So the past couple of weeks have been really hectic and there are only 11 days left until Christnmas. Work has been keeping my busy and seemingly focussed that I seem to have forgotten I was ever stressed out at work to begin with.I sent in my writing samples and resume to Nancy Barry to apply for a publcity job at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village for the summer. If all goes well with that I will stay at Target til the end of May and then go to work for Nancy starting at the beginning of June. *crosses fingers* I have yet to hear back from her about weather or not she recieved my writing samples.What else has been going on? Let's see November 28th I went to the Christmas stroll in Nashua with Matt and Sonya. That was fun. We went out for Ice Cream and saw and improv show @ Peacock Players. The plans for the party at NEC fell through on the 5th so we instead went to the Milford Holiday Stroll which I must admit was not as fun as the Nashua Holiday Stoll. Thursday I had the day off from work so I went up to Matt's house in Kennebunk for the night. We went out to dinner and went to see New Moon. New Mooon is not really as exciting as it hyped up to be in the advertisement. I'm not saying I was bored.. I enjoyed the movie but I thought that Twilight was a lot better. Friday moring I helped decorate Matt's house and we went to get the tree.. we headed back to my house around 5 because Sonya suprised us with treating us to see Judy's Scary Little Chrstmas in Nashua. The play was hillarious. I have never laughed so hard ever. For a review please go to my theatre review on Blogspot. Saturday night my mom had her friends over for dinner and it was great to see them again. Yesterday I went to Boston for my annual family Christmas party which was fun! It's always great to see my extended family on my mom's side. Busy work week ahead! It will fly by I am sure and then next Friday is Christmas! Honestly I don't know where half the year has gone.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Christmas is coming Christmas is coming
It is finally my favorite time of year.. the time for carols and eggnog (which I never drink) and hot cider and cookies and laughter and joy and LOVE.... CHRISTMAS!
Since my last update I have been mostly consumed by work between Target and writing not one but TWO Milford Cabinet articles.. money in the bank! I was very happy that I got all my shopping done before Black Friday though as I started to do my wrapping this morning I noticed that one of the clothing items I brought had a run in it and I need to return it BUT I lost the receipt somehow so I hope the store will still be able to take it back.
Thanksgiving was deloverly! We had a bit of an issue with getting out of the house on time but were still able to catch the final 20 minutes of cousin Cameron's last football game of his high school career. Unfourtnately they were defeated 20-6. We then went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner stopping at my grandfather's house for appetizers right after the game which is five minutes down the road from my aunt's house. Biggest crowd ever this year at my aunt's house 30 people! Pretty crazy definitley a lot of fun. :) I worked at Target on Black Friday.. not so much fun! I was so stressed out the whole day for various reasons and I was happy to have a much less stressful shift respetively on Sunday and Tuesday. Saturday night I went to the Christmas Stroll in Nashua with Matt and we met up with Sonya. We went out for Ice Cream and then went to Peacock Players to see an improv show which was hillarious.
Next weekend is the busiest weekend ever Matt and I are planning on going two plays (though that might end up getting cut down to one because of budget) and next Sunday is my family Christmas party in Wakefield Mass I am so excited. :)
One thing which is currently causing my considerable stress is what else but money? Matt and I are hoping to go visit my friend Rae in New Jersey during her spring break at the beginning of March and take her to a Broadway show as part as a belated 21st birthday present (her birthday was Sept 24th) but money may be an obstacle. I don't know at this time what the total will come to but at least we won't have to pay for a hotel because Rae and her parents invited us to stay with them. I am so excited about staying at Rae's house! :) We're considering driving down to NJ which will also save us some money but I think it would be easier if we either took the train or the Peter Pan bus. I have gotten pretty good deals for the Peter Pan bus for the last two trips for New York I have gone on. Then there is whole issue with paying for the play tickets and going out to eat after the show. The theatre district has some pretty expensive resturants in in from previous research I have done trying to plan reunions with my Barn Playhouse friends who live in the city. Play tickets can be pretty expensive too but I am hoping we can get some kind of discount on the tickets. My parents think I am being unrealistic by wanting to go but I disagree. I understand fully that I have to consider paying back my loans from NEC which I am not exactly looking forward to doing but it has to be done. I think I can find enough of a balance between the money I need to use to pay my loans back and the money I plan on using for the trip which really won't amount to much in the end if we end of driving down and since we are staying @ Rae's house. Hopefully everything will end up working out because I haven't seen Rae in such a long time and I am looking so forward to seeing her again. :)
Since my last update I have been mostly consumed by work between Target and writing not one but TWO Milford Cabinet articles.. money in the bank! I was very happy that I got all my shopping done before Black Friday though as I started to do my wrapping this morning I noticed that one of the clothing items I brought had a run in it and I need to return it BUT I lost the receipt somehow so I hope the store will still be able to take it back.
Thanksgiving was deloverly! We had a bit of an issue with getting out of the house on time but were still able to catch the final 20 minutes of cousin Cameron's last football game of his high school career. Unfourtnately they were defeated 20-6. We then went to my aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner stopping at my grandfather's house for appetizers right after the game which is five minutes down the road from my aunt's house. Biggest crowd ever this year at my aunt's house 30 people! Pretty crazy definitley a lot of fun. :) I worked at Target on Black Friday.. not so much fun! I was so stressed out the whole day for various reasons and I was happy to have a much less stressful shift respetively on Sunday and Tuesday. Saturday night I went to the Christmas Stroll in Nashua with Matt and we met up with Sonya. We went out for Ice Cream and then went to Peacock Players to see an improv show which was hillarious.
Next weekend is the busiest weekend ever Matt and I are planning on going two plays (though that might end up getting cut down to one because of budget) and next Sunday is my family Christmas party in Wakefield Mass I am so excited. :)
One thing which is currently causing my considerable stress is what else but money? Matt and I are hoping to go visit my friend Rae in New Jersey during her spring break at the beginning of March and take her to a Broadway show as part as a belated 21st birthday present (her birthday was Sept 24th) but money may be an obstacle. I don't know at this time what the total will come to but at least we won't have to pay for a hotel because Rae and her parents invited us to stay with them. I am so excited about staying at Rae's house! :) We're considering driving down to NJ which will also save us some money but I think it would be easier if we either took the train or the Peter Pan bus. I have gotten pretty good deals for the Peter Pan bus for the last two trips for New York I have gone on. Then there is whole issue with paying for the play tickets and going out to eat after the show. The theatre district has some pretty expensive resturants in in from previous research I have done trying to plan reunions with my Barn Playhouse friends who live in the city. Play tickets can be pretty expensive too but I am hoping we can get some kind of discount on the tickets. My parents think I am being unrealistic by wanting to go but I disagree. I understand fully that I have to consider paying back my loans from NEC which I am not exactly looking forward to doing but it has to be done. I think I can find enough of a balance between the money I need to use to pay my loans back and the money I plan on using for the trip which really won't amount to much in the end if we end of driving down and since we are staying @ Rae's house. Hopefully everything will end up working out because I haven't seen Rae in such a long time and I am looking so forward to seeing her again. :)
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