Wow! I just remembered why I like Minnesota! this weather is georgeous!

Hey All-
I did deliver my letter of interest, transcripts and resume to the college. I almost didn't bother, cuz it looks like it is less money than I'm getting now, but I'm hoping I'm mistaken and there is something I don't know. I don't think I'll take on more responsibility for less pay. It would be nice to work close to home but... we will see what happens. I'll let you know. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Tammy. One thing about teaching elementary...I know I'm smarter than the kids I teach. College is a little scary, but I think it would be a cool change...
Well, I got 2/3 of my taxes paid, so I feel pretty good about that. Hopefully, I can cover the rest next paycheck and get that behind me. I got in the routine of claiming too many dependents and enjoying the extra income. Of course that has repercussions. Which I am feeling now:(
Tammy, sorry you didn't get the job, but the way I look at it, it happened for a reason cuz there's a better opportunity coming up for you that you would have missed had you settled for that one.
Something good is going to come Lu's way too. Just hang in there.
Lu...I got a suggestion from Krista to add you as a friend on facebook. If you haven't checked lately, open it and add me so we can chat on there too. Also, Mary Berg got ahold of me on there and explained who she was since her last name is Kelm. I kept trying to figure out if I knew a Mary Kelm.... Anyway for those of you not on Facebook yet, you may be missing out. Krista, Cody, Shayla, Mac, me and Lu have accounts now. A great way to keep in touch.... So is this though.
Gotta run. Hope all is well with everyone. Any updates on Robin, by the way? Mary Berg works at the same place. Maybe she knows her?
Love you all! -Kiash

no job transfer for me

Hello all, I just figured I would let ya all know I didn't get the HUC position. But, I pretty much knew that for awhile already. I just felt it in my gut, ya know? Oh well, I'm not mad or disappointed or anything. I honestly didn't know if I even really wanted it. It would have been nice to get some experience but I really don't know if I want to hang around there. In fact, the last couple days, I was secretly hoping I didn't get it cause it would prevent me from looking elsewhere. That probably doesn't make sense to you but that's ok. I will continue to work there while I continue to look elsewhere. There was an ad for Office Support Specialist for family services in Mille Lacs County. I applied for that, we'll see what happens. I have to lighten up on myself a little. This was the first job I applied for since finishing school. How boring would that be to get the first job I tried for? Anyway, I keep telling myself, there are many people without a job so I should be content with the one I have until something else comes around. Kathy, did you apply for that teaching job at the college? That would be right up your alley I think. You would be great at it. Good luck with that. Keep us posted on how that's going. I got an e-mail the other day informing me of a coding job. I thought, cool, they are looking for me. How awsome is that? It turned out they were looking for lead coder. Someone with two years experience. I of course replied to the e-mail, thanking her for concidering me, stating that I was entry level, and if she had anything to keep me in mind. I just can't get over that. I told Lacey about that today when she told me they went with someone else, and she said I should apply to those anyway. Maybe, they wouldn't get anyone with experience and it would be good practice for interviewing. I'm not mad at her for not hiring me, as I said, it was pretty much a no brainer, once I knew they put the ad out there. We had a nice chat. Oh well, I will continue to apply and hopefully get an interview or two and find something. It's a good thing I like my job. Too bad I'm getting too old for it. Well, I should probably go to bed. Yap at ya all later. Jennifer, where are ya?

HAPPY EASTER!

HEY ALL YOU YAPPERS. HOPEFULLY EVERYONE HAD A NICE EASTER. I BABYSAT SOPHIA ON SAT AND VISITED: KATHY, HER KIDS, & MOM,ON FRIDAY, PAM FRI NITE AND SUN MORNING, MIKE AND CONNIE AND THE BOYS (AND KRISTA AND MADDIE) SUN NITE.

HEY TAMMY, I GOT A LETTER FROM MARC AT WORK(THE SANDERSON PART OF WILKIE SANDERSON). IT HAS PHRASES LIKE "WE ARE SADDENED TO WRITE", AND "THESE ECONOMIC TIMES ARE A STRAIN". IT ENDS WITH A "SUGGESTION TO PERSUE OTHER PERM. CAREER OPPOTUNITIES" AND THEY "WILL SUPPLY A LETTER OF RECOMENDATION UPON REQUEST". SO, YES I DO KNOW ABOUT THE NOT CARING AT WORK-EVEN WHEN THEY PRETEND TO. I ALSO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU SAY PART OF YOU HOPES TO GET THE POS. JUST SO YOU CAN TURN IT DOWN. I WISH THE SAME THING, JUST NOT QUITE AS POLITELY AS YOU'D PROBABLY BE. SO I GUESS NOW I'LL PERSUE OTHER PERMANANT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. I'M CHECKING OUT CRAIG'S LIST AND EVERY WHERE ELSE I CAN THINK OF.

IS LOGAN GETTING ANXIOUS ABOUT LEAVING? MAYBE WE'RE DOING THAT FOR HIM. I STILL HAVE A ROLL OF THE TABLE COVERING FROM MOM'S PARTY IF YOU WANT IT. IT'S BALLOONS, NOT FLAGS BUT LET ME KNOW. I'M GOING TO ST CLOUD (AND HAVE LOTS OF TIME ON MY HANDS AT THE MOMENT) I CAN CHECK TO SEE IF THERE'S A ROLL OF SOMETHING RED WHITE AND BLUE. WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO FOR DECO.? DO WE GET ALL THE BUILDINGS TOO? KEEP ME POSTED AS TO WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP.

WELL I'M GONNA SIGN OFF FOR NOW. CATCH Y'ALL LATER.-- OH YA, RON AND SKIP BOTH SAY HI AND SEND THEIR LOVE. SEE YA SOON, LUKE

little to no hope

Well, I had my interview for the HUC position today. I think the interview went ok. I gave my spiel on how I don't have experience, but hoping they would take my work ethics and dependability into consideration when it comes time to fill the position. I hope you give me a chance. If after a couple months, you feel I am not living up to the expectations of this position, put me back on the floor. I was thanked for my honesty and then taken upstairs to do a test. The test of course was a hodge podge of the HUC responsibilities. Are you kidding me!! I have no idea how to do that stuff and I told them that 10 minutes ago in the interview. I couldn't believe it. There were two diagnoses, which I coded, but the rest was a total bomb! Thank you very much!!!Then, to top it all off, the rehab nurse has been encouraging me since I filled out the application, to hang in there, I still was in the running. I made the first cut. There were like 30 aps and they weeded them out and gave 10 interviews. Well, well, well! Guess who steps in to take the test when I finished up? That's right. The nurse! She has been helping the HUC(we have two) getting caught up the other day, I asked if she was getting trained in to get her 40 hours in cause her hours were cut. She said "Oh, I already know how to do all this stuff". Can you believe this shit? Sorry, but really!!As you can tell, I've had a tough day. When I went on the floor, I told Jessica( the current HUC), and she said "yeah, but she don't have coding, I wouldn't worry about that". Well, coding consists of looking up a diagnosis in a book and writing the 5 digit code. She's an LPN for Christ sake, I think she can figure it out. Unreal, I better get off here. Just thought I would let ya all in on my job status. So, Lu, do you see what I'm talking about when I said they don't care around there and I don't even know if I want the job anymore, even if they offered it to me? On a lighter note, the MDS nurse(she does the billing and coding now and wants to get out of the coding part) asked me how I did on the test and I told her I botched it up pretty bad and she asked me about it. I told her what I had done, and she said I did it right. So, maybe I didn't do as bad as I thought. But the rehab nurse has got me puzzled. Don't ya think she would take quite a pay cut to drop to this position? When I seen her taking the test, I said "you're applying for this?" She said, " I probably won't get it, I just figured I would apply. Try something different for a while". Something different? She knows how to do this, so what's different? Unless, she plans on doing both. I just can't believe this day. They told me they plan to wrap this up early next week and make a decision by the end of next week. It's been two weeks already since I applied, what's another 10 days of this waiting for a simple yes or no. I'm done ranting and raving now, at least on here. Thanks for listening, as if you had a choice huh? Good night. I'm guessing it will be another sleepless night for me. I know I shouldn't get so worked up over this, but I can't help but feel like I'm being played for a fool. But, I'm the one who decided to play. I'm beginning to wonder if the experience is really worth all this??? Maybe I'm getting all worked up over nothing. Maybe I'm imaging all the game playing. Let's all hope my work history stands for
A W H O L E L O T ! ! !
Yap at ya all later.

Hi Y'all. Nice to see the Weigel Bloggers back at it. Well, my Speech season is now over. It was a nice second job while it lasted. I hope I get on the docket next year to judge a couple times a week.
I looked online today and found that Central Lakes College (Brainerd) is hiring 3 English Professors for next year. I don't know for sure if I even fit the qualifications, but I am going to give it my best shot. Would that be cool or what? So, I am going to get my paperwork gathered, resume and letter of interest written this weekend. Ya never know.....
Keepin it short this time.....Hope all is well with all of you! Love you all...Kiash

Hello all. First off the pow-wow grounds wants $125for the day. I can't remember what I paid for Jessi's party, but that seems a little high. But, it seemed to work last time, so we'll probably have it there. As far as water goes, it's quite often under water in the spring. We have about 8 weeks or so for it to dry up. I am planning on June 13th so we should be in good shape. I'll probably start buying stuff so I don't have that huge expence later. But otherwise, I haven't really given it much thought. As far as the job goes, I am set to have an interview on Wed. I got called into Lacey's office, the director of nursing, and I was a little nervous, cuz I must admit, my attitude hasn't been real great since I wasn't automatically offered the position. Anyway, she wanted to set up an interview. I asked her why they put the ad in the paper, and she said legally she had to. Well, that's bull, cuz the one who was fired got the job automatically after she was told she couldn't work the floor anymore due to back problems. It wasn't even posted in house say nothing about being in the paper. So, I'm still a little pissy but at least I'm getting a shot. We'll see what happens I guess. To be quite honest, part of me doesn't even want it anymore, but it will be experience so I do hope I get it. But if not, I do have a job. It sucks though, cuz looking at job postings, most want experience, if my current employer wont give me a shot, who will? I guess they got about 30 aps and still coming in. Pretty sure someone has the experience their looking for. The in house posting said deadline was a week ago. I wonder what happened to that. There's that bad attitude again. Let's hope for the best. Nothing else new around here so I'll yap at ya all later.

SPRING IS COMING!!!

HI EVERYONE. LU HERE. I'M SIGNED UP NOW WITH A TEMP AGENCY BUT THERE'S NOT MUCH OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. THE ONE FIELD THAT IS HIRING IS OPTICAL AND BELEIVE IT NOT THEY ARE PAYING PRETTY MUCH THE SAME WAGE AS WHEN I LEFT OVER 10 YEARS AGO. I BASICALLY DIDN'T GET A RAISE THE WHOLE 2 YEARS I WAS THERE; OTHER THAN THE 25 CENTS I GOT GOING FROM TEMP TO HIRE. I THINK I MAKE MORE ON UNEMPLOYMENT (WHICH IS ABOUT 1/2 MY WAGES). ACTUALLY, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THAT YET EITHER. IT'S COMING THO, AND IT'S ONLY BEEN A MONTH. DOES ANYBODY THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO SIGN UP W/ OTHER TEMP AGENCIES TOO? THERE ARE A BUNCH OF THEM IN ST CLOUD. I TOLD THE GAL AT PRO-STAFF THAT I WOULD TAKE 8 BUCKS AN HOUR IF THERE WAS OVERTIME. THAT'S NOT HAPPENING.
SO KATIE, HANG IN THERE. YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY.

TODAY I AM GOING WITH KATHY TO A SPEECH MEET. I'VE NEVER BEEN TO ONE. SHOULD BE INTERESTING.

MOM HAD A FEW WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN LATELY. TUESDAY NITE SHE GOT UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AND WHEN SHE LAID BACK DOWN SHE WAS DIZZY. SHE SAID IT LASTED FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES. WHEN SHE OPENED HER EYES SHE GOT ROOM SPINS. WEDS. MORNING SHE CALLED THE HEATH HOTLINE NURSE AND SHE WANTED HER TO GO IN BUT THEN SHE CALLED HER OWN CLINIC THEY WERE LESS CONCERNED, BEING IT WAS AN ISOLATED EVENT. NO DIZZINESS SINCE. TODAY HER RIGHT LEG HURTS. I MASSAGED IT ABOVE THE KNEE AND THE MUSCLE SEEMED A LOT LOOSER BUT THE PAIN IN HER ANKLE AND ON TOP OF HER FOOT, STILL PERSISTS. WE TRIED MASSAGE AND A HEATING PAD. SHE FELT GOOD ENOUGH TO GO BOWLING, ESP. SINCE TODAY IS THE LAST DAY AND A PARTY. I TOLD HER, HER BODY IS TALKING TO HER AND SHE SHOULD REALLY START LISTENING PRETTY SOON. THIS LEG PAIN WAS A NEW TYPE OF PAIN. WHILE LYING ON HER BACK IN BED,THE MUSCLE ABOVE THE KNEE WAS VERY TIGHT AND HARD. LIKE THE KNOTS WE GET IN OUR SHOULDERS AND BACK. NOT THE CRAMPS THAT SHE FREQUENTLY GETS. SHE EATS 1/2 A BANANA IN THE MORNING AND SAYS THIS SEEMS TO HELP WITH GETTING THEM LESS OFTEN.

TAMMY HOW ARE PLANS COMING FOR LOGAN'S PARTY? IS THERE ANYTHING TO DO YET? I HAVEN'T BEEN OVER THAT WAY LATELY BUT MOM SAID THE POW WOW GROUNDS WERE UNDER WATER. HERE IN TOWN THE FOLKS THAT LIVE DOWN BY THE RIVER WERE ON EVAC ALERT.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE RIVERS (THE RED, THE MISS. AND THE SAUK) ARE STARTING TO GO BACK DOWN.

TAMMY HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING NEW ON THE JOB?

I HAD COUPONS FOR A FREE HAIR AND A FREE TANNING SESSION. I USED THEM YESTERDAY. MY HAIR IS SHORT AND MY FACE IS PINK! I USUALLY USE THE LITTLE TOWEL THEY GIVE ME TO COVER UP MY FACE-I DID'NT DO THAT YESTERDAY,OOPS.

I NEED TO GET ONLINE AND MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS SO I'LL YAP AT Y'ALL LATER.

SEE YA TUES AT BINGO TAM AND JESS LOVE YA