At least I'll have a friend in the unemployment world

Today, many positions were eliminated from Cedarville University. Mine was one of them. Several lay offs are happening because of bad economy...you know. Anyway, so I was officially layed off today. So I'll be unemployed buddies with Brigette and Trevor.

SO EXCITED

Ok, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I will confirm today, but I am 95% sure that I am leaving my current massage location working on 65% commission to rent my own space from another therapist. No more answering to that horrible woman. NO MORE. I will run my own business. Basically all I have to do is pay my rent every month. No more sitting for hours for nothing. No more letting her control my schedule. NO MORE FREE MASSAGES. I meet with her today. Then I work tonight and need to confirm with my weekly regular clients that they will follow me to a new location. Once that's confirmed, I am DONE DONE DONE with the jerkface from Bellbrook.

One last horrible story.
Yesterday my weekly regular was going on 30 minutes late for an appointment. This wasn't normal...so I was getting concerned. After 30 minutes past their scheduled appoint, their spouse called to tell me that her mother had a stroke and that she wouldn't be able to come in. She did reschedule for today. (Didn't expect her to still want an appointment this week, but I'll take it). I get off the phone, and tell the jerkface owner what happened. Obviously I said it with a concerned tone. Told her they rescheduled. Jerface says "at least she's making it up to you"....um EXCUSE ME?!? she doesn't need to make anything up. Yes, if she forgot or was late. But NO, she had a family emergency. I totally understood and I didn't expect or feel that she owed me ANYTHING. How little compassion can you possibly have. So would she have been mad if the woman didn't reschedule. probably. OH SO DONE WITH the JERK!

In other news. Still losing weight. My mom said yesterday "you're but looks smaller"...I was encouraged. It was starting to look like a truck.

Oy! what to do

Ok so, most of you know I work as an independent contractor at a massage therapy business. The thing is the business owner is a total jerkface. She requires us to be there certain hours, even when we have no appointments on the schedule. Mind you, independent contractors only get paid when work is done. So essentially, we get paid nothing on the days when we sit there and there is no business. This is not legal. But causing a stink about it will end in her terminating my contract because she's just like that. She treats us like employees because she can get what she wants that way. She calls us independent contractors so she doesn't have to pay certain taxes. She's trying to have her cake and eat it too...with extra frosting.
She's starting to take percentages of our tips if they are more than 20%
She has been over charging us for sheets, so she makes a profit.
She has made us do free massages for promotions she signs us up for without our consent.

Oy! How does one start at putting a stop to this. I need an attorney... but that will cost me. I make good money there, the owner is just illegal, immoral, and just plain horrible.

Somersize-up

Today starts my diet. However diets usually mean you have to watch your portions. But good ol' suzie somers lets you eat as much as you want. yup, as much as you want. You just can't combine certain foods. Brigette has posted about the Somersize diet as well. My mom has also done really well with it. Other diets work for other people, and that's great! You GO! but this one is def the one for me.
I am just wanting to finally get back down to where my pants aren't tight.
Also today starts the "FITchallenge" for CU fac/staff and their families. So I will work out 3 days a week for 30 minutes for 12 weeks and then I get a prize.

Tonight's dinner Roasted veggie and chicken mozzarella sandwiches. Later followed by 20 min of cardio and 20 minutes of strength training.

I'm hoping to lose 10 lbs. I didn't gain any over the holidays. I maintained my weight all through them. I was shocked too. Must have been the occasional 20 minute eliptical runs?

Crafty...

So, I've always liked sewing...
When I was little and taking swimming lessons I made a "pool bag" it was hand sewn and all the seems were busting open because my towel barely fit in it. That sewing project didn't make it to the next swim lessons.
In HS, I made a pair of pants for myself and a friend for a dance. Mine were red and sparkly, hers were hot pink with silver stars. I wore the pants again in college to elliv.
In College I made a shirt for someone to wear to elliv. It was funky and paisley.
Since then I've made numerous other things
I made a couple purses, one for me and one for sis and I made a little cosmetic bag for my mom.
I also made a T-shirt quilt, and then I made another one for my sis.
Now I'm into the microwave rice packs because they are good to use in my massage therapy sessions. I've made a couple simple ones, but today I made this one (only a little bigger) from the Sew, Mama, Sew website I have under "blogs I follow." Also, instead of velcro I made a little pouch closure on the back kinda like a pillow case.
I plan on making several projects from this site because its so much fun!

Here it is

Its all over

...the holidays are over, the tree is down, etc. Christmas is back in the box.

As a lot of you know, we did not go to Wisconsin and Minnesota. There was a huge blizzard the 2 days we were going to be traveling. Like we're talking wintery ice mix in Illinois and southern WI, WI -10 inches of snow, 68mph winds. Yeah GIANT blizzard ....probably would have gotten half way, stopped in our hotel and been stuck there for 4 days, possibly with no power (there were some without power in certain areas). So basically not a good way to spend the first Christmas with my dear John. So we stayed here.
Had Christmas Lunch with the Bonsteels
Dinner and presents at the Millimans
New Years Eve, Millimans, Hunters, 2 Smalls, had yummy appetizer and wii party.
Next day arm felt like it had fallen off and been welded back on, so SORE and STIFF. But wii rocks my face off, ...think of the calories I burned, and it was FUN.

Next to look forward to...the big 26 on Friday! Blah, I'm so old.