You would think with me being unemployed that I would have blogged more. But I haven't blogged pretty much at all except for posting this AMAZING granola recipe yesterday! Maybe I'm sounding all Molly Mormon or whatever but its amazing so join the club you may think I'm in but not... hahaha.
Anywhoo... so I bet everyone is just dying to know what we have been up to because we have super crazy random dramatic (LOL) lives!
1. As of last week I (Lindsey) am no longer unemployed. We were driving along in the Mazda (prounounced Mahz-duh!) and heard a radio ad that says " do you have call center experience" why yes I do " have you worked in the travel industry" yes " do you know how to use the sabre system" this was the system that jetblue changed over to so...yes." Apply now to be a travel agent for teleperformance! " So just for the fun of it I did! 15 minutes after filling it out they called me and pretty much hired me over the phone but I still had to do the whole interview thing and all that jazz. Bad news I won't be graduating this semester because I had to drop some classes for the hours at the job. Good news... GREAT PAY! Well for me! Its the most I will have ever made. Fabulous! The project is permanent and its for expedia.com except the business travel portion of it. Should be fun! Their biggest thing they talk about is advancement so I'm crossing me fingers and going to work hard to advance quickly! I start next Monday working evenings.
2. My unemployment claim was denied. I appealed it. Denied again. Bunch of B.S. It's so political these days it drives me up a wall. So good thing I found a job cause they are not going to pay me a dime. Thanks people who denied my claim and jetblue.
3. Ben and I are looking into joining the ROTC. At first we were both commited hard core but I'm not so sure if its what I want to commit to for 12 years. Ben for sure wants to do it so we are getting him all ready! You have to pass in 3 areas to be granted a scholarship; leadership, academic, and physical. We took a practice physical a few weeks back and we're not going to talk about that. Lets just say it gaves us some idea of where we were at and what we need to do. What the ROTC would be is the ARMY would pay for our schooling we'd have to do special leadership training at the school as well. The ARMY would give us basically monthy paychecks, housing allowance and we would lose all of this if at anytime we worked a job for more than 20 hours a week. Sound Awesome yet? Then after we graduate with our Bachelors we would also be commisioned an officer in the ARMY! WOW HUH? Starting out at about $50,000 a year. So then all we have to give them in return is 4 years (after we graduate) active duty and then 4 years reserve. Ben and I both want to do the nursing program. We really worry about deployment and being split up though. Really scary. Before we decide to jump full head on to this thing we are going to take the ROTC classes at the U during the fall and then we can start in January 2011. A lot of commitment, a lot of discipline, new lifestyle so we'll see.
4. Our 1 year anniversary is this Sunday the 27th! So AWESOME! What a year right? WOW! It's been amazing though every last second of it! We don't really have time to celebrate though so we are going to major celebrate in September with our cruise to the Bahamas! We were talking in today about maybe buying an anniversary gift. Maybe a special hammock thing (believe me it's way cool) so we can sleep on our porch, or a rifle (LOL) Random I know.
5. We are both enrolled full time at school right now. Ben is kicking butt at 16 credit hours plus a 40 hour job and I am at 12 credit hours with a 40 hour job. We have 1 class together, communications. It is so much fun having a class together and we are so hard core students.
Well I think thats it for now but who knows!
Also what a year it has been for us! We've had so many different things going on, so many adventures, so many experiences and so much more to come!
