Applying for Job Manana

So, the county is hiring seven clerks. No experience is required, so I'm going to apply manana. I have a few months of experience in office and type way above the required speed. That makes me hopeful. This job would be perfect for us. It would allow us to get an apartment. I would be able to get some dresses, skirts, and headcoverings. I would also be able to get the oh so important right now thermal underwear. We would have enough money for Dave to take some classes this semester. The few of you who read this, please pray that I get this job. Thank you guys. It's almost the day of the birth of Jesus.


Oh yes, Ginger already knows this, but Dave and I are going to go to a Conservative Mennonite church sometime. It's only an hour and a half away. I'm so excited. I've always wanted to go to one. We'll see how Dave does with it. I'm not sure how he's going to do because it's quite different from a Catholic Mass.

Skirts In Winter

So I took the plunge and for the last few days have been wearing skirts. I am currently wearing jeans under them, though, because I don't have the money to buy something else for the time being. It is quite warm this way. Just the extra layer of the skirt helps a ton. I'm going to keep wearing them this way until I cam get some money to get some other things to go under them.

Us

I thought I'd share a recent picture of Dave and me. It was taken in October when we went back to California for his immigration interview. My mom has a friend who is a professional photographer, and she took pictures of my mom, my middle sister, Dave, and me. My oldest sister and niece were supposed to be there, but somehow my niece has a black eye and huge scratch under her other eye.

Can't Sleep

It is now almost 2 AM, and I can not sleep. Sure, I'm usually still awake right now. However, I have to work from 6 AM-2:30 this morning. This is not going to be fun. I have to take dh to work at 3:30AM. At least he only has to work five hours, though. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I despise how my body works sometimes.

CitiBank

Please, never ever use CitiBank. We have had it for under six months and have had nothing but problems with them. We often have missing money. Then when we check the statements it doesn't add up. No one is using the account, so that isn't an issue. Yesterday Dave called and asked how much we had in our account. They said we had 130. Then today he called and they said we were overdrawn 55. Hello. We didn't use that much money in one day. All we bought was McDonalds, and we didn't have any previous charges that hadn't already cleared. This has happened numerous times before. Now we aren't going to be able to make this week's rent because we have to pay the stupid overdraft fee and everything else. Plus, we needed the money that was already in there. The only thing I can think it was would be his loan payment getting withdrawn. However, they told him that wasn't going to be taken out until the 29th. So, this is a word of warning. CitiBank is a bad bank that will steal your money. Yes, we are switching banks. All we have to do is send in the money to the new bank. This one is supposed to be a better bank. Plus, it isn't a national bank. Those ones are supposed to be better. Yes, I am sure this bank won't go under. It just bought another bank, so I'm pretty sure this one is fine.

Nifty Patterns

Ok, I got this from you Ginger. I love these patterns, and they really make me yearn for my sewing machine. I will get it shipped as soon as I can. However, she makes ePatterns now. My favorite part of that is that if you lose it you can just print another. Once I get some extra money I foresee ordering many of them. I plan to make at least one dress for my niece eventually. Here is the pattern site. http://www.sensibility.com/pattern/main/?page_id=50 . Sorry, I don't know how to turn the link into a work like you others do. I really like all of them, but since I'm new to it I'm going to get the Edwardian Apron. It'll help improve my skills until I can tackle the bigger projects.

Hello

So, New York didn't happen. We decided we weren't ready to move that far yet. So, we moved to the Chicago area instead. It's really nice here. Lots of trees and fewer people. I need to figure out the whole winter with skirts thing. We don't have much money at all for me to get new clothes. I guess we'll have to see if the thrift store has any good thicker skirts on sale. I went to WalMart to look for long underwear and couldn't find any. This socal girl is completely clueless.