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Ha! Now THAT’s a MOM! LOL. Speaking of which, I called mine last night. I wanted to tell her about my day yesterday. And of course she kept me chatting for a good 40 minutes… gotta love my moms. But she was VERY proud and happy to hear that I was doing ok … and even doing great. “Just goes to show that you can do it” she said and I think what she was trying to tell me was that I didn’t have to have the fear that I couldn’t cut it here, that I just needed to find something I enjoyed and do it.

So, I had TONS of fun yesterday and it hit me while I was talking to her WHAT it is that makes it  fun … and it’s because I am learning something new. And that’s the key to getting a job that I will enjoy … if I can work at a job where there’s always something new to learn, I will be SO much better off. I get really bored when it’s the same thing day after day. Which makes me realize that MAYbe a Barnes & Noble job might not quite cut it … I mean, who knows, maybe just being able to work among the books would be fascinating enough for me, and I’ll probably never know unless I try it … but somehow I have the feeling that I need to be doing something where I can be sampling new stuff, and attempting to learn it for whatever reason – make it better, describe it to people (technical writing?), use it for a time (this tax return stuff) …. food for thought.

I tried to stay awake to talk to Jenny … (sorry sis – I literally passed out over the kindle). Like I was telling Mom, it’s not that I FELT bone tired, but that I knew I ought to be bone tired. I did FEEL tired, just not THAT tired. My body and psyche hasn’t been used to 9 hour days for over a year. I knew I had to head to bed and forget about trying to stay up. I gotta take care of the bod lest it fail me again. Can’t have that at ALL. No siree!

*snicker* Hubby came to bed a little after I passed out and was searching around in the bed beside me. “Whatchu lookin’ for?” I slurred, half asleep. “Your kindle, you silly goose.” he goes. Somehow, passed out or no, I managed to remember to plug in the kindle for the night and put it to sleep. Weird.

Speaking of hubby, he called me and invited me out to Applebee’s for dinner – we’d been putting it off for a while (a Christmas gift from his parents), and he thought that last night was as good a night as any to celebrate. Well, the house smelt pretty nice when I made a pit stop before dinner, but AFTER dinner … Oh My Goodness! House smells SO good!!! He went out and got candles for our candle warmers and lemme tell ya – it smells GOOD in here. Mmmm…. he IS a wonderful man. I had to do absolutely NOTHING when I got home last night,’cept bathe and fall into bed. Everything was taken care of.  *swoons* I got lucky – BIGtime!

So anyway, the day yesterday went like this:

I got in, he put me to sit at a desk, we brought up my profile, he looked at my progress and was impressed. “You passed that last one”, he said. “Oh yea,”, I said “I made another attempt and got it right”.  Well, in order to actually process returns, I had to pass another series of tests – these mandatory. So I got to studying. Spent the entire morning studying. Lunch  came and went, and I didn’t even realize it. He came back from checking in with the other locations about 2 and plunked a sub on my desk and said “lunch for you”. I was so entranced with what I was doing, that I had skipped lunch.

Finally attempted the test about then, since he was right there, and passed them all with flying colors. He was there sitting with me, of course, but he didn’t really HAVE to be, we discovered. I kinda knew the stuff.  But he did help clarify a lot of stuff and I feel even more confident now.

I took a stab at the software they use and found it FAIRLY intuitive. Had a go at a practice return and found myself a little lost in not a few places, but the software steered me in the right direction anyway … and when I found myself at the end of it, I had almost an entire ream of printouts ….which we will go through today when I go in.

By then, it was like after 6pm .. and I was stunned. How on EARTH did  I make it to 6pm without even noticing? Is this how the days will go from now on? I certainly hope so. That’ll make it a lot easier.

I promised to go back in today so he could go over some other stuff with me – maybe even do a mock-up client interview and do the return that way. Ha! Frankly, I think that will be the hardest part for me, dealing with clients. So that will be good for me.

At the end of the day, if I find a more permanent position elsewhere, they won’t hold it against me to leave.  He schedules on a weekly basis, so I promised him I’d at least finish out the week. Which is only fair. And he seemed to like that too. In fact, I think he liked a LOT of things about me up to now. I hope I don’t end up disappointing him. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but I like to leave a lot of happy people in my wake … not corpses or angry people. Know what I mean?

It’s Saturday .. and I am preparing to get ready and go out to work for 8 hours … hmm… I MUST be sick. But there it is, folks. Happily employed. Ever thought you’d hear me say that? 

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