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A personal blog that describes my day to day life with family and my general thoughts and musings.
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A little disappointing
Earlier in the week I took a transcription test and was just informed that I did not pass it. This bummed me out quite a bit. I know I haven’t been doing this type of work for very long, so not passing it shouldn’t have come as a big su...
Surprise vacation
Last week my husband’s company informed him that they owe him a week and a half this year for holidays. I’m not real sure how this is possible as he already took four weeks vacation this year, but we aren’t going to look a gift hor...
Online education
Last week I made the decision that I don’t want to be a waitress for the rest of my life. So I have been doing a little research to see what type of field that I may like to get into. After doing this research I have determined that I’m...
Promoting your business
As a small business owner myself, I pay a lot of attention to the trends and happenings in the business world. I have discover that one way to get you name known out to the public is by sending out Business Holiday Invitations Cardsto perspective cl...
Moving on
My boss is an amazingly strong woman. Just about a month ago she suddenly lost her husband. He was only 52 and it was a great shock to everyone. Only a week after she buried him, she came back to work. Yesterday was the first time I had seen her ...
Feast or famine??
For the past couple of weeks, my online work has dwindled quite a bit. But it looks like things are starting to pick up again. On Wednesday I received and e-mail from a company that I sometimes write articles for asking me if I would be interested ...
Personal thanks
I have discovered some things in life. Especially in the outside work while working at a busy family restaurant as a waitress. When you do a bad job on something, your employer is quick to jump all over you. But when you do something good, most t...
Different type of job
Last week I applied to a company for what I thought was a transcription job. Well much to my surprise I got offered the job, but it wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. As it turned out this job was not a transcription job, but was in fac...
Update on transcription career
So as you can see, I really haven’t been posting that much lately. This is because I have been working a lot outside of the home lately and also because I have been slowly building up a home transcription career. So far I have one private cli...
It’s been a while.
Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve posted in here. Well I warned you all up front that this may happen. Early last week I got my very first general transcription contract and yes, it took me six days to complete it. So, I have been spend...
Provincial budget
I really have to wonder what it taking place in the brains of our politicians. Yesterday they announced their new budget and I have to tell you all that it doesn’t look real pretty. Not for the common man anyway. They have announced a massi...
I did it myself!
Well this past week I have learned a very valuable lesson. If you want something done QUICKLY, you really should do it yourself. For over a year now I have been pestering my husband to clean out the spare room so I could move in it to use it as my h...
Writing job!
Well I think some of my patience has finally paid off. As you all know, I have been actively searching for ways to earn a little extra income off the Internet. I have discussed (in a previous post) that I have been looking about getting into transc...
Every penny helps
So you have probably noticed that I don’t post in here as much as I used to. Well, there is a reason for this. It’s because I’ve been doing other things lately. I have decided that I want to take my Internet life in a different d...
Transcription career
For a little over a month now I have been doing a lot of research on what it would take to get involved with an online transcription career. Let me tell you that I am amazed at all the work, research and practice that goes into this type of career. ...
Life as we know it could be changing
Last week my husband was informed that he may have to transfer branches. Although the new branch being built isn’t a huge distance away from where we are at now, he would be a very long commute for him every day. So we are thinking that if he...
Nice break
Yesterday my boss asked me to work for her as she needed to go in town for a meeting. Normally I don’t work during the week but because the kids were in school and she promised she would be back in time for me to get them off the bus, I agreed...
A possible transfer
Yesterday my husband was approached by his manager about possibly transferring to a different branch. Well my husband told him that he will have to think about it and that he would have to discuss it with me. The area in which they want him to tran...
Crazy day!
Yesterday was probably the WORST shift that I’ve ever worked at my job. The place was packed, the other waitress was useless, the customers were cranky and the barcode scanners broke! It was not a great day to be a waitress at my job yesterda...
It’s so good to be back
I have been back as a waitress at my job for almost a month now and I can’t tell you how good it is to be back out front. I honestly didn’t realize how much I missed my regular customers and how much they missed me. I have had so many c...
Major decision made
A couple of months ago I returned to my former place of employment. But I returned in the kitchen and not in the dining room and I have to say that the experience was not a great one. So I had decided to leave, but was willing to try to stick it ou...
I really wish I had a babysitter!
Last week we had a new store open up in our area. It is a jewelry and bead shop! Before they opened they had a sign posted on their door looking for help and when I seen that sign, I could have cried! I don’t have a reliable babysitter, so I...
Looking into franchises
In our house we have a tendency to watch a lot of small business programs. My husband was quite interested in a show that was on yesterday that was discussing all the ins and outs about getting into auto parts franchises. He was extremely intereste...
I had fun!
As you all know I just went back to my former place of employment about a month ago. When I worked there before I was employed as the assistant manager and worked most of my shifts in the dining room as a waitress. This time (because of babysitter ...
I survived!
Well I’m happy to report that I survived my first day back to work! It was really busy, but the staff that worked last night all worked with me so we had no major problems. Although not everyone on staff worked last night, I am confident that...
Back into the workforce
About a year and a half a go I had to quit my full time job and become a stay at home mom. The main reason for this was because I no longer had a reliable sitter and at the time, my employer was not able to work around my husband’s hours. Wel...
