I'll be starting my new position on Wednesday. Yep, I accepted. I went in for my interview. The information she gave me was outdated (the position was in the process of being updated), she had no clue what my pay would be. Heck she didn't really know too much except what she wanted to see happen with a third quality specialist. She had high expectations and I was thinking that I would need a big pay increase to do the things she was asking for. As she was telling me these things, I was wondering what the heck she was going to do in HER job cause a lot of things she was saying were going to be quality specialist's responsibilities were hers before. So, I had a second talk with her this past Friday. I was given my evaluation at the same time. It was a good evaluation - 4% raise - and I was offered the quality specialist position. Now get this - the new wage was only 20 cents more than I was going to make with my 4% raise (this equals to almost 80 cents more an hour than I presently make). But then she told me the other news that makes this position all the better - where I will be making many dollars more than I do now - a bonus so to speak. I'm happy about that - makes all those added responsibility more tolerable.

We went away this weekend, just an overnight. The oldest had won these tickets to Six Flags and she booked a night at a hotel in the area so we all went down. Been a while since all four of us went away like that. It was fun. We stopped at Ikea outside of Baltimore. It was the first time I have ever been to the store and wow what a store. I'm ready to remodel the kitchen! But with just getting 15 windows and a new steel roof, I don't believe it will be happening this year. However, I am going to start with one of the closets in the kitchen. For some reason when we bought this 1889 home there were two closets in the kitchen - they were the ONLY closets in the home. They had double sliding wood doors. The smaller closet had wood shelves on the one side and place for brooms on the other side. The larger closet, we built shelves in it on the one side and the other side is used for our jackets. It'll be fun redoing it - of course I say that now "it'll be fun," we'll see down the line...

So, two more days of typing - hard to believe. The biggest change this job has is not only the typing but also that I will have to go into the hospital to work. This job will eventually be a home-based position but probably not for a couple more months. Oh boy!