What do I do now??

I'm going to warn you now...this post may not have a happy tone, mostly because I am not in a happy mood. You will understand by the end.

A little background: I started my job in Ogden in July 2007, got my Level 5 in 2008, I transferred to Cache Valley in May 2009, and then moved to my current branch in June 2010. Ok I think that's good enough background. In short, I've been at my job for 5 years and my last "promotion" was in 2008.

I've applied for promotions in the past (since my Level 5 in 08), each time going in with more experience than the time before. Well about a week ago another Lead Teller position opened up. Of course I applied right away. I had high hopes for this one...I have more Lending experience than I ever had before, I have plenty of interviewing experience, and I certainly know my job. I felt I had done everything I could to be ready for this and be the best choice. So I was confident that I would get this one. Did I mention that this would be the 6th Lead position I've applied for? Yeah you read right...that is a 6. Six applications...and now...six rejections.

That's right, I didn't get this one either. So now I'm faced with a decision...do I stick around and wait for #7 to open up (if it even does) or do I move on with my life and look for something else?

Input would be nice. :)

To put it lightly I kinda feel like the fat kid getting picked last in Gym Class.

I'm frustrated...wouldn't you be?!

So I've decided...

A few things. #1 I should be a better blogger, even if it's about nothing in particular. #2 Me and school are not friends.

Let's start with #1 I thought I'd share some random things about myself that most of you probably don't know. Here goes:

• I hate fried eggs with runny yolks.
• My favorite color is red and really anything bright.
• I have terrible vision, like REALLY bad, but I hate wearing my glasses. Contacts all the way my friend.
• I'm a nerd. I play video games (mostly Mario), I watch Star Trek Voyager (and like it), and I've seen the original Star Wars trilogy several times. Most of these are accentuated by the fact that I married a HUGE nerd. It's fine, I love him!
• I don't like to study but still expect to get good grades.
• I'm stubborn
• I'm easily annoyed.
• I hate doing all the things that are expected of a perfect wife, cooking, cleaning, laundry, doing dishes, etc. BUT I still do them anyway cuz I have to (and a lot of coercing by Tyler) and I want to be a good wife.
• It drives me a little crazy when Tyler leaves his dirty socks in the living room even though I do the same thing sometimes... :)
• I love having a clean house...but I don't want to be the one to clean it.
• We don't make our bed unless we just washed the sheets.
• It's a lot easier to tell Tyler to not spend money than it is to tell myself.
• I miss my Dancer Abs, but have zero motivation to get them back...I'm open to suggestions.
• I have a bad shoulder. It'll probably have to be taken care of some day.

Is that enough or do you want more? Well you might get some in future random posts.

Now for #2. I love Utah State and I love going to school and learning don't get me wrong, but school is not being nice to me right now. Remember my little freak out about not getting into Huntsman School of Business because USU doesn't know how to round? Yeah still upset about that. Anyway, I'm taking an internship class over the summer that's giving me 6 credits, an easy A, AND the best part my job counts for it! Great right! I know. So I'll apply for Huntsman for fall. I should get in this time. Downer though half of my classes are already full and waitlisting business classes is the biggest pain in all the world (pretty sure I've blogged about that too) and the classes that are full are prereqs for all my other classes...lame! My options at this point are try waitlisting and go through that stress again and run the risk of not getting in and add another semester until I graduate, take half credits and then add and extra semester until I graduate, or just not take classes at all and add an extra semester until I graduate. I'm taking the last one. So no school for me this fall. I'm kind of excited about it cuz it will save me stress but I'm sad at the same time cuz I already feel like I'm going to be in school forever. A secondary thought to being sad about taking an extra semester for school...Tyler and I have agreed that we won't even BEGIN to THINK about starting a family until I'm done with school and now having an extra semester prolongs that even more. (Don't worry guys I'm not baby hungry! Not even a little bit! But I do want to be a mom someday, and I'm a VERY impatient person.)

So yeah that's the plan right now. Usually I would cringe at the thought of taking a semester off from school...but I'm surprisingly ok with this plan. I firmly believe there's a reason I need to not be in school this fall. I don't know what that reason is but I'm 100% certain that The Big Man Upstairs knows full well what He's doing and that this is the right move for me right now. He'll tell me the reason when it's time for me to hear it.

Anniversary Pictures!

So here's some pictures from our trip to Park City for our 1 year anniversary. :) I hope you enjoy them.

The jetted tub! Super nice!

 

I had to stand in the tub to get this shot but this is the rest of the bathroom. It was HUGE!

 

Why yes we did have a full kitchen in our hotel room. That was super nice. :)

 

And this is the living room area of our hotel room

 

Our King size bed. It was SO comfortable.

 

How many hotels have you seen that have a washer and dryer in the room?? Oh right, fancy ones. ;)

 

This is outside the hotel while waiting for valet to bring our car around.

Olympic mascots at the Olympic Park.

 

Olympic Pins! There's a ton! There was a list on the wall next to this of specific pins to find. It was fun.

We went exploring on Main Street and there's a ski lift right at the bottom of the hill. How cool is that?

One Year!

So I can't believ we've been married for a year already! It's pretty much been the greatest year of my life. :) We spent our anniversary weekend in Park City. It was AWESOME! It was so relaxing to be away from work, school, and just everything! We hung out in our hotel room, which was beautiful by the way, chilled in the hot tub, swam in the pool, wandered up and down Main Street, and went to the outlets! Cool story at the outlets. We stopped in all the outlets that struck our fancy, one of which being Abercrombie and Fitch. Now I know what you're thinking we're poor college student newly weds, we can't afford anything at A&F...we were of the same mind set, but we thought "why not..." So we went in just to look around. Immediately we saw a table full of jeans that were marked $20!!!! Yeah we were shocked! So we miraculously found some in Tyler's size. We went to checkout and the cashier rung them up....$12!!! Yeah I looked at the original price tag on the pants and it said $80! We totally got a pair of $80 jeans for $12. Talk about bargain shopping! Yeah we were totally psyched. Anyway, down side to the weekend...neither of us remembered a camera... :( BUT I took lots of pictures with my phone, so they're all on there but I will post them later. It was a wonderful weekend and I didn't want to come home and go back to work... :( but such is life. Ya do whatcha gotta do. 

School=Death!

So remember my post about how I'd be getting into Huntsman School of Business soon? Well, that might not be the case anymore. I got my grades back for this semester and according to my transcript I have a 2.66 GPA (I have bad grades I know...) and I need a 2.67 to get accepted. I'm a little bummed about it. But get this, the way USU calculates its GPA is to take the Quality Points and divide it by how many credits you've passed. I have 237.30 quality points and I've passed 89 credits. So if I do the math and round to 3 decimal places, 237.30/89=2.666. I don't know about everyone else but I learned in about 1st grade that when you round if the last number is higher than 5 then you round up. Therefore, I really DO have a 2.67. Basically I'm not getting accepted (which I don't really know for SURE but with my luck I won't) on a technicality. I'm super annoyed... I'm going to talk to an advisor tomorrow and see what I can do, and I did register for an internship class that I'm hoping I can use my job for since I'm there anyway. I'm just waiting on approval for that one. But I really don't want to get rejected just because Utah State can't round like they should! This is the second time I've had to jump through hoops for the stupid School of Business. They are not being nice to me...

I can't believe it!

As of today I've been married to the greatest man on the face of the planet for 11 months! I can't believe it's almost been a year already. Time sure does fly! :) It has been a fabulous 11 months. I couldn't have asked for better. Now we just have to get through about a week more of school and then finals and we can start on our fun summer! First thing on the list, a much needed vacation to Park City for our anniversary! I'm super excited. :) We made a list the other day of all the fun things we want to do over the summer. I hope we can do them all. If we do it's going to be a great summer!

Fabulous News!!!

So yesterday on my way home from school I got an email from the advising office saying that applications for Huntsman School of Business are due April 1st. I knew the deadline was coming up but I wasn't planning on applying yet because I don't quite meet requirements yet, I have GPA issues. They're getting better and it will be where it needs to be by the end of this semester. In the email it said that the applications aren't processed until after grades are posted for the current semester. Glimmer of light!!! I emailed my advisor right away and asked her if I should still apply since the applications aren't processed until the end of the semester and my low GPA will be higher and I have all the classes done. She said go ahead because the end of semester GPA is all they will see! HAPPY DAY!!! It makes my plan that I have worked out until graduation a million times better. The extra class I was going to take next Spring semester I can take this summer if I get accepted then I won't have to take 15 credits and I'll still graduate Fall '13! I am loving life right now! And even better, it gives me more motivation to do better! Not that I was worried about failing any of my classes. ;) The light at the end of the tunnel of school is beginning to glimmer. I'm almost done!