Waking Up

7.24.2006

Softball, sickness, the job and more...

It has been a while since my last post, so I have a lot to talk about. Camp/vacation was good, too short but good. Upon my return though came lots of confrontations at my workplace. I don't want to get into too much detail, but the basic story is this: I had a boss that was taking advantage of his position with the company and me. He was gettting a personal assistant at the company's expense, so after praying about and finally dealing with the personal things for way too long I told him "no more". Well needless to say it didn't go over so well with him. He began treating me very badly and became very unprofessional. I decided that the situation needed to be resolved with a person higher up in the Organazational Structure, so I called the CEO. Let me explain our company for a minute, as I figure you are thinking how bold of a move this is. Our company does not have a human resource dept. We are a company that is built on relationships and primarily everyone in our company is a Christian. So with that said the only people higher up from this boss was the CEO. It was a good decison to make the call. I have since had a meeting with both of my bosses that I guess will eventually result in things being better at my workplace. I am really glad that I stood up for what I new was right, and I believe it has been a great learning experience for me, and although it has been extremely stressful and very hard to bare over the last several months, it has paid off in the end.

In other news, I haven't been feeling very well this weekend. I have been running a fever, had some kind of stomache thing, and a headache since Saturday. I thought it was gone since I went out last night to our churches Baptism and then went to dinner with some people, but I woke up this morning sick again. I slept til 2pm today, and I don't do that! So, I hope I sleep tonight and get rid of whatever this bug is.

On Thursday night, Josh and I have our first meeting with our Co-ed Softball team. We start playing games the week of Aug. 14th. We are pretty excited since we have never done anything like this before.

Josh and I our finally together on the same page with our finances. We set-up a budget this month and have followed through with it very well so far. For the first time in our marriage, we feel like we are telling our money what to do instead of our money telling us what to do. We are well on our way to having a debt- free future.

I guess thats it for now, but I will try to update a little more often than I have been lately.

3 Comments:

At 5:47 AM , Blogger Joel said...

Cool stuff. I'm really glad to hear about some of the resolution on the job front. I know that was weighing heavy. For whatever it is worth, I'm proud of you for standing up in spite of the potential repercussions and added stresses.

I would love to see video of you both playing softball. I think that would be hysterical.

Also, glad to hear about the finances. Budgets are no fun initially -- well I don't know if they are ever fun -- but they really do "pay off" (pun intended).

 
At 8:25 PM , Blogger Tim said...

BUdgets are your friend, It is good to know where your money goes. My favorite dave ramsey quote is "getting out of debt is not about the math, it is about behavior" Most people think they can solve debt mathmatically, but lets face it if we were so good at math we wouldn't have gotten into the mess most of us are in. That sermon said, If we get the behavior right it is PFG.


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At 11:08 AM , Blogger Allen said...

A budget allowed Keisha and I to pay off our second mortgage and gave us "some" peace of mind about having a kid and only one working parent.

 

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