Las Vegas 2010

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Two weeks down...

I hit a brick wall this week... Emotionally anyway. Not only did I come face first with the reality that I don't have a job, we are broke, insurance ends next week, and there is absolutely NOTHING we can do about it.

Yesterday I get a call that knocked me even further into my despair. It was the lovely folks at the unemployment office. See I thought I had done the right thing by filing as soon as I got home on the 1st. Well little did I know that on that afternoon as I was being fired and bullied to sign something, I was being bullied to sign a severence!! YEP! $8,000 (which we got in the mail) and after the government took out $3,000 in taxes that barely covered our mortgage are already overdue bills for this month.

See silly me thought the $8,000 my A$$ hole of an old boss was talking about as he kicked me out the door on the 1st was the bonus I had worked so hard for to get that property up to 97%. Oh but silly me I was wrong...

So now here we are at the end of the month. BROKE and BROKEN!

As if our lives couldn't get any worse, I mean how much harder can it get on us? I can only climb the hill so long before I fall and just start rolling! I am ready to be at the top and start the climb down the other side. It just feels like we haven't been able to be on our feet in a really long time.

You're Fired!!

That was what I heard on September 1st. Those are 2 words I never ever thought I would hear in my WHOLE life. I had worked so hard since starting this job that it literally feels like I have been stabbed in the back. If this company can't see how much I have done and why the percentage of occupancy was 10% higher than laster year and at 97% when they fired me then they have a serious problem.

I wasted so much of my children's summer doing overtime (that I didn't get paid for) helping them achieve a goal that I won't even get the awesome feeling of reaching and that hurts so bad!

Now that I am slowly removing the knife from back I am having to figure out once again what I want to do with my life and I have to do it quickly because I was the job that paid the bills. I had the steady job with insurance, now I don't have that!!

I applied for unemployment and have also applied for a few jobs. I just really pray that God guides this family in the direction He desires. But gosh it is so hard to feel like you are being knocked down all the time. We just were starting to get our sea legs and here we are again out in the ocean without coast guard...