Engaged!

For those of you I haven't had the chance to talk to in person, as of yesterday, Mike and I are engaged! We have been talking about it for a few months, but he decided to do it yesterday. The ring is beautiful, and he picked it out all on his own!! Stay tuned for more details, I just wanted to share the great news and some pics! I am so excited!!

Update on the job situation, I had picked up one part time job the other week, then last week I picked up another working about 25 hours (possibly more a week), unfortunately the first part time job called yesterday to let me know they weren't going to use me so I still have the one. I am still looking for for a full time job in the mean time. So please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

It's been a long time....

Well it's been since the first of January since my last update. As many of you know, I was let go from my job back in January so, I have spent a lot of time the last three months trying to find a new job. I have been trying to avoid going back to the Advertising side and doing Media and using those skills to get into a Marketing position on the Client side. The last Advertising position kind of made me not want to stay away from Advertising, especially after they tried to say that I resigned to keep me from getting unemployment. Anyway, back in February I was supposed to start a job with McClatchey (they own a bunch of newspapers across the US), however that fell through 2 days I was supposed to start due to budget cuts. It was pretty much back to the drawing board for me. I am supposed to be starting a Part Time Contract job, however I have not heard from the recruiter to know when I am supposed to start.

The past 3 months have truly been a test of my faith. I have had to exercise a lot of patience, and for those of you who know me know I don't really have a ton of it, so it is something I had to learn how to have more of. I thank you all for all of your thoughts and prayers!

Shannon, Billy and the girls are back in North Carolina. They made the long trip back from Dallas back in January and have been living with my dad and Claudette in Greensboro. Shannon got a job with the same company she was working with in Dallas and is in New Jersey for training this week. Billy is still trying to decide if he wants to work on a Golf Course or not. They did purchase some land in Charlotte to build a house on, the house should be ready in about 6 mos. Kennedy is 5 and Ragan is 3. Ragan had a My Little Pony Birthday Party back in March and Kennedy had a Hannah Montana Party a couple of weeks ago. They are both getting so big and I am very glad to have them so close again. Oh, and Kennedy has gotten re-attached to Murphy. Whenever I talk to her, she asks to talk to Murphy.

Finally, things with Mike are going well. He has been really great and patient with me over the past few months. I don't know what I would have done without him. He has helped keep me from going totally crazy and helped me to have hope. We have been talking about a future and he even has a ring picked out.

I am going to sign off for now, I will try to make the updates a little more frequent.