I changed my username!

I changed my stock account, too.  Now it matches! =AreteStock

It's going to take a lot of getting used to, typing in the new names.


So anyhoo... I've been meaning to brag tell everyone about my most awesome month.  I've been working as a temp in IT since December and I applied for a job I didn't get a few months ago, which was sad but encouraging also because the interview went so well and the guy they did hire was already on their team, he just got promoted.  So after a few weeks went by, I was approached by the manager that interviewed me asking if I was still interested in coming onto the team and I was all OMG YES YES YES! So he offered me the newly opened job vacated by the guy who got the promotion.  Starting the first week of June I will be fulltime IT, and let me tell you the raise I am getting is phenomenal.  I don't really know what to do with myself; I've never had a job where I made more than enough to just squeak by. Now I can afford a dishwasher and a new washing machine and my CPAP and maybe a new car and TRIPS TO DISNEY!!!OMGELEVENWTFBBQ!!! I am so happy.

I will be the trainer for my new team; the title is IT Education Consultant. So, even though it's a completely round about way and it took me 5 years I have managed to find myself a teaching job where I can use my 11 years of experience. I am so stoked.   Plus the programs I will be responsible for are pretty awesome, too.  Even if I spent the greater part of today trying to get a workqueue to work before finally caving in and emailing my Epic support.  (The software is made by Epic, and sometimes it is epic software, but not today. )


Plus my aunt and I went to Pickerington to see the Avengers on the Ultrascreen, because damn we had to see it on the ultrascreen. Totally worth the 45 minute drive out there.  And we went to Barnes and Nobles and I got books I've been waiting on for ages. (There aren't any big bookstores in my area anymore, damn Borders going out of business and taking Waldenbooks with it), so a trip to the bookstore was a real treat. 


Yesterday I went to my car and it was dead. So I had security give me a jump and it didn't work.   So I had the car towed to my mechanic and used up one of my free AAA tows for the year.
Then this morning my aunt relayed a message from the mechanic that the battery was just completely dead and he thinks it's not the starter or the alternator, just a battery that wouldn't charge.  I'll find out tomorrow if it's just the battery and the bill will be nice and small.  Wish me luck!


On Saturday I was out in the garden murdering weeds when a car turned our corner way too fast, let out a horrendous squeal, and then slammed into two of our pine trees down by the road.  I went running down the driveway to see if they were alright only to get there as they were speeding off in a very smashed in black pick-up.  Dumbass. My aunt called the cops to make a report. People kept coming down the hill to look at where the truck hit. Not very subtle, those people, whoever they were.


Oh yeah, I found these new Rolos that don't have corn in them! (Sorry mom they have wheat glucose syrup)

And we have a big family reunion in two weeks where a bunch of my cousins who live all over the US will be coming.

And we have a big devMeet planned for June 2nd in Cleveland! I am so stoked!

That's about all for now.    Movie spoilers at the end.  You have been warned.

~Tina

SPOLIERS!
OMGWTFBBQ Thanos at the end of the Avengers!  Queue fangirl squeeing and one huge gasp at that stinger in the middle of the credits.  The Infinity Gauntlet and its sequels were my favorite comics ever. Just the idea that it may crop up in some fashion in a movie had me excited all night.  Nerd.
END SPOILERS!