It's possible that I have not been this frustrated before in my life. I might be exaggerating, but it was a pretty awful beginning to a day.
I'll start by prefacing it with my last-night frustration.
I posted a status on Facebook asking if anyone could help me find a connection for an OT or Preschool Aide positopn. Almost immediately my friend Aubrie responded saying she works at a preschool so she will talk to her supervisor the next day (today). Then she suggested I check into a website for job postings. I did, and I found a job opening for a special education aide in central district, full time! AND the application deadline was September 30th at 300pm!! So I knew I had time. I started on the EXTENSIVE application and two hours later I was on page five of six, needing to scan a copy of my CBEST scores and my diploma...and the printer was in Alex's room. She had gone to bed two hours earlier. I was not sure if the application would time-out if I left it open. So after realizing it was not helping to panic, I decided to go to bed and pray all my work would still be there in the morning.
This morning I went to work and was off by nine. ** Side note: It's pretty awesome that just when my car breaks and my roommate's car will become unavailable (when she returns from her honeymoon), is exactly the time my hours change. I do not have to have Joel ready until nine now, which is perfect because it takes me 45 minutes to get him ready, 15 minutes to get there from dropping Caleb off at work, and Caleb has to be to work by 8. Absolutely perfect! Praise God.**
SO I was off work and now I needed to get into my roommate's room to use the scanner. I got home and went in...and her printer apparently does not have a scanner, to my dismay. So then I was down to the task of finding another scanner. I found two more printers in the garage, which would have both been perfect, but neither have cords.
I knew Caleb for sure had a printer, so my new task was to go to his house, scan to his computer, send it to my email, then attach it to the application back at my house. No problem, right?
So I was driving Karen's car. I picked up Petra and her puppy, Auto. We drove to Caleb's house and pulled into the driveway. I pushed the car into park and went to take out the keys and they would not come out!! I tried pulling it out of park, putting it back in, restarting the car, moving locations, and nothing! They would not come out!! It was really hot out so I would try to prop open the door while I struggled with the keys, but then the chime kept going off because the door was ajar, ant the puppy kept on panting and climbing all over. It felt AWFUL! So we gave up and decided to lock all the doors but the passenger and leave the keys in.
We went into the house and I looked around...and NO COMPUTER! (are you KIDDING ME?!!). So then we decided to go to the library and use their scanner and put it on my zip drive (I just happened to have in my purse). We pulled up to the library and I got out, but then realized I had left my keys (with my library card) in the car with Petra and the dog. Or so I thought. No where...and my phone was no where to be seen. So I decided to use Petra's card and went inside. But they don't have scanners apparently...
So we decided we needed to go back to Caleb's to get my keys and phone. We did, then we went and found Kinko's copies. I walked in and the greeter welcomed me and asked if she could help. I said PLEASE!! I asked if she could do what I needed and she said it might be pricy. I said I don't care what it costs! They took care of it and got my docuuments into a PDF file and onto the zip drive. I thanked them profusely and paid the "steep" price of 55 cents. OK, really... I would have paid $55 at that point!
I ran back to Petra at the car (she, of course, had to stay with the car because the keys still would not come out. We went back to my house and loaded the files up and finished the application (which, THANK GOD, has auto save before it logs itself out!).
And so I turned in my application, took a shower, and konked out for a nap.
Finally my flustered feelings began to fade, and we were able to get quite a bit done for the decorations and favors for the wedding. Caleb came over and made dinner while we (Petra, Beth, and I) worked.
All I could think while I was feeling so panicked was that I really wanted to honor God. But all I thought would relieve my frustration would be to cuss. I hate that feeling.
I hate feeling so overwhelmed! I can't wait till the wedding's over and I have a job. I REALLY hope things slow down drastically then.
Caleb prayed with me tonight and really encouraged me that even though I thought I had had a bad day, it still turned out to be a really productive one and that he is so proud of me for getting that application out. That would be so nice to have that job...it would be ideal if it is like a disability elementary-age class! To me it seems like today was so much of a struggle that either I am really not supposed to have this job, OR I really AM supposed to have this job and it will be great for me. We will see. I can't imagine there are a whole lot of people looking to work with kids with disabilities. Luckily that is kind of a specialty area.
I also have three other connections to preschools: Aubrie's, Elisha's out in Madera, and Petra's friend Felix's wife's. It feels really nice to have connections. It seems that is the only way people get jobs anymore.
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