Life As We Know It

Okay, so I realized this morning that my graduation date from UNH was 14 weeks ago. I still haven't recieved my diploma, and I'm a little irritated about this. It's not like I NEED to have it, but it would be nice being officially done with them for now, and knowing that I actually have a degree. It's making me a little nervous that maybe something happened and I'm one credit away from actually having my degree. That would SUCK! Anyway, if any of you had this issue when you finished up at UNH, please let me know so I can know to not be that worried.
Next, I decided this weekend to quit my job. It's just time for me to move on. I'm going to give my notice tomorrow and my last day will be 12/23. That way, I can fully enjoy my Christmas, and then take some time to really enjoy my Christmas and New Years. Then, I'm going to start substitute teaching and if that doesn't work out, find a job somewhere else. The state has only 51 days left to get me a job (but who's counting, right?), so I'm not going to hold my breath much longer.
There really isn't much more for me to update, other than those two things... At least, I can't think of anything at the moment. I'm trying to figure out why all of a sudden I can't put images into my livejournal, so forgive me if all of a sudden my posts look weird. I guess that's it for now.

A- Age: 24
B- Brother?: Brother in Law - Mike
C-Crush: John :-)
D- Dad's name: Christopher
E- Easiest person to talk to: John
F- Favorite ice cream: Probably have to say mint chocolate chip, but just about anything from Ben and Jerry's will do the trick.
G- Gummy worms or gummy bears?: Gummy worms
H- Hometown: Hancock, NH
I- Instruments: Alto Sax
J- Junior high: Great Brook
K- Kids: none
L- Longest car ride ever: It was either when my family drove to Washington DC, the distance from the airport in Milan to Florence or on our honeymoon when we drove to PEI
M- Mom's name: Diane
N- Nicknames: Missy, Mel, honey... that's about it.
O- One wish: I wish I had a career.
P- Phobia[s]: spiders
Q- Quote from you: "You better back off unless you want a bed through your windshield!" "Give me a Blue Yoshi, or give me death!"
R- Reason to smile: John and my cat Molly
S- Song you sang last: Some song on the TSO CD
T- Time you woke up today: 6 am
U- Unknown fact about me: I can pick things up with my toes.
V- Vegetable[s]: Carrots, peas, corn on the cob and potatos
W- Worst habit: I bite my cuticles
X- X-rays you've had: My left arm in second grade and my right index finger in 1999
Y - Years since you've been to a religious place: try 3 days.
Z- Zodiac sign: Leo

First best friend: John
First kiss: Jon Gallent, I was 13, and it was in the woods behind his house
First break-up: Jon Gallent
First screen name: melysa99
First self purchased .purchased what?
First funeral: Nana
First pets: Buffy and Sambo and Taffy
First piercing/tattoo: my ears, no tatoos
First credit card: I don't remember, I was a freshman in college - DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID!
First enemy: Lynn, Marie Noonan or Laurie Weaver - don't ask
First big trip: I went to Florida when I was 3, but I went overseas to Italy and France when I was 20
First musician you remember hearing in your house: Raffi

LASTS!!
Last cigarette: eww, never
Last car ride: if you count my ride home from work
Last beverage drank: the milk with my dinner
Last food consumed: rice pilaf
Last crush: John
Last phone call: John
Last time showered: this morning
Last shoes worn: my new sneakers
Last cd played: TSO
Last item bought: shredded cheese
Last annoyance: Laurie Weaver
Last time wanting to die: i was 21
Last Shirt Worn: My light purple one
Last website visited:Sarah Martin's livejournal (where I found this)

TEN people you enjoy spending time with (in no specific order):
1. John
2. Katie
3. Bonnie
4. Sarah L.
5. Sarah S.
6. Dave G.
7. Alison
8. Kim
9. Kerry
10. Dave T.
There are a bunch more, but the thing said to list only 10! Otherwise, Lyvie and Amanda would have been on there too!


NINE things I'm wearing:
1. Purple shirt
2. Gray sweatshirt
3. gray baggy pants
4. left sock
5. right sock
6. Engagement Ring
7. Wedding ring
8. Other ring on my right hand
9. watch

EIGHT things on my mind:
1. starting my career
2. I wish John would watch TV with me instead of playing his video game
3. getting out of my current job
4. This rice pilaf doesn't taste very good anymore
5. I'm thirsty
6. I'm sleepy
7. I wish it were Friday
8. I REALLY wish it were Friday

SEVEN items I touch everyday:
1. Keys
2. hairbrush
3. a pen
4. The remote
5. my toothbrush
6. the light string in my closet
7. my bathrobe

SIX things I do everyday:
1. wake up
2. shower
3. brush my teeth
4. Talk to John
5. feed my cat
6. talk to someone on the phone

FIVE things I want to do before I die:
1. Go back to Italy
2. Have kids
3. go to one school reunion
4. have a successful career
5. make sure the people in my life know every day that I love them

FOUR things I will never do:
1. cheat on my husband
2. do drugs
3. hit a child
4. Become a prostitue

THREE things I do when I wake up:
1. shut off the alarm
2. Look at the clock
3. push my cat off my head

TWO of your favorite foods:
1. Crab rangoons
2. That chocolate tort from the Gaspereau River Heritage Inn - Holy God was that good!

ONE person I love more than any other:
1. My husband :-)

Another Ranting Entry

So yesterday I get this call from the Manchester DCYF. "Hi Melissa? This is Marie Noonan. Is now a good time?" So I take the call in the conference room at work so that 1) I'm not tying up the shared phone in the medical records room and 2) So that if she's calling to offer me the job, I won't be all thrilled in front of everyone and if she's calling to turn me down for the job I won't burst into tears in front of everyone. So I get back on the phone and she's like "Well, I'm sorry to have to do this on a Friday and while you're at work..." so my next thought is "f*** you, call me at home on Thursday then." And she starts in about how they're not going to hire me because "despite having gone through 7 months of an internship and 13 core trainings, or whatever it was" - VER BATIM - they "didn't feel I had come to grasp what the mission of DCYF is" and so on and so forth. Then she goes on to tell me that part of it was because I didn't discuss safety for the children and safety plans and so on, which is bullshit because I KNOW I talked about safety and stuff - they DIRECTLY ASKED ME ABOUT IT! I'm so fed up with this whole thing. How in God's name can you give someone a grant to pay for all of their tuition and mandatory student fees and then, when the whole thing is over, be like "ha ha, we were just kidding, we didn't really thing you'd be good at child protective service work anyway." Like I told my mom, no wonder the Manchester office has such a high turn over rate - no one wants to deal with a supervisor that's going to talk to her co-workers that way.
I went on about this forever with John last night. I'm starting to develop a complex from all of this, starting to think that I really must be an awful social worker. I really do think that I must suck at it and I've totally missed my calling. Well, if that's the case, I don't know what the hell my calling was, because I didn't even hear the phone ring, let alone missed the call.
My mother just called me. I'm 24 years old and married. I think I know how to dress myself to go to a craft fair. She's like "So many people have been asking if you're going to be there today! You might want to wear something a little nicer than jeans!" And I'm like "Mom, I wear something nicer than jeans to work every day. I'm not wearing anything other THAN jeans to this thing today." You know, if I could take it back telling my mom that I was going to the craft fair at her church today, I would, and I would go over to the one at the Dover High School instead. Call up Bonnie - "Hey! What's on the agenda for today? Want to hit up a huge craft fair in Dover?" That would be much more fun. John's starting to get sick, but I hope he feels well enough to come to my parents this weekend, otherwise today is going to suck.
Anyway, I'm going to go lay down again. I've been up since 6, it's 7:48 now and it's SATURDAY. Holy crap do I need a vacation.

I Wish...

I wish I had something new and exciting to talk about this week. But alas, I do not. Still no jobs on the job front. I heard back on one of the 5 applications I had out to the state, it was one of those lovely form letters saying "sorry, but the position has been filled" letters that comes right from human resources. From the looks of the DHHS website, I can cross Nashua, Concord and Laconia off my list again, and I'm back to waiting to hear from Manchester on that interview I had two weeks ago. I even called them on Monday to see what the status was, and now it's Thursday night and I still haven't heard anything. So I'm still left in my job at the doctors office. I'm starting to look outside the state now though, I just want to do something I've studied for and something I'm good at. Granted, I'm good at filing, but 40 hours a week at this job I'm at now is killing me. It's killing everyone that works there, but that's a totally different story.
I called Sarah tonight. It was nice to hear about her honeymoon and catch up with her a bit. I miss her, so it was great to catch up with her. I've been trying to do that a lot more lately. Tonight I tracked down my old boyfriend Greg. He's the only one that I never really burned bridges with and still think about and wonder what he's been up to and stuff. I just found out where he's living and I'm happy to hear he's doing well. So if anyone out there is reading this and wants to catch up some, please feel free to e-mail me (either mcardin@alumni.unh.edu or melissa.cardin@gmail.com) and let me know what you're up to these days.
I'm going to go off and start job hunting again and then watch some CSI before calling it a night. Catch y'all on the flip side!

More of my life

Wednesday I had a job interview in the Manchester DCYF. I don't know when I'll hear anything though, because they couldn't give me a rough estimate. I technically interviewed for two positions, so I need to submit my application and stuff for the other one. One position is in family service (essentially - case management) and the other is in assessment (which is the investigation part of it). I applied for the family service postion, because that's what opened first, so I need to send stuff in for the assessment postion, especially since that's the job I REALLY want. So when I finish this entry, I've got to print out another copy of my resume so I can get it all in the mail today.
I think the interview went pretty well, but It's hard to say. It's like I've been telling people, I didn't get any warm fuzzies, but I didn't leave feeling like they hated me either. So I just have to wait. Again. This is the suckiest part of interviewing. That, and the "So why do you want to work in THIS office?" question. But they have to hire me on somewhere, right? Right??
This weekend should be a nice an mellow one, after the last few busy (but fun) weekends we've had. Last weekend was supposed to be my sister in laws wedding, but she up and postponed it two weeks before hand. I mentioned that in my last entry though. I do still feel bad for her, but if Jen and Steve are going to have issues, it's good they get them worked out now, rather than AFTER getting married. Not that I wish them anything bad, I just hope they figure out what's right for them. So instead we went to John's parents house and then went shopping that night. John and I each got some new jeans (much needed!), a couple of "new-to-us" movies (how could we go wrong when used movies at Game Stop were two for $10?!), and I found the game Myst at EB for only 2 bucks! So I've been working on that, but I'm pretty close to finishing it this time. The last time I played it I was like... 15 and couldn't figure it out to save my life. I'll probably make some pumpkin bread this weekend and carve the pumpkin my parents brought John, Molly and I last weekend when they came over for dinner.
Anyway, I'm going to go take care of that whole resume printing thing now. Have a great weekend everyone!
Oh, and Sarah SKILLIN, (hehehe!) I'm glad to see you made it home safe and sound from your honemoon! Your wedding was fun!

There really isn't a whole lot new going on in my life right now. My sister-in-law called my mother-in-law last week to let her know that her wedding (which was October 15th) has been postponed. No one really has an idea why, but it was. I feel bad for her, but at the same time, John and I are asking each other "What about all the money they spent on it?!" Having just had our own, we know all about non-refundable deposits and so on, so we feel bad if they lost all the money they spent on it!
Still no job for me yet. I'm meeting with Kim Kelsey on Friday to talk to her about some other options. I found out that my 6 months actually started right after I finished school, so I only have 4 months (well, like 3.5 now) to get a job. Oh well. I'm trying not to stress about it at this point!
Anyway, Chris and Kim just arrived, so I'm going to go hang out with them!
Catch up with you all later!

Yay Sarah and Chad!

Sarah and Chad's wedding was so great! It was nice to see everyone at the wedding, and Sarah looked so happy! Pyper was adorable, so it was so fun seeing them all dance together during Sarah and Chads dance was so wonderful! I'm so happy for them! Weddings are so much fun! My sister-in-laws wedding is coming up in just under 2 weeks, I wonder if she's flipping out yet... Sarah, if you read this - everything went so smoothly and you looked wonderful! I hope you're happy with the way the day went! Can you believe we're old married women now? =) Call me or e-mail me when you get home for your honeymoon. I hope you had a great time!
Anyway, things here with me? Same old, same old. I'm going to post pictures from Sarah and Chads wedding tonight, so people will have to check out my photos thing: http://pg.yahoo.photos.com/ph/mcardin81/my_photos. But there really isn't anything much for me to write about unless people want me to gush on about how great weddings are and stuff like that. Oh! John and I went apple picking today. That was fun, since the weather was so nice.
Anyway, we're going to church tonight, so I suppose I should take care of unpacking and what-not... Talk to you all later!