It’s been busy.. and not.. all at the same time really.
School is coming along. I had received my official OSR records from Ontario. I have dropped off my transcripts for translation on Oct 21. They say I’ll have a call to come get them in 3 to 4 weeks (no later than Nov 18). I also have nearly everything done for the application for financial aid for my schooling. Classes open up for registration on Oct 28. I hope that I will be able to take 1 or 2 classes this winter. I’m excited. VERY excited. I’m also curious to how my education will ‘translate’ to for the US system. I’ve been told that I will end up getting more education by those who have already walked this road. Time will tell. It may be a great US Thanksgiving for me :)
Canadian Thanksgiving - we sure did celebrate it together. I made turkey and all the fixings. It was delicious. It was just the 3 of us. Small but quite nice. Maybe next year I’ll be able to travel home to celebrate with my family there. THAT would be amazing.
Work is well.. work. I hate how the call center is run. Shame on me for being in the call center environment for the better part of 12 years and walking into one that has only been running for the past 2 years. They’re still in their infancy complete with growing pains. Upper management is VERY reactive instead of being proactive. They’re still in the practice of promising the moon and stars “if their staff performs” but when the performance is met - nothing happens. At this point I go in, do my job to the best of my abilities, and leave. I know, without a doubt, that the call center industry is no longer for me.
The latest reactive measure was to can people from doing anything ‘distracting’ to the group on whole. This is because our recontact rate is too high. So - no more tv’s running, no more music blaring, no more bouncing balls, no more basketball while you’re on calls, no more nurf gun wars while everyone is on calls, no more knitting silently at your desk. Yes, that’s right. My knitting socks quietly is distracting to the group on whole. You better watch out grannies and not bring your yarn to mass anymore. You’ll distract the pastor! I knit because I cannot sit still and idle for hours at end. It’s not in me. I knit because it allows me to be productive while sitting for hours on end. It HELPS me keep focused on my calls. For the record my recontact rate is far below goal. (could be that I know how to work the call center call flow but who am I to tell them how to do their work). My other numbers have suffered greatly because of this. Last week I’ve had the highest numbers since my first week. Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to have my yarn back. Lord, knows the loud music and balls have already made a come back!
Medical Woes - Oh do I have a bucket of these. I just don’t understand the US medical system at all. I have to pay 175 per month for the luxury of having health care. I also have a 4K deductible that has to be met yearly. Sure doctor and specialist visits are covered. But since I have not met (nor will I meet) my 4K deductible things like getting a uterine biopsy that will determine if i have cancer or if its just ‘normal’ heavy bleeding will cost me $500.00. Once they determine that it is or is not cancer then that treatment will also be out of pocket (whatever it may be) until my 4K deductible is met. But hey, I can apply for a loan to pay for it all. You know.. loan on top of my already monthly payment of 175 just to get told I either do or do not have cancer. It’s rotten. VERY rotten.
Then I have to read my aunt whine and cry about how OHIP back home sucks. Really? I’d take OHIP and its “flawed” system over having to pay out of pocket with money I don’t have just to find out if I have something going on in my body that could potentially kill me. Reading her whine and cry just makes me mad. I’d trade you places in a second. Especially when it comes to medical coverage!
Like I said to her - it’s like paying for car insurance but having a high deductible so that even if you DO get into an accident you STILL have to pay for everything. It sucks.
We’re also in the middle of cardiologist/medical insurance company mess. The cardiologist ordered an echocardiogram for my sweetie. The insurance company denied the coverage. They say “It’s not medically needed”. I don’t understand how a cardiologist can order a test. You know a guy that has spent YEARS getting his education and license can be told by a medical insurance company what is and is not needed. Baffes me actually.
Dental Woes - Long story short. I need about 6K to fix my teeth. 4,500 for a bridge for my front teeth that I am destroying. The rest is for crowns for all my molars that I am slowly cracking in half. Will it get done? No, not until I get much better coverage. Hopefully, my teeth survive. My teeth situation comes to no surprise really. They have been falling apart for many years. Even back home I did not have adequate coverage to get them fixed the way they should be fixed.
Well, that is about all that is going on really. We currently have my sweeties business partner and his wife visiting. Oddly she’s not as annoying as she usually is. There is something about a grown woman talking baby talk that is just like nails on a chalkboard to me. Who knows maybe I’m turning into a prude in my old age.
Today we have his youngest daughter stopping by for a visit. I try not to get too involved in her drama train. It’s always something with her. She has burned bridges with me. I am civil and polite - but that’s about it. I don’t share my life with her anymore. Not when all of my struggles end up on my sweeties ex-wife’s ears. Not when she is rude and insulting to her father without hearing the whole story. He already forgave her for that incident. I, however, did not.
Wednesday coming we’re meeting friends from Colorado at Downtown Disney. No no.. it’s not Disney proper. Just the expensive restaurants and shopping outside of Disney. It will be a great night with good friends from out west. It will be a nice evening. Hopefully I will get to walk around a bit. It’s 6 miles of good exercise and with things outrageously expensive nice on the pocketbook because I won’t buy anything!
Halloween is next weekend too. WOOO Halloween!! I won’t be dressing up but I will be going with my grandbabies to walk around as they trick or treat. It will be great fun again this year! And it’s the youngest grand baby’s 3rd birthday! Woo!! I am so blessed to have 2 wonderful grand babies - doubly blessed to have one celebrate her birthday on my favorite holiday!
Well that is it for now. Time to go make supper for everyone!~!
ps. Still nothing on the ‘friend’ part. Yes I still check. It’s so sad that I don’t know 100% that its done done. :(
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