*sigh*

I've been going through a period of depression, starting at least a couple of weeks before the wedding. I have no car, it wouldn't start when I tried to leave work on Saturday. So now Charles drops me off and picks me up at work. Not too bad for when I work in El Monte, because there's a Taco Bell / Pizza Hut within walking distance. Only thing within walking distance of my work in Ventura is a gas station though, so that means I'm not eating lunch. Then we moved my tv/monitor to the bedroom so we can watch movies since we have no tv (because we don't have cables for it) so now I have no computer because I have no monitor. And I still have no tv because I have no cables. And we have no money. Luckily both of our families gave us generous wedding presents in the form of checks, or else we'd really have nothing. We had to pay a $1,000 deductible to get our Focus out of the shop, paid $500 in repairs on our Explorer which now once again doesn't work. I had to explain to my boss that my car would sit there after closing until I had money. That kind of sucked... So yeah, no car, no computer, no tv (I know that sounds vain, but I'm used to watching the news for two hours in the morning and one in the evenin five days a week, so this is a shock to my system), no music, no internet access from home (which would do me no good since I have no computer, but it's still a big change for me), no money... My new job has been going well. We had a little tiff over not doing things by the book on my first day with my guards. My boss didn't tell me she wants things done a certain way (which is not what's in the textbooks) so it really threw me off when she interrupted my class to "correct" the guards on their deep water spinal injury management. It's a change in technique that requires there to be two guards at all time, because she has them ditch their rescue tube, so that throws off our Emergency Action Plans too. I have to have two guards jump in, one to get the victim and one to get the rescue tube and re-position it. That leaves no one on deck in the deep end to clear the pool out. We'll see how it works, we get real people in the pool tomorrow. the city's having a donors party (people who donated lots of money toward construction) at 3, then a city employees (and immediate family, so I invited Charles) party at 4. Being invited to a party where I have to work kind of sucks, but someone has to make sure no one drowns, right? Well, anyhow, Charles is at home and grumpy and has work to do on the computer, so I'm going to go now. I haven't touched the computer since my last update, and probably won't again in about as long. But I'm still alive, that's part of my contract. I'd say someone call me, but we have no phone either, and I have zero cell phone coverage at our apartment. :(