Well, tomorrow I drive up to my new project to start my training. From what I understand this could take 2 days or two months, or anywhere in between. I think it's just so I can get the proper badge to access the job site. I don't think I'll ever understand badging requirements! My first job involved access to a huge area full of crazy nuclear/chemical crap that I really know nothing about. My second job involved access to an unfinished nuclear power plant that never actually had fuel anywhere on site, but I still had to go through all new badging requirements. And now that I'm going to a site, which to me at least is just a combination of the two, that's an active nuclear power plant, I have to go through even more, crazier badging requirements! Seriously, will it never end?!
So this is being called a business trip. I still get my living allowance, which is good 'cause I still have to pay rent on my place here in 'Bama. And on top of that I get my hotel and meals paid up there, plus the mileage on my car to drive there at the standard GSA rate of $0.555/mile. Officially I'm approved to be up there until July 3rd, my work partner here thinks we'll be done by the end of the week. I have no idea, so I guess I'll just wait and see. Next Saturday my man flies in, so I'll have to come back down here to pick him up at any rate. Then I'll either stay down here 'til I actually move up there, or I'll go right back up there until the holiday. Sounds great, right? Except for the part where I'm supposed to be packing all my crap up so I can move again!
This is where my awesome friend comes in. She came over yesterday to help me out and offered to pack some of my stuff while I'm gone, if I just put notes on what I want packed where. I mean, how freaking awesome is that?! Not only that, she and her husband are going to let me store some of my stuff in the basement here until I have a place with enough room for it! Since I have enough junk to fill up a large house here, there's no way I'll have room for all of it in the tiny apartment I expect to find up at my new job. So I'll be leaving as much of my stuff as I can bear to part with here. I'm hoping that it'll be easy enough to leave stuff since my new schedule will be 5x10s.
Speaking of finding a place to live up there, that's going to be a whole other barrel of laughs. I called 5 places so far. The first was for poor, elderly people. The second, third and fourth didn't answer. The fifth sounded great 'til I asked if they allowed pets, that was a big negative. The project, like most nuclear power plants, is in the middle of nowhere, so there's not much selection for living nearby. The place my friend lives sounds awesome, but it's an hour away. I did the whole hour commute for three years and it blows chunks, but if it's that or not having my kitties, well I think you all know which I'd choose.
You know how when things are super crazy and you're totally stressed out, it's the tiny little things that turn into a huge deal? Well right now the thing that is making me most upset about getting laid off and transferred and having to move again, is that I *just* finished remodeling the bathroom in the house I'm renting and now I won't get to enjoy it! And I did a really good job on it too! *pout*
On a totally random side note: do I have to change the name of my blog if I'm not going to be in Alabama anymore??
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