Yowza!

Talk about a shit storm...

Yesterday was the worst accident of my entire life. Now I have been involved in a few fender benders and a majority have been my fault. I have rear-ended two people and had been rear-ended once in Husband's white Civic about 3 years back and that was little love bump. It was humorous because about 1 week prior he didn't have car insurance but we had started it up and I had agreed to pay for it due to the fact that he simply couldn't afford it at that time in his life. Well I'll be damned if the next week I got hit. It all worked out in the end because there was only a small dent in the bumper so really it wasn't worth claiming or fixing. And what was awesome was that later in the year the dent popped out on it's own.

Flash to present day, two years ago Husband ended up getting a new Honda Fit and sadly enough we had to get rid of the Civic DX. Well last November the transmission in the Passat went out and back in April we came up on a sweet deal for a white Civic LX and it looked identical to the DX. Sadly all that came to an end yesterday morning due to this...
I was hit by an astro van going, what he claims 45 mph, but may have actually been closer to 50 mph. He had admitted to Husband that he didn't see me therefore he didn't even break. I got hit so hard he pushed me through the intersection and I ended up clear on the other side. I was stopped at a red light when he tagged me.

The part that sucks about all of it is that I have only had the car for 2 months and now the journey starts all over again. My body feels like shit but I am thankful I was on my way to work and Seven was not in the car. The back end got crushed to the point that we couldn't open the back doors. Moral of the story... pay attention people. And please use your brakes. (hahaha)

my how a lot has changed

What a warm welcome back...

My first week back at work after maternity leave was uneventful except when I was noticing on my pay stubs my PTO (paid time off) was in the negative. I was under the assumption that my time cards were entered incorrectly and therefore my PTO was negatively accounted for. Mind you, before I went on leave the HR person with whom I spoke to had indicated that although I was part time I still would qualify for paid leave and the first week I had to use my PTO, leaving me with a positive balance of 25 hours (or 5 PTO days) for after I returned to work.

Naturally, the next week I contact HR and indicate the problem I was experiencing. That woman with whom I spoke with was very nice and had informed me that I have a specific HR person who is assigned to me and that I would need to speak to that woman -- Carmen. Well Carmen was unavailable at that time and was instructed through a message to call me back.

I receive a call from Carmen about 30 minutes later and she is an ass to start off with. Secondly she is telling me that due to my position with company I was never eligible for paid leave and that the negative balance of 50 PTO hours (those not including the PTO unaccounted for on my next check I was due to receive) would need to be paid back because i was essentially 'over paid'. As I am speaking with this woman, who knows full well that I just had a newborn child then decides to tell me that instead of working everything out the only option would be for me to get no paychecks... for the next 5/6 weeks. I am livid at this point and we are going around in circles that I had been misinformed. Carmen of course not wanting to believe me, because how could I have possibly been misinformed due to HR ineptitude. Mind you, I had started the process for my leave back in January. I had to explain to this daft woman, who by the way works for me because she is my HR person, as to how in the world I would have been planning 6 weeks of leave on false information given to me back in January. Then apparently it started to 'click' for her and she was calming her attitude and trying to empathize with my situation. The conversation ended with her putting me on 'pause' to do her research and she would give me a call back.

Of course at that moment I go to my immediate supervisor and state that if they are going to be taking my paychecks I would be walking out that day. How dare they even try to corner me like that. I have been more than dedicated to my job and all of the responsibilities that have been assigned to me.

Long story short, my supervisor was able to speak to Carmen's superior in HR and they got it all worked out to where I won't be paying back 5 weeks of pay but in return I won't be granted anymore PTO for the year. It's bittersweet because there are guaranteed days that I will need to call off due to my child being ill and what not, but on the same token when I was only granted 55 hours of PTO by the company I ended up getting about 150 hours paid. So I can't be too angry about that.

All in all, it got resolved but damn did it have to go that far?

what's with the delay?

So I feel obligated to state the reason as to why it has taken me a few weeks to give a new post/update. I am running into the dilemma that there is so much to write about but not enough subject matter to make a relevant post. It is very strange. I will be doing whatever and I'll think 'huh, that's funny or cute and I could write about that on my blog', then I'll get one sentence in and it's done. But there's no need to have a one or two sentence blog... ya feel me?

Here is a collection of the past two weeks;

Baby started smiling, but I can't get him to smile at me. Everyone keeps telling me that he's smiling and I miss it. I think he may be bored with me considering that we fall asleep and wake up together day in and day out.

Husband made me watch the movie Twilight, it was ok. I was under the impression that it was going to be far more corny than what it was. I think it's funny that I have a girlfriend who told me last summer she had no interest in reading the books or watching the movies because she is not interested in vampires... much less 'vegetarian vampires'. well I must report now that she has not only watched the movie but read the first book within one day... sounds like a fan of vege vamps to me!!

My sister called me to tell me she microwaved a fly. enough said. (makes me laugh everytime i think about it)

I was completely touched when I found out that when I was reading a bed time story to BB that husband took a baby monitor out to the garage with him so he could work on his motorcycle and hear me read.

School is done with the exception of two finals next Tues and Wed.

And I have the green light to drink alcohol and engage in all sorts of other irresponsible behaviors... with my husband of course. :)