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Eech! Sorry to hear about the tooth problem littlek, and the impending dental work. I hope the tooth isn't causing you any pain.

But just in case, I'm sending out a big hot bowl of cyber soup for you!

I know it's got to be rough on you at times. It must feel like you're working full-time but not really getting compensated for it. It takes a lot of patience and that's not easy.

But with every step in this process you're building a pathway to a future in which you'll be able to do something you actually want to do -- and I think you'll be good at it!

It won't be too much longer now. Look how far you've come already! :wink:

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Thanks Stray Cat.

The tooth is causing no pain. A filling that last dentist put in cracked and chunk of it fell out.

Working full time and not getting compensated - I do feel compensated, just not enough.

My sister is trying not to have to pay me for the 2 weeks she put both kids in camp full time. So, now I am trying to find a 2-week job in mid July. Not easy. I get 70 bucks a day from the school, minus taxes. I work 50 hours per week and go to school. No wonder I am so frazzled most of the time.

Oh, and I caught my sister's nasty cold which is making it around her family.

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littlek wrote:

My sister is trying not to have to pay me for the 2 weeks she put both kids in camp full time. So, now I am trying to find a 2-week job in mid July. Not easy. I get 70 bucks a day from the school, minus taxes. I work 50 hours per week and go to school. No wonder I am so frazzled most of the time.

Oh, and I caught my sister's nasty cold which is making it around her family.

Honestly k, your sister! Rolling Eyes

Just curious, what arguments did she use to justify this?

And now a cold, too! I trust she is paying for your medical expenses?

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Well, that really is NOT nice of your sister, lil'k.

Wait 'til she starts to feel better, then go sneeze on her. Evil or Very Mad

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I'd had it with your sister a long time ago. So none of my business, just sayin. What a shortsighted person.

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She's never been broke. I think she just doesn't get it. I have had it with her as well. Next year, I'll be working for her only sporadically. Just one more summer.

Our mother thinks I should find another job and fit her in where I can. Let her deal with it. My mother! She never wants to get in the middle. Obviously, she's getting tired of the whole thing. Prolly with both my sister and me.

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littlek wrote:

Our mother thinks I should find another job and fit her in where I can.

And why not, k?
I mean your sister has the finances to afford this. You are hardly in a situation to (continue to) subsidize her.
Another part-time job could help you get by with less of a struggle.
You could still have contact with the children, yes?

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What my mother was suggesting was another job entirely. That my sister would have to find other means to take care of her kids.

I will still spend time with the kids. There will be after-school hours with them this fall. Those might be sporadic. And, when I am working in the school after xmas (if I am!) I'll spend more time with them after school. If they pay me. If they don't, I'll do something else after school.

I plan to become a full-time aunt when I am hired as a teacher.

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littlek wrote:

What my mother was suggesting was another job entirely. That my sister would have to find other means to take care of her kids.

That's what I thought you meant & what I was responding to. k. Or teaching, plus another part-time job.

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I see. Well, after this summer. I'll work in my landlady's yard, for my parents and maybe some other random gardening jobs.

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Here's an early nomination for the 2007 Stupid Award.

I was at my rental unit today for a condo meeting, and after stopped into my place to check on it, and ask a couple questions about something. The same guy that emailed me a couple months ago asking if I could replace a lightbulb had another request: to put his a/c in his window for him. Fair enough, better than him dropping it out the window on to a car.

I walk in his room, and his a/c is indeed plugged in and turned on: propped up on a chair in the middle of the room.

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Wow.

How does someone like that make Boston rent?

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Egads! Did you ever interview this guy? What's the lesson here.......?

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I could definitely tell he was a little weird before he moved in, but he's a nice guy and has a steady job.....it was during an odd month he was moving in, so there wasn't a ton of people looking.

You want me to set you up with him, littlek? He kind of looks like sloth from the Goonies.

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I walk in his room, and his a/c is indeed plugged in and turned on: propped up on a chair in the middle of the room.

Sheesh! Did he have a drip pan under it, at least?

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No, but when I picked it up water poured out everywhere.

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That must have been lovely! Mad

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Er, no thanks!

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btw, how did your roomate's birthday party go, littlek?

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Luckily for me it mostly happened outside. It was only about 5-6 people. he made dinner which amounted to a huge mess, but cleaned up before going to bed (mostly). K was glad to have snuck in and made my dinner before he got into full swing.

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