Ugh.

So I don’t know what to title this because quite honestly this is going to suck.

On December 6th, Jason is losing his job. This comes as quite a shock as the night before we got the news (Thursday) we were talking about how they were hiring another contractor to make up for the contractor they were basically letting go, and joking about how I should apply for a job, and how much extra money we could have. Friday night, we go out to dinner, and he was supposed to hear from his recruiter about the new hire (or something I don’t remember, but he was supposed to hear from her) and we see we missed a call. He calls her back, leaves a message. We miss another call. He calls again, and gets in touch with her. It was like a “Hi, you have no job.” It was a good length conversation, and Jason would say bits and pieces which frustrated me because I had NO idea what was going on… but pretty much the gist of it is: Charles Schwab is having a hard time with the economy issue that they are pretty much cutting all excess expenses. On our drive home from work, only hours earlier, Jason made it sound like his job wasn’t just some added expense, and that he was really needed (along with the other person he works with.) It’s all just such a shock. What a crappy time of year for it to happen. However, there is some sort of maybe good news. They do have a position opening up directly through the company, but it starts in January. This sucks for two reasons. We’re gone for a good week and a half in January and there’s a month between when he is released from duties until he has the potential to get this job. So, it’s not even a guaranteed thing, but he’s been told that he’s a shoe in due to some recommendations from “permanent employees.” While that is encouraging, I don’t know how much I actually believe it, since this has all kind of been like a horrible car accident you don’t see coming. While I am sure we could technically scrape by the month of December with Jason having no job, we definitely do not want to risk it if he happens to not get that permanent job; so we are both really on edge right now.

My school ends just after Thanksgiving, so I have the entire month of December with nothing to do, I was really looking forward to doing absolutely nothing for an entire month, but I think, instead I will be searching for another job. It definitely can’t hurt, especially if Jason can’t find one. This whole thing is just so depressing, at such a happy time in our lives, for something so wrong to happen just plain sucks. My mom sent up some wedding magazines and brochures for weddings in Arizona, and it’s just plain depressing to look at them, I just want to cry, and I know that this will seem selfish, but I don’t think we’re going to get married any time soon. We couldn’t afford it when Jason had a very good paying job, and now... well, look at us. : (

Blah.

In more bad news, but much more mild… we had our dishwasher installed today. While underneath it was absolutely disgusting, the installer guy said that the dishwasher was leaking (super) so that should be fixed now. However, when he went to shut the water supply off, he broke the nicely rotted valve (problem one) and when he was done, he gave us more bad news: we have this hole thing and its letting out our hot and cold air from under the sink (problem two) which should be easily fixed with some spray foam stuff, and our pipes are old and crappy and the seal doesn’t hold and it’s just being held together by some sealant stuff (problem three) which, again, he said was an easy fix. I am starting to get more and more pissed off because obviously, our home inspection guy is a fraudulent piece of ca-ca, and should not be telling people their houses are “fine” when they buy them, because obviously, our house and most things in it were/are far from fine. >: [  (And don't get me wrong, I am sooooo grateful that our installer guy was nice enough to point this stuff out, and he totally didn't trash our house like the last guy!)

The dishwasher does work great. It’s so quiet, we can put like two loads of dishes in, and it has so many buttons. We love buttons!