Good and Bad News

My boss gave me some good and bad news yesterday.

The bad news...RioCan's lawyers don't feel comfortable offering me the full-time, permanent position yet because they are worried about being sued if they give the position away. So they are offering me a one year contract and then after two years they would feel comfortable with proceeding with things.

The good news...in the new contract (which will start at the end of September) I will get a $2/hour raise and they are also going to give me some sort of benefits package (my boss didn't have the exact details yet).

So it's not exactly what I had hoped for, was hoping they would figure out what they were doing one way or another, but it's not all bad either. Besides, then after two full years of experience I think there will be a whole lot more opportunities available to me.

I am definitely not going to stay here at my parents' for the year. With a year contract I think I feel secure enough to get my own place. Before, on my three and six month contracts, I didn't want to get my own place and then have RioCan turn around and tell me that the lady was returning to her position and then be without a job. Plus I know that if I didn't have this job I wouldn't be staying in this area (there really are limited jobs up here - well jobs that do justice to someone with any sort of education).

So haven't really worked out any sort of plan yet. With the trip coming up in October (which I finally did mention to my boss) I don't want to get my own place right now and then leave for 2+ weeks, so I will probably wait until November or December, January at the absolute latest.

Overall then, I think it's a pretty good thing! An alright way to end the work week.

On other news my sister, Del and boys return on Tuesday! I can't wait. Am making Ty's welcome home race car cake on Monday night, I hope it turns out alright. This will be my first character cake, but I have a fall back plan anyways....even if the cake doesn't look so good, Ty will be excited about the money as it's not only going to be a race car, but also a money cake!

I'm off to call my sister now as when my Mom talked to her a few days ago she hadn't heard anything about the latest terrorist attempts, and my Mom didn't want to tell her. But it's important that she does know so she doesn't have to repack their stuff at the airport. Not looking forward to telling her, but someone has to! Maybe by now they've heard however...I mean they must of, even though they don't watch TV there my Opa gets the paper everyday. But I'll still tell her about how things are on this end. I hope they aren't too nervous flying. Can't wait to see the boys again, I know it's only been 2 weeks, but after being away from them for so long while I was in Japan, I like to see them as much as I can. Plus I finally have got Ty doing the "SUPERSTAR" pose, so can't wait to see him do it again!