Excel

My manager here at Freescale was nice enough to suggest to Human Resources that I am somebody they must hire next Summer... even if it isn't for him... That made me feel good about the work I did here... theoretically I saved him about 8 hours of his time a week by automating most of the Excel files he uses... Well, he is worried that when his needs change, he won't have a tool that would suit his needs anymore... So, he is trying to get me hired as a contract employee where I could work, when necessary from Tallahassee... I just hope "when necessary" is at least 5-10 hours a month so that I can make just a little more money then I will be spending... That way I wouldn't tap into all the money I saved over the summer, like I had planned...

Once I see how much I'll be working (if this all works out), then I can buy the projector I want for my living room... which I have been about to buy for 3 months now, but every time I do, I think of how I need to save the money I am making or I won't make it all the way through Grad School...

Anyways, I cancelled the order of the 8 piece KitchenAid pot set... only to order a 10 piece instead... it cost me $25 less because there is a new promotion at Amazon that if you spend $125 in Kitchen supplies, you get $25 off instantly... and this is on top of another deal where you get $20 gift card in 4-8 weeks from now if you spend more then $100 on pots and pans... and on top of this, it was already nearly 60% off... so, in the end, I got a $380 pot set for $105... not bad if you ask me... of course, since I was saving $25 I decide to buy a little more... so I bought a 8 person silverware set... and another set of kitchen utensils (peeler, can opener, etc...) by KitchenAid because it too was on sale, and I need it... I am sick of the crappy kitchen supplies I have... I can't wait to get to Tallahassee and start cooking up some goodness... I think I am going to buy some cookbooks, or at least download some recipes from online... if you have any good (and for now, easy) ones you'd like to share, leave them as a comment on this post! I'll appreciate it!

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I spent the morning washing my car... man it is sexy... I got tinted windows yesterday that keeps 58% of the heat out... I read the first chapter of Harry Potter and there is so much that I seemed to have missed the first time I read it because I had no clue what was going to happen in the future... small things, but they are interesting... The first week of work was pretty long and made me realllllllly tired waking up early like that every morning... I am really excited about what I am going to learn though... I get to automate Excel projects to make things that take 30 minutes take 30 seconds instead... of course, I made the mistake of finishing the first one so quick that they are going to expect a ton of me when I still have almost everything to learn... oh well... we'll see how it goes... it is going to be really nice getting memorial day off and still being paid for it... the same with 4th of July... on top of getting those paid for, I get 14.67 hours a month off for anything I want... all this free money is pretty nice... B) Oh well, back to work tomorrow for another full week...

Labels: car, excel, freescale, harry potter, work