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Well, guess who gets to go back to temp job from hell on Monday? Hooray! My agent at the temp agency called me to tell me:

1> Expedia hired someone else, so I will not be getting so much as an interview for that position for which he submitted my resume.

(Color me shocked, really!)

2> Since I am on the callback list at the bank, I can go back on Monday if I want.

Well, I do not want, but I have no choice now, do I? None of the other work I'm doing right now is giving me a paycheck, although it's adding equity to our house, which is good.

I told him about my previous experience there, and he reassured me that I am not obligated to work the crazy hours that they are demanding. He said if I want to leave after 8-9 hours, I have every right to do so. I can stand up for my rights and Appleone will back me up. So that's good, at least.

I told him about the other job situation, just to let him know that I may not be able to complete this assignment. He was cool about it.

Anyway, I am on my lunch break at the moment. I've been priming the walls for painting. One bit of wall needs patched up where the drywall came off, and I cannot for the life of me find the spackle. It's not where Lance said it was. But it's in none of the other logical places either. And I really don't want to paint over areas that need drywall touch-up. I suppose I can skip those areas for now, have Lance help me locate the spackle when he gets home (really, he is the only person who uses it and the last one who has seen it) and then prime those areas once the spackle dries. It usually doesn't take all that long.

Priming isn't taking too long either. Which means painting this area won't be as painful as I thought, although I can't be quite as sloppy with the paint as I am with the primer. Oh, and I hate these paint roller pads that we bought. I grabbed the wrong brand. These suck. I probably need to buy more before we paint anyway. These will work for the primer.

And another thing!

Guess whose husband is leaving in just over 2 weeks to train in Oklahoma City for 2 months?

Of course, we knew this was coming, but we didn't know exactly when. The date was set yesterday. I am not happy. We are still not settled in.

But I almost feel like I have no right to complain. A lot of military wives have it A LOT worse than I do, including my own sister-in-law. So I feel selfish and petty for complaining.

The only thing I can do is try to make a list of projects I can do by myself while Lance is gone, and then work on completing them. Stripping wallpaper in the guest bath will be the next project, although I can't really paint until the light fixture is removed, and I don't know how to do that, nor do I know how to install a new one. And I'm not going to ask Lance to do it on his last weekend here at home.

And of course, getting a job would be nice...so I have something to do during the day and people to talk to. Plus, there's earning a paycheck, which is always good.

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Lance came home from work about 2 hours earlier than usual. If you want to call it work. He was at a retirement party for a good chunk of it. So I didn't let him off the hook when he came home because he had a hard day...instead, I sent him in search of the spackle. He found it under the loveseat. Have no idea how it ended up there.

So he spackled the areas that needed it while I continued priming. We got most of it done right before dinner and then took a break. Lance wanted to get lottery tickets and cash in on our whopping $7 win from earlier in the week (woohoo!) and we had a couple of checks to deposit in our account anyway. So we headed to the grocery store (where we could accomplish both tasks, as our bank is located inside Top). He figured we'd grab takeout too. So I actually got some chinese food there at Top...some steamed brown rice with 2 entrees: beef & broccoli and some kind of chicken dish I had never tried before. Lance didn't like their other takeout food selections (it was mostly fried chicken), so we headed down the street to Burger King for his dinner.

Came home and ate. The chinese food was very very good...surprisingly so, for getting it at a grocery store. Also super filling. I'm still stuffed.

After dinner and watching a bit of the news, we set to priming the area over which Lance had spackled earlier. Now almost the entire wall is done except for a couple of spots in the corners that need double applications of spackle.

I took a shower and scrubbed and scrubbed, but still couldn't get all the primer off. I have big spots of it on my arms still. Got laundry started, although we're not bothering to wash our painting clothes.

Here in less than 10 minutes, I am going to sit back and watch the 2nd episode of season 1 of The Tudors. I guess it's on every night at 8 on The 101 (DirecTV). I watched the first episode last night and I am totally hooked already. Just need to make myself a cup of hot chocolate first and truly relax.

Tomorrow we have grocery shopping, and then we spend the afternoon painting.