This is my story.

As I posted a while ago, I was hired at a new job after over a year of unemployment/part-time employment. The second week is almost over and I think I'm doing well. My supervisor walked by my desk this morning and said someone was bragging about me, meaning my trainer. I guess based on past new hires, I'm catching on to procedures quickly and not needing to ask too many questions. It's not a difficult job at all, so far. I've heard them talking about some stuff that's apparently more complicated, but I've got a 90-day probationary training period. So I'm sure I'll be fine. My trainer had to leave early today for her regular dialysis treatment and she left me alone with some tasks to do. I'm pretty sure I did everything correctly while I was on my own. I guess we'll see tomorrow when she double-checks my work.

The rest of life is pretty typical. I'm still going to work at Pizza Hut every Sunday and every other Friday. The choir concert went very well. We'll be singing at both St. Louis Pride and Metro-East Pride in June, and then we'll be on summer hiatus. My bowling league is on summer break. My life is pretty much just going to be work and some social engagements here and there.

Life isn't too bad for me right now. The only real stress-point continues to be finances. I racked up a lot of debt over the past year, and when I get my first pay check from the new job, I'm going to figure out how much money I'm going to have to divide amongst the credit card companies once all the other bills are paid. I'm really not sure what I'm going to be able to do. I doubt I'll be making enough to make any kind of progress on my credit card bills. I fear I might not have enough left over each month to even pay the interest on each card, let alone minimum payments. I guess we'll see in about a week.

Choir concert was this weekend. It went very well. I think everybody was happy with how it went. It was a lot of work to get there, but it ended up being a lot of fun. Now we have two weeks off until we start rehearsing to sing at Metro-East Pride and St. Louis Pride.

Finished Tipping the Velvet and I'm starting The Mists of Avalon.

( Book List 2009: 50 Books In 1 Year )

It's 1 a.m. I will make stupid jokes if I want. Actually, Valentine's Day is technically over. Oh well. Late sentiments will have to suffice.

Tonight was the Valentine's Day Dance hosted by CHARIS, the choir Katie, Amy, and I are in. Katie was the DJ and it was a lot of fun. There were a few minor hiccups because Katie wasn't used to using the touchpad on my laptop (note to self: next time, bring external mouse) and this caused her to accidentally delete the play list a couple times and switch to the next song before the current song was over. But overall it went well.

The choir president actually asked Katie if she had business cards because she was going to pimp Katie out to the guests as a DJ, but Katie doesn't DJ on a regular basis. In fact, the equipment she was using, with the exception of the microphone, my laptop, and her external hard drives, belongs to our friend, Danny. So either Danny would have to rent/sell his equipment to Katie for gigs or she'd have to buy her own. Probably wouldn't work out well. But anyway... Everybody obviously had a lot of fun and the dance was sold out, so total kudos goes to everybody.

One (of the many, it really was fun) things that amused me was the reactions to songs. The crowd was 98% female and lesbian. Katie played Melissa Etheridge by request. Not many people dancing, kind of a bland reaction. Katie then played "It's Raining Men" and almost everybody went nuts and started dancing and singing along. Lesbians...singing with "It's Raining Men"...that's something.

The biggest reaction came for "Dancing Queen" though. Katie was in the restroom and still heard everybody scream. Poor Katie hates ABBA, too, but managed to give in to the request for one song. That's a pitfall of being a DJ. You have to play stuff you don't like. The Kanye West was proof of that. Ugh. Although she got about 5 requests for Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" and refused to play it on principle. Well she didn't rudely say no to people, but she just told them she didn't have it. She played "Hot 'n' Cold" by Katy Perry. I think that's enough. I suggested she play Jill Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl" but unfortunately she truly didn't have that one.

Fun was had by all. This looks to be an annual event for CHARIS since we sold out this time. They're hoping for a bigger venue next year. Don't know if Katie will DJ again. It would be fun to be an attendee instead of a volunteer, though.