Silk

Okay, let me give a brief job update for those who I haven't talked to in awhile before I go into my silk shirt experience. I am no longer working at the adolescent treatment center--It was an enormous learning experience for me and I was able to get the social work hours I needed to apply for the program. Unfortunately, besides being a very emotionally draining job, the schedule they offered just wasn't working with my school/life schedule. I ended up having to work nights and weekends which I realized I just can't do right now.

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About the time that I realized I needed to find another job Nate's boss Aaron mentioned that his wife needed help with the billing for their company. I could basically make my own schedule and also work from home if necessary. I started training and it worked out so I could take over completely and she could be home with her kids. So, I am currently the billing manager for Salt Lake R.E.O.--which is the company that Aaron started which deals with bank owned foreclosure properties. Nate used to be part of the Salt Lake REO team until he and Aaron started up a property management company called Premier Management of Utah. Now Nate is running Premier Management with Aaron, and Aaron is also the broker, and an agent, for Salt Lake REO. It's fun because Nate and I are in the same office together--he's upstairs and I'm downstairs. Doing the billing for this company has nothing to do with Social Work, and I will only be here until I get my degree, but it gives me the flexibility to take the classes I need to complete the Social Work program. (Since the lovely people at the U insist on making the mandatory classes in the middle of the day!! Hello??? Don't you know that school costs an arm and a leg and people need to work??!!) I am also still filling in at Abode once in awhile if they need me.

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Now that all that is out--Salt Lake REO had team photos taken the other day. In the memo I got it said that the colors to wear were red, black, or white dress clothes. So I show up in black pants with a white button down shirt with a red tank top underneath so you could see a little red peeking through at the top. Little did I know that no one else decided to wear white so I stuck out like a sore thumb! I looked like frosty the snowman compared to everyone else in their sassy red and black outfits. The photographer looked at me as if I had lobsters growing out of my ears and it was at that moment that one of the other girls said she had brought along an extra shirt. Whew! And then she handed me the shirt. A long sleeved red silky shirt! Don't get me wrong, it probably looked great on her but silk is definately not my thing. I put it on anyway and luckily in the first picture I am pretty much hidden. But in the 2nd picure my silk is on full display. It really doesn't look so bad, other than the fact that it's silky, and shiny, and red.

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