Cram-a-lam

You can squish a lot of stuff into one week, if you want to.

Ask Presley
This week Prez learned to say "fffff" stand up and balance suspended in the air for an exhilerating 3-5 seconds, scoot feet first off our bed on his own and a whole wack of other cool things.  I celebrate these moments quietly to myself and try to write as many down as possible, because I know this time in his life is going to fly past in a blink.

Ask Hubby
After returning from our vacation, hubs learned that his position as floor manager simply "no longer existed".  Its a slippery way of demoting someone, and it stung that they did so without a) warning or b) personal delivery by any of his 4 bosses, all of whom we considered friends.  BUT, despite the fact that he no longer got a phone and car bonus, they assured him his pay would not be lowered.  So even with an insulting kind of  sneaky snake move like that, if he was going to be paid the same to essentially do less work, we were happy to grin and bear it for the next six months.
This week they told him that actually, the pay would drop.  By 20%.  He had until Monday to decide about the new contract.

I wrote a nice resignation letter for him, and an even more kick-ass cover letter for a job opening the Council is trying to fill.  Taz dropped it off and told his bosses "Thanks, but no thanks."  He'd rather dig holes for more money, happily for the next 6 months.

Personally, I don't mind if he just got a part time job somewhere and watched Amelia while I worked, even traveling with me every so often.  No doubt he will find something to do.  We have 5 months left on this lease to figure out what we want to do After Small Town.

So that's a big turnaround from "we may or may not stay here" to "fuck you guys, I'm living anywhere but here" in a week.

Ask Me
Despite a massive Greyhound fail that resulted in my being stuck on the side of the road in the middle of the Australian inland nothing-ness for four hours and missing Thursday night, I managed to squeeze enough hustling into 2 nights to earn roughly twice what I used to in a week back home.

More on work in a post later.   Guess what else we did!! We picked a guy for our first 2-guy threesome!  Well, we soft-picked him, it isn't cast in stone because we haven't met face-to-face yet.  But still, its been quite a process and actually a lot of fun to go about saying "Hello internet world. I want to fuck.  Any takers?". I feel very safe because of Hubby, and I don't know if I would be as brazen if I was just a single chick on her own.  There's been a lot of talk about the swinger subject in our house lately.  Turns out, conversation is a turn-on in its own right, and I am so glad we don't have neighbours right now.

That's all I have time for.  Prez seems very clingy this week and I want to give him a lot of undivided attention.  It means the housework is less than accomplished, but meh.  Mamma brought home the bacon this week....hmmm....wonder if there's a house cleaner in the budget?