I feel like on my journey, it has always been one step forward, three steps back. I was *supposed* to go in to my first day of work tomorrow, but of course on Sunday night at the 11th hour, I get a personal phone call from the director of Human Resources. Hey we’re sorry but we don’t have your computer login information ready and have your HR paperwork ready for you to start tomorrow. They told me to get my AAC credentials figured out because they are pending in the state of Washington through the Dept of Health.

Wait. Let me back up. An AAC is an Agency Affiliated Counseling certification which allows me to perform my job duties. My company, back when I was working there in 2021 messed up my paperwork because they never sent it in; meaning their portion for my application because all the application process includes is my personal info, yes I work for said company, said company puts in that I am their employee, and they send the application fee.

So when the head of HR calls me tonight saying that my AAC is still pending, I google it after we get off the phone and I look through old emails and I find that the wrong application was submitted because my credentials had expired so essentially I just fill out an expired credential application form, and pay some extra fees and go from there. So I call the lady back with my good news and I state that I have this either 90 or 180 day grace period to get my AAC reinstated so I ask if I could come in and work tomorrow and she says that HR still doesn’t have all my paperwork and everything ready for me to start tomorrow so she said she would call me tomorrow and we will go through there. I asked in the first conversation if I could start on Tuesday if I got everything figured out and she said yeah most likely.

So despite me not being told to come into work tomorrow, I am going to have my application filled in to the best of my ability, and go in and have them fill out their portion and I think they will pay the $300 ish dollars worth of fees and then hopefully they figure their shit out so I can work and get paid, OR worse comes to worse, I get admin pay to go home and wait to work.

Prior to all of this happening, I decided to be very productive in my self care and working out. After I went hiking and nearly passed out on the 4th of July, I really buckled down on the concept that I need to make a change in my lifestyle choices. I mean, I go to the doctor regularly, and I have been eating better and losing weight. However, I don’t ever work out because of my ankle and the fact that my mental health medications make it so I never want to work out and my stamina is lower. But last week, I went to the gym twice, two days in a row, and I am thinking after I go into work on Monday even if it’s for fifteen minutes or if it’s for an eight hour shift, I will work out after work. This weekend I took off because my legs and glutes are sore lol. I am hoping that tomorrow I will get back into it and do some machines.

So instead of working out today, I finished my only load of laundry and put my four baskets of clean clothes away. I made my bed. Lit my candle. Cleaned all the candy wrappers and soda cans out my room. Showered, cut my nails, did my face routine, and finally started to write for the first time in a hot minute. I am gonna paint my nails here in a second since all my tasks are now complete. Oh! I did my med box today, which is just what I call my pill organizer. Put in meds for the week so I’m taking all that on time and as prescribed.

I was very disheartened today when I heard I couldn’t go into work tomorrow like I should have considering I was also denied unemployment benefits because I “Didn’t have a legitimate reason to quit my job” and then they listed four criteria that would mean I did quit for a legitimate reason and I met all those four criteria so I gotta appeal the denial decision in order to fight for my three grand because that’s a lot of money to lose out on after getting screwed over.

So I got two main tasks.

1. get to work asap
2. get refund from unemployment of WA state.

I think it will all work out as it should it just never goes according to my plan; it only goes according to God’s plan. My emotions have been out of sorts these past few days but I think I should probably eat something and try to go to bed.

much love and thanks for reading,

Dani