Thank You, I have the most amazing people in my life!
This is a special Thank You to everyone who tweeted, retweeted, entered giveaways, commented on posts, shared, liked and commented on Facebook, and everyone that visits Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog!
I wanted to take a minute to say, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! You’re awesome, amazing, cool, great, outstanding, out of the world, the best darn group in blog land! YUP, that’s you!
Thank You For Helping Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog Win A Trip To L.A. California To Meet Flo the Progressive Gal!
It’s because of you, Jenn’s Blah Blah Blog is super-duper excited to announce we’ve won the trip to meet Flo The Progressive Gal! We’re not exactly sure when, sometime in late January or early February my husband and I will be meeting Flo. We’ll fly to L.A., California! I seriously owe all of it to you, my fabulous supportive friends!
I cannot tell you how blessed I feel, not to have won this trip, but I learned what an awesome support system I have. Regardless if I won or lost, I would have felt like a winner. I looked forward to reading everyone’s comments, checking out all the tweets and retweets, jumping on Facebook and chatting with my friends. I had some many people ask me what I needed help with, how I was doing, and let me know that they had my back! WOW, that’s an awesome feeling.
I’ve been dealing with a lot lately, I cannot tell you how much all this means. I’ve been planning on quitting my job come March, most of you already know that. Well there’s been a change of plans. I think someone more powerful than myself has decided it’s time to move on.
I don’t know if I would have stepped away from my job come March. I would have held my breath and prayed that everything got better. I’ve been working 10-14 hours days for the last 6 months, extremely short-handed. All I get from my boss is bitched at, the numbers are not there, things are not good enough, what will I do to fix them, blah blah blah. Where’s the support, the what can I do to help you? I don’t know, yea I know I am supposed to be able to lead my team to success, but it’s hard when you’re trying to be four different people in one day. To be 100% honest with enough is enough.
I am a super strong person that can take care of business, but I have to tell you I’ve never felt so rundown and unappreciated in my life. Especially when I am giving 150%, I was putting work before the needs of my family. Not for the job, but because I thought I had to have the job to give my family a good life. You know, have plenty of money, and all that materialistic bullshit that in the end doesn’t matter. I lost my head, and it will never happen again. There will never be a job that will be priority over my children.
My husband told it to me best. I was upset about the situation, being scared that I wont be able to give my children a good life. I want them to grow up better than I did, I think most parents do. My husband set me straight. He told me, “What do you remember about your childhood?” Okay so I thought about it, I remember certain little things that make me smile, smells, and how much my parents loved me. I don’t remember what presents I received. Why, none of that crap matters. Yea, I remember being broke, but it’s not what I hold in my heart. I hold memories, and my family close to my heart!
A person can only be unhappy for so long, before it really starts to get to them. I think that’s where I have been for the last year, it’s really been getting to me, and I know my family feels the stress as well.
I have been stressing, how we’re going to make it without my income, but I need to remember that everything happens for a reason. I honestly don’t know if I would have ever left my job. I think this is the only way I’ll leave. I know I have been unhappy, but I have also been at the same job for the last 7 years, started as a teller and will be leaving as a store manager. I made good money, so leaving a consistent paycheck for the unknown is scary, but its the road that I am supposed to take. It feel good, and everything seems to be falling into place. I know in a few months, I will look back at this and thank god for the way things happened.
Okay, sorry to have gone so far off subject, but this really means a lot to me! So this was wonderful news, and really made my day, my week and the next few months! I owe it all to you, my fabulous friends! I cannot thank you enough, you have helped me more than you will ever know!
Thank You!
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My hubby went through a similar experience with his job. He’d been doing his job for nearly 10 years. The company hired a new president and things went really bad. She’s a crazy workaholic and expected my husband to do way more than a single person can handle. He could never keep up and they were giving him a real hard time. It would have been great to quit. But he has a family to support. Finally they let him go, We knew it was coming and really when it finally happened it was a relief. He had to work another crummy job for a few months and then another company who knew of him tracked him down and offered him a job on the spot. He’s so much happier now. Things worked out in the end and we are MUCH happier now.
tHANKS, SO MUCH!!! IT IS A HUGE RELIEF! o Mines, more because I put my foot in my mouth, but knowing did it… I am sick of putting up with crap, corp america sucks when you give and give and give they take and take and expect and expect… It’s crap, I was putting my family aside for this and I WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN! Life takes us the way we are supposed to go, I let my boss know that she would have to tell me to leave, lol…. I think a higher power knows that I probably will not leave unless they make me.. It’s come to that, sucks but it is what it is. I used to love my job, was very good at it until we got this new boss and well everything has gone to crap… She expects me to come in earlier because one of the other managers do, hell I am already there until 8pm BANKING HOURS MY BUTT! omg, I will be so happy once it’s all said and done, honestly cannot wait it’s all going to be nice and work the way it’s supposed to I feel it in my bones!
I have my family and my husband is more supportive than I could ever ask for.. I am truly blessed to have the people in my life that I do, and that includes all of you as well. We might no see one another daily or really “know” one another, but without you nothing I am doing now would be worth it, I wouldn’t be able to become a full time blogger without ALL OF YOU AND I THINK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART I MEAN THAT THANK YOU!
Hi Jenn! Congrats!!!
:D:D:D I can feel you happiness, you work very hard and for long time to get your prize!!!! Enjoy this trip a lot! (Sorry if my english is not well written 
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THANK YOU, I AM SUPER EXCITED AND I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR SUPPORT WITH EVERYTHING!!!!!! YOU ALL ARE ALWAYS HERE FOR ME AND MY CRAZY IDEA’S AND WELL I ALWAYS GET MYSELF INTO STUFF LOL THANK YOU FOR BEING MY AWESOME FRIENDS!
i knew you would do it!!! i am so excited for you!!! i know everything is going to be amazing for you and your family. you rock!
Courtney, thanks so much your words mean so much to me! I cannot begin to tell you how amazing it feel and I cannot explain how much I appreciate everything everyone has done for me! There’s no way I could do any of this if it wasn’t for you!
Aweeeeeee Jen…….U deserve to go!!1 I\That’s why I voted as much as I did!!!! I just knew you would win!!! Have fun n Sunny California &take lots of pics!!!!
YOU KNOW I WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PINKY PROMISE! THANK YOU! Everything you’ve done means the world to me! Even if I wouldn’t have won, it wouldn’t have mattered! I learned a lot, I have some super awesome friends willing to help me out! I love Flo but what I learned means more to me than any trip!
This is such awesome news, Jenn! I never had any doubt that you would win!! As for your job, I’m sure that you’ll find something much better where you’ll be appreciated for all of your hard work, plus have the time you need for your family! Have a wonderful trip to California, have fun and RELAX!!
Thanks so much, you’re right about my job! To be honest my husband has helped me see what it is AND IT’S FREAKING AWESOME! I’ve been wanting to become a WAHM, was planning on March to be honest don’t know that I would have ever left…… I think it’s someones way of making me take the road I am supposed to, SO NOW TO FOCUS ON MY BLOGS AND MY AWESOME FRIENDS, AND MY SUPER DUPER AMAZING FAMILY THAT I HAVE PUSHED ASIDE FOR WORK! Thank will never happen again, my husband is amazing he is so supportive and caring dang I am a lucky girl!
I’m glad I voted and voted and voted and that this good has come out of it.
And kids remember being loved. They might pout if they can’t have the THINGS they want, but experiences mean more in the long run.
So glad you won the trip.
Thanks soooooooo much! you’re awesome and you have no idea how much you voting and voting and voting means to me! It’s gonna get me all teary eyed, geeze you guys are so awesome and thank you so very much you have no idea how much you’ve impacted my life!
Hi Jenn just wanted to say congrats on your going to meet Flo I know this is going to be so awesome for you I think shes such a neat person with her personality that is. Hope you have fun and enjoy yourself things like this don’t come along in life to a lot of us but, I am glad to have voted for you and know others are too. As far as your job goes your doing whats best for you and your family and no amount of money can give you as much joy in life as family can I understand we all want the best for our chidren I know I dd and for some of them it happened but, not for all. I know that God will only allow us to handle no more then we can and sometimes in life it takes us a while to realize that giving up something does not mean we have given in only that we have afforded ourself to become a better person for whatever reasons and yours is for family. God Bless You Dear and enjoy your self when you go and meet Flo Life is full of surprises and its your time now to enjoy one of those surprises.
Thank you so much for your kind words you’re awesome and I appreciate you very much! thank you for your kind words and I couldn’t agree more god only gives us what we can handle, I tend to worry too much lol, always have… I know everything’s going to be okay because I have what matters to me.. my job has turned me sour so to speak, it’s been horrible getting up and going for the last two years.. since I got a new boss it’s just been nothing is ever enough, unless everything is going good to make her look good when it comes to us having problems forget it there’s no support only anger and I don’t work well liek that I was raised to speak up and stand up for yourself take care of your family and do what needs to be done, I think I’ve been confused and let work control my life because I wanted to be able to give me kids what I didn’t have when I was younger, my husband woke me up…. YOU ARE RIGHT THERE IS NO MONEY IN THE WORLD WORTH SPENDING TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY I AM SUPER EXITED TO LOOK FORWARD TO BEING A WAHM!!!! IT’S BEEN SO LONG I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO SAY THAT FOREVER… I am not even gone from work yet, I figure it will be monday or tues before I leave, but I am looking forward to it… Crazy how we know what’s coming lol…. you would think I would be sad, but I am looking forward to it, because I will be able to stay home and raise my baby! wow, how awesome will that be, I will be mom all day everyday…. mom at home with my children, I’ve always wanted to know what it felt like to stay home! super exited and thank you for your wonderful comment makes me feel good to hear everyone else say the same thing..
Hi Jenn! Yay! Congrats! I’m so happy for you.! From what I’ve read with all the crap you’ve been through you deserve this more than anyone else.
God Bless
How fun to meet Flo. It’s funny those commercials used to drive me nuts when they first came out then they got better. Now I think Flo is a cool chick. I live in Ca. Not in L.A. though. The freeways are horrible. I know you’re all goinna have so much fun!
Congrats again!
Congratulations! I knew that you could do it!
thank you so very much you have no idea how excited i am and how much I appreciate all of your help and support
Yay!! A big congrats to you!
thank you so very much you have no idea how excited i am and how much I appreciate all of your help and support! All of you had an impact on me more than you’ll ever know and I cannot thank you enough for that
OMGosh! Congrats! So glad to hear you won! Enjoy and post lots & lots of pix!!
Congratulations !!!!!! So happy to see you won!!!
That’s pretty awesome news and then some. A million congrats to ya!
That’s fantastic! Good for you. I know many of us voted our little hearts out for you.
Such a great opportunity & you truly deserve it!
Getting out of a bad situation is always good!
I like your husband’s comment about childhood. And yours about never putting any job ahead of family.
One tiny thing…first paragraph, I think you meant “owe it all to you” rather than “OWN all of you”. Very different implications!
so true and thanks so much for you awesome comment! sorry I just now am getting back to this my blog was auto approving some comments and not others making miss out on ones that I did see come in…
I can certainly relate to that after working 25 years and going through 5 mergers and they just kept piling the work on adding more & more each time with less people. I was a supervisor over 3 areas without supervisor pay or title to go with my name. When I left in 2009 it was the best thing. It most likely would have benefited them to pay me & my co-workers what we deserved because in the long run, when I quit the other 2 under me quit. You know what it has taken 12 people to replace us 3 and they don’t even do a 1/3rd of what we did. Unfortunately my Hubby still works for that very company and keeps counting down. lol I think it’s something like 4 yrs 3months, and how many ever days I’m sure you get the drift. We do struggle a little more financially but still manage to put money in savings for retirement. So you know what that means no real nice vacations until he is retired and no extra material things for the household. Sure I’d like a new car because mine is 11 years old, and would love a nice updated home but hey there both paid off so I’ll just live with it for the time being. This is why I started entering contest & giveaway for things I’d like to have, but don’t have the budget for. I could go on & on but I’ll just leave it at that. Congratulations on getting to meet Flo real soon. I know I was one of your many fans that helped make that a reality for you.
Hey Sandra thank you so much for you comment! I really love getting to know you… thank you for everything, you’re helpful words are more appreciated than you know! If you ever need anything let me know I would love to return the favor… I AM SO GLAD TO HEAR OTHERS EXPERIENCE THE SAME THING AND BE OKAY… IT CALMS THE SOUL A BIT THANK YOU!