Corin Nava

Uggghhh, Well I am officially the biggest sucker around. This weekend at work really sucked. I have been trying to cut back my hours to 4 days a week but it just isn't happening and I keep being pushed into 5 days. This week I agreed to work the 5 days if I had 2 half days. Well the half days were ok, but then this weekend I ended up working 9 hours yesterday and 11 hours today so how is that really cutting back. I am sitting here swollen, sore, tired and frustrated! We were so busy these last two days-I am in the process of training 2 new employees one of who has NO cake decorating experience at all! Management looks down and sees 3 people working full days and thinks wow they should be fine. Meanwhile I am running around trying to train, fill the case, do back up cakes, clean the bakery, do ordering, work with customers and do 70 cake orders in 2 days including a wedding cake and 15 "signature" cakes (big carved cakes). Instead of getting my manager (who can cake decorate) to help me she suggests I come in on my day off and when I tell her no she says o well things always work out! Yeah they do, because I make them work out! Because I end up working 11 hours only stopping to pee. They have one of the new girls working by herself tomorrow (which she is not ready for) and I know if I leave any orders in her hands she won't be able to even attempt at handling it and probably will quit! Even as I sit her typing I am thinking about how she isn't ready for tomorrow and considering going in to help. I care too much! My biggest issue right now is knowing that this won't be the last week like this. It is going to take atleast a month or so to train our new Full Time Cake Decorator b/c she has never done anything like this before. With the holidays coming up-I just don't see how this is going to work w/o me working full weeks. I keep telling them I can't do this-I am having too many health issues right now and CANNOT be the dependable hard worker I have been, I NEED to take it easy. But they don't listen-and I know it is my fault. I let them do this to me. I do this at every job I have until I get so fed up with it I leave one day and can't get myself to go back in the next day. I don't want that to happen here, but...

OK there is my vent. Uggghhh-I need to stand up for myself.

On a much higher note-I got my pictures back from Babyangelpics.com One of them came out so beautiful-I really love it! The other didn't come out as good-I think there was just too much stuff on his face for them to remove. They had to come up with his nose and mouth and it just doesn't look right to me. But I really appreciate what they did. It is so wonderful- I would highly suggest any other angel mommies who have NICU pics to look into it! I will try to post the pictures below before and after of the good one-if not I will post them in my album.

We finally got a definite place to have Gabe's birthday celebration! We are going to be having it at a Veterans Hall in Charlestown, RI. They were so helpful and kind they gave it to us for free! Now to finish planning and sending out invitations. It is going to be a busy couple of weeks!