Seriously?

So yesterday ended up being quite the day for Allen. He dropped me off at work and went straight to Hannibal to the unemployment office to fill out the application for General Mills, where he was unexpectedly told he had to have a copy of his high school diploma or high school transcripts with him to even apply! (He's a college graduate for goodness sake, but they absolutely would not talk to him unless he had a copy.) Luckily, Grandma and PopPop have a fax machine so he got ahold of his high school back in Sturgeon and they faxed a copy of his transcripts over, but by the time he got the fax and went back to apply, their quota was already filled! They were only accepting 40 applications for General Mills! Can you imagine? If 600 people applied for the animal control office, can you imagine how many would have applied for this factory position!?! Allen said when he got back to the office there was a sign on the door letting people know that there were no more applications available. He was seriously bummed out, but then I got a text message from my mom at work. See, in the morning she had turned in the referral form for Allen and she said that the HR rep actually came to talk to her while she was out working on the floor. He told her that he was very interested in Allen and that he would be sure to have Allen's application pulled to the top. I of course called her immediately to let her know that he didn't even get to fill out the paper work, but lucky for us, Allen had already gone online a long time ago to fill out the very intial paperwork required by the unemployment office, so she let the HR rep know what had happened to Allen and the guy actually called the office to tell them to pull his app and to get ahold of Allen so he can take their math tests and other tests required for an interview! So, Allen gets to take the test on Friday! Sometimes it really does help to know someone on the inside! :) Oh and some other very exciting news, Allen stopped by the police dept to see if they had officially filled the position for animal control yet, and the lady said they were still checking backgrounds! :) So, there is still hope!

We have joked, that wouldn't it be wild after all of the applying Allen has done in the past year, that all of a sudden he will have two positive job opportunities!

Tonight we went swimming, and that's about it!

Brenda and Phil we are glad you made it home safe! Can't wait to come and see you again!

Love you all!