Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting day today! My morning started off, on the way to a meeting at the health department, by me getting the @#$% scared out of me! Our program director had left me a message asking to meet me at 3:00 today in her office. Little bit of history, last time this happened I was laid off and she was not so nice about it, so needless to say I was about to throw up (program note, she did apologize for the incident, but it still makes me jumpy). So, when I show up to work some of my co-workers are outside and of course I'm freakin' out in front of them. They get nervous and start checking THEIR messages, but of course its just me who is called in. When we get to work I went to my supervisor and plainly asked her if I was in trouble for anything (to which she said she didn't think so). It turns out that she has been called in for this meeting too. The program director heard how nervous I was and came in specifically to tell me not to be, nothing bad was going to happen.
So, at three o'clock I go to the meeting with my supervisor, program director, AND the vice president of the agency (teeny bit intimidating) and come to find out that I'm getting a RAISE! Could not believe it! It turns out that there is a new federal law that requires salaried employees to earn a minimum amount in order to be on a salary basis. I of course was not making the minimum. DHS would not give them more money to pay me more, so they rearranged my job title. I am now in my current program 85 % of the time and the other fifteen percent I'll be doing case management for families that use the crisis nursery (otherwise known as family enhancement). Not only did they give me a raise but now I have the opportunity to get more experience in other areas. And, they apologized profusely for how little I make and said that hopefully this will make DHS realize how little we make and re-evaluate that for our grant next year. Anyway, emotional rollercoaster today but it ended up alright. I definitely need a drink about now though!
I'm going to get up early tomorrow to make cookie bars and spiff things up around the house because I'm too jacked up to deal with it right now. I hope everyone had a great day!!! Take care and have a good night!