  The reason for my MIA status and other fun mentionables. . . Ok- long story short. After my review where I wasn't promoted- and highly pissed about it- I posted my vent on my livejournal. Those who aren't familiar with livejournal.com, it's basically like this, only you have your one journal- and then a list of friends who can view it, unless you privatize it. But basically, unless you specify friends only, or private- then anyone on the free internet can read it. Well- then it happened- after my interview at the ad agency, then the oh-so-timely meeting with my boss who said he now felt I was ready to promote- which prompted me to withdraw my resume from the agency. Well, a week later, after my boss's return from the UK, he called me into his office to discuss something. Well, apparently they get web usage reports- which I was unaware of. Generally speaking, I don't abuse the internet at work- but there are a few sites that I did (past tense) visit frequently. Livejournal being one of them. Well- that showed up in my history, my boss did some investigating and found my "venting" post about him and my job after the review.
#1- I was mortified. Not only was I afraid I was going to lose my job, but I also felt really bad. I was extremely upset and needed to vent (hence, the journal entry)- I don't really think my boss is how I framed him to be in my journal. #2- There are personal things on there that I was now embarrassed to have my boss know. Most of it just silly stuff, but still.
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Anyway- he also knew about the agency interview- from my livejournal posts (apparently he must have found it interesting enough to read a lot of it). He said that after mentioning it- we'd never bring it up again. There was no formal write up and he says I'll still be promoted. I learned a few really big lessons here. But aside from that drama- I've just been working feverishly to get all the mortgage and closing stuff together. We have awhile- but I want to be ready. No luck yet on a subletter for our apt. We might just have to bite the bullet and break our lease and pay out the ass for it.
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.. Wedding plans are coming along for the most part- I've actually got to start having alterations done on my dress soon- it's just only over 100 days away....holy cow. Anyway- still hoping that 7/17 will work for everyone- I'd love to get together.... 
