I moved in with Andy and his dad in the summer of 2008. I got a job relatively quickly at WalMart as a cashier. I hated that job. The hours sucked, there were never enough, and some of the customers were just nightmares. Right around my one year there mark, I got trained to work at the service desk- they refused to change my actual job title though because that would mean they had to pay me more per hour, which is a big no no at WalMart! Around February 2010 I became bored with the customer service type job and thought I would give factory work a shot, so I got a job where Andy worked at the time. It payed $1.40/hr more then when I left WalMart so that was pretty sweet to me. I also got a minimum of 40 hours everyweek, which was also pretty sweet. I was busy paying off all of my credit cards and student loans and was starting to actually save some money in hopes of being able to move out soon. We were on our way to work a few days before the winter shut down when the car broke down. We pulled over to the side of the road and had to wait on a tow truck. Since we were using our roadside assitance, we waited for 5 hours befor the truck got there. We could at least turn the car on to get warm. Turns out it was the transmission and we didn't have the money to get that fixed- the car had close to 200,000 miles anywho- so we got a loan to get a new car. The salesman was a pro....showed me the car I'd wanted for a while and that was all she wrote. Now we drive a 2007 Chevy Cobalt. Having to now pay a car payment and ridiculous insurance rates, that put the damper on getting to move out anytime soon.
I had been at the faactory for about a year, and I was now tired of that place, too. The new supervisor we got was a real jack ass who treated us like his slaves. I couldn't work in conditions where we were never praised and only told we weren't good enough. I applied to NEW for a job at a DTV agent. I was pretty stoked when I got that job, because after the six weeks of training in Terre Haute, it was a work from home job! I got to sit in my jammies all day and get paid :) The raises came fast and I was not even remotely disappointed. I didn't really like the job much because of unmentioned reasons (they will not be added here because some of the people I worked with will read this and it doesn't need to be known).
Fall 2010 came and I started becoming really mean to Andy. Like, mean to the point of telling him that I was going to leave him because I could do better. I had a get away planned and everything. I was going to go away for three days and rethink things a bit and see where we were going. Two days before I was to leave, it came to my realization that I hadn't had my menstral cycle that month. I thought it was maybe stress but I had a pregnancy test around just in case- I had bought 2 the last time there were concerns of a pregnancy. Andy left for work that day and I took the test. The whole 25 seconds it took to read out "pregnant" went on for about 100 years. It was a digital test, so there was no denying it. I had a small breakdown in the bathroom after calling my mom and not getting an answer. I was so incredibly scared and worried because I was still thinking that I didn't want to be with Andy anymore (it took about a month or so after that to realize it was crazy pregnant lady hormones :)). My mom called back and calmed me down- but you could hear the excitement in her voice. She's always wanted to be a grandma. Andy came home that night- he got here before I got off work- and since I couldn't hold it in anymore, I pointed him to the location of the positive test. He found it...and was just as speechless as I was. The last ten minutes of my shift took forever.
We discussed it a little bit after I got off work and I went to WalMart and bought six more. Don't judge me! :P They were positive, too.
And this is where we end this episode of Ashley meeting Andy. :) It's obviously not meeting anymore, since we obviously were doing other things ;), but this is the back story to get us to today
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