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Celebration

WOO HOO WOO HOO OH YEAH!

Just wanted to take this brief moment to celebrate the fact that in less than 24 hours I will no longer be employed by an unnamed organization whose director drives me crazy.  SO,

WOOO HOOO!  I AM SO HAPPY, SO VERY HAPPY! 

Just so you know, it has been a very long day and this just feels great.

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BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

A NOTE OF WARNING:  I read this little post of mine and all I could think of was blah, blah, blah.  So, if you are bored while reading just remember I WARNED YOU!

So, I guess an update has been requested.  Really don't have much going on in my life.  Just work, work, work.  I recently took a promotion in one of my many jobs.  Thought to myself I might as well work full time somewhere and quit one of my other jobs and then I will have more time.  Was a great thought.  Notice I say WAS a great thought.  So far hasn't turned out that way.  While I am now only working two jobs instead of three life seems to have just gotten more and more busy.  I work 40 hours as a co-manager and then work 20 hours as a case manager, plus I just moved into a new apartment.  Which I have no time to enjoy AND I am tired of doing nothing but work.  Man I think what a life.  There basically is nothing to my life but work so basically I have no life.  AUGH!  Of course I have nothing to complain about I have done this all to myself.  But work work work has made me one boring person.  I guess my life needs some shaking up. 

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Cleaning is a waste of time

Cleaning can be such a waste.  I really think maybe it should be outlawed.  Every week I develop a plan to tackle cleaning my apartment.  Yes, my apartment, my very simple one bedroom apartment.  You would think that I wouldn't need a plan for something like that.  But anyone that knows me knows that I make a plan for everything.  You would also think that since I am a person that plans everything that I would also be a person that is very organized.  And let me tell you I LOVE to organize.  The problem is I am just tired of cleaning.  How my love of organizing and my hate of cleaning go together puzzles me.  

Anyway, back to cleaning.  Today I decided I was going to clean my apartment because I know good and well my life is going to take on a serious I am too busy for life outlook after this weekend.  So, I decided to start with the kitchen.  I scrubbed and wiped and washed and swept and scrubbed and mopped and all kinds of other yucky stuff.  The kitchen looked beautiful.  I then lit some wonderful smelling candles from the best candle shop in the world and stood back and admired.  Of course after that I was hungry for lunch so I fixed it and now the kitchen isn't so beautiful.

After my lunch break I attacked the bathroom.  It is extremely small but a pain in my rear end.  It never fails that the bathtub has to be gone over inch by inch with scrubbing.  I love my bathtub to really shine.  Did all the surfaces after that and then swept and mopped.  Lit another wonderful smelling candle from the best candle shop in the world and stood back to admire.  Of course after that I was achy all over from scrubbing the tub and decided I needed a soak in the tub.  Not it is not so shiny. 

After my soak in the tub I surveyed the situation.  My kitchen was no longer beautiful and my bathroom was no longer shiny.  What a waste of a day.  I decided why bother with the living room.  I would just get it all pretty and would want to knit or read or watch TV in there and of course it wouldn't be so pretty anymore.  And why bother with the bedroom I would just get it all nice looking and it would be time for bed and then I would mess up my hospital corner sheets and it wouldn't be nice looking anymore.   So basically I decided to give up.  Cleaning should only be done on days when you know your not going to get hungry, achy, sleepy, or anything else that will just mess up the place.  Also it shouldn't be done when it is so sunny outside.  Who wants to be cleaning indoors when the sun is shining?  I think I will just wait until it rains.  Of course, then I would clean and have to walk the dog in the rain and we would come in and mess up the floors with our rain soaked feet, so I guess I shouldn't bother then either.  I guess I will just give up on the cleaning, of course eventually it will get so bad that I won't be able to stand it anymore and I will have to clean because while I hate to clean, I also hate my apartment to be dirty.  I really am filled with weird combinations.

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Only Doing My Job!

I work at one of those clothing stores that requires the sales associates to ask all those annoying questions while you are checking out.  Here is a typical sales transaction...

SA (Sales Associate):  Hello, did you find everything today?

C (Customer):  Yes.

SA:  This is a wonderful outfit you have picked out, are you sure you don't need any shoes to go with it?  They are buy one get one pair half price.

C:  No, not today.

SA:  Oh, I see you have a necklace here, our jewelry is also buy one get one half, would you like another item.

C:  (Goes and looks again at jewelry and returns with earrings)  Thank you for telling me about the sale.

SA:  (As she rings up items)  I am going to ring a magazine up with your items today as well.  It will charge you $3.95 for the magazine but will save you  $5.00 so you are basically saving $1.05 after the cost of the magazine.

SA:  (Does not wait for a comment about the magazine) Your total today is $XXX, would you like to apply for a Store Credit Card.

C: No thank you

SA:  It would save you an additional 15% off your purchase if you are approved in the store today.

C:  No.

SA:  Are you sure, you get a free gift just for applying.

C:  NO!

SA:  Okay then your total was $XXX 

SA:  Thank you for shopping today and have a great day.

Let me say it is a bit annoying to have to do this questioning.  Especially the one about the charge card.  We are supposed to get that no answer THREE times before we give up.  I know as a customer that I don't appreciate that kind of nonsense.  However, I do feel for those associates in all the other places that ask too.  There is a certain amount of charges we have to get every week.  I am supposed to be getting 5 per week.  I am only working around 15-20 hours a week at this place right now and it is in small town USA.  Nobody wants a charge.  Everyone that wants one has one.  Those that do want one but don't already have one probably aren't going to get one for reasons beyond my control.  People get tired of us asking.  I get tired of asking.  My short but informative transaction between the SA and C was a nice one.  Often times I get yelled at or cursed at for doing my job... 

C:  I am ******* tired of you stupid people asking me about this ****.  WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING IT. 

SA:  (Smiling)  I am sorry for the inconvenience but it is part of my job.

C:  Why the **** don't you just remember that you ******* asked me to sign up last week?

SA:  (Still smiling, but biting tongue)  Again, I am sorry but I deal with numerous people every day and while I try to remember everyone I sometimes forget.  Plus, even if I did ask you last week it is part of my job to ask every customer, every time they shop here to sign up for a charge.

C:  That's just a bunch of bull ****.  I am never ******* shopping here again.

Customer then storms out of the store only to return again on the weekend when we have another big sale.

I deal with a rude customer about once a day, not always to that extreme, but of course the customer is always right.  I simply smile and say I am sorry all the while biting my tongue and gritting my teeth just waiting for that moment when I can escape to the back room and be irritated without the smiling and biting and gritting. 

Each day when I go to work, I go with the intent of doing my job and doing it well.  The company mandates most of what happens and they feel it is important to ask people to sign up for a charge.  Part of my job that I don't always agree with or want to do,  but it is part of my job that if I don't do or make my goal I could get fired over.  So, I am asking each of you to be a little nicer to that person across the way from you at the store.  They are only doing their job. 

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Dealing With Trash!

I would like to know what people have against putting their trash in the proper place.  I am constantly having to deal with trash.  At my apartment building the neighbors seem to think that their trash belongs everywhere but in the trash cans.  I have often found their trash bags thrown next to the trash cans, why not in the trash cans.  (This is the I almost made it to the can approach.)  Of course the neighborhood dogs seem to love this, for they rip open the bags and dig out all of the trash which they then deposit all over the place.  I have also found the neighbors trash in the hallway outside their door.  (This is the I gave it a good try approach.)  Sometimes their trash gets placed on the front step of the building, not in a trash bag or anything, just sitting on the step.  They simply open the door of their car and place the trash right on the step.  (This is the I may trash the area, but not my vehicle approach.)  However I must say my all time favorite spot I have found my neighbors trash is right in the middle of the driveway.  Basically they took their bags of trash out on the balcony and dropped them into driveway below.  (This is the I am way too lazy, but my trash stinks approach.) 

Might I ask what is so hard about dealing with trash?  Somehow each week millions of people manage to get their trash out to the curb so the wonderful garbage collectors can do their jobs.  I myself manage it each and every week and often manage to get my neighbors trash there too.  I did not take a class to learn this task, I seemed to know what to do without a written tutorial.  Perhaps I should write one...

  Taking out the trash in three simple steps.

1.  Collect all trash into one bag and tie the bag closed.

2.  Walk your lazy butt all the way to the trash can outside the apartment building.

3.  Place bag INSIDE the can!

I am sure that this is a simple set of instructions that anyone could follow.  Please feel free to use this for your own benefit if you also deal with the trash issue in your neighborhood.