11 posts tagged “work”

Denver Trip

Day 3

8-20-08

Gilmore Girls

I love vacations, even when I have to wake up at 6:30 in the very, very AM. Today I have my doctors’ appointment at the Women’s Center for an annual exam I’ve put off for a couple of years. The doctors’ office is close to mom’s work, so she is going to take me on her hour lunch break. Which of course means I had to come to work with her. I could not find a internet connection so I grabbed disk 3 of the second season of Gilmore Girls and am having a small marathon in a corner empty desk. I’ve had 1.5 cups of coffee so far and a single bite of Slim-Fast Optima Chewy Granola Chocolate Chip Bar. I’ve only had one bite because my stomach immediately rejected that single bite and there’s not much chance of me eating anymore unless I become starved. (Which might happen cause, I don’t think mom planned food in this day, lol!) I might have her drop me off at the mall after the doctors’ appt. Yummm, over priced food court pizza…every mall has that right??? One can hope.

Helecoptor

The visit was the best one I have had, ever. From now on I have to come to CO once a year for this exam. We ate burgers down in the hospital cafeteria, my Turkey, Bacon Cheeseburger and fries were delicious. Mom dropped me off at the mall where I found the pizza area and grabbed what looked to be a supremely delicious pepperoni/olive pizza, looks can be deceiving. I hate to say it, but this mall was boring. There was not a single place that sold DVD’s or CD’s, and the only electronic store was Radio Shack, I won’t even go into that store as everything is twice the cost it should be. So I found a place to get a 20 minute massage for $20, it felt great! I decided to go for a walk and ended up walking crossing four six lane roads (at the stop lights) and taking a bridge over a highway before finding myself at Mom’s place of work. I may have taken one wrong turn at some point too. But I made it, in thirty minutes no less.

As a person, Mom’s boss is very nice. I may have jumped on him for turning off the air conditioning a little after I arrived because I was still hot from my walk. The sun IS a mile closer after all, and even though I pretty much walk everywhere I can walk to, I still get hot. We had great conversations about school and getting through it and what to do after ward. He told me that I needed to come live in Colorado. A woman mom does not like came in and accused me of being my mom’s replacement. I rolled my eyes. Then it was time to go.

Mom's House

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The trip back did not seem to take nearly as long as it did yesterday. Of course I was not feeling sick either. We stopped at King Soopers for a few provisions before making our way the few blocks back to the house. I made a pizza and we lay in bed eating it while watching Eureka, then mom went to bed and I went on to watch Dead Zone, Ghost Hunters International and something else that was so unimpressive apparently, that’s I’ve forgotten what it was!

Audree

Do you ever wonder why the most random things will begin huge changes in the way you see things? I believe that everything happens for a reason, everything from what I watch on TV to what happened at work. It all has lessons built within. Ready to teach me whatever I am meant to learn for the day. As my life progresses the lesson meanings change to fit what is happening now, and new lessons emerge.

Today I began to look at my life with God and my life in general. We walk through life praying that by some miracle your house will clean itself up. That the pounds would just drop off in your sleep one night, no dieting or exercising required. That the knowledge you need would magically appear in your brain like some scene from The Matrix. Your cat would stop scattering your things around the house in boredom. Your bills won’t be too high. Please let me win the lottery! I meant the big one…

In reality perhaps he IS answering our prayers, by not answering them at all… If God cleans your house up for you how will you learn to clean it yourself? He’s not going to do it every time, maybe you have a maid, but that maid won’t always be there.

So the pounds just drop off in your sleep. You did nothing to get there! How do you keep something off if you didn’t fight to get there in the first place? Maintaining…I’m told, can be just as hard as loosing.

Okay so the whole knowledge thing would be really cool too. I often find myself begging for a photographic memory. I can do the reading, I just want to remember it. Shoot I would love to even remember some of it. My memory is so Swiss cheesed I can write my own book and be unable to tell you anything about it a week later. So your given the ability to look at the cover of a book and have it all downloaded into your brain. Where was the work in that? The satisfaction of learning? Still wish I had it though…

Your animal is destroying your home out of boredom…like that’s ever going to stop…give it up! Stopping it would require messing with your animals’ personality! Let’s face it, the only reason you still have your animal is because you love them and there personality.

Your bills are too high, you can effect the outcome to this one yourself. Use less electricity, buy energy saving products, if they raise the rate, switch companies! Renting movies throwing you off balance financially, rent less, or stop until you can figure out what else you can cut. Go down a package on your cable channels etc…

All easier said then done.

I think that we have to power to grant a lot of our own prayers, think about it. And what we can’t make happen ourselves? Then that’s where God steps in.  

…are unanswered prayers.

These days my schedule seems to become more and more booked. As I go through my normal stage of working on loosing weight and all that entails I have also found that if I don't get at least 8 hours of sleeps I am more hungry the next day and I go off my diet more easily.

So I will start my day with 8 hours of sleep, which takes a whole hunk of time out.
The next giant hunk of time will go to 8 hours of work. 16 hours gone right there. (That's if I don't have to stay beyond my shift.) (And staying beyond happens a lot.)
30 minutes of running/walking
30 minutes to get to my next area.
30 minutes of swimming or biking (training for a Triathlon.)
30 minutes to get home...opps there goes 2 more hours! 18 hours gone.
Now I need to take time out for looking for a house and wedding planning. The time taken out for this will differ on whether or not I go physically look at a house or wedding item or just look at the pictures and talk to the real estate company on the phone. But whatever happens let's go ahead and take out 2 hours here. 20 hours gone with the wind.
Give me an hour to do what I WANT on the computer or I will have a nervous break down, which leaves only three hours left of my day.
The last three hours are normally taken up with entertaining. Not MY entertainment...no. Entertaining the guests in my apt or spending time with Matt and his family.  And before you know it, it's time to start all over again.

Could you imagine if I was trying to go to school too? I don't know what I'm going to do when I start spending an hour on each exercise. I'm going to have to start packing soon. (Shudder) But honestly looking around...wow...packing might be quick this time.

Oh, but what ever happened to me waking up, going to work then doing whatever I wanted for the rest of the day?!? LOL!  

I woke up and things only got worse from there. A car swerved to hit me on my way to work, I jumped backward  and the car literally brushed against my legs. I got to work only to find that NO one was there! Someone was suppose to be there an hour before but the place was empty. I was trying to get my stuff done, get someone called in at 6 in the morning, all the while over head announcements were blaring that our food was here and someone had best come pick it up...now! I got someone in only to find out that, that person was supposed to close that night. Things were falling, time had slowed down to an almost standstill. We didn't get in the food we needed. Then after a LONG day my boss who was supposed to come in and relieve me was a few hours late. Then I got to go back to work and close to take the place of the employee I brought in that morning.

Not a good day.

Part 1

                I woke up today with an incredibly pressing feeling for the need of a major change. It’s not going to happen anytime soon, I’ve resigned myself to this fact, but I need to get started with it anyways. I’ve bought little round, colorful stickers and am going to try and bring home some boxes tonight after work.

The Plan:

Project Downsize = When I move it’s most likely going to be to a new state so I’m going to need to minimize drastically. None of the last minute crap that never get’s finished. There are four colored stickers, Yellow, orange, green and pink…or is it blue not green…it matters not.

Stickers will be labels as followed: K = Keep, S = Storage, D = Donate and U = Unsure.

I would only be putting stickers directly on large items, all other stickers would simply go on the boxes, and the boxes filled with the items. Obviously if the item is a K, then it’s not getting packed yet. Donation items will be moved out ASAP, I’ll need to get a tiny storage unit for S, and that might take awhile. The things going to storage would be things I’m going to want to settle down with, but not willing to take with me on my travels, for money sake.

I’ve been thinking about my box of shirts. These are shirts that have a lot of meaning to me, but they take up a lot of room. (I’m a pack rat if you can’t tell.) I think I’m going to cut out the small designs that are really the part that is the memory and put them in a small mailing box. Then I could maybe make a quilt with them later in life and in the meantime they will take up almost no space.

I’ve already taken all my CD’s and DVD’s and put them in CD sleeves, so that instead of carrying around boxes of CD cases and DVD cases I am only moving zipped up binders.

For storage items I think I’m going to buy more Bankers Boxes (The filing boxes). They are small enough to carry even when full. Sturdy, have a lid and very organized. Everything should fit on top of each other neatly, without worry.

Part 2

My weight, it has to come off! At the beginning of January I traded my surgery Dr. Pepper for un-sweet tea. I also took out a lot of the surgery items I love and instantly GAINED 10 pounds. So step one is a stop to the Redi-Clinic where I am going to have a women’s health panel done which includes:

Cholesterol Profile, Glucose, Liver/Kidney function, Complete Blood Panel, and Thyroid.  All for $69 and they take my insurance!

Step two depends on the thyroid and Glucose portion of step one.

Part 3

I’m going to go back to school, which means I need my licenses and a car fairly quickly. Come the fall semester I want to take my classes AT the school and work my way to a registered nurses degree like I had always planned.

Life is short. Take chances while you can and don’t regret anything.

To continue my Superbowl madness blog, I went to work yesterday and was immediately pulled into a game of spying. Occasionally we get customers who like to order food, eat it and for whatever reason throw away the container without paying for it first. Some just forget, a lot know what they're doing. We had one customer who was so distraught upon reaching home and realizing he had done it, that he called and told us he would be coming back to pay for it later that night. He did, and to to this day, in my three years with this company, has been the only one.

Well yesterday a large group of high schoolers came in and one ordered from the Cafe. My boss watched him as he stood in line with his friends at the check out but never get close enough to pay. Then his friends left and he was left alone with the box that his unpaid food had been in. Noticing that my boss was watching him he stopped looking at the garbage can and walked off back towards the check outs. This is when I came in, she grabbed me before I could get in the case and explained what was going on.

We watched as he got out of the check out line again and begin to slowly walk to the other side of the store where he stopped at Beer and Wine. After looking around aimlessly every once in awhile looking to see if we were still near he went back to the checkout lanes. He stopped to talk to some friends and just looked around for awhile until finally a look of defeat appeared on his face and he went to the self check out lanes and paid. That was a fun start to my work day. :)

Superbowl Sunday for me began at 5am after a night of nightmares, it then proceeded to become hell day at work where crowds to rival Christmas threw themselves at my place of work where people refused to make since, screamed and complained, all the while I am running none stop from 6-330pm. By the time I left, my feet; felt like someone was stabbing them and my pedometer had gotten turned so it counted exactly 200 steps. I went home, and peeled off my clothes. At 4:45 Matt and I left to run get Shirley her glasses from Kelly's and grab a bucket of chicken nuggets from McDonalds. We planned to get back by 5 to see the kick off...only things did not go quite as planned. In the next hours, I saw the apartments next door catch fire, got lost, found a park, went mudding, saw a wedding cake decoration contest, saw a car accident, dialed 911, talked to a police officer, waited for an ambulance ate a giant chicken salad sub and went home in time to see the start of half time.

Well I can tell you one thing, life is not boring! Right now that is...

I decided to go ahead and stop drinking Dr Peppers (or any other Colas) a week ago. The first three days were easy, there was no temptation around, I had my Migraine pills within reach and I was keeping my thirst busy by always having a bottle of water or unsweetened tea at hand. However when I'm tired my resolve weakens and I show all the signs of withdrawal. It is now day five and I have just worked two 6am shifts and have been unable to take a nap because of my schedule. I'm not thirsty for a soft drink but I am not the nicest person at the moment. It's taking everything in me not to bite anyone who dares talk to me, head off.

I'm almost willing to start drinking soft drinks just to feel like myself again! But I wont.

Wish me luck!

What is your daily commute like?  What is the weirdest thing you've seen on that commute? 
Submitted by E. 

Well I have no car so I had to plan carefully where I was going to live. It seems half the employees at work has no car either and lives in the exact same area. In order to get and from work I have to walk. On a good day, no traffic, the light is green, and no car is trying to run me down then I can get to work in seven minutes. On a normal day, I leave fifteen minutes early.

I live in the back of my neighborhood, so first I have to get to the front. There is a lake in the middle, so I like to take the sidewalk that go's by the lake everyday. Unless of course it's mosquito season, then it's steer clear of all bodies of water. In order to get out of the neighborhood you have to cross a gate. Of course there would only be on entrance, and it would be on the other side of the neighborhood. At some point someone knocked a bar from the gate giving the average human just enough room to get in and out.

For the next portion of the journey you can either stay on the hilly trail next to the fairly busy road, or walk in the road. The drivers are a little insane around here so for the most part I stay on the trail. There is a bridge you have to cross that at the right time of day, when the sun is rising or setting and there is a cool breeze, I love to stop in the middle of it and just let the calm wash over me. Towards the end, the trail turns into a swamp, so you have to walk in the road, and of course the reason there is a swamp is because of a sprinkler system that runs for hours every day and night. The sprinkler system is set right where the street floods even if it only looks like rain, so your going to have to walk across the street here to get by it, or get your socks and shoes soaked. 

Before you know it, your at the stop light. This light is one of the fastest you will ever see, At least it is for someone trying to walk (or run) across it. The light for you to go only turns green after a car hits the sensors, there is no button to tell it that you need to go across like all the other light have. So you wait, wait and wait some more. Then finally a car comes and hit's the sensor. Then you wait for the the other car's light to turn yellow then red. As the line of cars you were waiting for begin to go you can walk to the middle of the six lane street. But the moment the last car goes that light turns yellow and unless you are running really fast the other light is going to turn green while you in the middle of the road, and the people in the expensive cars could care less if your standing in it when it's time to go.

I have no idea how many very close calls I have had on that busy street. Most of which with Camaros, Bugs, Mustangs etc. One or two were not there fought, they could not see me running across because there view of me was blocked by a bus or something. But most of the time I'm within clear view and they choose to ignore this fact. All well, it's the risk of going to and from work. I wonder how many points I'm worth?

That's pretty much where the journey ends by the way, across the street is the parking lot of my job. So what was the weirdest thing I have ever seen on my route to work? On clear sunny days, around 2 in the afternoon, I will be walking to work when I will hear Owls hooting above me in the trees! Owls around here do not seem to be very nocturnal. Then of course there was the tall, very white dude, walking through my parking lot with the biggest afro I have ever seen.   

I'm still here. Hiding in a corner until the world stops closing in around me. I'll be back before I leave for California. <sigh>

My grandma died...
Theres water dripping from my ceiling....
My ceiling and wall have turned brown...
And is mildewing...
And smells...
The apartment manager is ignoring me about it...
My employees are fighting at work...
I'm just getting over a nasty cold...
Still having trouble breathing...
Might have a stomach virus coming...
Have no sick days or holidays or anything left...
Went $2 overdrawn Wed....
Some how the overdraft fee sparked another overdraft fee...
Which sparked another overdraft fee...
I can't figure out how I went overdrawn in the first place...
I can't sleep...
I'm either exstremly hungry, no mater how much I have eaten...
Or about to puke at the mere site of food.
The money I was supposed to get for referring a friend to my apt was instead credited to my account...
Then they charged me to much for my rent and took it out of that credit.
And they took out  of my credit for utilities...
Which I don't pay...
Cause I'm on the assisted living program...
Cause I make no money...
I'm poor...
Now I have to fight the apt's on two major issues...
I hate fighting with people...

I'm hiding in the corner.
I'm the one with the blanket over her head.
Though it's a camo blanket...
So you can't see me.