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is it just me, or a cell phones really not worth the hassle. okay, so it really saved my booty when i got a flat in the first 45 min. of a 3 day drive...and that day my car wouldn't start after church and nobody would help me b/c i had changed clothes so i could go to work (i'm assuming it was the clothes). but other than that, it really has been not so much fun. for me, at least. i guess i always live somewhere where there aren't many towers, so i get not so good reception, if that. so for the past few weeks, my phone hasn't let me make or receive phone calls. i discovered this while trying to meet my parents for dinner after work on day. very frustrating...i missed them and ate at home by myself instead. i was too fuming to go back into town. i've been told by people trying to call me that it just goes straight to vm, so they leave messages...but my phone doesn't register that, and won't let me call to check them anyway! and then there's this guy i'm mildly interested in who gave me his phone number, and just looked at me puzzled when i didn't return the favor...and the phone is conspicuously in my pocket. does it sound lame to say, "oh, yeah, i'd give you my number, but my phone won't let me make or receive calls. and if you leave a message, i'm not ignoring it, i just don't know it's there, and can't check it." no wonder he looked skeptical. "oh, this silly thing? yeah, i just carry it around for fun. nope, it doesn't work though. sorry." hm, i don't think i would believe me either. i have contacted the company though, and a plan of action is in place. i hope it works.
speaking of work, i had an interview the other day to get into a managment training program. there are only 4 slots and 8 of us applied. i don't interview well, but i think it went okay. it helped that the two people conducting the interview like me, and i like them. if i can laugh and get them to laugh, it makes me oh so much more comfortable. i won't know if i got in for a few weeks though. but if i get it, it will be another 8 weeks of training and classes before i can apply for a position as a manager. it's a complicated thing, and there are all these crazy rumors flying around. i can't do anything without the whole store talking about it, or making up their own versions of what took place. no lies...the whole store. and it's a big store. i came out of the interview, and by the next day, there's a rumor that i interviewed for department manager! i didn't even tell anybody what i was doing! so i told a bunch of people that if lies were going to be spread, they should be good ones...say i interviewed for store manager or something. they all laughed. i work with crazies. i did get sales associate of the month. i haven't decided if that's a good thing or not. it is decided and voted on by the department and zone managers...most of whom like me. but it makes things a bit sticky with other co-workers. i don't know, it's just weird. crazies, i tell you.
my parents should be home today. they went out of town for a week. it's been nice to have my "own space" again. but i really don't like that house. i swear it's haunted. creepy beyond all reason. my dad says i just get scared b/c it's a big house. i don't think so. it's really not that big. i've been in big houses before, and not been scared. okay, except that one time when i heard skritching noises in the wall. not so scary when i knew it was mice, but at night with darkness staring in all the windows and there's an unidentified noise coming from the walls...who can blame me for dashing upstairs and sitting quietly on the floor until my friend got off the phone. :)
i've been studying the PoGP recently. i'm really enjoying it. i've read it before. but not really studied. i'm reading a book called 'the blessings of abraham: becoming a zion people' at the same time. very interesting. i might even say deliciously interesting. not a word i use often. delicious. anyway, after reading a few passages, i end up sitting there just thinking and thinking and thinking. and when i realize, "hey, it's way past my bedtime!" i also think "wow, i've never thought about things that way before." i try to share my thoughts with my parents, but it just doesn't work. it's not the same. as what? i'm not sure.
speaking of work, i had an interview the other day to get into a managment training program. there are only 4 slots and 8 of us applied. i don't interview well, but i think it went okay. it helped that the two people conducting the interview like me, and i like them. if i can laugh and get them to laugh, it makes me oh so much more comfortable. i won't know if i got in for a few weeks though. but if i get it, it will be another 8 weeks of training and classes before i can apply for a position as a manager. it's a complicated thing, and there are all these crazy rumors flying around. i can't do anything without the whole store talking about it, or making up their own versions of what took place. no lies...the whole store. and it's a big store. i came out of the interview, and by the next day, there's a rumor that i interviewed for department manager! i didn't even tell anybody what i was doing! so i told a bunch of people that if lies were going to be spread, they should be good ones...say i interviewed for store manager or something. they all laughed. i work with crazies. i did get sales associate of the month. i haven't decided if that's a good thing or not. it is decided and voted on by the department and zone managers...most of whom like me. but it makes things a bit sticky with other co-workers. i don't know, it's just weird. crazies, i tell you.
my parents should be home today. they went out of town for a week. it's been nice to have my "own space" again. but i really don't like that house. i swear it's haunted. creepy beyond all reason. my dad says i just get scared b/c it's a big house. i don't think so. it's really not that big. i've been in big houses before, and not been scared. okay, except that one time when i heard skritching noises in the wall. not so scary when i knew it was mice, but at night with darkness staring in all the windows and there's an unidentified noise coming from the walls...who can blame me for dashing upstairs and sitting quietly on the floor until my friend got off the phone. :)
i've been studying the PoGP recently. i'm really enjoying it. i've read it before. but not really studied. i'm reading a book called 'the blessings of abraham: becoming a zion people' at the same time. very interesting. i might even say deliciously interesting. not a word i use often. delicious. anyway, after reading a few passages, i end up sitting there just thinking and thinking and thinking. and when i realize, "hey, it's way past my bedtime!" i also think "wow, i've never thought about things that way before." i try to share my thoughts with my parents, but it just doesn't work. it's not the same. as what? i'm not sure.