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I feel like I haven't posted a real update in ages. For pretty much the entire month of January I didn't really visit LJ. I thought after the holidays work would ease up a little, but I've been working mostly five days a week all month which is good for the bank account, but I started to fall behind in things and couldn't catch up for awhile. But I'm trying to stick to my resolution and balance my time a little bit better so hopefully I'll have time for more things.
So work's been okay. Like I just mentioned the hours have been better than I thought they would be. One lady who's worked there for awhile toward the end of the December mentioned not complaining about the number of hours we were working because after the holidays the hours would dry up. So I was surprised when that didn't happen. Though not everyone is working as much as me. In my second evaluation, my retail manager even mentioned it. He said that people had been working there even longer than me weren't getting five days and had been complaining about it, which I felt kind of guilty about. One of the girls complained enough about it that she got back one of the days she usually used to work, so the last couple of weeks I've been down to four days a week, which I'm fine with.
It makes me a little nervous to ask for a day off, which I will have to eventually. I can't work every single weekend and I need to get my hair done soon, since it's looking really crappy lately. And we need to start doing wedding things, which is going to take some time. The same girl who was complaining about her hours said that the retail manager who does the cashiers schedules can get a little vindictive, like she asked for a day off a regularly scheduled day off and after that he wouldn't schedule her on that day again and she was down to three days a week. I don't want that to happen to me.
The wedding is now a year away. So it's really time to start making plans. On the one hand my mom has been really great at making suggestions and offering to pay for things, but I'm feeling pressured to make decisions and she's already starting to drive me a little crazy. She did come up with a plan that she would pay for the venue, her husband would handle the limo stuff, my sister and aunt can help with photography since they both work in that area (at least part time), another aunt would help with flower. Michael and I still have to work on picking a honeymoon destination, invitations, and finding a venue. My mother kid of wore me down and I finally decided maybe having it closer to Orlando would be a good idea because so many of my aunts live there and it would make it easier to get their help in getting everything together if its closer to them. It doesn't really effect Mike's family since they have to fly in from far away anyway.
We found a couple of places in Orlando. But we just got an e-mail detailing the price of one of them and at 7k it's a little too expensive. My mom said she'd be able to pay for it but it has to be in the 3-4k range. Though Michael's grandmother said she'd be able to chip in 4K as well, which surprised me. But I didn't like the look of that place too much anyway. The other place we really liked also seems like it might be too expensive but they haven't gotten back to me yet on prices. Mike really likes the place because they provide you with a minister and a DJ for the wedding. It's a nice rustic looking place which has carriage rides as well. Mike's taking some time off in March and we're going to go up with our mothers and check some places out.
I think I've finally decided on a color scheme for the wedding - wine, sangria, and navy.
Mike's started school which is really great. I'm really proud of him, even though it's a little bittersweet since we were supposed to be doing it together. Unfortunately, things have gotten even more complicated and I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to go to school. I wanted to just start over from scratch but the school wants my old university's transcripts. Not only do I think I owe my old school money but my grades in my last few semesters weren't great and I was on academic probation which I think would affect me getting aid.
Mike's majoring in business management and taking two classes right now - business law and a required computer class. He decided to take the classes online because he thought that meant that he could take the classes whenever he wanted and would have more time for assignments, which isn't exactly how it's worked out. He can do his work basically when he wants or has time, but there are assignment due dates that he has to adhere to which he finds difficult because basically with his work schedule he has only two days a week to work on school, but he's been doing his best and I've been trying to help him. I've been joking with him that soon he's going to know more than me about computers. He doesn't think he's going to remember everything he's learning but he's getting a lot better at it. He's kind of at a complete loss with the business class. Things go in one ear and out the other. We're kind of the opposite of each other. Mike is much more comfortable with math and science, and hates reading and English. Whereas I love English and reading and hate math and science. I also don't think this is the greatest class, especially for him, to take online. I think he'd do better if he was in class and could have the teacher really discussing and going over the reading.
He's actually had me reading to him for the business law class cause he thinks maybe he'll absorb the information better and he says he likes the sound of my voice. He's been recording it as well to help him later when it comes to mid-terms and things. I actually had to admit to him that I hate the sound of my voice. I have since I was younger. I used to think I just hated the way my voice sounded when it was recorded, I thought it sounded different than when I heard myself speak normally. But in high school, in acting class, we were doing this voiceover project and I told the kids I was working with that I hated the way my voice sounded on tape and they were like "Uh dummy your voice doesn't sound any different on tape than it does normally." Mike's kind of got a kick out of when he starts playing back the recording and I cringe and cover my ears when I hear my voice.
I was so pissed off on Mike's behalf because he got a zero on a computer project the other day because he had one word misspelled. Yes, the teacher mentioned in the syllabus that spelling errors wouldn't be tolerated and she recently sent out another e-mail telling the students not to complain about it because it's in the syllabus but I still have an urge to complain about it. I think it's ridiculous. Fine there's a spelling error - take some points off the grade instead of invalidating all the time spent on the project by handing out a zero. Like I know when I'm writing something, I'll look it over very thoroughly and yet somehow even after doing that and using spell check things get misspelled.
I've been woefully behind in watching the Oscar nominated films this year. I think the only movie before today that I've seen that was nominated for an award was Bad Grandpa. But today we saw Captain Phillips. There must be something with me with true stories and men crying because the last time I cried during a movie was The Impossible and I cried today at the end of CP. I hate saying that an actor was robbed of a nomination because it feels like invalidating the other nominees work, and I haven't seen the other nominees in the category, but I still feel Tom Hanks was robbed of a nomination.
I'm going to try to see Gravity before work tomorrow. I usually don't see movies in theaters that are out on DVD but I've heard so much about how Gravity must be experienced on the big screen so I'm going to try to see it before it's too late.
I've been having some computer issues. All of a sudden one day the computer wouldn't turn on. would hear the computer start to come to life but then it would just stop and the computer screen was blank. I had to wait awhile and then get it to turn on. After a couple of days, I had to turn it on and leave it with the blank screen for like an hour, then turn it off and turn it on again and then it would start to work. But the time to get it to turn on started to take longer and longer. I tried to get it fixed but that didn't really remedy the situation. I have to try and get it fixed again but I'm really wary of having to be without my computer for who knows how many days.
I'm going to write another post later about my last resolution for the year which involved reading and writing projects.
Hope everything's been going well with everyone this year.
Stacey
So work's been okay. Like I just mentioned the hours have been better than I thought they would be. One lady who's worked there for awhile toward the end of the December mentioned not complaining about the number of hours we were working because after the holidays the hours would dry up. So I was surprised when that didn't happen. Though not everyone is working as much as me. In my second evaluation, my retail manager even mentioned it. He said that people had been working there even longer than me weren't getting five days and had been complaining about it, which I felt kind of guilty about. One of the girls complained enough about it that she got back one of the days she usually used to work, so the last couple of weeks I've been down to four days a week, which I'm fine with.
It makes me a little nervous to ask for a day off, which I will have to eventually. I can't work every single weekend and I need to get my hair done soon, since it's looking really crappy lately. And we need to start doing wedding things, which is going to take some time. The same girl who was complaining about her hours said that the retail manager who does the cashiers schedules can get a little vindictive, like she asked for a day off a regularly scheduled day off and after that he wouldn't schedule her on that day again and she was down to three days a week. I don't want that to happen to me.
The wedding is now a year away. So it's really time to start making plans. On the one hand my mom has been really great at making suggestions and offering to pay for things, but I'm feeling pressured to make decisions and she's already starting to drive me a little crazy. She did come up with a plan that she would pay for the venue, her husband would handle the limo stuff, my sister and aunt can help with photography since they both work in that area (at least part time), another aunt would help with flower. Michael and I still have to work on picking a honeymoon destination, invitations, and finding a venue. My mother kid of wore me down and I finally decided maybe having it closer to Orlando would be a good idea because so many of my aunts live there and it would make it easier to get their help in getting everything together if its closer to them. It doesn't really effect Mike's family since they have to fly in from far away anyway.
We found a couple of places in Orlando. But we just got an e-mail detailing the price of one of them and at 7k it's a little too expensive. My mom said she'd be able to pay for it but it has to be in the 3-4k range. Though Michael's grandmother said she'd be able to chip in 4K as well, which surprised me. But I didn't like the look of that place too much anyway. The other place we really liked also seems like it might be too expensive but they haven't gotten back to me yet on prices. Mike really likes the place because they provide you with a minister and a DJ for the wedding. It's a nice rustic looking place which has carriage rides as well. Mike's taking some time off in March and we're going to go up with our mothers and check some places out.
I think I've finally decided on a color scheme for the wedding - wine, sangria, and navy.
Mike's started school which is really great. I'm really proud of him, even though it's a little bittersweet since we were supposed to be doing it together. Unfortunately, things have gotten even more complicated and I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to go to school. I wanted to just start over from scratch but the school wants my old university's transcripts. Not only do I think I owe my old school money but my grades in my last few semesters weren't great and I was on academic probation which I think would affect me getting aid.
Mike's majoring in business management and taking two classes right now - business law and a required computer class. He decided to take the classes online because he thought that meant that he could take the classes whenever he wanted and would have more time for assignments, which isn't exactly how it's worked out. He can do his work basically when he wants or has time, but there are assignment due dates that he has to adhere to which he finds difficult because basically with his work schedule he has only two days a week to work on school, but he's been doing his best and I've been trying to help him. I've been joking with him that soon he's going to know more than me about computers. He doesn't think he's going to remember everything he's learning but he's getting a lot better at it. He's kind of at a complete loss with the business class. Things go in one ear and out the other. We're kind of the opposite of each other. Mike is much more comfortable with math and science, and hates reading and English. Whereas I love English and reading and hate math and science. I also don't think this is the greatest class, especially for him, to take online. I think he'd do better if he was in class and could have the teacher really discussing and going over the reading.
He's actually had me reading to him for the business law class cause he thinks maybe he'll absorb the information better and he says he likes the sound of my voice. He's been recording it as well to help him later when it comes to mid-terms and things. I actually had to admit to him that I hate the sound of my voice. I have since I was younger. I used to think I just hated the way my voice sounded when it was recorded, I thought it sounded different than when I heard myself speak normally. But in high school, in acting class, we were doing this voiceover project and I told the kids I was working with that I hated the way my voice sounded on tape and they were like "Uh dummy your voice doesn't sound any different on tape than it does normally." Mike's kind of got a kick out of when he starts playing back the recording and I cringe and cover my ears when I hear my voice.
I was so pissed off on Mike's behalf because he got a zero on a computer project the other day because he had one word misspelled. Yes, the teacher mentioned in the syllabus that spelling errors wouldn't be tolerated and she recently sent out another e-mail telling the students not to complain about it because it's in the syllabus but I still have an urge to complain about it. I think it's ridiculous. Fine there's a spelling error - take some points off the grade instead of invalidating all the time spent on the project by handing out a zero. Like I know when I'm writing something, I'll look it over very thoroughly and yet somehow even after doing that and using spell check things get misspelled.
I've been woefully behind in watching the Oscar nominated films this year. I think the only movie before today that I've seen that was nominated for an award was Bad Grandpa. But today we saw Captain Phillips. There must be something with me with true stories and men crying because the last time I cried during a movie was The Impossible and I cried today at the end of CP. I hate saying that an actor was robbed of a nomination because it feels like invalidating the other nominees work, and I haven't seen the other nominees in the category, but I still feel Tom Hanks was robbed of a nomination.
I'm going to try to see Gravity before work tomorrow. I usually don't see movies in theaters that are out on DVD but I've heard so much about how Gravity must be experienced on the big screen so I'm going to try to see it before it's too late.
I've been having some computer issues. All of a sudden one day the computer wouldn't turn on. would hear the computer start to come to life but then it would just stop and the computer screen was blank. I had to wait awhile and then get it to turn on. After a couple of days, I had to turn it on and leave it with the blank screen for like an hour, then turn it off and turn it on again and then it would start to work. But the time to get it to turn on started to take longer and longer. I tried to get it fixed but that didn't really remedy the situation. I have to try and get it fixed again but I'm really wary of having to be without my computer for who knows how many days.
I'm going to write another post later about my last resolution for the year which involved reading and writing projects.
Hope everything's been going well with everyone this year.
Stacey