Sorry...
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with this journal. I just looked back at the last date I entered anything and it’s been way too long. Thankfully I haven’t been deleted yet. I’ve always been bad at writing things down. Everything else gets in the way. Mainly it’s been work that keeps me occupied. Fortunately, things are finally slowing down. Believe it or not, I’m actually typing this at work because I have nothing better to do. I pretty much spent Dec, Jan, Feb and March in hell because of my job. Not only did the call volume go through the roof but a lot of other crap went on. I got accused of gossiping just because a co-worker complained to me about someone else. Then that person walked in and heard her complaining and though I was complaining about her too. I would have been nice if she’d actually listened because she would have heard that I didn’t say anything about her but just listed to the other lady complain. When I defended myself I basically got told that if I hung around with trashy people then I’d get a reputation too, even if I had nothing to do with it. I thought I left SHIT like this back in High School. The worst part was, at the request of supervisor, I emailed several of my friends back at my old job telling them how wonderful my new one was hoping that one of them might like to come work here. I felt like the biggest liar after that. Thankfully it never persuaded anyone. Feb. was even worse. I’ve never feared loosing my job so soon after getting it. One day at the end of the month, they just up and fired 4 people. It was quite the shock. It left only 4 people on the phones for the rest of that day and the following few weeks. We had customers holding over an hour at times.
It’s nice that things have finally calmed down. We got a new floor manager who’s really sweet and very helpful. She gets a lot done for us. We also get lunch brought in on Fridays (ever since they cleaned house and fired everyone). Any day I don’t have to bring lunch is a good thing. The other good thing is that my French is getting better. I hadn’t used it in a while and was getting really rusty. Once I got acclimated to the Quebecois accent, taking French calls isn’t so bad. Every now and then I get one I can’t understand. Thankfully, there’s another Francophone rep. here and it’s her native language so I can always fall back on her.
Aside from work, things are OK. Marching season is starting again and I have a lot of parades. Since it’s Memorial day week-end I have one Sat, Sun and Mon. You can check out our schedule at http://www.fifeanddrum.org/towpath/calendar.html The only bad thing about all the parades is the gas. Since I don’t get paid to march it all comes out of my own pocket . I’ll go through 1 tank just this week-end since the parades are all in Rochester. I’m dreading when I have to start cutting back on either parades or cable or groceries just so I can feed the damn gas tank and go to work.
The winter wasn’t all bad though, I started regularly attending a Pagan church. They’ve since gone to a private coven, but it’s been so nice to get something spiritual back in my life. I think I really needed that. Besides, I’ve made such wonderful friends in the group. I can’t wait for June 2 when we do a dessert and divination fund raiser. The last one was a blast.
I also got a bunch of new “toys” recently. My washer kicked the bucket last fall and I’ve spent the entire winter hauling laundry to my Mom’s. I finally got a new washer!!! It’s one of those nice front loading washers. It’s so quiet. Now the neighbors 3 doors down don’t know I’m doing laundry. It also spins the laundry really dry so my dryer doesn’t have to work as hard. I’ve also gotten a new George Forman grill with the removable plates, a mini coffee pot & toaster oven and a bamboo steamer. I’ve been so domestic lately. J My mom also gave me her bread machine, but somehow the side paddle seams to have vanished. I’ve looked everywhere. So… if you know anyone with a Wellbuilt bread machine, that doesn’t work or they aren’t using I need the paddle that goes in the side of the machine. I can’t wait to make bread again.
Well that’s a short summary of everything that’s been happening. Sorry I haven’t done more with this journal. I’ll have to try harder.