Life Goes On.
... no not the show w/ Corky.
But it does. It's amazing how in such a short time and a few changes your life can be rearranged and you can discover life and enjoyment where you thought you'd lost it. Work sucks. Alot has happened, but for the benefit of my life I push forward and persevere. The pain I endure at work opens the doors to a world I once thought I'd never see again, Freedom.
So I took over the store at Maple Heights and am now the acting General Manager there. Unfortunately my boss, will not give me the title of GM because they are planning to close the store and since I won't permanently be there they can't justify the title increase or the pay increase. Nonetheless, this is a prime opporunity to prove myself and to run a store, which in the end will put me ahead of the competition the next time a store opens up or the next time another GM steps down. So far things have gone ok, I failed our first inspection by .44% which sucks, but I'm very overwhelmed and my boss is not too disappointed, she understands the most ppl kind of fall on their faces the first time they get inspected at their first store. I'm more disappointed in myself than anything but that's ok. I really am enjoying running this store and hope eventually I can get a full GM position sometime. This brings me to the part of this whole ordeal that I love the most.
I write my own schedule.
Thursday night volleyball league? Absolutely. Friday night softball team? Definitely. Golf on Sundays? Why not!? Not work until 1am every night and lack anything that possibly resembles a social life?... wait what's a social life? OH YA! Hello off at 10pm at the latest. So I'm staying super busy and having the best summer I've had in almost 5 years. I went to California to visit my brother once, I'm going to Atlantic City to meet Kyle (Aurias) and maybe a few other AD ppls if they show, I'm going white water rafting in August for Todd's bachelor party (him and Jackie are tying the knot). Next week I'm going to Kentucky for James' (Fumiku) wedding.
So busy and having a great time spending time in the real world... So that's why, until two weeks ago, my last event attended in AD was May 31st. I really just don't have time and energy for FFXI anymore. The new updates are uninteresting to me, the point system killed my ambition to go to anything that isn't fun. So many new ppl in the LS now I hardly know anyone save a few of the old ppl. It's funny I tried to quit so many times and couldn't but now it's like Life stepped in and did it for me.
Oh, and I'm still talking to Amanda.. Ya I know I'm really stupid. It's funny, she still is in denial that she's cheating on her fiance. He goes out of town and we hang out all week.... why don't we hang out like this when he's in town? Hmm. Why do I spend the night when he's not there? Or why does she come over and lay in bed w/ me all day when he's out of town. That's not cheating right? Not when she lets me cook her dinner and not when she lets me touch her all over, but to save her conscience she won't let me touch her in those two private areas (though she almost did once...) and she won't kiss me. Nope that's not cheating. But it's cool. One of you two will mess up this charade of a relationship/engagement you have and I'll get what I want eventually. And if I don't? Oh well. I realize I'm in lust, we share very few common interests besides that we work for the same company. We enjoy hanging out w/ each other and going on dates... though she won't call them that even though that's pretty much what they are. Dinner and a movie? Dinner and bowling? Coming over at midnight for a steak dinner that I prepared and then watching movies on the couch until 5am? Nope not a date. So ya, I don't think I'd wanna get mixed up w/ a girl who is this confused about her own feelings, albeit I know this is probably complicated for her. But I can have a kinda of no-strings-attached kind of fun with her, and that's exactly what I'm going for now.
So oh well, but I'm having fun w/ life for now and plan on keeping it that way =)
OH, and shit! Forgot my work picnic was today>< off I go!
But it does. It's amazing how in such a short time and a few changes your life can be rearranged and you can discover life and enjoyment where you thought you'd lost it. Work sucks. Alot has happened, but for the benefit of my life I push forward and persevere. The pain I endure at work opens the doors to a world I once thought I'd never see again, Freedom.
So I took over the store at Maple Heights and am now the acting General Manager there. Unfortunately my boss, will not give me the title of GM because they are planning to close the store and since I won't permanently be there they can't justify the title increase or the pay increase. Nonetheless, this is a prime opporunity to prove myself and to run a store, which in the end will put me ahead of the competition the next time a store opens up or the next time another GM steps down. So far things have gone ok, I failed our first inspection by .44% which sucks, but I'm very overwhelmed and my boss is not too disappointed, she understands the most ppl kind of fall on their faces the first time they get inspected at their first store. I'm more disappointed in myself than anything but that's ok. I really am enjoying running this store and hope eventually I can get a full GM position sometime. This brings me to the part of this whole ordeal that I love the most.
I write my own schedule.
Thursday night volleyball league? Absolutely. Friday night softball team? Definitely. Golf on Sundays? Why not!? Not work until 1am every night and lack anything that possibly resembles a social life?... wait what's a social life? OH YA! Hello off at 10pm at the latest. So I'm staying super busy and having the best summer I've had in almost 5 years. I went to California to visit my brother once, I'm going to Atlantic City to meet Kyle (Aurias) and maybe a few other AD ppls if they show, I'm going white water rafting in August for Todd's bachelor party (him and Jackie are tying the knot). Next week I'm going to Kentucky for James' (Fumiku) wedding.
So busy and having a great time spending time in the real world... So that's why, until two weeks ago, my last event attended in AD was May 31st. I really just don't have time and energy for FFXI anymore. The new updates are uninteresting to me, the point system killed my ambition to go to anything that isn't fun. So many new ppl in the LS now I hardly know anyone save a few of the old ppl. It's funny I tried to quit so many times and couldn't but now it's like Life stepped in and did it for me.
Oh, and I'm still talking to Amanda.. Ya I know I'm really stupid. It's funny, she still is in denial that she's cheating on her fiance. He goes out of town and we hang out all week.... why don't we hang out like this when he's in town? Hmm. Why do I spend the night when he's not there? Or why does she come over and lay in bed w/ me all day when he's out of town. That's not cheating right? Not when she lets me cook her dinner and not when she lets me touch her all over, but to save her conscience she won't let me touch her in those two private areas (though she almost did once...) and she won't kiss me. Nope that's not cheating. But it's cool. One of you two will mess up this charade of a relationship/engagement you have and I'll get what I want eventually. And if I don't? Oh well. I realize I'm in lust, we share very few common interests besides that we work for the same company. We enjoy hanging out w/ each other and going on dates... though she won't call them that even though that's pretty much what they are. Dinner and a movie? Dinner and bowling? Coming over at midnight for a steak dinner that I prepared and then watching movies on the couch until 5am? Nope not a date. So ya, I don't think I'd wanna get mixed up w/ a girl who is this confused about her own feelings, albeit I know this is probably complicated for her. But I can have a kinda of no-strings-attached kind of fun with her, and that's exactly what I'm going for now.
So oh well, but I'm having fun w/ life for now and plan on keeping it that way =)
OH, and shit! Forgot my work picnic was today>< off I go!