Sep 16, 2008 18:07
So it september already, and quite frankly the damn year seems like it has flown by me, it also doesn't seem like I have also be working for walgreens for now seven years...
On the up side though at the moment I have 10 banked vacation days, which I have apparently been saving with out really knowing it, add that to what I will get next year (starting in January) I will have another 15 days to play with, which at the moment I still have 7 vacation days that I am sitting on for this year alone, as it stands I don't plan to use more than 2 of those said vacation days before the end of the year, at which point I can bank another 5 days for use next year, meaning all in told if I don't use more than 2 more of my vacation days left this year (which I plan to use one for my birthday, to hell with working on my birthday) I will have 15 banked vacation days and 15 vacation days just for being me, I don't quite know what to do with a whole month off next year, but I am sure not many of my peers can say that they have that many days that they can take off at one time or spread out across one years worth of work time.
In other job related news my hours have still been screwy, as with as many budget cuts that we have been having to make I am still amazed that I as an individual have been able to keep my own hours over 35+ per week... which I am still fighting tooth and nail for.
On the up side though I seem to have gotten a pay raise in the midst of all this, and with me eventually getting the senior tech added to my title (meaning I have a much better knowledge of what's going on in the pharmacy) I will then get a further raise based where I am working, although I still have quite a bit to go to complete my senior tech training, part of which is learning the sims system (which is our ordering and warehousing software) and then some of the more important parts of being a tech.
In non work related news I have gotten a few items that have been real big on my wish list as of late, Spore tops the list after 2+ years of waiting for this game to come out, for those of you out there that don't know about spore please catch up with the times, for those of you who do know about and haven't gotten it yet, well worth the price you pay for it. Now I know that there is those of you out there that don't like the part of spore that comes with the game, i.e. the DRM software included in it, it is still worth it.
I have also picked up an R4 card for my DS which again is also well worth the price that I paid for it, it took a bit of reading to fully understand how to use it, but damn it is freaking cool, only problem is that my ADD won't let me play just one game but try and make me play them all at the same exact time... which means it is going to drive me nuts for a while.
For now though I think I am done with the big purchase until after the new year or at least until acen.. well all except for Brisingr (the third book in the the Eragon series), which is due out this weekend which I am looking forward too like no bodies business.
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