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It's been almost two weeks since I updated. Looks like I'm falling back into old habits.
The biggest piece of news I have is that my work schedule is changing. Starting tonight I'll be working 7:30 PM to 8 AM the next morning on Sunday nights, Monday nights, and Tuesday nights as well as every other Saturday night. They decided to start us on the four-day week, which is fine with me because it means I can stay longer at my parents' house next weekend for Thanksgiving and I'll have to take less vacation when I have Phil here at the end of December. Given that I've worked two jobs before where I've worked overnights, in some ways this feels like I'm getting back into the schedule I know. On the other hand I've never worked a twelve-hour shift when working overnight before, so that aspect will be different. At least I won't be there until noon or some similar time.
The second biggest piece of news is that I got the '04 Chrysler Sebring I talked about in my last entry. I picked it up on Sunday afternoon, drove it back that night after selling Nate my old car, and yesterday I took care of the tax, title, and registration. All three combined weren't cheap: $490 total, plus an extra $5 for new license plates with "Dubuque" on them instead of my old country of Black Hawk (Dubuque happens to be the name of both the city and the county I'm in). Even with all that I"m still glad I decided to get the car, as my old one is a deathtrap and I don't know how much more it could take before even more of the body rusts off. Hopefully it will serve Nate well enough before it breaks down completely.
That same night I also picked up a used Wii. Vik got it from one of his friends for me. though I paid $200 for it. It came with more than just the console itself, though: it also included two Wii Remotes, two Nunchucks, a Classic Controller, several Virtual Console games, and three standard games, two for the Wii and one for the GameCube: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was the GameCube game, and Mario Kart Wii and - brace yourself - Super Smash Bros. Brawl were the Wii games. That's right, after thirteen years of honing my SSB skills on other people's systems, I finally have a copy of a Smash Bros. game to call my own. As you might imagine this has rekindled my SSB addiction; when I play any SSB game, I play it for hours on end. It may not be the healthiest thing to do, but it sure is fun. I won't play anyone online until I unlock all the characters, though.
Lately I've had issues with domineering people at work. I won't go into specific examples because the outcome is usually the same: they want me to do something, they talk so fast I don't have time to think, when I want to tell them what I want to do I stay silent until I get angry enough to say something, and then I feel like I've lost yet another battle against those who would use their strong personality to control me. Maybe I'm making too big of a deal about this, but every time this happens I lose a little more self-respect. I know being assertive can help, but I usually get too caught up in my emotions to remember to use it. Is there anyone out there who has successfully dealt with this problem? Feel free to comment if you have.
That's all I have for now.
The biggest piece of news I have is that my work schedule is changing. Starting tonight I'll be working 7:30 PM to 8 AM the next morning on Sunday nights, Monday nights, and Tuesday nights as well as every other Saturday night. They decided to start us on the four-day week, which is fine with me because it means I can stay longer at my parents' house next weekend for Thanksgiving and I'll have to take less vacation when I have Phil here at the end of December. Given that I've worked two jobs before where I've worked overnights, in some ways this feels like I'm getting back into the schedule I know. On the other hand I've never worked a twelve-hour shift when working overnight before, so that aspect will be different. At least I won't be there until noon or some similar time.
The second biggest piece of news is that I got the '04 Chrysler Sebring I talked about in my last entry. I picked it up on Sunday afternoon, drove it back that night after selling Nate my old car, and yesterday I took care of the tax, title, and registration. All three combined weren't cheap: $490 total, plus an extra $5 for new license plates with "Dubuque" on them instead of my old country of Black Hawk (Dubuque happens to be the name of both the city and the county I'm in). Even with all that I"m still glad I decided to get the car, as my old one is a deathtrap and I don't know how much more it could take before even more of the body rusts off. Hopefully it will serve Nate well enough before it breaks down completely.
That same night I also picked up a used Wii. Vik got it from one of his friends for me. though I paid $200 for it. It came with more than just the console itself, though: it also included two Wii Remotes, two Nunchucks, a Classic Controller, several Virtual Console games, and three standard games, two for the Wii and one for the GameCube: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was the GameCube game, and Mario Kart Wii and - brace yourself - Super Smash Bros. Brawl were the Wii games. That's right, after thirteen years of honing my SSB skills on other people's systems, I finally have a copy of a Smash Bros. game to call my own. As you might imagine this has rekindled my SSB addiction; when I play any SSB game, I play it for hours on end. It may not be the healthiest thing to do, but it sure is fun. I won't play anyone online until I unlock all the characters, though.
Lately I've had issues with domineering people at work. I won't go into specific examples because the outcome is usually the same: they want me to do something, they talk so fast I don't have time to think, when I want to tell them what I want to do I stay silent until I get angry enough to say something, and then I feel like I've lost yet another battle against those who would use their strong personality to control me. Maybe I'm making too big of a deal about this, but every time this happens I lose a little more self-respect. I know being assertive can help, but I usually get too caught up in my emotions to remember to use it. Is there anyone out there who has successfully dealt with this problem? Feel free to comment if you have.
That's all I have for now.