Excuse Me While I Blow Up This Six Foot Pole

So I updated my diary appearance for the season change, and I noticed that in the 6 years that I’ve had this diary I’ve only written 570 entries.  6 years and that’s all I’ve written?  Wow.  Whatever I guess.  Lately I’ve been writing in my paper journal much more than here (obviously).  I guess I go through my seasons of wanting to write here and then the seasons of silence.  At the same time though, this is the longest I’ve ever kept a diary, so there is that.  I’ve even started diaries on other sites and then never go back.  LOL

OD is kind of like an old friend that I will go days, weeks, and even months without talking to, but then I’ll pop back in to catch up and it will be like we just talked yesterday.  You know how it is.  Which reminds me.  I should really give Ami, Brit and Andrea a call.  It’s been DAYS since I’ve talked to any of them.  We are due for a chat fest.  Guess I’ll add that to my list of things to do this weekend.  Regardless of how long we go without talking or how long I go without writing, we always pick right back up where we left off.  =)  Hmmm… what an insightful analogy.

Now on to my update!

The new job is now a month old.  I’m settling in nicely.  Finding the things that I really like and then the things that irritate the heck out of me (naturally).  =)  For instance, I’m noticing that the other new girl is entirely too hesitant to want to answer the phone.  I’m often finding myself being the first to pick up the phone because she is waiting to see if I’m going to pick it up or not.  She’s slow as molasses to put on her headset to answer a call.  I’ve made it pretty clear though at some recent meetings that we’ve had that I refuse to become the "phone person".  I feel like we should be racing to pick up the phone instead of letting it ring to see if the other person is going to answer it.  If that were the case, then I’d be more likely to not care if I end up being the one to take a call.  But alas… that’s not the case.  Guess it’s the consequence of working at my last job where we were required to answer the phone within two rings.

The other thing that I need to vent about to get it out of my system is the fact that the other new girl (I’ll call her Phyllis because she looks like a young Phyllis from The Office.  LMAO)… well Phyllis didn’t wait for a second to pass before she started telling our manager about time off that she wants to take.  Normally this wouldn’t irritate me all that much if it weren’t for the fact that we had had a conversation at one point where I mentioned that I was going to be planning on going home to Nebraska in May for my cousins’ graduations and whatnot.  Low and behold this heffer goes and tells our manager that she wants to take time off in the middle of May so that she can go to Colorado.  EXCUSE ME!  WTH!  I was so irritated when I heard her talking about wanting to take that time off. 

Well the thing about taking time of in May is that it is also a busier time of year for us because people will be returning their books at the end of spring semester then.  At the same time, it shouldn’t be something that four of us plus a manager wouldn’t be able to handle should the fifth person need to take time off.  So regardless the fact that she mentioned taking that time off really irked me.  I straight up asked her last night if she was still planning on taking that time off, and she said that now she is thinking that it probably isn’t going to happen.  I hope that’s the case, because it will have been a year and a half since the last time I’ve been home if I get to go in May.  Worst case scenario though is that we go back later in the summer instead.  It’s really not THAT big of a deal.  But I would like to be there for graduation.  *sigh*  Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

That’s pretty much all I have to say about work.  Everything else seems to be going well.  I’m able to sit at my desk and do my work when there’s work to do.  I bought some ear buds for my computer so that I can listen to music throughout the day instead of nothing at all.  It seems to help me zone out and not eavesdrop on the conversations going on around me.

LMAO  Just got back from a bathroom break, and Jen who is our office manager asked me to blow up this inflatable totem pole using an electric pump she brought it.  Well the pump isn’t compatible, so now as I type this out, I’m sitting at my desk blowing up a six foot tall inflatable totem pole.  OMG!  This is ridiculous.  LMFAO  Seriously… I feel like I’m on an episode of The Office.

Moving on…

Thanksgiving was pretty decent.  We ended up staying with Shawn the whole time because Seth was locked up in the nut hut.  LOL  His words not mine.  So needless to say while we did have the fact that Seth was in the hospital to think about, we also didn’t have to worry about him dinging out and causing even more drama during the holiday.  He was where he needed to be at the time, so that was a good thing and we recognized it as that.

Because we stayed with Shawn and the kids most of the time, we didn’t have the drama of staying with the MIL to worry about.  Which was nice, but it pissed her off and she swears that nobody loves her.  GIVE ME A BREAK!  Even if we HAD stayed with her at her house, all she would have done was sleep all day long or lay in bed and yell at people to get her stuff.  I’d much rather hang out with Shawn and the kids and give my moral support there.  If Mary really wanted to see Jacob and I, she very easily could have come by and spent time with all of us.

I’m going to have to come back and continue my entry later on.  I know I have lots more that I’d like to write about, so in an effort to remind myself what I want to write about, I shall make a list.

~The grandma that cusses
~The grandma that hangs up on her grandchildren
~The cutest little niece in the world
~My early Christmas present
~Stuffing stockings

And I think that’s about it.

I’m about to head into our weekly marketing meeting, so I better get to gettin’.

Oh yeah… Nebraska plays Texas tomorrow for the Big XII Championship.  GO BIG RED!
 

 

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Huck the fuskers!!!! lol Glad to know the new job isn’t too bad.

December 5, 2009
December 5, 2009

“So I updated my diary appearance for the season change, and I noticed that in the 6 years that I’ve had this diary I’ve only written 570 entries. 6 years and that’s all I’ve written? ” Why would this be an issue? ONLY 570 entries? In those entries, did you say what you wanted to say? Did you choose and revise your words? Do those entries comprise a body of prose that speaks your mind? It takesno intelligence to churn out an entry every day; all you need to do is blather. It’s not about how many times you spoke, but about what you said.

December 6, 2009

Thanks 🙂