I agree.
The time has been unacceptable. My only excuse is that I work too much and nothing interesting happens on a regular basis. That's part of my problem with blogging. I think I have to be interesting. I never wanted to be one of those bloggers whose entries included every mundane detail of their day, or those who blog for the sake of blogging. I need a happy mdium. you know- blogs of the old days where I talked about what was on my mind or something fun/not fun that happened to me during the day. *sigh*
Let's regroup, yeah?
Where did I leave you? Aah, yes. That one manager who I hated. I actually don't think I blogged about it much, but I despised him. Whenever they called me into work, he was the main reason why I never answered or called back. Because there was a chance he might be there. Anyway, turns out he was stealing money. Which makes me hate him even more. Because he was such a pompous, by-the-rules bastard who made us get our hours cut. And the whole time he was stealing money. Hypocricy has got to be my biggest pet-peave. He has since been fired, and I actually come to work with little dread.
Retail during Christmas, and Panera for that matter, was miserable. Probably the biggest reason for me not blogging. I hated every second of it. I hatehatehate Christmas, and this year reinforced it even more. I had to work on Christmas, then my mom and sister came up when I got off. It was pretty fun, but I still can't stand the holidays.
I'll bring you up to now and talk about Panera first. Friday night they threw us a party. They even closed early so everyone could make it. That's cool because you know that no other job would do that. We had "awards" where I got the 'Just in Time' award because I'm consistantly late, but they're glad I make it. I could change it into the 'At Least I Showed Up' award...but I think that would be more for Walgreens. I thought it was funny. At least they came up with something quirky for me and I didn't get something generic. They also gave me a $20 gift card to Target. Everyone got $20 gift cards to somewhere. What did I get from Walgreens? A mug. A mug with some pictures of Walgreens stores on it. Neat. Employees who worked there for more than a year got gift cards...to Walgreens... oh jeeze. After the "awards ceremony" we went bowling. By the way, Zach came with me, and there's this kid Jason who works with me and is very excitable--he reminds me of the Davii--and he was all excited to meet Zach and he hugged him. Zach got hugged. And it was awkward and hilarious...for me. Zach pretty much curled up inside himself aaand I laughed. Oh man, did I laugh! Bowling was fun, except for a few annoying coworkers who I never work with anyway. All and all, I really love working there. I HATE the hat, but you can't love everything. Oh wait! I do have one fun story- I burned the crap out of my hand on a rack that came straight from the oven. Someone switched the cool rack that had been sitting there all day with a brand new, firey hot one shortly before I decided I needed to move it. I screamed! I cried! I surprisingly didn't cuss! And then one of my managers was like, "wanna sit this one out until you feel better?" ...thanks coach? And then he gave me a cookie. I pouted and ate my cookie. I was five years old for the rest of the day.
Now on to Walgreens. If I didn't get paid so nicely, and if I didn't like a majority of my coworkers...I would have quit. Mr. Money-Stealer is gone, Christmas is over, horriblehorrible customers aren't so prevelant, I got invited to a strip club, Nick Reeser isn't in a pissy mood every day, Mikey Hagan is still there, and I finally get a day off now and then...I think I'll stay. The place is still pretty ridiculous, but not so much anymore.
Did I tell you I got TWO tickets in ONE day? Of course I didn't- I never blog. Wellll, I did. The first one was in Bloomington going 43 in a 30. The cops here give you your license back which was handy for later that night when I was in Macon and apparently ran a stop sign. I probably paused a second and went on just because it was an intersection...not because I saw a stop sign. I was like- "stop sign? Macon has stop signs?!? Oh yeah..there was one...how 'bout that." So now I have two tickets and no license. That happened January 3rd. Way to start the new year.
I thiiink I've pretty much caught you up. Zach's and my 3-year anniversary is coming up. That's freaking crazy. We might be going to Chicago to see The Elected. I hope so anyway.
That is all. See you in three months...kidding!
