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15 years ago
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Phew...okay...let's just get this going.
I was on Vacation up in Virginia this past week, getting home on the 11th. It was a great time with family and friends, spent a few days on the beach, saw some really cool street performances, and I even found a piece of Fulgurite (the stone that is made when lightning hits the sand, what I call a lightning stone) in the ocean I was thrilled with that. Add to the fact I was the only person in my family not to get sunburned, thank you multiple applications of sun block! Then spent a day at 6 flags of america in Virginia. That was a blast, I haven't been to an amusement park in ages, and even though I barely fit or in some cases can't fit on a roller coaster because of my height, I love the rides and the fun it brings. Was a heck of a hot day for it though, but still good fun. Worse part of this trip was the driving 17 hours one way, that was driven twice.
A picture of the Fulgurite: img94.imageshack.us/i/0707001123.jpg/
Pardon the quality...I left my digital camera with my sister, and my cell phone is only so good...the half on the right of the picture is solid sand, rock hard, the half on the left side is cloudy glass, you can even see some of the bubbles of air trapped by the sudden heating and cooling of the sand (though not in this picture >< )
Of course the vacation wasn't all happy times, down in Louisiana, in my home no less my roommate situation boiled to a fine point and exploded with a shit storm of drama that I've not had in my house in ages. The newer roommate (Josh) was aggravating EVERYONE in the house. Along with his general lack of consideration, he was also apparently bulimic, purging himself once or twice a day in the bathroom and everyone could here it. He didn't bother to get a job but found plenty of time to go out to the clubs and get whatever he wanted on... (he ended up bunking up with the roommate that I had to kick out...wow...that I was just like...no words...) anyway, it got to a point where once I got home I would evict him and it would be said and done, turns out that happened before I got home, there were even fist fights... *sighs* None of it would have happened if I had been home though, everyone who comes in my home knows better than to start any shit with me and if I could have been there my roommates would not have suffered... it's all done now though...he's gone, things are quiet now.
But the drama did have a silver lining, I already have a new roommate and had one before I got home on the 11th. A furry no less. He's a great deal more courteous and friendly than Josh ever was, and has shown interest in finding work quickly, I have high hopes for this arrangement.
Of course coming back home meant going back to work at Target...and sure enough, the day I come go back is the day that EVERYONE on my team is getting written up, coached or in two peoples cases, fired...wonderful...lucky for me I wasn't here last week because it was an utter disaster at work, and I managed to avoid it quite nicely... Then today...ugh, for the first half of the day I couldn't concentrate on work, my mind was everywhere else in the world but not at work...my thoughts wandered where they should only really go when I'm home. *deep sigh* It's hard to untangle a mind when it is so decidedly fixed on something or someone that I know. The latter half of the day I was able to focus abit more, but even then it didn't seem to matter, my team got chewed out yet again for their lack of performance and me along with them even though I was working just as hard as ever.
My store manager was cheerier than I had seen him ever and then I realized that it was because he was able to fire a couple of my coworkers yesterday. Admittedly one of them deserved it, he didn't show up on several occassions but the other...not at all. She was fired because she was going to need to pick up her son and had to take off a few days to do so because he lives in a different state...she was within her probationary period and was given the major ultimatum of stay and work or go get your son. She chose the more responsible and only path a parent can take.
In other news, mostly regarding what I was thinking about today...a lot of things, mostly focused on one or two key things. Ya'll ever have things you want to say, want to ask, be out and about with toward an issue or a specific person, but that issue or person just doesn't seem approachable about it? That was one of my thoughts...how to say what I need or want to say without truly making anything difficult or uncomfortable. I tend to find myself a patient person and will not speak out of turn when I feel the timing isn't right for what has to be said...so I suppose I can only wait for the right time, the perfect moment, hoping that things will be favorable... or in one real instance, that I won't have to say those things because either the issue works out, or someone says those very important things first.
Yes I know it's vague but I really don't think it appropriate for me to be posting to to much detail, oui?
Anyway, that's my two bits for now, talk at ya'll later!
I was on Vacation up in Virginia this past week, getting home on the 11th. It was a great time with family and friends, spent a few days on the beach, saw some really cool street performances, and I even found a piece of Fulgurite (the stone that is made when lightning hits the sand, what I call a lightning stone) in the ocean I was thrilled with that. Add to the fact I was the only person in my family not to get sunburned, thank you multiple applications of sun block! Then spent a day at 6 flags of america in Virginia. That was a blast, I haven't been to an amusement park in ages, and even though I barely fit or in some cases can't fit on a roller coaster because of my height, I love the rides and the fun it brings. Was a heck of a hot day for it though, but still good fun. Worse part of this trip was the driving 17 hours one way, that was driven twice.
A picture of the Fulgurite: img94.imageshack.us/i/0707001123.jpg/
Pardon the quality...I left my digital camera with my sister, and my cell phone is only so good...the half on the right of the picture is solid sand, rock hard, the half on the left side is cloudy glass, you can even see some of the bubbles of air trapped by the sudden heating and cooling of the sand (though not in this picture >< )
Of course the vacation wasn't all happy times, down in Louisiana, in my home no less my roommate situation boiled to a fine point and exploded with a shit storm of drama that I've not had in my house in ages. The newer roommate (Josh) was aggravating EVERYONE in the house. Along with his general lack of consideration, he was also apparently bulimic, purging himself once or twice a day in the bathroom and everyone could here it. He didn't bother to get a job but found plenty of time to go out to the clubs and get whatever he wanted on... (he ended up bunking up with the roommate that I had to kick out...wow...that I was just like...no words...) anyway, it got to a point where once I got home I would evict him and it would be said and done, turns out that happened before I got home, there were even fist fights... *sighs* None of it would have happened if I had been home though, everyone who comes in my home knows better than to start any shit with me and if I could have been there my roommates would not have suffered... it's all done now though...he's gone, things are quiet now.
But the drama did have a silver lining, I already have a new roommate and had one before I got home on the 11th. A furry no less. He's a great deal more courteous and friendly than Josh ever was, and has shown interest in finding work quickly, I have high hopes for this arrangement.
Of course coming back home meant going back to work at Target...and sure enough, the day I come go back is the day that EVERYONE on my team is getting written up, coached or in two peoples cases, fired...wonderful...lucky for me I wasn't here last week because it was an utter disaster at work, and I managed to avoid it quite nicely... Then today...ugh, for the first half of the day I couldn't concentrate on work, my mind was everywhere else in the world but not at work...my thoughts wandered where they should only really go when I'm home. *deep sigh* It's hard to untangle a mind when it is so decidedly fixed on something or someone that I know. The latter half of the day I was able to focus abit more, but even then it didn't seem to matter, my team got chewed out yet again for their lack of performance and me along with them even though I was working just as hard as ever.
My store manager was cheerier than I had seen him ever and then I realized that it was because he was able to fire a couple of my coworkers yesterday. Admittedly one of them deserved it, he didn't show up on several occassions but the other...not at all. She was fired because she was going to need to pick up her son and had to take off a few days to do so because he lives in a different state...she was within her probationary period and was given the major ultimatum of stay and work or go get your son. She chose the more responsible and only path a parent can take.
In other news, mostly regarding what I was thinking about today...a lot of things, mostly focused on one or two key things. Ya'll ever have things you want to say, want to ask, be out and about with toward an issue or a specific person, but that issue or person just doesn't seem approachable about it? That was one of my thoughts...how to say what I need or want to say without truly making anything difficult or uncomfortable. I tend to find myself a patient person and will not speak out of turn when I feel the timing isn't right for what has to be said...so I suppose I can only wait for the right time, the perfect moment, hoping that things will be favorable... or in one real instance, that I won't have to say those things because either the issue works out, or someone says those very important things first.
Yes I know it's vague but I really don't think it appropriate for me to be posting to to much detail, oui?
Anyway, that's my two bits for now, talk at ya'll later!
As far as approaching a topic a conversation that is touchy with someone, Sometimes its best to just do it. Even if the issue can't be resolved, it releases a burden off of you? Right?
The other person might not even realize what you are trying to say! So It could actually come as a surprise to them!