Your Friday Morning List Post! (TM)
1. ARGH job, argh. Dear employers, I am one person. While I can adequately handle two jobs at once, three is pushing it. Also, the two jobs that I am covering are extraordinarily detail oriented. You can see how answering the phone every five minutes because the receptionist is busy might not be the best of ideas. Oh, and while we're at it, I can't help that there is an error in your accounting system from August of 2004. Do you know why this is? I'll tell you why. In August of 2004, I had not yet met you, nor was I working here. Therefore, I don't know why Invoice #549629 from Vendor X isn't in the computer. I can do a lot of things, but travelling back through time isn't one of them. What I did do, however, is figure out what the error was when you frantically had no clue. That said, I can't help that you weren't paying enough attention to avoid making the mistake in the first place.
1b. Yes, I'm pretty much coming to terms with the fact that I dislike this job, and that I should start looking at other options. I feel very guilty, though. We're understaffed as it is, but then again, that's kind of my boss's fault. If I left, it would leave her in a huge bind. Since she gave me a job when I needed one, I've felt obligated to stick it out a little longer. Still, there are lines, and I'm approaching mine.
2. My room is now clean! Well okay, it's significantly cleaner than it was, at any rate. (And yes, Lar, I took pictures!) I cheated a little in that I have not yet vacuumed, and I still have a box of altar stuff to unpack. I just didn't feel up to setting the altar last night, as I was tired and sweaty and gazing longingly at my bed, and setting an altar generally requires focus and intent. I did, however, set up my signature white strand lights, and so I can honestly say it now feels like my room.
3. I love pay day. I love the feeling that my bills are paid. Yes, this makes me excruciatingly Virgoan.
4. Things that are pretty and shiny: the toreador dress from Anthropologie, and tulipe filigree earrings. Maybe I'll spring for the dress if it goes on sale. In the realm of things slightly more affordable, check out these Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau notecards.
5. Not going dancing tonight. I've just had one of those weeks where I just need to relax with a bottle of wine and some good cheese and a funny movie. I need to unwind, because I am ridiculously tense right now. Tomorrow, I think I'm going to beg out of a kiddie birthday party, take an excursion to the grocery store, and have a veg-out night at home. I need to replenish myself.
...that was short. I find that I'm having a hard time thinking thoughts that are not "argh argh grumble argh."
1b. Yes, I'm pretty much coming to terms with the fact that I dislike this job, and that I should start looking at other options. I feel very guilty, though. We're understaffed as it is, but then again, that's kind of my boss's fault. If I left, it would leave her in a huge bind. Since she gave me a job when I needed one, I've felt obligated to stick it out a little longer. Still, there are lines, and I'm approaching mine.
2. My room is now clean! Well okay, it's significantly cleaner than it was, at any rate. (And yes, Lar, I took pictures!) I cheated a little in that I have not yet vacuumed, and I still have a box of altar stuff to unpack. I just didn't feel up to setting the altar last night, as I was tired and sweaty and gazing longingly at my bed, and setting an altar generally requires focus and intent. I did, however, set up my signature white strand lights, and so I can honestly say it now feels like my room.
3. I love pay day. I love the feeling that my bills are paid. Yes, this makes me excruciatingly Virgoan.
4. Things that are pretty and shiny: the toreador dress from Anthropologie, and tulipe filigree earrings. Maybe I'll spring for the dress if it goes on sale. In the realm of things slightly more affordable, check out these Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau notecards.
5. Not going dancing tonight. I've just had one of those weeks where I just need to relax with a bottle of wine and some good cheese and a funny movie. I need to unwind, because I am ridiculously tense right now. Tomorrow, I think I'm going to beg out of a kiddie birthday party, take an excursion to the grocery store, and have a veg-out night at home. I need to replenish myself.
...that was short. I find that I'm having a hard time thinking thoughts that are not "argh argh grumble argh."