After 5 days of technical difficulties, I am back up and running. I cannot believe how much trouble that was! I attempted to upgrade to MT 3.2 and ended up losing my entire blog. It’s a good thing I had some of it backed up. It will still take me a few more days to get everything back in place, but at least this is working correctly. That’s the last time I attempt that shit. Please don’t try this stunt at home. It’s totally not worth the hassle, especially since it didn’t even work.
Work has been really good this week. I am liking this job quite a bit. I am taking calls all by myself. Go me!
I’m off to read my new copy of newWitch and relax before lights out.
I am currently experience technical difficulties. Please bear with me.
P.S. Don’t attempt to upgrade to MT 3.2. That is all.
I got a new cell phone today. Guess what color it is? Pink! I have a pink cell phone. It’s super cute and I loves it. It’s tiny and light weight. I was going to get a picture phone, but they are insanely expensive and I decided not worth the price. I have a digital camera for a reason.
Then, I had some watermelon sorbet that was tremendous. I am still trying to decide which made me happier, the pink cell or the sorbet.
I finally got my hair trimmed, too. It was way overdue. Tomorrow: the oddyssey of home hair coloring. Or the alternate title: Fuck! How do I get that outta the carpet?!
I’ve got a serious case of the blahs. Everything is just feh. The only thing that has midly piqued my attention was the release of MT3.2. Upgrading: a whirlygig of fun. Especially since my MT tends to disappear whenever I try to upgrade. Yet, that oh so pleasant experience is the one thing that intrigued me.
What is wrong with me lately? I’m too young to be having a midlife crisis, aren’t I?
My sister just made up an entire song about her stuffy nose, sung to the tune of “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” entitled “My Nose is Really Snuffy.”
Bahahahaha!
I appreciate everyone who emailed me about the previous post. I assure you that the post was not about suicide, merely the weight of the burdens I trudge through life carrying. Sometimes, I just want to be unburdened, but not in that very permanent kind of way.
And that’s all I meant. Only that, and nothing more.
On a happier note, I graduate from my new job training class on Friday. Yippee! It’s about time!
There’s a sadness around me today. I have been struggling against it all day long. I can’t pay attention, I can’t breathe. I went to the pool with my sister and I was under the water, looking at the surface above me, thinking about how much I didn’t want to rise. Breaking the surface weighs too much, sometimes.
I was one stressed out Girl yesterday. We had a test in class that was only 5 pages long, but the answers to each question required a novel be written, so no one made it past page 2. It was so frustrating. Then we went to the floor to listen to calls and I got moved 4 times in 2 hours because they kept seating me with people who had meetings to go to. To make my mood even better, I totally missed lunch because I was on the phone with the claims adjuster for the car accident I was in awhile ago. She proceeded to tell me I had a disease I had never even heard of, so I had to call my doctor’s office and find out what the hell was going it (Ms. Claims Adjuster was wrong. I am fine)…It was a piss poor day.
So after all of that, I decided that the sister and I were going out to dinner. She picked Abuelos and off we went. I had some terrific fajitas and 2 of the best dirty martinis I have ever had in my entire life. They were so good, I wasn’t even peeved about the extra charge on top of already pricey martinis for the Grey Goose I requested. I was so relaxed when I left there, I came home and was in bed by 9:30. The only thing that could have made it better would have been one of those aromatherapy massages.
I am draggin’ y’all. I am so fucking tired. I have another test at work tomorrow, the second one this week. My brain is all squishy. So, seeing that it’s late and tomorrow is Friday, let’s have some music. Right click, dahlinks.
Sorry! The songs are gone!
* Bob Seger – Against the Wind
* Earth, Wind & Fire – Shining Star
* Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
* Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
* Nina Simone – Feeling Good
* Sarah McLachlan – Gloomy Sunday (Cover)
* Ella Fitzgerald – Fever
* Jackson 5 – Candy Girl
Happy Friday!
I’m still in training, so I hadn’t encountered the dreaded office politics and drama thus far. Both decided to rear their ugly heads today. There’s a girl in the training class with me that we will call K. K has been having computer issues throughout the entire training process. Yesterday, she got really frustrated with all the issues and took it up with the trainer, saying that she couldn’t really learn anything on a computer that isn’t functional. Enter the politics and drama. The trainer went to 2 supervisors and reported an entirely different tale to them, causing K to get reprimand, while she is still in training, for an attitude problem. They told her if she didn’t like the way the company ran things, then maybe she shouldn’t work there. K came out of the meeting and sat down next to me and proceeded to bawl.
I totally feel for K. I wouldn’t be able to learn anything with a system that wasn’t functioning properly. So I completely understand her frustration. What I don’t understand are people who love to stir up shit, and people in positions of power who lord that power over others. K was merely expressing, I think with justification, her frustration with the learning environment she is in. There was no need for the trainer to run tattle and twist her words into something they weren’t.
Then there are the two supervisors. I have had personal interaction with both of them, during my internship. They are both tremendous bitches who adore having power and dangling it over the heads of the employees. According to what K told me, they completely cut her down and used their positions to intimidate her. I just don’t play that. I had that done to me at the old job, so perhaps that is why I am so sympathetic. I was berated daily until I couldn’t even fight back anymore. I simply don’t understand people who gain a self of empowerment by stealing personal power from another. And frankly, I would never want to be the kind of person who does.
