12 posts tagged “work”
It's been 6 days since my last post and I'm trying to think of exciting things to recap. Nothing really that great has happened. It's funny how sometimes I feel like I've done so much stuff that I need to write 2 times a day to fit it all in and then other times, I'll go 6 days without feeling the need to post anything. So this is what has been happening...
I've started up at the gym again. I'm really serious about it this time. I know I've said that like 100 times, but I'm really making much more of an effort than ever before. I'm keeping a fitness journal to track my workouts and eating and I'm setting goals for myself. I've been doing it for a week and haven't lost any weight, but feel thinner and fitter. I'm trying not to focus on the scale so much this time because I think that is what deterred me from working out the last time. I mean, I was doing so awesome at first and in like 3 weeks I lost 10 lbs. I was all on top of the world and then the next 2 weeks I didn't lose ANYTHING. Not one pound. so I tried harder and would get on the scale and still, nothing. So then I gave up and started eating out all the time and didn't do any workouts. Then the cruise came and I was on vacation and there was all this good food and deserts and giant margaritas in Cozumel and I scarfed it all. Eventually I had enough and said it's time to get back in there. And boy did I ever. I've really worked out hard. To the point where I'm still sore. My abs hurt every time I cough, but it's good. I'm proud of myself.
Tonight, Chrissy is having a party that I just so happened to be invited to. She kind of forgets that technically it's still my place she lives in and I still pay for half of all the bills. I've met most of the people she's inviting and don't really care about her having a party because I know it isn't going to be like the last one she had. I'd seriously kick her out if that happened again. She's saying it's for her birthday because she didn't get to spend it with friends since she was on the cruise, but it's closer to Dave's birthday so I said she had to make it a joint party.
Speaking of Dave's birthday, it's Monday. I already gave him the Rockband guitar I bought him because I was afraid he was going to buy one himself. He was like a little kid when he saw it. we're going to Epcot on Monday (his actual birthday) because Disney is doing a promotion where you get in free on your birthday. So we got a hotel for tomorrow so we didn't have to drive super early to Orlando on Monday. (I-4 rush hour...no thanks). I haven't been to Disney in like 5-6 years, so I should be fun.
Work has been ok. We signed a lot of contracts last week and have a lot of design work to do, so that should keep me busy for awhile. I was really getting tired of writing SEO copy. I'll be glad to open photoshop instead of word.
Oh, I fogot to mention Dave has 3 dogs in his house right now. His friend went to St. Augustine for a family reunion and brought his ex-girlfriend with him (yeah, I don't get it either). They both have dogs so we have a little white furball (I think she's a shiz tsu) named Luna who loves to cuddle and lick your face, a big fat husky that sheds everywhere and has extra toes and is the sweetest thing ever, and super jealous Dali. It's only til Sunday though.
That's really all I that's happened. Not too exciting, right
Today has so many suck moments. Until like an hour ago, I wasn't in the greatest mood. Work was so annoying. We've been doing this autorun DVD for a company and today we finished it and were ready to send it to the client. I had to upload the files to their account on our server so they could view them. Simple task, right? Not for genius over here. I still don't know HOW this happened, but somehow I managed to nuke half the files for the project. OH MY GOD. I was panicking. I really had no idea how it happened. I literally went to copy the files, the explorer window crashed, and poof, they were gone. THANK THE LORD WE HAD THEM ON BACKUP. I can't even tell you how many times backup files saved my ass. So we figure everything is cool. We'll just upload the damn thing and be done with it. Then I get an email saying they want one more change to the file...then another...then another. Seriously people? I was getting really annoyed because the emails for the changes always came right after I was done making the change from the previous email.
I'll continue this after dinner...
It's been quite the week so far. I honestly can't believe that tomorrow is Friday. This week went by so fast that I'm having trouble remembering if I did something yesterday or Tuesday.
We had our staff meeting at work to "kick off 2009" on Tuesday. It was long and for most of it I really didn't say much. I did open my mouth about wanting to do more writing. We were outsourcing any copywriting work my boss' brother, who is 23, lives in NY, and isn't reliable at all. I never really opened my mouth about the fact that I can write halfway decent and actually enjoying doing it because I didn't want to take any work away from the kid. Boss was just trying to help his kid brother out. I understand. They were actually pretty thrilled about the fact that I wanted to take this on though and when I told boss why I never said anything, he replied, "don't worry, it's not a big deal". So now I'll be doing some copywriting and SEO writing, as well as graphic and web design. I've already doen a few things and I think i'm going to enjoy it.
After work on Tuesday, my sister and I headed to the gym to work out. I lost 3 more lbs, so in total I've lost 8. In 2 weeks that's not too bad at all. Chrissy lost 20. Seriously 20. And I was with her both times she weighed herself and she's not bullshiting. She totally has the potential to kick all our asses in this competition. Thank goodness it's based on the percentage of weight lost or I'd have given up by now. Actually, I'm doing really well on this diet. I haven't snacked or eaten crappy food at all really. And I also haven't eaten out in awhile, which my wallet is fond of.
Tonight Dave and I are just taking it easy and catching up on the TiVo. We just got finished with last weeks Man vs. Wild. I was talking to my friend Chris online about how crazy this show is.
Barbara: Bear Gryllis is crazy
because he drinks his own urine
Barbara: he's in Belize
Barbara: I'm going there in March, so I should pay attention in case I get lost
yeah so you too can feast upon the mighty taste of urine(tm)
Barbara: now he's killing a snake
Barbara: with a stick
Barbara: Dave is freaking out
Barbara: he hates snakes
Barbara: he's whining like a little bitch
Chris: was it even sharp or did he just bludgeon the fuck out of it
Barbara: bludgeon
Barbara: that's how bear rolls
Chris: fuck yeah, sharp objects are for pussies
Chris: my name is BEAR and this is my show "Bludgeon the Shit Out of Nature"
Chris: when we come back from break, im going to show you how to bludgeon this log to get a fire going
Chris: then he EATS THE FIRE
Chris: he has that knife that is always stained red with the blood of the innoccent
Barbara: dude he totally started a fire like you said he would LMAO
Chris: hahahaha noooo way
Barbara: he did
Chris: fucking asshole stole my idea
Seriously, crazy dude
The week has been pretty awesome so far. I know it's only Tuesday, but with Christmas coming, I just have a feeling things are going to be amazing this week. Yesterday I felt amazing and I could do anything. I talked to the owner of the company I'm working at to discuss my future plans. I had been wanting to do this last week, but things were a bit chaotic for him, so I waited until yesterday. I'll be getting a raise, full health and dental benefits, 2 weeks paid vacation, and a week of sick days. I've never had that in my life and it feels good to finally get it. I'm not sure how much the raise will be, but I'll be getting a salary position, so it should be pretty good. I should find out tomorrow when my boss gives me a performance review. I'm excited for all these changes, especially in this economic state (that is beginning to sound so generic) I feel like I am very lucky to be in the position I am in. My Dad will be proud.
The owner took us all to lunch at Beef O' Brady's. Every now and then he likes to do this sort of thing. He's a nice guy. I got really full fast and only ate half the wrap I ordered. We came back to the office and I got a ton of stuff done. It was like God was personally watching over me or something cause I was on fire. Things were just going my way yesterday.
Dave came over with Dali last night and she started whining, so I took her out for a walk. During this time I got the mail. I noticed a card addressed to me, but there was no return address on the envelope. I figured it was just another Christmas card, but when I opened it up it was a graduation card with a check for $100 in it. It was from my godfather and his wife. It was the only gift I had gotten for graduation besides the laptop my parents bought me a few months ago when my desktop started to take a dump. I wasn't expecting anything for graduation. I didn't want to make a big deal about it, so it was nice and thoughtful of them to do something, especially since they aren't technically related to me by blood. it just made the day even better.
Dave ordered Chinese, but I didn't eat any because I was still full from my lunch. We had a pretty simple night, just watching TV and playing with Dali.
I feel awesome and I hope it lasts.
It's been a long, but good week. I'm officially cleared for graduation!! My portfolio review went really well. I actually got a hug Bill, one of my professors. I think his exact words were, "I'm a proud Papa." lol. He's a good guy that tried to act hardcore all the time, but really he's a big softy. I think most people in his classes are intimidated by him, but he reminds me of my father.
So since Thursday, I've been officially graduated from college. Yeah, I need to show up Tuesday and give Bill some printouts, and Sean some papers. And I need to pay my final bill, and do the portfolio show on Thursday, but that stuff is all easy. I'm done. I'm done. I'M DONE! I finally don't have no reason to e in that god awful place anymore. I can get my life back. I can do stuff that I want to do. i don't have to worry about doing projects anymore. It's exciting.
I still haven't really celebrated my graduation because I've been pretty busy. Corrie wants to go out to a check out a new bar on Wednesday and I told her I would go since I don't have to be up early the next morning. Apparently all the bartenders from the place we used to go to that decided to charge $10 every night to get in (for nothing I should add) all work there. I'll probably have a couple drinks, but nothing too crazy. I'm kind of over the drinking until I pass out stage of my life.
We had our work Christmas party last night. it was supposed to be at a ranch with a cookout, hayrides, and smores, but at the last minute (literally 3 hours before we all were supposed to be there) Angie (company owners wife) checked her email to find out the place cancelled. So frantically she decided to go out and buy a bunch of food and cook up some stuff so they could have it at the house. She pulled off a nice party for last minute I must say. Filet mignon, stone crab legs, and lots of side dishes. I just felt bad that she had to cook everything. I brought pie and cookies for desert, but that wasn't nearly the trouble that she went through. It was a good time though, and I got a Christmas bonus! And my boss said he wants to meet with me sometime during the week to discuss my full time status since I'm graduated. It's nice to know in this bad economic state that I have employment and people that actually appreciate me and want to keep me around.
Work over the weekend wasn't too bad. I had a few annoying customers yesterday...one lady I particually wanted to bunch in the jaw, but the season is coming to a schreeching halt. We were pretty slow yesterday and today was full of reschedules and cancellations. Corrie said that after next weekend she probably wouldn't need me, which was expected. She keeps trying to get me to go full time and I politely decline. I only really like working there duting the season, especially now when i don't really give a crap about numbers because I'm ONLY seasonal. The rest of the year sucks. And I have a great job doing what I really want. So no thanks Corrie.
I think it's time for dinner.
I've had quite the week and it has worn we out. My feet are really sore and I'm thinking bed is the best place for me.
I really wanted to go out last night and blow off some steam. Dave went Orlando to see Dragonforce so I had no one to hang out with. I had planned to go dive hopping with Corrie and try to find a new shitty bar we could go to since our former shitty bar decided to start charging $5-$10 cover every night and got rid of all their gimmicks. She told me yesterday though that she had to go to a housewarming party and wasn't going to be able to make it. It wasn't a big deal really because I figured i would just call Jenn since she said she wanted to hang out. So after working 9:30-8 I called Jenn and got no answer. I left a message figuring she'd call back, then called Julie. Julie said she was looking to get out of the house too, so we made plans to go get a few drinks at O'Briens. I started getting ready and Julie calls me to ask if we could make it Sunday instead (no, I have to work early Sun) She must've ate something bad and wasn't feeling good all of the sudden. She apologized and said she'd make it up to me. I was ok with it, but bummed because I wanted to hang out. I tried calling Jenn again and epic fail. I texted Bob and asked him if anything was going on. He said he was supposed to go to Ybor for a concert, but everyone canceled on him. We were pretty much in the same situation. I asked him if he wanted to go grab a few beers. He said yes and he'd meet me at O'Briens. Calls me like 5 minutes later to say that he just talked to Amy Z and she said O'Brien's has closed down (NOOOOO!!!) So we decided t ocheck out this bar in the new mall that they built in Wesley Chapel. I texted Jason on the way because since he is a regular at O'Briens I knew he could confirm or deny this rumor.
me: I heard a rumor that O'Briens closed. True?
Jason; no, and who is this?
I guess that is what happens when you get a boyfriend and stop hanging out at the local Irish Pub every week.
I meet Bob at The Brass Tap. It is packed. And not with annoying college kids, which is a plus. They had about 50 beers on draft. Stuff you apparently can only find in Germany (according to Bob). They had about 1000 other beers. Any kind of beer you could ask for. For me, this is amazing because I'm a beer girl. We ordered 3 drinks. we talked about the new low gas prices, the economy, Guatemala and Belize, and our significant others. It was fun and much needed. I went home and slept in my own bed for the first time in like 2 weeks. I literally can't even remember the last time I slept in it. my bed is 1000000x better than Dave's. I slept great.
I woke up early this morning. I set my alarm for 8:45 and woke up at 8. I called Dave and he was up. we went to breakfast and I went to work for the day. we were busy again, but not as bad at saturday. My feet were killing me by the end of the day though. I couldn't wait to go home. Went to Dave's and headed to Wal Mart because he needed groceries. We went shopping and I picked up Mackenzie's Hannah Montana she wanted for her birthday (finally) We got home, made tacos, ate and now I'm here writing this and talking to Rambo about school and Thanksgiving.
Speaking of Thanksgiving...this year will be the first yeat I won't be with MY family. Dave's family is in from Portgual, so we're heading down to Sarasota to spend the day with them at his parents. The thought of having 2 Thanksgiving dinners made us both want to vomit and the drive is just 2 insane. (they live 2 hours apart) we did it Easter and were exhausted by like 7pm. So we decided to spend Thanksgiving with his family since they came a long way and it might be the last Thanksgiving we will spend together (his grandparents are 87 and 85). They'll all be speaking Portguese and I won't know what they are saying so I'll automatically assume they are talking about me lol. I need to get some Rosetta Stone for sure. I already feel like I'm married.
I just read over the post I made last night. I apologize for all the typos and bad grammar. I was in a pretty emotional state, and I guess being emotional means you neglect grammar and spelling. I'm usually pretty good about that sort of thing. I also apologize for having an incredibly emo, whiny, rant of a post. I try not to do that often, but like I said, I was emotional. Scared, confused, upset, etc. But that is all over now.
Dave was feeling good this morning. He is back to being his goofy self. He woke up around 7 and tried to get me up, but that wasn't happening. I figured if I had the day off at least I was going to get some sleep. I woke up around 9. he wanted to go to breakfast because he has been stuck in the house for days. We went to get omelettes at Nikki's. They always give you way to much food. I only ate half of mine. I needed to get tires, so we went to Sears cause they were having a special and I had recieved a gift card from CPI for 5 years of portrait studio service. I visited Corrie at the portrait studio. I'm working all weekend and we are BUSY. At least it won't be boring. I need the money anyway. We walked around the mall for a little over an hour while they put 4 new tires on my car. I thought about more things I could get Dave for Christmas. We got the car back and went home to find a message on Dave's answering machine from the doctor. We got Dave's test results back. He doesn't have MRSA. We all aren't going to die. I guess he just had a really bad infection. Woohooo! We are safe. No more worrying and crazy antibiotics. I'm so happy.
I called my boss as soon as we found out the good news. He said he wanted an update of the situation. He was also very happy to hear that Dave was healthy and a potentially fatal virus wasn't going to be spread around the office. He also said that I was going to get paid for a full day today. He said since I didn't decide to miss work and I didn't do anything wrong, it didn't seem right not to get paid. I thanked him about 10x. I told him how I was going to ask if it would be ok to stay late this week so I could make up some of the time. He said not to worry. Getting paid for a full day of work without having to go in is pretty nice. I don't take sick days. I don't call out. I don't ever ask to leave early. I do what I'm told. I guess it finally paid off.
Dave is upstairs resting his back. My car isn't the most confortable and I think walking through the mall took a toll on him as well. We'll probably go grocery shopping later since he has no food on the house and we were thinking about seeing Bolt tonight. I'm so glad everything is going well. i guess you have to have a few bad days so you can look forward to days like these!
I'm not having the greatest day today. work wasn't all that great. I sort of got yelled at. Not really, but just told that I needed to fix something. For the past few weeks I've been working on a monster catalog. we are basically taking an old catalog and revamping it into a new one for this company. Whoever made the old catalog didn't know what they were doing. They made a 100 page catalog in Illustrator page by page instead of making it using inDesign. No bleed marks, safety, crop lines, anything. They made all the "backgrounds" in photoshop saved them, and imported them into Illustrator. They didn't even use high resolution images on it. They're all set at 150dpi. I have no clue how this thing got printed looking halfway decent. So trying to disect this monster has been quite the chore. I've never worked on a catalog, let alone one that has been done in such a poor way. It kind of pissed me off from the begining that I've been given this in the first place. It's not that I couldn't handle doing it, because it's not hard, just tedious and annoying. But I know the only reason that I have this project all to myself is because my boss doesn't want to deal with it. It's a pain in the ass. I understand. If i was the boss i wouldn't want it either. But he could at least look at the pages and offer some suggestions.
So today I was told to look over everything with a fine tooth comb that I've done so far. I was planning on doing this, I just hadn't gotten around to it because this catalog isn't something I work on everyday. I work on it when I get new direction from the lady that is in charge over there. Most of the time I work on other things. I wans't reallly getting yelled it I guess, but my boss just seemed dissapointed that things weren't checked perfect on it. Even though we are super far from done. I spent all day working on the catalog. making sure everything looked right. I'm still not done. And I won't be going into work tomorrow.
I was on the way to Dave's house earlier tonight when I got a call from my boss. He told me not to come into work tomorrow because he knew Dave was sick, I was exposed to it, and he didn't want to risk having everyone at work exposed to it as well. I left early yesterday to take care of Dave. Worked all day today. You would have thought they would have told me not to come in today. I understand why they did it, but it still bothers me. I mean i know as soon as they left they were talking about what they should do and how they should handle talking to me about how they were scared I have been carrying some crazy fatal virus. They told me to call tomorrow when we got the test results in to keep them updated. I'm super hormonal right now too, so it's not helping. I needed the money that I would've made tomorrow. Next week is Thanksgiving, so I'll only be working 3 days. I'm not super broke right now because I'm working weekends at Corrie's studio, but with the holidays coming up, I need the cash for Christmas presents. I'm going to ask if I could possibly stay a few hours later next week to gain some time I missed this week. . My boss alreadt said we could work something out for it and he's pretty good when it comes to negotiating so I don't think he would have a problem with it. I want to work. I enjoy work most of the time. I need the money and I think it would show my boss that I care about work. I'm just hoping that I really not going to get fired in a few weeks. I'm probably getting too emotional and concerned over nothing.
For the past like...2 months, I've been working weekends at the portrait studio, which is fun, but since I have tons of stuff to do for school and I already work everyday during the week, it cuts into my school work time. Today I was scheduled to work 9:30-6:30. Corrie was expecting a pretty busy day. We were supposed to be double booked every half hour almost all day, but I guess last night when appointments were being confirmed a lot of people rescheduled. She has a ton of trainees, so she was giving them all the work to do so they could practice and get comfortable. She sent me home at 11:30 because there was just nothing going on. I was fine with it, since I have a lot of stuff that needed to get done. I went back to Dave's house and started putting away all of the Halloween decorations. everything is cleaned up, except for the big inflatables that were in the yard. I'm not sure where he wants to store them and I didn't really feel like trying to find a spot, so I left that for him. He should be happy when he gets home because I knew the last thing he wanted to do was clean stuff up after sitting in class all day.
After cleaning, I made chicken salad. Dave said last night that he was craving it and it's super easy to make. He didn't have any celery, like he said he did, so I just put some more onions in it. I tasted it and it was pretty good, but the celery gives it something special.
I have a lot of homework I need to do. I'm so glad that portfolio is my only class. I couldn't imagine how much stress I would have right now if I had other classes with homework. Time to get into nerd mode and start coding.
I'm on lunch. I needed to get away from the office for a little bit because the stuff I'm doing is really tedious and boring. My boss's daughter had to get surgery today, so he's not in, and decided to give me all these boring things to do to keep me occupied I guess. On a good note, he sent us a text saying that her surgery went well, YAY.
I'm so tired of school. I really want it to be over with now. I really only have one class left cause my internship is my current job. Although it's the most important class probably (portfolio) I'm not sweating it because i think i have a good foundation for my website and have an idea now of what i would like to do for my interactive DVD. I should pass fine. There's plenty of people that graduated with a shit portfolio...so I'm sure i'll be ok. I just don't want to do it. At all. I should be done with all of this by now.
I need to go back to work and finish my incredibly tedious tasks. JOY
