MY LIFE - DECEMBER

Thursday, January 4, 2001

I keep wanting to type December as the month and 2000 as the year. Can't imagine why that would be.

Another busy day at work today. We finished with roughly 658 scripts today, which gives a weekly total of around 2300 so far, which is about where we should be this time of week. The only thing that makes that number jump out at me is that we closed six hours early two days this week. Sunday we went over 300 and Monday we went over 200 on shortened hours. If we are open normal hours, you can add at least 300 to those two days combined, which means we'd be approaching 2600 at this point in time with two more days to go.

We could conceivably do 600 tomorrow, which will put us near 3200 scripts and we should do another 400 on Saturday which should bring us above our normal number of scripts per week.

I just hate being as busy as we were with not enough help and having to listen to Joann bitch about not having enough help. Look, do me a favor Joann. If you agree to stay past you're normal time to leave, please, do not complain about anything. We appreciate the help, but we do NOT appreciate the moaning and complaining that you bring.

She thought that was Regina was slacking tonight. I cannot see how that was possible. Regina typed, she helped me fill, she took phone calls, and she checked so that Steve could go home. She was as busy as the rest of us. Joann accused her of slacking based on the simple fact that Regina called her mom and took a call from Elizabeth. Joann's on the phone all the time and that's not slacking, but if it's someone else, it is?

Something's wrong with that picture.

I just wish she'd go after me just once so that I could take her on. I dare the bitch to say something to me or make stupid remarks behind my back. It'll give me all the reason to start snapping back at her and start messing with her. She hasn't done that though. She's been very careful of what she's said to me and what she does, well, aside from launching the tube of Denavir ointment at me the other night that I was going to need to fill something. Other than that, she hasn't done anything to me.

I think someone told her. I will not be messed with. I will not take someone talking behind my back. I already gave Paul a piece of my mind over his complaints of me working the extra shift during Christmas that he actually wanted. I'm waiting for a real reason to give Linda a word or two, but she hasn't quite gone too far with what she's said to me.

I'm hoping it's because they respect me that they treat me well. I'm not going to be a happy camper if I find out things that are being said about me behind my back.

Anyhow. I'm getting better now I think. This time's for real, not like yesterday when I had a total relapse in recovery. Two days ago I felt as good as I had felt in a long time. Sure, my voice was wavering a bit and I was congested, but my throat didn't hurt and I felt just fine and dandy. Yesterday, I had no voice at all at times and felt awful.

I was not a pretty sight yesterday. I did not take a bath, in fact, I never even changed out of a t-shirt and shorts. I felt so dirty and yet I didn't really care. I went nowhere at all and felt bad that I had to scrap plans that I had. I wasn't in any shape to do anything yesterday though. What else could I do?

Today I feel better though. My voice is almost back to normal which means I can finally set up my voicemail the way I want to, with my own personal greeting. I kind of think it would be neat, but pointless, to change it each day to inform everyone what I'm doing that day, like when I'm working and so forth. I'll stop doing it after a couple days when I get bored with it, but it's something I think would be helpful.

My voice is almost completely back though. I just have to get rid of this cough now. Something tells me this is one of the last stages though. The cough's more of a nuisance anyway than anything else and isn't a bad cough, just a cough from irritation in my throat. My throat itself doesn't hurt anymore, the congestion is way down, and I just flat out feel better.

So hopefully by this weekend I'll be able to function like I normally can and talk to people on the phone again. More than once my phone rang and I couldn't answer it because I didn't have a voice. Then I had to listen to messages wondering where I was and what I was doing. Then I had to try and explain through e-mail why I hadn't called back.

Oh, and Jen, I got your message that you sent to my phone a while back. Sorry I haven't mentioned anything sooner. Been sick and busy. It happens, right?

I made a half-ass attempt at cleaning my room up a little bit on Monday and a little bit of an attempt last night. Basically, my computer station at least looks decent now aside from the food stains. I really need to get a cover for this keyboard because it isn't going to last much longer at this rate. I keep getting milk, beef soup, and everything else all over it because I eat at the same desk that houses my computer station.

The powdered donuts thing wasn't the smartest thing I could've done either. It's taken me three days to fish the powder out from between the keys. I think my mousepad's also sick too. There's cat fur on it because Kisa likes to sit on it for some reason. She also likes attacking the mouse pointer on my screen. Probably doesn't hurt that the mouse pointer looks like a mouse on top of things.

Anyway, this area looks at least a bit better now. Now, for those of you who've been visiting my site on a regular basis. I know about the pop-up ads that have probably been showing up in the upper right hand corner. I haven't been able to activate geoguides in about a week now. Geocities recently remodeled the file manager again and I haven't been very happy with it.

First off, I'll deselect "view .jpg" and "view .gif" files because I don't really care to see them, then the damn thing will load with them showing anyway and that takes a lot longer to load because I have a billion pictures sitting in my file manager. It also refreshes that way after I do some editing on a file and that makes me upset too. Sure, the file manager is all stream-lined and everything, but I don't like what they did.

Sometimes I can't save what I'm doing either because it'll complain that the URL is too long for my browser.

What???

Like I know what that's supposed to mean anyway. Besides, I never had a single problem in the past, why change the set up to begin with? On top of it, anytime I try to activate geoguides to get rid of the pop up ads, it tells me there was an error, but doesn't tell me what happened and why. So basically, you have to deal with ads that may or may not block what you're reading and that you can't get rid of right away.

I think it's about time to write an angry e-mail concerning this change.

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I've been playing "Rainbow Six" for the computer a lot lately and all its sequels, "Eagle Watch Mission Pack," "Rogue Spear," "Urban Operations Mission Pack," and "Covert Ops Essentials." They're all really cool games, but they're incredibly difficult. I played "Rainbow Six" for Nintendo 64 with my friend Mike and we beat each setting. It took us several tries, but we eventually did it.

Obviously, the computer allows the game to be much more difficult. The enemies are smarter, the missions are longer, planning becomes a must, and you end up trying a mission like ten times before you even have a chance at succeeding. I'm having lots of fun though regardless.

I like games like that though. You have to be smart, you have to be quiet, and you have to aim for God's sake. My mom evidently tried playing without really any kind of success. She has problems with aiming though and learning the controls. The controls are very complicated which is why using a joystick just won't work. There are so many things that you have to control and designate...The joystick would just make things too diffucult.

So I've been playing those games every now and then. Especially since my tv's being held hostage downstairs. I think it's about time to go and get it back. I want my Zelda game back too. I like "Rainbow Six," but I need my fix of "Zelda" too to keep from getting complacent.

Shit. I'm starting to cough violently again. I think it's time to go to bed. I can't believe I even wrote tonight. I worked until midnight and I don't like writing after midnight shifts.

It doesn't always work. Oooh, it's snowing again too. Tomorrow ought to be good. I guess I should try and avoid a car accident, huh?