Monday, July 26, 2004
I am having all kinds of trouble with remembering the date today. I don't know why either. For some reason, I keep wanting to say it's the 25th, but that was yesterday. At least I think it was.
I suppose a large part of my problem is that I'm tired right now. I spent much of the evening after work cleaning, cooking, and doing laundry. Add that onto the fact that it was pretty busy at work today, and you have a recipe for a tired dude.
Cleaning in this house isn't easy either. I must be the only one who keeps their stuff in their room. I must be. Lori has stuff all over the place down here, my mom has a few things, and my younger sister Teresa has mail down here.
I'm not even going to get into what I found behind the table next to the steps. It was quite possibly the grossest part of this house, and that's saying a lot (or not depending on your point of view) considering how messy different parts of this house are.
The problem with this house goes back to the shoddy work that was done, the number of pets we have, and the fact that I have two sisters who don't clean. Well, when Lori's around she does, but she's never around. Again. So it is like we're a storage center again.
It's become pretty apparent that this carpet is shot in here though. It just can't handle the beating it's taking from all these cats lying around all over the place. It's cheap carpeting to start with, so maybe we as a whole haven't felt a whole lot of urgency to keep it clean either.
The best part was all the fur on the floor and behind the table. Not only was it in abundance, but you probably could've made a small coat out of all the fur. Granted, most of it wouldn't have matched and it probably isn't very sanitary, but a coat's a coat? Right?
It wasn't all that bad though. It looks a little better than it did before, although we need to come up with an alternative as to where we place the mail from now on. The table in the living room just isn't going to cut it, not as long as two of the larger cats keep sleeping up there, knocking everything off of the table anyway.
Already I'm looking at the table and the few things I left on it are now on the ground. It never ends.
I talked to my mom again about the situation at work and she suggested that I once again investigate working at University Hospital as a tech there where I might make more money working less hours. So I might look into that again. There would be the possibility of me working three twelve-hour days making more money an hour than I make at CVS and if that's the case, I would gladly take it if for no other reason than to get away from Keith.
He went so far as to yell at Sarah today to answer the phone. There are two problems with this. One, he could've asked Roberta who was not doing a damn thing to get it (which she should've done on her own anyway). Two, Sarah was already on another line helping a customer. I know because I was helping her with the call. I shot him a look, and I guess he saw it because he never did yell at Sarah again to get anything.
In a way, I kind of wish that he had because I wanted to have a reason to fire back at him. It seems as if no one else is going to stand up to him and tell him to cut it out, so it may fall on me and I'm more than willing to. He simply cannot be treating people the way he has been treating them or he'll start losing those employees fast.
I don't want to get into a confrontation with him, but he has to stop getting snippy with his employees. It's not right, it's certainly not fair, and it's going to drive others away.
I don't even really want to talk about this anymore, but shit keeps on happening and I have to otherwise I'm going to blow up on somebody and that would be very bad.
I just know that I need to make a decision on my future there and soon. If it means leaving the store, then so be it.
I did a lot of work on the "This is MST3K" sections that I've been working on slowly since February. The section as a whole is still a long ways off before it's actually finished, but it was good to finally be done with half of the sections I want to include. Unfortunately, the two that are left are the largest ones.
A history of the show and my perspective on the show and how it affected me growing up. Not exactly walks in the park in terms of amount of content that needs to be in those sections to really make them worthwhile.
It's really the only project I have going on with this site, which is good. Too much time in the past was spent trying to do things that were beyond the scope of what I should be doing. I tried too hard to have pages on things like music, movies, television, and other things that in truth, I'm not really that good at covering. Yes, I watch movies and tv, but I don't pay enough attention to warrant making a section about those things. Music I do love, but I also don't have the time to cover such a broad subject. I simply have too many cd's, like too many different artists to accurately and properly have a section in here.
My strength is writing. It's plain and simple. I write well, I cover things that happen to me well, and to an extent, the world around me.
I used to be very up to speed on things in the news. I used to follow it and write about what I thought about things that were going on. I don't do that much anymore. Maybe it's distaste for things that are going on. Maybe it's a lack of interest. I don't know.
Maybe I've become tentative though. Not that anyone's ever criticized a view I've held, but there's always that fear that someone I care about will read what I wrote, be offended by it, and not want to talk to me again.
Maybe I just don't care though. I just don't have a taste for the world news anymore. There's just too much going on that's bad and I can't stand reading negative reports all the time. I especially don't care for this whole thing in Iraq. It's all been a sham and we've lost over 900 soldiers because of a phony war.
I can't wait to see how the election goes this year. I really can't. I don't know if I can take four more years of Bush.
I'm starting to talk about Jessica more and more, but still keeping it somewhat quiet. Mike knows more about it now, as does Swati from work, but other than Sarah, who I tell everything now it seems, I'm laying low with this. It's mostly because I work with people who can't keep their mouths shut and have to spread other people's business around. I can't stand when more people know about something involving me than I've actually told. Kind of kills trust, you know?
I just want to make sure that everyone's clear on what this girl means to me. I have not stopped thinking about her since the end of our first date and really am going crazy over not being able to see her for a couple of days now. I mean, it's good in a way because it reduces the chances of us getting sick of each other (preposterous, I know), but still...I like being with her and had so much fun with her that I can't wait to be with her again.
I think people can tell how much I like her though. Nichole noticed it, if only because I probably had a pretty big smile on my face while talking about the date.
It's just nice to finally have someone who's going to be good to me. It's nice to know that the things I do won't go unnoticed. Hell, it's just nice.
I wrote a while back about meeting a girl and it being a blessing. Well, this is the real blessing. I have no doubt about it. Jessica is going to make the rest of this summer one to remember, and in a good way.
The way it should be.
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