MY LIFE - NOVEMBER

Sunday, December 3, 2000

Hmm... where to start.

Hi world. This is Jen and I'll be your tour guide. You're probably wondering who I am, huh?

Lets see... I've known Dave for quite a while now. He has always been there for me (He's a great listener). I came across him in a chat room to tell you the truth.... I guess it was luck of the draw. Considering servers kept going down and chat rooms kept getting switched. I talked to Dave for a couple months and fell in love with him. After a while we decided to meet, but that never came. But, it's not to late for anything like that.

We're not romantic anymore, just really good friends. I think it's better that way anyway. I'm still in love with the kid, but it's more of a caring love instead of love love. You know what I mean right? I can tell you're going to get confused.

Anyway, I'm a waitress at a place called Steak'n Shake. I'm sure you all have heard of it before. I haven't been there for very long, but I really like it. I am a very out-going person and I love meeting new people. I guess that's why I like it there so much. Every night I get to meet at least 40 people I would of never met before.

Sometimes things get a little hectic when my managers are in bad moods and think they can run the whole store themselves. Thats when I just want to walk out on them and be like "Lets see how you do without me." Not that I am being conceited or anything, but there is no way that store can work without me. They are already short on waitresses and they would be scared if they lost anyone else. I think our managers are going to start to realize it sooner or later though....at least I hope.

Work, work, work, sometimes it feels like that's all I do. That and school. What fun! Nah, I do go out with friends and all that... its not like I'm "antisocial" or something haha. Well that's all folks. I guess this is pretty good for my first entry. Are you proud of me? Maybe you'll be hearing from me again in the future. Who knows right?

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I'm almost ready to sing the theme to "The Brady Bunch," but that would scare most everyone who reads this and really wouldn't make much sense anyway, so I'll refrain. I think Jen did a very good job for her first entry and you'll probably be seeing more from her. I think someday she'll able to write something so long that I won't even have to worry about writing much at all. She'll do all the work.

That's not the main reason why I asked her or anyone else I've asked to write entries. Sure, a break is part of the reason (even though I'll probably be writing something during those days anyway), but I think it can't hurt if you all know the people that I talk to and understand them and what they think of me or anything else. It gives you a chance to see that hey, I'm not the only weird one around here too.

I'm just kidding about that. I'm the weird one and that's the bottom line.

Anyway, I think I'll be doing this more and more. I'd like to get my friend Mike to write something since I worked with him and still mess around with him from time to time. I think the world would be very interested to hear what he'd have to say, although I'm not sure if I could publish everything he said. He's the only one I'd edit.

Again, I'm kidding.

Don't be surprised if you see more of this though. Just thought I'd let everyone know.

Today was a pretty good day. There weren't any fireworks today like there were yesterday. Linda was much calmer today, but I still think she's one outburst away from getting herself fired. Far as I can tell, I'm one of the few people she's fine with right now. That's where not opening your mouth can actually save you a headache. I told her straight up today though that she needed to try and keep herself controlled a little better though for her own sake.

Today wasn't going to be a day for me to preach though. I didn't feel all that great early on in the shift and the day really was dragging on. We were not busy by any longshot at all. It was a nice day though for me to just sit back and try to relax a little and catch my breath. I had very few problems today aside from my stomach hurting a little bit early on. That went away with food, a change from what was going on in the latter part of last week.

From what I know, there's going to be a small meeting between a few people I work with. I don't know when it's going to be or if I have any involvement in it. I do know of two people it involves and I'm pretty sure what the message is going to be towards those two people. I'm just going to continue to keep myself out of everyone else's problems and do my job like I'm getting paid to do.

I play peacekeeper and Mr. Advice with friends, but I'm not keeping the peace in any way between any of the people I work with right now. I don't need anyone getting mad at me and turning their scopes on me instead of someone else. It seems that everyone likes working with me right now and I'd like to keep it that way. Mind you, I'm not going to be kissing ass, but I'm not going to be doing things just to deliberately mess with someone unless they mess with me first.

It won't do me any good to cause any more problems.

I had enough of them at the old store.

So don't expect to hear about me getting involved in anything unless it actually involves me.