Gone long, life goes on

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It's been a while since I blogged, and this is where I usually say I'm sorry for how long I've been away, and say that hopefully it won't be so long till the next one.

Honestly I've just not had much to say. I work and sleep for the most part and it's quite unimpressive to say the least. At best it's a life that doesn't leave much to talk about.

I *would* like to blog. I'd love to sit down and share my thoughts with everyone, but as late all my thoughts are about work. My situation at work, problems with money, that sort of thing. As all consuming as those things are to me, they just aren't that interesting to anyone else I would think.

So while I have been away know it's not because I don't miss the lot of you, but because my life is unspectacular at the moment. Should there be any events you'll be the next to know!

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You ask for free time eh?

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I did complain about not having enough free time, so I suppose I shouldn't be complaining now that I do.

Unfortunately it has come by way of me having to call into work for my third day in a row with an absessed tooth and a sinus infection that has swelled up the left hand side of my face to ungodly proportions. Those of you who know what I look like can only imagine. On my right hand side I look as skinny as a crackhead. On the left hand side I look like violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory after she ate that damned gum.

The good news is that now the pain has for the most part subsided. Hopefully I can go get this taken care of as soon as the swelling subsides.

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Blogging is for people with free time

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I've really wanted to blog, but working 70 hour weeks has somewhat limited that extra few minutes in my day to lay down an entry or two. My thought is to make shorter entries or to devise some way to text a post from work, since that is where I seem to spend the great portion of my life at this point.

I have the next two days off however, and I'm determined to actually take them off. My apartment needs cleaning and there are movies to be watched. I bought Underworld Evolution yesterday and am looking forward to sitting down and watching it.

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Work? Yeah I work...

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The last week or so has been... tiring, to say the least. The managers where I work have both been off, one on vacation, and one's wife in the hospital. This left our already short department in relative disarray.

Enter me... The one who made the smart ass comment about wanting as much overtime as I can handle. I've spent the week pretty much living at work. Counting lunch time I've put in pretty close to 90 hours last week, thanks to a brutal lunch conspiracy I'll get paid for about 77.08 hours of it. This does, however, break the record I held when I worked for 74 hours the week of Hurricane Andrew.

Now I'm sitting here and both my managers are back. I have a splitting headache and find myself sitting at the computer 5 hours before I need to go to work, having spent about 3 hours sleeping in the last 48, completely unable to get into bed and sleep. Every time I lay down it feels like my head is going to explode.

I get headaches from time to time but this one just sucks. I feel slightly less in pain when the lights are turned off and I'm in a sort of head down fetal posistion, but my body starts tensing up and I need to move. Thus blogging.

I think I may call in tonight. Lord knows my paycheck wont suffer a lot, and I need the rest.

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Days Off

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Why do my days off pass so fast? It seems like just two days ago I was getting off of work about to enjoy them and now tonight I have to go back in. Oh the cry.

The good news is that today completes my goal of going a week without bitching about work. There were a few slipups but nothing anywhere close to the normal daily helping of wal-mart whining. I'm thinking to continue the goal. It actually helped considerably with making it through my days, as in order to not bitch about it I had to take it a lot less seriously.

The days off were quite nice though, I got to catch up with some old friends, spend a lot of time with some new ones, and chat up Rachel for most of Wed night. All in all a nice way to spend a couple days.

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But it's just for videos!

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We had a gentleman come into Wal-Mart and make his way to electronics section. With a barely perceptible wobble in his step and only the faintest of beer favored scent to him, he requested the purchase of a new television set.

Nothing is odd about this so far, we get stinking drunk folk all the time, especially being open 24 hours. Nay, what set this fine example of the human race apart is how he attempted to purchase said television...

With a Blockbuster membership card.

He did promise the cashier that he would only use it to watch movies, which I suppose made sense in his dark little corner of reality, but she wasn't budging. He didn't understand there was no correlation between the two, even after it was helpfully suggested that that meant we would have no method of checking if he had late fees.

We were informed as he left the building that we will have no more business from him. I, for one, will miss him immensely.

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But it's just for videos!

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We had a gentleman come into Wal-Mart and make his way to electronics section. With a barely perceptible wobble in his step and only the faintest of beer favored scent to him, he requested the purchase of a new television set.

Nothing is odd about this so far, we get stinking drunk folk all the time, especially being open 24 hours. Nay, what set this fine example of the human race apart is how he attempted to purchase said television...

With a Blockbuster membership card.

He did promise the cashier that he would only use it to watch movies, which I suppose made sense in his dark little corner of reality, but she wasn't budging. He didn't understand there was no correlation between the two, even after it was helpfully suggested that that meant we would have no method of checking if he had late fees.

We were informed as he left the building that we will have no more business from him. I, for one, will miss him immensely.

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Where Amanda becomes Popcorn

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Going in to work last night I was both insanely exhausted and annoyed. I had discussed with one of my co-workers the possibility of me calling in that night, and he asked the manager if he could come in early to help cover for me. My manager told me that if I couldn't work my shifts he could put me back down to part time...

This is after just signing my evaluation from work which mentioned how dependable I am, how much of a difference I'm making in the department and so on. Luckily Nick was there to vent to when he told me this or I likely would have made an ass out of myself going to the store manager about something pointless and stupid. The assistant manager over my department, though someone I used to consider a friend, is a horrible kiss ass and honestly would probably ask death for a short postponement if wal-mart needed him in that day. A company man indeed.

Going in that night was something that I debated as I was really tired and I'm the kind of person that will do something just because he told me I better not. I'm glad I did though.

When Amanda saw how miserable I was she came over to my department with a box and a huge smile on her face. I didn't know what she was up to, and women coming at me with smiles like that is usually cause enough to make me run, but alas I was too tired. She then showed me the inside of the box, which had a few kernels of corn inside, and said "Look, popcorn!" and started banging the bottom of the box, making them jump in the air. I couldn't help but laugh, especially after I looked up and saw the huge hopeful smile on her face.

My sister and I have decided to rename her popcorn.

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Last night at work...

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Yesterday was a particularly bad day at work as my day depends a lot on what the people on the shift before me get done. I had left two shifts with 1 pallet of things to put out and the manager gave them a list of things to do... They didn't finish the pallet and only managed to get two things checked off the list between the 3 of them. Two things that it would have taken me 15 minutes to do if both of my hands were broken and I had to go check the list every 30 seconds to remember what I was supposed to be doing. Added on to that I had my own items to do which should, by all rights, have taken me all night.

It still ended up being an ok night. I suppose it's a bit of a pride thing but I enjoy being able to prove what I can do, and last night was all the proof anyone should need for a while. I managed to do all my workload, finish all the items on the list the shift before me was supposed to do, unload my truck, set up some new displays, and still found time to have an excellent conversation with my sister on our lunch break about her stress levels from the job. :P

All in all a very productive night. I was a little bothered by one of the morning shift people saying they wouldn't help me unload the morning truck because "it wasn't his job". It was a bit of a let down after spending the night doing everyones job for them, but I just moved on with the day. The unfortunate thing about this is that this same person is someone they are thinking of moving to my shift to double the work crew overnight. I have scheduled a sit down with the manager tonight to explain to him that I already spend the night making it look like the evening crew isn't lazy and pointless, and that I really don't need to have someone being lazy right in front of me to be able to claim credit for the things I do overnight added in.

On the positive side the department manager seems to be fully aware of what I do. He and I are actually developing a rather good rapport and at least on my side a functional friendship. We share a lot of interests outside work, and have a very similar work ethic at the job. He's a really friendly guy and it's nice to have something to look forward to on the days he comes in on the shift after mine. That morning conversation is a really nice lift after what can be boring and difficult nights. Not to mention having someone appreciate what you do makes it a lot easier to continue doing it.

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Work Talk

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Chihuahua Bananas mmm


Them: Do you have any Chihuahua Bananas?
Me: You mean Chiquita Bananas?
Them: Those are the ones!

Shame we don't carry both kinds, they look downright tasty don't they?


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