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Back at work for a week? Already?

June 8, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged , , , , , , , ,

Today was the final day in my first week back at Wegmans (although technically according to Wegmans scheduling Sunday counts as the next week, but shhhhhh). I worked over 30 hours this week, which is great because it means about 30 bucks shy of 300 dollars!! but at the same time it kinda sucked because on Monday, I apparently had left the department a mess and didn’t listen to the produce manager and was slacking off… none of which I recall, but Rachel took me aside on Thursday to ask what went wrong and to remind me that she didn’t hire me back just to stand there and look pretty. I know I wasn’t 100% on Monday, but I hadn’t slept the night before and it was my first day back and the first thing that happened was that someone’s order hadn’t been put together! Not that I’m just making excuses, but it was kinda overwhelming. Saturday was the Fairport senior ball so we had over 200 orders and that was ALL we did all day Saturday. I got there at 9:30 and made corsages and boutonnieres until 6:15… with a 20 minute lunch in there somewhere. Luckily corsages/bouts are probably one of my favourite things to do at work, as long as the customer isn’t standing right there as I make it. 30 hours was probably a bit much, when you add in my class and everything else… but I need the money.

Speaking of class, it’s going well, I guess. I still don’t feel like it applies all that much, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be too hard/work-heavy, so I can survive. I’ve gotten to the point in my graduate studies where I am just desperate to get it over with. Knowing that with this class I have broken the boundary into the 2nd half of my program is thoroughly exciting. Although this class that I am taking would have been WAY more helpful before my first practicum, because we are learning all about guided reading and all that b.s. that has to do with younger learners that would’ve been REALLY NICE when I was working with a 2ND GRADER!!!! *sigh* Wow, I just realized that in 4 weeks this class will be done and I’ll be working on my 2nd practicum. Weird, summer classes are crazy short. :-)

I gained 3 pounds this past week, because I didn’t write down ANYTHING I ate… which I guess shows how important the journal is to Weight Watchers success. So that puts my weightloss back at 3 pounds total instead of 6. Boo. But I have been writing everything down and I plan on working out a couple times this week and really working on eating more healthily, so hopefully I’ll be more successful. My friend, Gail, is coming to WW with me… which is nice because it really is easier to lose weight with someone there to support you (and someone to compete with… which I know is NOT what WW is about, but it helps me… oops).

Joel has his first day at eLogic tomorrow and I’m super excited for him. I don’t think he’s excited, because he doesn’t want to be a grown-up yet, but its exciting nonetheless. We’ve also been looking at apartments for him to live in, which has been interesting to say the least. He doesn’t tend to start things without being shoved in the right direction, so I called places and set up appointments and went with him, but now the decision is his, because it will be his apartment, not mine. Although I’ll probably a fair amount of time there… I just can’t live there because his parents would freak out. *sigh*

Being back at Wegmans and surrounded by flowers has gotten me thinking about wedding plans again… even though Joel hasn’t even proposed yet… but I spent most of my shift today planning out what flowers I want in my miiiiind, while helping customers and whatnot. I feel like such a crazy girl. I wish he would just propose so I’d be less insane and more intelligent for planning ahead. LoL. He’s been hinting that it might be soon, which would be great. :-) I want him to do it when he is ready, so I’m thinking it’ll probably be a few months so that he can settle into work/a new apartment before doing it…. or something. I dunno. For all I know, he could hand me a ring tomorrow. I really just need to stop thinking about it. *silly girl*

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Because I haven’t gone to bed…

February 15, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged , , , ,

Does this post still count as Valentine’s Day?

I kinda hope so, if not, I missed a day… oops.

Valentine’s Day was quite nice this year, considering I didn’t have to work in FLORAL!!!!!!!!! Oh my god, such a relief. No customer-caused panic attacks for meeeeeeeeee.

I had lunch with Erica at Donnelly’s which was nice and reminded me how much I love Donnelly’s, and also Erica because she’s pretty much one of the most awesome people in the universe and there is no denying that. Although I probably shouldn’t have had that beer AND the alcoholic coffee right before going to class, but that’s okay.

Class was interesting tonight, mostly because I wasn’t keeping my snarky comments to myself, but a little bit of the alky can do that to me, even though I wasn’t feeling it… it was definitely present because I could not get myself to shut up. I even made fun of my prof a bit. :-X BUT he had made fun of me earlier in the night, so it’s okay. That class has such a weird dynamic because sometimes the prof is a hard ass and then the next minute he’s making bad jokes and being all jovial. I think it’s Multiple Personality Disorder… for example, he was ranting about people not showing up and bad attendance (his policy is if you miss a class, you won’t pass… that wasn’t supposed to rhyme, but we’ll run with it). Yet if you have a reasonable… reason for not being there, he’s like “Oh, it’s fine, don’t worry about it, I’m a nice guy…” and it’s kinda scary because you never know if you should be joking around with him or perfectly serious and nice to him… he’s a very hard to read guy. But yeah, I kept making snide comments all class, not about him per se, but just in general. OH! And next week we get to go to the Rochester Museum and Science Center which is far too exciting to me because I kinda heart it! Especially running around and playing with all the stuff… but I think we are going more of “This is what you can bring your students to” than a “hey, let’s have fun!” so that kind of saddens me.

Anyway, after class, I came home and finished burning Joel’s CDs. (I made him copies of all of my Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, and Da Vinci’s Notebook music {If you have not listened to these people, you need to}). Then he came over and cooked me dinner! And he was dressed up in a red button down shirt, tie, dress pants (that hug his rear quite nicely), a suit coat and his trench coat, it pretty much took all of my control not to jump him when he walked in the door. Then again, I thought I looked pretty darn cute today myself, red longsleeve u-neck t-shirt from Old Navy, black/red/dark green/blue/yellow (but mostly black) plaid skirt from Torrid, black legging capris, and red patent pointy kitten-heeled shoes. I felt adorable, which doesn’t happen often, so that was exciting! But anyway, so Joel made dinner and we opened gifts, he got me a stuffed monkey and pony (the same as the two that he took apart to make Jo and Co, my 2 half-pony-half-monkey monsters {a reference to a Jonathan Coulton song} that I got for Christmas, so they look like distant relatives), and a beautiful silver necklace with 4 different patterned hearts on it. That boy knows how to buy things for me. :-) I got him The Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Men in Tights on DVD and the aforementioned CDs. We watched a movie, played some Super Mario Galaxy, watched an episode of Torchwood, and then he had to go home because he has a meeting on campus at 9 am… which I guess is understandable that he had to leave, although it kinda sucks. But yeah, I love that boy soooo much.

And now I’m going to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Yay sleep.

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