You Can’t Take the Sky From Me

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*