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Wow.
( Ironically, I mean both major uses of the above word. From the beginning of the year, World of Warcraft has been a major hobby/time eater/soul sucker/money saver. )
That's been the main thing I've done. I got "promoted" to MIC (Manager in Charge) at work, meaning that I got to wear a shirt and tie, and run the store when the manager left for the day. I made a slight premium over my regular pay, and I have learned quite a bit about how the store functions as a whole. There was a downside, though, which ultimately contributed to my extensive play of WoW: When the manager was doing my schedule, and asked if I had anything I regularly did, I mentioned that I got together with my friends for an activity on Sunday afternoon. (I'd had to more or less give up doing payroll, because of when he needed to use me.) He off-handedly shot my request down, and proceeded to work me on Sunday nights for a month and a half. I actually didn't mind much at first, since I was kind of burned out with playing, but soon I began to miss my friends, and when I learned that they were beginning a D&D campaign, I bribed fate to rearrange things for me.
I have had to work on Sundays since the game began, but I worked till 4pm, giviing me time to get over there and play. Now, in the past two weeks, with the acceptance of one of our file clerks into the manager training program, I have moved back to payroll, which was suffering without my guidance (no disrespect to the guy who was doing it, but people had contant complaints about their time/pay). I could still be MICing, but the first week that the file clerk was scheduled to do MIC work too, I had all nights, and the manager, co-manager, and file clerk/co-manager all had mainly day shifts.
You know what? Anthony's dumb, but not THAT dumb. I talked to Joyce (my CSM), and she agreed to schedule me 5 days on the Front End again, accounting for payroll on Sunday. I will be going back to MICing at some point, but I will not let them run over me like that. So, for now, I'm doing what I always did, and doing a better job, since I feel I know more how things work.
On a personal level, I feel that I am "figuring out" some of the things that have always bugged me. That's not to say I have the answers, but that I am beginning to really feel that I am on the right path to finding them out. Time to break out The Purpose Driven Life again, and actually finish it this time (I always stall around day 20 or so. This time, I think I got to day 22.)
Also, I've realized that I've never set a goal when I decided to eat healthier/lose weight. That knowledge alone worked like a bucket of cold water to the face. Without something to strive for, to gauge my progress toward, how can I feel I'm getting anywhere? So, my goal is now to lose four inches off my waist by the end of the year. I've already begun, by buying more fruits and vegetables, and trying to eat sensibly, even when I still snack (I grab 100 calorie yogurt, or munch a handful of honey roasted peanuts). I'm on day two of THAT, but I think it's going to work.
Well, I'm going to let you digest that for now. Lemme wrap up by saying that I read peoples' journals every day, and that I'd like to apologize for not replying to the comments that I received. Some of them are those that I *really* should have answered, because Iprobably definitely hurt some feelings by not answering. Well, baby steps, right? I see myself posting here a lot more frequently than I have since the beginning of the year (which isn't hard, since this is only post #5 of 2006 -- I just need to post once more, and I'll have topped any single month.)
Take care, folks, and sorry to return on a weekend, when you are all trying to live lives away from the keyboard. :)
( Ironically, I mean both major uses of the above word. From the beginning of the year, World of Warcraft has been a major hobby/time eater/soul sucker/money saver. )
That's been the main thing I've done. I got "promoted" to MIC (Manager in Charge) at work, meaning that I got to wear a shirt and tie, and run the store when the manager left for the day. I made a slight premium over my regular pay, and I have learned quite a bit about how the store functions as a whole. There was a downside, though, which ultimately contributed to my extensive play of WoW: When the manager was doing my schedule, and asked if I had anything I regularly did, I mentioned that I got together with my friends for an activity on Sunday afternoon. (I'd had to more or less give up doing payroll, because of when he needed to use me.) He off-handedly shot my request down, and proceeded to work me on Sunday nights for a month and a half. I actually didn't mind much at first, since I was kind of burned out with playing, but soon I began to miss my friends, and when I learned that they were beginning a D&D campaign, I bribed fate to rearrange things for me.
I have had to work on Sundays since the game began, but I worked till 4pm, giviing me time to get over there and play. Now, in the past two weeks, with the acceptance of one of our file clerks into the manager training program, I have moved back to payroll, which was suffering without my guidance (no disrespect to the guy who was doing it, but people had contant complaints about their time/pay). I could still be MICing, but the first week that the file clerk was scheduled to do MIC work too, I had all nights, and the manager, co-manager, and file clerk/co-manager all had mainly day shifts.
You know what? Anthony's dumb, but not THAT dumb. I talked to Joyce (my CSM), and she agreed to schedule me 5 days on the Front End again, accounting for payroll on Sunday. I will be going back to MICing at some point, but I will not let them run over me like that. So, for now, I'm doing what I always did, and doing a better job, since I feel I know more how things work.
On a personal level, I feel that I am "figuring out" some of the things that have always bugged me. That's not to say I have the answers, but that I am beginning to really feel that I am on the right path to finding them out. Time to break out The Purpose Driven Life again, and actually finish it this time (I always stall around day 20 or so. This time, I think I got to day 22.)
Also, I've realized that I've never set a goal when I decided to eat healthier/lose weight. That knowledge alone worked like a bucket of cold water to the face. Without something to strive for, to gauge my progress toward, how can I feel I'm getting anywhere? So, my goal is now to lose four inches off my waist by the end of the year. I've already begun, by buying more fruits and vegetables, and trying to eat sensibly, even when I still snack (I grab 100 calorie yogurt, or munch a handful of honey roasted peanuts). I'm on day two of THAT, but I think it's going to work.
Well, I'm going to let you digest that for now. Lemme wrap up by saying that I read peoples' journals every day, and that I'd like to apologize for not replying to the comments that I received. Some of them are those that I *really* should have answered, because I
Take care, folks, and sorry to return on a weekend, when you are all trying to live lives away from the keyboard. :)
