0166: Apartment Update, and More..

First note: If you want to see me quit doing something, let me call it a tradition. :)

Here's what we've heard this week about the apartment that we're trying to get into:

( Apartment Drama, Part 1 )

( Apartment Drama, Part 2 )

So, we're going up there on Tuesday afternoon, supposedly to get an apartment. Personally, I think that Carmona has given away our apartment, and is trying to make life difficult (so we abandon trying to get it), she has something against us for some reason, *or* they really are that shitty, and we're just lucking out in that we're seeing it now. Personally, I don't think that we'll be getting the apartment, but I have decided to write a letter to the apartment management company about Carmona, and how she treated us during the whole process.

The good news, though, is that Strieson's dad knew of a 2BR, 1BA house for rent out in Arlington. It's kind of out there and we may not be able to get cable, but it's a house, and it's outside of King Willie's domain. I have to get the number from Strieson for the place tomorrow, so that I can call them. They were busy when he called the other day.

In addition to the apartment drama, I finally cracked on Wednesday at work. Thankfully, I wasn't "postal", but just "shit-full of dealing with all this crap." I had a talk with the co-manager (who was running it this week, while the manager was on vacation). And things were smoothed over. I've decided that I'm going to use this week to consider what I want out of my job at Kroger. I'm either going to go fully into the management training program, or I will back down, never doing MIC work again. This halfway shit doesn't work. I have too much authority for a regular employee, but too little authority (and too little knowledge!) to be an MIC.

The interesting thing is that today, while I was working, the pharmacist suggested that I should go into management. The thing is that she pegged what might be my biggest problem: I'm scared. Scared of trying it, and failing. *sigh* It's easy to talk the talk, but to walk the walk? Hmm.. This is something that I will give serious thought to in the coming week.

For now, though, it's time to crash, and enjoy that I'm on vacation, and don't have WoW to play (so I can sleep in!).

0168: Vacation, Day One

Because I feel it needed to be posted:

Agenda for Sunday, August 20:
• Sleep!
• Level my D&D character before the game. 
• Go to nyminal's, and play in his D&D game. 
• Clean my room
• Do laundry.
• Pack some non-essentials, like my DVDs, manga, knicknacks*, and novels**
• Play some TitanQuest before/after D&D. 
• At some point, probably right before I sleep again, read more in Once Upon a Winter's Night, by Dennis McKiernan.

Yes, it's nice being on vacation. :)

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* - Yes, I have what I call knickknacks: a vase brought back by C & W from their first anniversary trip, for housesitting for them; 3 of the 4 LotR Burger King glasses; a Mayan calendar brought back by C & W from their honeymoon trip to Mexico; the peg game that Cracker Barrel has at every table; a compass; and my one-eared***, all-the-fuzz-just-about-gone, very-much-real-like-the-velveteen-rabbit blue bunny rabbit, which I've had for a hair less than my full 30 years. So nyah! :)

** - Okay, I don't mean ALL novels, Obviously, if I've not read them yet, then they're essential, and cannot be boxed up.

*** - Two females I knew back when I was a teen were mock fighting over it, and one of the ears tore out. I kept it for years, but somehow, in my moves back in '99-'02, I lost it. :(