New Year equals new job

Starting a new job is exciting and scary.  Everything is new and different and you don't know what to expect.  I start a new job on Monday.  It is a permanent job with benefits.  While it is not much more money than what I make now I will at least have the medical benefits and vacation time.  Not to mention a 401k plan.  I am grateful for this opportunity.  It kind of just fell into my lap.  A friend I bowled with years ago told me about it.  Her husband works there and he turned in my resume.  Interviewed on a Monday for it and got a job offer on Tuesday.

It will be sad to leave where I am at now.  But it will be good to be in a new permanent position.  While I know what I am leaving and do not know what is on the other side I know in the end it will be better because I will no longer be a temporary employee.

I am blessed to have had to go through this.  It has made me a stronger person.  While I still need to pay things off I know I am on a better road.  I can achieve anything I want to.  Things sometimes happen for a reason.  I have made my mistakes over the past 2 and a half years but I have grown and learned a lot.

While 2015 has gotten better it looks like 2016 will be even better.  Good things happen to those who go out and go for things and have faith that it will work out.

I cannot wait to see how the new job is and what is in store for me in 2016.  Until next time, later peeps.

My Underachieving Christmas Letter

It has been an interesting year.  All the kids and creatures are doing wonderfully.  They are all out of the house and living is some type of house structure or in a matchbook.

Billy Bob is slowly coming out of hiding and showing up in pictures.  He’s thinking of going into standup and going on tour.  He is tired of being locked up in a purse or left somewhere.  His sister Ursula has felt the need to go to Alaska and open an Orange Farm.  She thinks it will be very successful because it is costly to ship fresh Turnips and Brussel Sprouts there.   Her Financial Accounting Doctorate will be useful in this field.  The twins Agnes and Augustus are going to Antarctica to raise Butterflies and Roses.  They want to spread some color in an area that is so white.   They will take online classes to learn how to do hair and car repairs so they can add that service to the area.  Both services are very much in demand in the area amongst the penguins and seals.

Since completing the 4^th grade, Buck the Golden Retriever, he runs a fish grooming business on Mars.  He has become very busy and has a lot of clients.  He has a nice house on the dark side of Mars and is very happy.  Skippy the Iguana is floating around space looking for space garbage to send back to other planets for recycling.  He has found a lot of garbage but not a lot of places to take it to recycle.  So he’s thinking about changing his colors and doing something else.

As for me, I’m working a full time normal job and trying to keep circus of kids and creatures away from fuzzy bunnies and the chairs.  I have recently purchased a dirt farm so I place to retire to and run in my purple years.  I am looking forward to being able to grow some dirt and supply the universe with it.

The thoughts that pop into my head

Bungee jumping equals lemon shakeups and milk shakes. 

If you wanted someone to work better and harder then pay better. 

Good thing about having an elephant in your house making a mess he can also clean it up by knocking it down. 

Monkeys and Butterflies

Purple monkeys running all through the fields

Chasing lime green butterflies

Oh what fun this is says the monkeys

When we chase the butterflies and we can play

Play on the slides, swings, and in the trees

Christmas brings out the slobs and the cranky people

I have worked retail before but nothing like working at a major department store.  I worked in a video store which is way slower and smaller than stores like Macy's or Kohl's.  A lot of the people that come into the major stores are slobs.  You can be folding a table of clothes and be 95% done and people will look at the shirts, pick them up, and just put them down without a thought of how they found it.  I get that they are in a hurry and it's a busy time of year.  But come on, a lot of people will put things back the way they found them.  These are the people were taught to pick up after themselves.  The others, aka the messy jackasses they must have missed the memo about cleaning up after themselves.

It's a whole new view on working like this.  Not to mention that not of my fellow employees are great at straightening things up.  For the most part the store looks good.  But I'll find a pile of stocks under the sock rack.  Yes, it is Christmas time but there needs to be 50 more people hired to deal with it all.

So, all you shoppers loose the attitude and don't make disasters in the stores.  If you cannot then the Elf on the Shelf will leave.

Elf on the Shelf and stores

I started working at a retail department store at the beginning of October.  For the past 2 months now I have had to look at Elf on the Shelf every time I go up the escalator.  I am like can i just push it down the escalator now and roll it somewhere else.  Hello people we have 2 more holidays to   through, Halloween and Thanksgiving.

If it needs to be out that soon then maybe it should have a Halloween outfit and a Thanksgiving outfit.  Because then maybe it wouldn't end up at the bottom of the escalator.  I can't tell if any of them sold.  If they did then they are multiplying like rabbits.  Maybe all the toys run around the store and make a mess.  It's either them or the slobs that shop.  Well whomever it is they are keeping me employed at the moment so keep at it.

Life has been not so blonde lately

Lately, life hasn't been so blonde.  I have been working multiple jobs and trying to remember what day it is and where I'm supposed to be.

Today at work, they put out wrapping paper for us to take.  So I took 10 rolls thinking I'll find a use for it.  Yea right it's wrapping paper with a beer logo on it.  That will work great at Christmas.  Heck, who am I, kidding I'll use it because it's a step up from using a Meijer or Target bag to wrap my presents.

The funny in almost all situations

Whether it's positive or negative there's usually something funny in just about any situation. If not then I just have a weird sense of humor. There's one person I know who will say things out loud and when someone answers she's always surprised and is like I was just talking out loud. So after a few times of this, the group of us just stopped saying anything. Then she gets a little pissed when she says something and no one answers. She's like I was waiting to know something. Then we are like well we weren't sure if you were talking to yourself or us. I just chuckle at these things. If I don't then I'll go crazy. I'm already blonde don't need crazy added to the list and I mean blonde in a good way.

My very good friend's fiancée passed away about 6 years ago. While at the funeral service, her fiancee's 5 year old nephew passed gas during a very quiet moment. Then you hear a few chuckles from people. After the service people were talking and chuckling about it. It lightened the mood for a few moments.

Of course there's the one team lead that doesn't read her emails before delegating the work to others, because if she reads them she might as well do it. Ummmm, then how do you know what your team is working on. Not to mention how do you know you are not creating double work for the group? For example there were 2 emails about 2 separate orders that were going to the same person but with different addresses and she sends them to 2 different people. The person it is going to is no longer with the company. Ok let's have 2 people start emailing and calling to see where the orders should be going. Use your group wisely and we will shine. If not we look bad then you look bad. Something funny may or may not come from this one. But I moved on from it.

I was thinking about how some people get hazardous pay because they work with hazardous materials. Why don't we get attitude pay, more like bad attitude/negative attitude pay? It takes a lot of energy to deal with those types of people. When you are happy and positive life is so much easier. I�m not talking about the 1-2 moments a month where everybody gets crabby or has a bad attitude. We are human after all. I'm talking about the ones who are nasty all the time. It's like they thrive on take the joy out of other's lives.

I figure I'll keep looking for the positive/funny things in every situation. It will help me stay positive and focused on myself and my journey.