Goodbye and good riddance

Due to Sean getting a job at Tinker and me hopefully getting a job at Tate, I quit Sonic this week. Sean has been busy filling out paperwork for his fancy Security Clearance with Abacus Tech, a subcontractor with Tinker AFB. I have my official interview with Tate for a copyediting position tomorrow. I can't forsee not getting the job, but then let's not count our chickens before they've hatched. So after three years working at different locations, sometimes only a few hours a week, and sometimes over forty, my last day with Sonic was Today. Here are a few of the things I will NOT be missing:
*Waking at 4:30am to open the store
*Running out of food or cups or lids or straws or napkins almost daily
*Having to go to Northstar for will calls when we ran out of stuff, especially in the summer when it's a hundred degrees outside and I had to sit in my car for an hour at a time.
*Customers complaining to me about everything, including things I can't fix and things that aren't even wrong.
*Employees whining about their jobs.
*Being short-handed and having to do five things at once.
*Continually sending back the headsets to their company and still only have two that work, instead of four.
*Roller skating and having customers ask me, "Are you skating? Have you fallen yet?"
*Smelling like stale tater tots every day
*Rushes where my blood sugar goes low and I can't find time to drink a coke

Time changes everything

Through some weird twist of scheduling, I don't have to go to work at Sonic tomorrow until 9:30, which means I don't have to go to bed at some unreasonably early hour. It's funny how the world looks different when you're not sitting around just dreading the time you have to go to bed just to get up insanely early to go to a job you're not particularly fond of. When I got home from Edmond today, I make beef teriyaki for dinner, spent time with Bella, washed a few dishes and wiped down the counters, read my book, and cleaned the toilets. This was all accomplished an hour before I normally go to bed. And yet, if I had to get up early tomorrow, instead I would have spent the evening feeling like I had no time to do anything and so just play on facebook and watch some tv. Isn't perspective weird?
And then, with all this free time I had left, I browsed goodreads for over an hour and found way too many books that I don't have time to read. So sad. So instead I will go back to reading Wuthering Heights, because if I finish it then I can move on to another book in my very large pile beside my bed. Hope you all are having a productive day and a hopeful start to your work week.

Lessons Learned This Week

What I learned Monday:
If you're trying to shove something down your cat's throat, you should probably be wearing some kind of protective armor. Or, just don't shove something down your cat's throat.

What I learned Tuesday:
You can think you're doing everything right, and it's still your fault. Also, I should triple check how many boxes of large cups we have so that I don't tell the other manager that he didn't order enough and then I get criticized because somehow that's my fault.

What I learned Today:
Too many employees at work can be almost as bad as having too few...if only because you're all dying of boredom!

Mid-week musings

Yesterday I learned:
the first ten "letters" of the Japanese alphabet. Arigato, Elyssa Dolinger!

Today I learned:
That sometimes I can tell people what to do and they will do it without complaining and then we will all have a good day.

I wish it were Friday, but other than that I'm cool.

April updates

Let's see...where am I right now?

Only a third the way through Les Miserables.
Another pile of books to read is forming around my bed, and that's not even counting the other books queued up on my Kindle.
Need to wash dishes.
Need to wash Sonic clothes.
Need to get away from Sonic!!!! I could spend a very long post just talking about everything that went wrong at work this week...but I shall refrain.
Just got a summer internship with Tate Publishing which will start next month.
Trying to be supportive of Sean who will be graduated by two weeks from today.
My house smells like wet dog right now.

And that's what you've missed on.....the life of Jessie!

Buddies

Today I learned:
How to "program" the headsets at work. We have four headsets and three channels that they run off of. This means that two of them are "buddies," and you can hear them on each other. THe point of having buddy headsets is so that a person new to taking orders can hear a experienced person take an order, or so that a more experienced employee cann butt in and save you if you don't know what's going on. We never use them that way, so usually the buddy just ends up being an extra that somebody might use every once in a while if the other person's hands are busy and they can't take the order. Anyway two of the headsets have stopped working recently and the two left were buddies, so we could essentially only take one order at a time. I called the help desk and learned how to assign different channels to the different headsets so that the two working ones would be on different channels and buddy-ed the two broken ones. It made me feel so smart! No one else was impressed. That's all.

Happy Hour and forgetting what I learned

Today I learned...
something, but I already forgot what it was. Somebody at work said something and I said, "What does that mean?" and then she told me and said, "You learn something new every day, and that's what you learned for today." But so much for that.
Today was my first day as a manager working happy hour. Fortunately it was very slow and I was able to send two people home and still have really good times. Then after work I spent the evening with my mom, whom I have not seen in a while. My mom is the best mom ever. I thought I would just put that out there on the internet in case there was any doubt. She helped me wash my dishes, some of which were moldy because I had forgotten to rinse them out.
I don't think I'll have time to read or write at all the rest of this week, until maybe Saturday. Tomorrow we are having guests for dinner and then Friday I think we are going to Norman for dinner with Sean's dad because his mom is out of town. I had no idea Spring Break was going to be so busy! But that just means only six more weeks until Sean graduates from college (cue Pomp and Circumstance).
I think that now I will go to sleep. It has been a long and full day. I am just sad that I did not have time to go to house church and see my sister :(

Friday.

Today I learned that:
the top of the steamer is REALLY HOT. I learned this with a yelp and a burned finger. I hope that coney was worth it.

In other news, I had a really good day at work today, and I look forward to a great afternoon and evening and I can't wait for Spring Break to start! I'm still working five days next week, but I'm getting my hours cut back so that I can have some fun. It's going to be great.

Spring Break 2010

The ides of March are fast approaching as are the warm winds of Spring! Spring Break is next week at OC and Sean and I have some great plans of taking off work and spending time with family and friends!

Time continues to pass and my life continues to go on. It is full and tiring, but nothing of note to pass on or remember. Right now I am pretty tired and sleepy because I didn't get very much sleep last night and work was very dramatic.
In the literary world, writing is pretty much non-existent, but I am slowly plowing through the classic French novel, Les Miserables.

Today I learned:
I don't know. But it was good, I'm sure, whatever it was.

manager

Today I learned that...
I start my managerial duties on Monday! I'm going to be opening weekdays for now on. Let's hope this turns out as well in reality as it did in my mind.

carhopping and stuff

So after taking my poll and having two people vote (thanks mom and mar!), I have decided to rededicate my life to that which is the ultimate goal in my life: finishing a novel. Since it feels like I spend about eighty percent of my life in Edmond, I decided that whenever I'm in Edmond but not at work, I will be writing my novel Into the Flames. (Until it is done, which should be sooner rather than later.) Usually this is like three or so hours a day. However, ever since I made this goal for myself, I have been staying late at work so I haven't gotten any writing done at all! I worked for eleven hours today, not even a break. It wasn't really that bad except my feet started to hurt after about eight hours. It didn't feel like that long; I had clocked out at four so I could clock back in as a carhop (different hourly wage between carhop and drive-thru, which is what I had been doing all day), and when my time card read eight hours I was surprised! I had honestly expected it to say five or six hours. Anyway, so lots of tips and hours today. Maybe tomorrow, though, I will get some writing done! I know, I know, I could just make up for lost time by writing now, and maybe I will. But I also want to set some time aside for reading great novels, too. Can't be a good writer without knowing what's out there.

Today I learned that:
The sun may be shining, but it can still be cold.
I can work for eleven hours and still consider it to be a good day.
The brown sugar in my pantry is all crusty.

snow "storm"

Today I learned that...
it can snow and I still have to go to work!

A few things from my day

One: I hate it when people judge other people based on the consequences of previous actions rather than who they are. I must confess that I'm guilty of the same thing, but when I see my friends being judged by others who don't even know them, I get angry.
Two: I forgot what else I was going to say, because I am angry.
Three: I had like fifty people tell me today that they couldn't believe that I was skating, that I was very brave, how terrible that you have to be out in the rain, that they wanted me to be careful...etc. I had one person tell me that I shouldn't skate and I was being stupid. No matter that my boss told me I had to plus I haven't EVER fallen so maybe I'm a good enough skater to be skating. Oh, and I had one person tell me that I had to throw away their trash (which is a health code violation, by the way) because they didn't want to get wet using the drive-thru trash. Didn't notice that I was wet or have been in the rain all day.
Four: I'm in a very negative mood. I should get off here before I find something wrong with every aspect of my life.

Song of the Day: "Love story" by Taylor Swift