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Life Goes on or Hey What's Going on?

  • May. 8th, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Tao
So i'm not the best blogger in the world but that's how i work. Especially since when I do write I ramble. So I've been working as a manager for over a month now and let me tell you I LIKE IT! I enjoy all aspects of it. I like the people management, the money handling, the ordering hell i even love the paperwork! I've been mainly closing but the closer has so much he has to do it's a good feeling when you leave knowing you've accomplished something and did a good job. I unfortunately still don't know what store I'm landing at as my "permanent" position but having some fun along the way. So far I've been managing at 3 out of the 6 open stores and worked at 4 of them. I'll never end up working in Old Town which is fine so far away but I would love to work Cap Hill for a bit. Though I want to end up at Dupont like originally promised but if i go to Cap hill or Georgetown I will be okay with that. All three are technically the same distance buswise so it's not that big a deal.

Things with Nick [info]faeshale are good as always. Our relationship actually seems to get better as time goes on. We still have our annoyances and occasional petty arguments (mainly my fault the mood swings kicks in on occasions) But I love this man. He gets me in such a way and understands me (or at least tries to on occasion) in a way no one has before. I'm happy in such a contented way it's nice.

So I bought a new MP3 player. Got into an argument over it but yeah. I bought a Sony Walkman 8GB Video Player. Now I love Sony and have always had luck with their products. This is still though a temporary (if you call 18 months temporary) fix it's smaller in someways than I want but I don't have the computer to be dealing with a 120GB Zune. I'm in the market to get a new laptop sometime between now and next March after I get my taxes done. So far I plan to have only one job this year and I get enough pulled out taxes wise I hope to be given back over a grand again and with my salary paychecks at that point in time I should be able to get a really nice computer. After I get all my CD's ripped then I can worry about getting a new player. But back to the original topic. The Walkman has good sound and it's small and fits in pockets which is nice. My only qualms is the interface is a little hard to deal with. Plus I don't like Windows Media Player 11 over 10. 10 was much better to me and easier to deal with. Still trying to figure out 11. But otherwise I'm happy to have my music back. Gets me through my commute and I dance and sing walking down the street. New favorite songs are "Let it Rock" by Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil' Wayne, "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga, "Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry, "Rehab" by Rihanna, "if I never see your face again" by Maroon 5 feat Rihanna, and new fave love song is "Crack the Shutters" by snow Patrol
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So I've been without an MP3 player for like a month now... And it's driving me crazy... Especially since I don't work at Hard Rock anymore. There at least they had great music and dancing wasn't just condoned it was ENCOURAGED. So even if it was broke I was surrounded by music. Now my current job plays classical music ALL DAY and the highlight is when i hear Barber's Adagio for Strings. So I content myself at home with Launch by Yahoo and Pandora(which is freaking great by the way). So of course the response I'm gonna get from all of you is "So go buy a new one" There within lies the dilemma. Notice I said MP3 player and not Ipod. I've never owned and sorta never wanna own an Ipod. Pretty much the same reason I don't want a Mac. Apple and their policies and sale techniques annoy me. And I rather not feed into them and buy their products. Cept everyone makes accessories for the Ipod and for nothing else. For the past like 3 years I've had Creative Zens. They're decent products they have GREAT sound (Cnet.com even says so) But I've always had some problems with them. Not sure if it was them themselves or the fact they were hard drives. They say nowadays you should go with Flash memory ones since they have no moving parts they don't break or run down anywhere as easily. Now the the only issue with that is most flash drives don't go above 32GB. I have a fair amount of music. But I have sorta discovered I really don't listen to all of it so not sure if there's enough of a purpose to even HAVE all that memory. So I'm torn. Should I buy the 120GB Zune which is an hard drive player or should I go for the 32GB ZEN which supposedly has the best sound quality of any player and it's flash. Price isn't an issue cause they honestly cost the same. Both also have wireless capabilities. Or should I just give in an get an Ipod?

Second Part is I miss dancing. I wanna go to dance classes just so I get a chance to dance without really being teased or judged unlike the clubs. Also dancing is when I feel the most free. I can let go and just EXPERIENCE the moment.. It's really the only reason why I miss the old house. My room was big and I had room to dance. Here... not so much. which is sorta why I wish we could get the back yard down sooner than later.. There's room back there and not enough neighbors to make me feel self conscious.. That's it for now.

Promotions.. of a sorts times two

  • Mar. 27th, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Smek
So I've been promoted at work. To Shift Supervisor.. Not truly Management yet but I am in most ways. Luckily that's supposedly short lived. I should be promoted to full management and salary in 6 to 8 weeks. I've complained about this job before and there's times and things that still make no logical sense whatsoever but that's the service industry for you.

The second "promotion" is in relationship status. [info]faeshale proposed last night. Of course I said yes so thereforth I am engaged. It wasn't the most romantic of situations, heck we were arguing some beforehand over reasons of bad planning and my damn blood sugar issues. Originally I thought he said it to shut me up but it seems he was serious and have been planning this for a while. He had me say "yes" four times. Mainly cause he wanted to hear me say it :-D. Evening of course went much better after that. We were in some dive restaurant in College Park but it works... I was shocked.. plus a little angry. I've been planning to propose to him for a while now... I wanted to do it at Faerie's Beltane in front of everyone on one knee with a ring (yes the "straight" romantic in me). He said I could still do that but would be a little of a moot point right now :-P. So now of course comes the wedding planning and all the logistics that's gonna take. We'll be enlisting some of you to help so be prepared ;-) We're planning end of August. Before Labor Day weekend. I have a feeling these two things will be taking up a lot of my blogging the next couple of months.

Life, is for living...

  • Feb. 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Tao
I have been very out of it recently. And i know it's been 6 weeks since my last post and I've had times where I've wanted to write but just can't work past the ennui. So I'm finally doing it tonight. I apologize in advance if I ramble but I'm still sorta disjointed.

I've been out of sorts.. the energy in the house has been weird and disconbomulated and off to all corners of the world.. My own has been very lacking. I feel afloat not sure what I want or what i'm looking for. I've been very tight and terse with Nick and I'm not sure where it's coming from. We've lived with each other for a year now and been together almost two. He is everything i need. I hope he knows how much I appreciate him as much as I don't always show it.. I've been lethargic and not very active.. I feel useless sometimes.. Like i know I'm not doing what I should be. I feel like I could be doing something better than what i do currently work wise. i know i should be in school. and gods know I should propably have a much better body than this. Not sure where all this comes from.. I need to ground. I need to center (Gods the voices of my pagan teachers are coming back to me) I just want/need to move on... Wish I knew how.. I think I'll talk more later my head is pounding.. Night..

I'm really underread

  • Dec. 10th, 2008 at 6:41 PM
me

I've read even less th... picked this memery up from </a></b></a>[info]fritterfae:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (really? I thought it was written by a Russian?)
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

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I'm gonna get a whole lot of flack over this but ohh well. I'm one of those crazy libertarians whose goes around thinking but ohh well. I'm gonna divide this into three parts me thinks. I'm not the best writer so please excuse me. It's gonna be rambling and some points jumpy and not always coherent. So thank you if you take the time to actually read it. Part 1: Why the Christian Right needs to shut it. Part 2: Why the Liberal Gays need to shut it and Part 3: The Most Common Sense solution(which is unfortunately the one that will never happen.

Right Wingers are hypocritical idiots everyone admits this accept for them. A Man can be on his third marriage and call that gay marriage would destroy the sanctimony of that marriage. A Senator can cheat on his wife with a prostitute and claim that she and God have forgiven him so it's none of your business. And lastly you can vote against rights for gays and get caught propositioning guys for sex in the Airport and saw i just have a wide stance. Hypocrisy. The key to their existence and how they can feel good about themselves. So they're idiots plan and simple. The Bible itself says in 1st Corinthians 13 that love is the greatest gift of all. In verse 4 it states "Love is patient and kind, Love does not envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud" Your most precious book which you claim is the reason why we're a sin in Leviticus 18:22 "Thou shall not lie with mankind, like you do with womankind for it is an abomination" which actually discuss idolization and temple prostitutes and not actual gay sex. But I digress. The one point I DO agree with the right on is that Marriage is a religious construct. It is holy under whatever God (or Gods/Goddesses) you worship and whatever it church states. And whether or not your religion wants to accept a same-sex union is up to the Ecclesiastical Court of that religion. Not the court of the state.

Gays are just as hypocritical. We want to proclaim that Blacks should accept our struggle the same as theirs since it's both civil rights struggles. Yet majority of White Gay Men wouldn't look twice at most black men gay or straight. Those of us with the money want to give thousands of dollars to organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (which has a very low success rate in my mind), but would walk past most of the homeless in this city and not even want to spare a dime. Again Hypocrisy. Whatever happened to Charity begins at home. We want to volunteer our time to all these "fabulous" gay things but don't want to help at the local soup kitchen or pet shelter. It's sad. We got all this extra money as a group somewhat but we went to spend it all on sex filled cruises and drug fueled dance parties. It's a shame. When have we started letting being gay define who we are and stopped being HUMAN. It's one of my personal things. And we're losing this Culture War cause we're fixated on the word marriage. Marriage Rights this and Marriage rights that. GODS! What we really want is to be able to visit our partner in the hospital without question. To have automatic right of attorney when our partner is incapcitated and not let their old religious family take over things. We want to be able to raise children and not have our parenthood questioned. We want tax breaks and the right for our foreign national partner to be able to stay in this country with us cause we love them. This is where I agree. but why get stuck on that word?

The Common Sense Solution is this. Not grant gays the right to get married but change the name and apply it to all relationships. It should all be Civil Unions. Leave Marriage to the churches. If you want to get married in the House of your God that's up to your church to decide without the Government Courts forcing them. That's the purpose of the old separation of Church and state. Straight people even are starting to not believe in marriage. Hells what is common law marriage really but that? My uncle has been married twice before each lasting really less than 5 years i think. He's been with the same woman now for 16 years and they aren't married. Least not by law or by church. But you haven't seen two people more committed and love each other more. I have a guy who started at my work and the first day he was saying partner this and partner that so we assumed he was gay. The next day the partner came in and Gods she was a beautiful woman. Asked him bout why he uses the word partner and he said "We don't believe in marriage but we commited just the same." And lastly the Sunday after Obama won a monumental election there was an editorial piece in the washington post where someone wrote about how "I woke my partner and our son to show them this video. Much to her chagrin i keep focused on this" Now my first thought was "black lesbian" which is yes very biased of me but when i read the caption about the author it was stated how he was famous for writing a book on black men and fatherhood. Now if the black men that Rich White Gays keep claiming are holding them down are starting to use this term then something must be shifting in peoples heads. This is my exact solution. We should change as a nation the forms for "marriage" to a Civil Union Contract which conveys all the rights that heterosexual couples currently have on a state and federal. The form should read Partner A AND Partner B. So gender isn't even discussed in the matters. We should make the dissolution of the Union easier as well. If people wanted a traditional Marriage they could go to their church or the church of their parents and get married there. Unfortunately this solution is too commonsense for people to actually accept it. Cause both sides will stick on the word "Marriage"

Moving...

  • Nov. 13th, 2008 at 7:35 PM
me
So Nick [info]faeshale and I are moving before the end of this month into the house of Fritter [info]fritterfae and JD [info]dmlaenker to cut on costs and the fact we spend a fair amount of our time there anyway. Now I have lived in our current space for 5 years now. I haven't lived anywhere this long since I lived in Arlington and I moved there at age 13. I'm now 27... Almost 20% of my time on Earth have been in this 12x10 room which I have had sex in, argued in, cried in, loved in, hated in, did spells in and all that. The point: I'm slightly attached. We were packing today and it was EASY far easier than either of us expected it to be. I had to go through books and decide which we're taking with us to this smaller space and which are going into storage til the 4 of us find a bigger place. I'm sorta of a hoarder it's part of my addictive personality. But the fact I can go these can go into storage is great. some of them I'm honestly ready to get rid of... But I think that'll be a later decision. The hard decision now is my comic books.. I own well over 700 comics... Most of which I doubt i will ever read again.. So what's the point in keeping them? But they're hard to get rid of either.. it's a very expensive habit... The other things i have that i don't know how to get rid of is stuff from my childhood. I have trophies from my soccer days, badges from my Boy Scout days and Baseball cards from youth in general... What does one do with these things? Does one get rid of things that are part of his youth in the quest of maturity or does one keep them as reminders of innocent days gone past in the harsh reality that is adulthood? Sorta of my dilemma right now.. I wondered why it was so easy for me to do this and Nick reminded me of when we destroyed the monstrousity of a bookcase i used to have and it was majority of what tied me down here. These bookcases are new and it's one of our first furniture purchases TOGETHER. It's not something that's mine it's OURS. The only thing of my old furniture I'm bringing is my bed cause it's a bed. I think we finally find the bigger place we'll get a new bed for US. It's nice to know life is growing in the sense of coupledom and togetherness.

Coupledom

  • Aug. 23rd, 2008 at 6:54 PM
couple
     So, sometimes you need to take time on your own as a couple. Nick and I realized that we spent too much time out with people so we needed to spend time on our own.  This was decided last night by Nick. So last night I cooked us some pasta, we went to Blockbuster and rented two movies The Other Boylen Girl and I really hate my job starring Neve Campbell more on that later. We picked up some ice cream and went home and settled in for Other Boylen Girl. Absolutely loved it! It's almost a prequel to Elizabeth. It even ends with Elizabeth playing in a wheat field as a little girl. The acting was great and the costuming was fantastic. We went to bed soon there after. 

    Today we went to Old Towne Alexandria. They're doing work on the blue and yellow lines so we got off at Braddock Road and walked down the one street to King. We were actually there before 11am so it was really interested since a lot of the stores weren't open yet. We went down to the waterfront which Nick loved. He misses it a lot. Were thinking bout the boat cruise but we decided we will save it. Walked thru Founder's Park and then down Union Street. We went to a store I wanted to check out the Old Town Coffee Tea and Spice store. They had some really great stuff and was really impressed by their selection. Their prices are really inexpensive and the man behind the counter is very knowledgable. I highly recommend them. Then stopped by the little gemstone store that was there that I din't even knew existed. Then we went to lunch at Bugsy's Pizza they had all you could eat buffett for like 8.95 we spent twenty dollars total so it was cool. We went to the Virginia Store which had a lot of good local product that I would like to get when I have some more money(like when that happens),  Then we had ice cream at Pop's Ice Cream store. Then sorta tortured Nick by taking him into a used book store when he has no money very Mean Boyfriend of me. We hopped on the metro and head home.

    Unfortunately Nick's check wasn't here so we couldn't go out and do anything tonight like we wanted so we hung at home some. Nick was tired and fell asleep while I spent some time online talking to my friend Luke. Nick woke up and we ordered Chinese and then watched I really hate my job again starring Neve Campbell and has the woman who plays Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter in it. I personally didn't like the movie too much. Nick did enjoy it on the other hand. It had it's funny scenes but it has no real plot. It was like watching a Seinfeld episode. It was a bunch of social interactions and vignettes on one night in the work life of 3 waitresses, one cook and one dishwasher. It really did fit some of my life as a member of the restaurant industry and it really was some of the night but it really wasn't realistic in some ways cept i think it may be in England so have no idea. I just dishwasher's smoking in the kitchen and bartender's drinking behind the bar from the wine bottle are usually discouraged even at mom and pop situations. And not sure how one cook could handle that kind of business. So not as happy bout that one. I'm going to bed soon. have to be up early for work (I hate Sundays [my version of Mondays])   We're going to Fritter's tommorow to watch Dark Crystal which should be fun. Night y'all

Cleaning House

  • Jun. 27th, 2008 at 7:37 PM
rainbow
      So Wednesday I cleaned my room some and moved stuff from my old altar table to a new one.  Now I've had my old altar table for about 3 years now but like most things in m,y room it was big and ungainly attracted dust and didn't really fit in there. But the energy coming off the table when i was moving it was incredible. Usually furniture put out on our street is gone quickly but this has lasted a couple days. I'm thinking that the energy (plus the size) is propaly putting people off it.  Hopefully the rain will clear that off some. The change in the room is intersting we got rid of the monstrosity and now this and I feel like the room is a lot lighter and cleaner. It feels nicer in  here and less like it's my space as much as our space. So hopefully things go well from here. 

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     I know it's been 6 days since I've written on this put I'm horrible at sitting down and writing (hell I"m horriblie at sitting down and focusing on most things)


     First off work, The manager I had a problem with has left my store and gone back to his original. So no more dealing with that. My pay rate hasn't rised the way I wanted but that seems thats that's a problem with several people not just me. I was also told that my company's insurance sucks and I should go with Nick's. Which in itself is better insurance but dealing with the HR department will be the issue. 

   Secondly, Pride Festival was Sunday. Since it seems a fair amount of people flaked out on us I ended up doing Tarot Readings for 6 out of the 8 hours we were there. Now why in itself may not seem that big a issue but be an empath and try to connect with almost 50 people and see how you feel. Since, I already have my boy I brought home from Pride (I love you Nick) This is the first year I didn't bring anyone home with me afterwards. Which yes does sorta make me a slut (or a ho as Nick likes to call me) but I have never denied the fact that I'm a highly sexually expressive guy.  Which is why being in a polyamorous relantionship with a man that gets me mentally and emotionally is great. I'm the happiest I've ever been.

  Which leads in to home life. Nick and I are still patiently (if you want to call it that) waiting for our Wii to arrive (hopefully Saturday or Monday) . We completely redid the room last night. We destroyed the huge armoire I've had for 5 years (I do mean destroyed its in pieces right now) I spent yesterday building new bookcases moving stuff around loading stuff and rearranging. The room is a lot more open and less energy crapful now(there was about 4 years worth of dust up there was really too tall to dust) I'm sorta amazed at how big 30 dollar bookcases from Target are. I got a lot of the books moved to them. The sad thing is I have almost 4 years worth of Men's Health Magazine sitting on the one bookcase. I gotta need to go thru them get whatever articles I need from them and throw away the rest. (or recycle not sure if i can) Watched Connie and Carla while cleaning it was cute. 

   I had some other stuff to go over but sorta lost my train of thought. Hate when that happens. Talk to you all later. 

Work Rant!!!

  • Jun. 12th, 2008 at 6:14 PM
funny sign

OMG!!! Why is it with a job you love there always have to be one or two people that fuck things up for you. Make you upset and angry. I have two specific cases to bring up.

     One, I have one coworker behind the counter with me who is a sweet nice slightly older lady. The problem is she is neurotic, ADHD, has no common sense and has to argue with everything you tell her. She got kicked out of the kitchen and forced upon me because of this behavior and now I just want to strangle her. I had to use the voice I like to use on small children and animals when I want them to listen to me on her and she gets upset and complains to my number 2 that I'm not the boss of her when for a lot of intents of purposes I am.

   Second is one of my managers. European , somewhat thick accent and not generally a nice fellow. He truly is a pain in my behind. Besides the fact we seem to always want to argue with each other and he wants to always send someone from behind my counter home. We're overstaffed some that's fine I understand but make logical decisions on who you're going to send home especially when money is involved.  He irks me. 

    The only good bit is my boss. There's usually only a few people I ever call boss in my career life. I have never used it for one of the assistant managers. To me boss is one of the ultimate signs of respects coming out of me. My General Manager and My District Manager are m,y bosses. In some ways the VP of the company could be considered my boss but I don't deal with him enough to want to call him that. My boss walks up to me today out of the blue and goes "Why aren't you managing?" I said, "As far as I know the plan is for November when Dupont Circle opens." Well it seems the District Manager position is shuffling around so I will have a new person to deal with and get to know. But he has seen me work enough to see what I'm capable of. So hopefully everything will go okay in the future as long as I don't have to kill my one manager.

   Til next time.

Life As We Know It Part 2 or What I Need

  • Jun. 11th, 2008 at 5:35 PM
me
      So after getting my requesite walking 5 miles in for today (yeah exercise) I think I have come up with a couple more things to say.


      So, I love going to the comic book store. In some ways it's my little corner of heaven. I enjoy being able to relax and find the stuff I want. Having a subscription box is nice too. I recommend to everyone Big Planet Comics in Georgetown. Absolutely the greatest staff and selectionwise. Not a big week though for me. Not enough I liked came out this week. Cept of course Captain Britain and MI-13 #2 and the last issue of Salvation Run. Always interesting to see a bunch of villians together.

    I really need to get back into therapy. I have a lot of unresolved issues dealing with the abuse from my father and various other things. I have an addictive personality and it's unfortunately to things that just take up too much of my time. 

     I need to do more spiritually (yes hun I know you keep telling me this) I feel incomplete like there's more i could or should be doing. That includes martial arts. Warriorship is part of my spiritual path an dI'm not doing enough to keep myself there. Also I keep too much clutter. Nowhere near as bad as my landladt but there's too much I hold onto. Think it cause a lot of the knows and problems in my back. I'm not sure how to be open and free.  (Big Suprise I know) I don't connect with people or my friends too well because of it

    Lastly, I need to exercise more but i hate the gym. I'll go and do weight lifting cause I want to build muscle but I hate cardio machines. I need to sign up for the martial art and dance classes I want to take since it will help me more with working out. I also plan on us buying the Wii Fit soon after we get it and reorganize the room. Which also means I think I'll be going through and eliminating a lot of my books. I'll let some of you know when I have stuff for you to look through. Thanks for listening

Life as We Know It

  • Jun. 11th, 2008 at 11:12 AM
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     By the gods I need to do this more but I always get writer's block when it comes time to do this. I have great ideas at work or when I'm out but it never seems to stick. So here's a list of tidbits in  no sensical order.

     Nick and I are getting a Wii. It's official and it's been ordered. They won't ship it til the 20th though cause that's when they seem to get the next batch. It's interesting when I was going through all the major websites and everyone and I do mean everyone was out of stock. Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Sears, It's funny really. Makes you wonder is Nintendo doing this on purpose or is it really THAT popular. I'll tell you my reactions for you round the 23rd when it's supposed to arrive.

     Went clothes shopping with Nick yesterday. We dropped about two bills between Target and Marshalls up at Columbia Heights after the gym. It's interesting on how much our tastes divide yet we know what the other likes. Bout the shorts at Target and that was the easier part. Went to Marshall's where they had much more of  a selection in nice shirts and that's where our tastes more meet when it comes to buttonups. We have way different tastes when it comes to T-Shirts. I hate solid shirts and he hates patterns. So always fun. We wear the same size and pretty much the same clothes. So it's not a matter of his clothes versus my clothes as much as our clothes. Only things separate are my work clothes and my Utilikilts.

   It's amazing how much my many years in the restaurant industry (9 this September) has made me susceptible to being annoyed by the little things. We went to the relatively new Ruby Tuesday's after clothes shopping. Cute Manager, Cute Waiter, nice looking atmosphere. Problems started when the waiter messed up my order. Now that in itself is a common mistake and as long as ownership is claimed that's fine. But he tried to deflect the problem and also tried to tell me something that I knew was not gonna to happen since turkey burgers take 10 to 15 minutes to cook. Nick was commenting how he wasn't really looking at me considering I had my annoyed look on. I can be very scary at those times. Still tipped him well cause he honestly didn't look a day over 19.

  Maybe I'll have more later today

 

Vague Reflections and Ponderings

  • Jun. 5th, 2008 at 3:42 PM
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     So whu is the hoopla and the rigamarole of getting cleaned and set up and ready for the arrival of a big wig always seem to be more than what is necessary. The Founder of my company came in last night and today and heard he had nothing bad to say and was quite impressed with us. Considering the stress and everything everyone went through you think more would happen.

   I repeat my favorite quote to tourists and people just moving to dc that the only thing predictable about the weather is that it's unpredictable. I saw it start raining, go into monsoon season, slow down, stop, and then the sun come out bout maybe four times yesterday on my day off. Was truly weird.

  For those of you who don't know I'm a huge comic book geek. (Wll depends on your definition of huge, I don't worry bout whose writing or drawing [unless it's Joss Whedon but complete other story}) I got my new comic books yesterday and there's two that stand out. First, Secret Invasion Issue 3: Marvel has been on this weird let's change the universe and everyone in it kick for at least the past 3 years since bout House of M started. They're finally getting it right. I love the not knowing and the suspense whose a Skrull and who isn't a Skrull and the pressure is even worse when some of the characters aren't even sure about themselves. Secondly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Issue 15. The writing, the action, the romance, the cattiness, It's all fucking awesome. Buffy has had lesbian sex (no not with Willow and yes it had to happen some time) Dracula has made a reappearance. Dawn (whose currently a giant) fighting a Mecha version of herself. Willow having great Goddess moments, it makes me want to cream my shorts again and again, Can't wait to see where they take it from here.

   And finally, since I'll be heading there.. The Gym. Questions from the gym are..Why are gym towels so skimp? Why are the really hot guys the shy ones about baring their bodies and the not so hot ones bare it all? Why do guys think that two inch inseam shorts that don't hide anything and ride up all the time a good thing? And when has celebrity gospel and MTV bad reality show become good fodder while working on the cardio machines? Just random thoughts. Bye for now

My First Post! or Notes From Work

  • Jun. 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 PM
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     Hi everybody! All two of you... (hmm need to fix that) *shakes head* sorry mumbling to myself. This is my first post of what will hopefully become of a daily nature. (one dreams) Work today was entertaining. There was the new cocky guy who does good work but needs to he doesn't know everything. (mental note: remind myself that once in a while).  My usual daily battles with the girls that work hard when it suits them but can't be lazy and unfortunately don't speak English all too well so explaining stuff is interesting. Today we explained the word decadence to one of them after a customer said he was taking in the decadence of the desserts. What's even funnier is he was confused that she was. I explained it was a new word for her. Waiting half hour time periods for people's to-go orders is never fun. I don't guess stressed by being busy, I get stressed from being busy and being under pressure from people demanding stuff from me. 

     People in Bethesda are weird. Sometimes I feel like I'm in Mahattan or Long Island. They're rude, needy, demanding, think that they're owed everything and are always right. The amount of people that said that our restaurant won't last cause we pour milk in their coffee for them instead of having it in a pitcher on side table don't obviously realize we have 80 restaurants worldwide. And the parents? OMG they're almost worst. I felt justified yesterday when a woman said to me if parents can't feed their kids anything we have then they and their kids are picky. It's weird when people forget what kind of restaurant they are in. "You should put grilled cheese on the menu" One, it's as nice restaurant and that's a little below our standards. Two, we don't even have a grill to make them even if we were that kind of restaurant. 

   So sorry for the ranting I hope to maybe get it under control (Doubt it!) Who said that? *looks around* Sorry, I'm gonna hopefully keep this going. thanks guys.