Running noses

Firstly, I believe I am very allergic to this state. To the point that during my travels back to this state I began to have an allergic reaction. Now, I'm not actually sure what started this reaction, but I didn't have near enough tissues (one would have been at least a start). I am now completely stuffed up, and the ear I couldn't get to pop on the plane (or the rest of the night) is now stuffed up as well.


On to a story I meant to tell you a few days ago.

I made someone cry the other day. It began to put into perspective the amount of power I didn't have any idea I held over the employees. I realize now that there was nothing I could have done, and she was close to walking out on her job anyway. Being the straw on the back of the proverbial horse is not an easy position. I told her to "stop asking questions and just get it done." Which apparently equated to me speaking to her like a dog. Whatever my tone of voice may have been any sort of "talking down to her" was completely unintentional, but she wouldn't let me apologize, nor would she accept any sort of apology when I managed to get her in the office.

She is a hard worker, and I hope that she finds something that better fits her personality as threatening a boss with quitting shows that you are not fit for the job you've chosen. She did not threaten me...she simply quit on me, but she did threaten one of the other managers.

That is all of it. As far as I know.

dinner out

Well there doesn't seem to be much going on here. I've been trying to come up with something exciting to talk about, but there never really seems to be anything that I believe would really peak your interest. I feel like every blog I write needs to be so good that if you were stumbling onto my blog for the first time in this post you would think to yourself, "Damn. That's some good writing. I wonder what her other blog posts are like?"

And each one would be as good. You would feel a desire to keep reading that would be almost irresistible.

But instead I never write because no post is better than a post that sends you away.

Or is it?

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So Josh and I went to a restaurant tonight for the first time. We usually scout a few places out and eat solely at those restaurants that have excellent service (or no need for customer service at all) or excellent food. Either way if it's good it sticks.

Well we had free food tonight...which meant we could branch out a little bit. And boy was the food worth it! The ribs had excellent flavor and the steak was amazingly tender. The server however...he was kind of creepy. He started off by saying "It's great to see you guys in here again!" Which, of course, was very confusing as we had never been in there before, but we figured it might be part of his shtick to make the guest feel "like a regular".

But it wasn't.

This guy genuinely thought he knew us from somewhere. He started off by thinking that we were both from Maryville, and then moved on to thinking that we both worked together. Then he started making up names of ex-fiance's (or he really knew someone) and saying that he knew people that we should know.

It was all kind of awkward.

But it was free, and my water stayed full so a little bit of awkward makes us stronger...maybe?

this is my job

So...I'm at work and have finished all my things to do and now I have the hiccups. Hopefully they go away soon.

I've not got much to say...I really should start trying to come up with stories to tell you.

Have you heard about the lady who wouldn't tip because she gives God 10%? I really don't even understand her logic...God asks us to give him 10% and the server was doing her job for below minumum wage. The tip that you give a server has nothing to do with the amount you give your God. The tip is solely based on the service the server gives. Good service means good tip--customarily around 15-20%. Bad service is less...

What does this even have to do with religion?

A few days late

But I've got a shiny new bluetooth keyboard that is kinda awesome! I'm hoping that I'll be more into writing at random times. I might go get a touchpad thingy too...then I'll have an itty bitty screen, but a bunch of cool additions. I dunno, we'll see. The apostrophe is in the wrong spot.


My brain is kind of broken right now...I guess I'll just try to come up with something later. I don't want these to be bland and not any fun to read, but I am also trying to stick with my plan for the year.

Well, let's see what happens next...

Tonight was a Good Night

I saw one of my best friends tonight. I didn't really realize how much I missed her until I saw her again.They say that distance or time or something makes the heart grow fonder...the problem with that is that one has to have the time to think about someone in order to miss them. Since she's gone I haven't had a spare second to think about much of anything other than the mundane day to day things. I would say just work, but I'm sure I've been spending time on other things to...my non-existing hobbies, perhaps.

In today's age we fill all our time with false connections, so we believe we are with someone, or near them, or visiting them. We don't allow ourselves to think that we can truly miss someone because how can you miss them when you can "talk" with them immediately. You can really understand what missing someone means when you can't hear from them for an extended period of time. When they aren't on the other end of a text message.

Not really very sure where to go from there...I didn't mean for this to turn into some blathering post about how social media is changing the way the human race interacts. I guess let's just say that I had a good night with some good friends, and I probably need to get out more.

If this dog drips on my keyboard I'm going to be pissed.

I had to watch my baby get towed tonight. It was kind of awful...but hopefully we can figure out what the problem is, and we will be able to get her back into driving order.

My insurance worked out pretty well for the whole ordeal. If I had called them as soon as I pulled off the road things may have moved along a little quicker, but I wasn't even sure if I was covered under the right type of insurance. I have type "H", and that's all I needed! Unfortunately, we had to wait for a tow-truck, which took only about 45 min, but it seemed like forever at 0300.

I cringed as I watched the "service provider" hook her up and sloooooowly drag her onto the truck bed. I was happy that it was one of the full bed trucks and not a half bed. I'm not sure I could stand to watch her towed on one of those.

I need to go to bed now...There was more I was going to say about this, but I just realized how late it is.


Good morning!!

These things I would have said if I could have figured out how to say them.

So, I decided that I wanted to try to write blogs again. I know that this may be a feat I'll never be able to accomplish because I haven't ever been able to keep up with it. I am going to try harder this year because I know that people that don't get to see me as often as they would like would like to be able to hear from me in different ways.

My goal is one blog a week or 52 blogs in the year. I have already missed the "first week" of 1-6, so I will need to write two between 7-14...or something like that. I don't want to end up with crappy half-assed blogs just to get the blog count up, so hopefully I can stick with this a little bit.

There are some things I've been trying to figure out how to get onto paper...but I haven't solidified them in my head. I want to finish writing a book this year, but without the time (or energy) this may be an impossible feat. I have about three really solid ideas, one of which was moving along nicely, but then schedules shifted and I'm stuck with lots of sleep and not enough waking hours. (This is why I'm attempting to get out of this job--so I can have a semi-normal life).

Tonight is the BCS bowl...should be pretty huge since Alabama is in, and we have a lot of Bama fans in the area.

I met someone at work last night that can (hopefully) fix my car! They are also buying the broken apart other car that we have, so that we have money to fix things on either car! (If you can't tell this is a really good thing...)

Well...this has been an informative post...hopefully you will have enjoyed your time here and will check back to see my next post at some point in the next week.