Good morning bloggers of America. I do not have access to my blog at work and therefore there has been a significant change in the status of them for the past month. I will continue to blog though, never fear. So, I should probably run over a few major changes in my life thus far such as my new JOB and oh you know, my new JOB. The last time I blogged was the day before I found out I even had an option at this job. So since then, I have taken this job expediting at a company that buys and sells small fasteners to companies like Polaris and john Deere. It’s a pretty mundane job, although I like the people I work with and they bring a lot of free food to work. My boss is very nice but I can see how it could easily be a job to suck you in. There is constantly a “fire” to put out and everybody seems stressed with the exception of two other people and myself. The politics of the job have become fascinating to me as I have finally attained status in an office position. Sure its not like The Office the show, but there is still a bit of drama and enough gossip to keep one occupied. I think that the most interesting thing about working for this company is the fact that it isn’t particularly successful. It is my first time working with people who have been laid off and then rehired, people who have stories to tell about scaling down and I can’t help but notice a marked difference in the way people go about their work. They really do work harder than I have seen for the most part, because in small ways every day they are actually all fighting to keep their jobs. It’s nothing dramatic at this point but with globalization expanding, and communication becoming easier, I am not sure that these midway companies will be getting as much business.
I had some good ideas yesterday and now I can’t really remember any of them. I know I talked with B about one of them so maybe I will ask him. Christmas is coming up soon and this is the first year in a while I have really had any money to give people what they want. I guess maybe not so much money itself but I do have the promise of money coming and a credit card. I am glad that I didn’t get a credit card until this point in my life where I have a stable job because I am already seeing how easy it is just to purchase things on credit and feel richer than you are. I have made myself a promise that after Christmas I am going to put the credit card in my Chinese puzzle box for a month while I pay off my Christmas debt and get ahead financially. I wouldn’t be sooooooo screwed financially if qwest didn’t keep overcharging me. I have a bill of 80 dollars this month that I know is overdone. It’s such a pain in the ass to call them though that I have thought about just not even saying anything. I will most likely call them however. I hate wasting money and 30 dollars is still a lot of money to be wasting at this point. I didn’t exactly budget a Christmas present for Qwest into this month.
I did however decide to get my friend Captain Tony a gift. He is this drifter guy I did a project with last year and we have kind of lost touch, mainly due to me not wanting to do any more photo for the rest of my life and him wanting me to take more pictures of him. I wish I had a digital camera that I knew how to work it because I would love to take digital pictures of him, I am just too poor and too lazy right now to work with film. I want to experiment with putting colors into black and white. His red backpack being the only thing colored and the rest of the picture in black and white, or something like that. I don’t know. Anyway, I decided to get him either a new collar for his dog or a utility knife. The latter was my friend Ben’s idea and I think it was a good one. Other than that, I am nearly done with my Christmas shopping. I think I am most excited about giving my roommate her presents.
Lately I have been getting into the Rubix Cube. Mostly, it’s B’s fault but its kinda nice to know I can do something that a lot of people think is nearly impossible. There is no way I would have figured out how to do it if it hadn’t been for B and still, I don’t have it down yet. I am fairly close though. I like the technicality of it. I like using similar moves for each layer and seeing how the moves build on eachother. I would at some point like to move past the memorization that happens at some points and figure out exactly why I am doing what I am doing. This is one of my goals.
Speaking of goals (oh how I love those smooth transitions) I met with my rugby coach last night and we talked about my goals for the spring season. From talking to her, I really started to get excited about rugby again. I can’t wait to play in the spring and I really should start doing Martha’s running program because as we talked I discovered that she’s actually got a pretty famous program (not surprising) and that unless you are on the National team or the Valkyries you have to pay to get it. So now that I feel special, I think I will focus on attempting to at least do 3 days of her program a week. I really do want to become an elite rugby player as silly as it seems when I say it out loud (or type in a blog) and I have to get my body back in shape for that.
Now that I have a job and am able to focus on something other than how I am going to keep the place in which I live, I really want to make some changes in my life. Rugby is one of those things that I have really decided I want to continue with and although I have been scared for a long time of failing in it, I don’t think I am anymore. I want to do well and I know that I will. I also need to start rebuilding my faith. Or to put it more accurately, I need to come humbly before God, confess my sins and start over. I have been so sinful these last few years that it sickens me. I really need to work on lying less, thinking of others more and looking for ways to exhibit what it means to be a real Christian. I think for this next month I am really going to focus on being truthful and watching the way in which I say things to people. I would also really like to be a better listener and learn to respond to people’s insights and stories with questions, rather than stories of my own. Don’t get me wrong people. I am a badass through and through. But, nobody wants to constantly be bombarded with (true) stories of my badassness. Yea, that’s right spell check, try to digest that word.
That’s all for now. I am not feeling especially creative, I just wanted to get something posted so this portion of my life doesn’t disappear forever.
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