Sunday, October 31, 2004  

Got back from home visit to Wisconsin and look what my mom taught me: a new obsession: knitting.


Yes as you can tell from this pic, i suck at it, but i'm sure i'll improve. This is my very first attempt.

I started it bc my sis-in-law Tracy (Shopping Queen blog on the side) made me this mammoth beautiful scarf for my birthday and i wondered just how long it would take a person to do such a thing. (I also know it will help offset my heating bill for the winter. Just wrap myself up in that and i could basically live outside all winter!! whoo hoo!!) So i asked my mom, and then she got out her needles and showed me some trix.

So if you don't hear from me blogging much anymore, it's because i'm sitting in front of the TV knitting scarfs for the orphans in Africa. I'll make enough to stuff a bunch of shoeboxes for next year's Operation Christmas Child, started by Franklin Graham (By the way your boxes are due in a week or two for that effort in '04 !! Drop them off at just about any local church.)

   [ posted  @ 6:50 PM | ]

Two Things
by KT Rocks

1) I'm on vacation. Just for six days. There is no roll-over this year, so if you don't use it, you lose it. There would be a lot of other better times to take vacation, but this looks like as good as it's going to get. I don't particularly want vacation right now. There is too much drama and politicing i'll miss out on at the store. (I would make a top-notch lobby-est in D.C. because of the way i spin the truth to different managers so i always come out looking squeaky clean. I get to them first before they get to each other, present my side of things convincingly, and then watch the chicken fights begin... fun.) But i'll get to go home to see the fam for a few days so that's very good.

2) I have overdue library books. That is not the 2nd thing i was going to write about, but i can't remember what the 2nd thing is now.

   [ posted  @ 9:12 AM | ]

"Malta Money"
by KT Rock$

Hello. One of the many reasons why i love serving in ministry to jr. high students is because of the unpredictable things that will happen almost every week. Every week, the rock-worship band(s) i coordinate do 3 songs. We usually play one, and then ask everyone to sit down. Then we invite students (and leaders too) to come up to the microphone and share what we call "Edge-imonies" (in regular church talk, that means "testimonies") about their week and if God did anything cool in their week. The name of the jr. high ministry is EDGE (EveryDayGodExperience.)

So we built this in last year, as part of our worship service, using every-day stories of God's intervention in our lives as praise to Him.

Well it's inevitable that every week, no matter how hard we try to encourage the students to make this something about them personally, or what they are reading in the Bible or something, there are usually stories like this. The following are TRUE STORIES kids told, I AM NOT MAKING THEM UP OR EXAGGERATING, OK?!

"My little sister Vera stuck her finger in a light socket when we were at our cabin and she didn't die. So i just want to thank God that even tho she got electrocuted really bad, that she is fine now and she's still alive."

"I was playing at the park by myself. Some older boys came up to me and asked if i wanted to buy drugs from them. I said no. They pulled out a knife on me, and i walked away. I am glad i didn't get killed."

"We had waffles for breakfast. I love waffles. God is cool."

"I got an A on a test i studied really hard for."

"So-and-so's brother was in a car accident and he's in the hospital now but he's not dead so i'm thankful to God that he is going to be alright."


Okay, you get the point. There are a wide variety of things people come up and say. They are not doing it for laughs or to make a joke. They truly see these things as an act of The Almighty (ooh listen to me sound like G.W.!) in their lives. It never gets out of hand and i think they have to be super brave to come up to the mic. Well, there is this one girl, i don't know if she is a visiting missionary's kid or what. One week about a month ago, she saw it was open-mic time and she came up.

In very broken English, she said her name and that she was from MALTA. I of course realize none of the kids can understand her very well (think thick Greek-like accent here,) and she starts to ask if i know where Malta is and stuff. What this had to do with testimonies, i still don't know, but i don't think she knew what was going on eithier. She just wanted to talk. She talked for a little bit and then i thanked her and she got off the stage.

Well, today she was back.

Weirdest thing. I'm standing there on the left of the stage and the open mic is from one of the vocalists on the other side of the stage. This girl gets up there and says "remember me?" I said yes i remember you. She asked if i remembered her telling about Malta. I said yes, that i thought we all would remember that.

She pulled out a handful of coins from her pocket. "Well i brought money to show you from Malta" she says, and comes over to me and shows them to me.

That was all.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't know what to do! I'm like "wow that's really cool. You'll have to show everyone your Malta Money -" and she got off the stage, but didn't show anyone the coins.

So there i am in this room with 100+ jr. highers just looking clueless, and i just started the next song. You just never know what could happen. I know we'll have a good laugh about that at our practice tomorrow night. LOL

   [ posted  @ 1:48 PM | ]

Beautiful picture for no reason...



Here are the top five reasons i've not updated this blog in awhile.

5. It's not snowing so i'm bored of looking at the fall colors already.

4. I had to do an overnight (poor me) on Wednesday because 1 of our 3 night crew guyz quit (we put the screws to him and he cracked) and logistics could not be more behind... oooouuch. So i got home and i was so sore and worn out from the bending and lifting at 4 a.m. Only a half year since i did that on a regular basis and i'm so outta shape.

3. I am doing an experiment in home cooking which is not turning out the way i want it (i may post more about that later this weekend) and it's sucking up a lot of my time (and money.)

2. I had to hire a few new people at work and since we have no training program in place, they don't know what is going on and they are thrown into having to work with hardly any training and every question they ask me totally irritates the crap out of me and i just can't handle it. I am upset that i feel like i don't have the time to do things i want to do there, things i have to get done. I feel like our management has slipped from being a strong unit to "every man for himself." I feel very responsible for everything, even tho it's not really my problem when it's all said and done. Main thing: no one likes change - incl. me.

2 1/2. My new boss has no clue how to run our store bc he's only worked for our company for 3 weeks and he has no idea what he is doing, plus he's a total slob and leaves messes everywhere and doesn't know how to manage our store e-mail (we all dip out of one pot there so if you don't stay on top of it, it can be very messy.) So that is draining me. I'm no queen of immaculation, but i can't handle it when the two offices and the entire customer service counter is a mess of papers and order forms and garbage everywhere.

1. I'm mad that October is almost over and that means 2004 is almost over and that means Christmas is almost here and i have no idea what to get anyone. Please send wishlists my way.

   [ posted  @ 7:44 AM | ]

Have you seen this pic before??? Well you will if you walk into my store. We have those custom-made color calendars you can do for 19.99 (you bring in 13 pix, we make you a calendar). And all the associates had to make one so we can use them around our store for promotion. Well, this pic on my calendar (for April) was chosen as the first thing you see on the pole when you walk in the store!!!! LOL I walked into work going WHY IS MY SISTER AMY SMILING SO BIG AT ME??! So all day long i walk around and see these family faces in my store watching me work LOL cool 

   [ posted  @ 4:03 PM | ]

Have you seen the new
AOL commercials?

The point of the ad campaign is to show that they will take the customer's feedback into consideration when improving their products. What they end up depicting, is hundreds of thousands of AOL customers lined up outside corporate's door to give the bosses "feedback." You look outside the window and it's like the million man march or something.

Who was the stupid exec that o.k.'d these commercials? Doesn't it just depict what the rest of us have known all along? That AOL sucks and there are THAT MANY disgruntled users ready to "improve" something they hate so much???

If anyone of the competition was SMART, they would use a competing ad campaign (for ex., for EARTHLINK which is THE BEST IN THE WORLD) to say "gee, ya know, we don't have customers constantly complaining about our services because we get it right the first time, and there is no need for hundreds of thousands of our customers to try to improve something that is superior in the first place."

Instead of the message they are trying to convey: "we take your opinions seriously," clearly AOL is admitting a flaw in their product by showing that many unhappy people trying to improve it. A horrible campaign... I talk to several people every day at work that are furious about their internet service thru AOL. I'm all too happy to give them an Earthlink startup disk and encourage them to switch. Now i have something ELSE to talk to them about.

   [ posted  @ 6:58 AM | ]

Home from the Road Show

First off, since i've been reading dooce, i'm afraid of posting ANYTHING regarding work here at all anymore. Hers is a famous blog - partly bc she got fired bc she wrote about work too much a few years ago. But she's super funny.

I was commanded to attend a territory "road show" today. This is one of those things you're obligated to go to (unless you're conveniently on vacation, ahemmm) if you're a sales sup. like me. My butt is so sore from sitting all day in one spot. These things could be so much more interactive. They had this awful presentation called WHO WANTS TO BE A SELLIONAIRE and it was all these little product knowledge things. I got to take home a lot of little freebies but didn't win any of the cameras, printers, networking, or labelmakers they were giving away. One time my ticket only missed by one digit!

Some vendors read the spec.'s straight off the boxes and the Canon rep was so completely retarded that he stood WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS THE AUDIENCE looking @ the powerpoint screen reading from a book, the product specs. Dude, we can do that at the store by ourselves. [We all commented at lunch "this is why we don't sell canon products - not only do the products suck, but their reps are awful as well!] SHOW US HOW TO SELL THIS STUFF! Some reps did a very good job. Hats off to Belkin & HP who probably had the best format. Interactive and taught you how to sell stuff to your customer.

I'm so glad that is OVER. I was dreading that all week. Had lunch with my new store manager. I guess before he worked at Best Buy, he was a USED CAR SALESMAN. Sheeesh there ought to be great posts to follow!

   [ posted  @ 4:06 PM | ]

Since the stars were so aligned yesterday (even the part about the key-hole that i forgot, thank u Terri) I decided to post today's horror-scope BEFORE THE FACT, just in case!!!

Libra
A new and exciting neighbor could move near you, dear Libra. If you're single, this person might prove to be a potential romantic partner, and if you aren't, you should make an interesting friend. When you meet today, you could hit it off immediately and talk for hours, but don't monopolize this person's time. You won't want to sabotage the moving-in process or your neighbor might get the wrong impression! Don't be too shy to seek this person out later. Enjoy!

There was a h-scope similar to this last week (i get these on my earthlink homepage).

Now this is the deal. Right around the corner from me is the 3rd floor laundry, and i did run into a new person a few days ago. Well he's probably lived here a long time, but i never see anyone around here except for the old lady across the hall from me every now and then, and another old lady who seems to get her mail about 3x a day. He could very well be the guy i live right next to. Who knows. But i was doing laundry after work on Tues. night and it happened that there was a person also doing their laundry too. I discerned it HAD to be a guy from the vile stench that you could smell in the HALLWAY of stains fleeing detergent - and since he waited like 2 hours to get his clothes out of the drier (i had 3 loads, he had one) i just opened the drier to SEE what was in there that could be causing this pickle/rotten egg/sunbakedfish/mansweat odor and sure enuf, it was guy's clothing.

(I don't get it. This stuff had been WASHED and dried. How could it still smell so bad???)

Anyway i'm not one of the laundry nazis who take your clothes out and lay them on top of the drier so i can use it. I wait. I hated when people did this in college (tho that was a little more understandable bc when you have 100 chix trying to do laundry in 4 washers it becomes quite catty no matter what you do) HOW EMBARRASING. Even if have 4 loads of laundry to dry, i do them in the one open drier or just wait and keep checking on it.

Anyway, my luck, i'm switching out dry loads when in walks the adorable (yet very stinky) culprit to get his laundry and i say hi. He scowls at me, and then apologizes for "being in the way" with his stuff and i say it's no big deal (it's really not a big deal.) I was just hoping no one would think MY CLOTHES were the offender with the bad smell. The most my clothes would ever smell like would be ink, paper, card board boxes, or shrink wrap. I couldn't be accused of smelling like food from work, since i don't get to take breaks or lunches and chew about 5 pieces of Extra (peppermint thanks) gum thru out the day to quell the noise of a grumbling stomach to keep me from starving or fainting.

Then while he is embarrassingly getting his clothes out of the one drier, the old lady who walks a lot to get her mail comes in to ask if there are any open driers (umm, there are only TWO to begin with duh) and i say there will be in another 45 min. after my stuff is done. This the most action these halls have seen all WEEEEEK! wow! 3 people congregated in one 20 foot area!!! Holy holy!

I've always believed there are no secrets in a laundry room. Ya can't exactly hide your personal items in a public facility like that. So if he snuck a peak at my American Eagle undies i won't be too embarrassed. I pick out cool underclothing.

But if that was supposed to be romance, clearly i am out of the loop. But if i run into him again today for any reason at all, i will LET YOU KNOW!

   [ posted  @ 7:36 AM | ]

My my it is ccccold today. YAY!

I have started unofficial negotiations for management at my store. We are batting around dollar figures (i bat, and i knock balls out of the park, and they throw little curves and little tiny balls and i ignore those and keep repeating what I WANT!!!) and so today's Libra horror-scope seemed interesting.

Libra
There is a free-spirited, electric energy in the air that is calling your name, dear Libra. Latch on to this wave of energy and look to where you can manifest creative abundance in your life. Perhaps a major opportunity for change is knocking on your door. Stop and look through the keyhole before you invite anybody in, but realize that the answer you seek may not necessarily be wearing the same costume that you think it will be wearing. Explore all options and feel free to be bold. Initiate action and don't shy away from change.

Now, first of all the "electric energy" probably has to do with the fact that i sell electronics items that require electrical current, so that is CORRECT!

I am a "dear" and also a Libra, so that is also CORRECT!

"Creative abundance in my life" well i guess i did this today because for over a month since our company switched to only sending things thru UPS (bye bye Fed Ex) and we need each store's shipping account number, i spent over 2 hours on the phone today calling all the stores in my district getting their numbers, compiling a master list, and emailling it district-wide. Mind you, 5 grown men were supposed to have completed that task over a month ago from other stores and no one but little old me got it done. Creative= CORRECT!

"Major opportunity for change" yup the illustrious "promotion" always hangs right outside of my reach... ya never know...! Now that we're talking dollars and cents, it's getting closer. So that is also CORRECT!

"The same costume" OMG! this is the part of the horror-scope that really freaked me out, because we have a team survey going on right now for our company to decide if we should switch from navy blue shirts to BLACK and the survey just got uploaded today and i was making sure all our associates filled it out today!!! CORRECT!

"Bold" i had to be bold several times today with customers who refused to believe me that we were out of stock on some things and i also had to tell a guy that we will not match his supposed claim that office depot will give him copies for 2.5 cents a piece. whatever!!! i told him to take his business there then! (Mind you, i finally took care of this after 2 district managers, three of our managers and our copy max supervisor refused to settle the issue.) CORRECT!

"Initiate action and don't shy away from change." CORRECT!

DONE!

   [ posted  @ 3:47 PM | ]

Went to see Ladder 49 last night with Marks. Really good movie. It didn't make me want to gush tears and was actually a little cleaner than i thought it would be (clean, as in with it's pg-13 rating). I recommend it to ya. There was just enough guy stuff to make it a great action movie and just enough girl stuff to keep a chick's interest too.

I got an email from 1 of my managers @ work last night that said that the system was down yesterday for almost 4 hours at the start of the day and Dwight had to replace the entire battery backup system! lol! I can't imagine if that was me i would have wanted to just lock the doors and hide. Thank God i was not there and did not have to deal with that. I would not have known what to do. (Well, you call the help desk and start crying and things work themselves out.) I can't wait to get the full story today.

Then I have to go straight from work to band practice to rock out with the kiddies. I can't believe October is half over. Sheessssh.

   [ posted  @ 5:16 AM | ]

This post is for me more than anyone else, because i wanted a text copy of this for myself.

I entitled tonight's pres. debate (which i just finished watching on tape) "More of The Same."

I about jumped out of my skin when Bush started talking about the Supreme court and how who he would pick would "uphold the constitution." HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? Mr. Bush! YOU ARE ENGAGED IN A TERRIBLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR!!!!!! Any war in which America feels the need to get involved must be declared by Congress, since only Congress has the authority under the Constitution. An open-ended resolution passed by Congress giving the President the authority to make or enter a war is an unconstitutional act and a gross violation of the seperations of power inherent in the U.S. Constitution. Congress has rubber-stamped and passed the buck to the Pres. on this issue and has seriously shirked its duty. There are no leaders really left in Washington. Try reading Article 1, Section 8 of our own constitution sometime.

With a majority in the house and senate in his first 4 years in office, conservatives (blind, most) should have been able to advance this "moral compass" onto the map. Let's talk abortion shall we? The Republicans ARE NOT the party of pro-life. If so, they would have done more to limit abortions.

Let me tell you about my upcoming "wasted vote" if you care to know about it.

You've got two major political parties right now run by corporations and big money, both of which advance the same adgenda, both of which trample the constitution. We are right now taxed to the hilt. On our purchases, property, recreation, vehicles, pensions, yet the fed. government is trillions of dollars in debt. It's like a credit card company who encourages and wants us only to pay the min. amt., so do our current crop of politicians want our payments (taxes) lowered to the delight of the bankers. Future generations have to pay the price. Meanwhile, our gov. continues to give away the borrowed money to foreign countries that hate us and hope for our destruction. We are fools.

I'm so sick of hearing Christians tell me that Bush is a Christian, so we should vote for him. That worked for one election... now i really think it's time we wake up.

He claims a Christian faith, but he is quoted as saying, "Miracles happen as a result of the love of the Almighty, professed... by religions from all walks of life whether it be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu."

Bush claims that Muslims pray to the same god as Christians. On arriving in Baghdad, the president said, "Dr. al-Rubaie, I want you to convey this message to Mr. Sistani. Tell him that I pray to the same god he prays to. I have millions of Muslims in my country back home." Pres. Bush hosted an "iftaar" (Ramadan break-the-fast dinner) at the White House.

Sounds like he reads the same bible I do!

Bush claims to be "pro-life." But his only accomplishment was to sign a Partial Birth Abortion Bill that doesn't save a single life, but even if it were enforced/enforceable (it's still getting the crap kicked out of it in the courts.) He has yet to make an official acknowledgement of the personhood of the unborn that would trump the Roe V. Wade "right to privacy." He could have done that tonight in the debate even, but he danced like Fred Astaire around the issue. He endorced the very pro-abortion Senator Allen Specter of Penn. over a pro-life challenger. Hmm.

What about Pro-Family?

Let's see. He appointed a homosexual ambassador to Romania, and we pay for his partner's living expenses - in a country where gay activity is illegal. (Ya know, he could have sent the token gay guy to Denmark or Sweden and still looked just as sensitive to this lifestyle choice.). Oh, ya know, he also supports "civil unions" that officially recognize the legality of sodomite relationships. So what if he said he'd support a Federal Marriage Amendment (we don't need this, since marriage is not threatened in the constitution... stupid!!!) he also said his administration would support "whatever legal arrangements people want to make - so long as its embraced by state or at the state level." Now who's trying to be "popular?"

Either you're pro-traditional family, or you're not. He's not. He signed a bill allowing death benefits to be paid to domestic partners of firefighters and police who die in the line of duty, permantely extending a federal death benefity to same-sex couples for the first time.

Conservative?

He proposed and passed the largest budget deficit in our government's history. He GREATLY expanded the Dept. of Education, eroding parent's rights to educate their own children. Having a FEDERAL Dept. of EDU is completely unconstitutional in the first place. It is the owness of the states to regulate education, not the federal gov't. Sheeeeeesh.

I can't vote for someone who misses the mark on so many issues i'm very passionate about. I don't support the war we are in right now. I support the troops bc they are there fighting, but we can't go in and bust up the back-room secret parties of all the nations of the world. We're already terribly hated. We can't defend our own soil. Why are we trying to defend the soil of other countries? Makes no sense to me.

Either people start standing up (the no-voters is who i am concerned about) and taking notice and demanding a voice and demanding CHOICE in candidates and parties, or we'll get what we deserve. "More of the same," Bush or Kerry. If you read our constitution (oh but it's too long so don't bother) you'll see we are not living in the republic our founding fathers set up. We are mere pawns in a game to rule the world, which will only backfire on us and wipe us off the map. Use our money that we work so hard for every day to fund their plans, to take away our freedoms, to be more hated, to blow us off the map.

Remember 1996? Remember Bob Dole running for the GOP? Pathetic right? But people still voted for him just because he had the title of "conservative." (I didn't vote for Dole, don't worry). I consider it more of a wasted vote to vote for a party just because they say some words that sound "conservative" but have not done a single thing to back it up in four years. That's pessimism at it's highest peak - to think that there could never be a change or a brighter hope for a 3rd or 4th major party to arise and stir the pot. Who's the real optimist? LOL

   [ posted  @ 9:41 PM | ]

After some more thought,

I've decided that possibly "Jen" was Jen C. from THE APPRENTICE, who was fired last week. I realized this in watching the first few moments of the show tonight where they recap last week. Maybe she knows how much i loathe her and she's looking for a job. We are hiring, ya know. But i would NEVER hire her bc she was a dork. Most of the girls on the girls team this time are DORKS. The fact that they lost by 10 bucks tonight was too bad and STACY NEEDS TO GO HOME! What is she, eleven?

   [ posted  @ 7:07 PM | ]

this blog entry is entitled

"Who just called me
And How Did you Get My Number?"

by Kt Rocks

I think i just had my first Senior Moment. Well, i'm still having it. Phone rang. First of all, you might already know that my phone does not ring. No one calls me. You all know that if you want to get ahold of me, you e-mail me. My students know this, my employer even knows this! So, the phone ringing was enough to stir my attention. Second of all, the phone doesn't actually ring. I have it on a ringtone that plays "We Wish You A Merry Christmas."

Caller i.d. reveals it is a 651 area code number, which means somewhere here in the metro (we have about 5 diff. area codes here) most likely on the east side - near St. Paul. I have a few friends that way, but it did not register a name with the number, so, whoever it was, was not a friend that i have in my memory book on the phone.

I answer it out of curiosity. (Here is the part where i admit i usually don't even answer my phone even if i do know who it is, as i pay by the minute.)

Me: Hello?

Her: Is this Katie?

Me: Yes it is....

Her: Hey KT, it's Jen.

[O.K. Here my mind starts to race faster than the circuits can carry the data because i don't know anyone named Jen. This person seems familiar with me. I know a Jenna, and i used to have a student named Jen Z., but she doesn't have my number, and she's off to college now, and the only other Jen i can think of that i even remotely KNOW is the wife of our sr. high youth pastor, whom i've only spoken to one time and i don't think she would introduce herself as "Jen" and not say her last name bc i barely know her. I work with a girl named JENNY whom i hired but there is no reason for her to call me at all...]

Me: Hey Jen, how are you???

[This is the part where i admit to faking my way thru uncomfortable and mysterious conversations such as this, trying to probe for more information - to figure out who the HECK is JEN????]

Her: Hey good, thanks. Where are you?

Me: I'm at home now.

Her: Oh... (sounds a little confused at this answer for some reason...????)

Me: Wat's up? [Again, mind is racing, trying to listen for an age in the voice, to discern if this is a student or an adult, going thru a mental list of the few people who even have my fone number to begin with...]

Her: I was wondering what you are doing on Wednesday night.

Me: Oh I work. I always work Wednesday nights. It's truck day and i always close. I work two to close almost always on Wednesday nights. [Here, i am stammering, trying to process who this is i'm talking to, and wondering why if they have my number, they don't already know this about me? Doesn't everyone know my work schedule???]

Her: [This part really threw me off] Oh. Yeah. Umm, where do you work again?

Me: [There is no one who knows me who does not know where i work. It is all i talk about. If you know me, you know i sing songs about Office Max, talk about how God answers my prayers of authorizing credit cards, who i work with and what i do at work all day long... so anyone named Jen asking me this is really throwing me for a loop, or she is being sarcastic.]
I work at Office Max.

Her: Oh yeah? (She starts to speak an actual sentence and the connection gets fuzzy, and

THEN WE GOT CUT OFF DISCONNECTED!!!! And i was too chicken to call the number back to find out what the heck was going on!!!!!

Now, the only thing i can think of if it was my youth pastor's wife, is that they had an adult volunteer leader's mtng tonight, as they alway do the 1st monday of the month, which i don't go to those meetings now since all i do is the band and i don't teach for sr. high. Plus i had to work and then i went to the library tonight to get some books on Grace Kelly. But Pastor Aaron has already called me to beg for me to teach (I can't i have to work i can't i have to work i can't i have to work and i can't get out of it no matter what i do...) so why would she call a week later to hear the same thing from me? If she was calling to ask if i could teach, that is strange.

I just don't know. It's a strange feeling to talk to someone who obviously knows you but you don't know them. I've been watching some Hitchcock films lately, and it makes me feel like i'm in one of those plots!

So, fess up if it is YOU. Yeah. And i'll update this in the comments part if i ever find out! Weird!!!

   [ posted  @ 7:05 PM | ]

I forgot. Is it legal to carry concealed weapons in MN?

I remember them debating about it when Ventura was in office, and i never found out the conclusion.

If it was the case that people could carry concealed weapons, and i had enough money to buy one and a licence to own it, it would be a dangerous thing to be one of my employees right now. I am growing weary of every high schooler i work with (before, i would praise them to the hilt) and it's not even spring time! What can they blame it on? Some of them are only available to work one, maybe two nights a week!

I should not have to harp on them ALL NIGHT LONG to get things done. So tonight i whittled down our staff (meaning people, not a pole i carry with me) to the bare minimum just to eliminate the chit chatter bc they were not finishing their tasks.

It's Homecoming here, so the foot traffic in the store was to a minimum anyway. AND EVEN THEN they could not do a darn thing. I was so mad. I made them stay late and get it right. Then they are walking around talking on their cell phones while doing closing chores and i looked them in the eye and told them "the next time i see you with a cell phone on my time and my payroll, i'm writing you up."

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. And the other conclusion i came up to tonight is that we are going to abolish the EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH program, bc the last 3 people we made employee of the month have TOTALLY FLAKED OUT, quit working hard, quit doing just about ANYTHING. grrrrrr and all they get is a stupid OfficeMax watch and their picture taken with a poloroid so we can put it on a poster by the bathrooms.

And to top it all off, tonight's horror-scope is completely off. If i can't even get the STARS to help me, what am i supposed to do???? None of this even REMOTELY applies to me.

Libra
Today, dear Libra, you might find yourself more attracted than usual to unusual and modernistic art forms. Perhaps exhibitions of local artists or sculptors have caught your attention, or you may be developing a taste for alternative music. Movies with a lot of special effects could also be very appealing. You might find yourself wondering exactly how they can do all that! If you are so inclined, this is a good day to start learning about any of these fields.

Well, i'll give the stars the benefit of the doubt. I have yet to watch my taped episode of Guiding Light for today. Harley's house got trashed by freak-show Philip and maybe there were some special effects involved with that. If that is the case, i may wonder how they did that. But that's it. I am getting sick of alternative music and am listening to Christmas music already. That, and 80's music. So, there.

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