worst part of living in ohio: no one else ( i know ) lives here ( Read more... )

i have been watching hsn all day. it looks nice outside, and i got dressed about 7 hours ago but i still have not left the house ( Read more... )

i guess the main thing is, i grew up in the country. hate hate hate it. i have always, always wanted to live in town. i want a sidewalk to go past my house. i want to be able to walk somewhere after the blizzard when i need laundry soap. i want to be able to run after the ice cream truck and beat all the little kids there.

you know when someone is completing a detailed, drawn out task and you interrupt them to demand they drop everything and give you a detailed report on the task, that takes just as much time as completing the project would take, it's just a little bit annoying. and ineffective. and it sure doesn't make them feel like getting it done any sooner.

i don't understand the continuing friction at work. i've always been more laid back than most, and there are people i hate working with, but i'm sure they have no idea. i keep it to myself. honestly, just pretending you like someone and smiling and helping them because it's good for the compnay, for morale, for everyone's paycheck. why go out of ( Read more... )

i'm starting to think that maybe the reason the training at work is so bad, is that the one person who has all the information (or most of it) feel that they are more valuable employees when they keep it to themselves ( Read more... )

so lately i have been painting little birdhouses as future christmas decorations. it's a bit early but just something that needs doing, so when i finally get my first christmas tree this year there will be something to go on it ( Read more... )

the training at work sucks. as it turns out there are deadlines no one tells you about. they just tick by, hundreds of dollars tick by too. today i get an email "that's not in the 60 day window". um, what? what window? how did i know? now i have to go to sales and get tell them we could have had X dollars, but no, now we are losing this amount ( Read more... )

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I think the nice thing about a house, and a small town would be that - when you are home, it would feel like you were home. it would be a destination, somewhere to go to. not just a place you are sleeping in between times that you are at your job. whereas an apartment on some highway not in a neighborhood or town....it feels like a stopping place, ( Read more... )