okay... so yeah. today was a very, very long day. you trick yourself into playing little games to get you through the day. you try to make your mind focus on little tasks that pass the time so you don't have to watch it drag by. you throw yourself into pointless projects in a desperate attempt to not die of boredom. but for some reason, after you've worked so many days straight in a row without a break, it just wears on you. no matter how much you like the job.
and today... man, some people. i just don't understand it. i would never go into a store to deal with all these things. i'm more of a minimal personal contact kind of customer. i want someone to solve my problems without having to converse with them concerning my personal life, the weather, etc. i understand that it is my job to sit there, listen to people's problems and fix them. but my god... just because you've been a customer for a year or two does not mean you should get a $200 phone for free. especially when you got a perfectly good one for free when you signed up and managed to ruin it. totally crazy. if i dropped my phone in water, or smashed it on the ground, or god forbid (and yes it's happened) dropped it in a beer... i'd suck it up and buy a new one. and if i couldn't afford the flashy $300 one i ruined, i'd pay $50 for one to last me for a little while. everyone wants free phones. they are demanding free phones. it drives me nuts. i'm sick of people telling me what they are entitled to. really.
on a good note, just one more day. and then four days of vacation. i can't wait. i'm already relaxing just thinking about it. we aren't even going to make a schedule for how this whole vacation will start. we're just going to wake up thursday, get things together and head out whenever we are ready. we figure we will get there eventually. it's a relatively short drive (four hours i think) so it really will be cake. and it'll be so nice to see everyone again. i've felt so self-involved lately with figuring out this new job and worrying about moving, etc. that i haven't talked to anyone in awhile. i have this little schedule and this little group of people i see. and while it's great... a change of scenery will be very refreshing.
i've been watching trading spaces. i'm getting back into my painting/decorating/building things mood. maybe it will all turn out horribly. but i have some ideas... good ideas. and it breaks my heart to think that the mural in my dining room is going to be painted over after i move out. maybe i don't think about it everyday, and pass it off as a piece of cake whenever anyone ooohs and aaaahs over it. but really... i love it. and i'm proud of it. and it will suck to see it go. i'm thinking of a new one to do in the house for the dining room which will technically be more of a guest/computer/treadmill room. but nothin has come to me yet. i have yet to be inspired. if anyone has any fun ideas... well, pass them along. i want to do landscape again... but of where and what is yet to be seen.
