So...remember how i was going to blog everyday this week about my work and life? Remember how that didn't happen apparently.But in my defense after monday my life got crazy busy, which was a good thing. I tend to be in a better mood when i'm busy.
Tuesday i worked from 7am-3pm after I got off i went home, ate food, and ended up texting Mike because while attempting to help my roommate tune her guitar i accidentally snapped one of her strings, and I've never learned how to string a guitar. So I take it to Mike, who then comes back with me to my apartment to give maddi (the new and awesome roommate) her guitar and bug Megan until we decide to go bug Kylie who was moving into her new apartment.
We then get wind of a concert and free Aggie ice cream at the amphitheater. so naturally we have to go. Then we go back to Mike and Justin's where Justin is now home. We sit around chat and decide that we should try and convince Kylie that Mike and Megan are going out. the plan ultimately failed because Mike couldn't keep it going. We had her convinced until he told her after we all left. Lame. But, their new place has a hot tub(kylie, megan, krist, and Alli.) so it was decided that the next night we should go hot tubbing.
So now we are on Wednesday, jumping back to Tuesday we had a bnunch of crazy annoying people come through the drive-thru.Back to Wednesday. So after getting off work at Seven, Chris comes and looks at my car (my headlights are being wacky) and i ask him if he wants to go hot tubbing, he opted out. I head over to Kylies, and who else is at her apartment? MEGAN!!!! (my old roommate, not my now roommate megan.) I was so happy to see her. So we learned that the hot tub closes promptly at 10pm...lame. So we go over to Mike and Justins to play games. I leave early because i had work at 6 in the morning. But Megan invited a bunch of us to Bear Lake to her parents time share thursday through friday. Well i worked until 2, which worked because kristi was moving up and couldn't come to till later. So we drove up together after work. Work on Wednesday was also amazing. I was first in a great mood because i was going to Bear Lake (finally) and then towards the end of my shift I'm back in the whole by myself and this one lady comes through (and basically you get the abbreviated version because i don't want to type the whole thing) Anyway, i'm doing my job the way i always do it, trying to be happy and helpful. This lady pulls up to the window after I took her order (i remembered taking hers) and i tell her her total (15 something) she hands me a twenty and goes "do you know who I am?" I'm thinking 'Oh crap, this is someone i've met before and don't recognize.' so i go "I feel like i should." she goes "I'm the owner."
My heart drops. then she goes "And I just want you to know that you did everything perfectly and you were just lovely." I didn't know what to say, i'm pretty sure i mumbled a thank you of some kind but i was mostly just in shock. So i am trying to continue to be pleasant and polite and what not and i go to hand her her change she counts it then hands it back to me saying "this is for you, thanks for doing a wonderful job" it was $4 something. I was stunned, i managed another thank you and a have a great day. but that was pretty much amazing.
After i got off work me and Kristi headed up to Bear Lake where we met up with Megan, Kylie, Mike and Maddi. and Megan's parents. We get out on the boat and we start tubing, which was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!! Interjection real quick, bear lake is so blue i still can't believe it. I was on the water and I can't believe it. It was incredible. best kept secret in the world. back to tubing. So me and Kylie share the tube at one point and stay on decently long, then go again. At one point i went by myself and i would like top submit that i stayed on longer than everybody else. It took them a decent amount of time to get me off the tube, the second time I went by myself they never got me off. :) when i got back on the boat Mike said he was surprised at how long i stayed on. I would like to throw out to the world that i'm not completely lacking in skills, i just have random ones. But basically it was so much fun.
After boating we go out to dinner and we order an Old Ephraim pizza. (its 18inches across) and if the last two slices had been flavors that i liked i totally could have finished it off. I was starving, I hadn't eaten since 9 that morning. oh well. it was still awesome. then we go back to the condo...and we were locked out. they had left the keys in the condo and Kylie had locked the door.
Well they went to have someone open the sliding door to the porch (climb the fire escape up to the porch thing) but...Maddi had locked that too. So i turn to Kylie and ask if she had dead bolted the door. she hadn't. so i sift through the card i have in my wallet and find one that isn't important and start trying to card the door. I get it after a few minutes, it was a tricky door so it actually took about ten. But as i was trying Kylie goes "does that really work?" me. "yeah, i've done it before" And sure enough i got us into the condo.
The next morning i have to leave by ten to be able to get back to work on time. The last day of work in my forty hour work week. And they left me in the hole the entire time. 8 hours. Which i didn't mind at all, i like the hole. I just started getting a headache about four hours in and the last four hours felt like 8 hours. At about 7:50 (i thought i was off at 8) my manager comes back and apologizes for leaving me back in the hole. and says that after Erin gets off her break i can go up to counter for the last hour of my shift. I go "aren't i suppose to be off at 8?. Long story short i had read the schedule wrong. I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach. So i go groan a little and accept it. At 8 Erin comes back from break and they send me up front where i apparently had a guardian angel. They were slightly over staffed, so i got to go home early. I was so happy. it pretty much made my life.
After that i went to Mikes and then we went to go kidnap Amy, who has moved back to Logan. Accept she didn't tell me which building or what apartment number, and she wasn't answering her phone. So me and Mike left many random messages simply because we could. We eventually find her and all of us (kylie and megan and kristi joined us) going to first dam and playing capture the flag. it was fun.
then that leaves today. I got my car inspected and went to the "lunch with your bishop" at the toaster. Now i think i'm going cliff jumping in about 45 minutes. I've never gone before...so we'll see if i actually jump off any cliffs or if i chicken out. Either way, it should be fun. :)
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Day one of Forty hour work week
So...this week at McDonalds, I have fourty hours mon-fri eight hours a day. I didn't know how I was going to amke it. I know, I know, welcome to the life of an adult. But i still don't like to have to be at Mickey D's for eight hors everyday five days in a row.
Last night i was trying to figure out how to change my attitude so that i can actually enjoy this last week before school starts, I came up with I was going to watch for "characters" everyday to come home and blog about.
Sadly, today there weren't really any "characters". Logan actually doesn't have that many that come in. Although we did have mullet man once... We do however have the regualrs, which i've told you about before. Except i'm fianlly starting to recognize them and remember their orders. Pauline for example, she comes in every morning and orders a senior coffee two cream, one splenda a sausage Mcmuffin and a packet of hot sauce. She just walks in now and i put it in for her. I think she kinda likes that we have it memorized.
Today was my first time presenting. I think its funny, i'm pretty sure that my managers dont' realize that they really haven't had me do very many things. I think they liked me on counter because i was good at it. then they realized i've never been trained in the hole, so they throw me back there. And i get good at it. So they forget that i've never been taught to run and that i've never presented. (i actually learned how to run about a month ago..your suppose to learn it right after counter i think. Then they almost never have me run. I am usually on counter or in the whole. they never really put me anywhere else.
So i go in at six this morning and work presenting (where you get your food) for about two hours until they throw me on counter. (we were so dead this morning, it was dumb) then they send me on break at 8:45 (keep in mind i don't get off till two, i don't like that early of a break.) then they put me back on counter and around 10:45 they throw me back in the hole and leave me there. (which is fine by me) Until they send Lupe back to take money. I'm sure she actually is a nice person, but around me she is always a grump. I mean i think she likes grill most (everyone on grill pretty much speaks spanish and she is hispanic) I try to be nice, but she just is grumpy.
One nice thing about today was that the morning manager Bri, (who can be grumpy too) was nice. I had never worked the six before and then she snapped at me about something i had done wrong (and by this time i'm use to it from pretty much all of my managers.) and after she took a park out she came back and said "i wan't trying to be rude, i'm just ornery". (this is the first time she has ever said something liek that to me. although she did smile more this morning.) So that was nice. I've decided i'm slowly growing on the managers. They tend to smile back when i smile at them and i can occasionally get them to engage in small conversations. So we're making improvments. which is nice. :)
Last night i was trying to figure out how to change my attitude so that i can actually enjoy this last week before school starts, I came up with I was going to watch for "characters" everyday to come home and blog about.
Sadly, today there weren't really any "characters". Logan actually doesn't have that many that come in. Although we did have mullet man once... We do however have the regualrs, which i've told you about before. Except i'm fianlly starting to recognize them and remember their orders. Pauline for example, she comes in every morning and orders a senior coffee two cream, one splenda a sausage Mcmuffin and a packet of hot sauce. She just walks in now and i put it in for her. I think she kinda likes that we have it memorized.
Today was my first time presenting. I think its funny, i'm pretty sure that my managers dont' realize that they really haven't had me do very many things. I think they liked me on counter because i was good at it. then they realized i've never been trained in the hole, so they throw me back there. And i get good at it. So they forget that i've never been taught to run and that i've never presented. (i actually learned how to run about a month ago..your suppose to learn it right after counter i think. Then they almost never have me run. I am usually on counter or in the whole. they never really put me anywhere else.
So i go in at six this morning and work presenting (where you get your food) for about two hours until they throw me on counter. (we were so dead this morning, it was dumb) then they send me on break at 8:45 (keep in mind i don't get off till two, i don't like that early of a break.) then they put me back on counter and around 10:45 they throw me back in the hole and leave me there. (which is fine by me) Until they send Lupe back to take money. I'm sure she actually is a nice person, but around me she is always a grump. I mean i think she likes grill most (everyone on grill pretty much speaks spanish and she is hispanic) I try to be nice, but she just is grumpy.
One nice thing about today was that the morning manager Bri, (who can be grumpy too) was nice. I had never worked the six before and then she snapped at me about something i had done wrong (and by this time i'm use to it from pretty much all of my managers.) and after she took a park out she came back and said "i wan't trying to be rude, i'm just ornery". (this is the first time she has ever said something liek that to me. although she did smile more this morning.) So that was nice. I've decided i'm slowly growing on the managers. They tend to smile back when i smile at them and i can occasionally get them to engage in small conversations. So we're making improvments. which is nice. :)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Time flies when your having fun.
So I figured I'd better write something before even more happens that i feel the need to write about. These last two weeks have been completely crazy and i have know idea where the time has gone. Its amazing how much faster time goes when you are constantly running around.
Last week I was able to go over to the University two days in a row and help put the new choir room together, I would like to submit that it looks AMAZING!!!!! (and a little bit like a space ship...) It was fun doing some heavy lifting for a few days. I have discovered that I absolutely love hard work, especially lifting heavy things and organizing and such. But by the time Friday came I could no longer move. Wednesday I used mostly my upper body and Thursday I used mostly my legs for the lifting which equals really sore Mandy.
Also on Thursday, as soon as I was done finishing helping with the choir room I went over to Embers so we could make cookie dough for Mikes birthday the next day. Which was great fun, also because I got my paycheck and was no longer broke. (I had been living on 21 cents for almost two weeks. I got in trouble when my family found out... :] )
Friday I worked and then after work went straight into planning for Mikes attemptive surprise thing for his birthday (needless to say it basically didn't work.) When we went to go storm his apartment with cookies and balloons Me and Megan were the ones surprised by Julian and Wilson being there. Which was an awesome surprise, I would like to add. After playing with them for a little bit I went grocery shopping...you know your a college student when going grocery shopping is fun and something you look forward too. and Then i got to go home and do laundry. (i was completely out of clothes.) And it was one of the most wonderful things of my life. Just to have a night to sit at home, do laundry and read "Mormon bachelor pad" (its a blog)
So Saturday I got up at the lovely hour of 5 am so that I could be on the road by six to go south. My little sister was going to be in town and Justin being the amazing person he is agreed to take my little sisters senior pictures. And I would like to submit that they are INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! What was fun for me (besides seeing my little sister) was seeing my best friend Dani again. Its the first time in I don't know how long that we have hung out. I miss her tons and it was fun to see her again.
After taking pictures we went to lunch at Rumbi island Grill which was also amazing. And then I took Justin back to his place in Sandy. I then had time to kill before i headed up to Layton to one of my other best friends bridal shower. So i called my old roommate Alli hoping to see her while i was down in Salt Lake Valley, unfortunately she wasn't available so I went over to my other old roommates house for a little while then headed up to Layton, getting sufficiently lost on the way.
Then was the bridal shower, which was great fun. And i would like to submit that i had the best gag gift (at least mine got the most laughs :])
I then headed up to Tremonton because I had to drop some stuff off at my grandma's and pick up some other things. By this time i was completely exhausted and running completely on fumes. I was so tired I actually missed the exit for my grandmas...which i have never done before. Its ok though, i notice that i missed the exit before I got to Idaho (I actually noticed in time to take a different exit to her house) I didn't stay long at grandmas because i was starting to crash. But i found out that Justin was coming back up to Logan that night and would actually be back in Logan before me. So before I went home I went over to his place to see the pictures. (which were amazing) I then went home and crashed. Unconscious.
I woke up the next morning and I had my friend James farewell, which was way cool (and the first farewell I've ever actually gone to) I unfortunately couldn't get my whole shift covered so i did have to go into work for a few hours. Afterwards i went back over to Mike and Justins (we stopped by right after the farewell because they left their scriptures at James house) And Mike, Shannon, heather and .....oh i know i know shannons sisters name...I've met her twice and I still don't remember...i think it was dana? (i met them that night...minus Shannon who i met a few weeks earlier) and me went down to first dam to play in the tunnel. (and when i say play, i mean like guitar. And sing. the acoustics are way cool.) And then we fed the ducks which was way fun.
Monday I had a glorious shift of seven very long hours. And then I went over to Embers because she wanted to curl my hair. I then came home and started cleaning my room. (which i got about halfway done)
Tuesday I got up bright and early for a seven and a half hour shift. and then back home. Ending up at Mike and Justins to get the CD to Justin to put Rachels pictures on to send to Mom and Dad. We then ended up at a game night which was tons of fun. Wednesday I had my fun five hours shift (but then i didn't have to work the rest of the week) And immediatly after that i came home and started making a chicken. I would also like to add that whoever cleaned that chicken failed at their job. I had more feathers in that chicken then any other chicken i've cleaned in my life.
the point of the chicken was that we were having a nice sit down dinner together (rylee has wanted to ever since she found out i had some sets of china) SO we made chieck, and roast veggies and a salad and fruit salad. And it was way good. At this dinner was me, Rylee, Megan, Mike, Justin, Chris and Rylee's little sister Landry. Afterwards I was going to go dancing but i slightly accidently got ditched by Mike. So i went and chilled with Justin and Ryan. And it was great fun.
Thursday I had nothing, that is I had nothing planned. I took the table back that i borrowed from Michael and Sarah (my...i think he's my second cousin. they live about five minutes away and take very good care of me) Anyway took the table back they let me borrow for our dinner. They have a family reunion this weekend and Sarah was trying to get the house cleaned, I had nothing planned so I stayed to help clean the house. WHich was great fun, I love their kids. Then I ended up hanging out with Justin (yes...i do basically live at their apartment and sleep at mine) I went home around midnight with every intention of going to bed...
But then life happened. We were all starting to settle down for the night and my roommate started feeling very uneasy and very unsafe. So we shut all the windows, checked all the doors and had a roommate prayer together with our other roommate. But for whatever reason she couldn't shake off the feeling. So she said another prayer and started reading her scriptures and nothing was working (by this time its about two in the morning) She decided that she wanted a blessing and then she asked if I could take her to the hospital.(a few days ago we found this nasty bruise on her back that no one knows where came from and she felt like she needed to get it looked at and it couldn't wait.) So we call Justin at 2 in the morning and ask if he can give Rylee a blessing (I seriously have the best guy friends in the world) He says of course and so we drive over and after that me and her head to the ER (the only medical place open at three in the morning) Where I sit in the waiting room for 2...maybe 2 and a half hours. While she gets looked at. Thank goodness it was nothing serious, but if we hadn't gone in it could have turned into something serious. So at five in the morning we head home with a quick side trip to a gas station so i could buy her some hot chocolate. And then i slept until 11:30am.
Then the rest of yesterday i cleaned my room and hung out with Justin. We watched a movie called "the island" not a bad movie.
And now i'm trying to get my Sunday shift covered (yet again) because i apparently need to talk to my manager again about please don't schedule me on Sunday (i've been scheduled for the last four) But I honestly am loving life lately, and soon school is going to start again which will be very exciting. I'm excited to see all my friends who move back up. So yeah, thats been my life the last two weeks.
Last week I was able to go over to the University two days in a row and help put the new choir room together, I would like to submit that it looks AMAZING!!!!! (and a little bit like a space ship...) It was fun doing some heavy lifting for a few days. I have discovered that I absolutely love hard work, especially lifting heavy things and organizing and such. But by the time Friday came I could no longer move. Wednesday I used mostly my upper body and Thursday I used mostly my legs for the lifting which equals really sore Mandy.
Also on Thursday, as soon as I was done finishing helping with the choir room I went over to Embers so we could make cookie dough for Mikes birthday the next day. Which was great fun, also because I got my paycheck and was no longer broke. (I had been living on 21 cents for almost two weeks. I got in trouble when my family found out... :] )
Friday I worked and then after work went straight into planning for Mikes attemptive surprise thing for his birthday (needless to say it basically didn't work.) When we went to go storm his apartment with cookies and balloons Me and Megan were the ones surprised by Julian and Wilson being there. Which was an awesome surprise, I would like to add. After playing with them for a little bit I went grocery shopping...you know your a college student when going grocery shopping is fun and something you look forward too. and Then i got to go home and do laundry. (i was completely out of clothes.) And it was one of the most wonderful things of my life. Just to have a night to sit at home, do laundry and read "Mormon bachelor pad" (its a blog)
So Saturday I got up at the lovely hour of 5 am so that I could be on the road by six to go south. My little sister was going to be in town and Justin being the amazing person he is agreed to take my little sisters senior pictures. And I would like to submit that they are INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! What was fun for me (besides seeing my little sister) was seeing my best friend Dani again. Its the first time in I don't know how long that we have hung out. I miss her tons and it was fun to see her again.
After taking pictures we went to lunch at Rumbi island Grill which was also amazing. And then I took Justin back to his place in Sandy. I then had time to kill before i headed up to Layton to one of my other best friends bridal shower. So i called my old roommate Alli hoping to see her while i was down in Salt Lake Valley, unfortunately she wasn't available so I went over to my other old roommates house for a little while then headed up to Layton, getting sufficiently lost on the way.
Then was the bridal shower, which was great fun. And i would like to submit that i had the best gag gift (at least mine got the most laughs :])
I then headed up to Tremonton because I had to drop some stuff off at my grandma's and pick up some other things. By this time i was completely exhausted and running completely on fumes. I was so tired I actually missed the exit for my grandmas...which i have never done before. Its ok though, i notice that i missed the exit before I got to Idaho (I actually noticed in time to take a different exit to her house) I didn't stay long at grandmas because i was starting to crash. But i found out that Justin was coming back up to Logan that night and would actually be back in Logan before me. So before I went home I went over to his place to see the pictures. (which were amazing) I then went home and crashed. Unconscious.
I woke up the next morning and I had my friend James farewell, which was way cool (and the first farewell I've ever actually gone to) I unfortunately couldn't get my whole shift covered so i did have to go into work for a few hours. Afterwards i went back over to Mike and Justins (we stopped by right after the farewell because they left their scriptures at James house) And Mike, Shannon, heather and .....oh i know i know shannons sisters name...I've met her twice and I still don't remember...i think it was dana? (i met them that night...minus Shannon who i met a few weeks earlier) and me went down to first dam to play in the tunnel. (and when i say play, i mean like guitar. And sing. the acoustics are way cool.) And then we fed the ducks which was way fun.
Monday I had a glorious shift of seven very long hours. And then I went over to Embers because she wanted to curl my hair. I then came home and started cleaning my room. (which i got about halfway done)
Tuesday I got up bright and early for a seven and a half hour shift. and then back home. Ending up at Mike and Justins to get the CD to Justin to put Rachels pictures on to send to Mom and Dad. We then ended up at a game night which was tons of fun. Wednesday I had my fun five hours shift (but then i didn't have to work the rest of the week) And immediatly after that i came home and started making a chicken. I would also like to add that whoever cleaned that chicken failed at their job. I had more feathers in that chicken then any other chicken i've cleaned in my life.
the point of the chicken was that we were having a nice sit down dinner together (rylee has wanted to ever since she found out i had some sets of china) SO we made chieck, and roast veggies and a salad and fruit salad. And it was way good. At this dinner was me, Rylee, Megan, Mike, Justin, Chris and Rylee's little sister Landry. Afterwards I was going to go dancing but i slightly accidently got ditched by Mike. So i went and chilled with Justin and Ryan. And it was great fun.
Thursday I had nothing, that is I had nothing planned. I took the table back that i borrowed from Michael and Sarah (my...i think he's my second cousin. they live about five minutes away and take very good care of me) Anyway took the table back they let me borrow for our dinner. They have a family reunion this weekend and Sarah was trying to get the house cleaned, I had nothing planned so I stayed to help clean the house. WHich was great fun, I love their kids. Then I ended up hanging out with Justin (yes...i do basically live at their apartment and sleep at mine) I went home around midnight with every intention of going to bed...
But then life happened. We were all starting to settle down for the night and my roommate started feeling very uneasy and very unsafe. So we shut all the windows, checked all the doors and had a roommate prayer together with our other roommate. But for whatever reason she couldn't shake off the feeling. So she said another prayer and started reading her scriptures and nothing was working (by this time its about two in the morning) She decided that she wanted a blessing and then she asked if I could take her to the hospital.(a few days ago we found this nasty bruise on her back that no one knows where came from and she felt like she needed to get it looked at and it couldn't wait.) So we call Justin at 2 in the morning and ask if he can give Rylee a blessing (I seriously have the best guy friends in the world) He says of course and so we drive over and after that me and her head to the ER (the only medical place open at three in the morning) Where I sit in the waiting room for 2...maybe 2 and a half hours. While she gets looked at. Thank goodness it was nothing serious, but if we hadn't gone in it could have turned into something serious. So at five in the morning we head home with a quick side trip to a gas station so i could buy her some hot chocolate. And then i slept until 11:30am.
Then the rest of yesterday i cleaned my room and hung out with Justin. We watched a movie called "the island" not a bad movie.
And now i'm trying to get my Sunday shift covered (yet again) because i apparently need to talk to my manager again about please don't schedule me on Sunday (i've been scheduled for the last four) But I honestly am loving life lately, and soon school is going to start again which will be very exciting. I'm excited to see all my friends who move back up. So yeah, thats been my life the last two weeks.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Dulcinea
So today in institute we were talking about Christ and separating people from what they do, and someone made a comparison using the musical Man of Lamancah. And how Aldonza was basically a whore, but all Don Quixote was Dulcinea.
It didn't matter what she really was, all that mattered was what he saw. And no matter how Dulcinea treated him, he wanted her to see what she was. She wasn't just Aldonza the whore, she had more to her than that. She was a beautiful women, she was his lady.
And by the end she believes that she is more than that. She is no longer Aldonza the Whore, she is Dulcinea, a Lady...because someone else believed she was.
It got me thinking, I need to stop seeing Aldonzas everywhere (not saying that as in I see whores everywhere, but you understand the metaphor right?) Everyone is a Dulcinea (yes, boys included too, i'll find a more masculine name later.) But sometimes we only see Aldonzas, and I don't want to anymore. I think everyone would be better off if we stopped seeing Aldonzas and only saw Dulcineas? Because then maybe people would start seeing Dulcineas in themselves.
It didn't matter what she really was, all that mattered was what he saw. And no matter how Dulcinea treated him, he wanted her to see what she was. She wasn't just Aldonza the whore, she had more to her than that. She was a beautiful women, she was his lady.
And by the end she believes that she is more than that. She is no longer Aldonza the Whore, she is Dulcinea, a Lady...because someone else believed she was.
It got me thinking, I need to stop seeing Aldonzas everywhere (not saying that as in I see whores everywhere, but you understand the metaphor right?) Everyone is a Dulcinea (yes, boys included too, i'll find a more masculine name later.) But sometimes we only see Aldonzas, and I don't want to anymore. I think everyone would be better off if we stopped seeing Aldonzas and only saw Dulcineas? Because then maybe people would start seeing Dulcineas in themselves.
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