I'm sitting in my living room looking at my newest purchase. A World Map!
Where most people would deem the "prize spot" to put their television, I have put up a 50x30 map, set in antique style finish. I love to travel and now looking at this on my living room wall it stirs up restlessness to see more of the world. Also with so many family members scattered over the world, I figure I better know where they are!
Wouldn't it be fun to say that you have been to all the continents! (Well maybe not Antarctica, It's too cold. Sorry Elissa :) )But to go to all of the other ones!
North America (check)
South America.
Africa.
Australia (check)
Asia
Europe (check)
That only leaves three. Right. Let me get on that. With being a student and asperations of teaching 2nd graders my pocket book will hold...
But for now I have my map, and all I have to do is look and think.
Who knows, Maybe I'll marry rich! J/K
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
New Schedule!!!
I am so excited! Starting tomorrow I am getting a new schedule. I will have three days off a week, and one of them being Sundays. Totally unheard of. With this new schedule I will be:
Opening Monday and Tuesday getting off by 2.
Having Wednesday and Thursday off, one day I will be in Sandpoint at SMS in the Resource room then hanging out with my Dad!!!
Friday is open to anything.
Saturday is off by 5pm
Sunday Off.
For four years I have never had set days off, or anything remotely this cool. So Thank you to Allison my Manager who made it possible!!!
I just had to share the good news.
Opening Monday and Tuesday getting off by 2.
Having Wednesday and Thursday off, one day I will be in Sandpoint at SMS in the Resource room then hanging out with my Dad!!!
Friday is open to anything.
Saturday is off by 5pm
Sunday Off.
For four years I have never had set days off, or anything remotely this cool. So Thank you to Allison my Manager who made it possible!!!
I just had to share the good news.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Dawdle
As I sit staring at the empty screen, thinking of what I should write I look up and see my dictionary. Ah Ha! Insperation. I will open to a random page, close my eyes, and point to a word to write about. The word to day is...
Dawdle. vb. Dawdling, daw-dled To spend time wastefully or idly.
This seems funny to me because I don't remember when the last time I Dawdled. Being a student, working full time, and needing to get hours in a classroom, I just don't have that luxury. I may have that in December, when I will finally receive my diploma, but till then it looks like I am going to have to keep Dawdling on my back burner.
Dawdle. vb. Dawdling, daw-dled To spend time wastefully or idly.
This seems funny to me because I don't remember when the last time I Dawdled. Being a student, working full time, and needing to get hours in a classroom, I just don't have that luxury. I may have that in December, when I will finally receive my diploma, but till then it looks like I am going to have to keep Dawdling on my back burner.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
QASA.
Yesterday.
Work.
Oh Man.
Well It wasn't a bad day, it was just an eventful day. I got to work at 1, which around that time it is the changing of the guards. With in 30 minutes the whole floor is different people. I was put on bar, which is my favorite and doing my thing. When I look up and watch this lady try to pull a roller suitcase over the curb. It was really amusing to watch her and I was smiling because of it. I continued to make my drinks like the expert that I am and forgot her in 2 seconds.
Well, 10 seconds later she asks for the manager and I notice that neatly on her breast pocked is stitched QASA. Oh CRAP!!!! Instant Karma. That is what I get. She is here to make sure that we are following all of the health codes. Great. 10 minutes into my shift. For four years I have never been there for a QASA audit, well that reign of happiness was about to end.
Everything went out of my head. It took me a full 10 seconds to answer. I couldn't even remember my managers name! Well eventually I was able to get my thoughts all in one place and giver her an answer and tell her to just go in the back. As soon as she turned around I was a machine. Changing the milk carafes, even thought it was just done. Changing the buckets. Wiping down inside the fridges, the counters. Making drinks. All sorts of things.
Now I want you to know that I truly believe that we (Riverstone) are a very clean store, but some of the things that they want from you is really ridiculous. ex. We have bar towels in containers under the machines. One for the steaming wand and one for the counter. They want us to have an inch of water in the container with the rags, so each time we use them, (which for the steam wand is after each drink,) water gets everywhere. It is just a mess. That is only one thing, and I'll leave it at that.
So for the next 90 minutes I felt like I was on a chopping block. She was walking around, looking at things. Watching. Always watching. Making notes on her Blackberry. Asking questions. Making notes. That had to be bad, right? Now in her defense I will say that she was very nice. She even smiled! Well finally it was time for her to go and she had given her report to Assistant Manager who was there. We all huddled around, looking like kids waiting to see if they would graduate.
94.5%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HECK YES! We cheered so loud that she was outside and looked back inside with a smile. Pretty funny. The customers that were in the lobby just looked at us like we were freaks, but nobody cared. We passed.
It is hard to get such a high score, and Starbucks has high expectations which is good. Needless to say that was over. Thank You Lord. The rest of the shift went by so fast that I was almost sad to go home, almost...
Work.
Oh Man.
Well It wasn't a bad day, it was just an eventful day. I got to work at 1, which around that time it is the changing of the guards. With in 30 minutes the whole floor is different people. I was put on bar, which is my favorite and doing my thing. When I look up and watch this lady try to pull a roller suitcase over the curb. It was really amusing to watch her and I was smiling because of it. I continued to make my drinks like the expert that I am and forgot her in 2 seconds.
Well, 10 seconds later she asks for the manager and I notice that neatly on her breast pocked is stitched QASA. Oh CRAP!!!! Instant Karma. That is what I get. She is here to make sure that we are following all of the health codes. Great. 10 minutes into my shift. For four years I have never been there for a QASA audit, well that reign of happiness was about to end.
Everything went out of my head. It took me a full 10 seconds to answer. I couldn't even remember my managers name! Well eventually I was able to get my thoughts all in one place and giver her an answer and tell her to just go in the back. As soon as she turned around I was a machine. Changing the milk carafes, even thought it was just done. Changing the buckets. Wiping down inside the fridges, the counters. Making drinks. All sorts of things.
Now I want you to know that I truly believe that we (Riverstone) are a very clean store, but some of the things that they want from you is really ridiculous. ex. We have bar towels in containers under the machines. One for the steaming wand and one for the counter. They want us to have an inch of water in the container with the rags, so each time we use them, (which for the steam wand is after each drink,) water gets everywhere. It is just a mess. That is only one thing, and I'll leave it at that.
So for the next 90 minutes I felt like I was on a chopping block. She was walking around, looking at things. Watching. Always watching. Making notes on her Blackberry. Asking questions. Making notes. That had to be bad, right? Now in her defense I will say that she was very nice. She even smiled! Well finally it was time for her to go and she had given her report to Assistant Manager who was there. We all huddled around, looking like kids waiting to see if they would graduate.
94.5%!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HECK YES! We cheered so loud that she was outside and looked back inside with a smile. Pretty funny. The customers that were in the lobby just looked at us like we were freaks, but nobody cared. We passed.
It is hard to get such a high score, and Starbucks has high expectations which is good. Needless to say that was over. Thank You Lord. The rest of the shift went by so fast that I was almost sad to go home, almost...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
PRAXIS Nightmares
For many of you, you have or will be taken the PRAXIS soon. Well I took mine in January, and was soooooooo happy to do them both in one day. It was a long day, but doable. They tell you that it takes roughly 4 weeks to get results, so that way if you need to take them over you just slip under the registration deadline for the ones in March.
Well the last couple of nights I have had PRAXIS nightmares. I sit down to take the test and then all these crazy things happen. There are clowns, Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter, My kindergarten teacher Mrs. Clark. Melinda Butler. My Grandmother. There are so many more it is crazy how they all fit in this room. Now, not all of these are scary, but the fact that they were in the room together when I was trying to take my exam was. I'm not a test taker. Never was and never will be, and the first one I took was the multiple choice. 120 questions in 2 hours. Great...
Well all the extra people in the room, it wasn't a 'normal' testing experience so I wasn't expecting great things. The rest of the tests are a blur, but time flies and I can now get my results. I missed both test by 1 point. Then out of no where everybody that was there in the testing room is in my living room looking at the computer screen with me and numerous things are said. I won't repeat them, but for a dream it wasn't very nice. But for a nightmare typical.
Anyways I woke up with this horrid feeling that I'm going to fail by a point, and have to retake these miserable tests that measure 'how smart I am.' I am just so thankful that NONE of these people were in the room with me, and will not be able to be in the room if that is the case.
Well the last couple of nights I have had PRAXIS nightmares. I sit down to take the test and then all these crazy things happen. There are clowns, Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter, My kindergarten teacher Mrs. Clark. Melinda Butler. My Grandmother. There are so many more it is crazy how they all fit in this room. Now, not all of these are scary, but the fact that they were in the room together when I was trying to take my exam was. I'm not a test taker. Never was and never will be, and the first one I took was the multiple choice. 120 questions in 2 hours. Great...
Well all the extra people in the room, it wasn't a 'normal' testing experience so I wasn't expecting great things. The rest of the tests are a blur, but time flies and I can now get my results. I missed both test by 1 point. Then out of no where everybody that was there in the testing room is in my living room looking at the computer screen with me and numerous things are said. I won't repeat them, but for a dream it wasn't very nice. But for a nightmare typical.
Anyways I woke up with this horrid feeling that I'm going to fail by a point, and have to retake these miserable tests that measure 'how smart I am.' I am just so thankful that NONE of these people were in the room with me, and will not be able to be in the room if that is the case.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Cell Phone Company's
AHHHHHHHHH.
Sometimes I just want to take the phone and throw it across the room. The people that you finally get to talk to after ten minutes of pressing numbers for what options you would like rarely ever know anything. the answer to my question. Call back it two weeks. I'm jumping ahead let me catch you up.
Close to November I was eligible for my two year upgrade. I went into the store and looked at all the phones, played with them to see how I liked it. Pushed numbers. Looked at settings. All that stuff. I went home and happily bought my new phone online so I wouldn't have to wait for hours to do so in the store. I received my phone in the FedEx box a few days later and was so excited. I even turned my rebate in the mail on time!!Now I'm not very phone savvy, all I want is being able to call people, them to call me, and texting. Even that can be annoying but everybody does it and I don't want to get charged a ridiculous amount per text so i got a package. I don't need internet. Or twitter, or MySpace. None of that. I'm already looking at a computer for hours a day so why would i want a phone the size of a lighter to read emails? (that was a bird walk, sorry)
So I get my phone, bring it in to get it activated and am so happy. Then a few days later I'm on the phone with my Dad, when he tells me there is a second or two delay and he echos. Well we waited to see if anybody else was having this problem, and there was. So I go back in to the store and they tell me that it is a glitch. They upload something to the phone, ( I didn't know that you needed to check for updates) and tell me it should be fine. Once again a few days later the echo, and the whole process repeats. Except this time they give me a whole new phone!! The same phone but a new one because the first one didn't work and it was the company's fault. Sweet right? No.
Once again the phone was having problems bur worse then before. I don't have alot of free time so having to go back three times to to get the phone fixed when it was brand new was not going over very well. I didn't want this phone anymore I wanted a new one. A different one. I picked out the one I wanted, and was doing all the paper work when the tell me there is a $35 re stalking fee. WHAT! I have to pay money for you to re stalk something that is still in the 30 day warranty and broken. I have returned 3 times and had two phones. Not a happy customer.
I leave with my new phone, not happy with the old. And am waiting for my rebate card in the mail. Well Io just got a postcard saying that I don't qualify. No reason or explanation. I don't qualify. If you have questions please call this number. Which I do, and the answer I get. " call back in 15 days so we can look at your file." That's it. Nothing else.
So I am now waiting to see if the phone company will screw me over $50 more dollars, and if so I might be switching carriers. For somebody who has been with them for 10 years and never had any problems. Now this. I don't get it. Well I had to fume. Thanks.
Sometimes I just want to take the phone and throw it across the room. The people that you finally get to talk to after ten minutes of pressing numbers for what options you would like rarely ever know anything. the answer to my question. Call back it two weeks. I'm jumping ahead let me catch you up.
Close to November I was eligible for my two year upgrade. I went into the store and looked at all the phones, played with them to see how I liked it. Pushed numbers. Looked at settings. All that stuff. I went home and happily bought my new phone online so I wouldn't have to wait for hours to do so in the store. I received my phone in the FedEx box a few days later and was so excited. I even turned my rebate in the mail on time!!Now I'm not very phone savvy, all I want is being able to call people, them to call me, and texting. Even that can be annoying but everybody does it and I don't want to get charged a ridiculous amount per text so i got a package. I don't need internet. Or twitter, or MySpace. None of that. I'm already looking at a computer for hours a day so why would i want a phone the size of a lighter to read emails? (that was a bird walk, sorry)
So I get my phone, bring it in to get it activated and am so happy. Then a few days later I'm on the phone with my Dad, when he tells me there is a second or two delay and he echos. Well we waited to see if anybody else was having this problem, and there was. So I go back in to the store and they tell me that it is a glitch. They upload something to the phone, ( I didn't know that you needed to check for updates) and tell me it should be fine. Once again a few days later the echo, and the whole process repeats. Except this time they give me a whole new phone!! The same phone but a new one because the first one didn't work and it was the company's fault. Sweet right? No.
Once again the phone was having problems bur worse then before. I don't have alot of free time so having to go back three times to to get the phone fixed when it was brand new was not going over very well. I didn't want this phone anymore I wanted a new one. A different one. I picked out the one I wanted, and was doing all the paper work when the tell me there is a $35 re stalking fee. WHAT! I have to pay money for you to re stalk something that is still in the 30 day warranty and broken. I have returned 3 times and had two phones. Not a happy customer.
I leave with my new phone, not happy with the old. And am waiting for my rebate card in the mail. Well Io just got a postcard saying that I don't qualify. No reason or explanation. I don't qualify. If you have questions please call this number. Which I do, and the answer I get. " call back in 15 days so we can look at your file." That's it. Nothing else.
So I am now waiting to see if the phone company will screw me over $50 more dollars, and if so I might be switching carriers. For somebody who has been with them for 10 years and never had any problems. Now this. I don't get it. Well I had to fume. Thanks.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Road Rage
Well, I had a beautiful weekend at home. Three days off. In a row. I have no idea how that happened but it did and I loved it. I woke up today to it snowing and it was really pretty. I needed to head into town to take my niece to the eye Dr. to pick out new glasses!!! That was really fun to just sit and watch her. Stella is 9 almost 10. And has so much energy that sometimes it makes me sick. Well she picked out her glasses and then it was off to school.
The rest of the day went in a blur. Getting coffee here, reading with the girls there. Going home and trying to find a dress for my little sister. Before I knew it I needed to get home, back to CDA. Well it h ad been snowing all day and had started to turn into a wet snow about an hour before so I know that the roads were going to be wet. Wet isn't that bad. I can do wet.
Well off I go heading back home and I get stuck behind a car, well a Jeep 4x4 going 30 MPH!!!! The roads did have slush on them, but where people were driving it was clear. I was unable to pass due to heavy oncoming traffic, plust in the middle of the road there was slush and I didn't want to risk it. Fine, I was fine with this I'll just wait till the passing lane a few miles ahead.
Oh the passing lanes. I was so excited. This women (yes it was a women) would speed up to 60 miles an hour, then slow down, then speed up again. I wanted to scream. So once again I was stuck behind her going 30 MPH.
Now, don't get me wrong, if the weather is horrible I have no problem going slow to be safe. But when somebody is just lallygagging with what looked like 50 cars behind her ( I was going to say 100 but knew that would be way too many), that is not safe.
For an other 15 minutes I was behind this women, asking God to please give me patience, and if she goes up to 60 in the passing lane again to see to it that I don't have turrets (which I don't). Well God was listening to me pray, because I was give patience and I was also able to pass her.
It took me over an hour and ten minutes to get from Sandpoint to CDA tonight, which is ridiculous. People that drive that slow are just as dangerous as people that drive over the speed limit. So if you are stuck behind somebody, just pray and hope that God will give you patience. Or else it is going to be a really long drive.
The rest of the day went in a blur. Getting coffee here, reading with the girls there. Going home and trying to find a dress for my little sister. Before I knew it I needed to get home, back to CDA. Well it h ad been snowing all day and had started to turn into a wet snow about an hour before so I know that the roads were going to be wet. Wet isn't that bad. I can do wet.
Well off I go heading back home and I get stuck behind a car, well a Jeep 4x4 going 30 MPH!!!! The roads did have slush on them, but where people were driving it was clear. I was unable to pass due to heavy oncoming traffic, plust in the middle of the road there was slush and I didn't want to risk it. Fine, I was fine with this I'll just wait till the passing lane a few miles ahead.
Oh the passing lanes. I was so excited. This women (yes it was a women) would speed up to 60 miles an hour, then slow down, then speed up again. I wanted to scream. So once again I was stuck behind her going 30 MPH.
Now, don't get me wrong, if the weather is horrible I have no problem going slow to be safe. But when somebody is just lallygagging with what looked like 50 cars behind her ( I was going to say 100 but knew that would be way too many), that is not safe.
For an other 15 minutes I was behind this women, asking God to please give me patience, and if she goes up to 60 in the passing lane again to see to it that I don't have turrets (which I don't). Well God was listening to me pray, because I was give patience and I was also able to pass her.
It took me over an hour and ten minutes to get from Sandpoint to CDA tonight, which is ridiculous. People that drive that slow are just as dangerous as people that drive over the speed limit. So if you are stuck behind somebody, just pray and hope that God will give you patience. Or else it is going to be a really long drive.
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