The Mid Week Break

Well it's Thursday and it feels like I have had to come back to work on a Sunday! Christmas on a Tuesday and then having a Wednesday off is really not healthy! I've been sitting here mulling through my calls wondering when the day will be done. I'm not to sure how well I will deal with having to work a full week again. After the weekend off we will have to work Monday and then be off on Tuesday, returning mid week. I feel like crap having all these interruptions in my schedule!!!! To think I used to work unstable shift work, wow how fast I have adjusted! I'm not sure if part of feeling like crap is because this is a glimmer of what my life used to be like? Or perhaps I just fell into a pattern so easily that now it has been interrupted and my body is pissed at me? Maybe it's a reminder of the chaos I used to live? I really cant say, all I can do is complain and be yucky so that's all for today... As random and shifty this has been you can tell that my mind is scattered and my thoughts are lost :)
Cheers all

Christmas Eve, A Monday

Here we are Monday again, the air in the office is different, people are cheerful and happy. Smiles all around, no sour faces or foul moods. It's Christmas Eve and it seems that the holiday over rules the Monday morning blues. Thank gawd!! I'm off at noon today, a huge change from my normal Christmas Eve night mares at Safeway! Working the close shift and having everyone scrambling for the last minute touches. The phones are sporadic but never the less still ringing. Soon it will be time to settle into the sofa and watch the little one open her presents. Her little eyes sparkling with aw as she unwraps the gifts to find the treasures with in.
Cheers all and Merry Holidays

The Dreaded Friday, Antisipated By Most

So it's Friday, for those of you that dread Monday mornings this is a day to celebrate and rejoice in the weeks comings and goings. For me this is a day of pure misery! I sit here and ponder all the things that I need to get done on the weekend, yes a list a mile long with only two short days to complete. Now the list is long but always manageable, drinks with friends, some shopping and cleaning. There is so much fun to be had and so little time to enjoy it. The clock stands still as I count down the minutes until I can leave and embark on my weekend escapades. GGGRRR!!!! This Monday to Friday life is cruel. I guess I should shuck it up and stop complaining I don't have to work till 12 a.m on Fridays or Saturdays no more early Sunday morning hangovers, or customers waiting outside the door. So as horrible as Fridays might be it's still better then the alternative, WORK.
Cheers y'all

Lining Up At The Troff

So it was free lunch day today... Most days you walk past out cafeteria and you see one or two people. Generally we all eat at our desk and work through our breaks. So at 11:30 the free lunch began. We took our turns two by two, well our department did. When we walked into the "meeting" room where the lunch was held we were bombarded with the aroma of wonderful food! Fresh fruits and vegetables, perogies, lasagnas, salads and so much more. Suddenly the people that you see only in passing are smiling and conversing as though they were old friends. It's interesting how in an office people don't generally talk but when you add food suddenly it's how are the kids and all sorts of small talk like that. I'm not sure when anyone ever found out the details of every ones life, never the less they know it. Back to the food! A beautiful spread lay in front of us. Dig in and help yourself take as much as you can eat, take more, stuff yourself full. Then when you think it's safe your sitting at your desk and ready to take a nap, they bring more. Dainties and pastries get passed around.So butter tarts, cookies cakes and squares, I'm more full then I thought possible! It's time to snuggle up in my chair and wrap my sweater around me close my eyes and take a nap. Nighty night. Turn the phone off, shut the computer down it's time for a nap I must rest my head, or rather my stomach.

Cheers

Customer Care/Clean Up Laddies

Well I went to the gym last night and WOW did it feel great! I only did cardio and abs but how good it feels to work out :) As I sit here today I can feel all the little aches and pains from muscles that haven't been worked in a long time. Other then my workout I have nothing to talk about today. Every single call that I have gotten has been complicated and leaves me asking for help. Now I don't have any problems asking for help however when it's every call it makes me feel inadequate! I know that I am new and for the most part I know what I am doing, it's those little things... Well it's not my fault that I cant muddle through these little things, it seems that I keep finding mistakes that other people have made. It would seems that Safeway isn't the only company that tries to hide it's lack of action under a stack of paper work. The giant proverbial finger never gets pointed here you just add to the pile of things on top of it. Once the problem is caught(generally by the people in my department) it is difficult to fix. Never the less it is our job to find and fix...(Well it's not really) So we are called customer care but it's more like general complaint/fix and repair department. I am happy for the challenges that are presented to me here, by no means take any of this as a complaint on my part but more of an eye opening for me. As the task get harder I will learn more soon I wont need to ask for help and all will fall into place. The people that are helping me are getting a little sick of it, but even some of them have a hard time with the calls I have been getting! At least 2 calls today called for a general group meeting of the minds to come up with things to try.
Well cheers to you all :P

Change good or bad...

So it looks like this is becoming a daily thing, it's the Monday to Friday 9 to 5 blog :). So here we go for today's intensely boring topic. We are two days short of a month here at AAA and it sure if different then what I am used to. I'm starting to get used to sitting all day. I find that moving around in my chair crossing my legs and finding new and sometimes exciting ways to sit is helping alot. I'm still not all that excited about the sitting. I am starting to find myself longing for the fast paced life I used to live. Running from the back room to check, driving the power jacks and spilling pallets, staying up till 2 am because I was at work till 12. Oh the days when I would be covered in bruises, scrapes and cuts because I felt I had something to prove. I was the supper girl who had to get it done, no matter what. LMAO who am I kidding my legs are almost bruise free I have the odd paper cut my skin is smooth and my back doesn't hurt, this is great! I'll be starting at the gym this week so that should kill the ants in my pants :P and in another 2 months I'll get new glasses and contacts that should get rid of my headaches. All in all this is turning into a damn good job. So a big thanks to you babe for supporting me in this decision. I have needed this change for a long time.
Cheers to you all.... well kay to you Wayne lol no one else reads this.

The Dreaded Monday Morning

After about of month of the 9 to 5 life I am still not really understanding this Monday morning hatred that everyone seems to have. Personally when I come to work on Monday it's really not all that bad. Friday seems to be the day I dread the most. Knowing that the weekend is 8 short hours away it terrible! Talk about the day that never ends. I find myself sitting at my desk dreaming of all the things I have to do on the weekend. The never ending list of chores and festivities, so five minutes have passed thinking about one thing. Now what? Sit and wait, for what? The clock to start moving again? It's like a kid waiting for Christmas, December 1st not so bad you know it's coming but get closer to December 25Th and it seems like forever till Christmas. Monday is not so bad, it marks a new beginning a fresh week of sitting on my but in front of a computer :). Whereas Friday is the last day and I cant wait to get off my butt and have fun!

Well here I am sitting at my desk. That's right MY desk, well my cube. I honestly don't have much to say, not that anyone is going to read this but anyhow. This is my first blog and it's just something for me to do while I sit at my cube. This whole 9 till 5:30 Monday to Friday is nice; however sitting here all day is not at all nice. From being on my feet and running all day to sitting on my tush all day... AAAAHHHHH I think I might go insane from the in activeness and the boredom. Writing a blog was the suggestion of my wonderful boyfriend who blogs on here (http://ragingreality.blogspot.com/). If you happen to read both of our blogs you will notice he's the geeky one :) So back to my Monday to Friday 9-5:30 boredom. I find that time stands still once i sit in front of my computer and stare longingly at the phone waiting for someone anyone to phone me. It matters not the nature of the call as long as there is someone on the other end. HELP!!
Well I'm out for now, a blank screen beckons to be stared at.