1. Good: The Hype Machine. I wish I had a decent explanation for how incredible it is. I met one of the people behind it's genius last week and the way I discover music is forever changed. Take a looksee. Maybe I'll explain it later. Just trust me, it's worth checking out.
http://www.bizzia.com/files/168/2007/10/hype-machine-logo.jpg
The Hype Machine
2. Good: Texts From Last Night. A hilarious collection of exactly what you think ... texts from last night. Submitted by friends or recipients, or whoever, these texts are often times worthy of laughter so intense tears happen. People say ridiculous things. So check it out. TFLN.
3. Bad: My aunt died. I wrote about it briefly already. She's sorely missed, that's a fact. And there's always going to be a void in the family where she used to exist.
4. Good: One Sentence. One Sentence is a website that posts stories summed up in ONE sentence each. It's similar to Post Secret in the sense that people reveal intimate details of sadness or happiness or whatever emotion and personal issue, but this is text only.
5. Bad: I got home from my aunt's memorial service to a memo in my e-mail inbox regarding a cut in hours for me and two of my co-workers. Without saying too much, I'm pretty peeved about how the company/my boss decided to handle informing me of this whole situation. But I love my job here and love the people I work with.
6. Ugly: Immediately I started making arrangements to find supplemental employment. I mean ... I redid my resume, put a profile on Monster.com and essentially hit the ground running. When I was full-time here, I was just barely making ends meet. Now that my hours were being cut 20%, there was no time to sit and mope. I had to find a second job and I had to do it fast.
7. Good-- really good: the intensity of support from my friends brought me to tears seriously every day between Tuesday and Friday. One friend got me a meeting with a manager at Victoria's Secret the very day I found out my hours were being cut. Another friend bought me groceries. More than one friend bought me dinner. And even more friends have listened to me slightly panic about the potential shit storm I was about to go through known as having bills to pay and no money to pay them.
8. Bad: I got a text from my sister one night asking how her cats were doing. She'd left them at her apartment and I was supposed to go check on them while she was out of town. Well, I forgot -- in all the job related distress, I completely forgot them. And I cried like hysterical mess the moment I realized I had. The poor things had been at her apartment all by themselves. I called her so upset she thought one of them had died.
9. Good: Some friends who happened to be at my house when all this went down took calm control of the situation and drove me to Gainesville to check on the cats. Luckily they were all alive. Not only that, their food and water bowls were still plenty full.
10. Bad: When my friend dropped me back off at my house (at 1AM) after checking on the cats, I got out of her car, when into my house, and went to bed. It wasn't until the next morning, once I was already running 10 minutes behind schedule, that I realized I'd left my car keys in her car. Why had I even brought them with me to begin with!? I don't know. After a fiasco, Jon-Michael driving me to her house, getting my keys, and driving me home, I finally got to work -- and was just under an hour late.
11. REALLY GOOD: The very first place I applied -- Victoria's Secret -- hired me on Saturday. Sunday I started my training, tonight I'm going in for round two and we'll go from there. The manager is more than enthusiastic about working around my schedule here and is very supportive.
12. Good: every business I applied at has called me back for an interview. This is more cool than good, since I already got a job. =)
13. Good: things with Jon-Michael are so good right now I don't even know what to say about it. He's been so supportive and thoughtful of what I'm going through. This deserves a blog all it's own.
http://www.bizzia.com/files/168/2007/10/hype-machine-logo.jpg
The Hype Machine
2. Good: Texts From Last Night. A hilarious collection of exactly what you think ... texts from last night. Submitted by friends or recipients, or whoever, these texts are often times worthy of laughter so intense tears happen. People say ridiculous things. So check it out. TFLN.
3. Bad: My aunt died. I wrote about it briefly already. She's sorely missed, that's a fact. And there's always going to be a void in the family where she used to exist.
4. Good: One Sentence. One Sentence is a website that posts stories summed up in ONE sentence each. It's similar to Post Secret in the sense that people reveal intimate details of sadness or happiness or whatever emotion and personal issue, but this is text only.
5. Bad: I got home from my aunt's memorial service to a memo in my e-mail inbox regarding a cut in hours for me and two of my co-workers. Without saying too much, I'm pretty peeved about how the company/my boss decided to handle informing me of this whole situation. But I love my job here and love the people I work with.
6. Ugly: Immediately I started making arrangements to find supplemental employment. I mean ... I redid my resume, put a profile on Monster.com and essentially hit the ground running. When I was full-time here, I was just barely making ends meet. Now that my hours were being cut 20%, there was no time to sit and mope. I had to find a second job and I had to do it fast.
7. Good-- really good: the intensity of support from my friends brought me to tears seriously every day between Tuesday and Friday. One friend got me a meeting with a manager at Victoria's Secret the very day I found out my hours were being cut. Another friend bought me groceries. More than one friend bought me dinner. And even more friends have listened to me slightly panic about the potential shit storm I was about to go through known as having bills to pay and no money to pay them.
8. Bad: I got a text from my sister one night asking how her cats were doing. She'd left them at her apartment and I was supposed to go check on them while she was out of town. Well, I forgot -- in all the job related distress, I completely forgot them. And I cried like hysterical mess the moment I realized I had. The poor things had been at her apartment all by themselves. I called her so upset she thought one of them had died.
9. Good: Some friends who happened to be at my house when all this went down took calm control of the situation and drove me to Gainesville to check on the cats. Luckily they were all alive. Not only that, their food and water bowls were still plenty full.
10. Bad: When my friend dropped me back off at my house (at 1AM) after checking on the cats, I got out of her car, when into my house, and went to bed. It wasn't until the next morning, once I was already running 10 minutes behind schedule, that I realized I'd left my car keys in her car. Why had I even brought them with me to begin with!? I don't know. After a fiasco, Jon-Michael driving me to her house, getting my keys, and driving me home, I finally got to work -- and was just under an hour late.
11. REALLY GOOD: The very first place I applied -- Victoria's Secret -- hired me on Saturday. Sunday I started my training, tonight I'm going in for round two and we'll go from there. The manager is more than enthusiastic about working around my schedule here and is very supportive.
12. Good: every business I applied at has called me back for an interview. This is more cool than good, since I already got a job. =)
13. Good: things with Jon-Michael are so good right now I don't even know what to say about it. He's been so supportive and thoughtful of what I'm going through. This deserves a blog all it's own.
Comments
I can only read this post tonight, but I'll check out the one about your aunt tomorrow.
SO happy things are going well for you. Victoria's Secret? Do you get a great discount? I hope so!
I love you.