Return From NeverLand: Dear Prudence

Return From NeverLand

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Dear Prudence

Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out to play

Crazy! It has been almost a whole month since I had last posted. Thats kinda sad but I have been so busy! On the 9th of April, I started at REM for real. I think my first week went really well. I didn't have any problems to speak of, except once I had to talk Tracy around to get up, and once I had to talk Tom into taking a shower, but that was all really. I did well with the whole working nights thing. Got enough sleep during the days and I felt like I barely needed coffee for most of the week.

On a side note, I believe it was Monday the fourteenth that Tim left for LA to go to China. Thats really exciting, I can't wait until he gets back so that he can tell me all about it! Right now it is four a.m. here so that means that it would be five p.m. there. Crazy Pants! I actually got to IM with him on Thursday morning. That was awesome, except we had to sensor what we talked about and he couldn't really answer any of my questions. He is suppose to come back on this Thursday or Friday.

My week off went super fast. I don't even remember what I did. I think it was mostly filled with vegging around the house with Mom. I did dig out some of my room and organize some stuff. Mom, Dad and I went to see the movie Leatherheads and out to supper at the China Star. That was nice, little quality time with the 'rents.

Oh, yeah, and I got fired too. That was some fun times there. Jay said it was because I had put them in a bind one too many times and that I wasn't available enough anymore. The straw that really broke the camels back was this whole fiasco with a shift on Thursday coinciding with a training with REM. Of course I had to go to the training so I traded the shift away to Billy for one of his shifts on Saturday. Then last minute, Wednesday night at about eleven, I get a call from Bill saying that Gail refused the shift swap. I didn't even know they did that. So I checked my messages and low and behold I have a message from Gail from Tuesday. She said that I had to get back to her about Thursday but by this time its too late. I talk to Bill and he says that its because they can't have my first shift on the new computers be a busy Saturday morning. Well, I call Jay early Thursday morning and tell him I can't work the shift because this class is more important. Yeah. That worked out well. So the whole thing is my fault because I didn't get back to Gail because I didn't get the message, also because I forgot to ask Thursday off in the first place. The deed was actually done by Jay on Friday when I came in for a shift I picked up for Chris Tracy. I remember feeling that something was off as soon as I got there because Gail and Nate were starring at me funny, like 'what is she doing here'. Jay said he wanted to call me earlier in the day but he got to busy. I'm glad though, because I wouldn't have wanted it to happen over the phone.

I totally understand why they fired me though, I don't know how I thought I was going to get it to work out anyway. Its just really humiliating getting fired, hurts. I should have just quit to begin with, but I wanted to keep it around just in case. On the upside, it is a burden off my shoulders because I've really started to hate that job lately. I am a bit worried about the money situation now. How am I going to avoid spending it all now without that second income? I just have to put my faith in God that He will provide a way. Its so hard though!

So now I'm into my second full week here at REM. This week I can really tell that the honeymoon period of last week is over. I can't seem to get enough sleep at all. I woke up at like noon on Wednesday, went to church, went to Perkins with peeps, and then went to work for the whole night. Thursday I got about four hours of sleep, got up to go to Jesse's birthday party before a training I had down at the REM office. Turns out I came into town early for no reason because they pushed the party back to six and I didn't bother to check before coming into town. The perk of this was that I got together with Beth for a short while then before my class. The class was super short, only an hour and a half.

So then I went to Luther's for the party. We watched Nightmare on Elm St. That was interesting considering I've never seen any of those old horror movies. Blood and Guts, all very fakey. We had some good ole' pizza and birthday cake. Not much going on but it was fun all the same. The guys told me about a movie called Fido. Something about having zombies as pets. They said its hilarious and that we'll watch it next Wednesday. We'll have to see about that, I'd be surprised if we did.

I had a really bad time at work on Friday morning. First off I was really tired because I only had four hours of sleep the day before and I couldn't hold my eyes open for most of the night. I didn't get much cleaning done and really slacked off that night. So that morning when Tom started getting snippy I didn't have any patience for it. He snapped at me when I asked him to rinse the shower and again when I asked him to change into some clean socks. He had put on the dirty ones from the day before. After a small exchange of asking and snapping he slammed his bedroom door in my face. I immediately gave Tom a minus. Tom didn't really care about the minus, he never does. After this, throughout the morning, Tom threw some names at me like jerk and Ms. Know-It-All. While this was all going on throughout the morning, Tracy was also obsessing about the Buick being back, that it was fixed and also about the Sh-Boom dance they were going to that night. Tom did apologize late in the morning but even this was not done right by him because admist my many reminders of "personal space", Tom insisted on giving me a hug. After that Tom had a better morning, but was still really high energy because that is just how he is every morning.

Now, Everything is done. They're routines are all done except Jeff and I'm just waiting for Elliot to come. Tracy has come out to play and hopefully hes gotten off of his current obsession. I haven't heard about it since about an hour ago so I think so. And now hes gone.

After work, I want to run to Kohl's and the Goodwill to hopefully find a bridal shower present for Kalyn. At Eleven I'm suppose to go pick up Chip and go to breakfast at Perkins with him. We'll see how that goes.

Chau!

posted by June @ 3:56 AM

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