Volume 1 is the first section of the Blue Journal – 1 of 3
New year’s eve. Time to reflect on the events of this past year. This could be a long journal entry. So here is a mostly chronological list of events of 2002. (more…)
Ugh…In general, not a good day. We were slow at work today, so we had to send Tom home early. But when I came in this morning, the meeting had been canceled. and everything in the store had been moved around. So I did a little improvising.
Connie (a lady whom we have had problems with her foster kids in the past at DQ) sent her new girls up to DQ to apply for jobs. I didn’t have enough time to take down the “now hiring” sign from the board. It disgusted me that she would even try after what had gone on with the last girl that worked for us. But it doesn’t matter, we aren’t hiring anymore, and we wer only hiring out of school kids, or adults, and we are not hiring from Connie’s foster kid group anymore. They are troubled kids, thus not good for this store which is trying to clean up the employee force. (more…)
Where do I Start…chruch this morning was boring. The guy speaks too soft, so I decided to read my Bible. I Was reading through Luke, when I turned my page too loudly and got my parents’ attention. So I was told to pay attention. I did, for a little bit. Then, as my mind often does, it wandered around. I took a trip around the room and surveyed all the people, then took a trip back to the 1800s when the church was built. I wondered how it was then when (more…)
Busy Busy Busy! All day today we were jumping at DQ. There was a funeral and everybody and their mom came to eat lunch today. Everybody but me, that is. I had to wait 2 hours after my scheduled break time before I could grab a seat to eat one small bowl of chili.
It was a better day today. I was a little sleepy when I got up this morning, but that is normal. I had to get up at 7:30 because I am now doing the paperwork at DQ. So I got there at 8:00. It took me a whole 15 MINUTES! Too easy. And tomorrow it will take me even less time because half of it is done already.
Well, Rita called in sick this morning at 8:25. We have a policy that the employee must call in at least 4 hrs before they are scheduled to work. She was shceduled to work at 10:00. Well, we get a tip later, unbeknownst to the person that gave the tip, but the point is, Rita has been released. It will be interesting to see if her husband Tom quits because of it. Dah well, it will be more hours for me, thus more money.
Steve, my boss, has already decided that I am going to be head shiftleader. $8/hr, here I come, soon. He showed me how to check the orders we get today, and talked to me about hiring/firing people.
That’s what I get for writing in my Journal too soon. After I got done yesterday, I contemplated going to bed, or going to watch Anastasia with the family. I went to watch tv. A few moments later, my brother is sent out of the living room, and my sister was in her room, and I received a lecture.
“What are your plans for the future?” my stepdad says.
It’s Christmas Day! But if felt just like any other day. We did the presents this morning, as always, but I didn’t know what time we were doing them for sure.
Around 5:00, I kept waking up and couldn’t sleep for nothing. So I laid there and tried to think of what my parents could have possibly gotten me since they didn’t get me walkie-talkies like I asked for. All I could think of would be stuff that I would use later in life, but nothing in particular came to mind. They wouldn’t buy me computer stuff because they don’t want to support my “addiction” as they put it, and they won’t buy me electronic stuff because they don’t want me to have fun and stay in my room all the time, and that wouldn’t help me later in life. So, thinking all this got me a little depressed, then I remembered Amy was going to call me today.
Christmas Eve! But it doesn’t feel any different to me than any other day.
I went to work this morning at 8:20. It’s a little later than yesterday, but for the past two days now Steve has called right at 8:30. So I have to be there early. I was supposed to do the paperwork and count the food for the week today, but he and his wife got there early to do it. Dah well…he says he will do the paperwork on thursday. (Among other things that are supposed to get done by the end of the week.)
Today was my first day back at work. I finally get rid of 8:00 classes to gain 8:30 work. It ws pretty hecktic today. Everything has been moved around since I was there last, and I worked with two people that I had not worked with before. The cook, Tom, resembled, to me at least, a good’ole country boy. He had a scraggly beared, a slow twang in his speech, and was laid back about things. The other person was a girl, Tanya. She is a Jehova’s Witness, with lengthly brown hair, and a cute smile. (nothing compared to Amy though, nothing by far!) She’s kinda lazy and has an attitude about things.
Well, today has been a generally uneventful and boring day. We went to chuch this morning. Here lately my parents have been going to the United Methodist Church here in town. So I went too. I did not like it one bit. They are all about responsive readings (which I suppose are to represent the people’s response to what God is telling them through the priest, or at least that’s what it appeared to be to me) which I don’t like. They also are very repetitious w/ readings’ they had an Old Testament reading, Epistle reading, New Testament (Gospel) reading, and finally the sermon. In between everything we either sang or did a responsive reading. Then the preaching was boring and I almost fell asleep every two minutes. My mind kept andering back to the church at ETBU and why didn’t I ever go to church with Amy, and how I would much rather be in Chapel than here. (At least then I could be with people I like to be with.)