Love it.Originally Posted by Lainey
Love it.
Job applications. The amount I'm expected to ramble on about myself in some sort of structured way, touching on a gazillion specific points. Please just look at my CV and infer. Why do I have to do all the thinking?!
Spring! Ok, not really spring, but the warmer weather. Why do I always feel like I'm falling behind when warm weather hits? I get that nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach that I should be doing something, like planting or digging or weeding or pruning or or or...And it's freaking March! I need a drink on the dock, and time to just relax....but...from there I can see the garden and...
I hate technology. Our teevee started going dark (er), just randomly. It happened only when I was watching a dvd, so I concluded: it's the dvd player that was a good 10 years old. I bought a newer one, one that is cheaper in materials and lighter and is in all ways inferior and without the handy-dandy timer clock.
Well, now it turns out that the teevee, a new one, has an energy savings thingy on it that causes it to go darker. Stupid stupid thing, I do NOT want to have to read an entire freeking manual on a new appliance to figure out the "gotchas." And my favorite old dvd player is long gone, I can't retrieve it.
I"ve been putting off getting a new camera because I just dread having to pick up the basics of shooting photos and transferring images to my computer. I will NOT spend all day reading a manual. Point and shoot and download, that's what I want.
Last edited by iris lily; 3-17-12 at 12:59pm.
Why, why, why do I always have to see everything through the lens of "wasting stuff".....we're in Yuma AZ and today is the big Yuma Air Show at the U.S. Marine Corps airfield nearby.....yesterday, the Thunderbirds were practicing just overhead, and could I just enjoy the show like everybody else? Nope......all I could think of was what an incredible WASTE of fuel, etc........
I had to fight every minute of the time we were on our cruise, to keep myself from calculating the huge waste of diesel fuel carting several thousand people back and forth every two weeks on a cruise ship from Ft. Lauderdale FL to Los Angeles CA and back........
WWWAAAAHHHHHH.....I want to just be able to sit there in my lawn chair and ooh and aahhh over the aerial maneuvers like "normal people", instead of thinking of waste of resources, waste of taxpayer money, and all the other stuff.........
I put off buying new things for the same reason, especially electronics.
My TV is an old analog job which I never bothered hooking up to a converter box because I so seldom watch TV. Recently, however, there was a show on 60 Minutes that I really wanted to see. My attempt to hook up the TV took me over an hour and was a total flop. Now a techno-savvy friend is trying to coach me, long distance, in how to get the TV working or what to do if I buy a new TV with a digital converter, either of which requires an antenna, possibly a roof antenna.
Well, this is just getting to be too much freakin' trouble. If the new Kindle I ordered works well, I think I'll just buy a pricier Kindle Fire that streams TV shows and movies, and throw the old analog TV away.
I, too, detest the learning curve and all the gobbledegook manuals, especially the ones that are written in broken English.
Okay, I'm understanding that the past week I had was truly a gift to be cherished 'cuz I had a great week, even at the job, but sadly reality hit home to day ~ I have a couple of big peeves for today.
#1: to new co-worker: if you are having bowel problems at work, please don't sneak out of the bathroom pretending you didn't make a HUGE mess and leave it for the next person (me) to be completely grossed out. Also, didn't your ma teach you to put the damn seat down at least? Then I wouldn't have known about the huge mess because it would have been hidden from me and the next male to use the bathroom would be confronted with it. G....
#2: to elderly owner of store: QUIT micromanaging stupid stuff and aggravating the people who could actually walk out on you at any given moment because of having to deal with you. You really have no idea that the new guy almost walked out today (three weeks into the job) because you berated him about his handwriting in front of several customers.
#3: I don't know what #3 is, other that I am feeling quite ornery about things and wonder why I continue to put up with this insane workplace. Is the money really worth it? Tonight I doesn't seem so. Maybe I'll feel differently when I wake up tomorrow to do it all over again.
Good night, ya'll....
Last edited by SiouzQ.; 3-23-12 at 10:44pm.
SiouzQ, ugh!
Glad to hear you quit!
But I didn't! I want to but I haven't yet.
Oh, the way your post was written it sounded like you had!
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