Sitting here eatin’ my heart out waitin’. Waitin’ for some lover to call. I wish I could say that my absence is due to the fact that David called and we’ve been playing catch up, but sadly that is not the case. I guess it’s true that some things are better left unsaid and that sleeping dog should just be left alone. It’s been about a month since I first heard from him and then there was nothing more.
Tomorrow is the dreaded V-Day, which us single folk like to call Black Hearts Day. Tammy & Margo are coming over for dinner tomorrow night. I’m fixing steak & shrimp with the famous garlic bread. I think I might even get some corn on the cob just because it’s tasty in the lime butter. I don’t think in all my life that I’ve had a date for Valentine’s Day. I hardly noticed that today was Friday the 13th. It’s never been a bad luck day for me. On the contrary, I’ve always had good luck. Today for example I got my tax refund and when I went to buy the new Donna Summer remaster at Best Buy it was $18.99 instead of the $28.99 that it was marked. In fact everything I bought tonight was cheaper than it was marked. I’m glad that I got the tax refund when I did because I was starting to get worried about money and the bill collectors were starting to call. Now I can call them all and pay them off and close out some accounts that I no longer need. Next Friday we’re supposed to have an extra $150.00 bonus which works out to be an extra $60.00 on your check after all the taxes are taken out. The end of the month we should get our year-end bonus. They still haven’t told us how much it will be but I know that Nextel did really well and last quarter they mentioned that we were over 200% of our goal for the year.
I got my review yesterday and it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. Sadly I got a “needs improvement” on the processing of refunds because I’m not doing 14 an hour. Apparently I’m only doing 11 to 13 an hour. Then the dreaded question of “what do you want to do when you grow up” comes up at the end of it all. I told her that I’ve wanted to be in training ever since I stared and she actually agreed that it would be a good thing for me. She said I have the ability to make people feel comfortable and at ease as well as giving direction without sounding condescending.
Tonight Tammy and I took Rod out to dinner to have a little job intervention. I laid into him the other day and told him he needed to get a job or he would be greeting Wal-Mart™ customers in 10 years. Then to our amazement he said he received a call today with a job offer. Then he started to spout all kinds of what I thought was negativity and told me that I needed to think outside the box. You know that did not sit well with me. I understand that life throws you a curve now and then but that doesn’t mean that I believe I have job security. I’m pretty happy in my job and I can see myself staying there for as long as they’ll have me. Rod on the other hand doesn’t seem to want to be “tied down” to a job for any length of time. Needless to say he’s pissed me off yet again, but then again that’s why I love him so.
Chew on that!