Wednesday, December 13, 2006

it's been a week and i'm still on the island!!!

Hiya everyone!

so here's the update on my life. so on friday i went to a job interview for Debenham's, a department store as kind of a half assed attempt to get a seasonal job, i was called on saturday and went to work on sunday. so i will be working a little bit through the holiday season, to get the discount at the store, new work duds and such, as well as meet a few more people and since i only work 30 hours a week at the council get a few more bucks in the old pocket!

sunday was also the day of the amanda going away party! we had a great time at her friend Chantel's house, Chantel works at Debenham's as well, which is why i applied! so we were at her house till 2am on monday morning but had a great time talking to everyone! great craic!

monday was pretty uneventful at work, we got handed over to the job evaluation team (which is the team i worked with last week, and requested to be on instead of the lame-o job i was doing before) so we are at our same pay grades we are just on a different team so we have been figured into the schedule. also these are the people who invited us to their christmas lunch and drinks afterwards, so that is thursday, tomorrow!!!

i also went and saw the film "who killed the electric car?" and discussion afterwards, great stuff lots of interesting information and quiet sad, boo california and your backing down about zero emissions, i blame you for the ozone depletion! well, not really. but good stuff, i highly recommend it for everyone to watch, super crazy what the oil industry, georgie-porgie, and the auto industry can do. do you know that reagan removed the solar panels from the white house that jimmy carter put up? boo raegan, i don't care if he does have alzheimers and died of it, shame on him!

tuesday same old at work day, but i made falafel and talked to fra fra on the telephone, cheerful cheers! she left for india today:( so i hope she has a great time and it was good to talk to her today.

wednesday, not much going on today but here's a query for you Poll: do you think i should just move out of my flat and move in somewhere else without telling steve if we don't find a flatmate? i don't really have over 400 pounds for rent in jan, and that's how much it is going to be, but i suppose it would be the same if i moved somewhere else for deposit and rent. well i'm kind of sick of steve and his controlling nature so i don't know what to do.

so hope everyone is doing well, i will blog about the company work party in the coming future, i know you are all on the edge of your seats!:) i also need to pass on that i have been telling everyone about the film office space and how it is required viewing if you work in the office, i've got fiona saying "sounds like someone's got a case of the mondays." in a scottish accent: hilarious. so Ta!

xoxo,
christie

2 Comments:

At 10:52 PM, Blogger Traveling Teacher said...

holiday part-ay!

 
At 9:45 PM, Blogger Traveling Teacher said...

Yeah, what's the deal with Steve-o? To use a Jamin phrase: "Do we need to have a talk by the dumpster with Steve?" Hmmm.

Our holiday season so far: not impressed. Last year was busier at Duluth. No lines 3 deep at each info terminal here. In fact, not much waiting at info...but steadily busy busy busy. Customers are more impatient here though, on average. And they're not as friendly. You really have to pour on the charm in order to see a smile. The frustrating thing at this store is some managers here get snippy and cranky when they have to help with customer service; they think their having to help is a function of us not working hard enough. As crazy as that sounds this time of year.

There's a few others here to "laugh off" the fuddy-duddies. I wrote down a couple stupid-question-of-the-day comments, but do you think I brought them home? D'oh! They're in my locker.

And yeah, I need to read some "holidays on ice" before I put someone on ice myself!

The only thing keeping me sane is my rowing routine, which has kicked up due to a "holiday challenge." If I meet my goal of 200,000 meters for December, "Santa" sends me a free t-shirt from a website! Let's hear it for the free t-shirts!

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