4th of July Post-Mortem

Aye laddies and lassies, there were fireworks and rum and tail gates and Jeeps about. Nothing really exciting happened. This is the first year that I can remember when fireworks were legal to purchase AND USE in the state of Indiana! This meant that Adam and I didn’t have to buy any fireworks; we just sat in the back yard or the front drive on the tailgate of the truck to watch the neighbors nearly set themselves, their children, vehicles, and houses on fire with small exploding thingies. There were a few neato looking affects, but for the most part, after one Mike’s Hard Barry Cooler, I was pretty much fascinated into enough boredom that I went back inside where I could chill and watch some television or something.

Got another chunk of hair out of my head at work today, done by the same little hairless troll that did it the last time, only this time she yanked and ran off. If it wasn’t for the fact that I had to take care of the day room kids watching a movie, I woulda ran after her fat ass and restrained her on the wall!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrr. So she ran off, the QR opens and I tell my fellow YC that her ass needs to go into the QR for aggression etc etc. She wasn’t laughing anymore when she got put in there. Yeah, you guessed it; I’ve been working on the unit that I started out with this weekend. Some lazy ass wipes called off this weekend and we were strapped for enough staff to go around. It was bad.

An interesting policy I found out about this morning was if you call off on a holiday or pay day Friday, it’s an automatic four day suspension for not showing up and especially so if you don’t have documentation for an emergency or illness. I kinda like that idea. I mean it’s not like the 4th of July is a huge friggen surprise, it’s always on the, well duh, 4th of July! It’s irresponsible to pull that kind of shit on the people you work with day in and out. Yeah, there are times when I don’t want to get up in the morning, I just want to sleep in for once and maybe just say fuck it, I don’t want to go in today, but it’s not a habit I want to have and it’s not an impression I care to leave.

There were times when I worked with WVH and yeah, the stress levels were enough that I would call off and stay home. I had to turn off my phone because the friggen secretary would call to complain that something wasn’t right or someone was calling her every ten minutes because I wasn’t calling them back. Uh-huh, yeah, I called off, that means don’t call to bitch at me about something not going right on your end. LEAVE ME ALONE! Then there was the whole not being able to kick the MONO. Yeah, that was a hoot, whenever the stress levels would sky rocket I’d relapse and miss 2-3 days of work or just go to work and be in eternal misery. Screw that.

I feel that I am in a better position with where I am at now. Yeah, I work weekend a lot. I get attacked in various ways at times, but damnitall, I need health insurance and I now have it as of the 5th of July! I am just waiting for the stupid insurance cards to come in the mail. The 50 cent raise is probable but not guaranteed to me after 120 days of employment. I have a few things going for me, I do stuff when asked to come in on a day off, I come in on last minute calls, I stay over as needed, I’ve only been late once, and I try to be helpful. I hope that’s enough! We’ll see how that goes. Anyhoo, that’s about it for now, I have to go check on my wool dyeing experiment now. WOO HOO!

Tammolly~Just kinda chillin’ this evening.

...So if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jewel
I'm still an angel to a girl who hates to sin…