The worst time of the day...

I have determined over the last few days that 3 o'clock has to be the most insufferable time of the day.

That of course is just my opinion but if you really think about it in the grand scheme of working a 9-5 job it is terrible. First it is smack dab in the middle of the afternoon which means that is about the time your lunch has started to fade and it is really a little too late to have much of a snack. This food timing is only made worse by going to lunch at eleven because you drew the short straw.

If you're like me some times you indulge a little too much at lunch and are a little miserable when you come back. So around three is usually the time that I've either finally found my motivation or I've finally gotten everything cleaned up from lunch. Some times where I work things blow up between 11 and 1 or 2 depending on how many people are working, but if there is someone at lunch it will go crazy. So if you've finally found that motivation, depending on the size of the project you really can't start it.

Personally I hate to get in the middle of a project before I have to leave work. I want to be able to sit down and finish what I'm working on and not have it hanging over my head. I don't like leaving some of the little details on the table, I want it to be finished just in case something were to happen to me. I hate to think in such a negative light but I want to be honest with the fact that I know that tomorrow is no guarantee.

It is almost as bad as 10am. That goes about the same way except that at 11 my boss goes to lunch and then it goes downhill from there. He goes to lunch, then I go when he comes back and then when I get back there are a bunch of things that probably need to get wrapped up and then it's three and there is really no coming back from there. Then there is this horrible drag from about 4:15 to 4:40. Then all of a sudden you find your groove and then all of a sudden you look up, there are no lights on and it's after five.

So tomorrow at 3 if you just aren't feeling it, know that you aren't alone.

love ya!

Real World...

I've been training a new employee over the last week and a half and it has made me think about a few things, the most important of which is real world skills.

I am currently a department coordinator and a teacher on the side. (And currently looking for a job.) This job entails a lot of out of the box thinking and this is not the first person that I've trained or attempted to train and that has always been the biggest problem. People can't think outside of the box.

But what I was thinking is why isn't there a class in high school that teaches you real world skills? Skills like how to fill out a job application. It would have been great to know how to understand insurance or at least what to do if you need to call insurance. Things that you shouldn't have to always be calling your parents about.

Basic phone skills would be a nice thing to teach people. There are just so many things that they don't really teach you in school because they are too busy trying to make sure that you pass the tests. I've been thinking on these things at work because it is frustrating trying to teach someone how to do a job when they won't think outside of the box. Some basic workplace survival skills would be nice. How to use a fax machine, printer, copier, scanners those kind of things. It would be nice to not come in on Monday to see that some time on Saturday afternoon someone jammed the printer and just left it. Installing and updating software on a computer.

Guidance on how to use the Internet to do research. Or just how to do a search on the Internet.

I know that these are skills that not everyone will need in the future but they are helpful. There are just skills that you need that you get out of high school or college and you don't have them. Not everyone knows how to type anymore and that is a skill that is nice to have. I know that writers have this skill or you would hope that they would because that has to be hard to do just huntin' and peckin'. It seems that I've lost steam on this topic and usually that means I have to call it quits.

love ya!

So tired...

Been a crazy week. Didn't even get to talk about Doctor Who this week and I can honestly say at this point not too sure what happened but it was good just like every episode. Little bit worried about this week having the weeping angels, they rank very low on my list of good episodes. Thinking back I realize though that the original episode with River Song and the angels was probably one of the very first episodes that I watched and part of what hooked me on the magical adventures of a mad man and a blue box.

I didn't get to sleep last night...I slept but it wasn't the sleep that you need to get up and go to work and be functional at five o'clock. I felt like a puppy chasing my tail for most of the afternoon. I have so much to do this weekend and I'm not even sure if I'm going to get it done. I just want to sleep and I almost didn't get up from the nap that I  took when I got home, but I need to eat and definitely need a shower.

I also have a new book that I am reading that admittedly I bought based on the cover and when you see the cover you will completely understand. It is called Clara and Mr. Tiffany  and when you see the cover you will understand. The picture does it no justice and if you can stop by a bookstore and take a peak do so. I was drawn to this book based on the cover and automatically flipped it over to see what the story line was. This one is historic fiction based on the life of Clara Driscoll and her work for Louis Comfort Tiffany. I have my eyes on a set of Tiffany style lamps that use the famous dragonfly pattern. If I can snap a few pics I will load them over the weekend.

love ya!

I don't understand...

I've spent most of the day looking at blogs and trying to figure a few things out which usually is just dangerous territory for most of the world.



There has been a lot of upheavel at work lately and it's causing a bit of chaos that is fun to sit and watch. There have been a few positions that have come open and a few that may be coming open soon if things don't straighten up. You're an adult you shouldn't have to have someone else hold your hand everyday when you do your job that you've been doing for over 6 months. That just isn't the way that a company should run with the boss always having to stand over you telling you how to do your job step by step.



There are just so many things that have been on my mind lately. Like why is summer now considered another season of television instead of a chance for me to catch up on everything that I didn't get to see during the regular season because I was watching something on another network. Because we are too cheap to have a DVR and the VCR has fallen out of favor with everyone. But I still want one. I really really want to get a DVD/VCR combo for Christmas. So far that's the Christmas list and Alice in Wonderland on DVD. I have a few movies that are on tape that I really want to watch without having to go to my mom's to watch them.



I do have to say that I'm a little sad about having to train someone to take my place at work but it's been good. It's given me a little bit less stress because it just does. I'm finally getting to show someone who is more than capable of doing it. Other people that I work with are not capable of even covering for me while I'm at lunch.



I don't understand why everyone I work with think that is okay for them to skip lunch. Not the skipping eating, the skipping clocking out for an hour, so that they get overtime. Everyone is supposed to take an hour for lunch and one day off a week and no one seems to care about that. It frustrates me because our boss has told everyone that isn't an option to work through lunch just because you want to and especially so that you can get off early. That makes me so frustrated because they do that all the time, leave early and then we don't have anyone to help in that last hour.



love ya!