May 2007

Maybe this promotion won’t be so bad after all. I need to get the hang of delegating duties and kicking their asses when stuff doesn’t get done though. That is one thing that was a bit easier as a single store operator.

I don’t really have a whole hell of a lot to post about tonight, I think I am going to hit the sack early. I have a couple of hours of meetings at the end of the day tomorrow.

I did manage to get my water back on though (thank goodness). A friend of mine is a supervisor for the water department, actually he got promoted the same day that I did and he is over public works now. I left him a voice mail earlier and he came back out and is going to try and see what happened in the morning. I figure that Monday I can take in a printout from my online bank statement just so that they can at least see that I’m not full of shit.

I have to shower in the morning in order to get my day started. I could take one now and go to bed and I would still have to shower in the morning. That is one of my morning wake-up rituals I suppose and without that shower I always feel pretty crappy and everyone around me generally has a lousy day.

This is my seventh straight day of work and I still have three more until I get my next days off. It was pretty hard to crawl my rear end out of the bed this morning. I had fully planned on going to be early last night but I got sucked in to a movie on one of the stupid cable channels.

I haven’t had the chance to watch the last X-Men movie yet until last night. It was OK I suppose, but not nearly as good as the first two were. The special effects were OK, but it was like they tried to jam way to much X-Men history into too short of a film.

I did manage to get finished at a decent time yesterday, but I had a new manager today so I was able to shoot out the door before 3PM this afternoon and pick up the girls. That was pretty nice.

Tomorrow should be fairly uneventful. I have to get all of the paperwork together from the stores for my meeting on Thursday and I have a truck coming in with a delivery, but as long as everyone shows up all will be well.

My new manager is unfortunately off for the next three days, and I have another one off on Friday and Saturday but I will actually get two days off this week. W00t. If I can just make it through the next four days all will be well.

That’s all I have been doing this morning. I have to get ready for work in a few minutes. I get a new manager this morning, but unfortunately she is off for the next three days after today so they might as well wait until Saturday. I may be able to get a bit of stuff done today though, which will be nice.

I still have to run to Carrollton and sign to make those changes on my car insurance this afternoon, but other than that it will hopefully be a short day.

Tomorrow is Pete’s last softball game of the season. They won’t be in any tournaments this year so this is it. They were supposed to play tonight as well, but one of the girls is sick, and with only eight players (counting the sick one) that means that they had to forfeit the game. Lately she has been enjoying it, but I think she is getting tired of playing.

Since I got promoted I get a car allowance added to my check every two weeks. They pay for 100% of my gas, and I get something like $300 a month for an allowance. Not a bad deal. That works out to a $3900 a year raise not including the other bonuses that I get. Pretty sweet deal, huh? I had to call my insurance agent today to get a new car insurance quote since I had to add my company as an additional insured, make sure that I had at least 300,000/100,000 liability and 25k property and I also dropped the van off of the policy since I didn’t bother getting tags for it this year anyway. I will probably be putting it in the classifieds next month or sell it on an auction site. I figure if I can get about $2500 on it I will be doing OK.

I was hoping for at least a half day off today. I went in this morning to take care of paperworks and finally managed to get out of there at noon. Went back for the two o’clock shift change, did my banking for two stores, got home at three or so. I’ve been on the phone off and on the entire day trying to cover shifts and I have at least three hours of paperwork to do tonight as well. I guess it was a day off when you consider that eight hours of work will be the shortest day I’ve had all week.