I am exhausted.
Posted on: May 9, 2012 at 8:27 pm. 1 comment
It’s been about 2 weeks since I officially started my new job, though this week is my first FULL week since I was still working 2 jobs until last Tuesday. I get up every day at 5:30, leave my house by 6:30, and get home any time between 5:30-7. Somedays we end up staying a bit late, plus the drive home, and many days I have plans after work and don’t end up spending much time at home at all. There’s so many things I want to do site/design wise, and even just regular things like cleaning my room or baking a banana cake. But I don’t have time! And when I do have time, I’m just… exhausted. I would never be able to have a full time job that I didn’t love.
So far, I really like my job. The people I work with are all super nice and great and while it’s not ALWAYS super busy and I will sit there doing nothing (and by doing nothing I mean tumblr, google, checking e-mail, etc.) but I’m getting paid by the hour for it so… it’s not a big deal to me. And the days go by fast. Yesterday, I got paid to drive to wal-mart with my friend who also works there, and I get paid for my gas as well. So, not a bad deal if you ask me haha. The actual work I do have to do isn’t difficult either, and sometimes I get tasks that I actually really like since I’m a nerd. Things like organizing the list of truck stops and making it look pretty 
Other times, I just look up recipes I want to bake/cook and today I spent the majority of the day finding new fonts and inspiration for my portfolio design. But as soon as I get home, I just want to sleep. And that is probably exactly what I’ll do once I finish this post and then make my lunch (one less thing for me to do in the morning). At least I get weekends off, but it’s hard to cram everything I want to do into two days – especially when I also want to just sleep, relax and do nothing at all. And this weekend, I’m schedualed to work at my old job. The one that I already quit, and where my two weeks notice is up. I had already celebrated my last day, and without telling me they scheduled me again for this weekend. One of my (ex)co-workers told me by writing on my wall, and since I already quit I’m not going in. They didn’t call me to tell me, and at this point I don’t owe them anything. I’m assuming I’ll get a call at 8:05 saturday morning when I’m not there, but the other girls who ACTUALLY WORK THERE don’t show up and they don’t get in any shit at all.
Hopefully, at some point this summer, I can get my design portfolio up and fully running and perhaps a new layout for here as well. I’m glad I’m actually at least blogging here, even if I don’t know how often it will happen. Or even how much I will have to blog about. But, I will still try!
1 comment Tags: Design, Life, Tired, Work.
First year? Check.
Posted on: April 24, 2012 at 8:55 am. 1 comment
As of last thursday, I am officially done my first year of college. I will get my marks back later this week but I’m pretty sure I did awesome in the majority of my classes *knocks on wood*. The only one I was iffy about was my spanish class, but I ended up getting 100% on the exam because it was the biggest derp exam of life.
Now that I’m done school, I’ve just been working. As of Wednesday, I have two jobs. One full time and one part time, though the part time will only be for another 2 weeks until my 2-week-notice kicks in. So this week I have 25+ hours at the full time job, and 30+ the part time one (seems very part time, eh?). Wednesday will be my first official day, starting at 8am and I’ll have to be at the grocery story for 4-8. And there’s about a half hour drive between the two so… should be a fun day!
I’m quite excited for my new job, because I’ll be working with one of my best friends! She’s been doing (paid) co-op there for the past 4 months, and has the next 4 months as well. It’s a soil/mulch company, and since it’s summer they need more help and asked her if she knew anyone that was looking for a full time job for the summer. I’ll be getting 50+ hours a week, and after 44 you get paid overtime. It’s a lot of just office work, calling customers to let them know when their trucks of dirt are coming (over 100 calls a day) but it’s still going to be better than my current job as a cashier. Even though my current boss is pissed that I’m leaving, and I was worrying about that, but I realized it’s not really my problem. I have worked there for almost 2 years, get paid minimum wage and they basically treat me as their slave. They are understaffed and always refused to hire more people, and we all get overworked because of it.
But considering it’s taken me almost a day to write this post, since I kept getting distracted… I’ll end it here. I will try my best to blog as much as possible this summer, but I don’t know how I’ll handle 10 hours of working every day. We’ll see…
1 comment Tags: College, Friends, Life, Money, New Job, School, Work.
I miss being a kid.
Posted on: March 6, 2012 at 9:56 am. 1 comment
I was looking through all of my past layouts for Lover Dearest this morning, and it just makes me miss how things used to be. When I could spend all of my time making layouts and designing, and not worrying about having to go to school or work or money or how much gas costs. Don’t get me wrong- I’m glad I’m not a 15 year old kid anymore and would not go back for anything but I just miss the simplicity of it. I miss not having so many responsibilities and worries and so many midterms. Midterms that I should probably be studying for, considering I barely have and my midterm is in two hours. One of those hours will be spent driving to school.
I went to Nashville last week. It was awesome, and I’ll do a full post about it later (hopefully). For now, I’m off to study or eat or get dressed or do something that involves being 19 and not 15. Sigh.
1 comment Tags: Age, Life, Midterms, School, Work, Worries.
Loaded Gun
Posted on: January 13, 2012 at 10:25 am. 3 comments
I have successfully made it through my first week of semester 2. I get monday/friday off each week, so I only have three days a week. Tuesday from 12-6, Wednesday from 8-5:30 (such a long day, because I barely get any breaks) and Thursday from 1-5:30. We didn’t really do much in any of the classes this week, and I actually managed to fall asleep in one of my classes.
My photography class is on Wed. from 1-3. You’d think that, it being photography and all, I’d be super excited for it- and I was. But it’s not really what I expected. The first class, we just watched a video of the history of photography.. so it was a dark room, and I was tired/uncomfortable, and I just ended up falling asleep while sitting up. During the course, there are 4 Canon cameras to be split between around 43 of us in the class, so we’ll get virtually no time with it. We aren’t allowed to bring our own cameras in, because that makes it ‘unfair’ if we have a different/better camera and/or lens. It’s going to be a mess, but I guess it’s all we have to work with.
For the most part, I’m pretty much a loner in my class- I switched from the Creative to the Digital program, so anyone I talked to (though I didn’t talk to many people often, and I tried to avoid the one who always talked to me the best I could) but I did make one friend. Kind of. Ish a friend. But you know, it gives me someone to (sometimes) talk to in class so it’s good, right?
But now I’m off to work from 11-8, this is probably how I’ll spend every monday/friday I have off. Though I do have the rest of the weekend off after this, so I’m excited!
