Leelanau Whippersnapper

The Northwoods Is No Place For A Pink Flamingo

Amazing sunny day again today in Leelanau.  It’s in the mid 40′s and the sky is really blue.  I’m finally home from work and thankfully I have tomorrow off.  I have to prepare myself for what I think is going to be a busy weekend.  It is supposed to be in the low 50′s and partly sunny which means people will crawl out of their homes and hopefully start thinking about home improvements!  That means profit, added payroll, and much less bitching from team members about how few hours they are all getting.  SPEND, SPEND, SPEND – RAH, RAH, RAH!  Always a fucking cheerleader.

The roommate situation isn’t getting any better, you’ll remember before I blew up the blog that she’s done nothing but sit on her ass all week and play computer games.  She must do her homework somewhere else because she sure doesn’t do it here.  I was informed that she also has tomorrow off which means I need to leave for the day and hide somewhere.  I can’t wait to be in my own place where I get to make the rules again.  When you think about it, this fall will be the first time I’ve truly lived by myself.  Its also really been the first time in my life where I can actually afford to live by myself.  I’ve always had crumby roommates and with the exception of Jirar who was my husband, I’ve always come to seriously dislike my roommates.  Oh well, a few more months and you’ll be reading about my apartment search.

Not planning on doing much the rest of the day today.  I’ve taken the dog for a walk and I’m quite tired myself.  These days suck because I am up and out the door by 6am.  By 3PM I’ve already worked more than a full day and I am exhausted but there are still lots of hours left in the day!  Got to love retail.

I got some great pictures back the other day from my photo site.  I decided to get a few developed.  One of them is below.  My camera takes amazing pictures!  I guess you do get what you pay for and boy did I pay for this camera!  I’m glad I did though, I’ll have these pictures forever.

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Well, going on 7 days now without a day off.  Seems my assistant has come down with the flu.  How convenient.  I don’t really have issues with my team members who are sick or claim to be sick.  If you really are sick, stay home and get better, you won’t be very productive at work if you can’t see straight.  If you aren’t really sick, I’d rather you stay home too since in order to pretend you are sick, you’ve already created a negative aura around yourself just to play that game so I’d rather you not contaminate the rest of my team by bringing it to work with you.  Meanwhile, I get to pick up your slack either way and make a mental note of how you will eventually re-pay the favor.  I’ve flexible as long as it doesn’t get out of hand such as it did this past summer.  I won’t work 80 hour weeks with no days off again in the near future unless I do so voluntarily.  Fortunately the store manager who “expected” that from me because I am the manager who needs to run the department because in his view my team members were all ignorant is no longer at my store.  Any one of my team members could run my department.  I’ve trained them all to do it and do it correctly.  There is NO need for me to work that hard when I have people to do it for me.

Just an update on Jirar and me.  After a 3 hour phone conversation we were able to meet on some common ground with each other and things will be continuing on as normal for now.  We are still  not in the same place as we were 6 months ago but I’m not sure how we really could be, things are different now.  We both have adjusting to do and in the same breath, we both have decisions about life in general we need to make.  Some of those decisions are individualistic decisions, some of them are us as a couple decisions.  Nobody needs to freak out right now.

Thought I would leave you with a picture I found in the archive.  The sun was out yesterday for the first time in quite a while here.  This photo was not taken yesterday but I was reminded of how much blue sky’s and sun can play a HUGE part in my mood.  I’m much happier when the sun is out.  This is from the tall grasses in my yard, this is how they look at the end of the season and into winter.  Really pretty to look at.  Enjoy.

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