Recent rants & observations

I spoke to R, my boss, last Wednesday. I made my suggestions for improvement in some of the paperwork to him and he seemed to take my suggestions well. He confirmed that I am on the owner's shit list. Apparently the only way to get off of it is for someone to step up and piss him off more to change the focus of his annoyance. R also told me that at present, L would not even consider raising my salary - even up to industry standard level. Because I'm not viewed in the best light right now and considering that I'm consistently having to borrow money to make ends meet means that I've started looking for other employment. Too bad really, because I generally like my job.

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M lost one of his two front teeth last week and the other one is hanging by a nerve. I kept telling him all weekend just to pull it out, but he would not do it. V was all upset about sporting her first real zit. Of course it was right on the front of her nose. I just can't wait until she's a teenager...

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A few nights ago I pulled into the parking lot next to my building and there was a car in the first space to the left of the door. This car was taking up two spaces. Combined with the snow build up in the lot and that building management did not repaint the lines in the lot as I suggested and that they said they would do got me really annoyed. So much that I scribbled out a note to the owner of the offending vehicle - not so gently telling this person the appropriate use of parking spaces and stuck it under the windshield wiper before I went into my apartment.

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As I was waiting at a traffic light the other day I could see the people in the car in front of me. The man was driving and the woman was in the passenger seat. They seemed to be arguing about what cd to listen to. Seemed to me that they were handling these cd's improperly, putting their fingerprints all over the shiny, recorded side. Great way to take care of your stuff.

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I admire a multi-tasker. Last Monday at Tae Kwan Do, one of the parents, a woman who has one kid in the class, was able to entertain her other three kids at the same time. She was calmly talking to one, reading to another and breast-feeding the infant, all while maintaining a level of calm I could never muster.

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Tonight was my last night to take V and M to their Tae Kwan Do class, and I am so glad. The ex's Spanish class is over and now she'll be there to take them. I enjoy spending time with my kids any chance I get, but doing this was a pain. Ruined any productivity I had hoped to achieve on these Mondays off of mine. Their class is from 5:30 to 6:30 and ex's class was from 5-6:30 but that wasn't the problem. I live in Nashua. Ex lives in Weare, which is about an hour drive away. Ex's Spanish class was at the hospital where she works, which is in Nashua. So I had to leave my place at 2:45 each Monday to get to her house by 3:45 so she could get back to Nashua by 4:45. She gets back to her house around 7:30 and I never got out of there before 7:45 due to speaking with the ex and the kids giving me good bye hugs. That means at the earliest, I get home at 8:45. So not counting actual class time, thats five hours of wasted time traveling and sitting around. I'd have much less problem with it if the ex had decided to buy a house closer to where I am and to where she works.

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On the way home tonight the radio station I was listening to played these songs, along with a few others: Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees), Manic Monday (Bangles), Come Sail Away (Styx) and Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves). Their motto is that they'll play anything. I like that. I can't tell you how long it's been since I've heard Stayin' Alive or anything from the Bee Gees for that matter.

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Well, I suppose that's all for now.