Complaints and stupid hotel guests…

Yowane to hoteru kyaku ga baka…

よわね (弱音) と ほてるきゃく(客) が ばか

September 16^th and ½, 2006
Well technically, it’s now the 17^th but for me (because I of course am still at work as I’m typing this) it’s still the shift for the 16^th. It’s now about quarter after 6AM and I’m hoping for time to jump forward a couple of hours so I can go home. At around 5:30 I got a noise level complaint and went upstairs to deal with it. This is my most dreaded and hated of tasks being a night auditor. I wish I had proper security to deal with this issue because for me to go upstairs alone (being a girl!) not knowing what I’ll be facing or what kind of situation awaits me makes my stomach turn!!! Crystal was right when she said to me once that she didn’t know how I did it, that a girl shouldn’t be left alone over night in a hotel.

Thankfully, I didn’t walk into anything bad this morning, I had a few stern words directed to the bunch in the noisy rooms and that was that.

It’s been just over an hour now since my encounter upstairs and the noisy bunch has left the hotel after two of them apologized greatly and let me know that all the noisy ones were leaving or had passed out already. That made me quite happy actually, it puts the stomach at ease and the blood pressure goes back down a bit. Surprisingly my eye didn’t start to twitch tonight, I wonder why not…Usually it’s a staple in my over night shifts, and you would think that a Saturday night would have made the pressure skyrocket especially after that complaint and having to face whatever upstairs…Huh…good for me!

I guess maybe it helped that I jokingly told my chef who came in around 5AM that if I needed him as a body guard when I went up if he would mind, and he was more than willing to bust a few heads for me. I enjoyed that.

Hopefully Melanie (the one replacing me this morning) won’t have too much trouble with the room that made the complaint this morning when they check out. They weren’t too impressed saying that there was noise alllllllll night coming from across the hallway yet they only decided to call at 5:30AM while I personally had been there since 11PM and there was someone before me at the front desk who didn’t hear any complaint about noise. It just makes me wonder what the deal is with people sometimes. Instead of leaving it go and leaving it go until you can’t stand it anymore and are so upset it makes you want to never return to this particular hotel, why not call when it first started!!! Seriously!!! That’s what the front desk is here for, (unfortunately) to deal with the complaints in a timely fashion so give us the time to deal with it! That frustrates me to no end. They (the complainers) then take it out on us at the front desk when they’re checking out, trying to get a rebate or a discount and then will drag your hotel’s name through the mud because of noise from another room. So people, listen up will you! Don’t leave it go till you can’t stand it anymore and then take it out on the poor front desk receptionist! It’s not her fault if you don’t complain properly so you can have a good night’s sleep! 99% of the time we won’t know there’s noise until we get a complaint. There’s no way in hell we can be patrolling the hallways all night making sure there’s no noise, plus performing the usual receptionist (and my night audit paperwork) at the same time! That’s why we count on people not being dumb and acting crazy and drunk and why we hope that if there’s a problem with noise that we actually have someone speak up for the sake of their sleep. Common sense people…that’s all I ask really.

C’mon 8AM!! It’s now just about 7AM and no second complaints which is great! We had a bus tonight from the QMJHL and if nothing else they should be happy because let’s face it, right now with the strike as it is we survive on our buses mainly. And unfortunately a couple of their rooms were in the same hallway as the noisy bunch but I didn’t hear anything from them, just from the one room.

Well I’ve written quite a bit tonight haven’t I? Between this entry and my last I’ve kept myself busy. One more hour to go and I can be all warm in my bed with my puppy…now that’s the life. The sun is rising and I’ll soon be asleep to ready myself for yet another night of possible “baka” guests (I KNOW you enjoy that word Crystal! :P) or who knows what! Hopefully the eye twitch will stay far, far away and I’ll get through the next 4 nights in peace. Then…. VACATION!! Moreover, that of course means my birthday is here and a new me will emerge! (I did promise didn’t I?!) Woo! Look forward to that!

So not bad, two entries, one night, that should make up a bit for the severe lack in updates shouldn’t it?

And so it will continue, eye-twitch or no, this thing I’ll think I call my blog…

Death and a new birth

Shikyo to shinsei

しきょ(死去) と ぜつめい (絶命)

Well, it’s a sad, sad day…Gabriel (my loving Beta Fish) has passed on. He looked well enough last night as I fed him, swimming around contently. Although I realize now I really should have cleaned out his tank sooner, it was starting to turn…which now makes me sad because I believe that it was in fact myself who “did him in”….what a way to go…RIP Gabriel! No more fish for me, I’ve decided that. Everyone says oh well, it’s just a fish, you can get another one *pat, pat* but it’s not the same.

Ahh…enough of that, this is my first entry in such a long time! I seem to be making a habit of updating monthly as opposed to daily now aren’t I?! I swear, I will get better at this, I promise! First, before my blog can actually become interesting I’ll have to get a life! I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing me go on and on about the hotel/strike or my obsession with all things Japanese (except maybe Crystal’s homemade sushi…maybe it really was just the wasabi…) and the ongoing struggle of learning the complex language. I heard somewhere someone liken learning Japanese to sitting on a pointy rock. It’s extremely difficult to get comfortable and if you fall off said rock then it’s literally starting from scratch trying to find that comfortable spot again. It sounds about right to me. I’ve immersed myself in everything Japanese I can get my hands on and am having a blast with it, however slow-going the process may be. Only time will tell if I can ever advance myself to the point of conversation or if I’ll forever be limited to having a simple comprehension through shows the likes of “Hello! Morning” (it could be worse though...cause Yossui rocks!). We shall see that’s for sure! But I certainly will have to know a bit more than “Watatshi wa Jienifua desu, dozou yoroshiku” to get around in Japan if I’m ever to go visit there. Sure, knowing how to introduce yourself is all well and good (proper Japanese pronunciation of my name and everything there!) but it won’t help me when I’m looking for a washroom, or trying to order a meal or looking for a good hotel. Someday…**making starry eyes* Please, everyone, support me in this! Onegaishimasu!!

And onto the new birth portion of my blog…a new self is and will be born from the words I write tonight.

So it’s been decided! I’m getting my hair cut! I’ve planned it as a birthday treat to myself and come hell or high water I’ll be carrying out my plan of a “new me” this year. I said very bluntly that 2006 would be my year (remember Kayla?) and I’ve slacked quite a bit this year already. So I now have a new resolution (a birthday resolution if you will) to live my life for myself fully and not worry so much about how others view. Then they will see the real me and I’ll find out who truly cares for me and who amongst them simply want to step on me to get what they want…sounds pretty harsh doesn’t it? Well that’s how I feel sometimes. It’s sad yes, but I’ve put aside what I’ve really wanted for so long that I can barely remember what it’s like to live for myself. I want my own apartment more so for my sanity and personal space then nothing else. I care for my roommate, and wish her nothing but the best, but right now I think it’s too much for me to handle rationally anymore. I’m nearing 24 years old and have never lived alone. I want so badly to experience that and these major changes that I’m willing to have her outwardly hate me for moving (though I wish she would just understand…) if that’s what it will end up being. We’ll see how she takes this, maybe she’ll be fine. She’s stronger than she thinks, and certainly doesn’t need me around to tell her that.

With that being said, here are my promises to the world, and more so my promises to myself.

Step one: Go to the gym as often as possible. (no more excuses, the only obstacle will be to avoid the strikers when choosing times to come in.)

Step two: Incorporate better foods into my diet. (I’m heading in the right direction already, I just need to be a bit more strict and careful of what I snack on.)

Step three: Haircut/new clothes! (Thank you birthdays! Woo!! Come next weekend this will be fulfilled!)

Step four: Surround myself with more positive things and people. (I.e. get out more and have some fun, I’m only 24! I’m not supposed to be a KJ yet! That’s for you Crystal, your own personal Kill Joy.)

Step five: Find a new apartment (this sort of ties into number four as living with a roommate becomes more of a chore these days and I don’t want to start hating my best friend…)

Step six: Start writing again. I’m a story teller, I know this, so I should act like one and return to what makes me happy.

Step seven: Continue to learn Japanese. Right now this above nearly everything else makes me happiest. Moreover, God knows I need help to smile sometimes so if I need to do it in a third language then so be it. Why should I have to explain my obsession to anyone? Everyone should be so lucky as to find something that makes them so happy, now all I need is a boyfriend! (Now accepting applications, bonus points for those that know Japanese!)

I think I’m through for the night, I’ll update this when I get home in the morning, or at the latest tomorrow night if I forget to upload after work. (yes, I’m at work while writing this, as usual! Saturday night with no security guard and a bus load of hockey players staying here…and oddly enough no eye-twitch!...yet)

And so it continues, along a different path towards a new me, in the same corner of the internet, this, my blog.

Yes, this is a late arrival…

Hai, kore wa chichaku…

はい これ わ 遅着 (ちちゃく)

Okay Blogger side note: This was written LATE Friday morning at work and I’ve just remembered now to upload it so yeah, keep that in mind folks…

Well, this is feeling slightly abnormal in the sense that at one point it was a habit to write daily and now I can barely manage a simple blog entry to keep anyone who thinks I’m interesting updated with my "interesting" life...

It's been well over a month since I’ve written anything in this, my little corner in cyberspace. and surely a lot has happened, but frankly, not nearly enough I would say.

I’m still looking for an apartment, the hotel's still on strike, I’m still broke (ha, finding an apartment while broke...) still obsessing with anything Japanese, and yes I’m still me.

I've been both mad and stressed a lot lately what with work and issues at home, which leads to my ever faithful eye twitch to return in full force, for my shoulders and neck to begin to ache and my back to feel tied in knots. I'm going to court *again?* on Monday, this time here at home and *yay!* it's just as an audience member!

And through it all, all this crap that I must deal with, I have 3 saving graces that are a constant now in my life...

1-- (don't laugh, it works!) Music and videos from Morning Musume, YUI, PGSM and Hello! Project. These few small things, though all Japanese and I am nowhere near being able to FULLY understand everything said *YET!* it all somehow gives me a sense of peace, and allows me to laugh a bit whenever I feel the tears are close. Just listening to Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari or Mr. Moonlight ~ Ai no Big Band by Morning Musume puts an automatic smile on my face, it's completely infectious! And to be able to close my eyes and escape with Tomorrow's Way or It's Happy Line by YUI is a much needed relief.

I can honestly say that this is all as much a priority in my life now as any "material" thing can be.

2-- The obvious I guess would be my always happy to see me *even when I’ve gotten mad at her for barking so much!* Angel. 8 years old already, (that means my mother's been away now for over 8 years...God time races forward...I feel so old now.)

3-- *Though she is number one on so many levels* My sister. My beloved Kayla. I don't know what I'd do without her sometimes. She's an ear waiting to listen, a joke waiting to be told, a dance waiting to be "revolution"ized, a walk waiting to be taken, a laugh waiting to be shared, and a smile waiting to light up my day. Sappy isn't it? yeah, yeah, I know... sentimental fool sometimes, but she is the number one most important thing in my life. She's what keeps me grounded, what keeps me in this sometimes hellish town. If only I could be half the sister she deserves.

Ahh...it feels good to ramble a bit, I’ve missed it really. I'll have to remember how this feels, because who really knows when my next update will come! We'll see though, maybe I’ll pencil some blogging in next week, or when I'm off on the weekend (woo weekend!!!).

So with that said here ends today's ramblings.

Till the next one!

Thunder and Lightning, and Bare Asses, OH MY!

Raiden mo suhada ketsu OYAOYA!

雷電 (らいでん) も 素肌 (すはだ) 穴 おやおや

A 2-Part Update!

July 2^nd or is it 3^rd…yeah technically it is the 3^rd now.

Well we're here at my usual blog entry writing spot (i.e. the hard black chair at the hotel’s front desk) and it’s now nearly 2AM. Blech, I’m getting sleepy already. However, I need to make it through tonight and one more night and then I’m off for 2 days! YAY! The summer’s only about a month in and I’m already rather exhausted. Not so much as always physically but it’s somewhat hard on an emotional level. Like for instance the other day I went outside to usher in a bus with Monique and well I was yelled at quite a bit by the strikers…oddly enough though it wasn’t my name they were using! It was Crystals! You would think that after a full year of this nonsense that when the time came to yell at me up-close (not from ten feet and through a window) that they would get my name right! Moreover, it wasn’t just once or twice, no…It was over and over and over again! My back wasn’t turned to them the entire time either; I looked back at them once or twice in disbelief, so now I’m rather insulted by it. Not to mention all of the time I spent in labor board meetings with the group of misfits and their leaders scowling and attempting to intimidate me from only a few feet away, and yes, my FULL name was mentioned there several times! So honestly, you would think they would have gotten it right when it counted. It’s not that hard of a name to remember! Seriously…I shake my head at them.

Eek…just had a yucky thunder/lightning storm…it’s still pouring rain outside but the “storm” part has let up nicely now. It was so bad earlier though that Crystal had actually woken up and given me a call to see how I was holding up. Well that was nice of her! Yeah, I’m not really a fan of the whole electrical storm deal. What with the flashes of light, echoing booms and lack of electricity sometimes…ha, just not a pleasant thing at all is it?

So this brings me now to 7AM and a bit of a bustle is starting so I’ll end this here and start the replacement waiting game! Hope she’s on time! :)

Part two --> the continuation! July 3^rd, uh I mean 4^th!

Well it’s 4am now and I should be working on my paperwork but I’ve had a sudden bought of disbelief (and a little laughter) again over events that took place here today. When my mind starts to wander away from work there’s rarely any turning back until I’ve wasted a good many minutes. So it looks like story-time from the inside (across the picket line) it is! So tonight at the hotel it was quiet I was told, and I see now that there are only a hand full of rooms so I’d say that was accurate. Remember, I was told this through a bit of laughter and “I’m not kidding” statements. Around 8:20PM, just 40 minutes before the strikers would pack it in for yet another day of “hard work”, one of them decided to make an ass of himself…literally.

The one I feel is the most disgusting man of the bunch decided to drop his pants and underwear to our security guard, call him a fag, and a fruitcake and asking him if he wanted “some”. Some… just like that! What’s worse is that he went on and threatened the security guard saying that he hated fags (after calling him one) so he better watch out cause he kills fags….honestly! What kind of delusional moron talks like that, especially in a supposedly civilized country where you don't expect to see this on your doorstep? Hello! It’s now the year 2006, join us won’t you. It’s sad, and it makes me embarrassed to be from this town if others in the area are this ignorant and malicious for no damn good reason! You know, just remembering that in the past I would have handed this person his keys here at work and wished him a good day makes me sick to my stomach now.

Whatever his sanity problem is it reflects on all of the picketers and their representatives. This was an unnecessary (as if any is necessary) death threat and harassment upon an elder (50s or so I believe) man who was simply patrolling the grounds not interacting with anyone at all, in short doing his job and not fraternizing with the enemy so-to-speak. Seriously, I wonder how this pervert can sleep at night or look at himself in the mirror without bursting into flames or something of the sort. And to think he has actually procreated! This man is a husband and father…I have so much pity for his wife and child it’s not even funny. I’m appalled, completely and utterly appalled. I hope to God that the police can do something with this incident. Indecent exposure, death threats, harassment, whatever! JUST GET HIS SORRY ASS (ha…) OFF THE STREETS! I know they’d be a lot safer…

Well that’s my rant and rave for the night…everyone cross their fingers with me that the insanity soon ends!!!

And so continues my “exposing” blog…

Too Tired to Think up A Cool Japanese Title...

So This Is All You Get

Well it took a random e-mail from my mom to remind me that I haven't updated in over a week. Go figure. :S
Anyway, yes tourist season is in full swing, busy, busy, busy at the hotel! I was supposed to be off today but at about 11:30pm last night Crystal came home from an extremely long day at work and asked if I could go into work at about 7AM today to do some luggage handling. Gotta love last minute scheduling. :S It was actually fun though. I enjoyed it quite a bit. After sweating off about 5 pounds hauling about 40 pieces of luggage myself and another front desk agent, Manon, continued on at our own suggestion and stripped the empty rooms for the housekeepers. I'm sore as hell now after only 3 hours (intense!) of work, but I'd rather do that any day then deal with the customers sometimes. It's gonna be a long summer, so I may get my chance to sweat off a few more pounds if I'm lucky.
Well besides the being busy at work I'm really not doing much else but sleeping. I haven't even watched a good Asian movie lately! Blasphemy! Oh well, I just have to focus my energy to getting through the summer, busses, luggage, strikers and all, and making it to my vacation in September. We'll see how that works out.

As of right now, I'm asleep sitting up so I might as well sign off and not worry about grammatical and spelling errors until...never...ha.

And so it continues this thing called Blog...

A Quiet Night

しずか な 夜 Shizuka na yoru

Okay, so I’m kind of stretching when it comes to these Japanese subtitles to my blog titles. Maybe it’s because I’m using my VERY limited vocabulary or grasp on how exactly sentences are put together properly. Okay, it’s probably a bit of both. Nevertheless, the meaning is there even if the sentences are poorly put together right? :)

Shizuka = Quiet

Yoru = Night

Anyway it’s Thursday night now, I’ve been here since 2PM and it’s now coming up on 7PM. I miss the winter months when the sun went down at 5PM and the strikers were long gone by now. But no, the sun is out and so are the fools on the sidewalk (oops…did I say that?), so my quiet night is quiet save for the sporadic yells and names or taunts I receive through the window. Oh how I wish it were already midnight…10 hour shifts are not pleasant, but thankfully I get my next two shifts cut to 7 each! Whoo! :)

Fast forward to 10:50PM. Wow…this night is long…it may be the added 2 hours but it’s quite quiet nonetheless. 40 minutes until my replacement comes in! YAY! I started watching a movie this afternoon then was called in early and so I was just able to finish watching it now. It’s called Daisy, just came out this year (a Korean movie) except unfortunately what I was able to get my hands on was a subbed version (in Chinese of all things which threw me off a bit) with VERY, VERY poorly written English subtitles. Whoever did the subtitles had a very slim knowledge of how to piece together English sentences. The way it was subtitled was as if the person took each spoken word gave it its English equivalent and plopped it down on the screen. For anyone that knows a bit about Asian languages you know first, yes, how hard it can be to translate to English because sentence structure is completely reversed and they do drop many inconsequential words that we like to fluff up our language with. Secondly, how indirect the languages seem to be to make them so polite, this is confusing to the point where you simply must scratch your head. This point may be why I’m struggling with learning Japanese! Damn our useless words, we English folk need to get to the point already!

Yesterday (or the day before I can’t remember) I watched (yet another Korean one) movie called “Windstruck”. Cried my eyes out like you wouldn’t believe!! So touching, so moving, I just can’t seem to get over how great Korean’s are at telling a drama story.

So on that note here’s a little list of Korean movies watched lately and a brief on what it was and how good I thought it was.

A Moment to Remember: AMAZING! First Korean film I watched and was NOT disappointed. Typical love story where 2 people from different statures in life shouldn’t be together but can’t help but fall in love with each other. The twist is that the woman has Alzheimer’s disease and is rapidly forgetting her short-term memories. Enter an ex-boyfriend from 2 years before who doesn’t know she has Alzheimer’s, and the struggle to make her remember each and every day the love of her life…sniff…I can’t go on! I’ll break all over again!

4 ½ out of 5 *’s

The Classic (AKA Love Story): Not my favorite so far but it may be because I was slightly distracted with thoughts and concerns about something else while watching this. I will reserve mentioning anything on this movie until I am able to re-watch it. However something that stands out are the images, beautiful setting from what I recall.

Reserve judgment until a re-viewing can be had.

Once Upon A Time in High School (AKA the Spirit of Jeet Kun Do): It was interesting to say the least. Still not too sure how so much violence could take place in a military school without more action being taken. Then again, I should reserve judgment on that since it was set in the 60’s or so in Korea, a time I know NOTHING about. Nevertheless, I kept watching which is always a good sign; the movie was decent.

3 out of 5 *’s

Daisy: Despite what was mentioned about it above, from what was understood of the storyline (yes, sometimes it WAS that hard to understand) the plot was good. It was wonderfully shot and that counts for about 90% of the movie for me.

Reserve judgment until a proper version is watched.

Il Mare: This is the original to the new Hollywood movie “The Lake House” with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. This story was amazing, the imagery was a little lost on me, because where Il Mare (the lake house) stood was spoken as beautiful and majestic, but I thought it was quite awkward looking. Although the stairs were cool. I hope still that Hollywood does it justice, because it was nevertheless breathtaking at moments.

3 ½ out of 5 *’s

Windsturck: 49 days is not long enough…beautiful imagery beautiful story! I was taken back by all of the pinwheels and even thought to myself as she was making them (not being told what they were for) that I would have done exactly that. Amazing story line, dramatic and touching like the rest. This one I will definitely watch repeatedly.

4 ½ out of 5 *’s

My Sassy Girl: Jeong Ji-Hyun at her best. A well-written drama/comedy that literally has you laughing the entire way through. With a heart-wrenching “Goodbye” to the tear-filled ending. Beautiful, another repeat viewing movie, guaranteed. I heard that there were talks about this one being remade in Hollywood as well. That would make me happy!

5 out of 5 *’s

Well that was my little Ebert & Roeper moment. Hope you enjoyed it or, well, if you didn’t…too bad to you!

Security starts tomorrow at the Hotel, which will be a GREAT RELIEF! So even if it’s quiet again tomorrow night, time will go by fast enough with less concern and distraction from the strikers.

I’ll try to remember to update this one when I wake up tomorrow morning because I’m uploading a different already written entry tonight. If I don’t I’m sure I’ll remember after work tomorrow night as I’m staying up (or at least attempting) until early morning so as to jump back on a 12am-8am schedule! We’ll see how that works out! Ha!

And so we continue a little more enlightened on Korean cinema…

I am Jennifer. It’s a pleasure to meet you. (annnnnnd…we bow!)

Watashi wa Jennifer desu. Dozou Yoroshiku.

It’s occurred to me that I haven’t really done anything in the way of a formal introduction in my blog. Pity. So here, today, one time only, we’ll get to the bottom of it (uh…me). I did a mini-intro to the world that is mine in my first entry but here I’ll spill all the details (that I can actually come up with) for the world to see. Let’s start with one of those e-mail fwd type deals.

Favorites:

Color - Red

Food – Nicole’s potato casserole and ham

Drink – Pepsi(trying really hard not to) or just plain old fruit juice.

Movie – Current is A Moment to Remember (Korean), or My Sassy Girl (Korean also). All-time would probably be Princess Bride (awww) or Labyrinth.

Song – Currently most listened to are: YUI – Tokyo (Japanese, it calms me :) ), Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice, Teagan & Sara – Where Does The Good Go, YUI – Feel My Soul, and well otherwise anything really.

Book – Angels & Demons by Dan Brown or the Harry Potter Series

Pass time – Watching movies, writing, reading, whatever

About Me:

Hair: Long light brown (it’s not mousy!)

Eyes: Grayish-blue

Height: about 5 foot 7

Age: 23

Occupation: Front Desk Receptionist/Night Auditor at a Hotel (hence my pale skin and dark eye circles)

Status: Single :(

Animals: A dog Angel and a Beta fish Gabriel

Family: 2 brothers (1 by blood) and 1 sister. Mother lives in USA and Dad and Step-mom live here. I live on my own now with a roommate and her 3 cats, 1 dog and 2 beta fish. It’s a zoo, I swear.

How I spend my time:

I watch a ton of movies having recently discovered how amazing Asian cinema really is. Korean’s know their dramas! I’m trying to learn Japanese right now through my obsession with a live action series called Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (don’t ask…no, I said don’t…fine, go ahead…yes…yes…no…ugh, never mind) which is long, hard but oddly fun. This summer I will not exist, as I will be focused on helping the Hotel through the strike, as I’m sure I’ve stated before, and pretty much nothing else.

Well I don’t know what else to say about myself so if anyone has any questions uh…leave a comment! :)

If not well then my blog will continue without it…

New Dog

犬 あらた Inu arata

Or is itあらた Arata inu ...hmmm still have no clue in word order, forgive me! (済みませんsumimasen!)

It’s only 7:00pm and I’m already yawning…I’m so sleeeeeeeeeepy! I’m on a 4-12 schedule right now so it’s kind of odd that I’m already tired, but well…it happens I guess. Only 5 more hours to go before I get to go home!!! Tomorrow night will be worse though, not only do we have a bus coming in (they are all Chinese! Too bad it wasn’t Japanese… :)) but I’m also going to be attempting a change over to a 12-8 shift. So after my 4-12 shift tomorrow night I’ll attempt to stay up all night and only go to sleep after 8am so I can get a proper sleep and not have to worry about being too tired when I go in at midnight on Sunday. But wait, it gets worse, right after that one 12-8 shift I have to do yet another shift change BACK to 4-12. So that means that I’ll be trying to stay up alllllllll day Monday so that I can go to sleep after midnight so I can (again) get my proper sleep so when Wednesday comes I’ll be able go through my 4-12 shift without being asleep at the desk. But I’m not complaining! Oh no! But I would like to say this: Ugh…that’s it, that’s all I wanted to say…ugh.

Anyway, enough bitching and moaning, it’s been about a week since I last updated so I guess we should get down to business so-to-speak. Things are well, as well as can be expected which is great. Crystal got herself a new dog yesterday from the animal shelter. His name’s Quincy, he’s a mutt of some sort, Crystal took pity on him because apparently he was brought back a few times. Angel’s NOT getting along with him as well as I would have hoped. Now, anyone that knows my dog, and has ever seen my dog around other animals (especially other dogs) knows EXACTLY what I mean. Angel is very possessive of me, I’m her mommy and that’s that. So they’ve chased each other a few times, barked and growled and sniffed each other’s butt’s a bit. It’s only been two days but I really hope they both calm down with each other soon. Otherwise, I’ll need a new bottle of Advil VERY soon. Unfortunately though, the cats are not taking to Quincy so well, if you can call how Angel’s behaving “well”. That’s a sin, because I know if Crystal thinks long and hard about it, she’ll end up having to give away the dog. Her cats are just about everything to her now. Poor Quincy doesn’t deserve to be taken from one home to another, he needs a permanent home…Enough of that too now, I’ll start to feel heartsick.

Well, to be quite honest not much else is new lately besides the new addition to the apartment. So I think I’ll leave this as-is tonight, upload the entry when I get home after work and try to remember to update more frequently. Ah, and as requested check on the roommate’s clothes in the dryer, must not forget!

Well, for now, it looks like the blog goes on…