Bad, bad addicting game!
I tell ya, man, I can't feel my mouse hand. There are ten pet/eggs to get in all, and I've got one more to go. You can only have three at a time during a level, and I run Skel, Prego, and the whale (forgot his name) right now.

The sequels have it
Well, I heard that "Shrek 2" has successfully taken the title of Best Animated Film of All Time. Sales are a staggeringly high number that I can't remember right now, but it made me go "Wow...*jaw drop*..."
Meanwhile, I've heard rave reviews on "Spiderman 2".
And they said sequels suck. ^^

That's a half hour of my life I'll never get back.
I had heard of a tv show on PBS recently called "Boohbah". My little brother told me it was worse than Barney. That it made no sense. That the characters moved by flatulence (that's "farting" for those of you still just waking up).

I didn't believe then. I believe now.

Excuse me whilst I go curl up in a fetal position and cry.

Well, I learned two things on my vacation
(more than two actually, but these two will work for now):

#1-I go into withdraw without my music. I remember hearing "Accidentally in Love" or whichever on the second day of vacation and suddenly realizing what I missed most (ok--one of the things--sorry, loves ^^). When I was still in Tennesse earlier today, I heard more songs I recognize. I got home and just about bowled my stereo over, ready to listen. Such a happy camper I am now.

#2-Richard Simmons is NOT a good role model. This AIM chat will explain why:

Ginny: Actually, no, I saw the funniest and dirtiest show this past week
Ginny: have you ever heard of "Who's Line is it, Anyway?"?
DesbrekkersAnEvilEvilMan: LOL
DesbrekkersAnEvilCrazyMan: Yes. Yes I have.
DesbrekkersAnAuronTorturingMan: It's hilarious.
Ginny: Well-- (love that show!)
Ginny: --this eppie was the time they had Richard Simmons come on the show
Ginny: now, before I go any further, you have to know something
DesbrekkersAnEvilMinion: o_O
Ginny: I grew up on Richard Simmons and Kermit the Frog. I adored them as a baby.
Ginny: Then I see Collin using Richard as a chair, and then Collin exclaiming, "Hey, my chair is wet!"
Ginny: I just about died. Laughing. And maybe a little crying. *snicker*
DesbrekkersButNotEvilEnough: heheh
Ginny: Pleaseopleaseoplease let Kermit be untouched by the years
Ginny: I have to have someone to look up to. Even if he is a puppet frog. :-P
DesbrekkersJustDietEvil: Well...there was this one episode of Saturday Night Live....
Ginny: O_O
Ginny: NO!
Ginny: *plugs ears* La la la la--*ist curious, unplugs one, then replugs quickly*
Ginny: --LA LA LAAAAA!
DesbrekkersThenAgain: ^_^;

No, I don't want to know about Kermit. Please, anything but Kermit. Let me have this one last little innocent, naive, childhood dream. ^^;

Quiz again!

How will you DIE?
Name / Username
You will die	horribly
At age	48
This cool quiz by Confused_Pete - Taken 55765 Times.

Y'know, that's really far from comforting...O_o;

Japanese or Korean What Language Are You?

Love ya, Miss Sara. Please hang in there--I'm thinking about you, k?

I'm back from Missouri (and other assorted states)
and boy! is my butt ever sore! Oh, Ginny is quite serious. We hotfooted it from Covington, TN, to home (which is two states over, and no, I'm not telling you which two if you don't already know) in 8 hours. Driving.

Sore.

But Ginny, you say, I thought you were only going to Missouri? And you're back a day early?

Well, ha ha on you, because I was just as clueless as you are. Turns out Mom wanted to trek the Tri-State Tornado's path (famous major tornado from 1920s). That means we went from Missouri to Illinois to Indianna to Kentucky to Tennesse. Along with the other two border states to my home state. Oy!

Getting home early is nice. I still get a day off at home to veg out without worrying about work and BOY! is that ever nice!

I'll blah blah later about the trip. Right now, I need ice for my behind.

"Vacation, all I ever wanted..."
...la la la, I don't know the woooooooords. La la la--well, I'll say this much: I can't believe it's time to go already, but at the same time, I thought it'd never get here. This also marks one of the last live-at-home traditions I'll be engaging in before I move out. So this time, this vacation's a milestone.

I would've watched more "Naruto" the other day, but stupid #22 kept freezing on me. >>

Everyone take care of my links for me, ok? I love you, Jamsy.

And yes, if we see a tornado, we'll take pictures. Oh, and be safe, too. ^^;

Till next week!

The Day Before Tomorrow
*snicker* Lame. Couldn't resist. :p

Weeeeeeeell, I'm leaving tomorrow around 1oish in the morning to start out for Missouri. And, no, I don't know what's in Missouri--this is a pure Mom thing, just like all our other annual roadtrips. Funny thing is, I can barely remember what I packed the last time, and it's taking longer than usual to pack. I got all my clothes, but what else...? Eh, if worse comes to worse, I can wake up a little early tomorrow and last-minute-pack.

And I'm going to laugh if the manager-that-shall-not-be-named tries to call me into work while I'm out of state, I'm going to laugh. It'd probably go something like this (based on the cocktail experience):
Phone: Ring!
Ginny: 'Lo?
MtSNbN: Hey, Ginny, I need you to work tonight.
Ginny: ....... Um, I can't do that.
MtSNbN: Why not?
Ginny: I'm kinda out of state right now.
MtSNbN: That doesn't matter; I expect you at 6.

Hello, duh!

Speaking of work, and no, it's mostly good stuff, don't panic:
the meeting yesterday went decently and I actually did a good job of teaching. My brain panicked for all of three seconds and then I was just on a roll.
...how creepy. ^^

I just have to get through my shift this morning and a trainer's meeting this afternoon, then I am FREE! EEEEEEEEEE! *is excited* I'll get to sleep in! I'll be a customer! I'll be doing what I want to do! EEEEEEEEEFWUMP! Ow...who put that wall there?

A few other minor things
I had another dream about the church I grew up in. On the way in, I kept freaking out because I had lots of shoes in the car, but none matched. Then items began disappearing, my purse included. We walked past Caraway St., somehow squeezed into the tiny narthex (front hall) room. In the church, we were eating again (?!), and when the pastor (Pastor Ken, heh!) asked for opinions, Jamal spoke up and P.K. took his words right in stride.

Don't Freud me, people. I may dream this stuff, but I sure as stuff don't know where it comes from.

Mizu/Myzyuma and "Drayo" are finished and I am pleased with how they came out. Their personalities are also starting to form, so all I need to do now is to shape the story a little more. With my vacation, I should have time to reflect. ^^

Ciao for now!

Saw this and couldn't resist
but really, Jamsy, it only backs up what I've been saying all along about famous cartoonists. ^^

Tired. Training. Meeting. Expo. Packing. (Maybe a little more Naruto, too. ^_~) *grunt, snort* Gonna be a full day. Can I go back to bed yet?

DESBREKO ALERT!
Dude, seriously, there's no shame in asking for help. There's no shame in spending countless hours searching pointlessly for something that'll never be found on your own whilst friends, family, and more importantly, Squeenix--ah, SquareEnix, I mean--laugh heartily and unrelentingly at you for not sucking it up like them and dousing their gamer's spirit by looking in a cheat book.

Not that that reflects on you or anything. :P

You know my email if you need help. *giggle*

"He got bored with crying, I think."
I watched a lot more of "Naruto" today--a good 9 episodes in one sitting and my brother's bugging me to watch more. Not that I need any prodding--I stopped right in the middle of a crucial point of the story. I just finished up #16, if anyone knows what I'm talking about. *grins in Mistress Baka's general direction, in a hopeful manner*

The music is just getting more 'n' more awesome, a definite plus for me. I can be really stubborn about breaking into a new game/show and making snide comments about story/characters/animation/music allows me to back out without worrying about missing anything. I can't gripe here, though; again, I'm hooked. ^___^

Some ideas for who the English VAs should be (though really, this is my first sub (all others have been dubbed) and it'd be a shame to lose the good acting in the transition from one language to another):
Naruto: Derek Stephen Prince (though even that suggestion makes me wince--I can't think of any VA that'd compare to the Japanese version of Naruto's nature; it's just not in our English ability, heh)
Sasuke: Michael Reisz
Sakura: "Serenity" (YuGiOh) VA--web's not helping much in the way of info on this one
Kakashi: Matt McKenzie (heeeeeeeeeee! Ginny REALLY wants to see this one happen!)
Inari (minor character): Mona Marshall

And if anyone has any info on who the potential English VAs will be, please let me know.

EDIT: Well, the Country of the Wave story arc finally finished. And beh, #18 and #19 made me cry. >_> ^^; Fortunately, #2o rounded it all out by being really humorous--right up to the last few minutes. "Chuunin Exam". I sense another very long story arc coming on.

Happy Dad's Day!
There's a difference between a father and a dad. So this goes out to all the dads and dads-to-be (rooting for ya, Leo--your daughter is going to be beautiful!).

I affectionately remember my grumpy, stolid, money-pinching/saving daddy today. And in a quiet corner of my mind, I can't forget my father. I decided some time ago that, if and when I have children (eek! miniGinnys, how scary! heh), they will have both their birth parents. I'm going to try my hardest to make sure of that.

Today is also (Sara Alert! Sara Alert!) Float Day! And I just remembered what I was trying to remember for you, Sara--yesterday was Horned Goat Day, if memory serves. ^^;

*fidgets excitedly* Just three more days till I escape for a week. *looks at the pouty faces* Awwww, I'll pick up some tacky souvenirs or something, k?

The Good...
As predicted, I got my splork (that's right, peoples, "splork"!) of creativeness in today. I have two major pet comic projects right now; both tend to lean toward a hiatus/on again/off again status in my brain. "Vita Via" is taking its "off again" for the moment, but my other, which is nameless right now, had its characters totally revamped.

I now have Hyemi, Ruebella, "Gia", "Thaddius/Thad", Rhawn, and Siama in proper humanoid forms (some, like Ruebella, aren't human--loooooooong story that I'm not willing to detail here for fear someone will steal my ideas ^^). "Drayo", "Era", "Azala", and "Mizu" await further development. I'm still toying with how to start the whole story off, but I've got a good idea of where it'll go. I also can already tell it's going to be a story that unfolds as I write it--I can't really plan ahead too much.

Glee! It's just nice to feel creative again. The vacation time coming up should give me a few hours to play more (it better *glances at Mom*).

Jenna also spotted a set of apartments that are in my price range AND my home range (I have a set area I want to move to--my "home range", hee). I am very excited about that! ^^

...the Bad...
Management has really lost it this time.

It started with the opening of the new store. Home Office said we'd only lose 3% sales; we lost 1o%. Management reassured us we wouldn't close. Our area director's pulled out on us now, which is making some of the veterans nervous/suspicious (I'm rather indifferent, to be honest).

Monday, I've got my day filled up with big gaps. Not only do I have a double, I also have a meeting smack dab in the middle of my break that makes it pointless to go home for a bit, but also leaves me wandering the store for an hour on either side of the meeting.

Tuesday I was supposed to prep for my vacation and say goodbye to loved ones; management was nice enough to give me that night off so I could. Today I've been told that there's another meeting, once again, smack dab in the middle of the day. Another three lost hours.

On top of that, I also learned today that the Expo Certification meeting is on the Sat. I'm out of town. Management's griping at me for being out of state. Well, I'm sorry, but I had this vacation planned for two months now, and I'm not backing out just for some chunk of info I already know backwards and forwards. For Auron's sake, I've worked in Expo for several months now; I should know what I'm doing.

Just a little irritated. Again. >_> Once we get past this whole mess of job and moving out, I'll be in a much better mood.

...and the Ugly.
Awww, but then I won't have the internet anymore. So you won't be able to tell.

Someone leaked that I'm leaving the store in Sept. Big chunk of the server staff was in an uproar. Mweh, I'll pretend to be ticked about that so I won't care so much.
I'll still got a few months. Sheesh. Bunch o' (wonderful, caring) buttheads. *sniffle*

And the manager-who-shall-not-be-named is getting a lot of servers honked off. He's also getting control of the schedules after this. I have no problem upping my hiring date for my other job if he screws me over like I have reason to believe he will.
Especially if he sticks me in smoking like I think he'll try to.

Despite it all,
I've never had it better in life, really, I haven't. I know I bellyache a lot about work, but I'm actually in a very good mood (oh yeah, the vacation thing. ^^).

Live as long as you want, prosper as much as you want, and don't let anyone steal your pride.

Well,
I just put my application in for my new job. I was surprised to find out it actually opens next month versus Sept. I hope that doesn't hurt my hiring chances. Mom also forbade me to make any mention of her in my application. I swear to goodness, though, if that little part trips me up, I will never listen to her again. This whole job shpiel was her idea in the first place.

I'm just saying that in an irritated manner, because here I am, doing a lot of stuff on my own the past few weeks (where I'd normally ask Mom or Dad to help me), and you'd think they'd be proud. Instead, I get, "Geez, it's about time you did something right. I'd never thought you'd make it in the real world." Way to totally inspire your offspring. -____- Nowadays, it's more of a "I'm doing this to show you up, since you don't believe in me."

Funny thing is, in my first years of working as a ToGo, management figured out that if they gentle insulted my ego/pride, I tended to go overboard showing them that I can be more than they said. Naturally, it worked to their advantage and, yeah, I admit I became a better worker, but damn it, I despise people who do that. It may be the only way to bring me around sometimes, but I end up feeling stupid for not recognizing what I was capable of. And nobody likes to have their ego/pride screwed with.

Mom and Dad don't get any leeway, though. I mean, the two people I'd thought would be supportive...sheesh. And Mom can too be supportive--I don't care what she claims.

And people wonder why I have self-esteem issues. >.< Don't get me wrong--I love my family dearly, I really do; they are just driving me CRAZY. Mweh, I just need to move out and be a proper adult.

Last night,
I tried a cannoli for the first time. A little rich but yummy! And unfortunately, I didn't get any drawing done, but I know it'll get done today during my night shift. Heh.

T.G.I.F.

Boring stuff first--
--my trainee did very well today. She was supposed to do everything herself and I was to be but a shadow. 'Course, that's hard to do when you get hit really hard with a buttload of customers. >_>; So we double-teamed. She's nervous, but deadset on being good. I am pleased. ^_^

Car was inspected and passed. I just have a few more loose ends to take care of before I leave on Weds. *GLEEEEE!* I need to send my application in to the new store, check out those one set of apartments, and take care of the bills.

I found something today that was very Sara-esque...but...*blinks, puzzled*...sorry, Miss Sara, it has totally blown my little brain now. As soon as I can remember it, I'll let you know. And yes, I know there's been no letter...I'm... =-_-= bad about writing. But I want to write and I will!

And while I am beyond tickled that Desbreko has turned into an Auron-fan (Ha! Told you would, neener-neener! *razz* You cannot resist the awesomeness that IS Auron!), I'm sure that Dessy is just as pleased to know that I'm going thru the Wind Waker right now and I will beat it this time...hopefully, before I leave for Missouri.

*glares at computer* I've also got an unusual virus on this thing. *growl*

Now for the good stuff.
Well, I'm temporarily yanking the link to the new webcomic--seems this stuff is way mature and I don't want anyone to think I'm weird. Oo;

Now if you'll excuse me, I have drawing to do.
*squeals in inspiration, runs off*

Goodies for ya
Hee!
The minigame was a nice FF-reminiscent touch (FF games are notorious for having minigames to unlock special/extra stuff). The first scene I unlocked with the minigame made me giggle, because I actually liked that character.

The minigame was fun--the music was a nice remix of Sephiroth's theme, and having chibi tiny Sephy bobble-head bouncing (for lack of a better word) on my screen was just irresistable. Now if I could just quit staring at him long enough to unlock the last scene. X_x;

Changed up a lot of my links to the left. New comics up, bad links down.

I feel
so much better for ranting, but now my stomach hurts something awful. Maybe I should quit drinking this root b--
*crash thunder kra-KOW!*

O_o;

Not drink Root Beer?! SUCH SACRILEDGE! Heh.

What's also evil is Des. Des, you are evil. Evil that corrupts. Corruptingly evilly so. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, MAN, STOP DOING THAT TO AURON!!!

*bawls comically*

Heh. Laughing is good. And that is why I date Jamal. He makes everything amusing. But not evilly so. Not yet. The evil villian laughter is slowly working it's way, but not yet. Noooo...

Heh, I love ya, baby. ^-^

Today's Song: "Say Won't You Say (You Love Me)", Jennifer Knapp; "Ocean Floor", Audio Adrenaline
Today's Mood: In a fine temper, but trying to get over it
Today's Quote: "Tomorrow's never guaranteed."
CtM: One week, one day

I wanna stay home today
Don't wanna go out
If anyone comes to play
Gonna get thrown out
I wanna stay home today
Don't want no company
No way

I've been in a fine temper all day,
and after coming off such a lovely weekend, it's a shame, too. It started off with a nightmare about a possessed Ken doll head out to kill me (don't ask, I don't know either), and it went down from there. Because I had to go to work.

Now, really, I know I've gone on and on about how awful work is. Things are decent and starting to level out. Once I get going, I'm okay, but it's the "get going" that's becoming harder to pull off. I stay grumpier longer each shift and I just don't seem to care that I'm staying grumpy; I don't like being that way. It's just not in my nature. I'm hoping that I'm just seriously burning out and this vacation away from work will help.

I do, fortunately, still have spurts of out-n-out crazyhappyfunfun moments that the newbs adore (the more at ease a server is, the better they do their job--I...think...) and the customers get kicks out of. Near the end of my shift tonight, I had one around a few of the newbs and several giggled. One asked how I could be happy all the time (sorta ironic when you think about it, hee).

"Well," I replied, "I've been blessed by God."
The one server that hadn't laughed snorted deridingly and said, "Oh please, not this ----ing bullshit," then walked off.

Come and dream with me
That we were all together
In perfect unity...but how?
We are torn apart
by things that do not matter
And time is running out
For us to see.

OK, listen up, world peace-ers. I figure I'm pretty tolerant of other people and I don't mock them for their choice of beliefs. Christians are blamed more than anyone else for causing "chaotic havoc" in the scheme of world peace. I simply shared my beliefs--a far cry from me stuffing an entire Bible down someone's throat. So why am I the one being attacked?

God and I working hard to teach me divine patience. I rather think that I need a lot more practice after tonight, because I gave the wall a murderous look and my crazyhappyfunfun mood died pretty fast. Thankfully, I was able to walk out at that point before I got into an hotheaded, illogical argument I knew I'd regret later. Even more thankfully, my servers let me walk out without bothering me.

I'm sorry, people, but I'm Christian, and I'm going to stay with God till my last day. He loved me and gave meaning to my life long before anyone else wanted to or was able to. And that is why I'm crazyhappyfunfun. Because of my personal belief that the Creator of everything in my realm of existence and my world cares enough to love little human screwball me. I can't help but be happy about that and to reciprocate that love onto other people.

But when someone has the audacity to tell me to quit smacking them upside the head with my Bible when I am not, then turns around, hypocritically I might add, and starts to verbally slap me into submitting to their beliefs, I get upset. When someone starts to badmouth the first being to give me reason to live, it's like someone telling me that my mom hates me or Jamal's cheating on me or any one of a million of my friends are backstabbing me. It's just not right. I know that people have different ways of looking at life, but what I believe is what defines me, and what defines me is what I believe. And I'd appreciate it if all the "know-it-all"s in the world would take a step back and understand that.

If you truly believed in world peace, you'd truly believe that people are different and allowed to be so. In the words of my server buddies Adrian, Keenan, and Chris: "Stop hating."

Forgive me my burst of hurt anger as I strive to forgive the server that hurt me. I am but human and I easily give into my emotions. This, like all things, just adds to the learning process of life and this, like all things, will smooth over.

Tomorrow is another day.

Webcomic Alert
Oh, to be this good. (Thanks to "Alien Dice" for the linkage and yay, "Alien Dice" the first volume will be out soon!)

Countdown to Missouri: 13 days, or roughly, far too long before I can get away from work. ^^;

Just remember,
everyone has worth--a hardcore Ginny-belief, and nothing'll change that. Hey, if I can accept it about me, I can accept it about anyone. ^-^ To the world, you may just be one person, but to one person, you may just be the world.

Meanwhile,
RJ's gone and gotten me freakin' hooked on an anime series called "Naruto".

First seven eppies in one sitting. I've decided for the moment that Kakashi-sensei is my favorite character because he's so kick-(butt), followed by goofball Naruto and angsty Sasuke (in that order). Sakura has a nifty inner self for comedic purposes, but loses points for a seriously annoying VA. And the Kyuubi no Youko...dude. Thanks to "Digimon:S3", I already know about ninetail foxes, but it's only more deliciously something to see the Kyuubi in its darker glory.

I would still be watching, but 2 hours worth is a lot to absorb in the first sitting. XP

In completely unrelated news, I've got a Japanese/American dictionary that I playing with a lot. ^_~;

And as for my little fuzzy tiger critter,
it turns out he's the oldest of three (it's the Raekos all over again). The second oldest is male, a black tiger with red stripes, two tails, and the ability to command darkness (naturally, he's going to be pretty angsty). The youngest is either a sister or brother (undecided on that), white, single-tailed tiger with holy powers. That leaves Big Brother Orange to be either non-elemental or with the ability to generate a random element (ooo, I like that second one).

That makes number 28, 29, and 3o in my line of basic creatures. Every time I swear off making any more, they pop up.
....oy. I give up. ^^;

One more thing
before my computer gives out. This is what happens when Ginny gets bored: more of her furry cute characters are born. His name is right there in plain sight, but if you don't know my alphabet, then you don't know his name, do you? :p

Unless you know a way to cheat the coding. *shifty glance*

Computer Status:
It's staying alive for five minute spurts. So the clock is ticking. I'll keep this short.

When I said music was a big part of my life...
...I wasn't kidding. It's my morning "coffee". The child David to my King Saul-like fits (from the Old Testament: King Saul had a bad time of it with nightmares and anger fits and God sent little David with his lyre to comfort the king with music).

So tonight I was expoing, as usual. And I'm just singing quietly to myself, as usual. Well, I guess I sang a little louder than usual, because the next thing I know, one of the newbies joins me and she's singing what I'm singing. Two lyric lines later, there's a cluster of five girls all singing together:

There's gotta be more to life
Than chasing down every temporary high
to
satisfy me
Cause the more that I'm
Tripping out thinking there must be more to life
Well it's life,
but I'm sure
there's gotta be more

Stacie Orrico's "(There's Got to be) More to Life". One of my absolute favorite songs right now. And to have four other coworkers actually know the song and to actually sing along (singing at work is considered "strange", but singing a Christian rock song is even more "bizarre")...it's just powerful, somehow.

I just had to write about that.

Just letting you know
my computer is dying. We think it blew a fan during one of the bad storms we had this week. I'm keeping this short so it doesn't die before I finish this post.

Hey, by the way, guys (as in males)?
Girls really hate it when you ignore them for four years, then start hitting on them after they are taken. (I was hit on three times today, ugh...)

I'm taken.
And no, there's no way you can compare to my guy.
Deal. And uh...please quit stalking me at work. >_>;

Today's RGT: Hide and seek during a blackout is sooooo much easier when the lights come back on. ^^;
Today's Quote: "Expect the worst and then hope for the best."
Countdown to Missouri (CtM): 3 weeks, counting today.

That's right,
Ginny's leaving not only town but state in 3 weeks. Vacation, yay! For the last couple of days, I've been watching my brothers sleep in and go nowhere, and the desire to do the same is overwhelming. I'm fine once I actually get to work (in the sense that I can ignore them there, heh), but I'd still love a few days just to myself to do just what I want to do.
Then again, that'd last about an hour, then I'd get bored or lonely or both.

Considering that most of the vacation will consist of driving, I don't think I'm going to get a chance to sleep in that much. Mweh. Among other things...

Oh well. I'll be away from work. That counts.

This spot
is for Heather. Bye 'n' thanks. Enjoy your highly-envied transfer, and miss us as much as we are going to miss you. (And take care of the guys, would you? They tend to get out of hand without their #27 crew.)

Speaking of work,
my trainee landed in the hospital last night. She was admitted, got a blood transfusion, and her shifts were posted until she gets back. That's the third person in the past four weeks at our store to get hospitalized. Mweeeeh...
And she's a real adorable sweetheart, too; it's, as silly as this sounds, not fair that it's happening to her. People get sick, I know, but why her?

I'm covering her where I can, and where I can't, I'm talking other people into helping. It's pretty easier to do, because a lot of people love her. Management says if she comes back in time, she can have her shifts back. I'd rather she focus on herself first and if she wants them back, she can have them back. Recovery first, though.

...ow. My stomach's hurting again.

Shameless Promoting

Scratch Fury: Destroyer of Worlds.
Read PvP.

So, it turns out
I'm not the only one extremely sore about the condition of our store. Many good servers are upset.
~One server I suggested as a trainer never made it; another did, but was removed the day after his first training session. Hurt feelings are rampant.
~Unrealistic expectations are running rampant. At one point (as already mentioned here), I was expected to take both a 3o top, a party platter order to be ready in 2o minutes, and a majorly slammed ToGo.
~Once again (and this has been a constant fault of all management teams I've had, not just this recent one), I've been surprised at the last possible moment with, "Oh, by the way, you're training today." I have no time to prepare and my trainee takes the hurt for that. That insults my pride as well. You do not insult my pride. That makes for a very unhappy Ginny.
~Negative attitudes from the quickly diminishing trainer team have been leaking into the trainees, resulting in an overall uphappy atmosphere.
~Word on the street is that our store may be closed after all.
~And in all this, I've been told by a very reliable source that the Area Director doesn't seem to care. I've met the A.D. and that does not seem like him at all, but I also trust my source. That is just plain awful.

Like I've told a lot of servers, I don't really care (though I've blathered on here enough to show that I really do, else it wouldn't be bothering me so much); it's the servers I feel bad for. And it just amuses me to no end when someone keeps coming up to me and asking, "Are you really leaving in September? Why?!" Debbie asked me that just today, in an almost accusing tone. Or an envious. Hard to tell.

The ironic chuckle is hard to stifle.