I'm tired. That's probably why I didn't wake up until 9 this morning.
I feel like my posts have been on the sad and boring side lately. I want to do some baking and get some pictures up. Maybe I can do that today. Sam wants me to make some Midnight Chocolate cookies with him today, so I think I'll do that and then get some pictures of them.
I'm finished with Language Arts for the week, which is nice. Anatomy is going to take forever today, but oh well. Someday I'll finish it and then be done with school. I'm looking forward to the summer and not having to worry about school and trying to get everything done with it. Even though I'll still have Math. And the ACT to study for. I need to sign up for the one in June today. Otherwise I'll just keep forgetting. And then I have a good deadline to make me get it done. Heh. Joy.
A. and her brothers are going to come over sometime this afternoon. We need to go over some stuff for Seuss. It's going to be such fun. Last night we went to the theatre to help paint. Well, I didn't help paint, because I totally forgot to bring painting clothes. So I finished some Seussy instruments, did the beach chair and umbrella, and then just mainly watched them. I did take some pictures, so I'll have to post them sometime today. I have a photography assignment to do, so I'm not going to upload the pictures to my computer until I take those.
Work has been going well. It was weird going in on Monday. When we got there, Mike was sitting at his desk doing work on his laptop and so we just went over and sat at our desks. Isaac came in and Mike told him to sit down in one of the chairs over by his desk, and then when Michael came in, he said the same thing to him. It was basically an hour of serious conversation concerning what's going on, and what hasn't been going on. It ended with them being sent home until Friday and Abby and I sitting rather stunned at what just happened and how we were supposed to swing an entire week of not having Isaac, our busiest tech, and Michael, our second hand in doing practically everything.
Then A. and I went and sat in the places where they had just sat, had about another hour of meeting with him about how we wanted to change things in the week that Isaac and Michael were gone. We have to make serious changes in the way things are being done and set some strict rules to how things will be done. It's not a "try" situation anymore. It's a "have to", now.
There was more explanation about the whole situation last Thursday when he wrote and told us that we were being laid off. I did see that it truly was a pop up situation that he thought was really serious and that he really couldn't afford us at that moment when he thought that problem was happening. I don't think that he did the correct thing with how he addressed that with us, but he's also not a Christian, and I can't expect him to have True guidance on that. I guess that's a good way to put it. Either way, he didn't handle that well.
So he asked us if we could be super flexible this week, because we need to be there when he's not so we can keep the store opened. Things are changing on Amazon due to some pretty stupid things happening. People use people so awfully. It's just not adding up with certain things and we're just losing instead of gaining. I replied to soooo many emails yesterday on there. I was basically paid to take care of that instead of other important things that needed to be done. And when we're not being paid to offer all of that support, we're just losing every minute that I have to sit down and work towards that. I mean, absolutely do we have to work in that situation and deal with customers like that, but when it's problems that just magically came up as soon as they received their order? Absolutely not. And for one, our computers do NOT just spontaneously burst into flames. They do not.
So yesterday was stressful for me. It was just one thing after another building and it was hard to do that. With the people who had taken over for me last week were now gone this week, I was making calls and writing emails to them, who do have lives, trying to figure out those problems. Which makes me feel crummy. Isaac was like, "Hey, and if I don't answer the first time, you don't have to call me another 5 times." "It was 2! I only called you twice, and I didn't know that Mike had called you. I'm sorry." I was so tired by the end of yesterday that I was switching words around and sounding like an idiot. Ha. I bet that was nice for everyone.
OH! :D And I got the guy to take his bad feedback down! That was QUITE thrilling.
I have enjoyed being back. It feels right to be back, even if there is the stress. And God is teaching me to rely on Him to take care of that stress. I had some good music running through my head yesterday during all of that stress. God is good, and He loves me *so* much.
My blog is being taken over with me talking about work stuff. Ah!
I'll try and post some pictures soon, and for once, not talk about work.
I love you, dearies. You're important to me.
Bethan
Good words.
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