I was working for a really neat paper company and was really enjoying the perks of my job and the people I worked with. However, the store was poorly managed by a manager who didn't like to work past 4pm or on the weekends, like, at all. So I usually got stuck with the closing shifts and worked all weekend long. There were a few weekends where I worked Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, all open to close. Then in early August I was offered a position at my current job and was more than happy to put in my two weeks at the paper store. Once the district manager heard that I was leaving, she was anything but happy. I was supposed to do an exit interview, but I think my manager knew that if I did, I would expose the fact that she never worked weekends and had taken a bunch off recently, leaving me and one other girl to run the store. Right before I put in my two weeks, the other supervisor had put in hers, pretty much having the same basic problems I was having with the store manager. And then the third supervisor was out because she found a full-time internship and she could only work about 4 hours a week. Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my time there and enjoyed the people I worked with (all girls) and the manager was nice, but she was bad at communication and just taking random entire weekends off.
Now for those of you who are keeping track, I was dating someone at the time, but I don't feel that I can write anything positive right here, right now. It was a joke of a relationship and it was only an emotional crutch for me since my relationship of two and half years had just ended. I will shed a little light on what happened in the months that followed: Well we broke up in February, and I'm not going to waste anytime telling you why, since many of you already know and it is not worth my time or energy anymore. But in August when I first started at my new job, I started getting emails from my ex's new girlfriend demanding that I leave him alone. So I was totally shocked because: 1. I haven't spoken to him since February; 2. I have no idea who she is; and 3. I haven't made any attempts to contact him other than one time to tell him I accidentally shipped something to my old address and didn't realize it (which I never got back because either him or his new whatever she is took it and threw it away). She sent me a very nasty email calling me every word in the book demanding that I leave him alone. So I wrote her a simple email back saying: "I have no idea who you are or what you are talking about, I haven't contacted him since we broke up and don't want to. Please leave me alone, thanks." And the nasty emails just kept coming one after the other. I stopped responding after the second "leave me alone" email, and she kept sending long, nasty emails saying how I'm fat and ugly (you know, since we are still in high school) and just generally rambling about how much my ex hates me. I also got messages from his brother's ex girlfriend who is also his best friend or whatever (basically, the town psycho). She was a major instigator in the problems that I had with my ex's family. But I just ignored them all and eventually sent them all to a spam folder in my email. Since then, I haven't heard from them, but I have a feeling they will come back in the future and annoy me since they all have the mind of middle schoolers.
Move on to my new job: totally love it. I started August 15 and right now we are in the middle of administrative professionals appreciation week. So yesterday I got breakfast on the firm, today I got flowers from my attorneys, later today I get an ice cream social, and then tomorrow I get lunch! So yeah, this week is pretty sweet. I work in the telecommunications department and have learned a lot about things that I never thought I would ever know anything about (if that makes sense).
I have also moved to College Park into a beautiful apartment with my life-long crush (now boyfriend), Andrew, and my dog, Charlie in February. The apartment is very spacious and the kitchen is the size of the bedroom I had in my apartment in Baltimore. I've cooked just about every single night, unless Andrew has mercy on me and takes me to dinner, which is usually the Buffalo Wild Wings right in front of our apartment. I finally got around to hanging some pictures and stuff, but we are still lacking a picture to go over our couch in the living room. However, yesterday I purchased the poster to the left, which will be framed in a quality IKEA frame and then placed over our couch with other various pictures.I am incredibly happy with the way my life has turned out so far. I'm still at a crossroads on whether I want to go to grad school because I don't really want to be upwards of $30,000 in debt with a tanked job market. I'm also considering becoming a paralegal, but not sure if I want to devote the time to it yet since I would rather get into city planning. I think I'm going to play the next few years by ear and just wait and see where everything takes me. I've always been a planner and had everything perfectly laid out, and now, I'm just going to throw caution into the wind and wait and see what happens. I know I don't want to live in Maryland my entire life, and Florida seems to be in the horizon in a few years. We have another year on our lease here in College Park, and then, who knows where we will go. I do love my job and the people I work with, and leaving would be really hard.
Sorry this isn't a regular post complaining about the Metro, which I PROMISE I will do again soon!
xoxo
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