Penguin Pages

Yeah, dunno what's up, I just decided to put something up.  I think I was trying to see what my GF was up to.  I won't lie, I'm not all into journaling. and don't expect posts often.  So, yeah.  

Yellows are motivated by fun. They are inviting and embrace life as a party which they're hosting. They love playful interaction and can be extremely sociable and persuasive. They seek instant gratification. YELLOWS need to be adored and praised. While YELLOWS are carefree, they are quite sensitive and highly alert to others motives to control them. YELLOWS carry within themselves the gift of a good heart.

YELLOWS need to look good socially, and friendships command a high priority in their lives. YELLOWS are happy, highly verbal, easily bored, and crave adventure. They can never sit still for long. They choose friends who, like themselves, refuse to allow lifes boring details stifle their curiosity. They embrace each day in the present tense. YELLOWS are
charismatic, spontaneous, positive, and can be irresponsible, obnoxious, and forgetful. When you deal with a YELLOW praise and adore them, take a positive, upbeat approach, and promote creative and fun activities for and with them.

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I guess I should do some journaling, eh?  I just got in from work a while ago and I have officially figured out the best way to be a beer-mooch.  Step one is to never act like you actually want any beer.  Always act like you don't care and you wouldn't really want any if there was some.  Step two is to be patient.  If you're drinking at the same time as the beer buyer you run the risk of bringing attention on yourself and thus being forced to buy more beer next time.  Always wait until the beer buyer has gone out or gone to work to really dig into the available beer.  Step three is to never be home when the buyer returns and wants some of what he thinks is the remaining beer.  If the buyer gets home and wants a beer and you are there, you will probably have to face the music and go buy some beer.  ALWAYS have something come up where you will be gone when the buyer comes home AND possibly more importantly make sure your cell phone is off so that you can't be reached no matter what.  This will force the beer buyer to go buy more beer, thus beginning the cycle anew!  Let me know what you think about my theory and if you know of a way to thwart this unbelievably simple yet effective tactic.

Ugh.  I don't really feel like posting at the moment... just paid off my regular "Keep the dogs at bay" credit card bill and I'm sititing here hoping that my check tomorrow will contain our monthly bonus so that I can pay some more bills and be able to afford rent!  Bleh.  If I don't hear about a promotion at work soon I am going to have to start looking for something new.  And with all this going on, Justin goes on vacation.  What?  I'm trying to get a job here and he's asking for my records and then he leaves for a week???  What?  And now I hear that he's supposed to be going to Texas next week!  How am I supposed to hear about this if he's down there?  Do I have to wait two more weeks before I get a chance to move up?  I am just so frustrated.  I need a better source of income and I am tired of not making very much money.  It's lost it's appeal.  Plus, I'm really missing Liz lately.  I mean, it just feels like a damn long time to have to wait to see her again.  It's all enough to almost make you not optimistic.  Luckily, that's not me.  I'm going to go to work and sell 1,000,000 computers and be a happy, outgoing person.  Even if I do have to mug some guy on the way home so I can buy a cheeseburger.

Had a kinda bizarre day today. I felt disjointed, like everything was surreal.  Oh well, I sold two computers and solidified myself as the #1 rep this week, at least I hope I did.  It seems weird to me, Chaumaun is goane and I'm suppoed to be in charge and I'm so worried that I'll forget something important or something will go wrong.  I just pray that we have a great week and sell sell sell so that it looks good on me, maybe without Chaumaun around to make David look good he'll really work hard and we'll have a dominant week! 
Also, yesterday we decided to have a party to kinda break in our new house and I am getting pumped about it!  Jrey and I spent a few hours earlier today cleaning up and the place looks great!  there are still a few things I'd like to change but overall I can't complain, it almost looks grown up - if a little like grown up poor people...  now I'm getting ready to go to Champions to blow off a little steam and mingle with tha fellas...

Had a pretty nice day, got to talk to Liz for a while and had Alton (my landlord) come by to fix the a/c and the ice maker on our fridge or I least I think he fixed it.  I played Katamari Damacy a whole lot today.  In case you don't know, Katamari Damacy is this awesome game where you roll this ball around and as long as you are bigger than stuff it sticks to you, then you get bigger, then bigger stuff sticks to you... It's awesome.  I pretty much beat it, although I kept playing it becuase  it is so much fun, not something that I'm going to tire of soon.  Later on I went and played DG with Jrey - and sucked at it.  I had fun but we had a few beers and my putting abilities are aparently inversely poportional to the number of beers I have.  needless to say, one beer makes me pretty much worthless as a putter...

I can't believe how lame I have been about posting (side note, I promised liz I'd post after she left so she could be up to date) and how horrible I am about finding ways to get in touch with Liz.  I need to call Bellsouth and get my phone hooked up and be more available.  I feel like I am missing important events that are going on in Japan because I am so out of the loop!  :( 

As far as MY life goes, things are looking alright.  I'm not making shit for money working at Dell but I love it and I'm really good at it.  So far I've won five contests, two digital cameras, $50, a wireless joystick and a clock/pencil holder.  Now I am on track to win a sixth.  This week so far I have made a ton of money and am singly responsible for around 50% of our store's revenue.  I felt bad last week because the new guy had a better week than me but I came back with a vengence and am confident that no one can catch me. 

I was really worried at the start of this week... I better explain.  All last month we kept hearing about how horrible a month last October was, school is in session and everyone has their computers for that but it is too early for Christmas, so then our goals came out and they were nearly DOUBLE last month's!! So we were super stressed, especially because we had been going on last month's goals and we were on track and then we founf out we were about 20% behind goal!  Not too good!  This week however we were all set to make the new, ridiculous, goal and we find out that October goals "may have been a bit high."  So the one week we were really tearing it up and reaching the new, astronomical goals we find out they are going to drop...  Oh well, that's great for us, just really odd.  Also Chaumaun is going on vacation next week and I am going to be in charge of the store X.X   So while he's gone I am the person the reps call with problems and I'll be responsible if somone can't show up and for other stuff like making sure we're on track and doing weekly recaps, it's more responsibility and a great chance to show what I can do to Justin and Chaumaun and whoever else might be deciding if I am DBR material.  I'm nervous a tiny bit but mostly I am excited.  I think I'm going to do great and really hope I can show everyone what a great candidate I'll make for the new job.  If only it pays well enough to live on...  Anyhow, I should be talking to Liz, not typing so she can read this later.  PEACE!!!!

Got home today and there was a box on my doorstep with a digital camera and $50 in it! Yay!  The stupid camera didn't have a usb cord with it though, it has two a/v in cords and no usb! WTF is that!?!?  Still no word from Biogen, which really pisses me off, and I have to go sell computers now so I guess I will be signing off...

I've decided that standing was invented by canadians.  Damn canadians.  My feet are killing me and I haven't even started the 3 day hell fest that will be the tax-free holiday!  Speaking of which, if you need a computer and don't mind waiting 2 hours, come to the mall this weekend and buy one, you'll pay no tax and get free shipping!  I know if I had money I'd be thinking about it!  Today was a little slower than my first day, when I sold 5 computers, but I think selling that one monitor to that old guy was a good sale, he was about to walk off and "think about it" i.e. I'd never see him again, and I kept asking him questions until he realized that he should go ahead and buy his monitor with me!  It was great.  I also had a nice call with the people from Biogen and think that I am a lock.  I won't know for sure until Monday but the lady said I should expect a call from HR and the HR lady said they only call if you get the job...  ergo I think I got it.  Alright, I was just gonna put in a quick entry and go get some dinner.  I need to clean, this is my only chance before Liz gets here! :O

Well, I went in for a few hours of shadowing yesterday and I'm going all afternoon today.  I had a lot of fun yesterday doing the sales, a lot more fun then selling credit card processing, that's for sure.  I still feel a little wierd about working in a mall kiosk, especially where I think students might come by and see me, but a job's a job and it pays the bills.  I have an interview with Biogen tomorrow that I hope goes well because then I'll be doing something a little more up my alley and with a little more of a future but I have to admit that dell is a good company and it's going to be interesting working there at least for a while.  This coming weekend is tax-free weekend so everyone and their brother are going to be out buying a computer, trial by fire I guess.  Dave, the guy I shadowed yesterday said that they normally sell like 15-20 units a week but this weekend they expect to sell 80 a day!  That's crazy.  people are going to be going bonkers.  OK, I'm going to go look up some info about biogen, peace!

I guess it's been a while since I'v posted.  Liz is getting antsy...  Hopefully the wierdo's who were reading my journal before and posted anonomously have stopped by now.  If not, oh well, have fun!  I'm spending most of my time these days looking for or stressing over a job.  I have a  few good leads lined up but none of them have made me an offer yet and I am starting to get antsy.  I do have one job with a sub-contractor for time-warner available but I feel like taking a job like that would be so sleazy, like it would be a step down from working at Newman.  I think it is pretty sad of me to look at manual labor as a lower profession and maybe I need to get over it but I also want to find a job with some growth potential, something that will help me figure out what the hell I am going to do with the rest of my life.  I don't know, I think right now I just need to find a way to pay the bills, then maybe I can worry about finding a job with meaning.  Being able to look for meaning is a past time of those with money, and right now I am not one of those people.

I am not sure yet how crazy Kathy is going to be about all of this stuff from last week but I am here and I haven't seen her all day and it has been great. It is so funny how nice work can be when there is not someone hovering over every single thing you do. I guess I need to go move some stuff around, pu tmailing stuff in my car and whatnot.

So, my boss isthe most ridiculous bitchy woman to ever walk the earth. I only have 90 things going on right now and she decides that since I have had the Newsman "all week" that it is wrong for Tracy to take it to the post office tomorrow. Instead she treid to guilt me into taking it myself tomorrow or waiting until Monday. "Whatever you think is best." OMG, that is such bullshit. Then she keeps asking me about fucking palancas as if I have had 10 fucking seconds to think about palancas! So pissed it is unbelievable.

Al got a new job. In wooster Ohio. Al is married to mom. Mom's moving to wooster. Wierd. More info as events develop.

Just got in to work. There is so much crap going on here it is ridiculous and this big assed new screen I have doesn't have a contrast control so everything is too bright. Bleh. I wanna go home and play DDR.

Work work work, just like always. I just figured I should write something in here. It is gonna be a long day.

Back to work! I have that dread feeling that I am missing something but I don't know what it is. Oh well, I guess I'll just wait and see what Kathy yells at me for first!

For Liz...


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I'm bored at work with a million things to do! YAY! Ok, serious work time.

I just finished folding about 5000 pieces of paper for two huge mailings that I am suppoed to be sending out and now I feel like I am about to pass out. I haven't entered on here in forever. I guess I should be better about it. Liz left today for home - we had a great weekend and I am going to miss her. Perhaps while she is gone I should make up some friend time that I have been missing. I dunno, I just don't ever feel like doing the stuff they wanna do. Ryan is always down for fun stuff, maybe he just needs to move to Raleigh. I am just tired of going out and spending $25 on a night that I don't enjoy that much or sitting in Joe's room playing Warcraft. I feel broke all the time too. I can't seem to make headway on saving. Annoying. Anyways, I think I'll check my fantasy teams then get to stuffing.

I'm starting to think that maybe my drugs aren't working very well. I've been feeling like the old mike more and more lately. I was sleepy on the way to and from Charlotte, I noticed myself missing some words in a song for the first time in a long while, I fell asleep at both Masses this weekend, and today I've been on the verge of going to sleep several times. I'm going to have to talk to the doctor; maybe I just got a bad batch of meds, because this shit ain't cutting it. In other news, I got to Luke this weekend! My newest nephew is the coolest ever; he has the fattest cheeks and is so observant. He constantly looks around and is trying to find ways to interact with his environment. I've never seen a baby who is so self-aware at such a young age. He's smart and cute; you can tell he's a Chepul. ;) I also got to see mom and Al this weekend; Al recently lost his job and might be getting a job in Ohio. :o He does stuff for non-profit agencies and has an interview with a really good company up there. I thought it was going to be weird when he and mom were talking about moving around in North Carolina, but Ohio is something altogether different. I think it freaks me out a little, I mean my mom might be selling the only house that has ever been "home" to me. I wouldn't know what to do.
I didn't get to see Pete and Natalie and Connor and Eliza this weekend, and that's real frustrating. I came all the fucking way there to visit some family, like he rags me about doing every damned time I call him (Which, when was the last time his ass called me just to see how things were going?) and he can't find some time to see me? I got so frustrated, because I wanted to see everyone but Liz and I had tickets to the Renaissance faire and I was damned if I was going to miss most of that just for the chance to see everyone.
Speaking of which, the faire was awesome! Liz has a kick-ass Harry Potter costume and I hastily constructed a Dumbledore that turned out to rock. People were constantly whispering behind us all day, even if it was things like, "look, Harry Potter and.... that other guy" or "It's Harry Potter and Gandalf" or my personal favorite "Look, Jesus!" No offense to that guy, but Jesus was in his early 30s when he died, I looked like Methuselah with a grey beard down to my knees! I was also referred to as: Gandalf, Moses, Some Wizard, and Liz's favorite "Dumbledorf." Despite the difficulty of some to discern who I was, there were some highlights, kids asking to take pictures with us, old people asking to take pictures with us, giant tree-men, a joust to the death where our knight killed the evil possessed bad knight, me as Dumbledore giving kids some candy, (he likes candy for those who might not know) Some lady recognizing Dumbledore when Harry was in the Privy, the lady who manages the performers asking if I was one, (she was telling me to stop doing magic tricks during a show) and another favorite moment - the guy at the chess tables asking me if I wanted to play and then saying as I walked off, "Aw, I coulda played Chess with Dumbledore!" All in all it was a fantastic time, saw some crazy people, hell we were some crazy people, ate, had pumpkin ale, ate big turkey legs (or at least parts of) and almost died of dehydration and heat stroke (note to self, don't wear giant wig and beard and sweater and robe and fuzzy slippers in warm weather)