sometimes in life you need a little perspective. Sometimes I let things affect me negatively and I shouldn't. I never realized how much I am ruled by my emotions...but also, more powerfully, I could control my emotions in a small way, and eventually in a large way.
Whoopi Goldberg taught me on The View, that no one can make you feel a certain way, only YOU can ALLOW them to make you feel a certain way. This affected me tremendously, and I think of it often.
Tonight a co-worker dropped a $20 bill. I thought it would be funny to convince him that it was mine, and if I were convincing enough, he would give it to me, at which point I would immediately give it back. Well it backfired horribly. Not as horribly as it could have but....well he believed that I wanted the $20 bill, but knew it was his all along. So he thought I wanted to steal it. When I explained that I was joking, that I would never take his money, a preposterous notion to me, he did't believe me and even told someone else, see she was lying because she stuttered. okaaaaaaaaaaaay whatever. I guess I can't joke around like that.
But I can't let this affect my life either. People will think what they want to think of me, how are they to know about my exceptional morals? Guilty until proven innocent, right? I can't be friendly with someone who thinks I'm a thief but I don't have to be obnoxious or immature either. I was thinking he would tell me that he knew I was joking the next time I saw him, and knowing that it was a lie because I SAW the look in his eye, and tell him I knew it was a lie. After all, if he really did believe me, why wouldn't he say it tonight when I was so obviously pissed about him saying I was trying to steal his money. But now I'm thinking I will just let it go, bygones be gone and all that crap. Because so what if he DOES think I'm a thief? God knows and I know and my husband knows. Hell, my own brother accused me of stealing his crappy gameboy.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Hurricane Ike
Well we fared the storm. It hit Galveston at about 2am on Saturday morning 9-14. It started hard here by 6am. It was a little hard to sleep. Let me just say, wow. We are extremely lucky. We were totally and completely unprepared. We have some roof damage, those damn insurance people were supposed to call by today but they haven't. We lost power, Rick says, for about 9 hours but I slept through most of it. It was on when I got up at noonish.
Yes, we are of the lucky few. 2.2 million customers were out of power, roughly 4 million people. But not us. We have satellite, internet, hot water, food....Even now, several days later, most of the people I know here are without power. Most of Cypress does have it but not Fairfield. We are the only ones with roof damage in our neighborhood.
Ike was a Category 2, and hit at 110 mph. Galveston is meSsed up. Nicholas was out of school Friday and will be out for the remainder of this week. Worked on Sunday at Pizza hut, we did carryout only, and it was crazy. Scott kept telling us, don't take orders, take orders, don't take orders. I know we pissed off more than a few customers. I don't get why. It's like they didn't realize that there was a hurricane and that everybody & their mama would want food because there was no power. We only sold large and med. handtossed, beef, pepperoni, or cheese. And the customers weren't happy. Did I tell you that we were one of maybe 3 food places OPEN???? You would think these people would realize that we were short on employees, getting our asses kicked and ALSO went through an effen hurricane.
So I called today to see if we were delivering and Victor said we were but for some reason we did not have many deliveries, only carryout. I wonder why. Very strange to me. We were closing at 8 too so I didn't go in since Rick needed to fix someone's computer for Subway.
What I would do differently....
if it was a harder hit, a harder look at evacuation
more more more water
ice ice, baby
more non-perishable food
I don't know. If we had done any of these things it would have been a waste but it could have been sooo much worse.
Aunt Bettye and the rest of that side of the family went to Smithville to ride out the storm in her RV. I was so worried but thank goodness they didn't get any weather. They are extremely lucky that the storm went east a little.
Yes, we are of the lucky few. 2.2 million customers were out of power, roughly 4 million people. But not us. We have satellite, internet, hot water, food....Even now, several days later, most of the people I know here are without power. Most of Cypress does have it but not Fairfield. We are the only ones with roof damage in our neighborhood.
Ike was a Category 2, and hit at 110 mph. Galveston is meSsed up. Nicholas was out of school Friday and will be out for the remainder of this week. Worked on Sunday at Pizza hut, we did carryout only, and it was crazy. Scott kept telling us, don't take orders, take orders, don't take orders. I know we pissed off more than a few customers. I don't get why. It's like they didn't realize that there was a hurricane and that everybody & their mama would want food because there was no power. We only sold large and med. handtossed, beef, pepperoni, or cheese. And the customers weren't happy. Did I tell you that we were one of maybe 3 food places OPEN???? You would think these people would realize that we were short on employees, getting our asses kicked and ALSO went through an effen hurricane.
So I called today to see if we were delivering and Victor said we were but for some reason we did not have many deliveries, only carryout. I wonder why. Very strange to me. We were closing at 8 too so I didn't go in since Rick needed to fix someone's computer for Subway.
What I would do differently....
if it was a harder hit, a harder look at evacuation
more more more water
ice ice, baby
more non-perishable food
I don't know. If we had done any of these things it would have been a waste but it could have been sooo much worse.
Aunt Bettye and the rest of that side of the family went to Smithville to ride out the storm in her RV. I was so worried but thank goodness they didn't get any weather. They are extremely lucky that the storm went east a little.
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