Time Off?

So I decided to finally took a day off from all of the people on the phones. I used the time instead to catch up on much needed work for college!

I read 4-5 short stories that didn't seem that short. Then spent 2-3 hours doing a take home astronomy test where I had to double check my answers even though I basically knew I was right. .....must check! .....need kudos! I still have commentaries to write on those short stories and 5 chapters to read from I book I still need to get by downloading. Huzzah for going for a 4.0! and thank goodness for Saturdays!

Dishes

You know you need to do the dishes more often when you take a couple hours off the end of work to go do them and still have time in the day to do stuff.

Gratitude

It has come to my acute attention that nobody listens. Yes it is a sad truth. I work in a customer service job for a credit card and when people call with problems I'm the one to help out. I do this especially if they want to close. Yeah, I can hear you roar-"Your one of THOSE GUYS?!" I weep. Yes and duh!

I have had people who'll explain their problem and I know exactly what can help them. I explain in detail (If they'll let me) that I have exactly what can help them in the way they wanted or even better and they still don't take it..... go fig.

Other people once and a while call in for something, and the more I help them, the more I'm nicer and helpful, the worse and more rude and upset they get.

Then people will call in as if they were the king/queen of Sheba and expected to be rolled out the royal carpet. I then proceed to do just that, and pull a rabbit out of a hat, but because it wasn't "good enough" they refuse all help even though it's what they wanted and needed. I guess we need to drag our managers into the street, shoot them, close our business, live homeless and give them all the money. Then will they be satisfied? Sometimes I doubt it.

I like it though when I call to lower their interest rates and give them money we owe them. People will hang up without listening even what I'm calling about. It takes 10 seconds REALLY! The best is when I actually get to lay it out to them and they say," No, I'm good." Okay! give me the money then! and your low rates! You know they'll be the ones calling in saying,"Well you never called me, and you never lower my rates or gave me money back!"

Now before this comes out as a total rant I want to say Thank You. Thank you to all those sweet nice people who do listen. Because even when you choose not to accept, or it really doesn't help you, we'll actually know and be happy about it because we still served you. By listening, even if you didn't want it, you showed gratitude for us being alive and asking.

Wow That was a while....

SOOOOOoooo yeah...

Lots of stuff

Let's go chronologically.
The Anniversary was a smash hit! I did everything Heather alliterated and a bit extra. Sorta.. ish. I got her some roses with I love you and Happy Anniversary on them (She wanted 2 dozen but I thought they were cute). While she was getting her hair done, which she so desperately wanted to do.(and later her nails as well) We went to a family parties at my brother Nate's and then off to dinner a Tucci's. (highly recommendable) There I pulled out Heathers ring with the two side additions at which time her jaw simultaneously dropped and spread into a huge smile. Why was it all so good though? I was a surprise! SURPRISE! Wait... how could it be with a ring missing for a month? Leaving while she gets her hair done? How do I do it you ask?! LIES! Pure rubbish spewing through my teeth. To get the flowers and ring "I was filling up the tires" Which a made a 5 minute speech on how I hate you have to pay for air. (I really DO hate that!) For The dinner I told her and eluded to in my post here about dinner made by me for us here by candle light. The Ring was so funny because we went in to get it cleaned, re-sized, and discuss options for enlarging it later. (Good thing I had good bonuses from work) The shop guys mentioned that one of the diamonds was a tiny bit loose but okay. So they kept it longer to "fix" that problem after enlarging it. It worked beautifully. Funny thing... later we did have 2 tiny diamonds pop out of the additions but they re-did it for free and soldered all of the sections together. Now that it's thicker we need to re-size it larger! LOL.

New Years was Fun at my Brother Nate's.

I had 2 GREAT friends each stop by for a while New Years Week though they missed each other. Gawl! There is no better thing than to catch up with an old friend and have fun like you used to. Ricky came from New York and Alex with Becky from Alaska. Life and scenes may change but real friendship stays the same.

My wife and I found out we're being, ..... how do I put it...., thrown out? Replaced? Suddenly relocated without arrangement of arrival? ....anyway. THAT by my wife's aunt. We were told and not by her (we weren't ever consulted or asked by her) that She was moving to SLC in March into Grandma's basement where we currently reside. This was decided upon by Heather's aunt. Good to luckily find out (with no help from her) with 2 months warning! There's lots of positives though... Don't have to worry about Grandma or Heather's aunt prying in, she'll be here. We'll also have more freedom of time. As for space and money we shall see. We're thinking of moving back into my parents place in the rear room. It might be lass space and we will pay rent this time but you can't beat the company! Parents, my sister Ki and her family, and with Tom and Syhalla constantly dropping by we'll always be having fun in the best house ever. Now this isn't settled yet. We're also kinda thinking if we can find a good place that meets all our needs in life for the same price we might go for that... but we need to find, it set it up, and have the money for it.

So Yeah,

There you go. The major events catch up game is compleet. OH! I started my next semester of college and my astronomy teacher ROCKS! ;D