Overworking?

I now know what my friend David feels like. I've been working 9am to close (8:30/9:30) on Monday and Tuesday at my old job, then I work 8-5 Wednesday and Thursday at the new job, 11:30-8:30 Friday at new job, and 8:30-4 Saturday and Sunday at new job. I think I have this upcoming Sunday off. That's good in a way, but I'm concerned because that pool is really short on people available Sunday. Sunday was a be-on-tower day, not an office day. So, the new job is going really well. I've been working on a Cashiers' handbook with FAQ and important information on our programs at a glance. It's kind of like turning my mom into a cell phone retail person, they have to learn a lot of things they probably never thought they had to know. I think the highlight of the week has been getting the garbage disposal fixed. That not working made the sink back up when we tried to use the dishwasher. Oh, that and getting keys to work, that was nice too, we've been waiting for a while. Hmmm, what else is new this week... My husband made a plan of action for getting through the next month. He has a THIRD interview tomorrow with a company, they told him that he's meeting the president and chief operations officer, and he's already been told that his background check cleared, so I think it's looking good there. It'll help us out a lot when he starts working full time again, in a lot of ways. A lot of them financial (like being able to fix the car, get a land-line phone, etc), but a lot of them emotional too. Him being under-employed has been very stressful on us both. On that note, we've been doing better. I think he was surprised when he read the last post about my depression, and us talking about it in depth and resolving some things made our situation with each other better. You all know a little fighting doesn't mean there's not as much love, it just means there's something there to be discussed. People at my old job are so devious. It's strange the difference from my Tuesday to my Wednesday. On Tuesday I had to write up one of my senior guards (lowest level of management), and on Wednesday one of my assistant managers was making a lunch run for everyone because we looked a bit groggy. On Monday I walked in to find a meeting agenda in my inbox saying there's new procedures but not outlining what they are, and on Wednesday another manager and myself sat with the Aquatics Supervisor and discussed possible solutions to the same issue and came to a compromise plan drawing from all of our experience in four different aquatic centers (two municipal, one college, one military). It's like moving from a downtown ghetto to Pleasantville USA where the cheer captain dates the quarterback and everyone turns out for the big game (speaking of which, I missed homecoming again). It's a bit of a culture shock. My mom suggests that I don't burn my bridges at my old job, and that if Charles does't get this job he can look for work in the San Gabriel Valley or in the Los Angeles area and I can continue at the old pool. I'm not so sure that'll work for me anymore though. I've gotten a taste for this real world thing where people treat their peers with respect and behave at work as though they could get fired. Not that I want to fire people, but when they know that no one who cares to do so has the authority to do so, things get bad. Trust me on that one. But yes, I'm tired. My depression doesn't help that, but I do feel just a tad overworked. I'll be okay, though, I'm enjoying myself. :) Apologies for the ADD-style post, I can't help it, just having a bit of a rant.

*sigh*

I've been going through a period of depression, starting at least a couple of weeks before the wedding. I have no car, it wouldn't start when I tried to leave work on Saturday. So now Charles drops me off and picks me up at work. Not too bad for when I work in El Monte, because there's a Taco Bell / Pizza Hut within walking distance. Only thing within walking distance of my work in Ventura is a gas station though, so that means I'm not eating lunch. Then we moved my tv/monitor to the bedroom so we can watch movies since we have no tv (because we don't have cables for it) so now I have no computer because I have no monitor. And I still have no tv because I have no cables. And we have no money. Luckily both of our families gave us generous wedding presents in the form of checks, or else we'd really have nothing. We had to pay a $1,000 deductible to get our Focus out of the shop, paid $500 in repairs on our Explorer which now once again doesn't work. I had to explain to my boss that my car would sit there after closing until I had money. That kind of sucked... So yeah, no car, no computer, no tv (I know that sounds vain, but I'm used to watching the news for two hours in the morning and one in the evenin five days a week, so this is a shock to my system), no music, no internet access from home (which would do me no good since I have no computer, but it's still a big change for me), no money... My new job has been going well. We had a little tiff over not doing things by the book on my first day with my guards. My boss didn't tell me she wants things done a certain way (which is not what's in the textbooks) so it really threw me off when she interrupted my class to "correct" the guards on their deep water spinal injury management. It's a change in technique that requires there to be two guards at all time, because she has them ditch their rescue tube, so that throws off our Emergency Action Plans too. I have to have two guards jump in, one to get the victim and one to get the rescue tube and re-position it. That leaves no one on deck in the deep end to clear the pool out. We'll see how it works, we get real people in the pool tomorrow. the city's having a donors party (people who donated lots of money toward construction) at 3, then a city employees (and immediate family, so I invited Charles) party at 4. Being invited to a party where I have to work kind of sucks, but someone has to make sure no one drowns, right? Well, anyhow, Charles is at home and grumpy and has work to do on the computer, so I'm going to go now. I haven't touched the computer since my last update, and probably won't again in about as long. But I'm still alive, that's part of my contract. I'd say someone call me, but we have no phone either, and I have zero cell phone coverage at our apartment. :(

First day at new job

Remind me to tell you about my first day at my new job later! I'll replace this post with that.

Wedding picures 1/3

First batch of wedding pictures are now uploading (online by the time you read this =P though). This is the first disposable camera we used, the second one is still half done so we'll have that developed after it's finished. The third batch will be the photographer's pictures. Keep you posted. http://photos.yahoo.com/calliope320 Click on wedding, I'm not feeling snazzy enough to grab you a link straight there.

Still alive

Still alive, anyone reading. Just busy! Got back from honeymoon and in the process of finishing up moving and starting new job. My boss at old job questioned (to the other manager, not to me) why I am now only scheduled for twice a week. She doesn't know I got another job. That'll be interesting when I go to work on Tuesday. :)