May 31st

I WANNA TALK ABOUT MY WORK!
(Oh my heck... but I also have to recap the holiday weekend...)

But there have been some crazy stuff going on here!

Yesterday I got called in for a semi-intense interview with my bosses. One came out with a notepad and a subordinate and basically just flicked her finger while the subordinate muscled her way into my chair and she told me that she and the other boss needed to talk to me. I didn't hesitate, got up and followed. When I sat down in his office, he had a giant bag of Hi-Chews sitting on the counter next to us and he just immediately asked when I sat down, "Tell me about the Hi-Chews."
So I did! Quickly and efficiently I told the story of my finding a giant bag of Hi-Chews on my desk after I returned from the bathroom and my across the hall neighbor telling me the "Costco guy" had left them for me because I was really nice to them. I help a lot of people in a day and it's beyond me to know who all of them are, so I just assumed I had helped some Costco guy, so I was happy. (I even posted about it!) But I realized later as the day was winding to an end that it was possible that it was the other receptionist gal that had been intended to be the receiver and my hunch was founded when I saw a Costco flyer on the bathroom door. So there had been a Costco guy. By now I, of course, had eaten some, but I swore to bring it back the next day. The next day, I mentioned it to my receptionist gal, and gave it to her, and she said she wanted to leave it in the back, or the break room, but then we decided on kind of splitting it, so she dumped a number of them in the bottom of my backpack, which of course sounded suspicious when I told my bosses, but I assured him it was consensual. I still don't know why it was such a big deal, but he had bought an entire other bag of Hi-Chews for the other receptionist gal to basically recompense her for my "theft" and I think the Costco guy called or something. I thought it was weird that we were devoting so much time to it when my receptionist gal and I had already worked it out. Just misunderstanding I guess. :/ I felt kinda cool because my conscious was clean, and I had literally gone out of my way to do the right thing (AKA bringing back a three pound bag of Hi-Chews over three miles walk just to make sure it got to the right owner who I was sure would never know if I never told her)  My bosses accused me of taking what wasn't mine, but I explained, and they realized it was complicated and let me off the hook. I felt kinda suave.

Other than that - today I tried a different approach to the building. I walk to work now in exercise clothes and change when I get there into something nicer. At first this was a tactic to look nice and impress my bosses to get a job higher up that I had applied for, but then I didn't get the job. I've just kept doing it. But today I didn't feel like i needed to awash my hair, but by the time I got to work, I was hot and sweaty and my hair did NOT look good. So I snuck in through the back and was smart (and felt like a spy). It was totally empty. So I slipped my skirt on over my exercise pants, put my pants around my neck, pulled out my hairbrush and dipped my head under the big sink in the far abandoned kitchen. My head smelled AWFUL. Like sweat and dirt NASTY. So I took all my stuff, took it in to the Women's bathroom nearby and brushed it best I could. It's probably not really allowed to wash your hair in the sink... but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Then I messaged two people today about personal things (WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE DONE THAT, but one was about potential job and one was about caaaake!)

Then TODAY my boss was actually impressed with me! She was standing behind me waiting to tell me something, and I always get kind of nervous when she's watching everything I'm doing, but then the lady started asking something, so I gave her all her possible options and then wrote down a phone number on a post-it note for her. When she left, my boss was impressed. She said I was quick, to the point and she was impressed that I had had the number memorized. Model employee for the win!

That's kind of it for the work. I wanna give you a run-down on what's been going on lately, mainly the weekend and last night, etc.

Last night we had a meeting with a former friend from our Self-Reliance class we took. Okay, it wasn't a meeting, it was dinner with her and it was AWESOME. After kind of a rough night of friends a different night, this was a great soul-cleanser. She made a great spaghetti dinner, and we talked about cool stuff, and she told us about her, and we told her about us. It was a pleasant night. She is putting us in charge of taking care of her LARGE white pyreneese and we are excited to do it!

This weekend summed up:
Saturday we helped my family reinstall a floor for the shed. I wanted to go to Home Depot instead of cook and my family made an insanely big breakfast. It was cool.
We headed over to the cemetery to meet up with Atlantean's parents, but they didn't show up within an hour or so, even though we saw their flowers on the grave. Atlantean cried a little, as we basically introduced each other to our grandparent's headstones.
Then we drove all the way out to Orem to go to a Telos Space Discover Open House, where the simulation was unimpressive story-wise, but we got the chance to talk to some officials over jobs, and they said they'd love to let us shadow. I'm extremely interested.

Sunday we went to church and went to nursery. My friend gave me some earrings she made as a "belated birthday gift" and I went around and announced my play in a couple more classes, namely Young Woman's and handed out flyers to those I knew were interested. Unicorn (Jinn and Troll's daughter, our niece) was finally okay to kind of be there without her mom for interspersed moments.
We went to my brother Wolfman's ordination at my parent's house and Atlantean was able to stand in the circle and ordain him an elder. Also, if I didn't mention, Vampire got his calling to Montana, which is so cool. Wolfman and Satyr are expecting theirs any day now. It's still surreal.

Monday we went up with Aos Si to the mountains (on a hike that nearly made me throw up, I'm getting out of shape...) to shoot slingshots, and despite my heavy breathing and my constant breaks, we found a perfect place. It was a mountain side that we put paper into, or chose to shoot into plants. We got comments from the few hikers who passed by, but overall it was super fun and we tried different ammo and different targets and different tactics. We agreed we'd love to do it again and Atlantean really felt like it filled his soul.We headed down to get brunch and saw some friends who had just been discussing inviting us to a party.
Jinn showed us around the neighborhood when we got home, showing us places like banks, post offices, grocery stores and her favorite chocolate place. I had her show me around to some ward member's houses too.
We showed up at the party later that night with flan and played some card games with some of our weird cards, and then we played the jackbox party pack on their TV. It was fun, but there was a part of me that felt degraded. Like the only way to win was to get laughs by being superficial or inappropriate. I tried to be true to myself by being authentically witty, or atleast attempting to, but it just doesn't get the votes like crass jokes do.
Atlantean and I were actually feeling kind of crummy. He hadn't taken his meds, and I was feeling betrayal a little bit. I asked if we could stop to lie on the grass at the church, and he lovingly obliged, the wonderful man he is. We discussed stuff, meanings of life, what God is trying to teach us, who we want to be, and I just couldn't deny how much I love him. He is a wonderful human being, and I'm blessed to have him in my life.

Also I am in the running for a contest on Facebook! It's super small and lame, but I'm actually really excited about it! It's a "Ruin a Disney movie" contest that you explain a disney movie badly and get as many likes as you can. Here's my entry:
Rudely-stereotyped pixelated red-headed giant with large hands befrenemies small candy-themed child with physical disorder in order to gain status and unknowingly overrule tyrannical cheater. Giant is also not above licking those who oppose him.
I'm currently asking family members to like it... Not sure if that's cheating ... But it's working so far.

There is also been a little bit of buzz about the play coming up! I have some kids showing interest.
More on that later since auditions are next week.

Oh! And Wolfman has agreed to look at some of Jinn and Troll's electric problems, which is weird for me, but makes sense. Hopefully goes well!


~Nymph