another year older

with my birthday coming up, i realize i'm spent most of the last year making sure others are comfortable and not taken enough "ME TIME" so i'm going on a trip. my best friend is coming out here the week before my birthday and then the week after i'm going to escape from the madness. i changed my shift at work and my living arrangements and i think i just need a real break from it all. i was told that my destination depends on how much i want to spend but right about now, i may just send my boys away and stay at home to ensure i don't stay gone. because in all honesty, that's what i want to do. iowa is beckoning me to come back and right now if i go somewhere, i'll make sure i get comfortable enough to want to stay. so i guess the only thing for me to do at this point is decide if i want to stay or go. there is really not much holding me back. so for now, only time will tell.

please shut the eff up!!!

i am so sick of hearing people bitch and moan about petty shit. i work for a company in customer service and all day long i have to listen to people cry about stuff that is a luxury. what ticks me off is people scream and yell (most of them swear. i've even had some cry) and then they have the audacity to say "no offense to you, but i'm just mad" well for the freakin record, IT IS OFFENSIVE TO ME to be yelled at and called out of my name for something that i have no control over. i don't make the prices for the products and i surely can't create a special price just for you because you want everything that we offer but you only want to pay the price we charge for a little bit of the products. i can't yell and curse back at you so why would you do this. i can understand a slip up every now and again when you're talking in a calm voice because i've found myself slipping in a curse word every now and again when i'm on the phone handling business, but i don't just start the conversation ranting and raving. these things don't get anything accomplished and i like to make that fact known when i'm speaking with these belligerent individuals. i doubt they would appreciate someone coming into their place of work and yelling obscenities and calling them out of their name (at least pronounce my name right when you're gonna try to curse me out). i guess i'm done bitching and moaning to cyberspace for now. i think i'll recommend a day that we can talk back to the customers the same way they talk to us (sans the curse words) because that would probably deter some of the madness we go thru at work.