Good morning.

When I was a freshman in high school I used to line the baseball fields for little league.

It was 150 degrees outside in the summer so I blew it off most days even though I was suppose to do it Mon-Fri.

Needless to say the parents hated me.

:giggle

The summer after my sophmore year of HS I worked at Kiddieland Amusement Park in the food service dept. It was MISERABLE. If it was 85 outside, then it was 95 in the food stands, and there were always flies everywhere. We were a bunch of teenagers who were being managed by older teenagers with clipboards and superiority complexes, so you can imagine how bad it was.

My first day of work was a 12-hour shift working on the popcorn cart. I stood there all day, making and selling popcorn, standing next to the put-put cars. Worst.Day.Ever.

It's funny, because Kiddieland is closing this year after 80 something years, and they had a segment on the Today show about it the other day. I felt all sad and nostalgic until my horrible ex-bosses came on to talk!

I don't think I have every had a truly enjoyable job. I am fairly certain I am allergic to working.

I do remember being a camp counselor a couple of summers, and at this one music camp one summer, Toni Braxton's two younger sisters were counselors with me. She was just really making it big then, and I thought it was SO COOL that I knew her sisters. They bragged about Toni all.the.time.

Oh, and this one summer, I started out working at this little local Greek place-that guy was such a cheapskate, you weren't even allowed to drink the soda there (and they still to this day don't allow free refills-for customers that is). And this one Mexican dude who cooked there in the kitchen went to Rite Aid on his break one day and bought me a bottle of cheap perfume, lol. I didn't stay long after that.

I also worked that summer at the Macaroni Grill. I sucked as a waitress. They really only hired me because I can sing. I was the resident singer that summer. I still have a scar on my arm from a dish of lasagna that was so hot it burned me through two layers of towels AND my shirt. Youch.

I had a wacky scary dream this morning, but I don't remember all of the details. It was, as they all are, about something happening to my kids and my not being able to stop it.

-- Edited by Supafly on Sunday 6th of September 2009 02:10:22 PM

my most fun was as a ticketing clerk at a riverboat casino. the girls i worked with were so fun and it was nice getting out of the house at night when i was a single mom.

dreams ... i had a dream the other night that my mom was pregnant!!

Toni wrote:

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The summer after my sophmore year of HS I worked at Kiddieland Amusement Park in the food service dept. It was MISERABLE. If it was 85 outside, then it was 95 in the food stands, and there were always flies everywhere. We were a bunch of teenagers who were being managed by older teenagers with clipboards and superiority complexes, so you can imagine how bad it was.

My first day of work was a 12-hour shift working on the popcorn cart. I stood there all day, making and selling popcorn, standing next to the put-put cars. Worst.Day.Ever.

It's funny, because Kiddieland is closing this year after 80 something years, and they had a segment on the Today show about it the other day. I felt all sad and nostalgic until my horrible ex-bosses came on to talk!

 

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omg, i TOTALLY saw that!

hi girls!

my "funnest" job was the summer after my first year teaching - i took at temp job at an ad agency in denver.  i was just a receptionist, but i had very little responsibility outside of answering the phones.  i played tons of games online and stuff like that.  they gave me a few little basic jobs on occasion.  when they figured out i was pretty good on a computer, i started helping some of the guys with spreadsheets, etc.  that was fun.  but they had a super fun environment there - chair massages fridays, an awesome kitchen with gourmet coffees, etc.  lots of parties.  they did lots of the coors ads, so i got to drink a lot of beer on fridays, etc.  fun times!

supa's story reminded me that my first job ever was at boston chicken (as it was called then) and i had tons of mexicans hitting on me all the time.  i quit after one of them cornered me in the walk-in cooler and i was really scared he was going to rape me.

i had a dream about our Jr ROTC captain at school the other night.  weird.

This morning, Henry asked if we could eat lunch at the zoo. I told him we couldn't afford it so he offered up $12.

We went.

We were there a really long time.

It was fun.

When we were finishing lunch, Henry said, "Now what do you say?"

I was confused; "What do you mean?"

He said, "Well, I paid for lunch."

So Mark and I told him thank you.

In addition to seeing all the cool animals and the sea lion show, we rode the tram and played in the fountain.

so we're looking at upgrading to a bigger boat.

we just bought this boat in april, but for as much time as we spend there, it's just way too small downstairs. there is no storage and we are constantly tripping all over each other between the 4 of us and the dog.

matt's putting for sale signs on it right now. our neighbor says he'd be shocked if it didn't sell in the next few weeks. i hope he's right. i hate having to sell stuff. we did already have 1 person come and look at it and he seemed to like it. but lots of boat shoppers are tire kickers. (ha, that's a funny cliche to put there)

anyway, now we are on the watch for a new boat for us. ideally we could sell our boat at the end of the month, be boat free over the winter and buy a new boat in the spring. that would save us all of the winterization and storage fees.

apies wrote:

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holy crap.

2 of my students from last year just showed up at my house.

they used to always tease me that they were going to stop by and they finally did it.

too bad i'm wearing no bra, no make-up and i haven't brushed my hair today.

gross.

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Did you answer the door?

Also, I hope your boat sells quickly.

I like your plan to be boat-free for the winter.