Free Write... Misc 2.3

Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations. Work is one, communication with George today... make that just the last couple days plus kids and a wrong book shipped for this class and you have a lot of frustrations.

First, work. I was working in Career Development doing resumes and helping others get jobs. I am burned out. I don't like resumes, am tired of cover letters, sick of thank you notes to employers and totally tired of whiny, ungrateful clients who demand your full attention even if you are currently working with someone else. On top of that a "team" that has backstabbing and back biting and sniping at each other. Hence, I got out of the CDC (no, not the center for disease control the Career Development Center). I used to enjoy helping people get jobs. Nope, not anymore. Now I'm enjoying seeing total newbies to computers learn the very beginner basics. The hard part with that is not doing things for them but sitting back and letting them practice. Things as simple as mouse skills are difficult.

I can barely remember when the mouse was a challenge for me. I think sometimes I was born with a computer in front of me but I know it's not true... I was 6 almost 7 when we got the TI-99 4A which had math programs and reading programs. My parents went to the store for milk and came home with the TI. I thought it was the best thing and my grades steadily improved through the fun programs. By the time I was 8 I was programming the thing in BASIC. I love computers. I guess that is why I now teach basic computers full time.

Back to frustrations. Communication is the cornerstone or should be to any relationship from acquaintance to serious romantic interests. This week has been a lesson in communication. Normally George (my sweetie), and I communicate perfectly well. This week.... not true. We needed to do some maintenance to the car and figuring we needed supplies for said maintenance I proposed a Wal-Mart trip. I needed to get to the bank and we ended up at Fred Meyer (grocery, etc. retailer for west coast) since my bank is also in the store. I made a leap of logic when requested to pick up food items that we'd be eating as we went across town to WM and also figured that the non-food items which are generally less expensive at WM would be bought there. Nope, George had other ideas. We'd go home, eat and go back out.

We got home, ate and then he played a game and some videos of wolverines and wolves and bears fighting and then we headed to the car. Just as everyone gets in the car he remembers that he possibly has what he needs for the car maintenance in the trunk, gets out to check and lo and behold there the stuff is... he just hadn't used it recently. He proceeds to do the maintenance getting all oily and having to go back inside to clean up. At this point it's getting late and I'm not about to start dragging kids out and I have this post to make along with homework to read. You see, my intention was to do the banking, get to WM and then get homework done. We totally did not communicate what we wanted to accomplish tonight.

We sat and talked about the miscommunication, realized it and he's making chocolate, chocolate, chocolate sourdough brownies from scratch which was what he wanted to do tonight. I'm happy.. I guess as I get brownies.

Kid frustrations.... my eldest child has been on a lying jag recently and is finally starting to snap out of it but now her younger brother has picked up the problem. Just parenting woes there as they will both outgrow the phase but it's still frustrating.

Last frustration, I promise, was getting home today to find my school books I'd ordered sitting on my porch. One is a wonderful copy of a much needed book for Alaska History and the other is the assigned reading for this class. Unfortunately for me the company that was supposed to send my book for this class gave me a nice book on Radiographic Imaging. Now if I were a medical student I would probably gladly sit and thumb through it but I happen to be a Business Management major and thus have to spend the shipping money to send it back and get the (hopefully) correct book. How long that will take, I'm unsure but hopefully only another week and not more.

Enough frustrations for now. I'll be adding to my other blogs as well in the next couple days as I have updated only 5 of the 7 I currently have in the last week. When I start writing I really get rolling.