so, i was reading Lyle's blog (i would make it a link but i don't know how to do it) and i was reminded of the crazy times I've had while delivering newspapers. This is what i think of when someone talks about delivering newspapers:
1. The Journal is a newspaper that nobody, especially college students, cares about. My brother once dumped a whole bag full of The Journal newspapers into a dumpster to win a race in delivering them and NONE OF THE CUSTOMERS CARED!!! i always wondered how he would deliver to 20 doors and beat me when i only had 8 doors to deliver to.
2. speaking of those 8 doors i delivered to, there was an old man that lived at one of the houses and he was always on his porch when i came by. When i would hand him the newspaper he would be kind enough to give me a quarter. well, this happened so much that i came to expect it. One day he wasn't on the porch, so i rang the doorbell and when he answered the door i gave him the newspaper and said, do you have my quarter? yes, I'm a selfish little girl, but who cares, i got my money!
3. Could the Journal even be considered to be a real newspaper?
4. Delivering the Daily Harold is way worse than delivering the Journal. I think i came to this conclusion because i didn't know that delivering newspapers was the worst job in the world when i was young and delivering the Journal.
5. black hands, black walls, and angry mom. we would fold the newspapers in the kitchen and by the time we finished folding them all our hands were as black as.....well, newspaper ink. then since we were kids, we had to touch all around the light switches to turn on and off lights. My mom would be mad because not only did she hate the newspaper routes, but I'm pretty sure she hated that we turned everything that we touched black.
6. Big brothers are mean. this isn't necessarily only related to newspaper routes, but i remember being teased relentlessly by my brothers whenever we had to deliver newspapers. i don't remember anything exactly, but i know it happened. i think I've blocked it from my memory subconsciously.
7. I wonder if a certain family noticed how often i accidentally threw the newspaper onto the roof and not onto the porch. oops! i wasn't ever strong enough to throw the newspapers overhand, especially Sunday editions, from the sidewalk to the porch. So, instead i would lob it underhanded. Now when someone does this, the newspaper makes a huge rainbow like arch on the way to its destination. a lot of the time, the roof above the porch was in the way of the path of the newspaper. I think at some point there were about 5 newspapers on the roof. Now these people are my next door neighbors. hehe.
8. Newspaper routes ruin every holiday! i remember having to deliver papers on thanksgiving and Christmas. what a way to ruin someones two favorite holidays. wake up at 6am to deliver papers. yuck! one year on Christmas when i had to deliver papers, i decided to peek downstairs at some of my presents. I saw an American Girl Doll i had wanted for a long time down there and no one was there to see my excitement. i was mad that the newspaper route made me lose out on the excitement of me finding it for the first time with everyone around. I still acted excited when we all went downstairs to find our gifts, but it just wasn't the same.
well, that's all that i can think of. now instead of naive kids delivering newspapers, it's ladies from down south driving their minivans delivering the newspapers. what has happened to our society?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Sorry, I gotta go, the phone is ringing!
I have been pretty busy lately ever since I got married. I'm working two jobs, one at Westridge and the other at Brent Brown Chevrolet as the receptionist. Jarred works at Brent Brown too, except he works outside in the cold while I'm inside in the warmth with a space heater under my desk.
There are some pretty interesting people in the car business and there are customers that are just as "special". Anyways, during slow times some of the salesman will occasionally come up and talk to me. Normally I'm okay with this because a lot of the guys here are nice enough. But then there are also the ones everyone else tries to avoid. However, I have a hard time avoiding these types because I have to stay at my desk in case a phone call comes in.
so this means that I'm stuck in a five square foot area while some guy is chomping up and down on his gum as spit flies out while he drones on about how selling cars is all in the mind. First of all, what the heck is that supposed to mean? Second of all, your weird!!!
okay, so I never said that to his face because I'm just too nice to do that. I've tried many ways to tactfully show that I am busy and can't talk, such as vigorously studying my philosophy textbook, but how long can anyone pretend to do that? I've also just not contributed to the conversation by just saying, "uhhuh, yeah, that's funny" but they don't get the clue that I'm not interested in talking with them.
so, I have come up with a new plan that just might work to keep the annoyers from talking to me for too long. On the phone that I use there is a button for how loud the volume is for the ringer. Normally I have it set to "off" because that way it only makes one small ring instead of one that keeps ringing and ringing when there are multiple people calling in at the same time. Anyways, when I push the button to make the ringer volume go up one notch it rings once to display how loud the ring will be.
Well, this will come in very handy when a salesman is blabbing on and on to me about who knows what. All I will have to do is slide my finger up to that button and push it once and the phone will "ring". I have to answer all the phone calls, which means I have to stop talking to whoever I'm talking to and pick up the phone. Then I will just say my little line of introduction to a dial tone and "transfer" them to someone then that will be that. If they are still at my desk after I'm off the phone then I will just do it again.
I think this is a brilliant plan! Hopefully it isn't too cruel. Should I not be such a pansy and just tell the salesman that I don't want to talk to him? What would you do?
There are some pretty interesting people in the car business and there are customers that are just as "special". Anyways, during slow times some of the salesman will occasionally come up and talk to me. Normally I'm okay with this because a lot of the guys here are nice enough. But then there are also the ones everyone else tries to avoid. However, I have a hard time avoiding these types because I have to stay at my desk in case a phone call comes in.
so this means that I'm stuck in a five square foot area while some guy is chomping up and down on his gum as spit flies out while he drones on about how selling cars is all in the mind. First of all, what the heck is that supposed to mean? Second of all, your weird!!!
okay, so I never said that to his face because I'm just too nice to do that. I've tried many ways to tactfully show that I am busy and can't talk, such as vigorously studying my philosophy textbook, but how long can anyone pretend to do that? I've also just not contributed to the conversation by just saying, "uhhuh, yeah, that's funny" but they don't get the clue that I'm not interested in talking with them.
so, I have come up with a new plan that just might work to keep the annoyers from talking to me for too long. On the phone that I use there is a button for how loud the volume is for the ringer. Normally I have it set to "off" because that way it only makes one small ring instead of one that keeps ringing and ringing when there are multiple people calling in at the same time. Anyways, when I push the button to make the ringer volume go up one notch it rings once to display how loud the ring will be.
Well, this will come in very handy when a salesman is blabbing on and on to me about who knows what. All I will have to do is slide my finger up to that button and push it once and the phone will "ring". I have to answer all the phone calls, which means I have to stop talking to whoever I'm talking to and pick up the phone. Then I will just say my little line of introduction to a dial tone and "transfer" them to someone then that will be that. If they are still at my desk after I'm off the phone then I will just do it again.
I think this is a brilliant plan! Hopefully it isn't too cruel. Should I not be such a pansy and just tell the salesman that I don't want to talk to him? What would you do?
Friday, January 12, 2007
what the? i'm married!?
I still can't believe that I'm a married woman. it is 2 weeks to the day now of being married. that is so weird. there aren't a whole lot of new things, but heres a list of things I've noticed that are different now that I'm married:
1. my hubby is very clean and organized...I'm not always perfectly clean and organized. but I would like to be, so he's a good example.
2. having someone in the same bed as me makes it a little weird to sleep. i'm getting used to it now, but at first it was hard to get a good nights rest because when he would move then i would sort of wake up.
3. i'm living with a boy! i've been rooming with girls for the past 2 and a half years.
4. i am buying coffee creamer to help wake us up in the morning. just kidding, he is lactose intollerent, and he doesn't like soy dream, so he uses coffee creamer on his cereal. it doesn't have an extremely bad taste, but i'm definitely sticking to regular milk from the cow.
5. since he is so organized i see him folding his DIRTY laundry and putting it into the basket. i haven't exactly picked up that habit, but i have picked up his habit of separating the laundry into lights and darks as we put it into the dirty laundry basket. it really does make doing laundry easier.
6. i'm buying more food than normal. and whats with utah prices of food? milk costs $2.30? at least? i so like the rexburg prices better. milk $1.89. that was the good life i guess.
7. no internet in the apartment. i'm weeping inside.
8. old 70's furniture. not that its bad because i'd rather have a couch and chairs than nothing. but they just look funny.
9. i'm decorating my own place. i think i only decorated my own room a couple times growing up, so i'm pretty new at this. i'm trying to do cool stuff, but i haven't watched While You Were Out in a while, so i don't know if what i'm doing is cool or not.
10. last but not least, my new name is mrs. Brandt! thats so cool, but if you call that name while my back is turned i probably won't respond to it. i still need to get used to it.
so, do these things sound like normal things to get used to in a marriage? things will only get more different when we start having kids. but don't hold your breath, there is no honeymoon baby.
1. my hubby is very clean and organized...I'm not always perfectly clean and organized. but I would like to be, so he's a good example.
2. having someone in the same bed as me makes it a little weird to sleep. i'm getting used to it now, but at first it was hard to get a good nights rest because when he would move then i would sort of wake up.
3. i'm living with a boy! i've been rooming with girls for the past 2 and a half years.
4. i am buying coffee creamer to help wake us up in the morning. just kidding, he is lactose intollerent, and he doesn't like soy dream, so he uses coffee creamer on his cereal. it doesn't have an extremely bad taste, but i'm definitely sticking to regular milk from the cow.
5. since he is so organized i see him folding his DIRTY laundry and putting it into the basket. i haven't exactly picked up that habit, but i have picked up his habit of separating the laundry into lights and darks as we put it into the dirty laundry basket. it really does make doing laundry easier.
6. i'm buying more food than normal. and whats with utah prices of food? milk costs $2.30? at least? i so like the rexburg prices better. milk $1.89. that was the good life i guess.
7. no internet in the apartment. i'm weeping inside.
8. old 70's furniture. not that its bad because i'd rather have a couch and chairs than nothing. but they just look funny.
9. i'm decorating my own place. i think i only decorated my own room a couple times growing up, so i'm pretty new at this. i'm trying to do cool stuff, but i haven't watched While You Were Out in a while, so i don't know if what i'm doing is cool or not.
10. last but not least, my new name is mrs. Brandt! thats so cool, but if you call that name while my back is turned i probably won't respond to it. i still need to get used to it.
so, do these things sound like normal things to get used to in a marriage? things will only get more different when we start having kids. but don't hold your breath, there is no honeymoon baby.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
HOLY COW!!!!!!
I AM GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!
I AM GOING ON A HONEYMOON TRIP TOMORROW!!!!!!!!
WAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
the only bad thing right now is trying to figure out that darn insurance coverage business! it is a pain in the neck!
I AM GOING ON A HONEYMOON TRIP TOMORROW!!!!!!!!
WAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
the only bad thing right now is trying to figure out that darn insurance coverage business! it is a pain in the neck!
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Finals just might kill me!
finals = near death experience.
i think i've even seen the light...the light of the testing center! people just tell me to go towards the light, but instead of the light of heaven i think it is the light from the flames of, well, you know where.
Testing is of the devil. who agrees with me?
okay, so testing in general is not of the devil, but having 6 tests in one week is!!! whats up with that!? i've taken 4 of my 6 tests for this week and i think i've done pretty good on most of them. tomorrow i have 2 big finals.
one of my finals is a clinical final for my medical assisting class. i take it with a partner. One person is the medical assistant and the other is the patient. one little fun thing we get to do is give intramuscular shots...like the typical shot you would get in your deltoid. the only scary thing though, is that we have never given shots on an actual person before! that means that i'm being tested on something i've never actually done before! not only that, but i will be getting a shot from someone who has never given a shot on a person before, but she has given them on cows before. i don't know if thats very comforting though. she's used to being forceful and just sticking the needle into the cow, i sure hope she doesn't treat me like a cow!
the other final i have is on medical terminology. i hope i do well on that test, although i'm spending some of my study time for that test writing this blog. i'm sure i'll do fine, at least i think i will. i'm crossing my fingers.
then on monday i have my last 2 finals of the semester! i can't wait to get them over with because that means i get to go home and see my fiance, celebrate christmas, and then get married! i'm a crazy woman, but pretty soon i'll get to relax and have fun on my honeymoon. i just can't wait to get to that point. until then...i'm going to be the psycho in idaho.
i think i've even seen the light...the light of the testing center! people just tell me to go towards the light, but instead of the light of heaven i think it is the light from the flames of, well, you know where.
Testing is of the devil. who agrees with me?
okay, so testing in general is not of the devil, but having 6 tests in one week is!!! whats up with that!? i've taken 4 of my 6 tests for this week and i think i've done pretty good on most of them. tomorrow i have 2 big finals.
one of my finals is a clinical final for my medical assisting class. i take it with a partner. One person is the medical assistant and the other is the patient. one little fun thing we get to do is give intramuscular shots...like the typical shot you would get in your deltoid. the only scary thing though, is that we have never given shots on an actual person before! that means that i'm being tested on something i've never actually done before! not only that, but i will be getting a shot from someone who has never given a shot on a person before, but she has given them on cows before. i don't know if thats very comforting though. she's used to being forceful and just sticking the needle into the cow, i sure hope she doesn't treat me like a cow!
the other final i have is on medical terminology. i hope i do well on that test, although i'm spending some of my study time for that test writing this blog. i'm sure i'll do fine, at least i think i will. i'm crossing my fingers.
then on monday i have my last 2 finals of the semester! i can't wait to get them over with because that means i get to go home and see my fiance, celebrate christmas, and then get married! i'm a crazy woman, but pretty soon i'll get to relax and have fun on my honeymoon. i just can't wait to get to that point. until then...i'm going to be the psycho in idaho.
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