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Ah you guys...Ethan...what can I do for you? Not much. Just send oodles of love love love your way. You are loved and valued. And I know that sometimes it gets lonely but have faith and things will work out. I believe that, but I also believe that you have to put yourself in the way of good things. So keep your eyes open and "kairon gnothi"...know opportunity when you see it.

Oh yeah, yummy cookies! Of course I would pick something profound for my email. Yeah, it's greek. Anyhow I hope you get that Xbox you want.

Your touchdown dance? Ok, that prompted a very strange visual. =P

cool! I always wondered what that kairongnothi meant.

Um. I'm not all that rantable right now. I know that today was like, my second worst day of work OF ALL TIME but now that work is over I'm not angry or emo anymore. I love myself for letting it go already. Nonetheless: "Rarrr snargle #$%^ and such for s**t being s**t earlier!"

Now, I shower. Then, I eat.

Ta!

I, in contrast to my usual page-and-a-half rants, am only semi-rantable right now. Went to the doctor for a checkup the other week (at my mother's insistence, btw, because she thought that my lung capacity was strangely decreased from normal (not that I noticed, but that's my mom for you)). The bill came today - over eleven hundred bucks. Keep in mind that this whole doctor's trip was not only my mother's idea, but set up by her as well. Now, WHY would she be complaining to me about it as if it were my fault?? The bottom line for the whole thing is, I got a prescription for allergy meds and a prescription for generic Prozac. Now, this is one thing you have to understand about me - I hate medications. I fight taking them for any reason; I had to take a nutrition class and do a full nutritional analysis of my typical diet to realize that I needed to take vitamins. So having two new meds dropped on top of me, even though I need them, is tough to swallow. Pun intended, of course. It's just a tad bit embarrassing, because none of my family takes anything, not on a regular basis, anyway. Now here I am with three. Has me a slightly bit bummed. Not that I'm going to be complaining in a month, after the effects have had a chance to stabilize - I'm looking forward to losing my childhood nickname of 'snotnose' (due to the fact that I'm allergic to both cats and dogs and we've had one or the other for my whole life, thanks, Mom and Dad) Bleh, just wish there was some way to do it without making me feel like I'm seventy and having to pop pills for breakfast...

Gosh, that wasn't such a brief rant after all, was it?

To GR: Yeah, I feel the same. Or, I should say I *felt* the same. Before I started taking anti-depressants I was all up ons against taking any pill on a regular basis. Overtime I've sorta not minded taking pills if it was for a reason, and haven't minded the notion of maybe having to take a second pill myself (a second anti-depressant). I see where you're coming from, though! ~throws his cat at GR~

To Liz: hope you feel better soon. Good luck at work!

My rant: It's too early for a rant, but here it is; a bad customer. Or, should I say an angry customer. I can't really say they're bad cause I think these two people are the ones who take care of persons with a disability, i.e. physical deformity, mental retardation, etc., which is a pretty noble thing to do. But at the same time they got on my case cause they bought a 7-in-1 Pedometer from our store, and the battery died soon after the first couple of uses. When I checked it out I told them the battery had died and that they had to pay for the replacement. So the first woman paid for it; a little while later she came back with her friend and it was her friend who started bitching about 'Oh you guys are called Batteries Included, but if the battery is dead then tough luck'. I tried telling her that we have no control over what the manufacturers put inside their products, and that we can at most only guarantee that there'll be a battery inside upon purchase. Any subsequent battery replacement has to be paid for. But she'd have none of it and didn't even let me finish and promised to make sure she tells everyone not to come here.

I can understand why they'd be upset, I really can. At the same time some people have to understand my position; policy is policy, and I'm only a good little soldier in this scenario. I'd not pit my job against a battery replacement of $2.98. If they really wanted to make a difference they should talk to my manager.

Their stance, to me, is pretty childish all things considered. If they really thought about it we really can't control what batteries the product manufacturers put in there. Had they pointed out that the batteries were dead before they bought it perhaps my manager could have done something for them. As it stands they didn't have a receipt of the original purchase so even if I could do something in general I'd not have been able to do it then without the receipt.

Might be hypocritical of me to say, although I'm the type of person who if something goes wrong readily realizes that there's not much that can be done outside any special warranties. Might be it's my personality; I just don't like to cause trouble and to force issues.

And, speaking of forcing issues; I'm more receptive to ppl who don't yell or resort to childish antics. I'm sure everyone is. I'm more receptive to ppl who can calmly tell me their concerns and can readily and willingly see things from all angles.

At the end of the day, it's just $2.98.

yeah i hate customers like that, the week before christmas some guy came into the customer service desk at work all drunk.. and threatened the girl there if she didn't give him back his money.. Ephram he's a manager was there to try to stop it, and everyone loves him.. and they all said that they would protect him if he tried to hurt him.. but it was horrible, had the girl in tears and everything.. sometimes people are i dunno..

and i made it 4 hours into my shift, and i went home.. first got my paycheck, then went to the bank.. call the todd, and ended up at his place.. he missed Liz so he says, and i went there.. he was probably expecting me to be spunky, but little did he know that i was really sick.. so i ended up laying on his bed sleeping.. today after he gets off at 4 though, i'm going to attempt hanging out with him.. and he said go have dinner somewhere or something, i hope i don't still feel all pukey, cause i kinda still do..

okay i really don't have nothing to rant about at the moment, well i could find stuff, but i don't wanna..

I am surprised that you have been put on Prozac. I hope you get to feeling better soon.