payday :)

So, today was payday. Got my paycheck from work and my government support money, I’m saving my gov. money for my summer vacation so I only spend my salary, which is nice because I don’t feel gulity when I shop as opposed with my dads money.

So, my friend and I went to our local beauty store and splurged on products. I’m a sucker for anything Clinique, it’s not a healthy addiction in term of my financial state, but I can’t help it. I like their products and my skin seems to like it as well, my Visa works exceptionally fine as well.. normally I have to wait about 5 seconds for the whole transaction to follow through but when I buy Clinique products it takes one second. Ok, that was really stupid. So, I pretty much blew my salary, I’m just waiting for my computer to be fixed and then I’ll put most of my money in a savings account far far away from my Visa.

Anyway, in other news, today I realized that I am a hazard to traffic. I almost got myself run over TWICE in one day on a bike. It was mostly due to my own stupidity, I didn’t see the car… it just appeared out of nowhere. The thing is, in traffic you can’t really defend yourself or explain your stupidity, you just have to deal with them giving you the finger when you meet at the traffic light. And that was with me on a bicycle what more a car. Any tips anyone?? So I won’t end up as road kill or killing people.

I also had another realization the other day while at work. I’ve been working for 3 days straight now and I’m hating it. It’s exhausting, waking up in the morning is harder than waking up to go to school. I seriously can’t imagine having to work for the rest of my life because unlike school where you can just skip classes, it’s work, you don’t show up=you get fired. I have a new found respect for those who work in the service industry, waking up in the morning knowing you’ll be cleaning toilet bowls, making beds, collecting trash, etc.. isn’t really one of those things that make you go “Geee.. I can’t wait to clean those supper cool toilet bowls!!!!”. Made me realize I better like what ever I’ll be doing with myself in the future. I really don’t want to be stuck in a job that I hate. That’s just too miserable. Reality however is different, it’s not always about what one wants but what one needs to survive in this overpriced world. This scares me, even though I’m 3-4 years away from actually full time emplyment, it’s still a terrifying thought.

 I started reading again, the last time I remember just lying in bed and reading in the middle of the day was back in 8th grade. It weird, now that I have all the time for doing anything, it’s so overwhelming sometimes. But yeah, it’s nice to be back reading again. Right now I’m reading a bunch of books on Influence. It’s pretty interesting and I’m learning a few new things on how to make people to do what I want them to do…. Haha..

So, that’s all I have to say for now. Somehow I still can’t celebrate my independence from high school since I don’t know if I passed yet but yeah. We’ll see in July 6.

work work work..

I work at a hotel here in my town under the job category: housekeeping (aka making beds and getting rid of the dried poop in the toilet bowl). I work about 7-13 hours a week, get free breakfast, and I get to keep whatever the guest left in their room. I get paid alright, but it’s a physically demanding job. However knowing that I’m making my own money makes it a little better. Anyways, since I don’t have school anymore work is probably the only productive thing I’ll be doing for the next month.

Today was another work day, woke up at 8:30, I found out I only had to clean 10 rooms (sweet). For breakfast I found out the chef at the hotel was one of the cooks for the wedding the prince of Denmark had yesterday and he brought some stuff back, got to taste their dessert. Since I’m not a big fan of marzipan I couldn’t eat it, but it looked good though.

Anways.. I’m starting to get use to the whole working thing, actually learned a thing or two in the hotel industry. And from my observations I can actually tell if the guest was a woman, a fat man, a smoker, and a business man.

• Women LOVE to use all the towels, leave powder and foundation residue on the sink, and a bunch of lipstick stained tissue papers all over the room and occasionally make up on the pillow. Plus the whole rooms smells like The Body Shop.
• Fat men.. well, I can just SMELL it.
• Smoker, the smell and the cigarette butts that can never be flushed.
• Business men, they use one or two towels and neatly hang it on the towel thingy, the don’t use the soap or the cup. Their bed seems untouched, they are actually pretty neat. Less hassle to clean

Some tips if you want to spare the person who’s cleaning your room work:

1. If ever you leave shit marks in the toilet bowl, scrub it with the toilet brush. IT NOT THAT HARD plus it’s still fresh after you wipe your ass. Imagine, leaving it there for hours, it’s all dried up and stuck there and requires a lot of bending over and scrubbing and some hard core chemicals.
2. Don’t use ALL the freaking towels, especially when you’re in a single room. Especially those guests who require a new towell ever single time I clean their room. Most hotels have that “hey you wanna save the environment by reussing your towel..” thing, I suggest most people do this.
3.  Flush the toilet. PLEASE.
4.  Tip us, it makes our job less miserable. HAHAHAHA.. ok ok ok.. not necessary, but after cleaning like 13 rooms finding some money or any form of thank you or something make our day a little nicer.

 So yeah, just try to make as little damage in the room as possible. Whatever mess you leave there someone has to clean it up… and that someone is me!

PS. sorry for spelling and grammar mistakes, I’m too lazy to read it over.