Waiting on the word

As you probably know by now, I am working a summer sales program with Siren Inc. in Texas. When I was hired I was told that this was only a summer job but most likely, if I did well, they would find a job for me at the corporate office after the summer. My boss and many others have told me that I have been doing a wonderful job this summer. For a few weeks, since I almost went back to Arizona but was asked (told) to stay, I have been under the impression that I would have a job back there after the summer. They had SAID I would have a job, but never really told me what it would be. None of my questions to anyone were ever answered as to what my job would be so I began to wonder if I was going to have a job then. So, when I was asked to go to the extension office, I figured it would be a good time to find out what I would be doing after the summer back at corp. So I told my boss, if I was going to go to the extension office, I would need to be promised a job at corp. I am very glad I asked because she told me that they are trying to find a place to put me back there. I thought it would be a simple 'yes' and I would just Find out what I'd be doing there later. But it really has been a waiting game.My boss will be talking to the VP of the company 2 weeks from tomorrow to figure out what will be going on with me. It bothers me that it will take that long to figure that out cause, by then, if I don't have a job with Siren, I should have another job lined up. I wish they would just give me an answer so I would know what is going on. I just get the feeling that they will try to force me into the other office and then not give me a job, but I just have to trust them a little and have plans in case it doesn't work out.

The good news is everyone loves me here. (At least, that's what they tell me.)

Blast from the past

So I was randomly messaged through Facebook by an ex-girlfriend. This was really weird for me cause things didn't really end well with us. I caught her with her ex-boyfriend. Yeah, it wasn't very cool. After telling her that I really din't think of her and I don't think much of her at all, I asked why, after over 2 years and the way we left things, she would contact me again. She said, 'A book reminded me of you.' Yeah, a book. Awesome. I am glad I don't make a habit of using impolite words cause I would of had a few for her.

In other news, some of the reps thought it would be funny to get one fo my roommate onto the balcony and throw water ballons at him. Worst part was, he left the door open and now the house is sort of wet. Along with my laptop. Not surprisingly, I am not happy with them.

Glad for my Dad

The last few days have been pretty strange at work. I've had to go to the office at many strange hours. Yesterday, for instance, I was in the office till 4am this morning. Its nice to get all the credit for the work I do, but I realized I have to give credit to my Dad for this. He has instilled in me an amazing work ethic. I am going to be honest, I don't work nearly as hard as my Dad, but I like to think that one day I might be close to that. If one day, if I could be half as good a man as my Dad is, I would be pretty well off. Thanks Dad for everything you have helped me become.

And now it all catches up to me...

The last few nights, I had stayed up till 3am or later. Today, I took a 5 hour nap. Not really sure what to do with my self right now. I think I'll chill at the hot tub till I have to do some extra work. One of the other offices closed so now I am going stay up late counting their inventory.

Guess I should get started relaxing before work. Later folks!

Results from the weekend

Well I didn't win anything, but I didn't lose anything either! I did end up playing a game and losing but since we hadn't bet anything on it, I didn't lose anything. We ended up switching from Poker to Rats and then Spoons. Both fun games, both games I lost at. All these card games reminded me of youth camp. Oh, those great days! But it was fun to hang with some of these guys. Definitely a good night with some really cool friends.

Poker!

Poker night with the guys. Hope I don't lose too much. Will report results tomorrow.

A visit to Dallas

Today, I went to Dallas for E's birthday party. I had a really good time talking to her friends and spent a bit talking to her mom. Really nice lady, not that I am surprised at all! It was a cool restaurant with a pool randomly in the back. I guess that's just how they do it in Dallas.

When I left, I thought it would be fun to just drive through downtown Dallas and find my way back. I was really excited to add photos that I took on my phone to this post. Uploading issues have derailed my plans. Maybe I will edit it later and add these for you.

Also, all you kids out there should learn from me. When spending a lot of time outside in the sun, drinks lots of water. I wasn't feeling very well when I got home, but a nap helped take care of that.

It pays to go swimming.

Last night, Jeff, Pat, Gene, and I all went to the pool to take a dip in the hot tub. Jeff and I got there first and say 4 people currently occupying the hot tub. I decide to visit the pool instead of crowding the hot tub with them. Jeff steps into the water and quickly gets out cause it was too cold for him or too dirty (there were a few bug floating on top. I stay in cause I'm from Buffalo, unless there is ice in the water, its nice enough to swim in. As I am floating around, I notice something floating in the middle of the pool. A little nervous as to what it is, I slowly approach. I was dark so I couldn't see what exactly it was but it look a little translucent and green. I then notice a number five on it. I reach over and pick it up, finding that its a five-dollar bill.

I just made $5.00 by going swimming!

I then go over to chill with Jeff in the hot tub as the 4 strangers are leaving. As they get out, Gene and Pat arrive and we just chilled for a while.

All in all, a pretty decent night!

Quick Question

Just a brief post tonight. I am really sort of worried about this. I just finished 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and just started the next book. Am I gay for choosing to read next 'Pride & Prejudice'? Or is it only bad if I find myself enjoying the book and debating who Mr. Darcy should end up with?

Take me out to the ball game!

Last week, if the reps in the office sold enough, the office would get to go to a baseball game. Well I was told we didn't get enough but we still did convince the boss to buy us tickets. Being SportyDebo, I was excited to go to a sporting even. Not as excited that it was baseball but at least the team I root for, the Boston Red Soxs, were there. (Not that they won.) Though I must say, my team is pretty boring to watch. (Might have something to do with losing.)

Here's a picture from my seat.

What was old is new again

I started doing things I haven't done in awhile. No, I am not talking about wearing diapers or anything that long ago. I started playing my guitar again. Still don't know that much but I can enjoy playing what I do know, just not in front of others. I also took out my roller blades again. This was a bit more painfully than the guitar. I started skating down the sidewalk by my apartment when I noticed it ended. Instead of stopping and stepping down, I thought it would be a good idea to jump the curb. I did stick the landing for a second or two. Then my knee, palm, and butt got a little roughed up. Nothing major, just skinned my knee and palm a bit, but I think I bruised my left butt cheek. I know everyone wanted to know specifically which side I hurt.

No worries, I'll be good.

Just a few thoughts recently

Well, maybe I'll post every other day? Like most of my other endeavors, I just can't really commit fully to this. Hope I can keep putting something on this. I have to keep my fan (Mom) happy by keeping her updated.

After hearing about how good the show 'No Reservations' is, I decided to give it a try. I quickly have fallen in love with the show. It is not the most amazing show or all that ground breaking at all. I think what amazes me is the fact that the show is, in a simple sense, just an essay with a video to go a long with it. Recently finding that I actually, somewhat enjoy writing, this excites me. The thought that, with just writing essays, I could have the opportunity to do some really amazing things. It just thrills me and really makes me consider strengthening and using my writing skills more than I currently am.

The other thing about the show that I love is all the places Anthony Bourdain, the host, goes. I have only watched a handful of episodes from the first season, but he has already spent time in Iceland, Paris, Vietnam, and New Jersey (I know, New Jersey, so exciting!) Thinking about my future career, one of the biggest things I want to include is the opportunity to travel. I would love to be paid to go to new places. This is one of the reasons I am trying to learn other languages, so when I do go to a new country, I can attempt to speak their language, instead of just looking like another stuipd tourist. Learning French hasn't been going great lately but I hope within the next few days to really sit down and study it again. I feel if I can start nailing down other languages and get a feel for them, maybe I should take them in college. If that goes well, maybe I should consider what being a linguist would be like. What would it hurt to look into?

Thats about all I can think of sharing tonight. Hope you are all doing well and keep doing so!

I am (in) a Green Lantern (hat)!

For those of you who don't know, I bought a Green Lantern hat. I am a big Green Lantern fan, so when I saw this hat on sale, I felt I needed to buy it. I think it is pretty cool, and that I am pretty cool when wearing (but really, when am I not cool?) The only issue is that not many people know who the Green Lantern is. It isn't like people come up to me and comment on my hat much. If they did comment on it ALL the time, I think it might get annoying. But every once in awhile someone will say something about it, and that makes my day. It boosts my ego more when that someone is a pretty female! And yes, that did already happen!

For those of you who don't know, this is the Green Lantern symbol.

SLACKER!!!!

Well I am finally showing my true colors. Yes, as most of you know, I am a slacker. I had been attempting to post on this blog once a day. Well yesterday, it didn't happen. I could try and find many excuses, but the truth is I just didn't think of it. I did remember this morning, when walking to the office that I hadn't posted, but by then I felt it was too late. Yes, I could have changed the date and time that it shows I posted this at, but I felt that was cheating. So I will be honest, I just didn't post. Shame on me and all that.

But if I was going to blame someone, it would be Conan. Damn you Conan!

Stupid Sleep Schedule

Yeah, I messed up my sleep schedule again. Yesterday, I was invited to see Harry Potter, which was very enjoyable, by the way, so I figured I should take a nap before going. This caused me to sleep much longer than I wanted to and, after the movie, I couldn't fall asleep till around 4am. Not a good time to fall asleep when you wake up at 7:30am. So today, I ended up napping most of the afternoon. I would usually fall asleep for around an hour before something woke me or I got up to do some work or something. Then, I'm guessing around 7pm, I was sitting reading on the couch. The next thing I know, it's 9:30pm, Kelly is calling me asking if I am going to dinner with the company. I decided against it cause I just had woken up. I send my boss a text just to make sure I get the money for the dinner. And now here I am, it's almost 11pm, a time when I am normally thinking about going to bed soon and I'm not tired at all. Awesome.

Naps, sometimes, I really hate.

Harry Potter!!!

Going to see Harry Potter tonight with a few guys (and one girl, don't want to seem sexist) from work. Should be a good time. For some reason, even though we have the tickets, they called me to meet them there around 2 hours before the movie. A bit excessive to me but what do I know. Well got to run.

I just really hope I see someone dress up! Those people are the best!

Finally found some good Pizza?

I am incredibly excited! One of my roommates, Pat, is also from Western New York. We often talk about the delicious food Western New York has. Today, when he was selling, he met a customer from Buffalo. They ended up sitting around for a bit talking about some different restaurants that are in the Fort Worth area that are as good as some in Buffalo. I am looking forward to driving around soon and picking up some food. First on the list is pizza. I will post as soon as I try it.

Friday's notes

I wanted to mention this earlier, but the last few days had been a bit taxing on me. You might have noticed those very short posts, yeah, sorry, sometimes I can be very lazy. But I will give you guys an update.

So Wednesday night, two of my friends, Whitney and Christine, came into town. They were out in the Siren New Jersey North office, which merged with the Fort Worth office, and stopped in to visit on their way back to Phoenix. It was really nice to see them again. On Thursday night, one of the reps from their office who is now here was having a B-Day party so the three of use went. I had a good time getting to meet the new reps. I ended up getting back at around 1am. This became a problem when I woke up to drive to San Antonio for my little brother graduation. By 'a problem' I mean I went back to sleep till like almost 6am. I then spent over 4 hours in the car, in which time I was called 3 times for deliveries. The person who was filling in for me just decided not to go to the office in the morning, so we missed a delivery or two. The drive actually didn't feel that long but it might because I looked like a head-banger. Next time I have that long of a drive, I'll make sure I have a good nights sleep and coffee/energy drinks. When I got to San Antonio I found I was too late for the graduation. So I hung out at the hotel that my parents were staying at till they got back. Then, when Pat got there, we went out to eat and stopped by the Alamo. Yes, I will remember it, and no I could not find the basement of the Alamo. About 4pm I figured I should be heading home, so I spent another 4+ hours in the car driving back to my apartment. After arriving at the apartments, I spent the rest of the night moving boxes around the office, receiving shipments, and pretty much just doing what I do. No offense to anyone I work with, and I don't really think I am this valuable, but I really wonder how long this office would be able to stay open without me.

When looking back on Friday, and yes there were some fun parts in it, but for the most part, I wonder why I enjoy msking my life so hard. But I think it mostly came from a lack of sleep, or maybe that's just an excuse to sleep more.

Another one

Well today was another day I would rather forget. I was locked out of my apartment most of the day. The guy who locked it said, "I forgot you lived there." Makes me feel awesome! Maybe I will write more tomorrow. Hopefully!

Meeting!

After a long day, most of which was spent in the car. I am calling an emergency meeting with my head and my pillow. More news from the last few days will follow and if others send/post pictures on Facebook, I might add them here too.

Music, Everyone Loves It!

For the past year, I have been trying to clean up all the music I have on my computer. By this, I mean rating all my songs and deleting ones I don't listen to. This process has been taking a long time cause I have a lot of music, around 5,500 songs. The other problem is that after I delete 15, I find 20 more to download and rate. Even from those 20 songs, I will still have to figure out if they are all worth keeping. Many people wonder why I am doing this and my only defense is that I want to enjoy each and every song I have. I want to, as much as I can, know the songs I have on my computer/iPod.

One day it will all be cleaned up, probably when I go deaf or something.

I Fought the Law, and had to wait!

Ah the legal system! I got a speeding ticket a few weeks ago. So I went to the court last Thursday and was informed that I had to see the Judge, who only is in on Wednesday from 9am-10:30am, then back in from 1pm-2:30pm. What nice hours! So, I went back today to try and take care of the ticket. I wait in line for the appointment with the Judge, then wait in court for my name to be called. I get up there and tell him I want to plead 'Not Guilty'. I then am told I have to meet with the prosecutor. That date will not be till August 4th. Awesome! 2 trips to court already and nothing has been resolved.

On the upside, I got to wear nice clothes today, and I looked sharp. Sadly, there is no photographic evidence.

Pizza anyone?

The other day, I had a craving for pizza. For me, this isn't unusual, I love pizza and crave it very often. The strange part is that I realized that I haven't had a pizza in around a month. Well, at least not that I remember. Normally, if I thought about it, and found it to be the case that I hadn't had pizza in about a month, I would do one of two things. I would either: 1) Go right out and buy one, or 2) I would crawl up into a ball and cry. The reason this time was strange was because I actually just went upstairs and made a sandwich. Should I be worried? Am I getting sick? Or should I just be ashamed of myself?

In defense, I am trying to not spend as much on food till my friends come into town tomorrow. I figure I'll be spending money hanging with them and after that I may drive to San Antonio, which probably wont be cheap. I just have to figure if I have enough to buy a pizza before I leave.

Death of a (Potential) Salesman

I found out I'm not really interested in door to door sales. I tried to go out with one of the reps today to see what its like and see if I could do it. I watched for about a half dozen doors and then I took the lead. Not five sentences into my pitch, I am tripping over my words and trying to figure out what to say. I bombed most of the ones I tried, though one I might have been able to get if I could have figured out what to say. The good news is that Pat H. was with me and might save the deal, he'll go back on Wednesday to see if they are still interested in the system.

Though I am not going to give up and I hope to get at least one deal before the end of the summer, I don't really think sales is in my future. Not that I am upset about that!

Kicked out

Yeah, I was kicked out of my company apartment in Fort Worth the other day. This was a first for me, getting kicked out of an apartment, but not as bad as it sounds. It was somewhat expected. Let me explain.

So earlier this week, the NJ North office closed. They were having trouble selling in the area they were in so Siren decided to combine the office. So 9 reps and 3 techs moved down here on Friday. We had to figure out where to put everyone and I told Tyler that my roommate and I could move out of our 3 bedroom into another room where there are only a few people. He tells me no, he'll have the 5 guys from across the hall move, 3 into my room and 2 downstairs where there are already 2 guys. Thinking that was it, I go to Dallas to hang with some friends and watch fireworks. Having a good time meeting new people, I get a text at 10:30 from my current roommate telling me we are getting kicked out. Needless to say, this sort of ruined my night. I call my boss and flip out for a bit but just said that I'll move out the next morning. I was pretty upset for having to move. I was more upset for 2 other reason. 1) I had made this suggestion to him and he told me no and then takes my idea when I can't do anything about it. 2) I was told about this by my roommate and not my boss.

But it isn't all bad. I now have a balcony and a better internet connection. I can actually get it in the whole apartment and not just one room!

Happy Fourth!

Hope everyone had a good Fourth of July! I am happy to say I did. In the morning I had a bit of work to do. Some new guys came in and I had to move out of my apartment into another one downstairs, so I had to take care of that too. But after all the work was done, I went to Dallas and hung out by a pool with some people. I only knew one of them, 2 I had meet the night before, but the other 5 were new to me. It was nice to sit in the sun for a few hours with some cool people.

A bit of a problem arose though. I had thought I forgot my bathing suit until last night, I found the bag I had thrown it in before I left. The thing I forgot was that I had placed it in the bag when it was still a little wet, and I had left it there for almost 2 months. Not good. So I didn't go IN the pool today. Guess I'll be getting a new one soon.

Dallas!!!

Went out tonight. Hung out with friends in Dallas to watch fireworks. Good times. Also, trying to post this from the iPhone. (Actually didn't post from iPhone, will need to work on a bit more)

Gone Fishing!

Today, I was invited to go fishing with Jordan, the lead tech from the office. I have been fishing before but not in years. I only went fishing in the pond at the Debo-rama, but I don't think that counts cause I was never seriously fishing then. It was late in the day, so Jordan said we were only going to go for like 15 minutes, so we grab his stuff and jump in the car. We drive down to this little stream right by the apartments we're staying at. Long story short, I caught 2 fish. We wanted to do catch and release but I didn't know how to take the hook out and when I pulled the first fish out, around 2 inch Blue Gill was what I was told, Jordan wasn't around. By the time he got back and we(he) got the hook out and tossed it back in, it didn't go anywhere. Two casts later, I catch a fish, Spotted Bass I am told, that was at least twice as long. I was pretty proud of myself. I never really thought I would enjoy fishing , and I am far from sayign I am a fan of it, but I think if I am invited to go again, I'd totally join.

Going back to AZ early...or not.

It is pretty nice to find that your boss thinks highly of you. Today, I was told that one of the other office was going to close and combine with our office. I have two friends working in the office there in New Jersey, so I was pretty excited to hear they were coming here. It only took me a second to remember that there are 3 office positions and they are all filled here. So I quickly asked my boss what was going on with everyone. She tell me that I am being replaced as the inventory manager for Whitney, the inventory manager from New Jersey, and I was getting moved back to Corp to help in payroll. The company knew I was looking for a job after this summer gig is over, and they had an opening for me. I was pretty excited to be going back to Arizona. I would get to see my friends again and start looking at the houses in Tempe. I was also pumped for the different job I would be doing, not really sure what it was but I get bored easily, so a change was sort of needed. The news of the other office closing hadn't spread too much. The only other person I thought would know about it was Tyler, the head rep, who oversees this office. He had known about the merge, but when I mentioned that I was going to Corp, he laughs and says, 'I have the last word on that.' I get a call a bit later telling me that I was actually fought over and that I will be staying in Fort Worth for the rest of the summer and take the position at Corp after the summer is over. Pretty cool that Tyler thinks that highly of me to actually say that he wanted me to stay. As for my friends for New Jersey, Whitney is going to Corp and Christine is coming here for a few weeks, to help the merge go smoothly, and then she'll head back to Corp.

Pretty eventful day for me and my job. I was a bit let down when it all changed. I was really excited how everything was working out, but now I get to stay in Fort Worth. Still some stuff I wanted to do here, so it all works out. Plus, not sure if I am totally ready for an Arizona summer!