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My Life Thus Far
2010-02-05 21:48:24 (UTC)

I'm Making It So!

Yes, I've been slacking on my writing duties, I'll admit
it. I haven't really had a good reason for it... Other
than sometimes it's hard to bring myself to a complete
stop, in front of the computer, with a will to write, no
less. Right now I felt the desire, so here I am :) The
past week has been fairly uneventful. We've all just been
going about our business as usual. There were a few
interesting days in there I can share.

Last Saturday, Snookums and I went out on a double date
with another 2nd Class from Snookie's division and his
wife, Tiffany. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I'd
managed to get myself pretty worked up about (will they
like me, will I like them, will it be fun or torture? The
usual stuff). It ended up being a fun time. We had dinner
at Red Lobster, then went to the casino. Jason and Shane
played 21, Tiffany and I played the slots. They came out
of it up $10 and we came out of it up $50, so it was a
good evening for all! They're coming over this weekend for
the Super Bowl, which neither Tiffany nor I could give a
rip about, so it'll be nice at least having each other to
talk to.

Tuesday at work, an older lady in a scooter came into the
store and handed me a letter. I didn't think anything of
it. I just told her I'd make sure the store manager got
it. Little did I know what was in the letter. Tiffany
opened it and posted it on the wall in the office.
Basically, it was from a lady that came in a few weeks
ago. She said that on the night of the 14th, she came into
the store and was treated terribly (by Tamara and I)
because she's overweight and her mother was in a scooter
(due to her weight). She said we looked at her in disgust
and refused to help her. At first I was very hurt. There's
NO WAY I would do something like that and I felt bad that
she felt that way. Then I was angry about it! How dare she
judge me like that! She doesn't know anything about me or
my life and she's projecting an emotion like disgust on
me? Totally unwarranted! She doesn't know that I myself
was obese. That I've worked long and hard to get healthy,
but I know how it feels to be bigger and discriminated
against because of it. Then I was confrontational about
it. She put her address and cell phone number on the
letter. I wanted to talk with her in person about it, but
I didn't. It wasn't my place. Then I got over it. After a
few friends reassured me that it was her coming into the
store expecting that kind of treatment, not us giving her
that kind of treatment. She came in expecting Victoria's
Secret associates to be stuck-up, superficial, pretty
girls, not wanting anything to do with somebody that
didn't fit that stereotype. Well, she was wrong. Tamara
called her on Wednesday and talked with her about it. She
told her my story and how much it hurt us to read things
like that (she said we had terrible customer service
skills and we shouldn't work there, she was boycotting the
store, etc). Apparently it was an assignment for a college
course on Customer Service. I think I'd like to have a
talk with that teacher...

Wednesday I felt like nothing about my day was going
right. I wanted to go to Zumba class because I knew it
would cheer me up, well. I couldn't. Childwatch was at
capacity and they couldn't take Kiki and Keenan, so I had
to miss class. I ended up just coming home and crawling
back in bed. Thursday I didn't even bother getting up
until right before work. When I absolutely had to. After
two really low days in a row, I woke up vowing that I'd
MAKE today be a good day, even if it started to feel like
it wouldn't be. Well, so far that mentality is working. I
got to go to Zumba class this morning. I shook my ass
extra hard to make up for missing Wednesday's class! I
don't know if I work tonight or not (on-call). I'll call
in a minute, but either way I'm sure the rest of my day
will still be great :) Because I'm making it so! Ciao...




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