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My Life Thus Far
2016-08-13 05:12:16 (UTC)

To Put A Face To A Name

As with so many attempts at making quick/easy money, doing online surveys turned out to be way more hassle than it's worth. After letting the emails pile up for 4 days I came to two conclusions: 1) I shouldn't have given them my primary email address. My phone stayed blowing up ALL day and 2) You get way more invitations to take surveys than dollars or points earned. Reason being, whoever is conducting the survey asks a dozen questions just to see if you're the type of person they want taking the survey. I'll answer 10 questions only to get to something arbitrary like "what type of device are you accessing this survey on?" I'll click mobile device (because it's so much faster doing surveys on my phone than on my laptop), and I'll get a page telling me I'm not the right demographic. After I've already spent 10 minutes filling out prerequisites. If you aren't invited to complete the survey, you don't get points or dollars, or whatever the company is using to pay you (points can be redeemed for gift cards, offer codes, or credited to pay pal). So, I spent about an hour attempting to start one survey after another, only to be denied. I made no money. So, basically it was an hour of my life wasted. I cut my losses. I unsubscribed to all the sites (at least 5 of them). I'm sure there's a way to be successful at it, I'm just not interested.

It certainly comes as no surprise, but I didn't get up and go running this morning. I just couldn't. But I thought about it all day. I was going to go this evening, but by the time I got off work, picked up groceries for dinner, got home and settled, it was already getting dark. I'm not comfortable running around here in the dark. We live on a rural road with no sidewalks and either slim or non-existent shoulders. I may be depressed, but I'm not suicidal. Maybe tomorrow. I'll just keep thinking about it until I finally get around to doing it. I'll either love it, or hate it. Either way, it will give me the motivation to continue or to put the idea out of my head.

Work went by so darn fast today! Every time I looked at the time it was two hours later than the last time. Like I was teleporting or something. It wasn't particularly busy, but I kept moving. Recovering, helping the few customers we did have, making laps around the store. As long as I keep moving, my energy stays high. If I stand in one place too long, I start to get bored. Then I start clock-watching, and wishing I was somewhere else. Which does me no good.

The director of mall security came in to see me today. I think more than anything he wanted to put a face to a name, because he didn't really have anything to tell me that Snookums hadn't told me already. The guy they hired seems to be a flake, and they don't think he's going to show up on Monday. If he doesn't (or sounds like even if he does), Snookums has the job. I've never hoped for someone to lose a job more than I'm hoping right now. Our financial situation is getting scary, and we can't keep afloat like this much longer. Each month we're digging a little deeper in debt. It makes me sad, because before my husband turned into a serial job quitter, we had zero debt. Now we're up to our ears in it, and I see no easy solution out. But I digress... Looks like there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

My goal for tomorrow starts tonight. I want to get to bed at a decent time. I want to try getting up and going for a run in the morning (especially since I have a short shift, 10-2:30 and I won't be able to get my steps in at work), and I want to perpetuate a cycle of getting up earlier, taking better care of my body, and maybe losing some weight. I'd be lying if I said I don't want to look better, but I think I'll feel that much better if I'm not carrying an extra 40 pounds around.




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