It’s not that I dislike my job or the people that work
her it’s just that it is very corporate and white washed. It’s cliquey and it would be VERY lonely
here if I didn’t already know some folks that I used to work with before. I know this is why I faltered, fell, and
failed at the job I had in VA. Again it
was a case of me not necessarily disliking the place or the people (the commute
is another story LOL), but the only other person I knew there I felt as if he had
a knife waiting to stab me in the back even though he often claimed he was
looking out for me. Yeah buddy I can
look out for myself if all you gonna do is throw me under the bus!! So yeah here…
My new TV motto is, If I like it then the show WILL get
cancelled! So far Smash, How to Live with
your parents, Private Practice, Bunheads (wait I think I have to google that
one) are all canned. So I refuse to start liking any new shows because they
will just cancel it.
So this weekend was the Great Grapes Wine Festival at
Oregon Ridge. I usually don’t mind
paying for events like this, but I missed the GroupOn for $15 so paying $35
just didn’t sound like something I wanted to do. So I had the bright idea to volunteer. I contacted the lady who was handling it she
said I could, so me and one of my girls went on Saturday to volunteer for 3 ½ hours. Let’s just say I will NOT be doing that
again! It wasn’t that it was bad and I’m
not exactly sure what I was expecting, but yeah NO. So we get there bright eyed and bushy tailed
on one of the hottest days so far this year and our names are not on the
list. The chick in charge was just wrote
out names down and was like well just help me now and then later you guys can
do the GroupOn table. Let me back up and
say the dress code was all black! I had
on a tee shirt, some capris and flip flops which were all black. We initially signed
everyone up who got to the festival prior to noon waiting in line. And then they had the table in the middle of
the field NOT under a tent and NO chairs and did I already mention we had on
ALL BLACK?!? I stole one chair and my
girlfriend ‘found’ another one, but we were still kinda out in the open. I always
try to make the best of things but it really was hot and I didn’t realize I got
sun burned until that night when I was lying on my back and didn’t know why I
was in pain. At various point we took
turns carding and putting the pink wrist bands on people. For some reason the 2 dudes and 1 dudette just
took forever to do this and the lines got backed-up. It was at this point in the day when I was
looking at these people who were in my same age group and they were not aging
very well. And then I was like WELL
DAMN, so I look like these folks? I kept
seeing 1979, 1976, 1977 and then I would look at these folks and be like you’re
only 33?!?! Da hell have you been doing?
And it’s not that I think I look all that great but I just hope I don’t
look all that bad!! Someone recently
asked if I was in my 20’s and while that can be complimentary, I really hope I
look like I’m 39, not any younger and CERTAINLY not any older. A good day was had by all. This was definitely a little more tamer than
the Caribbean Festival a week prior at Liganore where folks were literally
drinking right out the bottle.
A spiky haired man just passed my desk… he had on a
suit. I need to pass the office he just
went in to get a better look. Yeah his ass is too old for that. I had to do the
fake-like-I’m-faxing-something maneuver to go get another look.
I need a new section of my blog that is titled ‘Shit I
really wish I made up… BUT NO IT’S TRUE!!’
because well just because…
As all of my faithful readers know I have taken up hot
yoga. And right now since it is getting
hotter outside, it gets hotter inside and more and more people don’t push
through they just sit down and take a sip of water and rejoin when they
can. I even find myself not pushing it
because I don’t want to pass out. So in
class last Wed we are doing our floor exercises and I notice the little girl
(she is a 20 something so they are all little girls to me) lying face down and
not really following what we supposed to be doing. It wasn’t weird, but then she looked really
still and for a moment it looked like she was turning blue. So I’m thinking OH SHIT please don’t let the
little girl be dead to the floor in yoga class!! But then she moved and I was ok. But then she again got really still and it
WAS weird, but then one of the goals of yoga is to focus on yourself and make
sure you are doing what you need to do to achieve maximum benefit so I stopped
(or at least I tried) looking at her.
When class was over I was sitting on the floor trying to get myself
together and I see her and I say ‘are you ok, you looked really still and I was
wondering if you were ok’ She said ‘Oh yeah I’m fine I have narcolepsy so
sometimes I just fall asleep and forget where I am. Most of the teachers know so they just leave
me alone.’ I look at her and say OOOH
OK!! But then I am ready to just die
laughing!! I know it’s not funny I KNOW
THIS!!! BUT DAMMIT IT’S FUNNY!!! So I’m
sitting there stifling a laugh because I really don’t want to laugh at this
little girl.
And here’s the
other thing…
So I’m in line at the festival and 3 women come up and
ask me about the purchases I just made which were 3 of the 4 fruity sweet wines
from St Michael’s. So I’m like well just
go over there and sample them. They had
ALL lost their wine glass O_O Now how you gon go to a wine festival where you
are supposed to sample the wines and you lose you glass!?!? I told the one girl OH this is most
definitely going in my blog!!
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