NEW DATA ENTRY JOB

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  MY BRAIN IS FRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  NO WONDER MOST PEOPLE WON'T HIRE OLDER PEOPLE..............THEIR BRAINS ARE MUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I STARTED MY NEW JOB TODAY..............AND I AM SO MENTALLY DRAINED.........I AM ENTERING DATA FROM ACTUAL TICKETS WRITTEN OUT IN THE FIELD BY OUR POLICE OFFICERS.  IT IS LIKE TRYING TO READ A DOCTOR'S PRESCRIPTION...........OR MAYBE EVEN WORSE..............

AND I NEVER REALIZED THERE WOULD BE SO MANY NUMBERS TO TYPE..........AND I NEVER LEARNED MY NUMBERS.........WELL, WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE KEYS.  SO I AM JUST ABOUT LOONEY TUNES...........(MICHAEL AND COLLEEN, STOP LAUGHING AND SAYING I WAS ALREADY THAT WAY, LOL)

I LEARNED ONE KIND OF FORM TODAY AND JUST ABOUT HAD IT DOWN PAT.  THEN WHEN I FINISHED THOSE, I GOT TO START ANOTHER STACK, AND THEY ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT. 

TO TOP IT OFF, IT WAS FOGGY AND DARK ON THE WAY OUT THERE THIS AM, AND THEN RAINY ON THE WAY HOME.  SO I WAS ALREADY TENSE WHEN I GOT THERE..............MY SHOULDERS HURT FROM TRYING TO DECIPHER THE WRITING AND FIND THE NUMBER KEYS..................

BUT I AM NOT COMPLAINING.........REALLY I AM NOT..........I WILL GET BETTER.  I HAVE 3 MONTHS TO REACH TOP SPEED (HAHAHAHA) AND IF I DON'T, THEN I HAVE TO QUIT THAT JOB.......

I HAD TO STOP AT MY OLD JOB ON THE WAY HOME BECAUSE THE NEW JOB IS SO FAR AWAY AND IT WAS RAINING, SO I HAD TO STOP AND TAKE A PIT STOP...............I KNEW THE BATHROOMS WERE CLEANER THAN MOST PUBLIC ONES.

NOW I AM HERE AT THE LIBRARY PRACTICING MY NUMBERS.......

1 2 3 4 5 ETC.....................................

ON A MORE SOMBRE NOTE.............

I THINK OF MYSELF AS A VERY LOVING AND COMPASSIONATE PERSON........ONE WHO DOES NOT HURT OTHERS INTENTIONALLY.  I HAVE A BEST FRIEND OF 30+ YEARS WHO LIVES NEAR ME, AND ACROSS THE STREET FROM HER IS AN OLDER WOMAN WHO I HAVE KNOWN FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WHO JUST LOST HER HUSBAND A MONTH OR SO AGO.  I THOUGHT SHE NEEDED SOMETHING TO MAKE HER LAUGH, SO I SENT BOTH OF THEM MY THANKSGIVING STORY..............AFTER ALL, LAUGHING AT ME SEEMS TO BE A NATIONAL PASSTIME...........HEE HEE...........

WELL, I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE OLDER LADY, TELLING ME I SENT HER THAT EMAIL JUST TO HURT HER.  THE LAST LINE DOES SAY "HUSBAND" IN IT, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANT OTHER, MATE, FRIEND,  SON, DAUGHTER.................I JUST CHOSE THE WORD HUSBAND BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE OUT THERE CAN RELATE, SINCE THEY ARE MARRIED...........

SO..................THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE OUT THERE WHO READ MY THANKSGIVING STORY AND WAS HURT IN SOME WAY.  THAT WAS NOT MY INTENTION AT ALL.  I JUST KNEW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER IF MICHAEL HAD TAKEN ME OUT INSTEAD OF ME TRYING TO BURN ME AND THE HOUSE DOWN.  ANYONE WHO HAS LOST SOMEONE AND FELT I WAS IN SOME WAY TRYING TO RUB SALT IN THE WOUND, THAT WAS NOT WHAT I INTENDED.  SO, PLEASE FORGIVE ME.

AND TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE RECENTLY, AND THE HOLIDAYS SEEM BLEAK WITHOUT THEM, MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU................I LOST MY MOTHER 9 DAYS AFTER MY 19TH BIRTHDAY AND A DAY BEFORE HER 63 BIRTHDAY, AND I STILL SOMETIMES FEEL THE PAIN.  BUT LIFE DOES GO ON FOR THOSE OF US LEFT BEHIND...............AND SOMETIMES A LITTLE LAUGHTER AT SOMEONE ELSE MAKES THAT LIFE A LITTLE BRIGHTER..............

MAY ALL OF YOU BE BLESSED......................