nothing but monkey business

so i think that for the first time in my life i understand the phrase, "working for the clock". never in my life have i had a job where so much of your mind is occupied by the time.  i'm not saying that i have a job that is completely dictated by time management......no no no far from it.  rather i'm saying that my new job is factory work.  and i have never in my life been in an environment that seems so reminiscent of a cattle farm, managed not by a farm hand..........but by a mechanical time clock!   it's amazing to just watch the other employees.  they check the clock every five minutes to see how long to lunch:.......2 hrs.....1 1/2 hrs......1 hr.....10 minutes.   the check the clock to see how long till the shift is over....for when to clock in.....when to clock out.  and then, when  the clock finally gives permission to leave, it's like someone's holding a cattle prod to our butts as we RUN for the door.  the past two days have opened my eyes.  i don't want to live for my job. it feels like all i do is sleep and work.  because i work the afternoon shift i don't have time for my friends, i don't have time for family.....i can't imagine ever making this a career.  i've once heard it said that, and i quote: "a monkey could do this job!".  and it is so true.  i don't think that there is really anything more intellectually demeaning than factory work.  we are being paid to do what in other  parts of the country machines are doing.  machines without a brain, without feelings, and without pride.  yet we are expected to fulfill the job requirements with just as much speed and efficiency as it.  i've always been told that working in a factory would make me thankful for my education, and i thought that was probably just a bunch of malarky.....but it really is true.  just as corny and expected as it is.....working in a factory truly has made me thankful for the brief amount of education that i have so far been privileged enough to take on.  i will say this though........i think that those who choose to make factory life their career, really do deserve a lot of credit.  it takes a strong demeanor and a strong back to do something like that......a strength that i don't know that i can keep for much longer.

mmmmmm, warm road apple pie

HOLY CRAP IT'S TUESDAY!

ultra strength endurance for ultra strength B.O.

things are going......nice and slow just the way i like it!  i think that sometimes is wish that i could just fast forward my life....skip all of this boring mundane crap that i currently find myself struggling to stay afloat in.......hmmm i wonder if you can float in crap......to just skip ahead and leave it all behind.  to get on with the things that i want to do rather than just enduring it. but i suppose that i learn more things by enduring than i would through fast-forwarding.  oh well until the day that they invent the technology or the wishing dust like in 13 going on 30...i'll just endure.  i think that's what i'm suppose to do anyway. besides i don't really know what the carp i'm blubbering about. things aren't so bad, perhaps a little boring, but not bad.   i just need to get the things done taht need to be done........oh on a happier note:  I went to the doctor and got medicine for my ear ache!  now don't you just feel like the weight of the world has been lifted off of your shoulders?  it's still on my ear though...but fear not hopefully after 10 drops a day for 7 days i will be able to hear normally again!  yay for doctor's!

tangles

i had my hair cut today.....i don't think that there is anything greater than getting 3 inches wamped off of your head in the middle of the summer.  i feel like a whole new person.  i wonder why i find so much excitement in a new hair cut.  i guess i really truly do live a simple life....but you know what i like it!  i don't care what society says about needing to be constantly busy, or it's extreme fascination with continuely being on the move or progressing in life.  i like to sit down and be bored.  i like be entertained by nothing but a dog and the company of a good friend.  i like that i live in a small town where the cops can have enough time to look for lost dogs, and even give a crap about it!  i like the fact that tonight i'm going to visit with friends.....spend no money......not gain any social recognition or achievement.....and still some how be a better person for it. i think that instead of society be continually obsessed with where we are going and where we have been, it should take a closer look at where it is; who it is comprised of; and what makes us so special.  do you know the 6 smiles of your closest friend? or are you to busy in life that the details become a blurr and true relationships become nothing but an inconvenience?  sometimes i think that i don't pay enough attention to the details, or that i don't live a simple life.....and then something happens.....then i get a hair cut and remember how truly satisfying it is to be completely content with the fact that the most exciting thing right now is a breeze on my neck and friends by my side.

grrrr!

i just typed an amazingly long and complicated blog entitled 'simplicity...simplicity...simplicity!' ....but it deleated it. so you get this instead!

back again.....but ready for more!

what an AMAZING summer! i think that this summer has been so much more than i ever expected. my girls were absolutely amazing and i feel such a tug for jr. highers, like i never knew possible. i learned so much about my own strengths and weakness from every camper that passed through Michindoh......in other words it was amazing. here are a few highlights from this summer:

* the magic ant from planet zoloft.
* Sandra Manilla.....I mean Vanilla!
* if forest falls out of a tree, will anyone hear?
* SOMBRERO!
* now i know what poop feels like!
* did you know that escargot is snail?!
* did you know that a magnum is a gun?
* FARSE!
* my right butt cheek is separated form my left by a crack
* i feel like a baked potato!
* if AFLAC is a sea monkey, i'll be her baby sea monkey!
* HI HO HI HO it's off to dinner we go, with Mother Goose and a Sea Monkey....HI HO HI HO HI HO HI HO.......
* does Hitchcock have brain problems or is that just the way she is?
* i like to jump on my bosom!
* i feel like a marshmallow!
* HA! HA! You got served!
* your face got served!.....your mom's face got served!
* RUN! Core Staff is coming!
* Romans 16:19 says! Romans 16:19 says!
* AAHHH it burns! IT BURNS!
* there's no flippy thing!
* Senor Ted Kazinski the Postal employee!
* "Excuse me, do you know what a mail box is?"
* Her royal highness Princess FoFo!
* beaner shark do do dootdo do do.....
* let's throw Jesus out the window.....the window, the window, the second story window...
P.S......BTW...JK JK....LOL!