Monay, monay, monay, monnnaaay...monnnaaay

Today was my first day working out of my own drawer at the credit union. The past few days I was working out of my manager's drawer w/ her looking over my shoulder. Twice I handed too much cash to customers and they pointed it out. And once I caught myself handing out an extra fifty. I specifically looked and nowhere in the job description did it say counting would be required. But at the end of the day my drawer balanced.

We got a shipment of money in today of $110,000 that I helped count. I've never seen so much money in my life. It would not have fit into one of those slim briefcases that bad buys in the movies use to transport a million dollars. The boss wouldn't let me rolls in it, though. Bugger!

Ravens

The ravens here are worse than seagulls. They roost like vultures in the McDonald’s parking lot waiting for someone to drop a French fry or at least look away so they can swoop down and claim an unsuspecting McChicken “sammich”. They’re bloated on leftovers and not afraid of people. The other day I was in a mall parking lot and one cawed at me from five feet away, perched on a pickup bed. I’m told they’ll sometimes open mail boxes and leave the mail strewn all over the street; no doubt looking to steal social security checks. Filthy beggars! I’d shoot one and stuff it for Thanksgiving if I didn’t think it would take my gun and come after me.

7 things I love...

...About my new job

7. The commute to work is great (2 minutes on foot)
6. Cookies on Casual Friday
5. Casual Friday
4. Pops are $0.35
3. I get to sit down a lot
2. I can raid the candy dishes
1. My name is on a name plate instead of my shirt


...About living in Juneau, AK vs. Podunk, MI

7. Two words, Cable TV
6. I live on oceanview property
5. I can abbreviate it down to JNU (and why is abbreviate such a long word anyhow?)
4. No slow moving farm vehicles
3. No wearing snowpants to work
2. I get 5 bars on my cell phone
1. Flannel and blue jeans are considered formal attire

Can I even call it a sports injury?

Don't mean for my posts to have a woe-is-me theme, but at least they're funny. I pulled a muscle in my right leg this morning. And it wasn't even doing something exciting like chasing after a purse snatcher or running from Satan. I pulled it in a big yawn-stretch in bed. I guess I overdid it a little on the treadmill the day before. What would the headline of this story read? Girl Injured in Overzealous Yawn? I iced my calf down w/ a package of frozen mixed vegetables in cheese sauce, but it was no use.

So I spent the whole day hobbling around work w/ my right foot pointing sharply to the side, dragging it like Igor from Frankenstein. It took me nearly 5 minutes to walk the block home from work this evening, which included the two times I had to stop to rest.

Nobody Knows My Sorrow

I recently made a comment of an annoying used car salesman that has commercials every day up here. Here's an annoying mattress salesman:



The song gets stuck in my head. Drives me nuts! And what's worse, my current TV has no mute button. I have to turn off the TV when it comes on. My first ridiculous commercial. I've heard about them before, but you never think it's gonna happen to you.

New job

My first day as a financial services specialist was very dry. Spent the entire day reading and training on the computer. There's SOOOO much stuff to learn. So many procedures to follow.

Second day was horrid. I arrived at work and saw the lights on in the branch manager's and loan officer's offices. I knew the manager had a doctor's appointment so she wouldn't be there, but I assumed the loan officer was in. Her desk is obscured by the teller station so I couldn't actually see her.

I unlocked the door and proceded to try to lock it up after I was inside. There was an annoying beeping behind me, but I paid no attention to it. Then I suddenly realized that was the alarm! I ran over to the loan officer's office since she had the code, but no one was in there. I frantically tried to dial the manager but my fingers fumbled and I was freaking out.

The loan officer showed up just as I reached the manager and she disarmed the alarm. The 60 second window had already passed so the police had to be called to let them know it was a false alarm. The manager asked if the "All Clear" sign was up before I walked in. Doh! I forgot about that. There's a sign the opening person puts up to let the tellers know they can come in. Never even looked for it.

I was so embarrassed! The loan officer tried to comfort me saying it was alright and we'd laugh about it one day. But I couldn't get my mind off it for over half the day. I figured I would be there for at least a couple weeks before I made my first big mistake. Sigh...