Tonight, I had a glorious reunion with Star Fox 64.
The graphics were worse than I remembered. The levels were shorter and easier than I remembered. And Falco was infinitely sassier than I remembered - I asked him to report and his response was, "Does my ship look okay to you?!" or something along those lines.
Well geez, Falco. Sorry that your ship got damaged during a voluntary mission to . . . destroy a random enemy base that really didn't seem to do much anywhere else in the universe. I guess we can't all have nice things!
But the lines were just as cheesy as I remembered, and it was a wonderful feeling, from Falco's annoyed, "I guess I should be thankful," to Peppy's eternal wisdom and uncanny ability to give the exact instructions I needed at the time. That's kind of creepy, Peppy.
Oh, and Slippy's habit of needing to be saved every two minutes. Slippy, you are a useless teammate.
I managed to beat the storyline in under a half-hour, and I died once because I had to go save Slippy's sorry hide. All in all, a successful venture.
It made me think of all the other things that are fond memories in my life! There are so many things I love just as much as Peppy's signature, "Do a barrel roll!"
(I barrel-rolled, Peppy. I barrel-rolled my heart out.)
You know what else I miss?
Zelda, Ocarina of Time. I think I'll play that again over the summer. Our silent protagonist, running about with a fairy, a jug of milk, and a sword and shield, traversing into mountains, lakes, forests, and creepy places with spider-people. What more could you want from a game?
"Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger. When I was a kid, I had a strange fondness for that song. I can't tell you where my liking for it originated. I can only tell you that when it came on, I would dance around the kitchen and sing what I thought were the lyrics and ask for it to be played again. To this day, I can't hear that song without smiling.
Mario Kart with my siblings. Friendly competitiveness, bright and colorful graphics, and stunts we could never pull off in an actual car. No more is needed.
Having a yard. Or our neighbor's yard. They had a tree that stuck out of their hill at something like a 45 degree angle. That was so fun to climb. We had a hill in our front yard and I just remember running around and imagining and setting up the sprinklers so we could jump through them. I miss that sometimes.
Land Before Time.
Those movies were the bomb.
Speaking of movies, a little while ago, I randomly remembered a movie I had seen as a kid. But I didn't remember most of it. All I remembered was a large door that held something like "darkness" behind it, and that they couldn't open it, but someone did.
I spent forever pondering this movie and could recall no other details. None at all. Finally, hopelessly, I asked my roommates if any of them had seen a movie with a door with darkness behind it. I didn't think anyone would have any clue what I was talking about at all.
My roommate Amy exclaimed, "Wait! Yes! Did it have a flying bed?!"
After much use of Google and straining our memories to the very core, we found a movie entitled, "Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland." We believe that this is the movie, but it's not on Netflix and we would have to buy it, and we can only play DVD's.
Soon, I will find out if this is the movie that I just barely remember.
Anyway. It has been a time for remembering, and I love looking back on old things I used to do. I hope everyone takes the time to do that sometimes. At the moment, I really wish I had Pokemon Snap. But for now, I guess I'll just go back to saving the universe, one strange planet at a time.
Until next time!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Jobs, books, and the occasional nap.
I'm on a job hunt again, and it is the worst, man.
It'd be nice if I didn't have to get a job in the first place, and I could just roll around in piles of money. It'd be like that one song, Billionaire, "And toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it!" I would so do that, I'd make it rain money and then dance underneath it.
But alas! It has been decided that I shall be humble and struggle instead. Awwriiiiiight.
I have a lot of fees coming up 'cause I'm taking a skiing class and I totally want to go to Australia during the summer. That's expensive stuff! With things a bit hard at home, it's time to pull up my sleeves and find a job here in Provo.
Looking online proved to be of no help, as most of the listings online wanted hours in the morning. Cool beans, but no such luck - next semester, I have class every day at 9 AM and usually go until about 2 PM. So that's not gonna happen. My best chances are probably either going to be getting a job in the food court in the Wilk, finding something at the MTC, or being a TA for a professor.
The search continues next week.
May luck be with me.
Next item of business!
My Book Hall of Fame!
I was asked by a couple of friends to compile a Book Hall of Fame - a list of books that I would recommend to those who have a hunger for good literature. So, being the book nerd that I am, I happily agreed. This list will probably continue to build as I grow older, but for now, here is a list of books that I would eagerly recommend to anyone.
Bolded books are the ones that I especially recommend.
- The entire Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- Cry of the Icemark, Blade of Fire, Last Battle of the Icemark - Stuart Hill (They're called the Icemark Chronicles, but each book can stand on its own as its own story, so I tend to list them separately)
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw (a wonderful historical fiction, and possibly the book that I would list as my favorite.)
- Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, The Princess Tales - Gail Carson Levine
- Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I have a fascination with Sherlock Holmes, I'll admit it)
- A Cry in the Night, All Around the Town, Nighttime Is My Time, Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark (several good mystery-type novels, and fascinating stories. She has many good books, I just happen to like these.)
- Looking Glass Wars, Seeing Redd, ArchEnemy - Frank Beddor (a series with a dark twist on the Alice in Wonderland story, highly imaginative and fantastic)
- Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde (very light, easy to read story that has somehow captured my heart)
- Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (I hesitate to call it a trilogy but I'm not sure what other name there is for it. Epic saga? Ahaha.)
- The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Tricksters, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens - Tamora Pierce (Surprisingly, all of these are not single books, but separate series! Tamora Pierce is fantastic that way. I highly recommend all of them, even if The Immortals is my favorite of her series.)
- The Clone Republic, Rogue Clone, The Clone Alliance, The Clone Elite, The Clone Betrayal - Steven L. Kent (This is a series but I'm not sure if I can call it "the Clone series." I've typed "clone" so many times now that the word looks strange to me. Anyway. These are science fiction and while I wasn't into science fiction until my later years, I did like these.)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (This book is massive and very philosophical. But I like it.)
- Life Expectancy, Strangers - Dean Koontz (Weird books. I like them anyway. I would actually recommend Dean Koontz as an author in general, his books are often strange but I usually like them, even if I can't come up with many examples.)
- The Giver Trilogy - Lois Lowry
- The Heir Trilogy - Cinda Williams Chima
I think I really like trilogies or something. This list turned out fairly small, but I know the reason, haha.
I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of books in my life. When I was in middle school, I used to check out three books, go home and read them, and bring them back the next day so I could check out three more. Yeah, I was a serious reader.
I've read almost every Goosebumps book that has ever lined the shelves, I've read the entire Animorphs series, I've read the entire Work and the Glory series, I've even found interest in a few mangas from time to time. Because of this, I have so many books swimming around in my head that I often can't recall very many specific books, especially because a lot of them are pretty mediocre. Generation Dead is an example, I disliked that book.
I'm probably forgetting a few, but these are the ones that have stuck with me. And once I have time in my life again, I already have more books on my list to read that I will storm a library for. I guess we'll see what happens. But for now, these are the books that I would recommend to most people.
In other news, I just spent about 15 minutes trying to find a good book that I once read. But unfortunately, Google cannot help me if I search something like, "book about a man who can predict when something bad is going to happen and tries to stop it and ends up with a girl following him around while he is generally hardcore." Shoot.
ANYWAY.
Once day I will make this a more complete list, but eh. These are all FANTASTIC books, in my not-so-expert opinion.
Aaand did I have anything else to talk about? Probably not. Today, I'm going out to collect leaves so I can finish my Nature Experience project for Biology. Not fun.
On the plus side, Thanksgiving weekend after that! Abooyah! I'm going to Colorado with my roommate and meeting her family, which sounds like a boyfriend/girlfriend thing but hey, her mom invited me, so let the 8-hour drive begin!
Sadie's over and out.
It'd be nice if I didn't have to get a job in the first place, and I could just roll around in piles of money. It'd be like that one song, Billionaire, "And toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it!" I would so do that, I'd make it rain money and then dance underneath it.
But alas! It has been decided that I shall be humble and struggle instead. Awwriiiiiight.
I have a lot of fees coming up 'cause I'm taking a skiing class and I totally want to go to Australia during the summer. That's expensive stuff! With things a bit hard at home, it's time to pull up my sleeves and find a job here in Provo.
Looking online proved to be of no help, as most of the listings online wanted hours in the morning. Cool beans, but no such luck - next semester, I have class every day at 9 AM and usually go until about 2 PM. So that's not gonna happen. My best chances are probably either going to be getting a job in the food court in the Wilk, finding something at the MTC, or being a TA for a professor.
The search continues next week.
May luck be with me.
Next item of business!
My Book Hall of Fame!
I was asked by a couple of friends to compile a Book Hall of Fame - a list of books that I would recommend to those who have a hunger for good literature. So, being the book nerd that I am, I happily agreed. This list will probably continue to build as I grow older, but for now, here is a list of books that I would eagerly recommend to anyone.
Bolded books are the ones that I especially recommend.
- The entire Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling
- The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- Cry of the Icemark, Blade of Fire, Last Battle of the Icemark - Stuart Hill (They're called the Icemark Chronicles, but each book can stand on its own as its own story, so I tend to list them separately)
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile - Eloise Jarvis McGraw (a wonderful historical fiction, and possibly the book that I would list as my favorite.)
- Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, The Princess Tales - Gail Carson Levine
- Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I have a fascination with Sherlock Holmes, I'll admit it)
- A Cry in the Night, All Around the Town, Nighttime Is My Time, Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark (several good mystery-type novels, and fascinating stories. She has many good books, I just happen to like these.)
- Looking Glass Wars, Seeing Redd, ArchEnemy - Frank Beddor (a series with a dark twist on the Alice in Wonderland story, highly imaginative and fantastic)
- Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde (very light, easy to read story that has somehow captured my heart)
- Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (I hesitate to call it a trilogy but I'm not sure what other name there is for it. Epic saga? Ahaha.)
- The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Tricksters, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens - Tamora Pierce (Surprisingly, all of these are not single books, but separate series! Tamora Pierce is fantastic that way. I highly recommend all of them, even if The Immortals is my favorite of her series.)
- The Clone Republic, Rogue Clone, The Clone Alliance, The Clone Elite, The Clone Betrayal - Steven L. Kent (This is a series but I'm not sure if I can call it "the Clone series." I've typed "clone" so many times now that the word looks strange to me. Anyway. These are science fiction and while I wasn't into science fiction until my later years, I did like these.)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (This book is massive and very philosophical. But I like it.)
- Life Expectancy, Strangers - Dean Koontz (Weird books. I like them anyway. I would actually recommend Dean Koontz as an author in general, his books are often strange but I usually like them, even if I can't come up with many examples.)
- The Giver Trilogy - Lois Lowry
- The Heir Trilogy - Cinda Williams Chima
I think I really like trilogies or something. This list turned out fairly small, but I know the reason, haha.
I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of books in my life. When I was in middle school, I used to check out three books, go home and read them, and bring them back the next day so I could check out three more. Yeah, I was a serious reader.
I've read almost every Goosebumps book that has ever lined the shelves, I've read the entire Animorphs series, I've read the entire Work and the Glory series, I've even found interest in a few mangas from time to time. Because of this, I have so many books swimming around in my head that I often can't recall very many specific books, especially because a lot of them are pretty mediocre. Generation Dead is an example, I disliked that book.
I'm probably forgetting a few, but these are the ones that have stuck with me. And once I have time in my life again, I already have more books on my list to read that I will storm a library for. I guess we'll see what happens. But for now, these are the books that I would recommend to most people.
In other news, I just spent about 15 minutes trying to find a good book that I once read. But unfortunately, Google cannot help me if I search something like, "book about a man who can predict when something bad is going to happen and tries to stop it and ends up with a girl following him around while he is generally hardcore." Shoot.
ANYWAY.
Once day I will make this a more complete list, but eh. These are all FANTASTIC books, in my not-so-expert opinion.
Aaand did I have anything else to talk about? Probably not. Today, I'm going out to collect leaves so I can finish my Nature Experience project for Biology. Not fun.
On the plus side, Thanksgiving weekend after that! Abooyah! I'm going to Colorado with my roommate and meeting her family, which sounds like a boyfriend/girlfriend thing but hey, her mom invited me, so let the 8-hour drive begin!
Sadie's over and out.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Counsel for the Customers
So much for writing pretty frequently, eh?
I have an explanation for such a huge gap between then and now. My life since then has been a roller coaster of ups, downs, and fast food, interspersed by a plane right and the occasional good night’s sleep.
McDonald’s, the place of my employment, began scheduling me for shifts that began at 5 am, 6 am, and 7 am. I would work 7-9 hours every day and come home too exhausted to be of any use whatsoever. At that point, I would simply sleep and hope that it was enough hours for the next day when it would all begin again. My creative levels have been at an absolute minimum.
But I’m back! And this time, I’ve decided that it might be helpful for me to share my insights with others, for the good of the fast food world. There are many things that I don’t think the customers realize when they come through the drive-thru, and without further introduction, I would like to present to you today’s topic.
HOW TO GET THROUGH THE MCDONALD’S DRIVE-THRU WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF STRESS.
1. Speak up.
More often than not, the speakers in the drive-thru do not transfer every single syllable with absolute clarity. What makes it more difficult is that the person listening to your order has more to listen to than just you. Behind them, the kitchen is banging, people are calling to each other as they deal with the lunch rush, and machines are whirring.
So when a customer comes through and mumbles their order, it’s somewhat frustrating. It’s even more frustrating when we say, “I’m sorry, sir/ma’am, but I can’t hear you, could you speak up a little bit, please?” and they continue at the same volume. Or a higher volume, but still too low to be of any use.
To prevent misunderstandings and frustrations between the worker and the customer, the best way to help is to speak loudly and clearly, outlining exactly what you want with precision.
There is a flip side of this, however:
2. Quiet down.
The speakers in the drive-thru that you’re currently yelling into go directly to the head-sets that the order-taker is wearing right over their ear. It is, quite literally, /painful/ when a customer decides that they absolutely have to be heard everything else and scream their lungs out into the speaker.
What’s even worse is when they do it to be funny. When the recorded voice asks them if they would like to try a new fruit smoothie and they scream, “NO!” to make their friends laugh, it’s frustrating for the worker who has had this happen to them repeatedly in the last hour. Frustrations rise, impatience stirs, and the order-taker’s new goal is to get the person out as fast as possible in order to save their eardrums from damage, leading to a misperception of being rude.
The summary of these first two steps is: please be loud and clear, but for the love of all that is good, please help us to keep from needing hearing aids before we’re 40.
3. Understand that we are simply the messengers.
The order-taker is only that: an order-taker. We take orders. We have no influence over anything else in the store.
Pretend that you just showed up in the drive-thru and asked for chicken nuggets. Or a smoothie. Or anything else that your whims could possibly desire. And I am taking your order. The manager has just told me that we don’t have chicken nuggets. Or that the smoothie machine is having maintenance done on it. Or the ice cream machine is broken.
So I must break the news to you. “I’m sorry,” I say, because I genuinely am sorry, “but we don’t have any chicken nuggets at the moment. I can take your order, but you’ll have to wait a few minutes, is that okay?”
Of course, you’re not happy. You’re sitting in the car and you had your /heart/ set on those chicken nuggets and you are appalled that the kitchen didn’t get them ready in time for you.
I understand that you are frustrated. We, in the store, understand that you are frustrated.
But I am only the messenger. I have absolutely nothing to do with the kitchen. I don’t decide when they prepare and cook the meat, or when they refill anything, or how to time things. I am simply telling you what my manager has told me to say. So when you’re taking your anger out on me, it’s frustrating for me because I did nothing to deserve your rage.
“That’s STUPID,” one customer once told me. “Thanks for NOTHING!” She drove off in a rage and I sat there wondering what I had done to deserve getting yelled at. I know she was upset because she couldn’t get a cheeseburger right then, but it was still breakfast time, and I wasn’t in charge of cooking the meat for lunch. I had only delivered the message that the cooks hadn’t prepared regular meat yet.
I know you’re frustrated, I really do. But please remember that the order-takers are humans with feelings and that they have to put up with a lot of people who decide to shoot the messenger. And for sensitive people like me, it leads to very bad work days when I want to go in the back room and cry.
4. Make life simple for us, and we’ll do the same for you.
The simpler that you make the whole experience for us, the faster and more efficiently we’ll get everything done for you.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t order a complicated sandwich, or ask for sauce at the window, or pay entirely in change. Please, feel free. We’re here to serve you.
But our times are ticking, we’re expected to get you in and out as fast as we can. So when you order your complicated sandwich, it’s helpful if you mention it right away and make it clear for us. That way, the cooks don’t make it first and find out later that it was supposed to be special, and they understand what is wanted. When you ask for sauce at the window, ask for it all at once. We’ll gladly get you barbeque, sweet and sour, /and/ ranch, but it will frustrate us when you make us go back three different times. Pay all in change, but have it sorted beforehand, or at least know what you have, so that you’re not digging for it and looking around while the line behind you piles up.
We want to make this a pleasant experience for you, we really do. But pretend you’re digging for that last elusive quarter and you’ve been at our window for more than a minute. You don’t know that we have our manager asking what’s taking so long and that our times are going up, and that’s why we’re antsy. We know that everyone behind you is also getting frustrated, and that we’ll have to deal with them in a minute.
The easier life is for us, the easier and faster and better it is for you. If you like it that way, then give us a bit of help, we’d really appreciate it!
5. Have a little patience.
It’s so much easier to deal with a cheerful, helpful customer than one who snaps back and responds with impatience. It makes us want to help you better and faster, and it will keep everyone’s stress levels low so that they can function faster.
We’re people, too. We may work at McDonald’s, but that does not mean that we are lesser than anyone else on this planet. We have feelings, bad days, good days, and a conscience.
Have patience with us, and we’ll do our best to treat you right, because we know that you’re human, too.
As a worker, I want to please people. I want them to leave the restaurant with a correct order and a smile. I love it when customers smile back at me and wish me a good day. We really are doing our best to be a people-friendly service.
That’s all for today!
I’ll probably write again soon to make up for the big gap, but until then, enjoy my little tidbits of advice, from me to you.
Sadie
I have an explanation for such a huge gap between then and now. My life since then has been a roller coaster of ups, downs, and fast food, interspersed by a plane right and the occasional good night’s sleep.
McDonald’s, the place of my employment, began scheduling me for shifts that began at 5 am, 6 am, and 7 am. I would work 7-9 hours every day and come home too exhausted to be of any use whatsoever. At that point, I would simply sleep and hope that it was enough hours for the next day when it would all begin again. My creative levels have been at an absolute minimum.
But I’m back! And this time, I’ve decided that it might be helpful for me to share my insights with others, for the good of the fast food world. There are many things that I don’t think the customers realize when they come through the drive-thru, and without further introduction, I would like to present to you today’s topic.
HOW TO GET THROUGH THE MCDONALD’S DRIVE-THRU WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF STRESS.
1. Speak up.
More often than not, the speakers in the drive-thru do not transfer every single syllable with absolute clarity. What makes it more difficult is that the person listening to your order has more to listen to than just you. Behind them, the kitchen is banging, people are calling to each other as they deal with the lunch rush, and machines are whirring.
So when a customer comes through and mumbles their order, it’s somewhat frustrating. It’s even more frustrating when we say, “I’m sorry, sir/ma’am, but I can’t hear you, could you speak up a little bit, please?” and they continue at the same volume. Or a higher volume, but still too low to be of any use.
To prevent misunderstandings and frustrations between the worker and the customer, the best way to help is to speak loudly and clearly, outlining exactly what you want with precision.
There is a flip side of this, however:
2. Quiet down.
The speakers in the drive-thru that you’re currently yelling into go directly to the head-sets that the order-taker is wearing right over their ear. It is, quite literally, /painful/ when a customer decides that they absolutely have to be heard everything else and scream their lungs out into the speaker.
What’s even worse is when they do it to be funny. When the recorded voice asks them if they would like to try a new fruit smoothie and they scream, “NO!” to make their friends laugh, it’s frustrating for the worker who has had this happen to them repeatedly in the last hour. Frustrations rise, impatience stirs, and the order-taker’s new goal is to get the person out as fast as possible in order to save their eardrums from damage, leading to a misperception of being rude.
The summary of these first two steps is: please be loud and clear, but for the love of all that is good, please help us to keep from needing hearing aids before we’re 40.
3. Understand that we are simply the messengers.
The order-taker is only that: an order-taker. We take orders. We have no influence over anything else in the store.
Pretend that you just showed up in the drive-thru and asked for chicken nuggets. Or a smoothie. Or anything else that your whims could possibly desire. And I am taking your order. The manager has just told me that we don’t have chicken nuggets. Or that the smoothie machine is having maintenance done on it. Or the ice cream machine is broken.
So I must break the news to you. “I’m sorry,” I say, because I genuinely am sorry, “but we don’t have any chicken nuggets at the moment. I can take your order, but you’ll have to wait a few minutes, is that okay?”
Of course, you’re not happy. You’re sitting in the car and you had your /heart/ set on those chicken nuggets and you are appalled that the kitchen didn’t get them ready in time for you.
I understand that you are frustrated. We, in the store, understand that you are frustrated.
But I am only the messenger. I have absolutely nothing to do with the kitchen. I don’t decide when they prepare and cook the meat, or when they refill anything, or how to time things. I am simply telling you what my manager has told me to say. So when you’re taking your anger out on me, it’s frustrating for me because I did nothing to deserve your rage.
“That’s STUPID,” one customer once told me. “Thanks for NOTHING!” She drove off in a rage and I sat there wondering what I had done to deserve getting yelled at. I know she was upset because she couldn’t get a cheeseburger right then, but it was still breakfast time, and I wasn’t in charge of cooking the meat for lunch. I had only delivered the message that the cooks hadn’t prepared regular meat yet.
I know you’re frustrated, I really do. But please remember that the order-takers are humans with feelings and that they have to put up with a lot of people who decide to shoot the messenger. And for sensitive people like me, it leads to very bad work days when I want to go in the back room and cry.
4. Make life simple for us, and we’ll do the same for you.
The simpler that you make the whole experience for us, the faster and more efficiently we’ll get everything done for you.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t order a complicated sandwich, or ask for sauce at the window, or pay entirely in change. Please, feel free. We’re here to serve you.
But our times are ticking, we’re expected to get you in and out as fast as we can. So when you order your complicated sandwich, it’s helpful if you mention it right away and make it clear for us. That way, the cooks don’t make it first and find out later that it was supposed to be special, and they understand what is wanted. When you ask for sauce at the window, ask for it all at once. We’ll gladly get you barbeque, sweet and sour, /and/ ranch, but it will frustrate us when you make us go back three different times. Pay all in change, but have it sorted beforehand, or at least know what you have, so that you’re not digging for it and looking around while the line behind you piles up.
We want to make this a pleasant experience for you, we really do. But pretend you’re digging for that last elusive quarter and you’ve been at our window for more than a minute. You don’t know that we have our manager asking what’s taking so long and that our times are going up, and that’s why we’re antsy. We know that everyone behind you is also getting frustrated, and that we’ll have to deal with them in a minute.
The easier life is for us, the easier and faster and better it is for you. If you like it that way, then give us a bit of help, we’d really appreciate it!
5. Have a little patience.
It’s so much easier to deal with a cheerful, helpful customer than one who snaps back and responds with impatience. It makes us want to help you better and faster, and it will keep everyone’s stress levels low so that they can function faster.
We’re people, too. We may work at McDonald’s, but that does not mean that we are lesser than anyone else on this planet. We have feelings, bad days, good days, and a conscience.
Have patience with us, and we’ll do our best to treat you right, because we know that you’re human, too.
As a worker, I want to please people. I want them to leave the restaurant with a correct order and a smile. I love it when customers smile back at me and wish me a good day. We really are doing our best to be a people-friendly service.
That’s all for today!
I’ll probably write again soon to make up for the big gap, but until then, enjoy my little tidbits of advice, from me to you.
Sadie
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Picking Up the Pencil
Metaphorically, of course, since I'm at a keyboard and not using the pencil at the moment.
No, today I'm picking up the pencil of blogging. I've seen other blogs before, of course, and thought about perhaps starting my own, but there was always the question of what I would write, why I would write it, and how well my thoughts would translate into text.
Then came the realization that the answers are, quite simply, "Whatever I want," "because I want to," and "hopefully to anyone with brain cells."
So here we are, and I'm going to write whatever I want, just because I want to, and hopefully if you're reading this, you have at least a few braincells up there in that cute little noggin of yours.
What will this blog be?
Well. I don't know yet.
I'm going to write about life. Love. Happiness, joy, confusion, pain, and suffering. Laughter. Light. Days when the sun seems its brightest, and days when I want to curl up in my bed and cry. I'm going to write about the steps that I'm taking as I bravely (or not so bravely) adventure forth into the realms of adulthood. I'm almost there, you see. I'm teetering on the very edge, balancing on one foot, clinging to the last few remains of my childhood while the world pushes me forward into the land of adulthood and responsibility.
I'm an adult by the world's views, but infinitely a child at heart. What does the future hold for me?
With luck, my posts will be thoughtful or whimsical, and at least interesting to the reader. The pencil is in my hand and my brain is churning like factory machines, so come with me, and we'll dive into the world together and see just what kind of magic awaits us there.
(I would also suggest my friend's blog, "Fanfare for the Common "Meh." Hannah is eloquent, thoughtful, and delightfully witty, and I'm lucky to be acquainted with someone such as her. And she bashes Twilight, which is always a plus in my book.
http://musingsonmaturity.blogspot.com/)
Let's move forward!
Sincerely,
Sadie, your teenage dreamer.
No, today I'm picking up the pencil of blogging. I've seen other blogs before, of course, and thought about perhaps starting my own, but there was always the question of what I would write, why I would write it, and how well my thoughts would translate into text.
Then came the realization that the answers are, quite simply, "Whatever I want," "because I want to," and "hopefully to anyone with brain cells."
So here we are, and I'm going to write whatever I want, just because I want to, and hopefully if you're reading this, you have at least a few braincells up there in that cute little noggin of yours.
What will this blog be?
Well. I don't know yet.
I'm going to write about life. Love. Happiness, joy, confusion, pain, and suffering. Laughter. Light. Days when the sun seems its brightest, and days when I want to curl up in my bed and cry. I'm going to write about the steps that I'm taking as I bravely (or not so bravely) adventure forth into the realms of adulthood. I'm almost there, you see. I'm teetering on the very edge, balancing on one foot, clinging to the last few remains of my childhood while the world pushes me forward into the land of adulthood and responsibility.
I'm an adult by the world's views, but infinitely a child at heart. What does the future hold for me?
With luck, my posts will be thoughtful or whimsical, and at least interesting to the reader. The pencil is in my hand and my brain is churning like factory machines, so come with me, and we'll dive into the world together and see just what kind of magic awaits us there.
(I would also suggest my friend's blog, "Fanfare for the Common "Meh." Hannah is eloquent, thoughtful, and delightfully witty, and I'm lucky to be acquainted with someone such as her. And she bashes Twilight, which is always a plus in my book.
http://musingsonmaturity.blogspot.com/)
Let's move forward!
Sincerely,
Sadie, your teenage dreamer.
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