Well, hopefully! My pay’s a bit short this week, had a VERY slow week in collections but that’s because I’ve been having to cover for a lot of other things at the office. Hopefully once things settle and get situated, it will pick back up. Just glad my car payment isn’t due til next check or they’d be calling me bitching again.

My headache is still going on the right side but not as bad as it has been. I didn’t have to take anything for it until later in the day.

Well not much going thru my head to blog at the moment. Despite the time stamp, it’s 1 a.m. Saturday now… gonna turn it in here and hope this weekend gets better than tonight has been.

Boss’s leg is looking very bad and his time being taken out from work had me covering for him quite a bit… With the salesguy gone and me having to sort his work out and help A. in her new position taking over for him, that’s essentially four workloads I have now if you consider my two positions here already. I’ve got a migraine that I’ve been trying to hold at bay for three days now, I’m physically and mentaly exhausted, and just drained.

This morning, I woke up at 3 a.m. with a migraine starting. Couldn’t lie still, was miserable. I took 3 advil and laid back down. Andy overslept this morning, so he was late waking me up, but I’ll never fault him for it, we’ve had some long days and late nights. So I had 20 minutes to down another few advil and get my butt on the road to work – only to get stuck behing a train coming from Tropicana.

I get to work with two minutes to spare and I’m fretting about an incident that happened last night after the owner left. I’d talked to a friend @ work about it last night and he confirmed what I knew I had to do. Still didn’t want to do it.

One of the salesguys had come into my office with a handful of invoices that a client wanted collected. We are a commercial collection agency and don’t do personal debt. He wanted me to take the accounts home and work them on my own, out of the system and off the record. He tried to hook me in saying he could get us 40% for them. This would have meant two things: 1) I would have been breaking the law by working as an unlicensed collector on my own and 2) he would be involving me in skimming business off the company for his own personal gain. After 3 or 4 times of my telling him hell no, not gonna happen, he finally gave up and walked out.

I am not going to see my boss and this company screwed over, undermined, stabbed in the back, just because some guy wants to make some extra money. I’ve been here 3 1/2 years and the owner here may be a real bear at times but he’s always looked after me. Even if I was a newbie here, I still wouldn’t let him get screwed over. That’s not my moral standard.

So after the morning chaos slowed a bit, I ended up putting it all into an email to the owner. I told him I am not trying to throw anyone under the bus, as he puts it, not trying to be a whistle-blower, but that he needed to know what this guy was doing.

He called me into his office with a O.O look on his face and asked me to repeat what happened. I did and his only response was, “he’s got to go.” No questions asked, he called the salesman in and confronted him. Salesman fully admitted to it and tried to innocently say he had no idea what he wanted to do was wrong. I didn’t buy it. Boss didn’t buy it. He said, “pack your things and go,” and the guy refused!

Needless to say, it escalated quickly. I ducked back into my office while the owner came dangerously close to physically throwing the guy out. Afterward, boss was just sat there in shock, utterly hurt that this guy he was buddies with couldn’t be trusted. This is the 3rd person in 4 years who has tried to skim business off the company. The first two weren’t caught until it was too late but this one was, so he can be glad of that. I know how screwed over he feels. You can see it in his eyes.

10:30 A.M.

It is indeed a warm October morning. Our first cold front of Fall came and went typically between showers and lasted about 3 days. Now we are back into the upper 80’s and expecting a thunderstorm this afternoon. But meh – weather is boring Well… I don’t think so.

Chatting up LF while on break this morning… Grr he had me worried, I hadn’t heard from him since Friday! Turns out it was just a getaway weekend but still! 3 days – that’s the official worry deadline!

1:00 P.M.

Just back from a lunch meeting to discuss some staffing changes. We have two new hires possibly coming on board, one in FL and one in KY. One would relieve current workflow overload while the other created more… LOL explain that logic? I’m just gla I’m still here. 3 1/2 years now, with the owner’s comment today that he hopes I’m here for the long haul. Well, I do intend to be! Have gotten quite a bit behind in my collection work though. Admin sidde has been ridiculous busy. Suppose it’s the price of working two full time jobs in one full time week. Ther are only so many hours one can sit at a desk staring at a screen, and only so much one person can do in a 48 hour workweek. I’m lucky to have it though, and I know it. Still waiting on that purported thunderstorm by the way…

Andy… Man what a soul-saver he is. That’s another thing in life I am forever thankful for. I have never had so much respect and admiration for one person in my life. He has taken me into his arms, his heart and his life with absolute love and welcome. He’s given me strength, passion, and faith, all which had been completely destroyed by past relationships. To my life he brings joy, laughter, love, happiness, understanding, compassion, brilliance, persistance, hope and the foundation that he’s helping to build that I feel will be unshakable in the trials that we’ll face in life. He really is a blessing and I strive to be more like him.

There were pros and cons to upgrading to the newer iphone OS. Most notably is the much slower running speed. However I’m glad now that I can run some of the apps that I have been wanting, like WordPress and Facebook. I am wishing I had gotten the 32 gig pod instead of just the 8 gig though. I’d forgotten how much I do love my music.

Andy fell asleep the moment he got home from work just about. I’m lying here in an insomniac daze with Spirit nuzzled in close to me. I’m very burned out on work and desperately need a few days off (and not just the weekend) but I get no time away. My boss does not even allow sick time, much less personal time. It’s criminal. But, Babygrrl will be with her biodad over Halloween so I will have the weekend to recoup my senses, rest, and maybe even find the energy to do some housework. But… Rest first. My schedule is killing me.

Wanted to post this for anyone interested in it.  In talking with my most beloved spirit guide today, we were discussing needs and desires and how to bring them to fruition.  He advised that if there was something I wanted or needed, he would “see to it that it happens.”

I asked him, “How can you influence that?”  He responded with the following:

“The way it works is that I take your desires and needs and your feelings about them, then I manifest them in this [astral] plane.  They become a ball of light, to put it simply, and from there I can purify the intent and find the true need and desire.

“I grow this light orb until it is strong enough to move into the position to effect change, and I can attach it to energies that are already in motion, letting your wishes flow into the source where you can attain them.

“Once they are settled and fully flowing through, I can reverse the flow.  Any energies from the thing that is desired that match or complement that which you desire then flow back through the orb and into you.  That is when you know what you desire is within reach.

“From there, it is just a matter of filling and tightening the gap to bring you and your desire together.  This last process requires the cooperation of those things in the physical plane that must be moved to clear the path.  Most times they cooperate.  Sometimes they do not.

“The strength of your desire and the strength of the response are what will clear the way.  The stronger the desire or need, the more obstacles will be removed.  If that which you desire does not give a strong response, then you will have to work harder on your end to achieve it, or it was not meant to be.

“In the end, if the need is true and it is good for all involved, then you should generally receive it.”

I told him that sounded complicated, and he responded:

“Complicated for you perhaps, yes.  In the physical, energy does not move in this way, but you knew that.  For someone with a strong connection to or belief in their astral guide or angel however, nearly all things are possible.”

Interesting bits for you who work with the astral, channeling, angels, and the like.

Work was brought to a stop today at 10 a.m. when our server experienced a hard drive channel failure.  He only meant to innocently reboot it and it refused to boot past the “We’re sorry for any inconvenience, but Windows was unable to start…”  It would not even boot in safe-mode. 

To add to the issues, my boss has quite large and gangly hands.  He first thought it may be a RAM issue and in the process of switching out cards and slots, he physically broke one of the slots.  Ouch.  Our tech wasn’t able to get here until about 14:30 and let’s just say it’s going to be a long night, and I am here for the duration.  He has to put a workstation in front of the server as a temporary crutch, and then proceed to rebuild the server.  We also need to get all the workstations onto the crutch server, then back over onto the main server.  I don’t know how late I will be here. 

The worst part is, I actually have no part in the process.  I just have to be here to lock up after the tech leaves because the owner had to take off to a meeting 2 counties away.  So… *twiddles thumbs*  Now what?

We’re having a LOVELY weather day here in East Central Florida.  I don’t mind the thunderstorms, they make me write.  However, we have tornadoes popping up in the area in a strong line of storms.  (Red dot is us, red triangle is tornadic activity.)

Tornadoes cropping up in St. Lucie County

Just thought I’d toss this up…

Currently
101.6 °F
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 38%
Wind: 10.0 mph from the West
Visibility: 9.0 miles
Dew Point: 71 °F
Precipitation: 30% Chance of Rain
Pressure: 29.67 in
UV: 6.4
Updated: 3:54 PM EDT on June 22, 2009

[19:25] Jyllie Nightfire: i’m already here lol
[19:25] Mondak Slade: lol
[19:25] Jyllie Nightfire: oh mond! your items got returned by accident, i wasn’t kicking them back to you
[19:26] Mondak Slade: no worry, it was a ball i was experimenting with
[19:26] Jyllie Nightfire: oh i meant the sidewalk stuff but hey! Yay for fun with physics!
[19:27] Mondak Slade: yup physics at 500+ meters
[19:27] Jyllie Nightfire: starting to sound like argos hehe
[19:27] Mondak Slade: lol
[19:27] Argos Hawks: i just logged in to some wierd comments about physics. did i leave something running?
[19:27] Jyllie Nightfire: lmfao see he has a guilty conscience lol!
[19:28] Mondak Slade: no, Jyllie retuned my missing balls
[19:28] Argos Hawks: yikes
[19:28] Mondak Slade: lol
[19:28] Jyllie Nightfire: good thing he didn’t log in to THAT line….
[19:28] Mondak Slade: lmao
[19:31] Mondak Slade: here’s your chance to dunk me into the dunk tank Jyllie
[19:31] Jyllie Nightfire: wewt!!
[19:31] Jyllie Nightfire: can’t wait to experience that wet biker smell!
[19:31] Jyllie Nightfire: *ducks&
[19:31] Jyllie Nightfire: covers*
[19:31] Mondak Slade: lmao