A Teddy Lover’s Travels…

So it’s been a hard time for Marektplace. Not selling like we used to, before I was there. Until they sent me out sampling with a margarita pizza yesterday. I brought so many people there. I’m excited to see where I’m going to be in the future.
I’m hoping that I’m going to do a good job. That is my plan.
I don’t know my hours for next week because I forgot to pick up a schedual for next week. Stay tuned for my hours when I get them tomorrow.

Today I went to work as normal. I was helping all sorts of people. I guess I’m really starting to like my job. I feel like I know what I’m doing.
I was making up my sampling tray for the second time, when my Erik appeared behind me. I was busy doing that and then I went out sampling. I’m not sure if I like sampling or not, but you do as you are told at work.
I came back and I got to wait on Erik. That was a lot of fun. Please come to Marketplace if you are in the neightborhood. I work from 11-3 on Thursday and from 2-7:45 on Saturday. I was not on the schedual but my manager fixed it for me.

During the weekend of the huge snow storm in the one that occured the weekend of March 2, 2007, Erik and I went to his parents’ house so that we could avoid having to look for a parking space since parking is pretty difficult around here as it is. When I came home my beloved kitty, Ashes, started lying in the pile of litter just outside the box. She stopped eating and I thought that she was just mad at us for leaving. I noticed that she had a wound on the side of her body that wouldn’t go away. On March 6 I called the vet and we had planned on taking her there the next day. I left for school after being with her constantly, I came home from school that day and found her dead under the bed. This was very sad for me as I had gotten Ashes when I was in 6th grade from my mom and dad. She was my best friend and before we got the dog she slept in my bed under the cover right next to me. R.I.P. Ashes, I love you.
I’m not sure exactly what year she was born because my mom found her so 199?-2007. You will always be remembered and loved by those who knew your. Maybe I’ll post a pic of her later when I find one.
On Saturday March 10, Rachel took me to the human society in Golden Valley. I didn’t know where she was going until we got lost. When we got there it was so busy and there was so much going on. She looked at me and told me that I got to pick out a kitty. I found only one cat that would work. She was a little older and fatter than I wanted. She is 5 ½ years old. I brought her home and now she is a part of our family. She can’t replace Ashes and I don’t want her to. She is a sweet kitty that is very friendly. She is not to found of Sox who is Ashes son. Welcome to the family Stardust.

Let me start off by saying that I no longer feel lost at my job anymore. It’s almost a comfort to be there. I mean I miss Erik, but what wife wouldn’t miss her husband???
I love Erik very much and things are going well for us we’ve been married a little over 8 months, 8 months and 4 days to be exact. I feel that I couldn’t be happier with my life right now. I feel that I’m in a good spot.
School is going well, hopefully I’ll be graduating in August with just my A.A. Degree. I just need to get into one more class for the summer and then hope and pray that I pass. I feel like my life has some direction now, but I don’t know what that direction is just yet.
I just wanted to update a little bit about Marketplace. I miss my old job and I don’t expect the job I have now to take it’s place. I feel that it probably won’t. Then again I can’t tell you for sure either. I’m just happy to be back in the work world again and to help out with the bills. Food is a very hard job because let me tell you hungry people aren’t always that nice to you. But I guess that is one of the things that I still have to get used to.
Next week I don’t work that much mostly due to the fact that Macy’s isn’t open on Sunday due to the fact that it’s Easter. I work 12-4 on Tuesday, my first Tuesday shift ever, and 11:30-3:30 on Saturday.

I worked from 11:30-4:30 today. It was a long shift but I learned how to do a few more things. I learned how to make smoothies and waffle cones. It was a long funfilled day. I even got a few cutomers that were so nice to me and treated me better than some people I have known over the years.
It was just me and the manager today for a good portion of time. Give me a few more days and I’ll learn how to do even more things. I never realized just how many things that you had to do in food. So many little things that I never even thought of. Everyday it seems that I learn things I didn’t even know that we did.
I already said that I work on Saturday from 10:30-4:40. I also have my new hours for the week, Sun 12-4, Thursday 11-3 and Saturday 10:30-2:30. If you are in the neighborhood you can feel free to stop by.

After 4 days of work and one day of trainning. The only thing I can’t do for you is make a smoothie, but I’ll learn that too. I work from 11-3 on thursday and 10:30-4:30 on Saturday. The only downside to working at Marketplace is that I can’t get my schedual to work on line. This means that I can only get it one week in advance.
I had to give my Monday shift away. I don’t like doing that but I didn’t have a choice. I’d love it if more of you would stop by and see me. Who knows maybe I’ll be doing sampling???
Edit on 03/28/07: I have to work until 4:30 tomorrow. Nothing else has changed, and I waiting to see what days I work next week.

After being unemployed for over a year. I finally have a job. I work at Marketplace, the Deli in Macy’s Rosedale. I like it there so far and I’ve learned so much already. There is still a lot to learn. If anyone wants to come and bother me at work, I work from 11-3 on Monday, and from around 7ish to 1ish on Wednesday and Thursday. We have good food and we’ll give you a sample of anything that you’d like to try.
The only downside is the uniforms, I don’t think they are all that flattering. Black pants, black shoes and socks, white work shirt, black hats that says Macy’s on them, and black apron, but mine is white due to the fact that the black ones have all disappeared.
So much more in my life has happened, but I’ll have to save that for another update.

A few weeks ago I went to see my sister in Edina High school’s production of Of Mice and Men. This was the first time that I had gotten a chance to go back to my old high school since I graduated in 2003. When I drove up to the high school with Rachel, I said to her “This is not at all the place I remember. It has changed along with me, I guess I can never go back to the same high school that I went to.”
I want to say to the people that were in the play what a nice job that did. That was not an easy play to put on, and you had to make it real. Most people in Minnesota do not have southern accents and they all had to talk with one. Nice job on that.
I’m not really wrting this to talk about the play. I mean it was great, and that is all that I’m going to say about it. I’m writing this more about changes. To look back remember Edina the way that I remember it almost brings me to tears since I loved that school. I guess it symbolic because it shows that I no longer need that place. It’s hard to go back to something that no longer exixts.
It is still a beautiful place but not the one that I remember. When I was there I ran into some old friends and they were not the same people that I remembered they looked older and more distant, as I’m sure I did to them. I guess you can go home, but it is never going to be the again.
As I sat there I didn’t feel like I was at Edina High School, I felt like I was at some place new. I’m not sure if a lot of you can relate to this, but I’m sure that there are some of you that can. I guess I like knowing that as I change so does the world around me because to me, it seems that nothing is ever going to stay the same.
In the 21/2 years since I’ve graduated, I’ve been to two colleges. I’ve gotten married to the best husband that any girl could ask for. I’ve also become a Godmama to a little girl who is so cute and sweet. I’ve also lived in Duluth, moved back home and now I have my own apartment with my husband. I’ve gotten a whole new group of friend and I’ve also lost my loving Granpa and Nana. I’m sure there are many more things I’ve done too and I just can’t think of any of them.
I’ve changed a lot in many ways. It was almost a happy sight to see that my high school is changing along with me. Change is healthy and a part of life. I’d be worried if people didn’t change, and the things around me didn’t change.

I remember in high school watching The Dead Poets Society, and loving every second of it. There was so much packed in the movie that you could never get bored. I think I watched it in almost every English class from 8th grade until 12th grade. I never realized how much more the movie was saying and how the boys had a very little amount of freedom. Someone comes a long and shows them that they have do have more freedom, he tells them to Carpe Diem “Seize the day”
Tonight I watched it in Lit for the first time in a long time and it took on new meaning for me. It made me realize just how lucky I was that my parents were so nice to me, and they let me do what I wanted. Then I let my mind wonder to all the people that I have known that have not been that lucky.
The freedom that I had at a young age and believe me if you know me really well you know what I’m talking about. I could get away with almost anything. I didn’t have to ask to do anything when I was 16 on up, and I feel like I never even thanked my parents.
People who know me well know that I’m very annoyed by parents who try to run their children’s lives. I have always thought this when people told me that they don’t have the freedom to do as they wished: “You had your chance and now it’s my turn, please don’t tell your 16 + children what to do.” Maybe this is an indication that I’m spoiled I have no idea.
I’m open to suggestions from other people, but I don’t want them to tell me what to do. I’ll do as I please and you do as you please. This is how I would raise kids if I ever had any. You just have to let people find their niche in society, and make their own mistakes. That is what is so important, try not to forget that.
The last thing you want to be is stuck somewhere that you don’t like, and feel like you can’t try anything new. The only person you have to prove anything to is yourself. If you go aganist what you parents want and they cast you out of thier lives. You have lost nothing, God will take care of you in the place of your parents. He is the father after all what kind of father would he be if he just turned you away. He should be your constant guide, and he should be the one you ask for guidence from.

I got a lot of good stuff this year. Many things that I can use mostly. I’m hoping that the remaining 5 or so days left of this year are going to be filled with love and surprises.
Thanks to everyone for the nice gifts. All of them are wonderful.