Happy Birthday Luthien

I finally bit the bullet and got credit counseling. I haven't sold a single candle since January and I bought supplies to make Easter decorations to sell. I hope I sell something soon or I will have to close my shop. I maxed out all my credit cards and can't pay minimum payments anymore. I told my family I didn't know what to do anymore. If I declare bankruptcy, who is going to hire me? I didn't sell any wreaths or gnomes for Valentine's Day. I have two interviews and pray for a better paying job I can't see to get either. I have been trying to get a new job for seven months now, plus run a business, and work a full time job. I am so stressed out and tired that I can't function. Then I have a roommate to take care of. Went to the grocery store and my credit card declined so couldn't get cupcakes for Luthien's birthday. I thought I had room on my card but a autopay took some money so didn't have enough left. My roommate ended up paying for the cupcakes when we went out shopping.

Celebrated Luthien's 7th Birthday. Old lady ferret. She and Boromir loved the frosting on the cupcakes. I shared a cupcake with my roommate. Cats got catnip.

More requests

Heard at work a new engineer is in jail for assault while intoxicated. He was fired. Too bad, he seemed so quiet. Plus the new sales coordinator they hired instead of promoting me is back in jail for violating their parole. Also fired. Then they hired a new sales coordinator. I have 2 interviews this week.

To be supervisor, roommate has to have a driver's license that he doesn't have. He asked me to teach him to drive. Nervous about him driving my fairly new SUV my Mom bought for me. She will not buy me a new one if he crashes it. Plus, what will that do to my car insurance to have a 19-year-old man added on. I said no. I suggested a driving school for adults.

Just another day in paradise

Installed my very first doorbell camera. I had a heck of a time figuring out the diretions. Received help from my roommate's girlfriend what to do to connect it to my phone. It snowed 5.6 inches and Boromir has stopped loving the snow so much. He walks around, digs around, and comes back inside. Guess he is getting old too. Still jumps on Bilbo that Bilbo dislikes and bumps him off. Boromir just wants to play.

Had nightmare guests at the hotel (high school athletic teams hear for a tournament) who pushed my acting skills to the limit. After destroying my hotel, making us run out of towels, blankets, and pillows, upsetting guests trying to sleep by running up an down the halls, treating my coworkers like garbage, drunk parents threatening to beat up my security guard when asked to control their kids, and crank calls from the emergency phones by the elevator: I smile, check them out, offer a receipt, and tell them to have a great day. Customer may always be right, but I hate the nasty ones and glad to see them leave.

Had an interview at a church for office manager that I would love do. I would do the bulletins and news letters, make event arrangements, count and deposit offerings, and welcome new members to the church. I haven't joined a church since moved away from my home church. Maybe I could join this one. Later I was told I was the only candiadate who showed up for their interview, but they still wouldn't give me the job. They have to interview more candiadates before making a decision. I take that as a rejection. If they wanted me, they would have hired me.

Got a security guard fired. Their coworker mentioned they were asleep in a chair at the restaurant. One thing my hotel does not tolerate is sleeping on the job. So I shook the chair they were in to wake them up. I announced I needed receipts delivered. I reported this misbehavior to my manager who complained to the contracted company who dismissed from working our hotel. Found out from the coworker they didn't want to work with another client so they were released from employment. Apparently, they were angry with me for reporting them. Excuse me, sleeping on the job and they expected not to report that. If I am not allowed to sleep then neither are they.

Came in work one day to find a plastic mouse in the office. Apparently the kitchen staff tried to prank the waitstaff. I was told it didn't end well.

Decided to do a reading of my Easter book in hope of more sales. Last year I sold one book to my coworker. I got it out in bookstores as an ebook, but nobody ever buys it. I try.

Interesting conversation

Roommate asked if his girlfriend could stay another night when she had been here for 2 nights. She was asleep at the moment. No, she wasn't. She was wide awake and I demanded she leave cause has been here long enough. My house is not a free hotel for his homeless friends. I received a lecture after I dropped her off downtown near a place one of her friends lives. Roommate was upset that his girlfriend believes I don't like her. Well, that would be accurate. I don't like her or trust her. She is ruled by her anxiety, plus using him and me. I am under no obligation to be friends with her. I think she is manipulative as well as this conversation. Even further he is upset I called his friends lowlife. They are people he cares about. If they are lowlife then so is he. From years of dealing with customers and nieces and nephew for years, I know when I am being played. If I don't kick her out, she will never leave. My kindness has limits and he finding this out. I care about my roommate without social connections to house him until he gets back onto his feet. This kindness doesn't include his girlfriend or friends. He said my judment of people effects how much I care about them. I call it self-preservation. I don't like being used.

His train wreck girlfriend full of bad decisions and unreliable friends is incapable of taking care of herself and he feels a need to take care of her to make up for her bad relationships. But he can't do that depending on my charity.

Naughty coworker

Coworker who claims to be homeless was caught in an out of order room by an engineer along with her boyfriend, daughter, and daughter's boyfriend. She was suspended 3 days and had a meeting to decide if she kept her job. At the meeting, she won them over and allowed to stay in a hotel room for a week.

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day. I work as usual. Brought in heart cakes for my coworkers to eat. They seem to get demanding about them. Made some heart sugar cookies too. Gave cats some catnip and ferrets got pink cupcakes that were in Boromir's birthday box. Received my doorbell cameras. Will install my next day off.

Happy Birthday Boromir

My ferret Boromir turned 6 years old today. Got him cupcakes from the grocery store. He loves whipped frosting but doesn't like my version. Happy Birthday Baby! No presents other than a cup of cocoa. He has enough toys.

Working hard

Made a floral wreath to sell for Valentine's Day. Made two more Valentine gnomes. Got to stop teaching the new manager the night audit cause she stopped showing up for work. After no showing up 3 days in a row, she was terminated. Funny how the day before the general manager asked me if she was ready to do the night audit by herself. I said no because she doesn't listen to a word I say and texts on her phone all night. If she thinks she can do whatever she wants on the night audit, she will be getting emails from the accountant about every mistake she makes.

Interesting day

Roommate's girlfriend was woken up today by her new friend's ex girlfriend hitting her with a thrown phone. Ex girlfriend didn't like her being there though she slept on the couch. She left during their argument. Roommate asked me to pick her up and go look at an attic apartment she viewed online. She wanted to view it early in the morning. Roommate explained she was scammed when renting a house during Covid and given the code to get inside. The bank came by upset someone was squatting in their house for sale to kick her out. Since it was a bank employee and not a real estate agent I presume it was a house in foreclosure. Now, girlfriend is cautious about who to trust when renting apartments. He asked what I thought of her and I said she is a complete train wreck to which he agreed. He wants to help her trust men again cause she had so many bad experiences. I don't think he can help her. If she doesn't trust herself, then she will never trust him. Obviously she doesn't learn from these bad experiences if she keeps repeating them.

Well I find out later that they took an application from the landlord, but never filled it out nor return it to apply for the apartment. I naturally had to demand to know why he woke me up at 8 AM to go pick up his girlfriend, drive all over town to see some apartment if they don't have a security deposit to get the apartment. Plus she has an eviction on record so few landlords will be willing to rent to her so apartment has to go under his name. He explained girlfriend just wanted to know if the rental ad was real from her bad experience being scammed. I swear this woman will drive me crazy.

Dropped him off at his job and went to a job interview at a gym looking for a receptionist. Return home and my garage door lock is broken. I had to come in the front door and thought I saw movement, but thought it was the cat. I check the lock from the inside and 2 screws are missing and nowhere to be found. Had to make 2 trips to the home store for parts to change the lock straight away. I panic called my brother to help me when I couldn't remove a part. He put the locking system together for me. He used the bathroom and wonder if he saw the roommate's stuff in the guest room. I haven't told my family about my rommate cause they are overprotective of me. They would freak at strange man in my house. When roommate came home with his manager driving, I asked if his lowlife friends were responsible for this. He denied it, but don't fully believe him based on his facial expression when I told him what happened. Nothing was taken, but then I might have interrupted the burglery. Now I have to buy a camera and fear their return. I switched on the Onstar program so if they do return, the car can be track by GPS. My poor cats who normally greet me were hiding and shaking. Someone was here. Roommate is now upset I called his friends lowlife. I'm sorry, he calls them homeless and/or drug addicts. What am I supposed to call them?

Good news and bad news

Roommate announced his girlfriend was kicked out of whoever she was staying with and needs a place to to stay the night. I okayed 1 night only. My cats are getting accustomed to him being here and they will freak out at her presence. My cats are afraid of people.

Apparently girlfriend was living with her brother with her 2 kids and 2 cats. Brother kicked them all out to move in his new girlfriend. Her kids went to live with her ex husbands and her cats are still with her brother who treats them badly. She moved in with a friend with an elder relative. Well elder relative kicked them both out. She bounced around place to place for months now. After 1 night, she left. She met a new friend roommate has not met yet and staying with him tonight.

Good news is that roommate was hired at his interview at a donut shop. They want to eventually make him shift lead. He was so happy on the way home.

Bad news. Took keys to the store to make copies cause one got bent until it broke and I like having spare keys. Well, new keys didn't fit into the hole so had to return them. Went to another store and they didn't have the right size of blanks to make them. Ok, will have to wait to make new ones.

Meeting with Management on Groundhog Day

Since we have a front desk manager again, we have to have staff meetings. But my manager has stage fright so the General Manager ran the course of the meeting today. Assistant General Manager was surprised we have a uniform closet he didn't know about. My supervisor promised to show it to him after the meeting.

Cliff Notes of meeting: Do your job. Show up on time. Wear your uniform. Write down all guest complaints. Engage with the guests.

Naturally the main complaints from guests are being understaffed and bad housekeeping (like a maid remaking the bed without changing the sheets). Covid is over and we should be back to pre-Covid standards. A renovation for the hotel is planned for September.

Happy Groundhog Day

In other news, my roommate went to an interview and they hired him on the spot. Must be desperate for people. He is desperate for a job. He has personal items in a storage unit and that has to be paid or his unit with all his belongings not in my house get auctioned off. He is so happy it is so good to see him this way.