The Adventures of Being Me

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 cup...

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.

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 n...

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 m...

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. 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.

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.

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.

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 doe...

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 li...

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 ...