3 posts tagged “ymca”

So, on Monday night, my AC adapter for my laptop decided to stop working. I was infuriated, and at first thought it was the battery, but no it was the adapter. Which I've never even heard of happening. Luckily, my computer is still under warranty! <3

So, I went to the HP website, and tech supported it up on the internets. At first, the experience was less than great, and was pissed off. The form they use kept just sending me to another form that asked me how my experience was. Sadly, there was no experience.

Finally, it started working, and I talked to a fantastic tech person who helped me. Although, at first they tried to tell me that I needed to pay them $75.00, then they would send me the new adapter, and when I received the new part, I'd send back the old part, and they would refund my money. No, I am poor. So, the second solution was that I send my entire laptop including the cord to them, and then they'd send it back in two weeks. Sadly, I go to school online, and I need this little lady.

Finally, they figure out that they can send me a replacement without money without shipping my computer, and it would only take three days. I was so happy :|

I have never been so thankful for tech support. Also, luckily since this was at like 11:30 at night and I had to be up in six hours, and was in a terrible mood, the tech support was in Texas. I did not have the patience for satellite phone delay, I would have flipped out and started crying.

Joy.

I had a great Halloween with my kids, instead of having yet another party (in their day,) and providing another thousand pounds of candy, we played a game instead. It was a lot of fun, the older kids did a game where they made a face for a pumpkin: two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Then they taped them onto a balloon that I had filled with candy earlier, and they had to sandwich it between their backs. Then they had to walk back to back pulling other peoples' faces off. If they popped it was okay, because they had candy in them anyway.

The younger kids did a balloon pop, and they had to pop it with their tushies.

I think we all had a lot of fun. Tony informed me that he hated it, and it was not fun, but I have seen some cell phone video footage that indicated otherwise.

Things have been going great lately, and I think that they will continue to. The man is working a job that he likes now, and has a chance at management in the near future, and I'm working more hours at my current job which is close to about 40 hours a week. I'm not making as much as I was in Madison, but I'm doing okay. Besides, it's cheaper to live up here anyway.

Roller derby with the Fox Cityz Foxz is going great. I missed the last week of practice because of my schedule, but I'll be going on Sunday. I'm very excited, and they're all amazing women. I'm proud that I've gotten to meet them and hang out with them.

It's nice to have an outlet physically and emotionally.

It's been a long time since I've been in any kind of real shape, and I can feel and see some of the muscle tone slowly coming back. My thighs are less jiggly, even the man noticed the improvement.

My afterschool program is becoming better and better, and I'm really glad about it. As soon as we replace the games that are just falling apart I'm going to move onto bringing in a better homework center. I'm also still trying to work on an after school pen pal program, which I still haven't gotten permission slips from, hahaha.

I hope that eventually I will get a digital camera so that I can share the best parts of my life with all of the rest of the world. I wish more people knew the joy that children can bring you, and the anger, haha.

I'm working with a boy in Before School, now. He is very angry inside, and I only hope that I can reach him before he hurts himself emotionally or physically. He's had a rough life, and I think that I can connect with him on that front. Even today, I fulfilled a promise that I had made him the day before, and he was a little bit better, a little happier. I hope that he will trust me to take care of him when I'm around, because I will protect him, even if his parents won't. I see a lot more in him than a lot of other people do, because he's just so angry, I think. I was an angry kid, and I'm still an angry kid. I never got past those emotional barriers. I won't willingly let someone be like me, it's hard to be emotionally stunted, especially when all of the people around you expect you to just grow up.

Fuck them, anyway.

IN THE FACE!

So, today I started training with my new position at the Oshkosh YMCA. I was told that my position would be similar to the position I held in the Madison YMCA, with just a different name. So, I go to training at 9:00am CST and go about training, and junk. I notice that on our schedule "site coordinators" have their own special training, and that's when I begin to realize what they've done to me.

I am a supervisor.

I have never supervised anything more than a group project, and other people putting together entertainment centres. This is going to be so rough, today was just so hectic that I only learned two of the roughly seventy children in this program. I supervise three other people who have been working in this program longer than I have, even at my other job.

Don't get me wrong, I know I can do it, but it was just being blindsided by the job-mobile. For serious.

I mean, wouldn't you just tell someone that?