March 2, 2006

• Goodness I'm tired!!!  I've been battling this cold that will not quit.  I think my boyfriend and I are just passing it back and forth to each other.  I woke up the other night and he was facing me with his mouth gapped open breathing hot, dirty sickness directly onto my face.  Boy was that sexy. 

  I've been running myself a bit ragged lately.  We've had a bunch of impromptu lodge meetings which all happen in Tacoma which is a 2 and a half hour drive north.  God I'm sick of I-5.   But its always fun to meet with those people, I've even made it up to Seattle a few times to meet with some of the senior members. 

  So I had one our our corporate auditors from Memphis, TN come to the terminal to spend a week with me.  Can I just tell you how much not fun that was?  Let me explain something.  I am the Safety and Compliance Officer for my terminal.  This means that no one gets hired unless they go through me and I decide their DOT physical, motor vehicle reports, and paperwork are all signed and in order and meets our standards.  I also have to take care of the employed drivers if they have any workmans comp problems, payroll problems, or if they are put on safety hold for whatever reason I am responsible for getting them off.  That sounds really bad, but oh well.  Now I keep checking, but I am only one person.  If anyone out there knows where the other me's are, please send them my way as they are needed.  Now, my position in Memphis consists of 8-10 people.  This woman doesn't seem to comprehend why my terminal, being a smaller one, has to make adjustments accordingly as I am only one person with two hands, and half a brain.  So it was a week of hell as she dictated every little thing I was doing wrong and how I needed to do it by the letter.  It was a lot of smiling and nodding by my boss and myself until she left and we changed everything back to the old way we did it.  Who the hell cares how we get it done, as long as the job is done at the end of the week.  We've never had a problem with this. 

  The other thing about this woman that exhausted me...she wanted to go out EVERY DAMN NIGHT!  She wanted to see downtown and go to bars.  Now, I'm not a fuddy duddy yet and still do enjoy the occasional drink and a live music show, but not on a work night and not every night of the week.  However this womans opinion directly affects my job and whether or not I get to keep it so I had to oblige.  Now, she is souther.  Baptist southern.  So she has her opinions on things that I just don't agree with.  Of coarse due to the business part of our relationship I could come right out and tell her to fuck off so I had to show my dissent in my own little ways.  One night I made sure to take her to this neat little wine bar....directly next door to one of Portlands oldest gay bars.  So no, we weren't in a gay bar, but she had to see it walking in and walking out.  The second night I chose a bar right next door to the club that is the longest running drag show in Portland.  Some of the 'woman' she couldn't even tell until it was tooo late and she had already engaged them in conversation.  The third night I took her to a bar next door to one of Portlands many goth clubs.  She took one look at the black clad, white make-up wearing, black haired people with piercing's everywhere and went, "Are those garth people!?!?"  I explained to her that the term was 'goth' and that yes, they were.  It also happened to be a fetish night so she was vastly confused about why some people had their girlfriends or boyfriends on leashes. 
  Hey, if I have to deal with her and her ignorant, bigoted ass, I'm going to do it my way.  She asked if we had any country music/line dancing clubs, and thankfully we don't, so I don't have to feel bad if I had to have lied to her.  Aw, who the hell am I kidding, I wouldn't have felt bad in the least!  So that had me exhausted, then I had to drive to Tacoma Saturday morning and didn't get back until late that night.  So I am one sleepy girl.  In fact, I think I'm going to go hit the pillow!

  Good night!  I love you all!

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