Vicki, you should page back about 100 pages and you will see me complain that I can't get into Lisey's story either. Neecie has read it (Neecie rhymes with Lisey lol) and she encouraged me to bear with it. hehe It does get better honest. Funny thing is I was in one of my zillion doc offices and the PA commented that she had read it, she loved it but admitted it was hard at first to get into. The doc came in about that time and picked it up and asked how it was...the PA and I started laughing outloud and told her that we had just been talking about that. Everyone concurred that Stephen King gets weirder as the years go on!! But he was a good read regardless of the growing weirdness!
I agree it has been hard to get into, it feels horribly disjointed...or did. It is sorta coming together it seems. Sorta....
Too funny that your mom gave you your's for Christmas, that is how I got mine too! Mom gave me that and Grisham's "Innocent Man" and Ludlum's (Bourne Identity, et al guy) "The Bancroft Strategy". Grisham's book is a different kind of book for him too. Not sure I liked it as well as his others....well no I didn't, but it was interesting. It is a true story, one of the those Innocence Project stories. Of course Ludlum is tried and true...a very good read!
Now it is just my hope that I will be finished with Lisey by Christmas...sheese I am sooooo slow. But then I get 2 minute segments to read in so that may explain part of it. Well, sounds good anyway! =P
Well Neecie, if you would rather have a mammogram than a job review I would say you have been terribly warped by your past experiences with job reviews...eeeeeekkkkkk!!!! The one and only job "review" I have ever recieved was when I worked for a computer company, we installed and debugged computer accounting software. I had a prick for a boss, who was one of those napolean types that strutted to make up for the fact that he wasn't an actual "little people", he was just a puny little man with a small mind among what I suspect was other very small "things". Anyway, he was in a pissy mood to begin with, his office manager had just absconded with company funds and he had lost a big account or two and he was just an over all douche bag and it was time for my review. He started in criticizing me and I just sat there listening. I could feel one eyebrow involuntarily rising in the "wtf" stance it tends to get in when I am...ermm...rather perturbed. I listened all about how a particular client, a dentist who was the dumbest jackass I had ever worked with, wasn't happy with my work. Ya think?? Of course he wasn't happy, it was completely beyond him how a/r and a/p worked...much less a general ledger. Journal entries were what you did in a diary after all!!! The idiot dentist was a wealthy snot of a client that couldn't find his way out of a bag, but he treated his office girls like they were dogs and he had come to our office thinking he could do the same thing. And my idiot boss couldn't suck...errrm...up, fast enough.
In the end I sat there, on the edge of my feelings, I was young and needed the job...I was not sure I was the bug or the windshield that day. I knew in my mind he thought I was the bug. I had a flash of a visual of him and the dipshit dentist and I could see in my minds eye my boss groveling to the dentist, I felt sick. In that moment, I knew it would be like this forever, so I took a deep breath and became the windshield!!!!!!!! I couldn't help myself, I broke out laughing so hard I nearly literally fell out of my chair. I stood up and looked down at this 5'2" inch banny rooster and said "thanks for the laughs" and headed out the door back to my office.
Needless to say, I wasn't there a lot longer. I quit and opened my own practice two months later. It was a huge leap but I made the jump and never looked back. In reality that job review was the best thing that ever happened to me. It made me know it would be impossible for me to ever work for an idiot and sadly in this world there are many! Here's the deal Neecie, you know YOU do a good job. I KNEW I did a good job, I KNEW I worked very hard. I KNEW my boss was a moron. I also knew his control over my future was wrong, wrong, wrong....my universe was out of balance and he was the dead weight throwing it off balance. I shucked my dead weight, and you have shucked yours. It will all be fine!!
Btw, that boss I had all those years ago, he wrapped his jaguar around a tree a couple of months ago, it killed him instantly. Hmmmm....now do I believe in Karma? Nah! <cough, cough>
Ok and one last bit of news here. Matt broke down and sent his step mother a message through his MySpace. You know the stalking that was going on, well Matt decided a couple of nights ago to send her a message. He sent her something on the order of 'did I read your site right and you and my father are divorced now? I just thought I would ask about my dad. I don't remember you or him...' Very basic stuff. OMG, she sent him back a cocky message indicating that they are seperated and she didn't believe it was Matt, but accused him of being me!!! Matt called me in there to read it, sheese. I just shook my head and told Matt, "I warned you she was crazy". Somethings never change! He is playing with the idea of contacting his dad. He hasn't made up his mind. I told him he should print out here diatribe and then write his dad a note at the bottom explaining that it was him asking and not me. Then mail it to his workplace. See what happens. I for one suspect she is lying about being seperated at all. Anyway he again yesterday said he can't believe she thought his message was from me. Bah, she is such a freak!
Oh well that is it. Raj is gone to his parents this weekend. Needless to say we aren't doing that visit together anymore. Bleh, they hate me and that is that.
Hope everyone has a good Father's Day!!! Surely there are some good Father's out there some where!!!!! =D
Hugs,
~Ami
