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Long time no hear?


Lightning Bliss

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Ya... it's been awhile since I posted a blog here, quite crazy actually.

 

There's loads to tell, but probably so much I can't remember it all off on the bat, but I will certaintly give it my shot. Prehaps asking my own self some questions would help this to go forward...So here it goes.

 

1. How's the married life treating you?

 

Wow, marriage is the best thing in my entire life...I mean I cannot imagine continueing on through life without my husband. He's my world, my moon in the sky...my rainbow on a cloudy day. No matter how hard things get in life, I always know I can smile knowing I have someone so loving, that will be there to support me and love me back just as much.

 

Last night we did an interesting practice, negatives and positives about each other in our relationship. It's supposed to be kinda like marriage therapy for one another. No we aren't having problems, but I heard about it once and wondered "Hey why don't we try it? See what happends?" So we did, and interesting outcomes. We addressed our dislikes of one another, but those were...quite hard to find surprising, nonetheless we still managed to find something we didn't like about each other.

 

For me not liking with him it was:

  • He doesn't have the love and patience of my siblings down
  • He doesn't do little things to show his love for me, like writing me a text (however he did buy me a surprise snack knowing i'd be hungry so that was nice)
  • When it's my turn to pick a movie for us to watch, unlike me when I always watch what he wants to watch, but he won't watch the movie I pick out with me. It's not fair.

What he doesn't like about me:

  • I'm a serious workaholic. When I'm not assistant managing a restraunt, then I'm working on the computer right when I get home.
  • I'm OCD when it comes to my computer or working space, to the point of insanity.
  • I'm not so willing to try new things game or movie wise

And now for our positive feedbacks, these were so much easier to come up with!

 

My positives for him:

  • He puts up with all my weird quirks despite
  • No matter how hard things get, he finds a way to calm me down and love me, and tell me it will be alright
  • His gentle nature, and love for me, unconditional

His positives for me:

  • That I keep my child innocence, especially when I get excited about something
  • My energy, and the will to keep loving what I do
  • My courage to never give up, despite how bad things get

This was quite the interesting practice, I do look forward to doing it again. I think in a way it helps us to reconnect our bound for each other, to help us work on the things we may need working on, but still remind each other why we are so crazy about each other to begin with.

 

 

2. How's work going?

 

Work...work is split into two areas for me. There's my primary job which is working at Subway, (for those that don't know, Subway is a fastfood joint, that prides on serving sandwiches to customers at a speedy friendly service), and my job as an artist/brony reviewer. Both I suppose are going well, but are not without its stresses...The Subway job being the most stressful because it impacts my physical and emotional wellfare.

 

Subway Job: This is a job that requires loads of patience, common sense, and a williness to go above and beyond the call to satisfy others. I'm the Assistant Manager, and surprisingly got to this position only months after starting work here back in late August. Never did I thought that my cheerful personality, and my litteral way of doing/getting things done, would point me out or make me out to be a good leader. That's just it, I'm a leader of a team of employees, and my manager counts on me to help her keep everypony in line.

 

- Make sure everything stays in order in the store

- Clean

- Prep: Food, drinks, cups, plates, the line of food, bread, cookies, soup, meatballs etc

- Cash ins, cash drops, money in safe, money in change funds,

- Keeping track of the money

- Assisting customers

- Handling catering orders etc

 

The list can go on longer but I don't wish to bore the viewer... Point being its not so bad once you get a routine and strategy down... I suppose I've always had a good way to get a list in my head going and know exactly what to do first. Like Twilight I have a routine and a list of things I need to get done to stay organized and ahead of the day...Sadly though, when working this close to customers, it can become quickly unpredictable during a day's shift.

 

There will be those customers that know this is just a place to get food, and it has its limits. We could be out of certain items, or we could mess up a purchase, it happends, we're only ponies! But then you'll get customers that are out for blood...you screw up once and they blame you for it all. There is no mercy with some people...They don't care that you've worked 7hrs on your feet without a break, they don't care your financial status isn't so good, they don't care you're hungry or need to go to the mare's room...All they care about is getting their sandwich exactly their way...otherwise they will call the Corporation on you for indesency....Yes I've actually have a customer threaten me before, despite all I said was "I'm sorry ma'am...if there's anything I can do to make your visit to Subway better? I could offer you a free cookie for your troubles?" Instead i get responses like "You're being rude polite and I don't like it, I'm reporting you to the Corps for this!" *sighs*. This job will test you on your emotional ability of self control. I remain nice...and gentle...but when I'm home, I'm too tired and bitter to care.

 

Creative Brony/Reviwer Job: Probably the best job in the world, I get to draw all day, take requests, do my own pony shows, join in on collabs, do some voice acting or singing with other reviewers. I'm part of group of brony reviewers known as The Rift Cafe members.

 

(No I'm not in this trailer...This was made a few weeks before I was invited into the group)

 

However, I don't have a patenon, I don't get paid for my shows. I do get paid for any commissions or requests I do, but needless to say its not much. It's quick pocket money at best... I do hope it will pick up...However when I say that, at the same time I'm hoping it won't pick up. You see I'm already involved in...*counts* ............About 5 different projects with some of these group members. They are everything from collabs about an episode, creating OC puppets in Flash, to singing and voice acting. This does not include the several side projects I've lined up for myself...and quite frankly, I'm shocked I've not suffered a major burn out yet...though I've come pretty close. I can't say I hate doing this, I really do love it! But when you got my current job above my head, battling with this one, against precious time to myself with my husband and family...one days...get really sad and frustrated....You can see why my husband says I'm a workaholic now right?

 

Overall though...it's been a rough time with my jobs...and I am hoping if not praying I can find a solution to get through it all, or hope it will all settle down to a point that its managable...One can only hope.

 

If any viewers have any questions for me regarding the topics listed, feel free to give me a shout out below.

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