Workaholic

So I feel like a workaholic this week!  I’ve closed three nights in a row all of the shifts were at least seven and half hours.  I have today off and I open on Friday and Saturday… those are both eight hour shifts.

I had an interesting day yesterday.  I remembered why I hate closing three days in a row… while being a full-time student.   I made a customer mad… he called me a liar.  Oh he made me mad!  I wanted to talk back to him!  Instead I opted to go to the back and cool off.  I have come to two conclusions about customer.

1. Regular customer are kind of creepy

2. Customers are fickle

Nightmare becomes Reality

Where should I begin this story?  Well, first, I am Obsessive Compulsive when it comes to my wake-up alarm.  I check it at least five times before I go to bed.  Is is set for the right hour? AM or PM? is the volume high enough? etc.,

I worked this morning from 6-2 which means my alarm was set to go off at 5am.  So, this morning I am lying in bed “hmmm, I wonder what time it is.”  “I checked my alarm last night and it hasn’t gone off yet.”  “Let met just make sure.”  So I get up and walk across the room to my dresser to pick up my phone.  … “where is my phone?”  “Oh NO!” “PHONE!!!!”  So, I ran frantically to the kitchen to find a clock  “6:22!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  “NO!!!!!!!”  “WHERE IS MY PHONE!!!”  … It was in my bed, under the covers!!!!!!   “I’m supposed to be at work, and I have the key to get in!  somebody is waiting out in the cold!  Oh no!”  I text my manager “just woke up.  running to work”  No lie! I ran out of the dorm.

So, I make to to work, and guess what.  My opener isn’t there!!!  She thought she worked later in the day and didn’t open.  So finally, we both are at work and have 20 minutes to get the store ready to open!  Praise God we made it!

But my story isn’t finished!

The GM was supposed to come in today at 8am. She lives kind of far away and needs to take the 210E to get to Pomona.  If you have heard any traffic reports this morning you heard about the major accident on the 210E that caused two fatalities, well she had to sit in that traffic.  Two hours after she was supposed to be at Subway she finally made it!

So I don’t know how in the world it was possible, but all three of us were late!  We all had our own issuse, but it made for a very intersting morning.

Midterms, Missions Intensive, and Spring Break

Mid terms was last week.  I had four midterms and two projects due.  I think I did ok on everything.

This past week was Missions Intensive.  Our Teacher was Bro. Jim Smith, who is an Associate Missions Director for the BBFI and a former missionary to Ecuador. 

I have more Subway stories!  I won’t bore you with them though, but let’s just say that they know how to keep me busy.

This week is SPRING BREAK!!!!!  I’m not going home but am staying in LA to work and get lots of homework done.    Hopefully sometime during the week I will be able to update everyone one how productive I am being on my homework.

by the way… what do you think of my new sight?  the name?  the theme?

$5 Footlongs

Yes that’s right, $5 footlongs are back.    I know everybody loves it, but sometimes being in charge stinks.  Should I really have that much stress?  Last night wasn’t horrible… but it wasn’t a breeze either.  When I got there the back was a mess (as usual).  Only this time I had like no bread… and the bread wasn’t thawed yet either.  Thankfully, the only bread I ran out of during the entire evening was Jalapeño.

The best part about last night was the people I was working with. … you have to love coworkers.

So. I was closing with a guy (the only boy that works at Subway… poor guy)  and he happens to be a shift lead too.  That being said, it is easy to work with him because he knows what needs to be done.  My third person was a girl who constantly seems to have an attitude.  I don’t think she likes it when I tell her what to do.  Well, the funny thing is that she REALLY likes the guy.   No lie!  She came to work with her make-up all done!  She tries to act really sweet and flirt with him… while at the same time throwing attitude at customers and me!  The thing is that he has a girlfriend and he really can’t stand the coworker. Poor girl… she doesn’t even realize, but she tries so hard. After she left, I told him that she acts completely differently when he was there, and he just rolled his eyes and complained about her attitude.

Daily Benefits and Wondrous Works

Let me start by saying that work called me on Monday and wanted to know if I could come in and close… I said “No way, Jose!  I need to to homework!”  And I did actually do homework

Last night during my break I was texting Daniel and asking him what he was doing.  He told me he was working on a devotional for his speech class based off of Psalm 68:19 and 72:18.  He also informed the that he had read the verses the day before Bert’s caregiver unexpectantly died.  I didn’t have my Bible with me so I told him I would look them up when I got home that evening.

I got home around 10:30ish and noticed that Hannah wasn’t home.  I knew she was feeling sick and that she has a doctors appointment in the afternoon, but she should have been home by now.  My conclusion what that she was in the hospital and I was a little mad that I wasn’t told that she went to the ER (but then again when your sick you don’t really think that logically).  I got in contact with her and she told me that the she had been to the ER and they were sending her home with medicine… (and still no answers).

I went to my room and began to do my evening devotions and remembered that I was going to look up the verses that Daniel told me about.

• Psalm 68:19  Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah
• Ps 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

Wow!  that was just what I needed!  No matter what the circumstances of life my God only does wondrous things.  I may question His working but when I stop and consider I know that He is doing wondrous things.  I may wake up in the morning with a headache or I may have a really bad day cause of celiac but my God still loads me with benefits.  No matter how my day begins or where it goes my God has supplied an overabundance of benefits to me and is constantly doing wondrous things.  God is truly amazing and worthy to be praised!