It’s been nice. Really nice.

I got promoted to Customer Service Manager at Wal-Mart! I’m totally thrilled about it. I was so happy when they took me into the office and made it official. Turns out that everyone had already known, and I knew too, but I didn’t know it was official yet. It gave me a $1.10 hour raise and a lot of new responsiblities. I’m really happy about it. I start officially on this Saturday but I was helping out the nite CSM last night since I discovered my operator number would work for a supervisor override.

I also discovered that I get Wal-Mart email. So I’ll get to keep up with the latest Home Office gossip and the like. That should be nice. Haha. I’ll just have to remember to read it so that it doesn’t add up to like 10,000 messages. Lol. Anyhow, I guess I’m real excited. Everyone says that Wal-Mart is so bad, but I’ve been there for 8 months and I’ve received 2 raises totalling $1.50. That’s not bad. And I’m due one in 4 more months for my annual.

Wal-Mart sure isn’t rolling back wages. People need to just shut up and let them go. They’re providing a way to live for many people.

…is evil. I gave it up but today I decided I would have Filet of Fish from McDonalds for lunch and now my stomach is so upset. I knew I shouldn’t have eaten that.

I’ve been thinking. I can take better care of my body. I have been doing a great job of staying away from Fast Food instead of eating it all the time and I can tell in the way I feel that it’s a good thing.

Maybe I can finally get around to taking care of my body.

It’s in my true style to wait forever to make an update after the holiday. Thanksgiving was nice. I went and did Thanksgiving brunch at my Gig’s house with Mom’s side of the family. For the afternoon I went and just hung out with Dad and them for a while. For dinner, Rudy brought leftovers from his house so we could have a small dinner together.

I didn’t eat a bunch and was fairly pleased with my ability to not stuff my face. It sucks having 2 families because you have to spilt your holidays and stuff but it’s all good. I don’t know how Christmas is going to work. I’m probably going to be so dead from the rush at work that I won’t care about the actual holiday. I’ll use it for sleep?

I can’t wait until Rudy and I can get our own place so we can host our Thanksgiving. I’d really like for us to have a nice place where I can have BOTH families come over and enjoy a nice meal. I see no reason why my Mom and Dad and Step Parents can’t come and have dinner with us at the same time.

I want to have those big traditional family gatherings, despire how non-traditional I am. Holidays have never really been a big deal but I want them to be. I’m really happy where I am in life and I’m very happy with my family affairs. Hard to believe I can say that.

I’ve recently been really exhausted from working all the time. It’s crazy with my schedule and what not because I never have free days where I have no obligations. I gets my 2 days off a week during the M-F times when I have school. So that means I have to get up for school. And when I don’t have school on the weekend, I still have to get up and go to work.

I’m a slave to work and school. I’m not sure how I feel about school anymore. I know I should be going and staying in it to try and get a degree but I feel like I could go places in Wal-Mart without needing a degree. It’s not that bad of a place. I could live pretty nicely if I can get into management.

I think I might be able to be a CSM soon. This has got me totally excited since I’ve been having my eye on a CSM position for a while. I took the leadership assessment and passed it so I marked the position on my preferences and I noticed that 2 positions opened for 3 days. I hope to get an interview soon.

I’m anxious about it big time. The money would be very helpful plus it will help me learn more things about the Wal-Mart Culture and Procedure to help me qualify to get into the management program. I look to manage my own store one day. That would be awesome.

Sure, it’s just Wal-Mart but to me it’s more than that. It’s my home. I feel comfortable with my co-workers and really enjoy it. My store treats me good and I want to go places in the company. I don’t have much backing on me for that because everyone thinks that Wal-Mart is evil, but I don’t think they are.

Anyhow, that’s really it. Thanksgiving then work. Today at work was just a mad house. We had 3 people at the Service Desk but the lines were out the door. It was terrible. The MoneyGram machine was having problems which held up a ton of stuff. I know a lot of things up there but I was just spread so thin today.

The job was demanding so much from me. I was trying to put out everything I had and it just wasn’t enough. The people kept lining up and it just made the pressure worse. There was a mess everywhere behind the counter and it was just unbearable. I haven’t seen it that busy in quite a while.

For now, that’s all I have to put out. More is expected soon if I can make it through the Holiday Shopping Season. It’s going to be a tough job, but someone has to do it.

-Ryan