It took me a while to get used to not having to do all the quirks that my truck did, like pulling to the right whenever I would brake. Or keeping my foot on the gas when idling.
The service engine soon light came on a day after I got it, but I'm hoping it something small. I paid cash for the car, which was nice to scrape together every cent I had and even sold a few goats to pay for it. Yes, that sounds odd to me now and a bit archaic, but a car is quite a bit more useful than a pair of fainting goats. Even though I do miss my goats, they didn't get me to work and back. I've already put 600 miles on it in just one week! Gas efficiency is in between the truck and the honda, but all wheel drive will be nice in the Ohio winters. I'll just have to give up sushi for a month in order to pay the insurance, but overall i'm very happy with my purchase.
I also got a new phone. A new smart phone. It's pretty sweet so far. It combines all those notebooks and calendars and notes that I used to carry around along with a music player and a mobile hotspot so I have internet anywhere I go.
New apartment. New car. New phone. Wohoo! Finally getting my shit together post DUI, which was incredibly expensive.
And overall, I'm very happy at work, mostly because I have an amazing crew of smart, interesting, and hard working people. I've spent my last week doing a task that should have been complain worthy, but these kids took it all very well... I mean, after the initial shock of having to re-do something we just did wore off. Yesterday we were uncorking hundreds of cases, but the mood was bright and we swapped playlists every couple hours and everyone was in a good mood and somehow still focused on a goal, as frustrating as that goal may have been.
I am having one of those moments though where treading water and barely paying the bills is frustrating because I like my crew and I want them to be successful and I want us to be successful and we're doing a lot of things right, but I can't seem to get ahead no matter what I do.
Maybe that's the inherent fear of managing people. They give me their time and energy and I pay them and try to make their labors into something.
Oh man, what a week. No real day off in sight and a giant party on Saturday that I hope works out, but isn't so popular that I can't handle it. Thin line between a nice turnout and a huge parking problem, understaffed, and not a table or chair in sight. Worrying won't help, I just have to tell myself.
Sushi, however would help ease the worrying...
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