HELLOs. MintIceCream here(MIC for short) tis a world about me, and the crazy antics of my 5 cats that just love to drive me nuts.
Age-20
Job-substitute teacher
Gender-female
i recently graduated from college with a BS degree in education, certified for art (I'm an art teacher). i currently sub teach while i shop for a job in my content area.
Mindy-my cat, she's a white cat with tabby splotches all over. She's 15 years old, nonsocial, phychotic, and crazy. But i love her all the same.
Texa-my dad's cat primarily, he has a tuxedo style coat. black with a white strip down his belly, on his paws, and the lower half of his face. he's also a manx(no tail) and very talkative. a gentle giant, very lovable, although he doesn't really like me to well. he's 11 years old. (he's also kind of a cranky old @$$)
Bogart-mom's cat. and mine sometimes. the very fat one of our family. he's 7 year old. a brown tabby who loves to raise chaos. he loves to terrorize the adults, and chew on everything. he's also a big pig and will eat anything. even though he's my mom's cat, he loves everyone. he's quite the ladies man. he prefers the company of women over men.
Sammie-Ryan's cat. 7 year old. he is all gray, with thick soft fur. the sweetest cat in the whole world. he isn't all that smart though, and kinda slow. definatley not our brightest bulb, but we love him all the same. he will do anything for a tidbit of human food, so i have managed to teach him a few tricks. his favorite food is gold fish. we try to tell him it's not a real fish, but he doesn't believe us.
Augustus (GUS for short)- everyone's cat. the newest addition to our family, we rescued him from a cousin who should be banned from owning animals. he was 5 weeks old when we got him, so tiny. he's now 3 years old. he is a miniture norwegian forrest cat. all black, orange eyes, and EXTREMLY fluffy. he is the baby of the family, and res1sident ninja/trouble-maker. he is also quite dog like. he will sit and shake paws for a treat, likes to play fetch, loves meeting new people, and go for walks on a leash and harness.
anyways, have fun, and enjoy the power of the minty-ness.
A lot has happened since I was last roaming these parts, and I truly have missed this place. I went back and read my last post, and it flooded back memories of lodging (and not necessarily pleasent ones). After the summer of war I spent with the vampires, it was a huge relief once school started back up. I'm still only a substitute teacher, but I have been building a lot of solid relationships with people in a couple of schools I really love, and I'm hoping they will pay off with anpermanent teaching position.
There was also a huge change at lodging. Most of my coworkers quit, due to the way management was treating them. And my mom. They really hurt her emotionally and mentally. It put a huge rift between us because I was still working weekends there, and she saw that as a betrayal, that I was chosing lodging over her. But I moved out of my parents house and into my own apartment this past spring, and I couldn't afford to quit lodging. As a sub I don't get paid during the summer, so I still kind of needed the lodging job (as much as I hate to admit that). Also me moving out was not what mom wanted. Despite the fight, she didn't want me to leave. I only moved about a 15 minute drive away, but to her that's hours. But things have gotten better between us, much better. The wounds are mostly healed over.
Mindy (my fluffy kitty baby) loves her new home. She is the true reason I moved to my own apartment. My mom's boys HATED Mindy, and Mindy is a tiny old woman that never did anything to them. She just wanted to sleep in my room, occasionally eat and use the box. But the boys wanted her dead. I had to keep Mindy locked in my room, but they persisted. They started body slamming my door and howling at all hours to stress her old heart out, and pooping outside my door to 'mark' the territory. Whenever they did manage to sneak in, they would tackle her, roll her onto her back and tear and bite at her belly. A 20 pound young male vs. a tiny bony old 6 pound woman. Not a fair fight. So Mindy and I had to leave before they either started peeing on my door and/or actually killed her. But she adores the new boy free apartment. Lots of space to sleep and run with no one hunting her.
it has been quiet at work today. i got soem more research in the manuals done, and i'm working on the comic now in between customers. ashley wants me to come to her house after work, but i just want to go home and draw. and i never did get to vacuum up the fur from my cats molting party.
anyways, as promised, i got the cover page inked last night and posted today. i've gotten more panels fleshed out today on pg 2, pg 1 is ready to be inked. i want to get the rest of pg 2s panels fleshed out, then maybe start this weeks crocheting.
i'm really tired. and i'm kind of stressing about tomorrow. tomorrow management and the vampires are back, and i'm scheduled to work with them tomorrow. and brian (our highest ranking manager) plans to hold a meeting with them, and the poop is going to fly. but i have documentation and my own copies of the important manuals. i'm ready for (hopefully) anything they throw at me.
today i work at lodging (yet again), but on the weekend management and the vampires aren't here. so work today has been very pleasant. but yesterday, right after i finished typing up my post, i went into medina's office and just exploded. i've been so stressed out and my anxiety has been coming back. i ended up bursting into tears infron of medina and brian. the look of shock on their faces when i came clean about how bad it is working with them was refreshing almost. they had a little pow wow after i left and have decided to take big action on monday when the vampires return.
i spent all my free time when i wasn't helping customers going through every single binder and manual in this place. they are going to regret telling me about all this information they had hidden in here. i've made copies of a lot of things, typed up documentation of the incidents that have happened to me, and i've gotten my own copy of the civilian employee handbook and of the AFI. when a meeting happens, or if i have to farther up the chain of command i have lots of ammo. i'm fully armed with lots of paperwork, and these kind of people love paperwork proof. i just need to speak with some other coworkers to see what documentation they have to add to our weaponry. my mom told me an old saying her grandmother used to tell her, and it describes lodging perfectly. 'there are to many chiefs, and not enough indians. and the chiefs need to watch out, because the indians are getting restless.'
tonight, i'm going to have to cancel my plans to hang out with ashley. i have been finding htings recently in my bed that i didn't know were in my bed. i think it's time to finally strip and change the sheets, and i have a ton of fur to vacuum up. mindy and gus decided to have amolting party the other day while i was at work.
i will get my cover page fleshed and inked tonight, posted tomorrow. i have the first page sketched out, it could be inked, i'll try to get it done. and i will get the three skeleton sketched pages fleshed out this week and at least one posted next weekend. i can only post art when i'm at the computers at lodging because my laptop hates me. but i can't do it during the week because that's when the vampires are around and they will probably make up a rule to get me in trouble if i try to post during the week. so best to just do it during the weekend when they aren't around.
so another horrid day working at lodging. i'm really starting to hate it here. with the new hire training, that means chrissy and lefler (ecpecially lefler) have been hovering around the front lobby desk instead of just hiding out in the back desks. for the past six-ish months, they have hid back there, 'working', leaving me alone to manage the front desk. whatever, i was okay with this. and since they never bothered me, i assumed that i was doing my job correctly. but now with them hovering they keep pointing these things out, making me look and feel stupid. for example;
lefler told me long ago, we do not let the phone ring and ring. if you are busy with a customer in the lobby, you answer the phone, put them on hold, then continue with the lobby customer. but today she scolds/yells at me, saying that when there is a customer in the lobby you're helping, ignore the phone. or ask the lobby customer if it is okay to answer the phone to put them on hold, then continue with the lobby customer. i'm angry and confused.
AND, lefler says if we don't understand something then we need to ask her about it. so this morning i asked her how to get into the off-base office in case i need to get a toy chest for a customer on the weekends. she got all snotty and told me to go find the keys. but both the filing drawers and the cabinet had no key for that office. so i asked her what the access code was for the backdoor. but she didn't know and got all frustrated. she said i needed to be less needy, more self-sufficent and find asnwers on my own. so much for asking her about things i don't understand. but ms. mary (housekeeping supervisor) told me the access code. she's awesome.
but chrissy and lefler left early, and the new hire only worked till 2:00, so i had the desk to myself, with no one around to make me feel stupid. if this keeps up, i'm worried my anxiety and depression may come back. i had finally conquered that a few years ago, and i don't want it all to come back.
and i know i said i would post some pages for the comic this weekend, but i had forgotten how long of a process comic making is. skeleton sketches, fleshed out sketches, then inking. and since i use a dip calligraphy pen and bottle of ink, it takes me even longer to ink. so i'm hoping to maybe post the cover page on sunday, and some more next weekend. if i don't then somebody needs to smack me upside the head, cause then i'm just dragging my feet and being lazy.
So today i got up and went to one of my favorite middle schools. The class was a bit chatty at first, but the. We popcorn read the chapter out loud (it was a small chapter) and they had fun popcorn-ing. I hadnt taught science before, so it was fun to try something new. Thats one of the things i love about being a substitute teacher. Yes, a full time position in my subject area would be nice, but i love getting to experience all the other subjects. And being with the kids was so refreshing. I left there felling awesome and recharged. Then i got a text from one of the vampires at lodging, throwing a hissy fit about something i had done to help her out, but now theyve decided thats a no no. So im in trouble again. Yay. :( they make a rule, we start following it, then they decide to change the rule without telling anybody, and then we're in trouble. Theyre so bipolar there, i hate it.
But i did have a productive afternoon so far. I went on a walk with mom outside, its so nice right now. Then insat outside with the cats and let them play. Took a nap, and ive finally watercolored reynas corgi drawing. Ill try to post a pic of it tomorrow, its super cute. And since i got all of this weeks crocheting done last night, i can spend the rest of tonight and this week drawing and working on my comic.
Another tidbit of goodness, i finished the third harrypotter book. David said he was going to put some more in my locker tonight. Hopefully tomorrow if the vampires arent all foaming at the mouth, i can start the fourth book during my down time.
