Training, Relaxing, Waiting

I had my training the other day for Macy's. It definitely was not what I was expecting. I sat in a little room with three different working stations set up where you could practice going through sales transactions. There was the cash register, check machine, debit/credit machine and a scanner with a book of barcodes. After watching training videos for about an hour I actually got to practice. It's not as easy as it looks. The stupid scanner kepts double scanning barcodes because they were all placed right next to eachother in the book and I swear if I had to start over one more time, I was going to tear my hair out of my head. I ended up being at training for almost 9 hours. By the end of the day I felt like I never wanted to be on a computer again. Obviously that didn't last. But seriously.. 8 hours of instructional videos with cheesy actors was ridiculous. Somewhere close to the middle of those 8 hours, I got to take a 45 minute break. Let me just say that it would have been a lot better if I actually knew people there and wasn't spending those 45 minutes sitting on the fountain outside of Macy's eating a pretzel alone. So depressing. I really hope I meet people that I can sit with on my breaks so it isn't so lonely. Besides, sitting alone at the mall seems to attract all the creepers. So not okay. Anyway, I've just been waiting for my manager, Jamie, to get back from vacation so I can be put on the schedule and actually do some working.

I wish I could say that i've been doing all sorts of fun stuff this week, but that would be a lie. I've just been hanging out with my boyfriend a bit and relaxing at home. Don't get me wrong, I love hanging out with him, but I want to do other things too. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow though because I'm going out to dinner with him (which we rarely do) then afterwards Amanda is staying over. We're going to continue looking at apartments and planning out how we want everything to look, which I love doing. :) She has more interviews lined up so hopefully soon we'll have enough saved up to move out.