I haven’t updated in quite some time and after reading Mitters very detailed blogs I thought I would post something. I am sitting here at work at 730am on a Saturday. Its quiet…a little to quiet. I was stationed in Columbus on 7/11/08 and now over 6 months later I am still here. So much has happened!
Columbus for those of you that don’t know is a HELL HOLE! The property I am watching over is up for sale by my company. Being that the financial market is so bad many people are having trouble getting financing. That being said I am still here. The property is in really good shape, but is in the ghetto, surrounded by an abandoned (deteriorating) hotel on one side, and a scrap yard on the other side. It’s also on a service drive and is impossible to find.
The people here are crazy…the guests are ghetto and the staff is an outrageous group of people. There is always some sort of issue happening here whether I am at the hotel, or trying to escape it in Detroit. I always seem to get bothered by them!
Right before Christmas we has -20 degree wind chills which caused a water pipe to burst flooding 4 rooms. NIGHTMARE, then when I was gone had a non-guest major issue, a guest fight which someone pulled a gun, and then the key maker (the thing that makes keys for the hotel) stopped working. We had to manually let people into their rooms for 4 days. Not fun…have I mentioned how I hate this place?
Just after Christmas I broke up with Chris. It was unexpected to him and I felt really bad. He’s an awesome guy, but we wanted different things in life. He wanted to settle down, move in, and some other things that I am not ready to do just yet. I am still working and career driven, and I wanted to be able to make a decision not based on someone else. Might sound selfish, but I have to do what’s good for me, which meant ending something that was really good in ways, and tough and hard in other ways.
Since the breakup I have been more social in the Columbus area which is good, I was going crazy being alone in my hotel room.
Everything is the same and typical on the home front. I am home every other week or so (I usually work 10days on 4 days off). I see/talk to don a lot. Him and his roommate (mitter) always have something going on and I enjoy the entertaining stories I have actually become really close with mitter and some of his friends, which is great. Most recently I was hanging with Greenfield who broke up with a bf and all this crazy drama that ensued. When I was in town we grabbed coffee a few times and I tried to offer my advice.
Over the Christmas holiday I went to the Motor City Bowl with my brother and dad. It’s a good way to watch college football cheap. This was our second year attending. This year some guys sat next to us that were using cherry flavored chewing tobacco. GROSS! The thing that always happens at this even is seeing the college guys and realizing how out of shape and FAT I look. It ends up being a good thing as it motivates me to loose the weight I desperately need to do…I want to look twinky!
I started by cutting out fried foods and pop last week, and the other day signed up with JC. That way I have a program to follow and a way to track the weight loss.
