after bumming around oklahoma for the last two weeks since my return to America I have finally had enough of sleeping all day and feeling worthless while I watch all of my friends go to work and be productive members of society.

After confessing numerous times that I need a job and proclaiming that I am going to go look for a job, I did what was best and headed up to my Dad’s Office, Winston Services on Tuesday afternoon. But of course NOT at 10 or 10:30 like I should have. No, no…. that was much too early for me. I eventually got to his office at around 12:30p.m. when I thought he would be back from lunch. But unfortunatly he didn’t return until 1pm. So what did I do you might ask? Looked at bumper stickers on facebook for a good 30 minutes until I finally stood up to be productive just as my dad was walking in from lunch.

He sat down with me and we had a meeting about the objectives of my summer. I had no objectives. The only thing I could think of was to get my house in order before school started. But WHO was going to pay me to do that? No one.

We discuseed my job description and my duties around the office. My duties are rather vauge but most importantly I will do everything given to me with a good attitude. Of course I rolled my eyes many times during the meeting until it finally hit me how obnoxious i was being. I have been given a great opprotunity here and should really take this time to grow as a human being. Dad explained to me how working helps you deepen your self by intereacting with people in a work environment. Thats when I straightened up and apologized for being the biggest brat to ever walk through winston service’s doors.

We also discussed how I am going to stretch my punctual muscels while working here. The more I practice being on time to things, the better I will become.

Yesterday, I set up my work area in my dad’s office (Which was taken down by the time i got back in this morning) and did some business at the post office.

Today, being typical me, i arrived 10 minutes late to work. My first duty was to right a summary about our meeting yesterday and email to my dad. Then once my dad was off the phone I was given a list of things to do from Dawn, the office Manager. I filed closed cases and made new closed cases. Before I knew it, it was lunch time!

During lunch I met my roommate Kaitlin to go shopping for furniture for our house. We went to the University Surplus on Tecumseh. University surplus sells all of the used furniture from OU for extremely cheap! The Surplus is only open to the Public on Wednesdays from 8:30 to 2:00. WE got there way too late so it was pretty picked over. It did have some nice things but not what we needed. I found these cute dessert cups for only $0.10! not very practical but I was really tempted to buy them.

I finally got back to work around 2 and didnt really start working until 3……

The next thing on my list was to file timesheets after that I filed bills. The last thing on my list was “help Melissa” so I walk by her desk and ask her if I can help her with anything. She gave me a bunch of papers from her desk. These were papers I had disorganized  and gotten into a mess yesterday as my dad and I were trying to set up my computer….. whoops.

One of my duties every day is write a summary of my activities everyday and put them on this blog! Also, my dad said I could work on writing my memories from my time in Europe when there was downtime! So I am pretty excited to be able to work on that!

See you tomorrow!

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