I am so psyched! I can’t believe our 5 weeks of training end tonight! I’ve had such a fun time in this training class and have met some great people! So glad I’ll be working with them! Have even set up tentative plans for some lunches with some of them. And tonight, I’ll be able to put voices/names with faces! (We’ve been training from home for the past 5 weeks via computer.)

I can’t say enough how much I love this job. I have so much fun every night helping others shop! Of course you get the nasty person every once in a while but I find if I start off with an audible smile and a happy tone to my voice that 9 times out of 10 the other person can’t help but catch on! Might sound corny but it works!

Tonight we all meet back up at the campus for our “graduation” where they’re serving pizza (YUM – craving melted cheese) and we’ll get to tour the campus (the studio where the filming takes place and the call center, etc. Hoping Emeril is there tonight – don’t think so though). I’m so excited to finally be done – even though training was alot of fun. Our trainers were/are awesome. I’m sad we won’t be talking with them every night. BUT, I am excited to go to the next level and be on my own and have my own schedule. Which, by the way my schedule for next week is great! I have tomorrow night off (which will be my last Saturday off for a while just because of that low man on the totem pole thing) and then my week starts Sunday night. Sunday night is my longest shift of the week 7pm-1am. I’m off Tuesday and Thursday and then have 3 hour shifts the other days ranging from 7pm-10pm or 10pm-1am. Then the following week I have Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off! What’s cool too is since we’re part time we can only work up to 29 hours (unless over time is approved) so if I’m only scheduled for say 18 hours, there’s a place I can go (like a message board of sorts) to pick up any hours that others want to give up. I might just pick up a few day hours – going to give it a few weeks first before doing that though. Wanna get into a groove first!

Happy Graduation to us!!!!!!!!!

Now that I have a new job my need to shop is growing! We get an awesome discount, as employees, on all the items we sell and can even shop at our discounted warehouses (and from what I hear find some great things for cheap!). I haven’t yet had the chance to shop though – money is a bit tight and until we can get out from under…..well….my jeans with the holes in the knees will have to do. Ok, so it’s not THAT bad, but we have resorted to eating soups, PB&J sandwiches and the likes – so it’s a bit bad. So I’m trying to push all of the great deals I can get with my company or the Cyber Monday deals or an sales that I hear of. Just can’t do it right now.

It will get better though! I just keep asking myself if what I want is a *need* or a *want* and if it’s the latter it’s not getting bought!