Last Day at Meijer

Today is my last day at Meijer. Last night I attended my very last team meeting and made cocoa merangue shells with coolwhip and raspberries as a treat. We also took a group pic of all of us so that made me happy. :) Unfortunately the second pic, which was a better shot of me didn't turn out because the flash went off and washed everybody out. :( I hope today goes well, I've been a bit depressed at work this past week because it seems like anything that can go wrong, does.

On to better news I got my blue tooth headset yesterday yeah! I synched the device with the bluetooth adaptor and my computer. It was really stupid because it told me to enter a pin, which I thought I needed to make up but was in actuality about 5 paragraphs down in the instructions for the headset after the 1st one which says 'follow your bluetooth device's instructions for set up' which i thought was really stupid. Well whatever.

::sigh:: well I've got to go and pack, we're leaving for my last trip to Luddington tonight for Labor Day weekend. I don't know yet if it'll be fun or just a lot of bother since my sister isn't going to be there to act as a buffer for me. I have to work until 8 so I hope my parents don't want me to drive myself and meet them up there, I don't want to spend a lot of $$ on gas to get there since I'm now out of a job and leaving the country.

*~*Update*~*

It ended up being a good day at work after all. I got there a bit late & couldn't find my name tag, but I got to see Chelsea (yeah!) for a couple of hours, and there wasn't anything horrible that occurred while I was there. Ended up running a checklane for 1 & 1/2 but that was ok because it helped the time go by faster, and I got to talk to a lot of people and have some good conversations with them about their plans for this weekend. Then Doris came in and brought me a card and a pretty bracelet which will go great with the necklace that Barb made for me last fall. :) I was happy to get to see her before I left. Mr. Sizer came in to make some photos and say goodbye to me. That really made my day, that somebody who comes in all the time, took the time out of their day to see me & tell me what a good job I had done while I was working for Meijer. I really appreciated that. Oh! And I got to see his new DSLR, 10.1 megapixels, a self cleaning CMOS sensor, and 6.5 fps. Pretty sweet. Wish I could afford one of those! Or I'd settle for an old Canon AE-1 off of ebay with a couple of lenses and stuff.

DSLRs are cool but I think as an old film SLR would be great to ween myself off of all the auto stuff. You can usually get an old SLR (depending on model and condition) for about $100 and it usually comes with a couple of lenses or filters at the least. Too much money to buy a DSLR I don't know how to operate, or know what features I really want on it you know? I could think I was getting a good deal and then never end up using the features. But it'll have to wait until I come back and graduate, and even then I'll probably be too broke to one.

So I guess for now I'm going to spend the last couple of weeks here in the US taking some pics with that old sears tower camera I got from my granny. Anybody (if anybody's reading this thing!) got any ideas as to what would make some good subjects to photograph? I've got about 5 rolls, 8 pics on each one that I need to use up because the film will expire while I'm in Japan and I don't even want to think about how expensive it'd be to get it developed over there. They need to be something I can use bright light on because I can't find any flash bulbs that'll work in that camera. Anywho that's all for now! Everybody have a great Labor Day Weekend!