I'm so glad today is done...and tomorrow is Friday :) We had a double header today - two funerals with about an hour between the end of one and the beginning of the next - and I'm pooped! No major mishaps, so it's all good, hehehe. I say that because not only were there no mistakes on our part, but there were no fights to break up :) One of our services today has some family trouble and not everyone has learned how to play nice. There was some tension there and peeps in one camp didn't want to set on the same side of the chapel as those in the other camp.
I've never understood that, but it happens a lot. We've had to have police come and escort people out before, break up fights, we've had to tell people that the family has requested that they not attend. That always looks good: Police dragging someone kicking & screaming out the front door of the funeral home. Yeah that's good advertising...Can't we all just get along?? LOL
Yesterday (and today) was enrollment for the 09-10 school year. Enrollment consists of filling out forms (the same forms you already filled out if your kid went to Kindergarten Roundup) and going from step to step to make sure you filled it all out correctly, then paying your fees. It's all backwards and totally silly - I mean the only people who should have to do all this is the ones who are new. Back in California they sent home a letter asking if your child will be attending the same school again and you indicated any changes on the form and you were done! And if you were new, you went to the office and filled out your stuff, gave them copies of birth records, etc. - easy! This is designed to drain you of all energy and make you completely insane. Here is a priceless moment from yesterday: step one is filling out forms, step two is fall sports sign-ups and I wasn't going to need step two so I started looking for step three...nowhere, so I go to the lady at step four (which I can't remember now hehehe) and ask her where step three is. She looks around and says "I have no idea (laughs)" On to step five, lol...
I was kind of in a hurry, I needed to get back to work, so I pretty much flew through it all, as much as possible anyway. At the form filling table there was a BIG biker dude, who from the smell of him had been drinking a lot of coffee, sitting next to me. He quite obviously was not happy about being there (I did not blame him a bit!) because he was having what I call explosive sighs. And everytime he did I got a whiff of coffee breath - ugh! But you gotta give him credit for being there and getting it done. I did feel bad for him though, because after 20 minutes and nine steps, I was leaving and he was still filling out forms...Yikes!
I've never understood that, but it happens a lot. We've had to have police come and escort people out before, break up fights, we've had to tell people that the family has requested that they not attend. That always looks good: Police dragging someone kicking & screaming out the front door of the funeral home. Yeah that's good advertising...Can't we all just get along?? LOL
Yesterday (and today) was enrollment for the 09-10 school year. Enrollment consists of filling out forms (the same forms you already filled out if your kid went to Kindergarten Roundup) and going from step to step to make sure you filled it all out correctly, then paying your fees. It's all backwards and totally silly - I mean the only people who should have to do all this is the ones who are new. Back in California they sent home a letter asking if your child will be attending the same school again and you indicated any changes on the form and you were done! And if you were new, you went to the office and filled out your stuff, gave them copies of birth records, etc. - easy! This is designed to drain you of all energy and make you completely insane. Here is a priceless moment from yesterday: step one is filling out forms, step two is fall sports sign-ups and I wasn't going to need step two so I started looking for step three...nowhere, so I go to the lady at step four (which I can't remember now hehehe) and ask her where step three is. She looks around and says "I have no idea (laughs)" On to step five, lol...
I was kind of in a hurry, I needed to get back to work, so I pretty much flew through it all, as much as possible anyway. At the form filling table there was a BIG biker dude, who from the smell of him had been drinking a lot of coffee, sitting next to me. He quite obviously was not happy about being there (I did not blame him a bit!) because he was having what I call explosive sighs. And everytime he did I got a whiff of coffee breath - ugh! But you gotta give him credit for being there and getting it done. I did feel bad for him though, because after 20 minutes and nine steps, I was leaving and he was still filling out forms...Yikes!
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