Trying to Change Habits

I have been listen to an audio book lately that my friend Jami said was a good book in one of her blogs (yes, I know you said reading it would be better, but I listening to it in my car is the only chance I get for stuff like this).  So far it is a good book.  I am happy to say that I am about three quarters of the way done.  It had a slow start, but now I am at the part that talks about how to change eating habits that have been formed.  I REALLY want to be able to do this.  I have decided to only work or one or two at a time however.  I am trying to replace most of the sugary drinks that I drink with water while trying to also make sure to drink the recommended amount per day (something that a few years ago was not a problem for me).  I am also going to cut chips and french fries out of my diet.  I don't do well with greasy foods anyway.  I am going to work on each of this goals for a month and then hopefully add to them when I am done.  I am not saying that I will never eat chips or french fries again, but I am going to try to teach myself not to eat them in excess.  I think the best way to do this would be to completely cut them out for a little while.  I don't know what I will work on  when I am done with these.  I am just hoping to make myself healthier and not lose steam in the process.

Work, Work, Work

I feel like all I do is work lately.  It doesn't help that instead of having Sundays off I now have Thursdays off.  I had to get a letter from church to even be considered for having part of Sunday off.  Even with that, I have to work a split shift on Sunday just to be able to go and the last two weeks I wasn't even able to do that.  I had to work.  They claimed it was because there were too many calls coming in and sitting in a cue making the people who were working have to work extra hard.  They will now have a VERY hard time convincing me of that.  For the last two weeks, I have sat for up to 3 minutes between calls (for anyone who hasn't worked in a call center, that is a very long time and not "cost effective).  They have made us take an extra half hour for lunch and sent us home at least an hour early because of the low call volume.  They have also scheduled us for madatory overtime on Wednesday mornings.  When we get there, the call volume is slow and we get sent home 15 or 20 minutes into the shift to have to come back at noon to work our half day shift.  This is so frustrating!  Also, I am now hearing that they are adding graveyard shift of sorts again.  ARGH!!!  Anyone know of a smaller company that is hiring.  This working for corporate America sucks!