Goddess of the Toilet

トイレの神様　植村花菜

this is quite a sad song, but i like it.

From: http://lyricstranslate.com

小3の頃からなぜだか
おばあちゃんと暮らしてた
実家の隣だったけど
おばあちゃんと暮らしてた

毎日お手伝いをして
五目並べもした
でもトイレ掃除だけ苦手な私に
おばあちゃんがこう言った

トイレには それはそれはキレイな
女神様がいるんやで
だから毎日 キレイにしたら 女神様みたいに
べっぴんさんになれるんやで

その日から私はトイレを
ピカピカにし始めた
べっぴんさんに絶対なりたくて
毎日磨いてた

買い物に出かけた時には
二人で鴨なんば食べた
新喜劇録画し損ねたおばあちゃんを
泣いて責めたりもした

トイレには それはそれはキレイな
女神様がいるんやで
だから毎日 キレイにしたら 女神様みたいに
べっぴんさんになれるんやで

少し大人になった私は
おばあちゃんとぶつかった
家族ともうまくやれなくて
居場所がなくなった

休みの日も家に帰らず
彼氏と遊んだりした
五目並べも鴨なんばも
二人の間から消えてった

どうしてだろう 人は人を傷付け
大切なものをなくしてく
いつも味方をしてくれてた おばあちゃん残して
ひとりきり 家離れた

上京して2年が過ぎて
おばあちゃんが入院した
痩せて細くなってしまった
おばあちゃんに会いに行った

「おばあちゃん、ただいまー！」ってわざと
昔みたいに言ってみたけど
ちょっと話しただけだったのに
「もう帰りー。」って 病室を出された

次の日の朝 おばあちゃんは
静かに眠りについた
まるで まるで 私が来るのを
待っていてくれたように
ちゃんと育ててくれたのに
恩返しもしてないのに
いい孫じゃなかったのに
こんな私を待っててくれたんやね

トイレには それはそれはキレイな
女神様がいるんやで
おばあちゃんがくれた言葉は 今日の私を
べっぴんさんにしてくれてるかな

トイレには それはそれはキレイな
女神様がいるんやで
だから毎日 キレイにしたら 女神様みたいに
べっぴんさんになれるんやで

気立ての良いお嫁さんになるのが
夢だった私は
今日も一人でトイレを
ピカピカにする

おばあちゃん
おばあちゃん
ありがとう
おばあちゃん
ホンマに
ありがとう

The new friend

So....

zookeeper brought home a new animal to play with small mantee and big mantee.  Well, the new animal is a dolphin and small mantee said its name is henry.  Zookeeper plays with henry for a bit and henry asks the zookeeper, "who are you?"

About working on days off10

There needs to be a [California] law regarding businesses asking their loyal employees to work on their [scheduled] days off.  Is there one?  I am fine with work that specifically says "you may be required to work on some Saturdays or night shifts" as they already state specifically that so it's expected.  What I'm not in agreement with is when they tell you that you will be working a part-time or full-time shift, tell you that you won't be come into work on these days (e.g, rotating shifts), and then call you on your day off asking you to come in for work; which you probably will most likely do because the economy is far from getting any better, California unemployment is at about 12.4%, and you really want to look good on that performance review.  And I suppose the reason to my disagreement is because the position does not in any place say it is on-call.  So why should I expect myself to be an on-call employee?

Now it's not too bad some may say.  Oh you're getting more hours that's a good thing.  But it's not a good thing when you as the individual have worked 40 hours for the week already, get called and asked to work on your day off, do over-time and get paid for that, and then only to come the following week in disappointment.  See, most of us would expect that if we're called in to be asked to work on a day off, we'd expect to maybe get the following day off instead or maybe a day off a few days later.  That'd be the most reasonable thing right?   For example:

• You work Sunday and you got Monday off.  You work Tuesday thru Friday.
• You get Saturday off, but they call you, ask you to come in for work, and you do.  
• You expect that you will get Sunday off because you came in on Saturday.
• Next week's schedule gets updated at the end of Saturday and you discover your next day off is on Thursday.
• So technically they worked you for 9 straight days.

Now in a typical normal job, there are 5 business days in the week and there are 7 days in that week.  No business should have to work their employees for more than 5 straight business days unless the job description specifically says so before hire.  And no.  Flexible hours does not mean employers can work their employees for more than 5 straight business days.

I know there are some professions out there that have their employees work 10 straight days but that is stated specifically on the job posting, application, and during the interview!  So please...... employers!  Don't run your employees like you do a sweatshop.  If you need additional man power, hire more people!  One person working $17 / hour and doing 50 hours a week is the same as two persons each making $17 / hour and doing 25 hours a week.