New beginnings...

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Well, our store finally sold. And, surprisingly, they were telling the truth when they said as soon as they know, we'd know. It'll probably start changing over near February. Makes me wonder if that was why they were hiring more people? Who knows. Either way... I hope our uniforms don't suck. *my only concern, really*

Now we're going to be barraged by customers going 'Noooooo I didn't want you to seelllll' as if I 1. could have done something about it; 2. really care, since if it didn't sell, none of the kids want to take it over so what would happened then?; and 3. I get to keep my job. If they do change anything, I hope they change some of the stupid ass 'Give the Customer everything they want and call it great customer service'. You can give Customer Service that's great without bending over, thanks.


Also: Inglorious Bastards is downstairs. I'm going to watch it when I get home tomorrow.

I've been reading Hourou Musuko. I like it. I guess I like those slice of life type of manga........... with a twist.

I feel like doing something creative but I don't know what. Make up a new world for some OCs? Draw? But I only have 5 pages left in my sketchbook, so I need a new one.

( Cut for Bleach Spoilers, because I've seen far too many Health Discovery shows to watch the tossing aside of the obvious )

I need to see about those Adult Training classes. Being the teacher for them, I mean. I like helping, and teaching [surprise surprise] and if I could get PAID to do it, even if it was 20 bucks a day twice a week, that would help fill the gap that my lessening hours would create.

The problem with my being an artist is that I don't have the skill to properly draw some of the ideas I get in my mind. I need to take some serious life drawing classes. And get muscle structure right, and most of all perspective. If I had even the fledgling basics of perspective down, I would have more than a variety of standing and sitting poses in my sketchbook. What I actually need is a sketchbook FULL OF NAKED OUTLINES so that I can slap clothes on them. I always end up so focused on the face looking right that the rest of it ends up lacking.



Also, I don't like working with my boss at work. To me, a customer is a customer. If the Kitchen has a line of customers and I'm in the Deli with none and there's someone else there to cover, I wander over to the kitchen to help. I'm tired of getting reprimanded for having ONE person waiting in line at the Deli [oh, woe as fucking them] while there are 4 or 5 people in line at the kitchen. Yes, the Deli can take considerably longer to finish, and I understand why there are three of us optimally stationed there, but come on. Usually, I see the person waiting, finish my customer in the kitchen, then go over to help. But then I get the evil eye for making that person wait LESS THAN A MINUTE while I finish with the customer I was with. I'm sorry that I see a customer needing help over yonder and go to help them when NO ONE IS IN LINE AT THE DELI. Excuuuuse fucking me. I'll just stand and watch next time, and chew the fat with my co-worker. Then you can complain about that, too. FML

I'm... going to just keel over and die. But before I do that, did all my tags and made this random post:

More hot pressed sandwiches |D Except I was supposed to do them BY MYSELF. Oh why... why would you do that .__.

Anyway, I got a lot of help from a co-worker, so I still finished them up on time for the rush crowd. But that morning, with no sleep, reaching over to get some of those goddamn bread loaves, I felt a shank of pain in my back. e____e I feel so old.

One co-worker is out sick. She's had a persistent cough for one, and two, her husband has swine flu and pneumonia. e____e So she's been quarantined. Kitchen Manager comes over and looks at schedule. Since the Kitchen and Deli schedules are in different places [my entire schedule is on the Deli sheet but only my Kitchen shifts show up on the Kitchen sheet] he's like, 'You don't work Saturday =o=' I'm like 'I do =o= But no idea what time. It's Deli though.' He wanders over like ':|' to look at it. I shifty eye, except not really because I was cleaning the slicer so I could go the fuck home \o/ He comes back, 'Now you're kitchen, 6-2:30 paninis'. My response: '...D:? Oh well, whatever =o=' As long as The Area Manager doesn't come back from nursing her child with the flu [fff, I don't know if it's swine flu or not, I kinda didn't pay attention] and go 'D<' at the schedule being changed, I don't really care. She wouldn't go D< at me anyway. I didn't exactly volunteer for it XD; But I was going '.__.' at only having 29-30 hours this week. Well, now it's 32 \o

Cross-training is amazing.

So, work has been okay. My legs hurt, but I kinda got used to standing on my feet all day kind of fast. I think that's weird, considering I haven't had to do that for workin four years, but like hell am I complaining.

Speaking of work, I was talking to a new[er] person in the Hot Foods Case and this is how it goes:

Me: So, you go to school? *figures this is a safe conversation starter*
Him: Yeah. VCU. What about you? High school?
Me: e________________e
Him: D8?
Me: I'm 23.
Him: What! I couldn't tell! You look young!
Me: If I was short, I'd be done. Never above the age of 17. *laments*

This happens all the time. =__=

Another note, filling out applications should NEVER take two hours. I hate filling out my life story just to get hired. What's the point of turning in my resume if I have to fill out the form TOO. I even redid my resume for the job and it was pointless. They didn't even have a place to attach said resume. I know I shouldn't bitch, but that just annoys the shit out of me.


I need to call my loan people to get an extension. And pay my cell phone bill. *siiiiighs*

Is it bad that I like working at the grocery store more than my last job? The only bad part is when I'm bored, I can't surf the interwebz. That's what got me in trouble in the first place, sooo fff, no computer is a good thing. *stays away*

I get job e-mails from where I graduated for jobs that are searching for people. I see ones that say:

♦ Must be able to work outdoors

♦ Must be willing to travel State-wide

♦ Comfortable with power tools

And I wish that I had the technical skills to apply. The sit down jobs aren't for me. Retail, while better, isn't where I want to be.

It keeps reminding me that I need to figure out what I want to do and how I'm going to do it.

...This is what stress makes me do.



Listen to Boy bands. D:

Except not really. I do it anyway.

Damn you DBSK and your easy to sing to melodies! DX *shakes a fist* Or maybe I should blame the producers. Psht. I blame ASIA for still having boy bands! DAMN THEM.

In other news. Work can die in a fire. I have so much shit to do I shouldn't even be doing this, but if I look at another order today, I'm going to explode.

I still have three of them on my desk. And I think Jo just approved 10 more for me to put it.

*sobs* /wrists

OH. But before I do that! *pulls Ali into my lap* =o= *strooooookes*

Work. Is killing me.

It's good that I have stuff to do.... buuuut it's a little too much >_>

There are orders I should be placing now... ~_~

Umm, RP stuff. 8| I'm trying.

Anime? I'm behind as hell. So, so far behind in everything. Someone is going to spoil me if I'm not careful. orz

Manga, I'm... mostly up-to-date in? I think. I have to check One Manga.

I need to write up all my responsibilities just to make sure I'm doing it all D8

brb gonna go shoot myself in the foot

...I think I'm going to leave early today from work, go grocery shopping for stew ingredients, and toss that shit in the crockpot. Then I'll have lunch for tomorrow and most of the weekend, assuming Charles doesn't come over and eat it all. In which case I'll be pissed.

Our database is down at work. I can't do anything except shuffle my spreadsheets [which I did yesterday], answer e-mails, and sit here. I still have half my stack of sign-offs to do and one day left to do them now. I told my co-worker that I won't get them down if Quickbase doesn't fix itself today, and he's all D< Well blah. blah. blah. STFU please. Unless you can fix QB, there's nothing I can do. If it's down tomorrow, too, then what? You can't do your shit either.

I wish I had brought my recipe cards today, but there was no way for me to know that I wouldn't have anything to do. *sighs* I wish I had photoshop on here, but I knew I wouldn't do much work if I had that option, so I didn't install it. I have working on my story, talking to people, or playing games.

I've been fail with my story recently... so I'll choose that option.

~_~ *shakes our database*

What the heeeellll is up with my computer? I have ANOTHER trojan! I either had them before and never knew or they just suddenly discovered me. Son of a bitch! Have to burn this shit with FIRE.

Otherwise, everything is fine. Except that's a lie. My mother shrank yet another one of my sweaters. Line Dry. LINE DRY. WRRRRYYYY. I have NEVER shrunken something in the dryer. Ever. Not pants. Not sweaters. Not my clothes. Not her clothes. Nothing. And yet whenever she asks me for a certain color to wash so she has a full load, because laaawd forgive us for using the large or HEY even medium setting on our washer, I am filled with dread upon handing over my clothing for fear of shrinkage. It's taken me a few months to get clothes for work. I'd been wearing the same things to work in a revolving schedule of about 2 weeks. Then Christmas season came and I walked away with lots of new stuff for the new year so I wouldn't freeze to death. :| I might anyway, if they all end up being belly tops, and then I couldn't wear them to work ANYWAY.

Fail.

Total count. 2 Pairs of paints. Somewhere between 3-5 shirts.

GRAGH. She wouldn't shrink so many if they didn't end up her size. D< Then she recycles them from me and has new stuff to wear. Damn my long legs!

Work related: Oh man. VDOT is about to start up. Once I have the contact list, I'm gonna be JETTIN up a STORM. aka e-mailing shitloads of people. We're supposed to start on the 26th. 8D;;; *needs mental assistance*

Home related: I have started gelling ALL of my paperwork together. ALL of it that has been spread around my room for years now. I have a plastic bin than can hold hanging folders and I'm going to file all of that shit away. So far, I've done the paystubs [that I've found] for my current and last job. Started on my school loan papers, and have at least organized everything else into piles. Once I finish that, my desk will be cleaned off! Thank kami-sama. Then I can hook in my new speakers and leave them on my desk beside my monitor without fear of the JUNK pushing it off. That's why my old ones are on the floor beneath my desk. Once of them doesn't even work...

Books: I finished Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series. I was amused. Arthur has shittastic luck, how 'bout that? I started AND finished [in about 3 days] Obsidian Butterfly. The next in the Anita Blake series.

.............EDWARD IS AWESOMETASTIC. And no, not sparkly Edward. I'm talking sociopathic, assassin for hire, lycanthrope hunting, vampire hating Edward~ The book was aaaallllll about him. *cries softly* It was amazing 8DDD He amuses the SHIT out of me and having a book full of him was the best thing ever. I missed the other characters, but no one holds a candle to Edward, unless it's Jason and his perversions that will ONE DAY get his ass killed by Jean Claude. Or hell. Richard. He always puts his hands where they don't belong~ Then there's Asher and Damian and -*stutters to a halt* Oh fuck me. :| I'll stop rambling. Next on my list is The Green Mile. It should be at the library today~

A+ Cert: Okay. It's past time to start this up, for seriously. I have to get a schedule together. I need to cut back on RPing, and that's kinda sad because I JUST started getting back into it again. Enjoying it again after a time of just feeling so BLAH. I guess I'll use it as a reward for good habits? Or something.

I also must say hooray for freedom \o/ Sometimes, when people let you go you should feel it's a blessing and not a curse. Or it could be both, who knows. Either way, time to buck up and get my ass in gear. I also must latch on tighter. My f-list, you cannot escape me =DDD

Story: Stalled. I was hoping it would go on for a while even once November was over, but nope. I hit the author's block that I had to force myself through before. Now it's like I don't have that motivation. I think I'm going to go back and start adding information. I need to do it anyway and trying to write more at the moment just isn't going anywhere. I think I have the uniforms stabilized, so now I can add all of those details to the writing. Rings, earrings, I'm just not as detail oriented as I wish I was because I forget those things all the time. My observation skills are obviously not going towards human interactions. Faaiiil~

Geh. Back to work. Orders to do, and TONS of sign-offs I have to finish. TONS. The stack is, like, 1.5 times my middle finger high. *sobs* And that was not including the small stack I took off to do today. *throws self down stairs* Somebody help me T^T

I've kinda gotten used to the profile page. I still think it's ugly. *shrugs* And stuff seems to load slower. I'm not sure if it's me looking for more faults in it, but it just does. Pictures take a while to load now when they used to just *POP* and be there.

Hrm. Work started off interesting. My supervisor came over to say that an order was going to be late and we shouldn't look at the requested date and look only at blah blah insert work related things here and I was like... but the date I put IS the 5 day ship time. D8 *confused* She went... "What? The way we were talking over the phone made it look like two weeks..." I'm like... "Eh? *counts on mental fingers* No... just 5..." "Oh... Nevermind then. 8D; Sorry about that."

Me: *facepalms* *mental sigh of relief*

I don't care if she gets things wrong. I only care if *I* get things wrong. I've been being careful. >: Veeery careful.

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My seasonals are being difficult little bastards. =_= Help them grow please.

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Yes, it's the that time again. I feel I should be productive, so between reading, studying for A+ Certification [which I'm going to start soon], writing [I've been moving details around in my head and filling out sheets and thinking of the things I need to add for the last part of this book], going to the gym [M,W,F], and contemplating how I can make healthy meals in my crockpot so I might actually LOSE weight/inches [cus I'm not, just gaining weight by making muscle out of fat and still not eating properly]. Anyone have any healthy meal recipes they'd like to share? 8D?

BUT I will get to watching movies soon. I'm tired of people asking, "Have you seen ------" and me going "8DDDD Remember who you just asked." which means no. =_=; SO, my f-list. It is time!

MOVIE LIST

◘ Pulp Fiction
◘ Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
◘ A History of Violence
◘ Eastern Promises
◘ Cruel Intentions [Again; this movie lawled me, sorry]
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Oh look how short and blank and empty it looks! You know what this means! Recommendations GET! 8D

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Note: I should stop laying down to read when I 1. Know I'm tired; 2. Know my nap will not be a nap; 3. haven't gotten my stuff for work/gym ready yet;

Estimate Time Reading Began: 7:15pm
Estimated Time Nap Began: 8:30
Wake up Time #1: 9:15
Wake up Time #2: 10:30
Wake up time #3: 3:15am
*shuffles around to put some shit in order and change out of clothes in pajamas*
Wake up Time #4: 7:05am *gets ready for work and BAM hay thar*