Ugh,

I want to write but I don't really know what to write about. I'm so bored, I really should go through my cloths to start packing..I should fold out two full baskets of laundry too but I'll do that a little later. I hate doing laundry. Okay I take that back, i'm weird, I don't mind doing laundry or even folding it, but for some reason I loath putting it away. I don't know why either haha, but I just hate putting the laundry away. Oh well I guess.

In my post yesterday I mentioned a few stories from work. So I got one for ya now. At my store almost everyone is a member of the management team. We have two girls who are regular associates. One is a new seasonal girl. She's really sweet, and nice I like her. She's only 16. The other is a girl who is 19 and has been with the company on and off for two years. I'll call her Maria. She's a really nice girl, and we chat about a lot of things. But she likes to try and see what she can get away with with the girls in management. She doesn't try to pull shit with our store manager, but there is another third key who will order her around so she doesn't do much with her. The thing with Maria is that you need to just be polite. If you ask nicely or say "for me" make it sound like a favor she'll jump right one it.

So yesterday, our boss was on her break. I was manager on duty. I was busy with some paperwork behind the counter. The other 3rd key that was there was busy ringing up customers. Maria was standing near her, doing nothing. See her greet a customer in a tie dye shirt that had just come in and come near us, but it was a half assed greeting. A few moments later I look up and the store is suddenly PACKED and Maria is still doing nothing. No one had been greeted, or anything and i was still busy. I looked over to her and nicely said, "Maria, why don't you go and pass out baskets and greet customers."

The girl blatantly ignored me. She stood there, looked right at me, then slowly and casually moved only her head, looking around the store. She then grabbed a single basket, and slowly walked tot he front of the store and then back again, not speaking to anyone or even offering a basket. She came back to where we'd been standing and I glance up and see the woman in the tie dye shirt with her hands full now. I was pretty annoyed with her at this point because Maria KNOWS better than to half ass it like that. So I told her to go give that lady a basket. And she goes "I already talked to her." That is a BULLSHIT excuse. This pissed me off to no end, so I pulled rank on her, which I've never had to do before. And I was like "Re-approach her! Her hands are now full, give. Her. A. Basket."

She just made me so angry. Re-approaching our customers is pushed really hard in our training and we JUST finished the yearly customer service training. She Knows Better! It pissed me off so bad and made me just so, ARGH! The store was suddenly flooded with customers. I was busy with something I'd been asked to get done, the other manager was busy, Maria knows so much better than that!

All of this took place in about two minuets, at most. She walked over to the lady handed her a basket and walked back just as I finished my paperwork. I told her one more time to go hand out baskets, firmly this time. Then I picked up a handful of baskets, passed EVERY SINGLE ONE OUT and greeted all of my customers before going back for more baskets. It took me all of a minuet to get every customer a basket and greet them properly and see if I could help them with anything.

There is a reason this girl was only hired as an associate and not a manager. Its the first time she's ever ignored me, or anything like that. And I know that she knows procedure better than that too. It made me so mad. y the time the crowd thinned out again my boss returned. I know others have had problems with this girl so I pulled my boss aside and told her what I happened. She was not happy. She punished Maria by putting her in the back room to start on the markdowns.

I enjoy her company at work, she's a nice girl but if she thinks that I won't pull rank on her when I will. She is known to have no motivation of her own unless given a specific task. I've never had a problem with her till now and this was a case of something she specifically knows, and shouldn't have to be asked to do in the first place. Meh.

Anyway that's my venting. I'm off not, ttyl.

Wrong Side of the Bed

Not a lot to report on today. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed today...almost literally lol... and have pretty much been in a relativity foul mood all day. But I did my best to be as cheerful as I could at work, and once I got home Jay cheered me up a lot.

My Teddybear came to visit me on my lunch break and that helped a lot. And then when he walked me back to my work he agreed to buy me the new nail polish we FINALLY got back in.

It is Crackle Nail Polish.... Yes the Katy Perry stuff but not her brand. It is the Clarie's brand, that's the company I work for. I've had the silver for quite a long time now but we got the black and the hot pink back in. Now I have all 3!!!

If you don't know how the crackle works let me tell you! You paint a solid color on your nails different from the color of the crackle color you want to use. And then you use the crackle after it the first color dries. It's going to break up and crack apart so the bottom color shows through.

Tonight I cleaned my nails and painted them in alternate black and medium pink colors on both hands. On my thumbs and pinkies (black base color) I put the pink crackle on. On the index and ring fingers (the pink base color) I used the black crackle, and then on both black middle fingers I used the silver crackle. Then I put the hot pink crackle on my already black toe nails. ^_^

I lllloooooove it! Its my new favorite. I'm not really into the new big fads like this but I really do just LOVE how the crackle looks! WHOO HOO ROCK ON!!!

So in other news I have the next 3 days off of work now. Excited about it. Jay and I are going swimming tomorrow. We haven't been in about a week or so, so I am happy about that too :D

Also hmmm I had something else to say but now I can't seem to remember it. The hell? hahaha! Oh well, moving on....

Tomorrow when I post I'll talk about the food stamp application process and other monetary issues as well as let you know how the day Jay and I planned for tomorrow went. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Note: Other things I want to talk about over the next few days...

• recent movies we've watched
• cooking blog
• tv shows I've fallen in love with

I am sure there's more haha but I can't think of anything. REALLY excited that i'll be home in a month if only for a few days. I miss Cassie and my niece, and my nephew even if I haven't bet him yet I still miss him. And I miss my momma and daddy. I miss my sister and more than anyone I miss my dog :(

As of right now I'm missing anything else I wanted to mention haha so that's about it. TTYL peeps!

Interesting Day

So despite being tired and sleepy last night I didn't fall asleep till sometime after 3:30 in the morning. It sucked too let me tell you, lol. Over this last week that's how I've been, not falling asleep till 3 or later even, then I've been sleeping till noon. Well I was really exhausted last night and even if I had fallen asleep early I knew my body needed to sleep in late. I also had to be to work at noon today. So, I asked Jay to set the alarm for 10 so I'd have time to shower and get ready.

I don't fall asleep till after 3:30 and then I suddenly woke up at 10:30.....Jay'd forgotten to set the alarm when he'd come to bed like I asked. I was damn lucky I woke up when I did lol. I wasn't mad or anything, just wanted that extra half hour to shower and dry my hair so it wasn't a big deal.

 I worked from 12-4.. a nice short shift that flew by because Columbia is doing this thing called Show me Games where baseball, softball and soccer teams come from all over to play. Between games they come to the mall. This weekend and last weekend too. so the store was PACKED! There were 4 of us working and we were still running around like mad.

But it wasn't the traffic in the mall the bugged me. It was the traffic on the streets....

So if I take the freeway to work, from entrance to exit it's at most a 3 minuet drive for me. I go to get off the freeway and the ramp is so clogged and backed up with vehicles it was going back onto the freeway itself. The light at the other end turned green just as I stopped and i thought I wouldn't make it..especially with the people in the line who didn't realize that green means go! Haha I got really lucky, I was the second to last vehicle before the light turned yellow which is awesome. So I take my left off the exit. There are only 3 lanes, 2 left turns lanes and 1 right turn lane. I was in the outside lane because my next turn was going to be a right.

So I take my left and am crossing the bridge over the freeway and as I approach the set of lights at the other end, the person a head of me stops. Our light is green, had no clue why we were stopping.. till i realized the traffic light at the NEXT stop was red and traffic was backed up into OUR intersection. This just goes to show how dumb the drivers int his place are... there are signs ALL OVER that area right beside the lights up on the post that says "DO NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION".

Okay, I understand this amount of traffic is not the usual, but this area is still extremely packed even in the middle of a weekday, that's how bad that is, so imaging how much worse it is now.... So as I'm waiting at my green light to actually go, the exit ramp for the freeway going the opposite way I'd come from is directly on my right. That too is backed up all the way down the nice long ramp and back onto the freeway. Here's the kicker... JUST as me and the 2 vehicles a head of me are finally able to move again a couple of people from the ramp try to shoot out and cut us off one by one! What the hell!? They couldn't wait for their OWN green light? Really?

Well I wasn't about to let anyone in front of me they can all wait their turns, so screw them! At the next light I got over and took a right. It's the sneaky back way to get to the mall, and there was no traffic there to bother me either haha! In the end I won.

At 3 Jay stopped by work, brought me a water and told me and my boss that there'd been an accident on the freeway. With the way the people'd been driving it didn't surprise me one little bit. He hung around the mall till I was off work and we had an early dinner together. When we left I went home and he picked his mom up. Well i didn't take the back way to leave (because I would have had to take a few lefts with no light to let me go) So I just went by the stop lights. The first light I come to has 2 left turn lanes, a straight lane and a right turn lane. The lines are long both in front of me and behind me. Just as I'm getting an opening to get into the nearest left turn lane (taking the freeway back yay!) the asshat right behind me tries to get over and force his way past...of COURSE he didn't use his blinker either, that'd be TOO easy. So he almost rear ended me because I was getting over at the same time (I actually had my blinker on btw) And then he gives me the dirty look like I did something wrong even though it was my turn.

No one uses their blinkers down here, and no one... NO ONE turns into their proper lanes unless there is a lot of other traffic around. It drives me up the wall. People even use the turning lanes int he middle of roads to pull out into and use like a second lane until they can get onto the right side of the road. If I'm not a really good mix of defensive and aggressive driver, I will die in a car accident down here before I get to move back home. The drivers here suck! They still aren't as bad an the people in Miami though *headdesk* After that nothing happened thank the gods. I was happy to see there weren't any idiots on the actual freeway.

On a better note, Jay and I went to see Friends with Benefits tonight. It was really good. Not as good as Horrible Bosses, but still really good. You should all go see it!

That's it for tonight!