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Two thirty in the morning and I’m up for work, yaaaay!

Yancey will be here to pick me up in about an hour.  In the meantime, I shall try to thwart my allergies’ evil attempt at my ability to see and breathe, drink any caffeine I can get my mits on, and shove food down my maw.

The last three days at work?  Hell.  Well, I mean, I suppose I’ve had MUCH worse days, but we’ve been SO FLIPPING BUSY OMG that … well, on our skeleton crew, it makes things quite harsh, it does.  I’m hoping that it helps me seem an important worker, as I think my capabilities shine when all shit is hitting the fan.

I can multitask like nobody’s bid’ness.

Planned on going to bed at six pm last night, but stayed up until a bit past seven, finally turning my light off at a little past eight.  It was remarkably easy to get up… let’s hope that all my other butt-thirty mornings are this easy.

I thought I had more to add, but I can’t think through the wrath of the sinus godz.

Any particular reason why Bacci has BOOBIES now?  They seem to be getting… bigger as each day goes by.  Yes, she was fixed, which is why I’m perplexed and concerned.

Home from work, and eGADS did I make my moneys worth today.  I worked HARD for the monay.  It’s day two of a hell weekend.  I’m freaking BEAT.  I was excited about moving to my new position, and tomorrow was supposed to be the first day of training… but they didn’t schedule anyone, so I’m the cashier from 8 - 2, giving me only two hours before we open in order to have access to anything.  No word on a raise, though Capt. Kirk seems hell bent on getting me SOMEthing, but the person who can approve it will be on vacation all next week.

Sigh.

My odd moment of clarity today: During a time where things were going INSANE with customers at work, every associate calling me to all corners of the building for assistance (more than the manager at times), it dawned on me:

I was the only person working the entire day and with everything going wrong today that has been employed with OfficeMax more than a month, manager included.

Closed with Manager Jason for the first time tonight - in fact, it was the first time that I had worked with him for more than an hour in the entire month that he’s worked there.

It was an EXCELLENT night for my ego, as he kept saying how much the managers keep talking about me and how much he’s heard and WHAT he’s heard, as well as OMG HOW BEYOND excited they are to have me in my new position, ESPECIALLY the logistics team of Ted and Yancey that I’m going to. :D :D

So tomorrow is my first day in my new postion, working 9 - 530, then 6 am to 2, then 4 am to 1.  It’s nice that I’m being eased into my new 4 a.m. starting time, though I think I’ve stated this a million times already.

Blahblahblah.  Nothing overly interesting to report.  I wore my new work pants today.  Rawk.

Craving me some Buffy.

Woke up with a confusion as to what day it was: is it Thursday or Friday?

Thankfully, this mystery has been solved.

Picked up my schedule for next week at work yesterday.  I’m full time, woo!!  38 hours, most of the days starting at 6 or 4 a.m.  This doesn’t bother me a bit, EXCEPT that one of the 4 a.m. shifts is immediately after a closing until 10 p.m. shift.  I shall point this out to them when I go back on Saturday, and see if the really hate me, or just didn’t notice.  But I’ll be working with Ted and Yancey, two of my favoritest coworkers, and a lot of the hours will be when we’re closed, so no customers!  I’ll also be quite busy with freight and other stuff, so I’ll definitely get more exercise this way, too.  I’m just confused, as the lady who’s spot I’m taking is only working the days that I’m off, so…. who’s gunna train me, yo?

My tummy hurts.

I thanked the store manager for the promotion, and he thanked me for my hard work in response.  He also said that as much as he loves the person who’s spot I’m taking, that he knows that most people can do her job in less than half the time it takes her, so to keep that in mind when she’s training me.

And I have a desk now!  And the back room will be known as Aubrey’s Dungeon!  And now I get to be the one that bitches royally when people ditch things on the back desk!  And I get keys to the back lock up!

Capt. Kirk said that he is interested in getting me more money, but has no idea how much yet, as he hasn’t had a chance to look at my file to see what I make now and what they’ll be willing to give me.  I am HOPING for maybe $1 more an hour, but…. yeah.  I think that’s a bit high of a request for retail.

Something I left out of my post yesterday…

My work pants are old, and I HATE shopping, so I’ve been putting off buying pants until the last possible second.

Welp, the inside left seam of my pants tore a bit during work, but not enough to embarass.  It WAS enough, however, for my thighs to rub against each other and chafe.  (Sexy mental impression, I know.)

Fast forward a few hours of this happening around work, and then a half hour walk home in VERY hot and QUITE humid weather.. the pants stuck to my sweaty legs, resulting in quite a .. rub wound when I got home.  I didn’t think it was that bad, but didn’t like the pain of the wound against fabric, so I put a non adhesive pad on it and went about my way.

When I was getting ready for bed last night, I realized that the nonstick pad had most certainly stuck to the wound.  In fact, something quite undelicious had soaked quite through the pad, adhering it completely.  (Not blood.)  I pulled it off…. oh my GAW, the PAIN.  I was in the upstairs bathroom panting, with the wound weeping down my leg.  How on earth would I get my pants back on?  Oy.

To make a short story long, I had to put another pad on to sleep in, and removed it again this morning so that the still weeping wound can get some air.  I’m wearing shorts (something I never do) and walking around the house like a sumo wrestler to prevent my thighs from touching.

It’s really meaty.  And really disgusting.  But kinda cool.

Anyhoo.

After making this post yesterday about where else on the interwebs you can find me, I also started a…

FACEBOOK.
GREATESTJOURNAL.
DIARYLAND.
BLOGSPOT.

Again, to find out where else on the webs you can find me, check out yesterday’s post and add me to your netflixes and your neopets and your miscellaneouseses.

Ohmygaw.  How hilarious is this?

My old website is still up!  I apologize for the absolutely HORRID site.  I obviously know zilch about html.

Apparently, my brother’s is still up, too.

I totally forgot about those things, I did!  I also forgot about drunkenly kissing a random gay guy, in a picture found SOMEwhere on those sites.  Tee hee.

Reminds me: Pride is coming up.  So far, I have made it a habit to go every other year, which makes it this year the year to go.  Anyone wanna?

Home from work and thankfully I have finally stopped dripping sweat from my walk home.  It feels like armpit outside, causing me to daydream about winter.  Or maybe autumn with its fantastic smells?  Aw, yesh.

Le sigh.

This also marks the beginning of my (unasked for) five day weekend.  Huzzah.  Maybe I’ll get some organizing done?  Mayhaps.  I really need to pick up that guitar, too.  And drop off the rent check.  Beyond that?  ANYONE’S GUESS!  I’m such a maverick.  Off the handle I go!  Carazay.

I have realized I’ve slowly been turning into a hippiesque person - I recycle much more, I try my bestest to use products not used on animals, I don’t eat meat, I eat little dairy.

I have an angry hangnail.

Bacci has started playing fetch again, which is amusing… for the first five hundred minutes.  She’s quite patient at times: I’ve had her drop her ball on my keyboard when I don’t pay attention.  I also felt her staring at me last night and looked over… and there she sat on the floor staring at me, ball in her mouth.

Oh how I love watching Dirty Jobs.

I also find it amusing that I still have my deadjournal.
I also have a Vox account.
I also have my LiveJournal.
I also have My MySpace.
I also have My musician page on MySpace.
I also have a Twitter account!
I also have a Flickr account!
I also have a Deviant Art account!
I also have an InsaneJournal!

Anything else I should get that I’m currently missing?

Methinks I shall crosspost this in most of those places so that you all may find me.