December 2005 Archives

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and say thank God it's over! Woo Hoo! I know what Christmas is really about and all but it's also a very commercial time of the year and if you don't already know I work in retail. Which sucks the life out of any holiday. Well tomorrow it's back to the daily grind. I am so excited not. I did get some cool stuff for Christmas. $100 dollar gift card to penzones. I think my hubby is telling me I need a haircut or something. Ha Actually I asked for one. I also got a Nintendo DS a few cd's a book, some jammies, cash, holiday Barbie, Applebee's giftcard, 2 sweatshirts some games for my DS. I had a good Christmas. I do wish I could have been more into it though and had a little more money to buy things for others. Hopefully this year I can get some bills paid down and get caught up. Maybe sell this un-Godly expensive house which is really putting the screws to us.

So here shortly my Valentines stuff will be rolling thru the door. I am actually surprised it's not there already but they were wanting to use the promo aisles for the whole P&G special olympics product. Our store did not get any of it though because they took us off of distibutions because we are getting ready to go thru a major re-model soon. Yeah lucky me I will gain a bunch more stuff to take care of. It could result in me making more money though. If we hit a certain dollar amount the majority of the year I will get 50 cents more on the hour soooo it could be a good thing. Probably not though. Not much else going on just trying to figure out how to pay the bills and get thru winter. I am not happy with Jackets right now we suck. I have no desire to go to the games plus I hate our new seats and I don't want to ask to be moved everytime I am there cause I don't want to make the person who hooks me up feel obligated and stuff. I know he does not feel obligated but I don't want to over-due it if you will. I can't find the words I am looking for here. I do know I will be there for sure on the 28th. My Tyler will be back. Sucks he is going to be in a Ducks jersey but whatever works I guess. At least someone wanted him and he is still playing.
Well I think that is all for tonight kids I need to be getting to bed soon for my fun day at work tomorrow. I have to be in at 8 am fun fun. So Until next time kids.... Jesus is the reason for the season.

What exactly am I talking about? Not sure but new directions are good. Something has to give. So I just need to figure out what then what I want to do about it. I really can't wait for the holidays to be over. I have literally lived in my promo aisle the past 2 weeks. I am so tired of seeing Christmas and touching and moving the same product over and over. Only a few more days and this too shall soon pass. Then it's off to the next holiday Valentines. A big time commercial holiday if there ever was one. I won't complain though I will take the gifts hehe. My aunt and her niece which she is raising are coming here tomorrow to have Christmas with mom and the rest of us. I have not seen them in awhile so it will be nice. We did not get together last year for Christmas. Jackets are losing again. Big surprise! Glad I did not go tonight. Although we are playing my back-up team the Stars. Anyways the next game I am looking forward to is when we play the Ducks. Well I suppose I am going to wrap this up. I have some presents to wrap still and some baking to do. Also going to try something new this year going to try my hand at making some dog biscuits. Found some recipes on the net. So wish me luck. Anyways until next time kids....... Happy Holidays!

It's almost over and thank goodness. The holidays especially Christmas is nuts. So we moved our PSL seats and I don't much care for them. I just feel sandwhiched in and just seems kind of quiet up there compared to being in the lower level. I just think you can hear more and feel and be more into the game. So yeah I was up there and had a coughing fit cause of this lovely cold. I was like feeling sooo stuck. Anyways sometimes we get moved and that is way cool and major Thanks and love to who does it for us you know who you are. One of the coolest things happened today my store manager gave Brian and I a framed CBJ display there was only like 196 or so of them made. It has all of the Pepsi collecter cans with the players on them in this frame and a Cbj logo in the middle. I called him like " You are the coolest ever!" I had to work at that store today and you know what it sucked. They want me to go back next Tuesday and you know what not gonna happen. They frickin just left me. No real direction or anything. I was like hmmm. So I called my store manager and told him I am about to leave here soon I think. I told him they just left me alone. He said he didn't blame and would leave too. So I finished up what I was doing and I left.
Don't have me come in to help get you out of your huge mess and leave to go sort tags which you have Saturday and Sunday to sort and they don't need hung till Monday. Just big time B.S. I think I finished up most of my shopping today which is good because the closer Christmas gets the crazier the stores and people get. Just don't have the patience for all that mess.

Well not to much longer and Tyler will be back in town woo hooooo! December 28th his "NEW" team will be here playing his former team. I hope he scores a goal or 2. Yeah take that one Mclean. Maybe I should make a sign and go to warm-ups before the game? Ha. Anyways I am sure there was a billion things I could write about but hey it's the middle of the night and I cannot remember all of it so maybe next time kids. Until then Avoid the mall at all costs! Ha!

Well I went to the hollistic forum it was interesting. Had my tarot cards read and other stuff. The re-occouring theme was school. Well that is nice and all but how am I to afford that when I can barely make it now. Not to mention I could not tell you what I would even go to school for. I think they hit some stuff on the head though for sure. I will probably go again sometime. Um I have a cold again thanks Brian started up friday morning woo hoo for me. Better to have it now and get it out of the way I suppose before the big holiday. I also was suspended from work this week. Yeah WTF? Anyways I was already on 90 days soooo I ask the time and attendance lady hey when are my 90 days over? I was told Dec 3. Yeah well I guess she counted from the wrong day or whatever so guess what I get to start a whole new 90 days. Kinda sucks since it was technically not my fault. I guess it kind of worked out though since I am sick I probably would have called in anyways. Next week though I will have to go to that lovely store that I hate to get some mega OT to make up what I missed this week. Oh well got to do what you gotta do. Went to the Jackets game the other night good times. I took Steven Anth's brother since Anth would not go or could not whatever. Anyways we had fun the Jackets won there was a shootout. Then we hit O'shaunessy's had some food drinks etc. Mike totally picked on Steve most of the night so I got some time off hehehe. Um it was snowing big time on the way there but it was not bad on the way home but the it was hella windy. It was his first NHL game he had a good time. So did I. Anyways not much else to report I get to go back to work tomorrow goodie goodie. See if I can score some OT elsewhere.
So until next time kids................. Be on time to work HA!

Okay well where to start? Let's see um Thanksgiving was good spent some time with my niece which was cool. Been working a lot. It just does not feel like it is December 3rd already. Just been hard to get into the spirit of it all this year. Not sure why but that's the way it is going. Stephanie had her baby November 28th. Had a boy I have yet to see him which I plan to do soon but it's been crazy for me. Also my second mom's husband passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on the 27th. RIP Larry Thompson. He was a great guy and a good husband to Vicki. He was kind always had something nice to say and a great sense of humor and he will be greatly missed. So I attended one of the viewings and his service this week. I really hope Vicki will be okay she has had a rough 2 years. I know she is strong and has great family and friends around her. So hopefully that will keep her going and not be to sad or unhappy Larry would not want her that way. It seems like also that these sort of things always happen around the holidays.

Onto other things I also attended a skincare line party. Nothing I wanted to purchase really. Then today my hubby gives me a 100 dollar gift card to go get myself something for Christmas. Easy enough right? NOT. Everything I wanted to try and pick up ( a few books) were not available at the 2 stores I went to but at least at the second one they were able to order 2 of the 4 I wanted. It was just one of those days. Other than that I don't know what I really want for Christmas. Seriously I had to write out a list of things so Brian could give it to his fam and he would know some of the things I wanted but I had hardly anything on there. Just been a weird year. I am so not motivated at work right now. I just go thru this phase everytime this year. Don't know why but I do. Um my back-up was supposed to work at that crappy store we both hate but he just did not go. LOL. I was like way to go Anth. You are so on the shit list now. So then our districts Human Resource manager calls him asks him why and he just straight out tells him the truth. He fell back asleep because he did not feel like going because he thinks that store is depressing etc. I was standing there listening like WTF? Lie Anth Lie. There are times you need to and have to do that to save face. I would say in his case that was one of em. Any other time he has not problem stretching the truth or exagerating or even out and out Lying. I told him it would be awhile before he was asked to go work at other stores or would get a promotion lol. I don't know about where you work but the HR coordinator can make or break that. Not a good person to piss off. I do give him credit for being honest but there is a time and place that was not one of them. He did not call them anything so who knows. Tomorrow I am going to some kind of new age/ Hollistic forum. I guess they have reflexologists there readers etc. Should be interesting. I will update about that next entry. I think the Christmas shopping is about wrapped up. Seriously cutting the list way back this year. Oh also this week at work a guy that I never would have suspected in a million years came out of the closet if you will. Kudos to him though. That is probably not an easy choice to make.

Weather has been extremely cold at least to me and in all honesty it's not that cold yet. I am begining to hate winter. I seriously doubt I will be able to reside in a cold climate when I get older.Hello Florida here I come hehehe. The sooner the better. A girl can dream I suppose. Maybe someday though. I am supposed to be off tomorrow but I ended up needing to split one of my shifts earlier in the week with the whole too much to do all at once. So half a day for me. I will finally get a full day off Tuesday and I cannot wait. The Hubby and I are planning to finish up our Christmas shopping. I plan on sleeping in big time that day though. Cannot wait. Anyways I think that is all I have to say for right now so until next time kids............Bah Humbug!