LONG DAY!

I have to start my blog with saying that my heart totally goes out to this Katie. What you bitches aren't readin' her blog?! What is wrong with you? She just started blogging and totally needs some followers. I am sure it would make her smile if you add her! :)

Anyway back to my extremely long day. I totally got up this morning to get to work around 6:30, so I wouldn't have to stay long after I got back from the mini blogging convention. When Joyce got to work, I ran out the door to meet up with Katie and Misty! I totally thought I was going to be late, and then when I got there Katie wasn't there yet! WHOOT! I wasn't the one that was late. Anyway! I had a great time at lunch! I totally look forward to doing that again! I think we were the loud table from a couple of the looks we were getting. Ha. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. I just wish Katie could have seen the woman's face behind her when she was talking about giving her mom clothes she couldn't wear anymore. I almost died laughing. Oh and I was totally wrong. They both totally stuffed their faces. LOVE IT! :)

This is where the day turns.

I went back to work, and I thought I was only going to be there for a couple of hours. My cashier never showed up. UGH! It was a girl from another store, and since she didn't show up, I think that maybe I told her I would call her back or something. I have no idea. She didn't show up, and I got stuck. I refuse to leave my shift supervisors at the store by themselves on Saturday nights. If I leave, they are there by themselves for 3 hours by themselves.

Towards the end of the night, Joyce calls me up front to help ring people up. I get up there and say something like "I'll help someone right here." I assume people will be polite and let the next person in line go, but that doesn't always happen. It sure didn't happen tonight. The black lady who was in front of the register turned and put her stuff on the counter. (I know you are all like "the black lady" what the hell does that have to do with this story? Just wait.) Next thing I know this white guy who was almost next in line makes a comment about people going before it is their turn. The black lady says, "It happens to me all of the time." This is when the argument ensues. There are racial slurs thrown and where people grew up. I wish I could have had this argument on tape. The guy says that it is my fault for not saying, "the next person in line." The guy who was actually next in line says that I did say, "the next person in line." There is a whole bunch of that's not rights. The man says something like "go back to Africa." The woman says under her breath "damn europeans." The guy says "excuse me." What I love about this woman is that she doesn't hold back. She just told the guy how it was. I felt bad for her son though. He works next door at Compton's. His mom was going to write a check, but when everything started he looked at me and said, "It's going to be debit." That poor kid paid for his mom's crap, so he could get her out of that store before she hit that man.

When we finally were able to leave after I rang up the woman who had to make sure every single item rang up the right price, I had to drive home in the freakin' rain.

I got home to find that my husband had painted the bathroom. It looks soooooooo much better! He also cooked me dinner as soon as I get home. Now all I want is ice cream from McDonald's. I totally think I am about to drive up there to get some.

Ugh! I have to be back at work at 9 in the morning. Bleech.

Mini Blogging Convention is TOMORROW!

WHOOT! I am totally going into work early in the morning. Here's hoping I actually do that! I am so glad that my husband got a check in the mail today because otherwise someone else would be paying for me to eat. I just spent around 600 bucks today just to get my husband's car out of the shop.

I really have nothing interesting to say today. I worked all day, came home took a nap, and then my husband woke me up because dinner was ready. Then I ran to the grocery store to get dog food. Yep that was about the jist of my day. How fun. I mean seriously, I don't even have any rude customer stories.

The lamps

These are the lamps that my grandmother apparently just HAD TO HAVE. Yeah. I know they are horribly ugly, BUT get this! My husband loves them, and he wants to keep them...for his future man room of course. I just think it is so funny that lamps that my granny just had to have are something that my husband loves so much. We are currently using them because I haven't really been able to do much Craigslisting, since we got home. They desperately need new shades, and please excuse the mess on the table. :)

Dear Katie and Misty,

You would be disgusted with my yard right now. I really hope my husband wakes up early in the morning and mows the grass. Push mowing around the trees would be nice too. I swear we have bushes the size of trees! OMG! I wish winter would just hurry up and kill everything, so I can start anew next year.

A whole week!

It has been a whole week, since I last blogged. JEEZ! My excuse is that my computer doesn't want to charge. It takes so long to get it to start charging! On top of that I am tired from working all day, AND my husband plays World of Dorkcraft.

Here is the latest update from the week o Jennifer.

We went to Zanies the other night. It was an ok time except that my brother in law doesn't know how to whisper. He is one of those constant loud talkers. UGH! He made like 3 comments that the comedian heard and commented about. This would be ok had they not sounded like heckling comments. He totally could have been thrown out. Personally, I didn't care for the comedian, but Jack wanted to see him, so we went. I think Zanies may become our "thing to do" because we only live like 5 minutes away from there.

I have been working, working, working BUT my store is starting to look like it needs to which makes me feel pretty damn good! I went to work late yesterday, and I am seriously considering going in on my day off to get a few things done.

My husband painted our bedroom. It is orange. It also needs a second coat, but I refuse to add another coat because the paint we got was Oops paint from Home Depot. We paid 5 dollars for paint that originally would have costed 40. He also painted the hallway (another oops paint of course!). The hallway looks AWESOME! It still needs some crevices painted, but it looks so much better than the dingy white/ black crud! Those are the only two rooms we can paint because the rest is that wood paneling crap. BLEECH!

My mother in law hinted that she wants another grandkid yesterday. She hasn't done that before.

I am totally having allergy problems. I am sick of it! I wheeze at night.

I totally miss California. :( Allergy problems are part of it. The weather. Honestly, thinking about about California and how bad I miss it makes me ironically home sick. I know it will get better, but I really just want to go back. If only I didn't have to pay rent there. I miss driving down the PCH and seeing the ocean. I miss Ralph's ( ridiculous right? I fucking grocery store!). I miss my apartment and my neighbors. I miss Nora. The one friend that I had out there outside of work that was not my neighbor. :*( I miss so much, but I will stop at that. I am secretly hoping that something horrible will happen there just to justify that us moving back was some coincidental good fortune.

That should have totally been the climactic end to my blog post, but it isn't the end.

We decided to take my husband's car somewhere the other day, and we heard a funny noise as we were driving down the road. I finally convinced him to go back home after driving about a mile. We parked in the driveway, and he had me turn his wheel. Pretty damn sure that the fucking control arm is broken! What the hell!? He had to have it towed to Bennett's in Smyrna. It has been sitting there ever since. Oh it gets better! Of course it does! Why not? Bennett's looks at it tells Jack what is wrong, and he informs them that he has a warranty. Ok, the guy he bought the car from CLEARLY SAID the warranty covers everything except the clutch. I told my husband that it sounded fishy when he said except the clutch. I assumed the clutch was going and that is why they said that. Ok, so back to current day. Bennett's calls to make a claim. The warranty company has no record of Jack's warranty! Jack spends the rest of the afternoon trying to get a hold of someone at the dealership we bought the car from to find out why he has no warranty. He FINALLY gets ahold of someone who can tell him something. That person gives him his policy number, and the process starts all over again. They still cannot find it. Process starts again. Jack calls the warranty place this time. They give him an entirely different phone number to call. FINALLY they find the warranty. I really think that someone had to backtrack and actually get the warranty going, and that is just how long it took to get taken care of. I also need to add that the guy at the dealership Jack talks to has also told him that they don't sell a warranty like the one he described, so when Bennett's called to make the claim...it was not fucking covered! This costs 600 dollars! Jack calls the dealership back, and luckily the guy for whatever reason believes that the car salesman Jack dealt with actually did tell him wrong. This tells me that they tell everyone this lie to get people to pay for the warranty (which by the way, my husband was led to believe was free and part of buying the car). Instead of covering the cost of the car being fixed they are covering a car payment. A car payment that is maybe half of what it is costing us to get the damn car fixed. This stupid ass car better last forever!

I apologize if the previous paragraph was confusing in anyway, I was typing quickly. :(

Wonderin' where's my chinaman at?

Hungry!

I had a terribly long day at work today. I was totally planning on leaving early today, and I wound up staying late instead. On a plus note, since I make the schedule, I have a three day weekend!

Oh, and my inventory shrink is HORRIBLE! My store is missing A LOT of money! I am so glad it is not my fault.

I remembered something that I forgot to tell ya'll! My (step)father-in-law made me cry. My mother-in-law told me about this. His sister had cancer, and she got a red wig because that was the natural color of her hair. He told Mo, "That could have been Jennifer's hair." Now, that may not make you tear up, but it really gets me. I donate my hair every year, and while I know that my hair is going to someone that really needs it. I never have the ability to put a face to my donation and for that moment I was able to. It is a feeling I cannot describe. I cannot wait to have the ability to donate again. I should be getting there soon.

Ehh

I worked what feels like all day today. It pretty much is all day 12 till 9. My freakin' morning cashier called and said she would be late. She finally freakin' showed up at like 1. We have way too much to get done for that crap. THEN my district manager decides he wants to have a meeting tomorrow. I totally busted my ass all day, and I am tired.

I wish I had something exciting to say, but I don't. :( I will leave you with these extra cute videos that made me laugh till I cried today.

This one didn't have a way to put the video on here.