Thanks everyone for all the great birthday wishes! Thanks for dinner Kacie! I had a good time and work wasn't all that bad after all...but thank god I'm off again until Friday night!

Sunday conversations Wholesale Style

me: The person in the lower office is covering a break so you can't get your register until she comes back.
New cashier: How do I get my register?
me: When lower office comes back from covering the front door you can get your register.
New cashier: Where is the person from the lower office?
me (speaking very slowly at this point): She's at the front door but you can do reshops until she comes back.

I turn around to grab the cart from behind the service desk and I turn around and NC is walking down to the front door. According to the girl from the LO, NC asked her if she could get her a register.

I hate when we hire manager's friends. They are slooooooowwww. Like the managers.

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Chinese woman walkes up to Al...

CW:They no find my card. Say it expired and have to pay but I have new card and they can't find it. What wrong with my card?
Al silent while trying to decode woman's accent.
CW: They make pay for new card but old one expired and friends card good.
Al: If you are under your friends membership you should be find then.
Al types in the woman's membership number and tells her that yes her card is still good.
CW: Why tell me it no good? They find then not find and say it wrong but under the seat of my car.
Al: Your card is fine for the next year.
At this point Al runs off to break (which I don't blame her) and CW proceeds to the service desk and goes through the whole conversation with me again!
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Al: I hurt my hand...alot.
Me: How did you do that?
Al: I hit my closet.
Me: I'm sorry....lets get a cake.
Al: Okay.
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Wendy, Al, Robert and I are all standing at the podium. Robert starts gossiping...like normal.

Me: Robert, you're gossiping.
Robert: No, I'm not. I'm telling you what happened.
Me: Isn't that gossiping?
Robert: Not if I'm telling you the facts.
Me: But if it isn't about us and about another cashier and how she's in need of an attitude adjustment and how you aren't gonna take it anymore and she's not here to defend herself, isn't that gossip?
Robert: Quiet, I'm telling a story.

This from a manager who tells us not to gossip every day.
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Tip for all my fellow employees. When you're on the phone with a member, just keep hitting random numbers on the keypad while they are talking. They won't notice and you get to entertain your self. It's especially fun if they are old and can't hear and keep talking about going to Massachusetts.

100 things about me

1. I was born in Chicago and moved to Rochester,NY when I was eight.
2. I collect frogs.
3. I've only had 3 serious boyfriends
4. I love to sing.
5. I'm on my third car in 11 years.
6. I have a niece that I adore.
7. I'm not a very good housekeeper.
8. I finished writing a novel five years ago that I haven't been able to send to publishers for fear of rejection.
9. It took me 5 years to finish a 2 year college because of lack of money.
10. Until I was 14 I had to sleep with a light on in my room with the closet door open.
11. As much as I love my dog, Abby, I'm still a cat person at heart.
12. My boyfriend is allergic to cats.
13. I haven't had cable in 2 years.
14. I still love watching Disney movies.
15. I like to fixate on one thing and worry it into the ground.
16. I'm not in as much debt as I was a year ago but it's still pretty bad.
17. I want to visit Italy but I'm afraid of flying.
18. I've never been further west than Wisconsin.
19. Eminem looks like my old boyfriend.
20. I've lived with every boyfriend I've had.
21. I'm scared out of my mind that I'll never have kids.
22. I love to take pictures.
23. I wish I was better at it.
24. I don't like my birthday anymore 'cause my mom died two weeks after I turned 25.
25. I've been on and off anxiety meds since I was 21.
26. I like snow until the first day of the new year - then it can go away.
27. I subscribe to Maxim 'cause its more interesting than Cosmo.
28. I've read all the Harry Potter books.
29. I can usually finish a book in 2 days.
30. I finished Stephen King's "The Stand" in a week.
31. I don't have a lot of close friends.
32. But the ones I do have I cherish.
33. The Star Wars Trilogy is my all-time favorite.
34. But I also like all the chick flicks.
35. I'm addicted to CSI.
36. and Desperate Housewives
37. and Survivor.
38. I want to marry my boyfriend.
39. But he's not ready and I don't think he ever will be.
40. I'm a Virgo.
41. I smoke.
42. I used to drink a lot of caffeinated soda. Now the only things I drink are Sprite, A&W rootbeer and Sierra Mist.
43. I hate beer.
44. I get drunk very easily.
45. My best friend and I have been friends since '91.
46. I've known my boyfriend since '92 but we didn't start dating until '01.
47. Sometimes I feel like I'm waiting for my mom to walk through the door.
48. She's been gone for 4 years.
49. I have 2 godsons who are always happy to see me.
50. Until I tell them they can't do something.
51. My boyfriend thinks I don't worry enough about what going on in the world.
52. But I do and it scares the hell out of me.
53. I wish I took better pictures.
54. If I had the money I would go to RIT for photography.
55. Sadly, most of the time, I don't hate my job.
56. I only hate it when the male managers are there.
57. They all suck.
58. I still own more VHS tapes than DVD's.
59. I am a lapsed Catholic along with my brother. Our parents are Mormon. My brother's ex-wife and daughter are (I think) Protestant. My boyfriend is lapsed Christian Scientist.
60. I love seafood and Mexican food.
61. I have two tattoos.
62. The first is a heart with wings.
63. The 2nd is an African symbol meaning, "to get through your pain, you have to get through your past".
64. I didn't pay for them.
65. I hate needles.
66. I hate scary movies.
67. I hate insects.
68. I love watching sunrises
69. Especially at the beach.
70. My brother and I still act like 12 year olds when we are together.
71. Although I love my boyfriend, I still get grammar school crushes.
72. But I never act on it.
73. When I was younger, I used to wish I wasn't mixed.
74. But now I love my heritage.
75. In 4th grade, I was called the "n" word by a classmate.
76. It was a Catholic school.
77. My parents got him expelled.
78. When I get really mad I start throwing things. It doesn't matter what I'm throwing or who I'm throwing it at.
79. I used to play softball.
80. I pitched for a whole season.
81. I was horrible.
82. But I've gotten way better.
83. My favorite year of high school was my senior year.
84. I never took my SAT's or ACT's.
85. Tests 'cause me to blank out.
86. My favorite season is spring.
87. I love shopping.
88. I hate the mall.
89. I have an obsession with buying bags...all kinds.
90. My boyfriend has a shoe obsession.
91. I only have one closet in my whole apartment.
92. I love playing Canasta
93. My bathroom is painted bright orange.
94. I almost never wear makeup.
95. I've spent a week in the hospital for depression.
96. The sealy mattress commercial with the boy jumping on the bed gets me rolling with laughter every time.
97. I didn't understand the movie "Lost in Translation".
98. I hate people who are two-faced.
99. I find the best way for me to relax after a stressful day is a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
100. That was really, really hard to do.
     

Hello everyone. Sorry it's been so long since I've actually posted anything. It's been a long summer already. June and July pretty much sucked since my car got repossessed and I had no way of going anywhere. I hated trying to find rides to work every week and sometimes having to take a cab 'cause no one could take me. But I have a new car (new to me anyway) and although it's a stick, I'm getting better at it.

So anyone that was following me not smoking...you can stop. I started again the day my car got repossessed. But I did go 17 days without a smoke and I plan on stopping again in time for my birthday (August 30th). Luckily my best friend has also quit so that will make it a little easier since I'm at her house three times a week.

I went to the doctor's today for a mental health checkup. I'm doing fine so he decided to raise my dosage. Is something wrong with that sentence? I figured if I was doing good on it, it would stay the same. Guess he knows something I don't. I also found out that since the last time I was there (June 14), I lost 9 lbs. Go me! I should have know since I was able to fit into my thin shorts yesterday. It's the best news I've had all week.

So I have a new car.

It makes me happy. Except for that whole fuel pump not working the day I picked it up and sitting at some random gas station in Leroy for three hours while Jim, Kacie and I tried to figure out what to do. Thank god for AAA. That guy got my car working by banging on the gas tank! Drove it all the way home and took it out for errands the next day with my upstairs neighbor and don't you know it wouldn't start again. So after freaking out 'cause I had to go to work still and I was stuck in Tops parking lot with a guy who is braindead from smoking too much weed, I call Colleen and she comes out and I get under my car and bang on the gas tank. Hooray! It starts! I drive it home and the damn thing won't turn on again. To make a long story short, I needed a new fuel pump. A $200 fuel pump. A $200 fuel pump that I didn't have money for. Jim was fabulous enough to charge my fuel pump to his credit card and the next day Orlando came over and got it installed and running for me. Except for the three large gas stains on my driveway, you'd never know anything was wrong with it. Oh...except for the large oil stains that mysteriously appeared a week after the fuel pump got fixed. That was fun. That's called my front valve cover gasket was broken and I was leaking oil. So once again Orlando came out and fixed that. Luckily that was only $30 or else I would have just crashed the damn car and asked for the insurance. But lo and behold, that was easy to fix. Within an hour, he had fixed the leak and did an oil change. As much as I think Orlando is horrible for Jen and not a good father figure, he sure knows what he's doing with cars. Hopefully nothing else will go wrong with it for awhile.

So Jim and I are...still sleeping in the same bed. We don't know what we are. We can't decide if we want to still live together and get a 2 bedroom or if we want to live by ourselves. It changes everyday. We are really both lost right now (relationship wise I mean) and every day it changes. Neither one of us really is looking towards the future anymore. The furthest I can see is Friday and Saturday 'cause I know I have to work. Other than that, neither of us knows if this is gonna work out for the better or if we are going to go our seperate ways. We just don't know.

Well, it's off to do some errands. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Later.

Your Kissing Purity Score: 34% Pure

You're not one to kiss and tell... But word is, you kiss pretty well.

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Your Birthdate: August 30

Your birthday on the 30th day of the month shows individual self-expression is necessary for your happiness. You tend to have a good way of expressing yourself with words, certainly in a manner that is clear and understandable. You have a good chance of success in fields requiring skill with words. You can be very dramatic in your presentation and you may be a good actor or a natural mimic. You have a vivid imagination that can assist you in becoming a good writer or story-teller. Strong in your opinions, you always tend to think you are on the right side of an issue. There may be a tendency to scatter your energies and have a lot of loose ends in your work. You may have significant artistic talent and be very creative.

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