What A Surprise?

So, I'm lazy. You knew that when you befriended me! Or soon after anyways... At least I'm with it when it counts!

For some reason, my coworkers' laziness/unreliable-ness never ceases to surprise me.

After a cranky, crabby morning I was actually having a good day, until I got home and realized that I had left my keys hanging in the lock of the door of the office at work. So back I went! In my defense, I am really good at keeping track of my keys at work, but today one of the owners forgot his keys and kept borrowing mine, and I just forgot to retrieve them. OUT OF THE ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES! I cannot be faulted! Except, you know, that it was totally my fault. So I got off work at 3:30, and finally got home at 6:20. Sigh. I got Subway while I was downtown, it doesn't take quite that long to go there and back thankfully.

Oh what glorious happenings will tomorrow bring? They better involve cute boys, or I'm out.

Good Day.

(Cause they're fishies...in case you can't see that....)

Seriously, it had the promise of being horrible, and I was pretty cranky in the morning but it was actually a good day. Two people called in sick and boss lady had to leave before lunch to deal with a family emergency, and I seemed to find new and creative ways of hurting myself all morning starting with waking up and not being able to turn my head to the left (better now but still hurts a lot, especially when I forget and whip my head around real fast...). From lunch on it was just Aleem and myself, which especially for lunch hour could have been disastrous but luckily the customers were very well spaced so we didn't have too many panic moments. We work surprisingly well together too, I think he works harder when it's just me, cause he knows I'll be pissed at him if he doesn't. Also it was like I didn't have to spend the whole day being annoyed at other people standing around not doing any work, because there wasn't anyone else there! I just got to go about doing whatever needed to be done, the way I wanted it done. I don't know if that makes sense...it does to me though. Another guy was out sick Monday through Wednesday, came back today, and I realized how much I enjoyed having him not be there because I could just do all the things that he doesn't do but is supposed to, or does wrong, whereas this morning with him back it was the return of silent rage Clair. How did I get to be so cranky??

Of course, if you couldn't tell by the twitter, you know who came in to get coffee today. I flipped out and pretty much acted like a loonie...not around him (though I did greet him pretty enthusiastically, but he seemed happy to see me too) but around Aleem. I saw him walk by when it was just me out front and we made eye contact and smiled but then he just kept walking to the elevators, so I was all mopey about it to him, but then when he was out front with me a few minutes later he came back down and starting walking towards the shop, at which point I grabbed Aleem to point him out (I think he's the only one who hadn't seen him yet) and got a little too excited, to his amusement. We had a line so Aleem had to ring him through (so once again I couldn't check his bank card to find out his name) but then Aleem disappeared into the back and we made lovely small talk about ninja throwing stars etc. Then I was giggly and blushing for about half an hour while Aleem laughed at me. It was wonderful. Oh so wonderful.

These are the guys from yesterday:


Oh, Friday tomorrow. Hurrah hurrah, not sure who will be turning up to work... someone else entirely may not be coming in but I don't think that will be a big deal, hopefully one of the afternoon boys will be there though, I don't think I'll be able to hack another 10 hour day.

Day Two!

The round, blue, polka-dotted ones! Yeah, THOSE ones! I received many a compliment on them actually. Crazy lady teased me about wearing them to impress cutie, then assured me he was just playing hard to get when I told I hadn't seen him in about a month.

Today I shall wear these green, hand stamped and embossed earrings that I bought at a kiosk in UBC hospital minutes after finishing winter exams. They are the most expensive pair of earrings I own at $30. I know that's waaaay too expensive for earrings. I was dizzy from exams and all I could think was, pretty! I'll take a pic of them later so you can all judge me but I think I'm going to make it a very early night...

Have a good day!

Such A Rebel

I've been going through a bit of earring withdrawal lately. Technically we're not allowed to wear any "long, dangly" earrings (aka 90% of my earrings) at work as per the dress code. But we're not allowed any visible body jewelry either...which I definitely have and our dishwasher's face is covered in (and he takes off about half of it for work...) so really, it's not like they're sticklers for the rules. So I will keep on wearing earrings until someone tells me not to, and I'm going to try for a different pair every day for a month at least. I can go for a solid 5 months but I don't want to wear anything toooo crazy or obnoxious looking...and I'll probably give up after a month and just go back to my faves.

But: Day one! The large pink hoops. Behold.


Plus maybe posting pictures of my non-earring duplicate achievements will result in more regular posting. It's win-win for everyone.

There seriously was nothing of note that happened today though...

Yesterday we made pizza though, AND wonton soup! How multicultural of us. It was really good.

Big Bang was not new tonight. That saddened me. It threw off my whole evening.

Okay not really.

What Is With That Retarded Picture Below?

I was having photo issues earlier.

This one is much nicer.

Drama-rama

No onesie for me, but boy was it a suspenseful week! Plus I must admit I got a little fangirl giddy that she commented on the previous post.

Ahhh what a week. I am such a crab. I was DYING to give away a free coffee or two to cheer myself up today but no one worthy came in, at an appropriate time anyways. I had four or five people in mind but only two of them came in at all, and both when there was someone else working till and we were all crazy busy. Which was most of the morning actually. It was just Amyna and I and we had a lineup for about 2 hours straight. We totally rocked it. I made drinks and the timing/type of drinks was just perfect to get everything out in good time. I love rushes, I get all fired up. Then when they're over I stay all bouncy and hyper for a bit then crash to exhaustion if it doesn't pick up again.

Everyone's heard the drama for this week by now right? The gist: A few weeks ago I was told that around the end of Feb when the owners took over another store downtown I would be going there to be manager. Monday I was told that they decided I should stay where I am now, because they would have to hire too many people for this store if pretty much everyone was leaving for the other store. I thought okay, fine, I'd rather stay and work with the owner who's going to stay anyways, we just work better together, etc, but then I found out that Ken is also staying at our store, so I guess that means I won't be manager of anything and basically my job will not change at all. They don't seem to realize in the slightest that they told me I would be getting a promotion and now they're taking it back, and I was super upset about it. Basically I felt like crap for most of the week. Then Aleem made wise-ass jokes about my salary being too high all week long and I wanted to punch him in the face. I have decided to leave the matter for the moment and just carry on. I wanted to say something earlier, but I thought I should wait til I calmed down so as not to get to worked up with them or snap or something. This is actually the second time they've done this (though the first time I knew it was bullshit and would never happen) and if they ever say anything about me becoming manager again I'll probably flip out at them a little, but for now, there are too many other employee issues I wish they would address right now so I'm gonna leave it. I am however, taking this Sunday off. I need a whole weekend dammit!

Oh what else...Amy and I went to Ikea on wacky Wednesday and spent a ridiculously small amount of money. Pats on the back for us. I just got another of those round table lamps with the white flowers (I think Tammy and Dylan have the same one?) and some tiny lightbulbs for the little pink matching lamp that Dylan bought me before I left in the summer, so now I can actually use it! I think it was also the shortest amount of time we have ever spent in Ikea.

I can complain about how cold it is here if you want? But maybe you are sick of that, and I should just get over it all ready.


It is really cold though.