4 posts tagged “white”

Wednesday, August 27th

4pm

I get paid for my training!  YESSS!  It was so exhausting, though, so I'm sort of not surprised.  LOL  4pm-8pm Monday and yesterday.  Mostly handouts, videos, and paperwork.  But I did get to shadow for quite a while yesterday.  I was taught how to use and clean the meat slicer.  The scales look really confusing though.  They punch in like a million numbers after they weight stuff.  How do they know what to push?  I'll let you know when I find out. XD

I get an hour lunch, and a fifteen minute break.  And I joined the muthafuckin' union.  XD  My department manager's name is Cindy.  It was SO hard to not be like, "HI CINDY!!!"  Like I did with Jonjon's Cindy every time she was nearby.  XD

There was this one video that's supposed to be "funny".  The only funny thing about it was how TERRIBLE the acting was.  It (like everything else in our fucking training) was all about customer service.  And EVERY time a customer was treated well, they said "WOOOW!" 

There were two other new guys (Stephen in dairy and Alex in produce, both from a nearby Catholic school, though Alex just graduated) who started the same day I did, and while me and Alex watched the WOW video, Stephen was downstairs doing a customer service computer quiz thing with Mary (who's was doing all of our customer service training.  Out of everyone I've met so far she's my favorite, though everyone is SO nice).  So, when it was Stephen's turn to watch the video, we told him to count the wows.  LMFAO  I don't know if he actually did, though.  He's very quiet.  And for once, I'm not.  XD  Except with some of the cashiers who look like they might be snobby.  I'm still careful around them.  But yeah, if I ever get to train people, I'm definitely counting the wows next time I see that.

And yesterday, I saw Lindsay!  Michelle's sister.  We were choir buddies back in the day, and she was best friends with Mesa.  I had NO idea she worked there!  We were very excited, and caught up on each others' lives (I was early, and she'd pop over between bagging groceries).  She was like,"If you're ever working an eight hour shift...*nod*  lunch."  XD!!!  She graduated a year before me, and other than a "Hi, Lindsay!" in the Land O'Lakes halls a couple times last year, I haven't really talked to her since her graduation party.  It's funny.  I knew her longer, but ended up a lot closer with Michelle.  I guess we just have more in common.  I still haven't asked her how her China trip was.  TO MYSPACE!

BUT FIRST.  I MUST SAY THIS.

THE BAKERY.

IS MY WEAKNESS.

NIKI.  I WILL BRING YOU NOMS.

I should bring you to the store so you can pick out favorite noms.

Here's a list of all the people I've met (and remembered):

• Bob (Manager)
• Sean (knew from school, manager's son)
• Alex (produce)
• Stephen (dairy)
• Danielle (knew from school)
• Lindsay (knew from school)
• Jen (also in deli.  hate that I'm not the only one.  my name tag has to say Jennifer now instead.  I might change it to Jenni before I start interacting with customers.  No one calls me that anymore but Cameron and sometimes aunts and uncles.  And I'm sure Devin would if he knew who I was.  LMFAO  Anyway, I miss it.)
• Mary (basically everything)
• Anne (deli)
• Maryanne (deli)
• Cindy (deli manager)
• Nick (dairy manager)
• Cory (female. customer service desk)

And I met at least another ten people whose names I can't remember.  Mary introduced us to EVERYONE we walked past.  It was a bit overwhelming, but everyone was very welcoming.  Thank god for name tags, eh?

Also!  I has a uniform!  It's kind of cute, but everything is so big on me.  XD  Because it's in "ladies sizes" instead of juniors, which would fit me.  Black baseball cap (the visor was cuter, but it hurt my head and kept sliding down my face), hairs in a ponytail (all of them.  XD  Just because I'm in deli), light blue button-up shirt, black apron, black shoes (or white), black (or khaki, or dark blue) pants (which you supply).  No facial piercings, and "offensive" tattoos must be covered.  And no more than three piercings per ear, and two rings per hand.  I don't think hair color is an issue, because there's a black lady who works in the kitchen with BRIGHT red-orangey hair.  But that might be because she doesn't do as much customer interaction.  I'm not sure.  Boys need to have hair above shoulder length, and no facial hair.  Basically, most of our customers are old people, who are easily frightened or offended... and most of all, OBSCENELY judgemental.

5pm

It's the moment you've all been waiting for!  Sort of.

. . .

You see, I've managed to find this tiny, shitty little camera that was like fifteen dollars new (like four years ago), and managed to get some decent pictures with it in a mirror.  ^-^  Anyway, here you go.  XD

Dress

Adorable, don't you agree?  ^-^ 

Back

These are honestly the best pictures manageable with the tiny camera, so please forgive me.  XD 

 I loooooooove my dress!  I feel like I'm cosplaying when I put it on, just because I'm not used to seeing clothes this cute outside of manga and anime.  ^-^

Sooooooooooooo cuuuuuute!

Bow

You know you love it.

2:45am

After much thought and debate, I have decided that instead of buying an amazing distiller pitcher for $350.00 I will buy this little darling for quite a bit less.  You see, I had some questionable photos on my other one, so I hid it somewhere, then forgot where I hid it and accidentally sat on it.  Since then it's been so angry with me that it won't display things properly or even take pictures and video.  I'm a bit of a photography addict, and have the occasional craving to post crap videos on youtube, so it's impossible for me to resist.

Also, after Pokemon League, I bought the CUTEST dress yesterday (bought under the guise that it was absolutely necessary because I had absolutely nothing to wear to my aunt's wedding next month) for fifty dollars, which I will have pictures of as soon as I get my new camera.  XD  It's okay, though, because I earned the fifty dollars on Saturday, and I'll be getting more this weekend. 

I first saw it a couple weeks ago, and thought I'd never be able to get it when I saw the price, so actually trying it on, seeing it fit perfectly, and taking it home was like a dream come true.  ^-^  It's white with pencil eraser sized dark blue or black polka dots, big yellow roses around the bottom, and the bottom flares out all adorably.  XD  I suck at describing dresses, but it's SOOO CUTE!  You'll see.  XD

Tuesday, April 1st

Noon

I've just had one of my most bizarre dreams ever.  It began normally enough.  I was riding with Cameron to... somewhere, and we were passing by an amusement park.  I told him how we'd pass it every time my dad picked me up to spend the summer with him, but he never took us there.  Then we went by this trail that led into the woods, and I was thinking about how it was probably just designed to keep people from going off of little paths (because you're not allowed to) and staying in the cities/suburbs, when I saw a cat stuck up in a tree.  In the tree it was white, but then it jumped down and was suddenly a brown and grey tabby, and it just... landed in the car.  Which was probably like fifty feet away from the tree.

So, then all of a sudden we were in this building, and I was still holding the cat, and Cameron and I had been talking about something for a while when I noticed that the cat was sucking on my forehead, and it REALLY hurt, and the spot on my head was all bloody.  So, I tried to pull it off of me, but it was ridiculously strong, and eventually Cameron and I flung it across the room.  Then it was fine.  It just walked around like a normal happy, careless cat.  Until like thirty seconds later when it started to look like it was dying, moving really slowly and dizzily.  So then it tried to come after me again, and I had to strangle it.  And while this was going on (because even though I was strangling the kitten, it wasn't dying or even hurt) a big dog came at us and I had to hold its mouth closed with my other hand.  It had horse teeth, which was scary enough in itself.

We managed to get away from the animals, and ended up in a room with a lot of people.  And some of them were starting to act strangely and come after us too.  So everyone was just killing these zombies with a vampiric apetite, and trying to make sure not to kill any of the normal people.  And there were weapons everywhere!  I saw one gun, but the rest were strange axes and really dull swords, and big cleavers.  But none of the zombies would die!  We just had to keep cutting them into smaller and smaller pieces until they couldn't  move anymore.  It was SO horrible.  I was being attacked by this one man who was trying to bite at me.  I had a big cleaver with a really jagged blade, and I kept hacking away at his mouth, cutting off different parts of his face until he couldn't open his jaw.  Then I just cut off his head with one cleaver swipe, followed by a couple whacks with a dull sword.  I've never had such a graphic dream before.

After loads of stabbing, slicing, and all around things that would make me throw up if I saw them in a movie, they were all in pieces on the ground.  But then, of course, the pieces started to mysteriously slide across the floor and an arm grabbed my leg, knocking me to the ground on my stomach and dragging me backwards.  Luckily a girl who was standing near me was able to get me loose and we all ran out of that room and shut the door.

Then we were in what looked like a school hallway.  You could hear echoing screams and dripping all around.  The zombies were everywhere now, but none were too close by.  So we ran for the stairs.  I was on my own now, flinging myself over one banister after another, somehow always managing to grab onto the bottom edges of the staircases.  There were endless flights of stairs, but it didn't matter, because it was flooded and after about four flights I was in the water.

With merpeople.

One of them turned me into a mermaid, saying that it would make me immune to the zombies, and that the zombies only come down to where they lived once a day to check for humans.  We were more grey and had scales that were almost stonelike in appearance and bumpy like coral, rather than the typical mermaid image.  Slightly more similar to the merpeople in Harry Potter.  But not scary like them, and with more humanlike faces.  Anyway, some of the zombies were coming towards the water, so I sank down enough to take my shirt off so they wouldn't know I was human a minute ago.  It was okay though, because I also had scaley boobs and didn't have to feel naked, along with confused and fearing for my life. 

We swam down to where the merpeople lived and my new eyes adjusted to the darkness.  I was basically just... there for a while.  I don't remember anything really happening at that point until we came back up to the surface later.  It was me and two or three other merpeople, and they were getting snacks from the building.  Like, getting up out of the water with legs and coming back with styrofoam plates full of weird looking food.  They were all excited saying that this thing was called a cookie, and this was something or other, and blah blah blah.  I just watched them and sort of sat on my fin which was bent like I was sitting on my feet on the stairs in the water.

I went back down and suddenly there were only three other merpeople in existence.  It was a father and his two daughters.  They all hated me but pretended they were my friends, and I could tell.  I was supposed to be staying with them, and I went over to the father because he wanted to tell me something.  He was in this little room that looked like a little sea cave, looking at all of these fish eggs.  HUNDREDS of them.  Then he gave me a gun and told me to go up to the surface and find and kill my father.  I asked him if there were still zombies and he said no, just the animals.

I swam up the surface and noticed one of the daughters stalking me in the shadows.  I knew it was a trap.  I made it to the surface and walked around with the gun like a cop.  Everything was painted yellow and pink, and there was loud music coming from one of the doors.  Probably Jim Morrison.  And that's when I woke up.