Sweet Catastrophe

It’s inevitable. For one week a month I’m overly emotional, and for that one week a month I end up watching and/or reading sad things. You’d think I’d learn, but nope! This month I watched Click. Hi, I totally bawled like a baby, of course. I knew I was going to; I did the first time I watched it. Of course I watched it again anyway. Now I’ve just finished the latest episode of Scrubs. Teaaaars. I didn’t realize that one was gonna so sad though. Tonight I’m hoping to watch Robin Hood Men in Tights to make up for all the boo hooing.

I slept later than I wanted today so I’m behind on everything I’ve wanted to do, but at least I’ve done the dishes. Now if I can just get the living room clean and get a solid start on laundry I’ll feel better.

Shower’s first though!

Oh wow! I just saw this on Catie’s blog and I had to share it too. This is fabulous!

What I love is that it totally wasn’t like a staged thing. I mean, everyone is genuinely cracking up over it. I wish I could witness stuff like this. I mean, I wasn’t even in class the day some chick in my Biology class just up and fell over. How fabulous that all my teacher said was, “See this is why you should always eat breakfast, blah blah blah giraffe.” She was always talking about giraffes. At least, that’s what it sounded like in the back of the stadium room. Heh…

Methinks this isn’t going to be a pretty week. My chest hurts. It’s getting pretty bad. I think the most logical explanation I’ve come up with is that I’ve probably pulled the muscle, thus causing all this pain that feels like I’m right back at week 1 post surgery. I’ve just put myself back on orders to not do any heavy lifting until at least a week after the pain finally subsides. Until then I’ll grin an bear the pain. There’s not really much else I can do without insurance to help pay for pain pills right now.

Anyway, how about on my way to work yesterday it was sleeting!! I mean really; it was almost 11 and droplets of ice were bouncing all over my car! Work was almost unbearable. Not a single person there wanted to be there, and we had no customers so it was really hard to feel like there was even a reason to be there. Really, we were only open because Home Depot was. For anyone who’d like to challenge that, I submit to you that originally, our hours for Easter were to be 10am-6pm, that is until I believe Friday when a manager saw in the sales paper that Home Depot would be open 8am-6pm on Easter Sunday. GR! We stay open later than other Lowe’s stores because of the Home Depot hours here as well. I’d confidently venture to say they lost more money being open this Sunday than they made. I say this because we had more coverage Sunday than we normally do. Why they keep over scheduling on these holidays when no one is out shopping, I’ll never understand. Of course, they don’t send people home and save hours either, do they? Nope, everyone did busy-work all down. Down-stocking, cycle counts, catch up on computer training…Sunday was neverending. It was that much worse because everyone was in such a ‘blah’ mood. We all just wanted to go home.

After work Ryan and I were planning to go eat and then to the movies, but Ryan was napping (he worked over 20 hours straight on Saturday out at Wild Adventures–as in pretty much constant hard labor, nothing to laugh at) and most everything was closed so we scratched the going out to eat and just went to the movie. We saw Meet the Robinsons and it was every bit of great that I expected it would be. I loved it so much and it had the cutest ending :) We plan to buy it when it comes out. I was really excited that when the movie came up there was a Mickey Mouse cartoon short at the beginning. It was great to see that. Then we came home and played Super Smash Bros Melee where I proceeded to get grumpy again because I was all sorts of sucking at that game last night and well, pms just isn’t pretty =P

Today sucked royally. It wasn’t really any one thing, it was just collectively a really crummy day. I had a Monday for real. After my morning class, I meant to take a quick nap and get up and shower and do all my reading for my afternoon class, but that didn’t happen. I woke up just in time to be too late to bother going to my afternoon class. Not too happy about that at all. I only have that class MW and I missed last Wed as well. Then work was just really horrible. I lost count of how many times I dropped things, hit myself with something, how many computers froze up on me…gah. Then after a while I finally made it up to the Return Desk and the girl who was running it earlier that day left a royal mess. I was ready to flip my shit when I got up there, no lie. There was barely any room for customers to even make it up to the counters! Everything was in the wrong place, and there were no less than 8 carts (not just shopping carts, but flat beds and lumber carts) just hanging around in front. Some were just returns, some were RTMS (defective/broken) and some were buggies of BOTH. No ma’am! It took me forever to get all that crap straight and all the while I’m giving refunds and running Customer Service (answering the always-ringing phone and fielding questions, etc) because they’re still not scheduling enough coverage for the front-end. I got really pissy then. I didn’t calm back down until I took my 30-minute break, and it wasn’t long after I got back that I started hurting pretty bad again and just wanted to go the eff home. I really just wanted to leave. I never enjoy being there, but it’s been a while since I’ve wanted to leave so badly.

I’m hoping the rest of the week doesn’t follow suit but it’s looking as though it will. I have bills due this week and I currently have like $17. I need like a $200 loan until next month or something. Oh! I got another USB cable for my phone….yeah, don’t think it’s gonna work. I can’t get the drivers for my phone installed because my computer is looking for one file and there’s another on the cd….I’m not sure what to do. Maybe if I can find some software to work with my phone I can get it all going that way. I’ll have to ask Catie again what it is she uses. (How ’bout I totally just gave you some link-love Kt-kins? Woot.)

This was shown to me a few days ago and I just can’t help but share. It’s sweet all the way through, but make sure you at least watch until about 1:20, it gets ridiculously sweet there.

I think I’m officially run down. I just can’t think of any other reason that makes sense as an explaintion for all these continuous aches and total exhaustion 24-7.

Anyone know approx how long it takes for a broken pinkie toe to heal? I’m pretty sure I re-broke this one when I took my fall down the stairs a while back, and I stepped weird at work last week and brought all the pain back. And for some reason, my breast is starting to hurt like it did right after the surgery. Of course that wakes up the hypochondriac in me and brings back my concerns of them using the wrong stitches, which I found was actually a fairly common mistake. Blah, I’ll wait it out.

Enough gripe. In happier news, I finally got through the darn Ebay selling thing to upload my shoes. I wanted to start with something simple before I start selling off my cards. After class this morning I placed an order online with Pizza Hut and set it to be delivered at lunchtime. Then I hopped on the couch for a nap and was awaken by the delivery guy at the door with my lunch! It couldn’t have been more perfect =) And now I have to go NOT get ready and NOT go to work because I’m OFF. I win.

Shane Bernier is a 7 year old boy that was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the age of five years old. The only thing that this amazing little boy has requested for his birthday is cards. Not money, or video games, or a remote control car…. but Birthday Cards. His goal is to beat the world record of 350 million cards received.

His Birthday is May 30th. Shane likes frogs, motorcycles, and lego.

Only non-homemade cards count towards the record, but homemade cards are welcomed that contain lots of love.

Send Cards to:

Shane Bernier
PO Box 484
Lancaster, Ontario
K0C 1N0
Canada

Name: Shane
Age: 7
Diagnosis: A.L.L. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Likes: all sports, building things, video games
Dislikes: being in the hospital for long periods of time
Favorite thing in the whole world: Lego

At almost 5 years old Shane was diagnosed with A.L.L. After 1 month into the treatment he was in early remission, meaning there were no cancer cells in his blood. Shane’s family was very pleased with the early results, but his protocol called for 130 weeks of treatment. Then on July 6th, 2006 Shane relapsed after completing 108 of the 130 weeks. It was a shock to everyone including his doctors. Shane may have to undergo a bone marrow transplant down the road, but the good thing is that his brother Jacob is a match. Presently, there is no sign of cancer in Shane’s system since relapsing.

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If anyone would like to send a card and just absolutely can’t spare the $1.50 total it would cost to send a little $.99 Birthday Card, send your name and return address to me at faded.jadeline(at)gmail.com and I’ll send one in your name.

For the record, new piercings are such a pain. I’ve had mine in for something like 9 weeks now and I took them out earlier tonight before I took a shower. This should be no problem as after your original 6 weeks they recommend you take them out before bed every night. Pshhh…forget that. These things aren’t coming out again for another 3 weeks at least. The left one went in with a little pain, but the right took 20 minutes and lots of bleeding. In the end I had to push an earring in through the back of my ear and use it to guide the earring I wanted to wear through to the back hole. My poor little ear is swollen and overall abused. It’s gonna be so sore tomorrow =(

Hm, it appears I have Pokemon on the brain now. How scary….luckily a trip to one of my favorite blogs, Pointless Drivel, should clear out any impure, geeky thoughts I’m having. Fab will set me straight!

Which is exactly why I’ll be voting for him in the blog awards! Voting has begun for the Blogger’s Choice Awards! Aren’t you excited? I haven’t signed up on the site yet, but that’s what I’m heading to do after I go pay rent!

Through PayPerPost I’ve discovered so many new blogs. My “Frequent” bookmark folder is now full of blogs I check on a daily basis. It’ll be really interesting to see how many of my favorites get nominated, or even win, for some of the categories they’ve got going this year. All the bases are covered– Best Geek Blog, Best Humor Blog, Best Photography Blog, even Hottest Mommy Blogger and Most Obnoxious Blogger! Right now I can think of a few nominees for each of those and I can’t wait to see if my picks make it!

Shall we start taking bets, anyone? Feeling lucky? Aye? You’ve got until the end of May to vote and winners will be announce at PostiCon! I wonder if they’ll have a red carpet….Anyhow, get your votes in ’cause I don’t want to hear any whining when your choice for The “Blogitzer” doesn’t win because you didn’t vote! No hanging chads!!!

Wow. Dork check– know what I did last night? I started cataloging my Yu-Gi-Oh card collection to appraise them and start selling on Ebay. Mmmhmm, I played Yu-Gi-Oh. In my defense, it was my ex who dragged me into it. It was really just something else I could share with him, but of course, I got caught up in it as well. Now, for those that don’t know, Yu-Gi-Oh can be likened to Magic, and Pokemon. Most people see it as a kids’ game, but it’s actually a really complicated strategy game. Anyone who’s seen young adults play, and then a group of kids play, quickly realizes that the kids tend to make up their own rules, or just toss out the complicated ones. They’ll throw down any card regardless of star level or stipulations put on the card. It’s kinda cute, but frustrating when you’re trying to play with your cousin who’s 8 years younger than you ;)

Anyway, I’m a pack rat. I really am. And a nostalgia freak to boot, so it’s always hard for me to throw things out, but since I moved into this cramped apartment, I’ve been finding it easier and easier. I’ve been meaning to appraise my cards for a long time now so I can sell them off while there’s still a market for them. I ended up staying awake until 6am entering cards into the CardShark database. As of right now, I’ve got about 1200 cards entered at about a $600 value. I’m almost done, I just have to enter in my more prized cards which should add a considerable bit to my total. The current appraisal is actually before taking into consideration the 200+ cards I own that are 1st edition. I’ll have to go through and do a little more research on those before I come up with my final assessment. After that I’ll probably be breaking the set up into sets, or maybe rarities and listing them on Ebay. I have a few cards I plan to list individually. I’ve got a ridiculous amount of money invested into this set. I don’t even want to think how much. If I get as much as I want to out of this, I’ll probably be breaking even!

This will be my first time selling on Ebay so if anyone has any pointers, send ‘em my way!

Work was such a chore tonight. I felt like I was stuck in a never ending game of Pong. Really, I couldn’t stay in one spot to save my life. It was full of drama because two cashiers were working together tonight who apparently had some sort of little falling out on Sunday when I wasn’t there. Melony wasn’t working tonight. (Melony would be the head cashier responsible for me still working there. If it weren’t for her current schedule, I’d be long-gone.) Some people just know how to run things smoothly and others don’t. That’s really all it boils down to. Early on in the evening there were quite a few irate customers because things in Lumber (on the other end of the freaking store, thanks) weren’t going so well because 3 of the guys had some sort of little bitch-fest earlier in the day so everyone was avoiding one another. That’s right, drama isn’t reserved for females! At one point, while I was running the front alone, I had a customer come in who had found something another customer left in the parking lot. Well, he decided that since he found it and out of the kindness of his heart *sarcasm* brought it into the store, we should give it to him if the customer didn’t come back for it. Sorry, no go, doesn’t work that way. While he wanted to argue with me about how it wouldn’t be fair for us to be able to return it to stock and sell it again, I politely *sorta* pointed out to him that in no way, shape, or form would it be fair for him to get an item he hadn’t paid for, and while yes, we occasionally end up with items customers leave behind, it’s rare for them to leave items above $20 unclaimed and we’re constantly losing money replacing items people leave in the parking lot and others walk off with. He somehow thought he was going to get somewhere by arguing with me for no less than 20 minutes on the matter. Sorry sweetheart, today isn’t your day. His wife kept telling him to just leave it back out in the parking lot. Finally I just said, “Ya know, you can walk out there and leave it in the parking lot, take it yourself, or leave it here, it really doesn’t make a big difference to me, that’s on your conscience but I’ve got other customers waiting to be helped.” Now, not a big deal for some of you, but I never stand up for myself at work. In any other situation, absolutely, but at work, I’m the customers’ bitch. Don’t ask me why; it’s just something ingrained in me. So anyways, that felt pretty great and he ended up leaving it there with promises that he’d be back in a few days to check up on us and see if anyone had picked it up. Golly, you promise??!! Do I care?

I’m feeling like an oldie now. I’ve worked on concrete floors before, but I think it’s finally starting to take a true toll on my feet and legs. I’ve got constant aches and pains in different key parts of my feet and lower legs. Having a mother who’s had problems working on concrete floors I’m familiar enough with some of it to know I’d probably do myself a world of good if I had them checked out by a doctor, but for now I’m gonna have to make do with some new inserts, see where I get with those.