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| Kate, Joe, Jen (a new Jen) and I went to the drive in today to see Terminator/Harry Potter
We all were not terribly impressed with Potter. Not at all. Halfway through Joe and Jen went back into the truck (Joe got a sweet rental truck while his normal car is being fixed) to sleep. Katie and I stayed out in the bed of the truck, watching the stars. Since the drive in is off in slight country, the sky was a lot clearer. The stars were absolutely beautiful. Not as good as they get in Allegheny, but pretty decent.
While watching the stars, we saw a meteor shower!!! So of course, our attention because so diverted to the sky that we really skipped half of the movie. Ehh, I didn't really mind. Meteor shower owns harry potter.
And I found out that I will be camping when the Leonids goes on!! The Leonids are a yearly meteor shower that always occur near my birthday. And I will be camping where there is virtually no light pollution, and hopefully I will have a telescope in my possesion too!! | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| Well I just looked up the symptoms for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and I really don't think I have it. The symptoms say it starts off with a tingling sensation, like your hands/fingers are falling asleep. My mom also asked me this question, and since I really don't have the tingling sensation, I don't think it's that. I think I just over strained my wrist by lifting up too many things at work that I should not have. (Tea buckets, for the win!)
and, as promised, here's the picture of me. Forgive the quality of it. It's from my phone, which is just a basic every day phone (cheapest, in other words, but hey, it gets the job done)
Work last night was special. Busy busy busy! Plus someone tripped the fire alarm! Fuck you, to whoever did that. It's not funny, never was and never will be. Especially since I am the one who had to run out and silence it, and then deal with the police/fire department when they came. ....and it was busy and my poor grill area had to be tended to (cleaned) AND I still had to do system close. They did it RIGHT at 3:30, when system closed was supposed to be done. Yeah...right. I think I finally managed to close out the system at 3:45. Not too bad, but still...Harry/Darren want us to do it at exactly 3:30.
Rob and I managed to get the grill area done by 5, but I still had ALL of my paper work to do (security audit, food safety which I normally get done earlier but never got a chance to, waste, inventory, stat loss, counting manager meals, writing Erin a note about the fire alarm and labor.....my final numbers for the hours between 12-5 (in which we did $951! The most we have done since our local college has been gone!!!) )
I just ended up clocking out for my paper work. I really have no problem doing it off the clock, since then I can take my time and I don't have to worry about labor. Plus it's just paper work!
Oh! And one of my workers "Owes" me $48. Whether or not he'll pay me is a different story. We had a bet going on last night. The trays we keep the food in, in the UHC, are heat tempered.They need EXTREME heat to melt. I know they will not melt on the grill, and Eric thought they were. So we did an experiment. I put on one the grill and bet him $3 that it will not melt. Then he kept lying to me (jokingly, of course) that it was melting, to the point where I told him I would double the amount each time he did that. Well that amount quickly went up to $48.
...and guess who won!! <3
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| Quick post before I run off to work.
My poor wrist has been hurting me lately. I don't know if I just injured it, or if it's carpel tunnel. Maybe when I get home in the morning I'll look up the symptoms for Carpel Tunnel. But for now it's in a brace whenever it starts hurting. It's on right now because I was washing dishes earlier and lots of wrist movement equals pain. It's not like...debilitating pain, but it still hurts a bit. But yeah, typing with this thing on is quite interesting.
Went to go see the movie Proposal last night with Alicia. It was so sweet and such a chick flick. I am such a sucker for those kinds of movies! So cute!!! A tad bit predictable at times, but when is a love story not predictable?
I actually did some cleaning lately! Gasp! My sleep schedule's been a bit screwy so my cleaning has been off badly. I would get four hours of sleep, wake up for a few hours not really all that rested. Since I wasn't rested, I would just stay in bed watching movies and such and then fall back asleep a few hours later until I had to go to work. Yeah...cleaning was not on the list of things to do. But I got a fair amount of sleep today and decided to get up and do my poor dishes!
I got a hair cut!!! It's so short! I also got bangs too, which I have not had in forever. Someone remind me to post the picture I have later on, since i really don't have the time to do it at this very moment.
Anyways, running off to work! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Okay, seriously people. This is an apartment building. Not a porno shoot. APARTMENT. BUILDING.
I am in no ways prude. I will talk about sex with Lacey and other friends for hours. I surprise people at work because they don't expect me to say things like, in response to how I could go almost 4 years without sex, "Toys are our friends!". Hell, people have had sex in the other room beside mine and i could care less.
But when you start screaming in a voice that rivals a porn star, that's when I start to get fed up. Lacey has proven that you can have great sex without the voice. Okay, so there have been a few times where she couldn't help it. That's fine. Once or twice is no big deal. However, this lady...every time they have sex (and I can always tell by the way the bed squeaks, yey for the bed being right above mine!!) she is LOUD.
It just pisses me off. Have some consideration for your apartment mates! Not everyone wants to hear "OHH!! OHHH! OHHHHH!!!" every two seconds! Especially since half of the time I am in the middle of SLEEPING when this happens!
I have threatened with bad porn, and I carried out that threat today. They totally ignored it. I had it as loud as my speakers went and they still did not get the hint.
UGH.
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| ....Mmm, using a cat as a foot warmer is wonderful.
Anyways, again with the adventure time!! Joe and I went up to Chestnut Ridge park today. We braved the rainy weather, basically going "psh, rain? So!? Onwards we march!!" We were going there to see the Eternal Flame. What the Eternal Flame is: There is natural gas sifting up through the ground right behind this random waterfalls at Chestnut ridge, and you can light it on fire and it will not go out unless the water
REALLY works hard. It's cool!
When we got to the park, we were not sure where exactly it was. Joe had not been there in YEARS so he forgot a lot of details. About a half hour later of driving around randomly, we finally stopped at the town garage and asked directions. It basically was hidden in plain sight. When we first arrived, it started raining, and it took us so long that I was joking "By the time we find the trail, it's going to stop raining" And it pretty much did. I was laughing.
So we found the trail finally. And start heading down the normal trail. It's wet, muddy, and slippery, but who the fuck cares? I only fell once and bruised my right ass cheek (*snort*). We ran into a guy who was originally from Buffalo, moved down to Florida and was back here to hike. He truly was a Flor-idiot as we like to call them (Sorry those of you who are actually from Florida and are awesome!) The guy acted like he knew where he was going, so Joe asked him if he knew if this was the right path to the Eternal Flame.
"Well the name of it is really Gas light falls, don't ya know! I haven't been here in YEARS but I think it's up this trail and blah blah blah, do you know why it's named Gas Light Falls?" and he launched into this torrid of information that Joe had just told me earlier so we both knew....Twitch. Okay, if BOTH the trail information markers call it the ETERNAL FLAME, I would think that would be it's name. Okay, yeah the actually Falls might be Gas Light, but we're looking for the FLAME!
So we let him go ahead of us and after a little bit we finally found our way down to the falls. Absolutely gorgous! We stay there for awhile, enjoying the view and I decided to be adventurous. The walls right next to the falls was covered in roots and looked climbable. Joe said that he and his brother onced climbed it so long ago and reached the start of the trail (trail is long, but if you climb this area, you get to the start of it, pretty much bypassing the giant circle you go around)
So I ignored the fact that it's wet, and still slightly rainy and I start climbing! Whooo that was fun! A tad dangerous (a tad!?) especially since I forgot to bring my cell and if something were to go wrong...we'd be fucked. But we finally made it to the top of the falls (originally he and his brother went all the way up the cliff, but that was way to high for me. Maybe about 50-80 feet up?) and started walking up the stream again. Shortly thereafter, we found another small cute waterfalls that looked so easy to climb up so we played on that and voila, found our way to the beginning of the trail!
God that was fun! I really can't explain how dangerous the whole climb was, because of course we didn't get any pictures of the actual wall. But when I got up to my highest point, I was a fair distance to the bottom!
( Picture! )
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| Buffalo news section, It Seems To Us:
THE WORKING LIFE: You get up in the morning. You shower, wolf down a breakfast and head off to your job. You put in a solid day’s work and go home. For that, you earn a check that allows you to meet your obligations and, if you’re lucky, have some leftover cash to save and spend. You’re obviously not a New York State senator. They, for the past several weeks, have done no work of consequence, though they are still drawing their checks that the rest of us are paying. Who are these people? They should voluntarily forfeit their checks or someone should find a way to withhold them. No work, no pay.
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| I am who I am because it is just who I am and what I like to be.
People at work today were surprised that I don't go out clubbing and bar hopping and such things like that. I tried to explain to them that doing that is just not me. They were like "Okay, but we still need to go out clubbing!"
Okay, you accept that I don't club, yet...you still want me to club.
LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET ME LIVE MY LIFE!
The one girl was like "You're young, enjoy life!!"
Uhh...I am fucking enjoying life, thank you very much. I just don't do it in the "normal" style that everyone does it. I don't go out and drink until I pass out. I go out on my days off and enjoy nature.
And I am more than enjoying life right now. I absolutely love life!!
So to the people at work who I was talking to today: FUCK YOU and leave me alone! | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Wow that was special.
I had a meeting today at work for training on the Angus burger, which we're pulling out on Friday.
Five minutes before I leave, Katie IM's me showing a shot of the radar. BIG storm rolling in. I shrug and go "Sweet!!!" and thought I could make it if I left for work at that exact moment. So I get ready and leave. I pull out my bike, look up at the sky and immediately go back inside and call work, going "Lydia, there is a big ass storm coming in, is there any way I can get a ride?"
So ride arrangements are made, I go to meet Serena at Key Bank. (right behind my house, essentially) The rain starts right when I leave. I get to the Social Security office and hide in there for a few seconds before venturing out in the pouring rain to go across the parking lot. I got totally soaked just going through the parking lot to the bank. I get there and hide in the vestibule they have for the ATM until Serena shows up.
Get to work, and since I'm not running around at work due to meeting, I sit there still soaked. Stupid rain. Though it was an awesome storm!! I missed most of it due to work. Pout.
That was amusing though. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Oh, I forgot to mention. It's truly a small world.
So for the longest time, I've been trying to remember Grandma Harmon's street name. Yeah I could have looked on a map, but whenever I tried remembering, I wasn't around a computer/map.
Finally I remembered. After Bob mentioned he lived on/around her street (can't remember if he said on it or not)
I was like "THAT'S the street name!!!"
He started mentioning how this one person had a block party every single year, and I'm just sitting there going "Yep, same street! I used to go there like...YEARS ago!!!"
...HOLY SHIT!!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Wow, my upstairs neighbors are arguing. The guy is accusing the girl of cheating, and the girl is refusing to give her phone up (the guy wants to see it if there is any "proof" on there)
It's very interesting.
"Your cheating on me! Let me see your phone! Why not? Your cheating on me!!!"
This has been going on for a good 15 minutes now. It went from outside to inside back outside.
Anyways, I went to Lacey's house today to go swimming. I figured I would try to get somewhat of a tan. Normally what happens if I try to get a tan, it never happens. So I was like "No sunscreen for me"
So I burned like a S.O.B. Yeah go me.
Bob and I went to the little picnic that the Ronald McDonald house was holding. It was nice. Good food, got to talk with Erica and Bob. And...roast some more! I also toured the house, which was a lot better than I was expecting
Anyways I have to get running.
Edit: turns out she was cheating on him, and now he's crying like a baby in the back yard. Don't blame him. I would be doing the same thing if I found out someone were cheating on me. Well, I would be crying my eyes out AFTER I or my friends castrated the bastard. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Still a little sleepy but it's fucking amazing outside. I can't sleep in this kind of weather!!! I woke up around one going "hm, I should see if anyone wants to go out", still very sleepy but curious. Then I was like "wait...it's fucking 80 degrees out there!!!" and woke up!
Alicia and I are supposed to go out to eat and then FISHING!! <3. yeyeyeyeyey!!!!
I finally sucked my balls up and called the post office. A person is looking into the issue for me and should in theory call me back by tomorrow. Or so they say. Let's hope!
Work last night was interesting. I had to send Rob home for being mouthy and not seperating his personal life and work life. Nina was going home early since she's still veeery sick. So I was alone in grill. Well, being in grill alone is not bad by itself. We do it all the time. But I also had to close out the system too, and have the store nice and pretty looking by the time Mike came in at five.
So when I sent home Rob, I got my ass in gear and started really running around to get shit done. And it actually turned out to be a good night! There were a few hiccups here and there, but that's expected. Can't have a perfect night! Hell, I had the grill area done by 3:30; it just needed a good sweep/mop.
Then I had a nice bike ride after work. I've been trying to force myself on going on bike rides after work for health reasons, and today I went exploring for a little bit. Wonderful!
Well I have to go look for food! Have fuuun! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| All I have to say is this:
I hate going to work with a guy who thinks he can say anything and get away with it afterwords by saying "I was just joking around"
Like threatening my friend and then saying "Just kidding!"
Yeah, not going to happen when I am in charge here.
In other news, I love Spray on wrinkle reducer. Made my shirt actually look presentable and not like I slept in it for three days straight <3 | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| mmmm, peanut butter straight from the jar. YUM! Just a little hungry while my pasta cooks (Hey, I literally have not eaten a real meal in over 12 hours, give me credit! I had my "lunch" at one last night, had a buscuit before I ran off from work at six, and then slept all day. This is my first food for the day!
Anyways, finally I am getting caught up with my bills. I had an issue again where I lost 100 dollars because Combined didn't take out the money right away from my account and I thought they already did. But again, my fault. Stupidity rocks, eh? But I'm back to my strict budgeting that I had when I lived with Lacey and I should be fine now. Just getting caught up with the bills is a bit....grr.
Stupid bills.
Ken East's prom is tonight. That should be fun in terms of business! Last week was a joyride with Sweet home's prom...heh.
Yey, My HP bill is almost done!
Anyways, food is done! Going to run and nom on it! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I need a little help here, and it might involve the post office.
Just a little question really, no real big help.
About two months ago, give or take some, I bought a bike from Target and opened up a credit account with them. A month later I recieved a bill from them yet no card. I called them and they informed me that the card was returned to them. they sent out another one.
I just recieved ANOTHER bill and STILL no card from them. Twitch. I just called and the lady was like "..wow, that is very...odd". Don't get me wrong, in both instances they were extremely nice, but come on! Apparently the card keeps getting sent back to them.
They have my address correct, otherwise I wouldn't be getting the bills. My last name is in fact on my mail box. The lady suggested I call the post office to see if it's a problem on their end.
What could the post office be doing to keep sending my card back? I kind of would like it in my hand before paying the very overdue bill... | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| So I encountered a few centipedes yesterday. The first one was dead, dried and attached to my robe. I felt something odd in there, and pulled out what looked to be a spider leg. Curious, I pulled my robe off and looked and immediately freaked, throwing the robe in a corner and going "AHH!!!"
Well, I really didn't scream, but I still freaked. I quickly threw the robe into the hottest water washer I could muster and went upstairs to where I encountered another one on my floor! It was dead, like the first one, but UGH!
Here's the thing. My apartment? Yeah it can get messy at times, but it's the easily manageable mess. It's not like...UGH PIG STY!!! mess where bugs are expected. My room? I just cleaned in like..five minutes. The only thing I need to do in here is vaccum and do my bed. Kitchen? Just a few days worth of dishes. Living room? Just some paper I left in there. Bathroom? That only took two minutes to pick up.
I know the bug problem is most likely not my fault, but still! I'm freaking out here going "UGH BUGS! HOUSE GROSS!!!"
Anyways, Saturday and Sunday I was going through a bought of PMS or something. I was absolutely miserable. I did not want to be at work. I just wanted to curl up into my bed and sulk for the whole day. But I had to work, and it sucked. Thank god Rob worked both of those days, because otherwise I would have..done something, I don't know what, but I would have done something. (whenever I feel miserable like that, I try to distract myself. I know that will work. My mind won't think about what it is making me miserable)
Then I was absolutely CRAZY on Monday! Bounce bounce bounce. I was feeling much better. It was like my brain/body was making up for being miserable for the last two days. My god I was psycho. and now I am back to just being..me!
anyways I have to go run and do some stuffs! Have fun! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I love immature people. I really do.
So a few days ago my ex im's me while I am asleep. Freaks out, claiming I am ignoring him.
Today I freaked out on him and kept telling him to leave me alone. Would he? Of course not.
So I told him I was going to work to see the love of my life. He freaked out going "OH MY GOD WILL YOU STOP STARING AT YOUR NOSE AND LOOK AHEAD OF YOU!!"
I love lying to people like him. Made him feel totally guilty by saying that my mom was bringing Jack (dog) to work so I could see him one last time before she got rid of him!
......*dies of laughter*
I'm sorry, this guy is just..beyond me. he's 25+ years old (I lost count after the first day we were though), lives at home with mommy dearest and has not held one job since I left him over three years ago. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Really quickly before I run off to work
Quick note: It's funny, now that I live on my own, I seem to actually be having a life now! I'm going out with friends at least once a week! It's wonderful! :)
anyways, Alicia and I just went to see My Life In Ruins today. Total chick flick, totally awesome!! The bus driver? HOT!!!! Like, drop dead melt in your seat hot! At first when he looked scraggly, I looked at him and said "He would look hot if he lost the beard" and he did and OHHHH!!!!!
But good movie if you like chick flicks! <3
After the movie I came home and did a massive cleaning of the house. It's no longer messy!!!
Then 'Licia and I went fishing! We went up north to Wilson I think it was called and fished in a section of the 12 mile creek. We didn't catch any fish though, but I did manage to snag my lure on a tree. Not just snag, but REALLY snag. It went over a branch and into another branch, so if we got it off the one branch it would have gotten stuck on the other! my god we were both dying so hard because only I would get it snagged like that. I could barely breath it was so hilarious!
But now I smell like bug spray (it was really buggy down there) and for some reason this bug spray smells very good to me! I normally hate the smell of bug spray too. I think it's just because I really want to go camping and bug spray just reminds me so much of camping!
Anyways I have to go run off to work! have fun everyone! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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My cat, shaved. Though it doesn't look like I did much, cause at this point I didn't do her mane. I just did and she looks so ...interesting. For my own credit though, it was my first official time shaving a cat by myself. I actually did pretty good^.^
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| Finally, all of my hard work is paying off. FINALLY! Five years of slaving, running around like a chicken, doing my hardest work to please everyone above and below me is paying off!!! Gwen and I were talking last night about things I need to improve on and such and the conversation somehow turned to how much I make and what the ceiling/cap for McDonald's managers are in terms of pay rates.
So far I already make $10.50, which is AMAZING to begin with but Gwen wants to bump me up to ELEVEN!!! Squeeeeeeeeeee!!! That is...if it's possible and I haven't already hit the point of no going higher (well, after that you would go salaried)
My god just hearing that she was just thinking about that made my night! Right now it's still very much up in the air as she still has to see what the cap is, talk to people about it and actually do it if it's possible but it still made me happy!
Considering I started off at 5.15 so long ago.
Lately my body's been taking to a very deep sleep for about three or four hours. After that fourth hour I wake up and can't sleep at all. Kinda sucks if I have work later on in the day and someone steals me for the day. (right now is fine as I am in my "weekend")
But Saturday I had three hours of sleep. Riiiight as I was about to go to bed, Joe poked me online and said "I'm bored and Katie doesn't feel good, but I need to get out of the house and do things" I have to learn to fear that statement. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved where we went..but damn, I was exhausted for the rest of the night.
We ended up going to a place called Sprague brook park (pronounced Sprag brook). It's an Erie County Park, compared to a state/national, so it's nice and quaint and cute! It was an adventure getting down there as the directions Joe grabbed from his computer were rather simple so he didn't print them up. However the directions were a bit off and we were in the middle of bum fuck nowhere. We ended up asking two people where to go and it was just crazy yet hilarious at the same time.
So we get there, find a trail to hike on (which was the reason we went) and away we went! For an hour and a half we hiked over gorgous trails! The place was absolutely beautiful!! Eventually though I told Joe we had to turn around (45 minutes into the hike) as I had work. If I did not have work that night, I would have totally kept going.
God I need to go back to that place.
Anyways I need to get running. My stomach is about to eat me alive. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Somehow I made it through the night. I don't know how, but I did. See, Steve had told Gwen (two of my fellow managers. Gwen being my mini-boss) that in his experience at his old store, the Sunday before memorial day is busy. Gwen had told me she was going to get another person on Sunday for us. And of course that never happened.
So Nina comes in (the manager who works with me over the weekends) all pissy. Makes the rest of us pissy. Yeah. Plus it was busier than normal. We all come in on Sunday overnights going "Yey it's going to be piss-ass slow!". Yeah. No. Not last night.
But I ran my ass off last night. Renee (manager) tried getting me out at five, but I still had all of my paper work to do. Pretty much I did my deposit/closed/opened up the system as soon as I could and ran back up front to take care of customers/clean the lobby/clean back counter.
I know tonight will be like a normal Sunday in terms of sales. In other words, piss-ass slow! So I am going to try to get out early. I doubt it's going to happen but you never know.
But I got five hours of sleep when Kate woke me up (don't feel bad, I was really actually awake...just trying my hardest to get back to sleep. DON'T FEEL BAD DAMNIT!) to invite me to a nature thingy about two hours south of here. It's called Moss Lake. Sounds amazing! I love this kind of stuff!
Anyways I am off. Gonna try to slam my head into something hard to wake myself up!
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