I’ve been trying to make the best of my time off from school.

Tonight was a FUN night. Jamie threw a belated Christmas party and despite there only being four of us there, we still had a blast.

I’ll post pictures and a more extensive post later.

[Crossposted — I know I said I wouldn’t do this anymore, but I was going to tell the same story anyway, so…]

Geri, the lady who counts our money at work, made me cry today.  XD  Not on purpose, though!

Florence called downstairs to ask if someone could get together 50 ads/inserts, I guess to mail out or whatever.  I get them together (after making the wrong ones and then finding the right ones!) and bring them upstairs to the office.  As I was going back downstairs, Geri comes and calls me back into the office.  I go in and she shows me a total sheet from my drawer.  She asks me if I had any problems with money on Monday and I told her I didn’t.  She then says, “Oh…well it says here that it’s $100 short.  $100 exact.”  Now she didn’t exactly accuse me of taking anything, and I wasn’t even thinking about that.

I was just stuck on the fact that my drawer was short.

So I tell her I didn’t have any problems, and that I don’t know how that could have happened.  I tell her that I’d go check my drawer (since I was on the same one I used on Monday) to see if I could find anything.  I started to feel really bad as I was going down the stairs, but before I could start wailing, Jack (big Jack) starts talking to me, once again addressing me as “Smiley.”  (With him it’s either Smiley or Sunshine, with Tom it’s either Martha or Maggie…I don’t have a real name there. xD)  I answer him with a smile, and as I go back to the front, I start to cry.  I go to my register and open it quickly.  Kathy and Georgina are talking, but quickly stop when I exclaim, “HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED?!”  Both noticed that I was crying and asked me what was going on.  George thought I slammed my finger in the drawer (lol) and Kathy thought something bad happened. Through my sobs, I told them, “MY DRAWER IS SHOOOOOOORRRRRRT…!!”

Kathy and George start helping me look for any money that might have gotten stuck.  In the process, Kathy found $10, but from the register that Hannah was at, so it didn’t belong to me.  She took the $10 upstairs and came back down with good news:  “Geri found the money; it was in the change money.”  I felt SO relieved.

A few hours later, Geri came back into the store to buy some things.  She was in my line, and she watched me as I did things.  The phone rang (while we were busy, of course), so I was like, “WHAT NOW.”  And I answered the phone.  It was Jimmy and he was complaining about something Kathy didn’t do because a customer was complaining.  I asked him if Kathy could call him back since we were tied up.  He said no, that …whatever.  I didn’t catch what he said.  lol  Anyway, I get everyone out of line up to Geri and she goes, “I wish you wouldn’t get upset when I ask you a question.”  I looked at her and I guess I turned red.  I didn’t know she knew I cried.  “I wasn’t accusing you of anything, I just wanted to know if you had a problem with it.  You’ve never been short before, so I wasn’t worried.”  I was kind of embarrassed, so I told her, “I’m sorry — I panicked; I worry.  I worry about every thing.  I was worried.”  And I rambled on like that.  I think she understood, but we ended up laughing about it.

Her son, Jack, came by and jokingly said, “What, is she stealing money?”  Geri and I laughed, as did Jack.  He went away and Geri and I started talking about Christmas.  Then she left and every time Jack passed me, he would tease me about it.  At the end of my shift, I told him, “Now you’re not getting the belated Christmas hug I was going to give you!”  He tells me, “OH.  That’s not right, now!”  :P Needless to say he got the hug anyway, because he was in the way when I went to leave the meat room.  lol

Geri is really nice.  She means well, too.  :)  Too bad she doesn’t stick around long enough during the day to have more fun with. When she’s in the store, she’s either upstairs doing our money and other things or she’s in the store shopping before going home.  Oh well.

Anyway, today was SUPER boring in that the store was DEAD.  It was so dead that Kathy took TWO cigarette breaks, which is abnormal seeing as she only takes one per shift.  Unlike Ellen, who would take…ten.  LOL  I’m glad she’s gone; she’s a nice person, a fun person, but not a person I enjoy working with.  :\  I could spend all night rambling on about her, but I won’t.  I need to get to sleep.  I have another eight hour shift tomorrow, starting at 9.

Oh and I bought two more boxes of contact lenses, so I don’t have to wear my rippy ones anymore!  <33  God, I must sound like a poor kid.  xD  I reassure you, I am NOT poor.  I just…I procrastinate on some things, and I suck at taking care of my health sometimes.

<3

Merry Christmas~

The Making Of:

Gotta get down and dirty with that stuff.

Pastels are messy. x_x

:)

Too bad I couldn’t get a real tree.

O__________O

Remember that mystery leaf Lauren had in her meal at the diner?

I brought it home with me …

…and my mom ate it. O_________________________O

XD LOL

I really need to organize the photos on my laptop and probably archive most of them. I don’t want what happened to Brianna to happen to me, too! x_x

Anyway, before proceeding to read this entry, be warned that there are adult themes in this post and that anyone who’s not legal yet shouldn’t be reading this post. (It would be SO much easier if this were LJ because then I could put these photos behind a cut.)

Anyway, look! I now have relief for my dermatitis:

(I don’t know how to proportion the dimensions, sorry~!)

Yesterday, however, Jamie, Lauren and I went to visit the Voorhees Town Center, formerly known as the Echelon Mall. It was nice, but boring because they have, like, ten stores. LOL

When we walked out of Boscov’s, there were these random school children playing music or whatever.

Then we pushed through the parents and went to Spencer’s where the first thing I saw was this Playboy hat with those ear flap things. So while Jamie was telling me a story, I took the hat and shoved it onto her head. xD

An item in the store reminded us to let the good times roll.

Eh…

Wanna get a gift for your boss?

And then later that night, have a little fun; bring ‘em a rose… :P

We got bored in Spencer’s (after Jamie teased me about buying flavored lube) and went to GameStop.

Haha~ Now you can be entertained religiously!

Or, learn a language or two~

When we got REALLY bored, we left the VTC and went to the Pine Hill Diner.

Yay, drinks! Two root beers, a pepsi, and three waters!

I ordered a Peppermint Patty shake…and the waitress comes back with a menu and says, “Where did you see Peppermint Patty shake?” -__- OH COME ON. So I show her. “Now we have to find out how to make it.” WHAT THE HECK. I got it, though.

Lauren’s meal came with soup. And she didn’t want it. So it sat there. XD

She also got bread and butter. Apparently the bread looked soft, but it wasn’t as soft as it seemed.

Finally our meals came. Lauren ordered a chicken alfredo dish.

It came with a mystery leaf…

…and a couple of slices of what she thought were lemons.

I ordered the italian hoagie…bad move. Look at the size of that thing!

Jamie ordered the chicken fingers. :)

We established that they weren’t lemons, that they were oranges.

Lauren found another mystery leaf in her food…I told her it wasn’t so mysterious, it was just a cabbage leaf. :P

When the lady gave me my shake, it was overflowing…which sucks because then it made my napkin look gross. At least at Johnny Rocket’s, they give you the leftovers in the shaker they made it in…

I got full real fast.

So did Lauren.

And… so did Jamie.

The waitress noticed so she brought us doggie boxes.

Then we went home. :3