So... Krista? Please don't hate me. I can't so much hang out with you tomorrow but I swear to God and the excellence of Buffy (...you heard me) that I will make it up to you. You can even forget this whole thing where I owe you lunch. Basically tonight sucked and I have to go into work in the morning, finish shit I didn't finish, and then I have to do the stuff that I was going to do before meeting you that I really need to get done (car shit). So again, I'm sorry. I know it sucks. I know you're probably used to it too, and that's the part that especially sucks because I don't want to sit here complaining about people bailing on me because it kind of screams hypocrite.

All that work I did last night was for nothing. The son of a bitch didn't even come in. Emerald called him and he said he had never mentioned anything about coming into the store for a review which is a fucking lie because he DID say it on a longass conference call I had about 2 weeks ago. Anyways, he didn't come. Turns out that in addition to that we have a secret shopper coming in before sunday and that means everything and everyone has to be in the best shape possible. If that wasn't bad enough, next week Rodney IS coming in and he's also bringing Wade (our Regional Manager) and another guy that is Rodney's boss. So that means shit has to be fucking done. Paperwork has to be checked on. Everything must must must be at 150% because that's how these people work.

Here's why tonight sucked. Everything that I didn't finish last night was supposed to be done in preperation for Rodney this morning but since he didn't come in none of it got done. At all. The wall wasn't even started before I got there. This means that there were no empty spots on the shelves for the movies that are supposed to come out tomorrow. Before I did anything, I wanted to count down a drawer but nobody would let me which really ended up killing me later on. I received two boxes full of Devil Wears Prada and Material Girls and then I helped Emerald finish the wall. She was acting kind of crazy so it made me kind of crazy and what should have taken an hour took about 2 instead. After that I finished making most of the display boxes and I put them out. Alex and his friend, who was waaaaaaaay drunk, showed up shortly after that and hung out for about 45 minutes total. It was only at that point I realized the new signs weren't up so I had to break from the display boxes for about 20 minutes and switch out everything. Soon after that we closed but it wasn't until 12:30 when I finished what I was doing. At that point I STARTED to do all the closing work which consists of counting down the drawers, counting the safe, making the deposit, making sure everything else is done, and the closing paperwork. We left at 1:45. I have to go back in the morning and finish everything I didn't get done, which will probably take about 2 hours if I'm lucky. I have to do pretty much everything that Jason did not get done and then I have to go fix everything that he did do because it looked like shit. On top of that I have to do a few things I noticed needed to be done and then I have to do all the extra special shit that should be done to prepare for the secret shopper.

Again I say: WHY. FUCKING. ME.

Nobody else seems to be this stressed at work. I don't know how. I don't know why. Best part? Tomorrow's supposed to be my day off and it's supposed to be relaxing. Too bad life sucks. I really wanted next monday off as well but I'm going to have to close because I need the morning off so I can run my mother somewhere she needs to be. Three people already requested off as well so that sucks too. I literally have to close because I'm the person available except for Chris and if he closes then I'm going to feel so bad for making him close on such a big release week that I would probably end up showing up to help anyways. I guess he couldn't close either because he's the only person available to open. UUUUUUUGH. And I hate working with Jason. He is never allowed to close on a monday night again. He's a fucking ox. He can only do simple work and even that ends up being done slow and most likely incorrect. He definately cannot close with me next monday. Fuck doing that 3 weeks in a row. Hell.NO.

First off, lookit the icon.
I may have to start watching The OC again.

Tonight pretty much flat out sucked ass. Tomorrow Rodney is coming in to inspect the store and nobody really prepared for that until tonight, so I got to do a whole lot of shit. Thankfully Alex decided to stay for the rest of the night instead of leaving at 9 like he had planned so it helped out. Usually at work I have at the very least 2 hours where nothing is really going on. Tonight I was doing something ALWAYS. On top of everything that Emerald wanted me to do, I also had to do something that Chris decided not to do today. It's not entirely his fault though because Emerald called Chris to tell him a list of things that I needed to do, and she could have told him to finish this certain task. But no. Anyways, I should have been able to leave at about 12:30, but I was definately at the store until 1:45. I don't expect tomorrow to be any better either because I have to take care of the shit Rodney doesn't like, most likely receive 100+ copies of Devil Wears Prada (because it's very fucking late THANKS CORPORATE!!!), and then put out all the new movies after we close (with someone who cannot do it very fast).

Why. Fucking. Me.

So that's fun. Oh. The other night I ordered pizza and the delivery guy definately slammed into my car and then sped the fuck off because he "freaked". It actually didn't do anything to my car (aside from a few scratches), but it did manage to take a chunk out of his bumper. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet but he already has a lot of shit he has to take care of (appaerently he's a REALLY bad driver, so why is he a delivery boy?!) so I won't be asking for anything soon.

And if I don't get to hang soon I'm going to flip the shit. It's been a fucking week since I actually hung out with people. Chris is always somewhere else or recovering from hanging out with other people, and Kelly is never around anymore. Why must I have no available friends here in antioch? There's been like 5 people I'm aquainted with who I have actually wanted to start hanging out with but then I find out they live 20+ minutes away. It sucks. I'm done with trying to make plans, having people bail, and then sitting at home doing the same shit I did in highschool. It's all way too tiring.

So I got home at 5 this morning. Hah. After work last night I ended up going to the party that Meagan was hosting but everything that went on was insane. First off, I had never been to the place before so I had to get directions and write them on a post-it. Where do I leave the post-it? In the store on a computer. So after I went home to change I go back up to work and look through the windows at the post-it that I cannot for the life of me read. I'm sure I didn't look sketch. The ONE thing I could make out was the apartment number and I remembered how to get to the apartments, so I decided to risk it and head out there. Well there's this one road you have to drive down for about 10 minutes and the speed limit is 50 (which I assumed was fast enough). So I'm driving and this car out of fucking nowhere comes shooting down the road and decides to ride my ass for the longest time.

Finally I decided I wasn't going to speed up or let this guy stay on my ass so I turn on my blinker and move over onto the shoulder of the road. The car behind me slows down and being that I'm from Antioch and also paranoid at times, I thought something was about to go down. I grab my keys from my pocket and put our office key (which is huge) between my fingers because I have no clue if I am about to get some shit started or not. Well the car pulls next to me and I'm staring at it for the longest time before I realize who the hell is in the car. It was Meagan. I start to scream "OH YOU FUCKING MOTHERFUCKER" and she just laughs and pulls off. So I just follow her to the apartments and I guess it was a good thing she happened to show up when she did because there's no way I could have found the apartment on my own.

Meagan informs me that I'm about to see her very pissed off after I bitched her out about her driving skills, or lack of, and we go inside. Something had happened at the party within the past hour that had caused one person to leave and everyone else to have some sort of animosity towards eachother. I'm not going to discuss the details but all of it was BS and stuff that really shouldn't have been an issue in the first place. Since I had a fun night at work, I decided it would be nice to take a shot of vodka and drink a beer (which I really didn't like but they didn't have much of a supply). Anyways I somehow ended up being there until 4:30 and it was not cool. It was fun but we were literally sitting around the whole time which doesn't really seem like it should be all that fun. I was invited to the "real party" on friday but I don't think so because I don't really want to go and Meagan is sort of expecting something to happen that just will not happen. No thanks.

So today was fun as well. I got to work at 10 because our change was HORRIBLE last night and banks were closed today, which meant we were in deep shit if someone didn't find change. Thankfully the Starbucks right up the road had all the change we needed for the day so I didn't have to search long at all. After that I went home and got more sleep in before actually going to work later on at 4. Now work itself was not fun today. It was fun between the hours of 4 and 7 but everything after that pretty much sucked rather large ass. Meagan and Serg were bitching at eachother one moment and then being a neusance the other, neither of which I could stand for at all. I may have yelled a bit. And threatened to send someone home. But that just happened one time. Michelle sucks because she's leaving us and going to the Brentwood location (boo you whore but I guess it's okay). [[By the way, Michelle, you forgot to lock the outside door and these people walked into your store looking really confused. It was great.]]

I have decided that I do not like working with Serg at all and he drives me insane. ( And this is why. )

And for some reason I got pissed off while counting drawers. It was weird. I counted one drawer and then all of a sudden I became very moody and wanted to go partake in certain activities that are known to relieve stress. Just trust me... it was weird. Anyways I am going to go to bed now.

So I slept for 13.5 hours last night, but I was so fucking tired and it was great. Okay so friday night ended up being pretty much fucking awesome if not more awesome. The events that took place won't seem so awesome but I think it was the fact that I had been wanting to do something all week and it finally happened. So. Work was fine that day and then I got off and was ready for whatever. My plans thus far had been to go to see Texas Chainsaw with Chris and to maybe do something afterwards. I called him and he said Autumn had wanted to go see it as well but she wasn't getting off until later, but since I was already wanting to do shit I just went over to his house for gaming. Well not so much gaming since I watched him play Scarface the whole time and laughing to myself about him dying at THE same spot 5 times in a row. And they don't hold back on the cursing in the game, which was also halarious.

Later on Autumn called and she said something about a haunted house and hanging out with other people blah blah I don't really know what was said, but bottom line the movie was out for her. So we told her we'd meet up with her later to do whatever. The movie itself wasn't really all too great just because I expected everyone to die, but as usual the tense moments creeped me out. It's rather amusing to me how nothing in that movie scares me more than the official Texas Chainsaw music. I don't know why that is.

After the movie he called Autumn to see what was up and she hadn't left her house yet so we went over there. Well her friends had actually wanted to go to Graham Central Station but they were forever away so we just told them we'd meet them down there. About 30 minutes later we had stopped at the parking garage and were walking down to the club and I do not like walking downtown. It just seems to take forever if you haven't done it in a while. We were walking for a little over 5 minutes but it seemed to take 15. Well we got to the door and everything was fine until the person at the door saw Chris' shirt and appearently they won't let you in if your shirt is too long? Which is retarded. They wouldn't even let him tuck it in. We had a sweater and a couple of shirts in my car so Autumn went inside and we walked back to the car to grab something. The only thing he would wear was the sweater since my clothing actually fit him, but to each their own style. Actually he did look fuckin retarded with my shirt so it was probably better.

So we walked back and the guy decided the sweater was okay. He was dumb though. The first time he had already seen my ID and marked my hands (so I couldn't drink) and it only took us 10-15 minutes to be back in front of him. Well I showed him my hands and said I'd already done this but he asked for my ID again, and when I showed my ID he looked at my hands and said he'd already seen me and I could go in. ...WHAT? I'm aware, dipshit. Anyways, we went up to the roof where it felt about 30 degrees, so I was the only one without a jacket and freezing the whole time. Well I wasn't cold until the last hour we were there but my body was still shivering as if I was. It was weird. Anyways there was a band playing up there and they weren't great but they weren't bad either. They seemed like a wedding band to me. So we hung out on the roof for about 3 or more hours and then decided to go since I had to open the next morning. We were hungry though, so we stopped at Krystal's and picked up about 16 burgers which we only ate 60% of but there were fries as well. We had two drinks but outside of Autumn's house one of them got destroyed and it was really halarious. Chris was in the backseat and wanted out so I got out the car and pulled the lever that pushed the back of my seat forward. Well I didn't know that Autumn had the drink right in front of the seat, so when I pulled the lever the seat rammed into her hand and spilled the drink all over the floor. So about 15 minutes passed and Autumn went inside, so we left and I dropped Chris home and I went home to sleep.

Yesterday was really boring at work. It was so boring that I found myself reading 3 different magazines and playing a PSP game that all made me even more bored. At 2 Chris got there and I left to go to Emerald's wedding. The ceremony lasted 10 minutes and the reception lasted about 2 hours. I felt too miserable to go to the after party so I just came home. I didn't want to go to sleep at 8 though because then I would wake up at 2 and not be able to go back to sleep until 6 and it would screw over everything. So I got some coffee and dropped off movies at work hoping that it would keep me up but it didn't last very long. I got about an hour into Click and kept falling asleep so I just turned it off and went to bed entirely. I have work tonight and Meagan wants me to go to her Halloween party after I get off (around 1am...) but I don't think so. If I had the night off then I'd probably want to go but since I don't it's going to feel weird and I know I won't really have as much fun if any at all.

Motherfucker. I know I'm blowing this up, but I also know I still have room to be pissed. So tonight overall wasn't so bad except for one thing that just sent me into a fit for a good hour or so. The reason I had to go in tonight? Emerald had class. What did she not go to tonight? Class. Instead, she handed in a paper for the class (technically she DID go, but it was basically dropping by) and then headed out to pick out something to wear for tomorrow, which I believe is her rehearsal dinner. Now my plans for the week had been shoved aside for this class, so I'm just pissed she did not attend said class. I don't care that she did something else that probably needed to be done anyways, but that's not why I was there. If things had communicated themselves in a way that would have sounded like "I need to take the night off for personal reasons" then whatever it would be fine. I know it's her wedding week and that there's crap that needs to be done. But I mean fuck if I'm supposed to just be fine with the fact that I ditched my plans for a reason that ended up not happening anyways.

Also, she was supposed to have an interview tonight. I knew about this. However, she called and left a message on the girl's machine that she had to move it to a future date but the girl never checked her machine. We went ahead and did the interview and while the girl was interesting and entertaining, she told me everything about her and left nothing more for me to find out. I want to know basics in the interview. Even if I ask, I like for people to not explode on ever single detail of their life. Sure we are trying to establish a bond and have a great understanding of eachother, but I've known you for under an hour so why are you so open about this shit? I don't want to hire her. Meagan said she'd be great for a while and then we'd just get rid of her but it seems stupid to me to find someone you only want temporarily because once you're ready for them to be gone it's going to put not only them but you as well in a weird situation.

Now tomorrow night? It should be fucking fun. It better be fucking fun.