Alright, so it's been a few days but with a mixture of good things and stressful things. Friday I went back to work after my long awaited two days off. When we pulled in one of my co-workers Nate - who is the best and really meant well by telling me before I got in - told me that we had gotten a secret shopper and basically failed because I didn't drop everything right then an there and walk them over to an item they had been searching for. I apparently was too distracted by my job, go figure. So I'm not in the best mood, not to mention I have to close with the White Horse Queen Cait. The night goes by quick and swimmingly, I messed up my change back a few times, but I ended up catching myself before I gave away too much money. Go me right? Well, turns out I was 10 dollars over at the end of the night. I can't even begine to fathom how that happened. Usually I can figure it out, and usually I'm sort because I've put the wrong bill and the wrong spot which leads to giving back too much change. But this time, I was over, and it marked my 3rd write up in the past 4 months. And you know what that means? I was suspended for my next scheduled day, which normally would have been Tuesday [alot shorter than I originally had anticipated] except my manager Jay worked it so that if I picked up a shift on Saturday, I could use that as my suspension day that way I wasn't losing any scheduled time. One more mess up and I will most likely lose my job, this is not an option. I've got to decide how I can avoid this in the future, aside from counting my money slower. Jay happened to suggest that maybe for a while, Karla might schedule me for more greeter shifts and maybe as an extra so that I can work solely on the floor. But that's done, and I just have to work harder and better at my job.
Saturday we celebrated my grandfather-in-laws birthday. I'm not exactly sure how old he really is. But he's old, and he's just the sweetest old guy I've ever met. After an awkward first thirty minutes and everyone else decided to arrive Jeff and I grew more and more into the group, trying to be social creatures. Bill and his wife Martina were down, and of course little baby Danny. He's a chubby little guy for being only three months old, but still cute as a button. He doesn't like sitting up and that has me worried slightly. Alan and his wife Kristen, whom just celebrated their first anniversary, were down from virginia as well. They aren't as social with us as Alan and Martina, probably because they are still in the honeymoon phase. Stacey and Johnny arrived looking good and a little lively, which I was happy to see. Steph was down from Ny for the weekend, and guess what?! We were actually quite cordial to each other, it's a step up from practically not acknowledging each other before. I'm makin' progress! So the whole family was there and lots of laughing ensued.
When all of it was over, and after stuffing myself with cake, Jeff and I came home to take care of the dogs before we headed out to the movies. After hitting the dollar store for some candy we wandered over to see District 9 which was a really good movie. It started off sort of rocky, like when you watch those haunted house renactment shows and they always got the person who went through it talking in shadow when an actor is going through the motions in a cut screen. So it started out like that and I was worried that I wouldn't like that, but it slowly migrated into a real movie about a man who injests some liquid and is slowly becoming like the aliens that landed in the Earth's atmosphere over Africa. These aliens lived on earth for 20 years creating their own section into a slum with gangs and chop shops and the governement was trying to evict them and move them to a newer cleaner and less hostile place outside of Johanesburg. So this guy who's becoming one of them, helps this one alien and the alien's son [who was really cute for an alien] get to their ship and go home so they can get help and save the rest of his race but only after he makes the alien promise to help him change back to being a human. IT was a very good movie, one of the best movies we've seen this year. Which I can actually say hasn't been very many this year.
I stayed up late having a fun conversation with my two best friends Adam and Emily online. It was the first time we ever group chatted before but it was good fun. I left sort of abruptly due to the fact that I was starting to have a tiny breakdown. It was rather hard to watch them discuss what they wanted to do when they graduated college, and I can't even decide what I want to me. I'm going to college to get my associates in Liberal Arts - Humanities with the hopes of transferring to UMass - Darthmouth. I wanna do my best and be the best and give everything to it that I didn't in high school. But what am I going to do after that? I don't know, I really don't know. I'm not sure that I'm good enough to become a writer, so that has to be something to do on the side and now my sole goal. Maybe becoming a teacher would be good. I could do both, but I'd love to do like high school English or something in like middle school.
Today Jeff and I got up quite early and headed for Cape Cod. Last time I said I wanted to go to Cape Cod he took me to Plymouth rock, but I knew that there was more to it. We headed to Provincetown which for all entense and purposes is the Gay Capital of the East Coast. I loved it. We pulled into a gas station and I saw my first cross-dresser/transvestite. I'm not sure which as I didn't really talk to her, but she was one and I thought it was astounding. I am very much a tourist. So we drove up and down the main street and I got to appreciate a plethora of gay couples. It was the cutest thing seeing two men walking down the street with linked pinkies. I loved it. Then we headed towards one of the five Lighthouses we were going to take pictures of. It was cute, and I had fun. I went into the gift shop and got a shot glass and a worry stone that's supposed to bring luck. I think I might take it to work every day. The next few we weren't able to get out of the car because they were at beaches. And on a hot day like today there was no way we were going to get anywhere near to parking without being at least a mile away. So we drove by and took pictures from the car. The last one was 45 miles out of our way so we decided to head home instead. The day had left us tired and sunburnt because only the sun can do that to you simultaneously. I even think my back got some of it too.
It was Nina's first trip to the coast and she had a blast sniffing at the grass and the sand as we walked up to one of the light houses. I even have a picture of her sticking her head out the back window as the trees rush by us. I'll eventually post pictures of our trip on here, but Jeff has them all on his computer right now. When we got home Jeff showered while I hung out in front of the A.C. for a bit. When he was done, we locked Nina in her cadge because we couldn't bring her to dinner with us. Fresh Catch was the destination, and it was a poor decision. Not only was my portion of dinner not worth the 15 bucks that I paid for it, 11 for the Cobb Salad w/ Blue Cheese and 4 for the cup of chowder and 2.25 per glass of soda. That's right, it's the only place I've been too in quite along time that didn't offer free refills on their drinks. The chowder tasted like campbells because it was still chunky like condensened soup, the salad was warm, the dressing had no flavor, and all in all it wasn't that good. Jeff on the other hand had a heaping plate of fried clams and fish and fries and his food was awesome. I know because he let me eat some of is clams after I didn't finish my horrible salad. We paid our bill and left promptly after I gave her a two dollar tip on a 41 dollar bill. When we reached outside, we realized that the restuarant had been warm. It was literally cooler outside than in, compairing that to the fact we'd been in the sun and outside all day that was utterly amazing. We went over to BJ's and walked around, I got a new book to replace the one that got utterly damaged on the up to Provincetown. It was in the back seat and the cooler with our sodas tipped over and leaked water all over my book leaving it unreadable. Jeff grabbed some dog bones and then we headed home. It had been a long and tiring day and we were utterly happy to be home to relax after a long day.
Saturday we celebrated my grandfather-in-laws birthday. I'm not exactly sure how old he really is. But he's old, and he's just the sweetest old guy I've ever met. After an awkward first thirty minutes and everyone else decided to arrive Jeff and I grew more and more into the group, trying to be social creatures. Bill and his wife Martina were down, and of course little baby Danny. He's a chubby little guy for being only three months old, but still cute as a button. He doesn't like sitting up and that has me worried slightly. Alan and his wife Kristen, whom just celebrated their first anniversary, were down from virginia as well. They aren't as social with us as Alan and Martina, probably because they are still in the honeymoon phase. Stacey and Johnny arrived looking good and a little lively, which I was happy to see. Steph was down from Ny for the weekend, and guess what?! We were actually quite cordial to each other, it's a step up from practically not acknowledging each other before. I'm makin' progress! So the whole family was there and lots of laughing ensued.
When all of it was over, and after stuffing myself with cake, Jeff and I came home to take care of the dogs before we headed out to the movies. After hitting the dollar store for some candy we wandered over to see District 9 which was a really good movie. It started off sort of rocky, like when you watch those haunted house renactment shows and they always got the person who went through it talking in shadow when an actor is going through the motions in a cut screen. So it started out like that and I was worried that I wouldn't like that, but it slowly migrated into a real movie about a man who injests some liquid and is slowly becoming like the aliens that landed in the Earth's atmosphere over Africa. These aliens lived on earth for 20 years creating their own section into a slum with gangs and chop shops and the governement was trying to evict them and move them to a newer cleaner and less hostile place outside of Johanesburg. So this guy who's becoming one of them, helps this one alien and the alien's son [who was really cute for an alien] get to their ship and go home so they can get help and save the rest of his race but only after he makes the alien promise to help him change back to being a human. IT was a very good movie, one of the best movies we've seen this year. Which I can actually say hasn't been very many this year.
I stayed up late having a fun conversation with my two best friends Adam and Emily online. It was the first time we ever group chatted before but it was good fun. I left sort of abruptly due to the fact that I was starting to have a tiny breakdown. It was rather hard to watch them discuss what they wanted to do when they graduated college, and I can't even decide what I want to me. I'm going to college to get my associates in Liberal Arts - Humanities with the hopes of transferring to UMass - Darthmouth. I wanna do my best and be the best and give everything to it that I didn't in high school. But what am I going to do after that? I don't know, I really don't know. I'm not sure that I'm good enough to become a writer, so that has to be something to do on the side and now my sole goal. Maybe becoming a teacher would be good. I could do both, but I'd love to do like high school English or something in like middle school.
Today Jeff and I got up quite early and headed for Cape Cod. Last time I said I wanted to go to Cape Cod he took me to Plymouth rock, but I knew that there was more to it. We headed to Provincetown which for all entense and purposes is the Gay Capital of the East Coast. I loved it. We pulled into a gas station and I saw my first cross-dresser/transvestite. I'm not sure which as I didn't really talk to her, but she was one and I thought it was astounding. I am very much a tourist. So we drove up and down the main street and I got to appreciate a plethora of gay couples. It was the cutest thing seeing two men walking down the street with linked pinkies. I loved it. Then we headed towards one of the five Lighthouses we were going to take pictures of. It was cute, and I had fun. I went into the gift shop and got a shot glass and a worry stone that's supposed to bring luck. I think I might take it to work every day. The next few we weren't able to get out of the car because they were at beaches. And on a hot day like today there was no way we were going to get anywhere near to parking without being at least a mile away. So we drove by and took pictures from the car. The last one was 45 miles out of our way so we decided to head home instead. The day had left us tired and sunburnt because only the sun can do that to you simultaneously. I even think my back got some of it too.
It was Nina's first trip to the coast and she had a blast sniffing at the grass and the sand as we walked up to one of the light houses. I even have a picture of her sticking her head out the back window as the trees rush by us. I'll eventually post pictures of our trip on here, but Jeff has them all on his computer right now. When we got home Jeff showered while I hung out in front of the A.C. for a bit. When he was done, we locked Nina in her cadge because we couldn't bring her to dinner with us. Fresh Catch was the destination, and it was a poor decision. Not only was my portion of dinner not worth the 15 bucks that I paid for it, 11 for the Cobb Salad w/ Blue Cheese and 4 for the cup of chowder and 2.25 per glass of soda. That's right, it's the only place I've been too in quite along time that didn't offer free refills on their drinks. The chowder tasted like campbells because it was still chunky like condensened soup, the salad was warm, the dressing had no flavor, and all in all it wasn't that good. Jeff on the other hand had a heaping plate of fried clams and fish and fries and his food was awesome. I know because he let me eat some of is clams after I didn't finish my horrible salad. We paid our bill and left promptly after I gave her a two dollar tip on a 41 dollar bill. When we reached outside, we realized that the restuarant had been warm. It was literally cooler outside than in, compairing that to the fact we'd been in the sun and outside all day that was utterly amazing. We went over to BJ's and walked around, I got a new book to replace the one that got utterly damaged on the up to Provincetown. It was in the back seat and the cooler with our sodas tipped over and leaked water all over my book leaving it unreadable. Jeff grabbed some dog bones and then we headed home. It had been a long and tiring day and we were utterly happy to be home to relax after a long day.
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