So.. I work in a bit.

I am working at Kohl's (clothing retail store thingy of AWESOMENESS) from 4am-12pm, then over at Starbucks from 2pm-10:30pm.

..On black friday. With sales out the wazoo. I'm going to be so tired >_>

Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, and happy shoppings!

So, since workin customer service/retail since I was 16 (that's 7 years now) I've come to several realizations.

First, there will always be dickhead customers. I always used to get mad at them and suffer through it, but I've since found ways to deal. It helps to complain to my coworkers and come up with sarcastically funny things to say. Even to the customer, as long as it's sarcasm with a smile they probably won't understand.

Actually, a funny thing we've taken to experimenting with is being overly nice to the mean ones. 100% of the time that I've been enthusiastically nice to someone who was previously being mean (I don't mean acting like a dirt-licking pushover, just trying to 'fix' their situation) it's resulted in them stopping. Most of the time it makes them apologize and feel bad about what they've done.

Also, we've learned that if you AGREE with them, they have no room to complain anymore, so they stop. Like this situation:

Customer: "You guys are ALWAYS out of those Bliss bars when I come in. This is ridiculous!"
Me: "Oh my gosh, I know! I never get them either because they run out before I can buy one too!"
Customer: "Er.. well.. yeah. Are you guys going to be ordering more?"
Me: "I hope so!"
Customer: "Okay.. thanks.."

I like confusing customers when they are angry :D

It's also actually really surprising what a smile can do. Some people are so caught up in their own bad moods that they don't realize they are being dickish to someone undeserving. Imagine if YOU've had a rough day, then try to make yourself feel better getting coffee or taco bell or cookies, or whatever, and they are out of something or slow or mess your order up. You'd be upset too. Sometimes people (employees and customers both) need to learn a little bit of understanding.

So, first off, since I'm workin two jobs just for the holidays, that's taking up a decent 50ish hours or so (unless I pick up more hours at Kohl's).

Secondly, I am a promised student to a martial arts instructor, and will begin training whenever school slows down a bit for him. This I am extremely excited about. It will get me into shape and develop more self-confidence. He's more kung fu and used to instruct. After reviewing the animal forms, I told him (when I get the experience to begin learning the more high level stuff) combining Tiger and Monkey seem fun. I just have to stop using words like "play" "game" and "fun" when referring to martial arts. I'm just happy he realizes those words have a more serious meaning than that. He gets me. XD

I'm hoping that eventually things will be smoother going, and this workout/training plan should be taking a decent toll on my time. And will get me into kickass shape to play Amber ;D

I want my tax return already X_X Can't wait more months!

I feel like curling up and purring. XD

I love makin new friends. We talked for like.. 6 hours straight last night and I could hardly stop laughing. X_X AB WORKOUT.

FUCK THE KRAKEN.

Grr.

So, I'm training to be a dog trainer.

In the meantime I'm working for Starbucks and Kohl's.

However, I will be hardcore working out with one of my co-workers with the eventual goal of being a fantastic stripper. I love to dance, I love the idea of sex, and I love attention, so I think it'd be a fun part time job. And I know I'm smart enough not to get caught up in drugs. It'd be for the money and dancing :)

What do ya'll think? >_> It when I actually get skinnier, not right now. Maybe by next year.

So.. I got my hair cut and dyed..

At the salon, the girl who was colorin my hair was fantastic. Took about in hour. During which we talked about bondage, fetishes, swingers, psi-vamps, vampire and goth clubs, Twilight, Trueblood, werewolves, and Repo: The Genetic Opera.

Seriously, this girl is awesome. She was talking about rude vampires who would take energy without asking, and about how enough complained about these two guys at a vamp bar that they were forced to leave the area.

Crazy random happenstance!

I can't afford my registration or to get my chipped tooth fixed X_X I need more moneh!

Oh, and I feel giddy because I actually feel confident about the way I look :D

I feel smug.

Like a cat that got into the cream. And got away with it.

I'd be purring right now if I could.

*grin*

Therians don't have special powers like super night vision or superhuman hearing. -_-; Everything that a therian can do is still based on human limitations. What's wrong with kids these days?

So, I cheaped out and bought the Tshirt/Bandana combo from Walmart at 2am this morning.

Halloween procrastination! Since I wasn't really plannin on doing much tonight. But DAMN, I think I look adorable :D

I'm an ICEBENDER.



And Kaylee and Rowan are ICE NARWHALS OF DEATH!



I like the snow :)

"Sometimes you get invited into the Kitchen to take the Food, and sometimes you get Attacked for it."

I hate that at the beginning of every PMS cycle, just before the blood starts flowin, I get unreasonably hungry and unreasonably horny. O_o Is it just me?

I think that's part of the reason I like playing Amber in our shadowcast so much. I identify with sex. Heck, my ruling planet is even Venus, and from everything I've read, I'm every inch a Libra.

Birthday made me think about where I am in life and where I want to head. Not physically, but more mentally, emotionally and spiritually. My sister's sort of taking things down a path I don't think she'll end up happy in. There's only so much heartache a person can take. And that seems to be our problems. We get so wrapped up in the person we are currently with or into, it seems like it becomes mostly about the passion and the love and the emotions itself, ceasing to be about the individual or the relationship as a whole. And however much we puppycrush or infatuate ourselves with someone, I don't think we're meant to find that ONE person. Maybe not everyone is. Maybe some people are supposed to be 'alone', not in the sense of friends or occasional companions, but in the sense that maybe we have too much love to go around, and focusing it on just one person and that person only is a waste of talent or skill.

Bah, I don't know. Still thinkin on it.

My birthday is on October 22nd, and I'm a twin, right?

Well, last year both me and my twin sister forgot to send each other something or call each other on our birthdays >_>

Is that bad? Hee.

OMGosh. So the past two nights were hilariously fun! Repo: The Genetic Opera was playing at the Esquire on the big screens, and since we are in a shadow cast we all dressed up for it. IT FREAKIN RAWKED.

Tonight was the best, since we actually got to do one of the scenes (We Started This Opera Shit) and it was awesome! Well, for not having really ever worked on it. :)

I dressed up as Amber in her black and white getup from the couch, since I wanted to kill myself with yarn work. I didn't buy the corset top yet since money is iffy, so I managed to scrape together some of the stuff I already had to make the outfit look recognizable. It was GREAT, because tonight we'd had the entire Largo family there in costume! I just wish we had a Mag with us *looks at Blue*. Bllluuuuuue, we needed you XD

Our GENterns looked GREAT. Pics will be uploaded and posted once acquired. We took some fancy shots at Lakens before coming over.

OH, and I'm actually going to bust down and start this workout thing, since I think they finally opened up the workout room here and I will start posting weekly updates on here, every Monday. That way I seem accountable! :D Here's to losin weight and gettin attractive!

And on a final note, I think my strong sexual urges lately are due to exercise and my random dance-workouts. I'm not sure if those urges are just brought on by the physical energy, or if it's because it's nearin that time of the month (I think), or because of a lack of activity recently. Hmmm.. pondering. Trying so hard not to go the fwb route, since that doesn't always work with people, but okc has some interesting people on it. Mostly assholes or weirdos just lookin for sex, but random decent seeming people not too unattractive. Great for meeting new people you otherwise wouldn't!

So apparently everyone at work is still stressing because we just got a new manager/assistant manager combo, and they are making all of these changes. They mostly just need to get over it and DEAL, like we have been the past couple months of craziness. It's rough though. I'm always tired and inwardly stressed, and that makes me want to EAT.

Nev has this book that analyzes birthdays, and mine is practically dead on. Except the part where it calls me "disturbing" >_> Well, maybe a little. But it also says I'm charismatic and exciting :D Oh, October 22nd, how I love being on the cusp, and being a Libra XD

On another note, I miss sex. It's not something completely necessary, but it's fun and I loves it. I love the whole flirty thing with being single, now I just need to actually work on my diet/exercise plan so's I can flash some feathers out there. I also want to get involved in outside activities to make more friends. I think a lot of people's issues with loneliness (including my own) is sometimes due to lack of friends. I want diversity :D My ole friend Mike invited me to some DnD stuff with the group he's goin with, if he diggs it, hehe.

People post about things in their LJs that are much more suited to be talked about in person. I'm wondering if it's because people are afraid to talk face to face. I think it applies to everyone who ever posts on LJ. It's like.. if we have the ability to say things face to face, why don't we? PUZZLING.

On another note, Operation: Apartment is still under way.. Pending Operation: Get Nev A Job.

There's also Operation: Sell My Old Car. Since I have two working cars right now, I really don't need my Camry.

And Operation: Find Sanity. We need more baristas.

As it stands now, legally and financially and whatnot.. me, Salem and Timber are renting this apartment. I don't think any of us really want it..

Well, I want AN apartment. Me and Nev want to move in together. But right now, me and salem and timber are stuck paying the rent. Nev's been stayin here, but it's more to avoid staying with her dad.

If it hits October 1st and Nev doesn't have a job yet, it's still going to be me, Salem and Timber paying rent. Financial obligations and contract. Even though the first thing I wanted to do this past month was move out and try to find someone to take my lease. Timber still hasn't found anyone to take his lease, which is another problem financially.

I'm thinking about posting on Craigslist to find a roommate, but the last time I did... it didn't end so well. O_O

So I'm going to check again what the lease breaking fees would be. If it turns out to be less than $600 each or so, I might take that. Maybe sell all my big stuff that won't fit in my car, and move back to Texas with Mom, or move to Seattle with my sister like she's been begging. Or maybe after this month Nev will have a second job and things might be better.

See where that part of the stress is coming from? Two days and no idea what's going to happen.. other than the fact I'll be paying the same amount I have been.

Rollercoasterin something fierce X_X

It's like.. Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down.

I try to be happy and bright and cheerful and fun, so that reality can't squeeze its ugly little head through. But it does.

Worried partially about money, too. I'm fine with what I have, and my finances, but if Nev doesn't get a second job, and depending on what Stray's plans are, October first the lease is going to have to stay the same. Contracts suck in emotional situations, but financial agreements trump all that.

Oi. Freakin Armando.. HIRE NEV.

And how bad actually IS bulimia? :P I'm trying to find a coping method for my self-loathing.