this week has been rather crazy. it's funny how time can really go by quickly when you don't really stop to realize it. i think i'm thinking about this because of daylight savings. i gained a whole hour of sleep last night. i wound up going to bed really early and waking up at like 4:40am. but of course i went back to sleep because who gets up ( Read more... )

well, i guess for the most part i'm moved in to my new place. i can't believe i live in north portland. i guess i always thought it was this dangerous, scary place. but really it's not. what it has over most places is character. the house i live in is nice. i'm always thinking of wood and purple, but change is coming. my room is really cool ( Read more... )

i'm finally moving! yay! the place where i was living was nice, but never permanet so i never really felt like i was at home. it was a nice place, yes, but never my home. not like my last apartment had been. along with a new place came the whole situation of needing something to sleep on. in the past, i'd always borrowed a bed from a family ( Read more... )

i have had 5 days away from my store in the past week. ahhhh... what a nice change of pace for me. however, 3 of them were spent in meetings. meetings with a baseball theme, and we had to wear these teeshirts, and all the prizes that weren't product, they were baseballesque. as you are probably figuring, i'm not a huge fan of baseball. it's ( Read more... )

today has been long. i have been sitting in meetings and for some reason feel extremely sluggish as a result. i enjoyed the change from being in the store though. ah it was nice getting up and going to the gym instead of sitting in traffic for a half hour. tomorrow will be early though, i have to be at the office for meetings at 7:30 am. which ( Read more... )

well, it seems the consumerist market has won. i am now putting christmas stuff up in my store. ugh. i can't say i'm to happy about it though. it doesn't make sense that we don't do anything for thanksgiving here. i guess if i ever have a backroom big enough to store all of my christmas stuff until november, i might just do it ( Read more... )

well, i think i may have found it. only the 2nd place i checked out might actually be my new home. it's so weird to think i'm moving, yet again. i really stress myself out thinking about it. moving is the farthest thing from an exciting adventure in my eyes. maybe it's because i've moved sooo many times and sooo frequently. i am really hoping ( Read more... )

First off, I need to just say how much i've enjoyed the new Kink cd. If you don't have it, you better pick it up quick. (however, you'll have to purchase it at the evil corporate empire ( Read more... )

finally yesterday the maintenance guy came. apparently he had been sent to the wrong store. and now i know where my thermostat is, however, they would "prefer that we not change the set temperature without first calling them" (them being the mall) at least it's no longer 55 degrees instead it's a happy 71.5 ( Read more... )

i am so cold right now. my office, not to mention my store is like 55 degrees or something. so all day long, my irish employee has been throwing out these crazy frustrations with the thermostat situation. he's pretty funny. i finally broke down about 1pm today and called mall maintenance when i realized we actually don't have a thermostat in ( Read more... )