"Listen ...With faint dry sound ( Read more... )

My calender is just way off. Working in the stock room we've been receiving Fall, Halloween, and even Thanksgiving items as early as July. Usually we roast the Summer harvest of chili on Labor Day weekend but i've already done that two weeks ago! School started just as early. Preseason pro football started in late July! High school football started ( Read more... )

i know that some stores, especially crafts stores, already have Halloween and even Thanksgiving items for sale on the sales floor but we've been slowing receiving such items since July. This past week we finally got some Halloween items. So cool! With the start of school the whole mall has been slow. i wonder how long it will take before things ( Read more... )

Oddest thing. i'm watching an episode of Mythbusters and while they're testing to see if vodka can help eliminate nasty cigarette smoke smell from clothes they go to a laundromat where each dryer has a name and one of them is Agent Cooper?! That's just so cool.

Wednesday morning while i was working on my opening duties i was told that i was 'secret shopped.' i didn't know what that meant. A secret shopper had come into the store just the day before. Tuesday i was working in the stock room helping to process the truck (boxes of stock to be opened and put away) with my coworker. When the store opened my ( Read more... )

i continue to fire off resumes and applications whereever i can and i'm just not getting a single reply back. Some of these online applications are just insane if not creepy. It really irritates me that they ask if i'm hispanic before anything else. It also annoys me when they ask for race rather then ethnic background ( Read more... )

Zilch on the job front. i've been told by the firm i used to work for that nothing has come their way. The only thing they've asked was to check if we were still available if anything did come up. i've applied for jobs i would have never thought of trying out for and still nothing ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here in the boring room ( Read more... )

The speech President Obama gave today was at my high school!!! i graduated from Dobson High School in 1989. The current principal of the high school was a former classmate of mine and we also graduated the same year.

Feeling defeated is nothing new having been an Arizona Cardinal fan for so long or even having to deal with the miserable season ASU had this past season. However, losing my job, clearing out my desk and computer, and losing a great coworker was painful. OMG it didn't hit me on how bad it was until my coworker, Nathan, left. i couldn't say bye to ( Read more... )