The fire alarm from hell and pirates of the carribean drinking game...

Well last night I got of work early around 1030 so I called Meggie and went over to her house. When I arrived she was still in the shower it was around 11 15. She got out and we got ready to head out. By the time we were heading out it was bout 1150. We rock up to the ram around midnight and it looks closed so we head out and try some other places, closing up so we jet out to the Met and grab a bottle of wine, pizza, and beer and head back to megs. This is where things take a turn for the worst. She cuts me a piece of chocolate cake and I said hey the wine u got would realy go well with this cake, let me do the honors. So she get's me a wine opener and I go to town. In the meantime we're trying to figure out how to turn on her oven which hasnt been used. It's gas and we start to smell it so she read the directions to make sure we werent going to die. ALL's fine unitl the smoke detector starts going off. It's loud and up high so we get a broom and start fanning it. Which turnis it off briefly. I'm trying to get the wine open and i end up breaking the cork in half. Bummer, so I grab a pair of scicsors trying to get it out, this just sends the cork deeper into the bottle causing me to srhink in pain, and also get wine on my shirt. As I run to the sink Megs turns around thinking I have cut myself and seeing the red wine shes' like holy shit what did u do? SHe stops fannin the fire alarm and it starts going off agian. I say, I have wine on my new sweater! Dude I hope u dont mind a little or half a cork in your wine. I pour two glasses. The alarm keeps going off, I"m waitin for kali at this second to come down stairs and yell at us, we have all the doors and windows open at this point and its 130 am. The alarm still going off when she stops fanning. I figure I can reach the button from the stairs and turn it off. So we get the pizza outta the oven and Megs comes up with a great drinking game for our movie the Pirates of the Carribean, everytime they say Pirate drink. WEll we drank a lot! 2/3 into the movie I decide Icant drink anymore and cant keep up with the pirates and wait to sober up so I can drive home at the end. WoW WHAT A NIGHT... THe crazy thing is Kali never heard the alarm that went off over 10 times. That wouldnt be good if there was a fire.

Oh Hollister

Well today I opened by myself for the first time. WEll kinda the new store manager Carrie came in and helped me with orientation and opening stuff.... WEll I was supposed to work 8-6 then have an hour break and come back for the jean meeting. It turns out I didnt get that hour off and I had to help shut down for the jean meeting. I counted down the registers. Then I sat and listened the dan and carrie talk about the jeans. It turns out I get a free pair of destroyed jeans which is cool because they're 60 bux, but we're supposed to wear them everyday. BOO. THen I got teased because everyone knows I dont want the holey jeans, and now i get a free pair. The moral of the story is I worked 8 am till 10 pm which blows. ANother thing that blows is for every hour over 40 hours I only get paid 6 dollars an hour half of what i make normally! But I get a free pair of 60 dollar jeans. I'm not sure if that makes up for it.

Managing Like a Hippie

This past Friday our district manager Dave came in the store. He can be a real shit, real intense and can say some really mean things. He told one girl one time that she looked like a whore because she was wearing mascara. I havent seen the guy since my interview with him and after hearing all these stories I make sure I'm not wearing any make up at all, and I'm decked out head to toe in Hollister attire. He makes me really nervous, his prescence makes the whole store nervous. I heard reports he had Danica crying in the back room, and he had been chewing Dan a new asshole. So I get to floor supervising and trying to stay away from him but still look like I'm working hard. He comes up to me trying to be chummy and slaps me on the back puts his arm around me and starts giving me pointers and telling me what I'm doing wrong, and his thoughts on how to run a store. Then he looks at me weird and says "how can I say this as funny as possible. You manage like a Hippie." I take offence and I say "I'm no hippie." He doesnt respond but keeps on talking, "yeah you manage like a Hippie your too laid back. Hippies dont run businesses. Well small ones, you know what I'm saying?" I respond with "Oh you mean headshops," trying to crack a joke with him. He looks at me deadpan and says "Never say stuff like that infront of the brandreps. You need to step up your intensity." He continues on but my feelings are hurt, and I"m thinking he better watch the way he speaks to his employees no wonder there is such a high turnover for MIT's. I go up to Dan later and I'm like do you think I'm a hippie? He starts lauging and responds you graduated from UPS didnt you, thats nothing but hippie a school. It gets around that Dave called me a hippie and Justin swears he's going to wear his dirty hippie shirt to work next time. I can honestly say I dont like it when Dave stops in. I guess what he said to some of the other employees is much worse. Oh well he needs to be a little more laid back, it would help him out.

Ah memories

On my way home from a fun filled evening of chillin with Meggie at the Ram, annoying military guys and then later friends house and team America at 4 am I see someone crossing the street infront of my old highschool. Since I'm doing 80 in a 25 I take note to this and slow way the fuck down. I realize it is a teanage kid with a bag a chips, and then I take notice to all the cars and kids standing out by the rock. I realize this must have been the last day of school for the seniors in which the Jrs become seniors intailing senior girls night out, and the boys and mostly girls of the school stay out all night and protect the rock from PHS and do various other activities. This then sends me into a walk down memory lane where I remember my senior girls night out and the fun filled night I had. I wonder if the kids are keeping up the regular traditions. I just smile a secret smile and drive one. Eventually hitting the speed of 85. Within half a mile of the highschool I'm home. Ready for bed! Where I will think surely about my time then for a brief instant and revisit these fond memories.

Jim and Melissa's Wedding

This past Saturday the 11th was Jim and Melissa's wedding and reception. The church and everyone in the ceremony looked incredible. Jim looked so hansome and Mel looked drop dead gorgeous. Jim looked so good in his tux, then I was reminded of the last time I saw him in a tux, when he took me to Jr. Prom. As I looked around I noticed one of my ex boyfriends who was my first sitting a few rows behind me with his wife. As the ceremony went on the groomsmin came out and there was another ex boyfriend who took me to Senior Ball, I was wondering which one in the crowd was his wife... Three people I had dated and all married now. Which was a strange thought at first. Oh well I looked ravishing in my pink tie around the neck dress. WHo cares if I was just there with my parents and didnt have a date. My dad is his boss and would be there anyways and I know everyone who will be at the reception it'll be a blast.

The receptions going well, I've made my rounds to all my dads work buddies who still remember me as a high spirited 7 year old and talked about how weird it was that I graduated from college. I have said hello to all my old Thriftway work buddies who are there, it's soo good to see us all in one place again. So, it's now time for the boucay and my friends push me up there with all the other single ladies. I decide I'm going to take this, so I line myself directly behind Mel, look around I'm taller then everyone in my heels by atleast 4 inches, good. She throws it, I fully extend my arm like I'm going to hit a volleyball, and wham I catch it. Shannon next to me mouth drops open and says non of us even had a chance, then cracks a smile. Of course the logical questions follow this event with so whos the lucky man? I then reply I dont have one. Then of course why does a pretty girl like you not have someone whens the last time you dated? I then reply my ex and I broke up a year ago, tried to work things out recently didn't I'm ok with it, him and I are just friends now. I was also just hanging out with a frat guy but he moved home, no big deal. It'll happen when it happens. Then I change the subject to me graduating and the convo is over until the next person asks and I go through it again. I've been in one wedding and gone to another in the past 4 weeks, all without dates and have had a blast.
Well for the rest of the night I drank, danced, and hung out with old friends which was awesome and much needed. I was informed that I was supposed to be in the grooms room before the wedding to drink with everyone. I was bummed out that I was late and didnt get to.

Hello Kitty Black Spanky's

Today was an eventful day. On the way to work I hit the pothole thats been there for years on the city center on ramp to 16. But in my new car which is low to the ground it scraps underneath and the front bumper, brilliant! We were short staffed today at work, and I was told not to let anyone out on breaks. Scew that! So I ordered my closers and I all pizza. I'm stressed because I'm short staffed and I have to leave an hour early (we're over on hours). At one point during the night I'm back taking a sec to sit down and collect my thoughts on what needs to be done and how we're going to do it, when Brysen walks back there cracking up. I head out to see what is so funny and i run into Angela. I was like dude whats up? She's like a customer found black undies in a corner of the fitting room. At this point Brynsen and Lindsey come up laughing. i was like whats going on? Angela pointed to the girl who found them, I guess she came up to her and said Umm... I think you should know theres black underwear in a corner of one of the dressing rooms, I dont know why its there but its reallyi weird. So Angela goes and grabs a hanger from a shirt picks up the Black Hello Kitty spankys and throws them away. I was like why didnt u come get me this is hilarious. We start to close up the store and now that the customers are gone we can really talk about the spanky sit. I was like why do u guys think they're there? Who just forgets their undies? Why would they take them off? The girls checked the fittin rooms for sensors to see if they ripped off a swimsuit or something. I thought well if htey were to rip off a swim suit why wouldnt they just put the bottoms on over their undies? I was like are they dirty like period blood or something? WOuldnt they just throw them away in a bathroom? Everyone is cracking up by this point as we ponder over why they would be there. Then I was like I bet someone had sex in there and Brynsen was like thats what i think! The girls are like no we were keeping tabs on the fittin rooms there were only two feet in each room. Brynsen then said it doesnt always take 4 feet on the ground. At this I just start cracking up. Brianne and Ashley were in total disagreement because they couldnt believe someone would be that freaky. We joke for the rest of the night about how possibley someone could leave their undies in a fitting room! I had to see them to make sure they weren't making this up, but no they were in the trash a pair of black hello kitty spankys. This world takes all types!

Yea! No more TBIRD

I bought a new car on Monday all by myself! It's a 2003 Eclipse, the same color as my old car. It got it for 17,000, a thousand under kelly blue book. It only has 10,700 miles on it, so it's practically like a brand new car. Its so nice, and I wont have to worry about breaking down anytime soon or replacing anything, and the gas milage is way better! Next step is finding roomates and moving out, then I'll really feel like a grown up!

The volume war...

Just got back from the practice space and watching Jupiter and Mars. They sounded awesome until the last song. It was too loud and sounded like crap. WHen the song ended the sound arguement occured, it sux to watch five guys who are oh so talented fight about the volume. After some heated words were exchanged mainly between graham and chuck, johnny pot pie stepped in and mediated as a unbiased outsider. Both Graham, John and Chuck has some good suggestions and hopefully they will try them out and work this volume war out, they are too good to let this break em. I piped up with the comment that when they played Daves on Broadway (where gphi had crescent) they played too loudly for the room and I think they do that a lot, you dont want to blast your audience out of the room. When they played at Casey and Seans party two Betas that came with Megs and Katie came up to me and said this is the best band we've ever seen live, where can I get there CDs? They played perfect for that tiny ass room and sounded amazing. They knew they couldnt be loud since Casey was parinoid the party was going to get busted. Louder is not necissarily better.

After the band stopped arguing and made up. I was text messaging Megs, Katie and Dan about possible parties. Johnny Pot Pie really knows how to push my buttons and he just started digging into me about my cell phone and this and that. So I actually started flipping him shit back, Graham stuck up for me and was telling Johnny to stop getting me riled up. He stopped for a bit, I get suckered into a debate with him too often, he loves to get me all riled up. The guys decided they wanted to go to the West End, I decided I was going to take my lame ass home, because I have to work tomorrow, and Chucks parents house is right around the corner from my parents house, if i stilled lived in ttown I would def go out. Johnny again decides to get me riled up. You know you've known someone for a long time when they can say just one thing and it causes you to get on the defesive in a snap. He was calling it like it was I was being lame and going home and he was pointing it out. Graham and Chuck understood I had to work, and I didnt want to be lamo. Then we got into about how long it takes to drive to Puyallup Southill Mall I say it takes about 35-40 without traffic from here. Johnny says it shouldnt take me that long. Luckily Graham used to live out there and again had my back on this one. I gave the boys hugs and wished them a good time at the West End. I'm bummed because Casey called from there and all our friends are there. Oh well I don't like that bar anyways, if they were goign to E9 the Ram or Magoos I would have been really bummed. Tomorrow I wont be lame. Besides sometimes it's nice to have a relaxing evening, watching a good band and hanging out in the Harbor can be pretty cool sometimes. Johnny you know how to get me good man, props to you! All you guys rock and are my bros...

Finally a fun ass friday night...

Work went really smoothly friday. I didnt get yelled at and the store ran really awesome. I had my earliest close yet done at 1045 and I was ready to party. So, I call (Asian) Zach up and asked him what he was doin for the evening. THey were watching Trading Places and were going to hit up a bar later and asked if I wanted to join. I drove my ass from Puyallup to his house and rocked up and had a rum and coke. I was DD for the evening and we headed out to Magoos. It was packed, I quickly spotted my guy friends from home upstairs and go and say hi. THey were on their way out so we scored their table and had a place to chill. I had a couple of beers and was watching Alissa and Renae get hammered. Zach, James, Jean and I just sat around talked and drank. By the time the bar was closing I was starving and ready to really drink myself so we stopped off at 711 and grabbed beer and pizza. I was just hoping Rennae wouldn't yack in my car at this point since I will be trying to do something with it when I get my new car. We get back the to their place and Zach and I start really drinking. Rennae and Allissa are rolling around on the floor at this point and Zach is continually trying to get them to flash their boobs. It was hilarious. By 3 am I'm too drunk to drive home so I crash there. When I wake up Zach asks if I want to watch UHF. HELL YA, I'm hung over anyways and that would be the perfect start to my day. So Zach and I chill and watch that movie and I eventually head home where I spend most of the day hung over, something I havent felt since the GPHI senior pub crawel. Though Dan the Hardass Assistant Store Manager called me to tell me the store looked awesome and that I did a good job! That made today so much better! It's nice to hear when you do a good job. THough the day of Lara's wedding I did end up drinking way to much at the ram and throwing up twice in the ladies room. I guess the door was fully open and christy and Meggie came in and watched. THough I was hardcore that night since I went to 21 and comm and then the loft with Nicole and Meggs. I did not wake up with as bad of a hang over as I did today. I guess pretty much 3 weeks of no drinking and getting plenty of sleep has made me soft. College days are really over. Hopefully some fun stuff tonight, planning on chillin with Chuck, Jessica, and the boys in the band. Jupiter and Mars rocks!

Work Sux ass as does John Mayer

Well yesturday started out ok, I went to work and the time started flying by. Justin had me doing all kinds of weird things that I dont normally do, like dressing a female manikin, and fixing a table that was incorrect. I finally got to eat really late. I spent so much time doing this things and it seemed like all night we were short one person (we were) that the mountain of go backs was unclimable and the store was turning to shit. Justin was in a really bad mood since he had been talking to his 19 yearold ex gf who for the record is a trendy little snot. Justins almost 24 and a pussy when it comes to her it seems. He didnt do anything or help me out at all. So I was on my own, it was a really bad close to say the least the store looked like crap I gave it a D. I'm sure to get yelled at today by Dan the Hardass. I finally got off work late around 1130 and wanted to meet up with my little and other girlfriends at the Ram. SInce I started this job I've only been out a few times I wanted to have a blast last night. I get to the ram around midnight, and who do I see, but Tacomas store manager for Hollister wearing a bright red Hollister shirt and a guy who graduated from UPS Matt Mettsker(sp) who also work at hollister. This is not what I want to be seeing at the moment since I just left the store in Puyallup. So I quickly put on some bright red lipstick, (I can't wear makeup at work) and Jake the TTOWN store manager starts laughing, he asks if i just got off work and indeed I had. I go order drinks, a shot of tequila and a beer. As I'm ordering Kali and Katie come up to me and Megs and they're going home. I ask Megs to stay with me since I just got there, so much for my rowdy night out! We end up hanging with the UPS Beta/ Hollister crew for a bit, Megs is getting bored and the place is closing down so she calls for a ride home. Bummer for me. So I just go get some gas and head home to the Harbor, maybe tonight will be more fun and more of an adventure after I get yelled at, at work. I don't wanna work 1-11 but I have tomorrow off yeah! I think I may start writing about adventures from the past since I havent had any in awhile....I do not want my life to become boring so I may just have to create some new ones!