Faces in the crowd

So more and more I am starting to recognize people from work outside of work. Customers I should say. More and more I am starting to pick up on the 'ol regulars and have started to assign nicknames to them as well.

I've done this once before (I don't think the pictures are working) but, alas, there are still some of the same regulars. Tweedledee in particular.

Now I have some new ones to add! Well they aren't really new it's just that I've finally decided to stick them with nicknames.

First we have Rug. He is a man who has a very bad toupee. I think the name is self-explanatory.

Then we have Cig lady or Parliament Lights Lady. She comes in once, maybe twice a week and buys a carton of Parliaments. Retail price? $71 and some odd change. She also talks weird.

Honey Berry Cigar Man. He buys honey berry cigars. I don't even know why I bother asking what he needs out of the case.

SmileyCreepster. He's a nice enough dude, he just smiles too much. Yes. That is possible.

Gosh, now I'm blanking with the pressure on....

NotFunnyMoneyOldDude. (ok so these names aren't exactly what I call them, they are just how I recall them...) This guy always pays in cash and he'll give you the change first and then ask," Oh, did you want the rest?" to which I always reply," Yeah, they'll get a little made at me if I don't." I think after I told him I'd take my changes with the Secret Service he doesn't pay me in big bills anymore. Have I told the story? Oh idk. One day he gave me a 50 or 100 and I hit it with the counterfeit pen and he said "You know that's illegal! That's defacing money!" And I said "Well the way I see it is they'll probably like it better if I were to catch a counterfeit bill and not care about the streak. I'll take my chances with the Secret Service if they come after me." He told me it was very good logic, I told him that's what a college education gets you. The ability to think, reason and problem solve. (Hey I'm not making that shit up! They tell you that! They say one of the biggest differences between a tech school education and a university education is not only do you learn more then just your discipline, you also learn "critical thinking skills." I couldn't make that up! Well, ok find I could... but I didn't!)

...wow. I did just do that.

Where was I? Oh there are more I just can't think of them all...I need to start taking notes on little peices of paper again to remember everything!

There is one more and that's Alan Alda. (BTW why is it I can't go a week without having Alan Alda in a crossword?) This old dufffer looks like Hawkeye himself. I'd say perhaps he is AA but he's a little young. I do have to card him for alcohol. He seems really old for his age though which is a little sad. He was born in the early 50s and he seems like he should be in his 70s. My theory is perhaps something happened to him in 'Nam. Yeah. I said it. He carries an old Army rucksack so that's where I'm getting my theory from. Anyway, Alan Alda is a really nice old man. Some of the old people are nice in a tolerable way but 70% of the time they are just a little annoying. Double A is nice without being annoying and he seems like he means it when he says things which is such a rarity.

Today Alan was in and he told me he really liked my name. I just sort of laughed it off but then he said no, he really likes the name! He always has and if he was a woman he would want it to be his name. And then I sort of laughed it off again and he said no, seriously! He would want my name if he was a girl. Oddly enough I believed him. We'll see if he says it some other time when he's in.

There are more people, I just know it. Then of course the newest development is I get to see all my friends from the government meetings I got to go to for my other job. I see some of the elected officials, I see people who just go to the meetings. One woman stopped me at a meeting and asked me where she knew me from. I said the store and that got an "Oooooooh, yes! That's how!!!" reaction. I find it very weird to be sitting in a room full of people, look around and know that I know about a quarter of them from coming in to the store.

On a completely random note, any NCIS fans must buy the soundtracks. I have both. Vol. 1 came out sometime last spring and Vol. 2 came out in the fall or something. I just picked up the second one and once again it is amazing. Another great thing? Tony DiNozzo aka Michael Weatherly sings on it. Abby and Ziva sing on the first volume which was good but come on, it's DiNozzo! It's a good song, he's got a nice voice. Listen to it!

Ok. I think I've blogged enough for today.

Keep cool my babies! (kickin' it Conan style right there!)

Personal Collection

While attempting to clean my room and organize my bookshelf I found myself thinking that I sort of want to live in a foreign country. That way when I get angry I can start to talk and swear to myself in English and everyone will be like "Oh man. She is pissed!" Sure that's sort of a weird thing but it isn't like I can swear in another language here. It would be weird if I started to cuss in Norwegian considering the most Norwegian I know is oofta.

I think I should have stretched before conquering my bookshelf. It is positioned in such a place where I have to almost be a master of yoga in order to reach half of it. And people wonder why I get pissy over my room situation. Attempting to fit most of my worldly possessions in an 11x8 room does not work well. Especially when I honest to blog have about 10 square feet of carpet space to walk around on. On the other hand if I ever find myself living in a studio apartment, I think I'll be able to manage just swimmingly.

I have a lot of shit! I have a lot of shit that I really cannot and will not put in storage. I've got books! I've got DVDs! I've got electronics, collectibles and perhaps the most space consuming items outside of the furniture clothes! If this other bed was not in here I would be a happy girl.

Speaking of books, sad to hear JD Salinger has died. I loved "Catcher in the Rye." Amazing book. You know it's funny. I hate books that I consider sellouts-you know your Nicholas Sparks, Nora Roberts, Mitch Albom types. (Though I did get a Albom book for Christmas. I think I got it because my parents worry about my faith...) Yet I have no problem with classical sellouts so to speak. Hemingway, Salinger and any book in the Barns & Noble Classics Collection. What can I say, I guess I have more respect for good literature then fill in the blank novels.

I need to make a list of the books I should get. I have a strange collection if if I do say so myself. Harry Potter (FINE! Sellout! Fine!), political books, baseball books, your so called classics and/or literary masterpieces, trivia books and of course the Associated Press Stylebooks. Yeah I got three of those. It is quite unnecessary to have that many but I do. See I always forgot mine at home and then I'd need one in school so I'd have to go and buy a new one. Now it has sort of turned into a collection. I've got 2006-08. I wonder if I can get '09 on discount or something. Or maybe the AP is a little behind in publishing it? Oh I don't know. I do love them in a quirky way. While organizing the bookshelf I realized I was missing '06. And you can bet your ass I searched high and low to find that little beast because I did not keep forgetting them and then spending $15 to buy them only to lose them again! ...right. And yeah. I was just googing the '09 and '10 edition..

Ok then!

Ciao!

Team Conando!

Damn you NBC, damn you.

You have ruined a perfectly good laid out plan I had in place. See it was to go like this: Conan was switching to the Tonight Show at about the time I was graduating college. This worked out splendidly! See Consy was moving to an earlier time at about the same time when in theory I would have a job were it'd require me to get my ass out of bed in the morning. Then I'd only have to stay up until a little after 103o for the monologue.

But oh how those plans have changed. First I have yet to land a job where I need to get my ass out of bed in the morning...well at least most mornings...so watching the Tonight Show was just way too early. And then of course NBC just screwed Conan with his pants on.

You sons of bitches over at NBC, you ruined EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!

I feel bad that I haven't been watching the Tonight Show much though you bet yo ass I've been watching it all this week! I hope that doesn't make me a sell out...if that's the right word...

OMG PEEWEE HERMAN IS ON THE SHOW! AH!!

Oh wow. Sorry about that.

Ok then. Enjoy yourselves party people.

Strike up the band...

Holy crap it was stupid people day at the store.

It first started with some guy trying to use my counterfeit pen as a regular pen. Why he thought he had the right to reach around the register to rip the pen off that's velcroed there I do not know. I mean, it's one thing when people swipe pens off of that little desk like area but to snag one off of the register/screen part that I use is something else. Keep your hands off my crap people!

Then as I'm checking out an order and the guy sort of loud starts going WHOA WHOA HEY WAIT! I look at him and say "Is this not your stuff?" and he says in a bitchy way "I am trying to look at the price of the steaks." Well ooooooh! Oh alright then. You know 95 percent of the people who sit there and watch the screen like penny pinching morons generally just go "Oh did, did those steaks come up on sale?" They generally don't spazz.

Ok fine I shouldn't call people penny pinching morons. But seriously, when I have to tell people more then once that IT WILL COME OFF AT THE END or do you see how it has that little minus sign right there? Then they are morons.

Then there was another woman who wasn't stupid but she said ok about 100 times in the time that I had to talk to her. Which was less then five minutes. It isn't even an exaggeration to say 100. I really wanted to go Ok! ok! ok! ok! and sound like Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura when he's imitating Snowflake.

Ugh. There is more stupid stories but I won't go on.

Oh! The World's Best on Travel is mega structures. I'm not ashamed to say that I'm oooo-ing over what they have to show. Ok yeah. I am a little. This is my Saturday night. Sad. Oh so sad.

Honest to Blog!

I never fully understood why health insurance companies are seen as Satan walking among mortals until I got quasi-denied insurance.

Now I think they can all kiss my ass and I want to sucker punch anyone who works for the company and comes through my line at work.

Apparently I'm not allowed to go to the doctor for the one reason why I would ever go the doctor besides being sick. My itchy skin. What the hell. That's just mean. Hey yeah we'll insure you but we won't pay for you to go to the doctor maybe twice a year to get yo itchy skin checked out. In the words of Stephanie Judith Tanner, How Rude!

I told my mom that I should just get pregnant and then be like haha suckas! Pay for that shit! Yeah! You could have avoided that big ol' bill had you just let me go to the doctor for my skin!

Ok so I wouldn't actually do that. ...or would I? No, no. I wouldn't.

So yeah there's that. Oh and I've added a person to the I Want To Punch In The Neck List. Giuliana from that stupid Giuliana and Bill Show. Why in the HELL do they have a show?! Seriously! I could almost have a better reality show then them.

Also, I know you all think it but I'm just going to say it. The alphorn at the start of the Little House on the Prairie is amazing. I love me some alphorn to start off with but when you pair that with the Ingalls....ah! So great!

Yeah. Don't even try to hate on Little House, that would be an unwise move!

Calendar Boy

Hello Mr. February!
How amazing is this calendar?! It's a sign! A sign of what I don't know but it just is! What are the odds he would be my birthday month? Fine. 1 in 12 but whatever!

Though while looking at my calendar as it hangs on the wall it made me a little sad because this picture of JJ I have up caught my eye...and he is no longer with the team.
It is going to be gorgeous in here once the calendar turns!

No news to report. The store has owned my soul these past few days/weeks. Have I mentioned how bad I need to get out of there? Maybe just a little? Alright.

Clam chowder party people!

200, er, 0, I mean...2010!

I'm going to struggle with writing the year. I'll miss you zero! I really will!

Remember when everyone had their underpants in a bunch cause their checks had the 19 on them and then the calendar turned to 2000? I do. Lazy muthas.

On a completely unrelated note, look at what came in the maaaaiiillll!
Yeah. I feel like I'm cheating on Craigy. But it's ok cause I'll take him any day over any other player. And the fact that the Brewers only play the Giants twice a year so there will be little conflict. I'd never fancy an NL Central team!

And speaking of Craigy... look!
That doesn't need much of an explanation.

So yeah...Um. I don't have anything else so...yeeeah.

I don't know if I'll do a year end round up. Probably not. I'll think about it.