Yesterday was the end of Daylight Savings and after pulling a 4:00am-10:00am shift, having six hours off, and working a 4:00pm-10:00pm shift, I unknowingly got an extra hour of sleep. I guess that's a good reason to use your phone as an alarm clock: it automatically updates for Daylight Savings. I felt bad that Jennelle had to stay an extra hour, but it was nice to feel a little bit more rested than I expected to. I freaked when I saw the clock in the kitchen read 4:30am instead of 3:30am and I thought I was late. Ah!
I didn't think it was going to be a super busy day because Saturday's morning shift wasn't too bad. I even had time to re-arrange the freezer and the fridge so that all the milks were organized by date [it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you need to grab a gallon of milk from the back fridges to grab the one that expires soonest, does it? Apparently it does because no one knows how to do that. Re-organizing made it easier to see which ones expire soonest!], all the frozen smoothie mix was arranged so that each type of fruit was next to its mate instead of having some strawberries on one shelf and some on another making it impossible to find the flavour that is hidden in the back behind another over-stocked flavour, and I had the time to organize the pastries by type and in alphabetical order. At PacSun, I tried to get everyone to fill a shoe display immediately after it was sold; that way, every style is available for choosing and I didn't have to grab 20 displays when I did my checklist. It made it way more efficient! I told the new girl [Jackie] that she needed to fill them as soon as she sold them, and I've told other employees that it makes it super easy for whoever is supposed to do the pastries if it is done throughout the day, and Jeena today told me she had been doing it all her shift. That makes me extremely happy! Yay!
My point is that I had time to do all that on Saturday morning before we got an end-of-the-shift rush and I left for my six-hour-break. The evening shift was super slow, which was a welcomed change, and then I arrived in the morning to a steady flow of customers. Poor Jennelle wasn't feeling good and napped until just before Jackie got there. I made her some tea though; tea always helps.
...and then it got busy.
It was nonstop all morning with no time to even make ourselves drinks to keep us going. And to top it off, as mentioned at the end of my ridiculously short and abrupt blog I previously posted, I broke one of the fridges under the espresso machine. I literally opened it and the door FLEW OFF!! I guess I don't know my own strength or something. So all day we had to share one fridge. I had the machine over the working fridge and that meant that the new girl would have to open it when I was making drinks. Not really anyone's fault but my own, but it sucked for both her and I because it was just awkward.
It was busy all morning and then Shelley arrived for my relief and she looked like a zombie. She wasn't feeling well and I offered to stay late and let her go home. She got her relief to come in early so she didn't have to stay a long time, but I still felt bad. She didn't want me to stay late because I had been working so much, which is understandable, but if you don't know me and you don't know this already: I would work every single day, any hours, for a year straight if I could. I need the money and on my days off, I just sit around and am not productive most of the time.
But I ended up leaving maybe a half hour late, headed home, rested with Andrew for an hour, and went to the 12:30pm showing of Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It was pretty funny but there were two things that I'd like to say about it:
A.) They work at a coffee house. The very first shot is Seth Rogen making someone a coffee drink. He steams the milk, pours it into the mug, and hands it to the customer. He doesn't stir, and he doesn't clean off the steam wand.
B.) I don't know if it's because I go into a movie thinking it's not going to be that great or what, but when it's over, I'm not thoroughly impressed. Yes, it was a mildly funny movie with a few "Oh my GOD!!" moments, but I could predict everything and summarize it in one quick sentence. I won't though, because I don't want to ruin it for someone who wants to watch it, even though it always happens to me.
Afterward I wanted to take Andrew to lunch at El Gitano [¡Es muy delicioso!] but neither of us were hungry enough to do that. We decided to get Alfy's stuffed crust pizza later on, considering it'd be about the same amount and we would have lots of left overs, which wouldn't happen at a restaurant. We went home and I tried a new recipe for Pizza Pinwheels:
Ohhh they were good! It definitely got me exited and in the mood for some Alfy's later on! We put on some episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and relaxed. I then took a good long bath, a rinsing shower, and we went to get our pizza. First we swung into Fred Meyer and got some chips, dog treats, ice cream, and an electric shaver for Andrew. We then got our pizza, went home, and put in some more episodes. We have two discs of Schindler's List and weren't in the mood to watch half of a super long movie one night and half another.
By the way, I am an extreme advocate for signing up for Netflix. Seriously, we ALWAYS have something to watch, can add basically anything and move the order list around to suit whatever we want to watch sooner than others, it has recommendations on ratings you give movies you've already seen [we have watched some really good movies based on our recommendation list!]... it's simply a really good deal!
Anyway, I went to bed, woke up in the morning and headed to work, where Shelley and I found a treasure hunt for 25 pictures of Katie hidden around the stand. We found all but one, and that was Caitlin's job on her very first 4:00pm-10:00pm shift by herself. She has both Shelley and my numbers in case she needs anything, so we'll see if we get phone calls.
This has by far been my most fulfilling blog in a couple weeks, but I am still tired and am wanting to lean back and watch something [should I start X-Files again, even though I put the first season of Lost on our request list and moved the first two discs up to the top of our list? ...I think so. I am craving a Scully and Mulder fix]. So here are a few pictures to tie you over:
Andrew in costume:
Accidental art in my Chai [do you see Murphy too?]:
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