So Goes My Heartbeat and the Blood on My Hands

25 November 2009 @ 06:04 am

This post shall be two parts complaining and two parts fangirling.

Complaints? I am still out of work. I just remembered that to get holiday pay, you have to work your last scheduled day before the holiday - therefore meaning that even if they let me work Thursday, I'm getting no holiday pay.

On top of that, my foot still looks like this:

Crappy lighting is crappy. But as you can tell, it's still a little swollen and a lot bruised. Despite this, it is getting easier to walk on. I will bug them to let me work until it happens, because I know I can at least fo light stuff now.

Anyways, now that complaing is out of the way- Turtles Forever? BEST. TMNT THING. IN SOOOO LONG. I am such a happy fangirl right now. Hun was so excellent that I wasn't quite as sad as I should've been about no Bishop or Stockman. The Shredders were awesome - that said, I am so pleased that they gave us the badass NT!Shredder instead of the wannabes that kept showing up in the last few seasons. I forgot just how epic of a villain he was.

The way the turtles interacted with one another was perfect, and I loved how the NT characters reacted to their other selves. LEO. Oh, he looked so lost. XD. And Mikey slowly losing his patience with them was wonderful, too.

Mirage!turtles animated, by the way? Yes, that was made of several shades of win.

This was so freaking amazing. There will be icons, people. So many. I'm probably even making those quotes ones, because I spent an entire day doing that. XD

Tags: bodily pains, frustrations, tmnt, work

Current Mood:

sore

8 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

22 November 2009 @ 02:57 am

I appear to have injured myself

Oh hey life. Have you decided to make me your pinata again?

Finger still wounded. Finally stopped bleeding at least. Got the window fixed for free because my maintenance guy says I'm a good kid, so it was no trouble. Just when I think it might not be so bad?

I fall down on the way to work. And limped the rest of the way there.

I'm not entirely sure why I didn't just go home. How I expected to work when I couldn't even make it to the time clock without having twenty people ask why I was in obvious pain is beyond me, but I tried. Was told to go home, but not before the store manager bought me some bandages. And then I spent the rest of the day sulking because yeah, I really need to be working right now. I have sixty dollars until Thursday, and even then my paycheck would've just barely covered the bills. Since they told me I couldn't work today either, the whole damn paycheck will be going to those now. Hell, if they won't let me come back soon, I'm just not going to have enough money at all.

And this is where I wonder how my stepdad always manages to be right about these things. He told me not to buy a new laptop in case something were to happen. Before I did, I was even like 'Yeah, he's probably right'. But some stupid part of my brain said life couldn't possibly be that bitchy to me, right? Plus I needed a functioning computer to pay bills.

Gah. Not sure what I'm going to do here. The ankle doesn't seem much better, though the swelling's gone down. But I need to work. I don't care what they say about making sure I don't injure it more - if I don't get paid, it's not going to matter much. I'm so freaking stressed right now. Thank God for the Internet. I know it's a crutch, but I think I'd go insane if I didn't have something to distract me.

...I felt so bad today when I went down there, too. They had two trucks, and only three people working. I know even if they let me work, it might be a while before I can get back to the backroom. But still! I'm sure I could help them somehow. Get me a wheelchair- I can do picks! I can sit to do break packs (as long as their not mean and stack them too high)! Hell, I'm desperate here. Need a people greeter? Or I can shed paperwork!

I just need to work, dammit.

Tags: bodily pains, frustrations, work

Current Mood:

stressed

8 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

18 November 2009 @ 07:12 am

Summarisation of the Week

I am obviously having a horrible case of cycling through by Bipolar again. It's going so fast I can't quite keep a good hold on it, which is frustrating because it hasn't been this bad since high school. Yeah- I'm annoyed.

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Kathy should like, go fall off the face of the Earth or something. Along with all of the people like her. THE WORLD WOULD BE SUCH A BETTER PLACE.

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People also need to stop being so sensitive. I can not be snippy with you if I've spoken less than two sentences all day. Wanna complain to management to me about that? Fine. Someday I'll just be telling them about how you spend twenty minutes or more talking to people every time you take out a pallet.

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New Toshiba laptop- ALL IS FORGIVEN. Okay, LJ still looks kinda weird and cropping is as weird as I thought it'd be, but HOLY CRAP you're so much speedier than my old laptop! Downloading Photoshop always took at least four hours, but with you I had it in twenty minutes! (loves on)

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I picked up Brook from One Piece at a RP here on LJ. I had to drop Agent Bishop at the TT one due to stress and time issues, but this one has a bit of a slower pace. I'm having so much fun, though. I can tell I need to work on him some, though. I don't think I'm doing too horribly though (I hope...?), so there's at least that. :D

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I miss my mother. And even my stepdad, sometimes. I'm afraid of talking to most other people. I've been thinking about moving back with them for a few months- I could transfer to another Walmart and save up some money. Without bills, I'd be able to help them out some too.

Not going to happen until at least January though (I'm sticking around for the bonus check at my Walmart, kthnx). We'll see if I'm still up for it by then.

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One of my icons won first place at this week's op_ic icontest! I was so surprised! I've gotten several of the Mod's Choice awards, and last time I got a third place, but never a first! On top of that, one of my other icons won for the Special Category (Best Crop), so I am pleased. ^_^

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Because of the events of last year where the Walmart worked got trampled to death on Black Friday, Walmart will be open all day on Thanksgiving now. So we don't get half days off now.

Sometimes customers disgust me. In addition to the absolute horror of how selfish some of those people acted at that store when the poor guy died, now they get rewarded with having more time to shop. On top of that, we have to work with them longer while they're at their worst. WTF.

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Watched Ice Age 3 finally. Ah, I loved the first one. None of the sequels have been on the same level, but at least they're still entertaining. As for this one- BUCK. He made the movie, I swear.

Manny: Just when exactly did you lose your mind?
Buck: About three months ago. I woke up married to a pineapple. An ugly pineapple. *sighs happily* But I loved her so...

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I locked myself out of my house today. After having no luck picking the lock, I remembered that one of the windows was open and decided to try and open it. Unfortunately, as I was pushing up against it, I stumbled and ended up breaking the glass and cutting myself open while I was at it. It's very annoying to have your hands covered in blood and no way to wash them off for an hour. Besides how much colder they get in this weather, it's worse when you're trying very hard not to get blood all over your neighbor's door.

I cleaned it as best as I could though, and I have some nice thick bandaids. It was only a tiny cut, just deep and fairly wide. If I don't keep the bandaids on, whenever I go to grab something it splits right back open and that is getting really annoying really fast. If it doesn't stop doing that by tomorrow I'm just going to superglue it.

Also, the broken window sucks and will probably cost more than a locksmith would have (fifty bucks). I AM BROKE. I have to call the landlord tomorrow, but I'm hoping he'll let me wait until I get paid next to do it.

Tags: bodily pains, co-workers, computer, family, home, icons, insanity, money, movies, one piece, roleplaying, work

Current Mood:

tired

9 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

10 November 2009 @ 08:50 am

Ignore the person sobbing in the corner

I can't begin to describe how much I hate today. Work was more awful than I expected- customers would not leave me alone and things kept on breaking. Not even kidding. I cleaned up salsa and before I could finish there, someone broke a bottle of wine fifteen feet away from me.

My pants ripped so I went home to get my only other pair. Ten minutes before it was time to go home, I was picking paint out of a bin and one of the buckets fell and hit me in the back of my neck on its way down (still hurts- kinda sucks). It broke and splattered all over the back of my pants (once again, last pair).

You'd think it'd be safe once I got home, but apparently this too was not to be. As I was getting ready for bed, I accidentally knocked over my laptop and now the screen is all messed up. I talked with a tech support guy for about two hours- he was very nice (spelling could use some work, though) and we eventually determined that it was in fact the hardware that was damaged. It would cost about $400 to fix it.

(head desk) That's money I should be saving. I'm only just now managing to save again and the thought of having to blow it so quickly frustrates me. But dealing with this for too much longer simply isn't an option- it's very difficult to view some sites including the billing ones, and seeing as none besides the water bill can be paid off the web, a new computer is required.

But... dammit. I need to save. Knowing my luck, some large catastrophe will happen to me right after I buy a new one and I won't have enough money left to take care of myself.

(too stressed) (must not think) Screw this. I'm having a drink and then I'm going to bed.

Tags: bodily pains, computer, frustrations, work

Current Mood:

pissed off

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

15 October 2009 @ 03:20 pm

Bleh

So tired of being sick. I've been achy all of the past week, to accompany my sore throat and lack of a voice. My weekend was helping with that. Yesterday, in fact, I remember happily thinking to myself about how much better I was feeling.

Three hours later, I'm suddenly way dizzy and vomitting. Awesome, body. Way to move onto the next bug. So that's like, two months now since I've actually been healthy for longer than a week?

(looks at last paycheck) Dammit, I can't afford to be sick. (grumbles and goes to work)

Tags: bodily pains

Current Mood:

nauseated

Strike Hard

05 October 2009 @ 01:52 pm

Fuck you too, Wal*Mart

Okay, so remember how I mentioned that I seemed to be getting sick again but that was okay because I was used to the illnesses and would be taking precautionary measures?

THE WORLD IS CONSPIRING AGAINST ME.

The temperature drop in my town was really sudden. Last week it was still in the high seventies and now we're in the low fifties. Which you know, is just great when you forgot your jacket at your mother's and can't get it back until Tuesday. Which is also the icing on the cake when it's been raining for two days straight.

But no big, I thought. I get rides to work, and usually one of my co-workers is nice enough to give me a lift home. And my work is all indoors, so I figured I'd be fine.

Yesterday we had no truck. When they called everyone in the store to go do a cart run, we decided we could go do a few things to help. We didn't stay long, of course, because it was still raining and we had to go inside to take our break. Despite that, we were the only ones who did go out there in the first place, while everyone else chose to ignore the page.

The minute we got back from break, they called specifically for the ICS to go do a cart run. GAH, that pisses me off so much! We'd be happy to go, just don't make it sound like we're not doing anything!

Er, and scratch out happy. No coat, remember? I love the rain, but despite that I won't willingly stay out in it for nearly two hours (at night, mind you) when it's getting cold outside.

I declare these new managers are retards. What part of 'I just got over pneumonia' translates to 'I'm totally fit to go outside without my jacket and do hard labor for you!' >.<

Grr... well after I was already pretty soaked, I got to borrow a rain slicker. Unfortunately, it did nothing for my head or my feet. By the time we got back inside I looked like I'd just taken a shower. As for my feet, my shoes have holes in them so my shoes and socks were puddles. When it finally got around to lunch time, I actually had to buy new socks. I spent nearly all of lunch sitting in the break room with my shoes off, as they felt so much better.

So anyways, by the end of the night I was already starting to cough again. My voice is hoarse this morning (will probably be getting laryngitis after all) and to top it all off, I threw up. And we have a nice big truck today with barely anyone to unload it.

If I get sick enough that I can't work again, I'm demanding paid days off this time.

Tags: bodily pains, frustrations, work

Current Mood:

sick

Strike Hard

03 October 2009 @ 02:13 pm

Er... Youtube Saturday?

Gah, I was so busy yesterday I had no time to post a video for Youtube Friday. I didn't even bother to when I got home, I was so tired. It seems I'm getting sick yet again. Feels like my sinuses. At least I have experience with this one though- I got laryngitis and sinus infections all the time when I was a kid, so I can bite them in the butt pretty early now.

New wave of sickness may be due to stress, as well. Work was fun for that last night... I'll talk about that some other time though.

Anyways, here's the video for Youtube Friday, a day late. XD

I decided to start reading another manga. I've heard good things about Soul Eater. I haven't watched the anime yet (it's supposed to be getting dubbed soon), but so far the manga's pretty good. ^_^

One of the things that got me interested in it however was the random AMV I stumbled upon. It was pretty cool, so I looked for more and found this. Enjoy!

Tags: bodily pains, youtube fridays

Current Mood:

awake

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

22 September 2009 @ 06:58 am

I Is Sleepy

My fever broke on Sunday. Which did me no good as I was supposed to wait that twenty-four hours to go back to work first, which would have me to work on Tuesday. Which is my day off.

(sigh) Another week without pay. It's a good thing that raise should be kicking in now, because I'm going to need the extra forty cents. :(

In the mean time, clearly I need to visit with that brother who let me stay at his house more often. I mean, I've known his family since I was a baby, and I actually played with his daughters when I was young. They were both much older than me and are married and moved out now, but I liked them too. As is obvious by the fact that they offered me their home, they are very kind.

They've also completely redone their house since the last time I've been in it. They had a couch made out of Italian leather. Yes, I chose to sleep on that instead of the bed. It was the comfiest piece of furniture I've ever had the peasure of sleeping on, and most likely the most expensive (I'm betting at least five paychecks). It was heavenly.

I think the only problem with the house is that it seems to exist in this place where all wireless tech is consumed into this voic of nothingness.... Translation- I had no net access. That wasn't so bad though- was probably good for me, even.

Anyways, I'm home now and very tired. Being sick does that, unfortunately. The medicine is working very well, but my cough is still bugging me some.

Now have an entertaning video. I found this guy on the Nostalgia Crtic's website and must declare that his opinions on manga so strongly resemble my own that I would defer to him on any future manga/anime I may pick up. :D

You may be surprised to learn that I have watched enough of all of these here (besides Fullmetal Alchemist) to have an opinion. Ha! I certainly have! I plan to change my lack of knowledge on FMA too- several have told me I would like that show, so I hope to look into it soon.

Small note on Naruto- I go ahead and give it a thumbs up because I like the supporting characters. A good cast is one of the main things that keeps me interested in the fandoms I get into, and I have to say that the characters in Naruto are enough to keep me in despite all of the other horrors one must endure with it.

The poor soul, trying to thrive despite it's mangaka. ;_;

...Did I mention just how refreshing it is to see someone basically state all of my opinions nearly word for word? 'Cause just in case I didn't, it was wonderful. :)

Tags: animanga, bodily pains, naruto

Current Mood:

tired

3 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

18 September 2009 @ 06:09 pm

Diagnosis

Icon is not really fitting to my mood, but it is so cracktastic that it demands to be used.

Anyways. My trip to the doctor (and the following trip to Wally World) was very eventful.

( The long version of how Pi has pneumonia/strep/tonsilitis )

After I went back to the doctor to have her fill out that paperwork, I went home and took some of the antibiotics I was given. And then I slept. I can kinda feel the medicine working now. I'm not coughing quite as hard anymore, but when I do it makes my stomach hurt. Not quite sure what's up with that. This stuff is definitely making me feel a little nauseated, though. Hopefully that'll go away soon.

To entertain myself, I've been roaming around Youtube. So perhaps I do that often enough already, but I was looking at a million different things last night. There's some really adorable babies on Youtube. I thought about posting a video with some of them here, but realized that most of you guys have already seen the really memorable ones already.

So then I went looking for some more AMVs. In the throes of nostalgia, I tried to find some good Digimon ones. There... really isn't many. I found like... one. It wasn't all that epic, but good enough that I thought I might share it.

Heheh... well, until I went looking for more One Piece AMV's. >.>

Ah, I am very impressed with this one, actually! It has fantastic timing, and it's special effects are complimenting instead of overwhelming. It uses a variety of clips- I think I saw at least one from every arc between the Baratie and Thriller Bark (which are separated by about three hundred episodes or so), and I spotted clips from at least five movies. Very pretty indeed. :)

It's also available for download, and that version is nice and crisp. Youtube really killed the quality on this one, though watching it in HD helps. Unfortunately, the sound on my copy kinda lags, alas.

Tags: bodily pains, doctor, one piece, work, youtube fridays

Current Mood:

hot

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

17 September 2009 @ 11:13 am

(is a puddle on the floor)

You know, the point of me trying to see a doctor was for me to get some help as soon as possible so I wouldn't be feeling so miserable. That said, I'm worrying over what exactly I'll do if I ever get a life-threatening injury. I'm sure the ER would have to take me then (though they'd charge horrendously for it). As far as all the other clinics I tried, none of them accept walk-ins. I did manage to find this nice place though that got me an appointment for noon today. And because I don't make enough money to have a life, I get a sliding fee.

But... I'm not as miserable as I was yesterday and the day before. Still coughing and sneezing badly, but I seem to have finally sweated out my fever. And after vomiting up every pain pill I took, some alka-seltzer made my headache of twenty-four hours plus go away.

Still feel too crappy to work though. And the other night was... very frightening. I went to bed around four, but was wide awake until six or so. I must've drifted off. I woke up again around seven and for some odd reason was sure it was time to get up, only to realize once I was fully awake that I couldn't have been asleep for longer than an hour. Tried to go back to sleep. Vague memories of seeing the clock at eight.

After that is where it gets confusing. I have vague memories of seeing the clock at some point very briefly at every hour. After that, all I can remember is that it was so very hot and something about a boat. At one point I think I was on my couch (as it had a blanket there appear suddenly in the morning, I think I actually was there), but I don't remember going there. Nevertheless, when I was finally fully awake around twelve or so, I was on my bed again and the sheets were soaked and my head was pounding.

Went to the doctor only to get that appointment made. I filled out paperwork in advance though.

Went home and slept.

And now we're off to the doc once again. Hopefully even with most of my symptoms gone, we'll know what's wrong with me.

Tags: bodily pains

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blah

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

16 September 2009 @ 03:09 am

A Distraction Would Be Lovely Right About Now

If I had a white flag, I'd be waving it right about now.

Coughing has become bad enough that I'm vomiting, and my head is pounding. Surprisingly, so is my lower back. I tried getting up and moving around the house a bit and do some chores but that started hurting too much. But lying down or sitting isn't helping at all either. I want to go to bed but everything hurts too much to sleep. I feel hot, but the moment I leave my blankets it's freezing in here. Took out the thermometer and found I actually am running a temperature now. Just around 101 degrees or so, thus nothing too serious, but ya know. Still sucks.

By the time I was feeling this horribly though, the clinic I plan to see was closed. I'd go to the ER or something, but I hear the hospital's here are... less than ideal. As in: bleeding people being sent home because they're injury didn't seem serious enough.

Even if I could drive, I think I'd be avoiding them.

So I am going to pay a visit to the doctor tomorrow. But that's still several hours more to endure, and this sucks. And is getting worse.

And I'm out of fanfic, dammit.

Tags: bodily pains

Current Mood:

GRARGH- I GIVE UP BODY, OKAY?!

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

15 September 2009 @ 04:29 pm

Go AWAY Already

So I thought my coughing and other various symptoms were going away. The past three days or so had nothing more serious than a runny nose and easy bruising (which is still weirding me out... what the hell did I do to my hand?). I haven't been as sore, and I've been able to work hard enough to help get the job done. Which is saying something, since on Saturday three people called in leaving just me and Aaron at one point.

When I was still coughing, Glenn (the guy who used to be ICS but left us for electronics) was convinced that I had swine flu instead of bronchitis. He wouldn't take any frieght I brought to him, just in case. As annoying as that was, it did make me consider it. Not that I think I have swine flu at all, because the possibility seems rather out there to me. But until then I didn't even know swine flu was still a big deal. I get my news these days from magazines left in the break room, and hadn't read anything about it for a while. A quick Internet search revealed though that apparently it is still an issue, and there are even some cases in Idaho now.

I still wouldn't care, but I do work in a grocery store. Specifically in the place where nearly everything we sell has been through before being put onto the shelves. I must touch at least half of the freight, and I also work a lot with the equipment that the rest of the associates who work out on the floor also use. So I fugured maybe it would only be responsible of me to go and see, just in case.

...And then I stopped being so sick and went for a badly needed grocery run. So bad, in fact, that it cost me over a hundred dollars, which is the most I've spent in one shot on them for a year. My fridge has never looked so full, but my bank account is depressingly more echoey now.
That said, I feared how much worse it might appear if I went to see a doctor. And it didn't seem worth it now that I was feeling better.

Naturally, now I'm coughing again. Oh body, how I hate you.

Tags: bodily pains, frustrations

Current Mood:

annoyed

Strike Hard

11 September 2009 @ 02:51 pm

I Want One of Ghost Rider's Cupcakes

Dear body, you have no right to be as sore as you are, whether you're sick or not. My shoulders haven't hurt so bad since my first week working- and it was my feet that were hurting the most at that time, so really. You make no sense.

As for the rest of you significant limbs and organs, stop joining in with the rest of 'em. It's been almost three weeks now, and I'm tired of being sick.

(sigh) Anyways. I hear Disney got the rights to air Naruto Shippuden on one of their stations. Disney? ...What the hell are you guys up to, acquiring all this stuff?

I wonder if they'll get new dub voices, and what edits will be made. Surely they won't be so stupid as to do what 4kids did to One Piece.

Now onto Disney's other new acquirement- Marvel Comics. I'm actually not sure what to think of this. Disney isn't a bunch of idiots, you know. And it's not like everything they make is kid friendly. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies, for example, were very entertaining. People even blew up, got stabbed, and Jack Sparrow got to lick his brain. So I don't think Wolverine will be trading his claws for daisies anytime soon.

To be honest, my only problem with Disney has been they're sitcom shows for kids. Those are so... epically boring. I miss all the cartoons. But I don't see a Marvel crossover with any of those coming soon.

And so to keep Youtube Friday surprisingly on topic, I bring you crack. I so want to put the first song on my iPod.

Dude, until this I never even thought about Pixar. It would be really cool to see them do something with the Marvel storylines.

You know... if Disney gutted the Marvel universe like this, it might be worth it just to see Punisher braiding Wolverine's hair. With a little pink bow like that. :3

Ah, but poor Deadpool being locked in the vault! I don't see that happening too soon either, though. He's consistently been one of their top ten sellers this year, so I think he's safe.

Speaking of the guy, I hear rumors that he's supposed to actually be joining the X-Men in a few months. O_O Oh Wade... you're going to be so excited, but you just know this is going to end badly. You never win in the long run. (pats)

Tags: bodily pains, comics, deadpool, youtube fridays

Current Mood:

sleepy

2 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

09 September 2009 @ 06:10 am

The Woes of an Iconmaker

As much as I love making them, icons are frustating work guys. Yesterday I spent six hours coloring one image. Blood is, by the way, more difficult than you'd think to color properly when there is an excess of it. I spent another two hours today working on that alone, sending the image to Angel (who really needs to get an LJ) for approval.

Once we'd both determine that it was in fact good enough to be iconned, I ended up cropping out two thirds of it all. Including said bloody area which I'd spent said two hours perfecting. WHAT THE HELL.

Adding the finishing touches is taking longer than I planned. The text doesn't want to work with me. >.<

Anyways. I guess it's something to pass the time. I'm still coughing up a lung, much to my irritation. I do all right until I have to work, naturally. But it gets kinda annoying when management, hell-bent on this new system, insists that if we don't have things done by a certain time there will be serious consequences.

...I don't think they realize just how dangerous our job was to begin with. I don't care if other stores have less people and somehow are able to get the job done faster- I'm sure there are other variables thrown in there that work to their favor that we don't have. Besides maybe the cart pushers, our job is the most physically demanding. I've seen other associates freak out when we lift things like grills or bookshelves by ourselves. They're supposed to get assistance with those items, whereas if you can't do that by yourself in the back room quickly, you're a waste of space.

I guess I just don't understand what they're expecting of us. And a part of me thinks it's really unfair that we're treated this way. I mean, on Monday the garden center guy (James) was made officially ICS. His first day back there, we got told that if we weren't done with the truck at the time given that we would all be coached. It makes my brain hurt. They keep this up, and people are going to quit. I think I'm currently the only one there who actually needs this job.

RARGH. On the plus side though, some people are understanding. I've decided I need to get sick more often (Just not for so long- COUGH. Go away NOW), if I get this much special treatment. My first day back I felt like shit and was told I looked as much. Everyone but me had hours of overtime they needed to kill and when they were told to do so at lunch, Aaron basically told them they could shove that idea where the sun don't shine, seeing as that would leave me to pull the entire backroom by myself for two hours.

When I noticed that the four hours I'd requested off for a wedding were in the second half of my sift instead of the first, I asked a support manager (the awesome one, not the asshole) if he could change it for me. He gave me the whole day off because he said I looked like I needed it (te wedding was nice, by the way).

Donald bought me some more Mike's Hard Lemonade without me even bothering to ask.

Billy stopped by my house to give me a ride to work on Friday even though he's out of work for the week.

And astonishingly, Kathy, of all people, offered to give me a ride home two days in a row. The world is... a very strange place.

So in the mean time, I sleep. And hope my cough goes away soon because otherwise I may actually have to see a doctor. My wallet will be very displeased with me if this occurs.

...I'm attempting self-medication with reading lots of fanfic, but this has backfired. I found out earlier that

fantasyfan17updated her One Piece/Naruto crossover (FF.net has nearly fifty of these... and hers is pretty much the only good one) yet again and have been dying of laughter.

Because I totally need to pimp out more fic to people, I may as well start with this one. The first chapter actually features Zoro and Shikamaru- and I didn't even suggest the idea. As a matter of fact, I didn't even know she was writing the thing until an hour or so before she posted the first chapter. On top of that, I don't even think she knew I'm a Shikamaru fan. Which made it both a surprise and amazingly perfect. (gushes)

The second chapter has too much win for words. Franky and Rock Lee. I die. XD

And this latest chapter I actually did suggest, but she did it wonderfully. Ah, it's a very good thing these characters will probably never actually meet. Because Nami would so do this.

Daniiiiiii! Have I told you how awesome you are lately? :3

Tags: bodily pains, fic rec, frustrations, iconning, naruto, one piece, work

Current Mood:

sick

4 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

04 September 2009 @ 02:53 pm

Pain Sucks

I really must get around to commenting. I shall do that later, providing I have the time. Woke up late and now I only have thirty minutes to run to the bank and the post office. >.<

I've been a bit under the weather for a few weeks now. I think it's just a tiny case of bronchitis, which doesn't really warrant antibiotics (as long as you don't have a fever, which I don't believe I have). But the coughing was getting to me enough last Sunday that I didn't really want to get out of bed. So despite the fact that my sonscience kept screaming 'Two people! There'll only be two people to unload the truck if you don't go!' as it's been doing lately, I finally gave in and called in sick.

Come Wednesday I was feeling a little better though, so I decided to go into work yesterday. Naturally, my body threw a hissy fit. And then I threw the truck (Billy's out for a week 'cause he hurt his back- HOW DOES HE THROW THE DAMN THING EVERY DAY). And in edition to making me cough every five minutes, my body aches every time I shift a little. I am attributing this to being ill still, because I've thrown the truck before, and it stopped having this effect on me a while back.

I would call in some more, but I don't think I have any more sick days. Actually, I'm not even sure if I had the sick days to use the last time I called in, so no rest for me. ;_; And with everyone gone all at once, it'd be hard to convince them that I'm really not well enough to do my job.
Anyways, I must go get those errands done. But now it's time for Youtube Friday.

I am unintentionally developing a theme this week in that my video is fairly simple (I spend like my whole week picking the vid I want to show, so this was an amusing coincidence to me XD). Sometimes the best ones are! I love watching special effects, but sometimes those can overwhelm a video. This one's very nice though, and I've fallen in love with the song.

Though when it comes to One Piece vids, I always get a little sad when I come across ones that were made a while back. 'Cause that means a lack of certain characters. Ah well- at least this one has Franky in it.

Also, I've determined I clearly need to post on why One Piece is so awesome. I can count the people on my flist who knew what I'm talking about with one hand.

On to the video. It really is pretty! :D

Tags: bodily pains, one piece, work, youtube fridays

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8 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

29 August 2009 @ 02:00 pm

Tiiiiiired

While I was using my old laptop to find information to help me fix the new one, it died on me. I was highly frustrated, as I've never gotten around to backing that one up, and it's the one with all my music and TMNT episodes on it. Maybe if I fiddle around with it some more I can get it into safe mode and save some of it...

As for this laptop, yes it is working again. I gathered enough information to figure out how to restore it to factory settings, so now it's at least running again. However, now I have to get all of the other programs I had installed once more, which is of course a pain. The bigger pain though is the appearance- I remember when I first got this laptop, I didn't really like the original screen resolution and had toggled around with it until I got one I approved of. I must have pulled some other trick to get that though, because none of my other attempts are producing the result I want. Plus text looks really weird everywhere I go- way too small. Even when I change the DPI.

Ah well. At least I can use it again.

Huge truck last night. We practically killed ourselves only to be told 'Good job, now learn how to do it like this with two less people'. >.<

But we did do a good job. As big as it was, it's a miracle we were done before eight. After a little complaining from me, I even got two extra hands to help me do break packs (which now have to be done after the rest of the truck much to my irritation). Billy and Gary pulled pallets while Patrick, Aaron, and I sorted.

Oh yeah, did I mention Gary? He's an older guy that used to work grocery. He started working our shift a few weeks ago, but in a separate department. Sometimes he would help us, and he's a good worker.

Yesterday he was notified upon coming in to the store that he's no longer grocery and is now ICS.

...Yeah. Much as I appreciate the help? I'm not okay with that. One day he was grocery, the next he's unloading trucks. WTF, management?

Oh, who wants to hear some other exciting news? Corporate has eliminated the need for an ICS Lead on our shift. 'Cause you know... we're totally organized without one. >.< Instead, the assistant manager over us will function as a lead, despite the fact that he'll have a million other things to do and won't be in the backroom as much as a lead should be. The rest of us just kinda differ to each other...

Translated, unless some schedule changes take place, there will be no relief for me on Sundays and Mondays. (cries)

Despite all the suck, there have been some improvements. The assistant manager still irritates me in what he thinks is feasible at this point and what I call reality (he and Patrick refer to this as pessimism, but everyone else seems to agree with me). Nevertheless... we did things his way last night and we did get more done. I got to picks after break, which hasn't happened in two weeks, even. I think this also has a lot to do with people though- four of us know how to hustle and we were all there on the same day. Come Monday, you switch three of those people out with three who will not bust their asses and we have a whole different story.

Nevertheless, I'm being respectful and giving it a shot. He proved me wrong last night, after all. Plus it's only fair after he listened to me. That's another thing I like about him- the first time we did this was epic failure and I wrote out a long list of the flaws of it and some suggestions I had that might make it work better. To my surprise he agreed with all but one of them and put them in effect last night. Yayness. ^_^

...But like I said. Worn out. Twice the work does mean twice the effort, and I don't think he gets how taxing the original format of our job was on us to begin with. I thought I was getting over my being sick but noooo, I was sure proved wrong. Stupid coughing.

Tags: bodily pains, computer, frustrations, work

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24 August 2009 @ 04:52 am

Shut Up Already, Brain

There are times I wish one could just quit being [insert personality flaw here] like one quits an addiction. While I imagine people can change things about them for the better though, I don't think they can actually just stop being that was all together...

Alas. Quite sucky. In the mean time, I must learn to get over it and keep it from effecting any other activities, like work, etc. Our new manager both irritates and pleases me, but I'm hoping this will change once he's been here longer. The new system is going to take getting used to. It would work better with more people. I really, really want there to be more people again. I recall a time when there were fewer than there is now, but I also remember that back then not as much was expected of us. Translation: this is the worst that it's been back there so far, in my opinion. Everyone with good leadership qualities is gone, so there's no order or anything. And we're worn out every night. The other day my jeans had rubbed my skin so raw that I was bleeding a little.

On that subject, my body seems to hate me. Tonight I found six new bruises on my left leg, two on my right, and one on an elbow. WHAT THE HELL BODY. I don't even remember hurting myself in any of those places.

Rargh. Moving on to cheerier things.

I seem to have finally abandoned most of my TMNT writing endeavors, much to my shame. I do still plan on finishing Cork... someday. But at the moment, I've started a lot of One Piece projects, as well as dabble in Avatar fic if a prompt so inspires me at

avatar_contest.

I'm iconning just about all of my fandoms though. I should have a multi-fandom post sometime in the future, though I can't guarantee when. I tend to take hours on some icons, such as the one I made for

op_ic (a One Piece icontest) this week. Coloring manga is a lot of fun, but making a really good one requires much patience. And naturally I was stupid and tried to color an image of Brook facing away from the viewer. Basically I had no guidelines except for certain parts of his body.

...Though he has no body, being all bones. SKULL JOKE. XD

...Yes, I'm aware that maybe three people on my f-list get that joke/know what I'm talking about. And that they're all rolling their eyes at the stupid skull joke while the rest WTF. Sorry. >.>;

But yeah. Icons! Said Brook icon won the Mod's Choice this time around, and I am blushing like a fool because of it. I'm not showing it off at the moment because I'm making corrections on it right now (which I didn't even notice until looking at it again), but if anyone's curious just go to

op_ic and take a peek.

And since I'm still wanting to get some more coloring experience in, if anyone reading this has a scene from either the One Piece or Naruto manga they would like to see colored and iconned, say the word. :D

Tags: bodily pains, frustrations, iconning, insanity, one piece, work

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4 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

20 August 2009 @ 03:09 pm

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I is getting lazy with my LJ. Which is odd, because it's the site I'm most on in any given day...

Anyways. Work is both at its most awesome for me while simultaneously making me hate it. I say hate it because with my crew dropping off like flies, we're growing more irritable with one another and nothing's getting done to the point where for the first time ever I want to quit (the ICS team, not my source of income, kthnx). I say most awesome for me because with everyone being gone, management continues to look upon with far more favor than before.

Heh. And some of my other co-workers. Kathy tried to be in charge on Sunday and that pissed Donald off. Every time she suggested something, he kept turning to me right in front of her to see if it sounded like a good idea. XD

Still, I really hope they get us some new people soon. They seem to have acknowledged that we're short handed finally, at least. Then again, the entire store is. And I mean everyone. We went from having eight assistant managers to three. O_O Naturally, those positions are starting to get filled right away though. The assistant manager over my department has already been replaced even. He seems nice. He's also supposed to help us get this new unloading program going that apparently all the other stores are starting that is a) supposed to get our trucks done faster and b) give us more work to do. I am uncertain how this will happen, but apparently it can be done, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

In the meantime, we're all dying. Both Billy and Donald went home sick at some time last week (or just didn't show up at all), and by the end of the week Patrick was moving slower because he too wasn't feeling good. Neither was I, for that matter, and I'm not any better. My sinuses are killing me, and on top of that I got the bug the rest of my crew was sharing. So now I'm sneezing like mad and coughing whenever I do more than relax. But I think I've used all of my sick days for this quarter... >.<

Tags: bodily pains, work

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1 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

10 July 2009 @ 03:11 pm

Owowowfreakingow

There's a couple things I could do without when it comes to my job. Coming home in pain is one of them, though I'd gladly take not waking up with that pain doubled first. Gah, I'm so sore. Lately my feet have been acting up again- mainly whenever I go to move my toes. And seeing as that happens whenever you walk, it's slowing me down a little bit.

This morning though, I suppose I was asking for my fate. Yesterday we had a large truck and when Billy didn't get back as soon as us, I decided to do his job for a little while so we didn't get behind. But then he got back and teased me about it so I went 'screw this, I'm throwing the damn truck'.

It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it'd be. Sure, it's an oven- metal trucks in the beating sun typically are. But the sweat cools you down a little too. Really my only problems were when I'd start a new wall. The boxes are most typically stacked to the roof of the truck and I'm a short person. When they were larger boxes, I could move one underneath the other and kinda get them down that way, but when they were smaller boxes I had to climb up onto pallets just to reach them.

Billy said I actually did a really good job throwing. I didn't quite believe him at first, seeing as it took nearly an hour longer to finish the truck even after he switched out with me (I got to throw for a good hour and a half, so it was no big), but he said that was just because it was 2200 pieces and we had three people on the line. Which I guess is a good point.

Anyways, afterwards we (Jennifer, Billy, and I) all decided to go eat at McDonald's. Our order took a few minutes longer than it should have (they were having a little contest of revenge which I won't go into XD), but when we finally pulled up to the window Billy said it was all because the ladies couldn't make up their minds.

We shall add a little note here. I am the Queen of 'the usual'. I go to Moxie Java every Wednesday and order the same thing. I go to Subway every Saturday and order the same sandwich with the same chips with the same drink. And on Mondays I go to McDonald's and order the same meal with the same drink without fail. Most employees know what I'm getting as soon as they see me.

Well, the boy at the window happens to be the one I see on my Mondays. He knows all of us because he's also usually there when we go through the drive-thru together. So when Billy said that, he just laughed and pointed out that mine should have been the easiest to remember.

Boy: Ten piece nuggets, fries, and a Sprite... right?
Pi: Yup!
Boy: Oh, and you usually get ranch dressing. I think they forgot to ask if you wanted any sauce- would you like ranch dressing?
Pi: (is trying to get the straw out of its paper and thus wasn't looking) Yes, please. (goes back to fiddling obliviously while he disappears to get said ranch)

While he was gone, I was very quickly informed that he had blushed very deeply when he'd asked me that. Which resulted in somre remarks about how cute that was from Jen and Billy being a butt and telling me he'd get his phone number for me when I wasn't totally opposed to the idea that someone non-creepy could like me. Brat.

But I quickly put an end to that by pointing out that this boy is like sixteen. ...It would figure.

Well anyways. Let's do Youtube Friday!

This is actually a game trailer for the upcoming Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Now usually, I hate video games. They have a tendency to piss me off and thus I'm usually more frustarted after playing them then I was when I started. And I hate all controllers that go beyond your basic arrow keys and attack buttons. Therefore, I just tend to be avoid them alltogether unless I score a freebie on the PC or something (like with the TMNT game).

But this one... this actually looks really interesting to me. Marvel characters rock for starters, but then this one's also based off the Civil War plotline from the comics. And it just... looks really freaking sweet. :D

So I give. WANT.

Tags: bodily pains, co-workers, work, youtube fridays

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1 Fade Into the Night | Strike Hard

05 April 2009 @ 03:35 am

...

Today has been a rather awful day. Even the little things have sucked.

Started out by going to get that Thriller Chiller I told you guys about (as I ran out of time yesterday to do so). Whoever made it was an idiot. Got no whipped cream or cinnamon, it was much thicker than last time (this time I was not given a spoon, so it kinda sucked at the end), there was way too much Butterfinger, and I'm pretty sure they left out the coffee part, as it tasted a little different. That last part I didn't mind so much, as the mocha flavor was pretty subtle to being with. Still, I was bummed.

Then came the truck- 2000 pieces and five people to unload it. Because the day crew didn't finish setting up for it, we were thirty minutes late starting it. Then a grocery truck came, a frozen truck, and about eight carry-outs that kept us from out job. The truck itself was dusty as hell- if you ran your finger through it it would have the thickness of paint. The boxes themselves were loaded like shit- at one point a wall of them fell over on Billy, and right as he was upright another half toppled over him. I had to go inside and dig him out.

We finished half an hour late for lunch (which is good, considering the stops), but as Billy had to go home to take care of his mom, only four of us came back to pull. It took forever. While I was pulling a pallet, my finger got smashed. The result was half of the nail being bent backwards, taking the skin with it. Only it didn't rip the nail- I was able to shove it back into place and if it weren't for the bruise forming there you'd never know what happened. Hurts like hell, though.

Came home and tried to get online, only to be halted by my freaking ISP. I'd forgotten that my mom had gotten a new credit card, thus when it billed the old one it was obviously halted. Unfortunately, it took me two hours to get the stupid information changed. I ran into various roadblocks and finally said 'screw it' and put in my debit card info. Hope they won't have a problem with that. But whatever- it got me back online, and with how stressed I've been today, that's all I want.

Other than to build a time machine anyways.

( The United States Postal Service needs to die and go to hell )

Tags: bodily pains, friends, frustrations, internet, work

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