Working with CSS is surprising. All the stuff I thought I wouldn't get is simple, while the things I thought would be easy are becoming rather tedious.

Either way, my new layout is a work in progress. It's made by toledan_night, but I have been playing around with the colors, and a few other things. Not done yet. :D

In the mean time, if you and I are buddies on AIM, you may get linked to some weird questionaire thing by me. If this happens, just ignore the link. There's a spam meme going around.

Why I never talk about this stuff as it happens is beyond me, but here you go. XD

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I have my debit card! The investigation into the fradulent charges has ruled in my favor! (is overjoyed)

Naturally, this is right in time to pay two overdue bills and recieve statements for the next month of service for four other things. >.<

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With money, I now have my paid LJ account again! Oh icons, I have missed you. And the ad-freeness. And how I can expand comments again. So much freaking love.

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Last week at work, with the whole cut hours thing, I was supposed to go home an hour early on Friday. There were lots and lots of picks that night though, so I was asked if I could maybe stay. I said sure- had nothing else better to do, after all, and I could kill that time in the following days.

I was going to kill it on Saturday, but there were even fewer people than the day before, so I got asked again. I must say I really didn't mind, actually.

Have I ever explained how picks work? It's pretty easy, actually. Every night, a list of items that need to go to the salesfloor is uploaded to the system. We use these little handheld computer to see these items and then proceed to pick them out of the bins in the backroom and take them out. It's simple- basically just a matter of matching the UPC on our computers to the UPC on the product.

You see, there's something about picks that fills my heart with glee. Because unlike unloading the truck or pulling pallets, picks is something I really excel at. While I couldn't tell you for certain unless I had an exact list, I seem to finish more departments than most of the others. Certain ones I can even finish three times as fast as anyone else.

Take crafts for example. Besides the UPC, the pick will often list the name of the product. I'm familiar enough with the crafts bins now that I can recognize the grain of ribbons just by the name I'm given. And when they stuff a hundred or so ribbons into a bin, that comes in a lot of handy. XD

So anyways. Yeah. I actually was quite pleased to be asked to stay longer. It made me feel like they think I'm among the best at this task too.

Come Sunday though, my schedule had me leaving at midnight and I still hadn't killed the hour from before. But then I got asked by a manager to stay. And I even ended up staying until two in the morning (couldn't help but notice that this favor wasn't asked of the other associates who were sent home an hour early).

I was given permission to kill that time on Monday and leave at eleven. Naturally, Monday morning my alarm clock didn't go off and I woke up around six in the afternoon O_o;. I got to work as fast as I could, and killed pretty much all of that overtime in the process. I'm very grateful for it now. XD

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My little brother stayed at my house on my days off. I'd worried a lot over what kind of stuff I could take him to do, but as it turned out he was quite content just watching my collection of cartoons. I tried to take him to the park, but he preferred the tire swing in my backyard. XD

Despite this, we have never gotten along as well as we did in the past few days. Not since he was a baby. He actually seemed happy to see me, and I'll admit that it was very nice to have another body in the house. I've missed hugs.

Also- I took him to the library. He encouraged me to get a library card ("They're free! Didn't you know?" XD), so I have one now. But there isn't a very good selection there, alas.

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Jennifer's last day in the ICS was last night. It was pretty damn sudden- we found out two days ago. She's going to be lead for the daytime crew now, and we have no idea when we'll get a replacement. They still haven't replaced Michael, after all, and Paul's still been gone. 

As for the lead position, they're considering Billy. Not sure if it will work out, as he has a coaching that would normally prevent one from getting such a position, but I wouldn't mind. 

I am curious as to what might happen if he does get it though. Things could end either very well or very bad, depending on how you look at it.

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Aaaaaaand now I'm off to work. >.<


 

Gah, I'm so behind in talking about stuffs on here. And on memes. I need to remember to come over here earlier than ten minutes before I'm supposed to go to work.

Work. Not too bad lately, besides a little drama here and there. We had a power outage last Sunday. Was SO much fun. We had to evacuate the store and everything. Then we had to cover up all of the freezers and bunkers with garbage bags to keep them cool as long as possible. Power came back on five minutes before lunch ended though, so it was back to business as usual afterwards.

We get a new guy today. His name is Donald, and he's helped us out before. He's going to be a big help. :D

What else... Oh yeah. Been iconning. See that one up there? I'm learning how to color manga and that's one of my attempts. I shan't spoil any of my other ones though. ^_^

And on the subject of One Piece, Angelfeatherwriter (you TMNT fic readers should know her) and I are collabing on a project right now! Fic project! We spent like four hours talking about it before we started writing too, so I think both of us are pretty excited.

Here's that meme I said I was going to do but never posted. XD

Some I just couldn't do no matter how hard I tried. And others I had to stretch a bit. But I think I got them all. Yay!

Properly crediting the person who made the background I employ: fearsome-calico-jane of Deviantart. 

Anyways, to mention something I forgot to say earlier: I have a doctor appointment for tomorrow! As happy as I am about this, I can't help but WTF. While I realize Mom didn't know the doctor we'd been waiting on for so long couldn't help, had someone told us this sooner this would've been taken care of back in April. 

And while this is likely nothing serious, I'm sure looking into whatever's wrong with me earlier might've helped me out a lot. 

That said, maybe I can also get some feedback on how to make me less sick when I see him/her tomorrow. Because my stomach is still killing me. 

(goes back to bed)

Slept most of the day today, as I thought. And now I've completely redesigned my LJ so it looks way cool. ^_^ Tell me what you think!

The header was made by khallandraand the background by someone over at DA whom I can't remember at the moment... will credit approproiately later.

Okay! On to writing!

How come there's never anyone to talk to at four in the morning?

Oh yeah... because I should be sleeping... like everyone else. XD

I guess that's where my little naps tend to put a dent in my social endeavors. I sleep when I think I need to, when and if I can. So I usually have no qualms about going to bed at five in the afternoon, even if it means I'm wide awake come ten at night. 

Taking the opportunity to process that DVD while I'm up. It takes so long! Probably won't be done for another hour or more. And from the looks of things in the logs... the quality is going to be sucky again. >.< Dammit!

And there's really not much I can do in the mean time. I already caught up with my favorite sites, dinked around a bit in some of the ratings communities, reread some of my favorite fics. Heh- now I know I'm bored. I went back and fixed a bunch of errors in my old LJ entries, as well as played around with the tagging system some more. It would appear I angst a lot. XD

I'd play Hearts. But the last time I tried that while processing a DVD, my whole computer froze. I'd also write, but I don't know if I want to risk the chance. I don't know if working in Word would cause the same problem or not.

Oh well. I do have some stuff in mind, right about now. I'll work on it tomorrow. :D