hiho...just got home from a lovely time at Denny's with Billy and Rick. i haven't seen Rick in over a year but he's living pretty nearby so i'll probly get to hang out with him more. yayness.

turns out i have to work Halloween night after all (and a big FUCK YOU goes out to Steve, the coworker that made it all possible by whining till our shifts got switched). so if you're gonna be around (meaning not at college elsewhere or going to Salem like everyone here) stop by Spencer's after 5 and stuff. bring me candy. preferably something fruity. :D

nothing else really going on at the moment. Wacom won't be here till Friday, which blows it. >: my mom bought me the Piglet movie DVD today, which is really nothing too special since i already saw it and its pretty bad, but its the thought that counts. plus she didn't totally strike out cuz she also bought the Nightmare Before Christmas DVD, complete with super special extras cuz its the anniversary edition. it had Tim Burton's first 2 films on it, Vincent and Frankenweenie, they're both great.

i have to go to the town hall tomorrow to vote, anti-casino of course. i don't even know if there's anything else on the ballot. maybe that thing about moving the firehouse, which i would also be voting against, cuz they'd be running Permanent Addictions out of their building and i really really like their work, and wouldn't be happy if they had to go out of business. a move i could handle but there's that risk and whatnot (there's probly maniacal laughter coming from the Piercing Experience). soooooooo whatever, i'll do that in the morning/early afternoon.

but now i must sleep as its nearing 3 in the morning and i need to rest for another several long shifts in a row.

its maybe been a little while i guess....i've kinda had stuff to say but haven't felt like posting. so here's some work-related anecdotes and thoughts.

i was working at Spencer's the other day and i was doing the whole Spencer's shtick, asking people if i could help them find anything whilst makin' with the wacky, and i go up to this one overweight, badly dressed (long blue trenchcoaty thing, socks and sandals), horribly made up woman, and ask if i can help, etc. blah blah blah. turns out this really ugly frizzy haired lady is quite obviously a dude, a dude who happens to be looking for fishnet stockings, of all things. my response is "thigh high or full length?" (UGH). so i lead this manly thing to the accessories, thoughts of the horrible situation that would ensue if i had to get this person's attention (do you say sir or ma'am? i mean, when the lady is definitely a dude....) and then they want to look at the full length velvet gloves and everything, insisting that purple wouldn't do, they had to have the black ones in the back (not really a problem since i just yelled for my supervisor, Jay, to get them, since he's the tallest employee). but wow that was almost awkward.

why do all the preppy teenaged girls want to be "80s" for Halloween? maybe not all, but quite a few of them have come into Goodwill this weekend squealing about things being "soooooo 80s." there were even a couple of highly annoying chicks who almost earned a pricing gun to the temporal lobe (i don't even know where that is or what it does but i sure hope its vital) due to their REPEATED high pitched exclamations of "OMIGOD" while examining a certain hideous "80s" skirt. they each said it about 10 times in about 2 minutes, as soon as i thought they were done with it it would start up again.

Goodwill has been stupid busy in general lately, on Saturday we had a line of at least 10 people for 3 hours straight (obviously not the same 10 people, durrrr). Adam, the kid on the other register, went to take his half hour lunch break when there was a small lull in the register activity, and i was supposed to go when he got back. i ended up not being able to leave the register until almost an hour after i was supposed to. and then, 10 minutes into my break, someone pounds on the break room door. i open it and there's this short fat old woman with hair that stuck straight out standing there just glowering at me. she starts bitching about the line being very long and it not being fair that i went on break when so many people were waiting to be helped, and that it was ridiculous that they only left one person up on register, and BY THE WAY she wasn't even in line yet but this is what she thought and people in line sounded PRETTY MAD. i explained my situation to her and of course she didn't give a fuck. so to keep her away i ended my break 10 minutes early. and of course as soon as i leave the break room she swoops on me again and starts whining about the price on a bag of toys. since the other bags of toys were only 95 cents and this one was 5.95, she was SURE that we had made a mistake in pricing, maybe we had been pricing something else as 5.95 and had accidentally priced the bag of toys wrong? considering it had an actual bar code sticker that said TOYS right on it instead of just a small price sticker, she was obviously wrong, and i told her the prices just ranged a lot depending on what was in the bags. she insisted she was right and i told her to go talk to the manager and proceeded to ignore her. i told a couple of my coworkers what had happened and by the end of the shift everyone was pissed off at the woman. we've had a lot of rude fucks in there lately (like the guy who dumped a bunch of heavy coats in my arms without so much as a hello and then said "i'm donating these, take care of them" and left....or the woman who ran up to the counter while i was bagging someone else's purchase, kinda waved her stuff in my face, threw a couple bucks on the counter, then yelled over her shoulder as she left "that shouldn't be more than $2" - it was actually 2.05 with tax).

there was a farmers market/petting zoo in the mall on friday, complete with cows, sheep, turkeys and a pig. all, of course, right outside spencers. it prompted my boss to dress up in our trailer park king costume (wifebeater, pot belly prop, mechanic's jumpsuit, plus he added a mullet wig, a coonskin cap, and billy bob teeth). and lucky me, i was on alone with him from 9:30 till 3. i started out as a witch but after my break changed into a nun costume, cuz it was fun to run around shouting "jesus loves you!" at the customers. it made my boss proud, i'm sure, he loves to offend people.

i still don't know whats up for Halloween, i may or may not have to work that night, if i do i won't mind too much since there will be kids trick or treating in the mall so that could be fun, but i wont be able to wear my costume. stop by the mall that night if you have nothing better to do, i'll probly be there....

i guess i should be heading to bed, i have to get up at 7:30 so i can be at the mall at 9:30....ick.

out like a trout.