Wandering in the Woods

Tonight is the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince release party. EEK! Scared, so scared. Well, at least I told them that I was not available for working the all night shift this time around. I've been crashing at about one lately so I couldn't possibly work till three in the a.m. or whenever they are going to get out of there. I'm dressing up in my newest Rein Faire garb (which really isn't at all period, but is so very pretty) and am going to wear a witch hat in an attempt to keep myself from being made to wear a Harry Potter #6 baseball cap. Baseball caps really don't work with my look. ^_^
I reserved a copy, but I can wait till tomorrow to pick it up, I'm still reading the last (presently) of the Amelia Peabody mysteries anyway.

Computer at home still no work-ie. Pout. So here I am in the library at Ohlone getting a bit of an internet fix before heading home. We had another power outage in Fremont yesterday for a little over an hour. Not a lot going on, trying to get work done on my final project for my Critical Thinking course, we're having a Focus Group on Friday before I have to go to work. I need to try calling my assistant manager, Kim to tell her that I can't work my regular shift on Friday the tenth, I think it would be bad to not be there for the final. Mr. Peeters was ever so kind and made our Group Presentation project our Final.
With any luck my home computer will be up and running soon. There seems to be some debate about what is actually wrong with it- Heather's roommate's boyfriend originally thought it was the hard-drive, but after describing the problem to my friend, Kyla her boyfriend thinks it sounds like the real problem is the motherboard. Sigh. Don't know, we shall see.
I've gotten a bit of my Xmas shopping done, not nearly as much as I would like though. I was much further along by this point last year. I think I'm probably doing a large portion of that shopping at B&N again, y'know, discount and all. I love my discount. Esp. since the company is trying to show they appreciate us employees by giving us an additional 10 % discount from the 3-12. Employee Appreciation Days. Yeah, appreciate encouraging us to spend more money there, but hey I won't knock it. I was probably going to buy most of my stuff there anyway so I don't mind saving more. =) Saving money is good.
Things are more or less okay, saw several friends recently. My friend, Brisa and her boyfriend/significant other/whatever you want to call it cause boyfriend sounds somewhat juvenile, Scott stopped by my store on Friday. We hadn't seen each other in months and then my mother and I saw her at Red Robin on Monday. When she was our server at Red Robin she confirmed what Scott had told me- she's about a month pregnant. Their baby is going to be soooo beautiful! My cousin, Sean (who got married this summer) and his new wife, Megan just announced that they're about a month pregnant as well. My grandparents are going to be great-grandparents at last! I'm sure my Grandfather will have a grand time reminding us of that. I'm not sure whether this will make me feel less like I have to hurry up and provide them with great-grandchildren or more so.
My friend, Kyla stopped by the store on Sunday and I visited with her for a bit while I was supposed to be doing reading from the "bookseller learning library" at work. Oh well, it wasn't very informative for someone who has been there over five years anyway. It was an entire manual on hints on where/how to look for different subjects and sections in my store. I sort of skimmed it and told Kim I had read it. Well, she was only asking that I skim it anyway and I did that, more or less.
I hope everyone is doing well. Take care!

Worked today, was fairly busy due to the holiday. Spent about an hour and a half at work playing this Barnes& Noble Learning Board Game. Ehhh, it was okay I suppose. It was more interesting than the training videos that try too hard to be funny and end up just insulting your intelligence. Dragon stopped by for a bit during my dinner break. James picked me up after work and is currently playing "Ratchet and Clank III" that he rented, it just came out and he had to give it a whack. He brought over three new DVDs of Eddie Izzard....OOooo...
James had told me, in error, that season one of the TV series, "Hunter" was available out on DVD already, but when he called yesterday he told me he had been mistaken. Drat, I had been planning on buying that as a Christmas gift for Dad. That sucked, however I just cross-referenced this evening on bn.com, amazon.com, and suncoast.com that it will be available January 11, 2005. That's cool, that way I can buy it for Dad's birthday on the 29th. Now I just have to come up with something else to get him for Xmas. Hmmm...

My coworker, Chris Fox swears that we won't be having another holiday meeting, although apparently they want us to have monthly loss prevention meetings till our shrink rate improves. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
James dropped me off early at work, he's leaving Friday for Las Vegas for his older brother's fortieth birthday. He was really looking forward to seeing the Blue Man Group and to going to the Star Trek experience.
I wandered around the Hub for about two hours before going to work; had lunch over at Chili's.
Rather quiet, uneventful work shift. I put together a window display for a Mercury newspaper charity drive that we're sponsoring. We have a bin by the registers for people to donate books for children. I had to tell a young girl not to turn it over on its side. I think she wanted to crawl in. ;) Silly girl. I'm going to have to donate some books to that.
Saw my friend, Chris Maxwell for a while after work.

Libra

Hmmm...this horoscope is a lot better than the one in my newspaper. Yeah, I read my horoscope. Hey it's right on the page with comics and the "on this day in history" feature. I had recently suggested that I wanted to start writing it for them, they were too boring. They needed something like "Today you will be bitten by a lemur."

Nothing even remotely redeeming to say about my work day. I didn't have anyone go crazy on me, everyone was relatively pleasant or didn't speak to me at all. I really don't appreciate it when folks ignore me, but I suppose I prefer that to screaming. Actually I know I prefer that to screaming. Need new job. Need better job.

I get to see James tomorrow! Yay! I can't believe it has been about a week since I really got to spend any time with him. Dropping by his store briefly with Dragon doesn't count nor does popping my head in while he was on a conference call.

The day started off well enough, getting ready for Dad to come home on his lunch break so I could get a lift to our mutual work area, but Dragon called and offered to give me a ride to work and that way she could come over and visit for a bit. She got to watch me repeatedly run Jean out of the kitchen. Ever since Jean has needed to have a plate of food specially fixed for her she is constantly going into the kitchen, she always used to be so good about that.

( Grousing about work )
Thankfully I'm off today (Monday) and will get to see James at some point. Yay! I wish the weather would have been a little cooler, more Bay Area like to welcome him home with, but hopefully it will start cooling off pretty soon. I can't stand this heat.

How odd. I don't work today. I just called the store and Kim told me that I'm not on the schedule for today, but I'm on tomorrow. I had to tell her that I wouldn't be able to be there till five since my original class time was canceled and I had to add in to a class that meets Monday and Wednesday from two-thirty till three-forty five. She was fine with me coming in at five tomorrow and Wednesday of this week, but it looks like I need to try to find someone to cover me on Wednesday of next week. Sigh. It's going to suck having to take Monday and Wedneday as my days off, that will probably just about guarantee that James and I won't have any days off together for a while and even if he did happen to be off I wouldn't be available till the evening. Phooey. Ah well...C'est la vie, I needed the class so what else could I do? James and I will have vacation time together at the end of September. I need to think of some things for us to do. I know we'll be going to the Renaissance Faire in Casa De Fruita at the beginning of the week, but I could use some suggestions for other things for us to do to get out of the house. Any ideas? My Mom has advised me to not get my wisdom teeth done during my vacation and that she would be able to take care of me if I did it in October. I will have to talk with both of them to find out how early in October she would be available, if it would be early in the month I might go with that, but I don't want to push it till the end of the month. We'll see. It was never my intention to let it go this long, but I needed to wait for a time that James would be available to help me out since Mom had to use all her vacation time and sick time on her gallbladder surgery. Even if I do end up getting my surgery done at the end of September I would probably still like a few suggestions for some places to go.
Hopefully my sore throat will feel better by tomorrow.

I can't recall the last time I've had to work on the fourth of July, it's been a few years at least. Despite the fact that nine still seemed an awfully late hour for closing for a holiday, I did appreciate not having to be there till eleven-thirty. It was a nice change of pace. The store was incredibly slow yesterday. I think we should have closed even earlier. It would have upset the people who come to use us as a library, but ah well, c'est la vie.
After I got out of there James picked me up and we decided to head over and see if anyone was still around at mikesama and monkeysminion's house. We missed the fireworks, but we did get to see lianleviathan, azurdragon, and Jennifer M. Dragons aside it has been a long time since I saw any of them so that was very nice. While driving through Newark James and I did get to see a few fireworks.

I told my boss today about my "stalker problem" and he was not pleased at all and agreed that the man's behavior was completely unacceptable and told me that should that guy come in again that he wanted to me to call him up and he would handle him. So, of course the guy doesn't show up! The night that I decide to try to take care of the problem and alert my manager so that he can help me handle it since this guy isn't getting the message he doesn't show. Hmph. Can't even expect consistency from stalkers anymore, what is the world coming to?

Inventory is finally over so I can think about taking some vacation time. I would probably end up hanging out around here for most of it since James can't take any vacation time till August, I think, but it would be a nice chance to get some more stuff done and not have to worry about going to work. A couple of days ago he bought a DVD on classical dancing so he and I could try to learn how to dance together. Aw. Better go continue getting ready for work.