Send me a song(s), will ya? Go to yousendit.com, or any of those other places, and gimmay.
If'n you've heard me talk about certain bands and want to check out some of their music, let me know, unkay?
OOOH, and for the email address if you want to send the music that way:
aubrey.mcsaurus at gmail.com, or even just at aubkabob at livejournal.com. Both will end in the same place.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
I... really don't have a title for this.
It's nice to come home sometimes and have Bacci make sweet sweet love to my hands. Not like.... ew, love, but as in "OMG, YOU'RE HOME THANK GAWD, PET ME LIKE THE WHORE YOU ARE!!!" love.
Sweat has finally stopped dripping down me from my walk home.
Went to Target to buy delicious foods to suppliment my dinners at work, bought Method's fantastic earth-loving refill for hand soap - 12 ounces for $2.99 in a dispensor, flavor of your choice, or 34 ounces for $3.99, either green tea or sweet water flavors.
Since I have been trying to be better for the environment and to not buy things tested on animals... things I have bought my whole life come into question. Like, for example, I realize that just not purchasing stuff tested on animals isn't good, that one should not buy any products from said companies. I was an Oil of Olay hog, for one example. Another random example is buying toothpaste from, say, Tom of Maine's, but then buying a toothbrush made by Crest.
And now everyone is thinking that I'm a tree-hugging hippy. It's been... awhile since I hugged a tree, and I will never try to force my beliefs on others - I'm just changing the way that I personally do things.
Call it my Greenpeacy Stage in life.
Worked my hiney off at work, setting planograms for paper. I'm stiff and feeling old, looking forward to bed, bath, and... beyond, not necessarily in that order.
Yancey and I decided to coin the phrase "brown collaring" - when someone is brown-nosing so much, you don't know where the brown-nosee lets off and the brown-noser begins. Head so far up their ass blowing smoke, that even their collars are brown.
Sweat has finally stopped dripping down me from my walk home.
Went to Target to buy delicious foods to suppliment my dinners at work, bought Method's fantastic earth-loving refill for hand soap - 12 ounces for $2.99 in a dispensor, flavor of your choice, or 34 ounces for $3.99, either green tea or sweet water flavors.
Since I have been trying to be better for the environment and to not buy things tested on animals... things I have bought my whole life come into question. Like, for example, I realize that just not purchasing stuff tested on animals isn't good, that one should not buy any products from said companies. I was an Oil of Olay hog, for one example. Another random example is buying toothpaste from, say, Tom of Maine's, but then buying a toothbrush made by Crest.
And now everyone is thinking that I'm a tree-hugging hippy. It's been... awhile since I hugged a tree, and I will never try to force my beliefs on others - I'm just changing the way that I personally do things.
Call it my Greenpeacy Stage in life.
Worked my hiney off at work, setting planograms for paper. I'm stiff and feeling old, looking forward to bed, bath, and... beyond, not necessarily in that order.
Yancey and I decided to coin the phrase "brown collaring" - when someone is brown-nosing so much, you don't know where the brown-nosee lets off and the brown-noser begins. Head so far up their ass blowing smoke, that even their collars are brown.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Stranded in the wrong time...
So I hear today that Newport Bay AND the movie theater will also be moving out of my work's plaza.
Oy.
That makes a total of... them, Bed Bath & Beyond, WinCo, and... possibly Barnes & Noble to move from our plaza, within the next year and a half. Combine this with the loss of Michael's a year ago (which so hurt our sales) and (to a lesser extent) JoAnne's... That leaves us pretty much with Target and Hollywood Video. Ooh, and a dollar store. Combine all of THAT with the fact that I peeked at our recent sales and we're only making about half of what all the other stores in the district are (awful, as we're the largest!!), the fact that we're having a major visit at the end of the month for an "evaluation" that has the store manager fuhREAKING out, and the fact that instead of having a concrete date for our remodel (September 28), they said "uh... sometime in the future... or something."... doesn't look promising for OfficeMax Store 0255.
Or my job.
Granted, it would take at least a year (hope) for all of this to happen, which hopefully means job security until then. But I would not only then have to find another job, but I would no longer work with the people I do now. This makes me sad.
I still don't know what I want to do with my life.
In other news, excited to get to see Ben and Larrissa for a bit in a few hours, though it will probably be only a teensy bit. I miss them, I do.
It's almost as if working overnights is some sort of a... lab experiment, to see how human beings will react. Thank DOODNESS I get along well with Ted - I can't imagine how I would cope if I was stuck only ever seeing someone I loathed. Ted for eight or so hours a day, sometimes Yancey for four, morning crew for ten minutes, roommates for maybe ten minutes a day...
I generally can't make noise on my "days" off, as any noise I makes carries into the bedroom of my sleeping roommates. While Jess can sleep through a dancing bull on the bed, Daniel is a light sleeper. Sigh. This keeps me from accomplishing much on my days off, other than WoW or FFXII or movies and knitting. (You would think I would have my purse done by now, but noooOOOOoo, I'm still only about sixteen or so rows into it.) That also takes out playing my guitar, though I realized that if I get Murray (my electric) out of it's bag, I can play that with no amp and make no noise, wee!
I have slept totally horribly for the last two days, due to the heat and other things. (We do not have air conditioning, and all I own is a 8" clip on fan next to my bed, which resides in a second story bedroom. I'm thankful that there's a tree outside giving me shade, but STILL. Even sleeping nude doesn't help. Bleh. I'm going to try melatonin (not melanoma) today and see if that helps.
Anyone have any suggestions for some easy, fantastic vegetarian dishes?
Bad dreams last night, where my ex band was breaking up, and many of my most precious, delicate belongings ended up thrown in the pool, along with the drummer's kit. I remember screaming in frustration at Mike, to not give up, that this will soon pass.
Not sleeping well has hindered my ability to stay on topic, you see.
Oy.
That makes a total of... them, Bed Bath & Beyond, WinCo, and... possibly Barnes & Noble to move from our plaza, within the next year and a half. Combine this with the loss of Michael's a year ago (which so hurt our sales) and (to a lesser extent) JoAnne's... That leaves us pretty much with Target and Hollywood Video. Ooh, and a dollar store. Combine all of THAT with the fact that I peeked at our recent sales and we're only making about half of what all the other stores in the district are (awful, as we're the largest!!), the fact that we're having a major visit at the end of the month for an "evaluation" that has the store manager fuhREAKING out, and the fact that instead of having a concrete date for our remodel (September 28), they said "uh... sometime in the future... or something."... doesn't look promising for OfficeMax Store 0255.
Or my job.
Granted, it would take at least a year (hope) for all of this to happen, which hopefully means job security until then. But I would not only then have to find another job, but I would no longer work with the people I do now. This makes me sad.
I still don't know what I want to do with my life.
In other news, excited to get to see Ben and Larrissa for a bit in a few hours, though it will probably be only a teensy bit. I miss them, I do.
It's almost as if working overnights is some sort of a... lab experiment, to see how human beings will react. Thank DOODNESS I get along well with Ted - I can't imagine how I would cope if I was stuck only ever seeing someone I loathed. Ted for eight or so hours a day, sometimes Yancey for four, morning crew for ten minutes, roommates for maybe ten minutes a day...
I generally can't make noise on my "days" off, as any noise I makes carries into the bedroom of my sleeping roommates. While Jess can sleep through a dancing bull on the bed, Daniel is a light sleeper. Sigh. This keeps me from accomplishing much on my days off, other than WoW or FFXII or movies and knitting. (You would think I would have my purse done by now, but noooOOOOoo, I'm still only about sixteen or so rows into it.) That also takes out playing my guitar, though I realized that if I get Murray (my electric) out of it's bag, I can play that with no amp and make no noise, wee!
I have slept totally horribly for the last two days, due to the heat and other things. (We do not have air conditioning, and all I own is a 8" clip on fan next to my bed, which resides in a second story bedroom. I'm thankful that there's a tree outside giving me shade, but STILL. Even sleeping nude doesn't help. Bleh. I'm going to try melatonin (not melanoma) today and see if that helps.
Anyone have any suggestions for some easy, fantastic vegetarian dishes?
Bad dreams last night, where my ex band was breaking up, and many of my most precious, delicate belongings ended up thrown in the pool, along with the drummer's kit. I remember screaming in frustration at Mike, to not give up, that this will soon pass.
Not sleeping well has hindered my ability to stay on topic, you see.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
You're it, fang face.
.... THE HELL?!? On Tues/Wed, it's supposed to be OVER A HUNDRED DEGREES? Oy. Shoot me now. I really need to invest in a fan or something. Granted, I'll be sleeping during the hottest time of the day, but STILL.
Things you may not know about me:
- I am a WOMAN. For some reason, in comments to people, I really think that people think I'm some guy named Bob because of my screen name. No, I assure you, I'm 100% female. My first name is Aubrey, it's a play off of that. I have never gone by the name Bob evur.
- I'm 5'6 or 5'7 ish, 224 lbs, short dark hair, which is starting to go grey. Erm, white. Shiny silver? Oy. I'm going to look like I belong in Sloan soon. I stopped dying my hair for some reason, and cut off all the colored parts. I had red hair most of my adult life.
- I wear glasses, and desperately need new ones - I've been looking through these goggles for 4 1/2 years now, so I can't see shit. I always feel silly telling people "Hold on! I can't see, I have my glasses on!" (I see better with contacts, but EFFORT!!! is involved.)
- I'm allergic to metal. Yes, I have tried sterling silver, hypoallergenic crap, surgical steel, etc. I'm just allergic to metal. The only metal I've found that doesn't make me break out within five minutes of touching it is the metal in my fillings. Everything else, it BUUUURNS ME!
- I have three fillings - both shallow enough to get done without any shots or pain killers of any kind. I was more afraid of the giant needles than I was of the pain. I was.. sixteenish when I got them.
- I have scoliosis - but these days, who doesn't? All but three vertebrae of my spine is TWISTED, literally, and curved into a slight backwards 's' shape - the curve of the 's' pinches nerves between my spine and right shoulder blade at times.
- I wear a size 7 wide shoe, or a 7 1/2 regular.
- I never match my socks. My only request is that they are around the same thickness and length.
- I'm a vegetarian. Ovo/lacto, fer certain, though I've been trying to eat less of those, too. Oddly, the only things I've missed is pork products - namely ham and bacon. BACON!
- I've had two surgeries: one on my right wrist for carpal tunnel syndrome at age 17, the other for a deviated septum.
- I have almost pristine credit, except for a stupid Jeep I haven't owned in four years. I really need to see someone about that - I just got another letter in the mail saying that starting with my very next check, 25% of my pay will belong to them. The amount I owed them went from $23,000 something the last time they garnished me, to $24,000 something, only four months later. The hell?!? What I originally owed them was only $15,000, the jerks, and I only MAKE $12,000 a year. (Well, as of last year - this year will be more because of working more, schooling less, and such.)
I'm sure there's lots of other things that you don't know about me, but I really want to go to bed. (I work graveyards!! Noon is my bedtime!)
Any questions?
Things you may not know about me:
- I am a WOMAN. For some reason, in comments to people, I really think that people think I'm some guy named Bob because of my screen name. No, I assure you, I'm 100% female. My first name is Aubrey, it's a play off of that. I have never gone by the name Bob evur.
- I'm 5'6 or 5'7 ish, 224 lbs, short dark hair, which is starting to go grey. Erm, white. Shiny silver? Oy. I'm going to look like I belong in Sloan soon. I stopped dying my hair for some reason, and cut off all the colored parts. I had red hair most of my adult life.
- I wear glasses, and desperately need new ones - I've been looking through these goggles for 4 1/2 years now, so I can't see shit. I always feel silly telling people "Hold on! I can't see, I have my glasses on!" (I see better with contacts, but EFFORT!!! is involved.)
- I'm allergic to metal. Yes, I have tried sterling silver, hypoallergenic crap, surgical steel, etc. I'm just allergic to metal. The only metal I've found that doesn't make me break out within five minutes of touching it is the metal in my fillings. Everything else, it BUUUURNS ME!
- I have three fillings - both shallow enough to get done without any shots or pain killers of any kind. I was more afraid of the giant needles than I was of the pain. I was.. sixteenish when I got them.
- I have scoliosis - but these days, who doesn't? All but three vertebrae of my spine is TWISTED, literally, and curved into a slight backwards 's' shape - the curve of the 's' pinches nerves between my spine and right shoulder blade at times.
- I wear a size 7 wide shoe, or a 7 1/2 regular.
- I never match my socks. My only request is that they are around the same thickness and length.
- I'm a vegetarian. Ovo/lacto, fer certain, though I've been trying to eat less of those, too. Oddly, the only things I've missed is pork products - namely ham and bacon. BACON!
- I've had two surgeries: one on my right wrist for carpal tunnel syndrome at age 17, the other for a deviated septum.
- I have almost pristine credit, except for a stupid Jeep I haven't owned in four years. I really need to see someone about that - I just got another letter in the mail saying that starting with my very next check, 25% of my pay will belong to them. The amount I owed them went from $23,000 something the last time they garnished me, to $24,000 something, only four months later. The hell?!? What I originally owed them was only $15,000, the jerks, and I only MAKE $12,000 a year. (Well, as of last year - this year will be more because of working more, schooling less, and such.)
I'm sure there's lots of other things that you don't know about me, but I really want to go to bed. (I work graveyards!! Noon is my bedtime!)
Any questions?
Saturday, July 7, 2007
She recently sent me some more of this research!
LOLZ - in clicking to put Underworld: Evolution into my Netflix queue, (I just have a thing for Kate Beckensale. Mrowr!) it says:
Other movies you might like:
Van Helsing
Blade
X:Men
Bloodrayne
Click
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Okeee... one of these things is not like the other....
===========
Wore my old man dress pants to work last night, and was surprised with a truck of freight. Seeing as the pants let my legs breathe about as much as a garbage bag would, methinks I need to take a shower before going to bed for the day. Well, that - and the fact that my forearms look like I rolled in mud today, from carrying boxes upon boxes of EXTREMELY heavy file folders - five of the packs of one hundred manilla folders to a box, boy howdee.
At least since the box came a day earlier, I suddenly have the next two nights off, wee!
===========
My body is changing, though I've been eating like a PIG. (or, should I say "like a bird" as they eat their body weight or more every day?) It's for the better, yes, and I've dropped four pounds or so total. (Making it a total of about 16 lbs since... um... April something.) I can.... for the first time in FOREVER, when I flex in the mirror, I can see a giant bicep pop up!!! I have muscles! I can also fit into a pair of pants that I haven't been able to wear in some time. Just imagine how much of The Sex I would be if I were eating correctly, too!!!
===========
Speaking of not being The Sex, two nights ago, I woke up with AWESOME freaking hair. I had these emo bangs that swooshed down to my eyes, and fwippy ends everywhere else. Too bad I cannot HANDLE working with my hair in my eyes. A bit of lipstick, and I would have been MEROWR! (Run with me here...) Unfortunately, last night I woke up with...
Harry Potter hair. I looked like a 32 year old Harry Potter. (Well, maybe not 32 year old, as I frequently have people guess I'm about 24 years old, so...) That's what I get for going to bed with wet hair.
===========
Playing FFXII again, I'm hanging out in the Tchita Uplands, about to go kill the mandragora... quints. Balthier is thee hott. It's finally been almost long enough since I saw the crocodile movie that was in theatres recently that had the guy that does his voice acting (badly) in it, so I am finally getting past seeing HIS face whenever Balthier talks. Yay. That was just too upsetting for words.
I still think it's funny that Basch and Bloo are done by the same guy, though no one else seems to find humor in this.
===========
Because the hole in the fence near my work takes me to the bike trail along the freeway, thusly cutting my walk home nearly in half takes me through less travelled areas:
- BUNNAYS!!! I see many on my walk home daily. WEE!
- TRANSIENTS!!! About every other day, I find a guy wrapped in a blanket under a tree, surrounded by plastic bags with empty alcohol containers.
Other movies you might like:
Van Helsing
Blade
X:Men
Bloodrayne
Click
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Okeee... one of these things is not like the other....
===========
Wore my old man dress pants to work last night, and was surprised with a truck of freight. Seeing as the pants let my legs breathe about as much as a garbage bag would, methinks I need to take a shower before going to bed for the day. Well, that - and the fact that my forearms look like I rolled in mud today, from carrying boxes upon boxes of EXTREMELY heavy file folders - five of the packs of one hundred manilla folders to a box, boy howdee.
At least since the box came a day earlier, I suddenly have the next two nights off, wee!
===========
My body is changing, though I've been eating like a PIG. (or, should I say "like a bird" as they eat their body weight or more every day?) It's for the better, yes, and I've dropped four pounds or so total. (Making it a total of about 16 lbs since... um... April something.) I can.... for the first time in FOREVER, when I flex in the mirror, I can see a giant bicep pop up!!! I have muscles! I can also fit into a pair of pants that I haven't been able to wear in some time. Just imagine how much of The Sex I would be if I were eating correctly, too!!!
===========
Speaking of not being The Sex, two nights ago, I woke up with AWESOME freaking hair. I had these emo bangs that swooshed down to my eyes, and fwippy ends everywhere else. Too bad I cannot HANDLE working with my hair in my eyes. A bit of lipstick, and I would have been MEROWR! (Run with me here...) Unfortunately, last night I woke up with...
Harry Potter hair. I looked like a 32 year old Harry Potter. (Well, maybe not 32 year old, as I frequently have people guess I'm about 24 years old, so...) That's what I get for going to bed with wet hair.
===========
Playing FFXII again, I'm hanging out in the Tchita Uplands, about to go kill the mandragora... quints. Balthier is thee hott. It's finally been almost long enough since I saw the crocodile movie that was in theatres recently that had the guy that does his voice acting (badly) in it, so I am finally getting past seeing HIS face whenever Balthier talks. Yay. That was just too upsetting for words.
I still think it's funny that Basch and Bloo are done by the same guy, though no one else seems to find humor in this.
===========
Because the hole in the fence near my work takes me to the bike trail along the freeway, thusly cutting my walk home nearly in half takes me through less travelled areas:
- BUNNAYS!!! I see many on my walk home daily. WEE!
- TRANSIENTS!!! About every other day, I find a guy wrapped in a blanket under a tree, surrounded by plastic bags with empty alcohol containers.
Friday, July 6, 2007
That body in the crypt, the first dead body...
Store Manager Captain Kirk said that he asked the district manager for a dollar more an hour for me, but Mr. Farmer balked, as when people get promoted to key carrying supervisors, they only get 75 cents an hour raise. He said that he was going to turn in the paperwork today for a dollar more an hour for me, anyway, and see if he can squeak it through.
Here's to hoping.
I never thought I would ever get the back room caught up, but i'm 1000%ly caught up now, other than some stuff that I'm waiting for silly authorization numbers from the manufacturers.
Ted said he talked to Kirk today, too, to remind him about my raise and to kick his butt into gear to get me more monays. I told him I appreciate him having my back like that, and he said that he will do anything it takes to keep me on his team.
Awww.
Kirk also said that Ted was levying for a LOOOOONG time, begging them to allow me on his shift. Sweet.
Dinked on Netflix (you can add me to your friends list: aubkabob@livejournal.com, or if that doesn't work, try aubreykaye@hotmail.com!) and added a million and one things. I pretend! Though I did get my queue up to 450 or so.
Ha.
Three discs of Delicious ZIM should be here in a day or two.
And now I need to bathe and go to sleep.
Night.
Here's to hoping.
I never thought I would ever get the back room caught up, but i'm 1000%ly caught up now, other than some stuff that I'm waiting for silly authorization numbers from the manufacturers.
Ted said he talked to Kirk today, too, to remind him about my raise and to kick his butt into gear to get me more monays. I told him I appreciate him having my back like that, and he said that he will do anything it takes to keep me on his team.
Awww.
Kirk also said that Ted was levying for a LOOOOONG time, begging them to allow me on his shift. Sweet.
Dinked on Netflix (you can add me to your friends list: aubkabob@livejournal.com, or if that doesn't work, try aubreykaye@hotmail.com!) and added a million and one things. I pretend! Though I did get my queue up to 450 or so.
Ha.
Three discs of Delicious ZIM should be here in a day or two.
And now I need to bathe and go to sleep.
Night.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Mercury Tree show tonight, July 1st!!
Copied totally from the ever-lovely Larrissa, regarding my ex band (but still beloved) Electric Doormat (now known as The Mercury Tree):
it would be wonderful to see you
OH FRIENDS, i meant to tell you tomorrow (now tonight)
THE MERCURY TREE is playing a show at
rock 'n roll pizza at around 4:30 or five (July 1st)
its a battle of the bands, and um,
they really need people to show up
the company they are working with is
promising future paid gigs* if they just
bring in 30 people to this show tomorrow ... (now tonight)
so should you be available, and reside in the area,
come down to the rock n roll pizza and rock out.**
its $8.00 a ticket, payble directly to myself or one of the bandmates.***
thank you.
*this has yet to happen so far. its exciting.
**rock 'n roll pizza is ALL AGES with an onsite bar for those over 21.
***im being told the drummer is in charge of being outside
and collecting you fancy folks who come out without tickets.
(pee ess, it's in Portland.)
it would be wonderful to see you
OH FRIENDS, i meant to tell you tomorrow (now tonight)
THE MERCURY TREE is playing a show at
rock 'n roll pizza at around 4:30 or five (July 1st)
its a battle of the bands, and um,
they really need people to show up
the company they are working with is
promising future paid gigs* if they just
bring in 30 people to this show tomorrow ... (now tonight)
so should you be available, and reside in the area,
come down to the rock n roll pizza and rock out.**
its $8.00 a ticket, payble directly to myself or one of the bandmates.***
thank you.
*this has yet to happen so far. its exciting.
**rock 'n roll pizza is ALL AGES with an onsite bar for those over 21.
***im being told the drummer is in charge of being outside
and collecting you fancy folks who come out without tickets.
(pee ess, it's in Portland.)
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