I hurt my toe tripping over the laundry basket last night. It still hurts today some.
Last night was the first time I wore my trench coat. Actually it's a civilian version of the navy coat. Victor's already been wearing his for a while now, but I haven't worn mine till last night. It was nice. The shoulders are kinda small, but Victor says that's normal. It's weird that when I lift my arms the entire coat comes up and the neckline moves up. Especially when I wear my hat (it's a black cloche!) sometimes it knocks on the back of the neck where it sticks up.
I stayed up till 9:30 last night because I had forgotten to do the Neopets Game Challenge. It's the 2010 week-long event. And there's new challenges each day. I got all but one of them within ten minutes, but that last one took forever because I didn't fully read the instructions and didn't know you could kill enemies for bonus points. So far I've managed to win three day's worth of challenges. Today's the 4th day.
We got up at 4:30 to go to Wal-Mart because they had a deal going on a laptop but they were out. Best Buy was out of theirs too. But when we got back to Wal-Mart we found a 400 dollar one that's extra super good so we got that one instead. (it was originally, like, 800) This one can run Sims 3, Left 4 Dead, and other big games. The one we got a few days ago can run all the games I like to play like Plants vs Zombies, Jewel Quest, Civilization IV (I'm not getting V till it's cheap-cheap), Zuma, and etc. It can't really do Sims 3, but that's ok, if I can play the whole lot of PopCap's games I'll be happy for months. Now we have all the netbook/laptop/whatever we need for when we don't have electric. We didn't get anything else at Wal-Mart that was on the Friday sale, we only got things we needed like cat food.
Target had a Foil-Card Obi-Wan so I had to get it cause it's one of the rare hunt items. I also had to get the Clone Wars pajamas that were on the Friday sale.
At Jo-Anns Victor grabbed a cart and got in line. The line wrapped all the way around the building. Not so unusual for Jo-Anns. So I grabbed what I wanted and we waited and waited and waited and waited and eventually I overheard someone say that after you get your fabric cut there is no line for the checkout so I asked them and turns out we were in the cutting table line! aurgh!!!! So I went over to the checkouts and got out in about 10 minutes. There was no sale on things like needles and zippers this year. I did get some thread on the buy one get one free deal, one huge spool of white and one huge spool of black. Guuterman(sp?) even!! And I got two things of black, two things of gray, and two things of dark green yarn on the buy one get one 50% off. And I got two patterns for 99 cents. Oh, and some gosgrain I needed for bag making which weren't on sale. The reason everyone was lining up like that for the cutting table was the 1.29/yd fleece and flannel sale. Which, you know, for the few things I would have wanted wasn't worth the wait, so I put them back. Also, the 2.99/bolt of interfacing is tomorrow, not today. I'm trying to decide if I want to do that or not. I should, for how much I use interfacing it would be a great deal. I spent less than half there than I usually do due there not being any sales on needles or grommets. I forgot about the sale on buttons though, I wonder if that's tomorrow as well? hm.
After that we were tired and so skipped ShopKo. Dunno what they had on sale cause their site was broken last night.
We went to work where we had 15% off all nonfoods items so I got all my stashed markdowns. A black granite canning pan with a jar rack for 7.00 (minus whatever the 15% would have made that come out to, about 6 dollars I believe?), a tea kettle, containers, Galactic Heros. And then we got some regular grocery stuff we needed, like broccoli for tomorrow's chicken penne dinner, and bread. I did my milk order while I was there, and I saw Bret and he seemed fairly pleasant so I guess he wasn't upset about the yogurt.
I still feel like I'm wearing my hat, it's weird.
Anyway, now I can cross off computers, canning pan, and tea kettle from my list. I think I forgot to mention that we had one or two things of canning jars on markdown that I got a week or two ago. So we're slowly building up our stockpile of things we'll need. Now that I'm getting my overtime and holiday pay (576 dollars in today's paycheck for 49.50 hours from last week) we'll start having money to start buying bigger things. We've been checking on things like generators, and Home Depot has the best price. And asides from things like that we don't have anything else to do except save, save, save. A few small things for Christmas, but we really don't need anything else, I don't think there's even any games coming out.
We got Michael Jackson The Experience
a few days ago, which is a lot of fun and I feel silly and shy playing but I know I'll get more into it once I get over being shy because I am fairly graceful. I know this sounds silly but I like to pat myself on the back because I can spin. I have yet to try the Billie Jean level but I do wonder if you get bonus points for being able to do a toe stand, cause I can do that too. I don't know how it's even possible for the game to work the way it does. You hold the wiimote in one hand and that's it. Basically you only have to sit there and swing one arm. But it does know if you aren't cause you get more points if you're standing and using both arms and legs. And the game doesn't really come with instructions, it just kinda leaves you to figure it out on your own. But it's also not very hard to figure it out. One of the tips says to follow the people on screen like a mirror, so that's what I do. It does show upcoming moves to the side but I rarely look at those as it's easier for me to just watch what the people do.Work:
Yesterday was a lot busier than I thought it would be, but not so very busy.
One of our trucks had shown up on Wednesday, but two of them needed to show up yesterday. Produce got in fairly early, but grocery/deli/frozen showed up around 2:30. So I was offloading till 3:15 and then after that I had to scurry to get yogurts looking full. It was one of those days where every time I got started doing something something else would come up. I was grabbing bread to put in the display for the pan promotion (12.99 buys you a pan, bread, eggs, juice, it's over now though) and Julie stopped me to tell me to take these pallets of pepsi to the back and to make some signs, so I get on the pallets and then find out that immediately after Julie had left me to get the pallets she'd gone back and freaked out at Bob that I hadn't made the signs already so he just made them for her to make her happy. Odd, Julie normally doesn't get upset like that. Usually she's laid back, relaxed. I tell Bret bad news and he gets upset, screams about it a bit, usually swears some, stomps around, and leaves you to figure it out on your own. Julie calmly takes it, sometimes she's a little frazzled, or lightly swears under her breath, but she nods, accepts it, and then offers a solution.
Anyway, I didn't end up leaving work till 4:19. eek.
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