Games Master Level 8

The cats must have knocked over my soap cause one of the round ones is in two big pieces with lots of crumbs next to it, and the rest were strewn about the floor. One of my labels got ruined, but the rest of the soap is fine. I guess this means I get to use the remnants of that one that broke. Which I guess is a good thing because yesterday I had to break into the store-bought soap. (I had bought a big thing of soap when I started making my own) It was good that I used it because now I see just how much superior my soap is. The store bought soap left a bad smell on me, and it felt weird. It looked and felt almost grimy. Some of that might be old age, since it is a year and a half old, but it was still pretty bad.

So we finished the Games Master Challenge at Neopets. The last day was yesterday. I completed all 35 challenges and got a gold trophy. I am Games Master Level 8. See my pretty trophy? btw, does it surprise anyone that I won the Cheat Champion gold trophy? :D And this is not my first account either, I've actually been playing Neopets since I was 15, in 2002. Or 14. I don't remember. I think I was 15. But this account I made 7 years ago. Isn't my Xweetoc adorable? I need to feed her. Anyway, we also won the community 45,000,000 plays challenge, which I stayed up till 8:30 to help us complete. We were at 44,200,000-something when I went to bed. We won a tunic for that, which I will put on my Quiggle later. A lot of my prizes are going straight to my shop. I've been hoarding them for some time now and will put them on sale maybe today. I was kinda torn about the Games Master Challenge stamp, because it's apparently worth quite a bit, several thousand, but I ended up putting it in my stamp album instead. I'm not really into the stamp collecting so much, but I do enjoy it a bit here and there. I mainly just read books to my Quiggle. Whatever he doesn't read my Xweetoc does. My Quiggle is at 120-something books read, which isn't bad, but to get the trophy I'll need 2,000-something books. I believe my Xweetoc only has about 30 books. That's not counting the Booktastic Books, of which you only need about 100 and my Quiggle's read about 15.

Work:
Zhaun told me to cover the handicap carts out back with a tarp, I told him I'd told Dustin to do it ages ago. Apparently he hadn't. So I got out there and there wasn't any way back to them. So I had to step up on something that I assume was a stack of pallets, brushing off a bit of snow with my boot to see where the boards were. But then I could only sweep off snow from one side of the near pallet, never mind the other two. I saw a board that was on top of some bags (we recycle bags so we always have garbage bags full of bags out back to send in) and who knew what was under that, so I carefully tested it's weight capacity, and it felt solid enough, so I stepped out on it and balanced while I swept off the first pallet. Then came the other two pallets. I couldn't reach them and there was a large thing of plywood or something leaning against the wall at an angle. So I boosted myself up and over, set my feet against that, my butt against the first pallet of carts, and swept off the other two. Then I went for the tarp, and something I did on my way back dislodged the board cause I couldn't get far enough out to step on the plywood again, so I used a shovel to push the tarp as far as I could and then left it. Bonnie knows, so today if Zhaun gets mad she can defend me and tell him it's not safe to cover the other two. As if it really matters at this point. It's been hovering around 0 the last week, their electronic parts are probably broken by now. Not to mention they were covered with snow already. It has been getting a little warmer, I think it even got above freezing for a bit yesterday, maybe he didn't want slush to drip into them. I kinda don't like that it got warmer, that means when it gets cold again the slush will turn to ice and make driving scary.

We also apparently had a bale break out back. Zhaun blamed me, but I've never had a bale break. It's always the guys, they tie it too tight. He'd told Dustin to pick it up on Friday and Saturday but he didn't, so we did it yesterday. His excuse was that he needed a second person to help him tie it back together. What??? We use a machine to compress the boxes. A machine. Do you think two people have that kind of strength? So he was out there with a jack moving the pallet to get it at a better angle to retie and I was inside with Bonnie, who quite agreed that Dustin was being stupid. I grabbed us carts and went out in time to find Dustin staring dumbly at the mess of cardboard that had fallen everywhere the moment he'd tried to move the bale. Yeah. So we picked up the cardboard on the carts and brought it all in to throw in the crusher. Dustin's stack fell over going in the door. Being a much better stacker mine stayed solid. I've always enjoyed stacking. That took about an hour, picking up the bale. It was wet and soggy and I'm getting a hole in my glove so I'll have to replace it soon. Good thing the store pays for those! I heard we're not suppose to transfer gloves anymore but whatever, I heard it from Dustin, so if anyone ever says anything I'll claim I didn't know that it's always been ok. As long as transfers are over 1.00 or under 100 no one ever pays attention to what you transfer. Everyone occasionally transfers stuff from nonfoods to their own department.

None of the trucks had shown up when I left. hm.

And we apparently have a visit today. Zhaun started to tell me to come in early today and I told him I was off. He shrugged and went, "Oops." I don't think it's that big a visit. I only heard about it yesterday. And if he's shrugging it off and not caring that we don't have anyone in till 11 today then it can't be big. Bret didn't even get mad at me about the milk splatters down on one of the 2% doors. Normally he'd be yelling about that if it was a big visit. So if the phone rings I'm probably not answering it because it would most likely be Zhaun telling me to come in and fix something.

Also, the Christmas Party was Saturday night. People are always so surprised when I don't go and ask me how come. There is no polite way to say that I don't want to spend time amongst people I don't like. I always just tell them it's past my bedtime. Then they get all surprised when I say I go to bed at 8. Well if you got up at 5 in the morning and you often didn't actually get to sleep till closer to 9 you'd go to bed at 8 too. Am I the ONLY person who needs 9 hours??? I read all these sleep tip articles that say you need 8-9 hours, yet it seems everyone at work only gets 6 every night. I went through a period of only getting 6 a night and it was horrible.

Oh, and the winners of the costume contest were announced finally. Someone named Becky whom I don't know won first prize, I don't know what she wore. David won second prize with his lame costume of a dollar bill. Amber won third with her lame costume of a blue crayon. What is wrong with people that a 5 dollar costume that looks like a child designed it that is basically a sandwich board and is something really stupid wins out over a handmade costume with real design and what probably cost around 100 or so (taking the boots, belt, and lightsaber into account as well as the fabric) A crayon? Seriously? A dollar bill??? Course I always knew Amber would win a prize, the costume contest always being a popularity contest. If one of Deana's kids had dressed up they would have won first prize no question. Remember when Dena (not to be confused with Deana) was Bret's pet? She won first prize and all she did was throw on a black dress and a witch's hat. Or when Pharmacy won the group prize for wearing cowboy hats? People are just stupid and weird. So what was this Becky person dressed up as? I want to say she's the fuel center night person, if so, I bet she wore the hamburger costume, since we're going for sandwich board costumes this year. I probably should have stuck with my original idea and made the pioneer costume and went as a milk maid. :p Oh, and someday, I will take pictures of my Jedi costume, I really will. It will probably be without the lightsaber as I still need to fix it. I need a new push nut to replace the one I broke and then I need to reglue everything back on.

Also, I was told that dairy is going to get shelf stripping. I almost started crying. Facing over holes is going to be near impossible now. Shelf stripping is a strip of white cardboardy stuff that has pictures of the products that go on the shelf in that spot. Zhaun's figured out how to get around this, but it's still going to make my life a lot harder. You basically just turn tags backwards and cover the pictures with them and hope no one notices.