Long Days

feeling better, but worked for over 11 hours today (which i volunteered for, admittedly - holla for overtime pay!). consequently am tired. and yet i have to gear up for a 10 hour shift tomorrow. so there's that. i DID, however, come home to YET ANOTHER gift: this time a more "practical" gift of a 1 GB flash drive. super handy, and super sweet of the continuously wonderful reverend. i know, i know, blechhh stop being all i <3 him he is the bestest, but apparently i can't help it. i think i've regressed to acting like a 16 year old. his fault.

Meh

i've kind of felt like junk today. felt progressively like i'm getting a cold as the day wore on - achy, tired, sore throat, tight chest, all the key signs. thank you to the many people that have come in to both work in the store and to shop in the store that have hacked all over everything before handing me things dripping in snot and viruses. ok maybe that's dramatic...but purel was invented for a reason, people. now i just feel like junky tiredness, so i'm off to bed. huzzah for boring posts.

Holy Scrabulous!

i have played 13 games on scrabulous (The Best application on facebook) against the reverend. his consistently superior vocabulary skills and ability to always hit the triple word score tiles have resulted in 12 straight losses for me. but then. but then:holy shiz & scrabulosity, i won!

Rotten

i am quite possibly the most spoiled girl on the planet. i get back from my little weekend jaunt to memphis, work for the day, get home, and find a little package. a package with a gorgeous, wonderful pearl necklace from this ridiculous guy who loves spoiling me. call me spoiled, call me lucky, but i love it.

Certifiable

i dropped off of the face of the planet there for a couple days, but for once i have a legitimate, albeit insane, excuse: i decided to hop over to memphis for my two days off. saturday i woke up at 8:30 am, worked a ten hour shift, went out with friends for a few hours, and then decided to leave kansas city at 12:30 am for memphis. as i said to pete upon arrival, i am really glad i did that, but for the love of god do not let me do that again...i had to stop eleven times on my 8.5 hour drive there - i had the shakes, the chills, felt like i was outside of my body, and various other entertaining results of no sleep. when i got to memphis i very romantically said hi i feel nauseous i need to sleep. but because i have an understanding and wonderful boyfriend, he was not offended and put me straight to bed.

after a refreshing nap and shower, he and i hit the town for lunch (crepes), caffeine (venti chai latte), and entertainment (the zoooooooooooooooo!). while at starbucks, i learned the downfall of having a gorgeous boyfriend with panty-dropping blue eyes (his description, not mine): the barista chatted with only him, refraining from even looking at me despite the fact that i was immediately next to him, failed to put a cardboard sleeve on my drink ("hi, can i get a sleeve for my drink?"..."oh yeah. here."), and also made a crappy chai latte. whatever, i kissed him thanks for my drink in front of her. bitch.

annnnyway, so we went to the zoo, had a blast as we tend to do, went home for more caffeination (i was still running on approximately one hour of sleep to thirty hours of awakeness), and then went to germantown for dinner with his parents and little sister. had a nice steak dinner with them, then back home again to watch curb your enthusiasm, and then bed where i passed out cold.

today was sleeping in for me, work for him, and then lunch together. i managed to not bawl my eyes out this time, and left memphis around one. just got back to kc at 9 pm, and am a tad tired. but happy. if i hadn't gone to get this little nibble of the reverend to tide me over, we would have gone six weeks without seeing each other, which is basically unexcusable. so that is my long, drawn out excuse for not posting for a couple days. i may be certifiable, but at least it's for someone and not just me full of crazy.

Mission Accomplished

yes i am that ahead of the game - christmas gifts are on their way to a few of my friends...working in retail does have its benefits, namely getting gifts done and done several months ahead. i feel so on top of my game.

Sure, No Problem! I Hate You!

retail at christmas: teaches you the true horrible-ness of human nature. people are demanding, rude, self-absorbed, and impatient. and they like to treat me like i am about 12 years old and quite possibly slightly mentally challenged. and yet i have to stay happy, encouraging, interested, and helpful at all times. no wonder i come home every night and collapse on to my bed, unable to move for the rest of the evening and often passing out for hour-long naps. it is mentally exhausting to be so chipper. but try me...i will always give the best customer service, with a smile, even if i then go to the back office and punch something. and cuss a blue streak.