Basically I’m twenty-one years old. I live in Vancouver, Canada and one day hope to make it into graphic design or become involved in the fashion or music industry.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
so i finally got my macbook pro. it's pretty sweet i guess. i mean it looks awesome and i guess i'm gonna be shallow and say that is kinda the reason i got it. well there was also the fact that i've only heard good things about them and stuff like that. though i guess if you pay that much more for a damn laptop you'd better get a good quality one right? because if not then that would just be a big waste of money and stuff. i can totally tell that my dad is drooling all over my computer though, its kinda funny. he's all 'i want one of those now'. i've still gotta get used to this keyboard though i mean it's kinda weird. so i'm really just writing this blog to test it out a bit and see how well or not well i can type on it haha. so far i've only been able to transfer my music onto this computer. all of my pictures and stuff are still on my computer in the back room. my parents were always complaining that i was never in the same room as them so now that i have a laptop i always have to come into the living room haha. and i'm watching tv, btw cobra starship is #2 onn the much music daily countdown, if anyone was wondering. haha i'm actually not really watching tv that much but it's on..... my parents are both out and i'm bored as hell right now. it's not even funny how bored i am, and i honestly really have nothing to say. i guess i could talk about work some more? ok, i'm going to haha...
working in retail stores you kind of get some interesting people in. especially when you are in the front lines of the store and are doing cash. i've met some quite interesting people to be honest. and i've had a hell of a lot of laughs. a couple of them at other peoples expense of course, not in front of them or anything because i would feel bad but after they leave it's kind of hard not to laugh. where do i even start when it comes to all of these really strange people? well i guess i can start with this one guy who a couple days ago came in and wanted to do a return. and i was looking down at whatever the hell it was that he wanted to return and i was like what the hell is that thing? and he was all talking about how we overcharged him. and i looked down at his receipt and was like 'ummmm you bought this at future shop' and he was all 'awwww shit where the hell am i?' and i was like wow...... and he walked out of the store and was all. 'damn it, i saw the red sign' it was really funny. also there was this other lady who came up to my cash desk and was like 'so when did you guys start selling fish?' and i was like what are you talking about? and she points over to the left of me where there is a shelf filled with computer monitors. i'm like 'ummmm those are actually screensavers' then she looked at me and went 'oh.... right that would explain it' it was sooooo funny. i guess you probably had to be there. but still it was pretty damn hilarious. also there is this one guy who comes in every so often who will either say one thing or nothing at all the whole time. the last time he came in all he said was 'cheers' it was really weird. i was all 'would you like a bag?' and he went 'cheers' and basically everything that i said to him he would reply with 'cheers' like 'how are you?' 'cheers' it was just really awkward and messed up. then there was this one lady who phones in and she's all do you have any planners that have large calendars in them? and i was like yeah, i mean we have a huge selection of planners. she's giving me all of these specifics of exactly what she wants and i'm like well to be honest it would probably be best if you came in, or even looked at our website to check and see if we have what you need. i mean i don't remember exactly what i said but it was something along those lines and she's all 'whatever, good bye' and she hung up. what did she really want me to do? i have to stay at the cash desk and i can't go looking through our selection of hundreds of planners to see if we have one with a large calendar in it and then hold it for her only to find that it wasn't a damn thing like what she was looking for. god. people are so impossible sometimes. and this other guy also did the almost the same thing to me the day before. he wanted me to list every single sku code from every mid-sized storage tray that we had. and hell we've got like a million of them, and of course he phoned at like 8:59 and we close at 9:00. i shouldn't have even answered the phone. i was like you are an idiot. so needless to say i was just like 'actually we are closed right now but i know we have a lot of different kinds.' i mean honestly what the hell do they expect from me?
sometimes people are annoying as hell, but other times they just make me laugh so fricken hard. also i want to talk about my driving lessons. the first time i had this really nice lady and everything went fine. but apparently she ended up breaking some ribs or something so essentially i got a different lady, she was really nice and all but she kept playing with her own break and gas. because she has her own set. i was like what the hell are you doing? and the worst part was she didn't even tell me when she was going to do it. we were going up a hill and i was doing the speed limit and everything and she started gassing it and i was like what the hell are you doing? the speed limit was 50 and she brought us up to like 70. i mean i can feel the gas pedal going down under my foot. if you are supposed to be teaching me to drive why the hell are you doing that kind of shit? especially when what you are doing is totally illegal and not what you should be teaching me to do. also before that i was turning left and there was a green light and nobody was there. basically i guess i should have just kept going, but i put on the brakes and she was like 'why are you breaking, what are you doing?' there was nobody behind me or even anywhere around. so i just kept my foot on the break while she started to gas it. i was like what the fuck are you doing? i mean if i was to let my foot off the break we would have gone forward and i mean i'm the one with the steering wheel so i'd like to be in control in that way. i have no problem with her putting on the break or whatever but what the hell is she doing touching the gas? sure, if i'm gonna hit something go for it, but everything i was doing was totally fine. she was just really annoying and every time she did something like that she would just scare the hell out of me because i'd have no idea what the hell she was doing and what the hell was going to happen. i just hope that the other lady comes back soon because this woman is killing me. seriously........ anyways. whatever.
Currently Listening To: Brick By Boring Brick By Paramore
Friday, October 16, 2009
dear lady in the pink jacket who stole that damn cell phone from my store last night. i hope that you're happy that you got away with a $100 cell phone. and i hope you can sleep with yourself at night knowing that even though it wasn't my personal position you totally made me feel personally victimized. i know that you will never read this but i also know that i will never forget your face, if you ever decide to come into our store again i swear to god you're getting hell of a free a ride home in a police car. because you're a total bitch and i hope you burn in hell.ok, shall i explain a bit about what happened now that i've gotten that over with? basically it was around 8:00 at night and this woman came in asking me if she could get a cell phone, sure at first i thought it was really weird that a woman would come in and know right away exactly what kind of cell phone she wanted and not want to ask any questions at all. but i just figured that maybe she'd already done her research or something and she found that we had the best price for the phone or something like that. anyways basically i had to call my manager because he is the only one with the key to the lock up where we keep all the phones and stuff. basically he went and got it for her and left to go take care of another customer, while i was stuck with ms. skum bag. obviously it wasn't like i expected her to seriously just steal a phone. especially since she came in and was all ready to pay for it, she even handed be a 20 before she stated that she had left her debit card in the car. obviously we all know that we all tend to forget that kind of stuff in the car all the time so i figured it was no big deal. so she came back and i gave her the 20 back and looked at the card only to notice that it was a temporary card, i'd already punched the $20 in the cash register assuming that she was going to pay with that as well, then she changed her mind and wanted it all on her debit so i had to call the manager again. then she was all 'oh i'll just go back and get the twenty' so she left and i never saw her again. my manager finally comes to the front to override the entry and basically she just never came back. the box was on the counter the entire time and i never even noticed her touching it. basically she somehow managed to open the box, most likely when i was radioing my manager to come to the front and give me a hand and she stole the phone right out of the box.
even if it wasn't my own personal posetion i still feel like total crap and i hate knowing that because i actually trusted someone enough to not believe that they would steal something right in front of me. it just sucks to know what people are really like now-a-days. that someone would really just come in and steal something. i know it's totally not unheard of and it happens all the time, but this really impacted me, even if i didn't actually lose anything personally. next time at least i'll know what to do i guess, my manager kinda went over a few things with me to avoid that kind of shit ever happening again. my manager is kinda awesome though, so he wasn't mad or anything. well obviously it wasn't my fault, but still he is just a really awesome guy. i know that i've always been a pretty trusting person and this one woman totally changed my outlook on that. i didn't think that i would have to keep the cell phone box in a death grip until she paid for it. it just sucks, and the worst part is i seriously had a dream about it last night. i know that i will never forget her and that kinda upsets me. but i felt totally shitty the rest of the night and i hope she's glad that she made off with the cell phone, because she sure as hell isn't ever going to be able to use it since she left the card with the serial number behind. basically all my manager has to do is call up rogers and tell them that if anyone signs up with that cell phone, not to activate it because it was stolen. the thing that sucks is this one woman has made me almost scared to do anything now. with every person that walks through my till now i'm going to think they might steal something from me. so i hope you enjoyed yourself, and i hope you got a rush out of your great steal, because your a total bitch and i hope you come back to our store again when i'm there because i'm not going to leave you alone the hell alone, not even for a second, i hope you have fun dealing with me annoying the hell out of you next time you try to rip us off. so thanks for targeting the poor new girl. bitch.
Currently Listening To : Like Knives By The Fashion
Friday, October 9, 2009
Alright, so I realize that I totally suck and haven't wrote in here in forever. But whatever. I'm doing it now aren't I? I mean there hasn't really been anything all that interesting to write about. I guess the only thing I've really been doing lately is going to work and sitting at home either watching TV or sitting in front of my computer. Really exciting right? Well actually my watching TV is more likely sitting in front of the computer watching all the shows that I taped since I'm at work when all of my favorite TV shows are usually on. That's what sucks about working until 9:30 at night.
Oh and I guess I can talk about Pete Wentz and his whole #abracadabra thing. I know how Pete loves his viral marketing campaign things and to be honest I kinda love them too. They are all together just entertaining and I don't have a clue how he comes up with half the stuff he does. Anyways as far as I know he was advertising for the FOB Greatest Hits Album which is due out in November and despite the fact that I've actually got all of their albums, yes even take this to your grave. I kinda love that one to be honest. Anyways.... I'll probably end up getting that as well because apparently it's supposed to have two bonus tracks and yes I'm gonna spend my money on two bonus tracks because when I actually really like I band I actually want to support them and buy their music. This is the reason that I have wayyyy too many CD's. I too guilty to download so basically I just spend wayyyy too much money. But the thing is I guess I could buy from iTunes and that shit but I really hate just having a digital version of something and as lame as it sounds I always love reading who they thank in the booklet. Lame? Yes. But sometimes it's kinda fun. Also it's kinda nice to have the lyrics because I know that sometimes you just sit there and try and figure out what the hell someone is saying in a song and you can never figure it out for the life of you. But basically I can't wait for the FOB Greatest hits because it has the Alpha Dog song on it and I absolutely love that song. It was on the FOB mixtape, which of course was from another one of Pete's genuis marketing campaigns. I really hope Lake Effect is on the Greatest Hits album because that song was amazing. Honestly, but http://www.alphadogandomegalomaniac.com/ is the link to the promotional site for it. So basically if you haven't already heard Alpha Dog there is a short little clip on there. It's purely an epic song.Also while I'm on my little Pete Wentz kick I've gotta say first off I'm totally sad that they are going on a hiatus. All the good bands always go on hiatus' and it sucks. But as long as they actually do end up coming out with another album in the future I'll be happy. They haven't broken up so thats a good sign I guess. But Mark Hoppus totally shaved Pete's head at the last show that FOB did with Blink at Madison Square Gardens and dear lord he looks so weird. Before you go all freaky on me he isn't bald or anything. He's just got the same hair he had back in the Take This To Your Grave days, maybe a bit shorter but whatever. It's just hair and it will grow back. Personally I think he looks way better with the long hair as emo or whatever as it is.
Anyways let's talk about something other than Pete Wentz shall we? Maybe Paramore? Yes. I love their song Ignorance, honestly it's one of those songs that everyone can really relate to. Like the whole 'you treat me just like another stranger' type thing is totally something that I've gone through. You know how you've been like best friends with someone forever and then one day they just walk past you in the hallway and pretend that they don't have any idea who you are? Yeah, I've experienced that a lot in my life time. I guess girls are just bitches to put it quite frank. One day someone tells them not to like you anymore and obviously they do just that and pretend like all of those years that you were best friends didn't mean a damn thing. There were times when you knew absolutely everything about this person and they knew absolutely everything about you. But then the phone calls just stop and then there is just this really fast drifting away phase. Suddenly they act like they don't know you and they don't even give a shit about you. And honestly I've probably experienced this at least three times throughout my life. Maybe this is why I just tend to not get too close to people anymore. Because I know that it's just bound to happen again. Maybe it's pessimistic or whatever but I just seem to find that not getting as close to people anymore just helps in that way. I mean I used to have friends that I would go to their house everyday or vice versa. But I honestly haven't had a friend like that for at least four or five years. Hah this is kinda turning out to be slightly depressing right? So let's leave this post off on a good note. Cobra Starships video for Hot Mess is coming out soon! I can't wait to see it, I totally love that song and they just finished shooting it last night. I'm sure it's gonna be totally awesome.
Currently Listening To: Ignorance by Paramore