well............after all the good news yesterday,

i got ma holiday bonus.whoohoo! was a bit more than i thought it would be...so i wanted to go shopping. ma only voice of reason, dums wanted to stay home so off i went....

circuit city is going out of business...well, the one in MA town is.. which means everything's on sale. they had a floor model lap top out....an hp G60, 3 gigs of ram, 15.5 widescreen, 300gb memory..... (i think that's right)....$620...

of course, that's all you get, the comp...a battery cord, and that's it...but....i'm in LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE!!! this thing rocks!!

so i get to work today, it's ma short day, only came in to cover my closer's lunch, and do the orders. had a manager meeting, then sat in ma office doing paperwork for about 15 minutes....

i'm paged to the phone, answer, and it's ma district manager, asking me why i'm not there. where? i ask. i guess i had a meeting with him @ 3pm today, i look at the clock, and it's 3:05. oh shit. i tell him i know nothing of this meeting, and when did he send out word? friday or saturday says he. but he didn't send it to me. it was sent to the store manager. well fuck...the SM's been off for the past 4 days. he asks me if i can be there @ 4:30. i'm on ma way.....

get there...blah blah blah...i wait for him. finally his previous meeting *the one i was SUPPOSED to be @* lets out and ma friend comes over...we bullshit a bit, then the DM invites all of us waiting for the NEXT meeting in to have a seat. for whatever reason, i'm the only one that goes in and sits... everyone else hangs out outside and chats. so he says, "well, your here, we'll do this quick"

I GOT THE PROMOTION!!! HELL YEA! YER all lookin at the bakery MANAGER!! geeze..been waitin forever for this! they promoted me to the store i'm at now, which is awesome. i won't get an assistant till after the new year....but i don't care!!! this is MY shop now!!

the first thing i did when i got back, was slllllllllide ma picture and name plate over to the bakery manager's side.

dum was ecstatic, ma mom was ecstatic... and i'm still floating on cloud 9.............

sooo...ya'll all know i'm the "acting" manager for ma shop right now. which basically means i'm running the show, but getting asst. mgr's pay.

today was one of those days....lol...

the store mgr, had scheduled a "walk throu" of ma dept. with me for today. to go over what needed to be cleaned, what needed to be done, paperwork, etc. so i made DAMN sure he wouldn't be able to find ANYTHING wrong with ma shop...cleaning wise, paperwork wise, NUFFIN...

and god damn if he didn't find anything lmfaooooooo!! yep. i rock. and ma crew rocks.

in other news, i just spent 'bout an hour wrapping gold tinsel around a feckin coat hanger. lol.... it's time to make the "dummy" cakes for the shop, and last year i made a santa bear... this year, i wanted to make an angel. some of ya know why

i'm not christian. haven't claimed to be. but i have nothing against christians... nor their holidays. it don't twist ma panties to say "merry christmas" just because i don't believe in their holiday, don't mean i give three shits if they celebrate it. *shrug* besides ma personal views, there's now way i'm not gonna cash in on this!! so yea...makin an angel bear.. and she's awful sweet. i'll post pics tomarrow.

well, rayce had his 2nd vet appt today. a new vet, because the people at the last office SUCKED. they had no personality, none of them even looked at rayce, let alone PET him... this place was different. he got love from everyone he came near...receptionist, vet tech, and OMG the vet.. he's awesome. young...i'd guess my age or younger. very cute...and oh sooo much fun for rayce. he played with him, loved on him, talked to him. you can tell this guy truly loves animals.

rayce is in good health, but we got the shock of our lives when he stepped onto the scales... the last time we took him to the vet, he weighed 4.5 lbs. that was on sept 20th. now?? 21.4 lbs!!!!! and he's ONLY 13 weeks old!! he's gonna be huge! just for reference, decided to post these pics for ya'll. so you can see how big he's gotten. the first pic was the first day he came home, sept 11th. the second was today, about 10 minutes ago.

is it so crazy for me to have a day off?!?!? woke up @ 5:30am to hear ma cell ringing. rushed to answer it, and it's one of ma clerks. she asks if i'm on ma way. i say i am, hang up, run to the bathroom and do ma hair quickly, throw on some deodorant..the entire time i'm thinking "i'm gonna get fired...i'm gonna be an hour and a half late AGAIN..i'm gonna get fired"

midway to the laundry room it hits me. it's my fuckin day off, isn't it? so i call ma clerk back..."hello?" "it's my fuckin day off, isn't it?" she goes to check the schedule. comes back apologizing like crazy saying she was looking @ NEXT week... i climb back into bed and return to dream land.

when i wake up, dum tells me he was THIS close to waking me up when he woke up @ 6:30..thinkin i'd overslept and was late for work.
lmfaoooooooooooooo...i'm just glad i really WAS off today!

work has been a lil crazy. just trying to hold maself together on the inside as well as i portray on the outside. guess all those drama classes in high school come in handy, eh?

thanksgiving was quite nice. since we couldn't go to stl to be with dum's family, we went to ma parents house. considering they were planning on their first thanksgiving with no family, it turned out pretty crowded. digoree made it over, me and dums showed up, as well as my aunt, her bf, and 2 of her kids, AND ma uncle, his wife, and their two. we were leery of leaving rayce alone in his kennel that long, so with their permission, we brought him along. he as SUCH a GOOD BOY!! rayce! not dums!!! lol
didn't try to nip any of the kids, and had the time of his life...chasing, playing, and the kids were having a ball too.

it was a very cool moment...we were all in the living room, watching jeff dunham's christmas special.. well, except daddoo and dums, who were in the kitchen. mom, in the middle of all of the laughter, looks towards the kitchen, hears dad n dums deep in conversation, looks at me and grins.

it's nice to have a man in my life who actually get's along with ma family

and now.. after all the hours o work i've put in between then and now... i'm exhausted again. off tomarrow...and me n dums have decided it's high time for another date. dinner n a movie.. we're gonna go see bolt, the 3d cartoon. yea yea yea....hush...i need some unreality......

*muwah*!

i had a million and one things i wanted to blog today... about my day, my life, my love, my friends....

then i got sidetracked... lol..(ooooOOO...something shiney!!)
and fell back into my roots, my all time favorite band, bad religion, and my all time favorite song..sorrow. what once was a very punk song...but strip it down, and it turns into something everyone can appreciate. never heard it acoustic before i love the lyrics...

and the lead singer..greg.. is amazing. nevermind he started this band, bad religion, when he was all of 15. but STAYED with the band, making many many albums, AND going to college, getting his doctorate in zoology finally. his thesis? "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology." this dude is like the male version of the scientific seductress to me

anyway, this song... if you like punk, country, pop, ANYTHING...you'll love it...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR_P-vpNOuY&feature=related[/url]

and the lyrics:

Father, can you hear me?
How have I let you down?
I curse the day that I was born,
And all the sorrow in the world...

Let me take you to the herding ground,
Where all good men are trampled down,
Just to settle a bet that could not be won,
Between a prideful father and his son.

Well you guard me now for I cant see,
A reason for this suffering and this long misery.
What if every living soul could be upright and strong?
Well, then I do imagine there will be
Sorrow.
Yeah there will be
Sorrow .
And there will be
Sorrow, no more.

When all soldiers lay their weapons down,
Or when all kings and all queens relinquish their crown,
Or when the only true messiah rescues us from ourselves...
Its easy to imagine there will be
Sorrow.
Yeah there will be
Sorrow .
And there will be
Sorrow, no more.

There will be
Sorrow.
Yeah there will be
Sorrow .
And there will be
Sorrow, no more.

well, the day before the day before thanksgiving... and OMG if i NEVER see a fuckin pumpkin pie, i'll be happy. in the past 4 days we've sold over 200... which is a record for this store **pats self on the back** but.....i HATE pumpkin pie now.

one more day to go, then a nice day off with all my family....

until then, a bit saddened by my friends news. hopefully she'll call or shoot me a MSN...

that's how long i slept last night. granted, i did wake up a few times, addiction knows no bounds. woke up long enough to smoke half a ciggy, then right back to sleep.

dum gave me shit when i finally DID wake up, but OMG do i feel good.

have a great sunday ya'll!! xxxx