T. B. A. S.

So a week or so ago, I won tickets to a burlesque show, but my coworker had already taken off that whole weekend. I was so sad. There are only three people scheduled on night shift [like, total, not in one night, there's only three people specifically for that job including me], and one of them was on her way out while taking on another job, so right now there are only two. So there's no way we could both have off. Especially on a Saturday. They're training the new kid to replace the girl who left, so I assume it'll be me and him [me and someone with less experience, omg!!] that day. I was really sad that I probably will end up not going. As soon as I find out for sure, I'll give the tickets to someone else if I have to.

But!! Something else that I thought had fallen apart fell back into place yesterday! We mentioned the beach trip that bb's friends from school were taking, that I realized I couldn't attend because they'd decided to do it the weekend before the fourth of july. Another holiday weekend, so no way am I getting out of working it. But turns out bb was wrong about the dates... It was only that wednesday through friday. Those happen to be the days I get off every week. :o... then that night I went to work and looked at my schedule for next week... A MIRACLE OCCURRED... I'M OFF SATURDAY?!?

Yup... It's true! They're working the new kid and the other worker the saturday of the trip. The day AFTER I'd be getting home. So not only am I off all of those days, I have A SATURDAY to recuperate!! And I think bb has that night off too, so we can go to Abari together if we're not totally broke lol!!

SO YEAH. Got something to look forward to. A beach trip! And we don't even have to pay for lodgings or even food too much! They'll all be playing RPGs together so I'll be out on the beach by myself [read: with the System] a lot. For THREE DAYS. I'm gonna get so tanned [read: sunburned].

I really hope that the beach house we're going to [I've never been in an actual beach house before. I'm stoked] is within reasonable walking distance to the ocean. Cuz... Omfg. I'm getting in that mood where I want to pack a million days before the actual event. IM GONNA GO SEE THE OCEAN AGAIN MOTHERFUCKERS IM GONNA GO SEE HER AAAAAAAA



In other news:
- My nails look amazing, in shades of pastel lilac/indigo/periwinkle, with opalescent pink-purple shimmer layered over top and glittery hexagons[!!!]. Yup. Perfect.
- I met the most fascinating older guy today and I intend to go back there and find him again. He might even be able to get me involved in music again... :> which is something I've desperately missed!
- I sprained or otherwise injured my already bad wrist somehow last night at the beginning of my shift. It sucks and is so sore. Work tonight won't help at all of course. I have my brace, an ace bandage and some cold packs to help me through it, and excedrin/coffee if need be.
- The fact that there's only three people in the entire store - no, in the CITY - that do exactly the job that I do makes me feel really lucky! There are other boarding facilities of course but this is the only one of this particular type in Charlotte, and only three people [currently, just two] are ever kept on to work the night shift. That's amazing. I feel like I was really lucky to get this job. Even if it is drudgery sometimes, and a little dangerous, and I get tired of it, it really is the first GOOD job of my life and I'm so grateful to the universe and to myself.


*floats away on a glittery, pastel cotton candy cloud of aesthetic*

GOAL OF TODAY IS TO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY BECAUSE LOL. my wallet is hurting. no eating out until paycheck if possible.

thought today was prom night but it's actually just prom night for my old high school, not the one local to my job. which is a huge relief rofl. the local school won't have prom for like 3 more weeks. that night SUCKS ALWAYS.

idk. stuff n things. nothing really. today's kind of a nothing day. hanging out in the living room with my roommates. feeling good that i can relax about that more now. coming up on three weeks since we moved in and i'm relaxing a lot more.

ehh just feeling antsy. work wants me to come in early and i don'T WANNA WEH. don't wanna work ten hours no. u can't make me. by the way work last night was full of RIDICULOUS CRAZY PEOPLE and i don't... understand lmfao. i don't like to detail weird bad work experiences but last night was just TOO REAL lol. let's see:

1- dudes just sitting in our drive thru while a line builds up behind them, never placed an order, just... sitting there. apparently this is the third time they had come through. finally i convince them to pull up and they don't want anything, they just "want to give me a tip". well i'm not technically allowed to take tips and i already feel weird about this so that's what i tell them. and then the guy goes "the tip is: other people can't be mean!" at which point the guy behind him turns on a flashlight and shines it in my face, everyone in the car starts screaming in my general direction and someone throws money at me from inside the car. ?????????????????????????????? yeah i have no fucking clue. it sounds hilarious now but at the time i kinda thought i was about to have a gun pulled on me what with the light shining in my face????? so we called the cops and they drove off and ya know. saturday night fare. the only shit part is a cop later told us that unless the money hit my FACE, instead of bouncing off my shoulder, it didn't count as assault. lol what. but whatever. i'm definitely counting this as i have now officially been assaulted on the job. arighty then.

2- pretty sure i caught a dude jerking it in his car. no pants on, car door open. he turned around and saw me leaning out the window [waiting for my order to pull up] and looking at him, stared at me, then shut the door and drove away without even turning on his headlights. uhhhhhhh. okay. not traumatizing like the other events of the night, just... funny and stupid and like REALLY BRO? so yeah that

3- some guys high as fuck on i don't KNOW what came in during day close and i immediately knew they were gonna be trouble. were just dancing everywhere and being obnoxious and wouldn't stop calling me baby. which made me want to choke a bitch already. [my coworkers think i overreact to this kinda thing, but i can be a lil sensitive about dysphoria-inducing sexist patronizing terms being disrespectfully tossed in my direction, sorry not sorry :v] they were just fucking annoying and then finally i and another coworker got their order taken, then i stepped outside to hand food out, came back and one of the fuckers had taken my pen and paper and drunkenly wrote "big cock" and "dick" and other stupid shit on it. with MY PEN. at which point i had already dealt with those previous two fucks within one hour and my patience was depleted so i just told my boss about it and went away from the front LOL. so that i wouldn't punch a drugged up idiot or two in the fucking face. so my boss gave them their money back and kicked them out LOL!! they babbled about how they were gonna sue the store or whatever, called us a bunch of gross names in front of this old man trying to buy coffee, and then jittered their way back out the store. at which point i took my fucking break because i was done with people. but not before these same two idiots whipped their car around to the drive thru and pulled up to the speaker solely to call me and my boss cunts before driving away. what was in the water today????


yeah so. just wanna say that nights like that used to give me a fucking breakdown and promise myself to never again trust a living human. but nowadays i just SIGH LIKE... WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE. lol. third shift fast food jobs y'all. you really get all types.