12.15.12 - Chocolate & Zines ♥

 I was in Walgreens (the store not the site),  looking for a quick Christmas gift for Sandy. I found some lipglosses in a set. Anyway, I was wandering around their holiday section HOPING and PRAYING to see if my favorite chocolate has been stocked yet. It only comes out during the holiday seasons ;__; I don't even know why. It's only a mint chocolate, but these are so good! I should buy them all! LOL! Alas, I bought 2. 

12.07.12 - Nom Nom...

It's that time again... the time to whip out the hot apple cider and Hot Cocoa/Hot Chocolate! ♥ 

This is my favorite Hot Chocolate brand. Land O Lakes. My favorite flavor is French Vanilla and the Irish Cream one... I couldn't find the Irish Cream one but I did find a Caramel one. O_o;

 This was a random purchase when I was at Target (where I got the hot chocolate). And it's quite delicious :P I love fruit punch flavored things... 

Would you like some? :P

12.05.12 - What's in my Bag? IIIBeCa Bag

This is my tentative Black Friday-reward purchase. 

What the heck do I mean? Tentative because I'm still unsure about this bag. It's beautiful and I do like it a lot but.... I'm unsure about it.

When I say Black Friday-reward purchase, I mean it. After all the crazy hours and etc of the week of Black Friday I wanted to get something as a treat for myself. And of course, it had to be a bag >_<; Mostly because the one I was using for awhile... decided to break ;__; (the black Ted Baker bag I loved and used until it's death <--one of the straps got caught  and tore X_x; )

Don't get mad at me for saying this... I really wanted to a Louis Vuitton Berkeley bag in the Damier Ebene print. But because it's ginormously spendy, I found some *cough* *cough* >__>;;; knockoffs on a site and tried purchasing it... Yeah I said TRIED. Let's just say the seller took my money and ran. Good thing I used paypal and filed a claim. So, yeah... that's what I get for doing that. Lol! So... I'm still waiting on that... It was $39 (shipping included)

So, I had been looking at this bag on Nordstrom's site and wanted to see it in person. My local Nordstrom's is a bit of a ways (30 minutes away) and I find that most of the time whenever I want to check something out from their site in person, they usually don't have it ;( 

But, I saw it!!! And I was like RAWR! The problem was... which color!? I, originally, planned on getting the black one but the Aqua Sky one caught my eye. Though, honestly, it doesn't look blue at all. It looks more of a mint green color. 

Since my point and shoot camera is being charged, I decided to use my SONY NEX-3 for these photos. I didn't edit any of these pix, so none of the coloring/brightness has been changed. I should've -_-; It's been a dreary day... :P

 IIIBeCa by Joy Gryson 'North Moore' Satchel in Aqua Sky

It's a very stiff and structured bag...

11.28.12 - Same camera, different settings...

Today was extremely rainy and windy. The clouds are starting to clear which makes for a beautiful sky... so I rushed out with my camera (Panasonic LUMIX DMC-SZ7)

 w/o flash or any setting adjustments...

w/o flash and with "scenery" setting
 

w/ flash and with "night scenery" setting

All in all, I love how all of them came out... I really love the colors! This is a total and completely random post.

11.26.12 - Working on Thanksgiving & Black Friday weekend leads to shopaholic tendencies

Two more days...just TWO more days and this weekend will be over. What am I talking about? Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and my very own Tragic Tuesday.

The parents came here on Wednesday night. I told them before that I was working on Thanksgiving. In fact, I volunteered to work on Thanksgiving because no one was going to be home but myself. I thought I'd just go to work. Two of the cashiers (luckily, it's people I get along with) also volunteered.

I didn't know that my manager (actually, ALL managers in all the departments and the store managers) was going to be there. 

I had made my Thanksgiving dinner early (on Wednesday). I baked a chicken and some potatoes and made some rice. Yep, that was it. Lol! I slept early so I could go to work at 8:45am on Thanksgiving day.

When I got to work, I noticed all the usual Black Friday barriers we put up every year, but I noticed the employee's side of the parking lot had a lot of cars; but no people in line. O_O; so I kind of panicked and thought I was late. It turned out that the other departments were there earlier to set up for our day.

11.11.12 - Oatmeal baths?

I think it's kind of funny that no one likes the new supervisor. I think she's okay. I think the other supervisors don't like her either because she's not going to close, ever. Which isn't fair. We, also, found out how she got promoted before me and the other supervisor that applied. Basically, favoritism and not from our side...but on the corporate side. Oh well...

Last week was kind of a bad week. I had a paid day off, but didn't get to have any fun because of my car. My car decided it didn't want to work on Monday. I had orders to ship off and was planning to go to the nearby "post office" (a tiny counter in the Bel-Air market a few blocks away). I planned on getting some almond milk too,  but my car didn't start. I tried a few times and it still didn't work.

I didn't know what to do, so I called the only person I knew that knew about cars. Edgar, my co-worker. I don't like people knowing where I live and now he does. Oh well... He came and checked it out and he said it sounded like something with my battery. He said it might have died. 

10.24.12 - Extreme disappointment....

You can blame this on my laziness. I thought this was funny. A few weeks ago, the weather was still quite warm (90 degrees ), so when it was forecast that the next week was going to rain, I was excited. My car needed a good cleaning. LOL! Yes, I told you... LAZINESS!

Two weeks later, the weather was cooler but still no rain. So I washed my car last week. Two days later, it rained. A day after that, the hood was covered in bird poop :/ Fun. But, it's been raining on and off these last few days so it's kind of washing the poop away. 

Last week, I was extremely depressed. EXTREMELY depressed. I mean, I cried at work! -_-; So embarrassing....

I was going through paperwork, at work... and I found the stack of paperwork that tells us of change in positions. I found out that I wasn't going to be promoted even though I was their top candidate. Instead, they're transferring someone else in from another store who's at the same position I am and they're moving her up. I was quite upset... In fact, I'm still very bitter about it.

Since then, I haven't done anything. No drawing... not working on i+t things... :/ I was very very unhappy. I'm wondering if it had anything to do with our new assistant store manager because he's from a different store (might be the same store that that person is from)... 

I couldn't help but wonder if it's cuz I'm not doing a good job. I don't know... 

Well, writing this blog has put me back in a depressed mood. Lol >_<;;;