just a quickie

I have to share this story!!!....

Today i was in charge of fitting rooms, a very important job and way serious!!! well as serious as me with my warped sense of humour can get i suppose...not many men come into the fitting rooms, deeming it 'women's territory' but one young man did..

• Young man.....May I please take this singlet out of package to try on?
• Me.................. Yes certainly..
• YM ................(muffled sounds coming out of cubicle, i am so tempted to look under door lol)
• YM.................. Excuse me??
• ME..................Yes...(looks up as YM walks around the corner of cubicle shocking me in the process, he is not a 'small' lad, quite hefty in fact!)
• YM.................. Does this singlet look good on me???
• Me................... Diplomatically bursts out laughing embarrassing myself in the process...
• YM.................. OH...Do you think it's too tight??
• Me..................I am so sorry, um, yes, like about 4 sizes to small I would say. (aha, explains the puffing and panting from other side of door hey LOL)
• YM................. Well i guess i better not buy it hey..
• Me................. (sure why not, you look like an overstuffed pillow) hmmmm no best not, I'm sure we have them in bigger sizes..
• YM............... No it's ok, thanks for being honest, most women would have said I looked good in it (a blind woman perhaps???) and then I would have bought it and been embarrassed (and you weren't embarrassed at my laughing out loud??)
• ME............ No probs anytime....(he walks out, leaving me rolling around on the floor laughing my little head off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• This job is going to be so much fun i just know it!!

All that Glitters........

For Chrissy!!!! (and anyone else who wants a look LOL).. not the best pics i'm still trying to work out the camera, should have used my old faithful) the tree isn't as bare as it looks, it's got silver lights all the way through it and also beads that didn't show up in the full shot of the tree. I think the boys did a super job of arranging it this year, and i've hardly had to tweak a thing LOL (well maybe a few!) Our angel! isn't she just gorgeous in her faux fur wrap! glitter galore the tree close up of the tree! Miss Angel atop of the tree!

the joys of work LOL

It's non stop at work, things happen that well lets be honest..things that have happened could only happen to ME!! SCENARIOone: here i am, at my register, first customer for the day..2 trolley's absolutely full of all the mark-down stuff (things that were normally $80 marked down to $4 that sort of thing).. I have marked down most of his stuff when he mumbles something to me, grabs all his bags, leaves the trolleys and runs out the door..I am dumbfounded (this happens a lot!) I turn to my supervisor who happened to be behind me on a register and i just mouth to her RUNNER!! She comes to my register, where all the action is...Asks me and the girl beside me at the next register to describe man, which we do, the lady who has mysteriously appeared from behind the surfboard in the trolley, also describes man and points and says he as headed that way...The supervisor picks up phone to ring security as we have spotted said man...who then appears back at the register asking what all the fuss is...THE LADY, then says to him, oh well, they thought you were stealing all this stuff and are now calling security..I have told you before to think before you act, This is the consequence..I hope you are embarrassed...Puzzled I asked her what she was going on about..SHE WAS ONLY HIS BLOODY WIFE!!! he apparently does this alot, runs off to get a trolley and forgets to leave the parcels, she'd had enough so thought it would teach him a lesson to get into trouble..I just burst out laughing...the supervisor was in fits of laughter, we had to close my register so we could all compose ourselves. THEN because the supervisor had voided his transaction i had to start all over again..they had so much stuff it took me nearly 45 minutes to put it through as it all had to be coded manually (and they honestly had so much stuff!!!) I laughed the whole time and thanked them for not getting narky over my accusing him of stealing blah blah...They came back to the store later and apparently gave a glowing report to the supervisor about how it was a pleasure to be served by someone who smiled and made their day!! (how nice was that!!) SCENARIO 2 This one happened the following day...I am doing returns (a shit job but someone has to do it). a chinese lady comes up to me...

• CL....Electric Toothbrushes
• Me....Um..YES
• CL....Electric Toothbrushes...
• ME...ahhh yes
• CL...you stupid girl...where do the electric toothbrushes be?
• ME...ahh yes...they are over there, in the cosmetic department, on the 3rd rack (i put them there myself so knew exactly where they were.
• CL..what dept..you stupid girl..i cannot see it
• ME..(thinking well if you weren't 2ft tall you would see)..takes her to said dept and shows her toothbrushes..
• CL...YOU STUPID GIRL...these be battery operated toothbrushes, i want ELECTRIC..what is wrong with you stupid girl..
• ME...(holding tongue if she calls me stupid girl once more i swear i'll shove that toothbrush down her neck)...well, madam, battery operated toothbrushes are indeed electric toothbrushed as they are electronic not manual, *sigh* we dont have electric as in plug in electric here as i'm sure that if you were to plug it in you would surely be electrocuted and die (perhaps that is her plan??)
• CL...YOU STUPID GIRL....why name a product electric if it is battery operated?? I shall go elsewhere, thank you for wasting my time...
• ME>..*sigh, smile politely* the pleasure was all mine....watch her walk off and make note that next time i invent something to make sure i name it correctly to avoid confusion!!! oh and make sure that my name badge is correctly positioned so people will not think my name is Stupid Girl!!!!!

manic!

what a manic month! It's so busy at work i dont even have time to scratch myself lately. BUT at least it's a job and i am loving it! Finally, our cheques arrived from Dad's estate. It came with some spooky incidents though i must say! (lots of spooky things have been happening, thank GOD my friend Jackie has witnessed them too!) firstly, I had told J about an incident when i was thinking about my dad and the song that was played at his funeral came on the radio, first time i had heard it since that morning. THEN, when we were driving up our driveway for the first time, Aaryn asked if Grampy knew where we were now living, AND the song came on the radio again, I told Aaryn that yes i reckon Gramps knows where we are! Secondly. At the scrapshop, something came up in conversation and I turned to J and said, i dont think my dad would like that sort of talk, AGAIN the song came on the radio (I had already told her about the previous incidents!!) I just had to leave the shop, it got a bit too much for me! THIRDLY..my dad used to send me a card and a cheque for $30 on my birthday, he would alway's post it on my birthday and then let me know, i used to get it 2 day's later. Last year was the only year he had really missed, because he was in hospital. ANYWAY, now for the spooky part. I got a phone call off the solicitor, to tell me that the cheque would be delayed a day or 2 because he had made a mistake on the totals, That's fine, we've waited this long! He rings me back, the day before my birthday to say he had just posted it and the discrepancy was......$30...omg that freaked me out, I got the cheque 2 day's after my birthday!!!! (spoooooky with the extra $30!!).. SO yesterday, after long deliberations, i took myself shopping and bought my final birthday present off my father, something I will treasure forever. A beautiful heavy, silver necklace AND a silver anchor charm, so that when i touch it, i can think of my dad. (he was in the navy and I thought the anchor most appropriate) I had to order it in so it should be here next week, but I am wearing the chain now! The lady in the jewellers asked me if it was a xmas gift and like the idiot i am, i burst into tears when telling her i was buying it out of my inheritence! She consoled me (but gave me no discount LOL) and said it was a beautiful thing I was doing. Gary just left the shop with embarrassement, but soon came back in and sneakily laybyed a lovely ruby ring and matching ruby earings. I do hope they are for me for xmas!!! shhh i wasn't supposed to see LOL. I did take a pic of my necklace but it's still on the camera, but i'll take a better one when i get the anchor

moths and birthdays!!!

MOTHS We keep getting moths in our Laundry, someone said they were bogong moths, but i don't know if they are, they come in droves, we had 32 in there on Wednesday. Do you know how frightening they are when they all decide to swoop on you?? LOL and fly spray doesn't kill them either, NOTHING DOES!! if anyone knows what they are I'd be glad to know!

BIRTHDAY CAKE IS FUN!!!!

It's my birthday today, Keiran Say's I'm 10, so that will do!!! I had a great time with the grandies when it came time to cake time, They all helped poor 'old' nanna blow out the candles. poor Evan went to pieces when it was all blown out, so he had to have a go on his own!

I got lots of kisses off Emily and Keiran, who were insistent about spoiling their nanna! Then Miss Emily and I had a girlie moment with a bit of a heart to heart. UNTIL the cake arrived in front of us....MUD CAKE from the cheesecake shop, thanks to Poppy for remembering!!! just look at our faces LOL..how embarrassing YUMMMMMMMMMMMM how delish!!!um, well, not the most flattering pic of me i must say...(I told Tina I had a bit of cake stuck under my plate,, Miss Emily, lifted up her little plate and said, yes nanna, i have cake under my plate too...cracked me up!!) Thankfully, no photo's were taken when Emily and I had a bit of a cake fight and were both covered in chocolate icing (do you know that stuff makes your nose itch when you get it in your nostrils LOL) Emily laughed so hard, i thought she would pee on my knee ....ooh i made a rhyme LOL SPOILT SPOILT SPOILT I was today...It started last night with a little party at Tina's with Jackie, Heather (mum) Monika and Tina, the neighbours heard them singing happy birthday LOL...I was spoilt with 2 cakes, a caramel mud cake and chocolate mud cake YUMMMM...naturally i had both...

Presents galore: A beautiful oil set off Tina, Zeb and the boys for the new bathroom AND a new pair of jimjams. They had panda's on them and keiran says I'll be way smart!

Monika gave me a beautiful candle in a glass, the box is so gorgeous with a fake diamond in the lid, so i have that on display in bathroom too!

Mother gave me a beautiful Tabu perfume,talc and body spray set...JUST LOVE IT!!!

Today Gary and the boys gave me lovely glass scales for the bathroom. They are the weight watchers ones with the automatic BMI. Felt great when Aaryn declared i would now know how FAT i am!!!

Hayley and the kidlings gave me 2 bras, a red one (to wear under my work shirt!!) and a pretty pink lace one. Emily insisted on wearing the pink one, much to keiran's amusement, he wanted to do it up for her and kept stroking it LOL I asked Evan if he would like to try on the red one and he just looked at me like i had 2 heads and say NO NANNA, that was the end of that LOL

The wayward son, totally forgot, Hayley and Gary rang him and he immediately rang my phone, he didn't know that i was there when he was phoned. It was so funny, listening to him trying to worm his way out of that!! He is in Roma for the ponies apparently and his excuse was he had no phone reception ROFL...he then told me he was putting the money he OWES me into my bank, and for me to buy myself something nice for my birthday YES he was fully tanked LOL..He then sent me a very long text message, rambling on about it was his mumsy's birthday..such an idiot that boy LOL..I have informed him I shall spend the same amount of $$$$ on him as he has spent on me when it is his birthday!!!! LOL...

I was also informed that i mustn't forget Hayley's birthday in 4 weeks time!! apparently, I forgot to buy her a present last year and she's not letting me forget...actually, i didn't forget persay, I promised i would get her hair permed for her and then, forgot ROFL...so this year, i had better just get her something other than a promise hey LOL

**edited to add** I also received a lovely phone call off my brother this morning...text messages off Lise, Heather, Audrey and Chris, a phone call off Chris too!! and an email off my baby sister, (who NEVER emails me so i must be suffering from something terminal!!).

I also managed to get off work today by turning up early and being told by the supervisor that i looked 'dreadful' and to go home! I had a bit of a migraine but once i got home and slept for an hour it disappeared, so that was a good thing!! could well imagine me fainting behind a register, why that's something I would do LOL..

Bless him!

Aaryn had a phone call last night from his little friend (you know, the one whose father has that problem with his heart!! LOL), apparently Aaryn had told him that we were having a party on Saturday and he was invited, he rang up to see what he could buy me for my birthday (bless him). Got very upset when i told Aaryn to tell him there was no party but he could come to play. Mr A was overheard giving him our address..It's C***** terrorist, yes, it's over near the horsepiddle, yeah, YEAH its a terrorist, not a street. and it's way steep!

I hope the kid finds us, we live in a TERRACE!!!! bless his little heart LOL

check out chick supreme LOL

Well, i've had all the training i'm going to get apparently! 3 hours of intense playing with the register, scanning, voiding, playing with dummy credit cards etc then thrown right in the deep end with REAL customers, I survived JUST! and only one person abused me, well not abuse exactly, she smiled and said it was fine that i didn't have a 'doodad' and went off to find a register that did have one (technical talk for that little machine thing that opens cd's and dvd's etc) she came back, threw the cards and dvd at us (being the girl beside me!) and told us to go to hell and we could put the (insert very bad swear word) ing stuff back on the shelf! to which i smiled and said, thank you, have a nice evening. Thursday evening brings out the worse in people. I'm astounded at how much stuff is actually stolen from dept stores, it's been a bit of an eye opener indeed. I was put in my favorite dept at the end of my shift to do a bit of a clean up (yes, XMAS!! how did they know?? lol) and was shocked to find so many open boxes with the little dec's stolen. ANYWAY i must have done ok as they have asked me back to do 2 more shifts next week on the registers and i have to pop in before thursday to check the roster and let them know what day's i'd like overtime on!! OK enough of that lol. I had a nice little lot of visitors today, the house was packed! Jackie came over for a cuppa and then Tina and Zeb arrived with the kidlets. It was a lovely afternoon, so layback and relaxing, which is just what i needed after a hectic night of scrapping LOL got home at 3am!!! and only did 2 very small pages for a comp i'm participating in. tut tut. (and i've just realized i've left my scrapping stuff in the car AND gary is at poker so i cant scan my layouts BUGGA)., I gave Keiran and Evan some jelly bellies today (little capsules filled with sour jelly beans) they loved them, actually, Keiran loved his, Evan was totally beside himself with laughter filling nanna's mouth with them and watching her squirm as the sour hit her tongue!! I felt decidedly sick when I realized the little toad had fed me the WHOLE packet!! It was great speech therapy for him though, i wouldn't let him give me one until he had told the the proper colour and it was today that we realized he is truly a MALE!!! he would drop a bean every now and again, and if it went down my top, he would jump up and down, laughing hysterically and say, BOOBIE then would want to go looking for it, I never thought that my Boobies would cause such pleasure for anyone, who would have guessed. I'm now hoping that his Poppy never witnessed the game, as for sure, he'll be wanting to play that one at some stage AND NO WAY i'm having that ROFL..

We had tennis this morning, after only 4 hours sleep i was a little cranky, so left half way through to come home for a nanna nap which ended up being almost a coma LOL i slept for nearly 2 hours!! on the way home with Aaryn the convo went something like this -

• Mum, how old do i have to be before i can change my name
• 18
• oh, that's so not fair
• dont you like your name?
• nah, i want to change it
• to what??
• weeeeelllllllllll, i want to be called BLADE
• ok!
• aren't you going to ask me why?
• nope
• please ask me why.
• ok, why?
• um, i dunno i just like it, so will you call me Blade?
• ok, if you want me to.
• FAST FORWARD later that day....
• BLADE, BLADE, BLADE time to come in for tea...
• who is Blade? my name is Aaryn, have you been drinking??

OH well, you cant win all the time LOL next time i wont be so obliging.

I"M BACK!!!

did ya miss me?? i doubt it LOL lots of news..the move went very well, we are almost settled in, most of the boxes are unpacked expecially the scrapping boxes!! just have a few more things to put in the shed and all is finished. I still haven't taken pics but will get around to it soon. EVEN BETTER NEWS........ As most of you know, we own our own cleaning business and for the last 9 months i've branched out and had my own little business and contracts WELL, that is now all changed. Not only have I got a new home BUT a NEW CAREER!! yes indeed, no longer do i work for myself but now...tada...i am..working in customer service at TARGET, i started with orientation yesterday and today i have 5 hours register training. SO no more cleaning for this little black duck, even though the money was fantastic, I just felt it was time for a change! The hours will take some getting used to, i cant pick and choose anymore, but it will be lovely to get a proper wage and work in aircon LOL..I have a pretty uniform to wear! I happen to like red! I love the store, it's friendly and the staff are easy to get along with. I'm very nervous about those registers though, although my manager has assured me that if i dont like it, i can go to another dept. which, i've already told him I'll do LOL but then again, i may end up loving being on the registers who knows. I'll let you know tomorrow!!!! I have to give notice tomorrow at my lovely little job, that is going to be hard, but i've got a replacement lined up already and have told her that if it gets to much, i may help out (but then again, i may not LOL)...

TODAY

is MOVING DAY>.....oh yes, finally, we officially pick up the keys at 9.am! I had them yesterday for an hour or so, to check to see if the house had been cleaned sufficiently (it wasn't up to MY standards but it'll do, wouldn't employ those cleaners lol)..it's all systems go here, I've been up since 5.30 because i was too excited to sleep, will regret that about 11am LOL...Kids went to school they were going to have the day off but cam decided he'd rather go. Forgot to take pics at house yesterday so your all going to have to wait... ok..signing off NOW...gary is home and he's such a slave driver!!! will update from Tina's when i get the chance....