saffiter | Money is good (Reply)

Money is very good.

Of course I've probably been buying more dvd's than I should *heh*. I've got Van Helsing, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 3 Documentaries on Ancient Egypt, Shrek 2 special Edition, I'm pre-ordering Return of the King: Special Edition (comes out on the 10th December) and I'm sure there's a couple there that I've missed... I'm positive, but I'm far too lazy at the moment to go over and check the stack.

I also have a new icon for you all. It's Benni from The Mummy:

I'm quite pleased at how this one turned out. Considering the original cap I used was really dark so I lightened it and I played with the red and green tones as well and then did a couple of other things as well. There's about 6 layers to that particular icon. It turned out better than my last Ardeth one.

Okay, work's been interesting. I'm no unofficially/officially picking New Zealand orders only (with the occasional Australian thrown in for good measure).

Oh, I'm also terrified of Forklifts.

There's one lady at work that no-one seems to like. She just grates us the wrong way. I'm pleasant enough to her (I'm one of the only ones that she doesn't bitch about apparently) but I'm glad she doesn't work across from me anymore. Had she still been working there she might've suffered from death by staple-gun. I've heard on the grape-vine (I would say around the water cooler, but that's over in the corner and there's not enough room for everyone to stand around and gossip. We'd get in trouble anyway) that she's been transfered to another warehouse and even told the boss to fuck off... I'm not going to believe it until she hasn't been at work for a few days 'cause I'd heard she'd been fired before and then she was back again the next day.

Speaking of my boss, I'd like to know what he's thinking. He turns up to see how everyone's going at the warehouse about once a week. The other week he turned up and was staring at me for some strange reason. I look up, give him a nervous grin and he calls out across the warehouse "Star Wars fan?", to which I nod (I was wearing my Jedi vs Sith shirt at the time). He then cheers, gives me the thumbs up, and walks away. Three or so days ago he was back and walks up to me. Tilts his head to one side and gives me this dead serious look. I'm thinking "Oh, shit, what have I done? Is he going to ask me to go for a walk and then fire me?!" He does that for a few seconds, knocks on the table, and then simply states "275 days".

I'm like, er... whatthe? I couldn't figure out what he was talking about for the life of me. It took me about a minute to twig that he was talking about Star Wars. When I say Star Wars he gets this huge arsed grin and walks off. I told mum about it and she said he was probably testing me for something, what I don't know though. I'm just of the mind that my boss is just plain odd at times.

I also slept for 17 hours Saturday through Sunday. Half exhaustion, half a cold/flu thing that I picked up off one of the ladies at work.

I busted my cd/mp3 player on Monday. That thing's survived skittering across gravel when I've stacked it while running. I've dropped it countless times. It falls off the chair the other day, lands on the ground and shatters. I bought a new one on Saturday. It's a TEAC, with mp3 and radio capacity. Is very cool. I almost bought one that had vcd capacity (apparently there's a plug that you can use to attach to your tv and watch vcd's. I asked about the brand though and found out that it wasn't the greatest of quality). I also got myself a new set of earphones. I got the ones that look like earplugs so you squoosh them in your ear and they don't fall out (as opposed to normal ones that always do on me). They don't even have sound leakage. Which is VERY good, they'd have to be for the price I paid for the bloody things.

You can tell I've been used to asking my parents if I could buy this or that. I still feel the need to justify everything that I buy to them. Especialy my mum.

I got to see a whole group of friends on Friday night that I haven't seen since I graduated from school. At least half of them did a double take when they saw me. One of them even walked back outside so he could make a proper entrance *giggle*. I guess I looked a little different. Short flapper style haircut (as opposed to the long hair done in either a tight, unflattering pony-tail or a juliet style half up half down do), snug jeans, strappy, low heels that just slipped on, off the shoulder pink top, glasses that actually looked like they suited me for once (as opposed to the things I wore in school. There's a reason I never wore my glasses for school pictures), leaning up against the kitchen sink drinking a rasperry vodka cruiser. The Sheena they used to know wouldn't be caught dead in any kinda heel OR drink alcoholic stuff, or dress like that. Baggy t-shirts were the order of the day for me back then.

It made me realize just how much I've grown up since high school. I think the arm wrestle at the dinner table kinda helped with that realization.. plus the topic of conversation. It didn't help that I was the only girl sitting at the table. The rest were 21/22 yr old guys. One of them, Ben (really nice guy. He's the sort of guy that, if he sees you sitting at the side of the road crying your eyes out, he'll ring you up, and if he can't do anything for you at that moment, he'll take you out for coffee that night and refuse to let you pay for anything) had to keep reminding them that there was a "lady at the table, tone it down guys". It was good to see them all, but I couldn't help but feel that half of them hadn't left adolescence and fart/sex jokes behind just yet... the good thing is that one of the guys, that I didn't really have that much to do with during high school, sat down and had a really good, intelligent conversation with me.

All in all, life's been interesting lately.