Beans!!

Jul. 9th, 2006 02:30 pm
talkingsoup: (L cake)
France lost! Augh! Good game, though, up until the French player headbutted the Italian guy, RANDOMLY, getting himself red-carded out of the game in the SECOND overtime, dammit. Pissed me off. The game went into penalty kicks, which also kind of sucked, but it was a sweet game in that they were tied for so long and everyone played well. Missed the first half though.

Oh man! Work! I actually had to do real work yesterday. First half of the day was more training for the registers, then after lunch we were supposed to shadow (me and the other new girl) but we ended up behind the registers. It got pretty busy on and off too. I made a lot of mistakes, and one pretty big one, but I was sorta getting the hang of it by the end of the shift. Still don't really know how to do transfers, DTCs or alterations type stuff, but I can do returns and regular transactions. Can open gift cards, too. The guy's gonna call us tomorrow with our schedules.

I don't think I mentioned this. Thursday night, I think, Liz called me up and was like, "Come get me!" Apparently she was in the middle of a game called Border Patrol, which is like...you have a group of people who try to run from one house to another one that's like a mile away or so. Then there's people driving around in cars, so if they spot you you're out of the game, so you have to be all stealthy about it. Supposed to mimic crossing the border, or something.

Anyway, Liz wanted different shoes, so I drove her back to her house and then we sort of cheated and followed some of the other players (who Liz didn't know at all--she was hanging with Steve). Eventually we made it to the house, and Liz asked if I wanted to play the next game, so I said sure, alright. Thing was, I had my sandals on, so I eventually just took them off and was running around, in the dark, at night, barefoot. On streets and through bushes and stuff. Baaad, idea, though it definitely toughened up my feet some. We got caught eventually, but it was pretty fun. After that Liz went with Steven and the others and I went home. I found out later I had like a little metal shard embedded in my foot. Haha, didn't even know it was there. Tweezers didn't get all of it out, either, so now my foot hurts. Yay, tetnus!

Dwah!!! Kingdom Hearts! I finally beat the first one! Geeezus, those final bosses were hard. And the ending was sad, too. But after I beat it I decided I couldn't wait so I ran out to Blockbusters (at 8 pm last night) and got the second one and played that for HOURS. The second one kicks ass! Better graphics, better gameplay, better music, and I like the storyline a lot better, so far. And Roxas and the Organization dealio are awesome! Axel especially--I love pyromaniacs with crazy hair. I miss Roxas and Axel already. The whole thing was so sad and emotional, which is why I like the storyline so much. Though it seems more like a movie than a game--there's a lot of cinematics, which I'm not really complaining about, though it kind of cuts down on gametime. Though if I remember there were a lot of cinematics in the beginning of the first one too. Still...*sigh* Poor Roxas! Poor Axel!

Haha, I can already see why those two are the subject of much, much slashing out in the fan world, though I haven't played the game enough to derive my own opinion of that.

Kingdom Hearts might very well own my soul now. Both games are so fun. I played until about two-thirty last night. Totally forgot I had a computer.

Ahhh...work is so tiring. I slept for an hour on my lunchbreak. Naps are lovely things. Don't know when I'll be working next, though I'm sure both me and the other new girl--her name is Megan, I believe--will be working all three days of the sale next weekend. Gah, that's gonna suck.

Ka-Boom

Jul. 5th, 2006 02:28 pm
talkingsoup: (gaara)
Kenneth Lay is dead. Today the Munchkins sang their glee from the rooftops.

Probably one of the crazier Fourth of July's of my life. Last year my mom and I walked to this place where we could see the fireworks shot off in Livermore, then I walked home on my own, laughed at the people throwing fireworks, laughed at the billions of cops, and then ran through the sprinklers in the park on my own. That was crazy. This year, however, Liz and I went to hang out with a guy friend of hers. Then we drove up to Dublin to meet some other people and threw fireworks around an empty parking lot--it's legal in Dublin, illegal in P-town, go figure. I've never done it before, and it was pretty freaking awesome. One guy almost got his hand blown off, though it didn't really do anything, and Liz's friend almost got hit in the head. So much fun.

After that we went back to the guy's house and his parents came home with even more fireworks, which they, the parents, set off in the backyard. They had one that actually shot stuff in the air, that one was awesome--it shot like eight blasts. Freaking awesome.

Then we kind of hung out, played cards and eventually Liz took me home. Fun night all around.

France won today, too! The game kicked ass. It wasn't as up close and personal as Italy vs. Germany, but both teams were really good, and France's defense was hella good. France scored the one goal of the game on a penalty kick in the first half and kept that score for the remainder of the game. A few close calls for Portugal. Sweet game, and now France is going to the finals! Woot!

Still haven't had a chance to look for a desk, so that's what today's project is. Tomorrow I go in for training, waugh! I'm kinda nervous, even though I know I won't be doing much other than signing stuff. Hafta get up early, too--bleah.

Need to cook dinner tonight, too. Better find a recipe soon.

Did a little writing last night. Tweaked the E and Kail scene some and then wrote a tidbit from the badguys' point of view to kind of explain what happened, as I imagine the reader will be a tad confused by exactly what they did to Kail. After this it's a Tag scene in which he meets another slayer, and realizes something about himself, and then it's on to Morgan and...familiar time! Things'll get faster from there; I cut out one of the scenes I was gonna include before, since I hadn't counted on the intervention of the badguys. Plus I decided some revelations need to be saved for the second book.

Now! On to desk hunting!

Go France!

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