Christmas
I had written a big ole long post last week, and then when I hit "post" it switched to this new posting version, and everything I typed was gone. From now on I'll type things out in Word and paste it in here. Pissed me off. It was boring and kinda whiny anyway, like most my other posts.
Christmas was actually pretty nice. I decided to go into work, since I had nothing else going on, and we didn't open until 2pm anyway, so came in at 9 so it would be nice and quiet. Brought Tess with me, cause she was being all clingy, so I said fuck it, no bosses are going to be there so who's gonna care. So I did. A couple of the uppers actually WERE there, but they didn't care that I brought her either. Then they all left and it was just me and the security people. Then the security people asked if I could go home. Wasn't sure if I was supposed to tell them if they were allowed to go home or not, but they thought I could, so fuck it, go home, it's christmas, we shouldn't even be fucking open anyway. So me and Tess had the whole park to ourselves and it was nice. A couple friends heard I was working so they stopped by with doughnuts so that was nice too. Played fetch with Tess in the arcade for a bit, didn't do any actual work all day.
Once we opened at 2 and other employees were here, I swung by a friends house to pick up a motorcycle and a car that he had planned on getting fixed but intead they both ended up sitting for about 7 years. Car is a 2000 mercury cougar, he said the engine mounts were shot, but they looked fine to me. I may need to pull off the gas tank, cause bad gas turns toxic and ruins everything. So hopefully the valves aren't stuck. Books for $1500, so hopefully I get a good price for it and can get rid of one more credit card. Motorcycle I just planned on selling for parts or getting scrap metal money from it, but it turns out it's a bike I've always like since I was a teenager, and parts are cheaper for it then they were my old bike, so I may try to get it running. Then I can sell my shiney newer bike and get close to $3k for it, and get rid of some more debt! He took it apart and let it sit in the sun for years, so it may need quite a bit of work. And he might not be able to get a title for it. So we'll see.
After I loaded the motocycle into the van and the car on the car dolly, Tess and I came back into work to finish up my 8 hours. I basically sat in my office reading my book. Catcher in the Rye, which I've never read but wanted to see what the big deal was, since it was apparantly banned for a while. I'm ¾ of the way through it and still waiting for some kind of plot to develop. Weird pointless book.
Entertaining though.
After work, I went to a friends house, they were having a bbq. It was fun for a bit but I got tired super fast and just wanted to get home, so I ended up leaving early. I'm liking being around people less and less. They're good people, don't get me wrong, but I do like my solitude and I love my secluded little roommateless girl free fortress :P
So what I thought was going to be a depressing christmas, actually turned out to be pretty nice. And since I worked christmas, I can take wed through friday off. Got company visiting thursday through next week, and I need a day to clean the place up a bit anyway.