I swear to god I'm going to get better at this.

Alaina Turning Thirty... already happened. And after all my feelings about not being prepared, or not handling it well, it went as I expected: over in 24 hours. One day I was 29, and the next day I was 30. My biggest concern around the whole turning thirty thing was that I felt I hadn't ( Read more... )

Seriously. This whole "going months between postings" things has just got to stop!

Here are some brief things, and hopefully -- once I can get Jeremy the TiVo: Episode IV: A New Hope down under 88% full (and yes, that is totally his full name. Shut up, all of y'all), I can get back to a semi-regular posting schedule.

POINT THE FIRST: I Swear I ( Read more... )

So here's the part that sucks about being a store manager that lives extremely close to the store: when the assistant managers both come down with some horrible flu that you yourself have not caught, when they can't make it in, that means you have to work on your days off. Thursday I closed for Liz; Friday I opened for Liz. The good news is that ( Read more... )

So I'm back from training in Annapolis. (Oh that's right, I didn't tell anyone I was going to Annapolis for training! Oh, this is a story.)

I had been planning to have this big party to celebrate me leaving Bean's. I made invitations to "Alaina's Sweet Taste of Liberty Party," after my favoritist quote from How I Met Your Mother ever:"Look, Ted ( Read more... )