Happenings of the day of Yester
Well really from Sunday but...we all know how I can't keep track of time properly enough! Anyway, so I had to go to work to help set up the ad. I was surprisingly awake and functional for 5 in the am. I know people go to work early and I'm not the only one, but getting up that early interferes with my natural nocturnality. Its different staying up that late then going to bed than it is to unsuccessfully go to bed earlier to be able to get up that early. But I digress. I had the food section in my store to put up signs. We also have our seasonal section in that same section, so I got to put up sale signs for Halloween candy! I'm not a huge huge candy freak, but I was so excited to see all that candy! Some of it was like taking a trip back to the day yo. I was like "Oh junk, caramel apple lollis, I haven't seen these junks in ever! And the little pumpkin candies! And caramel candy corn?! I bet its with that yuuuuhhh! Dum dums-good shite!!!". I thought to myself "I'm buyin a shitload of this yo to give out to trick or treaters this year.". I wanted to buy it then and there but the store wasn't open yet and if I bought Halloween candy this early and brought it into my house the kiddies totally wouldn't even have it because my fam would glush it all.
So I had help finishing the signs in that section, then we went out to the garden center to help set up ad out there. I swear I have ADD yo 'cause I was amazed by everything out there. (Hell, I was amazed at everything that day, but still!) It was interesting because-we come in at 5am to do ad, has to be done by 8am when the store opens, garden was getting an ad visit that day, the person who was setting up didn't come in until 7 and had never done ad before, AND all the signs were general as fuck. I couldn't locate them when I was prepping the rest of the ad because it didn't even have a functional dpci that I could turn into a upc to look up. But we still had to scan them in!! We had to go around and scan the plants to see whether they were on sale or not. This took 3 of us a bit more than an hour, I don't know how they expected it to be done by 1 person in that time yo. And the other person that was helping and me totally just about didn't know what plant from what because the signs were like "15% off patio ready plants" and etc, and we were like "Which fucking one can't you put on your patio?! What do they mean 'patio ready'?", and they didn't exactly have signs saying "patio ready" hangin up over a section of plants yo. It was fun. One section of greenery looked like a jungle and we half expected snakes to crawl out, monkeys to swing by, and hear strange bird calls. Then there were these ferns that were furry lookin which I felt the need to share with everybody as I stared at them in wonder and fright with my finger hesitant to touch/poke it. And the door to the garden center kept opening and it would push the cart further and further away from it, which was kinda funny to me for some reason. There was also this beautifully huge, bright red hibiscus flower that kept staring at me and saying "Pick me!! Tuck me behind your ear!" and I was like "But no, they'll see us! The guests and leaders might not like it.". The other chick kept thinking something was gonna jump out of the flowers and stuff at her, and everythime she saw a spider or something crawly she'd say "Eeeewwww!" and just about run away! We kept thinking lizards were gonna fall on our heads too 'cause they were crawling on the gate on the top and there's space where it could crawl through-or fall through if it was going too fast and not paying attention! The garden center chick was like "Don't hurt any of the lizards! I have one that's my pet." and the other chick was like "If your lizard jump on me then I'm going to kill it!". It was funnier with her accent too! Oh, she also kept freaking out about the spider webs that we kept walking into-that was funny yo! Speaking of spider webs-we have some Halloween decor outside as well. There's really cool lookin gargoyle statues and a fountain, this gate that has a bat on the front of it, a few wire arbors and pumpkins and stuff. I was trying to put up signs on these things (which was hard because they don't exactly have shelves to hook the signs on to), and there were spider webs on some of them. This gave them an added Halloween look which was awesome! The best spectacular was seeing the webs with the light from early morning sun reflecting off of them-especially on the wire arbor! It was a nice effect.
We went back in the store once we were done-right as the corporate visitor came up to check things out. (I've never liked visits, regardless of my position or what they're visiting for. It always makes me nervous-even if I know everything's flawless.) We were happy to get out of there. I helped push some product on the sales floor-which I was dorkily excited about since I'm always trapped in the bowels of the store to get my work done (while flirting with death nonetheless. It makes everything interesting? Good thing I'm not claustrophobic. If my mind wasn't right [Ha!] then it'd be enough to make me!). We passed the Halloween costumes and I was like "These costumes are crappy. I want this pirate jacket for everyday wear!" lol Finally 10 in the am rolled around and I was done with work. I was excited even though it was a short shift and I had to be up super mega early. I think because it went by so fast since I was busy (I've a tendency throughout my 'career' to play mind tricks of sorts whenever I'm working to make the time go by faster. I like to work a big chunk of my shift, break from it, then the rest of the day goes faster than my grandma's caramel cake) and because I was out so early.
Then I go home. Then I sleep some good sleep to make up for the craptastic sleep I got the night before. My mom came to wake me up so we could go pick up my sisters from work (ha ha to them-I was leaving work when they were gettting ready to go in!) and go grocery shopping. (Ps-I'm really sorry to you dear reader for troubling you with the...strangeties? of my mind and trivialities of my day. If you've made it this far then I appreciate your brave interest.) I was having a dream that I don't fully remember, I just know it had a song in it. The song was one that I totally made up and it was in the vein of System of a Down mixed with Skindred. It was about candy pirates and some war they were gonna start-I think about their candy lol And I knew the song word for word, first verse through the chorus! It was stuck in my head when I woke up too, but I knew this to be the vestiges of my dream. Even though I knew the words with such clarity I knew this was a fleeting moment and that I wouldn't remember them later on. But it was extremely funny! I keep kinda getting the music stuck in my head and all I hear is "We like candy, we like...", and I see some crazy rockstar pirate eat-singing into the microphone from underneath it of sorts.
In short, I'm way too excited about Halloween XD