Sunday: hot guy. Monday: work was a nightmare. Tuesday: sick :(
That's basically what's been happening in the past three days. Sunday was actually a rather good day at work - I handled stuff on the SAP, mainly collecting fees from clients who'd joined the project and given us their credit information. It's a big responsibility, and it's good to know they trust me to do it. The sucky thing about work is that not enough people are signing up for the evening shifts, so someone (I don't know if it's our boss, who's the call-center manager, or if this came from the CEO of the company, who's a bit hot-headed from what I've heard) decided that there will no longer be an evening shift, and that the morning shift will last until 4:30 PM (when it's been 'til 3PM until now.) And I'm all WTFing about this, because if I'm getting Alon from daycare (like I did this Sunday) and on Wednesdays when I have my 4PM sketching course at 6B, I can only work until 3PM. So this is not going to go down well. There are quite a few girls who study in the afternoons, like me, every day, and some people can only work the evening shifts, because they study in the mornings... We'll see tomorrow where this goes.
Then after work I went to pick Alon up from daycare. We dropped our stuff at my sister's apartment and then went to get ice-cream, which he loves and which I love watching him eat. He's the neatest little boy ever when he's eating, it's hard to believe he's only 3 years old :D
Now. The second I entered to ice-cream place I nearly gasped, because behind the counter was the hottest guy I've seen in a looooong time. He was tall, and had ginger-blond short hair, and light eyes, and I think he had an earring, which is cute. All of a sudden I felt kind of gross, because it had been cold in the morning so I'd worn a knit sweater over a little black tank top - but by the afternoon it was sweltering hot outside, so I just took the sweater off and stayed with the tank top... which shows quite a lot of skin. I felt almost indecent.
But the guy seemed to like it well enough, he smiled at me and when I sang along to The Final Countdown, which was playing on the radio, he smiled even wider and we started talking about music. The ice-cream cost 23NIS so I gave the guy 25, and when he handed me my 2NIS change I said, "You keep it" and smiled. He smiled really wide at me and stamped my discount card like seven times :D I said, "Oh wow, thanks!" and he said "No problem, I'm in a good mood and whoever I like gets discounts."
And I went (internally, of course) asfglksdjgewigjulksngvj*melt*
... and then Alon asked if after we finished eating ice-cream, could we go home because he needs to pee?
And I was just like fuck me, my nephew just said he needed to pee in front of this hot guy that I want to flirt with, and also, there was no way Alon was going to be able to wait until we'd finished our ice-cream, because he eats pretty slowly. So I sheepishly asked the hot guy if they had a restroom. They didn't, but he suggested I take Alon to the park just around the corner and let him go in the bushes. I said all right, and then lifted my bag a bit and asked if he could watch it for a few minutes. He smiled, reached out, and said, "I was just about to suggest it. See you in a bit."
So I took Alon to do his business, then we went back to the ice-cream place, washed our hands, and finally got to ordering our ice-cream. After Alon listed a few toppings, the guy asked, "And what would Mommy like on her ice-cream?"
And, I thought, I'm sorry, do I LOOK like I'm old enough to have a 3-year old child???
I lifted my sunglasses and asked him just that. He laughed a little sheepishly and said, "Well you're, what, 26, 27?"
And I said I was 22 next month. So he said happy birthday and we got back to toppings. I asked for hot chocolate sauce, but he shook his head and said "Not today. If I didn't like you, I'd let you have it, but I don't want to do that to you. It's awful today."
So... I dunno, I thought that even now he knew my age (and I think he's at least 25) he was still interested. Once we finished the ice-cream order I asked Alon if he wanted to eat inside or outside. Unfortunately for me, Alon wanted to sit outside. I glanced at the hot guy and whispered, "I would have preferred to eat inside, but oh well..."
And I kept glancing inside the shop while we ate... but he wasn't looking at me. Hmm. When we finished our ice-cream and went inside to wash our hands again, Hotel California was playing, so I tried to strike up a conversation again, saying "Wow, they're really playing good songs today!" and he grinned at me and said, "Actually, it's my music," and he showed me that it was his iPod/iPhone plugged into the speakers. We spent maybe another minute talking about music (he dissed Lady Gaga and I very diplomatically said that I like some of her songs, but they're all the same so I'm getting bored) and then Alon and I had to go... I smiled my best smile and said "Bye..." in the cutest way I could... but no banana.
I wonder if he's just not specifically interested (maybe he just had a nice time flirting, no harm in that) or maybe he's taken. Either way, I was disappointed, but maybe... I'll get Alon from daycare next week too :)
On Monday I went to one of the schools where the bookloaning project I work for operates. We went 4 girls from the office - the older woman who I'm pretty close with drove, and me and 2 other girls from the call center. One of them is religous and hyperactive, she just would not shut up the entire drive there. And once we got into the city (which is very big and rambling) we got pretty lost because the woman driving didn't look up a map on the internet and instead relied on her GPS - and we all know how stupid those things are and how rarely they work. So she called someone from the project who regularly works in that city, and he gave us directions over the phone. Since the girl in the front seat was still trying to figure out the GPS, the woman driving gave me the phone to try and get directions from the person who knew the city. And all this time - the religous girl was still talking, and loudly. I asked her several times to be quiet because we were all busy trying to understand where we were, and she just would not. Shut. Up. In the end I had to hit her arm a little and yell at her to shut up. And then she took offense of course. If she'd just realized that no-one was listening to her because we were all busy with directions, and that she was in fact making it harder on us, I wouldn't have had to yell at her. I hate people like her.
Finally, thank god, we found the first school, and dropped the two girls off. Then the woman driving dropped me off at a second school (which also took us a very long time to find) and then went to her school last. At the school itself I just sat at a picnic table and tried to get parents interested in signing up for the project. I get a 1NIS bonus for every person's details - even if they don't end up signing for the project. Just a lead equals a bonus for me. I had a banner and information flyers and just called out to parents as they passed on the way to a parent-teacher conference at the school. It went pretty good. I got 19 leads - which is the most of all of us :) Not that it's a competition or anything, but it still feels good to "win" lol.
By 7:30 we were done, and the woman came to pick me up. Thankfully my school was close to her school. Unfortunately, she got lost again on the way to the first school - until I suddenly realized where we were and remembered how to get to the first school. I have a pretty keen sense of direction and a good geographic memory, so once we were in the right direction and I spotted the street we'd started on, we got there pretty quickly. Thank god I'm good with directions or she'd have gotten us lost and it would have taken 3 hours to get home.
By the time I got home, my throat was really sore, so I stayed home today. I slept until late and really haven't done anything until now - it's 2PM and I really should do my sketch for Wednesday's sketching course, and finish my sculpture for Thursday's class XD I also should clear the dishwasher. Meh. Off to do my chores and homework!
Then after work I went to pick Alon up from daycare. We dropped our stuff at my sister's apartment and then went to get ice-cream, which he loves and which I love watching him eat. He's the neatest little boy ever when he's eating, it's hard to believe he's only 3 years old :D
Now. The second I entered to ice-cream place I nearly gasped, because behind the counter was the hottest guy I've seen in a looooong time. He was tall, and had ginger-blond short hair, and light eyes, and I think he had an earring, which is cute. All of a sudden I felt kind of gross, because it had been cold in the morning so I'd worn a knit sweater over a little black tank top - but by the afternoon it was sweltering hot outside, so I just took the sweater off and stayed with the tank top... which shows quite a lot of skin. I felt almost indecent.
But the guy seemed to like it well enough, he smiled at me and when I sang along to The Final Countdown, which was playing on the radio, he smiled even wider and we started talking about music. The ice-cream cost 23NIS so I gave the guy 25, and when he handed me my 2NIS change I said, "You keep it" and smiled. He smiled really wide at me and stamped my discount card like seven times :D I said, "Oh wow, thanks!" and he said "No problem, I'm in a good mood and whoever I like gets discounts."
And I went (internally, of course) asfglksdjgewigjulksngvj*melt*
... and then Alon asked if after we finished eating ice-cream, could we go home because he needs to pee?
And I was just like fuck me, my nephew just said he needed to pee in front of this hot guy that I want to flirt with, and also, there was no way Alon was going to be able to wait until we'd finished our ice-cream, because he eats pretty slowly. So I sheepishly asked the hot guy if they had a restroom. They didn't, but he suggested I take Alon to the park just around the corner and let him go in the bushes. I said all right, and then lifted my bag a bit and asked if he could watch it for a few minutes. He smiled, reached out, and said, "I was just about to suggest it. See you in a bit."
So I took Alon to do his business, then we went back to the ice-cream place, washed our hands, and finally got to ordering our ice-cream. After Alon listed a few toppings, the guy asked, "And what would Mommy like on her ice-cream?"
And, I thought, I'm sorry, do I LOOK like I'm old enough to have a 3-year old child???
I lifted my sunglasses and asked him just that. He laughed a little sheepishly and said, "Well you're, what, 26, 27?"
And I said I was 22 next month. So he said happy birthday and we got back to toppings. I asked for hot chocolate sauce, but he shook his head and said "Not today. If I didn't like you, I'd let you have it, but I don't want to do that to you. It's awful today."
So... I dunno, I thought that even now he knew my age (and I think he's at least 25) he was still interested. Once we finished the ice-cream order I asked Alon if he wanted to eat inside or outside. Unfortunately for me, Alon wanted to sit outside. I glanced at the hot guy and whispered, "I would have preferred to eat inside, but oh well..."
And I kept glancing inside the shop while we ate... but he wasn't looking at me. Hmm. When we finished our ice-cream and went inside to wash our hands again, Hotel California was playing, so I tried to strike up a conversation again, saying "Wow, they're really playing good songs today!" and he grinned at me and said, "Actually, it's my music," and he showed me that it was his iPod/iPhone plugged into the speakers. We spent maybe another minute talking about music (he dissed Lady Gaga and I very diplomatically said that I like some of her songs, but they're all the same so I'm getting bored) and then Alon and I had to go... I smiled my best smile and said "Bye..." in the cutest way I could... but no banana.
I wonder if he's just not specifically interested (maybe he just had a nice time flirting, no harm in that) or maybe he's taken. Either way, I was disappointed, but maybe... I'll get Alon from daycare next week too :)
On Monday I went to one of the schools where the bookloaning project I work for operates. We went 4 girls from the office - the older woman who I'm pretty close with drove, and me and 2 other girls from the call center. One of them is religous and hyperactive, she just would not shut up the entire drive there. And once we got into the city (which is very big and rambling) we got pretty lost because the woman driving didn't look up a map on the internet and instead relied on her GPS - and we all know how stupid those things are and how rarely they work. So she called someone from the project who regularly works in that city, and he gave us directions over the phone. Since the girl in the front seat was still trying to figure out the GPS, the woman driving gave me the phone to try and get directions from the person who knew the city. And all this time - the religous girl was still talking, and loudly. I asked her several times to be quiet because we were all busy trying to understand where we were, and she just would not. Shut. Up. In the end I had to hit her arm a little and yell at her to shut up. And then she took offense of course. If she'd just realized that no-one was listening to her because we were all busy with directions, and that she was in fact making it harder on us, I wouldn't have had to yell at her. I hate people like her.
Finally, thank god, we found the first school, and dropped the two girls off. Then the woman driving dropped me off at a second school (which also took us a very long time to find) and then went to her school last. At the school itself I just sat at a picnic table and tried to get parents interested in signing up for the project. I get a 1NIS bonus for every person's details - even if they don't end up signing for the project. Just a lead equals a bonus for me. I had a banner and information flyers and just called out to parents as they passed on the way to a parent-teacher conference at the school. It went pretty good. I got 19 leads - which is the most of all of us :) Not that it's a competition or anything, but it still feels good to "win" lol.
By 7:30 we were done, and the woman came to pick me up. Thankfully my school was close to her school. Unfortunately, she got lost again on the way to the first school - until I suddenly realized where we were and remembered how to get to the first school. I have a pretty keen sense of direction and a good geographic memory, so once we were in the right direction and I spotted the street we'd started on, we got there pretty quickly. Thank god I'm good with directions or she'd have gotten us lost and it would have taken 3 hours to get home.
By the time I got home, my throat was really sore, so I stayed home today. I slept until late and really haven't done anything until now - it's 2PM and I really should do my sketch for Wednesday's sketching course, and finish my sculpture for Thursday's class XD I also should clear the dishwasher. Meh. Off to do my chores and homework!