Halloween and Olympics and work and Sunday
So! Halloween was a success, and I survived better than I thought I would. Giving out candy at the mall was a scream, actually (terrible Halloween pun, groan). One of my coworkers made a GIANT AWESOME SOLDIER ROBOT costume in two days out of foam from work (since we are also a foam warehouse). Like, seriously, he looked like a Transformer only more soldier-y. Each boot was about a foot and a half wide, and his shoulders were higher than his head. All spray-painted camo with stencils of letters and stuff. And his fiancee came to help hand out candy - she was a nature path (since she is actually a naturopath). There were TONS of little kids, some people bringing their little tiny babies in costume and trick-or-treating for them, which was kind of weird cause the baby's not going to be eating the candy. We got told we had the best costumes of any store in the mall. :D We had 1000 pieces of candy and all of it was gone in 50 minutes.
The Olympic torch thing was pretty cool - a little (okay, a lot) heavy on the sponsorship and running about half an hour late, but cool. Seriously, they had a guy on the stage doing a painting on a rotating canvas using his hands, which was neat, but then he stencilled the RBC logo on the bottom corner before giving it to the city. And during the Coke section there were circus performers and percussionists and a ten foot tall Coke bottle sculpture thing they erected while everything was going on. The girl who carried the flame onto the stage was a Paralympian in a wheelchair, so I could only see the very top of the actual flame over the crowd when she went past. My mom's choir sang afterwards and then it was very very cold cause I hadn't dressed for the weather. The fireworks were awesome - I have never in my life seen so many fireworks going off at once as there were during the finale. They were those ones that shoot up from the ground, about five streams of them, going bambambambambambambam just continuously while the big ones all crashed together overhead.
It made me wonder who paid for them, actually. I hope it was Coke or RBC. :P
Then I was very late for a party, but it was fun nonetheless and I got home at 2am and slept until 2pm today. LOL. I really needed the sleep though; I've been very sleep-deprived and have been feeling kind of like I'm fighting a cold and I for sure don't want to get sick. Never mind that it's miserable and the whole of North America is freaking out about swine flu, but we are so seriously understaffed at work that we really can't afford to have anyone sick. What my employer was thinking opening a whole new store that will be open long hours come December and only hiring ONE more person (me) I will never know. I have a feeling that I will be in for some completely unavoidable stress come the holidays - unavoidable because I will not be the cause of the crazy shit going on, but I will have to deal with it anyway.
You know, there is enough information in this entry that you could totally identify what city I'm in and where I work if you wanted to. I'm not sure if I'm okay with that or what. It's like someone asking for costume picspam on my last entry... I guess it's not really a big deal, but it feels strange to me, somehow. I still have to upload pics from my camera anyway. I fear that none of the pictures that people took of me are quite what I wanted, which is a bit of a shame, but I didn't want to be annoying about it at the time.
Anyway, today was a very lazy day and I am posting this very lengthy entry partly because I feel so guilty about doing nothing with it. I listened to half my voice lesson and did the laundry and dusted some shelves. Because I have so little uncommitted time in my week, I really needed to be more productive than that, but... I really need to learn to either do something or not beat myself up about it. So I guess not beat myself up it is! Probably my life would be happier if I could motivate myself to get up off my butt, though.
Okay, finish the laundry and then to bed. I haven't been on ontd_startrek for a couple weeks now, just because I seriously do not have time to spend on fandom. (Yes, I spent several hours on the computer today, but that was checking all my non-ontd stuff. And looking at that ugliest tattoos blog. It's like a trainwreck, I just cannot look away...)
The Olympic torch thing was pretty cool - a little (okay, a lot) heavy on the sponsorship and running about half an hour late, but cool. Seriously, they had a guy on the stage doing a painting on a rotating canvas using his hands, which was neat, but then he stencilled the RBC logo on the bottom corner before giving it to the city. And during the Coke section there were circus performers and percussionists and a ten foot tall Coke bottle sculpture thing they erected while everything was going on. The girl who carried the flame onto the stage was a Paralympian in a wheelchair, so I could only see the very top of the actual flame over the crowd when she went past. My mom's choir sang afterwards and then it was very very cold cause I hadn't dressed for the weather. The fireworks were awesome - I have never in my life seen so many fireworks going off at once as there were during the finale. They were those ones that shoot up from the ground, about five streams of them, going bambambambambambambam just continuously while the big ones all crashed together overhead.
It made me wonder who paid for them, actually. I hope it was Coke or RBC. :P
Then I was very late for a party, but it was fun nonetheless and I got home at 2am and slept until 2pm today. LOL. I really needed the sleep though; I've been very sleep-deprived and have been feeling kind of like I'm fighting a cold and I for sure don't want to get sick. Never mind that it's miserable and the whole of North America is freaking out about swine flu, but we are so seriously understaffed at work that we really can't afford to have anyone sick. What my employer was thinking opening a whole new store that will be open long hours come December and only hiring ONE more person (me) I will never know. I have a feeling that I will be in for some completely unavoidable stress come the holidays - unavoidable because I will not be the cause of the crazy shit going on, but I will have to deal with it anyway.
You know, there is enough information in this entry that you could totally identify what city I'm in and where I work if you wanted to. I'm not sure if I'm okay with that or what. It's like someone asking for costume picspam on my last entry... I guess it's not really a big deal, but it feels strange to me, somehow. I still have to upload pics from my camera anyway. I fear that none of the pictures that people took of me are quite what I wanted, which is a bit of a shame, but I didn't want to be annoying about it at the time.
Anyway, today was a very lazy day and I am posting this very lengthy entry partly because I feel so guilty about doing nothing with it. I listened to half my voice lesson and did the laundry and dusted some shelves. Because I have so little uncommitted time in my week, I really needed to be more productive than that, but... I really need to learn to either do something or not beat myself up about it. So I guess not beat myself up it is! Probably my life would be happier if I could motivate myself to get up off my butt, though.
Okay, finish the laundry and then to bed. I haven't been on ontd_startrek for a couple weeks now, just because I seriously do not have time to spend on fandom. (Yes, I spent several hours on the computer today, but that was checking all my non-ontd stuff. And looking at that ugliest tattoos blog. It's like a trainwreck, I just cannot look away...)