Saturday Me

Seriously the is the closest I can get to portray my Saturday afternoons without setting up a cam.  I flip on the 80's internet station and them jam like 30 years have not passed by.  I hope you find joy and happiness in what you do each Saturday too!

Watch the Show

Yikes - the second week of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland took a big ratings dip in its second week!  You must watch the show.  Honestly, it is ok but not as good a Being Human.  I am kinda not digging the whole genie/Arabian Nights mix in but still enjoying the rest of it.  Plus it is vitally important that we keep this man on American tv -- how could you say no???  Sooooo obsessed!

I Made That Happen

I have not been to the Salvation Army as much lately as my other part time job is more consistent with money, although I did well with my ebay reselling business.  I plan to try to keep the reselling going to some degree as time permits.  I went this past Friday to see what treasures I could fish out.  I found another Burberry polo shirt, which just shocks everyone at hoe many I have come across - I do have the magic Salvation Army store.  Having snagged that I figured my good luck came through for the day but then as I continued on I found this Game of Thrones shirt!  It says HBO on the back and is totally a Comic Con promo.  It is in excellent condition and looks like it has never been worn.  I am obsessed, as is everyone, with this show and knew I would eventually come across a shirt and I did, and for one buck!  It excites me that it will sell well on ebay but what excites me most is that I made that happen.  I think I posted about when I saw the street person with the Games of Thrones shirt and was totally like damn how did he snag before me?  But I knew I would find one and I did.  I feel like I willed the universe to send it to me.  Life always has different view points and you get to choose the one you want.  Some views take more effort than others but it is worth it.  I focus on the positive, I am good to others and I try my best to see what I have instead of what I don't.  This shirt validates all of that for me!  You might be thinking what a nut - he lives in the SD area and comes across Comic Con castaway shirts all the time.  I can understand that point but it is not the one I subscribe to and that is my choice, which is awesome.  It is hard sometimes to make that choice but the possibility of being able to do so is what makes me love this life.

Homecoming

At my part time job in order to get more hours I have to pick up time in areas outside of the men's department.  Most of the time it is fine, I have done fine china, domestics, home electrics, kids and it has been all ok but lately I have been learning what departments I do NOT like.  One night they put me over in fashion jewelry and well the department was fine, I liked being with all the shiny things. But it is right in the center of a high traffic area so I felt like I was traffic cop all night.  Plus it is not too big there and so I felt cramped.  Next up was ladies dresses - ugh definitely did not enjoy that.  Ladies clothing is just crazy and the lady customers????  Well let's just say lady is is being used very liberally.  One "lady" walked up to the counter with a bag that seriously looked like a Salvation Army donation.  She held it by the bottom, turned it upside done, dumped all the crap onto the sales desk and said, "Return it".  Can you imagine?  So what did I do?  I gave her a huge smile and said in the perkiest voice possible, "Hi!  How are you?".  UGH.  If  ladies dresses were not an adventure enough one night they said you have to go over to that station at 7:30 because Emily is leaving.  I was puzzled and said, "But Emily works in Juniors Dresses???"  Ringing is ringing but my hesitation was, "What teenage girl wants to be helped by the weirdo old guy???"  I was told, "Don't worry it is a Wednesday night so it will be slow".  That gave me some peace of mind until I found out that it was BS.  It is Homecoming season!!!  Doesn't matter what day of the week it is - it was busy!  I must have waited on a dozen mothers and their high school daughters in that 90 minutes.  One even asked me, "So do you like working in girls dresses?"  Obviously she too found it awkward that I was there.  But oooooh I saved the best for last.  One Saturday afternoon I was set to cashier in the ladies shoe dept.  The regular associates would help the ladies with the shoes and then when everything was all set all I needed to do was to ring up the sale.  Sounds easy peasy right?  All I can say is what the fuck is up with women and shoes????  It was insanity!  I was literally afraid for my physical safety!  OH good next time I get asked to do that I think I will request to feed the lions at the zoo by hand as it is less dangerous.  Seriously ladies, it is just a shoe.  So it is all being an adventure and although very nutty at times - I like it, I like it a lot.  I do not think I could do retail full time as it is sooooo tiring and exhausting but for a second job it is fun.  And I definitely smile each Friday that I see that direct deposit into my bank account.

It is Starting

Or really the truth is it is continuing.  I am so obsessed with this actor,  He is British and I blooged about him before.  I found out over the summer he was going to be in an American TV show called Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and I have been dying since to see it.  Well the show started this week and I LOVE it.  I was worried as Alice has a love interest that is not him so I thought he would be a secondary character.  Well he is a primary character as Alice's love interest is missing and he is helping Alice find him.  The first and only episode so far was so good I watched it twice.  I love too that he speaks in his normal British accent.  I watched the Rebel Wilson sitcom recently and they force her to use and American accent.  Her schtick is the same but it just not as funny for some reason without her accent for.  Anyway below is a picture of him from the TV show.  His character is named Will and he is the Knave of Hearts - swoon.  The picture above is from a press promo he did here in San Diego!  OMG I woulda passed out.  I am happy enough to know he was at one point that close.  If I had know beforehand he was going to be here, well let's just say I would be in a story too big for this blog and I would now have an arrest record.  

Ohhh he is so perfect and makes me very happy.

Which Season?

We had Santa Ana winds this past weekend and red flag warnings but luckily no fires.  They had some over at Pendleton that were pretty bad but are contained now.  It is fire season but that is never a season to get used to.  We have a good shot at some rain this Thursday and I hope we do.  I do not mean to be so inane, talking about the weather - or the lackthereof.  This time of year it always gets to me.  I guess I do miss the seasons and Halloween always reminds me that it should be a different season but it isn't.  Ah maybe it is all the British tv shows I have been watching.  I may not have cable but I do have internet.  London is just always laden with seasons - good bad or indifferent.  No more seasons for me though - at least not for 2014.  I will not be headed back to MA for the holidays.  I can squeak out the money, I just cannot squeak out the time.  I am entering into the busy seasons for both my jobs.  Seasons, season, seasons.  I can wait until Spring 2014, I just hope everyone else can.  I am sure they will, right?  Some days are a puzzle.

A Little Smarter

On Monday during lunch I went over the the St Vincent de Paul thrift shop and they were having a big 50% off sale.  They had a locked case with electronic items and so I sifted through it.  I came across this smart phone that with the discount was only 10 bucks.  It was in a protective case and looked in general good condition so I thought I would give it a try.  I can upgrade my phone but I hate being under contract - I dunno why as I have had the same carrier since I first got a cell phone (just another odd quirk of mine).  I brought it home and got it on my wifi no problem.  Then I factory reset the phone to clear everything out, I put my number on it and uploaded my contact -- ta dah!  So now instead of being six years behind the times, I am only three which is remarkable for a man that still used VHS.  I was worried about texting on the screen because of my pudgy fingers but the talk to text feature works awesome.  I can even speak in Spanish and it writes my text in Spanish - wow technology!  I am sure they have translators where you can speak English and have the text be in Spanish but that would defeat the purpose of learning and practicing Spanish.  Any way I can do all sorts of stuff now that I could not do before and probably won't use but I can if I want.  I bet the person that owned it before me got an iphone or something but I am super glad with his hand-me-down.  Thank you kind sir!