The cheif export of Chuck Norris is pain.

I've been meaning to update for quite some time. I've had the page open for a least three days so that I wouldn't forget. However sometimes I feel very stupid for updating this. Partly because I think only one person reads it and partly because I do very stupid things and then talk about them here. For example, I am wearing my cute new skirt to work today specifically because the cute new cafe guy is going to be in for training.

I've been reading this blog lately of this women who, long story short, is able to support her family from her website alone. As the deadline to make a decision about my future career is rushing towards me faster and faster I find myself wishing I could do that. How wonderful would it be to get married, have some cute kids, and get paid to write about it all? I know this is not likely to happen since, as I mentioned above, only one person reads this.

A few weeks ago my stalker came in again. Luckily on wasn't scheduled to be on registers so I could wander off and pretend to be busy. More than one of my coworkers asked if they could kick/hit/or otherwise violently attack him. He hung around for a good two hours before he started asking Deb at the registers weird questions about the "vibe" he gives off. Her response to that was "Is this about books?". This is one of the many reasons Deb it one of my favorite people ever. This got him to leave and he has not been back since.

Sunday it was really busy at work. I was supposed to be front of store but there was a huge line at the registers so I was up there helping. I was at the last register and this guy in a very nice suit and his son come up and he asked if anyone was working the floor that could help him. I immediately said that I could and asked him what he was looking for. He apologized a million times for pulling me away from my job (despite me ensuring him that I was supposed to be helping people find books anyways). I spent close to a half an hour trying to find a very specific book for his son who had just received his first communion that day. We didn't have the book but I was calling around trying to find it. His son didn't want to wait the 5 days it would take to order it. Finally the dad decided that they would look around and decide about ordering it and get back to me. Later on they came up to the registers to check out while I was up there again. I wasn't ringing them up but they wanted to reserve that book at a different Borders to pick up the next day and I was telling Peter which book it was and stuff. This guy was raving about me the whole time. Peter was on hold with the other Borders and therefore they were still waiting when I went to go back out on the floor. The dad stopped me to thank me a few more times and tell me that he had gotten a survey and he would definitely fill it out and mention my name and how helpful I was. Peter got off the phone and told them it'd be waiting for them and all that and after they left he pulled me aside to point out how well I handled that and how great I am at making customers happy even when we don't have the book. This may seem like a silly thing to be so hung up on but that father could not have been happier, and Peter (my manager) noticed how happy he was which got me major brownie points.

On the 28th of last month I walked into Best Buy. It was two days after the release of a highly talked about new video game. I was there to purchase that video game. I didn't have very high hopes but I asked none the less. I happily walked out of the store as the proud owner of my very own copy of Mario Kart Wii. It is the best game I have ever played. There are so many wonderful aspects to this game that I can't even begin to describe them. You will just have to come over and play it with me. There is a bit of a learning curve when you begin to play the game, it takes a few races for you to remember to turn the wheel and not use the D-pad. There is only one game that I feel might be able to trump this one is awesome. That game is Wii Fit. It comes out the 21st of this month. The only thing about that that makes me sad is that the day it comes out I will be a little over 90 dollars poorer.

A few weeks ago I bought 4 or 5 CD's that I ordinarily wouldn't because they were hugely on sale. One of these CD's was the best of Sevendust. Now, I haven't actually listened to Sevendust since Drew and I broke up Sophomore year (he was obsessed with them), but I seemed to remember liking them well enough and being in love with one particular song for a while. As I listened to the CD for the first time I realized how much I do not like them. Has my musical taste changed that much since high school? I suppose they are talented and all, just not my kinda thing. I flipped through the tracks looking for that song that I loved so much. Turns out it is their ballad that sounds absolutely nothing like any of the other songs, and it's not even as good as I remember. Oh well. If I am going to be a music guru I'm going to have to learn to like it all.

I suppose that's all for tonight.

Sweet dreams
~Whitney