so i noticed... i'm a zombie

i know i have been thouroghly brain-washed now. from work. i recognize products when i see them in stores, and actually check to see if the prices are better than where i work. i know what the product line i used for a picture in the post where i told about when i first got my job...and i know it's not that great of a line. i was in the drug store today and i subconciously started to "front" some shampoo i saw...you know when someone picks some up and then there's a gap? at the store i work at we have to move the ones behind it to the front when someone does that. i almost did that when i wasn't even at work >< ahh1!!
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but i'm getting used to it. it's hard work for sure (not the "fronting"..but the dealing with [old] people and pretending like i know what i'm talking about when i recomend products and handling money and doing inventory and orders, etc...) but it's not so bad.
now if i can just figure out how long i'll be working there and figure out my 3 month trip to europe... hmmm.
that'll be fun~

teeth = bain of my existance

soo yesterday i went to an oral surgion to have a tooth removed. it was already half way broken.. it broke at the air port in chicago, of all places...while i was eating chinese food. nothing to break a tooth on.. i thought it was a finger nail in my food at first. GROSSS!!
but anyway, getting the tooth pulled probably wouldn't have been so bad, except that i had a fever the day before (chills, throwing up, all that good stuff) AT WORK. ugh. came home and slept for pretty much the rest of the day/night. then mom got me up early and drug me to the dentist/oral surgion...i was so out of it. dizzy, almost threw up. the x-ray machine hurt my head.. they didn't put me to sleep for the extration. which sucked. they just numbed it. and it HURRRRT!!! and while he was trying to tear my lip off of my face, the stupid raido had to go and play the song i hate more than anything right now... that carrie underwood song, before he cheats.. i freaking dispise that song. i swear it plays every hour at work. it was the most miserable experience EVER.
then came home.. mom was 2 hours late getting my perscription.. so i was in quite a bit of pain. but you don't want to read about that.
so yeah, thanks to this last lovely dental trip we now know that i'll probably need to get 4 wisdom teeth removed.. plus that root canal i already knew i needed. daaaaaaamn. why me?! i take good care of my teeth, really. it just runs in my family to have bad teeth i guess.. ugh. not fair. all the most painful dental things you could possibly need done. and after all this i'm getting braces.
now excuse me while i ice my face...i have to be at work in 3 hours.

and so i'm back! from outerspace...

or south carolina. whichever. it's rl different over there on the east coast. here's one little story for you.

08/25/07 south carolina - day 4:
tonight we went out for dinner with mimi (my mom's mother). she took us to a cafeteria style place called jackson's cafeteria. i embarrassed myself going through the food line... although anyone could make the mistake...there were the potatos sitting there, and next to it was the gravy in the same size dish thing... so then what was this darker liquid over here? i think deep down i was hoping it was teriyaki sauce, because it was right next to some white rice. the question came out something like "what's that dark stuff there?" and with all the attitude and "oh-no-you-di-nit" of a big southern black woman, the lady behind the counter told me "THAT'S GRAVY." oh. duh. i'm in the south and i don't know gravy when i see it... i forgot you have to have 2 kinds of gravy here; one of the dark people and one for the light peole. i'm sorry, i'm just an idiot from california. we only have one color gravy...because we aren't racist still. (ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! ......... no no i'm kidding!!) anyway, all she did was answer my question... but you know when you can tell that people just don't like you...or think you're stupid. it was that feeling. x1000

and yeah, that was one of my first lovely experiences with the culture... i won't bother with the rest. most people there aren't all too friendly UNLESS they already know you. southern hospitality must be from another part in the south.

so yeah, back to work. it's going a little better now. first day back was terrible. i messed up on a lot of things. but now i'm doing better... it's really a lot to remember how to do... but i got paid! and it's a nice feelin~