Heh, long time no hear, eh? Well, work still sucks. The opening manager is still a bitch, the good store manager is gone and the one we have now makes the opening manager look tame. We have McCafe and let me tell you it's not worth it. I can't stand the smell of espresso beans >.< Coffee is bad enough but that in consentration is just murder.

Way back end of May we went again to Kennebunkport. It was cloudy and iffy on the way down with patches of rain all weekend but enough sun I could get some pics (I didn't walk the whole path this year) Pics, maybe. Since I abandoned paid LJ I lost all my pics (note how sarcastically sad I am) and I'm piecemealing them together between imageshack and flickr so eventually I'll have links that work I might just copy over my LJ to IJ and then have a post dump of the new links (everything up until Otakon 07 has been moved over and relinked on LJ.)

And that brings me to my main point. Two people who were going to stay in my room for Otakon backed out so I have space. So far there are three of us (if you want details, just IM me. My away message will be always on because I'll be doing one of three things. Either actually away ( and hopefully I'll remember to change my message) or playing WOW (I finally have Lianna up to 53, the same as Shirasong was when I abandoned her) OR actually working again on translating the X Compendium. If I'm ever going to get the first three games tweaked (they are written, I just  need the facts now and that means translating) and released so I don't have a backlog of stories to finish up I need to get it done, and since I have no real help, it's another case of work here and there on it, work here and there on WOW and take the rest of the time to do whatever.

So, where it looks like I won't have enough money to get to Otakon without someone helping with room costs, I need people to get back to me if they want to stay (or just info on the room it's a mixed gender room) so I'll be able to recalculate what I'll need for money to see if I can make it down. I need to know before July 5th where the 11th is the cut off for pre reg. Other than that I don't think I'll make it to Otakon again this year. And, if that's the case I probably will forget trying to go. I've tried for the past 5 years and so far have not been able to keep bills and repair expenses down so I can afford to go and probably I never will. I was hoping I could go. I was really psyched and looking forward to it. I'm still going to press on and hope I can get enough money but if I can't by the cut off of pre reg then I'm not going to be able to go. At current gas prices here it's going to cost about $800 in gas and the hotel was $900 total, not counting food (and, before anyone asks, the two going with me are poor so I'd be footing their way down and back so no, I'm  not getting any help right now in cost deferrment.) So, as you can see, that's going to be pretty damned expensive just for that. And I have about 5 weeks to get the money. A Herculean task indeed.

So yeah. Life still sucks and the future is still bleak. But, meh, at least I have stuff to keep me occupied at home. Namely WOW and getting Lianna up to 70 and raid ready (once I find a raid group) and getting the X Compendium translated at least just up to X2 and Cyber Mission so I can work on translating X1 and 2 (I do have a translation but I'd rather do it myself.) and recheck Cyber Mission and get the few scenes translated I had to retape because of  capture errors.)

Now let's see if Semagic will let me post from it or if I'm going to have to beat someone into submission first.

In news, not much. Same old, same old. Work is hell (except not having the opening manager there with her stress is at least a bit better, she's not expected back for at least another month. She can finally walk without crutches but not good.) We had this past Thurs and Fri a special on free skillets and let me tell you it was a nightmare, especially Friday. The store manager had to tell me to stop suggestive selling during peak times because grill couldn't handle it. So I did. But people by the hundreds (they said almost 400 skillets were sold) still wanted their free sandwich with their drink purchase. And people were even silly enough to think they got it automatically and then got all pissy when I told them no, they had to order it at the speaker where it wasn't an automatic deal. But, meh, it's over with.

We did get the snow they promised. At least another foot. I'm not impressed. Trust me. We don't need snow.

Thursday I was called in early because the opener wasn't going to be there, she had been in an accident getting to work. Between Thurs and Fri I found out what had happened. A drunk driver had run a stop sign going too fast on snow-slick roads, broadsided the passenger's side and knocked her station wagon across the road and into the snow-filled ditch on the other side of the road. She did come in Thurs with papers and was visibly shook. She called in Fri to say she wasn't going to come in. Everyone said it was the shock finally setting in. So instead of working what I had been scheduled on Monday (9-5) I'll be doing 4-11. I'll lose one hour of work but they need an opener and I do know how to do it. Plus, this is for a good reason, too.

Other than that, same old, same old as I said above. Been haunting WoW way too much. I now have a 52 tauran hunter, 14 troll hunter, 3 troll warrior (male), and not brought into the world a troll rogue (male) and a tauran druid. My goal before the expansion comes out is to get at least Shirasong (tauran hunter) and Ixayoi (troll hunter) up to 70 and maybe get the troll warrior (Mbingunyoka) up to 70 as well. As for the rogue and druid, maybe. But, I haven't been just working on WoW. I have been working on revisions to an ancient fic as well as moving more pics from LJ's scrapbook to either imageshack or flickr before my paid time runs out and I go back to basic (me ish tempted to just post a link to my insanejournal entry instead of posting twice but locked posts would be a pain in the arse where no one except for a few (very few) would see what's behind the post. So double posting until I really do decide to drop LJ (that is, once they really go beyond reasonable or they decide to banninate me for no reason.) My virus program FINALLY finished a scan (without me realizing it) and found three trojans (and removed them) and one PUP (that I tried to delete and it could only partially do it.) But, wonders of wonders, I now have Axl back in working order WITHOUT a reformat. ^^ That'll save a lot on trying to get things moved and burned over (of which I have done but still need to do >.<) in a hurry. I have seen laptops as low as $500 and this summer (or maybe when I get the promised check from the government to stimulate the economy, I'll get it then) so I'll have one for just gaming and one for everything else (which was the original intention of a tower and laptop so I'd have portable for writing and a few games and the other for the larger programs like burning, dvd authoring, ect so I can do both at the same time. Burn and play games and not hog all the resources so burning fails or I crash and burn.)

Oh, and you know it's funny when you get your stepdad hooked on WoW (he has a troll and a dwarf) to the point he plays it almost as much as you do >.> me ish a bad ettin, yes?

And, heisted from either Taichara or moonymonster (or found randomly and in no particular order) from LJ the inevitable meme's and cute dragons.

So, Goldenmane, your LiveJournal reveals...



You are... 5% unique (blame, for example, your interest in zero x) and 14% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy yaoi). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 38

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 78% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

The Blogalyser reveals...

Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 13.
This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).
Your blog has 56 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by verbosity
(writing for the web should be concise).

CHARACTER MATRIX

male		female
self		world
past		future

Your text shows characteristics which are 55% male and 45% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the past and lastly the future.

Find out what your blogging style is like!

I died on the Starship Goldenmane

I was killed in a red-lit transporter room by Pikachu 117 the plasma cloud, whilst carrying...

a DOCTOR forcefield generator, Tied Daggers 's commbadge, a Midnight21 model hazmat suit, a Tehkittykatian deathblade and 70 galacticredits.

Score: 57

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Dragons taken from a post by Taichara.

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Well, just a quickie because I lost track of time due to one of my gifts and was having too much fun >.>

Yesterday - work was ok. I was let out just shy of a half hour early due to too many workers and not enough business. Which was fine. By the time I got the last minute shopping done and home I had killed almost a half hour. And by the time Fuzzy got up and going we were late for church (well, late as in the church was basically filled until Father told us to go sit where the choir usually sits so we got a good view of the kids acting out the Nativity story.) And afterwards we hit work again and I treated them (meaning Tiki and Fuzzy) out to supper. I RP'd until my parter had to go, worked on Gaia and listened to Tiki and Fuzzy watching Christmas movies. I sat up until after 11 which was surprising considering I had been up since around 2 that morning. And I managed to finish one scarf and get a second one (today) half done. Which was pretty darned good.

Today I RP'd until my partner had to go, taking a break to open gifts with the family, worked a bit more on Gaia and the scarf until it was lunch. We had a family over for lunch and afterwards I hopped back on the comp to play with one of my gifts. I'll get to that in a minute.

For my haul it was fairly small. A stuffed Christmas polar bear, a WalMart gift card for who knows how much (Fuzzy's mother always forgets to say how much is on the card but, it should be enough to mostly or fully get the fifth DVD boxed set for Voltron (that is when I can find it locally. I know it's out but so far no luck finding it locally >.< ),) an Ice Dragon (from Series 7 of McFarlain's dragons,) two DVD's - documentary episodes of World War 2, and I did get the package from Digi >huggles< on the 24th and I opened it. I love the manga. I haven't had a chance to read them but I will soon, trust me ^^. I also, from the family, got two Jazwares 6" figures, one of Quickman and the other of Forte ^^

And now for why I'm going to get about 4 hours sleep @.@

For Christmas I received World of Warcraft. And, once it finally installed and the patch downloaded and installed (a good two hour wait so I got that much more done on the scarf) I started playing. And lost track of time. But, I do have a LVL 5 Tauran Hunter sitting near the Cheif's tent in Moon Guard. I'll probably put in an hour or two or three a day around the Gaia event (Goldenmane is done, Kouryoujin is down to three orphans and I think four of the shop gifts and Djabenusiri and MerDeLune still need to complete those aspects.) Next week (or, I should say, next week after Gaia's event is over,) I'll get back to other work, like scanning, planning my SF work, getting back to candy making, getting my shelves up so I can take care of the dragons I have that are still boxed or sitting on a shelf with an earlier series (I lack the boxe set for Series 3 so I have the boxed set from Series 5 in it's place.)

In other words, Eem had fun ^^ And a good Christmas. I'm just sad it's over and I have to go back to work >.<

Oh well, only three days and I'll have my weekend off. And I can't wait for that. I'll need the weekend to recover from opening like this (and going on little sleep @.@)

Heisted from LJ users Umegaki and Malikkitsu

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Thursday I bought porn for uiko_saito (-10 points).  Last Monday I committed genocide... Sorry about that, quill_of_life (-5000 points).  In July I turned radicalmari in for tearing the tag off a mattress (3 points).  Last Friday hj_hikari and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points).  In October I signed my organ donor card (28 points).  Overall, I've been naughty (-4968 points).  For Christmas I deserve a spanking! Sincerely, goldenmane

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Well, teh Buru needs more pr0n >.> And as for genocide, that's what I get for writing <.< Now comes the question. Who's going to spank me? >.>

And, if you refresh enough, you can also get this.

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In October I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points).  In March I donated bone marrow to arkadelos in a life-saving procedure (300 points).  In July I gave midnight_heart a kidney (1000 points).  Last Tuesday I pulled wolflupin's hair (-5 points).  In August I bought porn for pikachu_117 (-10 points).  Overall, I've been nice (1611 points).  For Christmas I deserve a Nintendo Wii! Sincerely, goldenmane

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And meme's aside. Today was basically Finishing up the scarves, starting on a new color for us to sell at the craft shows, playing some more Ages 3 (this time as the Russians against the Chinese in various parts of Asia) and RP'd as well as worked a bit more on the Gaia event (shop caroling.) Tonight they say winds with gusts over 60 and possibly a quarter inch of rain which means that morning travel should be messy >.< Just what I need for the first open in months.

There, back from the dead. At least for now.

Quill has been migrated over to IJ and all past fics uploaded and retagged and the internal tags changed to reflect the fact they are not from IJ.

And Quill also has a Christmas Parody - Sigma Got Run Over by Two Hunters. You can find the Livejournal Quill of Life entry here and the InsaneJournal Quill of Life entry here.

Ok. In a nutshell. First the store manager was snarky, then the opening manager, then the store manager and lastly the opening manager. So every day I've had at least one snarky manager in the store. Not fun. I've also been taking cookies to work. I found out one of the kids, one I really can't stand, one I think I mentioned said I was her best friend, apparently took a bite of one of my cookies, threw it away and said how aweful it was in front of another worker (the one who told me) right after the worker I can't stand said how great my cookies were -.-;; I did think it was funny that the worker who told me, a kid like the other one, called the one who lied a 'two-faced bitch' (that was, after asking me if I liked the worker I can't stand.) Well, at least I know what she really is like. Just the way I thought she was.

Everyone else loved my (well, not my but mum's considering she does the cookies while I consentrate on candy) cookies and wanted more ^^

One of the openers is going on vacation Christmas week so I agreed (after finding out two others wanted to open and were refused by the opening manager even though both of them are more than adequate to open, having opened before many a time until changing their availability) to open next week. That means about 7pm bed times and 2 am wake up calls @.@ All broken by the fact that Tuesday is Christmas and we're not open on Christmas. Gonna be an interesting week let me tell you . . .

And, where I had been going in later this past week I came in after a major confrontation that left one of our better grill workers gone and listed as having walked out even though, apparently from what reliable sources had said, he was told to leave by the opening manager during one of her snarky days >shakes head< Apparently it was over the fact that he was talking with one of our young managers (who is a dirty-minded and foul mouthed manager that we all just ignore. We really don't need to know her sex life, trust me.) and somehow the opening manager got a bee in her bonnet and ragged him out to the point she told him to leave. And I missed it all. Oh well.

We got snow a couple of days ago. Just enough to make it messy and to add to the overall total. Now they're saying snow to freezing rain to rain with temps going well above freezing. Go fig. I hope not. Even though people don't want snow I'd rather have snow than freezing rain/ rain that'll turn to ice once the temps drop at night. Trust me. Especially where, when my tires start sliding, the brakes lock tight.

Other than that, not much. Packages will be going out next week. I just ran out of time trying to get errands run after work and the scarves finished (especially since I finally found yarn in the color I needed for the last scarf) and everything else. But, next week I'll be working 4am - 1pm so I can surely find time after work to get to the post office >nodsnods< Then the gifts/cards will go out. Yeah, yeah, I know. After Christmas but at least you'll get it ^^;;

And a meme in close.

You Know a Lot About Christmas

You got 7/10 correct You know tons about the history and traditions surrounding Christmas. When you celebrate the holidays, you never forget their true meaning - or all the little fun details. Random Christmas fact: The average mall Santa is 5'9, 218 lbs, and 52 years old. The average waist size is 43 inches.

You Know Your States

You got 7/10 correct. You've got a pretty good handle on US geography. There's a good chance you've visited at least a dozen of the fifty states.

Well, truth be told, I've only visited two states - Maine by default and New Hampshire. So no, I might know something of US geography but I haven't visited at least a dozen states.

And with that I end this post and get back to Gaia's holiday event. I finished the orphan section with Goldenmane and will start on Kouryoujin once I finish going through the shops to get all of the 2K7 items with Goldenmane. Then, if time permits, I'll finish the shop items with Kouryoujin and then also complete everything with Djabenusiri and MerDeLune (yeah, I know, four Gaia Avatars.) That and I need to get the advent calendar from Neopets (considering how long it's been since I've been on Neopets I'm only there for now to get the advent goodies. After that I probably won't be on Neopets for months.

Well, the snow was about 7 inches with about another quarter inch of ice. The winds picked up and howled all last night. In other words, it was a mess and I'm glad we decided not to stay for the second day of the show. There were times, once during the day and most of the evening before I headed to bed, that I could hear ice (sleet/freezing rain but probably more sleet) hitting the window next to my computer area. And getting the van deiced enough I could get to work this morning was no picnic.

Work today was hell at first and got better toward the end. Now that the opening manager is there, life is hell again. Namely because she's back to her normal snarky self again. She made some comments about how slow I was counting drawers this morning when I was going at my normal pace (maybe a bit slower because I felt like crap this morning from my sinuses acting up again). But, the day got better. Cold, but better.

And, to close this short post, I was having fun reading the wank going on GJ with their own problems and hearing the same tone I got from the wank on LJ about their problems. And even though the problems are different, the wank is the same. And, though LJ was my first home on the net for a blog, I don't think of GJ the same as I do LJ. And, oddly enough, I think of IJ the same way I do LJ (heh, gotta love anachronisms.) So, I don't think I will be posting to GJ anymore and, probably, by the start of the year I'll delete my two GJ accounts in favor of just LJ and IJ. And if and when LJ either becomes too strict or dies I'll find another site to back up my LJ (both my main journal and my writing journal.) But, that'll be for later. Right now I just want to unwind from all that crafting and take this week off for gaming and trying to find the perfect star for Gedath and get my basic history of the universe so next week I can get back to Valentines, St. Patrick's and Easter candies and, by the week after, back to scanning (all subject to change since I never know what's going to happen until it does.)

But, I did get the rest of my icons migrated from LJ to IJ with the keywords in tact. I might take by the weekend (and I think I mentioned this) and get quill migrated over and get the tagging done. Though, now, it's time for bed. Work calls tomorrow.

Let's see. Yesterday was pretty busy, pretty hectic and downright strange. Customers are still bitchy but that's normal. I ended up working front for the first half of the day and cash the last half, someone else taking orders. Which was fine. The substitute opening manager wanted to take pity on me and not make me work cash all day. Which was fine. I had one strange customer who ordered a coffee then told me no after I had started to pour it. He then said he wanted a double cheeseburger but it was still breakfast. When he couldn't get that he wanted his money back. So I did the refund, had him sign the slips, wrote out what it was and initialed it and after he had left (he was the last customer in lobby, the substitute opening manager and the store manager gave me a strange look and had to chuckle when I told them what had happened (even though they were right there, the sub on register 3, right beside of me on register 2, they hadn't caught what had happened.) I handed her the refund receipts so she could staple them to the day envelope and sign it if she wanted to. I also finally found out how to void an order (I knew enough not to serve the order but not the button until the store manager showed it to me, the overring button. Now I'll know how to do a void. Everyone (at least the managers I work with the most) knows I can use a manager's password and either tells me to go do it or doesn't make a move when I have to use a manager function that requires a password. Took long enough >.<

As for today we packed up for the craft show, left late, as usual, made it in and set up in pretty good time and then ended up packing up and leaving with 15 minutes of the mall closing (mall closes at 9 every day except Sunday.) Which meant a half hour pack up time. We were supposed to have three spaces and ended up with two, with one person taking up about half a foot on one side and the other taking up about a couple feet on the other. So we only set up three tables and two tubs as extra space and just the food and a few scarves. The dragons and small plaster animals we took didn't go out as well as the rest of the scarves and hats. So we had four tubs of crafts that we didn't need. But, it was just as good. With the predicted Nor'Easter coming in Sunday the crafters were given the option of packing up tonight and giving up the second day of the show (this was the last shows of the season and was a two day show, Saturday 9-9 and Sunday 9-5.) The majority of the crafters packed up and only about 5 or so out of probably 25 crafters stayed. The rest left. I don't blame them for leaving. Some reports say that we're going to get a couple of inches of snow, some say close to 20 inches or more and some say mixed precip with ice. So no one really knows what we're going to get for a storm, when or how bad. I'll report on that tomorrow.

So, other than that, not much. I'm getting ready to crash so I'm going to end this post with two things. For the LJ crew. If you are on IJ let me know and I'll add you to my IJ list. I don't think I'll be updating my GJ account and I might drop it entirely, it all depends. And for the IJ crew (all one of you) I will check IJ tomorrow when I have more time and will be more awake. Namely because the craft show had taken all my time and now that I have a month and a half until the next show I have time to get other things done. And that includes keeping track of both journals.

And in closing, a couple of memes. Heisted from LJ.

	Have You Been Naughty or Nice This Year?
digi148 thought you were naughty - and gave you a cat with rabies!
teh_kittykat thought you were naughty - and gave you a stapler!
echartea thought you were nice - and gave you tickets to your fav band's concert!
sorakazi thought you were nice - and gave you Warm boots!
lovehiei13 thought you were naughty - and gave you a lobotomy!
radicalmari thought you were naughty - and gave you tube socks!
'Have YOU Been Naughty or Nice This Year?' at QuizGalaxy.com

That one gets me. Because I could see Buru and Fuzzy saying those things >.>

Yesterday we had two buses, two from Sebastacook (totaling 60 kids, all junior high) and one from Corinth (totaling 25 and around the same age). It was also cold yesterday and we had the wind come up and snow fall briefly just as I was coming back from break. However, the wind continued and even howled overnight. I heard that some wind gusts were close to 40 mph.

Today it was cool. Not really that bad unless the wind blew, which wasn't all that often, but the cold from yesterday I think lingered with me anyway because I was cold most of the day. Of course, I was in DT to start the day, did the breakfast freezer pull and then ended my shift on cash yet again, so I was in the cold for most of the day. I did have my sweatshirt on and the new DT jacket on, but it was still cold, at least to me, especially and logically, once the sun set. I told them I'd stay an hour over to help fill in a blank spot where we had three people call out today leaving us very short staffed. Especially since we had another bus (not sure exactly which school since the SAD encompassed at least six or seven schools, I can't remember how many I counted on the side of the bus as it left.) And Stephen King went through DT. I remarked to one of the workers how old he looks now. But, he's still as jovial as ever. When I left work it started to snow. They say about 3 inches overnight so I'm not worried about it. I finished the lemon candy and started in on peppermint. Where I ended up working 10 hours today and not getting home until a bit after 8, I decided not to work on anything but the ornaments where that's just pour melted candy into the mold, tap to get the air bubbles out and then toss in the freezer to quick set them. No thinking required. Tomorrow, I hope, I'll get to the molds (penguin, moose, two Santas, snowmen and angels.) I don't count on it but I can hope. I get out at 3 but I need to get gas, put my check in the bank, go pay another $150 on the van repair and (I hope) that's it. So I probably won't be back home until later and it does take time to make a lot of candy. Yes, I can make about 50 in four hours, and some like the snowman and penguin don't have much in the way of detailing (the penguin especially) but it still takes time to get the designs painted in and, in the case of the Santas, the face set so I can pour the backing of white candy in without having the face run. That and I'm limited to about 10 spaces in the freezer for molds. And, if I did all of them I'd have 14 molds, not including the two molds for the ornaments. Each mold has three cavities except the angel that has two boys and two girls on a mold and the snowmen that have four. So, as you can see, it's statistically impossible for me to get all that done tomorrow. And, with the anticipated Nor'Easter for Sunday I doubt we'll sell much on Sunday which leaves just Saturday for sales. But, that's tomorrow. I'll still work on the ornaments because what doesn't sell or get used for Christmas gifts will be remelted and used for large rabbit heads and generic hearts. So that I know I can resell once I recast it. The lollipops will be used for Christmas gifts (what doesn't sell).

Oh, and where they say the snow is supposed to be Sunday and into Monday I might not get the gifts out until Tuesday or even Wednesday. I'll post when I do send them out just so you know. So don't expect them in time for Christmas but they should get there before the new year. I hope. . .

Basically. Work sucked. If it could go wrong it did. Not just for me but for others, too. Mostly in the grill is where chaos reigned supreme. But, I lived. Even for going in two hours early, being forgotten and working a half hour over. It means I have about a half hour until I hit overtime so I can't go in early any more or stay any later (which means if they try to forget me tomorrow I get to prod them with 'oh, by the way, I have about a half hour before I hit 40 hours.') But, it will make a good paycheck, which is nice. Maybe I can get some more oil in the tank (both van and house). I heard that heating oil in Maine was hovering around $3.18 a gallon for normal oil and the blended that I have to have where my tank isn't in a cellar (I live on a slab so no cellar) but in the garage I have to have blended so it won't freeze.) is a lot higher than that.

On the candy front I managed to get 108 pieces of grape ornaments made. My next hopes before the show is the same number of peppermint (white), lime (dark green), strawberry (red), raspberry (lt. blue) and cotton candy (pink.) That'll use up almost all the colors I have of candy wafers (but won't even scratch what I have for flavorings.) I bought them mainly for hard candy but they're proving pretty darned useful for candy wafers. I also finished the other 3 white backed block candy and did one of the green backed block candy. I have three more to do to make 4 and that's all I'm going to do. Eight milk chocolate with red and green decorations, four red vanilla with white and green decorations, four white vanilla with red and green decorations and four green vanilla with white and yellow decorations. I also want to get the other three batches of maple lobsters done, not to mention start in on the penpen (I found a mold with a good sized penguin with a scarf on it at Cakes by Jan) and the Christmas moose. Then Thursday/Friday I can finish up those and work, maybe, on some snowmen, flat Santa's and, just maybe, some angels. As well as the aforementioned 108 batch ornaments @.@

If anyone wants any candy for Christmas let me know. And let me know what kind of flavor you want, too. If it's not on the list I probably have it or could get it. And I don't mind making specialty candies for anyone either ^^

Other than that, not much. It was a nice -2 this morning when I was eating breakfast and a balmy -1 when I went to work. The old girl protested but started, though the gas lines were sluggish and braking was an issue until she could warm up. Which I couldn't let her do so I had to turn off the heater so I could listen to the belts squeak from the cold as well as not use any more gas than I had to (considering I'm down to about a quarter tank and playing with fire that the gas won't freeze on me.) Now it's snowing and supposed to snow about 3 inches tonight with another inch tomorrow. Not sure if it'll affect customers or not or workers getting to work or those with kids unable to come in because of school cancellations or delays. As for me, I don't really care. That's not much snow. At least to me it's not.

Basically, work sucked. Plain and simple. Not only did I have two refunds first thing in the morning but also later in the day the idjet customers came out of the woodwork, one carload of college-ish aged juvenile delinquints went through DT and not only was rude to the order taker but also one of the kids in back gave me a half-assed finger. Well, the whole car load got told whatfor by one of our younger managers. I also had the wrong time I got out by a half hour, but all was good. I agreed to go in early tomorrow, earlier by 2 hours, so my 6 1/2 hour day becomes 8 1/2 like today. So no candy making, only bagging and wrapping the existing candy. That and an earlier bed time. I did take breaks while RPing to play Asian Dynasties, skirmish mode and with the Indians (I saved the game to finish later. This time the comp picked the Chinese and, though I destroyed three of his wonders and he wanted to quit, I wouldn't let him and backed off so he could rebuild. And then he had the audacity of building a second town center right on top of my barricks . . . Well, my elephants destroyed that darned fast.)

Two topics down, one to go.

Thanks to one of the LJ communities I'm involved in (later I might search for communities on IJ but that's later) I found three Christmas songs, two traditional and one new, two solo's by Oki-san and one group involving him. And, let me tell you, his version of Silent Night IS heavenly (pardon the puns.)

Now to post then check the LJ news posts for more wank considering the sale to SUP and also poking around IJ before I finish packing the existing candy away and head to bed (oh, and RPing too ^^)