Now for the GOOD news!! A few people got fired from a different "department" at my job, so they are short-staffed and need some extra help (the firing part isn't the good news...the next part is though). I was offered the chance to get some overtime by doing their job for the next two weeks. On top of working my usual 9:30am-6pm, I'll be working from 7pm-1am on weekends and from 7pm-10pm during on weekdays. All of which would be time and a half. YES! YES for cash in my pockets!
I participated in my first food stamp scandal yesterday and saved myself $20 on groceries. I feel like a criminal...but one with a full stomach...:o) I was scared the whole time that I was at the register. I just knew a social worker was about to pop out from behind the bagger and whisk me away to jail. But I made it out alive.
I finally found and purchased the wall art for my apartment that I've been searching for. I love it even more now that its in my house. Bootz seems to be pretty fond of the art too. I was trying to figure out how old this picture is and I think I figured out from the souldja boy glasses that its relatively new. Funny how his headphones aren't even positioned on his ears. LOL.
But that's not the strangest thing I saw this week. I saw this lady on the train rocking out to some music. I couldn't take my eyes off of her because she was really feeling it. Well she wasn't rocking out like we young people rock out but because she was so old, the little rocking that she was doing just seemed so stand out a lot more. Anyway, like I was saying, I couldn't stop staring at her. And then it happened. She dug into her bag (and I say a bag because it wasn't at all a purse) and pulled out...a...you ready for this....a cassette player. A real live cassette player! My FIRST reaction was to lean over and snatch it up off her and auction it off on some website. But what amazed me more than the cassette player was how I felt when I saw it. I didn't realize until that very moment how many years have actually passed from when I was a young girl. Flashbacks hit me like crazy of the days when TLC used to rock in my player along with some Mariah Carey and Boys II Men. Things used to be so simple and enjoyable back then. Sometimes I think that I would be willing to make a deal with God for a shorter lifespan if I could go back and relive the past years up until a certain point. I wonder how many other people would do the same.
But the biggest shock of all for me, was at the gas station. I don't know if these exist all over the place but I have never before witnessed one of these. Cash accepted?! I want one. I want one everywhere I go. Hot sh*t. I wonder if these are as impossible to break into as an ATM....I'm just wondering...I'm not planning anything. I'm only a grocery store criminal, I don't f*ck with ATMs. But seriously, I wouldn't want to use one of these at night. Probably a quick way to get held up. And I am definitely not trying to lose my overtime pay.
