The Return to "The Ugly Turth"

Tonight marks the FIRST night I am went back to the movie theatre to see a new movie since I was last there, which is a month ago! If n e one knows me they know me not going to the movies in a month is life-threatening! Lol! I love the movies! Love it! This movie was great! It was a sweet lil romantic comedy but I kind of figured out what was going to happen at the end of the movie! I loved it a lot! Definitely buying it on DVD. It was similar to Miss March film, but not X-rated sexual content as bad, but sex-related images and suggestions. R-rated was appropriate for this movie! I feel CONFIDENT in saying that and that bloggers is The Ugly Truth! HaHa!

MY BIG HOLLYWOOD PROMOTION: Keys and Codes Recieved For Hollywood

I got the official keys to the building today and the code to the alarm and safe at work. As of today, I am officially a Shift Leader and it only took me 3 weeks. Am I really that much of a fast learner? Nicole, Tammy,and Rietta seem to think that I am a employee that grasps on rather quickly! I thank them so very much for the faith that they trusted and put in me and my efforts to do the very best job that I can possibly do and give it all that is in me! I am so proud of myself and ready to take on the role of Manager on Duty and Shift Leader! Nicole NEVER wants to let me go and when I joke with her about quitting, she tells me, "Boy, u aint going no where and if you do I will "sneak" ya!" That was an old old old old old saying back in the 1990's and she makes me LOL when she says that!

Payday Sucked Today :( AND I Saw $tone Today! AND Target Interview

I wanted to do several major things with this paycheck because I thought it would be big-but it was not and I was not able to pay all the bills and get my TV repaired as I had planned and I was super bummed out about it but Nicole reassured me that my next check and those well after will be great and not like this one! Thank Gosh! The next check I get will be on the day that Elder Stone goes home from his mission so I will be sad and a little bit happy on this day! Just thinking about it makes me sick and sad! I finally had today off and went on exchanges with him and his companion today and it was great because I was not able to go out with them because of the gas, which was almost on the E-line! :(

I had a job interview at Target today-but I had to reschedule it! Working two jobs will b good for me. Tired? Busy? Yes and Yes but the $$$ is what I am looking and aiming for!

Inventory! Inventory! Inventory!

Today starts inventory at work and we had to count every single last piece of candy in the store and Nicole and I had to throw out a ton of candy so I suggested that she give it to me because I know that the missionaries would love to have it and when I gave them the entire box of candy they were like super excited like I knew they would get! I felt excited all day today because I was trying to picture the look on their faces as they got ti and tonight was a dream...I got to give them candy and I got to see them again because it has been a while!

The Upgrade to Supervisor/Management Training Begins....

Last night @ work, the Assistant Manager tells me that the Manager want her to now train me in Supervisory things like counting the cash drawers, making deposits at the bank, overrides, manager opening and closing duties, etc. I will soon get my own set of keys to the store depending on how fast I can grasp the concept of all this. I am fairly good at adapting quickly. Last night was so damn awesome. I have always worked so hard to prove myself worthy of having a high position in a company. Sure, I have a college degree & it is not the career path that I have chosen, but it has to suffice til something in the Sociology field comes my way-but at least I am getting this experience because it is impressive to put on a resume. Not sure if that will scare employers off in the future because people are funny like that...all the degrees that one can have and the experience where someone in the same position does not have all that I have can be intimidating so that is y I said that-but never the less...last night I was so grateful to be upgraded and learning new skills that can help me better myself in the tough workforce! I must have really impressed my Supervisor for her to want to train me in these new areas and it has only been a week!

Travis H. Helps Travis W.

I was in a difficult financial complication today and my good friend Travis in Hooper, Utah helped me out and I really appreciated it and I wanted to make it known!

Bad Day @ Work! v. Bad Work Day for Tammy and Nicole!

Well, today was my FIRST day working with an employee that I was warned about as soon as I started. Her name is Shaquetta. I was told that basically she is a slow and lazy worker-not really hard working at all and it was proven to be true on today. She would not allow me to do any work at all whatsoever! She told me just to chill and sit in the office, she clips the movies, she scans them in, she never answers the phone if it rang, she jumped up and sat on the counters, she bought her friend in the office to talk and she ate back there and combed her hair, she was leaning on things talking and having long conversations with customers, she was curing very loudly at a customer on the telephone and I asked her nicely to please calm down and not say things like that and she told me that she did not care and the phone was on hold so the customer could not hear her and there were other people in the store! It was a nightmare! Absolute nightmare! When the Manager Nicole entered the store for her shift, I stopped eating in the back and ran up and hugged her so tight because I was so thrilled to see her because I did not wanna b left alone with Shaquetta for one more damn second! From the moment that I went in for my shift-I was calling Nicole hoping that she could pick up her cell so that I could inform her of what was happening and that if she had an assignment to give to me that she could tell me what to do because when I go to a job-I want to get paid for doing work and not for going outside and talking to friends and texting on my cell. Hell, I could stay @ home if I wanted to do that! Right?

The bad night for Tammy & Nicole is basically, I went back in the store after I went home and changed with my father to rent some movies and there was this customer that was curing Tammy out and calling her bad names and customers were in the store and my father said that he was waiting for that guy to step behind the counter because he would have put a hurting on him! My father is always ready to fight and stand up for what is right, but hell I aint like that-they have a lot of nuts out here ready to retaliate on u for n e little thing and I don't think that he realizes that......

First Real Day on the Job

It was really fun up until the point where I had to alphabetize the DVD into their certain genres. The new release wall and Premiere movies and Blue Ray section is in such an EASY AS HELL ABC Order, but the other categories are murder! My shift did not even start until 12noon but Nicole said that she needed me now so I had to clock in 10 minutes early, but that is okay! She was so proud of me handling my business and checking out customers, making them feel welcomed, etc. All in all today was hectic and fast but I did a great job and I am proud of myself!

4th of July Working & Reminscing & Chillen!!!

Well, I did not have any plans at all today-but to just chill and when I woke up this morning-I got some text messages from my Supervisor at my new job and she was asking me if I would not mind coming in today from 1-4 just to help her out and that I did not need my uniform. I said hell yea! I got time in a hlaf because it was a holiday! She made me a nametag and we had a sidewalk sale on DVD's. I went to Party City and got some red, white, and blue balloons to decorate the store. I was trying to put the balloons in my car and as I ket forcing them in my car, they were busting so I decided to walk the balloons over to Hollywood Video! Lol... I did not want the money to go to waster so that is y I walked there. After work, I went home and at some BBQ food and then at around 8, I drove right down the street to the missionaries place and chilled with them for a few minutes and I talked and texted some friends to see how they were doing and to wish them a Happy 4th of July! I still cannot believe that today makes a year that I spent the last Fourth of July with 2 certain Elders! The Crown of Lady Liberty opened today after being closed in 2001 because of the 9/11 attack. I wished that I was back in NYC to go up in the Crown. I could only image how exciting and wonderful it has got to be! Tickets may not be $3 by the time I go there again! Lol-today is the FIRST time that I have really come to appreciate the 4th of July and what it means to be an American. I usually just treat it as another day, most people BBQ and drink/party but knowing that God blessed me with a job the day before today and knowing what today is. I feel really honored and blessed to be a US Citizen and knowing what the Statue of Liberty represents...it is more than freedom and Independence! Search deep within urself and u will see it is a lot more and it grows each and every year that ur alive to celebrate it! Happy 4th to all...

I Am A Shift Leader @ Hollywood Video

True, Hollywood Video is not where I want a career and a place where I can put my 4-year degree to work at, but at least I am getting some money into my pocket. I was watching TV this morning and I did not even hear my phone ring and all of a sudden I saw that I had a missed call and it was from Hollywood Video because I save the # in my cell and when I listened to the voicemail message Nicole had left for me she told me that she had a spot open to hire so I rushed off the voice mail and called her back and sad I did not even need to dress up and to just come in for an interview! I shaved and rushed right over there! I was over there from 12:45pm til 4:30 because she as the ONLY person there and she was trying to interview and get me to sign paperwork and photocopy things and run the store! Well after she got me in the system-she told me that employees could rent movies free of charge and that we have 5 days to keep them then we have to return them and I took up up on that offer and I took Gran Torino, Friday the 13th and The Uninvited! I wanted to buy all three of these movies, but I could not so this was the next best thing. I am so excited that I am a Supervisor. I have always wanted to gain experience and now I will got the chance to. I am so scared and excited both at the same exact time! No lie! I am so thankful to God that he has finally blessed me with a job and I love movies! I am a huge movie buff so me getting a job here is one that I win-I love movies and I am going to be a Shift Leader! God's blessin'